To find him is like finding the PEARL OF GREAT PRICE.
Or, like the man who knew that an unbelievable spiritual treasure was buried in the field but not knowing exactly where. So he went and bought the whole field! He wanted to make sure that he found that treasure, the Lord Jesus Christ.
And you, have you found Him? Do you know the joy of here, and eternal fellowship, with the Son of the Living God? Whatever you have to give up or do to make this incredible PERSONAL SPIRITUAL FINDING, you should do it immediately if you have not already done so. He bled and died for you. He rose again, and has returned to the Father where:
FOR YOU
he now prepares an eternal place:
FOR YOU.
Even Hollywood, so empty spiritually, so dependent upon sex and drugs, glamour and fame, and those actors and actresses who populate the Hollywood swamp, searching for meaning, for love, for real fulfillment, now in so many ways:
COME TO JESUS.
Have you? Has your family, spouse, children, grandparents, grandchildren, have they hopefully, like you, found the Living Lord? The secular world, often satanically driven, hopes you and they have not. But HE, loving you, is always there, ALWAYS!
There may well be at work a revival, a spiritual revival, in Hollywood. It may be slow in happening, imperceptible at times, but there everywhere, waiting like HE is.
But perhaps the Jesus Movement 2025 grows and in some cases, grows aggressively. There seems to be a new quest for eternal truth among youth, millennials, Gen-Z’rs, knowing as so many do that marijuana and cocaine, and in fact all drugs, can never satisfy. They become attracted by the eternal love and forgiveness of Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of Glory. Such a Hollywood-er is LOLA SHEEN, daughter of actor Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards. Lola Sheen brought to Hollywood and the entire world this testimony:
JESUS SAVED ME!
At the ripe old age of 19 after, in her words, hitting rock bottom and suffering from the horrible disease of:
IMMENSE HOPELESSNESS.
Lola Sheen was so happy and thrilled with her new life, now full of happiness, peace, and eternal joy, JESUS JOY!
Lola Sheen testified that she grew up with parents who were dedicated to the Hollywood industry, and as a result she said:
I ALWAYS FELT SUPER ALONE.
She said she could never find something that felt like home, both temporal and spiritual. Lola Sheen, like 40% of high school students so says the CDC, felt sad and hopeless, not knowing of any remedy. Therapy, drugs, nothing helped. She openly shares an incredible testimony. She said of her encounter with Jesus Christ:
“I really don’t know how else to put it except the fact that Jesus came in my room. His presence came to me. I felt this overwhelming sense of peace.”
We can be sure that Hollywood ridiculed that epiphany, but to Lola Sheen, nothing in her life was more real. Her life, she said, is “forever changed.”
There really is a youth revival at work. At the University of Kentucky, hundreds upon hundreds of youths were baptized as Christians. THE POWER OF THE LIVING CHRIST IS INDEED AT WORK IN THE GREAT YEAR 2025.
Even in the secular, often anti-Christian Hollywood swamp, there comes a new enlightenment with regard to entertainment product which caters to the FAITH AND FAMILY AUDIENCE. That cinematic neglect forced Christian and family-friendly entertainment production companies to independently create outside the traditional system. Often these faith-based films, produced on flimsy budgets, delivered stunning profit margins and incredible attendance, evidencing the hunger of so many Christians and others indeed for such films. Now, PRIME, an Amazon streaming platform, will release the TV series:
HOUSE OF DAVID
which essentially chronicles the fall of King Saul and the rise of Israel’s most famous king, King David. 3000 years after his death, Hollywood will now pay honor and tribute to this incredible biblical hero and servant of the great God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. DAVID AND GOLIATH will come back to life! The saga of the shepherd boy and the giant lives again.
It is so rewarding for us as Christians to know that there is at least a small part of Hollywood which recognizes the value of anything Jesus, faith-based, value-laden, and perhaps, God-willing, there is more to come. There may be as one writer said, a seismic, star-aligning shift in Hollywood’s willingness to bring Biblical content into the mainstream fold. May it be so.
You should watch this epic series HOUSE OF DAVID on Prime TV.
You should also watch:
THE CHOSEN,
another excellent series based on the life and the followers of Jesus Christ and search the various streaming platforms for more faith-based content, which is there in some form or another.
I for one say, PRAISE THE LORD, the great Almighty and the great I AM for the spiritual influence and motivation which makes this radical and extremely necessary change-back happen. The bottom line of these new cinematic adventures has one essential spiritual and eternal priority:
TO GOD BE THE GLORY!
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All right, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Happy Monday, everybody. Question of the Day from Friday, who directed the 1979 sci-fi horror film Alien? That would be Ridley Scott. We talked about that on... friday today's impossible question which river is the longest in europe which river is the longest in europe answer that on our social media facebook page today if you would rush to reason and again appreciate you all joining us on a monday Last Monday of the month, March the 31st. Tomorrow would be April Fool's Day, which don't get fooled tomorrow by all of the nonsense that can happen and gags and different things that are out. And as a side note, make sure that a lot of the things that you will see tomorrow on social media could most likely be false. And you will see every year, it's this way, some outlandish whatever, story, you name it. I mean, all sorts of things that you'll see posted tomorrow. Some of them might even start late this evening, heading into tomorrow for April Fool's Day. And point being, if you know it's a joke and you want to spread it as one, that's fine. Although far too often those don't get spread as jokes. They get spread as what some people feel are reality. And then, of course, who is the fool? the person that shared it thinking that it was actually real. And, I mean, you'll see all sorts of things tomorrow that look very believable because the way we live in or the world we live in today, they can make a lot of things look very believable when it most likely is not. And you can always go fact check and do some research yourself. Typically within about, oh, a minute. maybe two, maybe less. In some cases, it's as simple as typing in whatever it is you need to research out, and some of the results come right up and will tell you exactly whether that is false or not. But I would highly recommend that you do that tomorrow before sharing anything that you read on social media for April Fool's Day. It doesn't mean that there isn't going to be some news and things that are real and things that will actually happen, but Just be careful what you're sharing so that you don't look like the fool when it's all said and done that jokes on you. All right, over the weekend. We'll talk more about this tomorrow when Andy is here, of course. But the change in leadership, which we knew there was going to be a change in leadership at the Colorado GOP helm anyways. But bigger change of leadership than I think anybody thought or predicted myself, Andy included. And I'll just be straight up honest. Really didn't think that the non-Davidians, the non-Davites, had what it took to actually have, in this case, Britta Horn. She is the new chair. She's from the West Coast. And there's also the vice chair is Lee Phelan. Phelan, I think is how you would say that. I don't know the individual at all. And then Russ Andrews, who actually ran for a congressional seat. And we had actually interviewed Russ at one point in time. I like Russ, actually. He's the secretary. So as far as I'm concerned, three very capable people to help redirect what's been going on at the Colorado GOP. Of course, the Davidians are extremely, extremely upset over what's gone on. And really what happened with them from, and I'll have Andy help explain some of this more tomorrow, because he was actually there, was able to see everything firsthand, was a voting participant in that particular reorganizational meeting that happened on Saturday, and he was texting me throughout. And essentially, he was texting me as this was happening. Essentially what happened was the Davidians really felt like they had this thing in the bag, And that no matter what they did, they didn't have enough opposition to make any difference, although they weren't unified in the direction that they were headed with their particular candidate, candidate, candidates. Maybe I should say that plural because there was more than one. And so there was kind of a splintering. And I think it only took three rounds. Make sure I'm saying that correctly. I believe that's right. It took three rounds to actually have Britta and the other two elected alongside her. I don't know about the other two. Don't quote me on that. It might have been a little bit longer for those two, but I know with Britta it was three rounds. And she was elected. And I read through a lot of the social media stuff that went on yesterday and even Saturday. And my name was brought up in a few different places, sometimes good, sometimes not so good. Ask me if I care. I don't. I mean... Stones get thrown this way all the time. I really don't care. I hope that myself and Andy had some positive influence on the outcome of this particular election because I had been calling for the removal of Dave Williams for almost two years. Not quite. About 23 months to be exact. It didn't take me more than about a month into Dave's leadership being at the helm of the Colorado GOP to realize what an absolute disaster that guy was. And frankly, he's a, I'll just tell it as it is, he's a liar and a thief. Straight up. And yet when he came in, all he did was blame the old administration and claimed all sorts of financial malfeasance, which, by the way, I never could see in the FEC reports. I spent over an hour one day on a particular show running through the FEC reports showing that everything he had claimed just wasn't true. Still has yet to be proven on paper to me. I would say, and I'll ask Britta this, we're going to interview her tomorrow in the very first segment tomorrow, 315, second segment, I should say. We'll take a quick break and come in and talk to Britta tomorrow. But I would like to know, A, are we going to stop a lot of these nonsense lawsuits that really there's been all sorts of money and retainers and things paid out? Can we get some of that money back? And then I would like to see some of that money not only spent to get candidates elected, but I'd like a full financial audit of what's gone on over the past two years. Because I think there's been a lot of insider nonsense that has gone on, you know, sort of pay to play and cronyism along those lines. The very things that that side accuses all of the quote unquote rhinos of, they did themselves. Which, unfortunately, much like the left, that's what happens. You normally are doing the very things that you're accusing the others of. And by the way, when it comes to Dave, the only thing I've really ever accused him of doing is, A, being a very poor leader, which he is. B, I don't think he's honest when it comes to all the monies and how things work internally in the Colorado GOP. And then lastly, he was always on the hunt to destroy whoever he could that was in opposition to him, which, again, is a poor leader. So my number one complaint with Dave is just bad, bad, bad leadership from the get-go. And some of you I know are probably yelling at the radio because you don't believe me, but time's going to show that I'm right. Already kind of has. I mean, you guys as the far hard right of the party, and I hate using that term because I'm very hardcore right myself. Only I'm more strategic in where I come from than a lot of you. In fact, I will just say it straight up. There is a lot of the folks in the Dave Williams camp, there is absolutely no strategy whatsoever. That was proven again on Saturday. And I can say that with full confidence because if you guys on Saturday would have actually had some strategy, you probably would have won. And somebody that you liked would have replaced Dave, not somebody you don't like, i.e. Britta. Now, I like Britta. I think Britta will be fine. Again, I didn't have a dog in that fight one way or the other. I wanted to see anybody but Dave and or somebody that would do exactly what Dave had been doing in that position. And as it turned out, that's exactly what's going to happen. And again, I've read all sorts of things across social media, whining, complaining. Some are very happy and ecstatic. They're happy in the direction of the party now will be able to head. We've got some very key races coming up in 2026. It's not as far away as people think. So Brita and the like have a lot of work to do over the course of the next 18 months, say. That's about what it is. And that time will go by quickly, and they're going to have to rally the troops. We'll do what we can here to help along with that. And, again, it's nice to see that there will be somebody in there that I do believe has some strategy and the ability to do some fundraising and some things like that. We'll get an idea, hopefully, from Britta tomorrow. I don't know exactly the financial shape that the party is in right now. I can look at the FEC report and get some indication, although it's not always current today. you know, to date when you're looking at that as to where things are at, how much is in the bank account, and so on. But we'll get into more of that tomorrow. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on that. But reality is, yes, there was a big change over the weekend. Enough that there are parts of the party, the Rhino Watch folk and the Davidians, that are, I'm sure, trying to figure out exactly, you know, what do they do next? And I'll just say it. I don't put it past any of them to try to do whatever they can to sabotage things moving forward. That's just the kind of individuals they are. They will do anything they possibly can to sabotage things moving forward. And I believe they will. Now, fortunately, because of what I said a moment ago, the fact that they don't have much unity even amongst themselves and they don't have a lot of strategy, that probably bodes well for Britta and her team moving forward because I don't think there's a lot that they'll be able to accomplish because, A, there's not enough of them, and, B, they're just strategically inept. That was proven on Saturday. So I won't say any more on that. We'll see how things go with the party moving forward. Time always tells how well a new person coming in and the leadership of and how those things work out. I will say this. I've known Britta for quite some time. I think she will do fine at rallying the troops and getting people on board. There's a lot of things that have to be done with fundraising and things along those lines, and there's a lot of cleanup. 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Now back to John Rush. All right. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. I do appreciate it. Text line, yes, I see a couple of messages there. I'll try to get to those as soon as I can. Again, when I'm by myself, it's always a little bit more difficult because I don't talk and type very well at all. I can read and talk typically at the same time, but I have not mastered the whole talking and typing. And I think, by the way, I think it's one thing to... Talk and type what you're talking about or saying, but to do something completely different, I think, becomes, at least for me in my brain, I can't do it. So if you can do it, you're much smarter than I, and I applaud you. Article out in the Rocky Mountain Voice that I thought was interesting because I call it like it is. And as you guys all know, I'll call out either side for things that I think are not being done correctly. Now, I typically call out the left far more than the right. But, you know, you guys know, even internally as a party, I just spoke about a few things in that first segment. If there's something that I don't think is going on well on our side, I will bring it up. I'll talk about it. I have no fear of doing that whatsoever. I call like it is. And I think there's times on social media even to where I get sort of darts thrown at me, if you would, because somebody may not like what I said, although I'm just saying it like it is. For example, in that first hour, talking about the direction the GOP in Colorado was headed and what changes we need to make and where we need to go moving forward. And, by the way, I don't think I was wrong in any of that, and I think time will tell. Now, there's those out there, by the way, really quick, that will say that the last two years of winning is over. These are, by the way, very delusional individuals. that feel like some way somehow we've actually been winning the last two years when in fact the numbers show exactly the opposite in fact had it not been for some of the candidates going against the party in colorado the leadership in colorado we would have lost even more so and possibly may not even have retained the House in D.C. had the party, quote-unquote, gone along with what the state party wanted. So these delusional individuals, and literally they are, they're delusional. For them to run around and saying that the winning is now over and, you know, look out, we're going to have a huge loss in 2026. A, I think that's very premature. B, that means you're going to be part of the problem, not the solution. And C, you don't know what winning is. Just be straight up honest. You don't know what winning is. Okay, but I'm going to call it like it is. This is titled, again, coming out of the Rocky Mountain Voice. When public office becomes a family business on the taxpayer dime. So Elon Musk exposed the grift of the politically connected who abused their access and offices to convert public dollars to private gain using tax-funded NGOs, non-governmental organizations. Typically those are non-profits. In this case... the Rocky Mountain Voice has uncovered a local politician here in Colorado who appears to be doing just this. And both she and several family members are benefiting from this financially. So the politician here in this case is Lorena Garcia. She is the state house lawmaker for District 35, representing parts of Adams and Jeffco. She was appointed to the Colorado legislature in early 2023 after Adrian Benavidez resigned for unspecified reasons. The mess created by questionable resignations and vacancy appointments in Colorado is a topic for another day. Yeah, I've talked about that one plenty. Garcia is the executive director of an NGO called Colorado Statewide Parents Coalition, or CSPC. And she has a long-term career in the NGO industry. In other words, she has been in non-governmental organizations for quite some time. CSPC received very little money from the state before Garcia was appointed to the Colorado Legislature. Weeks after she was appointed to the Colorado Legislature, CSPC began receiving much larger payments from the state. How ironic. So make sure we're saying this correctly. Prior to... her being appointed, keep in mind, not elected, but appointed to office because of another vacancy, her NGO was not receiving a lot of state money. Once she gets into office after being, again, not elected but appointed to office, her NGO now starts receiving money, like more than a million bucks in state funding since she's taken office. Keep in mind, she took office in, what did I say, January of 2023. So let's see, what is that? Actually about a year and three months. A year and three months. So 15 months, she's received roughly a million dollars. Before that, by the way, get this, it received less than $15,000 in total tax dollars. So it went from $15,000 in tax dollars to a million, over a million actually. How was the decision made to start giving such large amounts of tax dollars to Garcia? Did she have any role in the process? It certainly looks suspicious given the timing of when she was appointed. The screenshot, I have this in front of me, from the TOPS expense website shows payments made by the state of Colorado, proving what we're saying, by the way. What makes the situation raise even more ethical questions is how many multiple family members are benefiting from this? So CSPC, her organization, employs her at $132,000 a year. Sorry, this is him. Employs him at $132,000. Well, you know what? I'm wrong on that. Hang on. This is a gay couple. This is a her and a her. Sorry, my bad. This is a her and a her. So she gets $132,000 a year. Her wife gets $87,500 a year. And both of Garcia's parents get a combined of $60,000. So collectively, they're taking, what, $180,000 roughly a year out of this? She discloses in her public financial disclosures that her wife, Jamil Flores, is employed by CSPC and Communications and Social Media for that same amount. The Form 990 also discloses under interested party transaction that also employs both of her parents. Her father makes $45,000, her mother makes $15,000. Form 990 says her father gets the money for the law family program, and her mother gets it for the paso excedo program, whatever both of those are. Both programs have similar functions, hosting sessions to educate parents about their kids' educational rights. So the NGO that she is executive director of suddenly starts getting a seven-figure funding shortly after she takes office, and then she hired her family members, and now they take home almost $300,000 a year. So did CSPC follow the law and ethic guidelines when it hired Garcia's entire family? Was there a competitive hiring process, and her wife and both her parents just happened to be the very best people for the job? This is, by the way, this article says this is a potential corruption. I think I would take the word potential out of there. This is, in fact, corruption. I mean, these are things that you don't do, period, just because it looks corrupt. Even if it's not, it looks like it, meaning you shouldn't do it. Period. Period. It looks a lot like the shady government dealings that taxpayers have been learning about with increased frequency. We're tired of our hard-earned dollars being used in ways like this, funding the expensive lifestyles of the politically connected. I doubt this will be investigated in Colorado, and if it isn't, that would show a breakdown in our government. And I agree with the Rocky Mountain voice here. No, that won't get investigated. But like I said, I will call it out either way, right or left. This happens to be somebody on the left. And by the way, if this was somebody that was on the right, I think you guys all know. If this was a Republican politician and this same thing had happened and I'd read about it, would I talk about it? Absolutely I would. Absolutely. Why? Because this crap shouldn't happen. Period. I don't care what side of the aisle you're on. It shouldn't happen. Again, just like I have called Dave Williams out for some of the shady things financially that he's done inside of our party, I'll call it both ways. In this particular case, though, as much as I have railed on Dave and the Colorado GOP, nothing compares to this. Nothing they're doing compares to this. So those of you that are on the left, how do you explain this? I would love to get a text message or an email from you explaining how do you explain away these sorts of things. And again, keep in mind, going back to the original topic here, this is taxpayer money. We as Coloradans, a lot of you are getting ready to file taxes as we speak. I'm in the middle of getting mine done. I will be sending a check to the state of Colorado in the not-too-distant future, here roughly in about 15 days, roughly, because tomorrow's the first, so count it out. And I will be straight-up honest. I don't want my money going to this. I don't want my money going to this. This is not what I signed up for as a Colorado resident. By the way, a lifelong Colorado resident. So we'll be right back. I've got more to talk about. Dr. Scott Faulkner coming up next. If you need a great doctor, Scott is your guy. He thinks exactly like we do here on Rush to Reason. Call him today, 303-663-6990.
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All right, and another story just showing you how decrepit the left is, because I guarantee you this didn't happen from anybody on the right, and that is the GOP, the New Mexico headquarters, was basically hit by arson, in other words, set on fire. Luckily, nobody was injured or killed, but they arrived at the headquarters just before 6 a.m. on Sunday, put the fire out within a few minutes. And they said the front entryway sustained fire, smoke damages throughout the building. The word ICE equals KKK were sprayed on the building. Images from the fire scene show. Now, just to stop there for a minute, how do they get ICE equals KKK? Because you're rounding up illegals that shouldn't be here in the first place and sending them back to their home country? That's not the same as what the KKK did. Again, I hate to keep reiterating this, but this just shows you the ignorance of some that are out there, in this case those that are on the left. Really, how much more ignorant could you be? You don't even know what evidently the KKK did. You're either too young to know, haven't looked it up, haven't studied it, whatever the case may be. But you don't know. And the reality is ICE and it shouldn't even be in the same name. Or shouldn't even be in the same sentence, I mean. They are not one and the same. To say they equal each other is the stupidest thing ever. Really does show your overall lack of intelligence. That's how I would say it. So, again, they will be investigating this, trying to figure out exactly who set this. The Democrat Party of New Mexico did condemn any vandalism at the Republican Party. But let me just speak to you guys on the left for just a moment. You create this. You do. You create this. Your rhetoric, your stance on things. how you talk about certain things, what you say, all of those things contribute to what's going on. So you can condemn it all you want, and you should, but reality is you're the cause of it. Your whole mentality creates this. You claim to be a party of love and inclusion and this, that, and the other, but really you're vile, hate-filled individuals that are on your side. You see it over and over and over again. Here just this last week in Colorado when they were having some events here locally, the Steve Bannon event on Friday night. I mean, the amount of people that are from that side that come out in protest and what they actually say and do and how they look and so on. These literally are mentally ill individuals. And I would say this, and you know I would do this. If that was our side protesting something you did and were acting in the same way that those people were at not only that event but a lot of other events that happened around the country, I would condemn that as well. I would. I would condemn it. Just like I have condemned the Westboro Baptist folks back in the day when they were doing all their shenanigans. And I was on air at that time. Again, I call it like I see it. But for you on the left to just condemn it, but then not do anything about ending this, you're as much of the problem as they are. And I'll stand by that. And there's a lot of folks on the left that listen to me. And I thank you for listening, by the way. I respect you for listening. You need to get your party under control. You really do. Your party has become the party of hate. I know you're going to run around and say it's the opposite, but that's not the case. You can look at the way things go in the country, some of the protests, some of the things that happen, some of the things that are said that are done and so on. There's nothing like that. There's no destruction coming out of the right. Nobody's burning up Democrat headquarters across the country. Yet these sorts of things, like what happened in New Mexico, happen far too often from your side against us. And I get it. There's different issues across the board. Is anybody perfect? No. One of the things I was going to mention today, again, I call it like I see it. I think it's a big mistake. Those of you that love Trump, and I do as well, I think he's making a really big mistake when he talks about a third term. Now, I also will say this before anybody judges me. Is he really serious? And I know over the weekend he said that he was. But is he really, or is that a distraction to get the left all riled up so that he can go do something else in its place. And it could just be that, by the way, folks. So before any of you out there get all riled up because of Trump talking about a third term and really looking at it, and yes, there's possible ways to make this happen and blah, blah, blah. Yes, I know these are things that he said. But remember with Trump, there's a lot of strategy that goes on in his brain, and some of that may very well be just that strategy. It may very well be him distracting in one area so he can go get something else done somewhere else. And I mean that sincerely. So I take a lot of what Trump says in those particular situations with a grain of salt because he's likely to not follow through with that anyways. And the left just gets all riled up and that's all they talk about, which is exactly what he wants. And I'm fine with that. And by the way, I'm fine with him talking about it if, in fact, that's his strategy. If he's serious, then I have serious issues with him because, no, I don't think we should be doing that. And the reason I say that is because I don't want to give anybody else down the road from either party that same idea. There is term limits on presidents for reasons— And it should stay that way. But back to the way that the left acts and this vandalism, this fire that happened in New Mexico, which, by the way, could happen pretty much anywhere. Shame on you on the left. Shame on you. That shouldn't be the case. I shouldn't even be reporting on these things. And at the end of the day, folks, this is just politics. I get it. It's the future of the country and some things can happen seriously when it comes to politics and so on. But it's not life or death. sorry to say it's not life or death now could it eventually be based upon certain policies and things like that yeah i guess eventually but immediately is it no no now something that is life or death and this goes back to the whole comment about what was spray painted on that building about ice equals kkk so The driver in the deadly semi-crash on 285 that happened about a year ago, that particular individual had to serve a year in jail because of that death. He admitted to that particular situation. Ignacio Cruz Mendoza. As soon as he got out of jail, federal custody, he got detained by ICE and he's going home. He's getting deported. Rightfully so, by the way. He should be deported. That's an example, by the way, of where is ICE KKK? This is a known illegal that was here, that was driving in a reckless manner, that killed someone in the process, that went and served a year of jail, prison time, in doing so. And should he be allowed to stay? No. No, shouldn't have been here in the first place. So this is an example of those folks in New Mexico saying ICE equals KKK, again, showing their absolute, utter ignorance. So, I mean, I would ask those same people down there, is this a situation where ICE is like KKK? And if they would say, well, yeah, this person shouldn't be deported, then you know what? You're just as bad as he is. You're just as bad as he is. And I guarantee you the family would say the same thing. So, again, that was in June of 2024, so not quite even a year ago. So he didn't even serve a full year. He's a couple months shy of that. And he killed a man in that process. And he pleaded guilty back then to that particular situation, that particular accident. So, again, in New Mexico, they're putting ICE equals KKK, all the while forgetting about some of these situations. Carolyn Leavitt did a great job over the weekend, by the way, of, I think, defending current immigration policy, what's happening, what the Trump administration is doing, and so on, and really talking about how we're rounding up, initially, not just people that have come illegally, but people that came illegally and have committed a crime on top of that. So it's kind of a two strikes and you're out scenario, although in some cases, I guarantee you, these people probably have more than two strikes against them. There's probably multiples. Otherwise, they wouldn't be on the list. So my point is don't feel sorry for these people. Don't feel sorry. If they want to come to this country and abide by the laws and do the things necessary and have a chance for citizenship and so on, you know what? More power to you, and you should be doing it legally, not illegally. And a lot of immigrants that have come here and done it legally would agree with me on that. But come and do it legally. And above all... Mind your P's and Q's. Why are you here committing another crime when you're already a criminal by being here illegally in the first place? Again, something that, again, these people that did what they did in New Mexico and wrote what they wrote on the wall is evidently forgetting. But I say forgetting, but keep in mind, a lot of these people are brainwashed. They're brainwashed into thinking certain things that just frankly are not true. They haven't thought through this whole process. They believe in something that isn't true. And they continue to stretch that narrative out over and over and over again, even though it's an untrue statement. Cub Creek, heating and air conditioning, coming up next. And Cub Creek wants to help you with all of your HVAC needs. And, yes, we've still got some cold weather coming in this week and through the weekend. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Charlie also reminded me that in this particular situation where this criminal was going to be deported because of the fact he's here illegally and not even just a one-time infraction, but he had come back and forth, back and forth, back and forth numerous times, 16 over the course of time, So this wasn't his first offense had been going on for quite some time. And on top of that, they had to actually do the exchange with a lot, not exchange, but they had to apprehend him with a lot more officers on hand because they're not allowed in the jail to actually do the handoff inside where you would need one or two people to make that happen. By the way, what a bunch of nonsense. And that's, by the way, that's because of Colorado. And you can probably blame our Democrat politicians and Governor Polis for that one. Shouldn't be that way. If there is somebody that is a threat to society, and this person is, they ought to be able to hand them right over to ICE, either in the lobby of the jail or, frankly, right inside. As soon as they exit, they're done. Here you go. You're going with these individuals from ICE. Adios, amigos. You're gone. You're done. Don't let that door hit you on the way out. And that's literally what ought to happen. Now, on top of that, and there's no guarantees of this, you ought to be talking to Mexico and find out, okay, what are you guys going to do when this guy comes back? He killed somebody here in the States. What are you going to do when he comes back? Because the reality is we don't want to see him again. We don't want to see him again. And it's a shame that we're even spending resources on this. And remember, too, in all of this, I had somebody texting me that was only a couple of cars behind that accident when it happened, had to swerve to get out of the way. Fortunately, that person is fine. But keep in mind, somebody lost their life over this. This wasn't some isolated small incident. We have had several of these large trucking incidents in Colorado because of an illegal, in some cases with no CDL like this one, where they literally are a detriment to society itself. And just one other thing I'll gripe about for a moment. Those of us that have fleets and operate and do things along those lines, if that were me, and I'd been the owner, all hell would break loose. I'm a middle-aged white guy. But because it's this individual, he gets not barely a year in prison. Yes, he has to go back to his home country, but anybody else, any of you listening, by the way, if you owned a trucking company and that had been your company that this had happened to, you would still be in jail. I'm confident of that. You'd still be there. And you as an owner would probably lose everything on top of it. Even if one of your people did it and you're the owner, you're still losing everything over this. That's the other part of this that's a bunch of garbage, by the way. Because in this case, this individual has really no assets or anything to go after. I'm not sure there's any insurance. That's another – I'd have to go in and dig into this story to find out exactly – how it all shakes out. I'm guessing that this family probably got little, if anything, out of this, even an insurance company that may or may not have even existed on behalf of this particular quote-unquote trucking company. Which, there's some folks texting me that believe this trucking company is still in business up in that Bailey area. Which, again, should not be the case. Because it'll happen again. And I see these types of trucks traveling on the freeways far too often, and I can guarantee you that they will not pass the CDL inspections that they should be passing. In a lot of cases, I know this for a fact, what happens is even if these guys get pulled into a mobile station and they have to actually pass inspection, they walk off, leave the truck, go find another one, and off they go again, they're back in business. They're not paying a lot of money for these trucks is my point. And when I say a lot of money, they're paying $5,000, $10,000 for a truck. Keep in mind, they can go make that depending upon what their income level is and how much they work in a month or less. The truck's paid off. Everything else after that becomes profit. Granted, they got to pay for fuel and such, but these trucks are well, well under-maintained, if at all. They literally drive them to the ground, go do another one. Drive it to the ground, go do another one. And I'm not exaggerating at all in what I'm saying. Some of you out there listening could text me and verify exactly what I'm saying, and I'm not wrong. And if they do get into a point where they actually have to go through an inspection and it gets flagged, they just leave it. They leave it. It gets impounded, sold off, whatever, and nothing bad happens to them. They just go find another truck and start all over again, and I'm not exaggerating. That's exactly what happens. That's the story. And the reality is in Colorado, they can't even hand off those individuals inside of jail. They have to wait until that person exits jail, meaning they have to have a lot more people around to make sure that that apprehension happens correctly so that everybody is safe, including the citizens, the public. And then they get them all rounded up and back to Mexico he goes. But because of that and because of that policy, by the way, you've got vandals and they set fires on GOP headquarters in New Mexico claiming ICE equals KKK. That's just how much of a loser these individuals really are. I have no other way to say it. 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One of you actually sent me an article, by the way. Multiple adults, children, and an infant were involved in a collision late Thursday night on I-35 near Parmer Lane in Austin. And a man faces multiple charges after a major crash on Interstate 35. left at least five people dead, nearly a dozen injured. He, of course, was intoxicated. He failed a sobriety test, I should say, showed signs of intoxication. I've got to read through this to determine is he legal or not. I haven't gotten that far. I'm guessing that because you sent me this, there's a possibility that he may not be, otherwise you would not have... sent this to me, but reality is far too many of these sorts of things are happening, and they should not be. In this particular case, five people, not one, five people lost their lives because of that. So, you know, last but not least, this is kind of more of a drive radio thing that we talk about on Saturdays. Man alive, be defensive when you're driving. Watch around you at all times. Rear view mirror, front, sides. What are people doing around you? How fast are they coming? Is there a semi truck behind you coming at too high of a speed? Is there one coming at you that's at too high of a speed? Are they gonna make the corner, not make the corner? Lots of things going on and really, really, really pay attention at all times. There was another lady that was just killed here recently on I-70 going east. And there was a drunk driver that somehow got westbound on the eastbound side and head-on collision and killed her, the baby in the back. I have no idea how the baby survived, but it did. And, again, those sorts of things are just – they shouldn't happen. Those are stories that, quite frankly, we should not have to talk about ever because they shouldn't happen. And I'm not blaming anybody in that particular case. When you've got lights coming at you and there's probably cars darting all over the place you're doing the best you can to try to get out of the way and save your baby in the back which whatever she did she did thank heaven also by the way why you should put your baby in the right rear not right behind you because typically head-ons happen at the driver's side not the passenger side just the way it ends up working out anytime you see head-on collisions you'll notice that the driver impact is always greater than the passenger side. That's why if you're traveling with any kind of a kid, put the smallest one in the right side passenger seat, not the left side, because of those reasons. So leave it at that. We've got two more hours coming your way. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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All right, hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Kurt Rogers, time for our Monday Mortgage Minute. Kurt, welcome. How are you?
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I'm doing fine, John. How are you?
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I'm doing very well. First-time buyers. We've talked about this in the past, but what is a first-time buyer?
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First-time buyer, according to the loan programs that are out there, is someone who has not owned a home either by themselves or jointly with someone else in the last three years.
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So it's not like you've never owned one. It's just not in three years.
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Right. And it's kind of important now because with loan programs out there, they're trying to get more first-time homebuyer, younger people into buying homes. So they got some great incentives for first-time homebuyers.
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Okay. So what does that do to help them save money at the end of the day?
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Well, normally a first-time homebuyer is not going to have the normal 20% down. It takes time to come up with that. So what they've done is they've given first-time homebuyers a lower interest rate, and in addition, they've almost eliminated the mortgage insurance that goes with it. So you can put a list 3% down and get a better rate strictly because you're a first-time homebuyer and just a small portion of $20, $30, $40 a month in mortgage insurance, and you're able to buy the home. In addition to that, they give you higher debt-to-income limits because they're really trying to get more younger people into buying homes, and that seems to help.
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Okay, makes total sense. Now, when it comes to that end of things, if they qualify, they haven't had a home in those three years and so on, realistically, when they're looking at budgets and so on, A, what kind of credit score do they need? B, how much down payment money should they be trying to save up?
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Well, I would try to save up, the minimum would be 3%. There are some first-time home buyer programs out there where you can borrow a large portion of the down payment and only have to bring $1,000 or $2,000 to the table.
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Okay.
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But the loan will normally go quicker with a better rate if you bring at least 3%. Okay.
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All right.
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So in other words... And when you're looking, you're just trying to figure out, does that fit into my budget? Well, it may fit into your budget, but you're not comfortable with it. And that's a good thing.
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Okay.
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You might qualify for more home, but buy something that fits your budget that doesn't make you house poor, as we call it.
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Okay. Makes total sense. All right. Haystack Help Radio, tomorrow, noon to 1. What are you covering tomorrow?
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We're actually going to be taking this farther in depth. Talks about different non-occupying co-buyers that can help first-time homebuyers, how a first-time homebuyer can buy a duplex home. We're going to show you all kinds of ways of doing other things than buying a home.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Alan Hibbert joining us now. Alan, welcome. You're a money specialist at goldsilver.com. Welcome, sir.
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Hey, thank you, John. I appreciate the time.
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All right. Gold is literally at an all-time high. Never seen it high this high in my entire life. Talk to us a little bit about precious metals and how that can work for some people.
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Yeah, so we're over $3,100 an ounce in gold, and this is pretty remarkable. If you remember February of last year, just about 13 months ago, gold had dipped below $2,000 an ounce. So it was in the 1900s, and now we're over $3,100. This is pretty amazing. It's up over 50%. from just about 13 months ago. So yeah, gold is really just the way to protect your purchasing power. So if you're concerned about inflation, the rising cost of living, groceries, or anything like that, gold is the tried and tested way of protecting your purchasing power. It's worked for thousands of years. It's working right now. It's beautiful.
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When I was a kid buying class rings, this will date myself, of course, Alan, we all thought it was high at 300 an ounce.
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Yeah, well, it's 10x now.
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Add a zero to that now.
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Exactly. As long as we keep printing dollars, there's no limit to how high the price of gold can go.
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Well, that was going to be my next question. You kind of took the words out of my mouth. I mean, I think for a lot of people, they're always asking, you know, where is that top end when it comes to, you know, gold, silver, some of the precious metals that are out there? Of course, you know, what is the top? And what you just said is there is none.
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Yeah, exactly. So gold might be infinite in the universe, but it's pretty scarce in terms of what humans are able to get their hands on. It takes a lot of energy to dig new gold out of the earth. But when it comes to U.S. dollars, we can just click a button and print a billion of them, click another button, print a trillion of them. And so if you look at the exchange rate between the two, which is really the price of gold, it can go to infinity, you know, because dollars can go to infinity. So there's really no top for the price of gold or really the price of any asset as long as we keep printing those dollars.
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Talk to me, and this is something that, again, I'm kind of a novice at, know a little bit about it, but I've not really studied it much, and I don't have a lot of money invested in, and that is crypto. And does crypto have any negative effect upon gold, or does it help it?
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That's a great question. And the first thing that I would say is that it's important to distinguish between Bitcoin and everything else. I think Bitcoin is a unique cryptocurrency. All the other cryptos I would stay away from unless you're a super expert at the particular niche cryptocurrency. that that crypto is focused on. Most people are not.
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And you know what? It's funny that you said that because I tend to agree with you. And even for me personally, Bitcoin, as you know, it can be very – it isn't can be. It is very volatile. A lot of things that happen in the marketplace, unlike gold, can affect crypto greatly. And I think it's one of those things where you need to be in that one for the long haul.
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Yes, exactly. So if you're, if you're a retiree, you can probably safely ignore Bitcoin. It's not worth it. You know, don't worry about it. If you're a younger guy like me, I'm in my mid thirties, I'm very interested in Bitcoin. I've spent 10 years learning about it. And so I am absolutely interested in holding Bitcoin for 10, 20, 30, 40 years. Um, so you really have to pay attention to the longterm and you have to do a lot of research or to figure out what it is and how to hold that investment properly. So there's a learning curve there with Bitcoin. With gold, I think it's a little bit easier, gold and silver. I think it's more intuitive for people. You can hold it in your hand. It's easier to understand what it is. So it probably makes sense to get started with gold and silver while you continue to learn about Bitcoin. That's what I would say for most people.
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Do you recommend buying physical gold, or how should people own that?
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Yeah, generally speaking, the reason that you want to own physical gold or silver is because there's a crisis in leadership in the world. You're basically saying that the leaders of various countries or companies or currencies, they're not doing a good job. There's a lot of uncertainty. You don't know which way they're going to move. You don't know what rules they're going to implement or if they're going to be able to execute effectively on those rules. And so as a result of all that uncertainty, you go to something like gold or silver because it is so certain. You know what it is. In the case of gold, it's atomic number 79. It's not going to change. There's no leader who has to enforce the properties of gold. It's something that can happen in a decentralized fashion. So that's the appeal. But it only works if you hold it in your own hands. So if you have someone else custody or hold that gold or silver for you or if you buy it.
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Now you're reliant on them, right?
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Yeah, then you rely on them. And if they default on their promise, then you haven't really achieved anything. So you've got to take physical. That's kind of the bread and butter.
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Okay, meaning that you need to be a little bit savvy. You've got to have a place to store it. If you're going to hold it physically, is it going to be safe? I mean, the more value is in it and then the higher it goes up, the more you need to make sure it's protected. And to your point, it doesn't take much for it to continue to go up, meaning that that investment needs to be very well protected, correct?
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Yeah, that's all true. And so for getting started for smaller amounts of gold and silver, you probably can store it at your house. One ounce of gold is over $3,000. So if you think of something the size of your cell phone, that's maybe five ounces. So that's like $15,000 worth of gold. So you could kind of scale up from there. You might be able to store all your gold in a shoebox, for example. But again... After a certain dollar amount or a certain quantity, you might think about diversifying in different geographic locations. Maybe you have a friend or a relative who can store some of your metal for you. That way it's not all in the same place. And professional storage is an option. But again, you have that risk, that potential risk of a custodian who has to keep track of it for you.
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Okay, now, when it comes to a lot of the things that you just said a moment ago, you know, the storage of, the buying of, and so on, I think this is where it gets a little confusing for folks. Maybe they would like to go ahead and buy, you know, an ounce or two or three or whatever, like you said, even a cell phone size 15 grand worth. Where do they go to buy that?
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Well, you can buy online. It's as easy as buying something on Amazon, right? It's a couple clicks. You just have to make sure you go to a reputable dealer. So, of course, I'm biased towards my own company, GoldSilver.com. Very easy to remember, GoldSilver.com. But there are many sites out there. You just want to make sure that they have good reviews, that they're not a scam. Do a little bit of research and don't be enticed by... A lot of ridiculously low prices that are below the spot price. That's probably going to be a scam. Unfortunately, the way the market works is you're going to have to pay spot price plus a little bit of a premium. Don't be surprised by that. If anyone's trying to entice you with a ridiculously low price. they're scamming you somehow. So make sure you go to a reputable dealer.
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Okay. Is there any value in buying a coin over just buying a bar, that sort of a thing? Does it matter one way or the other, or does it make any difference?
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Yeah, generally speaking, it's not a huge difference. It does boil down to personal preference. However, if you're buying a bar, you might get a little bit more bang for your buck. So if Bars tend to have a higher purity and a lower premium over spot. Now, that doesn't necessarily make them better, but if you are going to hold for a long time and you don't have any other particular uses with them, then, yeah, a bar is probably a slightly better bang for your buck. However, there could be some tax advantages to getting coins depending on where you live and what jurisdiction. So, for example, American Eagle gold coins have favorable tax treatment in the United States.
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Hmm.
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But generally speaking, it's not a huge difference between coins and bars.
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Okay. You know what? You just told me something I don't think I've ever heard anybody say before on the tax sides of things. Actually, all of you listening, that's something that I would definitely check out on the front side as well because here's another question I have. How – I mean – Do they really, IRS-wise, do they really have the ability to track how much you paid versus how much you sold, or is this a lot like cash?
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I'm not totally sure. And personally, I'm not trying to play the game where I can dodge taxes.
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Right.
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I agree. Man, it's just not worth it.
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I get it.
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I don't know what the IRS has, but all of these companies... Because stocks, things like that, there's ways of reporting and so on.
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But owning physical gold that you would buy, let's say, for example, maybe you bought it... 10 years ago, I mean, the reality is, Alan, I mean, if you bought that 10 years ago and you sell it 10 years from now and there's a 20-year time frame, I mean, no offense, I highly doubt they're going to know exactly what you paid versus what you sold it for.
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I see your point. I do not disagree with you at all. I definitely see your point. And I'm not sure what the IRS is doing.
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And I'm not telling anybody to dodge taxes or anything along those lines either, Alan. I'm just saying that, you know, how is this any different than, no offense, a guy that owns an old car that you bought for $500 and all of a sudden today, because of other things and values and so on, it's worth $100,000. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. Those things can happen. And that guy goes and sells it. I mean, the reality is they don't know anything.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, you're right. You're right. And it's just like, you know, cash tips.
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Correct.
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A lot of workers don't declare those. I mean, everyone just makes their own decisions. So I think you're right. It is probably hard for the IRS to keep track of what everyone is doing all the time. But I believe there is a rule for American eagles. I think you can sell up to 10 of them per year. So at current prices, that would be, you know, 30 grand worth of sales per year. and I believe there might not be capital gains tax on that. Don't quote me on that. Everyone's got to look into that because I'm not a lawyer. I'm not an advisor.
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Yeah, I'm not either. Really quick, we are not giving tax advice. We're just talking out loud. You and I are spitballing. For all of you listening, this is not advice on what to go do or not do. We don't have any idea. We're literally just throwing some ideas out there, and you've got to go do your own research.
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Exactly, exactly.
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Okay, a question I have for you as well, because this is another one I think I hear occasionally. Is there ever a time not to get into precious metals, gold and silver? In other words, there's folks saying, well, it's $3,100 today, it could be $2,100 next week. Well, I'm not much of a financial guru, I'll just tell you that right now, because I don't know what the future holds, but I can almost tell you on that one, it ain't going to happen.
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yeah i agree with you and it's a great question there are definitely times you don't want to buy gold and i would i would reference 1980 right that was the last high gold throughout the 1970s went up by a factor of 25. a factor of 25 went from 35 an ounce to 873 in the 1970s then from 1980 to 2000 it dropped by 70 percent so a brutal 20-year bear market Well, now we're in a bull market and eventually we're going to hit a top, but I don't think we're anywhere close because if you look at the long term ratio between stocks and gold, right, the Dow gold ratio, for example, we're still at elevated levels, which means gold is still underpriced. It has a lot of room to increase in price relative to stocks for probably the next four to five years at least. So I think gold is still a fantastic buy for the next little bit until Get this, until the Dow gold ratio hits about one. So back in 1980, the Dow was at 873 points and the price of gold was $873. They were the same. So every 30 to 40 years, they have the exact same quantity, right? Number of points, number of dollars. If you look now, the Dow's up in the 40,000s. Gold is only $3,000, so imagine those being the same price. So either gold has to go up to $40,000 to restore that ratio, or the Dow has to come down, or they have to meet somewhere in the middle. So even though gold is at all-time highs, it's still underpriced relative to where we expect it to go.
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In reality, and this is my opinion on this, Alan, until they get the spending under control, which I realize this administration is working on, but they've got a long way to go. Until the spending gets under control and the printing press stops, you're not going to see gold drop. That's my opinion.
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Yes, I completely agree. And it's much easier to make a mess than to clean it up. So I am also optimistic for the current administration. But just the basic realities of economics is things are going to get worse in the next 12 months or so before they get better. You know, all the tariffs, Doge, all these other things, they're all inflationary. And there's going to be a lot of printing. Even if they do make slight cuts to the budget, it might not be enough. quickly enough. We'll see. It takes a long time to reorganize all these resources, people and dollars, effectively. It takes a long time. So I think inflation is going to get worse before it gets better.
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All right. GoldSilver.com, Alan Hibbert. Alan, thank you so much for joining us. I appreciate it. I've learned a lot. Thank you.
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Hey, thank you, John. I appreciate it.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. All right, I'm going to play something, and I can't play all of this because there's some language in it that I did not have time for Charlie to get cut out, and I know where the language is. But I'm going to play enough of this where you'll get the gist of what's going on. And this is an interview that Jon Stewart, who's a lefty, by the way. Last time I checked, he was, right, Charlie? He's a pretty hardcore lefty. Did an interview talking about expanded broadband, $42 billion allocated towards this, and I want you to hear what he has to say. And again, I did my best to double-check this, and if there's a bad word, we'll dump it and keep going, but I think I'm good up until a certain point, but I'm going to go ahead and get started. Here we go.
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days. That's step one. Step two, which all 56 state applicants completed, is states who want to participate must submit a letter of intent. After they do that, they can submit a request for up to $5 million in planning grants. Then the NTIA, step four, has to review and approve and award, again, planning grants, not broadband grants. planning grants and it's still at the nti it's still at the first step all right so the nti a must issue nofo within 180 days states who want to participate must submit their letter of intent uh step three they can request up to five million dollars in planning grants just planning Just planning. Step four, the requests are reviewed, approved, and awarded by the NDIA, which currently all 56, you know, three years later, all 56 applicants had passed through at least step five. It took at least it took more than three years. So it's a long time. States must submit a five year action plan. The states kind of go back and they kind of think about how they're going to do this. And they don't just say, OK, you know, thank you for the money. We're going to spend it and you can see how it worked out later. We're like, here's our five year action plan. Then the FCC must publish the broadband document. data maps before NTIA allocates funds. So having done the NOFO, the letters of intent, the request for planning grants, then the review, approval and awarding of the planning grants, then the five year action plans. In between that, the federal government has to put forward a map saying where it thinks we need rural broadband subsidies. And then, of course, the states need an opportunity to challenge the map for accuracy.
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All right, I'll stop it there because if I play much longer, some bad words come out, which, by the way, I can't fault Jon Stewart for having a bad word there, knowing all of the rigmarole that you just heard that has to happen to get broadband, which, by the way, could have been an easy, easy, maybe two-step process. through Starlink, give them the contract to provide this, make there an application process, which, by the way, I could have made, based upon where you live, what kind of access do you actually have to broadband, And I can tell you firsthand that depending upon where you live, you might only have a couple of choices, and some of those might be other satellite-driven services, which, by the way, are worthless. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. HughesNet, Viasat, they both stink. Some of you that have had experience with those know exactly what I'm talking about. They suck. There may not be any other options. And by the way, this is really easy for anybody out there to double-check to determine whether this particular applicant is actually being honest with what they're putting down on the paper or not. I can look it up from my desk anywhere that I've got internet connection from and determine whether that person has any other options or not. It's really not that difficult. You literally could make this a two-step application process by those that are in the rural areas to determine should they have any kind of... quote unquote, subsidy. which is debatable. I'm not even talking about that. I'm just talking about the existing earmarked money. How do we get this out to folks and actually make it happen? Because keep in mind, not one single household yet has been hooked up. That's the whole point of this interview that Jon Stewart did. Not one single house, three, almost four years later now, not one single household in rural America has been hooked up to broadband. Not one. And yet, we have Starlink that becomes very easy to hook up to. In fact, in a lot of cases, it doesn't cost any more money than what they would be spending for other broadband in their area. Again, I could have devised a plan on how to do this in a matter of hours. I could have even devised the form that needs filled out in a matter of hours. And I am not... I am not boasting in that. This isn't that complicated. If you know a little bit about the IT world, which there's plenty of people that do, unfortunately most of them don't work in government, but you go find those people, Elon Musk and others, and determine, okay, what's the application process need to look like? oh, by the way, we're not going to give you this for free. We'll give it to you at half off. And so every one of these, Mr. Musk, that you guys at Starlink sign up, instead of you getting your full, whatever it is, $129 fee, you're going to get half of that from the customer, half of that from Uncle Sam. Done. Done. Meaning that that person could have broadband via Starlink for a matter of, I don't know, $65, $70 a month, which they're going to pay anyways no matter what. No, it shouldn't be free. And case closed. Done. Move on. $42 billion of UNI's tax dollars, which is the tax time of the year. You're all going to be, you know, not all of you, but some of you will be sending checks in in roughly 15 days. I'm one of those. I pay, yes, and some of you would ask why. Because if you allow the government to send you money back, you're letting them use your money all year long interest-free. Why would you do that? That's me. And I know some would say, well, but I want money back. Okay, so you want a savings account that's non-interest-bearing that Uncle Sam is already wasting. You want them to give you that back at the end of the year. Why not just figure out to where you owe a teeny bit, save that little bit up, and pay that at the end of every year instead of getting money back? That's my motto. Lots of ways to figure that, which you and your accountant or whoever does your taxes can sit down and figure out. But yeah, I'm not one that believes in getting money back. That's probably a conversation in and of itself for one whole segment that I can do at a later date. I don't tell people how to do things. I don't want to get into your personal business as to how you do taxes, but I've never understood why you would want to get money back. I pay. Some would say, well, I don't want to pay. So budget. Figure that out. Put a little bit of money aside into an account you don't touch. You know you have to pay taxes out of that at the end of every year, whatever the situation. And some people pay a big check. Some people pay a little check. It just depends on how much money you made that last year. It depends on what kind of deductions and all sorts of other things that were going on. Point being, it's that time of the year where people think about this more than they regularly do. And I, for one, when I write that check out, all I think about is, you know what? I would be better off turning these into $1 bills, standing next to a bonfire where I can throw a bill in at a time and at least enjoy the warmth from it because otherwise I'm not getting a single thing out of this. Yes, I live in a free country. Yes, I have infrastructure. But the reality is that money is literally being burned away just like I would be doing it myself. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. I just gave you case in point. $42 billion for broadband rural access, not one home hooked up, and that's a part of the reason why. Goes back to proving my point. The federal government is inefficient at literally every single thing it does. Charlie asked, who's charged with making all of that happen? You know what? That came out of the Biden infrastructure bill. So, yeah. Oh, Kamala Harris. That's right. Kamala was in charge of the broadband. That's right. Thank you, Charlie. Thanks for the reminder. I forgot about that. Yes, Kamala was in charge of all of this. Thank you, Charlie. You can already tell what a disaster that's been. Now, there's been other people that have been involved in this from the FCC and others and so on, and you heard some of that on there. And, you know, the states can submit and then they can challenge the map and this, that, and the other. I mean, what a load of garbage. You don't even need all that. You don't need all that. You literally could just say, okay, here's a form. The requirements are you only have one option. Maybe two, to get broadband service to your home. And by the way, broadband would be considered X. You need a certain amount of up and down load speeds to be able to even qualify for this. I can tell you that the house I had in Granby, for example, it had two choices. There was nothing via cable or wire or anything that you could get for any kind of high-speed access. The only choice I had was HughesNet or Viasat. That was it. It was the only two choices. So that's an easy address to look up and say, okay, this person has no other choice, but one of those two things, they qualify for Starlink with whatever subsidy we want to give them. Done. Easy. Done. Believe it or not, my house in Golden, up until a year ago, I had one choice. Minus the satellite companies. I had one choice. And it sucked. I won't say the name on air because I'm not going to do that. But I had one choice, and it was awful. I should have qualified for some sort of a whatever to be able to get high speed, which I was even looking at the satellite end of things with Elon at that time, and I did qualify through him because I only had one other provider. As it turned out, another provider came in. I've got high speed now. It works great. I saved money. But I went for a very, very long time spending far more money than I needed to for broadband because I, in Golden, Colorado, had no other choice. And some of you are going to think, geez, that's in the city. Yeah, that's the problem. There are places literally even inside of cities that have very slow Internet access. It's ridiculous in this day and age. By the way, blame that on some of the cities. They're the ones that are at fault for this. They and their lack of planning are at fault for that. And yet, federally, you and I as taxpayers are picking up the tab for improper planning from a lot of these seats. Now, I get it. The person out in Timbuktu, there's no lines, there's no nothing. Okay, I get that. That's not any kind of a county or city's fault. It's not a city anyways. It would all be county. No, that's not the county's fault. That's an exception. And I get there's some of those around. But I also know that there are areas whereby a... 20-acre site gets developed out into one-acre homes, and it's far enough away from the quote-unquote internet grid that they don't have high speed either. 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All right. I had a few questions, by the way, coming in asking, okay, wait a minute. We've never heard a situation where, you know, the city or the county or whatever has an impact upon who's now servicing your home when it comes to Internet, TV, things along those lines. Well, let me tell you how that works. Typically, this has been years ago. Most of these contracts have most likely now ended, although I think there are still a few of these still out there floating around. And I was one of those individuals up until, like I said, about a year ago. And let me explain. When there's expansion and or when the Internet first started to expand and broadband became a thing, it could have been done a couple of different ways. which, again, is still copper, but two different forms of delivering it to your home. So a lot of cities put out requests for proposals with different companies that would come in and provide said service to their community. So in my particular case, it was a company that had agreed evidently to provide XYZ service to this portion of town. And oh, by the way, the only way we're going to agree to come in and put that infrastructure in is we want an exclusive contract for X amount of time. So until that time goes away, no other company can come in and get the approvals necessary from the city to lay the groundwork to put in the other high-speed options that are now out there. So believe me, government has a lot to do with what goes on in some of these things I'm talking about, not necessarily in quote-unquote rural America, but it can definitely happen in cities, towns, and so on because of what I just said. And if you're a victim of that, you're at a point where... You really don't have much choice when it's all said and done as to who you can use for Internet access. Jim, go ahead. Hello. Hello, Jim. Yeah. You there? Yes, I am. Go ahead, Jim.
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Hey, just real quick, I wanted to touch again on the precious metals deal and a little bit more information for you if you've got a minute. Sure, go ahead. Yeah, so... Most dealers are required, if you go in and let's say you need to sell something, let's say you need to sell something, you need to do repairs on your house or something like that. Right. You're required to fill out a 1099 if it's over $10,000. Gotcha. The caveat to that, one of the caveats to that is if you buy pre-1933 gold coins, so $20 gold coin, $5 gold coin, stuff like that,
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Those are exempt because they're considered a collector's item and you sold a collector's item, basically.
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That's right. Ah, gotcha.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, makes sense. I did not know that. Thank you. I didn't know that, Jim.
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Well, there's actually a lot of dealers that don't know that, but that's a law. That's a U.S. law. One of the dealers I buy from can recite the code for that, but I don't have it off of me right now. Okay. So that's one thing. So I like to... Try and do pre-33 if possible. But there's bars, there's coins, there's eagles, stuff like that. No problem. I see. Also, another thing to bear in mind if people want to do a little exercise. If you Google the average price of a home in 1965 is around $20,000. Okay. And gold was $35 an ounce then. So ounces to buy that house... would be 571 ounces okay today national average is 425 000 but in denver it's over 500 000 right right 425 000 divided by 3100 an ounce is 137 ounces so 571 ounces to buy a house in 65 1965 only 137 ounces today. Yeah, okay. That's where it protects your purchasing power. Pretty good return on investment. Yeah. And really, gold's not a great investment. It's purchasing power.
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It's a hedge against inflation is what it is, right, Jim?
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Exactly what it is. Also, in the early 1900s, J.P. Morgan was in front of Congress, and he testified. They were asking him questions and said, AP Morgan said the only true money is gold. Everything else is fiat. And it's been money for 4,000 years. So, you know, it's not going anywhere. It's going to help your purchasing power. It can go up and down. But since year 2000, it's outperformed the S&P 500.
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Yeah, I think he alluded to that, that other than that little dip we had in the 80s or so there, it's performed very well since.
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Right, right. And just dollar-cost average into it. Just buy some. You can buy smaller amounts. You can buy one-tenth ounce coins or grams. You get five-gram bars, 500 bucks. Yeah, good idea. Just dollar-cost average and buy some silver here and there, and that's your wealth protection. And it's hedged against all that stuff.
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Makes sense. Makes sense. And again, yeah, and all you listening, that's Jim's advice. Don't listen to me. I'm not giving out any kind of financial advice whatsoever, nor can I. So you guys do whatever you think you need to do.
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Yeah, absolutely. Don't have all your eggs in one basket.
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Diversify. Absolutely, Jim.
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Precious metals. You know, have your investments. Have a little real estate. Just try to diversify as much as you can, and when things go south, you'll be okay.
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You should be fine. I agree. Jim, I appreciate that. Thank you very much. No, thank you. Back to broadband really quick again. I hope I explained that well enough because, again, I think some people get confused at times as to, well, how could you end up even in a metro area outskirts of, you know, how could you end up with only one provider? Well, I just gave you the reason for that. And what cities should have done back then was to have said, hey, you know what? Instead of us being locked into one person, they get cheap, cities get cheap. Instead of us being locked into one person or one company, I should say, for all of our broadband, we will help offset some of the cost of doing so. and we're going to shorten up that contract, or we're going to allow competition, or, or, or, or. Or the other thing, by the way, I don't think they do well enough, is let's get several bids and see who else will come to the table and make this work at the end of the day. And by the way, cheapest bid isn't always the best bid. So anyway, that's it. That's a whole other conversation on how cities, by the way, I think are very mismanaged at times, and this is where city managers get involved and so on, which I have an utter disdain for. You all know my thoughts on city managers. I haven't talked about that for quite some time. If you are one, I'm sorry. I just don't believe your job should exist. I think city councils should do their job. What they're hired to do and city managers shouldn't exist because most of the time what happens is city councils, you know, put their duties off onto city managers and he or she becomes a scapegoat all the time. And instead of doing what they're supposed to do, they make the city manager do it. and it still ends up costing all the taxpayers of that city and that community a lot more money than it needs to because they pay these guys an outlandish amount of money to do what city council should be doing in the first place. And my thought is if you don't have the time, ability, energy, or wherewithal to do your job on city council, then don't run. I know that's a hard-line stance, but that's how I look at it, and city managers should be outlawed. They shouldn't be allowed. Cities should run on their own. City managers should not exist. That's another conversation for another day. All right. By the way, I got this comment a moment ago. Loveland, Fort Collins, and Longmont have their own Internet service that is owned by the cities. Again, that's another thing. Not the proper role of government. Not the proper role of government. They shouldn't. They shouldn't. Now, maybe it works. If it does, great, but they shouldn't. That is not the proper role of government. By the way, I'm against cities being utilities. In those cases, some of those own their own utility as well. They shouldn't. They shouldn't. Not the proper role of government at all. That's another conversation probably for another day. All right. I got another text message that came in and said, what are my thoughts? And I don't usually name names, but I will in this case because of what happened over the weekend. What are my thoughts on? The Imers, who is a family that is very well known on the far right of the equation here in Colorado. And I've helped some of them, mom and son, in the past, you know, radio interviews and things along those lines. And they started their own PAC program. Political Action Committee, I don't know, sometime last year, I want to say. And it's come to my knowledge, I didn't know this, but it's come to my knowledge through a text message today, that they are telling everybody, do not donate to the Colorado GOP in the future because of the change that was just made this last Saturday. Donate to our PAC instead. Weston? Laurel, which are the two names, you guys should be ashamed of yourself. That's not how this works. That's not building unity. That is not getting on the same team. That's just wrong. I'll call you out on it. You're completely wrong. You are doing what the Marxists do, by the way, and I'll call you out on it. It's exactly what you're doing. You're no different than the left when you do things like that. You're undermining what needs to be happening when it comes to letting the process work its way out, which it did. Yes, I've been calling for days removal for two plus years. I don't run the party. I'm not integral like you are. The reality is Dave was still a schmuck and he still is. I'll go to the grave saying that. And by the way, you two are acting the same way now. And I'll call you out on it. I don't normally do that publicly, but you two are behaving badly, shouldn't be doing what you're doing. Shame on you for saying that and asking that. And those of you that brought that to my attention, thank you for doing so, because no, that is not the way things should be working. And Weston and Laurel, you both should be ashamed of yourself for doing what you're doing. And your pack, by the way, should be shut down. Veteran Windows and Doors is up next. 35% off three windows or under, or 40% off if you do four windows or more with free labor. Find Veteran Windows and Doors today at klzradio.com.
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All right, Andy and I will be back tomorrow. Again, we're going to interview Britta Horn, who is now the new Colorado GOP chair. We'll find out from her what her plans are moving down the road and get an update on the party itself and have other conversation as well. But guys, have a great night. Thanks so much for calling in and talking to me today via the text line and all of that. I appreciate it very much. Have a great evening. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
In this episode of Rush to Reason, John Rush speaks with Canadian legal scholar Leighton Gray about the dynamic relationship between the U.S. and Canada. The conversation touches on the debates surrounding tariffs, the role of Alberta’s oil in the American economy, and the political tensions that shape these interactions. With Gray’s insights, listeners gain a deeper understanding of how global and domestic policies intertwine, impacting citizens across borders.
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All right, we are back. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Special guest joining us now. Oh, no, not quite yet. We're getting him rounded up. Apologize. We got a voicemail, not him, actually, so we'll do our best. Leighton Gray, who is with us from time to time. He's a Canadian, and I wanted to bring him on today to talk about some of the things that are happening, not only on the Canadian side but some of what the Canadian government is doing in regards to billboards and things here in our country which I believe he is calling us as we speak so we'll do our very best to get him on because I'm anxious to hear what he has to say. We don't see a lot of those things here in Colorado because we're not near the Canadian border but we've got some sister stations in the Crawford Broadcasting Group that definitely are in some of those areas and I'm sure they can attest to some of the things that Leighton is going to talk about. Again, I've not seen these things personally, so I don't have any firsthand knowledge of how that works. But again, I do know that people don't realize how close there's a certain part of the United States to where things are very close. Let's just say it that way. Leighton Gray joining us now. Leighton, welcome. How are you?
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I'm well, thanks. It's a privilege to be back on your program.
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As always, I appreciate you joining us. Gray Matter Podcast is what Leighton has. He's a legal scholar as well. Now, I just read this to our audience, and I did not know this because we're not near the border, so we don't quite see some of the things that others may. We've even got some sister stations that are in the Buffalo, Detroit area. But the Canadian government is using digital billboards across the U.S. with the message, tariffs are a tax on your grocery bill.
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Yeah. Isn't it something?
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I'm not shocked, by the way.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no. Well, it's not a lie. I mean, because we know if you understand how tariffs work, they do increase the price of everything that we buy. I mean, that's really where the government gets the revenue through tariffs. They are a form of taxation. But this idea that the Canadian government would spend Canadian taxpayer dollars to try and indoctrinate or propagandize Americans is against their own government is really, really, really revolting, but it's very, very typical of the Liberal Party of Canada.
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I think that's very important, by the way, for the folks down here to remember what you just said. And I watch a lot of things along these lines. I try to pay attention to as many of these things as I can. I've got friends that live up in Canada, which, by the way, are more like you and I, so they look at things completely different. Although there's a lot of, to your point, propaganda that makes its way even down into Canada. the lower 48, I guess you could say, because the reality, Leighton, is I see a lot of comments on different things that may get put out on social media, and, you know, things like, you know, we're Americans, we stand with you, Canada, or, you know, this, that, or the other, and I read some of those, and at times I shake my head and think, okay, first of all, Are you a Canadian or are you an American? Because our loyalty should be to our soil first. Nothing against you guys up in Canada, but our loyalty should be here first, everywhere else second. Yes, there's been some good things that have happened between Canada and the U.S. over the years. On the same token, Leighton, you and I both know there's been some things that haven't been so good that have taken place between our two countries. And the reality is I think you're being very naive to say that it's been a great, fantastic, never a problem relationship.
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Well, if you go back to the beginning of the relationship, it was a divorce. Thank you. You know, in 1776, about 80,000 traders to the American Revolution basically mass emigrated to what is now Ontario. There were only about 8,000 people living in Ontario at the time, and they took over what is now Ontario and founded Canada. And this might explain to your listeners why. why Canada behaves the way it does. The people who run our country, all of our prime ministers, most of them are former Americans. They call themselves United Empire loyalists. But in fact, the truth is, Americans didn't actually declare war on Britain. The revolution was against the people, their friends and neighbors, who had become the elites, the administrative state. They were giving themselves all the best licenses and and leases and everything. And people down there just got, in 13 colonies, got fed up and kicked these people out. And, of course, they've been the foundation and the ruination of Canada ever since. So this explains kind of the relationship. And these people, especially in Ontario, which is our most populous province, and that's where the seat of government is, their number one fear remains that big, bad America is going to come in and take over. And that's why they spin all constantly this propaganda. Where I live in Alberta, it's quite different. We're very friendly to Americans. In fact, at one time, not so long ago, about 25% of our immigration was from the U.S., Because Alberta is a very industrious place that has very strong trade relationships with America.
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That's where the tar sands and all that are, correct? Make sure everybody understands that.
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Yeah. Our biggest enemy is our own federal government.
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Right.
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Not Donald Trump.
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Yeah, I want to make sure you explain that, because I've tried to explain that to folks before, and I've even gotten in trouble, by the way. We have a podcast that we... do that's on a national basis and my cohorts from buffalo and you know buffalo new york and detroit michigan join in and i have been in trouble on more than one occasion by canadian listeners because of where our stations are there's a lot of canadian listeners across the border and they at times don't like what i have to say about canada and one of those by the way i try to explain that The reason why we will always buy Alberta oil, tar sand oil, at a discounted price is because, A, you need us. B, because of your own politics, you don't have any other distribution. There's a little, but not much distribution outside of us. So if you want that oil exported, you have to have us. It's just plain and simple. I'm not trying to beat anybody up. That's just the facts, Leighton.
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Yeah. And, you know, just to put this into perspective— Alberta is a great friend to America. We have 170 billion barrels proven reserves of oil. So that's five times the proven reserves in America as a whole. We have 200 trillion cubic feet of gas, proven reserves. So that's essentially inexhaustible. And we are the largest exporter to the U.S. There's more oil from Alberta than coming from Saudi Arabia, Mexico, and Iraq combined in the U.S. So we have this very successful trade relationship with America. that really our federal government is interfering with. And the Liberals and Mr. Carney, who is basically a central banker, a World Economic Forum acolyte, he wants to shut down the oil industry, which is beneficial not only to Albertans and is really financing Canada, keeping Canada afloat, but it's also very crucial to America. And I think this is part of the reason why Mr. Trump is... And Americans have taken such an unprecedented interest in the domestic politics of Canada because they really do impact America in important ways. And we should be working together towards, you know, our shared concerns and being mindful of our shared enemies, like the ones who are operating up in the Arctic. rather than being divided and fighting with each other. I think the Chinese are enjoying this.
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I was just going to say that between the Arctic and the China, in the CHICOMs, I mean, the reality is, yes, we both should be worried about them more than one another on the same token. And I want to make sure that I'm crystal clear on this. We love your oil. We get it here in Denver, by the way, because it pipes all the way down. Suncor, you guys actually have a refinery here, which we love and we appreciate very much. And I would never take that away. And I don't think Donald Trump would either. On the same token, because of your own energy policies and environmental policies in Canada, you have taken away much of the ability to get that oil out to other countries outside of us as America. So I hate to say this, Leighton, but in a way, you sort of wrote your own destiny.
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If there's another country that has developed energy policies more detrimental to themselves than Canada, I'm not aware of them. It's a very strange situation, but I think the answer is that over the past three decades... the federal government in Canada, you know, people like Justin Trudeau, they have become infiltrated by organizations like the World Economic Forum and especially the Chinese Communist Party, which is, we have proven Chinese influence in our last two national elections that we can't, that the investigation of it is being suppressed. And I think, again, This is part of the reason why Mr. Trump and his administration are very concerned about what's going on in Canada, because it does pose a serious geopolitical threat to America and indeed to the entire Western world. It's important to remember, you know, the Russians have 30 nuclear-powered icebreakers up in the Arctic and a giant nuclear-powered battleship, and they're allowing the Chinese to move around up there, even though China has no Arctic coastline. So we do have shared enemies out there, and I think The tariffs, I think, really are a prelude to a kiss. I think what Mr. Trump and his administration are more interested in is how do we secure this continent against our real enemies? And unfortunately, Canada is obviously on the wrong side of this debate. And I think as a Canadian, I'm grateful to Mr. Trump. because he's actually doing more for Canadians than any of our political leaders are doing. We wouldn't have gotten rid of Justin Trudeau. We wouldn't have a national election coming up if it weren't for Mr. Trump. And I think he's very, very interested in the welfare of Canadians and in the security of the entire continent, not just, obviously, he puts Americans first. But I do think, and he said, he has a soft place in his heart for Canadians.
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And really quick, Leighton, I think really quick, make sure that I'm correct in saying this. I think he has a soft spot in his heart for the Canadian citizens, but much like the ruling class or the establishment, you know, the deep state that's been in the U.S., he has a disdain for those individuals in Canada. Am I saying that right?
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Absolutely. And he said so at CPAC in February of 2022 when we had the truckers convoy here. He recognized publicly that we had an authoritarian government. He pledged that if he ever became president again, he was going to free us from that. And, you know, say what you like about Donald Trump. He usually does what he says he's going to do. And he's in the process of doing it right now. And instead of being angry at Donald Trump, as a Canadian, I happen to be grateful.
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which you are the direct opposite of even some of the comments that I have personally received from those that listen to our roundtable discussion and so on because they don't quite seem to look at it the way you do it. And I get it, Leighton, and I try my best to not be too – how should I say this? I don't want to step on people's toes. I love the Canadian people. I've got a lot of friends that live up that way and – And I love that. And on the same token, I think there's a lot of very misguided Canadians, Christians included, that haven't opened their eyes and looked at things the way that you're looking at them right now.
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Yeah, well, propaganda is very, very powerful. And try to imagine... how vulnerable Americans would be to propaganda if you had, I don't know, Gavin Newsom had been your president for the last 10 years. And unfortunately, Canadians have been fed a steady diet of propaganda for the last decade, and so we're very, very vulnerable to it. But I think, again, I see MAGA as a made-in-America response to globalism. I think it's an irresistible force. And I think it's impacting Canada. We're going through some short-term pain right now, but a lot of people are waking up from this stupor that we've been in, going back all the way through COVID and even before COVID. But, you know, unfortunately, Canadian people seem to be very, very vulnerable to propaganda, especially propaganda that involves violence. you know, looking at someone as though they're an invader or an enemy. And that's how Donald Trump is being portrayed. But let's face it, I mean, you could bring in the Montana National Guard into Canada and take the place over. Listen, we couldn't even shoot down a Chinese spy balloon. We had to call the Americans to do that a couple years ago. If this is how we really want to take over Canada, I mean, he could get a coffee at Dunkin' Donuts and have less effort.
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Well said. I think it's also very important because I don't think our folks down here quite realize this, especially those people that I see commenting on some of the media posts and things that I was mentioning earlier. I don't think people really understand that you don't have freedom of press and freedom of speech. It's why we have so many listeners here in the U.S. that cross over because our signals will reach up into Canada and so many people listen to actual American radio because the reality is you... other than podcasts like what you have, Leighton, you don't have the same free press, do you?
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No, I mean, imagine if the only access you had, if everything was CNN, and this is because one of the things that Trudeau did is he essentially took over our mass media. I mean, financially, he owns it. They've passed legislation restricting what's available. Mark Carney, who 93% of Canadians don't even know who he is, he's saying that if he becomes prime minister, he's going to ban X. We already have banned TikTok in this country. So, I mean, censorship, this is one of the hallmarks, one of the features of totalitarian governments is they censor everything, and you're quite right. And so, again, we're very grateful to Americans because without access to American news and information, you know, we would – It would be like North Korea.
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Good point. Good point. Leighton, how do folks find you? How do they listen to the Grey Matter podcast?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, the podcast is available anywhere people listen to podcasts, so Spotify, Apple, Podbean. The best way to follow our content, however, is on X, at least until the Canadian government bans it. That's at Grey Matter Convo, so all of our content is there. There's a lot of American content there, by the way. And so it's not just Canadian stuff. But thanks for having me on. It's been a privilege talking with you.
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Always a joy. I always enjoy it. It's always a great joy having you. Keep up the good work up there. Keep the faith. We appreciate you, Leighton, very much. Okay. God bless. God bless you, too, as well. We appreciate it. Veteran Windows and Doors is next 35% off. Windows up to three, four or more. It's 40% free labor either way. Give Dave a call today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive. This is John Rush.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all joining us today. And let me do this, Charlie. I've got something going along the lines of what Leighton was saying that I want to play. I'll talk about this for a moment or two, and I think I'm going to have to rewind this, and then I'll hit play. We should be good. Here we go.
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Want to have access to the Canadian market. want to sell vehicles in canada you need to have a footprint in canada you need to be building things in canada if you're not going to do that then there's another set of rules by which you will have to play by because the reality is we buy as canadians 2 million vehicles a year in this country we don't make in canada 1.5 million vehicles so we're already operating at a deficit so to think that you can As a corporation, make a decision that you're going to move a plant or shift production or shut down shifts or do whatever it is and still have full access to our market for free. I think you're going to see Canadians respond in a very serious way about any corporation that tries to do that in this moment, but also government will have to respond. in a fashion that says, no, you don't get to do that. You will be penalized if you think that you can shift production and take our jobs out of this country.
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Okay, I'll stop at that. Again, going along the lines of what we were talking about in regards to Leighton a moment ago. That is the leader of the private union, Lana, probably not saying that correct, Payne. Now, she's very serious, very serious. Which, that's her job. She has to be. Now, I don't know about the rest of you, but as a car guy, knowing how many cars we buy on average in the U.S. on an annual basis, and then listening to her numbers and her talking about how many vehicles Canadians purchased in a year, it's a little over 10% of what we purchase here. Which would make sense. It's about 10% of the population, so the numbers aren't far off. We consume, on average, depends upon the year, about 17 million cars and trucks a year here in the U.S. Now, that number, I think, might change and probably even go down slightly, because if government stops buying as many units, which they don't need anyways, that's a whole other doge situation, but... If they stop buying as many as they've been buying, that might change our numbers. But reality is Canada doesn't even scratch the surface on what we use as far as vehicles in this country. And her threat that if you're, in other words, an American car company, and you want to continue to sell cars in Canada, but you take General Motors, for example, if they move a plant from Ontario to across the border, Put it back over here, there will be repercussions to pay. Okay, so I guess the question I would have for Lon is, and what's that going to be? Again, not saying that American car companies don't want to sell units, but if you take all of the different vehicles that are out there, the makes, the models, and so on, that are actually made in and or sent into Canada, as she said, they only make about $1.5 million of the $2 million that they use, so they're still importing roughly half a million units a year. So if you take all of that into consideration, I mean, how much is each manufacturer, U.S. manufacturer, by the way, actually going to lose out by moving production back to the U.S.? I'm sorry to say, Lana, not much. What's that old saying? She's got people behind her. They've got the elbows shirts on, which if you don't know what that is, look it up. It's a big thing going on in Canada right now. It's a Wayne Gretzky thing. And they're mad at him, by the way, because he's a big supporter and friend of Donald Trump. Anyways, long story short, they're trying to use a hockey terminology in regards to elbows as to how to defeat us as Americans. And I think our last guest, who is from Canada, said it well. The Montana National Guard. could walk into Canada and take it over. The reality is all of these Canadians, which they're prideful. I get it. It's their country. I'm prideful of, you know, I have pride in our country, rightfully so. But at the end of the day, I think they need to be very careful with what they're saying because her little speech there a moment ago is empty words. I don't know how else to say it. It's empty words. I mean, it's almost like, okay, yeah, that was a great speech, but nothing there is going to matter at the end of the day. That's all on deaf ears. Nobody's going to listen to what you... That's like Charlie Brown's teacher. Wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah, wah. No one's listening. No one heard, Lana, what you just said. No one cares, frankly, with what you just said. And again, I'm not trying to ditz any Canadians. And I already started a kerfuffle. Well, I can't talk here. A firestorm. Let me say it that way. I started a firestorm with some of our Canadian listeners of Neil and Bob's because of some of the things that I've said on the roundtable, which was not my intention. But I'm American. I'm not here to please Canadians. I'm here to make sure we, as a country, succeed. And while I am very appreciative of Canadians, like I was telling Leighton a moment ago, my loyalty is not with Canada. My loyalty is with the United States of America. Well, that means to God first, but God and country. That's the theme of KLZ, of Crawford Broadcasting, God and country. God first, country second. They go hand in hand, in my opinion. This country has done a lot in regards to not only the spread of the gospel, but lifting other countries up, and yet we have been taken advantage of far too often in the process of doing both of those. And Canada has taken advantage of us, by the way, for far too long. Golden Eagle Financial, speaking of finances, give Al a call today. Find out how he can help you with your future retirement plans today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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Now, back to Rush to Reason. And we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Richard Rush joining me now. Richard, weekend of sports. I didn't get a chance really to pay much attention to what went on. I mean, I know there was lots of things going on. I did see some highlights of some golf and different things like that, but I didn't pay a lot of attention to basketball or anything like that.
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Well, we'll briefly touch on basketball because a little bit the March Madness finished, or not finished, I should say, went into its second weekend. There's the third weekend next weekend, which is the Final Four and then the National Championship game. For the second time in history, Dad. The all number one seeds advance to the Final Four, which usually doesn't happen, right? There's usually some form of an upset. A two beats a one, a three beats a one, maybe even lower than that. Didn't happen this year. Made for an interesting season. I guess, or maybe not as interesting, it's all chalk, right? Which, you know, that's what you say when all the favorites win, which typically doesn't happen. But this is kind of the year, and maybe this is the more common theme, right? We talked about this last week with NIL and paying of players now. The sort of the blue bloods of college basketball are the big programs that can afford to pay the best players are probably going to, and maybe they're just going to continue kind of moving on. However, that is not the biggest story around here, Dad. The biggest story is something that happened last Friday, which obviously we didn't get a chance to talk about. We did a little bit on Friday with Andy as far as Dion. But Coach Prime, Dad, right, gets a new contract, an extension that pays him in the top five for of all college football coaches in the land. And for someone who's been someplace for two years, and these are the niggers, right? Only two years, hasn't really won anything. He hasn't won a conference championship, much less a national championship. He is being paid right up there with the best of the best in college football. And, Dad, I would argue he is worth every penny of that money.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I don't think you're going to get, well, you know me, you're not going to get any arguments out of my end of it. Like I said last week, when you perform well, this is, by the way, something that everybody out there could learn, whether you're self-employed, whether you're employed, work for someone, doesn't matter. The higher your value, the more you're going to make.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and that's exactly what happened. And he, again, and people that are outside of CU, that you're even seeing on a national stage. I mean, some people are, you know, championing it. Some people aren't. I'm going to. Some people even around here are going to say, man, that's a lot of money. And even some sports talk shows are people are like, oh, that's a lot of money to pay a football coach. Well, Dad, you look at the impact. that he has brought to the region. I think they estimate that just to Boulder, he's brought in like $90 million, and then region-wide during this past season, he brought in $140 million. And that's just crazy. That's never before been talked about as happening. Even when Coach Mack was here, right, CU was good, but it still wasn't what it is now. I mean, I've been watching this.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 06 :
Coach Prime series that's on Amazon Prime, their video service. And you see, you forget kind of what happens. It's kind of watching it to kind of figure out, relive the season, I guess you could say. Just the amount of stars that show up for CU.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I mean, I can go back for... All of you that maybe don't realize this, maybe there's some folks that are either new to our area or they're younger. I mean, I was around for all of those McCartney years, that era. I mean, I was around all I mean, I watched football games up at CU and, you know, Crowder was the coach. That's how far back I go, Richard. I mean, I remember my my folks, you know, complaining about different coaches, this, that and the other. Then when Coach Mack came on board, you know, the difference that he started to make in the way that the culture was and so on. And yet and yet. The entire town, and I'm not joking when I say this, the entire town of Boulder didn't like the guy. They didn't like his Christian stance and standards and so on. There was a lot of people that loved him, but a lot of people that just couldn't stand him. A lot of the regents didn't like Coach Mack. I mean, there was a lot of... friction tension i guess you could say at the university with coach mac there and even though dion is in a lot of ways of the same vein faith and so on once what's best for the players which coach mac did as well once these you know once these kids and not just be stars on the field but off the field i mean a lot of their their their value system if you would richard is very much the same difference is coach coach prime is being much more accepted than coach mac was
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Well, and 100%, Dad, if you recall, I think it was last year, his first year, someone tried to bring suit against him because of his praying in the locker room. And you can even see it on the documentary. And whether you want to argue with him or not on how he goes about it, the guy doesn't curse. The guy doesn't say the Lord's name. He doesn't do any of that, right? And yet he is unabashed about who he is, and there's a reason he's primetime. I think he's a humble guy. He's humble in his own way, right? He's probably not humble in the most traditional sense, but he sort of speaks the truth. But I do think that he loves the Lord, and I do think that he's a Christian, and he, in a lot of ways, is doing the same things that Coach Mack does. for the university and for these players like you were talking about. And like you said, he went through some of the same things. But I'll say it, I think he also is getting a little bit – well, I don't think there's as much animosity towards him, although there still is a lot, as there was before. And I think part of it is because Coach Mack came before him. And I'll say the other part, Dad, is he's an African-American in Boulder. And that's not things that you don't see very often. No, no, I think to his –
SPEAKER 07 :
To his credit, and by the way, if he was right here with us and we were having the same interview and Coach Prime had the ability to talk to us, I think he would fully agree, Richard, with what I'm going to say next. The reality is that's a factor that shouldn't be. But I will tell you right now, if he were white doing the same things Coach Mack did, he would not be in the same position today that he is now. And I think Coach Prime would agree and would also say that it shouldn't be that way.
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100%. I totally agree with you. And here's the deal. That Boulder, for its left and all the other things that they are, your People's Republic of Boulder, they have never been well-known for being a super-inclusive society, right? It's just a lot of natural factors are at play and lots of other things that we can get into at some point in time. But he's sort of changing that. You know, we talked about this a little bit last week. 20% increase, Dad, in out-of-state admissions. Wow. even with everything that he's doing. And again, being a witness and praying and talking about it. And he's not forcing his faith on these guys. He's really not. He's saying, guys, this is what I think. But he also knows that a lot of these young black men do come from Christian households. And it's a very big thing for mom, right? And especially for mom to be sending their son to some place that can do it. And a lot of people will say that they are and do some things. But you know what? I've never seen, you know, I'll say this. You've never really seen Prime do the drinking and some of the other stuff that some of the other coaches have. Even the infidelity piece of it. that some of these other coaches have, Dad. So I am excited for what he can bring and for what he means to the university. And again, some people, because people are like, this is a lot of money, and I can't believe the Regents approved this. I can't either.
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One of the first text messages that I sent back to you when you sent me that was, I'm shocked. I can't believe they approved that either.
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Dad, if you told me, 10 years ago, 20 years ago, even when Barnett, after Coach Mack, when CU was at its height, beating Nebraska, all those things, that we would be paying our football coach $10 million plus a year for I would say, no, you're wrong. It's just because we have been for so long this stepping stone school where even if we get a good guy, right? We got Mel Tucker. He came in for two years, then left in the middle of the night. He was being paid about $3 million, $4 million. It just didn't happen. And the fact that it is with Deion. And whether he stays or not, Dad, he has created so much buzz about CU and just so much news and hype. It's really hard to beat that. And I think people were surprised. I think people were shocked.
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Here's the other thing, really quick, though, if you look, I just because I had to look it up because I thought, you know, it's got to be fairly close. If you look at average NFL coaching salary and you look at his salary and his bonus structure and so on. Honestly, Richard, could he replace it in the pros? Maybe, although he'd have a lot bigger row to hoe and a lot more risk factor in going to the pros than he has right now. The reality is right now this guy can ride his own ticket. Why would you leave?
SPEAKER 06 :
I was just going to say that his buyout this year is, I think, $12 million or $15 million. I think next year it's $12 million, then it goes to $10 million, and then it drops from there. It goes to like $6 million and then $3 million. I could be off by a little bit. Basically, obviously it gets less the further the contract gets. But the point is this, that if he's now making essentially $10.5 million with Colorado a year, He has to get that same amount to go someplace else, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
And you look at really quick, for everybody listening, you look at Andy Reid, who's, you know, coach of the Chiefs, top paid coach, by the way, that's out there in the NFL, makes $20 million a year. Sean Payton, not far behind our Bronco coach, is $18 million a year. You look at where Deion's at, and really quick for everybody listening, and Richard, I wanted you to, I've got a couple of minutes here where you can throw this in. A NFL coach outside of maybe... I don't know, Richard. They may get three, four weeks off total when it's all said and done off, and I'm not sure it's that much. Some of those guys, the minute the season is over, they take a week off. They might go spend some time with their family or do whatever, and they are right back at it immediately after. A college coach, not that they don't work as hard because they do, but their schedule, you and I both know, is not the same as what Andy Reid, Sean Payton, Tomlin, some of these other guys are doing. So not only can he make... Basically the same money by being a college coach as he would in the NFL. His schedule's not as heavy. Am I correct?
SPEAKER 06 :
You are correct. Well, and even the way that he goes about it, right? He has not done the whole in-home recruiting that a lot of these coaches have done, right? He's taken advantage of the transfer portal. And when it comes to the high school kids, he takes a select group of them. He goes after them. and then he gets them on campus and he talks to them and he gets their parents, but he doesn't do a lot of that. And yes, he has the ability to come from, and they're buried in his contract too, it's probably use of CU's jet, but that's a different conversation, to where he can go to his house in Dallas for a quick long weekend if he wants to, or go see the kids play, right? See Shador play if he wants to do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
By the way, those would not be happening in the NFL, as you know.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, it's much more difficult to do that. Again, it's just a different game. And I think that he's happy with that. Like you said, he can sort of write, you know, create his own schedule, write his own ticket, whatever you want to say, he absolutely can. And it's why I think... In order for him to leave that, it would have to be more than the money, because the money was going to have to be equal, so a pro team is going to have to pay him more money, but especially a college team, right? A college team is going to have to pay the buyout plus pay his, you know, essentially write a new contract, right, which is going to have to be a six-year deal, five- or six-year deal at $12 million. It just gets really expensive. Yeah. The buyout numbers may not be all that great, but ultimately, Dad, he's here. He's here for at least the next two years, and any time we get at this point in time is just the more the merrier because CU is on an upward trajectory with him, and I'm glad to see, Dad, and this is the last thing I'll say, that they have finally realized... And I hope they continue this, that if you make an investment in football and in sports, especially the two big ones, right, men's basketball and football, that it will pay off. And your success is paid off. Because, again, honestly, the Regents, they love that out-of-state number, that 20% increase in applications. Huge. Those kids, again, we talked about that on Friday. They pay a whole lot more per year than those in-state kids do.
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All right, that time each week where we slip in some car reviews. I think we only have one this week, Richard, and you were able to drive recently a 2025 Toyota Tundra Rally, which I'm not familiar with the rally version, so you'll have to fill me in as well. Go ahead.
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Yeah, so it's a new part for 2025, Dad, right? They kind of introduced it. I'm looking at the press release right now. And so it gives you the red, orange, and yellow colorway, right? Kind of the old Toyota TRD kind of type stuff. It gives you 18-inch wheels on all-terrain tires. Bilstein absorbing shocks. It adds heated front seats, a heated steering wheel, gives a larger display. You also have to get the, it comes on the larger Crewmax model. You get electronically controlled locking differential, multi-terrain select crawl control. Let me see here, soft tech trim seats. It's available in four colors, ice cap, magnetic gray, mignite, black, metallic, and celestial silver. And so for the easy way, Dad, is it's an option that you can put on, I think it's on the SR5, maybe any of them. I'm not entirely sure. But I know you can for sure put it kind of on the lower levels of the Tundra, Dad. And it does a great job. It kind of adds a little bit of some different badging. It adds some different, you know, luxurious features on the inside. And it's really something that can add just maybe a set apart your collection your trim addition or your level of Tundra. But outside of that, Dad, it's pretty much everything we've come to expect, right? They redesigned this vehicle back in, let's see here, I think it was 2022, if I'm not mistaken, Dad, right, is when they really came out with this new addition. There's two different turbocharged V6s. One a hybrid and one that's kind of standard, or not standard, but one that's just a turbocharged version. We drove just that one. We didn't drive the I-Force Max, although both of them work really, really well at our altitude, Dad, by them adding the V6 with the turbocharged engines. It still works great, and especially at our altitude, it's fantastic. It's got a nice big cab, Dad, as you know, especially the CrewMax version. It's got a really spacious back seat. It's got the self-closing, self-operating tailgate, which is a great feature that's up and down. Again, you've got some nice apportionments on the inside. As far as the display, Dad, I think it's the really nice big 14-inch display. in the model we had, which when you get in it, you're like, whoa, this thing is pretty big and spacious, and it works. It's very easy to use that. It's a nice user-friendly system that they've done a good job at. And that, honestly, on the Tundra, you can get, depending on how you want to equip the Tundra, you can get it for everywhere from kind of the low 40s to the high 80s, right? Wow, big spread. That's just depending on how you want to... How you want to equip it, right? And that's more of a, you know, if you want the SR package, right, which is kind of the most basic, or the Capstone, which is right up there with a lot of the luxurious trim levels. But speaking of the Rally version that we drove, it was nice to have some of those kind of other features that maybe you wouldn't get on a more basic model of the Tundra. And you get it for a relatively decent price. I think that package adds about almost, I think, $8,500, $9,000 more somewhere around there to the price tag as of right now. And it was something that I would definitely consider buying, again, because you can get it kind of on a more base level, but you can add some of those luxurious features without having to option those out differently. So you and I, well, you've driven these new Tundras, Dad, and they've really improved them, especially by changing out those engine options.
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Yeah, the interior is much better. You get more options than you've ever had in the past. The fuel economy with the new options has gone up. They have had, and there's no secrets here, they've had some engine issues with some of these things, although I will tell you that, yes, as time goes by, like a lot of other manufacturers that are encountering some of these same issues, they will get those things dialed in. So I'm not too concerned about that. Every manufacturer at times has a few struggles with that. I get comments and questions on that on a routine basis. I will say that there are still a lot of loyal, dedicated Tundra drivers out there. In our area here in Colorado, we see a ton of them. It's just one of those models, Richard, just sells very well in this Rocky Mountain region. And I think that alone should show you something. They wouldn't sell as well as they did if it wasn't a vehicle worth buying. And again, yes, they've had their share of problems, so have other vehicles out on the road as well.
SPEAKER 06 :
They absolutely have, Dad. And like you said, they wouldn't sell as many of them if they weren't great. And we've been asking for a, not just us, but a lot of customers have been asking for a refreshment and improvement. I think that they did that. And again, we kind of get different models of these different versions, Dad. And they all kind of have their own things, and we could sit here and kind of spend multiple segments on all the differences. And all that we can say is go out and test drive these things yourself, Dad, because you can kind of see some of those subtle differences. Maybe you can save money. Maybe you want to spend a little bit more money, right, to differentiate yourself from the next hundred driving down the road. Because, again, there's a lot of them out here and for good reason. That's right. So with that, I would encourage folks. Get out. Test drive this, Dad. See what you like. You can probably get one ordered with all of the different things that you would want on it. And when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush Reason sent you.
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In an episode filled with both levity and gravity, The Kim Munson Show takes a look at the humorous and serious sides of legislating in Colorado. From the whimsical word of the day—drollery—to the stern realities of budget cuts and policy decisions, Kim illuminates how state operations touch everyday lives. With contributions from Kevin Lundberg, explore how Coloradans can stay proactive in understanding the laws that govern them, and the delicate balance of financial management in state programs.
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Big show planned again today. It's Fasten Your Seatbelt. No pun intended because we have Lauren Fix in the second hour. She's Car Coach Report. So it's going to be a great show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter while you're over there so that you can get our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. It highlights our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at kim at kimmunson.com. And I'm making progress getting caught up on those. And also the text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on the issues. I'll talk about the people pushing the issues, trying to stay out of all the personality stuff. But my friends, it's never compassionate to take other people's stuff. And taking other people's stuff, another word for that could be stealing. So it's never compassionate nor altruistic to steal other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, childhood, their lives via force. And force can be a weapon, but it's policies and unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion. Government-induced inflation, that's the silent thief. The agenda by the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites played out through the United Nations. This Colorado legislature is being controlled by radical activist extremists, as well as this governor is a radical activist extremist as well. And he's no libertarian. Don't be fooled. Just look at the policies. Look at what his bureaucracies and commissions and boards are doing. And the legislature. He's in control of all that. But we've got land use codes, zoning regulations, force fees, conservation easements, national monument designations. If you can't control your land, use your land the way you want, or your property the way you want, you don't own your property. And so that's why it's important that we... have these discussions. I wanted to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show, because it is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives. It fuels our hopes and dreams, and it empowers us to change our own personal climate so that we can be cool in the summer and warm in the winter. And so I do thank them for that. Let's see. Let's get over here to our word of the day. And it is a really interesting word. Let me get to it here. And it is drollery. And it's spelled D-R-O-L-L-E-R-Y. And it could be a comical or whimsical quality. Or it could be a comical or whimsical way of acting, talking, or behaving. Or it could be the act of joking or clowning. And there's no real drollery down at the State House. It's April 1st. April fools. So I thought I'm going to go through some of these mini bills that we have down at the Colorado State House and see if I could find one that was kind of funny. And you know what? I didn't find any of them that were very funny. I found that they were all serious. Many of them. Oh, my gosh. Joe. Joe. The yesterday was a busy day for all Colorado bills. I'm looking at bill track 50, which we use for cut. Yesterday, it was right around 570. Today, there's 640 bills and resolutions. They've introduced well over 40, maybe 50 new bills. So we're coming in on the last four weeks of the of the session. This is not good.
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No, it's not. And how many does it take to really figure out that maybe there's some over-regulation going on?
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One? How about one? Oh, man. Okay, my cut boards, we've had a little bit of a reprieve because, as you know, we take positions on many of the pieces of legislation that are scheduled for hearing for the next week. And so the last few weeks, we've taken positions on 220 pieces of legislation. My friends, this is an amazing amount of work. And it's by all volunteers. We'd love to have you join us at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And I did want to say thank you to this group. And that is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans. Corey Onizorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. So we've had a little bit of a reprieve. We've gone in and worked really hard here at the beginning. We've had maybe three or four bills these last couple of weeks that we've taken positions on because we've already taken positions on things or I've already looked at them. So this is like hang on to your hat. Things are going to get wild now because the last day of the legislative session is May 6th. So we've got about five weeks. That's really quick. So, yeah, buckle up. Buckle up. But we promise we are going to be looking at these things. And then also, go over to the coloradotaxpayer.org. We have invested time, money, and energy in something called Cut Engaged. And you can actually easily let the bill sponsors come. And your legislator, your senator, and your representative, you can let them know what you think about some bills that we've selected. And there's one bill that you – and it's super, super easy. And so go to coloradotaxpayer.org. I go to at the very top, cut engaged. And I know that a number of you have done that because I saw that come through yesterday. But the bills, we selected four bills for this week. And there's one that you really do want to weigh in on. And that is 1244, House Bill 1244, the Welcome, Reception, and Integration Grant Program. for people that have come here illegally. You might want to let the bill sponsors know how you feel about that. And it's really easy to do. So be sure and check that out. There's nothing drollery about any of this. This is pretty darn serious. And again, the word of the day is drollery. Your challenge is to use that in a sentence today. Because it is April 1st, April Fools, I went to Bob Hope for our quote of the day. And he was born in 1903. He died in 2003. He was an English-born American comedian, actor, entertainer, and producer with a career that spanned nearly 80 years and achievements in vaudeville, network television, radio, USO tours, and he appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, starring in 54 of those. And then he included a series of seven road to fill in the blank musical comedy films with Bing Crosby as his partner. And this is what Bob Hope said. He said, I don't do political jokes because too many of them are getting elected. So there you go on that. Our bill of the day, I decided to go to, again, I was looking for things that are funny but not funny. And this was from Fox News. And it is wasteful and dangerous. Doge's top five most shocking revelations. So here is number one. Musk reveals the Iron Mountain mine nightmare. He said he revealed that is investigating a limestone mine in Pennsylvania where federal employee retirements are processed manually. Hmm. Okay. Kind of interesting. Next thing, Doge-inspired EPA locates $20 billion in waste. And those are tax dollars within the agency that the Biden administration reportedly knew that they were wasting. And this is an extremely disturbing video that is on Fox News that was circulated a couple of months ago featuring a Biden EPA political appointee talking about how they were tossing gold bars off the Titanic railway. rushing to get billions of your tax dollars out the door before the inauguration day. And that was EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin reported that. I know that's not very funny either. Next thing, the Department of Homeland Security is clawing back. Over $59 million that was given out to luxury New York hotels for illegal immigrants. Not really funny either, but I thought that you might want to know about that. Next one is, again, not funny, but kind of funny. It says the Pentagon wasted thousands on coffee cups and soap dispensers. It says the Pentagon's $850 billion budget could be next up on the bureaucratic chopping block. The Defense Business Board found in 2015 that the Department of Defense could save $125 billion over five years by renegotiating service contracts and consolidating bureaucratic processes. A congressional inquiry in 2018 found the Air Force was spending $1,300 for each reheatable coffee cup aboard one of its aircraft. The Air Force spent $32,000 replacing 25 cups. Hmm. Then a two-year audit by the Defense Department Inspector General last year found that Boeing overcharged the Air Force by 8,000% for soap dispensers, which they overpaid by $149,000. Nothing really funny about that. And this is all pre-Doge. So that's going to be interesting. And then, of course, we've seen all this regarding USAID, $40 billion budget, including Sesame Street in Iraq. And speaking of Sesame Street, yesterday we talked about this. Senate Bill 201 regarding websites that provide material that is harmful to children to verify their age of individuals who attempt to access such material. As I've heard from many of you, This is really probably a cover for control of the internet and also more information about you who are using the internet. Because as you read this, this is going to apply with internet providers that make revenue off of this. So let's just think about an NGO. It's considered not making revenue because it's a nonprofit. And so, for example, what if Sesame Street or something like that might be providing material that's inappropriate? Would that fall under this Senate Bill 201 because that's considered a nonprofit? Right. Again, more and more questions are coming up about 201. This is Senate Bill 201. And I did put a call in to – there's three Democrats on there and then one Republican. I put a call in to the Republican on that. And just so you know, the sponsor's on that. are Republican Senator Paul Undine, Lindsay Doherty, Democrat, Megan Lukens, who is a Democrat, and I can't remember her first name, Lindsay, who's also a Democrat. 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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That's KimMunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity. By looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom, if something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. It is Tuesday, and every Tuesday during this legislative session, we have former State Senator Kevin Lundberg on. He is also the author of the Lundberg Report. He has a weekly call for the people of Colorado on Monday mornings to just talk about these issues. And there is a lot going on. Kevin Lundberg, welcome to the show.
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Well, it's good being with you, Kim. And, you know, it's kind of a special day today. at least it used to be in the legislature, it's April 1st. And the staff used to prepare, I don't know if they still do, but they used to prepare an April Fool's calendar. And I wanted to start with kind of a fun fact, a curious fact, because they actually do have a little bit of a levity down there from time to time, especially about this time of the session when things are getting very intense. And I know that's what we'll talk about a bit later. But I remember one year when I was in the House, I had already distinguished myself as a pretty conservative guy, along with a couple of other colleagues. One was Senator Lambert, Kent Lambert, or excuse me, he was representative back then, as I was. And then Senator Doug Lamborn, who went on to be a member of Congress for a while. And we're all pretty conservative, and so they created a calendar, and on one of the bills, it was the mistaken identity bill between Lundberg, Lamborn, and Langberg.
SPEAKER 17 :
That is clever.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and the purpose of the bill was to determine the difference between the three. Wish there was none. Anyway, happy April Fool's Day.
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Well, and I'll tell you, so I got my kids one year. We had a little male dog. We do believe in male and female dogs, and so we had a little male dog. And I went downstairs and got the kids up. I said, you're not going to believe it, but last night Snoozer had puppies. And they're like, what? You're cruel. I was cruel. It was cruel. Yeah, it was. But Kevin, there's nothing funny going on now. I know that you watch legislation and I do as well as the president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And yesterday, I've been keeping a running tally on we have all Colorado bills, which includes the resolutions. So yesterday morning, it was around 570. It's at 640 today. Something happened within the last 24 hours.
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Well, yes, the Joint Budget Committee submitted their long bill, which is the major budget bill. But there are always some what they call orbital bills. And, yeah, I got up kind of early this morning, and I reviewed the 49 orbital bills that were submitted along with the long bill. They're all Senate bills, and that's just the way it works. This odd-numbered year, the Senate has the chairmanship of the committee. So, yeah, they unloaded the 50 bills, some of which are rather interesting because they've repealed a lot of programs in order to try to balance the budget. And some of those are, I think, pretty decent ideas to get rid of a lot of programs. But some of them I have some deep questions on, too.
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Okay, so Senator Lundberg, question, because I will be looking at all these orbital bills then this weekend. And what should I know about that as the president of CUT? Because I'm still learning.
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This year in particular, when the Joint Budget Committee looked at the reality of what the anticipated revenues are and what they're, anticipated spending was they were about a billion dollars out of balance. And so they've had to do some pretty significant cuts and juggling to this is something you need to look at is sometimes when it looks like, oh, they took this away. No, they just put it in another corner. But this year they really did have to deal with that stark cold reality, which I think is a really good thing down in capital. When they're short on revenues, maybe they have to look at repealing some things, and they have some. And I identified a couple of good ones at least. And then they've done a lot of other juggling that kind of – they took about $65 million away from the Department of Transportation. And 65, that's a rough number. It's somewhere there. And they took it away for the next several years. So I'm like, they're always cutting transportation. And if there's a priority for state budgets, state government budgets, I believe it is roads and BRIDGES. AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT CHARGING FEES. I'M TALKING ABOUT BUILDING ROADS AND MAINTAINING THEM. AND COLORADO IS NOT VERY GOOD AT MAINTAINING OUR ROADS. SO ONE OF THE DEEPEST CUTS THEY TOOK WAS OUT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION. NOW, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF GOOD BILLS. ONE, THEY ESTABLISHED A BILL OR A PROGRAM TO PROVIDE What is it? Meals for all, I think, in public schools. And I thought that was just the wrong direction to assume that our public schools are going to feed our kids now.
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So that's not a good bill. That's a bad bill.
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No. Right. Right. And so it's a good bill that repeals at least a portion of that. Oh, OK. And no, because they put that policy in place, I think it was last year or the year before. And they're ramping it up. And I think what they did is they just said, OK, we're not going to do it this year. I understand. It was really early when I was looking at these bills.
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Well, and I've got another anecdotal story. So another anecdotal story. So let's see. When I was a kid, now we had to pay for our lunches when I was a kid, and I did not like our school lunches. The only lunch I liked was once a month on Fridays they had chili and cinnamon rolls, and I loved that as a kid. But if you didn't clean up your tray – then you had you couldn't go to recess yet and they had the most terrible carrots and I took all my carrots and I put them in my milk carton and by gosh Kevin my teacher or whoever the the the person was you know had lunch duty saw me do it and she came over made me pour those out and eat them with not only the carrots and the milk and I've never forgotten that
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it was probably good character building, wasn't it, though?
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Explains a lot, doesn't it? But I was talking with someone yesterday who said that their grandchild is provided meals at school. And she said the meals are terrible. And so they are packing lunches for them. And I know that it's somewhat convenient for people to not have to pack lunches. But Gosh, of course, in the old days, I'd probably be arrested for what I sent my kids. They had cookies and a candy bar and potato chips and all kinds of stuff like that. But there's something to be said for taking care of your own children. You know what?
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Right. Well, I know that when I – actually, when I was a kid, initially, I would walk home for lunch. I did, too. In elementary school. Yeah. I did that, too. So it kind of shows a little bit of our – It was a while ago. Let's put it that way. But but then in what they call junior high and then high school, I took a lunch. My mom packed me a lunch and it was a rare day that I bought the lunch. But, you know, they didn't give food away. You know, again, I I can understand that in some low income situations there might be some. charity provided for students. But this attitude that we're now going to feed all the kids at school, it's like taking all the focus away from the family and putting it on this socialized institution, which to me is a very bad step in the wrong direction. And so, yeah, they've had to pull back a bit with their, we're going to feed everybody all the time. I think they even do breakfasts
SPEAKER 17 :
I think they do, too. And I'm going to tell one other story since it's April 1st.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. And I'm I'm I'm distracting you, but let's go. That's OK.
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So speaking of that. So, yes, I sometimes I would get to go home for lunch and I love that. And so I decided that I would run as fast as I could. So I would time myself from the minute I walked out the door of the school and I would run like crazy. It was probably maybe 12 blocks. and I would run like the wind, Kevin Lundberg, to get home for lunch, and then I would run all the way back to school. I haven't thought about this for years, but you're bringing up all these memories.
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Well, good, good. But let's move on to the realities of today. Okay. Which, again, yeah, lots of bills have been introduced as orbital, and by my memory— 49 bills from the Joint Budget Committee, along with a long bill, is a record. I don't know. Maybe they've done that before. But my experience, I was on JBC for a couple of years, so I kind of got to see it that way. But it was usually a dozen bills, 15. You know, as they're putting the budgets together, they realize, well, we really need to change this component of the law in order to build the budget the way we want to build it and and so it's it's an appropriate procedure at times but then if the jbc is getting in with 50 bills unless they're all just repeals i've got strong concerns that they're actually meddling and trying to to be the managers of all policy which in a sense they are because the budget is that significant but Yeah, just it was shocking to me to discover how many bills were introduced all at once by the JVC.
SPEAKER 17 :
Wow. And the other thing is, is Tabor, Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights. That's probably something we really need to watch out on these bills as well. Yeah. To protect that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, of course, I didn't see anything that really brought up a lot of concerns there now, even though. the way they've gotten around tabor the biggest way through the years is to create a huge number of fees yeah it's an enterprise and then they can create fees or um well actually an enterprise is given the authority for bonding authority and that's the real mischief that we see out of out of that because then they can go borrow money without a vote of the people And they have obligated the state of Colorado through a lot of different ways for literally billions of dollars in the future that we have to pay for through that. But the legislature can just put a fee in place on something and not call it a tax, even though it's almost always it really qualifies as a tax. But that's another way. And again, they have obligated billions of dollars to the... the citizens of Colorado without really the taxing authority to do that.
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It's terrible, Kevin Lundberg. Let's go to break. And I've got several other things. We want to talk about the new state chair and some other things on that. So I'm talking with Kevin Lundberg. He is a former state senator, and he is the author of the Lundberg Report, which you can find at KevinLundberg.com. Be sure and check that out. We have these discussions because of our sponsors, and you want to make sure that you have Karen Levine on your side of the table if you are buying or selling your home or looking at a new build.
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Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues. Through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom, if something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. And on May 15th, the USMC Memorial Foundation is hosting their second Marine Memorial Golf Tournament out at the Ridge in Castle Rock. I understand it's a great course, so if you're a golfer, it should be a lot of fun. And you'll meet some new people and you can support the Marine Memorial. And there's a limited number of golfers that can golf. So make sure you go ahead and make your reservation now. That website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. It is Tuesday. We're talking with former state senator Kevin Lundberg. You can find his Lundberg report, very important, at KevinLundberg.com. So Kevin Lundberg, this last Saturday down in Colorado Springs, the state GOP Central Committee elected a new chair. And congratulations to Britta Horne, was elected as the new chair. chair and of course now everybody is wondering uh will she i think one of the biggest questions will she support the lawsuit to close the primaries here in colorado so what what's your thoughts about britta being elected well that was the big question in my mind as well and i was there and uh right after the the vote was announced or reasonably right after the vote was announced
SPEAKER 03 :
I was actually given the opportunity to give a report to the Central Committee on the lawsuit, which we're moving forward. Depositions have been finished. Let's see, summary judgments are required. There's a lot of legalese here by the end of this week. And then the next thing on the docket, essentially, is the trial where the judge actually looks at the facts. You know, we get a decision at that level. It'll probably be... appealed as well. So anyway, I gave the report and I also gave the, I don't want to say stern, but kind of a clear indication that I expected the new administration to get behind this and continue on because we've been working on this for several years now and we need to stay the course. Anyway.
SPEAKER 17 :
So, and Kevin, let's just, let's define, what does get behind mean? What does that look like to you?
SPEAKER 03 :
Because... That means, excellent question, excellent question. And that's the question I went and directly asked the brand new chairman, or actually she'd become chairman at the end of that meeting. So she had just gotten elected. So I went to Britta personally and said, so where are you with all this? And getting behind means that the party, which is actually the plaintiff in this case, needs to be raising the funds to pay for the legal costs and publicly speaking in support of the lawsuit and really making the case first and foremost. I mean, I'm the chairman of the lawsuit committee that former chairman Dave Williams created a couple of years ago. And so it's in my ballpark to really focus on this. But to get behind for the party means the chair THE CHAIRMAN NEEDS TO BE THE FIRST NUMBER ONE PUBLIC ADVOCATE FOR IT. AND THEY NEED TO PUT SOME OF THEIR BUDGET IN LINE WITH PAYING FOR SOME OF THESE EXPENSES AND RAISING THE MONEY THROUGH, BECAUSE THERE'S VIRTUALLY EVERY REPUBLICAN THAT I SPEAK OF THAT KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THE INTERWORKINGS OF THE PARTY AND HOW THE ELECTION PROCESS HAS BEEN GOING. knows that we need to challenge this because the open primary simply opens the primary to a lot of mischief for people who want to get in and play games with the party they don't support. If they're an unaffiliated voter, they get a Democrat and Republican ballot. Of course, we've gone through this before. But the party needs to be publicly and financially committed to seeing this through. So that's what I asked Britta, and she assured me that she was. But we'll see by what happens.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, okay. Well, then that is good to know. I can see, because I've heard those that have said, well, answer this question for me, that the job of the state party is to get Republicans elected. And I agree, but Republicans who... who believe in limited government and the sanctity of the individual. As I look at legislation, even with some of these legislators down at the statehouse, they are doing things that are playing right into the Democrats' playbook. This is a conundrum. How would you address that, Kevin?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I would agree with you, very much so, that in order to get Republicans elected, you have to field Republican candidates who stand for Republican principles. And that's been very, you know, you make a great case. I don't think you claim the part of the program to be specifically partisan. But when you stand for liberty, you really can't stand for the other major party too well. And so, yes, in order to accomplish the goal, you need to stand for the principles that that goal is founded upon. which is limited government. It's the principles of liberty that our nation was, you know, this whole national experiment called the United States of America was put together not to put government in charge, but to put individuals in charge and to do it from a sound moral perspective. Because here's another element, and that is we have to understand the why we're there in the first place. And that's a lot of the problems we have in our culture today. And all of those things have to come together in order to have a good, effective political party that people can rally around. And I can tell you the majority of Colorado citizens really want common sense government that supports liberty in place. It's just a A lot of games are played, and unfortunately far too many politicians just take the short-sighted view of how can I get my bill passed? Well, maybe I've got to play ball with this bad bill. That shouldn't happen.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. So speaking of – I think this is a bad bill, and it came – I noticed it. It was Senate Bill 25-201. Not sure if you've taken a look at this, but it is concerning requiring certain Internet websites that provide material that is harmful to children to verify the age of individuals who attempt to access such material. So we delved into this yesterday, Kevin, and – There's one Republican on this, Paul Lundeen, and I'm sure he looked at this and thought, gosh, this is at least a step in the right direction to try to protect our children. I do have a call or a text into him. But there's three Democrats on it, and I'm scratching my head as I look at all these transgender extremist bills today. Down at the State House, this bill, it says in it, in their whereases, it says that they realize that it says extensive research demonstrated that exposure to pornography at a young age can contribute to adverse public health outcomes, including increased rates of anxiety, depression, distorted perceptions of healthy relationships. But meanwhile, back at the ranch... We've got these fights happening out in Elizabeth, Colorado right now. Pornographic books in our school libraries. It's not matching up. But I noticed at the very end, and I never really understood this, is we see so many bills with the safety clause on it. And if the safety clause is stuck on it, that means that the people of Colorado cannot do a referendum on it. But this doesn't have the safety clause. And it says here, this act takes effect at 12.01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the 90-day period after final adjournment of the General Assembly, except that if a referendum petition is filed pursuant to Section 1.3 of Article 5 of the state constitution against this act or item, Section blah, blah, blah, It will not take effect unless approved by the people in a general election. So does that mean if we could take this bill to referendum, what does that entail? And if we take it to referendum, that means it cannot go into law until it's approved by the people of Colorado. Am I reading that correctly?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. Yes, you are. It is a well-established part of Colorado law. Well, let me go back to a fundamental principle of what the legislature is all about. In Article 5 of the Colorado Constitution, the legislature is set up, the legislative branch of Colorado. But the first few paragraphs don't talk about the legislature, except it does say we're establishing the House and the Senate and the like. But it goes on to say, but we the people reserve the right to make laws independent of the legislature. And then, as a component of that, it states clearly, and we can review any law that is made, that it makes this little exception, and I'm sure they thought of it as a little exception, unless there's an immediate threat to the health, peace, and safety of the people. In other words, if a bill is so... so significant in some way that people's lives will be in danger if they don't put it in place immediately, then that review of the people can be circumvented. And that's what grew into what we call the safety clause, which is this little paragraph they put at the end of almost every bill that says, but Because of the health and safety of the people of Colorado, this will take effect immediately. And it circumvents that necessity for them to wait and see if the people do want to put it on the ballot. Now, it's very difficult to put anything on the ballot. You have to. It's the same standard as getting an initiative going. So is it? Yeah. Yeah. And you've only got 90 days to do it in. after the general session is done. That's why they identify that specific date in August, which is 90 days beyond when the legislature is supposed to be done. Okay. So now it's a very high standard and Up until a few years ago, the only time that had been exercised was back in the 30s, the 1930s, concerning some milk bill that people were concerned about. And so it just kind of lay dormant. And then there have been a few serious attempts to put a referendum up, but I don't think we've successfully done it at all, ever. And so... It bothers me that the safety clause is put on so many bills, it should be reserved for why it's there in the first place, which is not – because the reason they do it is not because they're afraid that people are going to appeal it. They do it because they want the bill to take effect immediately, and they don't want to wait the 90 days for the law to become law or for the bill to become law. Mm-hmm. And I was one of those bulldogs down there. That's how come, you know, they said Lundberg, Lamborn, and Lambert were identical because all of us understood that that's an abuse of the constitutional powers of the legislature to just put a safety clause everywhere. It should be reserved for what it's there for. And... And, you know, legislature, when you make a bill, that's a very significant issue that puts the force of law on every citizen in the state. And it should be done very carefully and very cautiously. And a safety clause kind of throws some of that caution to the wind and simply says, and we want it right now, so we're going to put it in place right now.
SPEAKER 17 :
Wow. Thanks for that explanation. I did not understand all that. I am still learning so much as president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And boy, I'd really recommend that people join us because my colleagues, they're just doing amazing work. Kevin, let's go to break. I'm talking with Kevin Lundberg. He is a former state senator, author of the Lundberg Report. These discussions are so important. And if you've been injured, one of the things you need to do is reach out to John Bozen and Bozen Law as soon as possible.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That's KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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 shouldn't have to force people to do it. Do join me April 16th down at the Center for American Values in Pueblo. for their On Values presentation with Norma Donlon. She is the widow, Gold Star wife. Well, no, I shouldn't say that. She is the widow of Roger Donlon, who just passed on recently. And he was the first one to receive the Medal of Honor who served in Vietnam. It's going to be a fascinating presentation. Would love to have you join us. More information, go to AmericanValueCenter.org. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. It is April 1st, April Fool's, but there's no joking around on what happened down at the State House regarding Senate Bill 25003, which is basically the firearms magazine ban and basically taking away the right of everyday people, law-abiding citizens. to have firearms to protect ourselves against bad actors. And Senator Kevin Lundberg in his Lundberg report says, this right shall not be questioned. Okay, Kevin, what happened?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I was simply paraphrasing the Colorado Constitution when it comes to the right to own and bear arms, which means Not till you go around with sleeveless shirts. That means that you can have guns, weapons to defend yourself. And that's why it's there. It's not so easy to go deer hunting. Even though I think that's a pretty good thing and actually a necessary thing in a state like Colorado where if you didn't hunt deer, you'd be overrun by deer and elk and But the the Colorado Constitution has an equivalent of the Second Amendment, which is in the U.S. Constitution. And, you know, the U.S. Constitution says the right shall not be infringed, which is, you know, a fancy way of saying the government shouldn't prohibit you or prevent you from being able to defend yourself with firearms. And in the Colorado Constitution, we have a thing called the Bill of Rights that actually has about 50 provisions in it rather than the 10 provisions in the U.S. Constitution. And among that is the article dealing with firearms. And it says, in essence, that right shall not be questioned. It gives one exception, just to fill it all out, where it says, but this doesn't construe that you have the right to conceal your weapon. And you've got to kind of go back in history and discover, you know, figure out that in 1876, when they wrote this, it was the bad guy around the poker table who hid his pistol in his vest. And they didn't want to say, well, you have a right to do that. because that really wasn't, it was the good guy who had his gun on his hip, and that's what they were defending.
SPEAKER 17 :
That is so interesting.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, so Senate Bill 3, I mean, the left, this is just one of about a dozen bills. I mean, I count nine that I think are really bad, but others will count up to 16, 17 bills. that are dealing with firearms in the legislature this year. And essentially what they're trying to do is they're trying to carve away as much ability to actually have access to your guns, to buy them, to be able to sell them or manufacture them. And Senate Bill 3 is the big one that, yes, says you can't buy or sell guns. or manufacture a semi-automatic gun with a magazine. And that's just about every semi-automatic. You know, there are a few that you load in a different way, and why that's the dividing line is absurd. But anyway, they amended the bill. and said, oh, no, you can go ahead and buy it, but you have to do all these different things. You have to have this safety course. You have to have this new system with the local sheriff. They just added a ton of requirements to simply be able to purchase a semi-automatic weapon with a magazine. And that is so far removed from what the Colorado Constitution says that, you know, it's ridiculous. Now, I'm paraphrasing it to say shall not be questioned because they kind of wrote it in a more complex fashion where they said no person, well, I don't have it memorized, so forgive me for not giving you the exact quote, and I don't have it right in front of me, but But they were trying to be explicit about this and say, you can't question the right people have to bear arms. And what Senate Bill 3 does is it turns that right into a government created privilege that you have to pay for because of the costs involved and the time frame and everything else that's added. They just made it as difficult as possible. And the law-abiding citizen who maybe wants to own that for defense of any circumstance, which might even be the government sometime, doesn't want the government to be meddling in their business. And part of this is a registration system or the building blocks for a registration system, which is deeply troubling. I don't want the government to know if I own weapons or not. And I don't want them to know what they are because I don't trust them because history has shown that whenever governments step in and start registering and controlling gun ownership, far too often a tyrannical government will then start saying, give it to us because we plan on pointing them at you.
SPEAKER 17 :
And that is why we are all so concerned regarding Senate Bill 25003. But there's some other very, very onerous Second Amendment bills that are going through the legislature as well. Kevin Lundberg, it always goes way too quickly, but we learn so much from you. And again, KevinLundberg.com is the website. So thanks so much, and we will talk with you next week.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you very much. Appreciate it always. Looking forward to it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and again, that website is KevinLundberg.com, so be sure and check that out. And for April 1st, April Fool's, we have a clip for you from a Bob Hope movie from 1940.
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There's a certain voodoo priest who will have the power to bring him back to life.
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How horrible.
SPEAKER 05 :
It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes. Walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring. You mean like Democrats?
SPEAKER 17 :
And that's from a 1940 movie with Bob Hope and talking about zombies and then his line on Democrats. Thought that was pretty funny for April 1st. So, my friends, today be grateful. Read great books. Think good thoughts. Listen to beautiful music. Communicate and listen well. Live honestly and authentically. Strive for high ideals. And like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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Talking about freedom Talking about freedom I will fight
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
SPEAKER 17 :
Indeed, let's have a conversation and welcome to our number two of the Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured, you're valued, you have purpose. Today'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. Thank you to the team. That's producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Tuesday. April 1st, Producer Joe. You're not going to do any jokes on me, are you?
SPEAKER 19 :
I just wouldn't look under your desk.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, I won't do that. And yesterday you and I were talking about April Fools, and you said that you got your dad one time with the old trick on the sprayer at the sink, yeah? Yeah.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yes, ma'am. It was my stepdad, and we got him with the sprayer with a hair tie.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes, I've had that happen to me before as well. So anyway, April 1st, have a little laugh today. We need a little levity. Laughter is a really important thing. So check out the website. That's Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station. Searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And we focus on the issues, not the personalities, the eighth grade girl stuff. We want to stay focused on those issues. The show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. On all KLZ 560 platforms, first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night. Those platforms are KLZ 560 AM, 100.7 FM, the website, the KLZ app. You can listen to us via Alexa and the podcasts are at Spotify and iTunes. So be sure and check all that out. As well, thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. Our word of the day is drollery. It's D-R-O-L-L-E-R-Y. It could be a comical or whimsical quality. Number two, it could be a comical or whimsical way of acting, talking, or behaving. Or number three, the act of joking or clowning. So I would say that Bob Hope had drollery down. And Bob Hope was a comedian. He was born in 1903, died in 2003. He was an English-born American comedian, actor, entertainer, and producer. And he had a career that spanned over 80 years. And he worked in vaudeville, radio, television, did these USO tours. And he said this. He said, I don't do political jokes because too many of them are getting elected. And that is Bob Hope. And because it's April Fools, I tried to find something funny about some of these bills down at the statehouse. I couldn't find one that I thought was funny at all. I felt that they were all serious. So I went to Fox News, and they had wasteful and dangerous Doge's top five most shocking revelations. Number one, this is crazy. Musk reveals there's an Iron Mountain mine in Pennsylvania where they process federal employee retirements manually. Huh. Okay, that's number one. Number two? The EPA locates $20 billion in waste, and the Biden administration, Harris administration, actually took $20 billion. They squirreled it away over in some different banks because they'd not designated where that $20 billion would go. They squirreled it away over there, hoping that the new administration would not see it, and then they were going to dole that out immediately. to their friends and family. So you can see the green in the Green New Deal is the green that's going into PBI's pockets, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties. Number three on this list, again, this is not very funny, but it is kind of crazy, is the Department of Homeland Security is clawing back $59 million, which was going to house illegal immigrants in luxury New York City hotels. Wowza. And you know what? If you paid full fare to be at one of those New York City hotels, maybe they weren't having other guests there at that time. But could you imagine how you would feel if you were paying top dollar to be at that hotel and then you're realizing that illegal immigrants are getting to be there for free? You look like you want to weigh in on that, Joe.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, what about the people who go to vacation there and go and see the city? Now they're paying big dollars to make up for the immigrant.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good point. Good point. Next thing, Pentagon wasted thousands of dollars on coffee cups and soap dispensers. So that's when we say we have to maybe take a look at the Pentagon budget. I think we do have to take a look at the Pentagon budget. And then lastly, the whole USAID thing, the $40 billion, including Sesame Street in Iraq. I don't, you know, there was a meme out there. It's like, why are they using our money to give to people that hate us? They should be able to hate us for free. Okay, let's get over here and talk with John Bozen with Bozen Law. And if you've been injured, you need to reach out to them as soon as possible. John Bozen, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good morning, Kim. And those those things you just went through. Oh, my goodness. Frustrating. They're not funny, are they? Corruption, fraud. No, I my boil bloods every time I hear a new one.
SPEAKER 17 :
And I find it so crazy that there are protesters that are out there saying we want more waste, fraud and abuse. I find that that's kind of funny, actually.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, they're paid to do that. We know that. Yeah. Just got to figure out exactly who's behind it.
SPEAKER 17 :
And you know what? I think we will, John Bozen.
SPEAKER 14 :
I think we will, too. Don't let the hammer come down.
SPEAKER 17 :
I totally... They have been fleecing or stealing from the American people. Just like that $20 billion they'd squirreled away to go to all their friends. And that's our money and that's our children's money because we're also borrowing. And it's... They're fleecing the American people and we're done with it.
SPEAKER 14 :
It's maddening and... April 15th is coming up real quick, and I had to come up with some money, and it just makes it that much more just infuriating.
SPEAKER 17 :
You know what I think I'm going to do is I think I'm going to want to process my particular tax return in a mine up here near maybe Cripple Creek and do that manually. See what they would think about that, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, right. Good idea. I might get into a different place if I did that. So anyway, let's talk about Bozen Law. you help people when they're having serious things happen in their lives. And there's a lot of serious things that can happen. So what are these things that you can help people with?
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Well, yeah, and it's been a little while since we've kind of gone through the list. And it's a big umbrella, personal injury, and things that we do within that area of practice. So motor vehicle collisions, any kind of an accident that involves trucks, cars, boats, jet skis, motorcycles. If it shouldn't have happened, if it was someone else's fault that caused the accident, caused injuries and damages to an individual, definitely wheelhouse cases for us. Slip and falls, ice that should have been removed that's let to stay and hardened for days and then someone slips on it. Trip and falls. It can be anything that shouldn't have been there, that should have been seen, removed by the property owner, the business. Dog and animal attacks. I've brought up we're seeing more and more of that. Not sure why, but dogs should be on leashes. They shouldn't be allowed to run in open public areas where they can attack people, attack other dogs, cause injury and harm to folks. Bad pharma, pharmaceutical drugs. We've talked about Ozempic and the GLP-1s that are doing a lot of damage and harm to people. Bad or defective products. We've been representing folks that were harmed by the talcum powder made by Johnson & Johnson. Roundup. Workers' compensation claims. Anyone that is working, doing something for their employer, and they get hurt whether it's uh... can be anything uh... and it's irregardless of fault but if someone's working within the course and scope of their employment they get hurt they have the right to pursue and should pursue workers compensation benefits which includes medical care wage loss and if they have a permanent injury they get compensated for that also uh... we also help folks with social security disability claims we pay in Every time we collect a check, a portion of that goes in to Social Security for retirement or for disability. So if someone contracts a disease or gets cancer or suffers injuries that prohibit them from working, they're entitled to pursue and receive disability benefits. We also do that in the private sector. There's a lot of insurance companies that offer disability insurance coverage. So in addition to Social Security disability, someone, if they've got private insurance, can apply for and seek disability benefits through the private insurance they have. All of these things we handle. All of these things, it's important if someone has a situation or a loved one or a friend or neighbor or coworker has a situation, that they put them in touch with us as soon as possible. Time is always of the essence. And the sooner we can get on the phone, we can advise somebody, counsel them, the better off they're going to be.
SPEAKER 17 :
And what is that phone number for Bozen Law, John Bozen?
SPEAKER 14 :
That, oh, so hard to remember. I just, of course, number is 303-999-9999. And again, that's John Bozen with Bozen Law, and that number is 303-999-9999.
SPEAKER 17 :
John Bozen, we will talk to you next week. Have a great week.
SPEAKER 14 :
You have a great rest of the show and the week. Talk to you next Tuesday.
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And welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That's Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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, shouldn't have to force people to do it. And we've got a treat, an additional treat this April Fool's Day. Lauren Fix actually scheduled for later on in the month as our featured guest. But with all these tariffs, I reached out and said, does your schedule allow that you could join us this week to talk about this? She said yes. And you were on CNN much earlier this morning, Lauren Fix. Lauren Fix, Car Coach Reports, welcome.
SPEAKER 20 :
Thank you. Yeah, I was also on the Weather Channel. It's been one of those. It's been busy, busy, but that's a good thing. Yeah, so there's a lot going on with these tariffs, and I just want people to know the facts. All the mainstream media, and I keep calling out the truth, are all like, oh, cars are going to raise by 25%. That is far from the truth, and it's really important to know how the tariffs actually affect you. So if you're in the market for a car, And this is starting tomorrow, so today shouldn't make a difference. Anything on the lot today, there should be no impact. Any dealer in your area, wherever you may be, wherever you're listening to this, and they're trying to tack a price on calling it a tariff increase or a price increase, you need to avoid that dealer. Any dealer is doing dishonest increases in prices because we don't know what the exact details are of this tariff for those cars built outside the U.S., until the second so i guess it's going to be a rose garden it might be today but we're waiting for them to do that in the meantime here's how this is going to affect you based on what is in this regulation uh vehicles that are assembled in the united states or in canada that are what they call usmca it's u.s mexico and canada they have an agreement and they're compliant We'll have no tariffs. That would mean that the bulk of the components are North American and the cars either assembled in Canada, Mexico or U.S. So a lot of cars are going to be exempt from all this. It won't impact them at all. U.S. assembled vehicles with critical components like engines and transmissions that are from Germany, China, Japan, which many of them are. They used to be built here. They're no longer. They will get a 25 percent tariff on those parts only. So if you're looking at a $20,000 car and the engine comes elsewhere, it's not going to be $10,000. So keep that in mind when you're looking at the numbers. And how do you know? Every single window sticker, which is called a Monroney, because there was a senator with that name who put this rule through, has a list of where the bulk of the components are made. It'll say U.S. or Canada or Germany or Hungary or Mexico or wherever. Wherever it might be, the percentages there also tells you where it's assembled. It's right there on the window sticker. It's a law. It has to be there. And then other things to note is that vehicles that are assembled in Canada that would incur the 25% tariff would be if their non-U.S. components are more than 50%. So more than 50% of those parts, again, you've got to look at that window sticker. You can do the research. It's online. It's pretty easy to find. 50% U.S. content. Otherwise, it's taxed, 25%. And vehicles fully assembled outside of North America, like a Ferrari, a Porsche 911, some special AMG Mercedes, those are going to be full 25% tariff. But you have to keep that in mind. That doesn't mean that prices are going up 25%. Ferrari said they're going to raise their prices by 10%. Porsche said they're going to raise their prices by 7%. Do you think that's going to impact their sales? No. Because their buyers don't care. 10% of a million-dollar car, to those people who make that car $1.1 million, it's not going to impact that buyer. When you're talking about something normal that everybody drives every day, a Mazda product, for example, that's not made here or that is a bulk of the components or elsewhere, you might see a $3,000 increase in price. So the calculation is very odd. There will be people that will try to skirt the tariffs completely by either absorbing part of it or not. But as President Trump has said, and this will be in a story coming out tonight at 615 Eastern on my Car Coach Reports channel, it's important to note that the goal is to keep the cars built here in North America, no price increase. And if they follow the rules, they should have no problem. If they were trying to skirt the rules, much like maybe the Stellantis product was doing and the Nissan products, well, those companies are going to get nailed with a full 25%. So there used to be something, and this is kind of good for reference, many years ago, there was something called the chicken tax. And what they would do, and it's still in place actually today. European countries were importing our chicken to give to their people for food, and they were charging a 25% tariff. So we countered them saying, all right, any trucks you bring into the U.S. is a 25% tariff. There was a lot back then. This is like early 1900s. So what they've been doing ever since, and I've been to the factory that does it, they'll build a car in a final assembly in Germany, take the wheels off, the seat valves, the dashboard off, a bunch of components, and then ship it on one pallet. That pallet would arrive around somewhere in the Carolinas. It would then be transferred to South Carolina production plant, and they would reassemble the vehicle and then sell them to avoid the chicken tax. They're not going to let them do that this time. And they're going to be policing it, they claim. So that's the bottom line.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. So first of all, Lauren, there are those that are reading, I think, mainstream headlines and saying this is going to decimate the car market here, the auto market here in America. And so super, super concerned about it. But I think something that people don't realize is many of these other countries have been charging tariffs on our goods going into their countries, right? Yes.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely. And we've been getting ripped off. So what happens is we ship product from the U.S., whether it be liquor cars, whatever it might be, to other countries, and they charge high tariffs. For example, if you were to ship a car to China or to Japan, you don't see a lot of American cars there. Ford does build in Europe, but you don't see any GM cars around Europe at all, and most of the Asian countries as well. And the reason for that is because the tariffs are so high, consumers can't afford it. So what we've done is we've put 100% tariff on Chinese vehicles coming in. So if BYD, which makes some pretty cool cars, I've driven many of them, decides they want to sell here in the United States, the tariff's 100%, and that would double the price. So that would definitely make them not sell Chinese cars here. We want jobs here. If you get a car from China that's built in China, it doesn't help us at all. There's not even a dealership. They'll just sell them online like you're buying something on Amazon.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, so yesterday one of our listeners said, gosh, I wish that instead of tariffs to bring manufacturing back, that he would reduce taxes, rules, and regulations. And then I also think unions have increased the cost significantly of employees, of manufacturing, of labor. So what would you say to that, Lauren?
SPEAKER 20 :
All right, so you're going a slightly different road here. So there is something going along that route. The Transportation Freedom Act was put up by Senator Bernie Marino out of Ohio, and that would allow us to, any cars that are built in the U.S., you wouldn't have any interest on your payment for your loan. So that would be deductible auto loan interest is what they're calling it, on American-made cars. So that would help. And also, I don't know if people know this, but we're only 65% capacity on our current plants. And there's one General Motors plant that's only at 40%. So if you've got a plant and you're a U.S.-based company, and that includes Tesla. So you've got Tesla, GM, and Ford. Stellantis is not a U.S.-based company anymore. They're based out of Belgium. When you're looking at that and you say, well, wait a minute, I can bring cars here, they're built here, and we have capacity in the plant, let's do that. And they're claiming they're going to fast-track these permits, which means jobs. And the UAW, who was totally against President Trump during the election, is now a huge fan. Sean Fain is saying, oh, this is great. This is more jobs, more union people. Of course, you can't guarantee that because if it's in the southeast of the country, there's no way those are going to be union plants. Those will be non-union plants. But either way, it's jobs. And that's how he sees it, and he's right. Because otherwise, their union membership has been dropping off, and they need to build back up their coffers and the money so they can live high on the hog. That's a whole other conversation. But this would allow that to happen by bringing production back here. And it can be done. We shipped everything overseas underneath the Obama administration because he made it more difficult to produce product here. He taxed us. He made it more difficult. So every brand said, well, to heck with it. We'll just build our Cleveland-based engines that used to be here. We'll build them in Mexico. We'll build them in China. We'll build them in Thailand. And that's why you have so much product here that comes from other countries.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and the American consumer... liked the fact that they were able to get the product that they wanted for a lesser price. But Obama knew what he was doing on this, right? I mean, he was really decimating American manufacturing on this, yes?
SPEAKER 20 :
That was his goal, was to decimate manufacturers. Remember when President Trump took office, he said, I'm going to bring manufacturing back. And Obama said to him, good luck with that. That'll never happen. Wrong, because President Trump knows how to do things like a businessman. That's the difference.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, so let's continue the discussion when we come back with Lauren Fix. Car Coach Reports, she's very busy right now in demand, not only here in Colorado, but nationally. Everybody wants to know what she has to say. You can find her at Car Coach Reports and also carcoachreports.substack.com. And I did watch her video that she recently posted regarding tariffs. So we're going to continue that discussion. We have these discussions because of our sponsors. And if you're buying or selling a home or looking at a new build, you want to have Karen Levine on your side of the table.
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SPEAKER 17 :
And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That's kimmunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at kim at kimmunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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. Join me April 16th down in Pueblo at the Center for American Values for their On Values presentation with Norma Donlon. She is the widow of Roger Donlon, who was the first Vietnam soldier to receive the Medal of Honor. And it's going to be a super interesting presentation. More information, go to AmericanValuesCenter.org. That's AmericanValuesCenter.org. On the line with me is Lauren Fix. You know her, Car Coach Reports. You can find her at carcoachreports.substack.com or just put in carcoachreports. Lauren Fix, one of our listeners, thank you, Richard, said this. She said, Trump said that Sean Fine, who is the president of the United Auto Workers, so Trump said that Sean Fine just put 60,000 auto workers out of a job by holding out for $80 per hour wages. So $80 per hour wages, you have all of the other payroll taxes on top of it. That's a lot of money. So what's the story on that, Lauren Fix?
SPEAKER 20 :
I don't have too many details on that, but any time you ask for more than reasonable, I don't get paid $80 an hour. I would like that. Most people don't get that kind of money. I'm not saying they don't deserve it because I don't know exactly which jobs he's talking about specifically. But any time you price it high, all you're doing is hurting the company, and that means they just – had less people. That's why they end up moving many of these companies to Japan, Mexico, Canada, wherever it might be, because when you make it unaffordable, you either do one of two things. And here's a perfect example. Stellantis, they were building Jeeps in Belvedere, Illinois. They were the first, the first one to have a fight with the UAW, and they made them be on strike for a long time. It hurts the workers. There is some money aside for them, but they're not getting full pay, and that's because of their membership and their union dues. So as soon as that was over with, And President Trump came into office. They said, we're moving our plant to Mexico. And they shuttered the plant. And so 1,500 people went out of business. This may be specifically, because I haven't seen that story. It's possible that specifically the Belvedere plant. So they said, fine, we're moving it to Mexico. It's easy. We'll move the tooling. We've got empty space down there. It's cheaper. There's no unions. And those people down there will work for a fraction of the price. because there's no Social Security, no disability, no compensation, you know, no matching of Social Security funds from the company and no benefits. So it's definitely going to save the company money. So President Trump said to them, listen, bring it back to Belvedere and we'll make it worth your while. So that's where they have to kind of work in order to avoid this tariff and, of course, also to keep the jobs here. But Sean Fain, who is the president of UAW, may not be their best leader. He might be a heavy-handed negotiator, but you have to win for all parties. It's not just for the people you're negotiating against, but it's also for those people that actually do the work.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, so let's say you get $80 an hour, but you have no job. So what, right?
SPEAKER 20 :
Exactly. And that's the problem. And that's exactly what President Obama did when he was in office. He pushed everybody out. He wanted everyone to have higher wages, very much the Bernie Sanders mindset of make it so that we don't build anything here. But that also affects our national security when you do that, because way back in World War II, we built planes and tanks and Jeeps here. And then we shipped them to wherever we needed them. And that was good for our economy. If they were built elsewhere, then those countries own us. And it makes us weaker.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's what this is all about. That is what it's all about, and Obama knew what he was doing on that. Let's shift gears, no pun intended. To get over here to your substack, I watched the piece that you'd done regarding tariffs, and I think in it you said that on the whole tariffs thing that Hyundai might be a real winner. So explain that.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, they were really smart. Just before President Trump was going to announce the impact of these tariffs— I actually know a couple of the people, but a couple of the leaders over at Hyundai, including Jose Munez, who's the president, who's super smart, and Jay Chang, who's the CEO, and the chairman at the top, I can't even get his name off the top of my head, they came to Washington and said, we're going to bring $31 billion worth of plants here. That's jobs. They own their own steel plant already, and that's how Kia and Hyundai are able to build value-based cars, as well as Genesis. but now they're going to put a plant up in louisiana that's great for jobs in louisiana and we really need that so talking about 1500 jobs there and then they're talking about expanding on the plant that's in west point georgia and the one that's in birmingham alabama i've been to all the plants And I can tell you it's pretty impressive. Now, yes, there's a lot of computerization and robots doing work, but they still need people to actually do a lot of this work. And there's still a lot of hand assembly done, especially small details where you really need a person to do it. So this is big, huge investment. Why is that so smart? Well, they're going to build cars here. And what does that mean? they're not going to have to pay the tariff. And they are one of the smartest manufacturers by getting in front of this. That also includes Kia, by the way, because Hyundai Corporation is Kia, Hyundai, and Genesis. So all three of those brands will be in a much better position than a lot of the other brands.
SPEAKER 17 :
Lauren Fix, I love all this, bringing manufacturing back to America and putting American workers first. I love all that. There is part of me, though, what does this do to these other countries as they're losing this manufacturing? What do you say to that?
SPEAKER 20 :
One of two things is going to happen. Either the other countries are going to say, you know what? we're going to drop our tariff on American goods. Well, then Trump will do the same thing. He'll drop the tariff. And then we have free trade. But we really don't have free trade because if they're charging us a higher tariff than we're charging them, it's only helping them. It's not helping us. And the goal is that if you want to sell in the United States, the number one market in the world, then you're going to have to pay a tariff to come in. That doesn't mean he's going to drop it to zero, but it's certainly going to be dropped to a much lower number.
SPEAKER 17 :
And I think you mentioned in your video here that – and is it possible to get rid of the income tax through tariffs? And I think you addressed that to some degree.
SPEAKER 20 :
It is possible. And I think that's one of the things that a lot of people don't realize that if – you would like to get rid of the tariffs, how do you do that? Well, the only way to do, I mean, I'm sorry, get rid of your federal taxes, which would be really nice because I just got my tax bill and it's not nice. The only way to do that is you have to offset that. One is to get rid of waste in government. And that's what Doge is doing. He's going through every single department. They found tons of fraud, you know, like shrimp on treadmills and how long it takes ketchup to come out of containers and all the silliness that you see. Plus a lot of WASTED MONEY, GIVING MONEY TO OTHER COUNTRIES FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER, BUT WE DON'T KNOW IF IT ACTUALLY ENDS UP THERE, ENDS UP IN SOMEONE'S POCKET. AGAIN, WE'RE GOING TO FIND THAT OUT VERY SOON AS IT STARTS TO UNFOLD. IT'S VERY INTERESTING TO WATCH, AND YOU CAN GO TO THE DOGE WEBSITE. THAT'S NUMBER ONE. SO NOW IF YOU CUT YOUR SPENDING, then you're going to have more money available. So that's good. But if you can take on the rest of that with tariffs, then that means you can have no federal taxes, which is what we had in 1913 prior to them deciding we're just going to tax for all the damages from World War I. And then, boom, they came back with, well, we're going to make it more. We're only going to tax the wealthy. Now we're going to only tax some people. Now we're taxing everybody. And that's how that happens.
SPEAKER 17 :
So this will help everyday hardworking people, which I think as we look back now on this waste, fraud, and abuse and all this spending, is they have been fleecing the hardworking people of America.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yes, absolutely. This has been going on for a long time. But giving money to people who aren't from this country who strolled across the border it's a whole nother conversation for a different expert um and also you know giving money away we don't have is absurd and this is something that that needs to be addressed and it's amazing that no other official has said anything about it it's like they're all in on it they're all getting something it feels like to me I don't know. I have no proof of that. I'm just speculating. But it's interesting. It's like if you've got all this money, and it's our tax dollars. Don't let anyone kid you. I posted something and someone goes, it's not your tax dollars, it's what the government has. No, it's your tax dollars. Whether you pay taxes to your state, taxes to the federal government, taxes for the things that you purchase, that money is your money that you're giving to the government that's supposed to be used for roads and bridges and schools and police departments, fire departments, libraries, all the things that we all want. It's not meant to be given to people that shouldn't be getting it or to countries that shouldn't be getting it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right. And we should not be paying people to hate us. As somebody said, they can hate us for free. We don't need to be paying them to do that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 17 :
Exactly. We're just at such a historical time in our country, Lauren Fix. And thank you for this great information regarding tariffs, because this has certainly been on everybody's mind. The mainstream media is trying to scare people. And I think that's my last question before we go to break. And that is, is all of this. Trump came in so fast, fast and furious that I think that radical activists, extremists didn't know what hit them. But now they are getting organized. You see these protests, probably paid protesters out there saying we want more waste, fraud and abuse. And Bernie Sanders, an 80 year old white guy, is now there carrying the mantle on this. I know.
SPEAKER 20 :
I'm sorry. This is too funny.
SPEAKER 17 :
It's crazy. So how do you think this – and we have the activist judges that have said, hey, you've got to turn those planes around and bring back those gang members back to America.
SPEAKER 20 :
I don't think they did, by the way.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, they didn't. They didn't. They didn't. But so what do you think is going to happen? We're coming into a really interesting time right now as the veil is coming off on all this.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, there's a lot going on. I will tell you that I did monitor a bunch of the protests online when 12 noon hit. Those people walked away like someone shut off a light switch so they were getting paid. You were paid to be there from, what, 9 to 12? You get paid $200. You can go on a Craigslist. You can see the listings. You can go to a lot of the different sites. And all they do is stand there with pre-printed signs, which is really scary. Many people went and started talking to them. The statements from these protesters at these Tesla dealers are completely off-base. And they gave them chance to say and things to do, a die-in or whatever. What's interesting about all of that is these people are getting paid $200 to be there from 9 to 12. Their statements are like, oh, Elon Musk gave President Trump $250 billion. Really? He said he gave him everything he's worth? THE STATEMENTS ARE ABSURD. HE'S STEALING OUR MONEY. HE'S NOT STEALING YOUR MONEY. HE'S LOOKING AT OUR PERSONAL STUFF. DON'T WORRY, THEY'VE ALREADY RELEASED ALL THAT DATA TO EVERYBODY. MULTIPLE TIMES WE'VE BEEN HACKED BY OTHER COUNTRIES. SO THAT DATA IS LIKE EVERYWHERE. THE STATEMENTS COMING FROM THESE PEOPLE ARE ONLY WHAT THEY'VE READ. AND IF YOU ASK THEM REAL QUESTIONS, THEY EITHER GET FRUSTRATED AND DON'T WANT TO TALK or the worst part of it is they're completely clueless to it. I didn't know there was a judge that said, I don't believe it. Okay, fine. But you believe that the government is honest? Government is always honest. They're not taking our money and using it for the wrong purposes. I'm like, wow. If you're that disconnected and you're just taking the money, you'll never be able to figure that out, and you're never going to convince everybody that some people are completely clueless.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, I think it's a small percentage. And as we are shedding more and more light on all of this, I feel encouraged. I know it's tough. It's going to be messy. But I think we're going to reclaim America here. Lauren Fix, thanks for making the time on this regarding all these tariffs. I really appreciate it. People can find you at Car Coach Reports and carcoachreports.substack.com. And we're going to talk with you next week. So thank you. Yes, I look forward to talking with you then. Boy, she is awesome. And I know that there's a complete fan club out there for Lauren Fix here in Colorado. And these discussions come to you because of our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, be sure to reach out to Lauren Levy.
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Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That's Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. And do check out the USMC Memorial Foundation's website. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. While you're there, sign up for their second annual golf tournament, which is May 15th, out at the Ridge in Castle Rock. And so you'll be able to play a great course, meet some new people, and support the Marine Memorial. What a great trifecta. So check that out. Again, usmcmemorialfoundation.org. On the line with me is Rich Guggenheim. You know him. He is the, I'm not gonna get the exact title right, but I think I'm gonna get it right, what you do, and that is the national liaison regarding legislation for gays against groomers. Rich Guggenheim, was that close to what you do?
SPEAKER 21 :
It was close, yeah. Close very close. Yeah, it's just the director of legislation. So that's a lot easier.
SPEAKER 17 :
I think Well, I thank you for all that you're doing and you texted me yesterday afternoon very concerned about a couple of bills and So let us know why this is on your radar. What should people know?
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh Yeah, so there's a bill that they were just we just got word of them on Sunday so they dropped them over the weekend and And, you know, you can tell when the legislature has an agenda when they introduce the bill and then it gets a hearing right away. And these are one of those bills, two of them. The one that was introduced and is actually scheduled for committee this afternoon is House Bill 25-1213. And this bill really, you know, Kim, the legislation that I follow is regarding queer activism, gender ideology, those kind of things. and targeting children. And this is probably the worst bill that I have ever seen from a standpoint of where queer activists, and I call them queer Marxism because this stuff is Marxism 2.0, are trying to go. So this is introduced. One of those crime sponsors is Lorena Garcia, and they have introduced this bill that is an egregious violation of both the 14th Amendment and also the First Amendment. So that's why I say that this one is bad. It is a transgender bill of rights is what they're calling it. The other bill that they have introduced is one that- And verify that number for me again, that House bill number.
SPEAKER 1 :
1312.
SPEAKER 21 :
1312, okay. Okay, got it. There's another bill that they've introduced, and it codifies the right to gender-affirming care. And when we talk about gender-affirming care, a lot of people probably don't understand this, but this is where we're giving Lupron, a puberty blocker, which is used off-label to children to block puberty. It's not a pause. You only go through puberty once. If you don't go through it, you don't go through it ever again. And it has a long list of side effects and complications, cross-sex hormones that they're giving to people and the surgeries that they're doing, double mastectomies for girls and removing healthy body parts. It's just quite frankly, sterilization and mutilation. And the people that are supporting this are people that are in big pharma and the medical industry and the insurance, medical insurance industry, and when you realize how many contributions they have given to Bernie Sanders, it's easy to understand why Bernie Sanders supports medicine for all and also queer rights.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, and so is that 1309? Is that that one? That is 1309, yep. OK, so both of these, you said, are late breaking scheduled for hearing. And so they're going to they they introduce them late and then they're trying to fast track them through kind of under the radar, would you say?
SPEAKER 21 :
I would say under the radar late at night. I would not be surprised if you see 1312 go through committee today for a second and third readings by the end of the week introduced into the Senate early next week and passed by the end of next week.
SPEAKER 17 :
Boy, Rich, it seems like Colorado is ground zero for all of this transgender activism on our children. And here we have President Trump that's done an executive order to define that boys are boys, girls are girls, and to try to push back on that. But here at the Colorado legislature, it's more than doubling down on all this.
SPEAKER 21 :
It really is. And here's where it gets really frightening with the bill that's being heard today. This will make it so that if you do not affirm your child's gender identity and expression, it will be considered a form of child abuse and lays the groundwork for the state to come in and remove child from the home and remove that child from the parental custody. The other thing that which we already know. In case law at the United States Supreme Court, parents have the right to raise their children as they see fit. So this is a violation of the 14th Amendment. The other thing that it does is it compels speech and it compels dress. It tells schools, even charter schools, how students should be allowed to dress. And it compels speech because it makes misgendering and deadnaming somebody a hate crime in Colorado. So misgendering and dead naming someone would carry more penalty under law than raping a child.
SPEAKER 17 :
This is crazy. This is absolutely crazy. So the two bill numbers, House Bill 251312 and House Bill 251309. And so let's just think about this. We've seen this indoctrination of our children in school. And kids are impressionable. The activists know that. So if a kid... During that, and puberty is such a difficult time for kids. They're trying to figure out what's happening with their body, what's going on. So, again, these activists understand that. They're swooping in saying, oh, maybe you're born in the wrong body. And what you're saying is if the parents don't affirm this, that ultimately social services might be able to take their child from them. Am I hearing that right?
SPEAKER 21 :
That's exactly what this bill does. That is exactly what it does. And so, you know, I think parents have to understand if you don't show up to the state capitol to fight for your child, you're going to have to show up to a courtroom to fight for your child.
SPEAKER 17 :
OK, so what can people do to help you? And first of all, thank you for shedding light on this and getting more information. How can people follow you? Let's get through all those details, Rich.
SPEAKER 21 :
Sure. You can follow me personally. I'm 5, 2, 8, 0, 52, 80 based homo on X. You can follow us at against groomers, gays against groomers of online, um, all the socials. So you can follow us there. We're getting the word out. The other thing that is so important is you can sign up to testify online. There's a whole sub stack that we've posted on that choke goes step-by-step on how to sign up to testify on this. And if you can't, I will say the people, if you have time to write a social media post, you have time to write an email to the state representatives. And so, again, it's 1312. That's the bill number that you want to send your thoughts on. If you value having the right to raise your children as you see fit without the state forcing you to do it how they want you to do it, and you value the First Amendment and the freedom of speech and the freedom of expression to dress how you see fit and dress your children how you see fit, you need to testify against these bills because this is Marxism, and it is taking root right here in Colorado, and we have to do everything we can to eradicate it.
SPEAKER 17 :
OK, so a couple of things. Let's just on this House Bill 25, 13, 12. There are four prime sponsors on this. Let's name them. Representative Lorena Garcia, Democrat. Representative Rebecca Stewart, Democrat. Senator Faith Winter, Democrat. And Senator Chris Kolker, Democrat. And so I think it's important that we know those names. And then over here on this 1309 list. Whoops, hold on here. I hit the wrong spot here. General Assembly. You probably have it in front of you. I don't have it. Everything's slow on that. So who's the sponsors on that? Do you have that at your fingertips, Rich?
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I can get it. I have 1213 pulled up. Give me just a second.
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I did the same thing here, so I thought I had it, and just not enough tabs here. I think I'm getting it, because I think it's important that people know who is the prime sponsors on this. I got it right here. No, I don't. It's going to Capital Watch instead of what I wanted here, so that's weird.
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Okay. Kyle Brown, Brianna, Brian Tatone, Lisa Cutter and Julie Gonzalez. And just so people are aware, for those who don't know, I have the federal lawsuit in the 10th Circuit Court right now against. Julie Gonzalez and Lorena Garcia because they're the two that gabbled me out of committee, the Judiciary Committee, last year because I refused to refer to a man as a woman and I refused to use his preferred name and pronouns. They considered that disrespectful and they silenced me and they're not going to compel my speech. But they're at it again. And so they've got to understand that at some point in time, people's speech, if you don't defend your freedom and your liberties, you will lose them. And this is where we have to battle what is going on at the state capitol.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and Rich, you have become just a real warrior on this. And I don't think we've got about a minute left. I don't think maybe two years ago you would have even thought that this was the position that you would be in.
SPEAKER 21 :
No, and it's not anything I ever ask. I didn't really interview or apply for this type of work. It just happened. So but it is important because at the end of the day, our constitutional freedoms and liberties are we have to protect them and we have to protect our children and their their freedom and their liberties because they cannot consent to this type of stuff.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes, we do. And that is our duty, that we will protect our children. So I appreciate all that you're doing. And again, how can people find you? And you probably need a little bit of help on this lawsuit from a financial standpoint, yes?
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, we have a great Institute for Free Speech is representing us. We've got some great representation, but do support them because they are a nonprofit. And I really appreciate all that they've done. I also really appreciate all of the support. People don't realize how much time and money it takes to be engaged in this kind of stuff. So you can go to Gays Against Groomers website. We've got a ton of resources, but also if you can donate, that keeps us going.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. Rich Guggenheim, thank you. And I know you're going to be busy today.
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Yes, thank you, Kim.
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Okay. And it is April 1st, and so I thought we'd pull this clip from Bob Hope from a movie in 1940 talking about zombies.
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You live here? Yes. Well, maybe you know what a zombie is. When a person dies and is buried, it seems there are certain voodoo priests who have the power to bring him back to life.
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How horrible.
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It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes. walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring. You mean like Democrats?
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I guess Rich Guggenheim's going to see that down at the State House while he's there. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you and God bless America. And make sure that you are making your voice heard. And you can do that today by reaching out and testifying via Zoom on House Bill 25-1312. And then also check out Cut Engage. That will help you as well on some of these other bills. We'll talk with you tomorrow.
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Talking about freedom
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The views and opinions expressed on KLZ 560 are those of the speaker, commentators, hosts, their guests, and callers. They are not necessarily the views and opinions of Crawford Broadcasting or KLZ management, employees, associates, or advertisers. KLZ 560 is a Crawford Broadcasting God and country station.
Tune in to explore the ins and outs of the 2025 Mazda CX-90. This episode covers everything from the vehicle's stylish interior and advanced infotainment system to its impressive fuel economy. We highlight how the CX-90 caters to both families and individual drivers looking for comfort and efficiency. Discover why the Mazda CX-90 is considered one of the best in its class. With its reasonable price point and high-quality features, this vehicle doesn't compromise on style or performance. Our hosts share their personal experiences and testimonials, offering an authoritative guide for potential buyers and car enthusiasts.
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All right, we've got a couple of car reviews we're going to squeeze in right now. Richard, we'll start with you. 2025 CX-90 3.3 Turbo S Premium Plus.
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But ultimately, it's a 2025 Mazda CX-90. This is their three-row SUV. This particular model had their six kind of six-seat passenger configuration because this car does have a third row. Yes, is it a little bit smaller than some of those out there? Yes, but I will say this, that most of the cars in this segment, that third row, it's for kids only. It's not for four. size as old, and this car does it well. It's got a lot of nice interior apportionments, a lot of nice physical buttons. For those of you who haven't ran or touched a Mazda in a while, I encourage you to go out and do that because there's actually some rather interesting... Well, I'll just say, it just feels nice. It actually feels pretty well put together. The way the buttons feel, their infotainment system, while it takes a little bit of getting used to, it's a really nice setup. The screen is nice. It's easy to use and easy to operate. Price on this vehicle, Dad, $58,500, so under $60,000, and this is about the top of the line trim level that you can get. They have a one above it, which is the plug-in hybrid version of it, and obviously this vehicle is not that case. But it does have 340 horsepower, Dad, which is really great for the 3.3 liter. I think it's an inline six, if I'm not mistaken, turbo engine in this vehicle. Fuel economy, Dad, 23 and 28 for an average of 25, which is really good for this segment, I will say. They've done a tremendous job there. Overall, I guess the only cons to me is even with that turbo engine, it's got a little bit of lackluster acceleration, especially at our altitude. You're buying a three-row, I'm going to call it kind of like that mid-size SUV, Dad, where you're going to be able to haul kids around everywhere. You're not really looking for a really big race spur. You're not really going to run off the line as fast as you possibly can. But as far as the other interior apportionments... Heat and ventilated seats. Like I said, really nice, soft, you know, touch material. An easy-to-use CarPlay Android Auto display to where you can actually plug your phone in if you want to use it that way. I think they've got wireless as well, which a lot of these cars do these days, too. Worked really well. Was really impressed with it. And, again, this car, Dad... um they redesigned in 2024 and it's one of our personal favorites and you and i were talking about this earlier we know folks that run their mazes for over 300 000 miles yep and so this is definitely a vehicle that that you can get that can grow with you and you know if you've got a family of Three right now, but maybe you're thinking about adding some. I would highly encourage you. This is a super, super competitive segment, but one, and in this vehicle, I would say one that I would rank really, really high. Yeah, really quick.
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Mazda does a really great job of their apportionments for their price level and always have, and you get a lot of, let's just say it this way, you get a lot of bang for the buck when it comes to Mazda.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, you do, and again, depending on how you want to set these cars up, right, they kind of do it based on trim level. That's right. I'm looking at the window sticker right now. There's not a whole lot of additions that you can put on these, but it makes it nice, right? You just kind of pick the trim level you want, which kind of comes with the stuff that you want on it, and they do a very nice job. Again, you get into this car, folks, and I'll say this. It feels like a car that's closer, about $10,000 more, right? Closer to $70,000 than it is $60,000. Just of how it feels, a lot of nice soft-touch materials throughout. So I encourage folks, get out, test drive these, dad. Head to your local Mazda dealer. 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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This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at RushToReason.com or Drive-Radio.com.
In this engaging episode, we delve into the world of compact crossover SUVs with a detailed review of the 2025 Mazda CX-5 Turbo Signature. Known as Mazda's best-selling vehicle, the CX-5 offers a perfect blend of size, performance, and style. Our hosts break down the features that make this model stand out, including its turbocharged engine, robust performance, and luxurious interior options. Whether you're considering an entry-level trim or the sophisticated Turbo Signature variant, this episode provides invaluable insights to inform your buying decision.
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And we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, the time of the week where we combine it and drive radio together. We've got some car reviews to do. Richard, you have recently driven a 2025 Mazda CX-5 Turbo Signature.
SPEAKER 01 :
yeah so quite a mouthful dad but all you need to know is this is mazda's best-selling vehicle basically this is sort of a compact crossover kind of is that i'm going to call it that mid-sized suv range right sits up a little bit higher than a typical sedan not quite as high as some of the the truck based your body on the frame suvs out there which is sort of a good compromise you can get this vehicle from anywhere from the kind of the very entry level trim for about just under thirty thousand dollars and by just under i mean just under Or you can get it for, you know, above the car we drove, which was the Turbo Signature, for about $42,000. You can get an all-wheel drive, lots of different, you know, options for this vehicle it's got a night a lot of nice clutch features on the inside lots of room again for those car seat folks out there maybe there's not a lot of you but for me it matters you're able to fit boosters in the back a little bit hard pressed to get that rear-facing seat in there especially if you've got a taller passenger but not necessarily a huge deal you have the 2.5 s which does bring a turbocharged engine into the mix and we'll get to those figures here in a second But the signature level comes with lots of things that you can imagine, but especially body color, exterior trim, LED and ambient interior lighting, navigation system, wood trim, driver attention warnings, rear automatic braking, all sorts of stuff that you, again, I guess a lot of folks would really like. There are two differences on the turbo. Or I should say not two differences. They actually quote you power figures if you're running on regular versus if you're running on turbo. So if you're running on regular fuel, you get about 256 horsepower. Or sorry, that's on premium. If you go the regular fuel route, 227 horsepower. So you lose a little bit. Nothing that's crazy. I will say up here at our altitude, Dad, it was really a joy to drive. This thing got up and went in traffic. It was really fun to operate. You didn't have a great turbo lag or anything like that that you can sometimes get. Overall, I was very impressed with this car. You can see why. Again, it's Mazda's, one of their top-selling cars. and they've sort of gone with these other models. I guess I'm going to call them the dual-digit ones, right? Like the CX-90 and some of those. Well, there's a similar model to this, the CX-50. The CX-5, I think, was supposed to be sort of replaced, but they still keep selling the thing because they sell a lot of them. It's a great car. Yeah, absolutely. I think that folks will be really impressed. So I encourage folks, head to your local Mazda dealer, test drive this. They really do, especially if you're in that... three to four size family household, or maybe there's only two of you, but you still want a little bit extra room. Dad, it had great cargo room, great cargo space in the back, which was really nice. I encourage folks to check that out. Hit your local Mazda dealer and let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at rushtoreason.com or drive-radio.com.
Join John and Richard Rush as they delve into the details of Honda's new EV offering, the 2024 Honda Prologue. This episode uncovers the strategic partnership between Honda and GM, showcasing how this collaboration has birthed a vehicle that combines the best of both worlds. We discuss the Prologue's design, which merges futuristic vibes with a traditional aesthetic, appealing to both new and seasoned EV drivers. Richard shares his firsthand driving experience, providing listeners with valuable insights into the vehicle's performance and battery range. This episode is a treasure trove of information for anyone interested in the transition to electric vehicles. Discover why the Honda Prologue stands out in the EV market. Listen as we invite you to your nearest Honda dealership for a test drive, offering a chance to experience the future of driving today.
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All right, this next vehicle, which is very interesting because I've in the past owned a Chevy Blazer EV. I've actually had, of course, the Bolt EV, which great vehicles. They work phenomenal, and I've got nothing really, and people have heard me talk about those. I did those back in the day to learn about EVs from my perspective, not what anybody else is saying. But you drove a 2024 Honda Prolugue. All-wheel drive elite, which is basically, and for all intents and purposes, a Chevy Blazer, correct?
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Yeah, I mean, I'll be honest with you, Dad. I was rather surprised when I did that. I asked you, I said, did you know that this car is the same? And so for folks that don't know, yeah, it's a Chevy Blazer EV. Basically, Honda said, we want to get into the EV market, the EV SUV market, but we don't want to completely redo the platform yet. I think they will, and this partnership's probably only a few years. But as far as Because they essentially took most of the underpinnings of a Chevy Blazer, and they basically did. They changed a few things as far as the infotainment system. They kind of merged theirs, and I actually really like their infotainment system. It's better than Chevy's, by the way. Well, and I will say this. I like the look of it because, folks, some of the EVs, well, they don't need the airflow in the front.
SPEAKER 01 :
Right, so they take all that away.
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There's nothing to cool down.
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That's right.
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So they take it away, and they kind of make it a little bit more futuristic, that sort of thing. Well, the Prologue, Dad, does not have that feel. It has a little bit more of a nice engine vehicle feel. Exactly. It looks a little bit more traditional. And what I will say is I really like that. I got several comments from people saying, on that. Now there's some differences and I'm not going to sit here because I think the, I think it's 4% of Honda buyers are crossover buyers with GM. And so honestly, folks, most people aren't going to know. This vehicle, Dad, depending on the weather conditions, that sort of thing, on a full charge, you can probably go about 300 miles on a full charge, which is really not too bad. And I know that it's something that you have real-world tested. You have owned the counterpart of this vehicle, and so you can attribute to it. This car, especially for folks that are looking to kind of get into the I'll say the entry level of the EV SUV market is definitely something for people to consider.
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All right. Folks, for those of you interested, go test drive one of these. There will be some of these at this point on dealer lots. You can go test drive one of them at your local Honda dealer. Let them know that John and Richard Rush, both from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason, sent you. This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at RushToReason.com or Drive-Radio.com.
Join us as we explore the 2025 Infiniti QX60, highlighting why it stands out in the crowded SUV market. From its luxurious interior to its impressive fuel economy, we discuss how Infiniti has made significant improvements to its design and technology. Whether you're navigating traffic or cruising through snow, this SUV offers both reliability and style. Discover why it could be your next family's vehicle choice and how it's providing more value than ever before.
SPEAKER 01 :
All right, I actually happen to drive here of late a 2025 Infiniti QX60. This is the luxe all-wheel drive version. I actually got a chance to drive this vehicle in some of the snow that we had of late as well, and I'll tell you, Richard, it works very well. This is a vehicle that, for all of you listening, actually comes in, and it's priced relatively what I consider to be reasonable, given what you're actually getting. 62745 was the model that we chose, or that we drove, I should say. Now, you can choose... These in the starting range of about 50K, which if you look at a full-size three-row SUV, which we were talking about another vehicle here just a moment ago, this vehicle, Richard, fits all of that with more luxury than the last one we were talking about. So it actually does that better, has a larger backseat and cargo capacity, and you get everything that – you get from infinity this particular vehicle has a two liter turbo engine which produces about 256 horsepower no sorry 268 horsepower and a nine speed transmission now what i will say is as far as power goes i will say again not this is not a race car But does it have enough get-up-and-go to really get out of traffic, or I should say get into traffic, merge incorrectly, all those different things? Yes, it does. Now, would I prefer to have a little bit more power? Yes. Now, on the same token, I averaged around town in the high 20s for a fuel economy. So if you're looking for a full-size luxury SUV, all-wheel drive, able to handle up to, I would say, comfortably... two four six passengers i would say i know it's ranked for more but really comfortably those amount of passengers richard if you've got to your point a family or growing family or what have you and you're looking for a little bit more in luxury than what you're going to find from some of the counterparts which i'm not going to name other names but there's some other vehicles out there that are not luxury car brands that will have a similar vehicle without the third row In that 60K range. So you're getting a lot of vehicle for 62K in this QX60. And I will say for a lot of you listening, have they done some upgrades on this? Yes. Were they needed? Yes. Have they come a long way with that? Yes. In fact, Richard, one of the things we used to always complain about was the infotainment system and some things along those lines. I will tell you, much better than it ever has been. The car play, you know, the wireless car play, all of that works great. In fact, I will just say it straight up, Richard. I really, as far as daily driving and having a very comfortable vehicle to drive that you can put your entire family in, was there a negative I had on this car? Honestly, Richard, no, I don't have a negative on this car. Not one.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I'm not saying something because, again, we can usually find something that is wrong with these vehicles. And in this case, Dan, I know, like you said, you mentioned Infiniti has really made leaps and bounds. They've always been known as a luxury car brand and manufacturer, Dan, but they've really improved it. You're actually kind of getting some value there. Not kind of. You are. You are. You're getting some value more so than in years past in some other brands. So, again, I think for folks that maybe they haven't looked at an Infiniti in a while, Dad, and especially if you've got a growing family, you want to be on that luxury end, but you don't want to spend some of the luxury prices. Right. It sounds like it's a vehicle that's a possibility for a lot of people.
SPEAKER 01 :
Absolutely. So, folks, as we always say, go check out this vehicle at your local Infinity dealer. You're probably going to find some of these in stock right now, so if you want to go take a test drive, you certainly can. And when you do, by all means, let them know that John and Richard Rush, both from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio, sent you. This is John Rush from Rush to Reason and Drive Radio. Thank you so much for listening. Check out more of our podcasts at RushToReason.com or Drive-Radio.com.
In this episode of Fix It Radio, we dive deep into the world of home maintenance focusing primarily on HVAC systems and filter management. As we transition through seasons, it's crucial to understand the importance of regular check-ups and maintenance to ensure comfort and efficiency in your home. Discover why changing and maintaining air filters can make a significant impact and learn practical steps to take care of these essential tasks yourself.
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Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
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In the floor behind the chair.
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This is America.
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Does everybody know what time it is? Fix It Radio!
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And it is that time, Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Appreciate you all joining us. Live program today on the last weekend of March, the 29th to be specific. And the first quarter of the year is just about done. Larry Unger with me today. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. Got a lot in store for you today. But, yeah, Larry, time rolls by.
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In a hurry it does.
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Seems like it was just Christmas.
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I was talking to a friend of ours the other day, and she said, you know, a year is now six months.
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it uh it rolls along very quickly and again all the more reason why some of the things that we talk about here and just having things ready to go with your home and being prepared and all those different things yes all of those things matter a lot of you may be contemplating you know am i going to make a move this summer am i going to do anything along those lines those are all things that you guys need to be discussing among yourselves bottom line keeping your home up well maintained uh you know studies show and it's mathematically proven that you will save more money down the road and or have more return on your investment the better care you take you know the better you take care of the things that you have that includes your home we talk about the car and drive radio and all of that but Larry it it's still surprising to me and for those of you that are listening you know don't take this the wrong way because I know everybody has different capacities and so on but still surprising to me Larry that your largest asset which is your home in most people's cases why would you let that deteriorate well again like you said in some cases they physically can't which I understand
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But in other cases, they just don't think about it. There's other options to do. And I'm like you. The home is your biggest asset.
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For most people, it is your largest asset. Some of you that have businesses and things like that, yes, I understand that in that case it may not be your largest asset. But it is still a very large asset. asset for a lot of individuals and even those of you that are you know business owners self-employed and so on it still becomes a large part of what you're going to do down the road you know retirement wise and so on it's still a big chunk of that equation and the better you take care of it the more money it's worth on down the road well not only that but
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As you go along in your daily lives, I mean, you spend more time at your home than you are almost anywhere else. So why not be comfortable at it?
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Make it enjoyable. Keep it up. Do your maintenance. We're going to talk a little bit today about HVAC and some of those things as it's kind of that time of the year to where you need to start thinking about it. Yes, I know today right now it is, and this is Saturday, so if you're listening on Tuesday, the temperature might be a tad different, but it's 44 degrees right now. on this saturday morning i don't think though moving ahead for those of you listening on tuesday our weather is not going to change a whole lot here throughout the week so i get it we're going to talk about some hvac stuff right now some of that involving air conditioning and so on just because of the type of day that it is outside but what i will tell you is you might still be using your furnace some at night so this is that time of the year larry where one week you might be using the furnace right and it may not be too long after you're using the air conditioner
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Which brings the matter of the heater. Better check your filter again.
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Well, I was just going to start with that, so I'm glad you said that. Larry's leading us off. So, yes, first things first. Given that we're this time of year, and for those of you, whether you're using just a furnace and you don't have any air conditioning, maybe you do a swamp cooler or something along those lines, a lot of you, though, listening, and I know I talk about this a lot and don't want to date myself too badly, but air conditioning today is a norm for a lot of people. When I was a kid, it was not. It was only for rich people.
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So it has gotten to where most everybody now has the ability to have or does have air conditioning. So you may be turning that on. We'll go through a few things along those lines. I will say that today is a cold enough day to where there are certain things, even in AC tech. can't necessarily check and have good readings on because the ambient temperature isn't quite warm enough to really tell if, you know, pressures are correct and so on when it comes to the unit itself. But we'll get into some basic things that even some of you can do yourself, which will save you money and headache down the road. But Larry just mentioned it, your filter itself. One of the probably most overlooked things is the filter, and it's operating any time, or it's in the system and it's being used any time the system is on. So if the furnace is on, it's being used. If the air conditioning is on, it's being used. And I will tell you that a plugged filter will have as much to do with inefficiencies in the system as probably anything else you could do, and most people don't realize what... How important – let me say it that way. Let me phrase this correctly. I don't think most people understand how important it is to have a good, clean filter that's in there. And if you're somebody – here's a piece of advice. If you're somebody that changes your own – now, some of you don't, and I understand that. You have to have somebody come out and do your system and so on. And if that's you, that's fine. A lot of you listening, though, because of us and you've learned how to do this, you change your own. And every system is different. That's where it gets a little bit dicey when it comes to, you know, filters in systems. Some of them, it's a filter that's in the return air duct. And there's a grate that you would lift off or remove. In some cases, you put a new filter in. Those, by the way, are fairly easy. Yeah, you might have to get a step ladder or something out to actually make that happen. But those are fairly easy to do typically. The ones that are in the furnace can get a little bit more dicey. It depends on how that furnace technician set that filter system up. In other words, some have a little door you can lift and pull the filter in and out. Some might have a little bit of a cover that you have to remove and then put back on. Every system is a tad different. Again, it depends upon – it literally comes down to who installed it, how did they install it, and you know what did they do in that process to actually make that filter system you know work correctly and biggest thing is also making sure that when you do this that you put the filter in the correct direction correct there will be arrows on the filter and that always in in the case of the return air and where the filters that is going to point towards the furnace because that's where the airflow is typically coming up and through and then into the furnace you can't do an air filter afterwards it's always coming air into the furnace so you're always going to point the arrow toward the furnace. And what I mean by that is wherever that exchanger is, whether it's on the AC, which is above the burners in the furnace itself, but where the furnace assembly is, you're going to point the arrows Because in some cases, you may find the filter is a few feet, in some cases, away from the furnace itself. And you may be wondering, okay, which direction does this go? Always point the arrow toward the furnace, towards the air handler. If you have a system like mine to where it's not a furnace, but it's an air handler to handle the air conditioning sides of things. Some of you that have hot water heat... your baseboard heat and so on you will have just an air handler they call it where you've got your coils and that for the ac in the unit but it's still still doing the same thing that a furnace would do still needs to have the filter change now i will say this if you have just an air handler and the furnace is only the furnace the air handler is only on when the ac is on you will not find yourself changing the filter as often as a regular furnace Because the air is only moving when you've turned the air conditioning on, which typically in our area is going to be, oh, I don't know, mid-April to sometimes mid-October. It's kind of in our area here where AC gets used. And if you're up in the foothills listening to us, you may have even a little bit less time than even that. You'll know where you're at. So here's another recommendation when it comes to filters. To save money. Figure out who's got the best deal. Typically it's online. And buy a six-pack. Typically, you can buy a four-pack, six-pack, probably even more than that if you'd like to. But the more you buy, like anything else, the cheaper they get. So what I typically do is, and I know I've got this. My wife knows this, and so does my family. I have a full row. Fear of running out.
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Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
So I am one where I will buy the six-pack of filters, and when I get down to two, I'm ordering another six-pack. So that no matter what, I've always got two on hand, which in my case, given that I have just air handlers and not an actual furnace, I'm usually only changing those out once a year, maybe twice if it's a super hot year and the AC is running a lot. I might change it more often, but typically for me, I can get by with one change a year. So if you think about my end of it, if I buy six of those, I'm out six years or so. So for each of you, you kind of know where you're at and how to do that. But my point is, the last thing you want to do Is be pulling out a filter and you have not one on hand to replace it with, you know, and I get it. If you're maybe you've moved into a new house or a new house to you and maybe you've never done this before. And so now you're getting your stuff all dialed in and you have to have the size first before you can actually go get the filter. And I get that because this is not a one size fits all, which. Because of the different size of units, the different size of ducting and so on, there are probably, I don't think I'm exaggerating, Larry, if you really want to get down to it, and some of them aren't even stocked in stores depending upon the size, there's a dozen choices.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, easily.
SPEAKER 03 :
Maybe more.
SPEAKER 11 :
If you go into the store, you'll see how many different sizes there are, and it's amazing.
SPEAKER 03 :
There's a lot. A lot of that, again, has to do with the size of the ducting, the air handling unit, the furnace size itself. All of that contributes to this. And, again, do you have, in some cases, some of you with units where now they're in a lot of the new units. I was talking to Hunter at Cub Creek this last week, Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning, and a lot of newer homes that have been built, oh, gosh, in the last decade plus even. maybe the last two decades, what they're doing is to make things more comfortable and even more efficient in the home. If you've got a home that's over a couple thousand square feet, they're literally putting a unit upstairs and typically a unit in the basement. So you may have a unit up in your attic upstairs, and a unit in the basement if you've got a newer home that's over you know 2 000 square feet or so and they do that because they can be more efficient by splitting things because you may want to run for example in the furnace end of things the heat rises of course so in that particular case you may run your downstairs furnace more so than you will the upstairs furnace because the heat is rising in the summer though that'll become opposite you're more likely to run the upstairs ac a little more than you would downstairs because it's gonna get hotter upstairs so it's kind of the reverse and my point with that is some of you that have upstairs furnaces ac units you know air handlers that are in the attic you may find yourself with more than one filter for the return air depending upon again how that system was designed i owned a home at one time that had one in the attic and i actually had two filters that had to be changed because it had two return air ducts that they had filtered that were in the upstairs area and whenever you changed filters on it you had to do two of the same size but you did two instead of one so really analyze if you're going to do this yourself really analyze your system and look and see exactly you know where are my filters how many do i have do i have one in the return air versus the air handler or the furnace itself and know your system, and then, of course, buy your filters accordingly based upon what I just said. Some of you would say, well, I don't even know if I'm going to live here that long. Okay, these things aren't that expensive, and here's what you would do for the next owner. And even the inspector coming through to look at things, by the way, this is a bonus to you. If all of a sudden the inspector rolls through there and they can see that, oh, these filters look pretty well changed. No, this guy's got a stack of three more sitting here. What's the first thing that inspector, Larry, thinks?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, it's been maintained.
SPEAKER 03 :
These people are on top of things. That's right. And what I'm getting at there is you're less likely to probably even have an issue with anything along those lines because this person looking at it is like, oh, okay, these people are on top of probably more than this as well. It more than likely, I'm not an inspector, so I don't know what goes through their mind, but I can more than likely tell you that initially they're thinking, oh, okay, here's some folk that actually take care of things, understand maintenance and so on. This is gonna be a pretty good inspection.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, even if I'm not an inspector and if I'm a buyer and I go through the home and I see extra filters and things, I'm thinking the same way.
SPEAKER 03 :
So point being, just because you think, well, I don't know how long I'm gonna be here. I'm only gonna buy one at a time because I'm only gonna do this once a year. Well- The little bit of extra money that it takes to buy a three, four-pack, six-pack, whatever it happens to be, and have a couple sitting there laying there that, by the way, aren't going anywhere. You can literally leave them in the cellophane and just leave them right there next to the furnace. They're not going to hurt anything at all. You leave those sitting there so the next person looking at it, again, they're ready to go. They've got the filters necessary. And no, you're most likely not going to take those with you and move because how likely you are to have the exact same size in the next house you move to, you worry about that when you get there.
SPEAKER 11 :
And for the cost of them, yeah, it's not worth it.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, and folks, really, I'm talking, and this is where nothing against the big box stores, but you literally can go online, and in a lot of cases, and this is not an exaggeration, in a lot of cases, buy a six-pack for not a whole lot more money than you're going to buy one or two at the big box store for. That is one of their good markup items they have in the big box stores. The other thing the big box stores like to do is upsell you on all of these – heavier filters i guess you could say and reality is and you hear you know joe from jersey call in who's been in that industry before i've talked to different folks inside of the hvac industry itself and the reality is they will not recommend that you buy those super expensive hepa type filters and this that and the other if you need that much extra filtration talk to one of your Favorite HVAC companies give Cub Creek a call even. They've got extra filtration devices they can actually put on a system where if that's something that you're really in need of, look at that because a lot of those heavier filters are actually doing more harm than good.
SPEAKER 11 :
It does.
SPEAKER 03 :
Blocking airflow.
SPEAKER 11 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 03 :
it doesn't necessarily eliminate the things in the air that's going to cause you asthma you know precisely larry precisely so again that's something where first of all you know i know we spent a little bit of time on air filters but it's a big deal and today by the way for those of you that are listening especially those of you that may have one of these in the attic You couldn't pick a better day than today to be up in the attic doing some of these things because it won't be 100 degrees in the attic. Exactly right. It'll actually be a really nice, pretty medium temperature right now. So if there's anything along those lines you need to do when it comes to servicing something along those lines, today would be a great day to get up there. and actually do that so we're gonna take a break if you got any questions for us you can send us a text as well 307-200-8222 307-200-8222 and don't forget you can call in directly as well 303-477-5600 303-477-5600 we'll be right back this is fix it radio klz 560.
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SPEAKER 03 :
All right, we are back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Go ahead, Larry's mic up. There you go, say it again.
SPEAKER 11 :
Go along with what we were talking about, filters. If you don't think your filter's getting dirty, look at the air intake vent. It will tell you just exactly how bad it's getting.
SPEAKER 03 :
Got a text message a moment ago from somebody who's been in that industry for a very, very long time, a previous owner of one, and said the same thing we just said. Don't go super expensive. Don't go super cheap either. There is that. Yes, thank you for saying that. No, you don't want to get some paper, cheapy, bottom of the barrel. But don't go expensive either. If it's a good, better, best, just make sure it's a good, good one. But, yeah, you don't need to spend a bunch of money on filters. You're going to find yourself actually not helping you out at all when it's all said and done. And there's some of these even that make like a double filter where it'll be like a filter with sometimes even a piece of foam on the outside of the filter or it'll have like some fiberglass type looking insulation stuff that's on the outside of the filter before the filter itself. Yeah, don't do those.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, all it's going to do is it's going to plug up quicker.
SPEAKER 03 :
It changes your airflow, which can affect a lot of things in regards to the furnace on the furnace side and also on the air handling on the AC side as well.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, sure, because as the system plugs up, it can't heat up the house quick enough, so the heater has got to run until it gets to a specific temperature that your thermostat is set for.
SPEAKER 03 :
It can affect the way the flame is, all sorts of things along those lines. So, yeah, don't... To the point of that person that just texted in, don't go super cheap, but don't go expensive either, because at the end of the day, you're not going to really help yourself out at all. In fact, I would... caution and if if you had the choice between going super expensive or a little bit on the cheap side I'm one say a little bit on the cheap side you're probably better off at the end the biggest thing in the cheap ones you got to be careful of is you don't want them with the amount of air that can come through there to collapse the filter or change its It's shape, I guess is what you could say. You don't want it to deform, and that's why you don't want to go super cheap, because some of the super, super cheap ones can actually deform, and then you're going to leak around the edges, and then the filter's really not doing much of anything anyway. So yeah, don't go super cheap, but don't go super expensive as well. Now, let's talk a little bit about the air conditioning side. We just handled the furnace side. Now, what I also want to say is on the ductwork, this is kind of a separate thing, and I'll be straight up honest. While there are a lot of companies out there that do this work, somebody that, frankly, I've never, ever had it done. I don't know why. It's not that I don't believe in them. I think that they are, I think at times, justifiable, especially... given certain circumstances and what i mean by this is you may have heavier allergies or you might have more pets or or or i can go down the list of things and what i'm getting at is the duct cleaning end of things now if you kind of get a flashlight and if you've got the ability to look through some of your ducts at times and you can kind of see man there's a lot of i got a lot of crud in there okay you may be somebody that wants to look at doing some duct cleaning That's a whole different world than just changing the filter out. Ducks are rough on the inside, and depending upon who did the install and what they did to finish off joints and things like that, you could even get a lot of lint and hair and buildup and things like that around certain joints and things along those lines. And again, most of them can even kind of scope things out and tell you how things look in the home. They'll give you a price on what it takes to actually do the duck cleaning afterwards. And it's not that I am against them. I'll just be straight up honest. I've never had one done. I think for me, I just kind of did the flashlight test in a lot of cases, and I would look down through the ducts and so on and never really saw the need in my particular case. And now keep in mind, I'm a very particular individual with the amount of things that get In the house, even with having pets or whatever, I mean, everything is kept clean and there's not a lot of things that are going down the return air and so on. But everybody's a little bit different, especially depending upon the home and who owned it prior. It may be something that you want to look at. That is something that I don't have a contact for. In other words, we have no sponsors or anybody that I'm affiliated with when it comes to doing duct cleaning. So what I would say is maybe to help others, if you know somebody, Let's throw this out there to those of you listening. If you know somebody that does really good duct cleaning and that's something you would like to recommend, pass that along. And I will pass that along as well and maybe even have a conversation with somebody about becoming a part of what we do here. But I'm not familiar with that end of things. I don't do that, Larry. I don't know what you've done along those lines, but I've never really done much with that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I never used to until I moved into my house in Thornton when it was brand new. And I was advised at that time to have somebody clean the ducts. I'm thinking it's a brand new house. Why would I need somebody to clean the ducts? Well, they showed me what they pulled out of the ducking. You'd be surprised at how much material is left in the ducts from the home builders themselves.
SPEAKER 03 :
thank you for saying that as well. That's another big one to where depending upon when the home was built, how it was built, how tidy the folks were. And what I mean by that is, When was it built? So, for example, let's say that the AC unit goes in. There's still a lot of interior things that have to get done and so on. And depending upon the time of the year that that gets done, let's say that that's the middle of winter and they're running the furnace. And they're still doing a lot of drywalling and things like that. And typically that's, you know, all the AC stuff is done or furnace stuff is done. Ducts are put in and so on. Then they start covering up walls and doing drywall and so on. Well, depending upon when the house is built... If all of that's running when they're doing a lot of that work, you may have more buildup versus one that got done in the spring and fall where you're not even in heat or AC season. So to your point, and by the way, I have seen things thrown down ducks where it's like, okay, you guys are just pigs. You throw the McDonald's wrapper bag down there. You throw your gum wrappers down there. You throw pieces of wood down. I mean, I've seen, Larry, when I've been looking at houses and different things, you kind of look down through the vents. It's like, oh, my word, what pigs built this place?
SPEAKER 11 :
I'll tell you, when they came out and they cleaned my heater vents, I could not believe the amount of garbage and trash that they took out of there. Now, once I've had it done, I probably haven't had it done twice since then, and I've been in that house 38 years. But the point I think I'm trying to make is if you haven't had it done, do it. It's not that expensive. Yep. But, again, you have to find the right person.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right. That's right. That will take care of you and not just do some fly-by-night thing where they clean a few things here and there and then out the door they go.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, if you think they're going to blow air through the ducts and clean it.
SPEAKER 03 :
They're not going to do that. You've got to scrub them out. That's right. Jeff in western Montana, what's up?
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, morning, all.
SPEAKER 03 :
Good morning.
SPEAKER 09 :
Two quick comments on this. First of all, on filters, HVAC person. The plan was to collect dust so it didn't get in the house. The sole purpose of the filter is to protect the furnace, particularly the furnace blower. I'm sorry, is that good?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, I can hear you. That makes sense. Yep, totally. You're exactly right.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm sorry. I was in my truck, and it just transferred.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, no, you're fine. No, I mean, to your point, that filter is not for your duct protection and even your sinuses and allergies and so on. It's to protect the unit itself from having a bunch of junk get built up inside of it that then can cost you a bunch of money to clean out, Jeff.
SPEAKER 09 :
Or cause fires.
SPEAKER 03 :
Or cause fires, et cetera. Yes, thank you, Larry.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, particularly that blower. You know, if you don't put a filter in, that squirrel cage fan is going to collect all sorts of dust and lint and crap. So that's why the filters are designed the way they are. They're not there to capture everything. They're just there to capture the big stuff down to a certain level, and the other stuff will flow through. And you can get an actual filter for the house. We actually put in an Aprilaire when we had a – forced air furnace and paid for that and they do a good job and that's a once or twice a year thing with their big six inch thick filter so okay that's an option as well yeah no that makes sense and that and to your point that's a different need and different thing that you're handling than protecting the furnace Right. If you have sensitive allergies, I would recommend getting an Aprilaire or some equivalent so that you can actually get that down to whatever micron level they do.
SPEAKER 06 :
Makes total sense.
SPEAKER 09 :
They do a good job. And then, oh, what was the other topic?
SPEAKER 03 :
The ducks. Oh, duck cleaning. Duck cleaning.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, duck cleaning. I had ours cleaned in Colorado Springs, and I... I stopped to think about this, and again, it's one of those things you don't think about until you think about it. But if the purpose of the filter is to protect the squirrel cage, and if it's doing its job, you really don't have much lint and stuff accumulating in your supply ducts. That's right. But you don't know what the person before you did. So what we did is we had ours cleaned. And two things came out of that. First of all, it was kind of amazing, all the stuff and crap that was in there. But at least this particular duct cleaning company, and I don't know if they're all the same, they did not get out the heavy debris. If there was, like, chunks of plaster or big nails or anything in there, that did not come out. They left that in the duct. Their brush was not intended to get that stuff out. It was intended to brush the dust off the various – supply so um so that might be a question you want to ask somebody is are you going to get everything out or are you just looking at getting the big stuff that's what i was thinking is there a reason to leave it in there i don't i it just happened afterwards And so it was one of those, well, I guess I didn't know I was signing up for that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Maybe not the ability to retrieve it. I don't know. I mean, that's something that somebody that is in that world would have to either text or call me on, because, Jeff, to that, you and Larry's point, I don't know the answer to that. I have no idea.
SPEAKER 09 :
Neither do I. I just know that, and again, it was on the end, and I said, well, okay. And I asked, is that typical? He goes, yeah, we do that all the time. So I was... I either call him a liar and get into a big fight about it or realize he probably did the best he could with my ducks at that point. And I should have checked to make sure I knew what was going on. And so bad on me as much as if there was any bad on him. I don't know that there was. But that's just something for people. When you contact the duck cleaning company, just ask them, are you going to get everything out?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, great idea.
SPEAKER 11 :
One of the things that I did find out on the last duck company that I used, they had a camera system that they would go down the ducking with and show you how clean it got.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
So that's another option.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
Something to ask about.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm sure that's come a long way from where it used to be.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, but once you do that and you put your filters in and you change them once a year, I don't think you need another cleaner. I can't find anybody to give me a good reason to do it annually or every five years. It's not like a septic system where you've got to clean stuff out of a filter. I got an answer, too, from somebody on that.
SPEAKER 03 :
On that line, as far as the debris goes, it says basically it depends on the kind of access to those ducts that they have. In other words, if they've got a little more access and they can get tools in there to get some of that stuff out, they will. If not, it may very well just stay there, Jeff.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I think ours was down the vents.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and that would make sense.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, obviously it's not going to be a big hindrance if it is staying in there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, right. No, I mean, I didn't notice any difference. It was just kind of one of those things that make you go, hmm.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right, right. Well, I would be more interested in making sure the squirrel cage fins are clean because that's what's going to develop your volume. And another thing I might look at is on my intake system, I might want to add some kind of a filter to the intake system so the air coming down to the heater is filtered before it even gets to the filter. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I don't know about restrictions on air flows and that sort of thing. Yeah, that's not my expertise. It's a lot more sophisticated than people realize, but if you just do those simple things you were outlining, it's going to pay off huge dividends.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. Great point. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 11 :
And the cost of Xcel's energy cost, anything you can do to save money is going to help you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 09 :
Bingo. Oh, the other thing I was going to mention, too, when you're talking about fins, if you've got an air conditioning unit in there, make sure they clean off all those fins, you know, because those are a lot closer together than any other component. And that needs to be cleaned off. I'm sure that the finer stuff that even makes it through the filter might collect on those fins.
SPEAKER 11 :
Great point. I know they have a fin rig just like we use for radiators in cars. They do the same thing with air conditioning.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 09 :
See, I learned something.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep. We do it every week. There you go.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thank you, John.
SPEAKER 03 :
Jeff, as always, appreciate you very much. Let's jump over to John Cheyenne. Go ahead, man.
SPEAKER 10 :
So, John, being in the utility industry for all these decades, if you're moving into a single-family house and it's new construction, I would definitely recommend it because they will put a temp meter in the yard to have electric power. And those drywallers and the texture guys and the painter will crank that heat up.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Because in the winter, they don't want to work in it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, sure.
SPEAKER 10 :
And the other thing is, and they might even just have space heaters running off electric if the gas isn't in yet, if they're going to have gas. But the thing is, if they've got the, you know, those ducts are open. If they're not fully sealed... That drywall dust and everything else from cutting and shaping and everything is going to get in those ducts. And then anything else, the guy's sweeping up and he sweeps it into the duct because it's easier than sweeping it into the dustpan. Same thing, apartment buildings. We will get requests that they are ready to have the meters installed and there's just one circuit run in each apartment so we can check them. And everything else hasn't been fully wired because they're waiting on the drywallers and the drywallers want the heat. So they, you know, especially the tape and texture guys.
SPEAKER 03 :
There you go.
SPEAKER 10 :
The regular drywall guys, they can hang in the cold, but the tape and texture guys want it warm. So they're going to, you know, they're going to do that. The other thing I had somebody tell me a couple of decades ago, there's that little number on the sides of the filter. You know, it's 1, 3, 5, 7. They go all the way up to like 15 for the Super Hepa. He said never go higher than 5. And I'd love if Joe's listening for his input on that. Okay. Because, you know, being for Carrier for decades, he probably knows more than the rest of us about that. But the other thing is, you're right. If you buy him by a dozen or a half dozen and you change him once every month, six weeks, it's not a big deal. I mean, you just... You put it on your Google calendar or whatever, you know, your reminder. Just, hey, change the air filter.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I just looked up a chart for the numbers, John, just to kind of verify what you're saying. And, yeah, in fact, one through four is covering dust, lint, mites, and pollen. And there's a percentage, you know, of that. Five, you kind of get into now the mold category. end of things which again means the filter is probably filtering more than it needs to be so i i think you're right i wouldn't go much over probably from looking at this chart a four or five is probably all the heavier that i would go anything above that i think you're getting too restrictive right what jeff was saying if you have bad allergies i know right now just change the subject my wife wants me to pick one up costco has a has a a sale right now on a whole house air filter
SPEAKER 10 :
you know, sits in a room, but it'll do up to 2000 square feet and it'll filter the air and clean the air that, or like Jeff said in April air, that's a very good brand. Something like that to filter the air would be better than the other thing. But the other thing is open. If you open your windows in the spring and fall, especially your body will get used to the dust more than say, you know, you're constantly in a, you know, a sterile environment, and then you get outside and you can't breathe and stuff, let that stuff come in. I mean, your body will get used to it. And I know this is not for now, but if you suffer from hay fever allergies, this is a little change of subject, John, I hate to do this, go get some locally grown honey and have a teaspoon every day.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
And that will help your allergies disappear. Because the honey is made from the pollen from the local plants. So if you can find like a local beekeeper, you go to a farmer's market and they have locally grown honey, a teaspoon in the morning every morning will help your allergies immensely. I started doing that when I lived in New Jersey, and it really helped a lot. I don't know. You could write that down and ask Dr. Kelly if there's any science behind it, but it worked for me.
SPEAKER 03 :
Works for me. I agree with you. Yeah. I mean, normally this time of the year you hear a little bit of allergies in my voice right now because this time of the year, everything around my place is blooming out and budding out and the leaves are coming out and so on. So it's a super heavy year. Typically, I would be taking some sort of a allergy medicine or something along those lines. And honestly, John, since I started the honey thing. If it gets super heavy, I might actually take an allergy pill. But, I mean, I bet you I don't take a handful throughout the year now. I can pretty much get by without because of what you're talking about. And I've done that now for several years.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, yeah, because it helps. And with allergy season on, it's a perfect time to also check your furnace filter and get some of that, you know, if it's dirty or you want a clean one. As the allergies comes up, you're going to get pollen in your house. You want to have that filter as clean as you can and also dust more.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 10 :
Not climate. Everything's dusty. But last thing, I had snow at the house this morning. Oh, you did? What was cool is I got up this morning, the sun came up, right about 7,500 feet was the snow line because I looked off to the south and I could see exactly across the pasture where... The snow line started. All right. And it's all melted now already because it warmed up just enough. But it's that really good snow that we want.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Because it's going to just melt right into the pasture.
SPEAKER 03 :
That good moisture.
SPEAKER 10 :
Have a good day, John.
SPEAKER 03 :
We'll take it. John, thank you very much. As always, appreciate it. And by the way, what he was talking about when it comes to those filters is the MERV number, minimum efficiency reporting value. And, yeah, you'll see that on the filters. And I think to our person that's been texting in, I probably would try to stay in that 4 to 5, 3 to 5 range. I don't think you need to go below that. I wouldn't go above that. I don't think it's necessary, and you'll find that your filters are less expensive that way, and you'll be just fine in everything that we've talked about. John and Jeff, both, thank you guys very much. We'll take a break. We'll come back. I've got a few more tips for you guys along these lines. Don't go anywhere. Fix It Radio website, fixitradio.com. We'll be right back. KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Visit Radio KLZ 560. Warming up a little bit outside. We're 46 degrees. Actually looking a little nicer outside. The sun's starting to shine. So if you're out and about, enjoy. It's not going to be a super warm day like what we've been having, although spring has sprung. You can start to see, even as we look out to the west of us here, you can start to see some of the... Not only the grass is getting a little greener, but some of the trees are starting to not only bud out, but turning into leaves and so on. So it won't be that long to where things are all green back up again. I had somebody text in, too, and we've been going back and forth a little bit. It's been kind of fun. Basically said, a good contractor will filter all of the returns during construction. And my response back was, yeah, key word, good contractor. how many of those are actually left and i'll just be straight up honest you go and run around and look at some of the uh what i call cookie cutter builds where you know you take a a you know subdivision where you've got a choice of you know one of six different builds or one of four different builds and i and by the way just as I want to be careful how I say this because I'm not trying to be derogatory. But personal experience, I can tell you that a lot of people that think, well, I'm building a $2 million home. I'm going to have way better people building this home than what I'm going to have if I went out and bought a $500,000 home. Yeah, no, think again. Nope, not even close. There is a bunch of homes going in in an area right near us, and I watch those construction workers come and go, and I hear the – in the conversation and you kinda know where I'm going here. The reality is, sorry guys, same guys that are framing and roofing and siding and windowing and, and, and, and, and, are the same guys that are working in a lot of the other quote unquote subdivisions as well. If you think those guys that are building two, two and a half million dollar homes, unless it's a one-off home and you know the general contractor and he knows all of his subs and he has handpicked all those guys and so on, I will tell you that you're thinking you're getting a lot higher quality because it's a lot more expensive home in a particular area or homes, plural, where, you know, you may have in this particular area I'm talking about, they're putting up about 25-ish or so homes that are, you know, anywhere from two to three million bucks somewhere in that neighborhood. And yet I look at the construction site and the workers and so on, and I'm like, you know, this isn't any different than, Homes that cost, you know, a third of that. So a lot of folks think that because I'm buying this higher-end home, I'm getting a lot better workers, quote-unquote, on site. Yeah, no, you're not.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, I have had friends over the years that have been in construction working, and they'll tell me that one day they're working on a $2 million house, and the next day they're over here working on this $300,000 house.
SPEAKER 03 :
Folks, it's in a lot of cases the same crews, same subs, and so on. Now, I will say that... In a lot of cases, the higher-end homes will use higher-end, and yes, there are higher-end HVAC folk that are out there that will do things a little differently and even a little bit better electricians and so on, and yes, I know there's code and everybody has to be licensed and so on, but just because you're licensed doesn't mean you're as particular about your work as the next guy. That still comes down to your finished product and how you like to see things done and so on, and yes, I will tell you that there are better than others, and And depending upon the general contractor, the GC, and who's actually doing your home, and those are questions. This is a whole conversation we could dedicate a whole entire show to. If you're going to go build a custom home and you found a general contractor that you feel comfortable with, Great. You may be comfortable with him. Here's what I would also do. Can I meet some of your subs?
SPEAKER 11 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 03 :
I want to know, are they out working anywhere? I'd like to see the quality of work that the subs do under the drywall. Because keep in mind, once that sheetrock is hung, you don't see anything. You have no idea what the electrical looks like inside. You have no idea what the ducting looks underside. You have no idea how the joints, when they're even nailing 2x4s, 2x6s together, look like. You have the foggiest idea. The drywallers, if they're really good, can cover up a lot of stuff, and you have no idea what stuff looks like underneath. So I would be wanting to meet not only the GC, but I want to meet the subs as well. Go ahead, Jeff.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, quick point just on what you were talking about in terms of quality of construction. had the ability to live in multiple different military housing. And so I have a lot of my kids who are married, a lot of daughters who are married to military members and that sort of thing. And one of the things the bases have done is they put up build-to-lease houses. They're private houses owned by a company on military land. And they basically build them and then run them for the military so the military doesn't incur any cost in terms of... having to do milk on and that kind of stuff. One of the government requirements is that all the houses meet ENERGY STAR requirements. That whole thing is just an example of a sham and a fraud because I've had my kids living in houses where insulation was missing from walls and those gaps were on windows.
SPEAKER 03 :
But it's ENERGY STAR rated, Jeff.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, it is. It is Energy Star rated. You're absolutely right. Does that mean it's energy efficient? Absolutely not.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, good point. Great point, by the way.
SPEAKER 09 :
Word to the wise, yeah, if any contractor says, well, we comply with Energy Star, you go, really? How do you do that? Do some due diligence on that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, the other thing, too, that I've seen through the years, and Jeff, you and anybody else out there listening, if you haven't seen this, I know you have, Jeff, I know Larry has as well, the amount of stories out there of things that still pass inspection, that when you actually look at these things and say there is no way an inspector should have or could have signed off on that, that might have been a day where an inspector got in a big hurry and it was more of a quote-unquote drive-by situation. inspection jeff and if any of you out there inspectors for cities and counties uh yeah some of you listening are probably really good at what you do and don't do that but i can tell you right now and you know this as well as i you've got cohorts that in other people you might know even in other cities and counties that do exactly what i just said jeff because i've seen some of these where it's like there is no way that thing could have been signed off by anybody at the city ever right right and uh
SPEAKER 09 :
And not to cast aspersion on our dedicated public servants, but there is, by mathematical, statistical certainty, going to be some on the take. So was it passed by somebody with his hand under the table going, okay?
SPEAKER 03 :
Or just... You know, Jeff, was it Friday afternoon and the kids' ball game was about to start and they wanted to get out of there as quickly as they can. And they know this contractor and they've got a pretty good relationship. And, you know, they pretty well know that, you know, quote unquote, everything's usually good to go. And so this time around, they just sort of went through and windowed it and signed off and off they went.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep. Those things happen. Yep. So, yeah, just, again.
SPEAKER 03 :
My point, Jeff, is just because it went through and passed a quote-unquote city-county inspector, in my book, I'm sorry to say, doesn't mean anything.
SPEAKER 09 :
Bingo. So, by the way, we're at 41 degrees this morning.
SPEAKER 03 :
41, okay. Well, we're 45, so you're just a few degrees, not much.
SPEAKER 09 :
There's not much difference between western Montana and the front range.
SPEAKER 03 :
There is not. You keep proving that. You are correct.
SPEAKER 11 :
Are you getting any wind up there yet?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, we had a massive windstorm night before last. Yeah, a bunch of hail in some areas. We have a community dinner up here, and one of the ladies was telling me that she had a $20,000 car A big tree, a big spruce fell on it and damaged it. That's more for next hour, but she got her... The insurance company wouldn't total it. They put $14,000 worth of work into a $20,000 car. Not worth it. They wouldn't total it.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, that is a topic for next hour. I've got a situation going on with somebody I know very close to where we're kind of going through the same thing. And in this particular case, Jeff, I would have been pushing for a total. I would not have accepted a repair. But in this case, they're wanting to repair the vehicle because people get sentimental over things. And when it comes to these sorts of things, they should not.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, for her, I don't think it was sentiment. I don't think she knew how to argue that she could.
SPEAKER 03 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 09 :
That's what the insurance company said.
SPEAKER 03 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, we don't have quite the same resources as you guys do, but I don't know.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thanks a lot. Jeff, I appreciate it. All right, just a few things left here to kind of... uh finalize things when it comes to things you can do right now when it comes to prepping for turning on the ac and having all that done we've talked about the filter itself getting all that changed out the duct work we just talked about that don't forget that those of you that have air conditioning units you're going to have condensation drains Some of those will be internal. They'll drain into a actual drain nearby. Let's say you've got the water heater, the furnace, and all of that. You typically will have drain pipes and such coming out that will run right into a drain nearby. Make sure all of that is clear. There's no gunk in it. Because remember, some of that may have, depending upon your furnace situation, high efficiency furnaces will have drains and level water coming out all the time. As well, typically, they stay pretty clear. Those of you, though, that have more of an air handler or you don't have a super high-efficient furnace but you do have air conditioning, you're going to have water because air conditioning is taking the moisture. That's why it's called conditioning, just like on your car. you'll see water dripping out of that typical right front passenger area when you're running your air conditioning on a hot day with your car and you'll pull up and somebody say hey you got a leak under your car well no you you don't you've got water coming out of the ac sides of things and that's draining out and that's supposed to happen in fact even on the car side if you don't have any water draining out in that particular situation you have a problem You should see water draining out. Same thing with your home and your AC system and your furnace at that point. That's the air handler now. Same thing. You should have water coming out when the AC is actually on and working and so on. If you don't. You have other issues, and my point is that's another one of those areas where right now, maintenance-wise, even if you need to run some sort of a flexible wire brush up that tube and try to get some of that cleaned out or do whatever you need to. In some cases, you can take the tube off, take it outside, wash it out really good, run some water through it. Whatever you need to do, make sure that you're... ability to get that water out of the system and into the drain is all there it's functioning it's working properly and so on another reminder too which we never really talk much about is sometimes those drains you know they get put in by the builder and They will sometimes put a little clamp on the floor, screw it to the plywood, or if you've got a concrete floor, they'll try to attach it some way, somehow, to where it doesn't get moved around and kicked around and so on. It's not quite as big of a deal on a concrete floor as it would be for some of you that have wood floor basements or it's in the attic or something along those lines. Make sure that tube... is draining directly into the drain. The last thing you want is that to be getting all of that plywood or particle board or whatever it happens to be that it's draining on. You want it going right into the drain and not getting a bunch of water around other areas. And there's other ways you can cure that. In some cases, you can get that tube more to where it's going right over the top of the drain. They make larger drain pans with a hole that would be exiting right out into the drain itself. All sorts of ways where you can address that. Bottom line, you want to make sure that your drain's coming out of the furnace itself. And some of you are looking at that sometimes thinking, some of you may have even thought over the years, why do I have a drain coming out of the furnace? Well, this is why. And you want to make sure that it's clean, that it's free of any kind of debris, mold, gunk, things along those lines. That stuff will sit in there. You want to get that all cleaned out and done right. And on top of that, you want to make sure that that tube hasn't been kicked by the kids or it's come loose or... whatever the case may be. You know, they play hide-and-seek and things like that, and sometimes those things can get jostled around and moved and so on, and you want to make sure those things are actually draining over the drain itself and not just running out all over everything else. So, guys, that's it today for Fix-It Radio. Our website, fixitradio.com. You can always text us a question throughout the week, 307-200-8222 is that number. Have a great rest of your day, and we'll be right back. This is Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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