Join us for an enlightening discussion on the challenges facing Christians worldwide and the role of faith in overcoming adversity. Father Andre, founder and president of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, shares his profound insights into the ongoing persecution of Christians and how religious institutions can provide support and sanctuary. Discover how maintaining spiritual integrity and advocating for religious freedoms can change lives and promote peace across nations.
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At age 10, Father Andre escaped Christian massacres by living in caves in Mount Lebanon with his family. Today, Father Andre works tirelessly to encourage American leaders to keep God in the public square, defending religious freedom at home and abroad, so that all might live in peace for the glory of God. Founder and president of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, Father Andre has learned the secret to safety, joy, and peace. Love God and one another. Now, let us spend 33 minutes on the Lord's Day, retuning ourselves to the truth of love in the hands of God.
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Last two questions. One of them, there is a lot of talks about nuclear war. And again, I know you and General Michael and your other brother, who is actually active military and in charge of our eastern seas. I believe somewhere in the eastern seas in Somewhere in China, I'm not sure if I should say that or not, but you pray for your brothers for their safety all the time. And God gave them the talent and the charisma and the professional expertise to be wonderful citizens and to play a specific role for the national security of our country. The talks about nuclear wars are on the back again now. The situation with NATO, President Trump, we do not know or not know he's going to send weapons to Ukraine, the context of this Ukraine and the Russia war. Where are we with this nuclear war? What is the real battle? What is the real battle that we want to pray that it will never happen?
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yeah charlie my brother charlie the uh the one under me he's retired now father i just want you to know and he was in charge of the pacific theater uh in hawaii and he's a four star and he just retired uh just this past year so we're very proud of him and very grateful for his service and he's still he's still fighting he's still very very much fighting uh he's an expert at the Pacific and also Africa theater, okay, and what's going on. And China is a huge threat. And the nuclear... Let's see, Biden was in and I believe it was only Italy that had one kind of glimmer of a good leader that was elected. So you got to remember now, biblically, we are in a time where all the nations have very, they're all corrupt leaders. I mean... except now Trump got in and I think the woman in Italy is a pretty decent person I'm watching. So if you think about all the nations being corrupted leaders, you're talking about those people having Iran having nuclear weapons? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We can't have these people with nuclear weapons. This is very dangerous. Ukraine is a very corrupt country. Putin's fighting, you know, his own battles and so forth. And so, no, we can't have any of these corrupt nations who are corrupting the people. The people aren't corrupt, but the leaders are. And what their capabilities with nuclear bombs and weapons is very serious. It's very serious. And we can't have that. We need peace. We need peace. We need peace. And it's coming. It's just, you know, we need to stay steadfast. Like Trump is a leader who is negotiating because it's all about money. You know, they want this money. Power is, you know, this money power thing. China and many of these nations like China. Their people are actually starving. I mean, Iran is ready. Those people know freedom. They felt freedom at one time. So they're just waiting to, you know, come or come around. I mean, they're looking to our country.
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for this you know for this you know strength and courage and that's why we need god back in this country because that's where our strength and courage come from is god and when americans started this is how you started uh we are fighting for god this was the first question i asked you what is this battle about and then you said we have to bring back god to the center of our life to the center of our nation and to the center of this world. And it's amazing how you respond to this. The last question before we conclude with the prayer. And again, I want to thank you for your generous time, generous information. And the kind way you addressed very difficult and complex topics. And you addressed them with objective reality. and most likely objective truth. And I know there is a difference when describing objective reality with the intent that we have to discover the objective truth. And this is the result of a long, long journey of investigations and human complex reports and relationships. But you said why we want to do that. We want to have peace. This is what President Trump, what you're saying. And I always said that the reason why I personally when I prayed with President Trump, I knew he personally wanted peace. And this is a major thing for us as Americans to understand that we have a president who humbly is asking for peace in the world through the complex system of people and economic and human and corrupt relationships and military relationships that we have in the world. The last question, before the last question, do you have a dog? Do you have a pet at home?
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I did. We had two dogs and we had cats. And yes, we don't have anybody right now. We don't have any dogs now. I'm traveling too much. I can't pay attention to them. They need care, right?
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Father Altman said that animals will make it to heaven.
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I saw that. Okay.
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What do you say?
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I'd say animals were created by God. God has a place for every creature, everybody.
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Oh, my God. You're a good politician and you're a good homilist. You could be a good pastor. No kidding.
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Hey, life is life. Life is life, right? He's created all life.
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So the last question was, it will be great for our listeners and the people are watching us on the podcast. to give your personal input about the church today and the world, relationship between the mystical body of Christ, the crisis of the vision. And also, I want a personal message. You have to come to know me a little bit, whether through Lara and through probably the stories that you heard and me personally. The work of our mission of hope and mercy in the Middle East and Lebanon and the world. You know, I have been threatened many times. You know, in 2016, devilish voice called my rectory line and they said, we're going to kill you. I did not know they're going to pursue this creation of something that ended up, of course, causing the death of my father, causing my mom cancer, causing me severe persecution. But I never spoke in public about my situation. But I decided to continue doing the good work through the mission of hope and mercy to continue to save, aid, and educate about the persecuted Christians in the world. I recall visits to the Middle East in which Major Cardinal, who is supposedly the head of my own church, would tell me, don't speak about the persecuted Christians. Today in Suwaida, in Syria, Christians are being killed. Iraq Christians, about 4 million Christians left. There is about 230,000 Christians left in Iraq. Syria had about 20% Christians in it. Today, we do not even know if Christians feel safe in any particular place inside Syria with the change of the regime. The Democratic Republic of Congo, because of their internal problems, conspiracies, and the fight between the tribes, the two government system, between the legal system, which was founded 500 years ago, and the democratic system which they continue to fight. A country of 90% Christians, where majority of these Christians are Catholics as a matter of fact. 110 million, 110 million almost, I believe, Congolese people that we have in this republic with mineral resources underground. Islamic, unfortunately, fanatic groups are coming to the eastern side of the Congo and they are killing the Christians inside Congo. So the context of the persecution, your experience with me and the mission of Hope and Mercy and discussing the importance of the body of Christ to promote peace, that's what you started the show speaking about, we have to witness. to our Christian values because we know how to live and how to do acts of peace and concrete acts of charity. What is your message to us all and to our listeners? and to those who are watching the show, to support missions like Mission of Open Mercy, to work for the protection of Christians worldwide, and to call their congressmen and senators in the United States and tell them, you must promote supporting Christian institutions or supporting the people who are working for religious freedom in the world. What is your message to us?
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That's really where we should be fighting our battles. I mean, that's what this country should have been doing is we should have been protecting Christians around the world, and we weren't. And so the persecution of Christians, this, this, you know, sick ideologies, these, because that's what really, that's what, that's what they want to do the radical, the, the CCP, they really want to destroy Catholics, mostly Catholics are most persecuted around the world. And then, you know, of course, any Christian that uh, believes in Jesus Christ. And so, um, I, I believe that that is, that is what the blessed mother told us, uh, in one of her apparitions was, uh, that we need to pray for peace, pray for peace. And I've been praying for peace for a long time as a little girl to the blessed mother, because that's what she told me to do and us to do. And, and I will be obedient to that, uh, ask, and that's a big ask. And that's what we need to do. Um, The one thing that I will say is that people need to, Christians, Catholics need to understand that the Sharia law, Islam is the biggest threat I see today here. They want to devastate the whole world and their belief, political. It is not a religion, is not a religion. It is an ideology that is a very evil ideology. And the wool's been pulled over our head again that this is a religion. It is not. This is a total destruction of Catholics and Christians all over the world. And that's what you're seeing in the Congo. And you see all of this. going on and it's here in this country. And, um, you know, we need to, when we're praying, we need to say our prayers and pray to the Lord for peace and for, and for, for forgiveness, uh, for our offenses and, and then, and then pray that we have peace and that we do his work. I say, when I wake up every morning, I asked the Lord, what can I do for you today, Lord? Because you've done everything for me. Everything he's done to this day in my life. And so I ask him, what can I do for you? So, you know, I just know that the persecution is something very important that we need to pay attention to. And you're an organization. Okay. I always surround myself with people that know what this persecution feels like, and you do, Father. So you're in an organization, and as a person who is a finance compliance, and I've dealt over 40 years in the nonprofit organization business, you know, this kind of stuff. This is very important. What you do is you follow and you continue your mission. People lose sight of what their mission is in these organizations, and that's why they become corrupt. You cannot lose sight of what your mission is and you must know your mission because when you are accepting money from donors and people giving you money, you owe them. That's your responsibility to them to make sure that you are following exactly what you told them you are doing with their money. And so you're a guy that has been persecuted. You know what that feels like. And those are the best kind of people to rely on and put your time, talent, and treasures into. That's what I tell people when I'm asked about evaluating an organization. You are somebody who knows what that feels like firsthand. witnesses that's why we have the things that we have happen in our lives because we we become good witnesses and we and when you become a good witness you become a good witness for the Lord that's even better I mean that's what he wants us to do he doesn't want us to turn bitter and cold and angry and mad and he wants us to take our experiences because we have a free will We make choices and use it for the better. And so, you know, when we've been persecuted and we feel that, those are the best kind of things to put your investment in, in an organization like yourself, because you know that you are doing the right thing and you are going to help these persecutions.
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people these persecuted people you know what that feels like that's the best kind of investment people can do is is make that investment in you in that organization father that's what we know we see we see the outcome of persecution I you know every Saturday I have a meeting with my officers like sometimes they look at me and they say like father Andre like what is this or father Andre what is that thing here I said well these are marks of the war in Lebanon like um you know my bishop told me one time stop talking that when you were a child you lived in a cave i looked at him i go like but i told president trump you know when he invited me to the yeah i do not want to get honestly emotional but uh but we're gonna die and you know when i asked father altman i said did anybody ever uh tell you that there isn't information that somebody was gonna kill you or is about to kill you and i think you know the story yeah And thanks to somebody that we cherish and who's, I do not want to say who it was, told them, well, there are actual information that somebody in Rome is trying actually to kill you both physically and by name spiritually.
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Yeah. And I told him I can never get over the machete when the man go and storms my rectory and is trying to kill me. Yeah. Yeah. in my rectory and the phone calls and the threats you're right talking about honestly persecution it's not only scary but when it comes to hit you to hit your heart of your name to put you to shame to make you a monster to make you a monster to put on you garbage and an investment that they actually Applies to them. You know, it's called the transfer of guilt or I don't know, but probably I do not know what they call it in psychology. But I looked to the bishop one time when I was in my few meetings with him. I said, why are you persecuting me?
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That's honestly the question to which he looked at me with the dry eyes. But I know, I know, bishops can weaponize canon law. And you are a finance... Oh, yes, they can. You know... They can.
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They used it... I'll tell you when they used it. Very, very good example of when the priests that were caught with the kids... they used the can they said oh we'll take care of it uh under our canon law so they weren't perfect they weren't put in jail they should have been criminally charged in the outside the canon law they should have been because it's a crime because that's right that's right and it's a crime committed in this country you know in the state in the local community instead they got away with using the canon law oh we'll take care of it we'll we'll we'll
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you hold our own canon law and we'll take care of those priests and they never did they never did they moved him around and they used it against the other priests so i think i think they used it against yeah so mary it takes it takes the power of a bishop to weaponize canon law but also it takes a lot of money and you are a compliance finance compliance officer or auditor what is the message to our listeners who go to the pew who gives money in these churches They know that their money is being weaponized in such a way to promote injuries, to promote, perpetuate, protecting the real evil people who are not really the church but they have become somehow. It's being used against clergy, against good priests, against good volunteers, good laity who gave their heart. and their life to support the church and they created a book of stories that is not true yeah good people the use of money uh for as a practical recommendation to people are listening to us and still give an abuse yeah yeah well um many priests
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And I've come, you know, when I was when I was working in the Catholic Church as a finance director, they see the priests. They're not they're not. It's very rare that you find a priest that could that had an accounting degree, for example. OK, so priests are supposed to be, you know, the spiritual leaders. you know, leaders, right? So they really need to, they should never be involved in the operation. They really shouldn't. The laity should be the people that are running an operation because the laity has, they're the ones that give the money, okay? And there are professional people, they rely on the lady to run the church, but yet you have clergy who have no idea about even a budget, what a financial looks like. You know, have no clue as to administration and what administering in an operation. It's a business. And so it's very hard for them to do that kind of work, and they shouldn't be. And that's where the Catholic Church went wrong. They should never have had them involved in parish operations, like running a business. I mean, you can't have your hands in money and not know how to deal with money. So as far as we all know, we all know that the Lord does not want us to give money to sin, right? We don't want to waste our wages that we work hard for and give our money to things that we know are not being used properly. And we know because of testimony that Catholic Charities has been in the spotlight, okay? So I think what we need to do in the parishes is we need the parish councils, which are the people and the finance councils, which they should be, they should be very involved with the people. They need to understand that they need to open their mouths up and they need to hold their money. They need to know where their money is and where their money is going and be more involved in what the money is and what is going on with the money. Okay. They really do. And, They need to say to the priest or whoever's in charge, clergy, they need to understand that it's okay. Don't punish people if they don't want, because people get punished. If they don't give to Catholic charities, they get punished. I know this. They were punishing parishes if they didn't make the goal. If they didn't make their goal that was set by the bishops, they would be punished. It happened. It happened in a couple of churches that I did the money for. So that's the kind of stuff that needs to stop, okay? People don't have to be told they have to do something or you're going to get punished, okay? It's not right. That's just wrong.
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Well, there has to be then some sort of an education and a stewardship, not only on the side of how to make money for the parish through time, talent and treasure. Right. So to educate the parishioners in return, how to hold the parish to the highest level accountable to how the time and treasure. fruit basket was being utilized, whether in seen ways or in unseen ways, as a matter of fact. I really appreciate what you have contributed, Mary, in defending your family, defending your name. defending your city and your parish and your diocese and on a bigger scale what you have done as felicia blessed you mightily by almighty god to defend our future our freedom and our country not only our church I want to pray with you Psalm 53 and closing of this podcast in two or three episodes, which we did. We have, you know, I want to thank you because the generous time that you have given, we thought we were finished in 45 minutes. But we are in two, three episodes, honestly, for the interest of our people and our friends. Sure. I want to thank you for your support, and I want to thank you for liking what our guests and our, I want to call them our members of our spiritual family, your spiritual family, are sharing with you, are sharing with us, not as political statement, but they speak in terms of political the atmosphere of politics. not as people who have an opinion that is opinionated opinion but now from their own personal experience they're telling you that how their opinion could help your decision making that when you come to vote when you come to contribute in a church, when you come to address the most difficult situations that we say that touches your own personal life, your own personal family, your own personal dignity, your own personal future, and your existence, whether as a private citizen or a citizen of this nation or a citizen of the kingdom of God, please, our beautiful guests such as Mary Flynn today, They inform you the way they overcome their own difficulties. They kept focusing to see the light, to follow the path of the truth, remaining kind while being very aggressive in the way they fought against evil. While being righteous, they were merciful in the way they reached out even to their enemies to try to understand how they can stop this fight that is a nonsense. It's only a persecution, a mere persecution that aims to annihilate the light, to annihilate what is good. And without good, without light, who from us can benefit from this beautiful existence that God gave us? So Psalm 53 says, the fool says in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt. and their ways are vile. There is no one who does good. God looks down from heaven on all mankind to see if there is any who understand and who seek God. Everyone has turned away. All have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one. Do all these evil doers know nothing? They devour my people as though eaten bread. They never call on God. But there they are, overwhelmed with dread. Where there was nothing to dread, God scattered the bones of those who attacked you. You put them to shame, for God despised them. This is what God will do to the evildoers and to those who do not repent, my friends. So have courage. We will live in the peace of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And all of humanity is irrevocable, unbroken, because we are in the image and likeness of God. We are the mystical body of Christ and we are the free children of the kingdom of our Father and we are the righteous heirs of the divine kingdom which was prepared for us since the foundation of this world. Please do not forget to show your support to the mission of hope and mercy and to entities like the mission of hope and mercy. And please pray for Mary Flynn. Pray for her brothers. Pray for her family. Pray for many families in the United States, including your neighbors, your neighbors, the ones who live next door to you, who you may not know, you may not have spoken to. Have this courage. Talk to them. Share with them the word of God. Share with them even the bread. break the bread with them once in a lifetime break a good cappuccino cup you know with them or a good american coffee or a good tea or a good pancake invite them over break the walls that made us isolated cells remind yourself you are not an american citizen only by the virtue of your birthright or the immigration system or paying your taxes on time or later on in your life. You are an American citizen, as Mary Flynn said, because God, since the foundation of our nation, instituted this nation in a biblical way to be a nation that will serve his will for us, for the church, for all the nations of the world and for humanity. And may Almighty God bless us all, protect us from all evil, forgive us our sins, bring us to peace, victory, and forgiveness of sins, and to the joy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And may God bring us all to everlasting life. Amen.
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Amen, Father.
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Thank you, Mary.
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Rick Hughes discusses the prehistoric angelic conflict and exposes the spiritual battle over America, outlining the four divine institutions: volition, marriage, family, and nationalism. This episode equips you with the understanding needed to engage in spiritual maturity and embrace God's plan. America is under siege, but armed with divine principles, we can defend our spiritual and cultural heritage.
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Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, stick around. It'll just be a short time of motivation, inspiration, education, like our friend Jack told you, and no manipulation. That's right, we don't con people. We're not trying to hustle money. We're not trying to sell you anything. We're not trying to build a membership. We're not trying to do anything but give you accurate information, not human speculation, accurate information that will allow you to verify and identify the plan of God for your life if you're interested. So the Flotline has been airing for 17 years across America, almost 1,000 shows in our reserves. And by the way, you can listen to most of these shows online on any of the major podcast platforms, such as Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor. They're all available if you go on those podcast venues and just type in The Flock Line, you'll find us. They're all available for you. From 2012 until now, those shows are in the podcast library with over 500 lessons right now. I understand our staff is working hard to get them all there, but the daily podcasts are available. And we have a couple of new books at the printer. Practicing your Christianity is you learning how to be a spiritual superstar, one of God's champions. The only way to do that is understand God's game plan and practice by God's rules. That will be available sometime later on this summer. And Bible Promises and Principles is a revised Bible promise book with more promises organized alphabetically by category. And this version will be easier for you to carry around and use on your personal use as well. All of this should be available in July. So if you'd like to request them now, you can do that through our website and we'll make sure you get them when they become available. Today, I'd like to talk to you about something I feel very dear about. It's called America... Under siege. America under siege. You and I know that this nation has been under attack by satanic forces for many, many years. And this attack has been against institutions such as marriage, family, nationalism, freedom. All of these have been under attack. Nationalism even as opposed to internationalism. But the ultimate objective of Satan, as you should know, and I know is to eventually shut down this client nation and limit the impact that we have across the world for the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, we do send missionaries out all over the world. We do guard the word of God and teach the word of God. And Satan is not happy with that. And he would like to shut down this great nation by doing away with these divine institutions. In a recent article printed in The Imprimis, which is a magazine published by Hillsdale College Publications, the author Christopher Ruffo pointed out a strategy that German Marxist Rudi Deutsch had printed years ago. He was a student activist back in the 60s. And it was called, the article was called The Long March Through the Institutions. Institutions, remember that word. And that concept dealt with capturing the culture, capturing the culture by infiltrating schools, infiltrating churches, infiltrating the media. And if you could do that, you could transform the conscious thinking of society and blend it or bend it the way you want them to go. So part of that satanic plot is to introduce guilt riddled society. and in effect teach what's called human viewpoint as opposed to divine viewpoint or what the Word of God says. Thus, you can allow activists to shape the future culture of a guilt-riddled society and impose a government based on socialism and humanism, and thus you can say goodbye God, goodbye all the divine institutions that allow for freedom and prosperity and favor from God. So there we have it. It's coming down the pipe. America is under siege. Now, you know, this is not a political show. I'm not one of those political guys that you hear on a radio all the time that have these great shows. And I'll agree with many of them. But what I'm talking about is a spiritual attack. They don't normally talk about a spiritual attack. They talk about the attack on your freedom, but this is a spiritual attack to do away with the impact of the client nation of America. You should know God has ordained four, that's right, one, two, three, four divine institutions by which the human race can be preserved and perpetuated as an extension of the prehistoric angelic conflict. We are in a conflict. It's the war that we call the angelic conflict. If you don't know what that is, that is Satan trying to verify his freedom to vindicate himself, to get out from going to the lake of fire and to use you and me as leverage against God's saying God has no love or he wouldn't have sentenced me to go to the lake of fire. That's not a very loving God, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So Satan, in this prehistoric angelic conflict, has always attacked freedom or volition, the right to choose, marriage, family, and nationalism. And of course, you know, the first attack on the marriage was in the Garden of Eden when Satan usurped the authority of Adam and was able to convince Eve through subterfuge that she could eat the forbidden fruit. Thus God has created what we know as authority in the soul. Authority in the soul. You have a soul. And I'm going to do a radio show about this. I hope you'll be with me when I do it. I did a recent study in Texas called God's Grace Under Aging. God's Grace Under Aging, During Aging. And that's available, by the way, on DVD or MP3 if you'd like to hear it. There's four hours of it. And I taught it at Baraka Church in Houston, Texas, recently in May. But we talked a lot about the soul and how as you get older, the important thing is not necessarily the body because it's getting broken down and decrepit and full of disease, but it's the soul. The soul never gets old. So we know God created an authority called in the soul, and that authority is called volition. Volition. Listen to Genesis 2, 16 through 17. The Lord commanded the man saying this, quote now, every tree in the garden you may freely eat, but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you will not eat, for in the day that you eat from it, dying you will die. So he gave Adam a volitional decision, yes or no. There's a test right there in the garden. Either you do it or you don't do it. And we all know what happened in the issue of that is we inherited Adam's original sin. Because the Bible says, for by one man sin entered into the world and death by sin, and now death has passed upon all, for all have sinned and all have come short of the glory of God. You and I are heir to Adam's original sin. Thus, we are born spiritually dead and need to be born again, made spiritually alive, and that's salvation. So the issue is your volition, always. Your volition is your freedom for you to choose. God gives each one of us the freedom to choose for or against the Lord Jesus Christ. It's your choice. In Revelation 22, 17, the Spirit and the bride both say, "'Come,' and let him that heareth say, "'Come,' And let him that is athirst to come, and whosoever will, let him take of the water of life freely. Whosoever, God gives you and me and anyone the opportunity to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. In order for a nation like the American, America, USA, in order for us to have a client nation, in order for us to have international impact, there must be freedom for our citizens. and freedom to choose for or against Christ, freedom to vote as you want to vote, and freedom to attend the church of your choice. But remember this. This is something you need to mark it down, write it down, put it in your head, and remember it. The choices you make determine the life that you will lead. The choices you make determine the life that you lead. Satan made a choice in eternity past to assert the authority of God and to assume God's throne. And you can see where it got him. You cannot afford to be stupid like that. You must make good decisions because bad decisions limit your future options. So in order to make the right choices, you must have right information. And that information for the believer, you and I, if you're a Christian, if you've accepted Christ as your Savior, it's called divine viewpoint. And as such, divine viewpoint must be learned from the Scripture. You don't inherit it automatically. You learn it. That's why the Bible says, study to show yourself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. And I know that many people are not willing to commit that much to studying the Scriptures. But the Bible mandates that you grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and you cannot grow, you will never grow, until you study God's word and get out of spiritual babyhood, become a spiritually mature believer. So you have to learn what is divine viewpoint. And once you learn divine viewpoint, then you will understand it as this is the will of God for my life. And these are the mandates in the scripture he gave me and he wants me to obey him. Thus, in my soul, I have a mentality. I have the ability to think, logic, reason, comprehend. My soul's mentality has the ability to understand the will of God. And the volition that I have in my soul is the freedom to accept that will or to reject it. So the first divine institution that God ordains for all members of the human race is freedom, volitional freedom. God designed you to be free, not to be a little robot. God didn't design you to be dictated over. He designed you to be free. And the second divine institution is what we know as marriage. a wonderful divine institution. Every person who marries for the right reason goes through essentially three steps. They go through what's called the attraction stage. Wow, check that out. Isn't he handsome? Isn't she handsome? Wow, I'd like to get to know that person. The attraction stage, how did it happen with you? Do you remember when you first met your wife or your spouse and what attracted you to that person? And then once you go through the attraction stage, then you find out if you have compatibility. Do we think alike? And the Bible tells you don't be unequally yoked together with unbelievers because what fellowship does light have with darkness? And many Christians ignore that. and they set themselves up for a life full of frustration because the unbeliever marries the believer, and the end result is confusion. So compatibility must be there, and eventually comes the romance. Last, not first, last. So we go through the attraction stage, the compatibility stage, and eventually the romance stage. So marriage. Once you decide to get married, and it's a divine institution, God ordained it, it's the union of opposites in the understanding of feelings and attitudes. Love is legitimate, God ordains it, and it's motivation to communicate with one another. It takes more energy for you to communicate than it does to copulate. I hope you understand what I'm saying. Because in a marriage, there must be communication, understanding a person's feelings and attitudes. So marriage for the Christian, you and I, is probably the most difficult, the most challenging place in the world. and the place of more failures than anything else in life, failure in marriage. And Satan does not want you to be married. He does not want marriage to succeed into the family. He doesn't want the family to flourish into children that would follow the will of God by the parents' teaching. So he attacks marriage. Marriage is designed as a divine institution, not only for believers, listen carefully now, but also for non-believers. marriage is a legitimate God ordained institution. Marriage is for believers and for non-believers. So any relationship in life has to be founded on principle, especially marriage. So if, if you want your marriage to continue, there must be an understanding of the principles that both you and your spouse live by, which we call divine viewpoint or Bible doctrine. You and I, we can't build a marriage on human viewpoint, thinking human viewpoint application on philosophical writings. The only way we can build an enduring marriage that lasts forever. As long as you're alive here is to know and apply the biblical principles that are needed for a sound, solid marriage, because marriages don't fail just because of financial problems. They don't fail because of unfaithfulness or other controversial things, but because believers, believers like you and I, we fail to execute the protocol plan of God, especially in the area of virtue love, impersonal love. Impersonal love is a problem-solving device for you and for I. It is problem-solving device number eight in the plot line of your soul. And it's you having the ability to love the other person even though they're not lovable. It's you loving that person based on your character, not their character. Is this not what God did for you? Listen to what the Bible says, God so loved the world. Now what was there about you for God to love? You were a sinner. You were obnoxious and he loved you. He loved you before you even knew who he was. He loved you. This is an impersonal love for all members of the human race. And then once you believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and come into God's royal family, there's personal love where God loves you as a member of the royal family. So personal love for God and impersonal love for others are two virtuous things you must understand in your life so that you can live by principle in order that you can have a great marriage because marriages are critical. There are three basic enemies to marriage. I would call them bitterness, jealousy, and anger. bitterness, jealousy, and anger. Anger represents all the emotional sins that you have in your mind. Emotional sins are sins that you commit in your mentality. It's when you react instead of responding to unfavorable circumstances. Emotions are wonderful appreciators of the soul, but they are never designed to dictate policy to your soul. You can't live by emotional policies. They will deceive you and distract you. So marriage has to be about more than just finding the right person. Marriage really has to be about you being the right person because a happy marriage is a long, long, long conversation that always seems just way too short. God's motivation for creating the woman is found in Genesis 2, verse 18. Listen as I read it to you. Then Jehovah Elohim said, it is not good for the man to be alone, I will build or construct a helper corresponding to him of the same species. It is not good for man to be alone. Someone once said, man cannot live on bread alone. He must have peanut butter. Well, that's what we're talking about. Man can't handle it alone. He needs a helper. He needs a corresponding person of the same species. Therefore, in grace, the Lord Jesus Christ manufactured this woman, Eshah, Esh for Adam and Eshah for the woman and brought her to him. So here's some principles I want you to remember. Man is helpless to find this woman as he is to save himself. You can't save yourself and you're helpless about finding this woman. Therefore, are the woman finding the man? You can't save yourself and you can't find the right person with God's help. Therefore, there must be the maximum function of what we call in a problem-solving device number three, the faith rest drill, standing on the promises of God. learning the word of God and waiting and being faithful to wait on God to reveal who the person is. Not to fall in love with the first mouthful of teeth you see, the first beautiful red lips you see, not the first big bulging biceps you see sticking out underneath that shirt. What you're looking for is what does that person think? Do you have compatibility of souls? Because marriage was established in the Garden of Eden during what we call the first dispensation and God made it a divine institution when Adam and the woman were married by God, originally designed for two perfect people. Marriage has only changed in that there's no longer anything like a perfect person because now we have our sin natures. So marriage is now designed for two imperfect people who have sin natures, having different sin nature trends. we really don't make friends or select a wife based on compatibility of old sin natures. We don't do that. If you're doing that for compatibility of an old sin nature, it means as if you could be a friend today and fall out tomorrow and that's the end of that old sin nature trends like sex, lust, power, lust, money, lust, attention, lust, motivation, things like this. You don't build a relationship having the same lust patterns because marriage was not designed. Even in the beginning stage for people to be happy, it was designed for virtue. And virtue is designed for happiness. So the idea that marriage brings you happiness is a myth. When you combine the sin natures of two people together, you don't necessarily have happiness. There is a way to be happy. The Bible tells you what that way is. Jesus Christ said it himself when he said, happiness belongs to those people who hear my father's word and keep it. So happiness in marriage comes from true virtue, true virtue, personal love for God, impersonal love for others. And that virtue comes from you understanding, learning, using God's problem-solving devices, the flat line on your soul. And this means that the greatest attack on this divine institution of marriage can come from Christian degeneracy. Now there's a third divine institution called the family. God provided certain divine laws such as authority of parents to protect for, care for, nourish, provide, train, and discipline children for life. And parental authority is a way of preparing children for a normal life, and permissiveness destroys this. There has to be recognition of authority and orientation to certain principles in life. So the highest expression that any parent can show love to their child is to inculcate through that child the form of respect for authority by using discipline. They must be trained. They must be trained to respect the privacy and the property and the rights of other people and not to abuse the freedom of anyone else and to have total respect for authority. That's essential. And no nation can survive until these children understand this. This is one of the problems today. I'll show you in a minute. And the fourth divine institution is what we call nationalism. If the entire human race were under one rule prior to the millennium, it would indeed self-destruct. That's why God outlaws internationalism in the Bible. It's said to be evil by the word of God. So to perpetuate the human race and bring history to its logical conclusion, God designed a nation to protect the freedoms and the rights of X number of people on this planet. And we call it nationalism as opposed to internationalism. Internationalism, one language should be recognized. It says that in a nation, only one language should be recognized. Let me back that up just a minute. Let me clarify that. When you have nationalism, God sets up one language, English, for us in America. That's what our nation is founded on. Learn to speak English if you want to live here. Come live here, fine. Come legally, fine, but learn to speak English. We don't speak Spanish as our laws. We don't speak whatever language it is. If you're an American, learn to speak English. with the divine judgment of the original United nations at the tower of Babel, the human race was then divided into nations. And this division was originally based on racial, geographical, then linguistic norms. So God put people in Africa. God put people in South America. God put people in China. God put people in Russia. These are important things to understand. So As the human race continues in history, true racial distinctions were obliterated by the rise of civilization, and thus what we knew as racial purity began to be a myth, except in certain areas. And today, you and I both know that race is used by politicians to create false issues. The formation of what we know as a Jewish nation set up the perfect standard of what a national entity should be. And the biblical proof that nationalism is authorized by God is found in Genesis 10, 5, Deuteronomy 32, 8, and Acts 17, 26. So any nation who follows these norms and standards that I'm calling divine institutions, as my pastor taught me, they possess the following characteristics. They have interior protection of freedom provided through proper system of law. The rule of law must be enforced. Jurisprudence must be there in a system of law whereby each person is innocent until proven guilty and where only proper testimony is allowed and no hearsay is permitted and where double jeopardy does not exist. So the exterior protection, not interior, exterior protection comes through a well-prepared, very strong military system. So if you follow the trends of history in today's society, you see each of these institutions being attacked. Freedom of volitional responsibility is attacking, for example, the China virus. That pandemic took away many of your freedoms and still does even today. When you are mandated, you must take that shot. You must wear this mask. You must do this. You must do that. Or you're a criminal. You remember how that goes. Marriage has been under attack since the 70s with the advent of free love, no marriage responsibility, and the result is that good many young Americans find cohabitation acceptable rather than the marriage commitment. It's the way it is today. Family discipline is almost null and void. Failure to establish respect for authority in the home is reflected in criminal activity in the streets of America today. And internationalism is being pushed rather than an autonomous nation standing strong and free alone. We had a former president that believed in nationalism and autonomy, free nation, America first, but that's gone today. Internationalists are in charge and characterized by opposition to nationalism and characterized by opposition to isolationism. in favor of more things like international unions, you know, like the United Nations, globalism, one world government, and everything associated with it. So wake up, America. You are under siege, and that is to destroy these divine institutions. and remake you, change the way you think, as we started off with, that whole concept called the long march through society, that strategy, and you have to learn to think divine viewpoint, and that's the only thing that'll save us in the future. America is under siege. What can you do about it? Well, you can grow to spiritual maturity. You can become the person God intended for you to be, and that's what the solution is to this whole problem. A lot more to say, not enough time to say it, but I promise you more to come. Thank you for listening to The Flatline. Thank you for being with me today. I hope you'll return next week, same time, same place. Until then, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
In this episode of Drive Radio, we delve into the thrilling world of automobiles with a focus on performance and innovation. From high-speed specifications to detailed insights into BYD's unique vehicles, our hosts explore how an SUV can float on water and perform a tank turn. We also discuss the upcoming changes to Drive Radio, introducing a new segment dedicated to in-depth interviews and reviews, perfect for automobile enthusiasts eager to learn more. Listeners are taken on a troubleshooting journey as we answer callers' questions about maintaining classic cars. Whether it's a 94 Ford F-150 showing signs of wear or a surprise discussion on the longevity of a manual Honda Civic's clutch, this episode is packed with informative advice from seasoned experts. Always aiming to support car owners, Drive Radio ensures you leave with new insights to keep your vehicles running smoothly. Alongside our stimulating discussions, we spotlight top services and products to enhance your driving experience. With adverts from trusted names like Napa Auto Care Centers and BG Products, our episode connects you with the right partners for your automotive needs. Whether you're passionate about vehicle maintenance or interested in the latest car technology, this episode has something for you.
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Whatever that is. Performance and image, that's what it's all about.
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And it is Drive Radio, third hour. Myself, Patch Knight, Alltech Automotive in Fort Collins. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. Larry Unger, answering phones. A little announcement, too. Should have announced this earlier, so might as well make this now. Starting November, the first Saturday in November, we're adding another hour. to drive radio. Now, it's going to be a little different. It will not be a live call-in hour. We're going to call this extra hour drive radio the extra mile, and it'll be on, we're thinking right now, it looks like tentatively from 3 to 4 in the afternoon, and it'll be more of a I don't want to say podcast format because we're still going to be on radio, so it's not really that. But it'll be more of longer interviews, reviews. Like I'm going to SEMA, for example, the first week of November, and I'll have some interview opportunities where I'll be able to interview some different manufacturers and things like that and be able to get a little bit more in-depth in certain topics than what we do during these three hours because this is a caller-driven show, and we want it to be. That's never going to change. It'll all be about you guys, the callers, and so on. But that last hour, that extra mile hour, we'll devote more to topics that we maybe want to get more in-depth in. It'll be conversations even that some of us have together, myself, Pat, Josh, others. I mean, we may just do some conversational things along those lines. We'll put that in that hour. hopefully maybe grow that to a second hour. We'll determine how all of that goes, but it'll be a little different format, but that'll be starting in November, just so you all know. David in Woodland Park, you're next.
SPEAKER 11 :
So I think, how you doing, John? Good, sir. Thank you for taking my call. Man, I love to listen to all of your shows. They're so informative.
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Thank you, David.
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You asked this question, I think you asked this question earlier, what car would I like to drive in retirement? Yes. Have you heard of the U8 and the U9? No, I have not. What are those? It's two vehicles out of China from BYD.
SPEAKER 05 :
Ah, okay, yeah, BYD I'm familiar with, absolutely, yes.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, they're a battery-making company that makes vehicles. I would, if I had the money... The U8s, they're like their SUV version, right? Oh, their SUV version.
SPEAKER 05 :
Do you know that thing floats on water? I did see. Now that you say these, yes, I know what you're talking about. Yes, I have.
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I mean, I think they are just spectacular vehicles. The thing turns on water. It can float on water. It does a tank turn. If you're familiar with Speed Racer, the Mach 5 used to be able to jump.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, that's right. The U9 can jump as well. Yes, I've actually seen reviews and videos of these.
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They are.
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Now that you reminded me, I'm sorry, I didn't recognize the model, but the company BYD have been watching. The thing about BYD that I'm still trying to figure out is, because I've never seen one up close, is what's their quality like?
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I've watched reviews on the actual quality of the products. Higher cars. Yeah. And like their U9 crushes Mercedes. Wow. And it rivals even the cars higher than Mercedes.
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uh mercedes-benz because when you're you're shaking the consoles and stuff like that yeah yeah there's no shake at all interesting they are solidly put together interesting david i'm really glad you mentioned both vehicles because as i i'm not familiar with them as i pulled them up on the internet here the u8 i'm not a big fan of the industrial design i thought that's not even good looking vehicle and i looked at the u9 and holy smokes that's gorgeous yeah it is yeah
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And, again, I've followed them a little bit, David. I've seen some of the reviewers that have actually gone to other countries because there's no BYDs in America. They're not allowed 100% tariffs right now on those cars. That's why you don't see any. And, again, I would love to see one up close, but the only way that's going to happen is if I go to another country, I guess. Right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I've got a friend, he lives in Finland, and he's been thinking about getting his wife a U8.
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Interesting. And again, given this other hour that we're going to be doing, these are some of those things, David, that we're going to be able to get a little bit more into and even play some video clips from different things. We won't be doing that live for everybody listening. I'll record some of that earlier in the week, probably on Mondays is what my plan is, and I'll kind of get some of those in the bank. But for now, For that type of stuff, David, I feel like we can get into some more detail that we haven't been able to do.
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I'm so looking forward to that show, that third hour. I am really looking forward to that.
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As we get closer and get all that firmed up completely. But right now, it's looking like it's going to be 3 to 4 o'clock on Saturdays. But that could change. So I'll give you guys all the definites on that as we get a little bit closer here in the next couple weeks. All right. Thanks, John. David, appreciate you very much. As always, I appreciate it. Thank you very much as well. Clifton, you're next. Go ahead.
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Yes, thanks for taking my call. I have a 1994 Ford F-150. It's only got about 80,000 miles on it. But whenever you drive it, sometimes it kind of bucks like it's trying to shut off, but it doesn't shut all the way off. It does it worse when it's hot outside. When it's cooler outside, it doesn't do it near as much. If you push on the gas, whenever it's doing it, it stops. Does that sound like fuel? No.
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Yeah, and this goes back to what Pat was even saying earlier. Unfortunately for the 94s, because they don't quite have the same, how do I want to say this, Pat? It doesn't quite have the same diagnostic capabilities as the later ones have. You only get limited information when you even go in with a scan tool on that one.
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Correct, but this is, if I'm understanding, this is the engine continuing to run after you turn off the key? No, it's bucking as you drive, right? Oh, sorry.
SPEAKER 12 :
It just bucks as you're drawing.
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So a question I have, does it act like it's missing? In other words, does it feel like you're shutting the key off super fast and turning it right back on? Or what's it seem like?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it seems more like you're shutting the key off and turning it right back on. But the engine never does die completely.
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I think it's more ignition related. I would say it's more of an ignition type problem as in do we have a bad, you know, that one has, you know, plug wires and, you know, distributor and, you know, cap rotor, et cetera, spark plugs. Has all of that been looked at yet, Clifton?
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All that's been changed. And we even took the dash out because I know part of that operates through the speedometer and have that all rebuilt here in Denver, have the module back all rebuilt. So that's all been done. That's why it's kind of puzzling us because the strange thing is, is if it's real hot outside and it sits out in the sun, it does it worse. If it's cool outside and it's just sitting in the garage, it doesn't do it near as bad.
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I mean, and again, I'm guessing. I'm not in the truck, so it's hard for me to really say. Sometimes I can get a better feel when you're actually driving. I mean, could it be fuel? Sure, it could be. That's still fuel-injected, so I believe that 94 is fuel-injected. Yes, that one's fuel-injected. Is it something in the fuel injection? Possibly. Possibly.
SPEAKER 12 :
I was wondering if maybe the fuel pump, because it did unhook the fuel pump.
SPEAKER 05 :
Does that have two tanks or just the one?
SPEAKER 12 :
It has two, but the back one's blocked off.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, so you're only running off the saddle tank. And as you know, those had pumps in the tank plus the other pump.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's both pumps in the tank, I'm pretty sure. But the back tank is completely done. It's completely done.
SPEAKER 05 :
So, I mean, is it possible that pump in the saddle tank is acting up? I mean, on a 94, sure, you don't have a lot of miles. But, again, it's a 94. It's aged more than miles at this point.
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Yeah, we took the fuel line loose and just turned it on, put the meter on it. And it just kind of intermittently spurts. And also, if you're driving it and it's bucking, if you push down the gas, it stops. That's what made me think it might be fuel, and that pump was weak.
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Yeah, it could be, although ignition can do some of that as well because as you're raising the throttle, you're raising RPM, and you're sometimes, quote, unquote, driving through a problem even on an ignition side. I think what I would do quickly on a couple of things is if this is easy to do, sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't, if you can get some type of a fuel pressure gauge on it that you could see while driving it, That would help, and you would see, hey, is the fuel shutting off and coming right back on? Now, you can do the same thing on the ignition side as well. You could wire in an idiot bulb, if you would, that would tell you, hey, am I losing ignition or not at certain times, and be able to watch one or two of those to see what it's doing. Kind of an old-school way of doing it, but Clifton back then, that was sometimes all we had. Because, again, the computer systems aren't as sophisticated on that one to give you the same information we need.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, the diagnostics, we've took it in before, and there's just not enough.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, there's not. So some of this, you almost have to rig up some of the things I'm talking about to really see what it's doing.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Well, thank you. You've been very helpful.
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And that would be the way to do it. That way, now, once we can isolate, am I on the ignition side or am I on the fuel side, well, now we've got at least a direction we can go. Exactly.
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Because it could be either or from what you're describing. Well, and there is a diagnostic connector on that truck. It's OBD-1 style. Out of the hood. Yeah, under the hood most likely. If you find a shop that still has some of that capability, that would be interesting maybe to connect either the fuel pressure gauge, like you're saying, or watch the ignition.
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And I would just say, Clifton, even on those, not to beat up Ford, but they on those vehicles had some of the worst diagnostic information that you could pull out of probably some of the other vehicles on the market at the time. They were awful. Just not very helpful. No, they were not.
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Yeah, the frustrating part is, you know, a newer vehicle, you can plug it in, you can trace it. But tracing it with this is... No, they're tough.
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They are tough. No, you are. Clifton, again, working on those like I did back in the day, you know, being a shop in that era and having those sorts of vehicles come and go as we were, you know, four-wheel drive, you know, performance, all of that sort of thing. Stores, yeah, those were really difficult. We even had back then on the Fords, especially breakout boxes where you could do different things on the ECM to try to determine what was happening. I mean, they were a pain in the neck.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, we've gone full electronic now. In that vintage, you're kind of half electronic, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
You're all electronic, but the diagnostic sides just wasn't where it needed to be. Yeah, you were fully electronic on ignition and timing and all of that, Clifton, but the way they did it was pretty rudimentary.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I think you're just going to have to take it a piece at a time.
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Because, again, even in your case, you've still got a full distributor where it's got a pickup and a hall effect and all of that's still going on inside of it. Even though it was electronic, it's still using some of those components in that way.
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Yeah, yeah. Well, thank you.
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No, no, no. Appreciate you very much, Clifton. Thanks for the call. And I'm sorry, folks, but, yeah, that era, and it wasn't just Ford, and the GMs weren't a whole lot better, although they were easier to diagnose than what the Fords were. And, by the way, the Chryslers were even worse. So back then it was GM being easiest Ford, second easiest Chrysler was actually last when it came to helping on the diagnostic sides of things. Yeah. Ron and Denver, hang tight. We'll come right back to you. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Pat and I were just talking that, keep in mind, so my old Dodge that I plowed snow with, my 2004, doesn't seem like it's that old, but it's 22 years old, guys. That's a 2004, 22 years old. So we're talking about that 94. That one's 32 years old now. Right. So the age, and we don't think about it that way because we've all kind of grown up with these vehicles all the way through, but they're getting old.
SPEAKER 06 :
So in the late 90s, there were a lot of people around who knew how to work on that truck. They're not around anymore.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, they're not around anymore. They just aren't. No, that's a great point. Ron in Denver, you're next.
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Hey, good afternoon. How are you guys?
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Good. How are you? Good.
SPEAKER 08 :
Doing excellent. Appreciate your show. Thank you. Speaking of old vehicles, I have a 2001 Honda Civic. It's a manual. I bought it from a private party in 2005, so that was 20 years ago. Garage kept. It was the husband's vehicle. He had died, so it was just sitting in the garage for a bit. Had a buyer's inspection done. It rocks. I take care of it. It's in great shape. Nice. 277,000 miles on it.
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Nice.
SPEAKER 08 :
So the reason for the call, and I take it to a shop that works only on Acuras and Hondas. They're in Lakewood. They've been doing business since the late 70s. And they indicated, you know, you might want to get a new clutch. Nothing's going wrong with the car. I don't feel anything. So I'm just kind of curious, how would you know?
SPEAKER 05 :
When was the last one done, do you know?
SPEAKER 08 :
As far as I know, it's the original. I've never changed it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Based upon mileage and all of that, I can't say that I can disagree with them. Now, on the same token, if you've driven it wisely, in other words, clutch doesn't slip much, you know how to drive a manual transmission, which a lot of people do, and when you drive them correctly, can they last a really long time? Absolutely. Absolutely. There's no inspection. There's no way to look to see when's that going to go bad. I think what they're recommending is just based on mileage, you know there's going to be a certain amount of wear on the pressure plate and the disc and even the throttle bearing and so on. And at some point, if you wanted a budget putting a clutch in it, if you're going to keep the car long term, you're there. They're not steering you in the wrong direction at all, Ron.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. Well, I never got that impression. I think it has to do with They did mention that, the tech, because I'm used to that clutch. You know, it's the only clutch I drive. Sure. And they mentioned something about, yeah, it seems a little soft or something of that sort.
SPEAKER 05 :
And you know what? That's interesting because you're bringing up a point where it's like shock absorbers. When you drive the car every day, you don't really notice some of these things starting to change and getting – softer per se or the clutch pedal starting to change because you don't notice it because you're in it all the time when somebody else hops in it that maybe feels all sorts of these which as technicians they do yeah I could see where he would notice that
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. Well, great.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, that would make – I mean, again, doing this over all the years like we've all done, I can sometimes hop in a car and say, did you know this is doing X, Y, Z? And the person will say, huh? I'm like, yeah, this isn't the way this is supposed to be. Oh, I never even noticed it. Well, you probably didn't because over time it's just progressively gotten worse.
SPEAKER 08 :
Mm-hmm. Well, this is very helpful. I appreciate the service that you provide.
SPEAKER 05 :
I appreciate it, Ron. And again, the plus side is it's not an emergency. You can budget for it. You can set a time that even works for them. And by the way, just a side note, I know in slow times of shops are, and you might want to even make a deal with them and say, I tell you what, if I book this for this week, what kind of a discount can I get? That's the week after Thanksgiving, now that we're getting close to it, and the week between Christmas and New Year's. You might just say, hey, if I book this for that week, can I get a deal? And they may very well say, sure, that's a perfect time for us to do that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Excellent. Never would have thought about that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. So there's a little help for you as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
Appreciate it. Well, you have a great weekend.
SPEAKER 05 :
You too, Ron. Appreciate you very much. And by the way, everything I just said, and Pat's over here laughing because he knows exactly what I mean. You know, shops will do different things at different times because we know when our slow times are. And yes, the week after Thanksgiving, not before, but the week after is always a little slower because people go out of town, they do different things and so on. Now, that depends on the weather here. If we get into a really snowy week, the week after Thanksgiving, all bets are off. But that week between Christmas and New Year's, that one I can assure you is a time where most shops will make you a deal because that's one of the slowest weeks of the year for most every shop on the planet, no matter where you are.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that's always a business decision for us because some of us would like to be home with our families. Others of us would like to be working. And so we try to keep the shop open maybe 60%, 70%. But to your point, if you can book out work and just know that not only can you be open to help the technician that needs to work, but you can also help someone who does have an emergency that week. That's a good decision.
SPEAKER 05 :
And would the shop be willing to give you, say, a 10% discount on parts because you book it that week? You can't really do much on labor because the techs have to be paid and so on. But, you know, could you work out something on the parts side during that week? Absolutely. Most shops, by the way, would chomp at the bit to schedule a decent job. I mean, that clutch job is a decent-sized job. Would they love to book that type of a job in over the Christmas holiday? They absolutely would. And if you don't need the car, and in this case it's a spare car that's in the garage – and you want to get it out and do it at that time of the year, absolutely plan those things. Those are things, frankly, that I don't know that we've ever really talked about on air before. I don't think I've ever gone down that path. But for some of you where you can book certain types of jobs and you've got that ability and it's a third car, for example, and you have that ability to not need it during a particular time, ask the shop, hey, when's your next slow time that if I got a discount and I could book it during that slow time, I'd make the appointment right now. Let's go ahead.
SPEAKER 06 :
do it no you're you're exactly right it's an interesting realization that you just made it's we're lifting the hood on the auto repair business a little bit today because it is a business decision and it's got to be good for the customer and good for the shop otherwise it's not good business it's a win-win but i can tell you from coaching shops i know when our slow times because i knew from even my business i know when those slow times are go ahead and be right up front with your shop ask them what that is can i get my car can i can i get you know
SPEAKER 05 :
Not trying to be cheapskate here, but can I get a little bit of a deal if I book during that time? Most of them would say, you know what, you're a great customer. Yeah, we'd love to do that. Let's book it then. Yep, that's right. Let's get it handled. So, all right, we'll take a break. We'll come back. Got another half an hour left. Any questions, by the way, give us a call, 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Few things are life-changing.
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SPEAKER 15 :
Hi, good afternoon, gentlemen. I have a 2001 Toyota Tacoma. Nice. And for the longest time, the ashtray keeps slipping out. And I've tried everything to keep it in its place, but I'm not having any luck, and it's driving me bananas.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it flips out as in as you're driving? Does it just automatically come out if it's parked? What's it doing?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, when I'm driving, of course. Especially when I'm going up an incline.
SPEAKER 05 :
Is it plastic or metal?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's metal.
SPEAKER 05 :
Metal. Yeah, I'm looking at it right now, and it's probably got a spring-type mechanism that you push to pull it out. Am I thinking correctly? I mean, to pull it all the way out. To remove it completely is what I'm trying to say. If you wanted to take the ashtray out and empty it, is there like a little spring thing you have to push to take it all the way out?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's the flap on the top that you just put down and slide it out. And there is a spring in there.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's what I thought. Okay, so... Here's a question. Do you think the tray itself is just worn out, or is it the track that's worn? What are your thoughts?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, I'm not a smoker. I probably just used it since 2001 just to hold a couple of coins in there, and that's about it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Okay, so here's a question. What if you were to go to, like, Home Depot and buy some of the heavy Gorilla two-sided tape, and you just cut a little sliver off, and you put it on the backside of the ashtray and shut it?
SPEAKER 15 :
I tried that.
SPEAKER 05 :
It doesn't stay? No. What comes loose? Does it come off the ashtray or does it come off the part that the ashtray hits?
SPEAKER 15 :
Um... Oh, I don't know. Let me see.
SPEAKER 05 :
And the reason I'm asking is that we may just not be getting enough adhesive. Did you clean all that off with like some break clean or some alcohol or something before putting the tape on?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, I did not.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, that's why. So do this again. Get a fresh piece of tape. Take even the little alcohol swabs or rubbing alcohol that you've got under the medicine cabinet or whatever. Wipe all that off really good. Let it dry. Then put your tape on.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
And try that. Because if you're not using the ashtray, we're just going to tape this thing shut and be done with it. Yep.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, and I was thinking of putting a little Velcro, but I thought maybe there was some adjustment I could do to the flap.
SPEAKER 05 :
Velcro's not a bad idea because you could actually open and close it if you needed to. But same thing, even if you do the Velcro with the two-sided tape on that, you've got to clean it with alcohol.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, and I think that was my error.
SPEAKER 05 :
It will not stick otherwise.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, because the plastic, even the plastic, A, it gets stuff on it, B, it kind of vents, I guess is the best way to say. Plastic always will, so there's always some venting going on, so clean all that off really good.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'll do that.
SPEAKER 05 :
And for everybody listening, not any of the other products that are out there. You've got to use an alcohol-based product or it won't get it clean enough for that to stick.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. I'll take care of that today.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, Carmela, thank you very much. Have a good one. We appreciate that. Jeff in Montana, you're next.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, good afternoon, guys. I think in all my years of listening, that was the first ashtray question.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I think it is too. I would agree with you. We're very diverse here. Well, it's funny because a lot of the earlier Ram trucks had that stupid cup holder thing that would fold down and they advertised it as you could put a big gulp in it and do this and do that. The problem with those bloody things is they did the same thing. After a while, they wouldn't stay up. And so you kind of had to do the same thing with those.
SPEAKER 10 :
So regarding your question of the day, as I was thinking about this, there wasn't any really car that I was interested in, but when I was a kid, are you familiar with the game of snooker? Oh, yeah. Yeah, for the audience, people might know, it's a game of pool invented by the Brits in India years ago, and it's on a bigger table. The actual full-size snooker tables are 6x12s, feet with like two-inch pool balls and rounded corners, so it's really, really difficult to play. I managed to snag a five-by-ten table. It was actually built in Minnesota, and then the guy who was selling it was out of Castle Rock, so I had a guy go down to Castle Rock and pick it up and drag it back here, but I haven't quite got it together yet. I've got to get the slate done. But that's been my goal for probably a decade is to get a snicker table.
SPEAKER 05 :
That is one game I know about, but I never learned how to play.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'll tell you, because of the rounded corners, you had to hit your shots exact. Otherwise, they would just bounce right out. There was no slop. And so when you were good on a snicker table, you were a pool shark anywhere else.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. You just had to be a lot more accurate is what you're saying.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, yeah. More distance, smaller pockets, smaller balls, all that. The ones right here I think are two and a quarter, maybe two and three eighths.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 10 :
So, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
A little bit larger. And you said the table is five by ten?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nice. So it takes a pretty good room to accommodate it then, pretty good size room.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, it does. I actually couldn't put it down in my basement room because it would take really small queues. So I have a place above my detached garage with a dance studio for the previous owner's wife. And so that's going to become kind of the man cave up there, I think.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sounds great.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Yeah, so real quick on EV batteries, too. I was reading an article that you were talking earlier about range anxiety and, you know, replacement costs and all that when they were new. And the research has borne out that EV battery packs actually do not wear out or decrease in efficiency as fast as folks thought.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, they don't.
SPEAKER 10 :
For 20 years.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 10 :
And still retain 80%. You're right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Excellent. You're right. And really quick, Jeff, too, and just something most people don't know, there's several different ways to make the battery packs and EVs. They're not all created equal. GM has a design. Tesla has a design. Some of the other manufacturers have a design. They're all not the same. They all use a cell-type arrangement, but the way those cells are made can vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. That's another thing most people don't realize.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, do they have those made by a separate manufacturer who might make it for a variety of cars?
SPEAKER 05 :
In some cases, yes. In some cases, they own their own. It depends on the EV company.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, I imagine Tesla would do its own.
SPEAKER 05 :
Tesla does its own.
SPEAKER 10 :
They do their own, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I think GM, don't quote me, but I believe their Ultem platform is theirs as well. Now, they may have a manufacturer helping with the making of it, but it's their design and their make and so on.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. But this is more of a thing for ready radio, I think. But, you know, one of the points of the article was there's a lot of battery packs out there that are getting tossed out that are still good. And maybe there might be some entrepreneur out there who already does this or it might be a good business for someone to buy, pick them up for a song and then use them as a,
SPEAKER 05 :
home power source no that's not a bad idea you know what that is a good topic i'll i'll uh i'll do some research and think through that that's not a bad idea because as it is you can take for example on a gm vehicle ford i think does this as well i'm not sure about tesla you can actually take the ev and power with the right equipment in your house you can power your house for several days off of your ev wow your rolling battery pack gets used to run the house
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep. So, yeah, it was just a thought that occurred to me as you were talking about batteries. Great idea. It might be for some up-and-coming entrepreneur, not no fart like myself.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I did look up really quick how many battery manufacturers there are for EVs, and I thought there were maybe three or four major. There are a ton. There's a long list of them, Jeff, and, again, every one of them doing things a little bit differently.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep. Probably most of them in China. You know, it's funny.
SPEAKER 05 :
As I go through this list, they're literally all over the world. Yes, there's some, of course, in China, but there's also India, Korea. Let me go down the list here really quick. There is Japan. Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, USA, of course, Sweden. Let me see if there's any new countries coming up and some repeats of what I just said. Ireland actually has a couple of plants. Canada has a plant. United Kingdom has a plant. Taiwan and Vietnam. So more than you think. Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, definitely. Well, I did have two actual questions for you. Sure, go ahead. One was I was driving my wife's PT Cruiser, picking up my daughter-in-law, and I hit a pothole at a fairly decent speed, and it bent the rim. It didn't crease it. but it put a divot in it. My question is, is that something that can be taken out?
SPEAKER 05 :
Depends. Sometimes. That's a big question. I had a listener the other day that sent me a wheel, and we did a little bit of research. And in this particular case, it turned out that if they were to straighten it, they would have went ahead and broke the wheel, so the wheel was bad. It's going to vary. Depends on the wheel, the alloy they're using, and so on. And a specialist will have to look at that and tell you.
SPEAKER 10 :
is it worthwhile just trying it and seeing if it breaks? Well, yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
If it breaks, it breaks and you're into a wheel anyway, so it doesn't matter. Yep.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 10 :
Uh, and then on, on windshield wiper blades, earlier, Tyler said he can't get the Bosch anymore. They changed. I, for years, because number one, we had a single income, lots of kids. So, you know, you have the whole thing about dinks, double income, no kids. We were silks, single income, lots of kids. Um, But I would buy the wiper blade inserts, just the rubber, and take out the old rubber and put in the new.
SPEAKER 05 :
Back in the day, that's how wipers were really sold, Jeff. When I was a kid, you didn't buy a complete blade. You bought inserts. Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. You just buy the rubber part and bend the little tab out, take it out, cut its length, put it in.
SPEAKER 05 :
Back in the early days, a lot of the vehicles, GM, Ford, and so on, they had little springs at the end of the wiper blade. You slid out and slid new ones in. They just clipped in. Yep. Shows you how old I am.
SPEAKER 10 :
Do you know if they still make those inserts?
SPEAKER 05 :
No.
SPEAKER 10 :
Because if somebody's having trouble getting a blade.
SPEAKER 05 :
Not that I know of, no. They have done blade replacement. Some of the old, old vehicles, yes, they still make some inserts for, but that's going to be the old metal wipers that none of the new cars even have anymore.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
A lot of plastic in the beam style blades.
SPEAKER 10 :
That might be a possible solution for them, just get the inserts.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, the other thing that might have to happen, depending upon the whole way of doing it, is just change the arm and everything out and go to a different arm that's got the right adapter on it, and off you go. You could also do that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, well, yeah, it's going to be one of the others, probably. It's going to be the rubber or the whole kit and coodle. So, all right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep. All right. No, appreciate it, Jeff. Thank you very much. Somebody's reminding me, too, that a 2015 car is 11 years old. That's crazy. 2015, which doesn't seem that old, is now 11 years old. So thank you, by the way, for that. I appreciate it. Okay, let's do this. Give plenty of time this when we come back. Roy, Mickey, you guys hang tight. We have one line open, 303-477-5600. We'll make a nice long segment as we finish out the show. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, John, I got a 97 Dodge Cummins. Okay. 5.9, 12 valve. Got 1,265,000. Good for you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Wow, that's awesome.
SPEAKER 09 :
I changed out the head on it at... $1,249,000 because I'm a transporter. Okay. Talked to other truck drivers that had the same kind of trucks or experience with them, and they were telling me that it gets up there about $1.25 million. Well, better be definitely doing a valve job. Yeah. I put a new head on it from a company that ported it for towing, so it's got some kind of advantage to that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, no, good, perfect.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Now I'm looking for a guy to rebuild the engine down here in Colorado Springs. Because of that head issue there, I took the head and the truck to Kansas and some farm boys that had their own shop, did their own work on their own stuff, and worked on everybody else's stuff. And had them put it on, and they told me, you know, about it's going to really need an overhaul pretty soon. Okay. 15,000 to go, I think. Something like that. So what I'm looking at out here is I'm used to my mechanic that I had on this truck for 10 years while I was doing transporting with it. He always told me I'd call him out in Nebraska or something, head into the West Coast and tell him what's going on. He'd say, yeah, okay, well, yeah, come by when you think... if you want to go ahead and make your run, go ahead and, you know, the Bakersfield from Omaha, I don't know. And I said, no, you know, if it's acting up now, I don't want to take a chance on a break in it. So he said, we'll bring it on down. And I would, he'd say, go by the shop, you know, the parts house and pick up this part because he would give me two options. And he would say, well, really, I think it's this. He was an old tank mechanic from Fort Carson. And he was employed at that time and doing side jobs. But he was employed at that time for FedEx and running, taking care of all the trucks up and down Front Range. So he'd do other people's in the afternoon or morning. Then he'd go to work. All right, so he knew everything about everything. He's like you, you know. Only it's all packed in his head. He could just bring it right out and put it down on the here, this issue. Okay, so I'm looking for this guy to rebuild my truck. I found a guy in Oklahoma, and he was on a NASCAR training track in his trade school. I'm not sure if he worked on the track, but he was on that high-performance education. Sure. All right. I've been looking around for parts because I'm so used to my mechanics telling me, go pick up the parts and meet me at the shop. Right. Yeah. i'm up and running and you know right sure real quick and easy yeah yeah yeah and uh i uh so so you want to buy a short block i'm assuming are you going to have the guys in kansas do it for you or what are your thoughts well the guys in the guys in kansas closed closed their shop up and and i was ready to i was ready to you know get the parts and go okay and uh uh then i called them up and uh There was no answer there. I called one of their shops. Well, yeah, the guy that worked on my truck over there had his number. He said they'd closed up. Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Because given the fact you just did the head, really all you need to do is buy a short block. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Well, I'm thinking, you know, I like this block so much because it's been with me for so long. Yeah. Maybe I'll just go put in. Well, one thing I've got with the short blocks is I really don't know if those people putting those together, not so much the company, you know, but the guy that did it. I'm not so sure that. Maybe he didn't mic something right, maybe something or other.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I get that, although I think if it were me, I wouldn't buy one from any of the aftermarket guys. I'd go buy a real Cummins from the factory. Cummins short block is what I would do. Put your head on it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, well, I'm not trusting Cummins anymore because I talked to one of their reps. Oops, I better not. Well, I'm not going to say his name, but he said everything they're doing is made in China except their bearings. They're made in the United States now.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, but here's the thing. You're going to find the same unless you take your block and find somebody that's competent. I hate to use that word, but competent enough to actually take your short block and go through it. You're going to be in that same ballpark no matter what you do.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Yeah. Well, that was what I was anticipating, actually, when I looked at all the short blocks. You know, I'm just going, no, I don't think so.
SPEAKER 05 :
The guys to call locally, the only body I know that might even be willing to do this, Roy, is the machine shop up in Greeley. You might talk to those guys up there and see if that's something they'd be interested in doing.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. Okay. That's what I did already. Well, when I found this NASCAR guy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Machine shops, because they would know the guy.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 09 :
The guy. guy would bring them the block there you go and i'm having issues with colorado springs because it seems like they blow smoke at me i don't know anybody down there and again the only buddy i know even locally sorry for all the other machine guys that might be out there that are good i don't know you but i do know the guys in greeley do great work yeah okay okay well my story was i started calling machine shops in kansas because my guys were closed over there got it i've I was going to maybe go to Oklahoma and work harvest down there a couple of months ago. I never got to that. But I thought, okay, I'll just find a machine shop in Oklahoma and find out who built it, who brings it. And I found a machine shop, and they said, oh, yeah, and this guy over here, he'll take it out and he'll bring it to us, and we'll bore it out and everything. Sure. So I called him and found out he was a NASCAR guy.
SPEAKER 05 :
Very cool.
SPEAKER 09 :
We had a pretty good conversation. I got a price for getting a thing done in five minutes on the phone.
SPEAKER 05 :
Nice. Very nice.
SPEAKER 09 :
I can't do here in town.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, you can't.
SPEAKER 09 :
Very good. There's another company in Utah that will do the same thing. I called them up very first. I was... I was talking to the rep longer than I was on the phone, shorter than I was on the phone, and I had a price on it. Right? That's awesome. I can't get that here in town. They want to do all kinds of stuff. Well, now I'm looking. This whole thing about bringing parts was a thing that I dropped on the NASCAR guy. I says, yeah, I'll bring parts. And he says, well, I like to buy the parts, you know, because...
SPEAKER 05 :
He can control the quality better that way.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and he's got the connections, and he knows what he wants to use. Exactly. Can't blame him for that. All the kits that I'm seeing out there, I'm assuming they're made in America. One company is using Cummins old stock.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. New old stock. They call it NOS is what they call that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, the Cummins Forgery, I mean Forge, the company using that building and that equipment right now. Makes sense.
SPEAKER 05 :
Gotcha. And I'm getting tight on time, Roy, so what are you going to do? What's your plan?
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm looking at all these kits, and I'm seeing Mali, Clevite, Interstate McBee, and yeah, those three major brands are coming up. with the name brands in these parts kits that i'm seeing uh and i've double checked on that and i think i think i'm i'm safe with any of those guys i think so too i would agree and i just want to i just want to i don't that the nascar guy uh i don't know if he might be just kind of he's he's very you know his way okay it's your way but i i don't want to put he tried to sell me First call, he tried to sell me Speedy Air Pistons. And I didn't know what they were. I looked them up, and they're fantastic, man.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, that's one of the top brands right now in that world.
SPEAKER 09 :
But he's telling me it's going to be $17,000, and I'm going, nope.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's a lot of money. Yeah, you don't need that much. Yeah, that's too much.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, you know, of course, there's other stuff that goes with the pistons to make it do. That's right. That's right. Yeah. You got it. I'm not pulling sleds. I'm not pulling sleds. I'm not doing mutters.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I'm not racing.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right. You're hauling, and you want it to be reliable.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I'm an old guy.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And my truck's going to— and I don't know whether to be buried in it or not.
SPEAKER 05 :
I hear you. I hear you. And, Roy, I'm going to slip one more call in. Let me know what you end up doing on that. I appreciate that, and I feel your pain. Real quick, Gary, let me see if I can get this in really quick. I've only got a minute. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I've got a 2006 F-350 with the 6.0 in it, about 40,000 miles. The turbo lag got so bad it was almost dangerous to drive it. So I had my mechanic put a new turbo in it. And I thought it was a new one, but it ended up being a rebuilt one. But it has almost as much lag as the other one did. And he said over time it would get better. No, it won't.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, no, it won't get better. If it's not good now, it's not going to get any better. Those are variable vane turbos. There's probably something wrong with that particular turbo as to why the lag is there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's what I would say. Gary and I apologize. We're up against the end of the show. Mickey, sorry. I'll get you. You're always a good caller. I appreciate it very much. Sorry I didn't get you squeezed in today. We've got to get out of here. Pat from Alltech, thank you very much. I appreciate it as always. Hey, thanks for having us, John. Always a joy. Charlie Grimes, your engineer. Larry Unger, answering phones. You guys have a great, fabulous weekend. We will see you next week. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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This week on Drive Radio, John Rush and guest Pat Schneid from Alltech Automotive kick off the show with a nostalgic ride through automotive memories—listeners call in with tales of their first cars, from a 1968 Dodge Dart to a dream ‘67 Camaro. The conversation shifts gears to hybrids and EVs as callers weigh in on Toyota’s long-term reliability, hybrid longevity, and even the surprising muscle of electric vehicles like the Dodge Daytona. John and Pat dig into the facts—resale values, battery life, and real-world performance in cold weather—and remind listeners to drop the politics and drive what they love. Whether you’re wrenching on a classic, curious about hybrids, or debating your next car purchase in retirement, this episode celebrates the pure joy of driving.
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All right, it is. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. And we've got, of course, Larry Unger answering phones. Charlie Grimes, your engineer. Pat Schneidt joining us from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Good morning, Pat. Hey, good morning, John. Happy to be here. Wind was supposed to blow. It's a little bit now, but you know what?
SPEAKER 03 :
Beautiful day outside.
SPEAKER 12 :
Beautiful outside. No traffic either. So enjoy yourselves today. Get outside. Have fun. Now, just as probably a word of caution, there will be some No Kings protest parades and so on. My advice would be traffic-wise and so on, stay as far away from some of those areas as you possibly can because it'll be nothing more than just huge traffic jams and a nightmare in California. Car-wise, I've always been one of those where, yeah, I don't need to be around anything that might be causing damage, so I'm going to do something different, and that's what I've always done, Pat, is just stay clear of those areas altogether. Oh, that's exactly right. I've got better things to do. Yeah, and the last thing I want to do is be fixing something that I didn't need to be in the middle of in the first place. That's right. So, yeah, stay far, far away from this. All right, question of the day. And again, I had a great listener send me a long list of questions of the day, and so I'm taking this one from that list. So thank you, by the way, for these, because it really helps me out immensely. So he said it this way. First car purchased in retirement, and I'm going to add to that, or what will you purchase? In retirement. And now some of you, it might not even be retirement. Some of you, for example, I know for me, and I was telling this to somebody the other day, I didn't buy my first quote-unquote sports car. I bought a Corvette back in 2012. And keep in mind, my youngest was graduated high school in 2010. So I didn't have anything along those lines until after the kids were all gone and, for the most part, grown up. And at that point, I had sold my two automotive stores, and I thought, you know what, I'm going to buy a sports car finally. And I did, but I literally had to wait for the kids to leave to be able to do that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, thank you, first of all, for changing the question because you're not retired. You're never going to retire. So that question would never apply to you had you not changed the question. Very true. I'm also like you, lived a very busy early life with children and things get busy. And I did not get into cars until later in life. So my first car, definitely, it'll be a Chevy. I'll tell you that. And I go between a 67 Camaro and a square body pickup.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, either one of those are fine. I'm with you, too. Both of those are, and one of those where I still keep looking for some of those and just haven't found quite the right one.
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, exactly.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I had a square body pickup, and it was two-wheel drive, and I wanted a four-wheel drive, so I sold that a few years ago. I haven't replaced it, but I don't know.
SPEAKER 03 :
Life goes on.
SPEAKER 12 :
At some point, I will. John and Cheyenne, you're first up today. Go for it, sir.
SPEAKER 17 :
Hey, guys. Pat, you didn't drive north because the wind is crazy up here.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, my. Okay. You're correct. I got in the car and headed straight south.
SPEAKER 12 :
Keep it to yourself, by the way, John.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, keep it up there, please. Yes.
SPEAKER 17 :
45 plus, and they've got the signs up reminding the truckers to be careful.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, that's really great. No, I didn't see that at all.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, that's good because I'm heading south, so I know once I get below the Cheyenne Ridge, I'll get out of it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Awesome. There you go.
SPEAKER 17 :
But, John, first car, I inherited it. They took the keys from my aunt. She couldn't drive it. You know, 68 Dodge Dart four-door. That thing fit six adult men, teenage, you know. That thing was huge with a 225 slant six. I drove that until I went in the Army. Never had a problem with it. I would take another one. If I could find one of those in good condition, especially the two-door, I'd take one of those again in a minute. Because the car just was reliable.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's awesome. Yeah, that's a great story.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, but everybody laughed at it because it was yellow.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's funny you say that. Yellow is a color that people love or hate, John.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, but... They gave it to me, my family, because I just got my license, and they had to take it away from her because she was running stop signs because she said, I'm old, so I don't have to stop.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's funny.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, now I have a question on the yellow color because back in the day, I will tell you, I was very, very picky. I wanted black, blue, or red. And now, if I could find a yellow one, you know, yellow is not so bad. The rest of the car is in pretty good shape.
SPEAKER 12 :
I get you. Well, I love one of those today where, you know, my two colors, the one color that I'm just not a big fan of, and it depends. There are certain shades where I'm okay with it, but most of the old colors,
SPEAKER 17 :
cars that were in that dark green color not a big fan of but again if it's the right car i'm with pat i don't care what color it is i'd be okay either way i don't care this old this old dart was yellow with a yellow vinyl roof that was just a little different and yellow interior which six teenage boys or two teenage boys and two teenage girls could trash pretty quick But you know what? That 225 slant six, that was the engine that would not die. If you did your oil changes, I think. And I learned, and I was laughing the other day. I was listening to another show, and a guy was looking for somebody to work on his 60, 58 Chevy and set the timing and the points. And I remember learning how to set the points, set the dwell on the points.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 17 :
And I was in my garage, and I still have a Dwell and Tack in my toolbox. Do you think I'll ever use it again?
SPEAKER 12 :
I still have a couple cars with points, so I keep those around just on the safe side. Honestly, if push came to shove and you didn't have a meter, you still got feeler gauges that you could always use. And if you really had to do it that way, you could.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and I still have a timing light, too, to set the timing on my 80 Chevy. So on the 80 Chevy, when I changed the heads, just what you were talking about, I soaked with PB Blaster, right, because I had to change the exhaust manifolds. They were cracked. I soaked them with PB Blaster, left them for a day, soaked them again, put a socket with a long breaker bar and just pulled slowly on it And they broke free. I didn't break one off.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's a great story. Good for you. Yeah, that's a skill right there.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, but, you know, you see people, they use big pipes and they're trying to, no, no, soak them in a good penetrating oil and go slow, steady pressure.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
And, you know, you'll feel it. And the other thing I use, John, I'm going to tell you again why this is the best socket set I've ever owned, is my metric, because I didn't round off any of the nuts either.
SPEAKER 12 :
So really quick, John, is it snowing where you are? I'm getting several text messages in that it's snowing up your area.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, yeah, but it's not sticking.
SPEAKER 12 :
Gotcha.
SPEAKER 17 :
Just a little. You know, nothing to write home about.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's a true Wyoming guy right there. He's like, hey, it's very, very windy. Never mind the snow. It's just windy. I don't care about that. That's funny.
SPEAKER 17 :
For the people who know, I'm just coming up on Carr. That's the first or the last exit in Colorado, depending which way you're going.
SPEAKER 03 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 17 :
And it's like a little bit. Snow blowing. Nothing. Like I said, nothing to write home about. I already have my snow tires on my 4Runner. So that's the other thing. Wyoming, Columbus Day, snow tires. There you go. That's my sign-off because I know after that I can get snow at any time. But it looks like by the time I hit Fort Collins, I'm going to be clear blue skies.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's right. I got to tell you, I almost rode the motorcycle today. And listening to you talk, I'm really glad I didn't.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good idea. Well, you know, I always laugh, but there used to be a meteorologist that was on in Denver that was pretty sharp. He left. But he always talked about it. He goes, all you have to do is look at the differences. No, when you hit that Cheyenne Ridge, the weather's going to change.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's it.
SPEAKER 17 :
So, hey, guys, have a great rest of the day.
SPEAKER 12 :
John, you too, as always. Appreciate you very much. And, yeah, for all of you that are texting in, thank you. I didn't realize that we were getting weather up that area. Because when you look out our window, you don't see any of that. But the wind is blowing from the northwest a little bit. So, hey, you know what? It's coming. Let's just say it that way. Phillip, go ahead.
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Yes. Hi, this is Philip from Cheyenne. Hey, Philip. Welcome. Hi. I am considering buying a new car for my wife. Okay. She currently has a Sequoia Toyota, and she really likes it, so I'll probably buy another Sequoia.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
But I am tired of driving and getting 12 miles to a gallon, and those hybrid cars get Pretty good mileage.
SPEAKER 12 :
They do.
SPEAKER 04 :
But the question I have is, you know, I know if I buy a new Toyota now, I can get 200,000 or 300,000 miles out of that car. Can I get that kind of mileage out of a hybrid? Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
All day long.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. Okay. And does a hybrid have a keep its resale value?
SPEAKER 12 :
On the Toyotas, yes, they do.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. Okay. And, and, you know, I travel a lot of my business. So I rent cars quite often. And the hybrid cars that I rent. They show on the dashboard, okay, the electric motor is driving the car now, and then the gas motor goes back and forth. So there has to be a device in that car that monitors that. And I expect that device could be pretty complicated and expensive if it needs to be replaced.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's just a computer. So the computer on that car, like every other car that's computerized, is taking all sorts of different readings. It's determining when does the vehicle need to be running off electric, when does it need to be running off of the engine, when does it need the combination of. For example, hard acceleration is using both. It's going to use electric and the engine. Light acceleration might only be using the electric portion, depending upon how full the battery is. Again, it's going to vary depending upon the conditions, and the computer is monitoring all of that, Phillip.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's great. You know, John, I really depend on you guys for that kind of advice, and so thank you for that.
SPEAKER 12 :
And you probably already know this, but for those maybe that don't listening, we've test-driven some of the Sequoia, the I-Force Max, which is the twin-turbo V6 hybrid car. That's a 22 or so mile-to-the-gallon vehicle, which is upping that one probably from the 13, 14 miles-to-the-gallon range fill up on a Sequoia, so a huge improvement. Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
It sure is. I mean, the hybrid cars that I rent, man, they get some great mileage.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, they do. And as a side note, and not to play down any of the other manufacturers that may be doing the hybrid thing, Phillip, Toyota's really – they have cornered the market on that. They've been doing it the longest. It's – It's an art, I guess you could say, in how they've done that. They've really, in my opinion, got the technology far and above what anybody else is doing on the hybrid end of things. And I know there's others that are out there that are doing similar things. But Toyota is the king in the hybrid end of things, literally, which is where I go back to talking about the resale value. Reason why you're not going to have any trouble on the resale side because of what I just said.
SPEAKER 04 :
Great. That's fantastic, guys. I really appreciate the input.
SPEAKER 12 :
You're very welcome, Phillip. Absolutely. Not a problem at all. Enjoy doing it. Okay. All right. Let us know what you end up buying here down the road. Jerry and Greeley, hang tight. We'll come right back to you. A couple lines open. Myself, Pat Schneid, Alltech Automotive. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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Morning, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good morning.
SPEAKER 05 :
For tire pressure monitoring sensors, I was wondering if you had an opinion about OEM versus universal or generic aftermarket.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'll let Pat answer this one. I'm guessing this is going to come down to vehicle per vehicle and probably even sensor to sensor.
SPEAKER 03 :
So I think that's true. And we would generally recommend OEM just because it's a little bit of a piece of work to get in there and do it. And if you put in one that's not as good, you're going to have to do it twice. And why take the risk?
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Would a person be able to get OEM at NAPA?
SPEAKER 12 :
No. OEM has to be OEM. But again, Jerry, like I've said before many, many times, the OEM doesn't make their own sensor. So if you buy, and usually you can go figure this out through AI and other things now, which we didn't have years ago, you can determine who the OEM supplier is and buy that same part in the aftermarket.
SPEAKER 03 :
So that's true. I mean, you can go up to a dealership, to the parts counter, and buy them over the counter. The answer that I don't know is if you go to a tire store, like a discount tire or a local independent tire store, I don't know what they'll have in stock.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't either. I'm guessing not the same quality you're buying from NAPA. That's probably true. That's my guess on that one, Jerry.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm guessing that, and this is me, and I'm like Pat, I don't know this for positive, and if there's a tire store person that wants to anonymously even send this in to me on the text line or whatever, please do so. I'm guessing, Jerry, most of them are using universal type applications unless it's something that's specifically needed for a specific car, but I'm guessing most of the tire stores are going to carry universal type sensors.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
Just because it's the easiest thing for them to do and the cheapest thing to do for them.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. Sure. Okay. Well, I appreciate the advice.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, very, very welcome, Jerry. I appreciate that. Yeah, and Pat's right. And on some vehicles, too. This isn't true with every vehicle, but with some vehicles, that TPMS is really integrated into a lot of other things that can really throw things off if you're not dialed in there. Is that the right way to say that, Pat?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it is. Cars are very computer-connected today, and communication from sensor to ABS module to ECM is a thing. And if you're just not right, it's not right, and the light will stay on, and you'll be frustrated.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep, yep. So, yeah, and that's something where don't cheap out on the sensor. That's right. Eric, you're next.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, John. How are you this morning? Good, Eric.
SPEAKER 12 :
How are you this morning?
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm doing well. I'm actually going to get out and do some outside work at the Calhoun property before the wind gets here.
SPEAKER 12 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 07 :
But, you know, I heard Philip asking about the hybrids. Nice. Yes. And, you know, I have the two Highlanders that are hybrids.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
One's over 300,000. The other one's just under 300,000. Battery packs, when I put the monitor on them, are still looking good. Nice. And the other week when I went up to Silverthorne, had no power problems getting up into the mountains. Coming back down, I went up over Kenosha Pass and went up Crow Hill. No problems with power issues as far as having each four mountains if he has mountain travel. But, yeah, if he's still listening, I highly recommend the Toyota Hybrids. Excellent. So that's all I wanted to know.
SPEAKER 12 :
And that's that's that's a great testament. And I appreciate you calling, Eric, because I think some people get really fearful over the whole, you know, hybrid thing. They've got batteries and people hear the horror stories and this, that and the other. And I'll be I'll be straight up honest. And Pat can attest this as well. Most of them are like one-off horror stories. They keep getting passed down. That's right. You know, it's sort of like in the old days when unleaded fuel came and leaded fuel went away. You know, the valve seats will all get pounded out and this fuel is no good and it'll never last. And I can tell you, Eric, in my entire lifetime of working on vehicles and being around that era when that switch started to happen, I don't think I ever saw one single engine with pounded out valve seats again. It was one of those things where everybody talked about it, but you never saw one. People are resistant to change, that's for sure. So I think a lot of this hybrid battery thing is similar to that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I directly had somebody ask me one day when we were talking at the gas station, and he's like, well, I'm afraid the hybrid won't have the power to get up in the mountain.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, they're more powerful. No problem there.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's why I added that in. No, this thing... soars right up, whether you're going up by 70 or coming back up over Crow Hill on 285. It's got the power. Some pretty good high-elevation pulls.
SPEAKER 12 :
They work great. Well, and to your point, for those listening, the reason for that is while we lose some power because of our elevation on the gas engine sides of things, the battery side of it, Eric, as you know, is kicking back in, and the loss doesn't seem as much is the best way to say that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. I've usually seen that, you know, he was talking about seeing when it's using the motor versus the engine. Um, I've watched that going up in, you know, 65, 70, I'll see the, that motor kick in and, and it's like, okay, even at these speeds, that motor's doing its job in assisting.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Uh, yes. Yes. Um, But yeah, I just wanted to chime in.
SPEAKER 12 :
You hear Richard and I, as we review some of these cars, talk about, Eric, that for those that want kind of that best of both worlds, they still want a gas engine because they've got range anxiety or whatever the case might be. So they get range anxiety, so they don't want to necessarily buy an EV. On the same token, they like the fuel economy, power, the things that you and I are talking about. The best of both worlds is go pick a good hybrid and You know, the biggest thing in the hybrids for everybody listening is Do the comparison from the hybrid version to, in some cases, the non. Now, in some cases, there is no comparison because you're going to get a hybrid. That's all you're going to get. That's all they offer, and that's all that's there. On the same token, some of them, Eric, as you know, you've got a choice of like a Camry, for example. You can buy a hybrid or a non-hybrid, and you might notice there's a difference in, for example, the trunk space of the hybrid version versus the non-hybrid. So just do your checking. Make sure everything is all as you need it when it's all said and done because there are some trade-offs in some of that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Actually, just yesterday, you know, I think I told you that we're cleaning out my mom's house in Littleton because she went into memory care. And yesterday I was up there. I slid a big six foot tall, almost four foot wide, two and a half foot deep cedar wardrobe. right into the back of my Highlander. No problem. Got about three inches clearance on the side. Still have plenty of room to the roof. There's plenty of carrying capacity. Now, obviously, it's not like a minivan or a full-size van or something, but I get a lot of stuff into this car that you wouldn't necessarily think could be done. That's awesome. You know you're losing some to that battery pack usage, but that's under the passenger seat anyway.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, thank you for saying that, because, yeah, for all of you listening, they don't all equal. where they put the battery packs in some cases you might lose some floor uh depth in other words the floor might be a little bit higher in some cases they might put the battery right in the you know behind the back seat in front of the trunk space i mean every vehicle eric and by the way over the years this has changed it's not always the same from you know model year to model year they might make a big upgrade and change where that battery is positioned so It's one of those things where you really need to go look at the vehicle. Don't just look at a listing or something like that. Go physically look at the vehicle and make sure it meets the specs you need. yeah yeah nuts i've been perfectly happy with these uh hybrid hybrid highlanders um they're great car yep they are yeah they are yeah i mean i mean toyota in general and i'll say this across the board you can go from a prius to the sequoia being the largest so really going smallest to largest and there's not a one of them in there eric that i wouldn't own no yeah no i've
SPEAKER 07 :
I've been Toyota pretty much. I mean, my, my first car was the Opel Manta.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh yeah. That's what I learned to work on when I was a kid.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And then after that, I've, I've had Toyota, um, pretty much. That's the only thing I've bought. Good for you. We do have a Honda CRV and then my wife just bought it. Good car too.
SPEAKER 12 :
Nothing wrong with that car at all.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Yeah. My wife bought her Tesla. She came up to the mountains, uh, Didn't have to do any recharge. Got back to the city just fine. Its range is good. So, you know, it's just what is going to work for that individual, like you keep saying. I do a lot of high blade, as I've discussed before. But I still find those places where I can let off the accelerator, you know, coming off of Monument down into the Springs. I can let off that accelerator and let the regenerative thing work on the battery coming down that hill. It's steep enough.
SPEAKER 03 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 07 :
There's other things, like right now I'm at the Calhan, and if I go into work, there's pretty good hills even heading into the springs, and I just let off, let it do the regenerative thing, and I still get the advantages of the hybrid. just not as much as if I was driving city. Yep.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. You're again, for a lot of you listening, and this is something where I wish, and I mean this sincerely wish our side, which I understand the whole Evie, even the hybrid thing and the push from the political end of things and so on. But again, If you take all the politics out and you just look at what the vehicles are and what they do and how they function and the benefits of, Eric, and I wish more of our side would look at things that way, taking all of the politics out. Because if you do, you soon start realizing that, oh, okay, yeah, you know what? I might actually be better off with one of these than what I'm driving right now. But there's a lot of people that won't do that, Eric. They won't take the politics out of it, unfortunately. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Unfortunately, yeah. Yeah. I mean, I have to admit, I've not been because of how the politics and how EVs were forced upon us. Yep. I've been kind of that. No, I'm not getting one type thing. Yeah. Not that I'm against the technology. I'm against the way they did it. That's right.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I fully, you know, believe me, I'm with you guys on all of you that are on that side. I am with you. I fully get that sides of things. I, you know, again, because I'm a car guy and I always look at the car first and all of the political end of things second. And I've just learned through the years that, you know, don't knock it till you try it sort of a thing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, well, and I've got one friend. He's got advanced prostate cancer. He's getting weaker, doesn't want to deal with clutch anymore, things like that. He bought his EV, and it's got the one-pedal control. Oh, it's so nice. He loves it. I love it, too.
SPEAKER 12 :
It is so nice. Once you learn to drive that way, you get in the next car, and it's like, this sucks. Literally. I'm serious.
SPEAKER 17 :
I'll take your word for it.
SPEAKER 12 :
The one-pedal driving is so wonderful. It's just like, oh, this is a dream.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, yeah. No, he loves it. And like I said, with his Keenster the way it is.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I can see that.
SPEAKER 07 :
He just likes that better than he did his standard vehicle.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, no, I fully get it. Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. Well, I'm sure you've got other people waiting. You all have a great weekend. Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, Derek, appreciate you very much. Thanks for calling in. Mike got an EV car question as well. Hang tight. We'll come right back and answer that. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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And we're back. Myself, Pat Schneid, Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Two locations, by the way, to serve you. Go right to drive-radio.com and you can find him there. Mike and Littleton, you are next.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, I recently got an electric car. I had never planned to get one, but they were making such good deals in anticipation of the rebates going away. Correct, right. And locked in on one. I got a 2025 Dodge Daytona. Don't start your Daytona. I got the state one, which is only 496 horsepower as compared to the 670 horsepower state.
SPEAKER 12 :
And it's still fast as it is. Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's spooky fast. Yes. And it's all kind of fast. I've been a racer since 1961, and I know what fast cars feel like.
SPEAKER 12 :
just a whole difference they are i thank you for saying that mike and if you've never driven one and by the way mike it's it's true i mean especially on that car because it's really fast but it's really true kind of across the board i mean there's some really small evs that might not be quite as fast as what you're talking about but i will tell you this from zero to 40 they're all fast
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and plus it pulls forever because it never shifts and drops. That's right.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 06 :
You're 100% correct. It feels quick enough off the line, but where it really pulls is in the mid-range. You stick your foot in it at 35 and you're looking at 80 pretty quick. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
You're right. Again, people that have never driven one that hear us talk about it. And again, if you take the politics out of it and look at what the car actually is and does, if you really like driving, you know, quick cars, I guess that's about not fast cars, but quick cars are probably a better way to say because you only drive so fast anyways, Mike, as you know, with our highways and speed limits and so on. But if you want a really quick, functional car, there's nothing that beats an EV.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. And plus, this thing is a great driving car. They quit making them because they weren't popular at all. Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
They didn't sell. They didn't sell. Which, again, you know, was that a marketing thing? Was that, you know, the fact that they were forced on people through, you know, the whole EV thing? I mean, you hear me talk about this a lot. Had EVs been brought to market like every other capitalistic good typically is like, smartphones, for example, Mike, I think you'd see a whole different approach to EVs today. This is where government screws things up. They get involved in things and they force things on people. And when you do, it never works out well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, plus the manufacturers never tried to sell the car. Correct. They didn't have to. What's promoted was the rebate. That's right.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's all they promoted. That's right. You're right. Even to this day, nobody on the EV end of things, as far as the manufacturers are concerned, have done comparable, you know, here's our EV to their EV, and here's what we do different. Because of the way things were pushed upon the public, they got lazy. They never had to do that. That's right.
SPEAKER 06 :
It shouldn't have went like that. No, they didn't. And, of course, they wound up with problems because of it. That's right. It looks like the car is going to be brought back out with a gas engine. But at this point, I've got it. And I got it. I won't say it was free. Darn near. But pretty close.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, I have a client of mine that bought one, Mike, for the very reason we went through that conversation. And he was like, should I buy it? Should I? And I'm like, you know, for what we can gain out of it on the, you know, advertising wise and the fact that you can do some EV service and so on for the price. Yeah, we can't buy any better marketing. Hmm.
SPEAKER 06 :
I took their low mileage lease. I didn't need the car. I got it as an extra car. Yep, that's what he did, too.
SPEAKER 12 :
Perfect. No, that's exactly what he did, and we had that same discussion, Mike. And at the end of the day, it's a really fun car to own and drive. And I get it. You, I, he, you know, we're probably a little different than most. Most people can only afford, you know, one car, and that's what they need to go to and from. But there's a lot of people.
SPEAKER 06 :
that can afford a couple of cars and if you can and what you just did congratulations you made a great choice that's smart well i have five five cars so i don't need to drive this in the winter i i got this car for i saw i i saw the ad on tv and i went to the dealer the next morning because i didn't believe the ad and it was zero down 69 a month for the low mileage lease yep wow i had I had to pay the dealer handling. I had to pay the use tax. Right. And, of course, you have plates and insurance that you have on anything. And, by the way, the insurance is a bit high on electric cars.
SPEAKER 12 :
They're a little bit higher. You are correct. I have noted that on not only this show but my daily show as well. It's one of those things where if you're thinking about doing it, talk to your broker, your agent, whatever. Find out what the differences are going to be. Typically, they are going to be different. a little bit higher although you know your comparison in i don't know if you've done the math but i've done it typically your cost of electricity versus fuel depending upon the car the mileage and so on but it's typically about a third of the cost sometimes a quarter of the cost depending upon the vehicle but it's at least a third of the cost of what you would with gasoline well they gave me a 600 charging credit also there you go wow
SPEAKER 06 :
That's with ChargePoint. The question I, and by the way, my insurance is with Paul Leuenberger, who I met because of your show, and I have other cars with him. What am I looking at in the winter? First of all, let me give you my background. I don't have a level one charging point for the car. You mean level two? Yeah. It's going to be outside.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, so it came with probably a level one, which is plugging into 120. You mean a level two, the 240 volt?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, we downsized out of our house. I'm going to be 82 years old in January.
SPEAKER 12 :
You don't sound it, Mike. No.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't feel like it. No, you don't sound it at all.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's the fast cars to keep you young. Yeah, good for you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, we sold our house and became renters and love every minute except one day a month when we pay the rent. Gotcha. But besides that, What kind of problems am I looking at in the winter? I realize that using the heater will definitely suck the battery down.
SPEAKER 12 :
All in all, and as you know, I've driven EVs since 2020. And I'm like you. I've got other cars to drive, so it's not just EVs. But my main mode is typically an EV. In fact, I'll give a story on that here in a minute as to what I just did of late. At the end of the day, though, I don't worry about that. You're going to notice some range drop with the colder weather, but, Mike, I don't function any differently, whether it's hot, cold, whatever. I mean, for me, typically, and I drive probably more than most, I'm a 75-, 80-mile round tripper, and every single EV on the market, for the most part, maybe with the exception of some of those short-range Leafs, but every other EV, even in the wintertime, will give me that range no problem all day long.
SPEAKER 06 :
I have two friends that got Leafs for $300 down and $20 a month. You know, this thing has paddles for regeneration. Yes. And they work great. In fact, I find myself looking for them on my other cars.
SPEAKER 12 :
Does that car, because I'm not familiar enough with yours, does it have the one-pedal driving?
SPEAKER 06 :
It doesn't have it per se, but if you use the paddles, you do. You only have to touch the brake at the last mile per hour to come to a dead stop.
SPEAKER 12 :
So given that, you might look through all of your screen settings and so on and see if there's a one-pedal driving, because if that's the case, you never touch the brake ever.
SPEAKER 06 :
I rarely do anyway. And the regeneration is phenomenal. I drive once a month from down near the Red Rocks area up to the northern part of Arvada around 80th, and I can gain four miles of range.
SPEAKER 12 :
So you can, instead of you having to use your paddle and so on, there is a setting that will allow you one pedal driving where you don't even have to use the paddles.
SPEAKER 06 :
One question I have is that it's kind of interesting because it has a range, and at 80%, I'm showing about 210 miles of range. And then on the other side of the display, it has the percentage. Correct. And I don't let it go ever much below 50%, and I only charge it to 80%. But when I'm doing my regeneration, my range miles go up, but my percentage of battery capacity goes up.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, because what they're looking at is your percentage isn't going to change a whole lot. What it's looking at is because you're regenerating and not necessarily using as much of the battery, that's extending your range, but your percentage isn't going to change a whole lot.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, one of the coolest things about this car, I don't know if you ever heard one, but they've really got the sound effects right.
SPEAKER 12 :
I've not heard one. A friend of mine that bought one, one of my clients, you need to listen to his. I haven't done that yet. I saw one at SEMA that was in the prototype end of things, but I've not seen one since.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, that's what I've seen, too. So does it sound loud, or can you hear the sound outside the car or just inside the cabin?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, no, outside the car.
SPEAKER 03 :
Outside.
SPEAKER 06 :
It sounds like you're starting up a big block muscle car when you do it, and it's very realistic going down the road, especially in sport mode.
SPEAKER 12 :
I saw a video where a guy actually got a sound ticket for one of those, and the guy's like, this is how the car is made.
SPEAKER 06 :
People say to me in my complex here, gee, that thing sounds great. That's hilarious. I'm not looking at any problems because my car has got to sit outside. Okay. And the cold weather, it's not going to hurt it, is it?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, not at all. Not going to bother a thing. In fact, they're more fun to drive in the cold weather because it warms up so much faster than a gasoline-powered car. That's the other nice thing about EVs is it's almost like instant heat, Mike.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Okay, cool. Well, I know the EC is that way, too.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep, you're right. Good job. Let us know how things go. Keep giving us updates, but that's awesome. Good for you. It's a good story.
SPEAKER 06 :
They only made 2,400 of these things.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. Enjoy it, Mike. Have fun.
SPEAKER 1 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right, man. Appreciate you very much. Great update. No, thank you very much. We'll come right back. We'll take more calls, 303-477-5600. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 12 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio KLZ 560. And just as a side note, Pat and I were just talking when it comes to EVs. Yeah, there are still maintenance things needed when it comes to EVs. They are not like, again, the political sides of things made it sound like you'd buy it, drive it, never do anything to it. There's no such thing. It's a mechanical device. There's still going to be things that are needed. If you curb check something, are you going to have some suspension issues? Potentially you will. Are you going to do tires? Yes, because of the regenerative braking and the weight alone, you're going to go through more tires typically eventually. there are some fluids that need to be changed it's not fluid free there's cooling for example when it comes to the batteries and such there's even some drive components depending upon the ev that may need some oil change things done now are you doing oil changes every 4 000 miles like a regular gas engine no you are not but what you save on that you're going to make up in the tire and tire wear and part of the tire wear by the way isn't just the weight of the vehicle It's because they're fun to drive. And so your foot's typically in it and you're having fun driving it and not crazy, anything like that, but just the quickness of it. Yes, when you're on the pedal more and you're doing faster acceleration, even from zero to 40, yes, that's going to wear tires faster than what a typical ICE engine vehicle, ICE being internal combustion engine. Yes, typically you're going to have more wear on the tires because of that, Pat.
SPEAKER 03 :
100%. And I know this is radio, and the audience can't see me over here smiling ear to ear. But what you just said, because they're fun to drive. Hey, life is short. You should drive what is fun to drive.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. And for me, it's – and I appreciate you saying that, Pat. For me, a lot of this comes down to, like Mike, our last caller. You know, if you've got – in some cases, some of you have – I know some of you because you text me some of the cars and things you have. You've got one, two, three, five, whatever cars. I mean – Yeah, if you're not going from here to the California coast, could you do that in an EV? Yeah. Would I? No. I've got other vehicles that you can hop in. But frankly, I'm at that age of life now where... I'm not driving to the coast anyways. If I want to go to the coast, I'm flying. And if I want to do something else, I'll rent a car. I'm different today. I mean, a lot of you out there listening, you love road trips and so on. That's not me. I'll do a road trip on a have-to basis, not on a want-to basis.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I might do a five-hour trip to the Black Hills or something like that. That's different. Yeah, but I'm not going to Boston.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I'm not driving to the East Coast. In fact, I'm not even driving to Texas. I mean, probably the farthest I would drive might be Arizona. I mean, other than that, I'm not driving anywhere. I'm flying. And even in that case, you can fly faster than driving. And to me, you know, in my stage of life, time is money. And, you know, that's valuable. And I got better things to do to sit behind a windshield. Do that every day as it is. Yep. Yep. Totally agree. So my point, and I think Pat just said it well a moment ago, drive what you want. what you like and for some of you you know the car is a tool a to B a to B okay I get that and that's fine you know nothing against you guys that's you and that's what you like then that's fine on the same token some of you like driving and you like different types of cars and you like the performance sides of things and some of you have really exotic performance cars some of you have not so exotic performance cars like you know Mazda Miata is because they're fun to drive and the top comes down and all of that some of you have old classics and so on bottom line drive what you like and Yep. And quit worrying about the politics of all of this is my point.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, exactly. Not politics. Drive what you like, what makes you smile, and then just maintain it and life gets better.
SPEAKER 12 :
Exactly. So at the end of the day, I can't say that enough. Drive what you like. And to Mike's point, yeah, there has been, although most of those have gone away, there have been some really good deals on some of the EV end of things. Now, as a side note. There still are some good EV deals out there. Some of the manufacturers have just flat lowered prices. They're still in some states, depending upon where you live, some good state credits and rebates when it's all said and done. And I get it. People that are saying, well, you know, that just means you're taking money from government. Government has no money, so you're taking money from taxpayers. Guys, the way I've always looked at that, they're going to blow that money on something anyways. So at the end of the day, if you can benefit from that and it helps you personally when it's all said and done, it's no different than a farmer taking a subsidy or you as a business taking depreciation or, or, or, or, or. I mean, we can go down the list of all the different things that are out there that at the end of the day help taxpayers when it's all said and done. And you know what? If there's a tax credit and it's there and it's available for you to take and It's going to go to you or somebody else. So at the end of the day, if it needs to be you, then make it you. That's my view. I talk about that during the day on the other program as well. Is it right, wrong, or otherwise? It doesn't matter. It's there. So at the end of the day, you do whatever you need to do for you. And I like what Pat's point was a moment ago. You drive what you want to drive at the end of the day. We as a show have never, you know, forced or gone a particular way when it comes to certain vehicles. If it works for you in your life, you know what? Knock your socks off. Have fun. Yep, absolutely agree with that. I'm never going to tell you what to drive or not drive. Every one of you out there listening has different needs and does different things and go for it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I remember a good friend of mine, Paul, when I was working at a consumer electronics company up in Greeley, he went out and bought a motorcycle. And he drove like six or seven motorcycles. And at the end of the day, he bought a pretty zippy Triumph Triple. And his wife said, you know, bright yellow. And he's like, Paul's an older gentleman. And his wife, when he got home, says, why did you buy that one? And his son was in the room and says, I know why Dad bought that one, Mom. That's the one that makes him smile from ear to ear when he cracks the throttle.
SPEAKER 12 :
And again, everybody's got a little different want. And I've always said this. We live in America. Do you buy things because you need it? No. Rarely. Normally, you buy something because you want it. I mean, yeah, we need a toothbrush and toothpaste and soap and some of those sorts of things, and that's a different need, okay? But when it comes to cars, does anybody need a new car? No, you can drive a used car just fine and get by and go A to B and all of that and not have any issues, but is that what you want? If you want a new car, then go buy a new car. Again, I've never criticized, Pat, anybody ever for doing some of those things. If you want to go buy it and you can afford it, go buy it. Well, that's just it.
SPEAKER 03 :
A lot of people save money in retirement. And you know what? One thing I can tell you for sure, you're not taking it with you. No, you're not. You need to enjoy it while you're here. And a lesson that I learned from my father was it's amazing how well you can justify anything once you decide what you want.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, one last thing before we close out this hour. Somebody asked me on the text line, did I hear about Toyota launching their new luxury brand above Lexus? Yes, I did. I've mixed emotions on that. Not sure exactly how that's going to work out for them. They're going to try to compete with the Rolls Royces and Bentleys of the world. Again, not being critical. Time will tell whether that's a good thing for them to do or not. I was going to mention that, so thank you for texting me on the reminder. I had that in my notes anyways. All right, we're going to close out this first hour. We've got two more hours coming your way. Myself, Pat Schneid, Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. We'll be right back with hour number two. Don't go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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Join us on this engaging journey into the world of automotive expertise as we dive deep into some of the most interesting aspects of car maintenance and repair. Whether you're a Chevy enthusiast or simply curious about modern automotive care, this episode of Drive Radio covers intriguing questions including the ignition timing for classic models and the evolving aspects of modern diesel maintenance. Our hosts share insightful tips on dealing with catalytic converter issues, understanding tailgate options, and keeping your diesel running smoothly. We also uncover the importance of routine maintenance and offer practical solutions to common vehicular challenges. With expert advice from seasoned professionals, this episode is a must-listen for anyone looking to extend the life of their vehicle while saving on costly repairs. From tailgate theft prevention tips to insights on maintaining emission systems, we provide comprehensive advice to keep your automotive life stress-free and efficient.
SPEAKER 19 :
Being an expert on general automotive knowledge, what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic inch engine and a four barrel carburetor?
SPEAKER 17 :
It is a trick question. Watch this. Because Chevy didn't make a 327 in 55. The 327 didn't come out until 62. And it wasn't offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb until 64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top dead center.
SPEAKER 12 :
Get ready for another hour of Drive Radio, brought to you by Colorado's select auto care centers. Got a question for the experts? Then give them a call, 303-477-5600. Now it's time to pop the hood and get our hands dirty. Drive Radio on KLZ 560 The Source.
SPEAKER 07 :
And we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Hour number two, if you're just joining us, thank you very much. Pat Schneid with me from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Somebody said the wind's blowing up there fairly hard now. Still showing some snow up in the Cheyenne area for a lot of you that are up in that area as well. Thanks for the updates. I appreciate it greatly. Dan in Blackhawk, you are first this hour.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, how's it going today?
SPEAKER 07 :
Good, Dan. How are you?
SPEAKER 11 :
Doing good. I got a question and maybe you guys can direct me in the right direction. I have a My dad gave me a 2019 Chevy Silverado Duramax. Okay, nice. And it's got the check engine light. Before he gave it to me, he had it checked out down in Lake Havasu, Arizona, and they said the catalytic converters need to be replaced. Is there a shop in town that can do that besides the dealership?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. Any of the, like in your case, Arvada West, who's probably closest to you coming down out of Blackhawk, they could do that for you. And it's interesting. And again, I would have them look at that because, first of all, how many miles are on it?
SPEAKER 11 :
$192,000 or $196,000. It's a 2019. Okay, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that's got a DPF filter and some other stuff on it as well, so they'll check all of that and see exactly what's needed. And there are sometimes ways to clean those, depending upon how bad they're sooted up and what they actually look like. And that shop, especially, very familiar with everything I just said.
SPEAKER 11 :
Nevada West?
SPEAKER 07 :
Nevada West Truck and Auto.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. And then if it was purchased in Colorado, which I think it was, did they have California cats on the diesel?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, that's a whole different ballgame on those.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's a whole different ballgame. Okay, and then on top of it, they had a lift gate on the back of it. The dealership he bought it from, they took the lift gate up, but they didn't replace any of the tailgate parts. And it's missing all the parts. I do have the shell of the tailgate. but I need to get all the hardware.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you've got the tailgate itself, but you don't have the hardware that goes on the truck?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you're missing the little cups and things and the cables and stuff that are actually usually left on the truck itself. That's what you're missing?
SPEAKER 11 :
That is correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. On that year of truck, those things should be able to be bought from the dealership pretty easily. There should be a schematic. In fact, Dan, you can probably find a schematic and a blow-up and even get your own part numbers of what you specifically would need based upon what you know you have on the gate versus what needs to go on the bed of the truck. I would look up my own part numbers if it were me.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. I don't want to say problems. But there's multiple – they had multiple tailgate options that year. Like there's gate access. There's – I'm assuming – I think it had the backup camera.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. Well, and again, all of that should be in – so you have the original gate that came on the truck?
SPEAKER 11 :
No. It never came with the gate.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, it never had a gate on it. So where did you get the tailgate from?
SPEAKER 11 :
I bought it off of eBay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, and is it just a standard single gate?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and the reason why I did that is because it matched the color of the truck.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sure, makes sense. Does it have backup camera and all that in it, or is it just blank?
SPEAKER 11 :
No, no, it's just the shell. That's all it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, so you need handle and the whole nine yards.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, the whole kit and caboodle.
SPEAKER 07 :
Gotcha. Okay, what I would probably do, if it were me, is A, you've got to buy all the stuff that goes on the bed. That's going to be separate because nobody's going to have that. I mean, some of the used parts suppliers out there might have some of that stuff, but that stuff's easy to get new. I would just buy new stuff from the dealer and be done with it. Now, the gate itself... I would find another gate that's complete that might even be damaged, might even have dings, dents, whatever, but it would have all the hardware you need. I'd go buy a damaged tailgate. It doesn't matter what color it is because you're going to take all the crap off and just put it inside the one you have that matches, and off you go. That's what I would do.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I was thinking that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Buy one where it's been smushed, crushed, hit, damaged, whatever. As long as the handle and all that stuff is good, all the latches and stuff will be fine. None of that stuff ever gets damaged, Dan. It's the shell that usually gets all messed up, and then just take the junk out of it and put it in yours and toss the other one.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
I would do that before trying to piece everything together. That's what I would do.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, and then you talked, going back to the catalytic converters, how often should I do... How do I verify that I'm doing the maintenance on the engine so that it doesn't... You know, I want to keep it up to date.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, that's a great question. And on a diesel, nothing. Really, the key to a diesel and keeping all of that stuff soot-free and clean is drive it. And what I mean by that is drive it and drive it hard. The worst thing you can do to a diesel with all of the particulate system and the emission system that's there is let it sit, let it idle. Like with us, where we plow snow, it's one of the hardest things you could do on the systems. We struggle with that in my world because a lot of our trucks in the wintertime, that's what they're doing because it's what we do. One of the worst things you could do for the catalyst system on one, in my case, we don't have any choice. We just deal with it. We do what we can to get them cleaned out and so on. But the best thing to do with the diesel is go drive it. Change oil every, in your case, about 6,000 miles and drive it. Yep, drive it hard.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it has that computer system in there when it tells you when to change the oil.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and in your case, disregard that. Just do it at 6,000 miles and call it good.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, and then now that you said that, on top of that, so the truck was given to me. So prior to that, I still have it as a 737.
SPEAKER 07 :
uh diesel 2001 do i do the same do i want to drive that as much as possible the 2001 doesn't have near the emissions devices on it on the 73 that that the you know that yours has in fact the 73 has none um i believe depending upon the truck you shouldn't have anything on it at all it'll be the engine and you can even put a straight pipe exhaust on it if you want to a lot of them were done that way back in the day yep
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I've got, what, four-inch, six-inch exhaust.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, then it's already straight piped and you're done. You don't have to do a thing to it. Just drive it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, cool.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that one's really easy. And those are becoming more valuable as time goes by. The 2019 isn't going to decrease much either, but the 01 is going up in value because everybody wants one. Less emissions control. Yeah, because it has nothing on it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, and then just before I get off the phone, I love your... All great questions, so you're fine. ...chromic. Yeah, from Cousin Vinny when he asked about the time. How many people do you think understand what that means?
SPEAKER 05 :
Very few. Oh, that's such a funny clip, though. It's a great movie.
SPEAKER 11 :
It is. And the way she looks at the judge, she's just like, yep, okay, I know that. And the judge is looking at her like, his mouth is just wide open like, Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep, yep, the perfect New Jersey attitude.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's a great clip.
SPEAKER 07 :
Really quick, Dan, on yours, on your gate, you know, before you go to even some of the used places and so on, just look online. You might find, I was looking the other day, I don't know how I even got to looking at, I don't know why I was looking at tailgates, just something come up in my, marketplace feed, but there's a ton of tailgates on marketplace, and all you need is one that's, even if it's dinged up, damaged, backed into, has a ton of scratches in it, whatever the case, as long as it's got the hardware you need, who cares? Yep, grab the brackets.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and I think, isn't that... Of course, they changed body style, so I don't have to specifically look for 2019. Is that correct?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I can't. I got to go back and remember. I think that's the same from, I think they changed in 2020, body style. Hang on. Let me look here. I think you can go, and Pat might have to help me on this. Body style change? Yeah, when did the body style change in that? And that's on the 2500s on the HD. It's a 3500 HD. Gotcha. Yeah, I think... I'm trying to do this from memory. I believe they changed that one. But, again, this is where you've really got to look it up because the gates, just because they changed the body, Dan, doesn't mean the gates changed. That's where it gets really weird on trucks.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, so what I'm pulling up from ChatGPT is showing in 2020 there was a full redesign implemented, which was newer and wider. So they probably did change the gates. So that means the gate's probably different then, yes.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, so... So like 2019, I think you can go all the way back to, I want to say the next big version was 2012, but 2011 maybe? Dan, I'm trying to do this from memory, and I'd have to look this one up specifically, but I think you can go all the way back to like 2010, 2011 pretty easily. Again, ChatGPT just pulled up 2015. 2015, okay, so 2015 to 2019 is the same. And again, the gates, what makes this weird is, to Pat's point, the gates get weird. Sometimes even the body is the same, but the gates change. Yep. No, I shouldn't say that. The dimensions are basically the same, but the gate still changes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, you'll have body lines, contours that will match up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct. Even though the gate dimension might be the same. It'll look funny. But in your case, what you really need to get specific on is did the hardware change even with some of those body style changes? They may not have. They may have left the hardware the same. Solid point.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. So I can just do a... I'll probably just search and see.
SPEAKER 07 :
Do an AI search. That's the best way to do this is say, okay, I'm looking for specific hardware from a 2019 blah, blah, blah, you know, 2500 HD. What models of trucks have the same gate hardware based upon what I'm giving you?
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Okay, I'll do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
They usually fill in the blanks.
SPEAKER 11 :
So I'll give Arvada West a call and see what they can do.
SPEAKER 07 :
They can help you on the emissions side for sure, Dan.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and what they're saying on the Internet here is that you have, in a 2019, what's called a third-generation Silverado HD. There you go.
SPEAKER 11 :
A third-generation HD. Okay, so if I type that in, it should... Yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Fourth-generation came out in 2020. Which I think is the same today. I don't think they've changed. But again, don't quote me because they change them all the time. And I have not, I'll be the first to admit, they change these things so much anymore that I don't even keep up on the model versions. I figure when it comes time to look something up, you take a VIN number and you go look it up and off of that, and I haven't even paid attention to the rest of it anymore. Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
In the world, the difference between that 2019 and my 2001 is amazing. Huge. I haul a fifth wheel.
SPEAKER 04 :
Huge.
SPEAKER 11 :
I haul a fifth wheel. It's got that engine brake on it. So when I went up this fall, on the backside of Eisenhower, I put that engine brake on, and I didn't even have to hit my brakes the whole way down.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, very cool. Yeah, no, the engine brake works really well. You're 100%.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I was correct. So the fourth generation is now the same. That's what I thought. I don't think they had changed him much. They're talking about doing another change and have a fifth generation, but, you know, who knows when that will come out. And Pat's right. Your third generation was 2015, 2019.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, cool. That helps me out a bunch. Thank you very much.
SPEAKER 07 :
Dan, great questions, by the way. Appreciate that. And tailgates on trucks. By the way, as a side note for a lot of you that have trucks, tailgate theft is huge. So where you park, make sure things are locked. On and on we go because tailgate theft is huge across the country. Well, now with quick-release tailgates, it can be a 20-second deal. And a tailgate replacement can be a few thousand bucks. Yep. More than you think. So thank you, Dan. Great questions, by the way. All right. Lines are open. 303-477-5600. We'll be back here in just one moment. Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 07 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Lines are open, 303-477-5600. Give us a call. And going back to the whole trucks and generations and so on, you know, guys, back in the day, I would have memorized all of that, but anymore, I'll be honest with you, I don't have to, don't care to. Most things that I look up, even helping a lot of you guys look for things, is give me a VIN number and some mileage, and I'll take it from there because everything has gotten so specific. Even from, you might be in the same generation, but go one year to another, and the part lookup changes because that's the way things have happened inside. So just because the body is the same doesn't mean some of the internal things have stayed the same, Pat.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, that's 100%, and I think what we talked about on break is that the power of the Internet now has allowed things to get that complicated and that different and that individual, and then you have to harness that power and learn how to use that So if you go to a regular, call it a Google search or whatever search engine you use, then you up that to an artificial intelligence with ChatGPT or one of its competing engines. Wow. Unlimited potential right here at your fingerprints. We didn't used to have that 10 years ago.
SPEAKER 07 :
No. Meaning back in the day, you could memorize some of the different generations and different this and different that, and you kind of knew, well, this will work on that and so on. And it's gotten so complicated that even certain sensors where you would think, well, that'll work from this one to the other. There are even some, Pat can attest this, there are some sensors that depending upon the car and when it was made in that model year run might even be different from one month to another. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, literally, they'll buy them in bulk to manufacturers, and when they run out, they've got to make a switch. And so, yeah, you'll have a mid-year, mid-month change, and that can be problematic, right? And so you used to have to say, well, take that one out of the car. I'm taking it downtown to the parts counter. I'm going to hold it there and compare it to the one I'm buying. You don't have to do that anymore. You can do all that on the Internet.
SPEAKER 07 :
Correct. Yeah, again, for those of you where it's, you know, you're probably thinking, why haven't you memorized that stuff? I don't have to. I'm past that day and age where it's like, okay, let me ask a lot of you this question. How many of you still memorize phone numbers? Because I don't. No. I've stopped doing that. Back in the day, I could almost read off every vendor's phone number that I had and friends and relatives and so on, and you had it all off the top of your head. Just as a side note, there's only so much brain computing power that you have, and I've gotten to the point where it's like, you know what? I don't need to fill it up with stuff I don't need to know anymore, and I don't need to know that stuff anymore.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, that's true, but I'll guarantee you that you still have your childhood home phone number memorized. Oh, still do. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because that one just became automatic, and you had it for so long. I still remember some of our old phone numbers for the business and stuff, but point being, you don't need to do that any longer, and most don't.
SPEAKER 05 :
Nope. New contacts go into your smartphone, and you get a phone number, a mobile phone number, and an email address, and you decide later when to use them.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's exactly right. All right, let's do this. We're up against where we can run our review that we did on Monday. This one's a little bit longer because we did a Toyota Tacoma, the new version of. Richard got a chance to drive that car, so listen up. We'll come back. We've got calls coming in. Larry will get us all dialed in, 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 06 :
We don't yell at you. We inform you. Now, back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Also that time when we play drive radio as well because we do car reviews on a weekly basis. Richard, what have you driven lately?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, Dad, so I drove a pretty fun car, or I should say a truck. I'm going to misstate it. A 2025 Toyota Tacoma. This was the TRD Pro model. And I've got the window sticker that I'm going to pull up here real quick. And, Dad, this is a fantastic little truck, right? They redesigned this truck. I believe it was this year, if I'm not mistaken. And they've made a lot of improvements, right? They changed the styling. They updated the interior. It looks like a lot of the other, you know, Toyota trucks and SUVs and all those different things out there. And what I would say is this, that this vehicle is right in line with a lot of these other midsize trucks, right? This is in line with a lot of the other manufacturers that, however, this model specifically, which again is the TRD Pro model, is made to basically be bought specifically And then driven off-road, the minute that you buy it on the lot, you don't have to add a whole lot to it. You don't have to change a whole lot to it, right? It comes with everything. For example, it's got trimmed and heated, ventilated performance front seats. The front seats that actually have, like, shock.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, those are cool. I actually wanted to see those. I had a crazy week where I would have seen those personally, but I wanted to see those.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. And they include a little hand pump, and you can basically change it to on-road, off-road. You can set the settings. It's got two different shock dampeners on each side, so it's the front and back motion and the side-to-side motion. And again, all that's included. It's got a TRD Pro heated steering wheel. It's got the 10-speaker sound system. It's also got the JBL system or the little mini speaker that you can kind of pop out as a Bluetooth option that you can take and do what you need to. Underneath the hood, Dad, this is probably the best thing, especially for our altitude. It's got the i-FORCE MAX 2.4-liter four-cylinder turbocharged hybrid powertrain, along with the eight-speed automatic transmission. It's got the four-wheel drive demand, part-time 4x4 system, TRD-tuned Fox transmissions, internal bypass shocks, electronically controlled locking differential, and I can sit here and go on and on. Folks, I think you can see this thing is made to be bought and then driven off-road. And, Dad, you and I were talking kind of last week, I should say, when we had this vehicle, that this is sort of becoming a very popular segment of the market, which is these off-road-tuned or off-road-capable midsize trucks, and we'll get to the price here in a second, that people basically can buy and they don't have to do a whole lot, too.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly. No. And for those of you listening in our area, one of the hottest trucks probably still sold in our area. Resale value because of that, I should say. Resale value very high. One of the few vehicles, Richard, that you can buy that you really don't lose a lot of money on when it's all said and done.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, Dad, you can buy these vehicles, you know, again, obviously there was the older V6, you know, editions of these that, you know, they had 200,000 miles on them, Dad, and they were still about 60% of the value of when you bought them, right? These things just really stand up to the test of time. This vehicle, as it sits, Dad, because people are going to want to know. 67,410. And so yes, folks, a Toyota Tacoma is 67,000. However, if you compare that to the competition, dad, with how they are outfitted and everything else, and this is not a standard Tacoma, right? I just want to make sure that people know that this vehicle is not just your run of the mill, you even limited, whatever it might be. This is an off-road variant of that they are you know kind of a special edition and like you said that those special editions at times and not special in the sense of you know they're making a limited run but just special with a lot of the features that are on there they tend to do better in the resale market and on this vehicle which which like we talked about we've driven other models i can say that that this thing runs well it looks fantastic um it was a really that pretty kind of sand brown color to it they've got some different fenders on it which are nice it's got some steel bump steel bumpers that make it great, some different colors. It's just this vehicle stands out in the right ways, and I would encourage folks that if you're interested to go check it out because, again, yes, is that price point high? Yes, but if you were to go buy a standard Tacoma, Dad, and then outfit it the way that you maybe would want to, you're probably in the same ballpark, and obviously you did that for years. you know, when it comes to outfitting these vehicles, it can get expensive.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah, no, your aftermarket bill gets extremely high, and by the way, much higher than it even used to be. A lot of that now is included from the factory. And again, you can still personalize after that if you want to do certain things that give you that ability as well. But no, to your point, Richard, taking a stock truck, turning it into something that in this case is already done for you, the already done for you is still the cheapest way. And... On top of that, you get all the warranty that comes from the factory along with it.
SPEAKER 08 :
I was just going to say, you get the factory warranty. You're not going to get any questions about it, what went on, anything like that. And again, Dad, the nice thing that they've done is there's really not a whole lot of options on this vehicle. They've given you a towing technology package, which includes wireless camera system. You've got courtesy delivery, rear differential skid plate, some things like that. Real quick, Dad, fuel economy, 22 and 24 for 23. About the only real negative I can have on this vehicle, and it's more of just you've just kind of got to get used to it, it's got a pretty small fuel tank. So I was actually less than 300 miles of range in terms of when I was actually able to drive it. So I had to kind of fill up midweek just because the average driving around Colorado that folks know, you're going further than maybe you are in other markets. But is that something that will prevent me from buying this vehicle? No. And again, if you're looking to buy something that can go off-road, can do a little bit of minor towing, some things of that nature, I would highly recommend this vehicle. And honestly, Dad, I would say to... Anyone who's interested, maybe you've seen this vehicle, you've admired it from afar, head to your local Toyota dealer, test drive them, see what they've got on the lot, and I would encourage you to really get your friends and your family in it because I think that you'll be really pleased with what Toyota's done. Again, 2025 Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro. Let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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SPEAKER 07 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Okay, question of the day, which we threw out early on and didn't really get any responses. So this is a good question, by the way. First car, either that you purchased in retirement. We did get an answer, actually, from probably Mike along those lines on the EV. But what's the first car that you've purchased in retirement? Or what will... You purchase in retirement, 303-477-5600. Again, myself, Pat Schneid, Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. And again, any questions that you've got for us today, we're here to answer. Outside of even the question of the day could be, hey, I'm looking to buy a new car. I'm looking to buy a used car. I've got a question on a car. I've got a light on. Whatever the case may be, we'll help you through all of that. Absolutely. That's what we're here for. So again, what is that car that you would buy in retirement? Some of you have done that. Now, for me, personally, my problem is I just keep flipping. Yep, yep. I'll get something, and I'll do it for a while, and maybe make a little money on it or whatever, and then I'll flip it off and do something else, and that's just me.
SPEAKER 05 :
And that's okay. The variety of it is nice. And so I'm like you. I would do the same. And I have a couple of requirements. So I want to have a shop that I can put five to seven to ten vehicles in because I want them inside. I want them to be clean when they go in. Then when I want to drive them, they're clean. And when I sell them, they're clean. And, yeah, they're a lot more fun that way.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and for some of you that don't have that space availability, and this is something I don't know if we've ever really covered, and not, especially in today's world, not all homes give you that ability. Some homes might have a three-car garage, but even that's fairly limiting depending upon the size of the doors and the height and so on. Some of you end up with really nice garages. Some of you have the ability to put a garage or a shop out back. Others, your renting space someplace else, your man cave, if you would, quote, unquote, that's becoming more and more popular, although it's also getting more and more expensive.
SPEAKER 05 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
Most of the man caves where you might put, I don't know, depending upon the size of the man cave, you might get half a dozen cars in it depending upon the layout, and you're going to spend $400,000 for that. Right. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. I mean, it's not a large space. You're going to get 1,500 square feet or so, and it's going to be $400,000 or more.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and so just as space has gotten expensive, vehicles have gotten expensive. And so a lot of style choices there, too. And I particularly am one that liked to drive a little bit older vehicle. And so I would just as soon have five cars each valued at $20,000 as I would a $100,000 car, for example.
SPEAKER 07 :
And you know what? I've got, you know, all of the above. So it just depends on what you're looking to do and the car you're looking to own. Correct. And I can fully understand what Pat's saying as far as that goes. And just keep this in mind as well is that – How should I say this in a nice way? It's getting harder to find people to work on the older vehicles. Oh, for sure. So if you're going to own an older vehicle, having some skills to work on an older vehicle isn't a bad thing because finding people to do work on them outside of yourself, Pat, is getting harder and harder to do.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that's absolutely true. And so we look at that as a shop in Fort Collins, right? So we typically like to work on vehicles that are 20 years old or less. And part of the reason is we have a lot of technicians that are in their 20s. So if you bring in a 1970s or 80s carbureted vehicle, they don't have the slightest idea where to start. And so, yes, you do need to have either a specialty shop or some skills or some friends. And now we will look at those cars on occasion, but a lot of shops won't, to your point, John. So...
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and I've had that question for some of you. You'll text in and say, you know, who can work on XYZ? Yeah. And the, you know, the reality is, and I coach auto shops, so I'll just say this, you know, bluntly. I've even got most of my auto shops where we decide what is our year cut off of things that we're not going to work on any longer. Yep. that's not 1950. In most cases, it could be we're not working on anything 2000 and older because what happens is parts availability, the tooling to even work on some of those vehicles as far as the computers and such go, gets old and dated, and you may not even have what you need for that any longer because the tools have been updated into the newer models, and, and, and, and, and we go. And it gets to the point where your efficiency starts to drop significantly Correct. On the older vehicles, meaning as a shop, you just can't make money working on those. And I know for a lot of people, they can't wrap their head around that. They're like, well, if you charge X amount per hour, you ought to be able to make money. Well, what if production stops? Right. Now you're not making any.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it does in some of the scenarios you just described. So there was a fairly obvious cutoff in vintage right at 1996 with onboard diagnostics version two. Right. And so from there forward, you have better diagnostic ability with your scan tool and some of the tools that you use in the shop to figure out and repair what's going on. However, what you also just said is from 1996 to probably, what, 2004, 2005, 2006 now, there's a lot of plastic in those cars, and so you cannot get those parts. And so if you can't find a part production stops and that car is blocking your bay, that's a bad business decision, and that's why shops do it that way.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, because it's costing you production at that point.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
So what a lot of folks don't understand, and I'll explain this in the next few minutes here because this is pretty, you would think, pretty black and white, but for a lot of folks, they don't know how shops work. So if that vehicle in the bay, is not being worked on, and I get it, there's always some parts downtime and so on, that's why in a lot of cases a shop will run two bays per tech. Not all, because not everybody has that kind of room, but you might run at least two bays a tech or a bay and a half a tech, depending on, maybe techs will share one bay because of what I just said. You want to keep working, and keep production going so you get this particular you know vehicle all done handle checked out the estimates getting sold you're getting parts ordered off you go but everything's not there yet but you don't want to run it out of the bay so you jump over and you work on the next car in the next bay and you try to do that flip-flopping as much as you can now some shops only have the ability to have one tech one bay it's really important in those scenarios that that vehicle come in and out in a timely fashion because if all of a sudden you're waiting for parts Production stops, you're not making any money out of that bay. And folks, believe me, as the price of real estate continues to grow, meaning the rents are growing, meaning that that production, every square inch of that shop has to be generating revenue. Otherwise, you're not going to stay in business. That's right. And Pat, you of all people understand what I just said.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and we have had over the, you know, I've been in this business now 10 years. We've taken on some projects because we did have the ability. And in the end, you look back at it and say, was it a good business decision? No, it necessarily wasn't. We probably lost money doing it. So, I mean, you do learn from some of those experiences. And to your point, there are plenty of resources in the world. And you can find them better today than ever before through the Internet. You just have to understand that if you're going to choose to own and drive one of those vehicles, it is going to cost you more than a new one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well said, Pat. Well said. Mark and Wiggins, go ahead.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, good morning. I'm actually one hand on the wrench and one hand on the phone working on the carburetor on a 1986 Chevy. It's got a 454. Your quadrajet? Yep, yeah. I took the quadrajet and the Holley, actually, that was on here down to a shop in Englewood yesterday. That's called the carburetor shop. And Jay, you know, I didn't expect him to work it on a Friday, but he said, you know, give me an hour and I'll take a look at it. And found a spring that I would have never found this, but a spring that was causing the secondaries to not fully retract and therefore causing the engine to go in high RPM for idle mode. But he got that in the Holley, I think it was called the primary pump, adjusted and And so I've been contemplating, you know, I put the Quadradet on last night, but it doesn't have a choke. It's got the divorce choke, which needs a proper manifold.
SPEAKER 07 :
And so his suggestion was... You can put an electric choke on that, too, that pod on the side that normally would have the coil in it. You can put an electric choke on that. That was very common back in the day.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it doesn't have the pod. It's got linkage to like a spring.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, it's got the linkage that goes down below that sits on top of the manifold and runs that way. I think you can still, don't quote me on this, Mark, but I believe back in the day they still made an electric choke option for that. I'd have to go look up the part number for you, but you could still convert those to electric back in the day.
SPEAKER 10 :
we did a lot of interesting okay because what happened on those is the manifold where that used to sit down below the manifolds would get plugged up with carbon and you couldn't get them decarbon so the easiest thing to do is you cheated just put an electric choke on them well this has like a plate and i was curious when i was uh changing out the intake manifold gasket what was under that plate i thought maybe it was just like an empty cavity but no it actually goes into the manifold so i thought if you had that heat piece in there you just created a massive vacuum you should block that off and you put the electric choke on and go is what we used to do yeah well i've got i've got the holly that has the electric choke which i'm about to swap over right now but uh uh thought i'd just try them both since it was cold this morning it would not start no they're tough when it's that way yeah that really no i had the choke wired shut you need a choke just yeah yeah people don't realize what they do but yeah on a carbureted vehicle they won't start without choking them Yeah. Unless you've got some starting fluid around. For Jay at the carb shop, he really helped me out. But I do have a question about this particular vehicle. So it was not well-maintained whatsoever when I got it four or five years ago. And I've just slowly been trying to get things managed and fixed and leaks repaired. But one thing that I can't quite figure out myself is, you know, there's... The dashboard has the pressure gauge for the oil, the temperature gauge, and voltmeter. And I'm thinking the gauges are not reading real well because of maybe grounds, and then the sensors themselves, like the oil senders, probably worn out. But the one that doesn't work at all is the voltage. And I'm sitting in the – looking at the engine right now for the alternator, and it's got the one power wire to the alternator. One wire alternator. The two wires that come off the side, I think that's to the voltage regulator. But other than that, there's nothing obvious where I would be getting a voltage sensor or sense that – where would my next direction to look for? Because when I turn the key on, nothing happens. You know, it doesn't move. The needle doesn't, you know, come alive or anything like that. So would that be in the circuit board in the dash or a fuse or somewhere else?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, those always ran right through the back of the gauge itself. There was a wire in, wire out, and that's how they sense the voltage.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's what I was going to suggest. Maybe get down under that floorboard with a flashlight and make sure that wire is there and connected and clean and tight.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, okay. I pulled the dash apart a month ago, and the other gauges are like a plug-in, like they've got two or three bolts that you push onto the actual circle board plate from the back or something like that. And then it's got that...
SPEAKER 07 :
What year is that one again, Mark?
SPEAKER 1 :
1980?
SPEAKER 10 :
I can't remember.
SPEAKER 1 :
86.
SPEAKER 10 :
86. And it's got that paper circuit board on the back.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it's got a printed circuit.
SPEAKER 10 :
Printed circuit, yeah, thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it's a Chevy. Correct, Chevy truck, right? Correct.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so that is almost the last of the square body, so it's that dashboard that we're all familiar with.
SPEAKER 07 :
But I still, on the printed circuit, and again, I'm doing this from memory because it's been a long time since I've had the dash of one of those apart. The printed circuit, the gauge still goes into the printed circuit, and the printed circuit is feeding the voltage, if I'm not mistaken, I believe is how that works.
SPEAKER 10 :
So possibly there could be a break in the printed circuit?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and usually you can chase those out and look, you can use an ohmmeter usually and kind of chase that printed circuit and determine where there's loss of connection.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that would be the first thing I would look at on that because the one-wire alternator, those are pretty simplistic. Gotcha.
SPEAKER 10 :
It sounds like I'm starting to break up a little bit, but I just... No, you're fine. We can hear you. I appreciate you, John.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I did look up the gauge for that, Mark. So that particular gauge, that is going to be, I believe, independent of the printed circuit. It should have wires coming in and out of that particular voltmeter.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
I just looked up that gauge, and I just found new old stock, and it's got two poles on the back of it where the voltage is coming and going.
SPEAKER 05 :
And just what you said about when you key on, key off, and the gauge doesn't even flutter, I mean, I wonder if there might be an inline fuse that's blown. Something. Yeah, just start doing some basic electrical between tracing that wire back to its source.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, because it is a straight wire coming in and out, Mark.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, there we go. Okay, my signal just came back. You said straight wire coming through.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that one is not, that one is, even though it's in the dash and the circuits and all of that, it may use the printed circuit to light the gauge itself up is all, but the readings are coming out of the wire from the alternator back out. It's a straight through, just like all the old volt meters were made.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, does it have like a little screw, tiny screw nut to hold the?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, they got two, there's two poles on the back of the gauge.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, maybe it came loose. Maybe that's what happened.
SPEAKER 07 :
Could be, and that'd be the first thing to check, yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, that would be easy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that one's easy to get out, so double-check that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, and by the way, I sent you an email a minute ago on that choke that works for that quadrajet, too. Thank you. Nice. All right, Mark, I'll let you roll. Appreciate you very much. If you've got anything else, give me a call back. Got to take a break. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 07 :
All right, we are back. Myself, Pat Schneid, Alltech Automotive, and I had a text message on this, and we were also thinking through at the same time, so thank you for the message. Mark, if you're still listening, and I don't remember on your truck because I know you've done some different things with it, and it's not all original throughout, check to make sure the fuses are good. That does have a... a voltmeter fuse wire, volt amp. I think it's even marked on the fuse box. I don't know exactly what number that fuse is, but double-check to make sure that all the fuses in that truck are working correctly. And that fuse box also just, well, he probably knows this, but some of you listening, those were not easy to work on. That thing was tucked way up underneath, and they were a pain in the neck, and always had to have a flashlight because you couldn't hardly see anything up inside of there. So anyways, double-check all that. Make sure that the fuse box is is we don't have a bad fuse or even the connection in and out of the box sometimes those could become an issue as well because some of those older trucks let's face it they weren't uh completely water tight like you would think and they would develop rust and corrosion and different things depending upon where the truck came from and how it was stored and how many holes got punched through the firewall for whatever accessories some guy decided to put in and and and and and i can go down the list Good memories. Some of those were a chore back in the day to work on. And I will just say straight up, that dash alone, because of the way it was made, all the metal and so on, they were not fun to work on at all.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that's right. They were a big piece of metal and then had a dash pad bolted on top and a plastic face panel bolted on top. But once you got all plastic off, it's metal and just small access holes.
SPEAKER 07 :
So to get in there... And they were sharp and you'd cut your hands and your arms and they were pain in the neck. Yep. Pain in the neck is right. I don't miss those. Let's just say this. Made money working on those back in the day, Pat, but I don't miss those. No, I like them when they're all put together and running, though. They look great. When they came up with the 88 trucks, when they came out with the new body style, oh, man, did a lot of that stuff improve. Now, I will say this. The original sweeping gauges that were in the 88, 89s, I think 90, they finally changed. But those two years with those stupid sweeping gauges that never functioned properly, they were total garbage. And GM only did them for a couple of years, and they were awful.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, that was a move to big plastic.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and even the way that they sort of tried to digitize some of that, yeah, that was a failure. They changed that after a couple of years because those two years they tried it just didn't pan out very well, and they finally made them the right way after that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, they were trying to look futuristic. You go back and look at them now, and they just look ridiculous.
SPEAKER 07 :
They had those bars that swept in the speedometer and the tachometer, and it was a good idea that just never fully panned out. So anyways, Eric, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, John. I've got a question for you guys, and I'm saying this. I'm asking this question half serious, half sarcastic, leaning towards serious. longer find the correct windshield wiper for a modern vehicle? Do you just send it to the junkyard or do you just drive without a wiper?
SPEAKER 07 :
How late model of a vehicle are you talking?
SPEAKER 09 :
Here's the deal. My wife's 2013 Buick Verano. The passenger side wiper uses an odd fitting and it's supposed to be what they call a bean style wiper blade. The first couple of years that we had the car, and we've owned the car since new, I would just walk into any old parts store and get the correct wiper. That was as I could. In the last few years, the only thing that has worked is the Bosch Evo. It's part number 4842. Okay. Well, apparently, Bosch has redesigned the wiper and redesigned the connector point. And my new wiper that just showed up in the mail thing, I can't find one locally. Wow.
SPEAKER 07 :
Because of the adapter, or I'm assuming just the adapter itself?
SPEAKER 09 :
Combination. It'll take me a little bit to send you a picture, but so the new design, or the old design had a raised, everything was enclosed where the fitting is. It was a raised channel, and then you have the flex wheel sitting on top of it, attached to it. The new one Actually, the metal of the wiper, its body itself, is slightly wider than, you know, it sticks out to the sides of the wiper a little bit. And then the arm or the attachment point is sitting a little bit lower. So as a result, it hits the arm. There's no way to do anything with it. Because I sat there messing with it for 10 minutes going, why won't this fit? Why won't this fit? Why won't this fit? And I could tell it had been redesigned before I finally realized that there was this little piece of metal on the side that's connecting. And I just went to AutoZone, and he says, we're showing discontinue. He says, nothing available. I'm going to try and just run over to the dealer and see what they tell me now. But in the past, everything the dealer tells me never worked.
SPEAKER 07 :
And did you try crossing, or did you look up the actual OEM part number by chance?
SPEAKER 09 :
Um... Yeah, but like I said, usually when I go to the dealer and get what they show as the OEM blade, it doesn't work.
SPEAKER 07 :
Gotcha. So it doesn't really help you at the end of the day.
SPEAKER 09 :
No.
SPEAKER 07 :
Interesting. Yeah, send me some pictures. Let me see what I can do. Send me your pictures and VIN, and let me see what I can do for you.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'll help you out. I'll be happy to, Eric.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm going to email Bosch about this, too.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Well, again, yeah, that's not a bad idea, but send me pictures, VIN. Let me see what I can find for you as well. I'd be happy to help.
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All right, thanks, Eric.
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All right, Eric, appreciate it. No, David, David Whitlam Park, hang tight. We'll come right back to you. We've got another full hour coming your way. Myself again, Patch Knight, Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Larry Unger answering phones. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. We'll be right back, guys. Don't go anywhere. Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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In this heartfelt and practical episode of Fix-It Radio, host John Rush opens up about the recent passing of his father and the lessons learned from caring for aging parents. Joined by Larry Unger, John reflects on what it means to honor loved ones by staying productive — just as his dad would have wanted. The conversation naturally turns toward practical wisdom: winterizing sprinkler systems, fall cleanup tips, managing leaf piles efficiently, and even how to heat your garage safely.
Listeners call in to share condolences, home maintenance questions, and cybersecurity concerns — including the dangers of Wi-Fi–based home security systems and the latest methods thieves are using to clone key fobs. John shares insights on protecting your network, keeping vehicles secure, and simplifying your home by letting go of what you don’t use.
The episode closes with an upbeat set of WD-40 hacks — from pest control to polishing, from fire starters to lawnmower care — proving once again that Fix-It Radio is where real-life maintenance meets real-life wisdom.
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Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
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In the floor behind the chair. This is America.
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Does everybody know what time it is? Fix It Radio.
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And it's that time, Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for being with us on this fine Saturday morning. It is October the 18th, so if you're listening to a replay of this particular show, you know what day it is. Fall is upon us here in Colorado. Larry Unger with us today as well. Good morning, Larry. Good morning, John. I should say Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, New Mexico, Jersey, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma. What am I missing? Wyoming, Nebraska. I can keep going. Montana.
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There you go.
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And we have listeners in Minnesota, Michigan, all over, actually. So thank you all. We appreciate that. And a lot of you listen in the distance through the app, which we really appreciate. Thank you for that as well. Text line, don't forget, 307-200-8222, 307-200-8222. Got several things to cover today. And some of you may have wondered, why was I off the last couple of days? I actually had a funeral that was already pre-planned yesterday. I had a cousin that passed away, so I was off yesterday because we had a funeral. And then my dad actually passed away on Thursday night. So I was off on Thursday because we knew we were getting close to the end. And several of you kind of had heard word of that and have sent nice messages in, which I am very thankful for. So thanks for all the support. I do appreciate it greatly. And some of you even said, well, why aren't you taking a few days off? I'm like, Yeah, no, I'm good. Actually, my dad was the type that, you know, he would be just fine with me, you know, going back and working and doing the things that I do. And he was a big fan of the show up until he really didn't understand what was going on. But other than that, he listened to pretty much every program I've ever done. And so would he want me back on air going at it? Absolutely.
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Probably the sooner the better.
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That's right. So that's why we're back at it. But I do. I appreciate the... the kindness of all of you and some of your messages that you have sent and so on, and I appreciate that greatly. But in this particular situation, and we've made a show on this before, but for those of you that end up with similar situations where you have elderly parents or different situations at home where you might have some folks that need more help and so on, we've done shows in the past on how to make your home better for those things. I might do another one of those here in the near future, because I've learned a ton over the past couple of years along those lines and have lots of experience that way. And for some of you, they may be entering into some of that. There's a lot of things that there's a lot of unknowns that nobody tells you about. Let's just say it that way. I hate to say it, but you kind of learn as you go. There's not a lot of instruction manuals along these lines. And I wish there were but there really isn't. So a lot of it you literally learn as you go and you kind of just you just deal with things as they come. And I will just tell you straight up if any of you ever have any questions along those lines, you've got, you know, elderly parents or spouses or whatever the case may be, and you're looking for some advice on what to do. I learned a ton again in the last couple of years. So
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Well, there's a lot of misinformation out there, so you want to be careful about that.
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A ton. A ton. And, yeah, thank you for saying that, Larry, because, yeah, there is a lot of things along those lines and a lot of things that you learn. So a couple of weeks ago, a few weeks ago, we started – talking about WD-40, the uses of it, and so on. Now, I also was going to tell you guys this morning that, and I've heard some folks this past week, and even heard some newscasters talking about winterizing your sprinkler. Well, if you want to, you can. Go ahead. I mean, nothing says you can't do it, but it's not going to be that cold this week. I've looked at all the weather reports, and some are talking about you, some lows in the mid-30s. Mid-30s are not going to hurt your sprinkler system at all. In fact... Other than the copper outside, it really, you have to be below 30 degrees to really even have a hard freeze enough to even break pipes and so on. I know some of you will say, well, water freezes at 32 degrees. Well, I get that. But there's, you know, that water that's. In the pipe and the water, especially those of you that have copper lines that are coming from the inside of the house out, there's a little warmth to some of that. And the reality is even 32 degrees isn't enough to break things. You might get a little bit of light freezing, but it's not going to be enough. You've got to get down in the mid-20s, even low-20s, to really see some significant damage outside on the sprinkler system, even if you haven't drained everything. And frankly, you could take some insulation out. and wrap that outside backflow valve right now if that's something you're concerned with. You want to keep the sprinkler on for whatever reason because it's just not that time yet. And if that's you, then take a trash bag, some insulation, wrap it all up, duct tape, do that. Frankly, right now, you'd probably be safe for, I'm not exaggerating, probably another three, four weeks. And I'll let you know each week accordingly. But currently, we don't really have a lot slated to be super cold right now.
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No, and it doesn't take just one day to freeze your pipes. It takes several days.
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Thank you, Larry. Thank you. Yeah, one overnight. Now, again, we get one overnight and it gets down in the teens. Sure, that can be a problem. Absolutely. But I don't see that in the forecast.
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No, I haven't seen anything either.
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We're not there yet.
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Until next week. Well, then, even to Friday next week even.
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frankly this weekend looks really nice next weekend looks really nice so just just a side note i'm not going to talk about sprinkler blowouts because we're just not there if any of you have a specific question along those lines by all all means you know ask me i'll be happy to to go through that with you on a personal basis and you can even send me a picture of what your backflow looks like and so on and i can walk you through that but uh for a lot of you that's you're not there yet not a huge issue so lines are open you can always call in with a question 303- four seven seven five six zero zero three oh three four seven seven five six zero zero and one more thing too before we get going keep in mind that oh it's that time of the year we're gonna have lots of leaves falling larry and i were just talking about that before we came on air we look out here and see all the colors of you know looking looking west up towards the mountains Some leaves are falling, some are not. There's still a lot of leaves on the tree. So some of you, when it comes to leaf cleanup, you're probably even a little early on that. And my suggestion, especially for leaves that are on the lawn, is if you have the ability to mulch. Now, if it gets really thick, that gets hard to do. If you're just talking right now, currently, some of those light leaves that are on top of the grass, if you have the ability to mulch those in and just let those go right back into the grass, do so. You're not going to hurt a single thing. There's some good fertilization there. You're not going to bother anything. Just go ahead and mulch those things back in. Now, again, if you get to where there's a layer of leaves and it's really hard to mulch that in, okay, well, now you're going to rake or you're going to bag or you're going to do whatever to suck some of those up. Yeah, I get that. But frankly... There's not a lot of leaves falling to that extent yet.
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No, there's not. And because I'm lazy and I don't want to rake leaves.
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I don't blame you. That's not being lazy. That's being smart.
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I'll mow the grass, even though the grass doesn't need mowed. I'll run the lawnmower over it just to pick up the mulch of the leaves.
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Yeah, and again, when we get more into that, we'll give you some tips and tricks on that. One tip really quick for some of you where normally you're used to using trash bags, things like that. You put the leaves in the bags and so on. Another way to do that, and you have to figure this out because you need two people to do this, but one thing you can do is take a big tarp. And just lay that out and rake all of your leaves onto the tarp. And then you can carry the tarp off, kind of make a funnel out of the tarp and use that to funnel all the leaves into it. By the way, you could even just put them straight into the trash can. Nothing says the leaves have to be bagged. You could dump them right into a trash can if you wanted to. They don't have to be. some of you have the ability to make a a leaf pile that you can turn into uh you know compost something along those lines using the tarp method makes that really easy you're not wasting any trash bag to do that you can literally take a big square tarp you know 10 by 10 15 by 15 tarp whatever 20 by 20 whatever you've got kicking around you rake all of your leaves and everything onto the tarp that's what landscaping companies do You take the edges that have all the little rings in it, and you just grab all of those up, and all of your leaves will be right inside the tarp. Go carry that thing wherever you want to, and off you go. Done deal.
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Yep. You use a bungee cord and kind of... Lock all the rings together.
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It's a piece of cake. It's there until you need it. So there's a little tip on how to do some of the fall cleanup stuff right now. The one thing that is falling, that at least around my house is a nuisance, is the Austrian pines, the long-needle pine trees. They are shedding right now, and they do that every year. The needles come off. It's not because the trees are dying. Some of you that are transplants, maybe that are new to the area that aren't familiar with some of our pine trees and species of, yeah, that particular tree, the long-needle pines, the Austrian pines, uh they will lose all of their needles they'll kind of turn brown kind of looks like the trees maybe even dying it's not it's the shedding process that it goes through it'll grow new needles it's how they that's how their growth works but they they i love them but they are a mess
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Well, the needles need to be raked up because they'll kill the grass.
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Yeah, they are potent. So, yeah, rake those. Same deal. You can do the same method I just talked about. Even some of you where those needles might be falling in where there's rocks and things like that, you can just rake across the top of the rocks, throw it onto the tarp I just mentioned. Same situation. Those are harder to bag up, by the way, because those needles want to poke through the bag. Those especially are ones where if you've got a nice big trash can, I'd have a nice empty trash bag or nice empty trash can. I mean, take that tarp, just empty it directly into the trash can. Off you go. Done deal. As they go into the trash truck itself, you're not going to bother anything by not having those things bagged up. In fact, truth be told, you're probably better off not bagging them.
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Probably true.
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Because the bag has to deteriorate in the landfill. Those don't. Right. Those will just turn back into compost all on their own.
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Yeah, and that's true. And for those of you that like to have those little fire pits during the winter.
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Nice fire starters.
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Absolutely.
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Save a little bit of those, bundle them up in something, put them in a five-gallon bucket or whatever you want where you've got nice access to them, and off you go. But, yes, those make great fire starters as well. All right, we're going to take a quick break. We've got a call coming in. We'll come back, start into some of our topics for the day. Don't go anywhere. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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And we are back, Fisher Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Larry Unger, Steve from Colorado Springs. You're next, or you're first today, I should say. Go ahead, Steve.
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Good morning, gentlemen. Are you enjoying this stupendous fall day? Absolutely. John, very saddened to hear about your dad. You were very lucky, as I was, in the dad lottery. Yes. And then we had dads of strong values. Absolutely. And they were great mentors, as well as great dads. And, you know, I don't know about you, but when I was a teenager, naively, I thought everybody did. That would be wrong.
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Yeah, it would be wrong. I was like you, Steve. I thought the same thing. And my dad happened to be one of those dads where there were other kids that maybe didn't have the same dad, and he became that surrogate for a lot of those individuals. And I've heard from some of those individuals through social media that saw my dad's passing, and he meant a lot to a lot of those younger kids at that time, Steve.
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I'm sure you will have a marvelous celebration of his life well lived.
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Absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you, Steve. I appreciate that greatly.
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Yeah, one thing I wanted to pass on, it seems like the bad actors are always one step ahead of us. Uh-huh. And in this case... That's because they think differently than we do, Steve. Yeah. And some of them are talented enough.
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Uh-huh.
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They can have real jobs.
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That's absolutely right.
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Yes, you're right. Anyway, the latest one, And this one still surprises me. It's going to take some cyber guru to figure out a fix. But the bad actors have been involved in some very high-profile and not-so-high-profile break-ins to celebrities. And they have come up with a device that basically locks down your Wi-Fi. And since about 100% now of home security systems... Our Wi-Fi base, we've got a problem here.
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It's funny you say that. I was watching a video the other day of an expert in that particular area. I can't remember what video I was watching. I think this might have been a Sean Ryan interview, something along those lines. Anyways, there was a cybersecurity guy, expert, that was actually – this guy is one of those white hat hackers, they call him. He's the good guy. And he basically, Steve, was explaining and showed even the device. He actually brought the device into this particular interview and said, yep, this is the device whereby I could literally in about a, oh, I don't know, 100-yard roughly radius, I can lock down and literally control every Wi-Fi device in this particular area.
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Now, the question, since I don't think they mentioned this, how do they get past the password protection on the router?
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They have got this software that literally will – they do two things. They can come through the back door. That's one way they do it. And I'm not an expert in this area, so if some of you have better explanations, please let me know. But they have a back door in a lot of cases, Steve, they go through. And or this guy showed, listen, most passwords are pretty simple. Most people don't get too fancy when it comes to passwords for their Wi-Fi. I literally can usually even break that password in a matter of seconds just with the software that I have.
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There's got to be some better protective measures.
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Well, and you bring up something that's really important. It's for everybody listening. I hadn't planned on this, Steve, but this is really a good topic. First of all, for those of you listening, make sure that your Wi-Fi sides of things, and a lot of people have confusion here, and typically I like to separate it. A lot of companies like Comcast and others, they will give you a router or a modem, I should say, and then build the router and the Wi-Fi devices into all that one unit. I don't like... Like those units, Steve, I think they're more vulnerable at the end of the day. You're much better off having just a modem and then having a router slash Wi-Fi devices that are separate from the modem. I think you get another layer. It's an arm's length, if you would, another layer of security. And then on top of that, make sure that you use really long passwords, alphanumeric, lots of characters, underscores, dashes, things like that. In other words, the more characters you have, the longer it takes to break that. And on top of that, make sure that you go through and your sort of backdoor default settings are off. In other words, make sure that no one can come through the backdoor.
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My understanding, too, is, which most people hardly will ever do, you've got to reset that router password at least about every 30, 60 days.
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Not a bad idea. Yeah, it is. And especially those of you where you are, well, these celebrities are a great example. They're not even right next door to somebody, Steve. They're really out on their own, if you would. And once they get halfway close, they can run in and, yep, handle all of that very quickly.
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You know, I was reading an article on cyber scams, and only two years ago, it was one out of four Americans that lost pretty good sums of money. Now it's one out of three, and it's headed towards one out of two. And we've got to somehow ride herd on that. Anyway, last item I thought might be curious. Maybe to come up, and this would be a good show to do it, on a... Maintenance checklists for houses. There's stuff I always forget. The main one would be like the filter on the washing machine. I'm going to spend three years just to do that, so I'm going to do it today. But come up with a checklist on these need to be done either on an annual basis or monthly or semi-annual. And you just go boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
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Good idea.
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And not forget anything.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good idea. You know, and that's something that, frankly, I can work on that and even get that something that we can have something we can put up on the website as well. Steve, I'll work on that. That's a good idea. I can do that. That's not hard to do.
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Excellent. Have an awesome day as much as you can.
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I'll do it, Steve. No, appreciate you very much. Thanks for calling in. Text messages as well. A lot of you sending in condolences. Thank you for that. Also, I appreciate that. And the whole security thing, really quick, I'll take a moment there. Steve just brought up a great point when it comes to not only just the camera sides of things, but some of you have alarms or whatever. whatever and in a lot of cases steve is correct they're either running through the wi-fi side of things in your house or even if they're wired in they're still running through your router your modem end of things and if again if somebody knows the back door settings of a lot of those devices they have the ability to literally come in and just shut things down and you're dead in the water. Now, my suggestion would be, and not everybody offers this, but a lot do, is the thing to do on an alarm especially is give it some cellular backup. That's hard to negate. Now, that can be as well because you can jam a cellular network as well. So a really sophisticated criminal could come through and lock down your Wi-Fi, probably get through to your router. And in this particular case, if they know you have some sort of a cell backup, probably even jam the cell signals. Now, what I will say in that case, have good insurance. I mean, at the end of the day, if that person shows up and they want things badly enough, they're probably going to get it anyways. Just make sure you have good insurance because, frankly, there's not too many other things you can do outside of that. Now, some of you that are maybe more experts in that whole security field, if you want to call in or text in or something and give advice on what else to do, be my guest. But if you get some of these sophisticated criminals, I think it's more a matter of good luck and have good insurance. Because thwarting some of these individuals is going to be tough. Now, along those lines, one of you this past week sent me a video. I think it was last weekend even. Somebody sent me a video of a person losing, in this case it happened to be an EV. It was a Mach-E Ford. But this applies to most new vehicles. It doesn't have to be a Mach-E EV. And I don't know why he'd steal an electric vehicle. But anyways, the vehicle was stolen right out of the driveway. And the video that you guys sent me was this particular person did nothing to break into the vehicle other than have a device that was picking up the key fob signal. He then, she then, I don't know, they then, I don't know who it is, can't tell. they then duplicate that fob signal, and they have complete access to the car. And there's more than one video out there showing you that. So what they advise you to do is if you have to park your vehicle outside, now I'm going to go back to, and this is the fix-it radio part of this, I'm going to go back to the whole, it's nice out, we've got several weekends still left where it is nice, clean your garage where you can park inside. Because ultimately, it's hard to steal your vehicle from inside. Some thieves will try, but... But typically, that's a whole different scenario. They're not going to break and enter to actually steal the vehicle. They're looking for the easy access things, the cars that are out in the driveway, cars that are parked on the street. They can nonchalantly walk up, have this device, replicate the signal, hop in, drive away. Nobody's the wiser. It's harder, and here's the other thing they understand as well. They break in. They get inside the house. Now the risk of them having something else happen to them goes up significantly.
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Right.
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And these folks know that. They're looking for the easy prey. So my point there is put your car in the garage. I know that sometimes that's not always possible, although I've had this discussion on this program many times. Although, usually it's just because you got too much junk. I'm sorry, I'm just being straight up honest. Usually it's because you got too much junk and you can't park in the garage. And I know that because, as I've said, I drive past homes, especially in the summertime, you see the garage doors up, and it's like, oh my word, there's a bunch of junk inside that garage. Meaning they're never parking inside of it. And in a lot of cases, it's just because we hang on to stuff that we don't need to. And again, with my dad's passing, my mom passed even just a little over a year ago, and going through all of their estate stuff and cleaning up stuff and so on, I will just tell you that we all, myself included, although I'm getting better at this, save things you don't need.
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Absolutely.
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Stop doing that. If you don't need it, get rid of it.
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I started doing that a year ago, too, just going through stuff that I thought I had to have and realized, no, I don't.
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You don't need it. Okay, so here's a question for you, Larry. What is your rule of thumb for what you're going to keep versus what you're going to get rid of? I wasn't planning on this today, folks, but since it just came up, we'll go down this path. Go ahead, Larry.
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Well, if I don't use something in six months, I get rid of it. Because typically in six months, I'm going to go through my life cycle of what I do, whether it be summer, fall, winter, whatever. And if I don't use it within that time frame, I really don't need it.
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Okay, so you're using the six-month rule. Right. And I think for me, certain items I do six months, certain items I'll do a year. It depends on if it's a seasonal type item, but even seasonal stuff, typically six months is enough to tell you whether you need it or whether you don't. But I've even gone one step further as in I've accumulated over the years all sorts of different tools and things along those lines. And it's like, okay, are these really tools that I really now – Larry, need, has technology changed? Are these things that I'm just hanging on to because you're hanging on to it because at one point in time you invested money in it, but do you really need that particular device? And you know what I mean by that. Things change greatly as time goes by, and even being an old auto technician, there are just things anymore where it's like, okay, for example, do I really need, and these are things I'm going through as we speak, do I need an air impact wrench? No, anymore I don't.
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Air tools, period.
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I haven't plugged an air impact wrench in in probably over two years, meaning why do I need them? I don't. Those are items that as we speak, I'm starting to funnel through and then figure out, okay, is there any value? What do I do with these items? Is there any resale ability to some of these things? If not, is there somebody I can donate them to? And here's the problem with some of this stuff, guys, and I've talked about this even on some of the electric end of things. Nobody wants it. And that part is sad because a lot of these, you know, some of those air impacts, and Larry knows this, this is years ago. I'm talking two decades ago. Some of these things were $300, $400, and I'm not exaggerating. Oh, yes. Which you figure if inflation, that's a $700 or $800 tool today, probably at least a $600 tool today. If you paid $400 for it then, it's probably $600 today. And I'm talking, I paid that money probably back in the 90s. for some of those things and yet they're not getting drug out of the toolbox anymore and you don't even plug them i larry i i rarely even get the air hose out i don't have a compressor big enough anymore i got rid of my big compressor you just because you don't need it right you you have the ability to do things now with all of the cordless tools we have it's just not necessary anymore so the the thing is is what do you do with some of those items and that's some of what i'm struggling with right now joe go ahead
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john three quick uh three quick things home security i had a friend was over my house and we saw my ring doorbell system and he was complaining to the man i've got this 55 a month landline the only thing i use it for is my home security system i wish there was some way to get rid of the landline and he wasn't aware that you could do uh home security monitoring through wi-fi so if anybody out there is paying for landline just to support your home security system All the major ones do Wi-Fi. You don't need your landline anymore to do home security. That's one. Second, things to get rid of. He inherited a gun collection from his father that included a bunch of guns that his father had inherited from his grandfather. Sixty guns, double-barrel shotguns, rifles, most of which he's never shot in his entire life. And there are some very reputable outfits out there that will take your guns. They'll actually make you an offer. You send them a picture. You give them the model, the serial number.
SPEAKER 06 :
Good to know.
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And so they'll give you the shipping labels and the boxes and everything else. So, again, he must have – he's got to have close to 100 guns. Wow. And he has no idea. And his kids don't shoot. They're not hunters.
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So they're not going to be passed down at all.
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Yeah, he's not going to pass them down. So, you know, rather than wait for his kids to try to figure out how to just... And he's in his 70s, so... That's a great idea, Joe, because, yeah, if you don't have anybody that you're going to be able to pass those things down to, then, yeah, why hang on to it? Well, even if they were, I don't think his kids would want 100 guns. Some of these are like double-barrel shotguns from 1910, 1950. Now, they might have some collector value, but... Compared to modern shotguns, even if they were hunters, they probably wouldn't use them or certainly wouldn't use all 100 of them.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, no, that makes total sense. Absolutely, yeah. And some of those antiques, and over the years, I've had some of those that I either bought, acquired, inherited, whatever the case, Joe, and not recently, but years ago, some of those had, you know, at that time, and luckily for me, I don't think they changed much in value over the years. I think I sold it just about the right time, and I did exactly what you're talking about. I found a dealer that was willing to pay, you know, top dollar for for some old lever action rifles and things like that that, frankly, Joe, even the calibers were hard to even replicate and find. It was like, yeah, I'm not going to shoot these or use these. I might as well put these into cash, and I did.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I think there's gunbroker.com, but there's also Duryea, D-U-R-Y-E-A. They will actually make you a cash offer and then arrange for the shipping. So anybody who's interested and has an oversized gun collection, One more thing. I bought a beast of a gas-powered pressure washer. It's a four-cycle. And I was looking at it, and I only got it this summer, but I was looking at winterizing it. Can I keep it in my garage? It has an aluminum pump housing that doesn't automatically drain. So I was concerned if I'm going to keep it in the garage all winter, I was worried about that freezing and cracking the aluminum pump housing. So There's three things you can do. You can tip it up on its side and try to drain the water out, or you can hook an air compressor to it and blow the water out of it. Or third, you can get a turkey baster, John, and you can squirt some antifreeze into that pump housing. But if you have a pressure washer with an aluminum or any sort of metal pump housing, You either bring it down in your basement or make sure you drain it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, good idea.
SPEAKER 10 :
Or blow it out. Yeah. Or put some antifreeze in it.
SPEAKER 06 :
And the RV antifreeze would be the stuff to use there because you're not hurting anything on down the road with it, and it's even drinkable if you hit, you know, not that you're going to drink it, but, you know, you're not bothering anything with that at all, Joe.
SPEAKER 10 :
Is that propylene glycol or just straight glycol?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't know what they use in that paint stuff. You know, it's funny you asked me that. I was trying to think the other day. I'm like, okay, what makes this different than regular, you know, glycol? Because it's got to have some glycol in it, otherwise it would freeze. But they make it so that it's, you know, it's drink, you know, you can put it in your RV so you're not, you know, you're able to drink the water afterwards once you flush it and so on. I don't know what they make that out of, Joe. I need to check that. I have no idea.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I'm sure if you look it up, John, they've got to have an ingredient sheet on it. It could be propylene glycol, which is what you use to humidify cigars. If you've got a cigar humidor, you use a little jar of propylene glycol to... It says here that they either use that or ethanol. Yeah, or ethanol.
SPEAKER 06 :
One of the two is what they're using.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, either. So a turkey baster to squirt it in or blow it out with an air compressor or... put it in your basement yeah no no on the same token joe you know you could just heat the garage don't get my wife sorry and john and sorry for calling sorry for calling too early but i got to get to the no kings rally today oh there you go joe have fun have fun enjoy yourself All right, take care, guys.
SPEAKER 06 :
Appreciate you, Joe. No, that's a good one, by the way. No, I mean, at the end of the day, and semi-joking, but for some of you where it's like, you know, depending upon the situation, heat in the garage isn't as big of a deal as you think, and you don't have to keep it hot. But just keep it above freezing, and some of the things that we're talking about go away. And in a lot of cases, you're not running it as much as you actually think you are, especially if it's a garage where it's attached to the house. You've got some radiant heat that's coming through the house itself. So the reality is it's not that big of a deal in some cases, provided it's insulated and so on, so you're not just heating bare outside walls. Right. If you've got the ability, and some of these garage heaters now have become, we probably could do a whole show on that. Some of these garage heaters have become very attainable, not a lot of cost, pretty easy to install yourself. A lot of them now you can run off of either electricity or you can, if you've got a gas line or whatever, you can do things along those lines. Again, these are things where, you know, utilize what's out there. But that is one thing that has changed immensely recently. over the years to where it makes it a lot easier to you know heat your garage now for some of you where you do some work out of the garage in the winter months and so on or frankly just heating it to keep the or to accelerate i should say your snow melt that's coming off of the car and so on yeah having that garage heated just a little bit uh makes the makes a world of difference when it comes to all of that so just a side note well yeah you can keep your you can keep your interior garage temperature up 35 degrees you're fine Yeah. For example, you maybe only want to keep it at 45, 50 degrees, which seems really cold, but nothing's freezing at that point. So, yeah, it seems cold and it will be cold if you're out there working. You're still going to need a light jacket and so on. I mean, it's like being outside on a day like today when it's 50 degrees. So think about that. But at the end of the day. Nothing freezes, so you're able to keep things out there, store some things, paint, things like that. Because remember, paint and things like that can also freeze, so you want to keep those things in areas where it's fairly warm. And in a lot of cases, for some of you, just heating the garage might be your answer at the end of the day. So I said that kind of tongue-in-cheek, but... Again, you get your garage all cleaned out. You got the ability now to park inside. You got the ability to maybe fiddle around out there during the winter months and have some projects or whatever. Larry's getting into woodworking and things like that. You know, if that's you and you like doing some of those things, you know, some of these small heaters that you can put up really do make a world of difference at the end of the day.
SPEAKER 07 :
They sure do.
SPEAKER 06 :
And again, they're not as... This is the advent of things getting further down the line as we progress and we get more and more things. Capitalism, I guess, is the best way to say this. You end up with a lot more choices. I remember when we were kids and my dad was trying to figure out how to heat the garage. Back then, you had to go out and find old shop-type heaters that you could repurpose and do some things with because there wasn't much else available on the market when it came to heating your home. Because the last thing you want to do inside of a garage is use any kind of flame. You want to keep away from that because, again, you've got vehicles and fuel and things like that, and there's paint thinners and so on, and you really don't want to have any open flames as far as that goes. And if you do, even if you've got a burner-type stove or heater, I should say, that's why they're all hung from the ceiling. They're way high because the fumes don't go that high, and you don't have any issues with the flame being – that's why water heaters have to be up off the floor a certain amount if you put them outside in a garage. I think it's three – don't quote me on the code on this, but it's 30 or 36 inches off the floor. Maybe that might be a little high, but they're always mounted up because – The fumes don't go up. They stay down low, so you don't have any issues with the pilot lights or even when the burner would come on or whatever. A lot of the heaters don't have pilot lights anymore, but you get where I'm going with that. You don't have an open flame any longer that's low to the ground. That's why heaters are always up. I think code, you guys that are in that world would know what code is. I could look it up, but I think it's 24, 30 inches, something like that. I don't know. But they're always mounted on a pedestal, and now you know why when you go in a garage and you see a water heater. that's why they're always mounted up. They're not directly on the floor, and that's the reason why. Code in a garage is they've got to be up off the floor because of that. All right, just got several other things to cover. Any questions or comments, things you want to add, feel free to do so, 303-477-5600. We'll be right back. Sorry, Drive Radio is next. This is Fix It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 06 :
All right, we are back. Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Somebody mentioned in the text message, too, that you might want to think about keeping those corded tools and air tools and so on. If lithium prices continue to go up, batteries might get to the point where you may want to have some of those around. Yeah, maybe. That's your call. And that could happen, I suppose. Just remember for every one of those items that you keep and have around, you're now storing it. And for some of you that have a lot of room, okay, fine. If you want to go put that in the tub and then you break it out at some point down the road when you need it, be my guest. That's completely your call on things. I... When it comes to the battery sides of things, I'm trying to think how often I've actually replaced a battery that's gone bad, and I don't think I ever have.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know I haven't.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, the old NICADs, those would go bad constantly, and you'd find yourself going through those. Even back in the shop days, you'd find NICAD batteries going bad, and you'd have to replace them. The flashlights that had NICADs and so on, they would do the same thing. But anymore, with the lithium batteries, you just don't find yourself replacing those. So, I mean, will I keep a few corded tools around for the just-in-case situation? probably will although again i haven't plugged a corded tool other than a grinder i do have some i do have some corded grinders that that i use that you know they're just there's a power strip next to the bench you just plug in and off you go but when it comes to drills and things like that i haven't used other than a drill press i haven't used a quarter drill in forever larry
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I use a drill press, and I've got my bench grinder. Outside of that, I don't have anything to plug in.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I've got the regular 4-inch grinder. Outside of that, I don't plug power tools in anymore, so I just have used the other stuff. Steve, go ahead. Welcome back.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, just something that picked my brain here, because our highly paid state attorney missed this one, and it was brought to my attention, and you've got a lot of people in your audience that have unmarried adult children. Yeah. I went ahead and verified this with McKenzie, who was on Martino's show. You need to have, just like they have for you, a medical, durable power of attorney.
SPEAKER 06 :
There's actually been some ads. Michael Bailey, who's one of our sponsors of all of my programs, he ran some ads here recently, Steve, talking about that very thing that Yes, indeed, you need that because in most cases, I mean, some of you that have sent kids off to college know this, unless your kid, your child, student, allows you to even see their test scores and so on, Steve, you don't get to see them.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and this guy, McKenzie, brought up a point, too. A, it needs to be in the state where they live, which in my daughter's case is Maryland. And then where they're going. He mentioned something I hadn't thought of that, you know, with today's HIPAA laws, If you have a child in a serious accident and they're unconscious and cannot consent, and you do not have that medical power of attorney, in a lot of cases, they'll just let them die and harvest the organs. And I went, oh, my God. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, no, that's a very important thing. And I think for a lot of folks, it's never thought of. And I'll be straight up honest, Steve. And granted, my youngest is now 33 years of age, so it's been a while. But I never thought of any of that back then. I didn't have any of that. I never had thought through any of that. And I think especially in today's world, that is something that every – parent that's sending a child off or a unmarried child period i think yes they should give somebody in the family another sibling mom dad whoever power of attorney on those things financially and medically both
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, and our overpaid estate attorney did not catch that, so I was glad to at least catch up on it.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, that is solid, Steve. Yeah, Michael Bailey's talked about that. For those of you listening, he can do even just a power of attorney for these situations. Even if you don't have a full estate plan, but you just want something for your kids, he can do whatever you need to do, and that's a great point, Steve, especially those kids that aren't married. I mean, they might be 28 years of age, still need it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. That's exactly what it's for. If you have unmarried adult kids, you need to get it in today's world.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. 100%, Steve. Nope, you're 100% correct. Thank you for that. Yeah, great reminder. And, again, we have a great resource for that, Michael Bailey. He's the mobile estate planner, and I will tell you this right now. He's busy. Super busy because he's good at what he does and we promote him and we've sent him a lot of business and things like that. So I will tell you right now that last time Michael was on, Charlie, we're in October. I think you're looking at probably early February right now, actually sitting down, getting a meeting with him because he's about 90 days or so away. out and with the holidays and so on so plan on your middle of october already so you've got you know the rest of october so november december january yeah you're going to be end of january early february getting in if you call now and i would highly suggest so those of you even that have kids that maybe are 16 17 years of age and they're going to be going off here in the not too distant future You can do these pretty much at any time. Michael can help you with all of that. The biggest thing is at least sit down and have a conversation and figure out what your plans are and how you want to handle those things. I know that's not necessarily a fix-it radio topic. It applies to all topics, actually, because after going through all of this with my folks, trust me, you want to have your stuff dialed in. When you do, there's so much other stuff already going on where it's hectic and there's decisions being made and so on. The last thing you want to have to do is screw around with, do I have power of attorney? Do I have this? Do I have that? If you have all of that, it's easy. And it's just one less thing to have to deal with.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and it's so frustrating when you can't get information from doctors or attorneys or whatever concerning your loved one and the estates and all the things that you have to do with that.
SPEAKER 06 :
And here's what's funny or ironic about all of this, just as a side note. With all the things I've been through with my mom and my dad, now with my dad it was a little different when you have to go put somebody into memory care and so on. There's a lot of hoops to jump through, and yes, they require proof of all sorts of things, physical proof. I will say, though, on the hospital level, me just saying I had it was typically all they needed. I think at one point I might have had to show one particular agency an actual copy of it. But in general, all I had to do was say I had it, and that was typically good enough for them, and off I went. Now, I did have it, so I wasn't lying, and I was always able to provide that if somebody needed it. But I can tell you that not all of them required actual proof of it, but I think they wanted it just in case. And I had it, of course, and all of that. But having all of that makes it – Larry's right. It makes a huge difference at the end of the day, yes. Yeah. So, again, that's not necessarily fix-it radio. That's probably more of a ready radio, the preparedness end of things. But believe me, having all of that dialed in makes a huge difference. Okay, I did want to throw out a few more WD-40 things just because we talked about that a couple of weeks ago. There's no way we'll get through all of this today, but we can get to as many of these as we can. We ended the last one. And there were, I think, I don't know how many tips we had on here. Hang on, 14 ways. And we only got through a few of these because the last one was we were talking about stainless steel, which there's debates out on whether you want to use WD-40 for that or not. But removing stains. So normally grease stains can be a nightmare to remove, and one slip of whatever sauce on your favorite blouse or ink spill or whatever can be catastrophic, although WD-40 may be cleaning those messes. up almost too easy so it's a good stain remover as well now that's a new one on me i had i've never used it for anything along those lines so that's that's a new one on me i've never tried that i do know it's water soluble so it would make sense that if it attacks the stain lifts it the wd-40 is going to wash out because it doesn't stay on that's where you can use it for the paint on your car and things like that because once you use soap and water On the paint on the car, the WD-40 is gone. So the same, I would think, would apply to your clothes. So it makes sense. I've just never done it.
SPEAKER 07 :
I haven't either. Never tried it.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm going to try it. So there's another use right there. Now, cleaning tools, yep, that one's a big one. Spray WD-40 on to remove the grit, the grime, the rust, the junk, the whatever. Yeah, it works very well for all of those things. And, again, it's something that it will help you get things back in shape. Just remember, and I talked about this the last time, it's not necessarily an oil per se. So if you're wanting permanent lubrication, which never happens, by the way, but you're not getting necessarily a permanent lubrication out of it. You can use WD-40. Just remember you're going to be applying it over and over again because it's not going to stay and last like a Teflon spray or something like that would be. But you're not going to use the Teflon spray to do the same things you would with WD-40. Okay, repelling pests. This is another one I've used. Now, I have done this. I have used WD-40. It talks about this in this particular article. I've used it on wasps. You didn't have a can of whatever around. I used WD-40. Yep, sure enough, it works. I've used it for that. I don't know whether the oily basis of WD-40 gets on the wings and has detrimental effect that way. I don't know how it works. I know it does. It doesn't kill them, it just chases them away? Well, in some cases, if you get it directly on them, no, they're down for the count. Now, I don't know if it kills them or if it makes their wings, you know, quote, unquote, inoperable. I'm not a scientist. I've never studied that. I just know that when you use it, they not only go away, but a lot of times you'll see them fall to the ground.
SPEAKER 07 :
I've never tried it.
SPEAKER 06 :
It works. So if you don't have wasp spray kicking around, I've also used it on ants and things along those lines as well. So whatever's in it, it's enough to where insects it doesn't do well with. So... There you go. There's another use for it. Bring life back to artificial plants. Yeah, so this one makes sense. So those of you that have artificial plants and they can get kind of dusty and nasty and so on, a little WD-40 on that will restore that back to life. The other thing WD-40 works for, for some of you, is where you've got a – I don't know how I can explain this. Some of the modern fiberglass-type windows and doors, right? Instead of actually painting a door, if you notice it's starting to get a little bit faded and looks kind of nasty, spray it with WD-40 and wipe it down. It'll restore it. It'll bring it right back. So some of you have like an artificial wood-looking door, but it's actually fiberglass, and it starts to get kind of weathered because maybe it sits in the sun. You can WD-40 that and bring it back to life. Now, again, it's not going to last forever. It will wear off. You're probably going to find yourself doing that on a monthly basis, but you can make it look brand new, and then you'll start to see it kind of look and weather it again. Just put some more WD-40 on it, and away you go. You can bring those things back to life that way. interesting yeah i had a door that way that uh we finally ended up painting the door because i got tired of doing that but you know again to paint it though means you had to sand it down and there was a process involved in in all of that and it's much better painted but for the longest time i used wd-40 on it you bring it back to life i'd do it about once a month or so and And off you go. So, yes, that one I've used on a personal basis, which kind of goes along with the protecting of the outdoor furniture. WD-40 will do the same thing there. So say you've got to leave your outdoor furniture out, and most of us do because it's outdoor furniture. Maybe you have the ability to put that in for the winter. Maybe you don't. You can spray a coat of WD-40 on that. And, frankly, if you've got a cover or anything, you can kind of group everything together, spray it with WD-40, put your cover on it, and you'll be good for spring. And it just keeps that deterioration, the oxidation and things that might be happening.
SPEAKER 07 :
For sure, because as long as water doesn't get to it, it's not going to wash off.
SPEAKER 06 :
Correct. Put your cover on it and off you go. Done deal. So this is another way to do things. This one's interesting. Conceal tile scratches. Ceramic tile, marble, linoleum surfaces are beautiful, but homeowners can avoid them due to fears of chips, scratches. WD-40 is a miracle worker. It doesn't completely fix, of course, because you're not, and it doesn't keep those scratches from happening, but can it hide them? Yes. So if you've got a little scratch in a tile or something along those lines, can you use WD-40 on that to hide that? Sure, because what it does is it works its way down to the crack, kind of gives the crack the finished look that's up above the surface because the scratch is digging into it, and you'll give it sort of that look that was there before. Unless you really look closely, you won't notice the scratch. Now, that only works on tile. It won't work on your car.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, darn it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, there's no solution for that. Removing nuts and bolts. Larry and I talked about this the last time we were on. And, yeah, you can use it as a penetrating grease, although I will say this, or penetrating lubricant. I will say this, if you've got something, you know, a bolt manifold bolts on cars are notorious for trying to, you know, get them off because they get heat and rust and so on. And I will tell you that WD-40 probably won't do much for those. You need an actual penetrating oil, Rostov. There's other products out there that work very well.
SPEAKER 07 :
PB Blaster.
SPEAKER 06 :
PB Blaster, I love. By the way, that's a particular product that I think for rusted bolts and stuff works extremely well. I don't know what they put in that stuff, Larry, but it works wonders. So I'm not a big WD-40 guy in loosening up rusted bolts and so on. I always go get the rust penetrant, the blaster and some of that. I use that versus WD-40. But can you use that? Sure, you can. Now, this is interesting. This one is a new one on me as well. Protect gold and silver. Sorry, protect good silver, not gold and silver, but protect good silver. I would think you could do this even on gold as well. Where it normally would tarnish because of the oxidation thing, we're talking about that, you can WD-40 those up, and you're good to go. Now, this is something else that's interesting about WD-40. Someone would say, well, why would you put that on your silverware where you might be eating off of that down the road? Again, it's going to wash off.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
and the interesting thing about wd-40 is every time i spray some of that somewhere and it drips my dog licks it because like it's got like a fish oil component to it i believe and at the end of the day has my dog ever died from eating it no no yeah there's still alive and kicking and i've had numerous dogs over the years that they love the taste of wd-40 so is it going to kill you no Now, would I drink it and eat it? No. But is a little bit on even silverware going to harm you and hurt you? I highly doubt it. No. At the end of the day, probably not. Protect hardwood when painting. That's a good idea. So you can end up a little bit of splatter. Normally, you try to put your visqueen down or your protectant so you don't get any paint on the hardwood surfaces. But if you put WD-40 on things first, it won't stick. The paint doesn't stick.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Again, this is a new one on me. I never thought about that one. Now, I learned a trick the other day. If you're painting and you want really quick results and you don't have even masking tape around and you don't have a lot of time to even tape off doors and handles, aluminum foil. You can work right around the door handle, get it right up against the edge, and if you do that just right, you can actually take it from one doorknob to another to another because you just reuse the tin foil each time. And it matches shape. And it molds right around whatever the surface is you're trying to mask off and actually works better than masking tape at times. So there's a little tip. I learned that one this last week. Never have done it. Never thought about it. But the next time I do something, I'm like, yeah, instead of the tape, instead of grabbing that, I'm going to grab some aluminum foil. I've never used it for that, but it makes total sense after I watch somebody use it that way. Keep squirrels out of your feeders. So in other words, you can actually spray the bottom part of your feeders and such and the slipperiness of that, and you have to continue to do it because, again, the water and stuff will wash that off. But you can actually use WD-40 and make that slippery where the squirrels can't climb up onto the bird feeder. So another little tip. That's another one I haven't tried, but I will. Bill, you're up. We've got a minute. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
At the yard sale, I want to pour a concrete floor in my pole barn, and there's a rebar here, but it's all rusty. Will that rust affect it?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, not a bit. No, in fact, most guys won't even take the rust off of that, laying that with the concrete on top. Okay, thank you. It won't bother a thing, Bill. But if you've got it and it's cheap, buy it. Yeah, okay. Absolutely. Go buy it and use it. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And by the way, same thing applies to, for Bill, if you're still listening, same thing applies to a lot of guys will put the wire mesh, you know, the wire down. They'll use rebar and some wire in the concrete. They'll raise the wire up a little bit. Again, that can be all rusty and nasty and doesn't make a hell of a bit of difference. Keep in mind that. that concrete has a water content to it anyways and it it you'll never make it it'll never matter you'll never you know you're never if you were to break all that apart on down the road it'll be right in the middle of that concrete and it'll make a hell of beans a bit of difference it'll all be just probably clean that comes apart uh yeah probably would be actually the chemical reaction someone probably gets rid of everything that's there uh last one on this wd-40 protect your lawnmower coating wd-40 will protect your lawnmower parts from rusting corrosion yeah you know what that's a great idea for some of you that maybe don't have the ability to put the the lawnmower in the shed maybe it has to go on the side of the house or maybe it even does go in the shed nothing wrong with taking in fact i'm going to do that this year take wd-40 spray the entire underside of the deck for example and a lot of times you'll get surface rust and so on that happens through the winter months you won't doing this
SPEAKER 07 :
I use it on the top part of the lawn and underneath the deck, and it helps keep the grass from accumulating in the deck.
SPEAKER 06 :
I've never done that. I'm going to. It's a great idea. It works really well. So there again, so that's the last tip. We finally got through all of these WD-40s, and I even had somebody that I was talking to yesterday asking, you know, what do you use to get tree sap or road debris, tar, things like that off the paint of your car? And I'm like, WD-40. You don't have to get super fancy and go out and buy a bunch of product and spend a bunch of money on things. Just use WD-40, and you're good to go. All right, that's it today for Fix-It Radio. Don't forget, you can always go to the website, fixitradio.com, and I'll do my best to go back through and find some things that Steve was talking about when it comes to maintenance tips and actually get a maintenance list. I should say get that up on the website here in the near future as well. That's it. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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Join guest host Andy Pate on 'Rush to Reason' as we dive into an exciting hour of NFL predictions filled with insightful analyses and humorous banter. Alongside Luke Cash and Tanner Cole, Andy discusses the dynamics of the week's games, contemplating whether the Rams or Jaguars have the edge, and considering the potential outcomes for the Patriots and Titans after their respective management reshuffles. Expect lively debates concerning the Raiders' chances of victory against the surging Chiefs and whether the Eagles can overcome their recent setbacks against the Vikings. With a keen sense of humor, Andy and his co-hosts delve deep into the implications of key player movements and team strategies. In our intriguing dialogue, we extend the discussion beyond current matchups to speculate on future NFL stars and potential Hall-of-Famers, all while maintaining a lighthearted tone throughout. Don't miss this engaging look into the strategic world of the NFL and what it takes to whip out those winning predictions.
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Filling in is Andy Pate, party of choice. And welcome to hour number two here on Rush to Reason. I'm Andy Pate. Filling in for John Rush, along with two man among men, we've got Luke Cash and Tanner Cole. Well, way to go, man.
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Way to go. You did it, dude. I'm so proud of you. The fact that you screwed up the second word almost made me spit this drink out everywhere.
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Well, I try usually to screw up every word.
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I have nothing. I have nothing. I got nothing. I'm old. That's all I got. Okay, here we go. Tanner, are you ready for some NFL picks? I'm ready for some NFL picks. Okay, here we go. Hit that music. All right, we're going to open up with game number one is the Rams are favored by two and a half over the Jaguars. Two teams looking to go five and two. Who has the edge?
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I think the Jags are the biggest fake team in the NFL. Travis Hunter is not that great yet. We'll see. Brian Thomas can't get the ball. I'm taking Rams with the points, even though Puka's not playing.
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Okay. Boy, I'm not sure of this one.
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Jags have a great defense, but...
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They do. Both teams have a defense. You know what? I was going with the Rams, but I wanted to be different on one, so I'm going to take the Jaguars instead of the Rams. Okay, next game. The Saints are on the road at the Bears, and the Bears favored by 4.5. Here's my question. Is the point spread too low? I mean, aren't the Bears 3-2 with a lot of young talent?
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And they'd just be the commanders who went to the NFC Championship game. The Saints are looking for the number one pick, even though there's not really a clear number one pick to take right now. I know.
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It looked like it was going to be Arch Manning. No, we don't know. But another Manning in New Orleans would be kind of cool.
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It would be. I'm taking the Bears.
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We'll both take the Bears. Okay, next game, Ugly Bowl. Are you ready for the Ugly Bowl? Okay, the Miami Dolphins, they're on the road at the Cleveland Browns, who for once are favored by two and a half points. Two ugly teams on a road to nowhere. They're going to play a game for some reason. Okay, we have no idea. Why are they playing?
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I don't know. I can't believe Cleveland seems to almost sell out games. It's unbelievable. I don't know how the Browns are favored. Dylan Gabriel just throws checkdowns all game, so if you just cover that, I think it'll be quick. McDaniel's on the hottest seat of seats, so I think the Dolphins win.
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Yeah, I'm not confident either way. You know what? I'm going to take the Browns just to be different. Okay, next game. I don't think this looks too good. The Patriots are favored by 6.5 over the Titans. New England, they just upset Buffalo, and the Titans already fired their coach. Can the Titans fight for pride?
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Sometimes when a coach gets fired, the team gets low motivation. The interim gets the locker room back on track. I think the Titans won't win, but I think they might cover the spread, so I still have the Pats.
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Yeah, I agree. These games coming off when a coach gets fired, you have no idea what to expect. And I don't know what to expect, but I'll take the Patriots. Okay, next game, the Raiders. Okay, they're playing the Chiefs. Chiefs are favored big at home, 12.5 points last I saw.
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Right.
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After a surprisingly easy win over Detroit, are the Chiefs starting to build momentum?
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Unfortunately, I think they are. I think it's Rasheed Rice's first game back. I was kind of shocked with 12.5, but when you have Geno Smith as quarterback, you have no idea what could happen. He could throw for 303 touchdowns, or he'll do what he's been doing all season, throw three interceptions.
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You have no idea.
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So I think the Chiefs are going to win. I don't like the spread. The only way the Raiders win is if Patrick Mahomes loses his right arm.
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Okay, quick question, though. This is the first year for Ashton Genting. He is doing a lot with no holes. Okay, so here's my question. As they build an actual team over the next two years, is he going to become the next Saquon Barkley? Is he a real threat?
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I don't see how he doesn't. He is great. I watched most of the Raiders games just because of him, and if they actually had an offensive line, Genting would be the best running back in the league already. I mean, some of the plays he makes for five yards, chugging out three defenders is unbelievable.
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Okay, last question, and we'll go to the next game. If you're the Raiders GM, are you picking offensive line, first round, maybe first, second round?
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I think so. They're also going to be in probably that 10 to 15 range, maybe even higher. Get a stud. Yeah, get a Joe Walt.
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Okay, there you go. All right, next game. Maybe the game of the week, one of the really good ones. The Eagles are favored by one and a half at the Vikings. Now, Philly is in free fall.
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Right.
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Can they bounce back on the road against a tough Vikings team?
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Do we know if JJ's playing?
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I don't believe he is.
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So Carson Wentz is back at the helm.
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I think it's going to be Carson. I'm not sure of that. I think so.
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I think losing two in a row is going to ignite the Eagles a little bit. They've had these problems before. The receivers get upset. Jalen Hurts, everyone starts bagging on him. But, I mean, they had that bad year. Then the next year they went and won the Super Bowl. So I think they're good enough to be able to turn it around and win this weekend.
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You know, I just don't know, but I'm going to take the Eagles too. I just think the Vikings, until they get J.J. back and comfortable again, I don't think they're the team. Okay, next team. Next game. Sorry, the Panthers. Carolina Panthers are favored. They're favored. By one and a half against the 0-6 J-E-T-S Jets, Jets, Jets. Jets are 0-6. Can we stop blaming last year's Jets team on Aaron Rodgers?
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Yes, they have talent everywhere you look. They just can never figure out a quarterback, and they screw themselves over every chance they get, no matter what it is. They've been in close games, and they did something stupid, whether it was on special teams or what they did against the Broncos, just let the half end. I mean, there's a million things you could say about the Jets.
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They're awful.
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The Panthers, though, are kind of hot right now.
SPEAKER 21 :
They're picking it up, and I think you're going to pick the Panthers, aren't you?
SPEAKER 08 :
Bryce Young's looked a lot better, 100%.
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Yeah, so my quick question here, how about Rodgers? Okay, I mean, yeah, they lost last night to Cincy, but that's because, let's face it, Pittsburgh sucks. They don't have that good of a team.
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No.
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And they're like 4-2 with a bad team, and he scored 31. You can't blame him.
SPEAKER 08 :
Everyone was bagging Mike Tomlin for barely beating the Jets. Look at him now. He just is a great coach and knows how to get a W and the job done.
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Yep. Okay, next game, Giants. New York Giants are here at the Denver Broncos. Broncos favored by 7.5. Hey, the Giants are rallying around Jackson Dart, but will he get destroyed by the league's best defense?
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I think Scadaboo might run over a couple Broncos this weekend. I think the Broncos will win, but I think it will be a closer game than anyone here wants to believe.
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Well, you know, I'm predicting a Bronco rout in this one, but I've got to be honest. I was predicting that last week, and they barely won.
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So we'll see. Even though the Giants are missing the league neighbors, I love that team. Jackson Dart has installed some confidence and swagger that they haven't had in decades.
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Yeah, but they don't have neighbors. Here's my prediction. Nobody is going to be open all game long. He's going to have nowhere to go with the ball. He's going to get dropped for a million sacks. He is a good runner. Yeah, he is, but not that good.
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200 rush yards.
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Okay, next game, the Colts are on the road at your Chargers. Now, are the Chargers healthy enough to hang with a surprising Colts team?
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We have no running back. I'm pretty sure Joe Waltz is still out. Sean Slater won't be coming back. I think we do have Makai Becton left, but we barely beat the Dolphins, so I'm all over the Colts. That's my pick of the week.
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Yeah, me too. I'm taking the Colts. Commanders are favored by one and a half at the Cowboys. This is looking like an ugly game. With Jaden Daniels back in charge, can Washington start to matter again? Or are they just average?
SPEAKER 08 :
There's no Terry McLaurin again this weekend. The Cowboys' defense, though, is so bad. They let every team run right. I mean, the Panthers beat them, scored 30. So I'm going to take the Commanders still, but no Terry definitely makes it a little difficult for them, only having Devo and Luke McCaffrey and Zach Ertz. So I'm going to take the Commanders still.
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But does it matter who you have when they're all open?
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Exactly.
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Exactly. I'll take the Commanders, too. Okay, next game, my Packers are favored by six and a half over the Cardinals. Look, I don't get this. Green Bay can't block, can't rush the passer. They can't stop anyone in the second half. But is Arizona too injured?
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I think so, and I just don't see it from Kyler Murray. I don't think he's taking that next step at all. I think the Packers are going to win. I don't know about a six and a half.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I don't either. I don't even know if they're going to win.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think it might be a 23-20 or something like that.
SPEAKER 21 :
Look, the Packers have a lot to figure out. Right now, these are two sub-average teams, in my opinion. And we'll just see what happens.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think just give Matthew Golden the ball. When he touches it, he's looked amazing. Yeah, he has. Three catches, 86 yards. What else? And a couple runs. Yeah.
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Well, he runs almost a 4.2. Right. All right, here we go. Up next is one of my sleeper teams. The Falcons are on the road at the 49ers. Niners are favored by 2.5. Let me ask you this. After running over the Bills, can the physical Falcons upset the Niners in San Fran?
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I think the Niners are one of the best coached teams. You see every year their best players get injured, and they are still relevant in most games. The Falcons did lose a couple weeks ago to the Panthers, but I think that's behind them, hopefully. I have the Falcons winning this, even though George Kittle's back. I think if Penix holds on to the ball, doesn't fumble or throws an interception, they should be all right.
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I've got the Falcons, too. You know what? I've got the Falcons winning that division. Oh, no, I don't. Not over Tampa Bay. I forgot about Tampa. Baker for MVP. But I do have the Falcons going to the playoffs.
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I do, too.
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All right. Next up. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they're on the road to the Lions. Lions are favored by 6.5. Should anyone be a touchdown favorite over 5-1 Tampa Bay? Is Baker Mayfield a possible MVP?
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I think he's a frontrunner. Yeah, I do too. Chris Godwin hasn't played. Mike Evans is out. Yeah, I love him. Emeka Igbuka is now out. So he's got nothing left other than Sterling Shepard. So I don't see the Bucs winning, but I think it'll be a decent game. They're well coached. They're... Even though they're 5-1, they have been an underrated team for a long time for no reason. They've had talent on both sides for the longest time, always in the playoff hunt.
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I agree. I'm going to take the Lions as well just because of injuries to Tampa Bay. But right now, if Tampa were healthy, I'd be taking Tampa.
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100%.
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They're that good. Okay, last game, the Texans are on the road at the Seahawks. Seahawks favored by 3.5. How badly can Houston play with all that talent? And are the Seahawks about to go 5-2?
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I took the Seahawks. I just think their defense is finally at what they've been building for the last four years. Sam Darnold looks great. For NFC quarterbacks, I'd have him up there with Dak and – maybe not Dak, but I'd have him up there with Baker.
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You know, it's nice to have high draft picks at left and right tackle, and he does. I'm telling you what, Darnold has time to throw, and he's using it.
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And I like that they're using Charbonnet as more of a two-back system with Kenneth Walker. Charbonnet's been killing it. I feel like he's about to take the starting job.
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I agree. They are a good team.
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Smith and Jigba's second year, and every game he's got 100 yards, it seems.
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All right, we're both taking Seattle. And, Charlie, that is it. That is it for NFL picks. We'll see how it goes. Okay, let's take a break. When we come back from break, we're going to be doing what, Luke?
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Oh, we're going to be doing Nazis and Commies.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush. And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Pate filling in for John Rush, along with Luke Cash and Tanner Cole. And guys, we are talking about Nazis and commies. Movies with Nazis and commies, and there's a lot of them.
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There are a decent amount.
SPEAKER 21 :
There are many people who make better bad guys than Nazis and commies. Pretty decent bad guys, I'd say.
SPEAKER 08 :
Very easy to hate. Yeah, I think Christopher Waltz in Glorious Bastards is one of my favorite evil guys just because he's so eloquent at the same time. But he stands... I mean, he's one of the... Higher powers in the Third Reich. But he was fantastic. I mean, he's one of the best actors I've ever seen.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, he's one of the best bad guys I've seen.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 21 :
I mean, he was outstanding. But you know what? I'm going to open up with the good guy.
SPEAKER 15 :
Nice.
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From Inglorious Bastards. That is Brad Pitt. Are you ready?
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Yes.
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Recruiting his killers.
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And the German will be sickened by us. And the German will talk about us. And the German will fear us. When the German closes their eyes at night, and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with the thoughts of us that they are tortured with. Sound good? Yes, sir! That's what I like to hear. But I got a word of warning for all you would-be warriors. When you join my command, you take on debit. A debit you owe me, personally. Each and every man under my command owes me 100 Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps. And all y'all will get me 100 Nazi scalps taken from the heads of 100 dead Nazis. Or you will die trying.
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All right, guys, what do you think?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, I love it. One of my favorite movies.
SPEAKER 21 :
One of my favorite performances by Brad Pitt.
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, everything about that movie, the acting was great, the scenes, the writing, the Jew bear, I loved him.
SPEAKER 21 :
You know, one thing I really liked about Inglorious Bastards was it showed you cannot negotiate with these people. It must be brutality that matches theirs and exceeds theirs and shocks them.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right.
SPEAKER 21 :
And here he, what does he get? Eight Jewish guys to go killing Nazis because he knew exactly what he wanted. I thought it was great.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's been a while since I've seen it. I need to rewatch it again. It's been a minute.
SPEAKER 21 :
I will say there are periods in the movie where it drags some.
SPEAKER 12 :
A little.
SPEAKER 21 :
But overall, good movie.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right.
SPEAKER 21 :
Inglourious Bastards, I recommend it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Luke, you're up. Oh, let's go with Captain America, the first Avenger. Yes. I forgot about that. Yeah. Yeah, people forget that that's a, you know, it's a World War II movie. They fight Red Skull, a Nazi. It's a big Nazi organization. Hydra is Nazis. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 21 :
I agree. Very cool. And by the way, that was the last, I don't know. It's just so sad that Chris Evans kind of spoiled Captain America going forward. What did he do? Well, he's such a crazy left-wing activist, and he's so mean about it. It's one thing to be, as I always say, it's one thing to be one. It's another thing to scream it all the time. It got old because you're playing Captain America.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. Well, it's like, why don't you just not talk about it, even though I'm sure they might have in their contract they have to talk about it, or else they don't get any more movies.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, and I feel bad about that, because it's also unfair to ask them to be silent about their political beliefs. I don't want to do that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, none of them live in the reality that everyday Americans do, so why are they even talking about it?
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, there's that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, Tanner, you're up. Let's go with Red Dawn. Red Dawn! I like both. I think there's a new one.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, there's two of them.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah, both.
SPEAKER 21 :
And I agree, I like both.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, isn't the new ones like 15 years old? Yeah, still old, yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes. Yes. Did you like it?
SPEAKER 12 :
Uh, I remember liking it when I watched it. I don't know if it holds up, but I remember thinking it was cool when I saw it at the time.
SPEAKER 08 :
The premise is fantastic. Oh, yeah. The communists just coming in, these kids at school, we gotta get out to the mountains, bring our guns, bring camping stuff, and then fighting them off was pretty awesome. Yeah, it's a really cool premise. Yeah, I like it. Just some high school kids fighting against trained soldiers.
SPEAKER 21 :
You know who I could see totally leading a bunch of high schoolers against the communists coming in? John and Cheyenne. That's who I think would definitely do it. John, do you have some Nazi and commie movies?
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, yeah. I got Two Serious and a Comedy. Okay, let's hear it. Okay, the first Nazi one is one of my favorite movies of all time, Battleground and the Battle of the Bulge. Oh, yes, yes. And the great line, which is historically true, is when General McAuliffe told the Nazis to their surrender demand nuts. And Patton quotes it in the movie Patton, too. But that's an actual historical fact. That was his response to a Nazi surrender demand.
SPEAKER 20 :
Isn't that funny? Yep. He wanted to keep killing them. I'm good with that.
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, yeah. Tommy's one of my favorite movies of all time. The Hunt for Red October.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, yes. I'm quickly realizing I'm going to have nothing by the end of it. Really quick here.
SPEAKER 21 :
Let me play a clip of Hunt for Red October. Here we go.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I will have a pickup truck or possibly even A recreational vehicle. And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. No papers? No papers. State to state.
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All right, commence your turn.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well then, in winter I will live in Arizona. Actually, I think I will need two wives. Oh, at least.
SPEAKER 21 :
I just had to leave in the two wives thing.
SPEAKER 19 :
John? You know, people don't realize how great of an actor Sam Neill is. Oh, he's wonderful. You know, because he did the Jurassic Park movies, but he's done so many others before that. Sorry to go off on a tangent. Do you remember... He played Damien in Omen 3. No. He was very young. He was very young at the time, yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
You're kidding. I didn't know that.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, he was, well, Damien's son of Satan. So, yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 19 :
I'm sorry, go ahead.
SPEAKER 21 :
No, I said okay.
SPEAKER 19 :
Go ahead. Yeah. And then the comedy, another one of my favorite movies of all times, The Original Producers. Oh, The Producers. Okay, yeah. That was pretty funny. Do you remember what the play was called?
SPEAKER 21 :
Don't tell me something for Hitler. I forget. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 19 :
Springtime for Hitler.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, Springtime for Hitler.
SPEAKER 19 :
There's an old quote from Mel Brooks from way back when, when they asked him how he could make that movie, and he said Nazis were evil, rotten... people and the only thing you could do is make fun of them yeah that was so you guys have a great day andy um i'll talk to you tuesday after i hope to see a victory on sunday well best luck to you sir i think you're in for a hard road but hey you never know you never know you never know okay thanks john well let's see here i'm let's do a sing-along are you ready ready okay here we go
SPEAKER 21 :
Nazis. By Nazis. What do you think, guys? Isn't this John's favorite movie of all time? Oh, yeah. It's better than Mary Poppins. Nazis. You know, and now in the original cut, they took it out. They actually had Nazis twirling and spinning and frolicking on the hills. Did you know that?
SPEAKER 08 :
That would be a fun remake, a comedy of The Sound of Music.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
It would be.
SPEAKER 21 :
Anything that makes fun of Nazis to me is actually a good thing. Okay, that was The Sound of Music. Luke, you're up. Oh, let's go with, I think it's, what is it, Rocky IV? Rocky IV. I think I have a clip. Are you ready?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Here we go.
SPEAKER 22 :
In here, there were two guys killing each other. But I guess that's better than $20 million.
SPEAKER 04 :
What I'm trying to say is that if I can change, then you can change. Everybody can change.
SPEAKER 21 :
That's right, Sly. You tell those commies.
SPEAKER 12 :
There we go.
SPEAKER 21 :
That was a fun movie. Rocky IV was fun. Obviously, it was ridiculous. You would, in a real boxing match, deliver maybe one or two shots the way they delivered like 60 from each of them. But still, it was cool. What do you think? Yeah, I think so. He took down the economy. We did it. Got to take down the economy. We did it. I'm so proud. I'm so proud. Tanner, you're up. We're too busy crying.
SPEAKER 08 :
Go ahead. I want to say one thing about Sam Neill. He was fantastic as the police officer in Peaky Blinders, if you haven't seen that.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Let's go with Resistance. Resistance.
SPEAKER 21 :
Resistance.
SPEAKER 08 :
I don't remember that one. I think, what's his name, the guy who was in, not Michael Cohen. I can't remember. Okay. Not a small nerdy guy who was in it, but it's similar to the Truth and Treason a little bit.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, okay. Well, very cool, because that was a cool movie. Yeah. Okay, I'm going to say one that you guys, I'm sure, have not seen. And it is, if you want to see a movie where you see Nazis, I mean killed in every possible way, and just torn to pieces, watch Sisu. Here we go.
SPEAKER 23 :
He was a Finnish commander. Lost his home and his family in the war. He became a one-man death squad. He's one mean that you do not want to mess with.
SPEAKER 15 :
Fire!
SPEAKER 23 :
You'll see what happens when you take everything from him. No, he just refuses to die.
SPEAKER 21 :
And it goes a little far with him refusing to die, but I will say this. I gave Sisu four stars when it came out. If you have not seen Sisu, S-I-S-U.
SPEAKER 12 :
From the same creators as John Wick.
SPEAKER 21 :
Exactly, from the same creators as John Wick. Oh, and there's a sequel coming?
SPEAKER 12 :
This year.
SPEAKER 21 :
That's not true because there's no one left to kill.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, I'm sorry. He's going to kill the communists now.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, now he's got to go get the commies or something. I have no idea. But Sisu was brutal. Absolutely brutal. And it actually made a lot of money, you know, when Hollywood actually wants to make money.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. All right.
SPEAKER 21 :
You are up, Luke.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, this one might be a bit of a stretch because it's kind of more Cold War era. But technically, The Iron Giant is a Cold War movie with sort of fighting the Soviets as a little backdrop. I didn't realize that as a child. And then watching it as an adult, I'm like, oh, we're talking a lot about the Soviets in this, huh? That's kind of interesting.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, and The Iron Giant is actually a pacifist movie. It's a peacenik kind of film.
SPEAKER 12 :
I thought it was good. I loved that movie as a kid.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, very well done. By the way, was that forward... Was that Bloom... You know, I don't know. It was a very, very forward-thinking cartoonistry.
SPEAKER 08 :
It looks the exact same as that one about the robot in the forest. The wild robot? Yeah, it looks almost exactly the same.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, no, these two are very different.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, they were very different, but I will say this. It's great, though. It's a great movie. I never thought of the Iron Giant in that way, but you're totally right. Okay. Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Let's go with the Monuments Men. Ah, yes.
SPEAKER 21 :
Isn't that Clooney?
SPEAKER 08 :
I can't even remember. It's been so long.
SPEAKER 21 :
I think Clooney starred in that. That was pretty good. And that was one where they had to try to save... Art, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
Art. Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes, yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
Which makes sense.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yeah. Hey, tell you what. Why don't we take a break, and we will come back and do more Nazis and commies. I'm enjoying this.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, sounds good.
SPEAKER 21 :
Do you enjoy movies about taking out some Nazis and commies?
SPEAKER 12 :
I love it.
SPEAKER 21 :
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SPEAKER 11 :
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SPEAKER 11 :
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SPEAKER 11 :
And as always, you can find him at klzradio.com slash money. Al, thanks so much for joining us today.
SPEAKER 24 :
Well, thank you, TJ. Thanks for the conversation.
SPEAKER 11 :
You bet.
SPEAKER 21 :
Live and local, back to Rush to Reason. And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Pate filling in for John Rush, along with Tanner Cole and Luke Cash. Okay, guys, you can't fight Nazis if you're not willing to hit the beach.
SPEAKER 12 :
What?
SPEAKER 21 :
That's right, where the bullets are flying. Let's take a look at... Oh, I see. Yeah, saving Private Ryan. Here we go.
SPEAKER 07 :
We're looking for a private change, Ryan. I don't know anything about Ryan. I don't care. I'm finding him so he can go home. If that earns me the right to get back to my wife, well, then that's my mission.
SPEAKER 24 :
I mean, where's the sense of risking the lives of the eight of us to save one guy?
SPEAKER 03 :
The captives gave you an order. Yeah. I think the one you get to take this machine gun. Yes, sir. That was one hell of a call coming to take this nest, but... One of our guys going for it.
SPEAKER 21 :
What a movie. And there was a movie that totally redefined war movies going forward.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, that's another one I haven't seen in a minute. I don't think I've ever seen it.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, that was terrific.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, Luke, you're up. Oh, let's go. Definitely a little more out there, but I thought it was good. Maybe it's because it's the artist in me with the turtleneck sweater and the padded elbows. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Jojo Rabbit.
SPEAKER 21 :
Jojo Rabbit.
SPEAKER 12 :
I liked it.
SPEAKER 21 :
Some fine acting.
SPEAKER 12 :
Very fine acting. I don't want to spoil it just in case anyone has it. There's one specific scene in that film where it's like you should have seen it coming, and once it comes, it hurts so bad in the best possible way. Very, very good.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. Jojo Rabbit was a very surprisingly good movie.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 21 :
I mean, that's one of those that kind of came out of nowhere.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, like I said, very artsy, kind of a little strange, I think, in certain places, but it was good.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, most people don't have Hitler as their imaginary friend. No, no.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hitler as an imaginary friend is a little out there, but excellent film.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, excellent film. Okay, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 08 :
This one, I don't know how truthful it is, but it's somewhat based off of a true story. Operation Mincemeat. where the English basically disguised their invasion into Sicily by using a dead body that they floated into, like, I can't remember, Italy?
SPEAKER 21 :
I've heard of it. I've never seen the movie.
SPEAKER 08 :
I enjoyed it. I'm not going to spoil anything, but it was interesting because they don't know if it's going to work. And if it doesn't work, then the war might even get worse. But if it does work, they might end the war. There's a lot on the line. Interesting.
SPEAKER 21 :
I liked it a lot. Well done, sir. Once again, it's Operation Mincemeat?
SPEAKER 08 :
Mincemeat, yeah. Kind of a weird name.
SPEAKER 21 :
Awesome. Okay, up next is someone else who's awesome. Joe! Jersey Joe, how are you doing, sir?
SPEAKER 18 :
I'm doing fantastic. How are you guys doing?
SPEAKER 21 :
Doing well.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right. What more could you ask for? The Nazis running around New York City, Manhattan in 2003. Andy, you might know the movie.
SPEAKER 21 :
Nazis, New York City, 2003. Escape from? I don't know. Bulletproof Monk. Oh my gosh, I forgot about that. Okay, I gotcha.
SPEAKER 18 :
For those who haven't seen it, the movie opens end of World War II. A bunch of SS troops roll into this Tibetan monastery at the end of World War II. And there's a colonel and they're looking for some mystical scroll that's supposed to give the possessor like eternal life. And they wind up shooting and killing a bunch. And one of the monks with the scroll gets away and that's Chow Yun-Fat. Then the movie fast forward 60 years to Manhattan and here's Chow Yun-Fat Hasn't aged a day in 60 years. And the Nazi colonel who's now in his 90s is in a wheelchair being pushed around by his henchmen trying to find the Tibetan monk to get the scroll to regain his youth. It's got comedy. It's got action. It's got sarcasm. It's a guilty pleasure. It's a movie you want to see, Bulletproof Monk.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, and by the way, it's got Chow Yun-fat, and he's good. I like him.
SPEAKER 18 :
And Sean William Scott, too, as well. He's funny. He's funny. So it's a martial arts action movie with a tremendous amount of humor in it. So Bulletproof Monk, people, you can probably find it on Netflix. I urge you to watch it. you'll enjoy it. You won't regret watching it.
SPEAKER 21 :
No, Bulletproof Monk is a really fun way to spend an evening and just forget the work day. Yep. I agree. Do you have any more, Joe? I gave you a whole list of them. What did you do with my list? I've got your list. I've got a bunch of them right in front of me here, man.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, well, I'll let you run down them. We'll keep using them. Okay, thank you, Joe. Are you going to do my life story by Bernie Sanders?
SPEAKER 21 :
No, I didn't want to go that communist. You know, with the foreword by Zoran Mamdani.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, no. You're not going to do that one? All right.
SPEAKER 21 :
I'm going to go without that, you know, because I want people to like their lives. And, you know, we're just going to entertain them. Thanks, Joe. You take care. You too. Okay. You know, I have got so many. This one, I'm going to do one that you probably haven't heard of, which I reviewed. It was on Netflix. Better part of a year ago called Number 24. Here we go.
SPEAKER 17 :
So non-violence was never something you ever considered?
SPEAKER 09 :
I lost eight of my dear friends during the resistance, and that was by order of the Germans. But how would you have reacted if your best friends were betrayed?
SPEAKER 01 :
You take him out of town, then shoot him.
SPEAKER 09 :
I believe that freedom is worth almost anything. For it's either freedom or it's death.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, folks, number 24, I think it's still on Netflix, and I'll tell you what. Oh, you've seen it?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I was trying to figure out what that movie was for the longest time. It was just in my face every time I looked it up.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right, the Norwegian resistance against the Nazis. It's a slow burn, but it's really good, very meticulous, very methodical, and also with really good action and characters.
SPEAKER 08 :
What do you think? I loved the main character, but he's retelling his story as a kid. I loved how he put everything. When he was getting asked questions from the young Norwegian kids because they're all like, you know, they're in this new world of like, well, would you really kill them or would you want to fight against that? And I thought it was fantastic.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, it really was, because basically he's talking to a bunch of peacenik hippies.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right.
SPEAKER 21 :
And they don't understand. By the way, there are some good things to be said by peacenik hippies.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right.
SPEAKER 21 :
I'd like a little piece, too.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, and I think we can be too quick to go the other way, but they weren't being realistic with what you have to do against pure evil.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right.
SPEAKER 21 :
And it was just really cool. Okay, Luke, you're up.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, I don't think we have had the boy in the striped pajamas yet.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, boy. Okay. That's haunting.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's a heavy one. It is. It is a very heavy one. I watched that movie when I was far too young to understand what was going on and haven't thought about it since. It had come up recently and I was like thinking back on it. I'm like, oh, that was a dark movie.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, and also, I mean, a little bit like, it's not like Jojo Rabbit. I know that. But what I mean is in terms of really good acting by kids.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. Yes. Very good child actors. Like I said, very like haunting. Yes. Super good. I don't know. There's a lot of verbs I want to use that I can't on the air. But it was good. It was good. I liked it. Well, as much as you can like something like that, you know?
SPEAKER 21 :
One more time. What is it?
SPEAKER 12 :
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
SPEAKER 21 :
Thank you. Okay. Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Let's go with The King's Choice. It's kind of like number 24 in a sense. But it's Germany invading Norway and the king having to decide how he's going to go about that, whether he allows Germany to walk in peacefully or there's going to be war. And it was pretty good.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. I mean, think of the choices that they had to go through.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's unbelievable.
SPEAKER 21 :
Unreal. Okay. I played a clip last week from Darkest Hour. I'm going to play a different clip from Darkest Hour. Here we go. Winston Churchill.
SPEAKER 10 :
But now one bond unites us all. To wage war until victory is won. And never to surrender ourselves to servitude and shame. Whatever the cost, any agony may be. Conquer we must, as conquer we shall.
SPEAKER 21 :
He was incredible. Just had an incredible performance, deserved best actor. Luke, you're up.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, let's go with, this is, I don't think we have this one either, unless someone said it and I missed it. Miracle. Yes. Beat the commies.
SPEAKER 21 :
Gotta beat the commies. Gotta beat those commie Russian skaters. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
I was going through my list, and I'm like, it's not a war movie, but it's beating the commies.
SPEAKER 21 :
It's totally beating the commies.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's a war on ice. There you go.
SPEAKER 21 :
And by the way, it's in my list, so obviously I like it. Okay, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Let's go with the Great Escape.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yes. That's just, what a great movie. Well done. Okay, I'm going to go to one that's a little more thoughtful. Bonhoeffer, pastor, spy, assassin. Here we go.
SPEAKER 06 :
We have devised a plot to assassinate the Fuhrer.
SPEAKER 26 :
You will go to England as our spy. Churchill sees Germany as a home. He's afraid that a bomb traced to England would mean invasion or worse.
SPEAKER 09 :
Invasion.
SPEAKER 21 :
All right, and that's the story of Bonhoeffer. What an incredible man he was. And that was also made, I believe, by Angel Studios. And they did a good job. Okay, Luke, you're up.
SPEAKER 12 :
A little disturbed sound of silence in that soundtrack.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, well, they used the sound of silence to advertise the movie, and it was quite cool. Quite cool.
SPEAKER 12 :
Very nice. Let's go with some weird mechanic diesel punk Nazis in Overlord.
SPEAKER 21 :
Where they get the lab where they're developing these monsters.
SPEAKER 12 :
They got the big... It's like a big machine robot things. Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, you got to let me say this. Overlord, which by the way, I like the movie. I gave it three and a half or four stars. I forget. The opening scene where he parachutes into Germany is one of the coolest action scenes I've seen in ages. I mean, just really impressive. Overlord, good movie.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes. I thought it was very unique for the genre, too, like this kind of weird sci-fi gritty vibe to it.
SPEAKER 21 :
It's kind of cool. Yeah, kind of going against Nazi zombies.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it was like World War II sci-fi in a weird way.
SPEAKER 21 :
It was very cool.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, Tanner, you're up. Was Truth and Treason Angel Studios? Yes. That's what I thought. They seem to be the only company that can make a good movie. Let's go with First They Killed My Father. I love this movie. It's about this young Cambodian girl and her father wouldn't bow down to the communists, so they killed him right in front of her. And then she takes revenge, of course.
SPEAKER 21 :
That is a good one. That is really good. Tell you what, we're going to end on that for now. When we come back, we're going to go rapid fire. Are you ready? I'm ready. Because I've got some clips we don't have time for. We've got too many movies. Okay, up next is Michael Bailey Law. Corey and I, that's my wife, by the way, Corey, we got our trust put together by Michael, so now we sleep easy. It's wonderful. Don't wait. Get your estate planned with Michael Bailey at 720-730-7274.
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SPEAKER 14 :
We don't yell at you.
SPEAKER 21 :
We inform you. Now, back to Rush to Reason. And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Tanner Cole and Luke Cash. All right, guys. Are you ready for some rapid fire?
SPEAKER 12 :
Let's do it.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, here's a wonderful movie that is a foreign movie called Life is Beautiful. A guy entertaining his son during the Holocaust. It is haunting. Go ahead, Luke.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Oppenheimer, kind of. I think one of my favorite things about this movie is how offended he was about being called a communist. I was like, well, all of your work colleagues are communists, and your girlfriend and wife is a communist, and the affair partner you're having is a communist, and you were previously a communist. Why are you sounding so offended when people are calling you a communist, dude?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, loosen up, man. I mean, you're kind of making it your thing. You're almost wearing a t-shirt. It's kind of your thing, dude. Yeah, okay. Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Let's go with U-571.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, you took one of my favorites. That is so good. Anyone out there who has not seen U-571, shame on you. That's all I'm going to say. You must rent it. You must watch it. Submarine movie, it's wonderful. Okay, has anyone said Schindler's List?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, I was going to say Schindler's List.
SPEAKER 21 :
In John Rush's honor, because he loves that movie, I'm saying Schindler's List. You are up.
SPEAKER 12 :
Go Luke. We have not had Fury yet, have we? Nope.
SPEAKER 21 :
We have not had Fury yet. Was that also Brad Pitt?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, Brad Pitt. Yeah, Brad Pitt. It was Jon Bernthal and Shia LaBeouf.
SPEAKER 21 :
A lot of good ones.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, Tanner, you're up. Go. Let's go with Team America World Police. Yes.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, absolutely. Kim Jong- Il. Il. Yeah, he's commie. Commie all the way. Okay, I'm going to go with Das Boot.
SPEAKER 12 :
What? Oh, I didn't even think of Vietnam War movies. Das Boot's not Vietnam. No, I know, but you mentioned. Oh, yeah, you're thinking Korean. I was thinking Korean and Vietnam. Oh, those were so many options. There are so many Korean and Vietnam War movies. There are. All right, we'll go with The Dirty Dozen.
SPEAKER 21 :
Dirty Dozen. That was actually going to be my next clip. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
The Imitation Game.
SPEAKER 21 :
Ooh, nicely done. I'm going to go with Casablanca.
SPEAKER 12 :
I guess you're right, huh?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, that's definitely Nazis.
SPEAKER 12 :
Go ahead. Let's go with Indiana Jones, Raiders of the Lost Ark.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. We'll go with Indiana Jones and the Last Crystal Skull.
SPEAKER 21 :
How about The Last Crusade? Okay. You know what? I'm going to go with Kelly's Heroes. Dan loves that movie.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm running low. We're going to go with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.
SPEAKER 21 :
Ooh, that's a good one. That's a good one. Go ahead. American History X. Okay, I'm going to go with Enemy at the Gates. All right. That way you get both Nazis. There you go. All right, go ahead, Luke.
SPEAKER 12 :
My last one, Doctor Strangelove, or how to make a title much shorter than whatever comes after that semicolon.
SPEAKER 21 :
That's good. Okay. So we're just going back and forth now? Okay. Tanner, go.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hacksaw Ridge.
SPEAKER 21 :
Hacksaw Ridge. That's good. Okay. I'm going to go Fiddler on the Roof. Ooh.
SPEAKER 08 :
Uh-huh. Midway.
SPEAKER 21 :
Midway. Okay. I'm going to go X-Men First Class.
SPEAKER 08 :
I guess you're right, huh?
SPEAKER 21 :
Big time Nazis in that one.
SPEAKER 08 :
Go ahead. Unbroken.
SPEAKER 21 :
Unbroken. How about Sophie's Choice? That had Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline. Very good. Go. Red Tails. Red Tails? Oh, is that the flying one?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, they're all African-American flyers. Yeah.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, yeah. That's a cool one. Okay. How about Reds?
SPEAKER 17 :
Pearl Harbor.
SPEAKER 21 :
No. You can't mention Pearl Harbor ever. I don't allow that. Okay, we'll say Pearl Harbor. Next one, The Boys from Brazil. Starred Lawrence Olivier and Gregory Peck. It was really good.
SPEAKER 08 :
Was that good? Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
It is good.
SPEAKER 08 :
The Man with the Iron Heart.
SPEAKER 21 :
Ooh, nicely done. How about Defiance?
SPEAKER 08 :
I love that movie. Yeah. The Wall.
SPEAKER 21 :
The wall. I don't know that one. Okay. The boys in the boat. Remember, they had to go against the Nazis at the end.
SPEAKER 08 :
Still haven't seen that. All right. Tanner, go. I don't remember clearly, but Hellboy was on Google saying there was communists.
SPEAKER 21 :
Nazi. There was a Nazi in there.
SPEAKER 08 :
One of them.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. Very well done. Okay. The Ministry of Gentlemanly Warfare. It was okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Go ahead. The pianist.
SPEAKER 21 :
The pianist. That was pretty good. Cabaret. Cabaret.
SPEAKER 08 :
The Gray Zone.
SPEAKER 21 :
Ooh, you're nailing it. How about Valkyrie with a little Tom Cruise? I'm the first one to have a Tom Cruise movie. I win. Okay, go ahead, Tanner.
SPEAKER 08 :
Burnt by the Sun.
SPEAKER 21 :
Burnt by the Sun. Don't even know it. I am going to go with Bridge of Spies.
SPEAKER 08 :
The Killing Fields.
SPEAKER 21 :
The Killing Fields. That's a good one. Red Heat with Arnie and Jim Belushi.
SPEAKER 08 :
The Forgotten Battle.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, man. Now we're just rolling through. By the way, there are a lot of good movies here to actually see. This one is not one of them. ISS. Not that good. International Space Station. Americans, Russians, meh. It's not that good. Go ahead. The Book Thief. The Book Thief. Don't even know it?
SPEAKER 08 :
Me neither.
SPEAKER 21 :
You're just reeling off a list. That's okay. I'm good with that. GoldenEye. Russies. Ruskies. Phoenix. Phoenix. How about We Were Soldiers? Because they were fighting commies.
SPEAKER 08 :
You're right. This one I have seen. It's my favorite non-American film. The Roundup.
SPEAKER 21 :
Ooh. Okay. Well done. How about Baryshnikov and Gregory Hines in White Nights? If you wanted to see some great dancing. I mean, they were unreal. Go.
SPEAKER 08 :
The Eagle Has Landed.
SPEAKER 21 :
The eagle has landed. That's actually very good. K-19, The Widowmaker with Harrison Ford.
SPEAKER 08 :
Guilty by suspicion.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, how about Salt?
SPEAKER 08 :
How about Bent?
SPEAKER 21 :
Bent. Those are short. Have we done From Russia with Love yet?
SPEAKER 08 :
Nope.
SPEAKER 21 :
A little 007 action. Go.
SPEAKER 08 :
Irina's Vow.
SPEAKER 21 :
Ooh, here's one. The Death of Stalin. Showing what happened after the death of Stalin with the fight for supremacy. Go.
SPEAKER 08 :
Dunkirk?
SPEAKER 21 :
Dunkirk. Oh, you took one of mine. How dare you? Did we say The Way Back yet?
SPEAKER 08 :
I don't think so.
SPEAKER 21 :
Ed Harris, Colin Farrell. It's a good movie. Go.
SPEAKER 08 :
Grey Wolf, The Escape from Adolf Hitler.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. Well, how about The Saint?
SPEAKER 08 :
Go. Empire of the Sun.
SPEAKER 21 :
Oh, my gosh. Rambo First Blood Part 2.
SPEAKER 08 :
Train of Life.
SPEAKER 21 :
Red Sparrow. Go.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hitler. The Rise of Evil. The Courier. Go. Miracle at Midnight. Ice Station Zebra. Go. The Diary of Anne Frank. Moscow and the Hudson. Go. This is a show about the man in the high castle. Very good.
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And I'm going to finish up with a cartoon and American tale. And we just did it. Thank you very much, sir. I'm going to thank you again, Tanner Cole. Man. And Luke Cash. Man. Folks, thanks for joining us today on Rush to Reason. That is it for today. John's back tomorrow. Hour 1 replays next. Hour 2 is at 6. John is not only back tomorrow, he's back on Monday. Until then, drive safe, God bless, and thanks for joining us at Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
The Rich Guy.
Join Andy Pate and guests as they delve into Disney's current struggles at the box office, analyzing why films like Tron Ares are falling short of success. The episode humorously criticizes common patterns in Disney's recent movies and provides a satirical preview of potential future releases.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's finally Friday on Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush.
SPEAKER 04 :
So I tell him I'm a pro jack. And who do you think they give you? The Dalai Lama himself. So we finish 18, and he's going to sniff me. And I say, hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know? And he says, oh, it won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that coming. And movie reviews with Andy Payne.
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I think that you got the wrong impression about me. I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do.
SPEAKER 18 :
What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
SPEAKER 21 :
What do you want to do tonight?
SPEAKER 05 :
The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world. Stick a fork in me, Jerry.
SPEAKER 01 :
I'm done.
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Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
SPEAKER 01 :
Filling in is Andy Pate, party of choice.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I am your host, Andy Pate, filling in for John Rush. Fear not, John will be back tomorrow and on Monday as well. But in the meantime, I am joined by my two manly men who are more manly than I. And they are Luke Cash and Tanner Cole. How are you, gentlemen? I'm doing great. How are you? I'm doing well. You feeling manly, Tanner? Okay, he had things bottled. That's okay. Back to Luke. Luke, you feeling manly? I'm always feeling manly.
SPEAKER 08 :
There you go. I woke up this morning and ate a breakfast of nails and charcoal and split wood all the way on my drive to work just for the joy.
SPEAKER 12 :
That is totally normal for me. And in the next room, Charlie is literally beating his chest like a great ape.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's true. You should see it. There's a reason we have a double-paned glass barrier between us.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, we've got to be safe. Right. Because we're manly. We're not that manly. No. Okay. Guys, do you remember when I said Disney needs to win back young men? I do remember that, yes. We talked about this about a month ago. Newsflash, they're not doing it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now, I know this is a big shock to you.
SPEAKER 08 :
You're telling me they didn't take our incredible advice?
SPEAKER 12 :
No. And in a nutshell, what was your advice again? Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Just make good movies and don't push an agenda.
SPEAKER 12 :
And Tanner?
SPEAKER 08 :
Don't put gay stuff in there.
SPEAKER 12 :
And for me, how about not having every man under the heel of every woman in the movie? How about leveling it out again, having people be people again? They can't do that. Anyway, the reason to bring it up, it looks like Tron Ares, their latest output, is going to lose somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 million.
SPEAKER 09 :
For what, this new year? The new Tron movie. Oh.
SPEAKER 12 :
The new Tron movie.
SPEAKER 09 :
Really?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, Tron Ares. Now, just so you know, they say that it costs a little over $180 million. That means when the real numbers come out, it'll be at least two. And marketing was close to $100 million. That means it costs them about $300 million to put out Tron Ares. And you're thinking, okay, Andy, why is this going to lose $150 million? Here's why. That means that they've got to make, at the global box office, about $600 million. Why? Because they only keep about half of the ticket price, right? You've got taxes. You've got the amount that goes to the theaters. You know how that goes. And they're not doing it. This puppy in domestic did a $34 million.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
And it's going to drop about 60% week by week after that. Do you see where I'm going with this?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, $150 million. I might be kind there in how much they're going to lose. And just so you know, Disney now has lost money on every single major movie they've put out except one, Lilo and Stitch. That was it. And that only made money off kids wanting to go see their old characters that they loved before.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right? a remake they're in trouble does that sound fair yes yeah yeah yeah and and and what they're doing again and again is girl boss girl boss uh tron air is once again who was in charge of the the good one in charge of the company a girl boss who was in charge of the bad company a white guy i mean it's just it's the same thing over and over they're doing it they're going down the bad road so i want to talk about two things first of all what i think as you know they own star wars
SPEAKER 09 :
Unfortunately.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, what's the next big movie they got?
SPEAKER 09 :
The Mandalorian and Grogu.
SPEAKER 12 :
Grogu, a little puppet.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. That's cute. They have Pedro Pascal. Can I not see him in a movie? Guys in every freaking movie out there, every big movie that comes out, he's in.
SPEAKER 12 :
I can't stand him. And there you go. He was in Fantastic Four First Steps, which I'm going to say again, not that bad of a movie, guys. It wasn't that bad of a movie, but he killed it. By what did he do? He savaged Trump in the weeks leading up to it. Just hammered Trump, hammered MAGA, hammered all this. And it's like, dude, newsflash. I'm not saying this because you're hammering my side. Don't hammer any side. OK, you're trying to sell your movie to all sides.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
And he killed it. So he killed Fantastic Four, lost, I think, what was it, around 80 to 100? Gosh. I mean, just an insane amount of money it lost, okay? And they're losing this kind of money. Can you two here at KLZ make decisions? every day that lose this company a ton of money.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes. I just don't. We don't.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I don't think you'll be employed long. I want to talk a little about, I'm going to say what I think is going to be the next Star Wars film and then what I think it should be. Here we go. Disney's next Star Wars film, it's very simple. It's going to be called Yodette. A gender-confused Yoda embarks on a journey of self-discovery. What do you think, Tanner?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yoda's son turns female and becomes the Empire's Emperor.
SPEAKER 12 :
There you go. Luke, are you up for it? Oh, no. You're going to go three or four times, aren't you? Oh, no. Take the girlfriend to it, kind of bond. Okay. Now, guys, I'm going to give my idea of what the next one should be. Are you ready?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Mega, make the Empire great again.
SPEAKER 09 :
I would love that.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right. That would be so good. Here we go. Here we go. After purging all wokeness from the Imperial Stormtroopers, Pete Hegseth overruns the chubby rebel forces with his fat-free, totally ripped battalions. A group of Jedi Knights plot revenge, gathering on a rebel moon and raising their mighty lightsabers in defiance. But in response, Hegseth calmly nukes the entire site from orbit with his fully functioning Death Star, then distributes red mega caps to his derpers, and finally hosts a kegger with dancing girls and country music. In minutes, the rebellion is crushed. The end. The whole thing is about ten minutes. What do you think? think i'm in hell would you would you see this over and over i'm gonna lose it i'm gonna lose my mind yeah look i tried i honestly i'm taking the advice you guys just took you gave me about a month ago how to turn it around so i designed a movie that i felt would make you really happy
SPEAKER 08 :
It made me feel something, that's for sure. Oh, good, good. There was an emotion.
SPEAKER 12 :
There was an emotion, yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
Can Dennis Quaid be Han Solo, please?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes, he can.
SPEAKER 09 :
Perfect. Can Tanner be Yoda?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, not Yodette. No.
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't think that's going to work out. He's had his days. Pretty sharp razor.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Guys, Disney's falling apart. Our advice to Disney is please, please, please, please, please remember half the human race. Okay? Bring back the male half. Guess what? Here's the good news. You don't have to get rid of the female half. Right. Treat them equally. We'll all have fun. We'll all buy tickets together. Sound good? Sounds good. Okay, let's take a break. When we come back, we're going to be looking at Good Fortune. It's my next movie review. We've got three movie reviews today.
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Wow.
SPEAKER 12 :
Triple header.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
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SPEAKER 12 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush. KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Tanner Cole. Man.
SPEAKER 08 :
And Luke Cashman.
SPEAKER 12 :
And Luke!
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Buddy, personal question. I'm kind of probing here. I'm getting a little, you know, under the surface.
SPEAKER 10 :
Are you ready for a movie? I am ready for a movie, Andy.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, you're so ready. Okay, here we go. See, Tanner, that's how a man does it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Sorry.
SPEAKER 12 :
We're going to be listening to you very closely in the next segment. All right. Two lives get switched by an angel in Good Fortune.
SPEAKER 05 :
My name is Gabriel. I'm an angel. I'm here to save you. What? Who are you? I'm an angel. See the wings? I know all about you. I know you lost your job. I know you're living in your car.
SPEAKER 03 :
I did everything I was supposed to do and nothing's working out.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm not really supposed to be doing this. I'm normally only in charge of saving people from texting and driving.
SPEAKER 03 :
Wait, you're telling me I have a budget guardian angel? Kinda. My life is just in the service of people like Jeff. Arge. I'm Jeff, a pledge. The people who actually get to live.
SPEAKER 07 :
Fix my cold plunge. Get a disco floor for my party and find a shaman to take me on an ayahuasca journey.
SPEAKER 05 :
Maybe I can show you that that life is not all it's cracked up to be. You wanted to have wealth and success?
SPEAKER 13 :
Now look at you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Jeff's life is now your life. What happened to Jeff?
SPEAKER 07 :
Is there any update on the huevos rancheros for Alex?
SPEAKER 05 :
He has your life.
SPEAKER 03 :
Gabriel, why did you do this?
SPEAKER 05 :
I tried to show him that wealth wouldn't solve all his problems.
SPEAKER 03 :
And?
SPEAKER 05 :
It seems to have solved most of his problems.
SPEAKER 03 :
You gotta switch back, man. So what, I just go back to living in my car? You lived in your car? Yes, Jeff, I did. Why do you think an angel got involved? Because I had too many roommates? Why don't you go tough it out for a few days?
SPEAKER 07 :
You think because I'm a tech bro, I can't live your life for a little while? I came from nothing. I'm self-made. What did your parents do? My father was an orthopedic surgeon. This is too hard. How do people do this without just being miserable and angry all the time?
SPEAKER 03 :
You're up here in this huge house. I'm fighting just to get by. They'll never believe me, bud. I've been there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Give me God. I want a meeting with God. God! It's Jeff! Luke, what do you think?
SPEAKER 08 :
I think it sounds kind of all right.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think it has potential. Okay, let's take a look at it. Keanu Reeves. We all like him, don't we? I do love Keanu Reeves. Yeah, he's great. He stars as Gabriel, a lower-level angel whose only job is keeping people from texting while they drive. That's a good job. Yeah. Okay. It's noble work, but he wants more, and he wants bigger wings. Aziz Ansari, who also wrote and directed this, by the way, he plays Arj. He has a crush on a girl, but he's also ashamed of his severe, terrible financial state, and he can't bring himself to ask her out. He's a frustrated gig worker. He's balancing several jobs, living out of his car. He's a miserable guy. Enter Jeff. He's played by Seth Rogen, a super-rich venture capitalist. Do you like Seth Rogen?
SPEAKER 09 :
Sometimes.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't like his politics, but he used to be a lot funnier.
SPEAKER 09 :
He did. Yeah, he's kind of gotten... Mid-2000s was better.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, let's see if he comes back. Okay, he's a super rich venture capitalist, as I just said. Arj does some work for Jeff and even gets a job as Jeff's assistant. But things go wrong, and Arj is let go. Well, Gabriel sees this, and he can't handle the unfairness of it all. He has already appeared to Arj, showing him how his life will improve, sort of, if he stays alive, because Arj, let's face it, he was ready to kill himself. He couldn't take it anymore. It's a funny take on It's a Wonderful Life. Now, well, actually, on Trading Places in a moment, now Gabriel wants to teach Arj an important lesson about wealth not fixing our lives, so he switches Arj, his life with Jeff, and switches them. Well, the problem is wealth does make life a lot easier. And that's true, isn't it? You know, I kind of like the fact that they give an honest take on that, because let's face it, wealth does make life a lot easier. Is that fair?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, yeah, I would say so.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I think so, too. Well, Arj, he's as happy as can be, while Jeff is quickly falling apart. Jeff thought he could just remake himself. But in the real world, guess what? You can't do that. Okay, well, but I've got all these tech skills. Yeah, but nobody cares because you've got no track record. You have nothing. And they're looking at you saying you have tech skills. How can you prove it? It's a really tough gig. Well, meanwhile, Gabriel is severely demoted. So he drowns his sorrows in worldly devices. Once again, that's Keanu Reeves. No, not sex, but just things like drinking, smoking. He falls apart. And he and Jeff, they got to move in together and try to survive. His boss angel, played by Sandra Oh, she's not much help either. So he's miserable. So now two of them are miserable. And Arj is the only one living the high life and having a good time. So maybe money is the answer? Well, we find out in Good Fortune. What do you think, Luke?
SPEAKER 08 :
I think it has a lot of potential. The trailer didn't do it too much justice. Your description sounds very compelling.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, well, let's take a look. What works in Good Fortune? First of all, the three main characters are naturally funny actors. They are. Reeves, he brings some of that Bill and Ted feel to Gabriel, though more subdued and shy. I liked it. Ansari is a perfect fit for Arj. Naturally, he wrote it, so he wrote it for himself. But he's a perfect fit. He just delivers it well. And Seth Rogen, let's face it, this guy loves skewering the rich, so he has a ball skewering the rich and making them look as bad as possible. The scene where Gabriel shows Arj his future is genuinely funny. It's a good, funny scene. I would watch that again. Next, there was a noticeably liberal group in part of the audience giggling with delight throughout the movie, so it did thrill them. Okay, this does have an audience. Next, while the message is heavy-handed, there's a good lesson in treating workers well. I like this. Tipping well is a big theme. It's a welcome one from Hollywood. You hear a lot of stories, by the way, about Hollywood actors who don't tip well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, yeah. And now some of them are huge tippers, but there's a huge disparity.
SPEAKER 08 :
There's a big divide, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
There really is, and this is good. And how well do we treat those restaurant servers, delivery drivers, and other workers trying to get by in life? How well do we treat them? Too often, not well enough. And I think that's a good message from the movie.
SPEAKER 08 :
I like that. I think that's a very nice message. It's very kind.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I totally agree with it. Next. Pretty good feelings toward the end. Ansari can be uplifting when he wants to be. And getting back really quick here to the heavy-handed message, you know, that's really not left or right wing when you get down to it because most of the people who I know who are terrible tippers were left wing on average. However, I have seen people who look down on and mistreat workers who are left wing and right wing, and it seems totally even. I've seen it go both ways, haven't you? Yeah. Yeah. You've been out there. I mean, Tanner? Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
I mean, it seems to go both ways.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think it does, and I think it's a lesson that can be learned across the board.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, okay. Well, what doesn't work in good fortune? You know what's coming. First of all, it is so preachy. I mean, heavy-handed is not the word. An endless sermon on the virtues of socialism and evils of capitalism. This was an ad for Zoran Mamdani. It really was. The whole movie was. Rogan, he practically advocates violent revolt by the masses at the end. It's really something. Also, this is an ad for labor unions. And, of course, the white guy angel is pathetic. I mean, the whole way through, it is just woke and it is just mean, terribly mean. This was so over the top. And it's just like, you know, guys, you could have shown a little bit of each side and actually had more fun with it, done a little more South Park. and a little less preaching. Just saying. Okay, next. Terribly edited. With whole scenes dragging on and on. Awful pace through the middle. Really awful.
SPEAKER 08 :
Unfortunate.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep, it should have cut out a third of the film. The scenes with the angels are outright boring. And you would have thought, man, that'd be really fun, right? Because they're looking down on us, and you could, you know, you could do a lot with that. They don't. A lot of the, you've got these three terrific actors who are very funny leading the way. Honestly, they didn't have many funny lines. They were like being put in funny situations that were supposed to be funny and then they weren't that funny. It was a big letdown. I was very disappointed in that. Not nearly enough humor for a comedy. I think that's the bottom line of this. I was bored out of my skull. It's not because, gee, I'm a right winger and this was a left wing movie. No, no, no. Give me some great jokes. I'll laugh. I don't care. But they weren't. It just wasn't very funny. And the audience, which I could tell was pretty strongly left-wing, outside of this little, I think, Mamdani group, nobody was laughing. People were just, like, yawning and wanting out of there. The preaching, I think, limits the gags.
SPEAKER 10 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 12 :
And once again, I think that can go both ways. If you do a right-wing preachy movie, you can limit the gags. If you do a left-wing preachy movie, you can limit the gags. The only time I've seen that not happen was Team America, which was right-wing preachy, and they didn't limit anything. All right, there you go. Okay, Rotten Tomatoes, for whatever reason, gave this 79%. And for the life of me, all I can say is this, folks, this is why I break it down between quality, political, and moral-religious. They don't. So they put in their political and moral religious feelings into their final review. And what if you don't see life the way they do? Remember, reviewers are about 95 or more percent left wing. It's probably more like 98, okay? So they gave it 79. Take the politics out of it for a moment. It's just not that good of a movie. It's boring. It's slow. It's not well written. It's not well directed. You've got three funny actors who you don't give nearly enough to do. It wasn't good. It was not a good movie. Quality, I'm giving it one and a half stars. And that is without even talking politics. Politics, political score, obviously zero. Literally zero out of five stars. It was so blatant and over the top and also just beating you over the head with it. It got old. More religious, I'm giving it three stars. I thought it was fine. I didn't see anything wrong, moral, religiously. I mean, you know, you got some dancing girls and whatever. He's living the high life and partying. Everything that goes perfectly well with the genre. There was nothing forced in there. I thought it was fine. Do I recommend going to Good Fortune? No, I don't. And here's the thing. Unless you're a hard liberal who simply wants to see the American system beat up, you're not going to enjoy this movie. I'm sorry. Anybody in the middle is going to be bored. Anybody on the right is going to be mad. It's not worth your time. You will not find good fortune at good fortune. Sound good?
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
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The best export we have is common sense. You're listening to Rush to Reason.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Pate filling in for John Rush on one with Luke Cash and Tanner Cole. Man. And Tanner.
SPEAKER 09 :
What's up?
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We're going to test you. Are you ready for a movie? I'm ready for a movie. Well done, sir. Okay, can a teenager stand up to a true fascist regime? You know, today everybody calls everything fascist if they don't like it. I mean, I don't like that Burger King. They're fascist. I don't like Trump. He's fascist. I don't like Pelosi. She's fascist. Everybody's fascist, right? Well, what if you had to stand up to a true fascist regime? Let's see in Truth and Treason.
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Germany. The country of terror and tyranny. There it is. Jew. You know it, but are afraid to talk about it. Do not let your free will be taken away. Can you keep a secret? We can stop here, though. Not with guns, but with the truth. I'm in. All of us can change things. So, where to tonight?
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Goodbye, Helmut. See you tomorrow.
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See you. Who was that? Just a colleague.
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Careful. You never know who's watching.
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Look what I found. They need you to tell me their names. You know what happens if they catch you. We won't get the call. It's devastating, isn't it? So committed to a cause only to hurt those you love the most. Truth will prevail. This is treason.
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This is your life we're talking about. I'm not afraid to die. Hitler knows that we are beginning to see through him.
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Do you really believe the words of a 16 year old boy could sway the German people?
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 12 :
What do you think, Tanner?
SPEAKER 09 :
It sounds and looks pretty decent.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, let's dive in. Ewan Horrocks, he stars as Helmut Huberner. Okay, he's a German teen during the reign of Hitler. At 16, Helmut is actually a member of the Hitler Youth. And by the way, once again, this is a true story, folks. He's devoted to Germany, and he sees Hitler's leadership as unifying and positive. Helmut has three friends, Carl, Rudy, and Solomon. They ride bikes, challenge each other to dive off a bridge into a river. Teen stuff. You know, can you do it? Can you do it? None of them even thinks that much about politics. But Helmut has a gift. He's a writer and hence a thinker. When his brother gets a shortwave radio, which back then that was big time tech. OK, he gets a shortwave radio. Helmut is exposed to outside broadcasts beyond Nazi propaganda. Well, this starts waking him up. And so he goes to his church, because they're all regular churchgoers, goes to his church for guidance. But his bishop, played by Daniel Betz, is loyal to Hitler and even preaches such loyalty from the pulpit. That was common. By the way, that was very common. Then the worst happens. Turns out Solomon has some Jewish ancestry. So he's barred from church and taken away with his family. Now Helmut can take no more. Using his writing ability, Helmut starts writing anti-Nazi leaflets. He starts putting them out. With the help of Karl and Rudi, they actually stuff them in mailboxes and plaster them in public places all over the area. Enter Gestapo officer Erwin Mussiner. He's played by Rupert Evans, who, by the way, is a good actor. I've always liked him. He's highly intelligent and thoughtful. So he starts piecing together the evidence. There are writing fingerprints in the typewriter. For instance, every typewriter back then, the T might stray a little bit or the S might be a little too sharp or whatever. And he looks at that and he starts to zero in on who is doing this writing. I actually enjoy that. I mean... I know I'm watching a Nazi do that, but as you guys know, I used to catch thieves. I used to run the numbers and zero in on the thief. I actually understood how he felt zeroing in on his target. It was rather fascinating. Well, the noose tightens, tension rises, and Helmut realizes youthful exuberance. It isn't enough in the face of massive evil. Millions are being brainwashed around him. Sacrifices, real ones, must be made. Ultimately, this is more than just a Germany was evil movie. It's about facing reality as a teenager. What do you think?
SPEAKER 09 :
Sounds good.
SPEAKER 12 :
All right. Well, what works in Truth and Treason? First of all, there is some very, very good acting from Ewan Horrocks and Rupert Evans. It's subtle. It's powerful. It's not this over-the-top, let's talk about Nazis kind of stuff. It's very, very... controlled within the circumstance does that make sense in other words you can believe it and i like that in fact pretty much everyone did a really good job also the pace and the tension are built solidly throughout i like that we also see how evil gains acceptance at every level of society which is a terrifying thing just a terrifying thing but you know what think about wokeness What we watched evolve over the last 10, 20 years. We always talk about this. We say, you go back 30 years, and people would look at today and say, that's insane, that's crazy, that's this, that's that. And yet they evolved to thinking it's okay. And that's kind of what was going on in Nazi Germany. Well, little things are solid. OK, the little things in this movie are solid. What do I mean by that? Well, you have good set design. You have good costumes for the period. They even use this foggy, almost black and white feel almost for much of the film shooting. It's very effective. And I like that because it really takes you back into that time. The hardest part of these films is showing how this could actually happen. Like I was saying, how could it evolve? How could such evil grow in so many people? And what is the real power of the mob mentality? Right. It's a terrifying thing. And by the way, that can happen on the right, too. OK.
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Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. I'm just saying, let's face it.
SPEAKER 08 :
No one is immune.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, no one's immune.
SPEAKER 08 :
If you think you're immune, you're the problem.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Power corrupts. Power corrupts. Absolutely. Yeah. If you think you're immune.
SPEAKER 08 :
If you think you're immune, you're the problem.
SPEAKER 12 :
My wife's immune. Just saying.
SPEAKER 08 :
Like if you go, well, that'll happen to everyone else, but not me. You're the person who's going to fall victim first.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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I haven't been sick in two years. I'm immune.
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And guess what? You're finally going to get that promotion at work and you're going to wonder six, eight months later why you're resented by a couple of employees. When you think, well, seriously, when you think you're doing everything right and you realize. You're not. If you see it from their point of view, which you no longer do, you're going to realize, wait a minute, I'm actually abusing power. And it happens. All right. Back to the movie. A rare film showing the truth about Nazis. Now, this is something because they were actually a socialist party built on resentment toward the wealthy. That's what they were built on, folks. And this is left out of almost every Nazi film.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's not mentioned anywhere.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. They're looked at as a bunch of capitalists because they fought the communists. Right. And people don't seem to understand. Wait a minute. Hitler was a left winger. OK. I mean, and the Nazis were a hard line left wing party. Yeah. And they don't call it left wing in this, but they do talk about it in terms of what actually made them so powerful. They promised the people power. that they could get theirs back from those who had taken it from them. All right. Finally, you have a good misuse of Scripture at one point, and I like that. Showing we must obey governments. That's what the pastor is saying. Okay, I know the passage. We don't have time. And it was really used by a lot of churches back then saying, Hitler is a government. We must be obedient to this. And that became the downfall of the church. Here was the thing. The religious leaders were using that passage and passages like it as an excuse for them to buckle to Hitler so they wouldn't have to be going upstream in a downstream culture. So they wouldn't be in danger. So to make themselves safe, they were telling their people, this is why we are obedient to government.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's real history, too. It's not like they're just spewing it. This is like historical fact.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, this happened. Okay, what doesn't work in Truth in Trees? And well, British accents. Why do all these Germans have British accents?
SPEAKER 09 :
That is weird.
SPEAKER 12 :
It was weird. Okay, and I'm just like, guys, let's Germanize those. You know, a little, a little more, you know, German would have felt good. Next, there is a very painful torture scene. Now, it's certainly true to the film, but I thought I'd warn people just so they know it's coming because it's made by a Christian company. So I want people to know that's in there. It hasn't been that sanitized. All right. Next, this was a true story, but it was frustrating to see Helmut make clear strategic mistakes. Maybe he really did in real life. Okay? I'm just saying, for me, I'm watching this going, dude.
SPEAKER 08 :
Come on, man.
SPEAKER 12 :
Why don't you just outline footprints to your door? Okay? I mean, come on. And finally, in the end, this film was good. It was. But it was not as gripping or compelling as other World War II films. You know, in the next hour, we're going to talk one movie, Inglourious Basterds. Remember the opening scene where the German is interrogating this woman because she has Jews under the flag?
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Right, the farmer.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. Remember how it built the tension and the terror?
SPEAKER 09 :
It was amazing.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. Well, they had good moments throughout this movie, but nothing like that. Okay. I'm just saying these movies have flown higher than Truth and Treason. Good movie, but I've seen better. Okay, Rotten Tomatoes. They gave it 100%, but there were only nine reviews, and I think most of them were favorable to this. But all of them liked it, and I think they're right. Quality, I'm going to go three and a half stars, which is a strong review. Political, four. Moral, religious, four. Both good scores. So good across the board. Do I recommend going to Truth and Treason? Absolutely I do. Yes. This is a good movie at a time when, let's face it, this time of year there aren't a lot.
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Right.
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And I think you should take advantage of that. So go see Truth and Treason. Truth and Treason because it is worthwhile. I think you're going to see a real story and an inspirational one too. Sound good?
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Sounds good.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Tanner Cole. Man. And Luke Cash.
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Man.
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And Luke!
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, a third time. I'm not used to this.
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Are you ready for this? Are you this much man?
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm going to have to be.
SPEAKER 12 :
Are you ready for a movie?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, Tanner, you beat him. You're more manly than Luke. Okay, here we go.
SPEAKER 08 :
I was not prepared.
SPEAKER 12 :
Luke, I know you weren't. The first Black Phone, the first movie, The Black Phone, was a sleeper hit. Did you see it?
SPEAKER 08 :
I did not, but you have raved about it. I know you really liked it.
SPEAKER 12 :
It was really good, guys. I gave it a strong four stars. Can the next one, can the sequel recapture the magic? Let's see in Black Phone 2.
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Hell is...
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Take the best parts of you, the human parts, and leave only the worst bits. Only the sins. I am a bottomless pit of sin.
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You're dead.
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Sound scary, Luke? A little scary.
SPEAKER 12 :
A little bit scary. Okay, well, four years ago, 13-year-old Finn, played by Mason Timms, he managed to kill his abductor and escape. Well, that abductor was the Grabber, played by Ethan Hawke. I like Ethan Hawke. Okay, I'm not alone here. And Finn was aided in the strategic cat-and-mouse game by the ghosts of kids. Get this, by the ghosts of kids that the Grabber had previously taken. These ghosts called Finn on a black phone on the wall of the basement... You with me here? Where Finn was being held hostage. So he was held hostage in this basement. There was a phone on the wall. By the way, it doesn't work.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. Friendly ghosts. Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
And these ghosts would call him. And then you get to see the ghosts and hear them with Finn. Okay. And they guided him through the first movie. It was really fascinating. Well, anyway, now Finn is 17 and he's still recovering from his abduction. That's fair. Yeah, I mean, it's awful. Well, he's a tough guy who gets in fights and he smokes. But the story shifts more to Finn's sister, Gwen. Now, she was in the first one as well, but now she's more in the movie. Played by Madeline McGraw, whom we learned in the first film sees visions. Now, she got this ability from her mother. Well, Madeline is receiving calls from the grabber's victims via another black phone. And these bring her and Finn to start tracking down a mystery. Is the grabber really dead? Well, meanwhile, Gwen, she's getting a boyfriend. His name is Ernesto. That's kind of nice, right? Finn and their dad aren't that fond of Ernesto, but he seems very supportive, so they like him. He even wants to help with the mystery. So the three of them, the brother and sister and Ernesto, the three of them are led by Gwen's dreams to a Christian camp in Colorado where their mom once worked. all right so now they're zeroing in on it and they go to this christian camp they have to go there as cits counselors in training but they barely make it through a blizzard to get there now as a result the camp is closed so there's only minimal staff just them and a few people and that's all that's there in this let's all say it together cabin in the woods in the woods yes one more time cabin in the woods yes okay beautiful yes beautiful beautiful Well, it turns out kids have died at this camp before, and their bodies were never found. So the mystery deepens. How long has the Grabber been terrorizing children? Well, the Grabber, he keeps invading Gwen's dreams, and he also speaks to Finn through, you guessed it, a black phone. Yes, exactly. So Gwen and Finn, they wonder if this monster can be stopped. It's like Freddy Krueger coming back when you're helpless to fight back. Well, ultimately, a large mystery must be unraveled while a powerful ghost hunts them all. What do you think?
SPEAKER 08 :
I think, I don't know if it's, it doesn't sound as tight as the first one, but I can see the potential.
SPEAKER 12 :
I totally agree with you, and let's dive in. What works in Black Phone 2? Well, first of all, it's an interesting progression from the first film, using Gwen's visions to deepen the mystery. I like that. You have a good plot development with her mother and the Christian camp. I like that. You have some good performances. Ethan Hawke is a good psychopath. Let's face it, Ethan Hawke is a good actor. Right. He can do whatever he wants. The only downside of this is he's always got this mask on, and that kind of kills the fun of it being Ethan Hawke.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
He's a great actor. Anyway, moving on. Tims and McGraw, they balance courage with fear and emotional trauma. And Miguel Mora is solid as Ernesto. So nice little cast, right? You got a few other characters who are okay. All right. What doesn't work in Black Phone 2? Uh-oh. Unlike the first, this has a terrible pace. Now, the first one, by the way, is kind of a relaxed pace, but that's because it's building, building, building, building. And there's a lot of strategy, right? This just falls apart. Like you were saying, it's not tight. Well, dude, it's not close.
SPEAKER 08 :
It sounds pretty busy.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it is. And it's all over the map. This is an hour of story and almost two hours of film. And man, oh man, they should have cut a full half hour out of this thing. The depictions of Christians are, to put it mildly, unflattering. In fact, what little humor there was in this film almost always involved using profane language at moronic Christians. Right. Make stupid Christians feel uncomfortable. So say unbelievably profane things. You know, they can actually be funny in glimpses. Don't get me wrong. But as an ongoing gag, when you don't have other gags, it's kind of like, you know, I think you just hate Christians. I'm sorry. There was no agenda like this anywhere in the first film. And it was annoying here. Next, it's not nearly as fresh as the first. Not strategically brilliant at all. The first one is just brilliant. I don't want to explain it because I want you guys to actually watch Black Phone sometime.
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Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
But the strategy of Black Phone is brilliant. Next, all the dream sequences. Ugh. They are shot almost like found footage from an old camera, so you know you're in a dream. But half the horror of being in a dream in these movies is supposed to be that you don't know you're in a dream, so you don't know if this terrible thing is actually happening to you. That's the whole point, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, it kind of defeats the purpose.
SPEAKER 12 :
Exactly. They changed the whole look, so now I know I'm in a dream. You might as well have mist and a fog machine, you know, from the side going in. You're wrecking it, okay? There's a truly idiotic series. Oh, my gosh. A truly idiotic series of events where they search a frozen lake for bodies from years before. Now, think about this for a moment. The lake is frozen over right now. The bodies are from years before, and they're searching to see if they are still where they think they went down. Okay. This involves plowing, shoveling. But why would the bodies all be in the same place as before? I mean, the lake is melted in summer and there's a current. Okay. These mountain lakes, you know about them. They're fed by these raging streams. Okay. It doesn't make any sense. And you're going, guys, why on earth would you think the bodies would still be where they were?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
You're nuts. It just made no sense at all. The lake is melted. And it's just stupid. Okay, it's just stupid. Okay, next, the writer and director, they hit on a great plot for one movie. And you can really tell this is black foam. The writer and director hit on this great plot in the first movie and now they decide we're going to make a sequel and we're going to try to do the same thing. But they ran out of ideas. This is a classic case, guys, of simply running out of ideas. That's so fortunate. It is. This is a weak movie. I was bored out of my skull, especially through the middle of this movie. In all these movies, as you get to some resolution, it gets a little better toward the end. And it did. Not enough. So Black Phone 2, it's a big, big disappointment. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 74% once again. I think they basically enjoyed the taking stabs at Christians. Right. And as expected, there was a little group in the audience that enjoyed that a lot. But nobody else did. And it's not because everybody else was a Christian and you're insulting me. They're just like, this is boring. It's not that fun. Okay. Okay. A couple moments were... I even liked a couple of the stabs at Christians. I thought they were funny. I'm like, yeah, you got me. That's good. But a lot of it was just boring. 74% is way too high. Quality, one and a half stars. I'm telling you what, guys, this is going to come out. It'll do a good amount of business for week one. Expect that because of the first movie. It's going to drop like a rock after that. That's what I think. Political, three. Moral, religious, one. It was nasty, unnecessarily to Christians. Black phone, two. Do I recommend going to it? Folks, I don't. But if you have not... Watch the first Black Foam. Please rent it. It's not that scary, but if you can handle a little bit of scary, I'm telling you what, it is an interesting and really good movie.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
Sound good?
SPEAKER 08 :
Sounds good.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Hey, we've got just a couple minutes left here, right, Charlie? Let's do question of the day. Are you ready? Yep. All right. Yesterday's impossible question. What simple expression is understood in all languages? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. My computer went to the wrong day. Here we go. No. That's okay. That was last week. What was considered the ultimate in luxury flooring in the 60s and 70s? You might get this.
SPEAKER 08 :
60s and 70s? Like shag carpet? Yes! Really? Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Shag carpeting was luxury.
SPEAKER 09 :
Shag carpet was it. I thought everyone had that. I guess not.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. You don't, do you?
SPEAKER 09 :
Not that I know of. Okay. Not that you know of. I don't even know what different carpets look like.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Okay, this one's a tough one. Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
You watch those M&M commercials, right? They're pretty good.
SPEAKER 09 :
Some of them are cute. Some are cute. Oh, like the candy? Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Some are really good. Some are just like, it's kind of morbid. Gotcha. Yeah, but okay. Well, name the actor who voiced the yellow M&M in the candy's TV commercials. Any idea?
SPEAKER 08 :
Is it a female? It is a male. It's probably got to be someone you don't expect. It's like Danny DeVito or something.
SPEAKER 12 :
It's somebody like Danny DeVito.
SPEAKER 08 :
Really?
SPEAKER 12 :
But it is not Danny DeVito. Okay, well, how about we talk about it at the end of next hour?
SPEAKER 08 :
Sounds good.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, now what is the topic we're going to be doing in the next hour, Tanner?
SPEAKER 09 :
Nazis and Communists.
SPEAKER 12 :
Nazis and Commies. Exactly.
SPEAKER 09 :
The Washington Commanders.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, all movies about the Washington Commanders. Exactly. Now, unfortunately, out of 32 teams, none of them took on the name Nazi. I'm sorry. That would have been a little tough.
SPEAKER 08 :
I don't think that would have gone over well.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't think that at all. Can you imagine?
SPEAKER 08 :
Kind of hard to sell merch.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I don't think that would really go.
SPEAKER 09 :
We're at the Nazis' home stadium, the Third Reich. Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, I'm very glad there are no teams named. The Nazis. Okay. But we're going to be looking at Nazis and commies. Why truth and treason? That's why I thought we'd do Nazis and commies.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
There are great movies about, because let's face it, those are two incredibly evil forces on the planet.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. I mean, big periods of time too. I mean, substantially like culturally massive.
SPEAKER 12 :
Over time, only Islam has killed anywhere near as much as those two movements. Okay? The Nazi movement and communism. So you're talking about fighting true, true evil.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
But you can also have some fun with it. There are some movies that poke fun at them as well. One of my favorite TV shows growing up was Hogan's Heroes, which made fun of the Nazis every single week, and I loved it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Nice. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Was this hard one for you guys to come up with?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. A little difficult for me. I haven't seen a whole lot of these.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right. I thought I had, but I guess not.
SPEAKER 08 :
I usually make a strong effort to only put down movies I've watched. Right. I have not seen a lot of movies with Nazis in common. I got a decent amount, but not as much as I was expecting.
SPEAKER 09 :
Also, I went on Wikipedia and just looked at movies about Nazis or communists. 21st century, not as much just because it's not as relevant.
SPEAKER 12 :
Exactly. Well, in hour two, folks, we are fighting together, Nazis and commies. We're going to be fighting them. First of all, we're going to have NFL picks with me and you, Tanner. Yep. You ready? Okay, that's what we're going to do in hour two, and then movies about Nazis and commies. Until then, keep it right here on Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
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Dive into an engaging discussion exploring the complexities of manhood in today's society. Join the hosts as they tackle questions like whether the 'traditional man' still exists, and how the dynamics of masculinity have shifted over generations. Candid insights and lively debates uncover the realities faced by men, both as providers and partners in modern relationships.
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I can't hide myself I don't expect you to understand I just hope I can explain What it's like to be a man It's a lonely road And they don't care about what you know It's not about how you feel But what you provide inside that home
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is what you make it you can't always live up to expectations you try to please everybody while you struggle so you fake it and end up out of balance compromising situations as a good man do what he should man give everything he has and do everything he could man you might find yourself feeling all alone inside a house you built that you don't recognize as home
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Welcome to A Guy's Perspective, where they discuss real life topics that men today are dealing with, whether married, single parent, or just single. We invite you to call into this live program with your comments and questions. And here they are.
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How's it going everybody today? It's KLZ 560 AM. You can always talk to the guys at 303-477-5600. A guy's perspective. I'm going to slow that down. It's 303-477-5600. We're going to go around the room and introduce ourselves. We'll start over here with Dre.
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Hey, this is Dre with Vance Tech. Number one business in Colorado for all your electrical needs.
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Oh man, and this is Brock and...
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I'm the janitor, the janitor's perspective.
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And yes, he does live at home. He plunged right in there, didn't he? This is Heath Hine, the actor and the business owner of Clearview Windshield Repair, and we franchise now, too.
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And just to get into the topic, we're running the same topic we did last week, back-to-back. Normally we don't do that, but we got so many calls and so many people asking us to talk about this thing again. So we're going to talk about does a traditional man or the strongman exist today?
SPEAKER 13 :
Of course he does. The strongman competition is still – isn't that what – where they're lifting like Volkswagen Beetles?
SPEAKER 04 :
That stuff is legit. I saw a video the other day on that, and those guys were taking like – Yeah, 250-pound things, and they had to throw them so high over these field goal things. Those dudes are legit, bro.
SPEAKER 13 :
They pull like semis, don't they? Like, pull semis.
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What about their lifespan? I mean, did they die in their 50s or something like that? They're massive, huh? Yeah, it's crazy.
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Do you think the traditional man is kind of... Kind of went away because of how expensive it is. Because you want to be the provider for the house, right? You want to pay the bills. But it's gotten so expensive now. I don't want to be a provider. That's the traditional man, buddy. Lace up your boots in the morning. That's the traditional man.
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He's coming down on you, man. Coming from the guy that lives at home with the mommy.
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Traditional man. Trust me.
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He knows what a man is. He's been thinking about it.
SPEAKER 03 :
I've been thinking about traditional man all week. No, but no, serious. That is a traditional man. It goes out, works, and then comes home. But it's gotten so expensive nowadays. Now the woman has to find a job and she has to pitch in. Does that kind of diminish you, though?
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Think about the rabbinical, I mean, the days of old, you know, in Leviticus and all that. A lot of that practice. They set you guys up or set men up to where they could afford a whole year once they got married to not work. And it's not that way. You know, men were supposed to traditionally be the provider. Yeah. And those days probably are long gone. I mean, it's not easy with like you're saying, Brian. You know, there's a lot of truth in what you got to say there. Well, when it's.
SPEAKER 13 :
One of the oldest traditions and occupations was actually whoredom. Prostitute. They probably provided.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, they did. I was talking to a lady at my job. Do you know how much it costs for children care? Yeah, I do. It's like you're paying rent for child care for somebody to babysit your kid. How are you going to afford rent, health care? And child care.
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And groceries. Friends who have had children, they often have that discussion at home about if they're even going to have the wife stay home because it makes more sense to stay home than it does to go out to work, make the money, and then pay for child care.
SPEAKER 04 :
well let me so the traditional man do you guys think that like because you guys are business owners do you think your kids should take over your business is that part of being a traditional man or is that just like whatever if they want to i mean i i've tried to set it up to where you know my sons can you know easily slide in and take over you know one of them's gonna go in for an electrical engineering and
SPEAKER 13 :
Technically, as a man, my nephew works for me, so I don't have any children. Remember, I had a vasectomy at 25, man. But I just didn't want a progeny. Yeah, I'm trying to set people up, not just men, anybody who's ready, willing to start their own business and be an entrepreneur. And it just so happens that my nephew's one of them. And yes, I do want to leave a legacy. I think that is what we should do as men, is set people up for success.
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Because if you think about, like, how men have transitioned over time, basically, like, go back to, you know, go back 3,000 years from now, I guarantee a man's not like he is today. You know what I'm saying? Like, the evolution of men, don't you think an evolution of home has changed over time?
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. Like, you know, that No Kings rally, man. I was joking around with you. I could, like, dress up as a clown and I'd fit right in. I mean, guys are not the same. Men have drastically changed. Can you imagine fighting for our World War II for your country and that this is what you get?
SPEAKER 13 :
What if those guys are, like, anti-superheroes where, like, they have regular jobs and they're providing for their families, but then they dress up and go out and do that crazy protesting?
SPEAKER 12 :
You know what? They're driving Subarus, I can tell you that. What?
SPEAKER 04 :
Again, you can call us guys at 303-477-5600. I don't drive a Subaru. You trying to say you're not a man anymore?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I was saying I was a protester.
SPEAKER 04 :
You are a protester. No, I don't.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you are.
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So some qualities of like the traditional man, at least tell me if these qualities are still here. Amidst being wrong, is that just a traditional manner? Is that just men in general that admit they're wrong?
SPEAKER 12 :
I feel like generally speaking, and Heath and I have talked about this, I will say stuff immediately, and then when I'm wrong, it's like, oh, I should have had a filter on that. But you can't take it back. Once it comes out, you can't take it back. But you can rectify it and admit when you're wrong. So, no, yeah, you can take it back. It's not like I'm cussing it out or something like that. I'm just saying that there's times where you've got to be able to do that, especially as a father. I think the craziest thing that I always heard was my own children thought I was perfect. And, you know, the reality is, who is? You know, there is not one death that's perfect. And I'd like to at least appreciate that they can think that. But with that said, I'm realistic because I don't want them that shut up fall. No, that, you know, I'm not perfect.
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Because the difference between the traditional man and the modern man from everything I've studied, this is the main difference. But sweet. Besides the modern man who's the transgender who now has to sit on the toilet to pee versus stand. That's the modern man, wow. No, no, no, no, no. I said the transgender part of the modern man. Those people are wacko. But the main difference between a traditional man, and tell me if you guys think this is true, traditional man or modern man is the ability to shut up and listen. The traditional man couldn't do that. He ran his house with an iron fist. He, like Brian said, was a provider, laced up his boots. He went what he said went. But today, men have evolved to where they're like, hey, she makes just as much as I do. She can provide for herself. Maybe I should just shut up and listen to what she has to say. What do you guys think about that? I don't think that's a good interpretation of the traditional man.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think it's a bad interpretation of the modern man. Let's think it's the other way around. It's a bad interpretation of the modern man. Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, explain why.
SPEAKER 03 :
Because what you were saying is, you said the man, it's evolved for the women to come into the household now, not the modern man. The modern man's not allowing it to happen. It's just, it's by force it's happening. Yeah. No, it's not happening by force. Oh, I agree. Oh, it is. If you can't provide for the family, it's forcefully that you have your wife to go to work. What are you saying, bro?
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Women nowadays want to go to work, whether you make a million dollars or not.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, most women would be at home raising their kids, bro. I bet you if you did a survey, most women would stay at home and raise their kids.
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Well, we'll let the listeners answer this at 303-477-5600.
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Call in, Mom. Mom. Somebody call in. Mom, call in. Somebody call in and tell us, would your wife rather stay at home and raise kids, or would she rather make six figures a year?
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Man.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, of course. No, no, no. There's no of course.
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No, hold on. We cannot sit there and say she'd rather stay home if she went to college this whole time and now she can get a six-, seven-figure job a year.
SPEAKER 13 :
Why – Well, let me ask this question. This is kind of like a turnabout. How about the women that you guys are all with, and I'll include mine, do they hustle? Do they grind? Do they get it?
SPEAKER 12 :
Mine does.
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But hold on. Mine does. Okay, so you guys are all talking about grinding and hustling, right? That's provision. And yes, yes, yes. I believe in the modern era, women have evolved as long as guys have evolved. And that's what I'm saying. Don't you think... Back in the day, rulers or kings or whoever ruled their house had the final say. But nowadays, it's an equal playing field because the woman can make just as much as the guy.
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And with that equal playing field, divorce rates went up. Yeah, I agree with that. I don't think so. I think it's always been like that.
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Well, you can't say that without statistics, guys.
SPEAKER 03 :
I gave statistics last week. I gave you statistics. 50% of you married today are probably going to get divorced. That's a stat. Today, not in the 50s.
SPEAKER 13 :
yeah they had women had nowhere to go in the 50s or in you know the wild wild well that's what i'm saying women had nowhere to go so they had to rely on their their husband so the traditional men that's what i'm saying had the final word yeah nowadays yeah but then it wasn't wasn't that kind of like authoritarian it was because the individual was sure was the breadwinner and they made money and so they could have to say over their house how it went and they ruled hard
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I think in World War II what ended up happening is things started to change because now you had Rosie the Riveter who jumped in the workforce, whereas before that in the 30s, 40s, 20s, et cetera, women were okay staying at home for the most part. It was up until World War II that changed the dynamics where women actually had to enter the workforce.
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Oh, yeah, because men went to war, and then that's where all the women were in the workforce.
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And once that happened, it never changed.
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Never went back.
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Yeah, you know, you're making a great point because if you look at, you know, pictures from old, women were always in dresses, but after the workforce, they started wearing pants. Right.
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Because women were forced to do that. i'm telling you right now women back then if they could have had the option to go out and work because there was a bat men have evolved that was a dominant a male dominant society women wanted to go to work they wanted to make money but they couldn't so we're blaming pants i i can't get past what bright hands well it's when they started wearing pants
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Oh, they started wearing pants.
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What does it matter if they wear pants or not?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, it's like who wears the pants in the family?
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That's right.
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Right? And when they started wearing pants, then they started making the rules. They could change the temperature on the thermostat.
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Again, if anybody knows better than us, call at 303-477-5600. I just think the dynamics of the relationship changes.
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for the better or worse for worse because now that the woman is making money now you know her head maybe get a little bit higher or whatever so you want to keep the woman down no no no no no no wonder women think we're a male chauvinist i'm not a male showing this thing listen i think men themselves have destroyed you know what what women perceive you to be in the relationship so if you're if you're the man of the house or a woman be submissive to you men have destroyed that because they've abused women in that scenario So if a woman is supposed to be submissive, do you guys have abused that for women to do what they want to do instead of using that correctly? What is the correct way? Like a man abusing a woman to be submissive is, you know, get my plate, get my dinner.
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That's the reason I say men have evolved. Men have evolved. Men are no longer like that. Oh, yeah, they are. No, they're not. Men are today not like they were in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
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No, they just hid it better. Okay. What do you mean? They hid any of the iniquities better. Everything was a facade. That's what I'm saying. It's the Stepford Wives. It was a facade, man.
SPEAKER 12 :
I don't know. I think there's been a lot of social programming that's happened throughout the decades that kind of moved us. Like in the 70s, you had the free love and that, things like that sort. Yet so many things that have changed the dynamics of what a definition of a man is, including up until the last four years ago where they couldn't even define a woman. I mean, how crazy has this changed us? That's what I'm saying.
SPEAKER 04 :
Men have evolved, whether they evolved for the better, where they can just shut up and actually listen to a woman, or they're still in the Stone Age, or they now sit down and pee. Take your pick.
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All right, let me ask you guys a quick question. All right, let's call it a day. When you're dating a person, woman or man, there is a fight for control of that relationship. Oh, there is, bro. I don't care what you say. Whether you admit it or not. There is. Somebody wants control of that relationship. Is that what your relationship looks like currently, Brian? No, no. I just know it. I know it goes on. People want you under their thumb and do what they tell you.
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That's the old school of men.
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Men have evolved. Men have evolved. Women want you under their thumb to do whatever they want you to do.
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I think women classically know how to take control and dominance of a man. Covertly, though. Covertly. Sexually, right? Let's just be real. I can't show off my pecs and then just be like, oh, look at this. But a woman, no matter what she looks like.
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In the right state or in the right city, you could show off your pecs and get what you want.
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Okay, let me ask you, gratitude. What about gratitude? Do you think men show enough gratitude? No.
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I try. Honestly, I try to be thankful because the Bible says that, right? Even when my son, you know, was sick, I always used to, I was taught, you got to be thankful on all things. That's tough.
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We do need to be grateful. Hey, Stacey. Hey, Stacey, you're talking with the guys. Tell us what you think.
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Hi, guys.
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Hi, Stacey.
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I can't even. I have so many thoughts about what you guys are saying. Tell us. Tell us. Hit us with all of it. If we're wrong, tell us we're wrong.
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I mean, last week they schooled the actor in Denver.
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Tell us what you think.
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We're here to listen. We want to learn.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, first off, I'd like to say that I've been really hard on men.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, be hard on us, please.
SPEAKER 07 :
Full disclosure, I've been probably way harder on men than... you guys actually deserved. So I'm calling to offer myself up as a co-host. Oh, and the last thing I can remember that one of you said was, um, where we're at today, kind of derived out of abuses from say around the fifties.
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That was, that was supposed truth. The truth. Okay.
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And I think, I think there's a lot of truth in that. And, um, Regarding the whole, I think what the gentleman said about abuses derived from the 50s kind of have us where we're at today. I think also abuses towards the lesbian and gay community also have led to where we are today with, you know, the pendulum swinging too far with the transgender community. stuff and here's I'd like to read you something from this guy that I did a little not a lot a little I was going to lend him a hand until I read some things that have been going on and didn't get a response back from who I contacted about but it's regarding the the how complicated the lesbian and gay rights movement was I think he has a PhD, and I'm not sure what his PhD is in. And like I said, everybody's going to have to do their own research because it seems like there's some more complexities to this. But he was talking about the gay and lesbian liberation movement from Stonewall. And he referenced, you guys might want to look into this, but he referenced Malcolm Michaels Jr. and Tony Rivera. And he says both were gay black men, sex workers, drag queens, and convicted felons. So I don't know if that's true, but I'm just going to give it to you and your listeners to look up and kind of ponder in the context of not only women, but the gay and lesbian liberation movement and how we ended up here and where do we go to kind of, I don't know, make it back from here. Stacey, can we ask you this? His name... Let me give you his name and then I'll answer a question if I can. Dr. Rich Guggenheim. So to kind of help us reverse from where we are with transgender without, you know, completely squashing them, you know, to kind of understand the history of how we got here.
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Okay.
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And how to have, you know, respect for, I guess, both traditional men and the folks who, you know... They call it all sorts of things that don't fit into that.
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What's your question? Do you think the stoic man of the 50s and 60s and the modern man today, do you think there's a difference in their listening ability? You being a woman, do you feel like men listened better back then or today?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I will tell you that I wasn't alive in the 50s. And the older I get, the more I understand. The older I get, the more I'm learning about that era. And so I can't really speak. I mean, I guess I can, you know, in the context of my own parents and maybe their friends and neighbors and whatnot. But I'm not, you know, since I wasn't alive, I don't know. And then today, gosh, of the men I have known, do they listen? I'd have to give that some thought. I don't know. Yes, ma'am. I guess I... I wouldn't say no, you know, without really thinking about it. I don't know. I'll give it some thought.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, think about it, and next week when we're on the air, call in and tell us what you think about it. Like, we'd really be interested because that's one of the questions we've offered up to the listeners. And we'll check it out. Stacey, thank you for calling. We're looking to Google now.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Actually, I was looking it up while she was talking. You have a good afternoon.
SPEAKER 07 :
There's some garbage with the GOP party, and there's some garbage with, you know, election crap. So I don't know if you guys might want to get him on and interview him about what went on with two different GOP parties in the state of Colorado and what went on with the apparently guilty
SPEAKER 04 :
admitting guilt and voting in two different elections in two different states so thank you so much thank you stacy thanks for listening so hey man she vindicated she goes along with what true says that all the abuse back then kind of leads up till today are we talking like through oppression yeah so what type of abuse are we considering like physical mental what are we
SPEAKER 12 :
I wish she would have elaborated on that.
SPEAKER 13 :
If I understood what she was saying, it was through, like, oppression, then the pendulum swings.
SPEAKER 12 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 13 :
Through oppression, the pendulum swings.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, you know what's kind of odd, though, is when you look at the movement, what was the lady's name? Her name was Stacey. No, no, no, the women's movement. where basically they were really radicalized feminists. Oh, yeah. So like the feminist movement really, you know, talk about that pendulum swing. You know, there was a time where the feminist backlash. Yeah. Well, they basically went after men and said, you know, they're this, that and the other. Right. So we want more women. But the irony is that I have a problem with this. We have transgender men trying to play in an unequal playing field against girls and women. And to me, just like J.K. Rowling, she's a feminist, but she's spoken out about this. And I think if you're a true feminist for that, you should be able to also speak out. Because now, if there's real oppression from men toward women, we can truly say that transgender men definitely...
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But if you look at what Stacey said, she said she's really hard and biased on men is the first thing she started with saying. So it makes you wonder if the balance and confidence with a man is being taken away today by the modern man versus the traditional man. Well, what's the modern man? To me, the modern man is one who he's on the equal playing field as his wife. He listens now instead of rules with an iron fist. If she turns around and makes a million dollars a year instead of her staying home, yes, he can support her visions and dreams. Brock, you've really grown up because I remember there was a time. No, no, no, for sure. I've evolved over time, but times have also evolved. And if we listen to what Stacey said, is she against the balance and confidence that a man has with inside of himself? Because she's hard against them. Probably.
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Or is she hard against men because of the way she's been treated? No, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, we don't know how she was treated.
SPEAKER 03 :
We can't just assume that. But time tells you it was because men treated her bad. No, we do not know if a guy treated her bad.
SPEAKER 04 :
You cannot say that.
SPEAKER 03 :
You do not know that lady. Do you know how many women I have interviewed?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, hold on. Time out. How many women have you interviewed on air?
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, hold on. I always wanted to be a marriage counselor. So I would always interview women and ask them, you know, questions.
SPEAKER 04 :
Give us a number. How many women have you interviewed?
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I would say 50, 60. Okay. Name six of them. Diane, Amy, Suzanne. Your mom and your aunt. Your mom and your aunt. Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Those names sound familiar. People, if you want to give us a call at 303-477-5600, this is a deep topic. But the same scenario with them all was the same.
SPEAKER 12 :
The biggest difference between the way you think, Brian, is that I think you've been jaded, in my opinion, because of the fact that, you know, traditionally, I'm not trying to criticize your mom, but she's been through three divorces. And it's always been the man's fault, according to your mother, correct? Two. So then that's biases.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, both of them cheated on her. What are you saying? Both of them cheated on her.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now, did she cheat on him? No. Okay. She never cheated on him. Okay. But it's always a man's fault that this happened.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, when you cheat on your wife, it is.
SPEAKER 12 :
So was it man to man or was it man with a woman? One of the times they were cheating.
SPEAKER 03 :
Man to woman.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. So there you go. Women also participate fully and equally in these types of scenarios where they come to divide and break up marriages as well.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Okay. I agree with that. I totally agree with that.
SPEAKER 04 :
People, we're going to continue this on the second half. You can call at 303-477-5600. We have one minute left. If somebody wants to call in and chime in super quick, call in. Because you made the comment that she seemed like she's been hurt before. We don't know that. We can't just assume that. Actually, we could. How?
SPEAKER 13 :
It's an inference, for sure. It is an inference, but have not we all been hurt before?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 13 :
Have not we all been hurt?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 13 :
Not necessarily just by the opposite sex.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's a true statement.
SPEAKER 13 :
But what if the opposite sex was the parent that hurt you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, wow. Right?
SPEAKER 13 :
So would that change your perspective on your mother if she hurt you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
No, it would change your perspective on women if your mother hurt you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Or if you were a woman and your dad was abusing you physically, sexually, mentally. Oh, yeah, you would have a bias statement against everything.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, and what about the men that get these women pregnant that want nothing to do with the kid? Exactly. It goes on and on, bro. Don't get me started today.
SPEAKER 04 :
That brings up a whole new topic. What about the woman who turns around and says she's got her tubes tied, but she's lied the whole time to that dude and she pops out a kid? Is that the same as a man saying he's got a vasectomy and he hasn't really and gets her pregnant? That's a deception. It's deceptive. It's deceptive. We'll talk to you all on the other side. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 11 :
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It's not about how you feel, but what you provide inside that home.
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what you make it you can't always live up to expectations you try to please everybody while you struggle so you fake it and end up out of balance compromising situations that's a good
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Welcome to A Guy's Perspective, where they discuss real-life topics that men today are dealing with, whether married, single parent, or just single. We invite you to call into this live program with your comments and questions. And here they are.
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Give us a call. This is The Guy's Perspective at 303-477-5600. This is KLZ 560. We're talking about the strong man or the traditional or the modern man. And...
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, check this out. According to Esquire from 2023, apparently I'm considered a modern man. Okay, you fall into this. Yeah, I actually do, which I didn't know.
SPEAKER 13 :
What are the points?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, one is they own a suit. I do own a suit. They wear it to bars, weddings, whatever. They get a mani-pedi. I don't.
SPEAKER 13 :
I don't. I'm not a modern man. I don't get a mani-pedi.
SPEAKER 12 :
You're stoned. Hey man, I've gotten a mani and a pedi. So, but it was just my woman though. You know, usually she goes the one that was like, do you want to get one? Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
So these are modern men.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Yeah. All right. Sends memes instead of flowers. You know, I send memes all the time. Fitness does core strength workout. I don't do yoga, but I wouldn't be opposed to yoga. It's really good exercise.
SPEAKER 04 :
You're the typical modern man.
SPEAKER 13 :
How many more is on this list?
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. So let's go through the room. And I'm not going to tell you if you line up as the modern man or the traditional man. All right. Okay. I'm going to ask each one of you guys this. And again, calling at 303-477-5600. We'll start with Heath. Are you flexible and evolving or are you rigid and fixed? Flexible. Evolving. Flexible. So you're part of the modern. Oh. Brian, are you... I'm mixed. Hold on. Are you varied and expressive or conservative and conforming? Both. You're both. You're modern. No, I'm both. I'm conservative and modern. I'm telling you you're modern. Dre, are you suppressed and discouraged or encouraged and valued?
SPEAKER 1 :
Dang.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm both. So you're the modern man also.
SPEAKER 13 :
What are you guys doing saying both?
SPEAKER 04 :
You don't have to say both. You can say just one. Are you diverse and inclusive or traditional and a hierarchical ruler?
SPEAKER 13 :
I'm really diverse and inclusive.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, you're a modern man. Hey, this school stuff ain't lying. What about you? I'm a modern man. Ask yourself a question. Okay, share it equal, provider and protector. I'm both. I'm the modern man. Guys, the modern man has evolved. He no longer rules with an iron fist.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
Period. I think that's foolishness too if you're going to roll with an iron fist because is it effective? No, you can't win. No, it's not effective.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, it's not. No, you'll create enemies and people will come against you.
SPEAKER 12 :
And be resentful towards you. Yeah, yeah. Right? Whether they express the resentment to you directly or otherwise they express it through an affair, through flipping, giving you the finger as soon as you turn your back or whatever the case may be.
SPEAKER 04 :
But here's the problem. The stoic man goes against all that, right? Okay. Because the stoic man emphasizes the importance of virtue wisdom and self-control of what he himself will do not what his home does he doesn't use self-control so he's resolute right he's resolute right so the traditional man the stoic man says self-control is going to come from me like we talked about the other day if somebody's going to come up to my wife what's wrong with that There's nothing wrong with it. We're just trying to define what a traditional... Stoic is traditional.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, stoic is traditional. I'm a stoic traditional man. Did you just say, I'm the stoic janitor.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's super funny. Okay, recognize what you can and cannot control.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, absolutely, man.
SPEAKER 04 :
Do you think that's like the core essence of a man is recognizing what he can and cannot?
SPEAKER 13 :
Absolutely. There's circumstances and existential circumstances, things that we do have control over. You control the controllables. That's all you can do is control the controllables.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I agree with that because in life, we probably have less control of more things than we wish. And, you know, men typically what we want to do is fix things, right? We're considered the fixers. When a woman comes to you, what do they typically ask? They don't want you to tell them what you should do or how you should have talked to, you know, your girlfriend or whatever the case is. Usually they just want to be heard. Men want to say, well, you should have done this. Maybe you should have done that.
SPEAKER 13 :
I recently became resolute in one thing. I suck at, I suck at doing things like, you know, mechanical things or around the house and everything. And obviously I've done this over the past year where I've done everything from like foundation and framing and all of that stuff. One thing that was always coming up was how angry and frustrated I would get in the presence of women uh because of my my inferiority complex not feeling like like feeling like i should be able to do this so here's what i did just the other day wife was like hey um i need you to hang this tv i was like great you guys need to leave i was like i'll hang the tv but you gotta get out
SPEAKER 05 :
So you just didn't want her help?
SPEAKER 13 :
No, I'm resolute in that I know that I'm going to get frustrated at something, and then I'm going to snap because I feel inferior because I'm trying to do the best that I can with something.
SPEAKER 05 :
You're trying to do a man thing.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, trying to do a man thing. So I don't know if that happens with other guys, man, but it happens with me, and it causes chaos.
SPEAKER 12 :
Has your wife made you feel that way?
SPEAKER 13 :
No, not made me feel that way. It's all internalized by society. Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Brian, what were you going to say? So that all brings us back to when I talked about wanting control. Okay. You just brought it up. You want to control things that you can't. Oh, snap. You guys just said that I asked you a simple question about controlling the relationship, and he just asked you guys a question about wanting to control everything, and what about you not being able to control everything?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and I answered, yeah, we can't control things. And Heath and I recognize that. How about you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Again, people call us at 303-477-5600. You're listening to the guy's perspective. Call in and tell us what's up.
SPEAKER 13 :
I really do think that it probably matters to me, man. It makes me feel like either a good man or a bad man if I can't perform in that arena of, like, building something. You know what I mean?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, the utilitarian approach or the utility approach, an act is good or morally right if it promotes happiness and bad or immorally wrong if it tends to produce pain. You see what I'm saying? So as society, the way men look at situations is generally it's a good thing if it makes a lot of people happy, if it makes your whole environment happy, if it makes your – the people you live with happy, it's probably going to make you happy. Like that saying, happy wife, happy life.
SPEAKER 12 :
Or happy spouse, happy house.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's a true statement. You know what I'm saying? Truth Daddy, how's it going?
SPEAKER 10 :
It's going good. How about y'all fellas?
SPEAKER 04 :
How about it? Good, brother. Talk to us, Daddy.
SPEAKER 10 :
What's going on, son?
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, my goodness.
SPEAKER 04 :
Tell us, do you think the traditional man's evolved quite a bit, or is it still just same-o, same-o?
SPEAKER 10 :
Overall, I don't think the traditional man exists anymore today, because I think that's things that were before the 80s and stuff like that, the 20s and 30s and 40s and 50s and 60s. Now, is there a little bit of traditional man in some people, like guys in their 50s and 60s going on these days? Yeah. But for the most part, it's more of a modern man right now that listens to their wife, you know, agrees, talks it over, and stuff like that. That kind of stuff didn't really happen back in the time. You can even see that in the Bible, you know, by seeing how many times they mention women, you know, by name. You know, it's very few compared to all the men. It was a man's world. It was man's decisions back then. It's not that case anymore these days.
SPEAKER 04 :
True. Thanks for calling in, man. We love hearing from you. Yeah, call back, Daddy. You have a good afternoon. Laters, buddy. He made a good point. If you think about the Bible, why don't they really mention a woman's name? That's deep. No, they do.
SPEAKER 12 :
They mention Ruth. They mention that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, but in comparison to guys, they don't.
SPEAKER 13 :
Dorcas.
SPEAKER 04 :
If you think about it in comparison to guys, they don't. I never thought about that till you just said that.
SPEAKER 12 :
So have we abdicated our role as men, though? Because traditionally, if you look at it in the Bible, you know, let's just be real. God is considered in the Jewish terminology as a he, not a she. Even though spiritually there is no gender. But when you talk about what Jesus spoke of, it was always about the father, you know. All in masculine terms. We even have Latin, which has derivations of feminine and masculine.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, yeah. How many times God wanted to gather Israel like a mother hen gathers the under her wing. Um, so there are feminine aspects and attributes, but one of the things that I always use when, whenever people come at me with like either homosexuality, gay, lesbian, all these different types of relationships, the thing that I always bring up from the Bible is this, and I may have twisted scripture, but I think I got it right. And it's that you neither know the, you neither know, uh, the scripture or the power of God, But for those that are given in marriage, but for those that inherit the afterlife, they'll neither be married nor given in marriage. They'll be made like the angels, therefore sexless.
SPEAKER 03 :
Do you think the modern man exists now because prayer was taken out of school?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, so you're saying the traditional man's no longer around.
SPEAKER 03 :
Traditional man, because traditional man religiously tells you it's God, man, then woman, because the woman was taken from the man. The woman is there to be a man's helper.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
Help me. The woman is there to be your helpmate. She's there to help you. And so the traditional man went away is because men abused these women who are supposed to help them.
SPEAKER 12 :
Did you know that? And I heard this.
SPEAKER 03 :
That was deep what he just said, guys.
SPEAKER 12 :
It is. But I heard this through a sermon. You know, when Jesus speaks to, you know, his mother, Mary, and calls him woman. A woman was not the way we call women, woman, you know. Oh. It was not derogatory. When Jesus said, woman, thy son, you know, talking about, you know, he marries other, you know, children. That term was a term of endearment. It was a term that, you know, rabbinically speaking, it had no anger in it, no malice in it, no spite. No spite. Yeah, it's basically like calling a beautiful woman, a beautiful, you know, just with love and adoration. Whoa, man.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, well, and anybody who knows different than us, call at 303-477-5600. I'm Heath.
SPEAKER 13 :
I have a hypothetical. What if we men and maybe society have romanticized what it was to be a man back then? You know, through like television, through imagery. What about pornography?
SPEAKER 12 :
How has that affected men and the way we look at women? has deteriorated for sure absolutely i mean but but we're now we're talking about how we're talking about some deep stuff right here because now you've sexualized and all they are is just you know they're not objectified yeah oh for sure
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, so imagery. Imagery is important, right? So if imagery is important, then if what we have of the Christmases of old and the man cutting the turkey and the family around, are we not also maybe hypnotized by what that was? There had to have been. Absolutely had to have been just as much chaos, just as much philandering that everybody was doing back then because even in biblical, historical things, there were always troubles and trials, mess-ups in the family.
SPEAKER 04 :
If you're 60, 70, 80, man, and we would love to get a 75-year-old on the phone, call at 303-477-5600. Tell us about what kind of traditions you had back then that us modern guys ain't got today, because, you know, you guys are making good points. I mean, you're talking about pornography. It's it's brought the woman's character down. You're talking about going back in the day. Do we as men really want those things back in our home?
SPEAKER 03 :
Do you think traditional men have destroyed? destroyed the traditional men themselves that evolved into the modern man. That's a good question. If you're a traditional man, it's supposed to be God, man, then woman, right? But if the man isn't seeking God, I love you, Bri.
SPEAKER 13 :
I love you, Bri.
SPEAKER 04 :
I love him because I love it. Let me ask you guys this question. If you were to put a thousand men in this room right now, how many of them do you think would have prayed today?
SPEAKER 03 :
Probably none, maybe one. That's a deep question.
SPEAKER 13 :
There's only four here now. How many of us prayed today? I did.
SPEAKER 05 :
I did. What?
SPEAKER 13 :
I did.
SPEAKER 04 :
Only the heathen didn't.
SPEAKER 13 :
I spent six minutes. Only the heathen didn't pray. A heathen actor.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, but if you think about it, no, he's asking a good question. I mean, has the traditional man gone away because of... The way the dynamics of the home are today.
SPEAKER 13 :
But that's why I'm saying I love you, Bri, because what you're saying is that man was their own fall. And that could take you all the way back to Adam and Eve and how men always blame the woman. They're like, woman, woman, woman problem. But no, man, he was right next to her.
SPEAKER 04 :
So who really caused the fall?
SPEAKER 13 :
Then let me hear you. Who really caused the fall then in the garden? There were two. It was doled out to one man of what they should and shouldn't do. So you think the man is the one? He was told how to run the household, and he failed.
SPEAKER 14 :
All right. That is deep. We didn't call up in school the actor. He hit us hard, bro.
SPEAKER 12 :
Adam failed. Oh, my God. That is deep. Every minister I know wants to just bash on the man and say, well, the reason why he failed is because he wasn't doing his job. You know, realistically speaking, just like you said, if you look in the Bible, it says that they were both together. She did fall, but you know what? He really, both of them are supposed to help each other, right? She's supposed to be the helpmate. They didn't have that proper communication or anything like that. She obviously didn't go to the man and say, well, you know, God told me this. No, he was stoic.
SPEAKER 13 :
He took a bite of the apple.
SPEAKER 12 :
He did it on his own. He was stoic.
SPEAKER 13 :
He didn't say nothing. He didn't tattle. He didn't go and tattle to God.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, my goodness. My wife's out there eating that apple. Please call at 303-477-56. This is deep. We went all the way back to the guard. Man, the actor in Brian is trying to come in.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know what I think? I believe with all that's inside of me that God created women to be submissive to their husbands regardless. Disagree. No, I believe. I believe. Hold on. Okay, I'm listening. I believe it wholeheartedly that women were created that way, but men have abused it so bad that women want nothing to do with it. I guarantee it, bro.
SPEAKER 04 :
So at the end of the day, you want a slave as a woman. I didn't say a slave.
SPEAKER 03 :
Hey, hey, we're going to use the word submissive. We're going to use the word submissive. A submissive woman isn't a slave. He's going to get hate mail. How do you know?
SPEAKER 12 :
What do you mean? Yeah, what is submissive?
SPEAKER 03 :
What's your definition? Define submissive to us. Like elaborate. The man has the last word of what should happen to your family. Back to what we're saying. I'm not telling you to be a slave and do everything. I'm telling you to do.
SPEAKER 12 :
And how is that working for you in your relationship?
SPEAKER 04 :
But no, he's making an interesting point. That's the difference between the traditional man and the new day man. The traditional man had that final word like we said in our first episode. Today, he does not have that final word because she may very well make million dollars every five years.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm going to ask you a question. Are you going to ask your girl? I think it's an equal plan. I'm telling you. I'm asking you a question. of the household?
SPEAKER 12 :
That's what I was going to ask.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm going to answer it. Does your woman want you to be the leader? I don't think she cares. No, no, no. Hold on. I think in today, 2025, you guys are even. If a guy came up against your family, she's going to be looking towards you to protect the house.
SPEAKER 03 :
Can I finish?
SPEAKER 04 :
Can I finish?
SPEAKER 03 :
Go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
okay no she is not because heath made a good comment last week he said it sounded like someone was in the house he sent his wife down there his wife went downstairs hold on there is now ufc women that could probably walk in this room and knock all of us out oh yeah let's just be real dude yeah women are now i don't want to go around with ronda rousey yeah But you see what I'm saying? Don't own the same playing field. You asked me that. I answered. Let me ask you this. Should you be submissive to her if she makes $100,000 a year? Or no, $500,000 a year more than you? Of course not. She doesn't need you. She doesn't. She needs me to have kids. She can find any dude to do that when she's making $400,000 a year. Okay, but your thinking is so backwards.
SPEAKER 01 :
Let me finish. Hold on.
SPEAKER 04 :
I didn't get to finish my point. You just turned around and said that if she makes more money than you, that she needs you. If she has her own house, her own car, her own life, her own friends, her own community, do you really think she needs you if you ain't got no bucks?
SPEAKER 12 :
Nah. You know what? And truth be told, if you had a daughter, would you want that daughter to be reliant on a man? Or do you want her to be self-sufficient in the event that this marriage doesn't fail? Because you even threw out a stat that 50% of marriages fail.
SPEAKER 03 :
I totally agree with that. But you're thinking your logic behind it. If an intruder came into your house with a gun, you're going to send your wife down there. He did. He did. I don't care, bro. The logic behind it's the stupidest thing. If somebody came into my house, I am not telling my wife to go down. No, no, no. You're telling your mom to go down. Most people. Oh, wife.
SPEAKER 04 :
The intruder's here to maybe try to have. Most people. Heath, tell your story again.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, in short, I was building the house and we had hundreds of a hundred thousand dollars or better into it. And we had a bunch of equipment over there, like, you know, things that are expensive. And I went over to the house to lock it up and I heard like a boom or a bang upstairs and I was like. No, I'm closing the door. So I closed the door and left. And I went home to have dinner with my wife. And I said, I told her, I was like, yeah, you know, I heard some. She said, did you lock the door up? And I was like, yeah, after I heard some bang or boom upstairs. She said, did you check it out? I said, no. She grabbed her taser and her light and went over there. And I went with her.
SPEAKER 04 :
So you think it's crazy, but we now heard a story from one of the guys in the show saying that, hey, if your woman's tougher, let her go in.
SPEAKER 12 :
Let her go in, man. You first, baby.
SPEAKER 04 :
Guys, women are cops nowadays. See, I'm an equal opportunity. And if anybody knows more, just call at 303-477-5600. Another question I want to ask you guys is... When does honor and valor of a man take place? Or is that gone away with?
SPEAKER 12 :
So the saddest part is I think men are demonized a lot, but then people fail to realize that it also did take a lot of women to ruin good men. Even my wife will say that about my ex. I was a really good man. And let's just be real. I'm recovering, man. My wife has had to endure just the PTSD, if you will, from my ex. I've always been a good man. Always been a good man. And that's what we value, right? I think that's intrinsic.
SPEAKER 13 :
Honor, integrity, follow through, helping out. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
What do you say about the honor and valor part of it? Faithful, all that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. I don't have any.
SPEAKER 13 :
Is it required to be a man? Honor and valor?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, yeah, of course honor because you need integrity and you need honesty in your relationship, of course. Yeah. Of course. Well, in life. You've got to have honor. You've got to be known as, you know.
SPEAKER 13 :
Is your handshake? Brian's handshake. Does your handshake mean something?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, that's a deep question right there. Yeah, of course. And now that you're bringing that back, that's traditional, man. The handshake was back in the day.
SPEAKER 13 :
It doesn't have to be a lawyer and written paper signed. It doesn't have to be that. It's just a handshake. You say you're going to be somewhere or you're going to give somebody something, handshake doesn't.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, you show up. You're opening a can of worms right there. And that's traditional, man.
SPEAKER 13 :
That's me too. Let's bring him back, boys.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I agree with both you guys. Society needs to bring that back, man. If you shake some dude's hand and say, hey, man, I'm going to be there next week and help you mow your lawn, you probably ought to do it unless an emergency comes up. And if an emergency does come up, call the person and say, hey, you can't.
SPEAKER 12 :
If you can't do it, then just be real and say you can't do it. I'm sorry. You know, and I think men, I hear that a lot.
SPEAKER 13 :
That's manning up, right? You man up to it. It's like, oh, I promised this and I have to break the promise. What's it cost to get out of this promise?
SPEAKER 04 :
And that's the first rule of like being a traditional man is keep promise. Don't overcommit. But people hate it. You know how people call you up and they're like, hey, can you do this? Can you do that? And you're like, no, no, no, no, no, I can't. It rubs them the wrong way. But at the end of the day, I think they respect that.
SPEAKER 12 :
They do because it's a boundary. At least you've established that. Sometimes we allow people to walk past our boundaries, and then we're the ones that get upset. We're the ones that burn out. We're the ones that basically are so tired we don't even take care of our own families or ourselves. So sometimes you've got to be able to say, no, I can't do it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Because of overcommitment.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. How much does that have to do with working and just being overly tired? Well, no, not just because I tell you I'm going to do something. Yeah, in my heart, I want to do it. But, you know, 40 hours of work, you know. Well, then that's why you got to think about it.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm so tired. That's what Jesus even said. Jesus basically said, you got to count the cost on these things. But doesn't the Lord also say that your days be days and your days be days?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. Doesn't he say that? He does say that. And we've got a few minutes left. Somebody calling at 303-477-5600. I think... Guys, I would have to say that the traditional man is coming gone, guys. I don't think it's here anymore.
SPEAKER 12 :
But see, the crazy thing is I feel like in this, you know, broadcast, you've kind of demonized a traditional man, in my opinion. Does that sound fair?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I... I don't think I've demonized them. I just think that it's gone. So I don't think any of us really know what it's like to be a traditional man like our parents were.
SPEAKER 13 :
In evolving, though, evolving should get better, right? Not devolving, right? So we should be getting better at this.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. But see, back then in the 50s, like Stacey had said, I wasn't around in the 50s. However, with that said, were women okay with that role that men played? Was the majority of women okay with that role that men played in the 50s? That's what has to be broken down.
SPEAKER 13 :
Or then, like Stacey, did they have to be okay with that role? Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because there's some men forced to exactly there. There's men that do not want to fill that role. They don't want to move away from their mama's house. They don't want to, you know, know what it's like to pay bills, you know, and support a family, things like that, you know.
SPEAKER 04 :
We got one minute left, people. God, man, this topic is just so good. It's a deep one. It is because it gets to the heart of our nation and what's really happening. Because last week I asked a question, and I'll ask our listeners, just kind of keep it on your mind. If Kamala would have became president, does that take away from us as men? I would say yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think she would literally take stuff from men in general. You know, like laws would be imposed upon us forcibly.
SPEAKER 13 :
But would you rise to the occasion?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, I'd wait four years, just like I did with Biden.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you, everybody, for calling in and listening. This is The Guys Respective. You can always go to our website. You can look up The Guys Respective 5 at gmail.com. Don't forget, it's on Spotify. Yes, every week from 2 to 3, 303-477-5600. Y'all have a good afternoon. And Apple. I don't expect you to understand.
SPEAKER 11 :
I just hope I can explain What it's like to be a man It's a lonely road And they don't care about what you know It's not about how you feel But what you provide inside that home
SPEAKER 09 :
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In this insightful episode, Rick Hughes discusses the different types of testing faced by believers. If you’ve ever wondered why trials come your way, this episode explains the purpose behind suffering and how it contributes to spiritual growth. Rick explores the difference between suffering for discipline and suffering for blessing, emphasizing the need for patience and contentment as key virtues woven into the fabric of our spiritual lives. As always, Rick encourages listeners to find empowerment in God’s Word, offering hope and clarity for those committed to their faith journey.
SPEAKER 01 :
Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
SPEAKER 02 :
Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. F-L-O-T, Flockline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, stick with me. It'll be a short time of motivation, a lot of inspiration, some education, and of course, no, absolutely none, not a one bit of manipulation because we're not trying to con you. We're not trying to hustle you. We're not trying to get you to join up, fess it up, give it up, nothing like that. Our objective is to teach you the Word of God. And if you want to orient and adjust to God's plan, that's free for you. You can do that. It's your life, your decisions to make. And I have something very critical to talk to you about this morning. I want to talk to you about the testing that we will be facing in the future in our lives. But before I do that, let me just say this, and we'll leave it at that. If you're wondering... about the Flatline Show. If you're enjoying the Flatline Show, you may not know how we afford to broadcast in over 100 cities. We're not syndicated. You don't hear any commercials on this Flatline Radio Show. If you hear a commercial, let me know. It's not supposed to be there. That would be the local station selling time. We don't allow that. But we live by the verse that Paul the Apostle wrote in 2 Corinthians 2, 17. where he said, we are not like many who peddle the word of God, but as from sincerity from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God. I don't claim to have a better understanding than many others on the airway who have Christian teaching shows, but I do proclaim liberty from selling any books or selling any messages. Excuse me. Christian marketing is atrocious and it's sad. And I get numerous ads over social media, sometimes television, other communication mediums, all trying to sell me a book or sell me a video about God, about his word, a movie about God. This Christian marketing is wrong and totally dishonoring to God, in my opinion. Grace living frees us from human dependency. And so my staff and I, the associates that I work with, we've all learned that If God's in it, God will pay for it. If he's not, we need to do something else. So we go ahead and proclaim the gospel. We teach God's word, and we let the Father handle our finances. He does it. He's always done it. He always will do it as long as he's in it. So that truth of grace sets us free from the bondage of trying to market anything. That's why we offer all of our books, all of our transcriptions, all of our DVDs, MP3s, free. Everything is free. We don't sell anything, so keep that in mind. Now, let's go into what we want to talk about today. Eventually, all believers, if you're a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, regardless of where you may be, all believers eventually undergo testing. And it can be in one or two areas, suffering we'll call it, in one or two areas. It can be suffering for discipline, and we know what that's about. We'll go over a little bit of that. And it can be suffering for blessing, and maybe you don't know what that's about. But all believers undergo these sorts of tests if they're ever going to advance spiritually. James writes about it in James 1, verses two through four. Listen carefully to what he says. My dear brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials. That's testing. Knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience, but let patience have its perfect work so that you can be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. So one of the reasons that God allows us to undergo these various trials and various testing is so that we can develop patience in our lives as believers. That patience is critical for us to be satisfied with what God gives us in life, to be happy. It's critical you understand you have to have that patience in your life and not be upset, not be worrying about, not be afraid of, not being manipulated by fear. 1 Peter 4.12 says, Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trials which come to try you, as though some strange thing has happened to you. but rejoice to the extent that you are partakers of the suffering of Jesus Christ so that when his glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy. So there's the apostle James and the apostle Peter both telling you that you must endure some suffering. You will endure testing. You will go through trials. And the question is, are you suffering for blessing or is it suffering for discipline? We know the scriptures tell us that God often disciplines his children. We know that. In Hebrews chapter 12, we'll look at that here in just a minute. Why does this happen? Why would God discipline me or you for something we've done? Well, it's very simple. When we sin, whether it's a mental attitude sin, a sin of the tongue, or an overt sin, we effectively quench the Holy Spirit. We grieve the Holy Spirit with our personal sin. So when that happens, we break fellowship with God. We're no longer walking in the light as he is in the light. We're no longer having fellowship one with another. And so we've been mandated to confess our sin to God. And that's why 1 John 1, 9 is our rebound passage, the first problem-solving device we have on the flatline of our soul. If we confess our sin, he's faithful and just to forgive us and purify us from all wrongdoing. It's critical that you remember that because that'll keep you out of a lot of suffering. Failure to rebound, failure to admit your sin, failure to maintain the filling of the Holy Spirit brings discipline from God if you're a believer. We also know that God uses suffering to test believers, to test our dedication, and to teach us patience. Patience and contentment are sisters. This is something so critical to understand A content believer is a happy believer. So Paul said it makes no difference what kind of circumstances I'm in, whether I have a lot or whether I have a little, I am content, I'm happy. It doesn't make any difference because his happiness did not depend on people or circumstances or details of life. His happiness and your happiness and my happiness comes from where Jesus Christ tells us it comes from. In Luke 11, 27 and 28, happiness belongs to those people who hear my Father's word and who keep it. And that's the issue. So now, Hebrews 12, six, listen carefully. In case this is you suffering for this reason, I don't want you to be suffering for this reason, so listen carefully. Hebrews 12, six through 10. For whom the Lord loves, he loves you. He didn't abandon you. He's not throwing you under the bus. He's not mad at you. God doesn't get emotionally mad at you. Those that God loves, he chastens. That's a disciplines. And he scourges, now that's some intense discipline, every son whom he receives. Every child of God undergoes discipline when they break fellowship with God and fail to rebound. Verse seven, Hebrews 12, seven. If you endure chastening discipline, God deals with you as with a son. For what son is there whom a father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you're not really a legitimate son. Furthermore, we've had human fathers who corrected us and we respected them for doing that. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the father of spirits and live? What this verse is teaching us is, number one, if you say you're a Christian, you say you are a believer in Jesus Christ, you're a Christian, and yet you can live in adultery, you can cheat and steal at your business, and you have no suffering, you have no discipline, you have no punishment, then what this is saying to you is maybe you're not really a legitimate child of God, because if you were, he would discipline you. A legitimate child of God will not ever get away with unconfessed sin in his life. Now, it might not happen tomorrow, it might not happen the next day, but the justice of God is always fair and reckons justice. And so any believer, any child of God, who does not have discipline is not really a child of God. You got to, you got to have discipline if you're a child of God. Why does he do that to us? To correct us, to make us have an attitude of gratitude, to get rid of the arrogance in our life. The self-justification that you use to say why this is okay. The self-absorption that you use, it sucks you into it and hip deep where you can't get out of it. And then self-destruction where it leads to eventually. God disciplines you so you won't destroy your life and others around you. And then it goes on to say, we have had human fathers who corrected us and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the father of spirits and live? What does that mean? Here's what it means. There are three stages of discipline, warning discipline, intense discipline, and dying discipline. And live is dying discipline. Proverbs 15, 10, harsh discipline is for him who forsakes the way, but he who hates the correction of God will die. What does that mean? It means when God administers divine discipline in the believer's life and they do not respond to that discipline, they do not confess the sin, they do not move away from the sin, then they may go under the sin unto death. 1 John 5 talks about it. There is a sin unto death. And this is when you go so far down the my way highway, there's no return. And so God just says, all right, let's take him on home. He's going to heaven. He's going to have eternal life. But his time on earth is terminated prematurely. I don't want that to happen to you. I don't want that to happen to anyone. I have seen it happen to believers that I know personally, wonderful people who were involved in sin and would not abandon the sin and eventually went out under the sin unto death. It was not a very pleasant thing. Now let's go back to the other side of discipline, the other side of suffering, not discipline, but suffering. Not suffering for discipline, but suffering for blessing. suffering for blessing. Why would God allow us to suffer for blessing? Well, the purpose of preventative suffering in our lives is for us to learn obedience and self-discipline and enforce in genuine humility. And so just like suffering for discipline comes in three stages, so does suffering for blessing. It comes in three stages also. The first stage of suffering for blessing is from what we call providential preventative suffering. It's taught in 2 Corinthians 12, seven and eight. This is what Paul went through and this is what Paul said. Keep in mind who this is, Paul the apostle. And lest I should be exalted above measure, 2 Corinthians 12, seven and eight, by the abundance of the revelations that have allowed me to see a thorn in my flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me lest I be exalted above measure. In other words, it was keeping him humble. Concerning this thing, I asked God three times to make it go away from me. And by the way, every time God said, no, no, no. And Paul said, because of this, since he wouldn't take it away, I take pleasure in my infirmities and the reproaches and persecution and distress for Christ's sake because when I'm weak, I'm actually strong. When I'm weak, I'm actually strong. Providential preventative suffering performs numerous functions in our life. The first thing it does is it insulates us against the arrogance complex in our soul. You have it and I have it. It's part of our sin nature pattern trend. This means that if we stay in fellowship, if we grow in grace, If we don't get out of fellowship, we can begin to eliminate jealousy and self-pity. We can begin to eliminate all the bitter, vindictive behavior that we talked about recently, the age of rage, if you heard that show. We begin to eliminate inordinate competition with other individuals and mental attitude sins. That's what this providential preventative suffering does. When you go through something like what Paul was going through, he didn't deserve it. He hadn't done anything wrong, but it was given to humble him because he had allowed, God had allowed him to have a lot of insight. Let's go back to that verse. Lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations given to me, a thorn in my flesh was assigned to me. This kept him from being arrogant. All of this is important for you to understand. It's preliminary testing. Providential preventative suffering is preliminary testing. It's warm-up testing. And there are basically four tests that we will face before we begin to establish that momentum in our life. We have to go through this providential preventative suffering. But as you develop spiritual self-esteem, which is the next step, As you've developed spiritual self-esteem, you move into spiritual autonomy. Spiritual autonomy. And this is a confidence and an understanding you have in God. It's a new spiritual status. And it will be tested by God to weed out more arrogance. Once you advance through spiritual self-esteem to become spiritually autonomous, it means you're now independent of spiritual crutches. You hear that? You're independent of spiritual crutches. You don't need a counselor. You don't need a fess-up buddy. You don't need to run to somebody to ask them what you should do. What should I do, brother so-and-so? Your spiritual life was never designed to depend on someone else's counseling. on advice from someone else, on any way using somebody else as a crutch, and a lot of people are not going to like that because they think you need to have a fess-up buddy. I say you do not need to confess your sin to anybody but God. Don't go to somebody and tell them what you've done. That's none of their business. They'll spread it and tell everybody else, and that'll be the end of that. So your spiritual life was never designed to depend on counseling, advice from anybody other than the pastor teacher who communicates the word of God to you, or any other way someone who you might use as some sort of crutch. I get a lot of mail from people, emails and written mails as well, wanting me to help them do this and help them do that. What should I do here and what should I do there? I'm not a counselor. I'm an evangelist. My job is to proclaim the good news, the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, and to communicate basic Bible doctrine to you. But I'm not here to give you advice about what you should do about your mother-in-law, what you should do about one thing or the other, or that you need money and you need help and you want me to send you some money. It's not going to happen. We don't do that. So think about this. Once you get to spiritual autonomy, which is the second stage before you get to spiritual maturity, this is where the real momentum testing comes in. Will you stick with it? Will you really be serious? Are you going to face infirmities, Paul said. Yes, I face infirmities, Paul said. I gave you that verse. I'll read it to you again. 2 Corinthians 12, 10. Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in persecution, in distress for the sake of the Lord Jesus Christ. Infirmities. The Greek word for infirmities, asthenia, means weakness or sickness of body. and Paul had much of that. He faced infirmities, he faced reproaches, hubris, the Greek word hubris, which means injuries and violence and outrage. He said, I faced persecution, diagamas, attacks on his person. And he said, I went through distresses, stenochorea, and that's calamity, extreme affliction. He went through all of that. These are things that you will go through. You will go through infirmity. You will go through reproach. You will go through persecution. You will go through distress. Why? on behalf of Christ, Paul said. Listen to what he wrote in Philippians 1.29, for to you it has been given on behalf of Christ, not only to believe in him, but also to suffer for his sake. This is how you grow. This is how you advance in the Christian life. This is how you move forward. This is how you put the old man behind you. This is how you move into a new dynamic of living called spiritual maturity. When you face these sort of tests that Paul was going through under momentum testing, you must maintain the filling of the Holy Spirit. You must continue to use a faith rest drill. If you don't know these things, they're part of the 10 problem-solving devices that we'd give. Problem-solving device number two, the filling of the Holy Spirit. Problem-solving device number three, the faith rest drill. If you don't understand those and don't use those, you will never reach spiritual maturity in your life. But if you do use them, if you do understand them, then in your spiritual autonomy, you will grow stronger and stronger and stronger and propel you into maturity, spiritual maturity. When does that happen? I don't know. I think perhaps a lifetime. But spiritual maturity is a wonderful thing. That's where you give maximum glorification to God. And what a wonderful thing that is for us to be able to do that. Spiritual maturity is giving maximum glorification to God. And in spiritual maturity, there's maximum suffering. It's called evidence testing. This is when you'll be called to the witness stand by the devil himself. You'll be cross-examined by Satan himself. Much like what our Lord went through in Matthew 4 when Satan cross-examined him after being in the wilderness and fasting for 40 days and 40 nights. And he combated Satan with Scripture, Scripture, Scripture. He did not use his omnipotence. He stayed in his humanity. Remember, he was a unique man, undiminished deity, true humanity, and one body forever. And as a man, he defeated Satan by quoting Scripture, Scripture, Scripture, the power of the Word of God. He went through that evidence testing. And if you're going to grow to be a mature believer and give maximum glorification of God, get ready. There will be evidence testing on your behalf. You will be brought to the witness stand like Job. God will test you. He will allow Satan to run the gamut on you, to look at you, to put you under the microscope. Will you fail? Will you get full of self-pity? Will you cry and weep and run to somebody and say, what should I do, brother? What should I do? All these bad things are happening to me. If you don't stay filled with the Holy Spirit, if you don't use a faith rest drill, you will be discouraged. You will be distracted and you will be defeated and you will never bring God maximum glorification. If you want to bring God maximum glorification, get to spiritual maturity. Go through evidence testing. And let me make this clear. Prayer, can I pray for God to remove my suffering? And the answer is absolutely not. Not suffering for discipline, but suffering for blessing. Remember Paul said, I prayed three times and asked God to take it away. And every time God said, nope, nope, nope. You don't pray for the suffering to be removed. It's antithetical to the purpose of why God gave it to you to start with, which is a blessing. Why would you want the blessing to be taken away? And you may say, well, how could suffering be a blessing? Because God designed it that way. Paul said, when I'm weak, I'm actually my strongest because he had nothing else to depend on except the love and grace of God. What do you depend on for your happiness? What do you depend on for your stability? What do you depend on to keep your sanity? Nothing but the love and the grace of God. Prayer is antithetical to the purpose of suffering for blessings. So you got to understand this. Understand the role and the significance of spiritual self-esteem in order to appreciate Paul's wrong application of prayer in asking God to remove the thorn in his flesh. We never pray. We never pray for the removal of the very thing that's causing us to advance to spiritual maturity. We never pray for that. That's the rocket fuel. That undeserved suffering is your rocket fuel, and it's pushing you in the maximum glorification of God by means of evidence testing. So you don't pray for the removal of the suffering for blessing. This is how the protocol plan of God is fulfilled. If God doesn't remove the way of suffering, he intends you to bear it. So you don't pray for the removal of the mechanics of the power by which the very spiritual life you live propels you to spiritual maturity. This is the very thing you're supposed to go through. Here's what people don't understand. If you look at the 10 problem-solving devices, prayer is not a problem-solving device in your life. It's not designed to solve problems. You can pray for others who are under suffering, and you should. You don't judge why they're suffering, but you do pray for those who suffer. It's our privilege as members of the royal family of God to pray for our friends and pray for those that we know are undergoing suffering. It's a weapon of power in the hands of believer priests like you and I. But we never pray for the removal of any suffering from ourself. All suffering is a decision from the sovereignty of God. The Christian does not pray for strength in times of suffering because strength comes from doctrine. Strength comes in other ways. Don't say, God, give me strength to handle this. God, give me strength to handle this. Well, where do you think the strength is going to come from? It's going to come from the faith rest drill. It's going to come through the filling of the Holy Spirit. It's going to come through grace orientation and biblical orientation. Pray that you learn the plot line and establish a plot line on your soul. Ignorant believers, negative believers use prayer for everything because they don't have any doctrine. They don't have any application of doctrine. They don't have any spiritual growth in their life. God's never going to put more on you than you can bear. He told you that. You can put that on your own self when you sin and don't rebound using the law of volitional responsibility. Yeah, you may suffer more than you can bear then because you didn't rebound. But before God gives suffering for blessing, he always provides the way and the means to handle it. So strength and suffering comes from metabolized doctrine in your soul. It comes from the stages of the spiritual life in your soul, having a flat line in your soul. That's where it comes from. That's how you get it. So as a believer, as you accept Christ as your savior, this happened to me, I had to come to spiritual self-esteem. I had to become aware of who I was. I had to become aware of God's plan for me. And then as I went through providential preventative suffering in my life, it moved me into spiritual autonomy where I didn't need a crutch. I didn't need someone else to run to. I was able to take the word of God as my pastor taught me under the filling of the Holy Spirit and use it to sustain myself. And then as I moved into spiritual maturity, combined with evidence testing, I'm able to glorify God to the maximum in my personal life as a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is your testimony as well as mine. Are you listening today? Some of you should be listening. You are undergoing suffering for blessing. You are undergoing evidence testing. You're having an opportunity to glorify God to the maximum. Use it. Use your volition to rebound. Use your volition to stay filled with the Holy Spirit. Use your volition to use a faithless drill. And because of Christ's sake, as Paul wrote, I have exceeding joy with this. Count it all joy, brethren, when you go through these things. The Bible told you this. Count it all joy. It's one of the greatest things you could ever experience. Maximum glorification of God under evidence testing. Are you listening? Have you learned something? I went kind of fast. I hope you paid attention. Until next week, this is Rick Hughes saying thank you for listening to The Flotline.
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