Join professional money manager Bill Gundersen in the latest episode of Best Stocks Now as he analyzes the current state of the market. With a careful eye on how stocks like AMD are setting all-time highs and how the Fed's interest rate approach differs from 2021, Gundersen provides a comprehensive brokerage of the economic landscape faced by investors today. AMD's partnership with OpenAI is highlighted as one of the major focal points, driving significant growth and marking trends in the tech industry.
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He's been seen on CNBC, the Fox News Channel, and the Fox Business Channel. His articles can be found on MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, thestreet.com, and many other places. He's the author of the weekly Best Stocks Now newsletter and the inventor of the Best Stocks Now app. He's president of Gundersen Capital Management. Here is professional money manager Bill Gundersen.
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And welcome to the Monday morning live edition of the Best Stocks Now show on this October the 6th, 2025. And we have a mixed up market to start the new day. And one big, huge winner in the market, which is one of our largest holdings. So we're happy about that. The Dow is down right now. It was up. Now all of a sudden it's turned south. It's down 284 points after hitting new all-time highs last week. The Dow is at 46,474. The NASDAQ, on the other hand, helped by AMD. AMD is up 27% today. You heard that right on a deal with OpenAI. And the NASDAQ is hitting an all-time high today of 22,880. The S&P is up six points to 6,721. That's a new all-time high. The bond market is getting roughed up quite a bit here. Interest rates are up to 4.19 this morning. That's a jump of 4. Now they've dropped back. They're 4.15. But we're still up a few basis points there. Gold is closing in on $4,000 per ounce. That's $64,000 per pound. It is at 3,967, up 1.5%. Crude oil is up a little, 1.43%. And Bitcoin is closing in. This could be, I think that's a new all-time high.
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So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson. President of Gundersen Capital Management, a fee-based only nationwide investment advisory firm. And we saw new highs in the market last week across the board on the S&P 500, the NASDAQ and the Dow. Today we're getting some slippage on the Dow. But we're getting a new all-time high on the NASDAQ, and AMD is the big story. We'll get to that in a moment. But first we want to hear a sideline report. Barry was at the two top 20, well, not two top, one top 20. You saw the Texas, you saw Arch Manning.
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against the florida gators and they give us a little quick report on that yeah it took uh took the uh me and the family drove down took them to their first game i went to florida state but i've attended a handful of games at the swamp before so it took them uh my wife's a gators fan so it took them to see their first game at the swamp so Kids had a great time. It was good, clean fun. We were actually in the only section that was Texas fans. We actually sat a little bit behind their band. Oh, nice.
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I always sit behind the tuba guy.
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They were all very nice. They didn't have much confidence in their team coming into the game, apparently. And I guess they proved true. Florida, I think, won by eight.
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Yeah, Texas was a major powerhouse last year or so.
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But Manning looked, regardless of them winning or losing, I can tell you that the hype is worthy. I mean, you see the ball come out of his hand, and it looks different coming out of his hand than it does other people's hand, period.
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So is he the son of Peyton?
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He's the son of the brother who didn't play. I think the brother had a neck injury. I don't remember his name in a minute. Oh, okay. All right. But it's his son, and, of course, he's named after Grandpa Archie. Who I watched. Yeah, he was at the Saints, you know, growing up on the panhandle. Yeah, he was fun to watch.
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Okay, well, I did notice there's quite a few 5-0 teams right now in the top 25, so it's shaping up to be a pretty interesting college football year. along with the stock market, which has surely been plenty interesting. I think the biggest story, at least on the global stage, is what's going on in France. Chaos, basically, with the resignation already of their prime minister. You know, a lot of you might just hem and haw and say, ah, who cares about France, you know, whatever. But anyways, they are in quite a mess over there when this two weeks into the job, he resigns.
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Yeah, I mean, it didn't last very long. And, I mean, I just... It's one of those things where they're trying to get some consensus to form a government, and no surprise, no one agrees.
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The division grows. There's a great divide in the world these days. This next story goes right along with my story in the newsletter over the weekend. I wrote much about comparing the speculative phase that we're in the market right now to 2021, which was the sugar high of the COVID stimulus. There's a little bit of a difference. I mean, going into that year, 2021, we hit that giant speculative bubble. But we had the Fed out there ready to hike interest rates. We're hitting the same valuations and the same speculative bubble that we hit in 2021, but the Fed is easing this time. So we'll see how much more runway that gives us. What I said on Friday, and I also backed it up with statistics and graphs showing you that we're hitting all-time highs in some of the valuation gauges that are widely used. Warren Buffett's preferred stock valuation gauge is at an all-time high. So that's pretty good company, Barry. Gunderson calls it on Friday in the newsletter, and Buffett backs that up with his own gauge. I don't know. I'd have to look at what the formula for his gauge is. It measures the total market capitalization... of publicly traded U.S. stocks relative to the nation's GDP. Okay, that's an interesting measure, but it certainly has worked for Warren over the years. His ratio is now higher than 2 to 1. So the market capitalization of publicly traded U.S. stocks is now two times greater than the nation's GDP. That's an all-time record. That's interesting. It's a broad measure of market valuation comparing the size of Wall Street to the size of the real economy. And when the ratio rise well above 100, it suggests the market's value is outpacing economic output, a potential sign of overvaluation. But at 2 to 1, I would say we're in an extreme area of overvaluation right now. And, you know, one of the measures that I use, and certainly back in 2021, ARC Funds, Kathy Woods, who's out there on the long-term spectrum?
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Long duration.
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And, you know, how her fund is performing is definitely one of the indicators that I watch is how hot has that speculative area of the market become And the title of my newsletter was Crypto, Quantum, and Rare Earths. And you could also put in, it didn't have enough room in the title, you could also put in Small Nukes, right? Small Nukes would be a good one, too. Those stocks are absolutely on fire. And I bring that up because that's the outer band of the market, right? That is the speculative long-term, which would be the first to go, you know, when usually an adverse event of some sort will start the wheels in motion. But, you know, with Buffett's gauge the highest it's ever been, He's been in the market for a few years. I want to say 50-plus. I've been in it for half of that, 25-plus, and we're going back. We're exceeding the price-to-sales ratio of the year 2000. Price to book value is at the same levels as the year 2000. The PE of the S&P, which is 27.8 right now, hasn't quite reached the 30 level that we hit in the year 2000. And then, of course, price to cash flow is hitting all-time highs. So you have to have that in the back of your mind to know where you're at at any given time in the market is a risk management tool because you have to step a little more carefully. There's some landmines that you could step on and pieces of your portfolio could blow up very, very quickly. And I'm seeing, you know, I also mentioned Kathy Wood's fund got up to $160 that year, Barry, in 2021. So let's use that as a gauge. It got to $160 a share. It got as low as $30 a share. That's how overvalued the speculative area of the market was at that time. To go from $160 to $130, that's an 80% correction in that wing, in that aisle of the supermarket called the stock market, all right? And it's only back to 83. I mean, she's not even close to the 160 we reached in 2021. And now we're hitting valuations once again from that sugar high of 2021. So I want you to keep that in the back of your mind. And when we come back, I'll add just a little bit more color to that. And then we'll talk about AMD today. We'll be right back.
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And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Docs Now show. Before we get to AMD, I want to mention China and some things that I learned over the week. Well, number one, China is buying Iranian oil, and they're using the barter system. They're the biggest buyer of Iranian oil. And of course, China and Russia are one with each other. I mean, China, Putin, and Xi are very much paired up together. China is using the barter system for Iranian oil, thereby avoiding Western sanctions in Iran. In exchange for Iranian oil being shipped to China, state-backed Chinese companies build infrastructure in Iran. And we learned recently that Russia is building nuclear reactors in Iran. for them. So there seems to be a little triage there.
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Iran builds the drone, helps with the drone technology for Russia.
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And the reason I bring this up, my wife and I cooked breakfast yesterday for our little group that we have a stewardship over in our church. And I would say half of them are in the Navy. So God bless them. I mean, they're serving our country, and most of them are in the nuclear program. And I asked them, I said, what are you learning? How to manage a nuclear reactor, how it works, and how to maintain it. I said, man, you guys, when you get out of the Navy, you're going to be in the garden spot. But then we talked a little bit about the world stage and whatnot and Russia. And they said, you know, Russia is not the threat. Russia's stuff is all outdated and old. And then I said, what about China? Ah, then they paused. They said, oh, they're building the biggest navy in the world. And one of the girls in our little branch, she's going to Taiwan for a couple years to teach English over in Taiwan. And they said, there's the threat. It's China. But really and truly, China and Russia and Iran are all kind of one right now. So I just want you to think about that. When we talk about all-time high valuations in the market, it seems like we're also kind of reaching an all-time high danger out there in the world today. Okay, now, speaking of Taiwan. Who's Jensen Wang's cousin, Barry?
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That's Lisa Su at AMD.
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You got it. And, you know, I think we did the right thing early this year in March, April, when I said, you know what, we're going to close down the dividend and income fund because there's just not any – There's not any inefficiency in that area, and we're going to start not a pure value fund, but it is pure value if I find pure value, but it's also a relative value, which is pretty much a cutting-edge concept. I've never seen maybe growth at a reasonable price would be, but I look at the historic multiples where stocks have traded at, and And when I see them dip down into an area that they haven't traded at in quite some time, I swoop in and buy it. One of those stocks was AMD, which you cannot make the argument that that's a pure value stock. I mean, the multiples would suggest otherwise. And I'm going to look and see here when we bought our initial position. I mean, we swooped in all at the same time. I want to say it was about April. And, you know, by the way, that relative value fund has really grown. I mean, as people invest in it and say, hey, I want some exposure to that. And it's also performed very well so far. I'm pretty happy with it. I think we've already caught up with the S&P. And don't forget, we're not even fully invested yet. We started from a standing start. Yes, and there was a time when the S&P was always fully invested, right? And we were like 25, but... We have almost. We're just a half a point behind the S&P now. But anyways, we bought AMD on June the 3rd at 116 a share. As of Friday, we were up 45.7%. Now today, you can tack on another 20. It's at 209 today. 209 and we picked it up at 116 we don't quite have a double uh but we're up in that 90 percent gain uh so far okay and you know what i mean amd if you rank the chip stocks out there in the world today nvidia is obviously the dominant player But I think you'd have to argue that Broadcom or AMD are number two or three, depending on the day and the week.
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Somebody's got to be two and three. Yeah.
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And I think AMD with the Taiwan connections and the Jensen Wang connections, and they're going after the AI chips themselves. But OpenAI chooses AMD to help build out their data center and infrastructure. And that stock up 27% today on that news. So we have another big winner. In our portfolios, that's going to push us past the S&P 500. We currently own 22 stocks in that portfolio. We have 30% cash. So I have room for about 10 more positions if I find them. But we've had, you know, Peabody Energy is up 160%. since we bought Peabody. Now, there's no guarantees going forward. And past performance, all the usual disclaimers, past performance does not indicate, but we're going to use the same methodology and the same way of analyzing these stocks as we have. BTU is a coal stock, and what they're finding is, They're finding that copper mines, gold mines, coal mines, they always overlooked the rare earth. They had no interest in the rare earth, the antimony and whatever else. They just wanted the coal. Now they're discovering that a lot of these mines also have rare earth in them. And you've also had a return.
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And the infrastructure is in place, too, to get the rock out. Yes. Because you've already, I mean, it was a working mine to begin with.
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And you've had a return to coal under the Trump administration to just bridge the gap to the nuclear. which is coming, but it's still five years out there. And then we have another one, Talent Energy, which is more than a double in that portfolio, and that's, of course, one of the nuclear ones that's out there on the horizon. So anyways, I really like that portfolio. I seeded it myself. That's the model I just follow. I do exactly in my portfolio. Then I tell you what I do, and that has become the model for this relative value portfolio. And, of course, big news on AMD today. It has come back a little bit. It was up 35% at one point. But AMD is now a $330 billion stock. Barry, I remember when it was $0.50 a share. Now it's $210 per share. We'll be right back. This is Bill Gunderson. Thank you for tuning in to today's Best Stocks Now, Best Inverse Funds Now show. I put several hours of research in during the wee hours of the morning each day to bring you the very best cutting-edge stories that I can. To get two free weeks of my newsletter, go to GundersonCapital.com. To talk to us about our fee-based only money management services, call us at 855-611-BEST. Now, back to the second half of the show.
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And welcome back here to the second half of today's Best Talks Now show.
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You know, I'll just say one other thing, too. As I looked at Kathy Wood's ARC fund, well, I believe it's up 65. I'm going to give you the exact number here. of how much it is up year to date. I just look at that. It's one of my temperature gauges. It's like looking at the dashboard of your boat or your car. How am I doing? We're going up a steep grade here. I can remember when our radiator blew up going up the grade there going to Las Vegas in my car. In the family Grand Prix car, you know, that was back in probably the late 60s, early 70s, that temperature gauge going up to the Holleran Summit. I remember the steam coming out and the engine up, right? Okay, so I look at Kathy Wood's fund as one of the temperature gauges. Over the last 12 months, it's up 92.5%. Year to date, it's up 55.6%. And keep in mind that the vast majority, I'm going to say 80% of the stocks that she owns, have no earnings at all, none. They're out there on the horizon hoping for earnings someday, but... because of the speculative phase that we've entered into in this market, which you shouldn't ignore a temperature gauge. One is Warren Buffett's temperature gauge, and the other is the Cathie Wood temperature gauge. You shouldn't take those for granted. You should realize that. that that's going on underneath the surface of the market. But as I look at her new buys here, I mean, it's just more of the same. Intellia Therapeutics, 101,000 shares she bought. Okay, that's the gene editing, which has not really become a thing yet. She bought 122,000 shares of Baidu. which obviously is a big Chinese stock. She bought 85,000 shares of Alibaba. She bought 278,000 shares of Kodiak AI, which is a robotic stock. It's a driverless trucking technology firm. In the early stages. She bought 160,000 shares of DraftKings. She added to that one, I believe.
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Okay. You're right. She added. And she added more than 263,000 shares of a pink sheet stock. JDLGF, which is a Chinese supply chain management and logistics company. Okay, all right. This is not exactly sleep well at night. Swan, they use that terminology on the Seeking Alpha, S-W-A-N, sleep well at night. That's not exactly stocks out on that edge. And then, of course, she still has big holdings. Her top ten holdings, eight out of ten, have no earnings. Roku. What's the video game company that starts with an R? She's got a big chunk of that.
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Roblox. Yeah, Roblox.
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Okay, so anyway, I'm just saying.
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Yeah, the interesting thing is I was looking at the returns like you were over the break, and what really got me was, you know what the five-year number is, five-year return? It's not very good. It's minus 5.45%. Yeah, because if you got to 160 in 2021 and you're only back to 83 today –
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you're still down 50% from your high. And so, you know, she's doing the same exact thing she did when she went down 80%. That's a kick in the stomach. And it's going to happen again, maybe not 80%, but 50% or 60% again. And she doesn't get off the railroad tracks, Barry. She stays on the railroad tracks.
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Why?
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Can't she amend?
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I guess you could amend the prospectus, but a lot of that stuff goes a ways. You've got to get a vote, this and that and the other. But yeah, when you look at The time period, five years, I would have been back at 10-6-2020, and you'll remember this. That's about the time we started getting out of things like Teladoc.
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Yeah, 200, and now Teladoc's $8 a share. Okay, what has the S&P done during that same five-year period of time?
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Over 97% for that period, so almost call it 19% a year almost. Yeah, okay, so anyways.
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And that's why I always point to the inverse fund created against her. I mean, that's how unpopular she is or infamous she is. They actually created SARK, S-A-R-K. Which sinks. When she gets taken to the woodshed again, that thing will fly higher. So I always look at that thing as a potential hedge against, you know, AI stocks, technology stocks, the NASDAQ.
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Really long duration.
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Anything long duration or high PE or high beta, etc., Another one in the news today is critical metals, which I've talked about many times here on the show, CRML. You can guess what it does. What are critical metals? AI. We saw the U.S. government taking positions in Lithium America. We saw the U.S. government taking positions in MP Materials. Now the Trump administration is talking about an equity stake in critical metals, CRML, which I have a little bit of in my trading, my speculative trading account that I'm too embarrassed to even publish because it's so far out there on the edge. It's not as far as Kathy Woods is, I'll tell you that. She's really out there on a limb. But Critical Metals today, I own 1,000 shares. It's up 72% right now. 72% as the U.S. government is securing positions. Because of national defense and how important these companies are, this is the third one they've now stepped up to play. And there are others. There's USAR, and there's UUU, which I've talked about. And there's obviously a lot of speculation going on in that area of the market, which is the long-end duration of the market. Global semiconductor sales surged 22% year over year. Just when you thought, where else can they put semiconductors? No, in one year they're up 22%. Now we go down to the real world, Verizon. member of the Dow. They appointed a new CEO. So I thought, you know what? How did the old CEO do? Let's just take a look. Here's his 10-year track record, Barry, at the helm of Verizon. I'm not sure what his name was. Shulman is the new guy. Shulman comes over from PayPal. That's pretty good DNA there that he has. But the old CEO at Verizon, over the last 10 years, has delivered to investors a total return, this includes the dividend yield, of 5.51%. Just barely a little above U.S. Treasuries, okay? With a hell of a lot more risk. And over the last five years, Verizon VZ has gone nowhere. you've had negative 24 basis, 0.24 basis points over the last five years at Verizon. So maybe they should have replaced the CEO a while ago. And it is a member of the Dow, don't forget. So that's why I call it the soggy Dow all the time. You say, well, Bill, it has a 6.4% dividend yield. How can I pass that up? Well, you're basically getting your own money back, right?
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You can return the capital, yeah.
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Yes. If the stock would have just stayed the same over the last 10 years, you would have done better because you would have been collecting the 6.43% dividend. So the bottom line is, over the last five years, even with a 6.4% dividend, the stock has gone down by about 7% per year over the last five years. And so you have a negative dividend. And I can just tell you that when an account transfers to us from one of the big firms on Wall Street... Almost always it has Verizon in it.
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Almost always.
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And AT&T, right? Almost always. Okay, I'm just saying. Okay, is that wise? Is that wise to own a soggy stock? Now, one of the concepts that we teach is sometimes a lot of successful stocks have an N in that CAN SLIM acronym, and that's something new. A new product, a stock hitting a new high, or new management. So we'll keep our eye on Verizon. You know, GE finally got the right management, the right recipe, and it's been a big, big winner. Can this guy coming over from PayPal to Verizon turn this ship around, which has basically been stuck in the harbor for the last five years going nowhere? We'll be right back.
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And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Docs Now show. I just want to mention this South Florida Business Summit. We've had quite a few interested parties on this. This is my nephew, Rory McDonald, who was Clay Christensen's kind of right-hand man there at Harvard on disruptive strategies. He's going to give an interactive lecture Friday, October the 17th from 9 a.m. to 10.30 a.m. This is at the Longboat Key, the St. Regis Longboat Key Resort, which I hear is pretty nice. I'll be there, too, to hear him. And then I'm following him. That's a tough act to follow, Barry. I'll be speaking from 1045 to noon, and I'm also pretty much a disruptive guy myself. Our little family business disrupted the billboard industry for several years, and I would consider myself somewhat of a disruptor in this industry that we are now in. I don't do what everybody else does. I go a little bit different direction. And then also I know a lot of publicly traded companies that have been disruptors and been big, huge successes. And we found many of them. I mean, Align Technologies with the Invisalign braces. Dexcom with the wearable technology to give yourself the insulin shots. I mean, one after another. NVIDIA chips. You could go on and on and on and on.
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You have to break out your old book and find some of those names that were disruptors to use when you're speaking.
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You know what else was a massive disruptor that I did talk a lot about in my book in 2013? That was the shale boom. When they came along with the horizontal drilling, the fracking and going horizontal, that was pretty much continental energy. Howard Hamm up in Oklahoma, who was one of the pioneers of that, that totally turned the oil and made us a major power company. at the biggest producer of oil uh... you know in the world because of that new technology that disrupted an entire they were going back into wells that they thought were depleted and finding that they were nowhere near depleted okay so i speak till noon and then there's lunch and it better be good uh... and then of course then then were followed by uh... newell white uh... who is also an expert uh... he he's an expert on private equity So if you're a business owner... uh... and uh... and or uh... in the m&a industry whatever or looking to be acquired whatever the case may be uh... he's going to give a speech on how uh... how private equity is influencing this disruptive arm of the markets and how you can kind of uh... you know position yourself in that area so uh... he he will call he'll call you uh... and talk to you uh... will if you leave your name with us call ed at 855-611-BEST the cost is 500 bucks okay i don't ever charge for my workshop but these guys are phds you know how that works uh yeah i'm just a regular guy uh so and lunch not cookies right i mean yeah and the lunch better be good i mean you know for 500 bucks That's all I care about. Anyways, you can call Edie at 855-611-BEST. She's going to then give your name to Newell White, who's a buddy of mine and grew up with Rory McDonald, the PhD, who's now at the University of Virginia, but he spent many years at Harvard and got his PhD at Stanford. And Newell is a very sharp guy himself. And you'll be hearing from the three of us. That's a pretty potent day on Friday, October the 17th. And if you call Edie at 855-611-BEST, or if you go to our website at GundersenCapital.com, you can send us a message through there, and we'll have Newell. give you a call and explain a little bit more you can ask him a lot of questions about what will be discussed that day all right okay that should be fun and i'm looking forward to going down there and being with this little high-powered group uh of of guys okay now we've got a little bit more uh micron gets an upgrade today i was just comparing microns returns over the years uh That's the first place I go is the batting average, the track record. Whether it's a horse, whether it's a second baseman for the Phillies, it doesn't matter. Whether it's a relief pitcher coming in, I do the same thing with individual stocks. And Micron has actually... If you can stomach the volatility... of a very much commodity-based stock. We just said over the last five years that Verizon has delivered no return whatsoever. You've gotten the dividend, yes, but you've got a loss that has offset the dividend, and you've got a total return that's negative. Micron, MU, out of Boise, Idaho, 32.8% per year versus the S&P 20.2. And we found out that AI needs a lot of flash memory. Not flashy. It's a commodity. But Samsung and Micron are in a pretty good spot. So is SanDisk, by the way. SanDisk was a private company, went private, and now it's back public again. I added it back to the app, SNDK. And SanDisk has also been a major player in all of this. Micron, over the last three years, has averaged 56% per year. And year-to-date, Micron is up 124%. Now, that's not on the speculative curve like ARK Funds is. That's an established company. that the growth has been there, the profits have been there for quite some time. You're not hoping that someday they edit a gene in a test tube and solve one of the big illnesses that plagues man in current times. I'm just telling you, you've got to sum up a stock by looking at the track record. Where is it on that scale of risk? And, of course, where is the valuation? They all come into play. Very, very important. We're out of time. If you'd like to get the newsletter from last week, which really delved into the valuation that we're currently at in the market. But, again, the Fed is at a different stance this time than it was in 2021. But still. You can't ignore Buffett's temperature gauge hitting an all-time high. And you can't ignore Cathie Wood's fund being up 55% this year so far. And you can't ignore what happened to it last time it got this high. And you can't ignore that we're hitting price-to-sales like we've never seen before. Record price-to-sales, record price-to-cash flow. Not quite there on price to earnings. You've got to go back to the year 2000 to find anything even close to what we're trading at today, and we know what happened in the year 2000. To get the newsletter, GundersonCapital.com to sign up for the four-week trial. GundersenCapital.com or call us at 855-611-BEST to set up an appointment to discuss your portfolio.
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This show is not a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. Bill Gundersen or clients of Gundersen Capital Management may have long or short positions in stocks mentioned during the show. Past performance is not indicative of future performance. Gundersen Capital Management is a fee-based registered investment advisory firm. All accounts are held at Charles Schwab. Schwab is a member of SIPC and FINRA.
In this thought-provoking episode, Angie Austin and Jim Stovall engage in a lively discussion about the contrasts between faith-based and secular universities. Angie shares eye-opening experiences from her daughter's school, emphasizing the symbolic act of washing feet as a demonstration of humility and service. The conversation takes a deeper turn into the challenges and pressures of college life, highlighting the influence of alcohol at major sporting events and the cultural shifts that arise from different university environments. As students navigate these complexities, Jim shares insights from his Winner's Wisdom column, 'Said and Done,' urging listeners to live by their word and demonstrating integrity in their actions.
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Welcome to The Good News with Angie Austin. Now, with The Good News, here's Angie.
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Hey there, friend. Angie Austin and Jim Stovall talking about his winner's wisdom column today titled Said and Done. Hello, Jim.
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Well, hello to you.
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All right. So I thought I'd share with you. My daughter just sent me a picture from school. And just like Oral Roberts University, your alma mater, where you still teach math. It's a Christian university, and she showed me some. They have chapel every day, and she showed me some of the teachers' administration in suits and dress pants and dress shoes. I could just tell they're administrators because they were older, and you can tell by their shoes that they're not students. You know what I mean? Yeah. like the loafers and the penny loafers and anyway so she said mom look what they're doing at my school like she's like what's up with this and so they had a bunch of students up boys and the men were washing their feet and I was explaining to her that that this that she said they thought she said it was a joke and I said no it's not they're not joking around I'm like it's I mean she knows that Jesus did it in the Bible, but I'm like they're demonstrating that even the most important, the greatest, the richest, the president of the university, the people deemed to be the bigwigs, that they should serve one another, serve each other in love. And I was trying to explain that these aren't things you learn in the world that you don't see anywhere. Rich people will say to a homeless guy, hey, I'd really like to demonstrate that I'm not above you and I'd like to serve you in love. And I've been really talking to them since there's been so much going on politically. And a young person was killed in our country that represented a lot of the views of many young people. That's why Charlie Kirk was so famous because so many young people followed him. And so that's how a lot of them knew about Christianity, and at least that was one of their big – influencers in the Christian and conservative world. So anyway, I have been talking to them about how easy it is to get drugged, you know, into the world. And my son's at a secular university where my youngest daughter over the weekend went with him to a football game and she saw like a whole different world. She's like, oh my gosh, from the way that they dress up here and so many people are drunk and it's tens of thousands of people going to these games. And, you know, because of Coach Prime, Deion Sanders, that school has become very Like the tickets now, three of you go, it might be $1,000 for three tickets. Well, that's not the way normal college football games are. That's more like a pro game, right? So it's just a circus. And so she was kind of like blown away, and next week we take her to the other school, to her sister's Christian school. So anyway, it's just interesting with everything that's going on in the world and a lot of people reexamining their views for my daughter to think they might be doing that as a joke. And I'm like, the president of your school is not up there watching these boys. This isn't a frat stunt. You know what I mean? And speaking of frats, Jim, one of our friends of the family is going to a frat in California. And like every single night, debauchery and, you know, parties. And they just sent us a video of one kid jumping off of a roof at a party into a swimming pool headfirst. And I'm just like, what on earth is going on here? Anyway, he and some of his frat buddies actually, after the service yesterday, went and got baptized in the ocean. So even in these schools where It's extremely secular and worldly. They're even being touched by some of what's going on right now, this wave across our country of Christianity and conservatism that's being talked about. So people are being very outspoken right now.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and I've had the opportunity to speak on a number of faith-based campuses and secular campuses, and I will tell you, some of the most dedicated people I've seen are on the secular campus, the big state universities, but they're involved in these faith-based organizations, and they're pretty staunch, but... In general, it's really amazing because I know at our university, we're the Stovall Center for Entrepreneurship, but when you ask kids, why did you come to school here? Well, I want to pursue my passion and follow my faith at the same time. You can go to the state university and ask, and the answers kind of surround, well, I was out of high school. I didn't know what else to do. You know, great, the party continues, whatever. You know, you get some people that are really dedicated, but by and large, it's a different culture. And, you know, you experience that at the ballgame. It's really rather amazing. And... And, you know, I don't know who it was that thought it was a great idea to allow alcohol at college games when, in most states, 75% of the undergrads are not of drinking age anyway. And why they do that, and, you know, every group's got a senior that goes to the concession and comes back with the drinks. I mean, it's really, you know, I mean, who thought this was a good idea? I mean...
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, that's a good point, and I'm sure they say it's for the parents, but it's the kids that are drinking. Sorry, a little sneeze there. Yeah, it's a horrible idea.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, absolutely, and I think – And, you know, I was talking to a friend of mine who is a regent at a state university here in my state, and he said, well, we believe that our kids need to learn how to be adults. And I said, so you weren't influenced by the brewery giving you a million dollars and selling $12 beers, didn't you? That was not a factor. It just, you know, you're trying to teach these kids adult lessons. Right. I go look at their behavior, and I mean, is this really what we want here? I mean, it's really rather terrifying.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, I worry with so many pulls on the kids. You just hope you've done well enough in teaching them while they're with you what's important, but I definitely see the environment. The University of Colorado has so many more temptations, and then my daughter's school, she's got You know, there's no drinking and there's no boys in the dorm and there's a curfew and there's a dress code and, you know, they're protected a lot more. And it's a smaller town, of course. So that right there is a big part of it. So, yeah, it's interesting. It's an interesting world. All right. Well, I just want to bring all that up and then we'll talk about your column said and done. What are you teaching us this week?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, more than ever, Angie, we live in a world that when it's all said and done, there's an awful lot said and very little done. I was talking to a neighbor and a friend of mine the other day at our homeowners association, and he was recommending a guy that had done some work over at his home. And he said, here's the thing. He said what he would do, and he showed up and did it. And I said, isn't it amazing that that is now, we've gotten to a place where, that's a great recommendation. A guy that just said he would do something and showed up and did it. And that is amazing. And, you know, my mentor, Lee Braxton, who you've heard me speak of many, many times, you know, when I was young and I said, what's the real key to becoming a multimillionaire? What do you really I mean, let's get behind the curtain here and see. Tell me the secret. He said, OK, you're ready. Write this down. You always do what you said you would do. And I said, come on, give me the real secret. He said, no, that's the secret. He said, always do what you say you're going to do. He said it has several benefits. First, you will be known as an honorable person that people want to do business with. Second, you'll be very cautious what you say because you know you're going to have to do it. And I remember, you know, when I was a little kid, I went with my grandfather to the fair, and he manned the booth. We were raising money for some cause, and they had fishing line that they were selling for $3 a spool. So, you know, and all the money went to this cause, these kids. And so we're there. Well, a guy comes over to my grandfather and says, hey, you're selling it for $3. Over on the next aisle, they have the same thing for $2. And my grandfather said, why didn't you go buy it over there? And the guy said, well, they're out of it. And my grandfather said, well, when we're out of it, it's only a dollar. But right now we've got fishing line right here for three bucks, you want it or not. And that's kind of the thing. I mean, it doesn't really matter what you said. It's what can you do? What are you really, really doing? And, you know, it's amazing that we've gotten to a place where you become a person of high reputation. Simply because you did what you said you would do.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And I know when you talk about – you're really blessed when you talk about your grandparents and your parents. I mean really I've never heard you say a bad word. I mean they really were upstanding people who taught you right from wrong and elicited a lot of admiration from you in the way that they brought you up.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I think they saw everything as a teachable moment for me. And, you know, I benefited greatly from those lessons from them, you know, because I do think that is a teachable moment, and everything is. And even when bad things happen, wow, those are the great moments. Like, okay, what do I learn from this right here? And, you know, I... I always tell my students, a good excuse is an excuse. At some level, you did or you didn't. And I tell them, when you go to the military academy at West Point and you're going to learn how to be a soldier, they ask you a lot of questions. There are only four good responses. Yes, sir. No, sir. I don't understand, sir. No excuse, sir. Those are the only four responses they allow. And you can get through an entire education with those four answers. That's all you get to say. And so I think we need to be very careful what we say and make sure it matches who we are and what we do. And when you look at your politicians, and there's so much turmoil on the political landscape, but really all we can expect these people to do is be who they said they were. And I can tell you people at the very extreme of both parties that do a good job because they are what they said they would be. And, you know, I was talking to a senator the other day. I said, I admire you. He said, he said, Jim, I doubt you've ever voted for anything I voted for. I said, no, I'm sure you're right. But, you know, you said you were a socialist. You've been a socialist and you're dependable. I mean, that's what people should be able to depend on. And, you know, you are what you said you were, and that's all we can ask.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, in terms of, you know, what you want us to take away from the article, when we read the whole article, what would you like us today to go forth and be thinking about?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, be very careful. I mean, you know, people today are quick to give their word and quick to break their word. I mean, be slow to give your word and don't break it. I mean, just don't do that. And And if you're forced to – I mean, there's a natural disaster or something that gives you – I mean, you should be the first one on the phone telling someone, I gave you my word. Here's the situation I'm dealing with. How can we make this work? And, you know, those are the things. But I really think being known as someone who will – You know, we'll get done what he needs to get done. I remember we were at a family reunion once when a tornado came through the lake where we were. And we were way down the lake on a pavilion there. And I had a house down on the water. My brother had his house was way up on top of the hill. He said, man, I got to get all these family members out of here and get them up the hill to my basement. Can you get back to your place? Because I was by myself. Crystal was already up the hill. I said, yeah. He said, Jim, it's a half mile. How are you going to get back? I said, I've got it. He said, good enough. And he drove off. And later, family members asked him, well, how do you know? I mean, you left your brother standing there, the blind guy. And he said, the greatest compliment he ever gave me. He said, if my brother says he's got it, he's got it. That's it. That's all you need to know. And, I mean, all I had to do was go downhill until I hit the lake. The lake's down the hill somewhere. So I went downhill until I found the lake, and I followed the lake shore until I got to the boat ramp, and I walked 50 feet up the boat ramp, and there's my house. And it just wasn't that hard to find, you know. I mean, you can't get lost. It's like being in California. Go west until you find the ocean, and then you either go north or south. You can't get lost if you're going to a beach place. So it's... But the important thing is you always do what you said you're going to do. That matters.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. I was just telling my girlfriend this weekend, our kids asked us not to post something on social media, and I didn't, and she did. I said, you cannot do that. When they ask you not to post something, you don't know what their reasons are, but they will not trust you if you do that. And so we just had this big discussion about that. JimStoval.com. Thank you, my friend. Thank you. Thank you.
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Westminster is listening to the mighty 670 KLT Denver. Hey there, friend, Angie Austin and Jim Stovall with the good news. Hello, Jim Stovall.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, hello, Angie Austin. It's great to be back with you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, my goodness. I can't wait to tell you what I did this weekend. First of all, you and I have for the last probably two years been talking about the Harvard Happiness Study, which started in the 1930s, has been going on for decades. Every two years, people would get a questionnaire. They'd either fill it out or sometimes the questions were in person. And then they followed generations of people to find out what true happiness, you know, how you come about it. And they found that a career, you know, your fancy car, how much money you make, all of that was secondary to the number one indicator of happiness. Relationships, connections and family. So over the course of the last couple of years since you and I started talking about it, I've rekindled some important relationships that, you know, over the years fall by the wayside. You know, your high school best friends, you know, I've got a bunch of friends from NBC in Los Angeles that I worked with in my 20s and 30s and we used to travel a lot. And I told you recently that. And the last six months we started traveling again. So one of the girls, Tracy Savage, one of my favorite reporter and anchor friends, she's also, she was in Friday the 13th and she did a lot of acting when she was young. Anyway, she and I just took our sixth trip of our lifetimes, but our third in the last few months. And we went to, they all came out, my NBC friends, there were four of us. We went up to the Rocky Mountain National Park and we went to Estes Park outside of there and, And stayed at the YMCA of the Rockies. And we saw, you know, I don't think people realize they think, oh, elk and deer, they're similar. Elk are as big as my Tesla. Like as I was driving through the park, the elk that came near my car that ran past the front of my car. It was the size of my car. And we got to see them up close. Like literally I hid behind my car as this elk rushed. The three other males were trying to move in on his harem. And so he, from time to time would rush them. Now I didn't see them fight with like their racks or, But, you know, he ran them off. And the clip that those things can move when they pick up speed is mind-blowing, especially when they move within a car length of you, you know, within 10 feet of you or so. It was – my friends said they've never seen anything like it in their lives. And it was the most amazing weekend. But we've just been strengthening those friendship bonds, and it brought so much joy to everyone.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I think when it's all said and done and you look back on your life – at where were the really choice moments. It's friends and family and things like that. And I have been to that YMCA camp several times to speak there. And it's just an amazing place. And then when I, Chris, when I first got married, we developed a big acreage up on the lake in northeast of here. in kind of the foothills of the Ozark Mountains, and the Oklahoma Wildlife Department decided they transplanted a male and female elk, and they were going to see if they could survive it, because there's huge acreages out there around the lake and everything. Well, we didn't know this. Well, somebody in their infinite wisdom, some guy shot the male. So now we have this widowed elk down there. Well, Crystal's out down in our field, and there's berry patches there, and she's picking some berries. She comes around a corner, and wow, she said, I thought it was a horse or a camel.
SPEAKER 04 :
They're like a horse. You're right. Some of them are as big as a horse.
SPEAKER 03 :
Because the female doesn't have the horns, exactly. And she said, I didn't know what to do. And so, you know, and she backed out. But from then on, she kind of got familiar with it. She named her Molly, and Molly would hang around. And, you know, I think they coexisted there for a while. Yeah. And Crystal actually called the wildlife department and said, we've got this elk here. And they said, would you like us to remove it? And they said, no, why don't you send a mail? And, I mean, she's here all by herself. And they said, well, people just shoot them. And so anyway, but magnificent animal. And, yeah, and just amazing. You know, it's those shared experiences with friends and family that are just really priceless, amazing stuff.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, priceless is a great way to put it. Oh, and we went to the Stanley Hotel, you know, where the Shining. Jack Nicholson, yeah. Yeah, Mr. King wrote. I guess he got the idea for the Shining there. A lot of people think that they filmed it there, which they didn't. It was on a sound stage and then also in Oregon. Like Mount Hood or something. But he was in a room where he had a nightmare, apparently. And that's where he came up with the idea for the book. And you can see when you're up there, it really does. You do believe that he would come up with the idea for that movie, that book when you're up there.
SPEAKER 03 :
It's a fabulous old hotel. I did a convention there, and I'll never forget. You know, when I speak, the first four minutes, whether it's a corporate event or in an arena or whatever, the first four minutes are just canned. I mean, it's like doing the Pledge of Allegiance for me. It's just... It's all the same. And I was at the Stanley Hotel, and I realized that morning, I was up there thinking, my timing's off. Something's weird today. You know, what is this? And I kept doing it, and then I realized, you know, I usually get all the way to the end of that statement and then take a breath and start, but they don't have enough air up there. I mean, whoever's in charge. Oh, that's what my friend said, too. You need to get some more oxygen up there. And, of course, you're used to it because you're up there. Yes. But the Olympic Training Center is in Colorado Springs, and I had been up there for training. And even as a young guy, boy, you get used to it. I mean, wow, there's not enough air up here. But the theory is if you can compete here, you can compete anywhere in the world. And so they do that. Right, right, right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, my goodness. All right. Well, I just thought you'd get a kick out of that story. We are talking about Jim's Winner's Wisdom column this week. It's Wishes and Reality. So what are you teaching us this week?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, this comes out of, you know, I have 10 million books in print all around the world, and I put my contact in all of those books, 60 different titles. So I hear from many, many people daily. And I remember talking to a woman not long ago, and she said, I just don't know what to do next in my life. And I said, okay, if you could do anything you wanted to do, what would you do? And she said, well, I have no idea. And I said, well, you need to get an idea. I mean, the whole world, it's a smorgasbord. You do, hey, let's assume time and money and circumstance, nothing was an object. What would you do? She said, well, it is an object. I said, no, you don't get the how are you going to do it mixed up into what are you going to do phase. Or you'll never do anything bigger than you are right now. And that's a huge mistake that so many people make is, well, what do you want to do next? Well, I don't know because I don't have this and I don't have that and I don't have that. And the next thing you know, they've talked themselves into this little tiny box of, And, you know, so learning how to embrace all the possibilities, it's not something we need to learn. It's something we need to relearn. Because this woman I'm talking to, if instead of her I was talking to the five-year-old version of her when she was in kindergarten, and I said, what do you want to do? Well, I want to be an astronaut, and then I think I might be president, and I want to be a fireman. I want to do all that. You know, and everything's possible when you're a kid. And there are no barriers. There's no nothing. And then over time, we let people shrink our world for us. And, you know, I am grateful I didn't know what I was getting into. I mean, I started narrative television to make TV accessible for blind people. And, you know, and only years later when I understood, wow, that was a big undertaking, and I didn't know it, you know. I didn't know what it was really going to do. But, you know, it was such a... an undertaking, but you don't know, so ignorance becomes your friend. And then, you know, when one of our movies got won the best picture at a film festival, you know, the guy was telling me, you know, wow, it's so amazing because only one in a thousand books becomes a bestseller, and only one in a thousand bestsellers becomes a movie. So a thousand times a thousand is a million. So it's a one in a million shot. And I thought, well, it's happened nine times for me. I mean, I didn't know. I mean, I didn't know that. And I'm glad I didn't know that. I mean, you just, you know, you need to know what to take the first step. So the point here is that When you think of your life and the possibilities, you've really got to get down to, if I could do anything I wanted to do, what would it be? And then figure out how to do that. Don't get the two involved. I mean, decide what you want to do, close that door, burn that bridge. And now that we've decided to do this, I wonder how you do that thing. And that's what becomes really powerful, is when you can get beyond where you are. Otherwise... Angie, you're just circled in the same block. You're just doing the things that you know how to do. And the world is so much bigger than what you or I know how to do.
SPEAKER 04 :
Absolutely. But I think a lot of us do like wander in a circle at some points in our lives, just like not, you know, you know, it was a pretty big dream you had, you know, to come up with the narrative television network and really something that was before its time. You know, I mean, you have to be the first one to do something and, you know, really cutting edge and really opened a whole new world to blind people up, you know. vision impaired even you know just not being able to clearly see what they're watching and I think though a lot of us just wander in circles and also I think fear is a huge dream killer well you're right but it was before its time but I actually quoted Victor Hugo in today's column and
SPEAKER 03 :
And he said, nothing is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. I mean, it's kind of like when the student is ready, the teacher arrives. Well, when you and I are ready, the inspiration arrives. But so many people, like we've talked about, they want all the lights to be green before they'll leave the house. And they've got to have all the questions answered. But it doesn't work like that. Give us this day our daily bread. I mean, you get enough to move another day and then you figure out, okay, where do I go from here and where do I go from here? And that's the way amazing things are done. But I just, this process, I call it deconstruction. I do with corporate CEOs and creative people and where we get down, why do you do what you do? And it's amazing how many people You know, they've been in a 20-year career. Why do you do this? Well, because of this. Why did you do that? Because of this. And then when you get right down to it, well, I was out of college, and they had a recruiting thing on campus, and there was a table over there and a table over here, and my friends all went over there, so I went over there, and I got a job with them. And here we are 20 years later, and they built their world around this random thing that happened to them. And I'm not saying it was a bad choice. What I'm saying is, Could you consider maybe some other possibilities? And what else could you do? What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail and everything was an option? And then once you decide that, then figure out, how am I going to do this thing? And that's when it becomes powerful.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'd say that again.
SPEAKER 03 :
What would you do if you knew – And there were no obstacles. Time, money, circumstances were not an obstacle. You could do anything you want to do. What would you do? And I just had a young lady in my office. She was looking for a job, and she said, I've always been in sales. I want to do that. And I asked her that very question. What would you do if you could do anything? Well, but I've always been in sales. I said, I didn't ask what you've always done. If you could do anything, magic lamp right over here. I actually have one we used in the movie, The Lamp. I said, here's your magic lamp. If you could do anything you wanted to do, what would it be? She said, well, I'd like to run a nonprofit. I said, well, why don't you? She said, well, I've never done it before. I said, nobody's ever done anything before they did it. I mean, if you think you have experience in sales. It's not that much different than running a nonprofit. You're going to go out to individuals and corporations and foundations, and you're going to sell them on this solution you have to some problem in the community represented by your nonprofit. And she left here 20 minutes later. you know, going to go find out how to start a nonprofit.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow. Well, you sure gave us a lot to think about today, Jim. JimStoval.com will have to get that movie or your book, The Lamp. Thank you, my friend. Thank you. Be well.
SPEAKER 01 :
Thank you for listening to The Good News with Angie Austin on AM670 KLTT.
In today's episode of Rush to Reason, John Rush engages in a detailed discussion with Dave Bancroft of Veteran Windows and Doors. Together, they explore the intricacies of the windows and doors industry and the importance of making informed decisions. They emphasize the necessity of comparing multiple bids and gaining a thorough understanding of product ratings and installations to ensure value for money—a crucial consideration for any homeowner looking to make a significant investment.
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This is Rush to Reason.
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You are going to shut your damn yapper and listen for a change because I got you pegged, sweetheart. You want to take the easy way out because you're scared. And you're scared because if you try and fail, there's only you to blame. Let me break this down for you. Life is scary. Get used to it. There are no magical fixes.
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With your host, John Rush.
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My advice to you is to do what your parents did. Get a job, sir. You haven't made everybody equal. You've made them the same, and there's a big difference.
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Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You've felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.
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Are you crazy? Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
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It's Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush. Presented by Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning.
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All right. Happy Monday, everybody. Welcome. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Dave Bancroft with me for this first segment of today's program from Veteran Windows and Doors. How's Dave? I am very well. Thank you, sir. Always a joy having you. And I've been talking of late how you're able to save people so much money on windows and doors. And a lot of that has to do with you don't have a ton of overhead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Exactly. Yeah, we don't. I don't hire sales reps because I don't trust them. So I go out to each job on myself. And because of that, we really don't advertise much. And we can keep it all down and pass that on.
SPEAKER 04 :
And those windows and doors are super high quality. And I've said this, and again, I know the, you know, as you know, Dave, I know the business world pretty well. Not bragging, but been around that world for, you know, really all of my, gosh, I was going to say adult life. I started when I was, you know, 12 or 13 years of age, so even longer than that. And the reality is in most industries, windows and doors is no different. You typically have a manufacturer, and some will sell direct to the public, although that's really rare for that to happen because people really need to understand what am I buying, what am I getting, which type do I need, all the different things you and I have talked about for a while now on air. Right. The reality is very few places have that ability to do that, meaning they're usually selling to a wholesaler or even if it's direct to a retailer, there's some steps and some processes that are involved in that. And rarely does it go directly from factory to customer. Correct. Except for you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and that's kind of been our business model all along is wanting to be able to educate the homeowner, let them know. Because even the big box stores, people go in and you can buy a window or a door at what seems like a good price, but you have no idea what it's rated for.
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Or who's installing it or anything else along those lines.
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That's it. And so it really is, I think it's hugely important to educate yourself and understand exactly what you're getting and what you should be looking for. Then you can compare apples to apples as you go.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I appreciate you saying that because, to me, that's very, very important. In fact, we kind of have our own rule around the house, which is if you're going to do something major, something small is not a big deal, but if you're going to do something major, then you really should probably be getting... Two, if not three full, you know, bids. That's my wife's rule. You know, if we're going to do something major, let's get three different opinions as to, you know, how this is going to be done and what the prices are going to be. And does somebody have a different idea? And there's all sorts of things that come into play versus just, hey, I want this, you know, go out and get it done and handled and write the check. No, you do, especially windows and doors. That's not a cheap ticket item. And it's not something we do every day.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, it's an investment no matter who you go with. And I tell all of our customers the same thing. I recommend you get three or four bids. And to be honest, I prefer to be third or fourth.
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Yeah, because your education is better at that point.
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Well, and I think people realize that the other companies didn't even – They didn't educate you. No, everyone claims to be the best, but none of them actually tell you what the products are rated for or how they're rated and things like that. I try not to bore people with a three-hour dissertation on windows and doors, but it's pretty easy to get the point across and educate them.
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Well, and to your point, no, we don't want to bore people, but you want to get people to that point where they feel like, okay, wait a minute, I've got enough knowledge now. I used to do the same thing when we were working on people's vehicles. I want them to have enough knowledge to where they can make a good educated decision and fully understanding what they're getting themselves into because for us, and you're the same way, nothing worse than a remorseful buyer. I didn't want that. I wanted people to really understand what they were doing, why they were doing it, and you're making a really great decision in doing this, and I don't want you having any remorse, the best way to do that is to be educated.
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Yeah, no, I agree 100%. And it's, unfortunately, probably 40% of the windows that we are removing are replacement windows. Oh, wow. Someone's already made the investment, and they've realized either the window was never properly engineered or it was just installed. The big thing here is get the windows in and get out. And that seems to be the way of the world.
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Yeah, get those things rolling in and out. The more we do, the more money we make.
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That's it. All of these are volume-based. And we're not. I don't think this should be transactional. I think this is relational.
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Well, and to your point, this is a big investment in your home, your home being, for most people, one of the, if not the largest investment they may ever make, and we say investment expense, whatever you want to call it. I know there's different theories on that, but bottom line, it's one of the biggest things we spend money on. Let's say it that way. And you need a roof over your head. And so at the end of the day, yeah, this is an investment because hopefully – you're buying the right windows and doors that, over time, not only save you money because of the energy sides of things, but on top of that, you're aesthetically getting something that's more pleasing at the end of the day as well, adding value to the home.
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Absolutely. And it does. I mean, when you are protecting the mechanics of the home and everything we do is a transferable warranty. So I have quite a few customers that, when they're in the process of selling... They'll replace the windows. They know it's going to be an issue if they go to sell, and that transferable warranty comes in pretty handy.
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Okay. And really quick, and I'm getting text messages on this. Yes, if you're typically used to listening to us streaming today, not our issue today. Comcast is having some outages, periodic, sporadic-type outages. We're doing our best to keep things up and running. So those of you texting in asking about the stream – Yes, it's down. It's a Comcast issue. Sorry, Dave, to interrupt, but sometimes people ask questions about windows and doors, so I didn't want to miss anything while you're here. But, yeah, people are asking, is the stream down? Yes, it is. You'll have to listen over the air. Might be fixed by... Four or five o'clock, we'll see how this goes. And for some of you listening, could affect you calling in and asking questions as well. When the Internet's out, the phone system doesn't work like it should either. You guys that are in that world know what I mean by that. And we'll play that by ear throughout the show today. I've got some guests and stuff. If need be, we crack out the cell phone and still make things work. But, no, Dave, back to you and windows and doors. It is a big investment for folk. And this is something else. And you and I have talked about this in the past briefly, but – You know, I feel like, and maybe I'm looking at this the wrong way, but I know some folks out there, you know, maybe you've been at some different places, the big box stores, or you've been to a friend's house and you saw some windows and doors or whatever that were installed there. You still need to gauge the type of window and door that you're using and match it to your home. And what I mean by that is it's sort of like doing a kitchen remodel. You know, you don't want to spend twice as much money on a kitchen remodel than you need to. Granted, you might be enjoying it, but if it's not...
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adding the right value in other words if it's far more money than what your house is ever going to bring anyways why waste that money i'm sure windows and doors are the same way absolutely and and i have a lot of these you know the big companies are charging huge amounts for windows are far more than anyone should ever pay and i always equate it to that story the emperor's new clothes people think because they're shelling out hundreds of thousands of dollars they must be getting the best product And it's actually not true at all. They're getting product that would be great if you were in Arizona, but not for Colorado. We have a very unique, you know, not only the weather patterns, but you have to consider elevation. All of that, right? All of that comes into play.
SPEAKER 04 :
And for some of you that are listening that might even be a little bit higher in elevation than here, you'll have that come into play even more so than somebody that lives down in the city because it's not the same size fits all, right, Dave?
SPEAKER 09 :
No, and the codes vary based on that as well. The U factor, which is the insulating value, is the lower that number, the more efficient the window is. And as you get higher in elevation, that U factor requirement starts to drop pretty considerably.
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Okay. And again, folks, this is direct. The biggest way to save money with Veteran Windows and Doors is it's direct to you. I know I say it a lot. It probably sounds like a broken record, but literally we're cutting out the middleman, saving you a lot of money in the process. And, Dave, how do they do that? How do they get a hold of you?
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The easiest way to reach us is 303-529-0720. And you can also, on our website, there is an option to fill out a meeting request there as well.
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Okay. And again, for those of you listening, you can always go to klzradio.com. You can go to rushtoreason.com and also find him there. And Dave, as always, I appreciate you. I've learned a lot from you when it comes to this particular end of things. It's helped me out with a lot of other things I do on my other shows as well. So thank you. I appreciate it greatly. absolutely thank you for having me veteran windows and doors that's dave give him a call today roof saver speaking of having a good roof over your head and by the way dave and dave both daves work together at times if there's an issue where dave the roofer needs you know knows you need some windows and so on he's going to recommend you call the other dave and together they'll take care of you and your home so whatever you need when it comes to roofing and or windows again you can give either one of these guys a call they're going to direct you to either or at the same time but dave hart is our roofer Give them a call today, 303-710-6916.
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All right, and yeah, once again, if you're listening, which you probably aren't hearing us if you're streaming, but those of you that have the option to listen live, and maybe it's more static here, it's in a fringe area or whatever, and you normally listen online because the quality is better, I understand that, and we have no control over the Comcast, the ISP, Internet Service Providers themselves, and they're doing an upgrade. This was a planned upgrade. and why Comcast and places do that on daytime versus nighttime times. You know what? I'm not in charge. I'm not them. So I have no control over that, neither does anybody else here at the station. It's been pretty sporadic most of the day, although it's starting to come back as we speak. And you guys that are listening and like to listen online, I would encourage you to continue to try. Keep in mind that even as we get Internet back up and running here at the station, the systems throughout will also have to reset and do their thing and if we you know if our internet goes out for whatever reason then of course all of that cycle starts all over again and some of you suggested you know why don't we have other backup type solutions um frankly it's not as easy as that may seem when it comes to how the streaming outfits work and so on and you know i'll be the first to say it all of that comes with another added And as you guys all know, on the streaming sides of things, that's sort of an added bonus that we do as a station and as a group. Yeah, we make no money off the streaming end of things at all. We do that really as a service and to help a lot of you listen more and more to what we have. And we understand more and more is going that way. But you guys all know from listening, we don't have any major streaming sponsors or anything along those lines. I'm guessing that management is most likely looking into that more and more all the time as that gets to be a bigger and bigger deal. But currently, that is not a revenue at all revenue generator for us. It's simply a way for us to help all of you listen in a better fashion than what you would normally. otherwise so just a little housekeeping when it comes to our internet here and how that works and so on i realized we had this a couple of weeks ago as well but it is what it is we'll do our best to get well we're not doing our best hopefully comcast is doing its best to get things back up and running as quickly as possible and just keep listening online it will come back up and i'm guessing that once we get through today will be in pretty good shape again if you're trying to call in even those of you that are listening on air if you call and you can't get a hold of us keep trying again as the internet comes back up the phone service does as well because everything's you know voice over ip now so that's how the phones work also so as we get internet access that will improve as well. So just so you know, and we'll still take our guests and do what we need to do today, even if I have to do it via my own cell phone. So we're not going to change how we do our show. The mechanics of might change a little bit, but we're still going to be on air and we're all through the next, well, about two and a half hours now because a half an hour is almost gone. Friday is impossible question of the day. Approximately how much does the average cumulus cloud weigh? More than you think. They're not nice and soft and fluffy. 1.1 million pounds. That's the average cloud. And I don't know how average is average. We look outside now, and it's gray sky above us, meaning there's a lot of weight in the sky. So 1.1 million pounds, though, for the average cumulus cloud. And possible question of today. During pregnancy, how much weight can a polar bear gain? During pregnancy, how much weight can a polar bear gain? So there you go. And it's probably an average weight because I'm guessing some probably gain a little more than others, the females. But that's the question of the day today. All right. Moving along into the show. Some of you probably already saw this news, but just in case, I thought I would go ahead and pass this information along. And that is that in Colorado, we are potentially, I say potentially, but it looks like it's probably going to happen. We are potentially going to lose about $550 million in clean energy grants. Now, personally, I'm okay with that. Now, there's probably some listening that are upset. I'm sure there's some folks on the left that are very upset over this. I'm not one of those because these are tax dollars, money that we're actually borrowing because we don't have the money. We always run over budget as far as the federal government is concerned. So this would have been borrowed money that we're giving away to states, Colorado included. And, of course, the Democrats are calling this revenge. I'm calling this wisdom. Clean energy, quote unquote, isn't clean anyways. I've said that so many times on the program that it's not clean. There's no such thing as clean or green energy. Now, you can have clean coal. Natural gas is pretty clean. Nuclear at the end of the day is probably the cleanest when it's all said and done. Windmills, by the way, are not clean. And I mean that because it takes oil to build them in the first place. their lifespan isn't all that long in comparison to other sources of energy and once they're done they're very hard to dispose of so they're not clean despite what that industry and or the left might tell you wind energy is not that clean solar is kind of the same way now i think personally it's a little cleaner than wind because its lifespan is a little bit longer than wind And the maintenance on the panels in that aren't as much as it is on the wind towers. The wind towers take more energy than most people think to even maintain. There's oil inside of them that need to be changed and so on. There's a lot going on there. The amount of concrete that has to be poured to put up an actual windmill. I mean, I can go down the list. Any of you out there listening can go do the same research that I've done. And they are huge energy eaters on the front side. And I believe the last time I looked, this might have changed, but I think the last time I looked, they don't break even until about year seven. In other words, the amount of energy it takes to build a windmill for what it actually produces in, quote-unquote, air quotes around clean energy, I believe it's around year seven for it to actually start breaking even. Again, don't quote me because that may have changed. I haven't looked at that figure in about a year, and things do change, so maybe they've gotten a little bit better, but I kind of doubt it. Because if you look at, again, the amount of raw material and things it takes to actually put one up, and I've always questioned even the math on that. Are they figuring every single barrel of oil that it takes to build one? Or are there a lot of assumptions? In other words, are they factoring in every single barrel of oil it takes to build that windmill, the factory, the workers that are driving to and from, all of the energy that they're actually using, the amount of energy it takes to power the plant. Once they're built, you've got to get them out to the field where they're actually going to be set. Once they're there, that site has to be prepped, in some cases graded. It has to have concrete prepared and poured. and the rebar and all the metal rebar itself how much energy is going into the into the steel plant to make it you get my drift i highly doubt because i found this by the way was very true when it came to making quote unquote you know green cars you know priuses for example way back in the day when priuses first came out they were touted as being very highly energy efficient and so on the one thing that i found that never makes it into the calculations Is what I just said. They'll typically give you raw calculations as to, okay, here's the car. Once it's built, this is how much energy it's using, so on and so forth. I've never seen anybody do calculations even on a car. I'll use the Prius for an example. Nobody ever made the calculations on what did it take all the way through from the very beginning of that car in the plant, running the plant. getting the batteries for that vehicle there and made and so on. And then the vehicle itself, in the case of a Prius, it still has an engine that charges the battery, so on and so forth. So I never saw anybody do a complete calculation on, in this case, a Prius, to really give you all of the facts and figures behind. There's just a lot of assumptions that, well, if those workers weren't doing that, they'd be doing something else and they'd still be using that same energy. No, that's not true, by the way. that may very well not be the case, and you can't look at it that way. But rarely, if ever, and if there is somebody out there listening that has seen all of these calculations on either wind or solar, in other words, what's it take to actually build a panel, what's it actually take to put a windmill up, and I want every single ounce of raw material, including all of the oil that it takes to actually produce said items, plural, not just a single item, but all of the items, You know, the fiberglass for the arms themselves, for the propellers, I guess you could say, the generator itself, the crane that has to come and lift everything up and actually get it assembled. I want everything. I want it all. And the reality is the left, the green energy sector, will never tell you that. And frankly, it's deceiving. They're lying, I guess maybe is the best way to say that. They lie about what it actually takes to build these things and then actually put them up before an ounce of energy is ever generated. I want that figure. You know, they'll claim, again, as I've read, they'll claim that they break even at about year seven. I'm not sure that's really true because I want to know what are they factoring into the entire equation. And my gut feeling is they're skipping a lot of parts. That's my guess, because, again, I've seen it happen on the other side of the aisle in the automotive industry. They never include all of the other things that I just mentioned. So point being, the Trump administration has slashed $550 million in Colorado green energy grants. Democrats call it revenge. And I don't, as I said earlier, I call that being smart with our money. We need to. And really quick, too. A lot of this $550 million, believe it or not, isn't even going into producing clean energy. It's for studies on what we should do with, quote-unquote, clean energy. It's not even all money going into the actual products themselves. In some cases, some of this money was going to charging stations for EVs, for example. You guys know my feeling on that. Even though I own an EV, that should handle itself. If that industry or that sector of the industry, if the EV sector of the automotive industry wants charging stations, then they should be like filling stations, like gas stations, and put them up themselves. Figure out a revenue-generating thing, product, site, whatever, that makes that actually happen to where they can generate their own revenue to pay themselves back, just like gas stations do. If that means that there's, you know, EV charge stations, we have one here near the station over here in the H Mart lot, which, by the way, is just in the corner of H Mart, which I'm guaranteeing you is heavily, heavily subsidized or it wouldn't be put there. And that, in my opinion, is a non-revenue generating station. How it got put together and how the math worked, I don't know that. I'm not privy to that. But I highly doubt that's a moneymaker at the end of the day. It's only there because we as taxpayers have somehow subsidized it. And or Tesla's paying for it, which I highly doubt. Guarantee you there's some taxpayer kickback money coming into play there or it wouldn't have got put up. So, again, some of this money, 22 million, by the way, or 27 million grant and loan to Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association for its energy transition. So, folks, that's not even money that we're using for anything. That's quote-unquote transition money. And my feeling is Tri-State can come up with their own money. Why do I as a taxpayer have to do that? $22 million to Pioneer Energy for managing methane emissions and develop flaring technology, and $6.5 million for United Power, a floating solar microgrid in Fort Lupton. Again, they can figure that out on their own. Why do we as taxpayers have to subsidize that? We shouldn't. So there's cuts also that came for Xcel Energy's battery storage research, $70 million for battery storage research. We already know that doesn't work. I can tell you that right now. I'm not even in that sector, and I can tell you it doesn't work. It's not cost effective. Anybody that understands battery technology at all and where we're at today would tell you that's a very inefficient way to make things work. Period. Case closed. Give me my $70 million. Xcel Energy knows that, by the way, too. A lot of these are pet projects, just so you all know. And most of you that are on my side of this equation understand what I mean by that. A lot of these are pet projects that research companies and universities and so on, they get to go in and they want this money so they can keep those things moving forward. At the end of the day, rarely do we benefit. Rarely. So I'm okay with this $550 million not being put forth here in the state of Colorado. I get it. That goes to, in a lot of cases, jobs, and it goes back into the economy and so on. But honestly, does it? Does it? Some of these that I just mentioned to you, very little of that's going to go back into the economy. There's so much bloat in a lot of what I just said that it's not like you spent $550 million in Colorado to go directly back into the economy. I would venture to guess you'd be lucky if half of that actually made it back into the economy, and I might be high in that figure. So if some of you have opinions on that, something you want to text me on, because I'm not sure you can call right now, but send me a text message, 307-200-8222. Dr. Scott's up next, and again, a doctor that thinks just like we do. And I mean we as in myself, what we talk about on Thursdays with Dr. Kelly Victory and Steve House. We have a lot of other guests that come on and talk about nutrition and so on. Dr. Scott is right in line with the way we think here at KLZ and Rush to Reason. 303-663-6990 is how you get a hold of Scott.
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And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thank you guys for listening. I appreciate it. Some of you that are not able to listen online, we'll get that up and running hopefully sooner than later. That's a Comcast issue, as I said earlier. Some of you are texting in as well. Somebody had asked the question, is being offline as bad as being off-air terrestrial speaking? No. Not even close. While we have a lot of online listeners, keep in mind that we cover, terrestrially speaking, a four-state region or parts of four states. And the amount of people that the signal covers, I mean, it's millions upon millions upon millions of people. Now, are they all listening at one time? No. But the effective reach, terrestrially speaking, versus Internet coverage, Here locally, it's much better over the airwaves than it is online. But our online listenership continues to raise because every time we have an outage, I hear from all of you that are listening that there's an outage. So, yes, it's getting to be bigger and bigger all the time. But, no, it's not quite the same as being, you know, off air over the actual airwaves, you know, per se. But it's gaining all the time. So, yeah, great question, by the way. Thank you for that. I appreciate that. Now, in other news, speaking of energy. And Andy even texted me and said, yeah, it's a win to not be spending that money locally on quote-unquote green crap energy. And Andy's right, and it is garbage. I think I've talked about that so many times that I've yet to have anybody – this is funny. I've yet to have anybody, anybody from the left, any texter, text me and prove I'm wrong in that. There's no replacement for the other forms of energy that we already have that work well. And I get it. I think solar has a place. I think in some cases wind has a place. For example, some of you that live in really windy areas and you've got the ability to put a wind generation, maybe even two or three of them up at your own home, your own farm, and generate some power off of that just like you would solar. I see nothing wrong with that whatsoever. If you can make that happen and it works for you, go for it. I see no issues with that. Just like I see no issues with solar on individual homes, providing that's done correctly and the technology is right and you've been sold right and so on. I have no problem with that. Where I have problems are big solar farms, big wind farms and so on. Those are nice, good, feel-good measures that at the end of the day don't do anything. In fact, I'd say in most cases, environmentally speaking, does more harm than good. And again, I challenge anybody on the left to argue me on that. It's not arguable. You can't find data to back up and come against me and say that I'm wrong. In fact, there's tons and tons of articles out there about the environmental harm and impact of what I just said across the globe, not just here in the U.S., but in a lot of places. So Elon Musk, though, he's looking at things differently. And I think I've talked about this in the past. He is gambling billions. And I think gamble, by the way, is a pretty loose term. I don't think it's much of a gamble. In fact, this is a Wall Street Journal article, and it says Elon Musk gambles billions in Memphis to catch up on AI. And I don't think it's a gamble. Rarely does Elon Musk do things that are huge gambles. Most of what he does, he's pretty on target and thinks through it enough to know, yeah, this is a pretty good bet, and most likely he'll win at the end. So if it is a gamble, I don't think it's a huge gamble. I think what he's trying to do is catch up, and he is behind when it comes to AI. Now, knowing him like we do, he won't be behind for very long. And this whole article in Wall Street Journal is talking about how, in this particular case, he's outside of Memphis, Tennessee, and he's got a power plant that he's building on the other side of the state line in Mississippi. And, of course, this article is talking about how there's certain folks in the area that are very welcoming and they're glad that he's building it and it's putting a lot of people to work and it's really helping the economy. And yet there's all the naysayers out there that are saying, well, maybe this is just a flash in the pan and what if this doesn't last and this will just be a tidal wave and it'll all be gone. Folks, hear me on this. And I get it. There's a few listeners that we have that won't be able to hear us now that are down in that Tennessee area because we do have listeners there. This isn't much of a gamble. AI is not going anywhere. And I'm pretty confident in saying that. It's not going anywhere. It's going to do nothing but continue to grow and get bigger and get bigger and get bigger. Now, the catch is, and this is what Elon knows, that's why he's building a power plant in Mississippi to power the plant that he's going to have, the AI farm that he'll have in Tennessee and Memphis, outside of Memphis. By the way, it's not far from Graceland is what I read. So if you're familiar with that area, you kind of know what I'm talking about. But he's smart enough to know that he's got to build a power plant to actually handle the amount of power generation or the amount of power consumption that he'll have. And he needs to generate power to be able to handle that. But there'll be extra. And the city and the surrounding area will benefit from that extra power that he produces. He's also building things like big water filtration plants and wastewater treatment plants and so on because those AI farms, those AI generation facilities, server farms is what they are, they require a lot of heat and a lot of resources, and he's going to make sure that he accommodates all of that and give back to the community at the same time. In other words, he's going to overbuild so he can actually serve some of the surrounding communities as well. It's a win-win for everybody there. And again, as always, you get these knuckleheads from the left, these these, you know, quote unquote environmentalists that aren't. They will tell you all of the bad that Elon's doing in this particular end of things. And, you know, this is not going to last. I won't last. It is, folks. It's like, you know, even back during the dot bomb. The Internet was in its infancy and was really getting rolling along and people were learning how they could do, you know, websites and put their businesses up and all these different things. And, you know, there was a lot of different companies that went all in with certain domain names and so on. And, yes, some of those failed. That's why it was called the dot bomb. Instead of dot com, it was the dot bomb. This is not the same. Not the same. In fact, even though they're both in the tech world, that's where the similarities stop. The dot-bomb thing was a lot of hype on what websites could do for you. And you saw all sorts of different commercials back in the day, even during Super Bowls and so on, on what it was going to do for you. And there was everything from GoDaddy, which still exists today, to other type of domain name providers that were doing things back in the day and blah, blah, blah. And we all know how it ended. Now, here's the thing, though. It didn't really end. The companies that were solid, that had good footing, that knew what they were doing, like GoDaddy, for example, they survived. They lasted. They did just fine. They didn't blow up. And there was a lot of Internet companies at that time that are still existent today. They didn't go anywhere. They're still around. And all of the big corporations, car companies and on down the line we go, they all had websites then. They still do today. That didn't end either. Where the dot bombs ended were the fluffy companies that really didn't produce any revenue in what they were doing, and they went away. And by the way, there'll be some adjustments on the AI sides of things along those lines as well, although AI is completely different because of what it's providing. the services that it's providing. Now, will the AI companies that are out there now, and if I went and really looked hard, there's probably, I mean, most people only think of two or three, but really there's probably maybe not quite a dozen, but there's quite a few. More than people think. You know, AI platforms. Will there potentially be a consolidation there? Yeah, I think there could be. Will it come down to, you know, like we had car companies back in the day where at one point in time, not exaggerating, at one point in time we probably had 100 plus, maybe even 200 different car companies in the U.S., and it all came down to, quote, unquote, the big three? Could I see something like that with AI happening? Sure, that I could see happening. You know, the other companies may be falling off, going away, being picked up by other companies, consolidation and so on. Could that happen? Sure. Will that happen anytime soon? No. No, because the technology is still in its infancy and we haven't even determined who's going to lead. Because there's several that are leading. Co-leading is what I should say. There's not one particular AI that's out in front. They each will claim to be, but each one has its own idiosyncrasies. And even other countries are involved in this, i.e. China. So, you know, who's going to come out on top when it comes to AI? I have no idea, but I can tell you this much. Elon Musk is a huge player in it, probably understands it as well as anybody. He's been one of the innovators behind it, and he's not going to get left behind. So I have no fear. If I was down in Memphis and I lived in that area, would I have any fear of this plant coming in and then leaving soon after? No, I would not. And I think all the naysayers that are in that particular realm of things are just that, they're naysayers. And frankly, are probably people that don't understand the technology and how it will be used. And this goes into a whole other discussion about the control over where government comes into play, what kind of restrictions should there be on AI and so on. I had an article last week I was going to talk about that I never got around to. It's always interesting to see the people that they put on these quote-unquote focus groups or these teams that are going to help dictate what AI does. In the case here in Colorado, there's a Buddhist monk that's a part of the team deciding what AI is going to do. Now, I'm not against Buddhist monks. But the last I checked, I don't think, again, I could be completely wrong, but I don't think they're highly technical. I don't think that's the way they look at things. Charlie, unless I'm completely wrong there, I think they're more removed from that. Maybe that's why they're on the panel, but I don't see them being highly technically involved when it comes to AI. Just not what they do. Unless I'm wrong in what Buddhist monks do. But last I checked, they were not AI experts. Maybe this one is, but I highly doubt it. But in Colorado, that's what we have. They're going to make our decisions. And Charlie's right that maybe it's the ethical part of it that they're bringing him in to this equation. OK, so be it. But even then, this is my struggle with that. Maybe I should talk about this when I come back. But here's my struggle with even that. If you don't understand the technology and you don't use it, how can you talk about the ethics of? That's my problem. It's sort of like what I talk about all the time in Washington, D.C., or even here in our own local statehouse at our own, you know, at the Denver Capitol, Colorado Capitol. This is my issue. You have people making decisions that affect the rest of us that have no idea what they're deciding on. But yet they've got full input into what goes on. That's my problem with the way a lot of this is handled. Whether it be something we're talking about with AI, whether it be with infrastructure, whether it be with car regulations and so on, emissions regulations. I can go down the list. These are typically people making policy decisions that I'll be straight up honest, have a hard time turning the cell phone on if it doesn't work correctly. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. But yet they're going to make decisions for all of the rest of us in our daily lives, and yet they don't even understand the technology they're making policy decisions on. So I've got a little bit more on that that I'll talk about. I'll read our text messages during the break. Cub Creek Heat and Air Conditioning, a little cool out right now. Now, some of you actually might be turning on your furnace. If you've had any issues at all with that, give Cub Creek a call today. Find them at klzradio.com.
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All right. Back, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Again, appreciate you all listening, texting, some of you texting in, by the way, on the very subject that we're talking about. And I'm not trying to be mean or rude to, you know, legislatures and people that are in that authoritative, you know, that's not even the right way to say it. I hate that term, by the way. They work for me. They're not authorities over me. It's something that even in my mind, I've got to continue to change. Every single person from Donald Trump all the way down through government works for me. I write their checks. We have a representative government. We don't have a democracy. This is a republic. And every single politician, city, state, counties, federally, they're all on my payroll. I pay them. So do you all that pay taxes. We pay them. They work for us. They're actually public servants. They're not an authority over us. Now, I get it. We have laws, and in some cases, police and so on, they're there to enforce the laws that are set. I understand all of that. In that case, there are some authoritative figures in our world, and we need to expect those authorities, but— We all forget, and this is one of those things that I even struggle with with a lot of Christians, where they talk about how, you know, well, you need to follow Romans, whatever, whatever, whatever, where we're to pray for those rulers and those individuals that are put in charge over us. That's not how it works here in America, by the way. Sorry, that's not how it works. You're in charge. So if you want to pray for anybody, the ruling authority, pray for yourself. Pray for fellow citizens that are positive taxpayers, because they're literally the ruling authority. The politicians work for us. Something that even a lot, most Christians, most pastors, by the way, have wrong. Most sermons along these lines are flat out wrong. We have a representative form of government. They work for us. Anytime I vote for somebody, I'm hiring them to do something I don't have time to do. Those politicians, everybody that's along those lines, they work for me. They work for you. If they're local, they work for their county. If it's statewide, they work for the state. Federally, they work for all of us. But don't ever forget that. And I tend to even forget that and even say things in the wrong way at times because politicians especially are not an authority over us. They're my representative. They work for me. I don't work for them. I'm not responsible to them I'm not accountable to them it's the other way around they are responsible to me they are accountable to me They are to watch what they do and represent me well, or I'm going to change them out. Find a new employee, if you would. And it just bugs me to no end the way some of these politicians, quote unquote, get the, you know, they get this chip on their shoulder where they're better than everybody else. And frankly, no, you're not. And sorry to say, I've interviewed a lot of you and you're dumb as rocks. I'm being straight up honest. You're dumb as rocks. You couldn't find your way out of a wet paper bag sometimes. If your aide wasn't around to help you, you wouldn't make it from point A to point B. And unfortunately, we've got some folks even here in Colorado running for governor that fit the description of what I just said. Unfortunately, not going to name names, but we have some of those out there. Hopefully that'll get whittled down and we'll get to the point where we have, you know, just a few to pick from instead of the dozen plus we have now. I think it's 15 or 16 now, maybe even 17. I'd have to look. You know what? We might even be up to 20. Again, that's another one. Don't quote me on that. I haven't looked lately to see how many Republican and or non-Democrat candidates we have in Colorado, even including there's even some independent candidates, I believe, now running. We might be up to 20. Far too many, by the way. Knuckleheads. But sorry, I'm digressing. My point is we have a lot of people that try to make policy decisions for our lives on a daily basis that frankly shouldn't be because they're not qualified. Remember, there's no qualifications to be a politician. Run and win. That's the qualification. Run a better campaign than your opponent. Get involved with the money machine that helps get people elected, especially on the Democrat side. But that's true on the Republican side, too, sometimes. I'm less critical there than I am on the Democrat side because they've got a better machine than we do. But again, at the end of the day, the only qualification is you have to win a campaign. That's your qualification for being a politician. And then it goes to that policy for everybody else. And remember, folks, this is all the way true down to local, city, county governments and so on, school boards and the like. Just because somebody ran and won doesn't mean they're qualified. In fact, I'll go as far as to say in most cases they're not. They're likely unqualified, but they're there. They won. They're now the person that gets to help set rules and policies and so on for the rest of us. It's sad, but there's no test for being a politician, just like there's no test for being a parent. A lot of stupid parents out there, by the way. A lot of stupid politicians as well. In fact, dumber politicians than there are dumber parents. But, you know, you guys know what I mean. Some of you, by the way, are probably laughing at me right now, wherever you're listening, because you're agreeing with me. But that's the reality of the world we live in. These are not qualified individuals. They got elected. They're elected, quote unquote, officials. Really, we should call them what they are, public servants. And some of them are dumb as rocks. A lot of them, by the way, are. They're just not intelligent people. And I'm sorry to say it. They're just not. I've talked to some of these people. I've met them. I've had conversations. They're not that smart. But they get elected. And they get a set policy. And I'm using that example going back to the Buddhist monk. And I don't know this individual. I'm not trying to talk bad about this person. I don't know their background. Don't know them at all. But at the end of the day, are they really qualified to talk about AI even on the personal end of things, the accountability side and so on? I have no idea. I don't know them. I don't know what their experience level is on that end of things. And furthermore, why a Buddhist monk? Why not a Christian? Or why not a Jehovah Witness? Or why not a Mormon? You get the drift. Why not all these other different types of belief systems that are there? Why is it a Buddhist monk? Well, and by the way, I can tell you that one, because that's a slap in the face to all the Christians that are out there in the state, because that's exactly what our governor does. That one I'm pretty confident in. Sorry, Buddhist monk, but you're not there because you're a Buddhist monk, or maybe you are. You are there because you're a Buddhist monk only, and you're not a Christian. That's why you're there, because that's a slap in the face to all the Christians that are out there that would vote, the conservatives especially. And I'm not wrong, by the way, when I'm saying they're folks. Those of you that are on the left that would want to say I'm wrong, I'm not. That's why that person's there. One thousand percent why they're there. No other reason. And again, not coming against any of these people that are on said committee to manage AI in the state of Colorado. But as I go through the people that are on that list, very few of them have any kind of expertise in AI. I have more than most of them do, including our governor. So, side note. All right. I'll get back on track. We've got a full another two hours coming your way. Paul Lumber is coming up next. He is my personal insurance broker. He'll shop what's best for you when it comes to your insurance, teaching you how to save money along the way as well. Again, Paul, give him a call today, 303-662-0789.
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Live and local, back to Rush to Reason. Oh, by the way, several of you texting in. I won't say these on air, but texting me examples of folk you know that are in politics and how much of that description I just mentioned they actually fit. Yeah, I'm sorry to say, but there's a lot of them. And you could, again, all the way down to the local level. Guys, you could talk about your local mayor, your local city council. You could talk about your local county commissioners. You could go to your local school board. Folks, I'm not talking even nationally. I'm just locally speaking. Go look at the people that are actually representing you and tell me how sharp they actually are. In most cases, not very. And here's the thing I would tell you to check me on this. Most of these are always recorded, and you can always go back and check them. Go find some of the meetings they're involved in and see how they speak and talk and how knowledgeable they are in some things. That's all you've got to do. I've sat in some of these meetings, by the way. I'll tell you how ignorant most of these people are. Very, very. All right, two more hours coming your way. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. We'll be right back.
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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 30 minutes, please stick around. It will be a short time of motivation, some inspiration, some education, and absolutely no, not a one, any type of manipulation. No, we're not trying to raise money. We're not asking you for money. We're not trying to sell you anything. We simply want to give you some information. Hopefully that information will help you verify as well as identify the plan of God for your life. And if you can do that, and through the teaching that I'm going to give you this morning, then you'll be able to orient and adjust on your own if you'd like to do that. It's up to you. It's your life. And I got a call this morning from a fellow. I said, what do I do? And I'm like, well, what do you mean, what do I do? Get with it. And sometimes people are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ and they seem to go backwards, not forward. We call that reversionism. They get in reverse. They began to live like unbelievers. And what do I do? Well, the answer is simply you rebound, you confess your sin to God, and you get with it. You are a product of your volition. You have to decide, do you want to live or die? It's up to you. You want to make it or not make it, spiritually speaking, because we live in a very hostile environment in the USA today and in the world today. And that's what we're going to talk about today. We do not live in a very forgiving environment. Before we get to that, though, let me remind you that we do podcast all of our radio shows on Apple iPod or Spotify or Breaker, Anchor, some of these podcast venues, and you can always search for The Flotline on any one of those podcast venues, and you can hear anytime, anywhere, any day, anywhere in the world. Also, we have our material that we print up and make available to you free of charge, our latest book, Crash Course in Christianity, as well as the transcripts from the various shows of 2019, 2020. Every show ever taught, it's all put into words so you can read it yourself. So if you'd like to order any of that, just simply go to our website, rickhughesministries.org, not .com, .org, rickhughesministries.org. Or you can call us at our number, which is 800-831-0718. So anything we can do to assist you in your spiritual growth, that's what we're here for. I challenge you and encourage you to put your nose to the grind and grow up spiritually so you can represent Jesus Christ to your generation while you have the opportunity to do so. Now, we live in what's called a time continuum situation. And while we currently exist in the time continuum, it's not a very forgiving environment, and there are reasons for that. When I'm recording this today, by the way, we've just seen the invasion in the Ukraine. And I don't know what's going to happen. You'll hear this show four weeks later, I'm sure. But we see wars, and we see rumors of wars every day. Let's not forget what our Lord said to the disciples who had a lot of questions concerning what was going to happen in the end times. In Matthew 24, 1, he said this. We see Jesus was departing from Solomon's temple where he had just announced the seven woes to the religious leaders who were called Pharisees. This is, if you want to read about it, I'll go over some of it with you, but it's in Matthew 23, 13 through 33. Seven woes he condemned the Pharisees, self-righteous religious guys. This condemnation did not earn him any favor with them, as you can imagine. because he called the religious leaders hypocrites, and he stated that they were preventing people from entering heaven. Listen to verse 13 of Matthew 24. Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, you are hypocrites, for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men, for you neither will go in yourselves, and you do not allow those who are entering to go in. This is what the religious crowd does. They're going to tell you that faith alone in Christ alone is not enough. They're going to tell you you have to work your way to heaven. You have to earn the forgiveness of God. Even though the Bible says, for by grace are we saved through faith, it's a gift of God, not of works, as any man should brag about it. In the Old Testament, the Bible made clear all of our works are like a filthy rag in God's eyes. There are none that are righteous, no, not even one. So the scribes and the Pharisees did just the opposite. They taught people that you can get to heaven by being good, by observing the Jewish rituals and the Jewish laws. And the Lord Jesus Christ called them hypocrites because they themselves did not observe those laws. In verse 14, he described how they stole money from the poor. He said, woe to you scribes and Pharisees, you are hypocrites. For you devour widows' houses and for a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore, you're going to receive the greater condemnation. And this is what religion does. It preys on weak people and tries to get money from weak people, but they sound very pious and very self-righteous. Oh, God, this and oh, God, that. The Lord Jesus Christ nailed them. In verse 15, he talked about how they went to great lengths to convert people, then the convert that they converted wound up being worse than the Pharisee who converted him. Listen to what he said. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you're hypocrites, for you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he's won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourself. That's self-righteous arrogance. And then in verse 23, again, he spoke of their self-righteous giving. He said, woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you're hypocrites, for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and you've neglected the weightier matters of the law, such as justice, mercy, and faith. These ought you to have done without leaving the others undone. So this is where people go down the wrong way, trying to say, well, if you drink, you won't go to heaven. If you're drunk, you won't go to heaven. If you're this or that, you won't go to heaven. And that's not what the Bible says. The Bible says, whosoever will can come, whosoever will can come. Jesus made it plain. And if you, I don't care who you are, I don't care what you've done. If you would like the opportunity to begin your life all over again, the Bible clearly says, if any man's in Christ, he's a new creation. Old things are passed away and all things become new. But you say, I've done that already, but I've gone back into sin. You went in reverse, didn't you? That's why we have rebound, problem-solving device number one that says if we will confess our sins to God, he will forgive us and he will cleanse us of all unrighteousness. That may be what you need to do, which will get you to the filling of the Holy Spirit. Once you get to the filling of the Holy Spirit, then you can control the flesh. You don't have to live under the desires of the flesh. You can let the Holy Spirit control your life, and you're told in Ephesians 5.18 to do that. So he exposed these people. He exposed them for what they do. He nailed their self-righteous, pious attitude in verse 25. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you're full of extortion and indulgence, Matthew 24, 25. Then he exposed their two-sided lives. He said, woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, Man, you think they're getting tired of hearing this? For you're like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside you're full of dead men's bones and all sort of uncleanliness. So they're living two-sided lives. They look all wonderful and self-righteous and cleaned up and godly on the outside, but on the inside they're full of self-righteous sins, mental attitude sins, bullies trying to intimidate people to obey the law when they themselves didn't do it. And then in verse 29, woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn them with monuments. And then you say, if we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them that killed the prophets. And that's a lie. They would because they were trying to kill the Lord Jesus Christ. And then in verse 39, he said goodbye. That's it. He was done with them. Here's what he said in verse 39, Matthew 24, for I say to you, you shall see me no more till you say, blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord. And after pronouncing these seven woes on these scribes and Pharisees and Sadducees, he left the temple, never entered the temple again, went out to the top of Mount Olives. His disciples followed him and showed up and they said, Lord, what's going on? His disciples came up and showed him the buildings of the temple, the Bible says. And these condemnations that the same patterns you see today in organized religion, it's the same thing today. Now here, once they got to the top of Mount Olive, he explained how things are going to end. In Matthew 24, four through nine, Jesus answered and said, take heed, don't let anyone deceive you. For many will come in my name saying, I am the Christ. And this is something that happens in the tribulation. And they will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you're not troubled. For all of these things must come to pass. But the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation. Kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, pestilence, earthquakes in various places. And all these are the beginnings of sorrow. What you have to be careful about doing is in interpreting the trends of history and saying that this means Christ is about to return. It does not. Christ could return today. He doesn't need anything to happen. We're waiting on the exit resurrection or what we call the rapture of the church. And these things that he's talking about here are different. This is times during the tribulation. But listen, it's very similar, isn't it? Wars and rumors of wars, don't worry about it. Don't be afraid. You don't need to fear that somebody's gonna destroy the world. You don't need to fear that Russia's gonna get into a nuclear bomb contest with America and we're gonna bomb each other and nobody's gonna be left and we're gonna destroy the world. That's not true. You cannot destroy the world. The Bible tells us how the world will end. And it's not that way. The Lord Jesus Christ has to come He has to sit on the throne of David and have his thousand-year millennial reign before this world is eventually destroyed and replaced with a new heaven and a new earth. So don't buy into all that greeny stuff that we're going to destroy the world, nobody's going to be left. Our Lord began to disclose the tribulation period. He told the disciples about his eventual return to assume his rightful throne in Jerusalem. I'm telling you these things so you'll understand the importance of of having a flat line in your soul. Why should you have a flat line in your soul? So you can stand against the enemies of God. And by doing so, effectively glorify the Lord Jesus Christ as you represent him to those whom you come in contact with. Why is that? Because we don't live in a very forgiving environment, not at all. Don't forget our Lord was hated by the religious community. He exposed their lies. He exposed their hypocrisy. And remember that the greatest power of Satan lies in organized religion. Remember that. And you start saying, oh, they worship the devil, and oh, you can go down and buy devil worship material. That may be all fine and true, but where more people will be denied heaven is in the name of religion. many will say to me in that day the bible says lord lord did i not do this and did i not do that and he said i'll tell him i never knew you depart from me it's possible that people think they're going to heaven because they have church membership people think they're going to heaven because they don't cuss smoke drink or chew or run around with those that do people think they're going to heaven because of something that they do or didn't do and that's not true The only way anyone can go to heaven is through Christ. And he said, I am the way, I am the truth, I am the life. No man comes to the Father but by means of me. And if they hated the Lord Jesus Christ, and you are a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, they're going to hate you too. Matthew 24, 9, they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake. not a very forgiving environment in the tribulation and not a very forgiving environment right here today. We live in perilous times in the devil's world. This is what you face if you in fact decide that you have enough guts and enough courage to advance to spiritual maturity in your life. I can assure you Satan will attempt to take advantage of your weaknesses. Why would he do that? Well, so he can impugn the name of God. That's exactly what he wants to do. He wants to use you as a witness for his defense. And this is exactly what he did once God allowed him to test Job. He said, the only reason Job worships you is you put a hedge of protection around it. Let me take that hedge down and he'll turn on you. He did not. And that's exactly what Satan still tries to get believers to do today. Once something bad happens in the Christian's life, they want to turn on God. Why did you let this happen to me, God? You have to understand suffering and why God allows suffering. Sometimes it's for discipline. Sometimes it's for blessing. Sometimes it's momentum testing. Sometimes it's evidence testing. But make no mistake about it. A mature believer will go through testing, and that is your time that you can shine for his glory. even if it's in your old age with health tests and even if it's in your young age with bad decisions that you made in recovering from those decisions, you can't look back. You can't look back at your mistakes. You can't look back at your failures. You can't get a guilt complex and go sit in the corner and cry and say, I was a bad Christian. God doesn't love me. That's crazy. If you're still alive, God loves you. He loves you even if you die. He loved you before you were born. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that whoever believed in him would not perish but have everlasting life. So sure, Satan wants you to get a guilt complex. Sure, Satan wants you to go sit down in the corner, suck on your thumb and feel sorry for yourself. That's not the Christian life. Christian life is when you fail, you rebound. Christian life is when the sin nature takes control, you confess the sin, get back to the filling of the Holy Spirit. Christian life is you standing in faith, using the faithless drill, not being afraid of adverse circumstances in your life and orienting to God's grace, learning the Word of God. As the Bible says, study to show yourself approved unto God and then developing a sense of destiny, understanding why God brought you here. what your reason for existing is, and then the greatest virtue anyone could ever have is personal love for God. How can you love someone you don't even know? Once you get to know God, I mean, I didn't know much about God when I got saved, and I don't think you did either. But once I got saved, once I accepted Christ as my Savior and I began to learn about God the Father, his attributes, what he did for me, And that develops a virtue in your life and motivates you because the Bible says in 1 John 5, 3, if you love me, you will obey me. And my mandates are not much. They're not hard. So this is what happens. Satan will attempt to take advantage of you if you decide to reach spiritual maturity. He will try to take advantage of your weaknesses in order to impugn the name of God. So make no mistake about it. That will be your time to shine for God's glory. In Ephesians 6, Paul used a military metaphor to describe our lives as Christians in the middle of this conflict, in the middle of these what we call non-forgiving environment. He used a military metaphor to describe our life of conflict. And he, don't forget now, but we have three enemies. Let's make sure we don't forget that. The world, the flesh, and the devil, obviously. So before we look at Ephesians 6, let's remember 1 John 2, 15, don't love the world. Don't love the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. Loving the world is not virtue love. Loving the world is preoccupation with self. The world belongs to Satan. This is his world, not yours. 2 Corinthians 4, 4, whose minds the God of this age has blinded. Who is the God of this age? It's a.k.a. the devil. He blinded those who don't believe lest they would believe in the light of the gospel, the glory of Christ, whose the image of God would shine on them. Satan is good at deceiving deceptive practices so that people will not believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. If he can obscure the gospel by works, by religious, by religious activities, as the scribes and the Pharisees demanded that people deserve the law. No one went to heaven by observing the law. No one. And that this is exactly what religion does today. They blind the minds of those who don't believe. If you're going to be friends with the world, it's the devil's world. You got to understand you're going to be forced to compromise. You're going to have to compromise what you believe. If you don't, you're going to be condemned for not being inclusive and respectful of the lifestyle of the center. You will be lured by the happiness associated with wealth and beauty. Yeah, that's going to make you happy, all right. Look at Hollywood. Look at the disasters in Hollywood, the ruined lives and the ruined marriages in spite of the money. Happiness doesn't come from money. Happiness doesn't come from beauty. Jesus Christ, the Lord God himself said, happiness belongs to those people who hear my father's word and keep it. It's a wonderful way to live without a guilt complex. It's a wonderful way to live to know that your heavenly father has it all under control. He's got the whole world in his hands. Yes, he does. So if you try to be friends with the world, you're going to be compromising everything else just to be friends with them. And that's not a very forgiving environment. Well, then there's also the flesh the Bible talks about. It's the ever-present sin nature. That's the bad you, the one that likes to lust, to lie, to gossip, to criticize, to malign, to complain, The person who lives blindsided arrogance with unrealistic self-image and unrealistic expectations, that's your flesh. It's always with you. Galatians 5.17 says the flesh wars against the spirit, and the spirit wars against the flesh. And these are contrary one to another, so you cannot do the things you should do, the things you want to do. Paul talked about it in Romans when he said, I don't understand myself at all because I want to do what's right, but I keep on doing what's wrong. And he said, it's obvious that it's sin in me. And that's your problem and my problem. We have a flesh, an ever-present sin nature. Now, here's the wonderful thing. Once you transfer to heaven, once you go to the home office, no more flesh. You get a new body, a resurrection body, and it will not be contaminated with Adam's original sin. You won't have a sin nature anymore. But right now, you got it. And if you live under the control of your flesh, then you begin to mimic the lifestyle of the unbeliever. And when you do that, when you live like the unbeliever lives, you neutralize your impact for the Lord Jesus Christ in the devil's world. Actually, the devil stands on the sideline and claps. He applauds your failure. Why? Well, it vindicates his own failure as a fallen angel. So sure. He wants you to fail. Therefore, he can impugn the name of God and say, well, why could you save this person and not save me? Look what they're doing. They claim to be your child. You and I both know you failed. You and I both know we failed. You and I both know what kind of real people we are. Question is, are you willing to grow to spiritual maturity? Are you tired of living a double lifestyle? Listen, The third enemy is the deceiver. Romans 12, 9 indicates his eventual incarceration for his deceptive practices. Not only is he a deceiver, but he's a liar and the father of lies and a murderer. In John 8, 44, you are of your father, the devil. This is what the Lord Jesus Christ told the religious crowd. And the desires of your father you want to do. He, aka the devil, was a murderer from the beginning and it does not stand in truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks it from his own resources for he's a liar and he's the father of all lies. Any human viewpoint is a lie. Divine viewpoint is God's way, God's word, God's will. That's why the Bible keeps telling us, stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think. but think in terms of humility as God has assigned to each one of us a standard of thinking from his word. When you buy into the human viewpoint, you buy the lie of Satan. Listen, you've got to come to grips with why God left you here to start with. I mean, when did you actually accept Christ? When did you get saved? For me, it was way back in August of 1967. God left me here for a reason. God left you here for a reason. We are engaged in an angelic conflict. And in that conflict, Satan is seeking to justify his actions in eternity past and vindicate himself by using me and you as witnesses for his defense. Now we have an advocate in heaven, and it's the Lord Jesus Christ. He intercedes for us. He's our defense attorney. This is exactly what Satan wants to do. He wants to get out of the lake of fire by using you as a witness for his defense. And so you cannot afford to live this double lifestyle any longer, what you've been doing, the way you've been living, one foot in the world, one foot in the church, one foot in, one foot out. I mean, how much longer are you going to live like this? James 1.8 says the double-minded man is unstable in all of his ways. No wonder you can't sleep at night. No wonder you can't rest. You're full of mental attitude sins. You're full of the lust of the flesh. You're full of the call of the world. You're trying to buy happiness in all the wrong places, and it's not ever going to happen. You are double-minded, two-sided. When will you come to your senses? This demand is placed on you by God himself. You must quit justifying your lack of effort to grow spiritually. You must quit justifying your occasional trek into the world's opiate and the fleshly desires of pleasure. You gotta stop doing that. And that just boils down to you, no one else, you. You are the victim of your own decisions. So here's the question I want to ask you today. Are you ready to accelerate your quest to become a spiritually mature believer regardless of age? I received a letter recently from an 81-year-old man. Here's what he wrote. He said, I feel like I've wasted my life because I was never taught these principles you give. I have given 38 years of service to the church and now understand I was doing all the right things in the wrong way. So here I am. 81 years old and a baby Christian trying to study God's word and use it in my life. I can assure you that this is not the only individual who's reached out to me to ask for direction and encouragement. So what about you? Is this message just going one ear and out the other? Because I assure you there will be a time when your growth will be examined and you will face loss of rewards or great appreciation for the way you lived your life. 1 Corinthians 3, 11 through 15 talks about it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now, if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, every man's production will become clear for the day will declare it. It will be revealed by fire and the fire will reveal each man's work of what sort it was. If any man's work which he's built on endures, he will receive a reward. If any man's work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, yet as though by fire. This simply means that a lot of your right thing in the wrong way will be burned up, and the right thing in the right way will be rewardable. But even if everything you did for God is burned up, you're still going to heaven because the foundation is not destroyed. The environment you live in is not very forgiving. And eventually, if you continue to live the lifestyle you've adopted, I'm telling you, you will self-destruct under your delusion and under Satan's deceptions. So it's really up to you. I keep on this radio show. I keep bringing this message to you. You keep listening. You keep hearing. When are you going to do something about it? I hope you're paying attention this morning. I'm your host, Rick Hughes. I thank you for listening to The Flotline. I hope you'll come back next week, same time, same place. Until then, I pray God's greatest grace and mercy on your life. Thank you for listening today.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
Join Father Andre as he reflects on his incredible journey from escaping persecution in Lebanon to advocating for religious freedom in the United States. This episode dives deep into the celebration of saints such as St. Teresa of Lisieux and St. Francis of Assisi, exploring their impact on faith and morality. Mary Flynn joins to share her personal insights on how the lives of saints can inspire us to act with love and compassion in our own lives.
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One day you stole me, nuncia vit Maria, At age 10, Father Andre escaped Christian massacres by living in caves in Mount Lebanon with his family. Today, Father Andre works tirelessly to encourage American leaders to keep God in the public square, defending religious freedom at home and abroad, so that all might live in peace for the glory of God. Founder and president of the Mission of Hope and Mercy, Father Andre has learned the secret to safety, joy, and peace. Love God and one another. Now, let us spend 33 minutes on the Lord's Day, retuning ourselves to the truth of love in the hands of God.
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Praise be the most holy name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, now and forever and ever. Amen. Who is going to save our church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes, and the ears to save the church. Your mission is to see that your priests act like priests, your bishops act like bishops, and your religious act like religious. Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen in 1972. Good Holy Sunday morning to you, my brothers and sisters. This week is very important. The first week of October is one of the most beautiful, spiritually strong weeks for us as Christians who are devoted to the life of the saints, to the history of the saints, and also to know about historical events that happened in the history of the Church, which affected our sovereignty, our freedom, the protection and the safety of the Holy Roman Church. You know, the first week of October we celebrate the feast day of St. Teresa of Lisieux, Teresa the flower. We also celebrate, yesterday we celebrated the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of many of the traditions, but definitely the Franciscans in the world and many of the traditions, including all the way to the Capuchins. many layers of first and second and third orders, the little friars of St. Francis of Assisi, the saint who consecrated also into the life of vigilant consecration to the Lord in the life of virginity, obedience, chastity, and poverty and stability, Santa Clara and the founder of the Clarist also, who both of them were founded in Assisi. And then we celebrated of Saint Cybrian and Justina, the brother and sister who were magicians in the early centuries, yet coming to know the love of God through the martyrs that they themselves were actually hurting and killing, they ended up rejecting. and renouncing the black magic, and they both died as martyrs. We also celebrate the feast of Our Lady Queen of the Most Holy Rosary. October 7 is a date that is a very important date for the Catholic Church, for Europe, for Rome, for the seizing and the freedom of the Papal States and the Western Europe from the hands of the Turks, from the hands of the Ottomans. When in the middle centuries as well, a rosary was being prayed and the war of Lepanto. Many things that today we will recall on this beautiful, irrevocable podcast, unbreakable. You know, you cannot because remember that the stone which was rejected by the builders became the cornerstone. Today is such an honor again to have the friend for the mission of hope and mercy, the friend of many of us in the nation and a friend of me personally as Father Andre, Mary Flynn with us. Mary, I want to wish you a wonderful, happy feast days for all of these things and good Sunday morning to you.
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Yeah, lots of feasts today, lots of celebration and great people, great, great, wonderful, faithful people to the Lord, right? And you are too, you're a wonderful man.
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Thank you, Mary. Looking at the life of these beautiful saints, every one of them, I mean, of course, if we, I do strongly recommend that people watch the life of Santa Teresa, the little flower of Santa Teresa de Lisieux, Saint Francis of Assisi, namely. What do you think we as Americans can learn from the life of these saints? And a small spiritual thought from you.
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Well, you know, I love my mother had a great book, a little tiny book of saints. And I don't remember the author, but she collected many old, old books from Germany when they were in Germany. OK, even the Bible that we had as kids growing up came from this place in Germany where I was born in. My father was his last tour, army tour. And this one book in particular was just amazing because it it was a story stories of saints. And each each chapter was about these saints. And many of them were the saints you're talking about. And, you know, so these were people and I loved reading them. That's that's really why I started learning about what the saints did. who they were, but what their reasoning for the Lord, how they became saints. But these saints were not perfect people. They came from imperfect, like us, ways on this earth and families. Many had very hard struggles with alcoholism and domestic violence and sadness of women. Many of the women saints lived through a lot of kind of torture and so forth. sexual hurting, you know, and so forth. And so they're not perfect. They were not perfect people. But yet they aspired to listen to the Lord, to listen when they finally found His voice. I always think of seeing Augustine. He was a tough kid growing up. His mother wanted him to be a better kid and so forth. And he was just a kid that was always getting into trouble. So they did these things. And then when they found the Lord and they found what their purpose and their mission was, they blossomed. They became exactly what the Lord's wanted them to be. And they obeyed him and they made a difference on this earth. And if you look at these people, these people are people that we need to pray to that will still help us, you know, still be part of our lives, which is so amazing in the Catholic faith, these saints. They're just amazing. I've prayed to Padre Pio. I've even prayed to Assisi. Now everybody thinks, you know, the animals, when they think of, they think of the patron of animals, right? Of Assisi. Yes. But he did so much more. There were so many more things that he was a patron of, a patron saint of, you know?
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I want to tell you there's something remarkable. If you look behind you, there's faith, family, and the freedom, I believe. You have a sign behind you, right?
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Yes.
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Yes. And definitely when you look and you speak about the saints, it's almost you have to consider that they are promoters of faith, promoters of freedom, promoters of family, right? I mean, if you look at the life of Santa Teresa, the little flower, her mom and dad were nobility. They had rank in society. And then of course, the five girls, all of them become nuns. And obviously in our Catholic tradition, it is very ordinary. It seems that in old days when we had large families of 12 children. Yes. seven children and 14 children and 10 children, that many of them would go to life of consecration. The family, the mom and dad always consecrated one member, at least one member of their children. They said, this child will be a nun, this child will be a monk, this child will be a priest. And it's almost a beautiful heritage for us. I want to say that in the life of the saints, definitely faith is being promoted. The family is being promoted and the freedom is being promoted. Santa Teresa, the little flower, for instance, you know, in her short life on planet Earth, you know, she entered into the Carmelite order at the age of 15, at the very, very, very early age. And she followed her sisters. But yet at the same time, the very first work she wanted to do is to be this big saint. At the age of 15, she would want to carry these huge, uh lumbers on her shoulder and walk with the nuns but she had the lung disease unfortunately she was very fragile she was very sick and then she couldn't do those big huge things so she goes to the church and she writes a following to her lord jesus christ in her diary she said i will do the little things with big love I will do the little things with big love. And of course, there's something very important that she consecrated her entire monastic life for, which did not even stay probably for 10 years because she died very early at the age of 24 when she died, unfortunately, from her lung disease. She consecrated her life for the repentance and the conversion of the hardest serial killer in France. who killed hundreds of people and buried him in the backyard. She prayed for his conversion. And obviously when they came to give him the death penalty and the priest came to, the priest who was supposed to come to anoint Santa Teresa, the little flower, came late. She was in her agony. She suffered terrible agony upon death bed. So the priest was late. Pauline, her sister, she was a superior of the convent. She told him, why are you late? My sister cannot die. She's like so much in suffering and she's so scared. She can't see heaven because Teresa, before she died, she said, I can't see it. I can't see it. I'm not going to die. I can see it. And she was coughing blood and she was getting out of breath. And then Pauline would try to console her because her agony was with a tremendous pain and suffering. And then the priest walks in with a newspaper in his hand. He said, praise the Lord. I'm sorry I am late, but can you believe it? that the worst criminal in the history of France repented. And before they gave him the death penalty, he asked to confess his sins and to repent. So Teresa looks at Pauline, she says, that was my wish. This was the person for whom I consecrated my entire monastic life. So Pauline, now I don't die, but I enter into life. And from heaven, I will spend my days in heaven, showering roses forever. on earth with every sinner who repent to answer the graces of god and she passed away immediately because she refused to die she refused to die not until jesus granted her the wish that the hardest criminal the worst sinner that there could be in france as a criminal right before receiving his death penalty he actually decided to repent or confess his sins regretted his sins and confessed And died after he has been to confession. So death penalty seems today to have come back to our... Yes. Would you like to talk about that? Because I do not want to... I'm not going to ask you the question. So who brought up the death penalty and pro-life? What is the story? What's going on?
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Well, the pro-life, yeah. So, well, the Pope was, Leo, he was asked by a great little reporter who asked about this. And it's very Durbin, Senator Durbin. I mean, this is in the news now, right? This Senator Durbin receiving this lifetime award kind of thing or whatever they're doing. I mean, I just, it's ridiculous to me, those kinds of things. Yeah. You got to be careful with those kinds of awards because, you know, I mean, what you're talking about is, you know, people repenting and forgiveness and all that. That's when people need an award, you know, to be able to be honest and say your sins and give it up. And that's what we need more of today is, you know, some of these politicians, they need to come clean and just tell the truth. And boy, does that set you free. You know, so so so the death penalty now down here in Florida, we have the death penalty with, you know, rape, raping a child. OK, that's that's a that's a death penalty. I'll get you the death penalty. Now, I, you know, with my study and what I believe, and the Lord may not like it, but I don't believe that anybody should be, you know, held aside. I mean, you know, the saying of rather have a... What is that saying? I just had it this morning. We were talking about around your neck and thrown into the bottom of the sea. That's a that's a to me a sentence of death. OK, the millstone millstone tied around your neck. And people do relate that to child rape or killing or things like that. And so that is, you know, this determination of. You know, maybe it meant that's the death penalty to me. She can't survive that unless you have a miracle, unless the Lord saves you from that. Drowning and that's not a good way to dry to die. So the death penalty. Yes difficult for us to judge and make a death penalty, but there are reasons for I believe that, you know, I don't have any kind of patience with anybody that hurts a child. I'm done with this with this child mutilation and killing so as far as you know that and my soul is concerned. I look to that scripture and I and I say, you know to me that's that means the death penalty.
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So I want to tell you, I do not know for the sake just of history up to 1969. Yeah, 1969. Actually, the Vatican state had capital punishment, had death penalty. That's right. That's right. That's the other thing. In our punitive code, we did have death penalty. And for instance, one of the reasons for death penalty is for anybody who attempt to kill the Pope. Yes, that's right. They would condemn them with a death penalty. But of course, with Pope Paul VI in 1969, he removed the capital punishment from the status of the fundamental law of the Vatican City. And then Pope Francis again in 2018 solidified that this is now inadmissible by the Catholic Church because it's against the integrity of the Catholic Church. person of the christian of the human of the human person and somehow but we see how pope leo is telling us listen you wanna be pro-life today pro-life um is no longer the defense of the unborn uh the stance on pro-life it seems uh pope lee is trying to tell us uh there are um many causes under pro-life it's no longer only the cause of abortion is this how you understood it
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Yeah, well, yes, because everybody well, yes. I mean, you know, everybody knows pro-life is associated with abortion, pro-abortion, pro-life. OK, it's always been that way. It's been that since I was a little girl and my mother was fighting for pro-life, which was against fighting against abortion. So, yes, he so he's now twisted this and tried to change what we were talking about earlier was changing this messaging of this. Now, I want to step back a little bit because I was reading Taylor Marshall, Dr. Marshall's response. And I found this very interesting now. Now, he's a converted, you know, Catholic, right? He was a product, I believe, a Protestant Christian. minister of some kind, some kind of clergy or some kind of a leader. OK, I don't really know his background, but I know he's converted to Catholicism and so forth. So he says, Pope Leo. said that if you support the death penalty, then you are not pro-life, right? That's what he said. So he says that means that Moses and parts of the Pentateuch, and I say that wrong, Pentateuch, right? Pentateuch, Pentateuch. Pentateuch, yes, are not pro-life. It means dozens of popes were not pro-life and were heretics. He says that's obviously false. OK, so there's a view. OK, there's a view that he's he's taking stance on, which is going back to Moses. I mean, that's that's interesting that he says that you might want to familiarize yourself with the Catholic, the catechism of the Catholic Church, which is the CCC, which you're talking about. Right. Right.
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I'm not going to enter into debate, but I want to tell you, Pope Leo knows his dogma, knows where he's coming from. And I want to tell you why I am saying this. There is an encyclical which was written by Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum. I do not know if you have ever heard of it, Rerum Novarum, of the new things, basically. Okay. And this encyclical was also commemorated later on by Pope John Paul II in 1987, because it was written in 1887, in an encyclical called Solicitudo Re Socialis. Okay. Celebrating 100-year anniversary for the new things. But it seems that the Holy Fathers, since Pope Leo XIII, so 130 years ago, let's say since 1887 all the way till 2025, how many popes we have, every one of these popes started going more towards the social teaching of the church. Before that, and it's important that we explain that so you know, like a person who is very well knowledgeable and has critical opinions to give actually and to advise people, public officials all the way probably from the highest office in the land to the most organic workers in the field and vineyard of our nation and of our Lord. The popes in the 20th century, since Pope Leo XIII, they moved away from the divine revelation and the divinity of Jesus Christ. And they started talking more about the social teaching of the church.
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That's right.
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And in terms of the social teaching of the church, they admitted that the structure of our humanity does not depend alone on the divine revelation. I'm not advocating. I'm just telling you what we learned and what they wrote. These are encyclicals, apostolic exhortations, big conferences that the Pope's ran. So the position of every Pope has been more and more leaning towards admitting the social science of sociology, the social science of sociology as a defining character. in the moral teaching of the church not only the divine revelation of course the doctor that you spoke about a few minutes ago of course he's right in referring to the holy bible but the holy father say clearly the holy bible is not the only source Looking at the moral crisis and the moral identity of the human being. The social sciences or the human sciences, we call them in French, les sciences humaines, such as psychology, such as anthropology, such as sociology. Those sciences for the church, they mean a lot. Yes, they do. um uh pope i i noticed that pope leo when he was asked about a month ago what else was popular asked about um something regarding his meeting i guess with the priests and the vatican that priest and that sister i i he was asked to he was asked something um after he met with controversial priests i believe and uh and the pope leo answered well we look at the human crisis we look at the human crisis not only under the light of divine revelation but also based on sociology as a matter of fact as a matter of fact the first encyclical that pope leo now is writing yeah is anthropology wow what are you gonna say go ahead oh no you i i mean
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Why are we going there? Why does he have to do that? You know, why would you do that? The Catholic 101 is no exception. I have it here. Abortion, no non-negotiables. Abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning and same sex marriage. OK, it doesn't mention anything about death penalty. whether it's right or wrong. It's just about, you know, what, what can, what are we going to negotiate? And that is, you know, euthanasia. I mean, these things have been corrupted the way they've done these things, the abortion, you know, issue was, you know, we didn't have medical attention. We were doing it in closed doors behind closet doors with terrible, you know, mechanism, you know, so, so now we're here at this point where we are killing, we are the you know lowest birth rate of all time history in every nation so we've killed you know millions and millions of babies in the womb you know so we're why can't he make a stand never mind anthropology never mind that nonsense with him he's he's these leaders they infuriate me they really do because can't you look at the whole picture of, you know, through Christ's eyes and understand the satanic, the very much evil and why we have killed so many, sacrificed so many babies. There's a reason that they are doing this. And why can't he see this? Why can't he see this and say, no, no more abortion? No, everybody, no more abortion. Why can't he do that?
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Again, I'm not going to advocate, but I'm going to tell you how they operate, how they think. Exactly. That's what I want. That's what I want you to say. The social concern of the church has grown tremendous, has grown tremendous and as important as the divine revelation. Pope Benedict XVI used to say, and I was close to him, I was honestly close to him, I had the most privileged time in my life, I believe that would fulfill my eternity, to have been in contact with the umwelt, with the Weltanschauung of that Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI. He used to say, that the church 500 years ago stopped going towards the kingdom of God. Right. 500 years ago, and he was referring to 1510. That's right. It was King Henry VIII and Pope Leo X. That's right. yeah the problem of the indulgences the problem of uh you know um building the basilica of saint peter and the cardinals and the you know the the the middle age crisis of the church which produced the reform the protestantism and the counter-reform the 200 years of wars between protestantism and catholicism that's right millions of catholics ended up being killed the church was a chastise inside the great britain the anglican church the english church was born was Henry the eighth and then with Mary and Edward and Queen Elizabeth the first. And after that, the role that the Protestant Kingdom of Great Britain played to make sure that the emperor of China and the emperor of Japan also chastise and kill and murder and abolish every Catholic institution in Asia and in eastern and far and far Asia, which they did. And they did. And they did. They killed hundreds of thousands of laity and priests and Catholic people and they ended up being underground. The French Revolution of 1789, which produced the reign of terror. It produced the reign of terror for 17 or 15 years or 20 some years. Over 60,000 Catholics were killed, massacred, exiled, dunked in the sand, in the river, and in north of France as well, in the river. A priest started being called Monsieur Le Cuvier. Napoleon rendered that all the private properties of the church now, including in the Papal State, because he occupied Rome as well as France, became the property of the French government and the French people. But nobody realizes, by the way, the Vatican accepted all of this. The Vatican in 1929 accepted this with the Concordatio Lateranese between Mussolini and the Pope and the recognition of the state of Italy by the state of the Vatican of the state of the vatican by the state of italy depended on this on territorial recognition that the vatican uh they will give the territories to the italian government they will recognize the italian government and they maintain the vatican as their own state and that's right the vatican became a state then i want to continue to to tell you there is something even worse a little bit do you know when we moved from the italian lira to the euro. The Vatican was the very first quarter that was ever printed. I do not know if you know that. I do. I saw it. With the euro. And then the properties that the Vatican, that were confiscated by the French government since 1700. Since 1700. 08 or 02 was Napoleon and after Napoleon. were given back to the Vatican as a lease, not as an ownership. And the Vatican paid for the very first thing in the euro to the French government, one euro paying back as a lease to permanently lease back their own territories, which once were the papal territories inside the France.
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Yeah.
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Now, isn't that interesting? Because, you know, here we have a new world that's been discovered in 1700s America. You're right. 1776, but that's an interesting... Now, so you just gave a history of pre-America, right? Of pre-United States, really.
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And the crisis of attacks against the church. I think these attacks opened the dent inside the church and there was infiltration inside the church. And then the church realized that it can no longer find a justification for the persecution. There is this movie called The Silence. That's right. About these Jesuit priests who went into, I believe, into China, if I'm not mistaken, or into Japan. And then how one priest had to reject God because his mind was so much manipulated by the emperor due to the inflicted pain that they gave him. And God was silent. God never responded.
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No, I know.
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You know, they say that Pope Pius XII had nightmares. Pope Pius XII had nightmares. And in his personal writing, he had so many dark writings. Dark, yes. Dark writings.
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That's right.
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About him and God and how God doesn't respond. You know, I think the church right before Vatican II was Pope Pius XII. So until 1958, this is when he died. That's 1958, yeah. You know, the Pope was given a report and he was saying, well, look at the inheritance of Catholicism in Europe, Holy Father. Look at Christianity in Europe. What did we produce since the reform, 1510, back again to that date, all the way till the time of the World War II when it ended. That's right. Over 300 million people died. That's right. The church felt the failure totally to preach the kingdom of heaven. So for the church to take people, to usher people towards the kingdom of heaven, the church had to go in a direct line towards the social teaching to bring people together. into an envelope of dialogue, mutual respect, human dignity, and you started hearing, talking about the human values. There is nothing called the human values. What is the human value when Adam and Eve ate from the fruit? What is the human value? It doesn't exist. The only human value is for the human being when they are baptized to Jesus Christ before Vatican II. That's right. But after Vatican II, I think the church being so traumatized. Yes, traumatized. So traumatized by the many massacres, the many murders, the many killing, the many wars which are produced by, unfortunately, Christian hands as well. Christian empires, Christian kingdoms.
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Well, the monarchy, right?
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The monarchy.
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That was our thing, was the monarchy. And that's the Protestant church, you know, and the Catholics were. I mean, you know, I just watched a great movie on the Guinness family. And people should watch this. And I mean, I'm not a Netflix fan, but. I'm an Irish family. We're from an Irish Catholic family. And I am very, very interested in the fight between the Protestants and the Catholics. And history is just amazing when you think of this new world that they had discovered here in the 1700s, this United States, coming from all the... turmoil you're talking about all the you know mess from europe and the way protestants the monarchy were talking about the monarchy control and the crazy kings and queens we had right they were crazy people some crazy very very rare was it a good you found a good faithful one that was uh You talk about socially, you know, who was who was a good person to its people. You know, he would he treated people with humanity, good humanity, you know, good, good guy.
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Join Rick Hughes as he delves into the divine concept of 'The Wall of Fire,' a spiritual shield provided by God to protect believers from satanic adversaries. Throughout this episode, discover how a network of ten problem-solving devices can enhance your spiritual maturity and prepare you to resist satanic influences effectively. Rick provides insight into the significance of renewing your mind and maintaining a personal sense of destiny against the backdrop of spiritual warfare.
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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 am your host, Rick Hughes, and I'll be with you for the next few minutes, 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education, but absolutely no manipulation. I say it every Sunday, so to be clear, we're not seeking money. We're not trying to get you to join anything. We're not trying to get you to fess up anything. We just want you to listen. Listen as I attempt to verify as well as identify God's plan for your life. If I'm able to do that and you would like to orient and adjust to the plan, that's up to you. You're responsible for your life. You have a volition, the chooser, decider. God gave it to you. and you can decide what you want to do. My job is not to bully you, not to coerce you, but to give you the truth, and you make the decision. The Flotline comes to you every Sunday morning, compliments of the grace of God. We don't try to raise money. We just trust the Lord to pay for it, and he always has, and he always will as long as he's in it. We do broadcast on podcasts as well, podcast media. Apple iPod, Spotify, Breaker, Anchor, some of these podcast platforms. The Flotline can be found on those podcast venues as well. We have well over hundreds, maybe 500, 600, 700 shows there, along with the notes of our radio shows. And by using your tablet or your iPhone or your cell phone, you can listen anytime, anywhere, any day by podcast. not just on Sunday mornings. And of course, I welcome you to always come visit our website, simply rickhughesministries.org, rickhughesministries.org. There you can see the material that we offer free of charge, the various books we've written and published, and they're all for you if you need it. Remember, the Flotline deals with 10 unique problem-solving devices. taught by my pastor to me many years ago. This is not something I originally came up with. He taught it to me. I'm teaching it to you just like he gave it to me. We start out with rebound, which is the problem-solving device for sin. When we sin, we recover from our sin by confessing our sin, 1 John 1.9. And then we have the filling of the Holy Spirit, Ephesians 5.18, be filled with the Spirit. That's a problem-solving device that solves the problem of your sin nature controlling your life. Then we have the faith rest drill, standing on the promises of God, using the over 7,000 promises in the Bible to calm your fears and relax you so that even though you have adversity, you don't have to have stress. Then we move into grace orientation, biblical orientation, taking you to a personal sense of destiny, understanding God's will and plan for your life and why you're here. Motivated by your virtue love, which is personal love for God and impersonal love for others. This takes us to sharing the happiness of God. Jesus Christ our Lord said in John 15, 11, I've told you these things so that my joy might be in you and your joy might be full. And eventually, occupation with Christ. We could teach hours on each one of these sessions, but we have a book called Christian Problem Solving. You can order and you can listen. They're all things I've taught on the show, and you can read the book. And have the notes in your hand if you'd like to have it. Just write to us and we'll send it to you. We also have transcripts of all of our shows from 2019 and 2020, printed transcripts of each show. So thank you. Thank you for letting me tell you that. And thank you for writing to me. Thank you for staying in touch and for the calls that I get. It's amazing to hear some of the people that say their life has been changed by listening to this show. I'm so grateful for that. I'm grateful for the motivation that you found by God the Holy Spirit and through the word to continue your spiritual advance to become a spiritually mature believer. That's my objective, to look for those people that want to grow in grace and represent Jesus Christ through your life and your testimony. Today I'd like to talk about the wall of fire. The wall of fire. God has established a wall of fire to protect you and I'd like to show it to you in the Bible. Let's start off with 1 Peter 1, 5. It says, "'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, "'who, according to his abundant mercy, "'has begotten us again to a living hope "'by means of the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, "'to an inheritance that's incorruptible, undefiled, "'and will not fade away, "'and is reserved in heaven for you, "'who are kept by the power of God.'" There it is, kept by the power of God. through faith for salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. You are kept by the power of God. The Lord Jesus Christ said, no man can pluck you out of his father's hand. His father that gave them to you is greater than all, and no man can pluck you out of my father's hand. These verses that I'm going to go through this morning and what I'll cover with you this morning indicate that Satan plans offensive action against the entire human race and especially against believers. His offensive action demands on your part and my part that we depend on the Lord and the wall of fire with which God surrounds us to protect us. And if we have a substantial pivot in this nation, that's a core group of mature believers, then that same wall of fire will protect the nation, the client nation, USA. But if the pivot diminishes, that core group of mature believers, if it diminishes, then national discipline can follow even from outside sources of evil like evil nations. That wall of fire will stay up as long as we have a pivot, and the pivot is not religion. The pivot is a personal relationship with Christ believers who grow to maturity, believers who replicate the lifestyle of Christ and replicate the thinking of Christ. That's what forms the pivot and holds the nations together. As goes the mature believer, so goes the history of the nations. And our pivot is shrinking every day. There are a lot of great pastors teaching a lot of great truth, but they really don't have large congregations because they're not performers. They're not musicians. They're not trying to sell books. They're just trying to teach their people. Most of the great pastors that I know don't have large churches. Most of the large churches I know have a big program and a lot going on. So anyhow, with a substantial pivot, we can survive as a nation. And you and I, we should be aware that Satan has an opposition and a strategy towards us. We should be aware of satanic opposition and strategy, and again, so should the leadership in this nation. Our leadership, our politicians, our president should be aware that Satan has a plan to shut down this nation. And we apparently forgot the lesson, I think, because Satan would love to stop any missionary outreach of this client nation, USA, to the world. Any missionary outreach he would love to shut down. He's already succeeded in shutting down much of it inside this nation when There are generations and generations of young people that have never heard the gospel in their schools. You can't talk about God anymore. You can't have any sort of public prayer, even at a football game. And I do speak in a lot of schools, but they are private schools. They're private academies. And still the freedom to talk about God's word and to lift up Christ is still there. And I'm grateful for that. So we are in trouble as a nation. The pivot may be shrinking in America. We may be facing some terrible times ahead. You know, as well as I know, if you look at history, you can see it coming. So any Christian, you or me, if we're distracted from advancing in our spiritual life, If we fall victim to our own neglect and we don't pose a threat to the enemy, he's fine with that. He's okay with that as long as you don't threaten with any sort of spiritual maturity in your life. But your personal wall of fire, if God gives it to you, it does not mean you sit around and do nothing to protect yourself from satanic opposition. Your wall of fire doesn't mean you do nothing. You have a responsibility. Note the passages I'm about to give you. In Ephesians 4.22, put off concerning your former conduct, the old man, that's your sin nature, which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lust and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. This is Paul talking to the Ephesians in church at Ephesus. Put off. is the Greek word, and it means to lay aside, lay aside your former conduct, your former lifestyle. Again, listen to it. Put off concerning your former conduct the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lust, and then be renewed in the spirit of your mind. This is your responsibility. Four things. Put off your former conduct. Be renewed in the spirit of your mind. Former conduct. What's he talking about there? Well, in Ephesians 4, 17 through 18, he wrote about the conduct of the unbeliever. And listen carefully as I read it to you. Ephesians 4, 17 through 18. This I say therefore and warn you. In the Lord, that's the preposition of source here, in the Lord, that you should not walk as the Gentiles walk in the futility of their mind. Their minds had been hijacked. Their minds were empty. There was a vacuum there. It's the Greek word metaiotes. It's a vacuum. They had no divine viewpoint. Their thoughts had been hijacked. What happens if Satan's able to hijack your thinking? Listen to verse 18. Having their understanding darkened, now alienated from the plan of God because of ignorance that is in them from the blindness of their own heart, the hardness of their own heart. This is the lifestyle these believers came out of in Ephesus. And when Paul says, put off your former conduct, this is what he's talking about. Don't live like this. You cannot live with an empty mind, a vacuum mind, a mind that has nothing in it that's been hijacked. But what are you supposed to put in it? Again, you've heard me say it many times, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. You've heard me say, stop thinking of yourself in terms of arrogance beyond what you should think, Romans 12, three. So you have to understand this. If Satan can succeed in darkening your mind, hijacking your thoughts, You will be alienated from the plan of God because you have no knowledge of it. You'll have ignorance. And that's when your heart gets hard. You get scar tissue. It gets hardened where you can't even feel guilt. You don't even feel shame anymore. And that happens with the Gentiles he's talking about. So put it off. Don't live like that. Put off your former conduct and be renewed, he said. The verb renewed. Ananiou, ananiou means to make young again, refresh your thinking. Ephesians 4.22, be renewed in the spirit of your mind. This is where you live your Christian life, in your thoughts, in your mind. You go from human viewpoint thinking to divine viewpoint thinking. That's what Roman 12.3 says, stop thinking in terms of arrogance. This means you allow the Holy Spirit to control your life, to fill you and direct your thoughts till eventually you come to the place of occupation with the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's a new mindset with biblical wisdom, insight, discernment, understanding from the word of God. So if we boil it down to this, when Paul says, put off your former conduct and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, what exactly are the mechanics to do this? How do you do that? Well, in James 4, 7, the Bible says, number one, submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Submit is not a request. It's a mandate in the Greek New Testament, Aaron's passive imperative of a military word called hupotasso. For march, about face, that's what it is. It's an order, it's a command. Submit, the aorist tense is at a point in time, once repeated in time, the passive voice. You do this by means of the filling of the Holy Spirit. You don't produce it yourself. And the imperative mood is the mood of command. Submit and then resist, the aorist active imperative of anhystomy. We get a histamine from this, you know, an anhystamine that you take. And so the word resist is an aorist active imperative. So you are to submit and you are to resist. So what are the mechanics to doing this? The mechanic is submit to God, resist the devil, and he will flee from you, okay? How do I resist the devil? Well, 1 Peter 5, 8, and 9 tells you. Be sober. That's not talking about booze. Be sober. Be vigilant. Those are two things. Because your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion seeking who he can devour. Resist him in the faith, in the faith. That's Bible doctrine. That's the word of God. Knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world. So Peter's talking to believers to be sober, to concentrate, not to be goofy minded and be vigilant, be serious because you have an enemy that's walking around trying to devour you. Now, listen, I'm going to be a little gross here, but If you get devoured by Satan, your life winds up being a pile of lion poop and you don't want that. So he's going around seeking who he can devour. So resist him and be steadfast in the faith. That's the word of God. It's the only way you can stand against the enemy is to know the word of God and understand that other believers just like you are going through the same sufferings and experiencing the same things you're experiencing, Peter says. You have an enemy. AKA the devil. But thank goodness there's a wall of fire around us. We'll see it. Be sober is nepho, means be free from the influence of intoxicating doctrines. And be vigilant, gregoreo, means to keep watch, to have insight, to have discernment. Don't get recruited into false narratives and false doctrine. And then in the faith, be sober and be vigilant in the faith. Pistis, the Greek word pistis. And that's wisdom. That's God's word. That's the faith rest drill, problem solving device number three. This is exactly, exactly how the Lord Jesus Christ defeated Satan in Matthew 4. He used the same doctrine you can use to talk to him and to get him to go away. He would not subjugate himself to any suggestion that Satan came up with. He was sober, vigilant, and stood firm in the faith. So Satan's number one objective is to establish a system. And unfortunately, it's religion in which the works of mankind replace the function and the mechanics of the grace of God. That's exactly what he's up to. He wants to establish a system of religion in which the works of mankind replace the function and the mechanics of the grace of God. 2 Corinthians 4, if our gospel has been veiled, it's veiled to those that are perishing in whose case the God of this world, that's AKA the devil, has blinded the thinking of those who are unbelievers so that they might not understand or see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ through the image of God. It's a mind game. That's how you live the spiritual life, and that's what Satan seeks to do to distract you. He seeks to hijack your thinking, and this veil that goes over the unbeliever can only be lifted by putting faith in Jesus Christ. You see, God keeps us alive and God protects us with a wall of fire so that we can have the opportunity to obtain a personal sense of destiny if, in fact, we are mature believers. And part of that wall of fire is made out of truth in the form of that Word of God metabolized doctrine you've learned. What you put in your soul is called wisdom. And the wisdom of God acts as a wall of fire, protecting you from satanic propaganda and involvement in the cosmic system. So truth, Bible doctrine in the form of divine establishment truth, now this is something else. Unbelievers can have divine establishment, freedom, marriage, family, internationalism, opposed to nationalism. God sets up free will. God sets up marriage. God sets up family. God sets up nationalism. These are great principles that protect even the unbeliever from demonic influence and demonic possession. So even if a person's not a believer, if he understands this, he can have a wonderful life of what life he's got left. So a well-qualified pastor has to know these things and teach these things to the congregation. Two big areas of satanic lies that come out today are the lie of socialism, and that's base for socialism in modern history, goes all the way back to Sir Thomas More in his book on Utopia, and that's a big lie. People don't understand that capitalism and capital investment creates jobs, not government. And then Christian activism is a big lie. The devil sponsors Christian activism on one hand, while arrogant skills sponsor Christian activism on the other hand. So Satan loves for the Christian to try to go out and straighten up, clean up the devil's world, and you're not here to clean up the devil's world. 2 Corinthians 11.3, I'm afraid, lest as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness that your mind, there's the mind game again, should be led astray, that's hijacking your thoughts, from the purity and the virtue belonging to Christ. So the word of God, the truth of the word of God is purity and virtue, and we must stand on that. We must stand with that. Satan's objective is always to distract you from ever growing spiritually and move you to some sort of concept that you think a political solution is what we need. The Bible says in James 4, 7, if you'll submit yourself to God and resist the devil, he'll flee from you. Don't buy into that lie. And if a communicator of the word of God will teach the truth about this thing, he will have special protection, even though he operates in the devil's world. Isaiah 54, 17 tells him that. No weapon formed against you will ever prosper. There it is. Every tongue that rises against you in judgment, you will be able to condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord. And their vindication is from me, declares the Lord. They have a wall of fire. A well-qualified pastor teaching the Word of God has a wall of fire around him. You have a wall of fire around you if you are a maturing believer. That wall of fire starts in Zechariah 2.5 in the Old Testament where we found these words, For I, says the Lord, will be a wall of fire around her, and I will be the glory in her midst. Now these words were preached by Zachariah to the pilgrims that went back to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple and rebuild the walls. They were God's chosen people. And the concept is that he protects his chosen people. And guess what? As a believer in Jesus Christ, you are a chosen one. So God includes you in that protection since we're all in Christ. There's no difference. Listen to Galatians 3.28. If he protected them, he will protect you. How do I know that? Galatians 3.28. There is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free. There is neither male nor female, for we're all one in Christ Jesus. So what God did for them, God will do for you. In ancient times, a city without walls was vulnerable to be attacked, but we have an invisible wall of fire, which is God's protected presence, his hedge of protection, his level of security that shields us from damage and destruction, and that should give you a relaxed mental attitude. That's grace orientation, having a great relaxed mental attitude. Satan complained to God about the hedge of protection that God gave around Job. Do you remember that in Job 1.10? Have you not made a hedge? a protection around him and his household. You've blessed everything he does and the possessions you've blessed. Yeah, God did put a hedge of protection around him and Satan asked God to remove it so he could tempt him. Is it not reasonable to assume that God protects us the same way because we are combatants in the same angelic conflict? How do I know that? 1 Thessalonians 3, 3, the Lord is faithful. He will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one. He's faithful. He will strengthen you and protect you from the evil one. How does he do that? Well, Isaiah 41 10, don't be afraid. I'm with you. Don't be dismayed. I am your God. I will give you strength. I will help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. What a wonderful promise. I don't care what Satan tries to do to you in any way he tries to silence you or shut you down. He's not going to be able to do that. You have divine protection in a wall of fire around your life. As a believer and a mature believer, you have this wall of fire. Now I'm going to warn you. If we forsake our responsibility, then God can allow discipline to come into our life. And that discipline is designed to correct us. And that discipline can be national discipline as well as personal discipline. It can be the same thing. That wall of fire is there around our nation and is there around us as individuals today. But when we move away from the word of God and we let our sin natures control us or we buy into the lies of Satan, into social activism and Christian activism, then you lose that divine protection. You get instead divine discipline. Those who God loves, he disciplines, scourges with a whip. That's Hebrews 12, six, seven, and eight. You can read it for yourself. If you go under divine discipline, the wall of fire may even be lifted for a while, and maybe you're gonna get some real trouble from Satan as a result of you neglecting, you turning away from your spiritual life. This is the sad part about it. I may be talking to some people today that are wonderful people, wonderful, wonderful people, but you turned away from your spiritual life. You got distracted by family, by friends, by business, by opportunity. You know it as well as I know it that your relationship with God is diminished. You know every day in your heart you feel the tug of the Holy Spirit trying to get you back into fellowship, and yet you keep walking away from it. And I'm telling you, you're making a terrible mistake. Sooner or later, your life is going to come crashing down around you if it hasn't already done that. And I can give you illustration after illustration of people just like you that have had this happen to them. Wonderful, nice Christian people that turned away from the Word of God. They got distracted. They got under the details of life. They got led astray by social activism or Christian activism, and their life came crashing down around them, beginning with their relationships with their spouse, with their relationships with their children, even to their relationships with business and government. You can destroy yourself. You actually have the ability to do that. And you may be on the way to doing that right now. You may be on the road to self-destruction. We call the my way highway. And when will you wake up? When will you realize what you're doing to yourself and to your family? When will you repent or change your mind or come to a recognition that I am doing something awfully wrong? When will you have enough humility to admit your sin and go before your Father and admit it to God? This is a day you can do it, I promise you that. Now, God promises in John 10, 28 and 29, nobody's gonna take your salvation away from you. He said, and I give unto them eternal life and they will never perish, neither shall any man snatch them out of my hand. That's the Lord Jesus Christ. He said, my Father who's given them to me is greater than all. and no one is able to snatch him out of my father's hand. So I'm not talking about you losing your salvation. I'm not talking that you're going to go to hell. I'm talking about you're living a miserable life as if you were in hell right now because you have neglected your spiritual life and you backed yourself into a corner and you know it. That wall of fire can include even your health coverage from heaven. You know, we talk about health coverage and insurance. Well, listen, God even will protect your health. In 1 Timothy 4, 8, the bodily exercise profits little. We all try to exercise. But godliness is profitable for everything, having the promise of the life that now is and even of the life that is to come. The best thing in your life is to be spiritually mature. It will keep you healthier than any amount of exercise that you do. Because the Bible says in Psalms 90, verse 10, the days of our lives are 70 years, And if by reason of strength there are 80 years, well, then their boast is only labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away. Maybe you've hit the 70-year mark already. I don't know. But sooner or later, it's time for you to get with the program. Thank you for listening. I hope you'll be back 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.
This hour of Drive Radio kicks off with a clever automotive trivia question about ignition timing on a “1955 Bel Air with a 327,” leading to a classic trick-answer moment that sets the tone. John Rush welcomes Scott and Debbie from Pearl Promise, a Christ-centered nonprofit that provides transportation help for single-parent families across Boulder and Larimer Counties. They share how their clinics repair cars for those in need, their vehicle donation program, and the strong community of volunteers who make it happen.
Listeners call in with a variety of real-world automotive questions and stories: Bob discusses the ins and outs of sales tax audits and trade-in tricks, Lucy talks through her search for a new vehicle and the surprising $400 CarMax transfer fees, and callers Steve and Chris weigh in on Colorado’s EV rebates, road conditions, and what kind of trucks can survive potholes at speed. Plus, the crew offers sharp tips on wiper motor troubleshooting, test-driving strategies, and why heavier EVs can perform better on snow but hit roads harder. It’s a mix of community impact, technical know-how, and classic Drive Radio conversation.
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 02 :
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 15 :
Get ready for another hour of Drive Radio, brought to you by Colorado Select Auto Care Centers. Got a question for the experts? Then give them a call, 303-477-5600. Now it's time to pop the hood and get our hands dirty. Drive Radio on KLZ 560 The Source.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, we are back. Second Hour, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us. We had a couple of special guests joining us right now that I will actually let Josh introduce. Scott and Debbie, welcome. Go ahead, Josh.
SPEAKER 03 :
So Scott and Debbie are with Pearl Promise.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. Pearl Promise.
SPEAKER 03 :
Pearl Promise. So it's a nonprofit that helps people with their cars. So each month they have a clinic to work on their cars, and they also take donations, and they also give people that are needy cars. And it's a great... a great organization. I work with them quarterly. They come to my shop and they have a clinic and, you know, we fix cars for people that need help. And, you know, they have, it's great on a lot of fronts, you know, not only do people who need help get their cars fixed, but also it's a great thing. We have young people come in. We have a lot of guys that come out, you know, every month to fix cars. So it's a great relationship with them. And, you know, it helps everybody in the community.
SPEAKER 05 :
Very cool. All right. So let's, let's start ladies first introduce Debbie, if you would.
SPEAKER 03 :
So Debbie is the director with them and have her give a little history. Go ahead, Debbie. We'll let you start.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, good morning. Yeah, my name is Debbie Unruh and I'm the executive director of Pearl Promise. I have been there about a year and a half or so and just loving what we do with single parent families specifically. in Boulder County, greater Boulder County, Larimer County. We just feel that single-parent families need an extra boost. They need help moving forward, establishing their footing so that they can be a solid foundation for their families. And, you know, we're Christ-centered, and we just believe that that's the kind of hope we want to give to this target population.
SPEAKER 05 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, happy to join you this morning.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I'm glad you're with us. I appreciate it. Thank you for what you guys are doing as well. Scott, welcome as well. And what's your, I mean, I already know, but tell our folks, what's your role there, and how are you involved with all this, Scott?
SPEAKER 11 :
Sure. I'm one of the co-founders of Pearl Promise. We founded Pearl Promise back in 2008, and probably took a couple years to really figure out. The goal at the time was to really see what we could do to come alongside single-parent families, because we really felt that that's where so many people were falling through the cracks. The government creates assistance for single-parent families, but sometimes that assistance almost comes as handcuffs, in that the You know, if you reach a certain amount of income or certain levels, then you're kind of cut off. And usually that's not quite enough money to sustain a single-parent family. And so, you know, we thought we could kind of fill in some of the gaps that would help with that. We could also kind of make sure that we could create some hope for these families that – and really come alongside their kids as well, knowing that oftentimes it's about breaking the cycles of single-parent families, and we really try to focus on helping the kids in the families be the ones that want to see that change happen. But it's about giving hope. It's about creating programs that offer the support the hand up as opposed to maybe sometimes there is just a handout. But then we have a number of programs, and I'm sure that if you want to, we can talk a little bit about what some of them are. But one of those programs is a transportation program. That's what Josh was talking about. And we've learned over the years that, you know, for a single parent family to have their car go down or not being safe with their kids, is just such an important factor. And we've been able to rally different sponsors and different partners and different volunteers. And we've done this now for probably 15 years, what Josh was talking about, and happy to jump in a little bit more about that for those that might be interested. But that's a little, in a nutshell, kind of my involvement and a little bit oversight to add what Debbie did for Pearl Promise.
SPEAKER 03 :
All right. Yeah, and I think it's a great organization. The fact that we're fixing cars and getting them back on the road for single-parent families and just the camaraderie that shows up at the clinics all the time. People willing to volunteer and give to the community. It's a great thing.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I've – Been around this industry all of my life, and even back in the day, tried to do – this is for everybody listening, Scott and Debbie both – I tried to do what you guys were doing as a shop owner, and I will just say that it is literally impossible to try to do all of what you guys are doing, still run a shop, still qualify people who really should be eligible, who shouldn't. And I'll just tell you that it's a daunting task, and there was just no way that I could do all of that alongside of running a shop. So, Debbie, along those lines, how do you qualify these individuals, making sure that those that are really in need are getting what they need and not just some freeloader?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, so we have kind of a vetting process where they fill out an application on our website for one of the four programs that we are involved with. And the transportation program, I mean, we ask them a lot of questions. You know, what's the... How do they become a single parent? How are their kids? Do the kids live with them? Most of the time it's single moms, although we have served single fathers as well. And then it's just through a process of a lot of times they come from a referral from a church or from another program. And so there's a quite thorough process of vetting them and deciding who we're going to. Of course, we'd love to help more than what we can, but we can take away in a month that car clinic is probably about, I think, eight in the morning that we are committed to. The other part that's very cool about this transportation program is that we accept donated vehicles. And then we get to give away these cars to a mom that needs a car. And that is a really exciting day. We put a big red ribbon on the top, and they are just thrilled to think that they just They get a car. It's usually a used car. And we have volunteers that go through the process of figuring out if it's drivable or sellable. And Scott can tell you more about that. But that's a pretty exciting part of our program. And then, you know, the other thing we do is we pick probably 10 to 12 usually single moms in a year, year and a half that we walk alongside in a very specific role of mentoring and accountability and helping them make goals for themselves so that they can get out of the situation that they're in and really move forward.
SPEAKER 05 :
Go ahead, Josh. You and Scott talk about some of the – how you guys actually find a car, get the car worked up, involve folks like yourself, Legacy. How do you guys make all that work at the end of the day?
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Scott, if you want to highlight on that, but especially the donation side. I know you've brought quite a few donations in, and I know – Especially if you're out there and you have somebody who's not driving anymore, a grandmother or a grandfather or something like that. Those tend to be, at least what I've seen, the best cars because they were taken care of. They don't usually have a whole lot of miles on them, but they're also a bigger car and usually good for a single parent who usually has kids that need to go to the doctor and things like that.
SPEAKER 11 :
i'll let you go on that that's exactly right we've a lot of beautiful sabers have been given away that's exactly the car i had in my mind right there exactly it's a great car nothing wrong with that nothing wrong with oh so no it's it is a big part of what we do um kind of the general question is yes we've been fortunate enough to have partners over time uh Longmont Napa Auto Parts is sponsoring Pearl Promise. And so when we do one of these clinics that Josh has mentioned, actually Napa provides all the parts on that day for free to Pearl Promise. Very cool. And if we use them for other reasons, they will sell them to us at cost if we're using them. We still have to use the shop for labor off outside of one of those clinics. Okay. So that's great. And then organizations like All-American Auto, which is, I think Josh is the third owner of All-American Auto since we've been working with them. And each of the previous owners and now Josh have all leaned in with us. And so we call these host clinics. And so, yes, they open their doors. We bring in a team of volunteers. We bring in our own tools. We bring in, within reason, we bring in volunteers. You know, a group that Josh mentioned, this is kind of their small group. This is kind of their group that they get to commune with, and they get to have fun with, and they get to do good work, and they get to see that good work happen in these single-parent families. And these people, these guys are dedicated to this program. And then Debbie kind of mentioned we have a woman who works alongside that that really does vet these gals and makes sure. And I say these gals. There are a couple of guys. But it's 99% single moms that are in this program. But we vet them, and we make sure. We learned early on we maybe fixed a boyfriend's car too many times and things like that. So we make sure that those cards are registered, that they're insured. We get to know these people. We meet these people when they drop off their cars, and we – see how we can help them with other areas too. This is oftentimes what opens the door to a relationship that creates some hope in areas other than just keeping their cars safe. And so then donated cars was a question. I think in 2013 we had 13, excuse me, in 2024 we had 13 vehicles donated. So far this year we've had 15, but we usually get 15 to 20 cars donated. Of those, we're usually able to take half to two-thirds of those and fix them up and then redonate them back out to single parent families in the community. So that works fantastic. We've got a big team of volunteers. I think we figure that we have between 900 and 1,000 volunteer hours on an annualized basis working on these vehicles. And we just can't do it without the volunteers, and we can't do it without people donating their vehicles to Pearl.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's awesome.
SPEAKER 11 :
So if anybody out there has that as an opportunity, we would love to hear from you.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, how do folks do that, Scott? That was one thing I was going to ask. If there's folks out there listening up in your area, they're thinking of donating a vehicle, and I get the tax sides of things. That's something that they and you have to get together on and all of that. I'm not going to get in the middle of that. That's things that you guys can even explain. But how would they go about doing that?
SPEAKER 11 :
I think we would just start by going on to the website. Debbie, if you have something, you know, how do people typically get a hold of Alicia at this point in time?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I think they go to the website, and that's PearlPromise.org. So that's one way that they can also call our office. Alicia checks those messages and gets the calls, and that's 303-776-4963. And we're all part-time. There's four of us on staff that are part-time employees. But, you know, we're small but mighty, and we get those messages and call people back as quickly as we can. So, yeah, if they're interested in donating a vehicle or, you know, what is so cool about this, as a woman, I've been in the nonprofit industry, like, for 35 years. Right. I think it's so amazing that this program can engage men in a ministry like this. And, you know, it's a beautiful thing to see these guys give up their Saturday and these dealerships or these auto repair shops like Josh, you know, that just believe in a cause and really do something about it. And so that's what's so cool is to see these men involved in making a difference like this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Awesome. Well, we appreciate you guys joining us, Josh. Thank you for bringing them on and introducing them. We'll hear from them on a fairly routine basis. When we have Josh on, we'll have you guys on as well. And both Debbie and Scott, thank you guys a lot. I appreciate not only you being here today, but what you're doing in general. Again, as I said, I tried doing this on my own years and years ago, decades ago, and found it was extremely difficult to be a shop owner. and do what you guys are doing, yet I knew that need was out there. So I appreciate you guys stepping in and doing what you're doing. Scott, I'll let you go first, and I appreciate you very much. Thank you so much for joining us.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you very much for inviting us.
SPEAKER 05 :
You're very welcome. I'll let you go, Scott, and Debbie as well. Thank you as well. I appreciate what you're doing. And, again, as I said a moment ago, really difficult thing to do for those of us that have the heart but we're owners, we've got other things going on. It literally is a full-time job.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, well, thank you. Thanks so much. Appreciate that support.
SPEAKER 05 :
You're very welcome, Debbie. Thank you very much. All right, we'll take a break. Bob, we'll come right back to you. Guys, don't go anywhere. And again, for those of you that want to donate, want to be involved in what we were just talking about, it's PearlPromise.org, PearlPromise.org. Just go to the website. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Bob, go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, me already?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep, it's you.
SPEAKER 14 :
You're up. Hey, I think this might be more in Josh's bailiwick here, but mostly it's about taxes, okay? Now, I moved here 52 years ago, and in my 60 years of driving since 1965, I've I paid sales tax on cars. Now, when I moved to Colorado, then I discovered that each and every year you've got to pay personal property tax on your car. Back in the day, I mean, you bought a brand new car for $3,500. It wasn't any big deal. Now, it's over and over and over again. The last three cars that I've bought as new, a 22 Chevy Trax as new, a a 25 Cadillac XT5 as new, and a 24 Kia Carnival as new. And each and every time, I'm paying sales tax on that.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 14 :
And it's fine. I'll pay it. Oh, the other thing is, this D&H, it's gone from, like, non-existent to $99, $199. $7,800, yeah.
SPEAKER 1 :
$99. $99.
SPEAKER 14 :
For what? On a brand-new car? What do they do? Take the wrapping off of it?
SPEAKER 1 :
Barely.
SPEAKER 14 :
So anyway, I look at that D&H. I'm done with trying to argue over that because they, oh, no, we've got to get that. Okay, fine. Whatever it is, I deduct that from what I'm willing to pay for the car.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Want to do it? Okay, fine.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, good one.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's over with. But here, okay, so I think I sent you a thing about, I want to buy a little cheap car to have in the garage.
SPEAKER 05 :
You sent me the, what, the Scion?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. No, no, no.
SPEAKER 05 :
Or the, sorry, the Kia.
SPEAKER 14 :
Teen years old.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, good car. Nothing wrong with that.
SPEAKER 14 :
But, again, I got five garage spaces, and I only have four cars in those five garage spaces. And I thought, and I got new cars, and my wife has a, 2024 Equinox. They're all new cars. So I looked at this car and I went, you know, for a little grocery getter, I'll buy it for that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sure.
SPEAKER 14 :
I'll be the fourth owner. Each and every person that bought that car had to pay sales tax.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right. It's double taxation.
SPEAKER 14 :
It's ridiculous.
SPEAKER 05 :
It is. Can't argue that one. You're 100%. I've complained about that one so many times, Bob, that it's never going to change, but it's wrong. It got taxed the first time, shouldn't be taxed again.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and then each and every time you restore your car, you've got that other car, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Those are ridiculous. Now, my question to Josh is, he sells cars. I've bought cars. Let me tell you this. So that little piece of junk, well, that's a great little car, really. I mean, it's well-maintained. I'm going to buy it. And the dealer, I'd want to mention their name. It's a little dealer. They deal in... Uh, they got no salvage title cars. They got, uh, uh, most of their cars are a few years old. So I think they're either rental returns, their, uh, lease returns or their, uh, insurance claim cars, that kind of thing.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 14 :
So they're doing a nice little business. All right. Now, so I want this car and they got it listed for, um, and they don't, they don't have any D and H none.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
So, um, They got this car listed for a few bucks expensive, but it's clean as heck. Everything's done. It needs some struts and shocks. That's it. So it's $4,800. Now, what's to prevent me from giving them $800 for the car and the other $4,000 as a trade? On that trade line, I bought a lot of cars. They don't ask you what your trade is. It just says trade in some figure. So the dealer will still get their $4,800. $800 for the car and $4,000 as a trade in.
SPEAKER 05 :
So you ever got audited and don't have a VIN number, they're in trouble.
SPEAKER 03 :
They need a VIN. So do you have something to give them, a $200 car or something like that?
SPEAKER 14 :
John, I bought it. gobs and gobs and gobs of cars on the line that said trade-in, there's no indication of what it is.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, but on their backside in their file, there is, Bob. And if they ever get a sales tax audit and things along those lines, which, trust me, I'm going through this with one of my clients on some sales tax stuff in Aurora. Trust me, they look at everything. And they they'll pull it. They'll pull the jacket out on these. That's what it's called. They'll pull the jacket on each car deal. And if it's not all lined up, in other words, if all they had on there was trade and there's nothing else, copy of a title, anything along those lines of what you're trading in, they're in trouble.
SPEAKER 03 :
They literally have somebody come sit in your office, and they're like, I want these three deals, and they go through the deals piece of paper by piece of paper.
SPEAKER 05 :
So if you don't have an actual title to give them for the trade, you're not going to make that happen.
SPEAKER 03 :
And how that car came in and how that car went out. Correct. They want to know, yeah, not just the...
SPEAKER 14 :
I have file cabinets full of contracts on cars I've ever bought.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, Bob, you're not hearing me. You're not listening. It has nothing to do with what you have. It's what they have. When they do a sales tax audit, they don't care what Bob has. They care what Josh has. Doesn't matter what you have, Bob. Doesn't matter what you've got in your hand. Makes no difference. It's what Josh has.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, they have to give me a copy of all the paperwork.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, they don't. They don't give you everything. They don't give you a copy of the title you traded in. They don't give you any of that stuff back. That's all going in your jacket for your deal. And trust me, I've been on that world for years. This is how it works. It doesn't matter what you have. It's what they have.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I've had to sign things about odometer readings.
SPEAKER 05 :
Correct, even on the trade. So in other words, you'd have to even have on your trade, they're going to go through all of that. So even if you had just a title, you don't own the car anymore, it got crushed, whatever, you've got an extra title kicking around, they're still going to need all of that odometer statings, blah, blah, blah, or you're not going to get it done.
SPEAKER 03 :
And the 20 pages you walk out with, we have 40 to 50 pages in the deal, Jack. Correct. Because we have so much more paperwork on. And they do audit us like mad. Correct. They are serious about it. And they will literally come in, like I said, sit in my office, or Justin's office, actually, and say, we want these three deals. Go get them. And you better go get them.
SPEAKER 05 :
You're getting screwed. Yeah. You're done. That's exactly. So, no, you cannot do what you're thinking.
SPEAKER 03 :
If you had like a little junker, a $200 car that you rolled in there, if they got a VIN, then they probably would go for it. But they physically need a car so they can do it. And you've got to have how did it come in and where did it go.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. I don't know what's happened in my lifetime. My first car I bought in 1965 was 16 years old, about a 57 Chevy for $200. Yeah, well, unfortunately, it ain't that way anymore.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I say unfortunately because, yeah, we aren't that way anymore. And really quick, Bob, in defense of the dealers and even the state, there's so many unscrupulous individuals that have done things throughout the years that this is why we're where we're at. It's really not your fault or Josh's fault or frankly even the state's fault. Blame it on the guys that screw the system all the time.
SPEAKER 03 :
And every year we get a new form. Yep, because of what I'm saying. Yeah, like I talk to older guys in the business. It's like when I started, we had one piece of paper. Not anymore. Now we're at 20 out the door. That's right. And a lot of times it seems like you're filling out the same thing twice and just say it a different way.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right. That's exactly right. So, Bob, I've got to run. Appreciate it, though. I understand your dilemma and your pain. Lucy, hang tight. We'll come right back to you. Lee as well. We've got one line open, 303-477-5600.
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SPEAKER 05 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio KLZ 560. Lucy, you are next. Go ahead, Lucy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hi there. How you doing?
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm good, Lucy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good. I was... I'm still shopping for new cars, you know, or a gently used car. I was at three dealerships yesterday.
SPEAKER 04 :
Bless your heart.
SPEAKER 07 :
Including cars... Yeah, it was quite... Bless your heart.
SPEAKER 04 :
I mean that seriously. Bless your heart, Lucy.
SPEAKER 07 :
The only good dealership to work with is Ridgeline Auto. Justin was excellent. I test drove a car there at their Boulder location, and he... It's like being with family. As a matter of fact, we have fun.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, that's good. That's good.
SPEAKER 07 :
But I was at the Lexus dealer, horrible, CarMax, and I did not realize this about CarMax, but they do have a large amount of cars. They do. But the customer has to pay. the delivery fee to bring a vehicle in if they're interested, and that is non-refundable.
SPEAKER 05 :
Correct. If it's not at that location, that's right. I'm glad you said that, Lucy. For those of you listening, a lot of the bigger places where they're multi-stores and they're all over the country and so on, if they've got a vehicle someplace else and you want to see that vehicle, it doesn't come free. You're correct.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I didn't even realize that. And their delivery fees are $399. So if the car comes in and it doesn't work for you, you're out that $400.
SPEAKER 05 :
You're out $400. Yeah, right. You're exactly right. Yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Holy cow.
SPEAKER 05 :
So did you narrow things down? Lucy, have you got to where you're kind of narrowing things down to what you want to buy, or have you got that far yet?
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm still educating myself. Okay. I went to the Hyundai dealer, and they said they're selling electric cars five to one. Okay. I guess because of that rebate they're giving. And you may want to verify this, but I thought the state of Colorado is going to start offering a rebate on electric vehicles because Polis wants everyone to drive an electric vehicle.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, I talked about that a little bit earlier. You might have missed it, Lucy. It went from $6,000 to now it's $9,000 in the state of Colorado. Since there's no more federal credits, you're going to get a $9,000 rebate from the state in Colorado.
SPEAKER 07 :
Got it. Okay. And as far as buying cars, I know my brother and his neighbor purchased a new car this last year because everyone was afraid the tariffs were going to come in. So he was looking at, he wanted one of those ES350 Lexus with the 3.5 liter V6 because those of us from the 60s and 70s, you know, all drove V8s and he wanted the bigger engine. So he finally got that. Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Which, you know, I can understand where some of that comes from. I've always been one to say you need to shop smartly, although I've never let things like tariffs and things like that affect my purchasing decision because even what you might save on the tariffs, if you're a cash buyer, then what I'm saying is irrelevant. But if you're somebody buying on credit, keep in mind, as we go further along into the year, credit is going to get cheaper, so you might pay a little more for the car, but you're financing. If you're financing, it's going to get – less so for a lot of you listening where you're financing cars you're going to find that as the fed continues to lower rates and i think you're going to see that throughout the rest this year maybe even the first of next year you're going to see the cost of financing go down so in essence lucy even if cars go up slightly because of tariffs you're going to offset that if you're a finance buyer those are the cash buyers that's irrelevant but people a lot of people finance cars so it's going to be irrelevant as far as that goes
SPEAKER 07 :
Understood. It's just very different buying a car now. And as I've been doing test drives, the dealers are calling me and saying, you know, we're reducing this car by $200 or $2,000 just to clear out the locks because I'm looking at the $50,000 price range. But, no, I have not decided yet, and I'm still trying to. figure out what would work for me. And there are a lot of good cars out now.
SPEAKER 05 :
There are. There are. No, and that's the one plus side. Well, it's a plus and a negative. The plus is there's a lot of great cars on the market. You really aren't going to go wrong with a lot of the different models and makes that are out there. The downside is there's a lot to choose from, and narrowing that down gets difficult.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that's my dilemma. But I'm working on it. And luckily, I have a good vehicle that Ridgeline Auto set up for me. So I have a car that runs. So there's no hurry.
SPEAKER 05 :
And thank you for saying that. And this is for everybody else listening, too. Take your time. As you know, Lucy, and you're very wise. I mean, I respect you a lot. You're very wise. I don't have to tell you anything. This is really for more of everybody else that's out there listening. Always take your time when buying a car. Like Lucy, only buy a car when you don't have to go buy a car. Because when you have to buy a car, you're under more pressure. You typically make the wrong decisions. You feel like you have to do something. Never do that. Always do, Lucy, what you're doing and buy. When you've already got good transportation, you want to do something, but you can take your time in doing so. You're doing it the right way.
SPEAKER 07 :
Understood, and I will continue to do that. As you know, that Subaru did not work for me, and people drive Subarus all over Colorado. It just was not the car for me.
SPEAKER 05 :
It wouldn't be the car for me either, so I can fully relate to what you're saying. It's nothing against Subarus, but that would not be a car for me either, and I understand fully what you're talking about.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and I know when I drive it, like Justin set me up with that Lexus 450h, and it was an excellent, excellent vehicle, but... Anyway, I'm going to sleep on it. So shout out to Ridgeline Auto. It's like, it's as if I was his sister and he was selling me a car. I mean, they're respectful and they give you the personal touch and, you know, well done, Ridgeline.
SPEAKER 05 :
Awesome. Lucy, thank you. I appreciate you very much.
SPEAKER 07 :
Likewise. Thank you, John.
SPEAKER 05 :
How does your back feel after an hour? Is it comfortable? Move around while you're inside. Act like you're going to control some of the controls on the dash and so on. And, you know, I know it'll look weird, but act like you're driving the car if they won't let you go for a super long test drive. But get a really good feeling for how things are. Open the back doors. Open the back hatch. How far does the back hatch go up? How much room are on the inside? What's it like to actually fold the seats up and down? Are they power? Are they manual? I mean, there's all these things you need to factor in.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, like with that, we later take that one home. But, you know, the other thing, if you can take it home, put it in your garage. Do you know how many cars that have power lift gates hit your garage door or hit the ceiling in your garage or the light or something like that? Some of those are adjustable. Some are not. Some are not. Yeah, exactly. And then see how it fits.
SPEAKER 05 :
Go through that whole process. What she's doing, my point is, she's doing it the right way. The rest of you listening, when it comes to buying new or used, follow her example.
SPEAKER 03 :
And most dealerships will let you take the car home, you know, if it's not— a hot item. If it's the hottest car, you're not taking it home.
SPEAKER 05 :
In a lot of cases, they'll let you. I just had that same experience with a vehicle I bought here recently where I had a car for a couple of days. They let me have it for a couple of days to try out to see if it's something I wanted to buy or not. That's what you want to be able to do.
SPEAKER 03 :
We've done that with my wife's car, too, because of her job.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's what you want to do. Lee in Superior, you're next.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, guys. I'm hoping you can help me with a problem I'm having with my old pickup truck. Sure. It's a 1994 K1500. Okay. And the other day, I was driving down the road, and the windshield wiper slowed way down and eventually blew a fuse. So I assumed it was the wiper motor and replaced it with a new one. It continued to do the same thing. And in doing the replacement, I discovered that there was a loose wire on the connection that plugs into the wiper motor. So I replaced that, and that didn't solve it either. I notice when I take my wiper blades or my wiper arms off, the knobs will rotate at the right speed. They'll speed up, they'll slow down as I adjust the button on the stock. But as soon as I put the wiper... arms back on, it slows way down and eventually blows the fuse. As soon as you get resistance back on.
SPEAKER 03 :
So this is not just the wiper motor. It's also what we call the transmission. Underneath the cowl, there's all the arms that move back and forth, and there's joints on each one of those arms and bearings, and sometimes those will start to freeze. So you have too much load on the transmission is probably where I would start at right there.
SPEAKER 06 :
and so yeah i looked at that and i've re-greased all those uh connections any of them really loose or can you tell uh no uh it seems appropriate nothing stood out and because they've got bronze bushings and stuff could you see anywhere where the pin coming through is worn or anything along those lines Well, it's tucked back under the cowl, so I couldn't really see.
SPEAKER 03 :
But what I would do is also disconnect the motor from it and then grab the wiper blades with your hand and see how much force it takes to move the wiper blades through their whole cycle by hand. See if you find any rough spots or anything along those lines. A rough spot or anything like that because sometimes it goes fast and it kind of does a 180 kickover as they come back down. So that's how you get your up and down, and that's usually where I find there's some binding going on right there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Uh-huh. So would that affect the whole speed? It seems like they're slow the whole distance they cover. I mean, they don't speed up at one point and slow down at one point. It's just evenly slow.
SPEAKER 03 :
So have you tried with the motor disconnected from the whole transmission and see? By hand. By hand.
SPEAKER 05 :
What it feels like. Yeah. Through the whole cycle?
SPEAKER 03 :
No. And watch the motor, too. See if you can change the speed if the motor speeds up and slows down. Because, I mean, you could have a bad ground because it's usually a body ground on that thing or the connectors themselves. I know you replaced the one, but sometimes when they get burnt, you'll have too much resistance through the connector. So, you know, that gets hot and makes the fuse blow too.
SPEAKER 06 :
Uh-huh. You mean the electrical connector?
SPEAKER 03 :
The electrical connector. Sorry, yeah, the electrical connector.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah, I've replaced both of those with no effect. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Then the rest of it could be wiring in the truck itself.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, although probably not because it's normally going to be right in that area. I'm more along the lines, Lee, of what Josh is saying, and you've got a transmission issue most likely. Something's binding there that's causing this to happen, especially if you put a new motor on it and nothing changed.
SPEAKER 03 :
And was it a reman motor or a brand new motor? Because sometimes the remans aren't the best.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I actually did it twice. I did it with one that I got off of Amazon, which could have been remanufactured. And when I had the same issue, I got one out of a junkyard and it had the same issue.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay. If you've got two on it and it's doing the same thing, I would look at the transmission then. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
All right.
SPEAKER 05 :
You're on the right track, Lee. I'll call you back next week. All right, sir. Appreciate it very much. Thank you. I appreciate that. Let's do this. Got to take a great break. We'll come back. Steve, Chris, you guys hang tight. One line open, 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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And we are back. Drive Radio. Stephen Lakewood, go ahead.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hi there. I haven't listened to all your programs today, but I listened to that one lady just called a caller or two back and everything about electric cars and how the state's going to take and keep a rebate going. And yet. The state's talking about keeping taper refunds and a whole bunch of other stuff and everything because they're hurting for money and stuff and they're going to do this anyway.
SPEAKER 05 :
You got it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Gosh, I love the way the state is governed and stuff. I just love it. They're just such a bang-up job, you know?
SPEAKER 05 :
They have no idea what they're doing, Steve. None. Zero. Zilch.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. And I know for myself and everything that I don't really want an electric car. I really don't. Now, if I had... I live in an apartment, but if I had a house with a garage where I could charge it at home, and if I had a gas vehicle as a backup, sure. But just to have an electric car as my only vehicle, no.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, for you, and you are, and we talk about this a lot, there are, in my opinion, there are certain segments of the driving public that they work really well for, and there are certain segments that they might work for, and there are some they don't work at all for. You're one that they don't work at all for. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, yeah. And like I said, I appreciate you taking my call because as far as I'm concerned, the government's going to have to make me take one. I'm not going to voluntarily buy an electric car because I'm just not all the way sold on it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and that's the way, and frankly, had we done that from the get-go, had they just been introduced into the marketplace like iPhones were back in the day, which, by the way, created all of the smartphones that have come ever since. Nobody had to force anybody to buy a smartphone. It gradually, you know... worked its way into the marketplace, and now everybody owns one. And EVs would have been much better off had they just let the free market work its way out.
SPEAKER 12 :
I agree with you a thousand percent. So anyway, thank you for taking my call.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, you're welcome, Steve.
SPEAKER 12 :
Enjoy your show.
SPEAKER 05 :
I appreciate you very much. Thanks for calling, and you're spot on. Chris, go ahead.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, long-time listener. Thank you. Since our great politicians are never going to fix the roads in this state. Nope, they're not. Such a good job.
SPEAKER 05 :
They are not.
SPEAKER 10 :
I was wondering if there's a vehicle out there that's like an off-road trophy truck to where I can hit an obstacle at 100 miles an hour. If there's a vehicle out there that has a way better suspension on it because of these super great highways and stuff that we drive on now.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, there are. The Raptor. Yeah, I was going to say Ford Raptor, the Ram TRX, and they've got the other version of the TRX. I think the TRX is even going to come back. Actually, the Chevy ZR2s, the full-size ZR2s, or even the Colorado-type ZR2s. Ford actually and the Ranger has a Raptor. Tacoma has a really heavy, their TRD Pro Max, whatever it is. We just test drove one of those a few weeks ago. Yeah, any of those, Chris, will do that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, because I'm just wondering, you know. On the other hand, you know, I was thinking about buying a used trophy truck. I mean, granted, it'll be 1,000 horsepower, but I'm never going to have to do anything with the suspension ever again because I can hit something at 100 miles an hour.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and there's – by the way, great topic, and not saying this even tongue-in-cheek. With those vehicles, and I owned – I had a TRX for a while, and – Here's my complaint on the TRX, the same thing on the Raptors. While they're great for what you're talking about and they will pretty much handle any obstacle, personally speaking, I don't like the soft suspension, how they drive, how they feel, how they handle. Personally, I like a little bit stiffer, not only ride, but the way the steering feels and so on. So with everything out there, Chris, as you know, there's a pro and a con. And the con to a lot of those Raptors, TRXs, and so on is the suspension is so soft, they get a little weird to drive. And I don't know how to explain that in actual layman terms, but it just feels, yeah, Josh is over here moving around in his chair, and it's exactly how you feel when you're driving it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I understand that.
SPEAKER 05 :
It just feels squirrely.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. Well, you know, I'm just looking at something like that because, you know, I mean, these politicians aren't going to do anything. So I guess I'm going to have to do something about it.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and this is for a lot of you listening. This is where to really be careful. Lucy, if you're still listening, this is something for you to consider as well. A lot of the vehicles. Great question, by the way, Chris, because a lot of vehicles now are coming with much larger wheels. shorter profile tires. They do that for lots of reasons. Looks is one of the biggest reasons they do it, but it also helps with rolling resistance and fuel economy and so on. The problem is the bigger the wheel, the shorter the sidewall, the easier it is to ruin a tire and a wheel on the roads that we're talking about, Chris.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep, I agree with you.
SPEAKER 05 :
So that's one of those things when you're buying cars. Look at what size tire and wheel combo does it come with. And personally speaking, stay away from the optional large 22s, 24s, and so on because those have shorter sidewalls.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Hey, another thing, the guy with the windshield wiper problem. Yes. I've had that before. When I take my windshield wipers apart, all the linkage, I put a little bit of marine grease on it because it repels.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, good idea.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. Great idea. Great idea. No, that's a great idea. And great comments. And Chris, and again, I'm not saying any of what I said to you laughingly or tongue-in-cheek or anything. I get where you're coming from, and it's really a serious thing. And especially those of you, Lucy, if you're listening, some of the, believe it or not, even the midsize SUVs, because of the looks of a particular model, they'll put a larger wheel and tire package, meaning the sidewall's now getting even shorter, meaning you hit a pretty sizable pothole And you're liable to damage your rim, pop a tire, all sorts of things. And I'm not exaggerating. I've seen it. I've had family members experience that. So it exists.
SPEAKER 03 :
The problem we have is with the last two calls, we've got the state pushing us to buy EVs, which are heavier.
SPEAKER 05 :
than the average car correct and we're not fixing our roads and we know what weight does to roads anyway so we're making it all worse yeah we're making it worse yeah we're not helping that situation out at all because yeah for those of you that maybe don't know this the average ev is probably a minimum of 1500 pounds heavier than its counterpart and in some cases double what their counterpart is. Go look at the weights. I'm not exaggerating, folks. In some cases, the EV of the same vehicle can be twice as much weight as its gasoline, ice engine counterpart. There's that much difference.
SPEAKER 03 :
There's that much difference, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
And also remember this. The farther the range, the heavier the car is going to weigh because that battery capacity has weight to it. Now, here's the plus side to all of that. Yes, it's harder on the roads, tires, and all of that. Plus side is the heavier the vehicle, the better in snow and ice and the other things that we have going on. So that's one thing that most people don't think about is, yes, believe it or not, EVs on snow and ice with the right tires will actually perform better than their gasoline counterparts will simply because they weigh more. You get heavier footprint on the snow or the ice, meaning it's able to grip better when it's all said and done. It's why typically heavier vehicles will do better in snow and ice. Larger vehicles typically will do better in snow and ice than their lighter weight counterparts will.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 05 :
And folks forget that, but it's how it works.
SPEAKER 03 :
You do have to remember a lot of times the tires that came on the EV are not good. For highway and for mileage. Exactly, to get the mileage.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes. So for some of you that have EVs or you're thinking about an EV, and this is not really an added expense because you're going to do tires, you're going to do tires, you're going to do tires, no matter what. This is true with any vehicle. And some of you that run winter tires versus summer tires, either manually taking those on and off and or finding a second set of wheels, which, by the way, there's always pretty inexpensive takeoffs because a lot of guys want to put fancy wheels and tires on. So you can always go out on the Internet and find typically takeoff wheels that are substantially less money. than what even going out and buying a new aftermarket wheel would be, and they're still going to look factory. And in that case, just mount your other snow tires, if you would, your winter tires, better way to say that. Put your winter tires on one set of wheels, and this is something that typically you could change at home in your own garage with a floor jack on your own and just swap out winter to summer. And again, yes, you're spending a little more money, but you're not because you're going to double the life of your tires anyways. It's all still a cost per mile when it's all said and done.
SPEAKER 03 :
And most cars will handle eight tire pressure sensors, too. So you can have your winter tires set up so it'll remember your winters when you do put them on. Great point.
SPEAKER 05 :
Great point. All right, we've got another full hour coming your way. Lines are open, 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 06 :
All right, we are Backdrive Radio, KLZ 560. Lots of text messages. A few of these are, some of them are questions asking me would I ever buy used OEM wheels for one of my vehicles. Sure. If I find the right takeoffs, I've done that many times. If it's the right set of takeoffs, I'm looking for a second set of wheels. I would prefer, and I've said this many times on air, but I'll keep saying it. I would prefer to buy a used OEM wheel, as long as it's true and straight and there's no, you know, you can tell by looking if there's any damage, whatever, and there's a lot of takeoffs out there. As long as it's a good, solid new takeoff and everything is up to speed, you know, nothing's wrong with anything, I'd rather have that as a hub-centric, because that's what they are, versus any aftermarket that typically are not hub-centric.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, they're not.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'll take that OEM wheel all day long over a set of aftermarket rims for that reason.
SPEAKER 05 :
And a lot of, especially the aftermarkets, they always balance out a lot better than
SPEAKER 06 :
half of these aftermarkets do way better way better so yes i will do that all day long somebody also said on the wiper problem it sounded like a pulse board i don't think so in that case because i believe that assembly is just that i think it's an entire assembly i don't think there's any boards that are separate on that particular uh on that 94 chevy i don't think that one is separate uh i could be wrong it's how many years ago is that 30 years ago now it's So I'm going by memory, and I owned lots of those trucks back in the day. And somebody also said, do I remember all of the Wiper motors that used to go bad in the 90s? Yep, sure do. I was a shop owner then, and we put a lot – stocked them. At that point in time, I stocked them. I had them on the shelf. That was a very common thing to – To have, and yes, so I do remember that. Somebody also said that remember when it comes to some of the used car lots, CarMax especially, that you may be out shopping online and see on one of the Internet sites, CarGurus, for example, it'll show a particular vehicle that they have in stock. Well, you've got to pay really close attention because is it really in stock here locally or is that thing in Charlotte, North Carolina, for example? Yeah. And you've got to really pay attention. Otherwise, what Lucy said comes into play. And if they bring that vehicle in for you, you're paying the money. So, yes, thank you for that tip, by the way, because that is very important. You've got to really be careful as to where exactly is that vehicle located in the country. By the way, that's true with a lot of the sites. And, Josh, you're more familiar with this than I am. How does that side of it work, by the way, on the used car side? As far as the big sites, the collective sites, I guess is what I would call them.
SPEAKER 05 :
Car gurus and so on. So they literally pull the information out of our computer system, and they paste it up there for us and try and bring people into that. Then you contact through them, and then we get the link back to us. So usually they're trying to sort it by stock you truly have within whatever your parameters were, 20, 50, 100 miles. That doesn't mean that the company who has the car entered it incorrectly, especially with the CarMax or whatever. Or Carvana, where they have cars all over the country. They don't even know, I think, half the time what lot that car is on. So that's why it can say it's in stock and you can get down there and it's definitely not in stock there. Got it. But it's in their company stock.
SPEAKER 06 :
But it's just not there.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, just not where you want it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Somebody texted a moment ago and said, the only person who hates aftermarket wheels more than John does is my dad, who is 70 and has been in the car business his whole life. Yeah, I have, too. And what's funny is I probably, as far as, well, I can say this with full confidence. Anybody that's on air today, I've put, sold, installed more aftermarket wheels than I guarantee anybody else that's on air today. That I can confidently say because I sold aftermarket tires and wheels for three decades. Mm-hmm. And sold a lot of them. And I would put some aftermarket wheels on my rigs, but only under special circumstances. For example, back in the day when you bought a three quarter ton or one ton truck, a Chevy eight lug, there was nothing available on the market that looked decent. other than a Weld wheel. And yes, I sold a lot of Weld wheels back in the day because Weld was an OEM manufacturer to a lot of the big trucks, and you know the story behind Weld. And at that time, they made a very nice, high-quality aluminum wheel you could put on a three-quarter-ton truck. They were true. They actually weighed less than the steel wheels. There was lots of advantages to them. They were hub-centric. All of what I wanted, that was a wheel that I would use. Another exception. for a while when AEV came out. So AEV is a company up in Montana, and they started doing a lot of things for upgrades on Jeeps. In fact, they've now become an OEM supplier. For example, if you go buy a ZR2 Bison, All of the bumpers and gear that's on that, all of the extras, that's coming from AEV because they started as a college project, actually. Some kids that were in college that decided, hey, we think we can make a go of this. And at one time, they were importing some wheels from Australia. that were for Jeeps that were very good-looking, very attractive, very true, very expensive, hub-centric. And by the way, there's now some of the Jeeps from the factory come with those wheels. So that was a wheel that, yes, I would buy on the aftermarket. I sold those as well at that time. I was the first AEV dealer in Colorado at that time and sold a lot of those products back in the day, had some of those on my Jeep, and we sold them and so on. So there were a few exceptions there. to my anti-aftermarket wheels in my own world, but very few. There were only a few brands and few products that I would actually run on my own rigs. And the problem with wheels is it's like opinions. Everybody's got a different opinion of what looks good on their vehicle. And I learned early on that, you know what, I'm going to explain how this works, talk about lug-centric versus hub-centric, but at the end of the day, whatever the customer wants is what I'll provide. And I will tell you that over the 30 years of doing that, I sold some really ugly wheels at times. But some guys just loved them. And it was cat's meow. And they thought it was awesome. And as long as they were happy at the end of the day. Now, I will say this. I didn't sell any junk. I mean, there's a lot of junk aftermarket wheels. And I would not stoop to the point of selling junk. you know, unilugs and a lot of the junk that was around back in the day. I did not do that, and I tried to talk my customers into buying, you know, only the really top quality, you know, aftermarket wheels. But I will tell you, in a lot of cases, that was hard to do. A person would get dead set. They'd even come in with a picture of, I want this wheel, and it would be all you could do to try to talk them out of buying that crappy wheel. know wheel and tire combo but in some cases if that's what they wanted now i will take i will say this it was always full disclosure from me you buy this and you're not happy this is on you i'll do my best to get it balanced i mean this is the tire and wheel combo you want we've had experience of this not panning out very well so as long as you're willing to accept all liability for owning these things i'll put whatever you want to on it But I'm not warranting or covering anything on that rig moving forward. If you're okay with that, and that all went on the invoice and so on, and they signed off on it, and if that's what they wanted, that's what they got. But I didn't do that very often because I don't like doing that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Some of this you can just guarantee they're going to get a vibration.
SPEAKER 06 :
You're going to have a problem. Yep. I look at some of these rigs that run down the road today, and I just think to myself, there's no way that thing rides and drives and works as well as it did when it had factory tires and wheels on it.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, it doesn't.
SPEAKER 06 :
There's just no way possible that thing works as well as what it did at one time. In fact, all you did was screw a good truck up with what you just put on it. There's times I literally I'll drive by a truck and I'll be like, there is no way that thing's even close to being like it was when it was stock. But guys love them. They do. I don't get that. Anyways, text line 307-200-8222, our line to call in on directly. If you've got any questions on anything, please let us know, 303-477-5600. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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And we are back. Drive Radio KLZ 560. Thank you all for listening. Appreciate it. Text line, by the way, 307-200-8222. Some of you sending me some pictures from car shows and different things going on today. It's a beautiful day. Going to get a little cooler, I think, through tomorrow. Might be a little windier even this afternoon, so pay attention to that. All right, somebody just said to, just a reminder on my question from the first hour, which was, can you bring up any, oh, yes, thank you. I apologize, I had this on my list. Torque yield bolts. Okay, let's talk about that for a moment. I got a review that we're going to do here in a moment that we'll play, so we've got time to squeeze this in. So Josh and I can talk about torque yield bolts. So first of all, what is a torque yield bolt? That is a one-time use bolt only. Yep. and in the past they've always been used on cylinder heads that's pretty much the only place you saw them and torque yield bolt means you the specifications are you torque this bolt for example down to 80 foot pounds and then you turn it 90 degrees you know you need to turn a 25 degree or sorry you go 30 degrees each time to get to 90 degrees whatever there's all sorts of things that you know hold your mouth this way no just kidding exactly stand on your head that's right but they give you a procedure for the torque yield on the bolt What a lot of folks don't understand, including a lot of technicians, is there's torque yield bolts on brakes now. There are. A lot of them. A lot of the General Motors products. A lot of the foreign products. In other words, that's a bolt that's holding the caliper on in this case. And it's a one-time-use bolt only. And there's a lot of folks out there in the industry, inside the industry even, that don't know what I just said.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it's hard. I wish... We're trying to work with NAPA on this because we do a lot of Ford transits, the big Ford transits, and everything on the brake system. So the caliper bolts, plus you usually have to pull the disc rotors off, and they're held on with bolts. It's all torque yield. So we need to replace those every single time and trying to... Can you build a kit so that... It just has everything in it. Yeah. It has rotors, pads, and all these. Ready to roll. Instead of ordering... And sometimes they have it in stock, and sometimes they don't. But... That's what I think we got to get all the brake system companies to get together on it and be like, we're just selling you a kit with rotors and pads and all the bolts you need.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and where I was going to go with this is for a lot of you listening. And this is not an exaggeration. I'm not throwing anybody under the bus. But you might be calling around, which you should never do, because you should take a vehicle in and find out exactly what it needs to determine what's the price going to be on getting that done. But a lot of people call around for brakes, for example. Hey, how much do a brake job on such and such? Given what we just said, even on a GM car, something as simple as a Chevy Cruze, you might be calling around and getting a wide range of prices on those brakes because of what I just said. One guy might be pricing you rotors, pads, and a little bit of labor not knowing you've got to replace bolts and do all these other things we're talking about and has no clue that that even exists, but he's going to go do a brake job anyways. Mm-hmm. So that's one price versus the person doing it correctly, doing everything they're supposed to, lubricating everything, checking everything, replacing the bolts like they're supposed to be, putting a high-quality pad on, checking the calipers to make sure they're good, checking all the linings, doing a brake fluid flush, everything getting done the way it's supposed to. There's a big difference between what the one person is pricing versus the shop I just mentioned is pricing. In fact, there can be a few hundred dollars difference from one to the other because none of what I just said comes cheap. And here's the kicker, though. That person doing that brake job, you know what? The first time around, you know what? Those torque yield bolts might actually be okay. And they might actually hold and not be a problem. In fact, might even be okay on the second brake job. But guess what? By the time you get to the second or third, I said second maybe, by the time you get to the third, guess what? They may not hold anymore. They might actually brake. And now you have no brakes when it's all said and done. And I don't want to be that guy. Point is, not everybody in the industry, believe it or not, not everybody in the industry understands torque yield bolts, especially on brakes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, they don't. And a lot of times these are in 15-passenger vans, small buses, you know, things of that nature. Chevy Cruzes. Chevy Cruzes. Chevy Pickups. But, I mean, you've got things that have a lot of lives in it going down the road. Correct. Or they weigh a lot, you know, contractor vans and stuff like that. So it can be dangerous when you don't do it right.
SPEAKER 06 :
And, again, this isn't something that – well, let me just say this. You can look this up on your own vehicle. In fact, you can do a quick AI search on your own vehicle and know whether it's got torque yield bolts on the calipers or not. So what I would encourage you to do is if you're going to call around for prices – First of all, find out, does it have torque yield bolts? And then when you go and get a price from somebody and you ask them, are you including the caliper bolts because these are torque yield bolts? And they say, no, you're going to know right away, hang up and go somewhere else. Because they have no idea what we're doing when it comes to these particular jobs. And I'm not trying to be rude, but that's the reality of how this works. Right? Yeah, it is.
SPEAKER 05 :
Very true.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I'm not exaggerating when I say not everybody knows about this because not everybody knows about this.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, they don't.
SPEAKER 06 :
Let me say it this way. The way you would know if a vehicle has torque yield bolts or not is you've got to get into the electronic data. You've got to pull up that specific job. It'll typically show you through colors. Yeah. In that particular job, these are bolts that are one-time use only. They're purple, they're green, they're red, they're whatever they're coloring that particular manufacturer is using to tell you whether these bolts are going to work or not. And unless a technician is looking at that, and I'll be honest with you, a lot of guys, because they think they know how to do brake jobs, and they probably do. but they never look at that part of it to determine, is this even what I need to do?
SPEAKER 05 :
Or do most shops even have that information?
SPEAKER 06 :
In some cases, no, Josh, they don't.
SPEAKER 05 :
They kind of depend on the parts house to have the rotor spec, and that's about all you get out of that.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm here to tell you that a lot of the quick break shops, I'm not going to name names, I'm not going to throw anybody under the bus, but I guarantee you there's a lot of the quote-unquote quick break job shops that are out there that don't have the information that I'm talking about and don't know that's what's supposed to be done and in turn never replace them, if at all rarely do they ever replace those. And frankly, that's probably only because some technician works someplace else that shows up there that says, hey, boss, you know, this vehicle has torque yield bolts on the calipers, and we better be pricing this out. If that doesn't happen, it ain't happening. Nope. And, again, not throwing anybody under the bus, but there's more to this than what you normally see, and it's not like doing brakes. I'll use that 1994 Chevy we've been talking about on the wiper motor. This isn't 1994 anymore. No, it's not. It's not. We don't live in that era. And I said this earlier in the week on my daily show. This is why, folks, labor rates are 180 plus in the automotive industry on an hourly basis because you've got to do all of these things we're talking about, have all of those information systems at your disposal. The OEMs all, by the way, just recently went through and upped the price. on a lot of what I just mentioned in gaining access to these things, meaning that the shops are now paying more money to get that information at hand, and none of it's getting any cheaper to do. That's why the cost of getting your car fixed keeps going up.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, it does.
SPEAKER 06 :
All right, we've got a review coming up. We did a Toyota 4Runner, the newest one, recently. Richard, my son, drove that. We'll talk about that here in a moment. Stay tuned. We'll be back right after that. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. All right, second vehicle you drove, which this is one where I get lots of listeners that comment on this particular vehicle. This is a very popular vehicle in our neck of the woods, in all of our listening audience, and that is the Toyota 4Runner. So which year, which model of that did you drive?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, Dad, so we've been looking forward to this car and waiting for this for a little bit, which is the 2025 4Runner. This was the Limited, which gives you the third row on this vehicle. And some of your listeners are going to say, well, why the 2025? Well, this is, especially if you're listening to this now or in the future, this is when they redesigned it, right? So we've been waiting for the redesigned 4Runner, Dad, for years now. They finally delivered it. All of them now come with a turbocharged four-cylinder engine. You've got updated interior. And I'll just say this. If you're wanting to know what the interior looks like, number one, go out and see it yourself. Number two, Toyota's really synonymous, Dad, with kind of keeping what works in a lot of their other vehicles, especially their SUVs, and kind of transferring it. So it's got the big old display in the front, similar-styled knobs. And it works well, Dad, because if you've gotten into one and then you hop into another... you know where everything's at you're not constantly searching for this button or that button or whatever it might be their infotainment system works really really well which is fantastic um let me see what else here oh so again i did mention this does have a third row i will say this dad that third row isn't going to do much other than being able to say it's a third row even for my kiddos getting into that third row is hard pressing especially when you put it up you do not have a lot of room behind behind that third row for cargo however if you maybe just need that extra seat dad right you need that extra little bit of room and you can keep one of them one side down you can put the other side up definitely would be something that i consider because the limited i believe is one of the trim levels that does have it price point dad the sr5 is kind of the low level about 43 000 and we drove again we drove the limited and i actually do have the window sticker on this car dad as it sits 62,740. But again, that's on the higher end data. It's got all of the bells and whistles that you want on it, all of the different things that you would like. People are going to ask, well, how does this run, Richard? Well, that turbocharged engine, Dad, which is a very similar engine that they've been putting in a lot of their other vehicles, their SUVs and trucks, runs really well at our altitude. However, I will say this. You're not going to gather a whole lot more fuel economy as a result of it, Dad. But at the same time, I don't know if you're buying a – well, I'll just say this. If you're buying a 4Runner for your fuel economy, I'm not sure you're buying it for great purposes. Mm-hmm. Outside of that, Dad, it still is, and you've done this because you've driven these forever, done the work on them, all sorts of things.
SPEAKER 06 :
ready off-road equipped vehicle straight from the lot that you can buy out there right and yeah pretty much i mean the only competition for this of course is you know bronco or or a wrangler of course but they're both different vehicles the forerunner again has its own i'll say it colt following whereby there's people that will only buy a forerunner and i'll also say this a lot of them probably never see a gravel road you know you know at the end of the day, but it really doesn't matter. If that's the vehicle they like, that's what they're buying, and that is a very popular vehicle, meaning the resale value on it has been, will be high, just like they always have been.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. And again, this is a car, Dad, that you can take, especially here in Colorado, go up and out, go up to the mountains, do whatever you want to. And again, with that updated engine, you have the ability to pretty much go wherever you want to go, Dad. And like you said, it does hold its value. It is a Toyota. They're still tried and true. They've done that forever. It's got a lot of the off-road features that maybe you would add that kind of come standard on them, especially depending on the trim level you get, right? You can kind of get as much or as little of those as you want. And then the last thing I'll say is this. You get a lot of that off-road functionality, Dad, without having to give up some on-road comfort with some of those other competitors you mentioned. That's right. You kind of do, right? You have to give up a little bit in the way of creature comforts in order to get some of those off-road pieces. So outside of that, folks, I know a lot of you have been wanting to learn more about this. There's only so much we can cover in these reviews. Check it out yourself. Head to your local dealers. I know they're starting to get to dealers lots more and more. And then also call, ask questions, email us. But when you do go to the dealer, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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All right, we are back. Josh Goff with me again. Legacy Automotive and Ridgeline Auto Brokers up in Boulder. And Longmont, Fort Collins. And again, Larry Unger answering phones. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. Appreciate all of them and all of you guys listening as well. Been a great day today. Had a lot of great text messages that have come in and so on. We got to talking about all sorts of things today. One of them being EVs. And it's funny. And nothing against you guys because I know some of you guys are like, you know, I'm never going to buy an EV. They can't force me to buy an EV. Well... I get that, and I understand, and I think the free market would have done a much better job of getting people in them versus where it is today. But Josh mentioned something during the break, which is how many people drive SUVs and pickup trucks that don't need them?
SPEAKER 05 :
A lot of people.
SPEAKER 06 :
Probably, I don't want to say all, because there's some guys that are using them for work and their businesses and different things, and I get that part of it. But I will tell you that by and large, most pickup truck owners don't need them.
SPEAKER 05 :
No. How often do they really use that?
SPEAKER 06 :
You go rent one from Home Depot the two or three times a year, you actually need something.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, or U-Haul or one of those. And save money.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, exactly. So point being, they're spending more money to buy something they don't really need because it's what they like, and that's what's great about America. They can buy what they want and drive what they want, which, by the way, I'm all for.
SPEAKER 03 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that includes whether you want to drive a pickup truck, a Prius, an EV, a whatever. I mean, I don't care if you want to drive an F-550 every day. I mean, you can drive whatever you want to. I could really care less. That's completely up to you and what you want to do in your lifestyle. And I'm never going to force you to buy anything. That's the problem EVs had was government was trying to force that on people. Now, all that being said, and Josh knows what I'm going to say next, don't knock it till you drive one.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm dead serious.
SPEAKER 06 :
Don't knock it till you drive one. Because once you do, you're liable to not drive anything else. I'm not exaggerating when I say that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Especially around town or, you know, on short drives. Man, there's nothing like them. And that is why, Josh. You're going to change your driving habits, especially if you're used to something with low power because your 0 to 60 is – and most of them, you've never owned something that fast.
SPEAKER 06 :
Nope. Very true. Let me just say this. Even on some of the not-so-powerful – I use that term loosely – EVs, 0 to 40, nothing will compete. Even a Nissan Leaf, zero to 40, nothing competes.
SPEAKER 05 :
I got a Leaf and a Focus right now, and that thing will knock the doors off of 90% of the cars, non-EV, from zero to 40.
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One of you asked really quick, why is it I have a 307 area code for the text line? Because the service I signed up for years ago when I did it, that was the closest thing to Colorado I could find. There were no 303 or 720 or any other numbers available at that time, and And by the way, the combination, the text line that we have, the combination of the 307 number combo, I just felt like it worked better than what we have with anything else. So that's why I did the 307-200-8222. It just rolls right off your tongue and works. That was the number I found, and because of how easy it was to say on air and easy to remember afterwards, that's why we ended up with a 307 area code for a text line versus anything else because, no, I did not want to use my personal cell phone number. That is a text line that I use an app and some different things for, and it is not my personal cell phone number for obvious reasons. And there was a time, and I should also go back a little bit, and I'm at that point in time again right now to where at one point in time we had several different helpers, interns, et cetera, that would handle the text line for me, and I didn't have to do a lot of the answering back and forth. And it's gotten so busy of late that really I'm at a point where I need like a weekend Saturday volunteer that will come in here and run the text line for me. So any of you that are out there that you know anybody that is – Maybe, especially younger, they're wanting to get into the industry, either automotive or broadcasting or whatever, and it doesn't have to be male, female, I don't care. If you know somebody that you think might be interested in having some fun and joining in with us on a Saturday basis, it's not a paid position, but if somebody wants to come in and volunteer and have some fun and enjoy what we do, I'd be more than willing to talk to that person, have them sit in here with us and handle our text line, because it's We get a lot anymore. This is not an exaggeration. We get as many or more text messages than phone calls. In fact, it's getting to the point where it's almost not quite two to one text messages to phone calls, but it's substantially higher than what we get when it comes to phone calls now because it's so easier for people to text things in. It is. And they can text pictures and you guys are out, you know. doing different things or you're at the ball game or you're watching the grandkids or the kids or whatever and you're still listening and you're texting and it just works and you don't have to be on the telephone to do all of that and i can still we can still get the same questions answered so yeah if you know anybody out there listening that you know if any of you listening know anybody that would like to participate in what we do uh by all means do so now one thing i want to talk about this i want to do this when josh was here there was an article this last week In thedrive.com. By the way, that's a good website. And it's interesting that it's not Drive Radio, it's The Drive. But these guys do good. They're fairly decent journalists. I read a lot of their stuff. They do kind of a daily newsletter that I read and get a lot of automotive news from. And I like them. And, you know, I guess you'd call it an endorsement, but I like them. There was an article this past week, Anatomy of a Scam. how an experienced Porsche 911 Hunter lost $20,000 in one click. It's a very interesting story, and the point of this story is this is a very savvy shopper, had bought many things online before. Again, a guy that looks for 911s and does some buying and selling of, and yet at the end of the day got scammed out of $20,000 online. It happens.
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It does. It does.
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And the reason I wanted to mention when Josh was here is because there's a lot of folks out there that will try to sell you a used car, and that car doesn't exist.
SPEAKER 05 :
Mm-hmm. Doesn't.
SPEAKER 06 :
They're selling you pictures, descriptions, and so on, and they don't own the car.
SPEAKER 05 :
They pull the pictures off another one for sale and a VIN that they find a VIN out there somewhere that matches.
SPEAKER 06 :
Might even match that same car. It might even match that car, yeah. I mean, some of these guys, by the way, they can go out and find the listing and get their car facts and they can mimic and look like it's the actual ad reproduced, by the way, from another ad. And there is no. So the reason I wanted to have you here to talk about this, Josh, is how would people get around that? So Lucy called in earlier. She's looking to buy a car. There's always people that text me weekly. Hey, I'm looking to buy this. I'm looking to buy that. What do you think about this car? What do you think about that car? How do they avoid these scams?
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I mean, the main thing is, you know, I would let it go a little bit. So usually the first few texts back and forth, it seems pretty legit. It's about the third or fourth you start to see the holes in it. Okay. You know, like they're going to want, you know, a cashier's check and they're going to, you know, transport it for you for free or there's going to be something like that. They're going to want something on it. It's always the first two that look legit. We had one the other day, you know, a guy wanted to buy one of our cars and, And then about the fourth or fifth text, you could figure out that it was a scam because he was trying to send money our way, the usual Nigerian Prince scam is what it is. The other thing is Google that car. So put that VIN in or put that car in and see if there's another site with that VIN number or the pictures of that car. So a lot of times you'll find the original site. It was probably two years ago. Somebody had that car up for sale. and you'll find the original listing and be able to go from there.
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Really quick, for those of you that what Josh just said, here's how you do that exactly. First of all, the car that you're looking at, just download the picture. Do either copy, paste, save as a download. I mean, depending upon what system you use, Windows, Mac, whatever, you've got the ability to save that picture to your desktop. You can even be on your phone and do it. But save that photo. Once it's saved, Google Chrome specifically, Google Chrome specifically has a little icon right in the toolbar, right to the right of the toolbar. There's a little picture, little camera icon. Click that, and that's a picture search. Then what you do is you insert. Basically, it says, what picture do you want me to find? It's going to ask you, basically. You take the picture you just saved, put it into Google, and see if it comes up anywhere else on the Internet. And it'll tell you. Here, it was over here. It was over there. It was five years ago here. To Josh's point, that's how you'll learn, was this a picture taken from the Internet before just now? Or is today's listing actually coming up as the picture? If that's the only picture you can find, well, that's one indicator that it's probably a real picture or a live picture, I guess, a live listing. Let me say it that way. It's probably a live listing. If, on the other hand, you see that car listed. Or pictures of either at a car show or it's here or it's there. By the way, it's also how you can determine if some of these weird text messages you get where, you know, some person is trying to get you to take their job or do this or do that. You can do exactly the same thing. You can take whatever picture they send you, put it into the exact same system I'm telling you and determine is this legit or not. It takes five seconds. Yeah. It isn't any longer than that. That is one of the first ways to look at, is this a real listing or is somebody trying to scam me?
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And the other side is you can take that VIN number and put it in the Carfax. You've got to give them a little money, but Carfax will tell you. If they say they're in California but that car was last registered in Wisconsin, you instantly know something's going on. And if it's in a dealer's lot, it'll show up on Carfax. After a few days in the dealer's inventory, Carfax will say, hey, Ridgeline Auto Brokers has this car in Boulder, Colorado. So you can kind of track the history too and catch them in their lies that way.
SPEAKER 06 :
Um, and Josh is right too, even on, as you start asking certain questions of the seller, you know, in this particular case, in this whole story, the 9-11, he was asking for documentation of the history and what had been done to the car and so on and so forth. And by the way, this guy, again, he got scammed for 20 grand. So everything must have seemed really, really legit to this particular person. I think some of the mistakes he made are some of what we're talking about that he could have avoided.
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Mm-hmm.
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Insert the picture into a search tool. Find out if this thing's been listed anywhere else. Do a Carfax search. Now, this car happened to be overseas, which makes things a little bit more difficult, which, truthfully, that's a whole other ballgame. Buying cars out of the U.S., that's a whole other level, by the way, of risk because now you've even got to get the car here and import it. And there's all sorts of things that go along those lines. And that's another one thing to be really careful of is even cars you're looking at here where it might be a more rare car. and we don't talk about this much on this program, probably should because there's black market cars and gray market cars. Gray market cars are still legal. You can still get them through customs, emissions, and so on, and they call them gray because they're gray. They're in that gray area of the law, if you would. You can still import them. You can still drive them. You can still use them. All of that, you're good to go. Then there's black market cars, which are not supposed to be imported. They won't pass emissions. They don't pass our safety standards. Lots of things there. In fact, if they find a black market car, they can seize it, take it, and you're out the money.
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They either got smuggled in or came over in pieces.
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And typically they're more exotics, although not always. It could be something as simple as an old Land Cruiser or a Range Rover or something along those lines. And there's black market cars of those as well. So that's another thing that you've got to be really, really careful of. Is the car that I'm looking at, A, is it a legitimate listing and car? B, is this a car that's actually going to pass emissions and work for me? And, again, some of you guys are looking at cars that are out of state. meaning they don't have the same laws there that we have here, meaning they may not pass VIN inspection, may not pass emissions, and so on. Those are things you've got to have all dialed in on the front side. All right, last break coming up. We'll come back. Got calls coming in, 303-477-5600, Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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Hello, John. Hey, Jim. I'm calling you about a 2011 Dodge Ram Cummins Laramie Mega Cab.
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Okay.
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I've got a P0191. It's a fuel rail pressure sensor. Uh-huh. Okay. I replaced it, and it didn't fear the problem. It got worse even. Squirrels got in and started eating my wiring up and building a nest.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's been fun. But my question is about Chinese injectors versus remanufactured or new Chinese.
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Only buy the Cummins injectors.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, only the Cummins injectors.
SPEAKER 10 :
Don't buy anything else. The Chinese injectors are a Cummins product. The Chinese or the Cummins has got a 50-50 partnership with a Chinese manufacturer. So they're making Cummins engines in China and parts for it. Anyway.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, even with that, though, there's still going to be a difference between what they're approving as an injector versus what even somebody China aftermarket is going to be producing. Not going to be one and the same.
SPEAKER 10 :
Do you have any experience with the remanufactured?
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Depends on the only remanufactured injectors we've used that we've had any kind of luck with at all as a fleet shop. There's a Pensacola Diesel, which they'll make some new and or reman injectors. That's the only remanufactured diesel products we've used and had any kind of luck with, Jim. Pensacola Diesel.
SPEAKER 10 :
Pensacola Diesel. I've heard of them. I saw them on the Internet.
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And I learned about them from, I coached a diesel shop for a long time back in Indiana, and he, the owner there, is the one that actually got me on using their products because he used them in his shop, did a lot of fleet work and so on as well, and I have used their products in our fleet shop, and we've had good luck. So that's a personal testimony on my part.
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So I'm going to ask you about the service code, the P0191. Okay. I think it's, I have fuel in my oil, I believe.
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Okay.
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No smoke. My smoke, my exhaust is clean. And do you think, it's 200,000 miles on a truck. So I'm thinking it needs injectors. I bought it used with 180,000 on it.
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Well, I think before you do anything, personally, and I'll ask Josh this question, but I think if it were me personally, I would want to see exactly what are the pressure readings coming out of the fuel system itself. I'd either get a scan tool on it. You might even have to get an actual manual gauge on it. But I'd want to know specifically what are the rail pressures at. In other words, what's causing that code to set.
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That and also, you know, what we do a lot of times is I have the block-off tools and the flow. So I look at return pressure, or not return, but return flow, the actual volume coming back out of all the injectors. And I'm able to block off certain ports on the return side to be able to really tell whether it's the injectors or the pump can't produce enough pressure, too.
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By the way, I highly doubt that it's an injector unless it's blowing a lot of black smoke because one of them is bleeding off or leaking. If it's not blowing a bunch of black smoke, Jim, I would think that it's either that sensor, you know, A, your wiring issues, we still have an issue.
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Right.
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That sensor you put in just isn't correct and there's something wrong there. Or to Josh's point, the high pressure pump's bad.
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And it can be injectors too. I've seen all of those. But, you know, instead of the injectors aren't cheap, the pump's not cheap, nothing on this truck is cheap. It'd be nice to know for sure. Don't just throw parts at it. Don't throw parts because it's thousands when you start throwing parts at it. Yeah.
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Yep, three grand for injectors and tubes.
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Well, and really quick, what pressure sensor, whose did you use? Whose did you buy?
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It's a Cummins from Geno's.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, and they're another good aftermarket supplier, and it's not like our Geno's here in Denver with a J. That's Geno's with a G for everybody listening.
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Right.
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And they're a good supplier as well, Jim. They sell some good, high-quality aftermarket parts and got a great deal on filters and things like that. So, yeah, nothing wrong with their stuff at all either. So their sensors should be fine. I don't see any issues there.
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Yeah. The only other question I'm wondering about is the fuel that's sent back to the tank through the filter. I forget what you call it now. The return fuel after the ejection.
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Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Because I have fuel in my oil. The injector must be leaking into the oil.
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Yeah, you're probably over... Possibly. It takes a lot on a diesel, though, for that to actually happen. You'd almost have to have one stuck completely open to be doing that, meaning you'd be blowing a ton of black smoke as well.
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All the time.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that's the deal, no smoke.
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Meaning... It runs great.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, it doesn't run great. I'm only getting 11 miles a gallon, and... The throttle is a little sluggish, taken off when you get on it. So that was making me think it was the injectors. But I don't have the equipment to test pressures. All I can do is look at my scanner, and it shows commanded versus actual.
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And do they follow each other, or are they off?
SPEAKER 10 :
The actual fluctuates a great deal, but it's in the ballpark. Like, say, 5,800.
SPEAKER 06 :
So keep this in mind, too, Jim, that, you know, and I want to make sure that was correct, so I double-checked myself to look up because I was pretty sure of it, but I want to double-check. That high-pressure pump, if it's going bad, it will leak fuel into the crankcase as well.
SPEAKER 05 :
It will.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yes. Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's driven by the gears.
SPEAKER 06 :
In fact, it's more likely, again, since you don't have a lot of black smoke coming out, it's most likely coming into the crankcase from that, not a bad injector. And we'd also set that code.
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Okay.
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Do you know what the actual pressures are? Have you got any readings on it to know what they are?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, it's 5,250. It's commanded, but do you know what it's actually reading?
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I mean, it's asking for that, but do you know what it actually is?
SPEAKER 10 :
That's just idle. Usually idle.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'd take it on a test drive and get it under a hard load. That's when you really see what the injectors are doing. At idle, the injectors are just putting along. Under hard loads, that's when the injectors are really working, and that's when you'll start to see flow issues too.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, because idle is just the 5,500 to 6,500 roughly. Max pressure is like 26,000 PSI.
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So that's why I like to go out and really get the thing going, get it up to 15,000, 11,000 PSI, and then you'll see a big difference in actual desire. Because the pump can handle idle all day long. It's only 5,000 PSI. Once you get up to the 11,000, 15,000, 17,000, that's when you really watch a pump not be able to keep up. Correct.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. I'm leaning more towards the pump being bad, Jim. And I apologize. We're running out of time. But, you know, you can send me an email or a text message or call Josh even directly up at Ridgeline and talk to him directly if you've got any more questions.
SPEAKER 10 :
Can I get an email?
SPEAKER 06 :
Sure. Go ahead, Josh. Yeah. Josh at LegacyAutoBoulder.com.
SPEAKER 10 :
J-O-S-H?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 05 :
J-O-S-H.
SPEAKER 10 :
J-O-S-H. At Legacy.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. LegacyAutoBoulder.com. Dot com. Dot com. All right.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Jim, thanks.
SPEAKER 06 :
Appreciate you very much. And that's going to wrap it up for today. Josh, again, thank you as always. Appreciate it. Give me your phone number while we're at it.
SPEAKER 05 :
So call me at Legacy 303-396-0555.
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Larry, thank you very much for coming in and answering phones. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. And again, folks, thank you so much for listening. You can always send us a text message after the show is over as well. 307-200-8222. 307-200-8222. We'll be back next week. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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And it is Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Josh Goff, joining me from Ridgeline Auto Brokers and Legacy Auto Repair up in Boulder and in Longmont, Fort Collins. And Larry Unger answering phones. Charlie Grimes, our engineer. And I got a couple text messages that have already come in.
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SPEAKER 06 :
When replacing struts, is it better to do the entire thing, springs and all, or just do the, depending on whether it's a hydraulic or gas insert?
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Um, I like to, but you don't always have to do the springs, but I do like the assemblies because we have top hats, which is usually where most of the noise comes through on that. So it's kind of a cost thing too. So, you know, add it up. Sometimes if you need, you know, you do need springs or the top hats are bad on it, then it's cheaper to put the whole assembly, you know, spring strut, top hats, boots, all that stuff in one assembly. So, okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I'm with Josh on that one. I already texted back an answer that if it were me personally, again, cost comes into play, definitely, but I'm an assembly guy. Just do it.
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When you just do the strut itself, you don't get all the little pieces of rubber. You don't get a new top hat. All the little things that get rid of all the noise does not come when you just put the strut itself in.
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Correct, which when you do the assembly, and keep in mind, too, that there's more labor typically if you're paying somebody to do this. You're not doing it yourself, but you're paying somebody. There's going to be extra labor in just doing the inserts versus doing the complete assembly because they've got to use a spring compressor, take that spring off, put it back on, so, you know. In most cases, you're not saving any money. Right.
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A lot of times the techs like to do the struts, and then the owners sometimes we like to have the full assembly because then we're not installing any issues too. It's a piece of cake. It is. But there's a big difference in price and quality. I've had a lot of the cheaper strut assemblies where I put them in and they were noisier than the ones that came out of the car. So you kind of get what you pay for on those.
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All right, good to know. All right, question of the day. For those of you listening, I didn't mention this, but I should have. We'll get fired off here. Since Josh is here today, I thought this would be a good one. One of you, by the way, which I greatly, greatly appreciate. And I owe a huge thank you to one of you guys as listeners. And I mean this sincerely. One of you sent me a complete suggestion list of questions of the day. And I am not exaggerating. I've got them here in front of me. You probably sent me a solid 50 or more. Eh, maybe not 50. Eh, I don't know. Probably 50. There's probably close to 50 on this list. I appreciate that greatly, by the way. I cannot stress that enough. That helps me out a ton. I'm normally here on either a Friday afternoon or a Saturday morning trying to rack my brain. What are we going to use for a question of the day and so on? So today's question of the day, which came from this list, which I appreciate greatly. Vehicle, you regret selling. I think all of us have one of those. Some of us have maybe more than one. But that's the question of the day. Give me a vehicle that you regret selling. Could be something recent. It could be something a long time ago. But you tell me what that is, and that'll be the question of the day. So... Again, myself, Josh Goff. And lines are open. I should have mentioned that earlier also. You got a question for us, by all means, let us know. 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. And again, text line 307-282-22307. 282 22 don't forget the weather is changing with josh and i were just talking about that a moment ago as i look out here each week i look out we've got a little bit more color down here up above a lot of the color is is either right at the peak or it is is already peaked and it's going the other direction i've been up in the mountains for a couple of weeks so i can't say that some of you that live up there could probably tell us a little bit better But winter's coming. We've got a little bit cooler today. It's going to be a little bit cooler tomorrow. We're getting to the point now to where we're probably not going to see much into the 80s at this point. If we do, it's unlikely. It'll start getting cooler and cooler at night. You'll be turning your furnace on here in the not-too-distant future. So reality is get your vehicle ready to go. And, Josh, along those lines, when it comes to the cold, what are some of the biggest things that you notice when it gets cold that people – should have done that didn't and wish now they had to avoid being in the shop.
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It's always batteries, batteries, batteries, batteries. Right now when the temperatures aren't that hard and the engine doesn't have to work that hard to crank in the morning, the battery is fine. But the second we get a little cold snap, all those batteries that people have been putting off, you know start coming in and the other thing is is real soon you're going to go out to your car in the morning and all your tire pressure lights are going to be on okay because we're going to get that change where it cools down so now the actual pressure in your tires will go down a little bit so you're going to have that morning where you know come in and see us we can top off your tires make sure they're up to pressure but usually right around now that first cold snap we see everybody at the gas station or coming in because their tire pressure lights on
SPEAKER 06 :
So those are two main things. And what causes that typically? I mean, these are rhetorical questions, I know, but for everybody listening, what causes these things?
SPEAKER 03 :
So, you know, the pressure in your tires is based on temperature outside. So, you know, even if it was 100 degrees and say you set it at 65 degrees, you set it to 35 PSI. Well, as it goes up in temperature, the actual pressure in the tire increases. Even if you're not driving it, it still does because it has more heat inside. on that so and because we don't always use nitrogen we use you know ambient air in them all the time so that and then we have the reverse happen when it gets cold if they were 35 psi at 65 degrees we get down to 30 and they'll drop below the threshold for the sensor so they can be 30 psi on that tire and then it trips the light okay which are there certain vehicles that are more sensitive to that than others i think the ones with actual tire pressure sensors nmr okay you know and probably a bigger tire because it has more mass sometimes a little low profiles you don't see this much okay but some of the other manufacturers now don't use the tire pressure sensor in the tire they use the abs system to decide so it's not really an issue
SPEAKER 06 :
So they don't ever have battery issues in the sensors and so on. So what they're basically running off of is the revolutions of the tire, and they can sense how many revolutions there are in a certain distance to know this is where the pressure is actually at.
SPEAKER 03 :
Exactly, yeah. If they're all 35 degrees and they're the same make model of tire, they're all going to turn the same revolutions going 65 miles an hour down the road.
SPEAKER 06 :
How does it know if, I mean, how accurate is that? Does it know exactly what the pressure is or does it just know it's low? It just knows it's low. So it won't read to you exactly what the pressure inside the tire is.
SPEAKER 03 :
So you can always tell on those cars because the ones that have actual sensors in the tires, a lot of times, especially the higher end stuff, you go to display and it'll tell you what the PSI is for every tire, including the spare. On those, it just gives you the light that says, check my tire pressures on it. And then also with those, when you do fill them back up, you need to go in and there's always a button on those systems that say, I just refilled my tires. Start calculating again, basically.
SPEAKER 06 :
Do any of them work in combination or is it one or the other?
SPEAKER 03 :
It's usually one or the other. What they've done, I think, with those, it's usually the cheaper cars. So it's, you know, the lower-end Volkswagens, the Honda, the lower-end Honda Civics because they didn't want the extra cost of putting tire pressure sensors in each wheel. I see. And, you know, the radio frequencies and all that stuff. You know, you need... more computers, you need more antennas, you need more wires, so it's not just the sensor in the wheel, it's the fact that we actually have to have a way for it to broadcast out to it, and then something has to read all those signals and then calculate from there. It's always the lower end cars that usually get the ABS system because it's a cheap way to get around.
SPEAKER 06 :
That makes total sense.
SPEAKER 03 :
It meets Congress's requirements is what it is. Makes total sense.
SPEAKER 06 :
And again, I did look up to them to make sure they had this correctly while Josh was talking. I looked this up. The person that sent in All of those questions of the day. I won't give your last name, of course, because I don't want to go down that, protect you as much as I can. But Adam, Adam was our person that actually emailed me all of those long, huge list of questions of the day. So Adam, if you're listening today, I appreciate you greatly. I mean that sincerely. You took a huge load. off of me and gave me it's a lot of work so thank you very much for doing what you did and for all of you listening we have we have a great listening audience i cannot say that enough you guys it's a great team it's a great family and and i'm very thankful for each and every one of you and especially when you guys do things along those lines it's just huge and a lot of you will send me you know mike you're somebody that sends me a lot of different articles and different things of what's going on real quick speaking of that i was watching some news this morning before coming on air general motors In the first nine months of this year, have sold in the U.S. 2.2 million vehicles. Keep in mind that typically on a good year, we sell about 17 million cars in the U.S. on an annual year. So think about the 2.2 million out of that 17 and what a chunk of the market share is. They've got because you got to look at all of the manufacturers that are out there. So that's huge. So General Motors has done very well. A lot of that comes from their SUV sales. And there's even certain vehicles like Suburban that are up like 40 percent from where they were a year ago, which I honestly that when I really have a hard time. uh imagining i mean the numbers are the numbers i'm not saying they're wrong but you got to look at that and say holy cow because suburbans aren't cheap that's a hundred thousand dollar vehicle today even cheap ones are you know 80 85 grand so pretty tough to in fact some of them are over 100 grand that 100 is probably average and i'm not exaggerating when i say that because some are going to be over that some are under that and in the reality is i mean it's a lot of money and to be up 40% tells you something. And again, good job General Motors in this particular case. And we'll talk more about that. But those of you that have questions, especially today, got Josh with us today. So whether you've got a question on buying, selling, how to handle things, we'll get into some of those details. Some of you during this time of the year may look at selling a different vehicle off, rotating some things around. Maybe you're going to acquire a different vehicle. Whatever the case, we'll talk about some of those things. If you've got questions, please let us know. 303-477-5600. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 03 :
That they are.
SPEAKER 06 :
I will give you that. They are just a raw, mean machine. I mean, back tires on those things. One thing about that car you have to be careful of is if you're not careful, it will get away from you. It doesn't have all of the sophistication that a lot of the newer cars have as far as controlling the traction and so on. And it's a car that definitely can get loose in a heartbeat. But a fun car to drive.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it's definitely a driver's car.
SPEAKER 06 :
It is a driver's car and very fun. Somebody also said, 2009 Pontiac Vibe, built side-by-side in the Toyota plant. I'm glad you thought that. That's a car that I probably never would have owned. But, hey, to each his own. I just wasn't a huge Pontiac Vibe guy at all. I think for me, just the look. Somebody said, missed my 91 Suburban, and my first new car ever was a 2020 WRX. Yeah, in the WRXs, and Josh, you can speak to that car. They're a fun car, but that's another one where is it going to be your daily driver comfort car and so on? Not really.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, at least a WRX kind of can be. The STI is not.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, good point.
SPEAKER 03 :
That car... Yeah, that's not a daily driver.
SPEAKER 06 :
No. Somebody else said 2016 F-350 Platinum Powerstroke. 2016, 2016, that's a 6.4, was it not, in 2016? Was that already a 6.7?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I don't think the 6.7. That was still a 6.4, wasn't it? Isn't 16 the first year of the 6.7?
SPEAKER 06 :
I can't remember. It was right in that area. It was 2016 or 2018, somewhere in that neighborhood. You could be right. 2016 might have been a 6.7.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think it was the first year.
SPEAKER 06 :
First year 6.7s? I'm going back in time. That was 10 years ago now. We'll look and be sure and find out. Russ and Cheyenne is next. Josh is looking at that. Russ, go ahead.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hey, I had a quick question. It's time to finally put brakes on my truck. I got 140,000 on it. I finally wore out the front set. And I really want to know what the best set to put on.
SPEAKER 06 :
What are you driving? I'm sorry, I don't remember.
SPEAKER 14 :
It's a 2004 2500 Chevy. It's got the 8.1 gas motor.
SPEAKER 06 :
For us in the fleet job, I'll let Josh comment on this as well, but for us in the fleet side of things, Russ, we use the fleet brakes. We actually use the fleet line. NAPA has a fleet line brake, if you would. I can't remember the exact name of that particular pad, but it's their fleet pad. And that's what we've used. In fact, even when I had my shops back in the day, Russ, we were on the heavier trucks. We were using that brake pad at that time while we probably still use it today. We just found we had the best longevity, the least amount of squeaks, and so on. And it's a brake that the pad consistency works really well on those heavy trucks. And it's cheaper than some of the other ones, by the way.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. Because I was looking at the fleet, but the— I was concerned that they were going to be really squeaky.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, they're not bad. We have had seen with some of the fleets, we've had some of that. That are the Aki Bonos. If you can get those for that, that's the other one. That's a good idea, too. Because that was, they went to pretty much Aki Bono to solve, John knows back in, you know, 87, you couldn't stop any Chevy pickup truck. They were crap. Even throwing a boat anchor out of the back of it. That's right. And then they kind of went to Aki Bono and said, we need to make these trucks stop. And that's when they kind of went through GM's brake system and they made it happen. The trucks, after about 90, I don't know, mid-90s, all of a sudden you could actually stop a GM truck. And they started to get long pad life out of it, too. So I would look at the fleets. I have had a little bit of issue with noise on the fleets. But it's also fleets being driven by employees driving fleet vehicles, too. Right. Well, and that's... Does the squeak come from the pad getting dry, or does the squeak come from... It's just the pad's so hard, and that's what I found, is that the pad's kind of hard, so it builds a little bit more dust, and that's where the squeak comes from. And they're also not getting... The trucks don't get washed. They just kind of get abused each day. So they do build up a squeak on that. But they do have long life. All the other stuff in the Napa line, pretty much everybody else, except for the Aki's. And there's usually a couple lines in the Aki's right now, so... I would get the top-of-the-line ones on those.
SPEAKER 14 :
Do I get the Akis from Napa, or do I buy them?
SPEAKER 03 :
Napa sells them, and they also have two kits in those. Usually they have with hardware or without hardware. Always get new hardware.
SPEAKER 06 :
And they're roughly the same price. I'm looking online here. They're within $10 of each other, whether you're buying the fleet or the Akibon, or is there $10 from one another?
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Plan on low hundreds on a set of pads for that.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think you'll get a little more life out of the fleet, but you might get a little more noise out of the fleet too, so...
SPEAKER 14 :
No, and that's what I was going to say, is I'm willing to trade life for quiet.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Because, I mean, you're still, I got $140,000 out of this set.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and that's because it came with those Akis on it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Although, Russ, I know you, and the way you keep your trucks and clean them and so on, frankly, you could probably run either and be just fine.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Again, in our fleet, we don't really have any squeak issues, but our fleet, we've got a wash station and so on, and our trucks are washed on a routine basis and so on, and we just don't have – I know what Josh is talking about, and I know where that comes from, but we don't have those issues, nor would you, by the way.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, so the squeaks come from the dirt. It doesn't come from vibration from the pad.
SPEAKER 06 :
No. No.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
If you take care of it like you do, you wouldn't have any issues.
SPEAKER 14 :
I just don't want it to sound like I'm stopping a trash truck every time.
SPEAKER 06 :
It won't. None of my fleet trucks sound like that at all.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
None.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. All right. I'll go pick a setup then. I appreciate you.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, that's a great question, by the way, Russ. I appreciate that. And folks, this is where... Oh, how do I say this in a nice way, Josh? A lot of the guys on the counters, not to knock any of them, any parts store, Napa included, but they can look at what brakes they're selling and what may be coming back on returns and get an idea of what some of the better products are that way, but they're not installing these things. Very few parts guys on the counter, especially when it comes to these heavy-duty trucks and stuff, are driving those trucks and using those particular products. It's just not something that's that common anymore. Now, the car side of things, sure, they're all driving cars and different things, and even their delivery trucks and so on. Yeah, that part they understand. But when it comes to the heavy-duty end of things, Josh, they're not knocking them, but they're just not in that world.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, they're not at all. And, you know, the thing is you do need to use a fleet or a heavy-duty pad on your – if you have a F-250 or 350, anything above in that range or above because the cheaper pads just – they won't last. They don't last. You'll burn right through them. I've seen, you know, fleet guys run through a set of the cheap pads in 7,000, 10,000 miles just –
SPEAKER 06 :
I remember back when those first came out and we were, and really didn't know much about them, but we were struggling to Josh's point, and this is decades ago, but struggling to find pads that would work on some of our, you know, heavier fleet guys. I mean, we were doing some stuff even for the fire department and things like that back in the day. And, you know, trying to get a brush truck to even, you know, coming up and down the mountain from Nederland and stuff, you know, trying to get those things to hold brakes and so on. And we finally found the fleet, you know, Napa came out with their whole fleet line and, And, again, this is several decades ago, and we switched over to those, and best thing we ever did. You tell a customer on the front, say, listen, if you keep things clean and so on, everything Josh just said, you'd let them know that. But, hey, if you don't, you may get some squeak out of it, but your pad life – is going to be, you know, literally, I'm not even talking double, four or five times longer than what some of the other pad choices we had at that time.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, it is, yeah. It's a lot longer. And they break consistently all the way through. You know, some of the lesser pads, you're coming down, you know, all the fleet guys, the electricians, all the contractors, they go up and then they, you know, come flying down the mountain. And by the time they get to the bottom, they're having a ton of brake fade and all these issues with the fleets. they're at least able to still stop and do what they need to do.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. Another car that just came in on what they wish they'd never sold, 1969 Camaro Convertible RS, my high school car. Yeah, that's one you wish you had back today for sure. All right, keep sending us text messages on cars you wish you'd never sold. You can call in as well. Any questions, like Russ just did a moment ago, let us know what those are. We'll come right back to you. Again, we'll be back here in a moment. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, another question of the day from the text line that came in. Car regrets selling. 1967 Porsche 912. Was a daily driver for about eight years. It's now worth about ten times what he sold it for. Yeah, that's a, yeah, I'm sorry. There's nothing else I can say. Somebody else said, after I was drafted two months after high school graduation, had to sell my 67 SS 396 Chevelle. I couldn't stay on my father's insurance. Yeah, that's another one that you already know what they're worth today. That would be one that... yeah you wish you actually had back absolutely and somebody just sent me a link I guess you could say on disc brake quiet I would never use that I've never used it if you do the proper brake job the correct way you don't need to spray anything on anything and I would advise highly against spraying anything on a brake pad if it's making noise if it's making noise it's either the pad or rotor combo something didn't get done correctly when things were installed you're not keeping it clean there's lots of things that can come into play things didn't get lubricated properly when you actually did the brake job itself there's more to doing a brake job than just slapping pads and or even slapping rotors on there's a lot more to it than that and if you've got squeak coming out of the brakes there's typically minus some of the really high performance cars which those can squeak for other reasons not going on That's not what we're talking about. But on regular daily drivers, in today's world, if there's a brake squeak, something else is going on there that didn't get done right in the last brake job. Am I right in saying that, Josh?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. They didn't get it clean or poor pad quality or, you know, you also get what you pay for on those. Yeah. The one benefit I have seen with like BG Stop Squeak, if you have a cheap pad and you use that, you can kind of hide the fact you have a cheap pad for a while. You can mask the fact. You can mask the fact.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. But that's not what you want in the long term. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Somebody else, a good friend of ours, sent in, 75 Ford Granada two-door, came with a 351 Windsor that I installed a Cam Chef 4-barrel carb, came stock with a Ford 9-inch rear diff. Yeah, a fun sleeper car. Yeah, those actually were. Now, again... For me, I have bought, sold, given what I've done my entire life, guys, I can't even count how many cars I've owned over all the years and continue to still buy and sell and rotate in and out and so on, and it's just one of those things. And it's not because I get tired of a car. For me, typically, it's, you know, something comes along, maybe a better opportunity. And I also try to watch the market pretty closely. Sometimes I do really well on finding a car that appreciates versus depreciates. Other times it's like, yeah, this thing's going to drop like a rock. I probably ought to do something different on this car because it's not heading anywhere. And I actually made a move on a couple of vehicles that I owned, one of them being the V8 Jeep. So I had a V8 392 Jeep for the longest time. And Josh and I were talking even early summer, and that's a car that I actually got out of mid-summer and went a different direction. And glad I did, because since then, they have dropped like a rock. I think I got out of that vehicle at exactly the right time. Had I kept that even a couple of months longer, I wouldn't have gotten out of it what I did. And that's because of the mistakes that are happening at Stellantis. I've talked about that in some of the shows here in the past. And Granted, they're on the right track again. I feel like they are, but they have a lot of catching up to do.
SPEAKER 03 :
They do.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I mean a lot of catching up to do. And basically what Stellantis did was, which for all of you listening, that's Fiat, Dodge, Ram, Chrysler, Maserati. What am I missing?
SPEAKER 03 :
Alfa.
SPEAKER 06 :
Alfa. Yeah. And something else. There's something else that I'm missing. Anyways, long story. They chased the stock market. Rather than really producing good, solid quality vehicles, they had huge price increases, as we all know, back during COVID. Everything shot up. Every manufacturer is making money because they were able to raise prices. Dealers were only ordering top of the line models, which is what they make the majority of their money on. They have a lot higher profit margin in their top-of-the-line models than they do their lower-priced models, fleet vehicles, for example, their stripped-down version of whatever. They don't make as much on those. And so they capitalized highly. And what happened is after COVID, they kept that trend going. Their stock was doing well. Their profit was good. And they kept that trend going without taking some of that money and putting it back into R&D. In fact, they made some really stupid moves. They went in on all EV. They were going to do an inline six instead of the V8 that they'd been known for. They trademarked the Hemi engine. They're not the only ones making a Hemi engine, by the way, but they trademarked the name. Years and years, decades ago, they trademarked the name. Well, they were going to let all that go away, basically, and not do that any longer anymore. And the reality is that was a huge – Jeep, I should have said a moment ago, is the other brand that they own – huge mistake on their part to go that direction and allow some of those things to fall off. And it cost them in sales dearly. And at the end of the day, they realized that, wait a minute, this is not the direction we need to head. We've got to get back to our roots. We've got to get a change in the CEO end of things. And one of their biggest ownership investors, quote unquote, that's over in Italy, basically said, yeah, we need a huge change here. And we can't continue to do the things that we've been doing. And we've got to get this thing turned around. And it's interesting, the guy that actually is a huge owner of Stellantis, owns a good portion of their stock, also owns a good portion of Ferrari stock. So he's very intricate to what goes on over in that part of the world and said, listen, we can turn this around and make this work. And we need to and we're going to. And to his credit, he actually has. And you've seen them do some things now. You know, they've come back. Some of their quality has changed. They've come back with some of the V8 models and some of the vehicles that they're going to be doing. They revived the Hemi engine, if you would. And so I think they're on the right track. But they know that they've got a huge rebuilding process. chore in front of them, and they do, and it's not going to happen overnight. And in turn, you've now got Chevrolet, for example, GM that has come in and said, okay, we're just going to take a certain amount of that market share that you guys let slip away, and that's exactly what they've done. So Bob and Thornton, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 13 :
So, John, in the latest inflation report in September, They list overall inflation, but I don't know why they do that because certain items go up, certain items go down. New cars, they reported, were up 0.9% for the month, but used cars were up a full 6%. Used cars, and I believe that has to do with, you know, new cars are getting more and more expensive. You know, they cost more to insure, they cost more to license, they cost more, you know, on and on and on. So people are dropping back to buying used cars. And I think a lot of the used car market now is lease car returns and rental fleet returns. Your guests there should probably know a little bit about that. But, yeah, the used car market is going, like, crazy up, and the new car market is level to nonexistent. You know, I don't know what's going on there.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's funny, too, really quick, because some of you will see some videos and things along these lines where it talks about how the used car market is crashing. And what they're using as a benchmark is that CarMax, who owns a lot of vehicles nationwide, they're using CarMax and Carvana, by the way, as their inventory dropping in value. Now... That's not wrong, but that's not an indicator of the entire used car market. The problem with both Carvana and I think even CarMax is they own a lot of, and I just got done talking about Stellantis, they own a lot of Stellantis products, Jeep, Ram, et cetera. And, yes, those have taken huge hits in recent weeks and months when it comes to their prices because of what I just got done explaining. Mm-hmm. And knowing that those products aren't as good as what they probably could be. And the other thing that's happened is because of the revival of some of the new products and even some new pricing that's happening on the new car side, it's affecting the used car side, Bob, to your point. And that's one area where, yes, there's been some deflation, if you would, on the used car prices. But you're correct. Overall, used car prices are not down. So you're going to see reports that, oh, the market's crashing. No, it's not. It's just some dealers are overloaded in certain product types that are deflating, yes. Exactly, certain brands are deflating.
SPEAKER 13 :
What just slapped me right in the face was new car prices in this inflation report, you know, towards the government, you know, new car prices were only up 0.6%, used car, no, 0.9%. And used car prices were up a full 6%. And I think that the used car market is depending on, like I said, lease returns that are generally about three years and rental fleets that dump their cars after, oh, anywhere from two to three years. The other thing is the EV credit went away on September 30th. Did you know, well, I'm sure you know this, the car manufacturers brought up all the cars that they could and got the rebates nationwide. I think it was seven grand. But in California, it was 12,500. Colorado was about 12,000. You know, different states and stuff. They brought them up. And now they're going to put them back on the market. Now that they've got that cash in their hand, they can... How did they... I'm confused.
SPEAKER 06 :
How did they... They already got the rebate. How did they do that, Bob? They can't do that.
SPEAKER 13 :
No, they did.
SPEAKER 06 :
They can't.
SPEAKER 13 :
They did.
SPEAKER 06 :
They can't.
SPEAKER 13 :
Why can't they?
SPEAKER 06 :
Because a retail customer has to buy that. Even fleets, when you buy EVs, have a whole different federal credit and rebate going on than what a regular general customer has. So there's no way they could do that. I don't know who wrote that or what they said. That's impossible. Furthermore... if they do that they can't sell that car as a new car that would have to be titled uh registered etc and that would be have to have to be sold as a used car there's no way that happened i don't know who said that but they have no idea what they're talking about couldn't have happened well no way that one i will argue until i go to the grave there's no way they did that in the normal channel of things uh in buying things the way it's supposed to be done unless there was some huge work around i know nothing about which i read a lot and do a lot in that area, Bob, there's no way that whoever said that has no clue what they're talking about. Couldn't have happened. They can't sell that car as a new car if they did that. It's impossible. The MSO goes away and it has to be titled. There's no way it's a new car any longer. Okay. Meaning they're then going to take all that depreciation. Even if they're doing that and they get all of that rebate, great. Now they're selling the car at whatever that rebate was. It's a net nothing to them at the end of the day. They're not gaining anything by doing so because it's a used car at that point. Whoever wrote that has no clue what they're talking about. Zero. All right. Because it can't happen. Again, the way the law works, for all of you listening, if it's a new car with an MSO, so Manufacturer Statement of Origin is what MSO stands for. For all of you that are out there listening, that's what the car comes with originally from the manufacturer. It's not a title. It's an MSO. And once that car goes from MSO to anything else, it by law has to be titled. In fact, in the state of Colorado, you're only allowed... Is it 1,000, or what's the mileage in Colorado to where it then has to be a used car even on a demo? What's the new car law? I don't know. There's even a mileage limit, Bob, in Colorado as to how far that car can even be driven until it then becomes a used car and sold as a used car.
SPEAKER 13 :
I bought demos that were sold as new, and they had less than 1,000 miles.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I think in Colorado the mileage limit is 1,000 miles. If they go over 1,000 on a new car, it now as a used car has to be sold as such.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, I mean, that car that I referenced, the 2017 Chevy SS, that was a demo. I bought it with 350 miles on it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and that's still a new car at that point in Colorado. Yes, that one's okay. Yep. Yep. No, I appreciate that. And I'll do some research on that, Bob, because whoever wrote that article, there's just there's no way there's no way they could have done that and taken advantage of that unless they did it through their own leasing division. But even then, the car can't be sold as new. Right. If they took the rebate. Because you can't double rebate. In some states, they're still giving rebates. Even Colorado upped the EV credit from $6,000 to $9,000 after the September 30th deadline, and other states have done similar things along those lines. And you can't double dip. So there's just – whoever wrote that evidently doesn't understand how things work because you cannot – Unless there's some loophole I know nothing about, and I'll do some research even through the break in the top of the hour, unless there's some loophole I know nothing about, and if I find that, I'll correct myself. But to my knowledge, there's no way that that can happen. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 06 :
All right, I have an answer to what Bob stated a moment ago. So whoever wrote the article, and maybe they explained this in the article, and I don't know. I'd have to go, Bob, if you want to send me that article, I'll read that and make sure that whoever wrote that is saying it exactly. So what some manufacturers did. is they bought the vehicles from the dealer putting it into their leasing program lowering the price to the end customer it's still going to be i think in that case a used car that what i'm reading isn't saying whether it's considered a used car or not but they're basically then passing on that 7 500 credit that was on the federal side through the lease Sounds very convoluted, by the way, to me on how they did that. But they basically took some vehicles from their dealers, not physically, but paperwork wise. They took some of those from the dealers, effectively giving a down payment on the inventory for the dealer, therefore lowering their carrying costs. is what I'm really guessing they did to help the dealers. How they actually are doing that paperwork-wise, I'm not exactly sure, and I'm guessing that somewhere along the line here, they had to have gotten approval IRS-wise and probably through government itself, because the way that typically works is, even right now, before the September 30th deadline was, if you went and bought an EV, You have to agree that you've only made X amount of money to even qualify for that federal tax credit. So how GM and Ford and others did this in bypassing all of that, that's beyond my understanding. I'll have to do more reading on that to determine exactly how they did that. But they've... They have bought those from, paperwork-wise, they've bought it from the dealer, still staying on the dealer's lot, then allowing the $7,500 credit to pass through on down the road. Only on a lease, though. Probably because they bought that through their leasing division, quote-unquote. But how they're qualifying for that on all the tax stuff, that I don't know. That's beyond my pay grade, to be real honest with you. And the question that I would have, and maybe there's a dealer out there listening that can text me on this, is that then sold as a new car or a used car? That's what I want to know. Now, on a lease, it probably doesn't matter because on a lease, you never get the title to the car anyway, so it's probably irrelevant. And that's probably how they're getting around all of this is because technically, at that point, it is a used car, but it's being leased through their leasing company, meaning they hold the paperwork on it anyways, and it's irrelevant. That's probably how they're getting around all this. Am I right in thinking that way, Josh?
SPEAKER 03 :
I still don't understand how they get the credit because the credit is supposed to.
SPEAKER 06 :
That I don't know either because the credit is supposed to only pass to people that make under a certain amount of annual income.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
because that law changed because the rebate was going directly to the dealers, i.e. this is what they're doing here. The dealer gets the credit for that, but you had to make, for example, I think you had to be married, filing jointly, and make under $320K a year, for example. If you made over $320K, you didn't get any federal credit. So how a leasing company, quote-unquote, they had to have gotten some big okay from government or somebody to be able to do what they did, Before these things expired, somebody had to have done a lot of work internally to figure out how to do this because that's not typically how you would be able to do things.
SPEAKER 03 :
And did they say whether it's the state tax credits?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, federal only. Federal only. Only the $7,500. So no state stuff involved in this.
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't.
SPEAKER 06 :
And again, I am correct. That car would have to be now a used car. But given the fact it's in their own leasing division, it's irrelevant because they hold all the paperwork, title and everything anyways. It's not being sold, quote unquote, to the retail customer on a regular retail cash or finance sale. It's a lease. And anytime you lease a car, you never own the car anyways. You don't hold the paperwork on it at that point.
SPEAKER 03 :
And did they take stuff that was just at the dealership or stuff in production?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I don't know either. I'm guessing it had to be on a dealer lot. From what I'm reading in this, how the strategy works, I did some AI on this, and how the strategy works is I believe it had to be on a dealer lot to actually get this to qualify. How many of these they did, that I have no numbers on. I don't know folks on that one. Bob, if you know and you want to send me a text message on that, how many of these they did this on, I have no idea. So thank you, Bob, for bringing that to my attention. I was not aware they were doing this, and they're doing it sort of in a gray area, and these are not retail sales. They're leases only. Because as I said, you can't sell this car on a retail basis at all in this particular case because it's a used car at that point and there's no gain at that point. Now, what they're doing is buying it as their leasing company and then leasing it to the customer as new and giving the discount through the lease because they already got the money back. And yeah, I guess in that way, they could actually do all of that. And given the fact that it doesn't really matter what the paperwork looks like, what a paperwork nightmare this is, by the way, but at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter because when you lease a car, you never get the title anyway, so it doesn't make any difference. It's irrelevant. Yeah. You're even registering – even when you go to register this car, it will be – I'm not sure your name is even ever on it. It's probably going to have Chrysler Credit or Ally or GM Financial or whoever it's being leased through. That's actually what the registration is going to be at that point in time because you're essentially just leasing the car from them.
SPEAKER 01 :
This is a wild one.
SPEAKER 06 :
That is a wild one. Thank you for bringing that up, Bob. I was not aware that they had even thought about doing this. Some bean counter somewhere. Got a really bright idea on how they could actually make this work. And again, the one thing that I'm still, and Josh is as well, trying to figure out is how did they get the federal credit given the fact that they're not an individual, they're a company?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't understand. That doesn't.
SPEAKER 06 :
There's some shady stuff there that they got to prove that most people wouldn't have been able to do otherwise. They must have got some things passed through the White House and the IRS or something. They had to have got some special something or other to make this happen because that's typically not an okay thing to do.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, it's not. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
And you know because you're on that end of things even more than I am.
SPEAKER 03 :
I know. I don't understand how they do it. Because it's a lot of work for the EV tax credits, both with the state and – And the Fed. And the Fed, and they take their own time and, you know. Correct. And the way you do it has to be right. I mean, firsthand, I had it that way where the Fed called a vehicle, I purchased a truck, and the state called it a car.
SPEAKER 06 :
And even that was a big deal.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I wrote it off as a truck with the state, and they took one of –
SPEAKER 06 :
or refunds back because of it so again there's a lot to this that's what I just explained and Bob thank you that's essentially what they've done how all the inner workings of it are I'm not exactly sure and I don't know how many these units they actually did this with. I would love to know what the actual number is as to how many vehicles were on dealer lots that some of the manufacturers actually went in and did to try to help the dealer out. I'd love to know what that is. Now, one thing Charlie wanted me to mention as well, some of the manufacturers, Hyundai, for example, on the IONIQS, 10K discount. That started the day after the September 30th as soon as the federal credits ran out. They went even further. They upped it 2,500 bucks and did 10K discount on an Ioniq. That's their EV in that lineup. So you're going to see more of that when it comes to EVs. How exactly is it all going to shake out? I have no idea. Bob, thanks again for noting that. I appreciate it. Myself, Josh, we'll be right back. Don't go anywhere. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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