Drive Radio on KLZ 560 dives deep into everything automotive, from race car wheel studs to the myths and realities of electric vehicles. Callers share their frustrations with finding specialized parts, debate the safety and design of EVs, and highlight issues like range anxiety, insurance costs, and battery replacement fears. Host John Rush balances the discussion with first-hand insights from years of EV ownership, dispelling misconceptions while pointing out the challenges. The show also touches on repairs for wheel sensors, tackling stubborn bolts on older Toyotas, restoring classic radios, and comparing vehicles like the Lincoln Aviator versus its Ford Explorer counterpart. Whether it’s fixing a cooling leak with K-Seal, handling carbon buildup in direct injection engines, or making smart tire choices, Drive Radio delivers practical advice with plenty of real-world examples.
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There's no such thing as a stupid question. This is Drive Radio. All of your automotive questions are just one phone call away. 303-477-5600. Drive Radio is made possible by the member shops of Colorado Select Auto Care Centers. To find one near you, go to drive-radio.com. Now, Drive Radio on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, last hour of Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for calling in. We appreciate it. Jeff in Golden, you're next. Go ahead, Jeff.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hello, how's it going? Good, Jeff. All right, well, we're on the radio. I'm here in Golden at the Big O Tire. I was just at the O'Reilly. We're trying to find wheel stud.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's for the little race car. I'm trying to go 2 1⁄2 inch long. Or three, I may have just found what I'm looking for on Speedway Motors. I may have found them, but where would you find extra long wheel studs? I mean, there's just all these auto parts stores. That's like the worst rack in the world. You get to these wheel suds, and they bring you to the back, and they're like, oh, look at this.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, good luck.
SPEAKER 08 :
We haven't organized this for 10 years.
SPEAKER 05 :
I mean, that's, and as you know, that gets pretty specific on size, length, and so on. You know, you've got to go aftermarket. Somebody that's in the racing end of things, like where you're at, you're going to have to do something along those lines to get longer ones. But sell the rims and stuff altogether. Correct. Correct.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, me and Trevor at the counter, very helpful guy here at the Big O. We were just saying the same thing. That was basically what he said, and we were like, we need to start. He was saying his father-in-law is a part of a speed shop. What was the speed shop? Hamilton Motorsports, something like that. And I think Speedway Motors might have them right now when I'm looking. I'm just now looking.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep, I think that's what you're going to end up having to do because otherwise you're not going to find long enough ones.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, it's just for the race car. The reason I'm doing it is because we went to Bristol to run, and the tech right away, they called me on that. They were like, your wheel studs are way too short, and the way these lug nuts on them kind of looks like the thing's not all the way on. They're sunken way down in there, and they wanted to see some threads out there. But that's a lot easier said than done.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep, yep. Especially with all the torque you're putting on that, you want to have some thread straight through. You want it safe. Exactly.
SPEAKER 08 :
So any other guys other than where we're going? I think, yeah, I think we're kind of solving our own problem. But it was kind of fun. I told him, I was like, well, I can call the guy on the radio right now.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no, you've got to go to a performance shop. I mean, there's only, and in town now, that's the other issue you've got here in town, is how many speed shops are in Denver now? Not that many.
SPEAKER 08 :
Not that many, exactly. I'm thinking not too many, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm looking. There's not, I mean, even if you Google it, there's just not that many around.
SPEAKER 08 :
Larry Motorsports, and then he just moved. I'm not sure where he is now, but Larry is one of our guys.
SPEAKER 05 :
On track. I know the guys at On Track, only they're not open today, so that would be another one you could try would be On Track.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that would be the only two that I can think of.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's the only ones I know of.
SPEAKER 08 :
Larry and On Track, yeah. Yeah. Well, cool. Beautiful day out here, guys.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Well, enjoy, Jeff. Have fun, man. Appreciate you. Thank you very much. Dennis, you're next. Go ahead, Dennis.
SPEAKER 10 :
Hi, John. I got some comments on EVs. Sure. It's not just that the government mandated them. There are several other factors in place. And to prove that, Tesla sales were down for the last eight months in a row. They lost 3% of their value the other day. And part of that is their product. Part of that is their founder. You know, people are tired.
SPEAKER 05 :
People don't like him. Yep, you're right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep, absolutely. But not to mention that EVs are small and ugly. People have range anxiety.
SPEAKER 05 :
Range anxiety is a big factor. Now, the small and ugly, not so much anymore. There's so many makes and models now that some of what – People may not even know they're an EV. Typically, you can tell by not having a regular grille is usually the way. But even that's not a telltale sign anymore, Dennis. Some of the EVs they put with a regular-type grille in it where it really looks very similar to all of their other counterparts. So they're not as small and, quote-unquote, as ugly as they used to be because you can buy full-size vehicles now that are a complete EV that, by the way, have very long range, 350-mile-plus EVs. The other problem with Tesla, really quick going back to them, is that I feel is an issue for them is they all look the same. Yeah, they've done some new refreshing of a couple of models here of late, but even they don't have much of a refresh. I mean, bottom line, you can take a Tesla that's 10 years old and a brand new one, and they look exactly the same. There's no difference. Right, and battery anxiety, battery replacement anxiety... Yeah, and by the way, that's a big factor that I think people have, that no offense is no different than... They don't have engine replacement anxiety. Why do they have battery replacement anxiety? There's really no difference from one to the other as far as longevity goes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Although I think it would be much easier to get rid of a...
SPEAKER 05 :
ice replacement engine rather than that battery well but like an engine the counterpart is just like an engine most of those ev batteries are fixable and you can put them right back in so there's even a guy down in arizona that specifically does tesla rebuilds and there's a lot of the other battery packs that you're going to find exactly the same way so you're going to end up in the not too distant future exactly the same as an engine versus a battery pack you can still fix them both
SPEAKER 10 :
Right. And another factor I think comes into play is the fire situation. You know, whether you're out on the road or... your garage catches on fire and gets into the house while you're asleep, you know, there's a lot of EV fires.
SPEAKER 05 :
There is, although I think the biggest, me personally, Dennis, yes, you're right, and I talk about this a lot, the pushing of them on society is one of the downfalls of them. But I'll just say it straight up. Here's the other problem. Because of the pushing... they didn't do proper training and education of what the advantages and disadvantages of an EV are. They just assumed everybody needs to own one, here you go, here's a credit, go buy one. Well, there was no education in it, Dennis, like I've done for myself over the past five years. And because of that lack of education, you get what you're talking about. Ignorance. Yep, you get ignorance. And I hate to say this, there's a lot of ignorance around EVs. For and against.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, in just a public service announcement, don't leave your e-bikes plugged in.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, that's another one. Yeah, do not. Absolutely, Dennis. E-bikes or even some little e-scooters and stuff, don't leave any of those plugged in. Really?
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, that's all I got.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, good one, Dennis. I appreciate it. And Dennis brings up some great points. And some of what Dennis is talking about, I go back to the lack of education, both sides. Ignorance, by the way, on both sides, because... Neither knows full well what EVs do until you really own one like I have. And I mean that in the most sincere ways. And by the way, I think even some folks that own them don't fully understand them even like I do because they're not car people, so they don't want to. They just figure I plug it in and go. That's all they really care about at the end of the day. But owning them... changes your complete perspective on them because they're they're not what most people think and i'm a testament to that and i've owned one since 2020 now so so five years and i can pretty much tell you the ins and outs of them and a lot of and i can dispel by the way a lot of the misconceptions that there are around them and there is a lot of misconceptions around them because there's a lot of ignorance because until you own one you don't know
SPEAKER 06 :
I read an article this week in one of the trade magazines that the insurance payments for Lexus in some states are double what a normal.
SPEAKER 05 :
They can be. That's one of the first things I tell people, too, when you're looking to get an EV, double-check your insurance rates because in some cases, yes. Your insurance could be more than what your counter. Now, typically, your insurance is going to be higher anyways because you're buying a new car versus an old car. But you need to do a comparison one for the other. So I'm going to I'm thinking about buying this EV versus this new car and look and see what the rates are. And that'll tell you how much more the EV actually is.
SPEAKER 06 :
And the more expensive the EV, the wider the gap.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 06 :
As it got down to a lower and more expensive, they were closer in terms of insurance. That's absolutely right. So I thought that was kind of interesting.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's absolutely right. You are correct in that. No, you're exactly right. Bob, go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, you know. You know about Baidu, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
About what?
SPEAKER 11 :
Baidu.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, Chinese.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, Chinese. Oh, they're crushing Teslas, well, in China and also in Europe. And here's why.
SPEAKER 05 :
Actually, Tesla's still outselling them in China.
SPEAKER 11 :
Tesla is?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, I just read that Friday.
SPEAKER 11 :
Really?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's odd.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, not really. But, you know, I mean – I mean, and the reason I say not really is – and I'm not trying to ditz anybody, but I can just tell you right now that I would be surprised if the quality of one versus the other is exactly the same. I don't know. I've never been in a BYD because they're not imported into America, so I've never sat inside of one. I saw some reviews and different things on them, but I don't know. I don't know what their quality is like.
SPEAKER 11 :
Are they trying to move into the Mexican market?
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, absolutely. And Mexico is trying to tariff them. Not trying. Mexico is tariffing them much like we are because Mexico doesn't want them. And Mexico doesn't want them because they feel like there's enough already vehicles produced in Mexico. They want to keep that homegrown there. They don't want them coming into Mexico. So Mexico is doing the same thing we are.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, so I listened to you earlier this week, and it was actually a very brilliant holdup on EVs, and you explained that so clearly. I almost thought maybe I'd get one. You know, I mean, for the purpose, you know,
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and number one, Bob, thank you for saying that. We're going to replay, for all of you listening that didn't hear that because that was on my daily show, we're going to be replaying that one here at some point in the future. Charlie's working on, we're going to get a full hour of that put together because it ended up being about 45 minutes, Bob. Oh, yeah. I'll tag a few things front and rear to get an hour out of that, and we'll make that an hour at some point where everybody can hear that. And for everybody listening, what spawned that is I just had a random caller that called in and started asking questions about – And I felt like, OK, well, now's as good a time to answer those as any. And literally, I just took each question as it came. And none of that was staged. All of that was really just off the cuff, Bob. And I thought the conversation went really well. And I was trying to be as well. You know me. I'm going to be honest one way or the other anyways. And for like you just said, for most people. And I said this on Tuesday. For the majority of people, they worry about going on a road trip, going coast to coast in their EV, yet they don't anyways. So why is that a worry?
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. You explained that so clearly. And then you explained, you know, I mean, if you live in an apartment or a complex, you know, like... You have to have, you know, a home where you can put in a charging system and stuff like that. Because nobody's going to go out every morning and stand in front of a charger.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and as I said, even on Tuesday, and there's a Tesla charge station just down here below us here at the station, Bob, and I will tell you that I'm convinced that the majority of people that actually use that charge station, A, are Teslas because you can't use it unless you're, Tesla owner or have the adapter because Tesla uses a different plug than what all of the other cars use but typically you're going to see Tesla's there and I think Bob those are people like you're talking about whereby they don't live anywhere where they can charge so they go find a charge station and they wait and plug in and they are not I repeat this they are not your typical car driver and owner oh no I mean for instance like I have three cars and they're all different classes of cars
SPEAKER 11 :
and I have garage space for all three. I could probably, and I'll tell you what I own. I own a 2020 Cadillac XT. I own a 24 Kia Carnival. And then my everyday driver is a 22 Chevy Trax. And I could probably replace the track with an EV. You could.
SPEAKER 05 :
You could, easily.
SPEAKER 11 :
I'm never going to take that on a road trip, never.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now, and for those listening, I always say this, don't knock it until you try it. Have you ever driven one, Bob? No, I have not. You need to go drive an EV, because you especially, knowing you like I do, and we talk a lot even off-air in that, and for the performance sides of things, go drive one of the, you know, more quote-unquote hot EVs, and that's all you've got to go do. Go drive one.
SPEAKER 11 :
You know, I mean, you know that I was an electrical engineer for AT&T all these years, and I know about motors. Motors have maximum... torque at zero RPM.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 11 :
I mean, I understand all that.
SPEAKER 05 :
So, you know, in your case, because you know some of the same people I do, go drive an Equinox EV. Go get an all-wheel drive Equinox EV and drive it, test drive one.
SPEAKER 11 :
She has an Equinox gas, and she loves it. And your wife has an Equinox EV, and she loves it.
SPEAKER 05 :
She does.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I'm going to tell you, my ex-wife doesn't drive long trips.
SPEAKER 05 :
She can drive an EV all day long and be fine.
SPEAKER 11 :
But she doesn't want to wear out her Equinox. That's why we've been bouncing this thing. I want this old Vibe GT because she had one when it was new, and she loves them. It's just an extra car to go get groceries. But anyway, nevertheless, let's talk about one of the efficiencies of the EVs was Remember when gas hit, even in Colorado, almost $5 a gallon, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, now, here's what's going on. Gasoline, I could pay like $2.50 a gallon at Costco when I fill up. So gas prices are going down, but the problem is electricity prices are going up. So a lot of that advantage... But I understand, you know, like you never have to get an oil change. You know, your brakes are going to last forever because of the, you know, the regeneration and stuff like that. And I listened to your, was it Tuesday?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, Tuesday.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, yeah. You were brilliant. Well, thank you. I mean, you took both sides, you know, and I appreciate that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, thank you.
SPEAKER 11 :
And I thought about that, and I thought, well, you know, I have an extra car. I would never have an EV as a primary car and no others, but for an extra car, good deal. And those old Nissan Leafs were junk.
SPEAKER 05 :
New ones are much better, but the old ones were not very good.
SPEAKER 11 :
What do with those? They bought them, and then they give them off to their teenage kids, go back and forth to school, and they're fine. I mean, the range is down to 70 miles on a used one. Going back and forth to school. And, you know, so I guess there's, I don't know what's going to happen. When is it, September 30th?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, Tuesday.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I don't know that people really bought them for the tax advantage. I mean, come on. Cars are expensive.
SPEAKER 05 :
They are. They are. You're right about that. I think some did, though. I think, Bob, there were some people that literally looked at that tax credit and said, wow, that's a good deal. I'll buy it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I don't know. I've always been a cash buyer, so I don't give a damn about that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right, right. Bob, I've got to run to break. Appreciate you very much, though. Thank you very much. I appreciate the kind words as well. Wayne, Bill, you guys hang tight. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Oh, wait a minute. We don't have Charlie. Charlie went away. Well, I have to take a break, but let me go ahead and take a call instead. Let's do this. Wayne and Yurei, you're next.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, John, I've got a 2018 Hyundai Santa Fe with approximately 48,000 miles on it. And last year in November, I had my right rear wheel sensor go. Had to have that replaced. And now, just within the last two weeks... I've had the left rear wheel sensor go. Is that an issue? There's no recall from Honda.
SPEAKER 06 :
Is that an issue that I should... Yeah, you should do them all at the same time. They're just a little battery that's inside those little sensors, and they wear out over time. Being a 2018, that's about due. Well, this is a $500 bill.
SPEAKER 12 :
The wheel sensor itself that goes inside the tire? Or is there another sensor I'm... They have to do the whole wheel hub.
SPEAKER 06 :
The wheel hub. Are you talking maybe an ABS sensor?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, okay. ABS. That makes more sense. I'm sorry. I was thinking like the tire monitor. No, yeah, okay, ABS, yes, yes, yes. Okay. No, but we do tend to do a lot more of these wheel bearings, basically, wheel sensors. It does seem to be a thing.
SPEAKER 12 :
So it's not uncommon for two of them to go out within 48,000 miles?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep, not uncommon. I did my truck, I have a GM Chevy, and I did it at like 40,000, 45,000 right in there.
SPEAKER 01 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
And it all depends on what you hit, too. I mean, if you hit a good pothole just the right angle, maybe you might score one of the bearings in there or something like that. Or you get a little water in there. They're supposed to be sealed, but I'm not sure that that's always perfect ceiling in there.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, well, the car is housed in Florida, except I take it out to Colorado twice a year. And for some reason, it does not like coming to Colorado. Gotcha.
SPEAKER 05 :
But anyway. He likes Florida. He likes that warm weather. Well, yeah. I think we all do. I can't blame him. I think we all like that. Can't blame him, Wayne.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Thanks a lot.
SPEAKER 05 :
You betcha, Wayne. No, appreciate you very much. Okay. Let's take a break. Bill, we'll come right back to you. A couple lines open. 303-477-5600. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 05 :
Bill and Longmont, you are next. Go ahead. Hello. Good morning. Good morning, Bill. Or good afternoon now, I guess.
SPEAKER 07 :
I guess it is afternoon. Uh, I have a 96 Ford F two 50, uh, real low mileage. It's got a, uh, four 60 engine. And I'm not positive if that has flat tap at lifters or roller lifters.
SPEAKER 05 :
That should be flat tap it in a 96. I believe don't quote me, but I believe it does.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I don't think they went rolling until later. I can double check, keep talking and I'll do some looking.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Well, that was kind of the end of the line for the four 60 around them. But, uh, I was going to change the oil on it, and I wanted to put in a zinc, if it's flat tappet, a zinc additive, but I don't want to mess up the catalytic converter, so I didn't know if that was going to... On that one, you could just run the 1540 diesel oil and be just fine in it, and they are flat tappet. It is a flat tappet.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'd just run the 1540 diesel oil in that if it were me.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, okay. Well, that sounds like a good deal.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it's a good weight for that engine? You'd have no issues doing that at all? It'd be fine?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, okay. I had another quick question. I was going to change the timing belt on my wife's 98 Camry, and I even bought a new air impact, no electric impact. We're supposed to have 1,000 foot-pounds of torque.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
I put that on there, and it didn't touch the bolt. It wouldn't budge it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's a pretty tight one. They put a little bit of Loctite on that guy.
SPEAKER 07 :
I wonder if they did when we had the Toyota dealer put a new belt on it years ago. Probably. I wonder if they put some Loctite.
SPEAKER 06 :
It's probably. I would do it if it was me. Sometimes they can also leak oil. Sometimes crankshafts can leak oil, so you want to put a little something on there. Some don't. Some do.
SPEAKER 07 :
But I can't get the bolt out.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sometimes we actually use a three-quarter impact to do it.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm afraid of rounding the socket.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, use a good socket. We don't talk about this much, but this is, for everybody listening, this is where that high-end snap-on tool truck socket versus what you buy at Harbor Freight or wherever, yeah, there's a big difference between one and the other, and that's why you use the high-quality stuff on those.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think it's a 19 or a 17 millimeter?
SPEAKER 1 :
19.
SPEAKER 05 :
So three-quarter, but you want to use 19, not three-quarter. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, actually, the three-quarter fits tighter than the 19.
SPEAKER 05 :
Sometimes in that little area. Then you'd want to use that, so whatever's tightest. But, yeah, that's why you want a good socket.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, yeah, I don't know, though. I mean, it doesn't seem to touch it. It's supposed to be 1,040 foot-pounds of torque on this brand-new electric Impact.
SPEAKER 06 :
Can I tell them the way to cheat? Go ahead. All right. You can put your socket on with a... Breaker bar. Rest the breaker bar up against, make sure which way the engine's turning. Rest the breaker bar up against the frame or on the ground, and then just hit your starter once. And just a touch.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I've heard of that. I've heard of that.
SPEAKER 06 :
It works very well. We don't really do that anymore. The older cars, we did that quite a bit. But now, with the better tooling. You don't have to, but in your case, you may have to, Bill.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. I'm not sure. Does it turn clockwise then?
SPEAKER 05 :
Just crank it and look. Yeah, have somebody crank it and look. No, you've got to go the other direction or position the breaker bar accordingly is what I should say.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, okay. Yeah, I've seen that done. I forgot about that.
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Yeah, there you go.
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Well, okay.
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All right, Bill.
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I'll give it a try.
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All right. Appreciate your call. No, very much. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Stuart and Loveland, you're next. Go ahead.
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Hey, afternoon, guys. How you doing? Good. How are you? Oh, I'm fighting some stuff, but it's getting better. The Lord's good. That's good. Yeah. A couple things. Early on the show, I think first hour, you guys were talking about radios.
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Yes.
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And rebuilds, old-type radios. If you use Bing or Google search, you can find, and I've done this in the past for my 69 Lincoln Mark III radio. There's people in the United States, most of them are on the East Coast. One of them's a little cantankerous, but he's not too bad a guy. He only communicates through texting, but if you send him your radio, he will rebuild that radio and bring it up to current specs, and he can add UBS and Bluetooth and all that kind of stuff if you so desire. it takes about four to six weeks. But the oddity is he doesn't want you to send any knobs. Okay, I can understand that. Yeah, he doesn't want them lost.
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Doesn't want to lose them, that's right.
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Yeah. And then the other thing, and he does a really good job, it's just he's a little quirky. So if you're willing to wait a little bit, you'll get a quality job.
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Mm-hmm.
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And I can't remember his name, but he does have a web page up on the Internet. I just saw it.
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Gotcha.
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About a half hour before calling you guys.
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Basically, same thing I did with my old Dodge. That's exactly what he's doing.
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Yeah.
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I mean, why not? That's the only way to go, Stuart, if you ask me. I'm fully in on that.
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Yeah. Then what do you think of, John, since you drive and Steve, too, with your shop, what do you think of Lincoln Aviators as a car?
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uh overpriced regular ford okay really sorry that's my opinion i mean they have more creature comforts don't get me wrong i mean they they have got more things going on inside of them than what you're going to find in its regular ford uh counterpart which is what an explorer i believe so an aviator is an explorer just a fancy explorer right but when i pay the extra money knowing how heavily equipped you can get an explorer i would still buy an explorer
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Or would you?
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That's me talking, because to me there's not that much. You're buying fluff. I'm sorry. Maybe I don't know what else to say, Stuart. But on the Lincoln, I'm sorry to say this, and I'm not trying to be rude, but you're just buying a lot of fluff. That's all you're getting. Sorry.
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Yeah, I've ridden in them, though, because we used to go to Landmark Lincoln when we had our shows there with the Lincoln Club. And Tom, great guy. I mean, he donated a lot of money to St. Jude's. I have a lot of respect for that man. But with that being said, those vehicles are very quiet.
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Well, they are. And again, you're buying a little more luxury. Yes, you're going to get a little bit more sound deadening. They're going to be a little heavier as far as that goes. I think they've got a little bit different as far as the screens are concerned. You're getting more screen, more room, I guess you could say, on screens and so on with the Aviator versus the Explorer. But again... Personally, would I do that? No, but that's me. I mean, I'm not everybody, so that's just me.
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Well, you're not that fluffy a guy, John.
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No. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of why I don't know that I would buy a Cadillac Escalade full-bore Suburban versus just buying, for example, a Denali or even a High Country in the Chevrolet version. At the end of the day, it's all the same, does the same thing, same amount of room. Everything else is equal. You're just buying a lot more fluff with the Escalade.
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Yeah. Well, I'm not looking at brand new. I'm looking at used. So maybe that changes it.
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Well, and here's the plus side. If you're buying a used one, because the aviators will depreciate way faster than the explorers will because of everything I just said. So, yeah, buying a used one, that's a different story.
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Yeah, because I could get a one-owner used one through ClearShift. I don't know if you're familiar with that group.
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Yeah, I'm familiar with them.
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I think that's Jeff VanderWaal's company.
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um yeah i don't know the owner i just know of them yeah and they're pretty good group but but you know as far as that goes yeah i mean now you're buying what somebody else bought and all that depreciation comes right off the top and those expensive cars as you know depreciate faster than its counterpart will oh yeah and like you said uh cars are expensive and i think that i heard once that uh
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Most individuals will spend more on vehicles in their lifetime than they will on housing.
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Probably. That's probably true. And that car, I just did the weight comparison. It is 400 pounds more, so given everything we just talked about.
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Yeah, so it rides a little better than two.
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Correct.
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Because it's got more weight.
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Correct.
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Hey, thanks again for your show.
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No, you're welcome, Stuart.
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Have a good weekend.
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Well, thank you very much. Great call, by the way. I appreciate that. Albert in Denver, go ahead.
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John, how are you doing? I always look forward to hearing your program. Thank you, sir. I got a question for you. I got a 2011 Ford Ranger. It was the last of the little Ford Rangers that they built. Right. And I need some tires for it. And on the door, it's 225-70R15. And I've gone to some of these tire stores, and they said there's no problem going up to a 225 or 235-75R15. Is there a... Would that be a big difference on my tire?
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No, you can do that. Changing the width and going. It's basically changing the percentages, basically same size tire when it's all said and done. A little bit narrower, but not by much.
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Okay. Yeah, because I went to one of these, you know, on the site, the internet, you know, you can get pretty frustrated in the internet. But they said the 3% rule. I said, well, what's the 3% rule? I don't know what they were talking about. But anyway, no, I... You answered a question that I had.
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Okay. You're in good shape, Albert. I appreciate it. You're very welcome. No, thank you very much. And, yeah, the tire thing, you know what we probably should do here is we get closer to that October-ish time frame. Maybe next time we have Steve on, we'll get more into the tire end of things because it'll be about that time for people to start looking at winter tires and what to do and so on. And to Albert's point, and he's right, man, it can change. it can get really confusing and you can get bogged down in all sorts of different things when it comes to tires because and tires are a lot like the conversation we just had a moment ago you know navigator versus explorer i mean are they both good vehicles are they gonna get you from a to b yes is there a difference between the two slightly which one do you buy that comes down to your pocketbook and what do you want to spend money on and by the way tires could go along with the same conversation we just had, and I'm not exaggerating. Now, there are some tires I wouldn't buy, brand-wise, I mean, but when you get into kind of that middle to the upper end of the tire world, a lot of it comes down to personal choice, what's it going on, what are you doing with the vehicle, all sorts of things along those lines, and there's still a lot of bias Not bias ply, but bias from individuals when it comes to tires, much like there is Ford, Chevy, Ram. Brand loyalty. Yeah, it comes down to a lot of that. And for me personally, I don't have any of that anymore. I guess I've been in this industry for so long now that I've learned that sort of the underpinnings of the industry – in some cases there's not much difference from one to the other the majority of the parts even are coming from a lot of the same suppliers that manufacture for the oems and when it's all said and done they all have their problems and i've learned that the tire end of it isn't a whole lot different am i wrong steve no No, they're all kind of coming from the same place. All very close when it's all said and done. So, all right, lines are open. We've got one segment left, 303-477-5600. Give us a call or a text message. We'll get right back to you. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. You listen to Drive Radio because you have a lot of questions about your car.
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Three or four inches.
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Yeah, not very big. We're not talking about a gallon jug or anything. It's just a very small pint, basically, is about what it is. And it's called K-Seal, so K-Seal. Think of it that way, S-E-A-L. And I don't know what the K stands for. I guess I should have always looked that up, but I never have, so I don't know what K stands for. But any of you that are having an issue with a cooling system leak, you think you might have a bad head gasket or something along those lines, add a can of that in, drive it for a few hundred miles, and see what happens. If it doesn't work, all you're out was the cost of the case seal. Which isn't that much money, by the way. We're not talking about a boatload of money. It's $20 or so. It's not a lot of money to buy a can of K-Seal. Not even a can, because it doesn't come in a can.
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$16.99.
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Okay, $16.99.
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So it's under $20. I mean, folks, for some of you where you're struggling, especially on an older vehicle where you're trying to figure out exactly what's going on, and rather than go in and tear things down and so on, yes, you could put this particular coolant additive in, and... I don't know why it works as well as it does. And I've been in this industry since I can remember. And I remember back in the day, the old bars leak. And then there was a little silver stuff that came in the little silver tube. And all of those had issues where they would plug up heater cores and do things like that. You discouraged people back then from putting anything into the coolant as far as additives go because of that fear. k-seal doesn't do that what k-seal does is they've designed it in such a way where it knows where the hole is or where that that leak is at and that's where it starts to form its quote-unquote deposit to seal up that particular area meaning that if the heater core isn't leaking and it's flowing through it's not going to stop there and do anything it just stays in the coolant and keeps doing what it needs to do wherever that spot is at that it goes to find think of it that way so one of the best additives for for sealing up Issues engine-wise and a coolant system that, frankly, I've ever run into. BG makes a product as well. I'll be frank. I've never used that product, so I don't know how well it works in comparison to K-Seal. I know this. K-Seal works because I've used it at different times for various things that, you know, again, as I said earlier, middle of a snowstorm. and all of a sudden you've got a coolant leak and you don't have time to do anything internally because it might be even a week or two before you can get to it. I did one of those six-liter EGR coolers where we knew the cooler was leaking, put KCL in it, ran it the rest of the season before taking it apart that summer. That's how well that product works. So for some of you that might be struggling with something, give it a whirl. And no, it is not a mechanic in a can. That's another question I get every now and again. Hey, can I do an oil additive and can I fix such and such? Yeah. No. The only exception to potential engine problems, and I say this a lot on this program, we haven't had it come up once today, I'm surprised, but direct injection vehicles build carbon. When they build so much carbon, yes, they can even start consuming more oil and do some things that they weren't doing when the engine was more fresh. And one of the ways you can attack that is with the BG EPR service, right? Now, you can also do the induction service, which I highly recommend at the same time. The EPR is going into the oil at the time of an oil change. So you pour it in, cold or lukewarm engine. Steve knows this more than I do.
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I think it's less than 10 minutes.
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1,100 RPM or so, 10 minutes, a little bit of RPM, and basically it's going in and cleaning out anywhere that that oil would be circulating and touching, including ring lands and things like that, because, yes, there is oil that gets there. That's why it's an oil ring, okay, because there's oil there. So it's doing its best to get rid of all of those contaminants, carbon, and so on. No, it doesn't damage any of the bearings inside of the vehicle. You're not running it long enough to do anything along those lines. And then you do an induction service on top of that. And in some cases, in fact, I will say this, in a majority of cases where you may have some issues with a direct injection engine, this will fix some of those issues by doing these services. Now, on top of that... If you've got a direct injection engine, you should be doing this every oil change to avoid some of those issues that can happen down the road long term. And follow up with an MOA. And it works so wonderful. And Steve, I cannot, and you know, because you do this every day, I can't stress this enough. Because the carbon buildup, you've seen it, I've seen it, the carbon buildup in these direct injection engines gets severe depending upon the engine it's designed. It can ruin the engine. In some cases, folks, not exaggerating, 60,000, 70,000 miles, you can have problems with this.
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I've had to rebuild motors because of the valves locked up and timing belt, timing chain broke because of all this. Yeah, it's very possible.
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So, and somebody wanted to know if I'm going to the CU game this afternoon. Nope, I am not. I've got some stuff to do around the house, and I am not going to the CU game, although I think it's going to be a good game to go to. So those of you that are, have fun. But no, I am not going to that game. I wish I were, but I am not. But back to the direct injection engines. That's something that if you have a provider, by the way. that's not explaining some of these things to you like we all do here on Drive Radio and we've talked about now for several years, if your provider has never mentioned anything along the lines of what I'm talking about, you need a new provider. I'm going to be very bold. And the reason I say that is because if you don't do these things to your engine, you will, guaranteed, you will have problems down the road if you keep the car long enough. That carbon is building up, whether you realize it or not. I don't care what fuel you're using. I don't care what else you're doing. Typically, most people aren't putting any additives into the gas and doing anything else to try to prevent some of this anyway. So if you're not being preventative with the maintenance on a direct injection engine, it's going to come back to bite you down the road. And as Steve said, in some cases, we're not talking hundreds of thousands of miles, and it's catastrophic and can be well under 100,000 miles when it happens. For those of you that maybe don't know, It's really hard to explain, but that carbon gets so hard, Steve... It's literally like coal. It looks like coal. That's exactly how it looks. And it really, in a way, is like coal, other than I think you could find coal to be softer than actually the carbon coming out of your engine. I mean, I can remember as a kid digging carbon out of engines. You know, you'd get those old Chevys where the crossover passage would get all blocked up on the choke for a Chevy small block. And you couldn't drill that stuff out. Yeah. You literally have to be one of the first jobs I remember having as a kid is, hey, go clean up this intake manifold. And you literally would be chipping away with a hammer and a chisel like you're in a mine digging that carbon out. That's how hard it gets. And until you've done that, you really don't understand what that carbon is doing to the inside of the engine.
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and how it's just coating everything.
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And keep in mind, we had carbon back in those days. Yeah, but not like this. Yeah, not like this, to the point where this now, because of direct injection and the way the internals of the engine works, we're no longer getting the quote-unquote wash. that we once did on the inside of the engine and i don't want to get into all the technic technicalities of that but we're not getting the same effect from the fuel that we once were because it's being directly injected into the combustion chamber of the engine so steve give everybody your phone number if they want to get hold of you 303-794-6700 and that is Geno's Auto Service, corner of Bowles and Platt Canyon. You can always go to genosautoservice.com. Geno starts with a J. I say that all the time. Charlie Grimes, our engineer, thank you so much for doing everything you did today for us. Larry Unger as well, thank you all. So you guys have a great, fabulous weekend. Enjoy the great weather we're having here in Colorado, and thank you so much. We'll be back next week with another episode of Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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Colorado’s fall is calling, and https://FixItRadio.com serves up a perfect mix of mountain beauty and home-repair wisdom. Host John Rush and guest Steve Horvath start with the simple pleasures of golf and the breathtaking gold of Colorado’s aspen groves—but quickly turn to a question every homeowner should ask: is your property ready for the season ahead? From sprinkler shut-downs to driveway maintenance, John shares his real-world trial of a surprising new product—Magic Crack Filler—a dry powder that transforms into a flexible, rubber-like seal. Will this powder-to-rubber wonder stand up to Colorado’s freeze–thaw cycles and heavy traffic? John put it to the test, pushing it beyond the directions and even challenging it with hidden voids beneath the concrete. Hear how he discovered the “hourglass effect,” why a simple layer of sand can save the day, and why quick drying time and no-mess application make this product stand out. With concrete prices soaring and winter moisture on the way, how long can you afford to wait? Could this easy, gray-or-tan filler be the budget-friendly fix your driveway—or patio—has been waiting for? Tune in to find out if Magic Crack Filler really is the DIY secret to keeping your concrete strong all season long.
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Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
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In the floor behind the chair.
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This is America.
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Does everybody know what time it is?
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Fix It Radio.
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And it's that time, Fix It Radio, KLZ 560. Thank you all for joining us. It is an absolutely gorgeous Saturday here in Colorado, the 27th of September. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer, Larry Unger, will be here today answering phones. And Steve Horvath from Geno's Auto Service with me during this hour. And he'll be with me in Drive Radio as well. Good morning. Good morning. It's like golf day. I can't believe Steve's here, actually. Oh, tomorrow. Tomorrow. Okay. Only one day a week. Steve's a good golfer. I'm not. I'm not. People ask me all the time, do you golf? I'm like, not very well. Not very well. That's my answer.
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Not very well. The wonderful thing about golf is that you can play it. Everybody can play together at different levels. That's true. No, that's true. To me, it's a competition against the golf course, not against each other. That's right.
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Yeah, it's well and against yourself in a lot of ways. So it's really against yourself really is, you know, and it's a, as you know, it's a very mental game, but I enjoy it just because you get to be outside and I love the, you know, me, I love green grass and all that. Anyways, that's the best part about golf is just all that.
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Oh, it ended up there. We played up in Pole Creek up by Winter Park area, and it's just so pretty. It's gorgeous. It's private-y, and there's nobody there. You hear the nature.
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Yep. All right, last week we talked, Larry and I did, about concrete repair because it's that time of the year where if you're getting things ready to go for fall, which is literally just around the corner, we're already into fall. This last Monday was the first day. of fall so we're into fall right now you can start seeing some of the colors even down here starting to change some of the leaves are changing up in the high country I did go up last Sunday and it's not at its peak at least it wasn't last Sunday so I don't know what it's like right now I am anticipating just from looking at where things were a week ago yeah we had some cold weather that came through but I'm anticipating it's going to be pretty decent colors this weekend and probably have one more weekend left first weekend of October probably would be the peak, depending upon what elevation you're at. There are some places I've heard where some of the leaves have already, you know, fully changed and have fallen off. You get really high, but we were up in the, you know, Silverthorne, Breckenridge, came around the 285 area, and there's still a ton of green. That was last Sunday, so not even a week ago. So I'm guessing that one more week there's been some more color changes, but Definitely not to the fullest extent. So if you're one of those that likes to go out and see the colors and a lot of people, trust me, from the traffic, yes, a lot of people do do that. But that really comes down to, you know, you and what you like doing and all of that. I had somebody yesterday that was actually Tanner, who works here at the station, was looking for some things to do today. And I'm like, you know, you're not from this area. Go see the colors. If you've never been up to the high country this time of year to see them, it's not like going back east. This is not the upper New England area by any means, but it is still spectacular, and our mountains are breathtaking in and of themselves. You add the colors to it, and it really is spectacular. It's like little rivers of gold. It's just gorgeous.
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It's just such a neat thing to see.
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And it's why people come from literally all over the country, sometimes all over the world, to see the colors that we have here. Again, we don't have New England colors, but we have mountains that they don't have there. We have mountains that most places don't have, period. Some of you guys that are up in the Montana area and so on, yeah, you have similar things as well, so you know what I'm talking about. But here in Colorado, it is... It really is spectacular. And that's one thing I don't know. I don't know if other places have the amount of aspen groves and that that we have here. I've never been to other places in the fall. I've never hunted out of state, so I've never been to some of the other areas to know.
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I don't know either. I think, and it may be just, Colorado may be good for the aspen in some way. Yeah, I don't know. Its temperatures.
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One of the largest, one of the longest living organisms on Earth are aspen trees. Aspen trees. Up near Basalt, I hear. Yeah, and they've been around forever, and part of that's because even when one, you know, they're a continuous growth, so even as one clump might die off or a tree dies off, it's still shooting out, and there's other parts of it that are still alive, and it just keeps regenerating itself. It's really cool how that does. So we're going to talk about concrete repair, though, today, because, again, we're getting to that time of the year where you need to be doing some of these things outside. I did mention last week that when it gets to the point of talking about shutting sprinklers down believe me we will go through that process we're not close yet uh we're supposed to be i'm sorry i should have looked this up this morning to see exactly what we're going to be temperature wise we got a pretty nice week ahead so today's high temperature is going to be in the low 80s Tomorrow, same. Actually, even on down through the end of the week, Thursday, 81, Friday, 82, be a little bit cooler next weekend. But again, we've got enough temperatures during the day. You still need to be watering. So you could probably be doing that. I talked to you guys about this last weekend. I'll water all the way until it gets cold enough, and then I shut things down. But I'm usually watering all the way up to almost Thanksgiving, so I'm a little more unique than most people. But in the case of most people, and when we get into that Halloween season, it starts to get cool enough. So you get in the latter part of October, it's getting cool enough to where by then, I'll have a conversation on how to shut your sprinkler down. But we're two or three weeks away from that, so I'm not going to deal with that quite yet. So today we're going to talk about some concrete repair. Now, some of you may have some of your own secrets. What got me going on this was I've got some things to do at home. Larry and I were talking last weekend. He's been testing some things at home. So I thought, well, I'm going to go ahead and do some testing as well. And I had bought a product off TikTok shop. I'll be blunt and tell everybody. So I buy a few things off of TikTok shop. And the first thing I ever bought there, I'm like, okay, is this a scam? Does it work? So far, I've never bought a single item that didn't pan out. So just to be honest with everybody, I think, Steve, you have as well. I've never had any issues buying anything. So I bought some stuff off of TikTok, and you can buy this in other places. It's called Magic Crack Filler. That's the name brand of the product, and they make it for concrete and asphalt. And what's really cool about this product is it's a powder. It doesn't come as a liquid, it's not a caulking, it's not even a strip. Larry gave me a strip I'm gonna try in my place later today where you put it down on the crack, you use a torch, heat it up, it then melts into things, and I'm gonna test it as well. But the Magic Crack Filler is a dry product. You need to, you know, either use a brush or a blower or something, but blow the crack out really well. Get it all. You make sure everything's dry, of course, and get it all blown out. You need to have temperatures above 50 degrees. That's what it wants you to do. And I think you're better off doing it when it's a little bit warmer. So, you know, heat of the day, you know, noon, 1 o'clock, something along those lines. And what you do is get the crack all, you know, completely cleaned out, blow it all out. This is a powder so you just cut a little you know cut a little got tube on top just like you would with oil or anything you just cut a little bit of a of the top off and you literally just tip it up and you pour the powder into the crack and use a putty knife credit card whatever you want to kind of scrape everything into the crack and then take the excess off of the top because you don't want to waste the product. Once that's done, have a spray bottle handy that's got water only in it, and all you do is mist that crack. You don't pour water on it. You just mist the crack with that water out of the spray bottle, and that activates that powder, and it becomes a... It's a little bit harder than rubber, but it's still a flexible, rubbery substance when you're done, and it bonds to all of the concrete and that around it. And I even tested it in a way that it's not meant to be used. I thought, you know, I'm going to really test this out. I had a particular place where I had a pretty large chip. in the concrete where it was probably about a 4x6 section where the concrete kind of had chipped away. The old concrete was still there, but it had chipped out and around. And I thought, because you're only supposed to go to a half an inch crack with this, which isn't very wide if you think about it. And I probably had more than an inch on this. So I went ahead and just layered the whole top of it. I thought, I'm just going to top coat it, layer it in. I'm just going to see how this stuff works. Why not? And I did. And... Sure enough, it even worked for that. Now, probably should have done that fix a little differently, but I thought if I'm going to test it, talk about it on air, I'm going to give it a real test and just see how it works and do something that it's really not even designed to do. And I've even seen, you know, because I have traffic that comes in and out of this particular area of my driveway, I could even see where it's been driven over. and it's held up just fine. Just flexed with wheels. It just flexes as you drive over it, and it's been just fine with no issues at all. It'll never get completely hard. It'll always have a little bit of a squishiness to it, which is the way it's designed. It's meant to fill in a crack so that if that seam moves at all, it's moving with the concrete. But I'm here to tell you what, folks. Magic Crack Filler, yeah, it worked. And here's the best part about it for me. No mess.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
no mess you know normally with crack fillers you've got a tube of caulking sometimes it's self-leveling sometimes you gotta you know use your finger to rub it in and you know get it all smoothed out make it look good and all of that and this is a no mess situation you literally put it down dry the one caution i will give you is if you have an area where there is a void you know underneath that particular crack in that in that particular area It's like an hourglass. It'll just keep flowing on in. And in that case, you'll have to put a little bit of backing or something down in there. Or Larry had suggested maybe a little bit of sand first. Fill that in with some sand and then top it with the Magic Crack Filler. But if you've got a spot whereby there's a void that's underneath that area, because it's a really fine powder. Think of... Think of sugar. Oh, okay. There you go. It's probably not much thicker than sugar. In fact, it might even be a little bit more powdery than what even sugar is. But not like talcum powder. It's not like talcum. Yeah. It's not like... What's the super refined sugar? What do they call that? Oh. Oh, yeah. Powdered sugar. It's not powdered. It's not as fine as powdered sugar, but it's not as thick as regular sugar. So it's probably halfway between powdered sugar, regular sugar. So that's pretty fine. Meaning that, again, if there's a void of any kind, it's going to find its way in. And literally, I had it happen. It looks like an hourglass. You can literally see. Oh, just shrink. It looks like when a bug is in the sand or whatever, it looks just like that, where it's just funneling on down through. And then you know you've got that spot and you need to put some backing or something down in there. And that's probably an area where, hey, if you wanted to, put a little bit of caulking in that area, put a little backing in. As Larry said, fill it up with sand first, whatever the case. But then go ahead and top it off with the Magic Crack Filler. And so far, so good. Now, I will say this. It's only been there for five days. I did this, I think, Tuesday. No, I did it after all the rain, so I did it on Wednesday. So it's only been three days. But so far, even some of the parts where it's been run over, so far so good. And I will just tell you from looking at it, I can't see that it's not going to last. I mean—
SPEAKER 08 :
Interesting to see in the spring after all this winter.
SPEAKER 07 :
My biggest test will be after plowing snow and doing some things on top of the concrete and all of that. You know, what's that going to look like? But I would honestly, I don't see it not working. I really don't. So that's what I've been using. Now, some of you might have some other tricks of the trade that you use. And bottom line is this. We want to fill those cracks in the concrete because especially here in Colorado, we want to keep that moisture out of the cracks because it's that moisture that gets down in and then freezes, and it's that freeze-thaw that then starts to have other ill effects upon trees. the concrete itself. So we want to fill those cracks just to make everything last longer. For people that are in warmer areas, some of you that listen to me that are down south and places like that, you know, not really as big of a deal because you don't have the freeze-thaw that we have. But since we're in Colorado and if that moisture gets down underneath, yes, you will find that we can have other issues coming out of that, especially if a lot of water gets in some of those areas. So, yeah, we want to fill those joints in. We want to make sure that we're keeping the water out of those cracks. It's how we make our concrete last as long as possible. And here's the thing, folks. If you haven't done any concrete work lately, it's expensive. The cost of concrete continues to rise. It's not getting any cheaper. You know, a yard of concrete just keeps going up and up and up, the labor to put it in. You've got to take the old stuff out. You've got to then reform. You've got to put the new stuff in, get everything prepped. All of that is getting way more expensive than it was even a couple of years ago. So my point is, if you can save your old concrete. any way shape or form you are much better off doing that than you are trying to do any kind of a replacement so whatever you can do to keep your current you know concrete in good shape do whatever you need to do fixing hairline cracks or even a little bit bigger cracks the joints between the slabs uh the area up against the garage slab itself i mean any of those areas where if you've got any kind of of gaps or issues going on you want to get those filled in because that's how we keep things lasting longer
SPEAKER 08 :
And I did buy the asphalt repair. I haven't.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'll let you know how it works for me. That's my next goal today. Oh, okay. So between Steve and I, we'll do a little bit of testing on that and tell you how the asphalt works. So, yeah, some of you might have asphalt driveways. Some of you have concrete driveways. Some of you, of course, have concrete sidewalks. This applies to that as well. You'll have patios, anything along those lines. I haven't used it inside yet. A lot of times you'll have joints inside of your garage and so on. I haven't used it inside yet. I don't really have any places yet that I've got any major cracks. I've got one little area that I might do a little test in inside the shop just to see how it works. If worse comes to worse, it doesn't. You can peel it out and put some other product in it, but I'm going to try it in one little area there too and just see how it works.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, we do have spots in the shop. I wonder how it would react to the chemicals that get on the ground.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, it would be a good test. And that was my thought as well, just to see how well does it do inside, given the fact you're washing it more and you've got, you know, stuff that drips on it. And, you know, you've just got more stuff going on inside the shop than you would in your normal driveway. Foot traffic and machinery traffic over there. Now, the plus side to this stuff that I also noticed is the initial tackiness or the initial dry time, a couple of hours is all. That's the other nice thing about it because there's a lot of the products out there where it takes literally several hours for things to even dry up enough to where you could even walk over it or do anything along those lines. This stuff here, a couple hours, dried up, ready to go, piece of cake. So that's my testimony, and I'm not getting paid. From them, by the way. I have no... They have no stake in this. I have no stake in this. This just happened to be something that I bought because I... I don't like most of the crack-filling products that are on the market. And to me, they're all garbage. I'm sorry. Very few of them work very well at all, in my opinion. They don't last.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, they just don't. They just don't.
SPEAKER 07 :
Somebody also just texted, perfect timing, need a small crack-filled on a patio? Does it come in different colors? So the Magic Crack Filler, I'm glad you asked, it comes in gray and tan. Now, could you add some of the other coloring that's available? You know some of the concrete coloring that's made? It's on the market. You can get it at all your big box stores. Could you color that in? I don't know, because I don't know if the coloring powder would affect... The reaction, you would just have to test that and see. You'd have to get a little, you know, put a little bit in a little bowl, put a little bit of color in it, see if you get the color halfway mashed and try it and see if it still works. I don't know on that end of things. But it comes in tan and it comes in the regular, you know, gray concrete color as well. Now, I will tell you this. The gray that it comes in is a really light gray. So if you've got a little bit darker concrete, you are going to see that you fixed it. But that, you know, you're going to see some of that anyways. You can get it as close as you can. Bottom line is you want to protect it as much as you possibly can and just keep the concrete, you know, itself intact and keep the integrity there. But matching the color, I'm not exactly positive if you could actually do that or not. there again there is my story on magic crack filler steve's going to try some on the asphalt side i'm going to do that again probably this weekend i'll give you a report back on the asphalt side as well uh and again if any of you guys have any other product that you really like that works well by all means let us know we're gonna take a quick break fix it radio don't forget you can go to the website fixitradio.com we'll be right back myself steve horvath again fix it radio klz 560.
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All right, we are back, Fix It Radio. Somebody texted in, too, on aspens. This is probably more of a Ready Radio type comment, but this works here as well, that aspen trees can be, he's been told, don't know, I've never tried this, but the powder on the bark of aspen trees, if you rub that on your skin, it acts as a sunscreen. You also have a painkiller if you chew it. And the original aspirin medicine was made from that before we had synthetics, and that comes from Mark. So I did not know any of that. Thank you. Very interesting. I'll keep that in my memory bank. So for the end of the world, you need a painkiller, there you go. Go ahead. No, don't rub an aspirin. Just eat some of it. Just eat some of it.
SPEAKER 08 :
But if you need sunscreen, rub that on you. We were just talking about mortar, concrete, and those kind of things. Is there anybody out there who would tell us the differences, the mixtures, and that kind of stuff? I know some of it's like fly ash and aggregate.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, my brother-in-law might be able to tell me. I might ask him and then bring that back next week. He works for CMEX, and I might be able to get some information from him on that.
SPEAKER 08 :
I know it's like Larry said, like a cake. You mix a little of this and a little of that, and all of a sudden it's pretty solid. And water. Water.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, and there is a difference, as you guys all know, there's a difference between cement and concrete. Cement is what's used to bond, or it's the bonding agent, I guess you could say, for concrete, and cement comes in all different flavors. It is not a, by any means, not a one-size-fits-all.
SPEAKER 08 :
I don't know if the Romans actually invented it, but I know they built a lot of stuff that's still standing and still...
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't either, but I would be surprised if they weren't the inventors of, to be honest with you. Again, those of you that, if you know anything on that and you want to give us a call and let us know how that works, by all means, let us know. 303-477-5600. I should have mentioned earlier, too, that if you've got any questions at all, any things you want to add to the show today... Anything that you're wondering, hey, I've got this problem at home. I need to get this fixed. Yes, I know it's a beautiful day. Some of you are probably outside working, even getting some of those things done for the end of the season yard-wise and so on. But, you know, a lot of you are still cutting grass and doing all those things. I mean, I'm looking out here at the golf course, Steve, and even the field with the rain. We had this last week. Even some of the natural grasses have greened back up again. That rain really did help a lot. 24 hours straight of rain.
SPEAKER 08 :
I have an interesting story for you about my yard. I have a pear tree that dumps just tons and tons of pears. But what's been interesting is we have raccoons that have been coming in and eating it. Really? And, you know, not only do they poop all around, but they eat so much that they throw it back up. It's incredible. I can tell the difference. They're gorging themselves.
SPEAKER 07 :
So they gorge so much they then throw it up.
SPEAKER 08 :
You've got to be kidding me. It is awful. And there's probably 30 spots my wife and I were trying to clean up. And, you know, they put them in the worst possible spots. So I did do some research over this week about spraying something on the tree to keep it from – So is there anything available? Yeah, there is. There's a couple different things. It looks like it's a powder that you mix in your reed sprayer and you spray it on. I ordered it, but I haven't seen what it is. You do it at certain times. You have to probably do it at a perfect timing when it's starting to do its budding or flowering. And the word where they use, like, mutes that are, I'm sure there will probably still be some that would come out, but it stops it from. And where we really thought it worked really good was all those nasty crabapple trees that still do the fruit. I think it worked really well. I have some of those. And you could spray it on, and supposedly it'll work.
SPEAKER 07 :
Really?
SPEAKER 08 :
There was a word, it started with an E. So it, like, sterilizes the tree or something, basically, so it doesn't produce fruit?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
I had no idea. That's a new one on me. I kind of like the fruited trees and stuff, and I don't mind the pears until the raccoon stuff. Learn something new every day, though.
SPEAKER 07 :
So they eat so much, they literally gorge themselves, and then they throw up. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Because you can kind of tell if it's one of the other.
SPEAKER 07 :
They're not super smart. No, no. Well, that's what they're called, trash pandas.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, yeah. And they're nocturnal. We don't ever see them. No, no. They're not.
SPEAKER 07 :
True. That's hilarious. Yeah, we get a few around our place as well, but none that I've seen do that at this point. All right, I did have an article today talking about all the concrete stuff, so if you've got any questions along those lines, please let me know. Now, one other thing, in fact, we could probably do an entire show, and maybe I'll try to find an expert on this, on coating of concrete. A lot of you like to have your garage floor coated and so on, and what I will tell you is that's an extremely difficult process to do on your own. And the majority of DIY products... Just frankly, I'll just be straight up honest. They do not work. They do not last. They really struggle with what we call hot tire soak. Tires are really hot when they come in. People don't realize that, but because of the friction from the road, and Steve, you would know this, you bring a car right in and you park it right on top of your garage floor and If those tires are hot, we call a hot soak, and that rubber will react. And in a lot of cases, it'll pull that coating right off of the floor. And it's because of that hot soak, that hot rubber that's sitting on top that makes that happen. Exactly. And it'll peel that right off. I wondered why they don't ever last. I just know they don't work. The hot tire soak. So you really have to have somebody that understands how to prep the concrete floor correctly. they do all sorts of things even with acid to get it all prepped but a lot of times they'll shot peen the concrete get it opened up nice they then use acid to get everything nice and clean and then they'll put a primer down then they put your epoxy one or two coats down and typically they'll even clear coat the top of that after they put the flake and everything into it if that's what you're looking for and it's a process now i've seen some guys that advertise you can do that in one day and still drive on to the next Some of that product has gotten better and better and better, just like the crack filler we were talking about. Some of that technology has improved, although I've never tested any of the products or been around any of the products that you can drive on the next day. All of the products I was ever familiar with prior, you needed a full 30-day cure time before you could – at least two weeks cure time before you could literally go in and park on top because it took that long for that epoxy to cure. Now – If some of you have any information on that and you know there are some companies out there, you know of them and how they do that and how quickly you can park on things afterwards, I would love to know because we can share that information out with you all. But I will say this. You've heard Joe from Jersey call in and talk about this. Nothing better than an epoxy floor in your garage. And I can attest to this. The last two places I've had, current one even, is done that way. It makes things so much easier to clean, sweep even. You know, just the stuff that gets on the floor, it's so much easier to take care of when that floor has been coated with an epoxy coating than it would be if you didn't do anything to it at all. Eat, clean up, everything. Way easier. The downside is... This is kind of true, period, even with slick concrete, because most of your interior concrete's finished off with a really nice, smooth surface. They don't brush it like you do a driveway. But the downside is if it gets wet, it can get really slippery. Now, if you use the garage mats, like I talk about every single year, and I'll drag mine out here in about another month, and the garage mats are the parking mats that you park the car on. so that all of the water is dripping, the snow and crud and so on, all the water that drips off falls on the mat and doesn't go into the garage. So if you use those, well, even that epoxy coating, and for a lot of you, some of you may even argue with me on this one, but I don't like when they throw the sand into the mixture to make it a little bit rougher so you don't slip on the epoxy, and that's kind of a standard that a lot of guys will do. I don't care for that because it makes cleaning it harder. Mm-hmm. I just assume have it smooth, and I'll take my chances on slipping and falling. Slipping, and if you get a little oil on it, it's even more slippery, like a banana stepping out of a banana. It is, and yes, when you have a coated floor, you have to be really careful, but I don't like the granulars. In fact, when I had my own shops and I had my shop floors done and so on, I didn't do that. because it's so much harder to clean. And what we did is we just made sure we kept everything nice and clean and dry, and we had a floor scrubber we used to use to keep everything cleaned up. And when you do that, it's not a big deal, and we didn't have any issues. But I don't like the granulars that are put into the epoxy. If you get that done and that's an option, my own personal opinion is that's a no for me because it makes it harder to clean. Yes, it's a little bit more forgiving as far as the slipping goes. But again, if you keep stuff off the floor, use the garage mats and so on, it's not a huge issue anyway. So it's not a big deal as far as that goes.
SPEAKER 08 :
And if you do spill the oil and stuff, don't use the...
SPEAKER 07 :
kitty litter anymore use the pig mat that they have that is the most wonderful stuff and we buy it by the roll oh yeah i have some of my own shop at home it's just the best way to go yeah i i am not a fan of the kitty litter because it just makes such a mess i mean there are times where yes you get a big enough spill you're going to get that out and use it so you always have a little bit around just in case in your case even outside in the driveway or something along those lines if something spills you might use it for that but I don't like it just because at the end of the day, it's just – it's messier. It's easier to use the pig mat and go that direction, if you ask me.
SPEAKER 08 :
And actually, they even have – we've bought the tubes that are filled with the kitty litter. Oh, yes. So you can build like a little dike.
SPEAKER 07 :
Use the dam for it, basically. If it's that bad.
SPEAKER 08 :
And we have that stationed around the shop just in case something goes crazy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and that's – and by the way, folks, just side note, that's – I talked about this a couple of weeks ago. in my daily show about how the automotive industry has been environmentally friendly a lot longer than most people give them credit for because you know a we don't want spills it's it takes time you got to clean it up there's risk of slip and falls and so on but on on top of that It's costly. It takes time to clean all that stuff up. So we do our best to keep everything clean. We've been recycling in the automotive world for eons now. I mean, good grief, Steve. I started doing recycling of even coolant, I think, all the way back in the early 2000s. So it's been 25 years that that stuff's been going on. So the day and age of not recycling all of the fluids and things that you would take out of a vehicle, it's been a long, long time. We've been doing things along those lines probably longer than a lot of other industries have. remember you used to be able to buy a recycled oil when you couldn't afford to buy oil you know and you could buy that recycled oil which obviously was recycled oil that's right that's right this was the 60s and i went through one of the recycle oil plants at one point in time and i tell you what the way they recycled it and the way they took all of the impurities out and re-cracked it and got it back down to where it literally was a solid base stock to be used again It's not just like filtering it, putting in some additives. No, they're not doing that. It is a complete, it's almost a refining process of the oil. And that's why a lot of the recycled oil companies that take recycled oil and will recycle it and then make new oil back out of it again. They will only take certain oils in the first place, meaning if there's been some contaminants in that oil, somebody poured carb cleaner in or it's got any other kind of contaminants, stuff like that, they test it because if there's any contaminants, they won't take it because it affects the process I just mentioned.
SPEAKER 08 :
Sure, it probably makes it much more difficult.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, it makes it difficult to do.
SPEAKER 08 :
I thought they took all our used oil and made like… That's always what I heard.
SPEAKER 07 :
It depends. In some cases, they do. But in a lot of cases, there are companies that will take that old oil and they do a recycled product. But it's not – I think there's a misconception there. We think of recycled as being, oh, you're just kind of cleaning up the old and putting it right back out. Like, no, this is more like a water treatment plant. where literally you go through the process of treating that water, and keep in mind it's going right back into the rivers. It's going downstream, and the next people are using that for their fresh water. So what's coming out is very drinkable. In a lot of cases, you're not drinking it without it being gone through again, but they do enough testing on that where some of you that have worked in treatment plants know exactly what I'm talking about. I've got a good friend that retired from a treatment plant that will verify everything I just said. By the time they're done treating it, They have literally taken all of those contaminants out. The recycled oil is very much that same way. Very much that same way. All right. I had something I was going to talk about last week, but we got to talking about other things and didn't get around to it. Now, some of you that are in the electrical world may want to chime in on this, but this was something Charlie sent me a few weeks ago. Seven mistakes electricians wish homeowners would stop making. That's a good one. There's probably more than seven.
SPEAKER 08 :
There's probably more than seven. But the seven big ones.
SPEAKER 07 :
First one is overloading outlets, using lots of extension cords, power strips, things along those lines. And what they're really going with on this is if you have that many circuits in that particular vicinity, the first question is why, and is this where you need to have an electrician come out and add maybe an entire other circuit to everything that you're doing so that you're not putting as many things on one circuit as you are right now? There's never enough outlets. I'm one of those that, you know, I don't know about you, Steve, but whenever I built my shops, instead of doing even a, you know, a two-plug box, I always did fours and just little things along those lines because you never have enough of them, it seems. And just so for me, you know, always ran extra just because you wanted to have enough just in case, and that's exactly why. So Jerry and Greeley, Jerry, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 03 :
I was interested in the discussion about the concrete crack filling. Yes. I have some cracks that sounds like are too large for the powdery stuff you were describing. But I was curious about, you also mentioned some stuff you put in the crack and then heat up with a torch.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, hang on. It's right behind me. Hold on. Larry. Larry brought this in for me to try. They make it for asphalt, Jerry, and for concrete. This is called Ply Stix. This is what Larry brought me. And they sell this at most of your big box stores. And it comes, you can get it, again, for asphalt or for concrete. And it's a strip that's about, I don't know, how thick is this? It looks like hose. About, yeah, it looks like a piece of about, I don't know, five-sixteenths hose, maybe I would say, Jerry. And you roll this out, lay it in the crack, and then you get either a small, you know, butane or propane torch or whatever you have. You know, some of you have weed, you know, the weed burning torches or whatever. I mean, depending upon what you have, you then melt that into the crack is what you do. Heat it up, melt it in.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Do you have any experience with that?
SPEAKER 07 :
I am going to later today. Larry does. Larry says it works great. He's already tried it, and he'll give you a full thumbs up on it, Jerry, and says it works fabulous. Yes. And where is that available? Is that Home Depot? Yeah, Larry bought this online, but you can buy it Amazon, Home Depot, Lowe's. We looked last weekend, or Larry and I did last Saturday, Jerry, and it's available at all of your big box stores. And it comes in a clamshell case, and you may not know what it is by looking at it until you read the label because it looks like hose, but it's not. It's actually a filler that you lay down in, heat up, and it'll fill in the crack that way.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, great. I think I'm going to go.
SPEAKER 07 :
And you can buy really quick, too. I did look up, too. You can buy different lengths of it. So you can buy it in like a single pack that'll give you, you know, 50 foot or you can buy it up to, you know, 100 yards in a bucket. I mean, they kind of make it in different flavors, Jerry.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that sounds worth trying.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think I'm going to go with it. Larry brought me some in that works for asphalt, and I've got a nice asphalt crack that I'm going to try it on later this afternoon or tomorrow, and I'll report back next weekend. But I see no reason why it won't work. When you look at how it works, I think it'll work fine. I think it probably comes in different diameters, too. Yeah, I think depending upon the size of the crack, I think they do make it thicker or thinner, Jerry, depending upon what you're doing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, well, that sounds worth giving a try.
SPEAKER 07 :
It definitely is, yeah. If it's too thick for what I, you know, the crack's too big for what I was talking about earlier with the Magic Crack Filler, yeah, this stuff would work fine. All right, well, I appreciate that. No, you're very welcome, Jerry. Thank you for that. I appreciate that. So, you know, back to the things that electricians wish we would all do. And, yeah, you know, because all you're going to do is overload one circuit where you probably should have more than one. And this really comes down to your home, what you're doing, what's the area. The one thing that I don't like that a lot of the builders do, And this is where every home I've had done over the past 30 years, I have specifically asked, and if I even had to pay extra, I did. I wanted my own garage circuit. I didn't want the garage tied into another part of the house. And a lot of these builders will tie a garage circuit into an upstairs, you know, up above you is the bathroom area. You know, that's right above the garage. And they'll tie the circuit for the garage into the upstairs bathroom. And if a GFI trips, it may be in the garage. It may be in the bathroom upstairs. I mean, I hate that. So I have always asked for and paid extra for a dedicated... outlet in the garage that is not tied into the rest of the house. I want my own garage circuit. So those are the sorts of things we're talking about. For some of you that are handy and you do a lot of things out in the garage and so on, in a lot of cases, the breaker box, you know, your master box is probably on the outside or right on the inside of the garage anyways. So to add that extra circuit, as long as your box isn't full, for most electricians, is not that... big or costly of an item to do they can typically come right back through the wall drop you an outlet there right near wherever that box is on the outside now you've got a dedicated circuit inside the garage and off you go or add a little 220 in case you want to run all sorts of things along those your your ev charger whatever you're looking to do along those lines that would be the way so that's one of those things again that electricians talk about is you know don't overload a circuit by adding all sorts of different things to it if it means adding another circuit to that go ahead and do so especially for some of you guys that work in in your garage and do some things along those lines as well all right i got a few more tips that's only one out of the seven that they're talking about we'll get to some of these others in a moment myself steve horvath we got lines open 303-477-5600 don't forget you can send us a text message as well 307-282-22 fix it radio klz 560.
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SPEAKER 07 :
Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Got a nice message, by the way, on the concrete coatings. So the technology, yes, has definitely improved. And I was correct on the fact that they don't really even acid wash anymore. They do a grinding or a peening of the concrete now. So they've even changed their method of doing that. And 72 hours now is what most of the floor coating guys can guarantee you that you can actually walk on, drive on, and so on. So 72 hours, that's far better than what... it used to be and i knew they made better you know again that technology just continues to improve and improve and improve the way they've got the coatings uh much much better than it used to be in yeah and i will even this this texture told me the same thing the home kits garbage they they are total garbage don't don't even try it now If you had like a small little shed or something like that and you're wanting to coat that yourself or you've got maybe a step or something like that and you're not going to be driving on any of it and you're just walking on it, could you coat some of that yourself? Yeah, I think you probably could do that. yourself without any issues but if you're driving on it and you've got any kind of traffic along those lines on it get the good stuff because otherwise it just won't it just won't work somebody also says it okay to mix atf with motor oil for recycling in the same container yep not a problem all that burns just fine uh in fact here's here's a here's a tip this is for because a lot of you guys on this is fix it radio but a lot of you guys you know do stuff at home on your own And whether it's working on your car, your lawnmower or whatever, when it comes to getting rid of oil. Now, a lot of the parts stores will go ahead and take your oil and they'll go through the recycling process. But here's a better tip for you. And this is only because it helps these shops out that have them. If you know of a shop nearby. Could be a fleet shop, could be a regular auto shop, could be even a warehouse. If they use recycled oil to heat their building, we call those waste oil heaters. If they have a waste oil heater, they'd love to have your stuff. Because that's what they're using to heat their shop. So if you know anybody that has a waste oil heater, and here's the key to a waste oil heater, it'll burn darn near anything, including cooking oil. So, I mean, you can literally, and how do I know this? Because we have one. I've had one for years now, decades now. And had one in my shops when I had them. Have one now in my current fleet shop. In fact, it's the only way I heat my fleet shop is with a waste oil heater. And I tell you what, they are super efficient. They work extremely well. You can pretty much burn. I mean, if it's burnable, so in this case, you can put old gas. You can put ATF. You could put brake fluid. You could put the engine oil. I mean, you name it. You can mix all of that together, drop it off to somebody who has a waste oil heater, and they'd be happy to take it for you. with no problem just no water no water no water and there it's easy to see because it separates yeah the water's on the bottom and the oil's on the top you'd think that would be the opposite you'd think the water would always be on top but it's not the water's always on the bottom the oil's always on the top so sometimes it's a little bit hard to see so yeah don't don't um don't put any water in that and then drop that off to the person with the waste oil heater because they're not gonna like you when you do that so joe go ahead
SPEAKER 10 :
John, there's another advantage to having a 220 outlet in your garage, which is that in the event of a power outage, if you have a small portable generator, you can backfeed your breaker box from that generator, which obviously you want outside your garage, not inside your garage. You have to make sure, though, that you throw the main 200-amp breaker off so you're not trying to backfeed power into the neighborhood. So what you do is you can plug in your generator to that outlet in the garage. Again, making sure you turned off that main 200-amp breaker and then selectively turn on, whether it be your furnace in the winter or your freezers and refrigerators in the summer, and that's kind of a poor man's automatic transfer switch.
SPEAKER 08 :
Got it. Interesting. I've never thought of doing that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Actually, what I had done, I did it a little differently. When I had my house built, I had them put the 220-amp plug actually – ahead of the uh before the breaker box in the line coming into the breaker box but i had a fused disconnect switch with a flag handle um and the flag would when you were connected to the utility pole the flag would block the 220 outlet so you couldn't plug anything into it but in the about an event of a power outage i would flip the handle on the on the disconnect switch up which would disconnect me from the pole And then I could plug into that receptacle, which was before the breaker box, and then feed down into the breaker box instead of, you know, from the bottom back up. It was from the top back in. So if you're having a house built or something, that's even a slicker way to do it. But you want to have a flag handle that covers that outlet so that you can't accidentally plug something into it. Because, again, you've got no protection. You're basically pulling juice right off the pole. So you want to have a fused disconnect above it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, makes sense.
SPEAKER 10 :
But, again, if it's just a regular 220 outlet you want to use for a buzz box welder, you can do it. You just need to make sure you throw that 200-amp breaker so you're not trying to push power back out to the pole.
SPEAKER 07 :
Makes sense.
SPEAKER 10 :
And so just another advantage to having a 220 outlet.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely, yeah, absolutely, among others. But, yes, absolutely, Joe, absolutely. Perfect. I appreciate that very much. That's a great tip. Mike in Highlands Ranch, go ahead.
SPEAKER 11 :
Hey, I thought I'd preach to the choir a minute. I just finished two weeks of getting ready for winter, had my tankless heater flushed and cleaned, had the furnace and AC cleaned and checked. Just had the refrigerator condenser cleaned off and checked to see everything was working. My gas stove, same thing. Washer, dryer, same thing. Replaced all the batteries in the smoke detector. You're on it. Well, you know, this is the maintenance we all talk about.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, it is.
SPEAKER 11 :
That saves you money in the long run, and what a great time of year to get All that does is we prep for winter, and as you know, John, that doesn't mean that something can't break.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, you're right, but it's a whole lot easier to try to be in front of it than it is to be behind it.
SPEAKER 11 :
That's right, and I'm sorry to get on the podium here, but this is a great time of year for folks to do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. And by the way, along these same lines, I got a text message a moment ago that said, can I slow down watering and start slowly putting my grass to sleep? It's the temperature that really starts to put the grass to sleep. And, Mike, the one thing that you want to be careful of is, If you starve the grass for water, you just have that much more issues when you go to bring things back next spring. So I'm one that says, no, I would keep watering until we get into those nighttime and in our daytime temperatures where they start to really drop and you can kind of start to see the grass go dormant, then you're okay. We still have another month of quote-unquote growing season, if you would.
SPEAKER 11 :
I agree. I'm of the same opinion. I don't shut my sprinkler or blow it off until... probably early November. I got to see some real significant temperature temperature change because the freeze line doesn't get down to the lines.
SPEAKER 07 :
uh you know on the on the first freeze you need a couple of days of some serious stuff so you're absolutely right and the the more you put on now the better off you'll be next summer yep and and this was by the way back when we had our big drought i want to say that was back in 2000 or so 2001 there were a lot of people that you know even news agencies oh you know it's a drought you don't need to water your grass will come back fine next year yeah no it didn't mike No, it didn't. Not bluegrass won't. No, sorry, did not. Dumb. That was total misinformation put out by news organizations.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, well, there's a shocker.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Mike, I appreciate it. Thanks for the reminder, by the way. And I've got an electrician that texted in on Joe's on the back feeding and basically be, and I know this, be extremely careful of that. What he said is don't back feed. He's repaired too many damaged electrical issues from people that have done what he calls a suicide operation. plug you still aren't separating the neutrals you have to have an interlock an interlock kit is fine some 220 outlets aren't rated to back feed you need a separate inlet to do so so be careful of that and maybe in the past joe when you've had that wired in they've done all of that But for some of you where you just drop a 240 plug in and then want to back feed into it, be very careful of that. And unless your electrician has wired that in specifically to do that. In other words, if you just have a 240 volt. Yeah. you know plug in your garage i wouldn't do that without checking with an electrician first to see if i decided to do this am i okay i would have them look at all of that on the front side before you decide to do anything along those lines whatsoever and joe i get where you're coming from on that but this is coming from an electrician i think for us as a show yes i need to put a disclaimer along those lines because i don't want to be at fault for anybody doing something that would then come back and damage their electric system in their house or anything along those lines. So as this electrician is texting me is saying, please, please, please be careful of doing anything along those lines. And I'm with him. I think the best bet and the safest thing, especially for folks that aren't handy, if you're handy, might be a different situation. But if you're not, those disconnects to where literally you're isolating things and doing it that way. Yeah, I would do I would do that. And I wouldn't do anything. unless you've got a certified electrician that is looking at how things are wired in your own home to determine if you were to back feed through that plug. How does that work and how would that affect the rest of your electrical system and do that before you would do anything? So that would be my advice. I think Joe would agree with me on that one because every home is different. And and again, just be really, really careful on that. He did say same electrician said a lot of the new code now is requiring that garage circuit to be dedicated although he said some electricians and track home builders and so on can get lazy and still not do what they're supposed to and we all know that just because it passed inspection Doesn't always mean anything. Sorry to say that, but it doesn't always mean anything. Depends on who the inspector was, what day they showed up, what his relationship is with the workers that are there, and so on and so forth. I'm sorry to say that, but that's the God's honest truth there. Just because something was inspected by a building inspector, I'll just be straight up honest. It doesn't mean diddly squat, in my opinion. Sorry, those of you that maybe are building homes or having a home built or whatever, just because it passes inspection, I'm sorry. This is my distrust of government. And sorry if you're a building inspector. Maybe you're a really good one, and I'll give you kudos. But I'm here to tell you, there are some that just rubber stamp certain things and or they nitpick other things that probably don't matter. And a lot of that depends upon their mood for the day. Did they have a fight with the wife the night before? I mean, on and on we go. And I'm sorry to say that, but that's literally, some of you that are in the trades, And I am. You know exactly what I'm talking about. So I'll be the first to tell you that just because something passes inspection from a building inspector doesn't mean doo-doo, in my opinion. That's unfortunate.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's sad.
SPEAKER 07 :
It is.
SPEAKER 08 :
Because you're trusting them.
SPEAKER 07 :
It should be standard and equal. But people are fallible. Fallible, I guess I should say. And the reality is, again, when did that guy show up? Was it Friday night at 3? And he's ready to be done for the day? And he just did a quick run-through and did a rubber stamp? Or was it Monday morning and he's going to be super thorough because it's Monday? Again, folks, there's all sorts of variables that can come into play. And I'm not, you know, ditzing building inspectors. I'll just tell you that I'm sorry to say – I'm not sure some of them even have a lot of background. I don't even know what the requirements are to even be one. But there's times where I've looked at some of these guys and I'm like, really? No offense. I think I know more about this than you do. And I'm not you. And again, I'm not trying to be rude, but holy cow. Anyways. next one ignoring flickering or dimming lights this is on the electrician sides of things yeah if you've got flickering or dimming lights there's a reason why something's not right there there's even overload going on there is something that just with that particular circuit isn't right and you need to figure out what is it what's going on next one this goes back to the conversation we were just having with the person that texted in neglecting the panel the electrical panel In other words, is everything good and tight? Is everything up to speed? Is it all labeled correctly? On down the line we go. Back to Mike's comment a moment ago. There's certain maintenance things. that you need to be doing and even periodically you know peering inside and if you know what you're looking for great if not an electrician ought to be coming by i don't know if they need to do it every year but i would say probably every other year i would have an electrician roll by and just double check everything is everything working correctly do you have any issues with your panel what does it look like is anything in there you know not look correct here's the other thing too if you've got a breaker that you're using as a switch stop doing that breakers aren't switches They're breakers, and a lot of people will use breakers as switches, and that is not what they're designed to do. And we've all, all of us in the auto world especially, we have a bad habit of using the compressor breaker as the compressor switch. It's not. It's a breaker. You know, I can always remember leaving the shop, you guys all turn the compressor off? Well, what that meant was, did you turn the breaker off? Well, little did I know then that that wasn't really the right way to do that. You should have actually just turned off and had a separate switch at the compressor to turn it on and off, not turning the breaker on and off. And yet so many of us have done that over and over and over again through the years. And Steve's laughing at me because he knows exactly what I'm talking about because we're all guilty of it.
SPEAKER 08 :
We use it as a garage door. We turn off our garage door so they don't work. It's a little less of an amperage.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that's not quite as big of a deal. And I get that. You're doing that so they can't open.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
But that's another one where, okay, so add a switch. Should add a switch. You should just put a switch in line where the guys are just flipping a switch instead of a. And it would be done because a lot of times they leave it in. Well, then you know what you should do? I would add a switch that has the remote capability of turning it on and off with an app, because then you could always look at it and say, did you guys turn that off or not? That's a good idea, too. And if it's not, then you can quickly just turn it off, and now you're good as gold, and off you go. That's the other advantage of today's world that we didn't have a couple of decades ago. You can now control some of these circuits, by the way, remotely. That's a great idea, by the way, turning off the garage door openers themselves where people just can't get in, period. That's a great idea. Yeah. All right, I got more tips along these lines. We'll get to that next week, of course. And the last one on here is don't treat an extension cord as a permanent solution. I'll just close with that. So myself, Steve Horvath, Fix It Radio. It's fixitradio.com is our website. We'll be back next week, and have a great rest of your day. KLZ 560.
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Join Rick Hughes as he delves into the principles of living a Christian life filled with divine perspective and humility. In this episode of The Flatline, explore the concept of 'Mind Your Own Business' and the importance of focusing on one's own spiritual growth. Rick introduces the 10 problem-solving devices essential for maintaining a relaxed mental attitude and spiritual well-being, providing listeners with tools to lead a fulfilling life focused on personal growth and divine understanding.
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Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flatline. I'm your host, Rick Hughes, and for the next few minutes, please stick around. Just be a short time of motivation, some inspiration, a whole lot of education with absolutely no manipulation because we don't con people here. We're not trying to get money. We're not trying to solicit membership. We definitely don't have anything to sell you. We have a lot of information to give you. A lot of our information we've written, put in books. They're all free. We don't charge for anything. I hope you'll take time to order some of the material after you hear our radio show, The Flatline. We have a new book called Crash Course in Christianity. Just reprinted that. Tremendous book. It's free for you to request that. We have a book called Christian Problem Solving. We have tremendous transcripts of the past radio shows from 2020 and 2019. Every show we ever did has been put into a transcript and available for you to read on a daily basis. So any of that material is free for you asking. All you have to do is contact us. at rickhughesministries.org, rickhughesministries.org, and we'll send that right on out to you. Today, thank you for listening. Thank you for being with me. It's a tremendous amount of mail that I get, and I love to hear from people all the way from Maine to California. What I hear a lot of times is people saying, I'm learning something, I'm growing. I've never understood things like this before. And that's my objective is to give you divine viewpoint, to give you the word of God, to help you understand the mechanics to what it means to live the Christian life, the protocol plan of God. Remember the Bible says, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. That simply means we have to learn to think like he thought. And how did he think? Well, he had an attitude of humility because the Bible says he humbled himself and he made himself of no reputation and took upon himself the form of a man, a servant. And that's what we have to do. We have to have an attitude of humility. That's why the Bible says, 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. That's Romans 12, three in a modified, expanded translation of that verse. Today, there's some information I'd like to give to you. I think you'll enjoy it. It's called mind your own business. You ever heard that term before? Mind your own business. That's an old country song, Mind Your Own Business, originally recorded by Hank Williams and re-recorded by many country western stars and years since that time. But the tagline is, mind your own business and you won't be minding mine. Mind your own business and you won't be minding mine. Now, perhaps you've had people stick their nose into your business. Perhaps you stuck your nose into someone else's business. 1 Thessalonians 4, 11, the A part of that verse says this. You should study to be quiet and to do your own business. Tend to your own business. That's the motto of the Christian. Keep your mouth shut and mind your own business. And that was written to the Macedonian Christians who understood what the Christian life was. They had the right motivation, study, and the right priority. Mind your own business. If you can keep those two things in line, You'll go a long way in the plan of God. If you'll study the word of God, as the Bible says, study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. If you'll study, and if you do what the Bible says, grow in the grace and knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And if you will obey this passage, mind your own business, and you will understand the privacy of the priesthood, the priority and their motivation in life is necessary for the believer to to glorify God to the maximum in his life. When we talk about the flat line, we're talking about those 10 unique problem-solving devices that form the main line of resistance in your soul. You've heard me talk about them over and over again. Rebound, which is the confession of known sin. The filling of the Holy Spirit, which is the power to live the Christian life and not letting the sin nature control you. Faith rest drill, which is overcoming difficult situations by using and standing on faith. Grace orientation, which is orienting to the grace of God from salvation to heaven. Biblical orientation, which is learning and applying God's word into your life on a daily basis. developing a personal sense of destiny, which means you know why God put you here, you know what God wants you to do, you know what your spiritual gift is, personal love for God, which is the greatest motivational virtue any of us could ever have. As 1 John 5, 3 says, if you love me, you will obey me. Impersonal love for all mankind, and we'll talk about that a little bit today, and that's the ability to love the person who sticks their nose into your business. And sharing the happiness of God, which is living the wonderful life Christ talked to the disciples about 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 then obviously, occupation with Christ. For me to live is Christ, to die is prophet, Paul said. Christ in me, the hope of glory. And that's what we want to do. We want to represent Jesus Christ to our friends and our neighbors and to the world by being filled with the Holy Spirit, growing in grace and replicating his lifestyle. So perhaps one of the greatest unconfessed sins among Christians like myself and yourself It's when we stick our nose into someone else's business. It can be called gossip, it can be called judging, it can be called slander. I assume you know the difference between gossip and slander. Gossip is basically when you repeat something that might be true and slander is when you repeat the lie. And judging, well obviously that's when you pronounce sentence. These are all three terrible sins of the tongue. that malign other people simply for the purpose of manipulating how someone thinks. We're not authorized to manipulate anyone, and we're never authorized as a believer in Lord Jesus Christ to gossip, to judge, or slander anybody. And the Bible has a great deal to say about these types of sins. Maybe you've even been the victim of the neighborhood gossip, the workplace judging or jealous slander on your part. I've noticed in my neighborhood sometimes when neighbors move in, they want to talk about other neighbors. They want to talk about this one doesn't do that and that one doesn't do this. And if I was him, I'd do this. If I was she, I'd do that. People have a hard time leaving people alone, keeping your nose out of other people's business. There's always somebody wants to tell you how to live your life. Always someone got a better way to do it than you. The Bible has a lot to say about that. And in Proverbs 6, 16 through 19, there are seven particular sins. that the Bible says God hates. Now, of course, the word hate is a big word. I'm going to tell you what it is. Don't get scared. It's called anthropomorphism, an anthropomorphism, A-N-T-H-R-O-P-O-R-P-H-I-S-M, anthropomorphism. That's the attributing human traits or human emotions to non-human entities. Obviously, God doesn't get mad and God doesn't hate anybody. The Bible says God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. Hate is an emotional sin. You're told not to commit hatred in your life. So God does not get mad and he doesn't use human emotions like we do. This is simply a way of saying that the justice of God highly disapproves of sins like these. There are six of them, wait, seven, the Bible says, that are an abomination to him. Here they are, Proverbs 6, 16, and 17. A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, and a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among the brethren. So there you have it, murder, hands that shed innocent blood. Of these seven, only one's an overt sin, and it's murder. That's the only overt sin. Three of them are sins of the tongue, and three of them are mental attitude sins. Sometimes people don't recognize that sin comes like that. It can be what you think, what you say, or what you do. That's how sin operates. What you do is an overt sin. What you think is a mental attitude sin, and what you say is a sin of the tongue. So murder is the first thing that God says he detests. The sixth thing God hates, an abomination to him, and murder is one of those right there. And then arrogance, which is a proud look. That's the mental attitude sin of arrogance. That's the unrealistic self-image. You know, an arrogant person doesn't see himself as he is. He sees himself as he thinks he is. And if he has that sort of unrealistic self-image, he expects to be treated in a way he's not worthy of being treated. The arrogant person has a proud look. I would never do that. That's not me. I'm better than you. I would never do anything like that. And they want to loft themselves up above everyone and act like they're better than everybody else. Lying is another one of these sins of the tongue. The Bible says stay away from lying. A schemer is another sin. That's a mental attitude sin. The heart that devises wicked imagination, the Bible says. He's a schemer, a murderer, an arrogant person, a liar, a schemer. And then the Bible says feet that are swift in running to evil. That's a troublemaker. That's a mental attitude sin. And the Bible goes on to talk about a false witness who speaks lies. That's the sin of the tongue, and that's perjury. And then the one who sows discord among the brethren. And, of course, that's the sin of the tongue. That's the poison spreader. One of these seven is overt, and the other six are sins of the tongue and mental attitude sins. So take a really close look at them and see if you fit in there anywhere. Have you lied? Have you been arrogant? Have you been scheming? Have you had some sort of wicked plan? Have you committed perjury? Have you spread discourse among believers, discourse among the brethren? I hope not. Many years ago, I was taught the concept of when a believer should keep his mouth shut. And I would like to remind you of that. I did it on this radio show some, maybe 10 years ago. When should a believer keep his mouth shut? Let me remind you of that because it'll help you here not to get your nose into someone else's business. The first time you should always keep your mouth shut is when you're angry. Proverbs 14, 17 says, a short-tempered person acts stupidly and a person who plots evil is hated. So anytime you're angry, anytime your temper is exploding, you should always, always, always keep your mouth shut. Ecclesiastes 7, 9, don't be quick to get angry because anger is typical of a fool. That simply means that the fool cannot control his emotions. That's one of the first things about being a material believer you have to learn how to do is control your emotions. You can't live the Christian life based on emotions. You live the Christian life based on what you think. Remember I told you, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. It didn't say let these emotions be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. This is where we stray today in the church. We want to get too emotional. We want to worship God with emotion. And it's okay to appreciate God with emotion. There's nothing wrong with emotion. It's not a sin. That's not how we grow up. We grow up by learning to think, learning to rebound, learning to stay filled with the Spirit, learning how to use the faithless drill, learning how to orient to God's grace and orient to the Word of God. There is a protocol plan that we must follow because the right thing has to be done in the right way. You can't make up the rules of the Christian life as you go along like a lot of people do. A lot of people love to sing. A lot of people love to clap. A lot of people love to get happy. And sometimes in worship services, that's what takes place. But you don't learn anything doing that. There's nothing wrong with praising God, but that's not how you grow. You've got to study to show yourself approved unto God. And that doesn't mean you do it alone at home by yourself. It means you sit under a well-qualified pastor who's prepared, who knows the original languages of the Greek, Hebrew, and maybe the Aramaic, and who can teach you what it actually means. You'd be surprised how much you can learn when someone can break it down and teach it to you. The Bible is not a novel. I talk to people all the time, say, I read it through this year, I read it through last year, I've read the Bible through 10 times. Well, whoopie-doo, that doesn't mean anything. What means something is if you have had it taught to you. My own pastor, for example, taught the book of Ephesians, and you say, well, that was great. Would he do that January Bible study and do the book of Ephesians? No, it took him 1,200 hours to teach through the book of Ephesians. My pastor taught the life of Christ, and that took over 1,000 hours to teach the life of Christ. That's 1,000 Bible classes an hour at a time. You can't learn the Word of God in a week. You're not going to get it. You're not going to grow to spiritual maturity or once in one week a year having a Bible study. So you have to grow. You have to learn God's word. You have to become a mature believer. That's how you learn these things. So we have to stay away from this sort of seven sins that God hates. You have to learn to keep your mouth shut when you're tempted to get angry. The second time you should always keep your mouth shut is prayer. when you're tempted to tell a lie. God doesn't allow you to lie. That's a terrible sin. The third is when you're tempted to twist the truth. Don't do that. Don't turn things into your favor. The fourth time you should keep your mouth shut is when you get the urge, and I get the urge every now and then, I bet you do too, to straighten out the fool. Try to straighten out the fool, someone that's an idiot. You don't have to go very far to run into an idiot nowadays. You can get it at the local coffee store. You can get it at the grocery store. You can get it at the gas station. Or you can run into him on the interstate. There are a lot of idiots running around. But God didn't send me to straighten anybody out, nor did he send you. Our objective is to straighten our own lives out and to lift up the Lord Jesus Christ and demonstrate his love and mercy. So we are not ever sent to straighten fools out. Proverbs 9, 8. Do not warn a mocker or he will hate you. Warn a wise person and he will love you. Give advice to a wise person and he will become even wiser. The fifth time you should always keep your mouth shut. Always. It's when you're tempted to speak because you don't know all the facts yet. And people do this all the time. If I was in charge, this is what I would do. If I was there, I would do it like this. Proverbs 10, 14. Those who are wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of a stubborn fool invites ruin. So many times you don't have all the facts. You don't have all the information. And you pronounce sentence or judgment on a person because... What you think happened didn't really happen. And that's where you have to be quiet. Keep a laconic attitude. Keep your mouth shut. The sixth time is when you're tempted to say more than you should say. Whenever you're tempted to say more than you should say, you should never say it. In Proverbs 10, 19, the Bible says, sin is unavoidable when there's much talk. but whoever seals his lips is wise. I don't know if you've ever been around somebody like this, but someone who controls the conversation and won't shut up. Maybe you've seen people like that. I've been to dinner with people like that. They start talking from the time they sit down till they leave and they never quit talking. Just recently, I was having lunch with some friends in a restaurant and And a complete stranger overheard something he was saying, and he butted in and absolutely took over our conversation. We could not get another word in edgewise because he wouldn't shut up. And I felt like saying, Mr., can I take you over to the side and have a little word with you? But I didn't. We just politely excused ourselves and went our way. But we have to understand these concepts. It's unavoidable when there's much talk, but whoever seals his lips is wise. The seventh time you should keep your mouth shut is when you're tempted to pervert the truth. Proverbs 10 31, the mouth of a righteous person increases wisdom, but a devious, devious tongue will be cut off. The devious tongue is the person who manipulates people, the person who perverts the truth as we talked about earlier in this passage. The person who is always troublemaking, running the mischief, poison spreader, sowing discourse among the brethren. It's critical that you must not run your mouth and pervert the truth. The truth, first of all, is that God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life. He always has loved you. And if you want to have a relationship with God, it starts through a personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. That's why he said, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man can come to the Father but by me. So everything starts at the cross. It starts with you receiving Christ as your savior, which is the single most important decision you will ever make in your life. And if you are dumb enough to put it off and gamble with your eternity, you're absolutely making a critical mistake. Why would you gamble with your future? Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. Trust in him today. Unless you've been listening to somebody that says they're smarter than God. Someone says, well, I don't care what the Bible says. I know better than that. And that is a fool, I promise you. Stay away from those people. Don't listen to those people. The eighth reason when you should keep your mouth shut is when you're tempted to malign your neighbor. And this is the point about mind your own business. Be sure you keep your mouth shut if you're tempted to malign your neighbor. So you don't like the way they let their dogs out. So you don't like the way they cut their grass. So you don't like the way they put something here or they did something there or they parked their car here or they run up and down the street here. And so you call another neighbor and say, let me tell you, I'm just sick of that. Let me tell you what I just, you know, and then off you go, maligning, criticizing, running down your neighbor. If you're tempted to malign your neighbor, be sure to keep your mouth shut. I know you probably have a neighbor or two you don't like, and the Bible says in Proverbs 11, 9, with his talk, a godless person can ruin his neighbor. but righteous people are rescued by knowledge. There it is, again, you cannot run your neighbor down. In Proverbs 13, three, the one who guards his words guards his life, but whoever is talkative will come to ruin. One of the worst sins you can commit is to malign your neighbor. The ninth time you should keep your mouth shut is if you have a quick temper. Proverbs 14, 17, a short-tempered person acts stupidly, and the person who plots evil will be hated. And tenthly, not the last, but not the least, you're tempted to say anything hurtful, be quiet, don't say it. Proverbs 15, 4, a soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a deceitful tongue will break the spirit. You get mad at somebody, you call them a fool. You get mad at somebody and you call them an idiot. You get mad at somebody and you call them a dirty name. You are violating this concept. A soothing tongue is the tree of life, forgiving. That's how God did you, he forgave you. So you should have a flat line in your soul, a main line of resistance in your soul that will give you the ability to live this relaxed mental attitude, using the faith rest drill, which is problem-solving device number three, and using impersonal love, which is problem-solving device number eight. If you don't understand that, get a hold of me. I'll send you the book, Christian Problem Solving, and it lists all 10 problem-solving devices. You can study it and look at it. My pastor taught me this a long time ago, and I have his permission to reteach it but it's the secret to the Christian life. It's the modus operandi of the Christian, learning these 10 problem-solving devices that give you a flat line in your soul, and that's the ability to live a wonderful life. So sticking your nose into someone else's business is how you get under divine discipline, according to the Bible. In Matthew 7, one through seven, judge not so that you will not be judged. For with whatever judgment you judge, you're going to be judged. And with the measure you measure, it'll be measured back to you again. Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but don't consider the plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, let me remove the speck out of your eye? And look, a plank is in your own eye. You're a hypocrite. First remove the plank from your own eye and then you'll see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye. Here's the concept. It's called triple compound discipline. When you judge another person, another believer, you are committing a sin and it must be confessed as a sin or else the discipline will come swiftly. And it will come like this. The measure that you measure will be measured back to you again. Did you hear what I said? For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged. So whatever measure you measured, it'll be measured back to you again. And then you will be disciplined for your own personal sin from judging. And then you will have self-induced misery. That's called the triple compound discipline. The reason people do this, because they have an arrogant, unrealistic self-image. They think they're right, they're smart, they're better. People should listen to them. They know how to tell you to live your life. Wrong. It takes humility to obey this mandate. Remove the speck from your own eye. That's humility. That's the ability to look at yourself honestly and say, you know, I'm pretty lousy myself. What am I doing talking about someone else? Look at me, look at my failures. The divine way of thanking taught in the Bible in regard to family and neighbors is in Ephesians 4, 30 through 32. Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you're sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, all wrath, all anger, all clamor, all evil speaking be put away from you along with your malice and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake forgave you. In the Greek New Testament, these are present active imperatives. This is not a request. This is a mandate from God. He is telling you, you must not have bitterness, which is a root mental attitude sin. You must not have wrath, which is the Greek word thumos or thunderous. That's hot anger, red-faced anger. You must not have anger, the Bible says, which is the Greek word orge, O-R-G-E, which is agitation or violent emotional impulses. You must not have clamor, the Bible says, And that's an onomatopoeia, onomatopoeia. It's the word krauge, K-R-A-U-G-E, and it's a word that imitates the raven's cry, akin to the krauge, the raven of the crawls, makes a crawl noise. And when you are clamoring, you're running around the neighborhood telling everybody else what an idiot your neighbor is, or what an idiot your boss is, or what an idiot that person you work with is, and you're not minding your own business. And the Bible says, quit evil speaking, blasphemia, the Greek word, blasphemia. And that's speech that's designed to injure. That's deflamatory, malice. The Bible says, stay away from malice. Kakia, K-A-K-I-A. And that's ill will, desire to injure someone. And then it wraps it up by saying, and be kind to one another. Tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, forgave you. Again, present, active, imperative in the Greek. Kind, tenderhearted, forgiving. Three key attitudes that will overcome bitter jealousy and envy in your life. Kind is , which means pleasant, gracious, benevolent. Tenderhearted is compassionate, and forgiving is to show favor and to be gracious. This is what God expects out of you, kind, tenderhearted, and forgiving. The three attitudes that overcome bitter jealousy and envy in your life. And the only way you can have this sort of attitude is to have that main line of resistance in your soul, the flat line, what this show's about. This is how we live the Christian life. This is critical for you to understand. I hope I'm making sense, and I hope you've listened. If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact me anytime. Until next week, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flatline.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
In this episode of The Mike Gallagher Show, we dive into the breaking news of James Comey's indictment, a pivotal moment marking a long-awaited accountability for the deep state. Explore how this key moment is reshaping dialogue around the FBI's past actions and what it means for American justice and political landscape moving forward. Join Mike as he unpacks the implications of this development on the political front and its broader impact on the trust in governmental institutions.
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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America's culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you've been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher Show.
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There is one place to start and only one place to start to get your reaction to the news that James Comey has been indicted. And it's a bombshell. There's no question it's a bombshell. This is the first shot across the deep state bow. Do you realize that? This is the first act of accountability for the deep state. This is the first time we've seen the deep state challenged like this. Because James Comey, the disgraced FBI director, is the poster boy for the deep state. There's also some breaking news today. A bunch of delegates have disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu's speech at the United Nations, like any of us care about the UN. But a ton of delegates... have disrupted his speech by walking out and yelling and carrying on in protest of Bibi Netanyahu's speech at the UN. Look, I'm just grateful that Zoran Mamdami hasn't been elected yet because he would have tried to arrest Netanyahu when he landed in New York. So this might be his last visit to New York for a long time. And by the way, New York, you'll get everything you deserve. Or you will deserve, I guess I should, no, I said that wrong. You'll deserve everything you get. I'm in a great mood today. I was in a bad mood yesterday. This is a drama-free Friday. Trolls, call me. I don't care. I don't care. Let the trolls try. Let the bad guys do your best. Because nothing can bring me down. Look at our new studio today. Check it out. Salem News Channel. Nice big background. They've got to tweak it a little bit. It's a little bright on one side, but they do. These guys are so good. We have such a good team here. And I'm just loving this news about James Comey. I really am. And there's one place to start. It was a sit-down that James Comey had with that... hyena Nicole Wallace over on MSNBC. All of the banshees at MSNBC loved seeing the Trump mugshot. Oh, they loved watching Peter Navarro frog-walked out of the airport in shackles. They loved the image of Roger Stone outside his house in the middle of the night, terrified with his poor wife as they surrounded his house with long guns. Because of this guy, James Comey, a corrupt creep, a man who did so much damage to the United States that it's going to take years to undo the mess, the destruction that this corrupt, despicable scoundrel did. who has taken to social media to post pictures of seashells on the beach that spell out 86-47, you know, kill Trump. It is about time. And I'll say it. Thank you, Pam Bondi. I was worried. I've been concerned about her. Kash Patel declassified material that showed that the man absolutely lied. I think this might be a toe in the water. I think this might be a test, a trial balloon. Let's see if it works and he's convicted. More to come. I don't know. I don't know. I am absolutely euphoric that finally... Somebody is going to be held accountable for all the destruction they heaped upon the United States of America. They ripped this country apart with the phony Russia collusion scandal. They destroyed people's lives. Ask General Flynn. And it's General Flynn who I'd like to talk to. And we don't do a lot of guests on the Mike Gallagher show. I let the other shows have all the talking heads and the authors and all that. I'd rather talk to Americans. That's just me. Nothing against all the other shows that are good interview shows. And we have some of the best interviewers in the business in our family. But I like talking to callers. I don't do a lot of guests. I just prefer... You and me to do this together every day. That's just my philosophy and it has been for a long time. But I'd like to talk to General Michael Flynn. I'd like to get him on the show and see how he's feeling today. Because his life was ruined by this man, James Comey. They set him up. They trapped him. And Comey bragged about it. Here's a clip of Comey with Nicole Wallace at some convention somewhere. And check out the sanctimonious smugness of this sleazy guy with his little giggling schoolgirl, Nicole Wallace, both delighting in the way they destroyed the life of General Mike Flynn.
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You look at this White House now and it's hard to imagine two FBI agents ending up in the same room. How did that happen?
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I sent them. Something I probably wouldn't have done or maybe gotten away with in a more organized investigation, a more organized administration, in the George W. Bush administration, for example, or the Obama administration, the protocol, two men that all of us have perhaps increased appreciation for over the last two years. And in both of those administrations, there was process. And so if the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, you would work through the White House counsel and there'd be discussions and approvals and who would be there. And I thought it's early enough. Let's just send a couple of guys over.
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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America's culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you've been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher Show.
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From the White House, President Trump has signed a memo that is going to target political violence in America. We've got to get a handle on this. And I don't know exactly how to do it. I don't know where we go. I don't know... how we begin the process, but we better. Political violence is a huge, huge problem in America. And we're going to have a lot of, there's going to have to be a lot of reckoning in the days and weeks and months and years ahead. Welcome in. We made it to Friday somehow, Friday, September 26th. You know, I never like to start the show on a bad note. Or on some bad news. There's a lot of hate right now in this country. There's a lot of darkness. There's a lot of division. And it's frustrating. It's aggravating. It's, in some cases, heartbreaking. Like the email I got from a woman in Georgia. And I don't want to mention her even by her first name. I don't want any repercussions whatsoever. I don't want to identify the city in Georgia that she's from. I mean, she might be okay with it, but I haven't asked her permission. So I will only tell you that she's a mom in Georgia. Mike, my husband and I attended the Charlie Kirk Memorial Service in Arizona. My husband posted some pictures on Facebook. They view it as radicalization. I'm so very sad to lose my family. Imagine telling your own mom and dad you can no longer be in our lives because you attended a memorial service that was viewed by literally hundreds of millions of people around the world. People have been shattered by Charlie's assassination. You know, I'm careful about this because I know that this hits close to home for all of us here at Salem because we all knew and loved Charlie and worked with him. And there are people in the Salem family who didn't agree with every single thing Charlie believed. But he believed in faith, and he believed in family, he believed in freedom. He was wearing a freedom t-shirt when the 22-year-old climbed the roof and put a bullet in his neck and wrote, apparently on different shell casings, fascist, hey fascist, catch... A lot of reactions to this email. And it's time that we have these kind of conversations. They are hard conversations to have. Oregon writes, Mike, that letter is heartbreaking. Don't you find it ironic that people are willing to disown their own parents for going to see a memorial when Charlie was 100% about family first? He said that many times. And it's sad that they see family as last. One of my favorite texters, Austin in Clearwater, writes, those people celebrate a brutal murder of someone they disagreed with, they cut their parents out over politics, and then they turn around and tell us we're in a cult. Austin's right. I truly am amazed at how they think they're the good guys. They really do. Wait till you hear the story of the Tampa professor who was caught on tape denouncing anybody who dared pray for President Trump. James O'Keefe and his team apparently caught a Tampa professor mocking prayer. Florida writes, Mike, let me answer your question. The parents tell the child, okay, that's fine. Guarantee you within a year or two they're going to need the parents' help, either financial or something to do with their children. Mark my words, that'll happen. I don't know. But this is where we are. This is where we are. And if Charlie Kirk's assassination doesn't open up the eyes of people who are willing to say, we've got a real huge problem with political violence. Nothing will. Nothing will. Here was President Trump's take on the political violence that is currently plaguing the United States of America.
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Who do you hold responsible for the uptick in left-wing violence? Radical left rhetoric. The radical left is causing the problem. They're out of control. They're saying things. And they're really dumb people. I mean, I look at Crockett. I look at some of these people. They're very low IQ people, actually. But the radical left is causing this problem. Not the right, the radical left. and it's going to get worse, and ultimately it's going to go back on them. I mean, bad things happen when they play these games.
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Well, you can't play any games anymore, but here are people willing to play games in their own family, and it is heartbreaking. Here was Stephen Miller talking about the radical left, and I guess it's fair to say that this woman's own son and daughter-in-law are radical leftists. I mean, this is radical. To be able to... And North Carolina asks a good question. Why is it only one side that's willing to disown their own family over politics? The left is the cult. How'd you like to be this poor woman who's been told now she can never see her own grandkids because they attended a memorial service for a 31-year-old shot dead in cold blood? Here was Stephen Miller's take on this. the need to take down the radical left-wing terrorist groups in America.
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This is the first time in American history that there is an all-government effort to dismantle left-wing terrorism, to dismantle Antifa, to dismantle the organizations that have been carrying out these acts of political violence and terrorism. What we have seen, if you look at whether it be going back to the riots, that started with Black Lives Matter and all the way through to the Antifa riots, the attacks on ICE officers, the doxing campaigns, and now the political assassinations. These are not lone, isolated events. This is part of an organized campaign of radical left terrorism. It is structured. It is sophisticated. It is well-funded. It is well-planned. There is really no parallel like this to anything else in the country right now. There is an entire system of feeder organizations that provide money, resources, weapons, and when they're attacking ICE officers, they're attacking federal buildings, or they're isolating public officials for harassment, doxing, intimidation, and ultimately attempted assassination. It is all carefully planned, executed, and thought through. It is terrorism on our soil because of this executive order, Cash and Pam are going to have the tools they need working with Scott to take these organizations apart piece by piece.
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I know there's a lot of breaking news today. Of course, we're going to talk about the James Comey indictment. Lots of drama and lots of discussion about that. I want to get your reaction to all of it. But I thought it would be important to share that email from this woman in Georgia. I wanted you to hear how families are being torn apart. And I wanted to get your reaction to it. You know I love loaded lines, so join us as we kick off a Friday here on the Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor Studios, 800-655-MIKE. I wonder if that woman's son and daughter-in-law have a sign in their yard that says, Choose Love. I wonder if they've got a bumper sticker on their Prius that says, Be Tolerant. I wonder if they think they're the good guys. in cutting their own parents out of their lives because their parents differ with them on political and ideological matters. That's the most astounding part. The ones that say, be kind... are some of the cruelest of all. Every single day it's a joy to remind you that portions of our show are sponsored by MyPillow. As you know, our friend Mike Lindell, big legal victory last week. He's been in a ton of hot water, as you know, because he believes in election integrity, of course due to his friendship with President Trump. Well, last week there was a $5 million judgment against Mike that was overturned by the courts. Good news for MyPillow. So you keep praying for MyPillow, and you keep supporting this great American company. The premium MyPillow, limited time, great price, $18.98. If you go to MyPillow.com, this pillow is a godsend. Look, I bring the MyPillow products with me when I'm on the road. Here at the hotel in Washington State, I've got the MySlippers with me, those unbelievable slippers, because I pat around in the hotel room. I don't know what's on that rug. I bring the MyPillow with me. I roll it up into the suitcase. I've even got my MyPillow loungewear. Tons of great products. If you haven't been to the site in a while, go check it out. Go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. And with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. And you're going to save big. The slippers, the doggy beds. And the Giza Dream Sheets? MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Like we love to sing.
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Well, how about this bombshell from The Blaze? The FBI has acknowledged it had 275 plainclothes agents in the crowds of January 6th. Those massive throngs of people who were at the Capitol. The Blaze is reporting that a senior congressional source is refuting the FBI's Until now, steadfast refusal to disclose the level of its presence at the Capitol. Look, the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Inspector General has been claiming there were no FBI undercover personnel in the crowds. Back in December of 2024, the DOJ OIG said in an 88-page report, we found no evidence that showing or suggesting that the FBI had undercover employees in the various protest crowds or at the Capitol on January 6th. Well, now, according to The Blaze, there were 275 of them. Hmm. Isn't that special? Isn't that special? Portions of our show sponsored by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Every single day I have a chance to tell you about our partnership with this great organization is a joy. You ever wondered why some people seem to experience God's favor in amazing ways? Today, Bibi Netanyahu spoke before the U.N. despite many of the delegates acting like big spoiled brat babies and marching out and protesting and making noise trying to disrupt his speech. We have a strong bond with Israel. This holy equation has been working for 4,000 years. Remember, in the Bible, God said, I will bless those who bless Israel. I will curse those who curse Israel. When you support the international fellowship of Christians and Jews, you're plugging into God's ancient blessing system. You're choosing to flow with his plan, not against it, like too many do. The results speak for themselves. Lives are transformed. Every time I see one of those commercials on TV of those elderly Jews who are being blessed by the beautiful gifts of food and shelter and clothing from the IFCJ, it warms my heart. To learn more, visit ifcj.org, ifcj.org, ifcj.org. So James O'Keefe... got his hands on some audio. He's, of course, the undercover, I guess, former Project Veritas guy, but I saw him, in fact, I saw him at the Charlie Kirk Memorial. He was there attending at the State Farm Stadium as well. It's a University of Tampa professor caught on tape slamming Americans for a pretty... Pretty provocative reason. Let's welcome the Mike Gallagher Show newsman, Roger P. Shulman, who's going to tell us a little bit about this particular story. Look, we're getting bits and pieces of this, Roger. What can you tell us about what James O'Keefe uncovered?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, he uncovered the fact that this guy cusses a lot. He uses the F word continually in his lectures. He's a political science teacher at the University of Tampa, which is a beautiful campus in the middle of downtown Tampa. Park like setting costs about thirty two thousand a year. There are a lot of rich kids from the East Coast go there, a lot of BMWs and Mercedes in the parking lot. 11,429 students, and he's been there for about 13 years. He says he believes Trump is a liar and slams people who pray for the president. And in a profanity-laced diatribe with lots of F-words, he concluded his blast by saying, quote, the Republican Party in this country has decided that their standard bearer to represent the views and everyone that's affiliated with that party is someone with a... F-ing mugshot. He also says there are people who have apparently decided that Trump is worth praying for. Get the F out of your people. He said even if they're Trump-supporting pastor on Sunday, F no. Sorry, Father, F you. That was his comment. It was recorded. I called the school this morning, and he is not teaching this semester, I'm told, and his website has been wiped away. So he's kind of disappeared from the campus, and nobody's talking about him at this point.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow. You know, I guess he's been identified as William Myers, an associate professor of political science. And, you know, I've just been giving that a lot of thought. All right, let's just stipulate there are plenty of people like him who aren't fans of Donald Trump. Okay, they're liberal Democrats. They don't like the guy. If you're a professor of political science, how could any college or university tolerate that kind of behavior in the classroom? Can't you, I mean, isn't it fair to suggest that you could objectively teach political science without going into that cesspool the way this guy allegedly did?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I think so. And the students don't like him that much. Most of the students would not take him again. About 21 percent of the students said they would. Most of them wouldn't. And some of the other teachers there had a 90 percent rating that students would want to take him again. He is not well liked at all. Most of the students say he's awful. on a rating of awesome down to good to satisfactory to awful. So he's not a popular teacher, and he sure cusses a lot. I never had a teacher that cussed that much in my career in college. It took me five years to get a four-year degree.
SPEAKER 07 :
Have you noticed that's like the Democrat strategy now. They think if we use the F word a lot, maybe we'll really be in the fight, you know? Eric Swalwell and all these even female Democrats, they've been all giving tips. Oh, F! this f that gosh there yeah that that seems to be the constant theme there the f word wow wow uh here's a text by the way in real time roger i can vouch for what roger is reporting this guy definitely is suffering from trump derangement syndrome he argued with me on his own facebook page i mean that's great that's a political boy go hey mom dad send your kids to that school huh in that classroom nothing will happen what can go wrong
SPEAKER 02 :
Interesting story about that school. There was a flight right after 9-11, a private jet flight out of here to Lexington, Kentucky, with some Arab students, and it was at the DP, direction of President Bush, then President Bush, and they flew those kids, the Arab kids, up to Lexington, Kentucky, where there was a 747 waiting for them to fly them to Arabia. Lexington is where they have a lot of horses, and... That was denied. That flight was denied for quite some time. I knew one of the policemen on board who was providing security, and it finally did come out. Yes, that was one of the only planes flying in the entire nation on that day, and it was to get those kids out of here at the direction of President Bush.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, you know, Roger, and there's a bigger picture here about indoctrination. We talk about this a lot. But look at the case of the Charlie Kirk assassin. Now, you know, we're getting dribs and drabs and a little bit of reporting from that awful day in Utah and the 22-year-old who climbed the – went up to the roof, climbed the building, took out a rifle and put a bullet in Charlie's neck. As I understand it, his own family is acknowledging that, yes, they are a conservative, actually Trump-supporting family. And when this kid went off to school, I guess, as the reporting goes, as the story goes, he went hard left. He became radicalized. Now, a lot of parents can— Happens a lot, right? There's a lot of parents who report that their child, their son, their daughter, they go off to school, they have good values, they believe in faith and family and freedom, and then they go off to school, they go off to colleges like the University of Tampa for a year or two or three or more, and they come out a different person.
SPEAKER 02 :
Totally different person. Happens a lot. You just have to determine what kind of school you want your kids to go to. There are schools that have Judeo-Christian values in this country. They're very good schools. But be very careful where you do send your kids and do a little research on some of these professors they're taking.
SPEAKER 07 :
Amen. All right. Thanks, Roger. Roger P. Shulman, our newsman, of course, the veteran here in the Tampa Bay area. Nobody knows the Tampa Bay region like a guy who's covered it for over 50 years. Nice text message and a picture from somebody from South Carolina. This gentleman who sent a picture of me posing with him and my golden American eagle, the award that I was presented by the 4th Congressional District Club. and he wrote, very proud moment to get a picture of Mike right after receiving the first ever Charlie Kirk Freedom Award. Incredible. No one is more deserving than Mike. Well, I disagree with you. I'm not deserving of it at all, certainly not worthy of it, but I will honor and treasure this award and always have such wonderful, wonderful moments in my beloved upstate of South Carolina. Do you know there are people who moved there because of me? Now, all I'm going to do is infuriate you know, longtime residents of the upstate of South Carolina. It's one of the finest places to go in America. I mean, people don't understand. The downtown, this vibrant, booming, beautiful, easy-to-navigate downtown, the mountains, the trees, the people, there's just nothing like it. And they've also got the Hotel Hardness. Portions of our show are sponsored by Hotel Heartness, rated the number one resort in South Carolina by Travel and Leisure's World Best, third best in the country, number 24 worldwide, and it's right in the upstate. You can stay there, too. Visit hotelheartness.com. Go to hotelheartness.com. I always count down the days when I get to spend more time in that beautiful neck of the woods, the upstate of South Carolina. All right, 16 before the hour. James Comey gets indicted, and the left freaks out. They're melting down, as you might imagine. That and more all coming up.
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From the wild world of D.C. politics to America's culture clash, brace yourself for the reality check you've been waiting for. The one and only Mike Gallagher Show.
SPEAKER 07 :
Once in a while, it's kind of fun to go over to MSNBC or CNN. I normally can't stand it because I just get, like, I break out in hives. I loathe these people. They're so bad for this country. But look, I got to be fair, and they don't like us. We don't like them. You know, Fox News, Salem News Channel, Town Hall, Mike Gallagher Show, we spend every day criticizing what we call the loony left. They spend all day criticizing... The evil right, this week Greg Gutfeld pointed out, the difference between our side and their side is we think they're wrong. They think we're evil. We want to disagree with them. In fact, some of the best and brightest of our movement, of our side, people like Charlie Kirk, when he goes and tries to engage kids on a college campus, they kill him for it. They shoot him dead. There's a difference between our side and their side in a big way. But I do always try to understand that not everybody sees the world the way we do. But it was fun to go to MSNBC. I thought they would smear ashes on their face and wear sackcloth and just start chanting Gregorian hymns. Because James Comey got indicted. Oh, it's the end of democracy. Oh, it's the worst. It's the biggest destruction of a free country we've ever seen. The greatest abuse in the history of the Department of Justice. Do they think we don't remember that they arrested Donald Trump? Do they think we didn't see the images of Roger Stone and his terrified wife in the front yard in the middle of the night with FBI agents with their guns drawn? Do they think we forget the raid on Mar-a-Lago? Do they think we don't remember all of that? Comey has been indicted on a very straightforward crime. Either he lied to Congress or he didn't. A jury's going to have to decide that. And I get the cynicism. But you know what? Today, on this Friday, can you spare me the cynicism for a moment? Because first we all said, well, they're not going to indict anybody. Then they indict Comey, arguably one of the most reprehensible public figures in American history. He did so much damage to this country with his nonsense, with his weaponization, with his attempt to hobble and cripple and destroy the Trump administration from within. By his own admission. Oh, yeah, I sent a couple of guys over to ruin Michael Flynn. I did it. And these clowns did this damage. And he, according to a grand jury, lied under oath to Congress. That's a crime punishable up to five years in prison. And they're going to screech? Four years. of crap indictment after crap indictment that they were pulling out of their you-know-what. Alvin Bragg and Tish James and Fannie Willis just cheering the weaponization of the justice system. And now one man gets indicted and they call it the greatest abuse in the history of the Department of Justice? Wow. You know, in the first Trump administration, Donald Trump tried to play nice. He had Hillary, I believe he had Hillary absolutely dead to rights with the bleach bit and the bidet in the bathroom with the email server and all the crap she pulled. But Trump said, no, I don't want to prosecute her. I don't want to go after her. I'm going to let it go. But then they turned around and indicted him four times in four different jurisdictions in a little over four months. They think that's normal because they play ball that way. After Trump was already elected by the American people to be the Republican nominee for president, They threw any kind of decorum or civility or decency out the window, like Trump did with Hillary, and went after it. Here's John Solomon, last night, Fox News Channel, saying that the indictment of James Comey is just the beginning.
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I think other government officials are in danger of being indicted in the coming weeks, some in the FBI, some in other parts of the government. This is the beginning of a large accountability roundup in government. And I think what's really remarkable, most of my career I've spent uncovering FBI cover-ups. FBI has a long history of misleading Congress. Comey falls into that. But the evidence against Comey tonight comes from the FBI and its new director, Kash Patel, who promised radical transparency. And he actually provides the key piece of evidence that leads to this indictment. If you're a member of Congress and you've been tired of lying, being lied to by the FBI, tonight's the first time the FBI actually did something about it. They turned in their own man tonight. I think that's an extraordinary part of this story.
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Wow. Is it the beginning? Is it the beginning or is it a one-off? My hunch is, and forgive me if I'm wrong, my theory is this is a bit of a trial balloon. They're going to see how this plays out. I think. I don't know. Look, I have no idea. I shouldn't even say that. But my gut tells me they're going to see, well, is it going to work? Is it not going to work? But my gosh, all the weeping and gnashing. Do you know that Comey, According to, and this is from CNN, so I've got to believe that as painful as this had to be for them to report on this, they claim that Comey had a special employee whose sole purpose was to leak things to the media.
SPEAKER 05 :
This was a director of the FBI who had a special employee designed for one purpose, to leak things to the New York Times. Now, when he was pressed in Congress on whether or not he had leaked something, he had authorized the leak of a memo he retained wrongfully at his house, he said, no, that's not my recollection. They challenged him about McCabe, another guy who had referrals to the inspector general for lying, and Comey said, that's not my recollection. In a weird way, through all this chaos, through all this kind of political interest of what's going on behind closed doors, who knew what, at the end of the day, the indictment that's left is actually pretty simple. He either lied about leaking to the New York Times in a tantrum because he was getting fired, or he didn't. And I don't think it's going to lend itself to the easy dismissals that some of you other folks have been saying they're going to get.
SPEAKER 07 :
I honestly can't even wrap my brain around how rotten these people are. How rotten to the core they are. I wonder if that was on that person's business card. I'm James Comey's leaker. An employee on the government payroll. You and I paid for that person. Whose sole purpose was to leak materials... to the New York Times. Remember when Comey said that? When he was asked by Susan Collins and Chuck Grassley? And said, well, you know, I just felt I had another person leak that material. Said that in public for various reasons. I love how he qualified. Yeah, try to keep your hands clean. Well, guess what? Your hands aren't clean, pal. Your hands are as dirty as can be. And maybe, just maybe, maybe There will be some accountability. Let's see what you think. Let's get your reaction to it in the Relief Factor Studios, 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. 15 past the hour. I'm glad you're here. It's Friday. Been a rough week. I don't know rough, but it's been a long week. And I'm giving you an alert right now. I got to take a little bit of a break soon. days. I'll bet you feel the same way. Maybe we can all take a big break together. Where can we go? Let's go to an island somewhere. Let's go to Vegas. Let's go to the Sphere and see the Wizard of Oz in the Sphere. That sounds like fun, doesn't it? You can be sure whatever I do, I'll tell you because I got a big mouth. 800-655-MIKE. There is no pain you always see
HR1 Andy's 5-Star Movie Reviews: Gabby's Doll House: The Movie and Dead of Winter. 9-26-25 by John Rush
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It's finally Friday on Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush. So I tell him I'm a pro jack. And who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama himself. So we finish 18 and he's going to sniff me. And I say, hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know. And he says, oh, it won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness. So I got that going. And movie reviews with Andy Payne.
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I think that you got the wrong impression about me. I think in all fairness, I should explain to you exactly what it is that I do.
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What I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
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Chief Mayne, what do you want to do tonight?
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The same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try to take over the world. Stick a fork in me, Jerry.
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I'm done.
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Now, here is your host of Rush to Reason, John Rush.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, happy Friday. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thank you all for listening to us today. Andy Pate with me today. We've also got another special guest. Yes, we do. He's been with you before. Many times. Never me, though. Tanner's here with us. Tanner Coleman. Tanner Cole, man.
SPEAKER 18 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 15 :
Tanner Cole, man. All right, and Charlie, of course, our engineer.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes.
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So what do we got in store for us today, Andy?
SPEAKER 18 :
We got a couple movies. Gabby's Dollhouse, the movie. John, I know you've been looking forward to that one for the last, what is it, five, six years now?
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, yeah, definitely, definitely.
SPEAKER 18 :
I know, I know. Folks, it's been embarrassing. Every time I come in, John is like, is this the week? Well, John, this is the week.
SPEAKER 15 :
This is it.
SPEAKER 18 :
And the second movie is Dead of Winter.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, are they both horror movies?
SPEAKER 18 :
No. Okay. Well, for you? Maybe. Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Maybe.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, Dead of Winter isn't a horror movie. It's a murder thriller.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. All right. So, not my favorite. I don't know. Maybe? Yeah, you might like this one. We'll find out. Yeah. I can do, I'm just not, as you know, I'm okay. I'm just not a slasher guy. Yeah, you don't do slasher movies. I don't do slasher flicks anymore. I did when I was a kid, but I haven't done one of those in a long time.
SPEAKER 18 :
Except Scary Movie.
SPEAKER 15 :
That one's hilarious, though. That was hilarious. That's like Not Another Teen Movie. I mean, it makes fun of every other movie.
SPEAKER 18 :
I know, it's so great.
SPEAKER 15 :
Then they're funny. I love it. That's a whole different thing, yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
I've seen Scary Movie and Not Another Teen Movie too many times, John.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, man. Almost where you, like, memorized it.
SPEAKER 18 :
I know. They're so funny. All right.
SPEAKER 15 :
And then what are we doing second hour? We're doing picks because Richard's on vacation. That's why Tanner's here.
SPEAKER 18 :
That's why Tanner is here. Tanner's a fill-in for Richard. Now, the standard is high, Tanner.
SPEAKER 15 :
Personally, I don't think you're up to it. I told Tanner this yesterday because I didn't, you know, originally I wasn't sure whether he was going to be able to help, not help, whatever. So I thought, well, if I'm going to fill in for the NFL pick end of things, I cheated.
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You did? Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
I did. I used AI. And I gave Tanner yesterday some of the AI answers on the pics. He's like, oh, those are pretty good. When we get there, I'll read a couple for you. Okay. They're pretty good, actually. It wasn't half bad. They were right last night.
SPEAKER 18 :
That'll be worthwhile. That'll be at the top of our two.
SPEAKER 15 :
Because I'll let you guys do it, but I'll read you a couple of what it said. It's pretty fun, actually.
SPEAKER 18 :
You know, John, pretty soon you're going to be doing the entire show with AI.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm hoping.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, I can tell.
SPEAKER 15 :
I'm working towards that.
SPEAKER 18 :
And for the movie topic for Hour 2, we're going to do murder mysteries.
SPEAKER 15 :
Because of? One of these is one, right? Dead of Winter. Okay, perfect.
SPEAKER 18 :
Because of Gabby's Dollhouse, of course.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right, so be ready to text your favorite murder romance movie, whatever mystery. Murder mystery is what I should say. Not romance, but murder mystery. Some of them could be romances, but murder mystery.
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Any movie where someone gets offed and you've got to figure out who did it.
SPEAKER 15 :
The whodunits.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, that's it.
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Okay, so you can start texting those in, by the way, 307-282-22, 307-282-22. All right, let's do this. Dr. Scott's coming up next. And again, he is my doctor, could be yours as well. And he is, I say it all the time, you know, a big picture doctor, meaning he is not beholden to big health care, big pharma. He's going to do what's necessary for you to have your best overall care. Call him today, 303-663-6990.
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Suck it up, buttercup. Back to Rush to Reason. And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, John Rush, together with Andy Pate and Tanner Cole.
SPEAKER 03 :
Man.
SPEAKER 18 :
And Tanner. What's up? Buddy, I got a question for you. It's kind of personal.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, what's going on?
SPEAKER 18 :
Are you ready for a movie?
SPEAKER 03 :
I'm ready for a movie.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, Tanner, you know, it's been a while since we've had a kid's film.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 18 :
We haven't done one of those in quite a while, have we, John?
SPEAKER 15 :
No, we haven't.
SPEAKER 18 :
So how about a little kid's film? Let's watch Gabby's Dollhouse, the movie.
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SPEAKER 07 :
Not overdramatic. I think we're moving. Everyone, lean left.
SPEAKER 12 :
The other left, baby box.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm learning so much today. No! Time to get tiny. Let's get this dollhouse back. Oh, this is awesome. My hair. My tushy. My fashion. Oh, wait. Kitty scratched that. I look fabulous. I have a feeling we're going to need backup. What's wrong? This is a dollhouse problem. Looks like Cakey got fakey.
SPEAKER 18 :
And that is Gabby's Dollhouse. Tanner, what do you think? Does that sound exciting?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't even know what to say. My jaw was dropped watching that whole preview. You sure it was. I know it was.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, well, Gabby's Dollhouse is a Netflix kids show, okay, where many things are shaped like kitties. It's really cute. Gabby, she's played by Layla Lockhart Cranor. She has a dollhouse. And when she pinches the cat ears on her headband, she shrinks down in animation form so she can play in it. And she does songs and dancing. It's very cute. The show is very interactive, doing crafts with kids and with the help of the Gabby cats. I know what you're wondering. Who are the Gabby cats, right, Tanner?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, definitely.
SPEAKER 18 :
Exactly. Okay, well, let's see. Here are a few. Mercat, Kitty Cat, Cat Rat, Pillow Cat, and Gabby's best friend, Pandy Paws. But now full-size Gabby must go to Cat Francisco with her grandmother.
SPEAKER 15 :
Cat Francisco?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. You know, they should have done, I don't know, they should have done Catlanta, Kittyapolis. What do you think? Okay, Cat Francisco. I hope they weren't walking on the streets. It's not too safe there. But anyway, they go to Cat Francisco.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, they're used to feces, so they work well.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, I guess so. They should have had the entire city be a litter box. Sorry.
SPEAKER 04 :
That would have been pretty good.
SPEAKER 18 :
Anyway, she's with her grandma, Gigi, who's played by Gloria Estefan.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh. Oh. Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
Did a nice job, by the way.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
And she has her dollhouse in tow. But it becomes unhitched. Oh, no. It winds up purchased by wealthy Vera the Cat Lady, played by Kristen Wieg. And she wants to add it to her kitty collection. Oh, no. Can Gabby rescue the Gabby cats? Along the way, Gabby meets Chumsley. He's played by Jason Matsoukas. Have you heard of him?
SPEAKER 03 :
I don't think so.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, he does a lot of comedy voices. He's actually very good. He's a stuffed cat whom Vera tossed aside as she outgrew him as a child. Chumsley misses Vera. Well, another problem arises. There are more forces wanting the dollhouse. Kitty Rangers 1, 2, and 3, they were going to buy the dollhouse before Vera beat them to it. They're like Girl Scouts, selling Kitty Ranger cookies and stuff like that. Well, live action and cartoon adventure roll into one as Gabby tries to rescue her friends. And that's the story of Gabby's Dollhouse. What do you think, Tanner?
SPEAKER 03 :
I think John and I are going to go see it together. Yeah, we're going tonight after the show.
SPEAKER 18 :
Would you two do me a favor when you enter the theater, hold hands and skip?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, we'll be sure to do that.
SPEAKER 18 :
I got my kitty ears ready.
SPEAKER 15 :
Just so you know, that's the way to do it. That's an image I don't need in my head.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes, it is. What works in Gabby's dollhouse? Well, there are always three big questions with kids' movies these days. Right. Number one, will kids like it? That's the biggie. Okay. Okay. No. They were pouting when they said your name, John. I didn't understand that. It seemed kind of harsh. But anyway, they really enjoy Gabby. She's interactive. And kids in the audience actually get to sing, dance, and shout. Everything they normally can't do in a theater. Yay! It was great. We all got to dance. I did the Trump dance. Yeah, I was really good at it, too. A lot of people then everybody started doing it and some parents got angry. There's a larger message of adults leaving childhood behind. Exhausted parents, I think, are going to probably like this message. And it encourages kids of all ages to keep the magic as they grow up. Now, here's a biggie. No woke messaging. Even with, you know, Gabby and Gigi, they're Hispanic. No biggie. They didn't have ice. Raid the dollhouse.
SPEAKER 04 :
Nothing like that happened.
SPEAKER 18 :
There was no woke messaging at all. This is totally harmless, folks. You can bring your grandkids to it. I will say this. It's for granddaughters. OK, it's for the girls. It really is. But it's totally safe. They're not going to be mesmerized into hating America or burning flags or anything weird. It is totally safe and really a lot of fun. Layla Cranor and Kristen Wiig, they embrace their roles. Wiig, I've come to believe, can do anything. I mean, she is just really funny. You remember her in Anchorman, too? She was a love interest. Yeah, she is just a really funny actress and pulls it off here, too. Cartoonistry in this movie is simple but fun for little kids. But there are also some impressive moments. This surprised me because you had a lot of the really simple-looking cartoonistry and then suddenly a big, beautiful scene that they put right in out of nowhere. I like that, and I think it was good for the kids and it was easy for them to follow. Finally... Great message about becoming adults. It's fine to grow up, but don't stop playing. I like that. Okay. Now, what doesn't work in Gabby's Dollhouse? Well, far too many characters and subplots. There were. And that's boring for adults.
SPEAKER 15 :
For kids, that's tough.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and that's what I was getting to. It's boring for adults, but it's also difficult for kids, John. Kids want to focus on one little set of characters, like in Cars or Toy Story or Bolt, right? Bolt had what? You had the main characters and then a few side characters like the pigeons. Just a few things worked in little by little, but nothing too much. Here, they work in the side characters too much. It's distracting. This needlessly adds gnomes, the kitty rangers. There's too many side stories. It lacks focus. There are some dumb sequences. I mean, obviously, okay, you're probably thinking, they're all dumb. No, no, I mean... Dumb within... I would never say that. Dumb within this genre, okay? Like Vera competing with her cat pal in yoga poses. It was really weak. I think Kristen Wiig just really wanted to do the scene. An editor needs to look at Kristen and say, Kristen... This is boring for kids. It's not going to work. Don't do it. We're not going to use it. At the bottom line, this needed editing. They should have cut 15 minutes at least, and that would have made it even better for kids. It wasn't that long. It was about an hour 37. So a little over an hour and a half. They should have wrapped this up in 120. Okay. In my opinion, I think they would have had a tighter film. It would have been excellent. But this was still solid. Okay. Rotten Tomatoes. They gave Gabby's Dollhouse. I haven't seen the latest numbers, but at the time it was 75%. Okay, that's a good score. You know what? I agree with that score. Quality, three and a half stars. This is really good for little girls. I mean, it's really good for little girls. And the girls who were in there were ages like two to, I don't know, about eight or nine. And they were all having a lot of fun and doing the dances and stuff. And now they all know how to do the Trump dance. I think that's important. Political, three. More religious, four. A very good moral. I loved it. And once again, didn't preach any woke nutsiness to your kids. Do I recommend taking your little girls to Gabby's Dollhouse, the movie? Yes, I do. I believe it's made for them. I would say the top age, though, for me, in my opinion, would be six or seven.
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Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
There you go.
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The best export we have is common sense. You're listening to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 18 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver's Afternoon Rush. KLZ 560. John Rush. Together with Tanner Cole. Man. And Andy Pate. And John. Are you ready for another movie? This one looks pretty good, actually. Okay, well, John, in the frozen wasteland of northern Minnesota.
SPEAKER 15 :
Of course.
SPEAKER 18 :
We get a murder thriller in Dead of Winter.
SPEAKER 08 :
Tie that again, and you're dead.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hello? Anyone out there? It's an emergency. There's been a kidnapping. Anyone? Hello? Oh, hey there.
SPEAKER 08 :
What are you doing up here?
SPEAKER 05 :
Just a little fishing.
SPEAKER 08 :
By yourself?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. See, you wouldn't happen to know where Lake Hildar is, would you?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. Just back over the hill here.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Well, stay warm.
SPEAKER 11 :
What did she want?
SPEAKER 08 :
I gave her directions to the lake.
SPEAKER 11 :
Honey, do you stop being so nice to people?
SPEAKER 07 :
You hurt. I'm not leaving you.
SPEAKER 18 :
That is Dead of Winter. Now, I know you're thinking it stars Dan Muir. Yeah. Because he's up in Minnesota. Yeah. But I want you to know, no Dan Muirs were harmed in the making of this movie.
SPEAKER 15 :
Good thing.
SPEAKER 18 :
I'm very happy about that. Okay. Emma Thompson. Do you like Emma Thompson? I love Emma Thompson. By the way, she produced this as well. Oh, okay. Yeah. She stars as Barb, a recently widowed woman in her 60s. Now, she runs her bait and tackle shop she built with her husband, whom she loved dearly. His name was Carl. Now, Barb is quietly taking his ashes to scatter them at a lake where she had her first date with him. But she encounters a man chopping wood outside a cabin. The credits call him Camo Jacket. They don't give him a name, right? Just Camo Jacket. He's played by Mark Menchaca. There's blood in the snow. Just a deer, he mutters. Deer. And she's like, okay. I mean, that's believable up there, so why not? Barb goes on her way, but later hears gunfire and sees the man dragging a young woman back home in the woods. That's not good. Okay, there's too much going on here, so now Barb investigates. Well, it turns out the man is married to a woman, Purple Lady, we call her.
SPEAKER 15 :
Purple Lady.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes, and she's played by Judy Greer. Do you know her?
SPEAKER 15 :
Not really.
SPEAKER 18 :
You would know her face. She's been in a lot of stuff, but she always plays comedic characters.
SPEAKER 15 :
Not here, trust me.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. Well, this is the real boss of the situation is Purple Lady. Purple Lady bosses Camel Jacket around mercilessly, and it's clear the two of them have the young woman, Leah, as a hostage with nefarious plans. Okay. So now we have Barb, a Northwoods woman. And she's trying to survive because these two, well, let me put it this way. They're in a makeshift cabin, okay? Sorry, you're talking cabin in the woods, right? Yikes. But she has to find some way to get this kid out of there, but she has no weapons or fight training. And she's wanting to rescue this young woman from Lord knows what. Well, Barb's main opponent is Purple Lady, who's intelligent, ruthless, and highly focused. There are a couple hunters who come by as well. And Purple Lady has camo jacket. But this is a cat and mouse game, really, between the brilliant psychotic and an old woman with no cell service missing her husband. What can Barb do in The Dead of Winter? What do you think, John?
SPEAKER 15 :
Sounds good. The previews look good.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, they do. Well, what works in Dead of Winter? Naturally, the acting is outstanding. I mean, just outstanding all around. Perfect in every way. Thompson and Greer play totally different characters from anything I've seen them do before, and they each nail it. Greer, for instance, she provides such an excellent villain. So calculating, so evil. No conscience at all. It was really something to watch her in this role. And I was shocked at how Thompson... I wish I had a way to convey this, John. How she groaned and suffered through falls and injuries. I mean, rarely have I ever seen age shown so honestly in a thriller like this. I felt her agony every step of the way. There's a scene with her, I'll just say, sewing up, which is really something, okay? You are going to feel the cold. You are going to feel the reality of it. You are going to feel every creak. every pain that she goes through in what she's trying to do. Now it was also amazing to see how she never gave up and would do anything to stop evil. I loved it. The pacing is just right. Slow enough to allow for Barb to remember earlier times with Carl, her late husband. It's slow enough to show the gray cold or the elements, but it's fast enough to move the story, jump the plot and bring the action. It's only an hour 38. Yeah. It's not too bad, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, Laurel Marsden does a good job as Leah, the young woman who's kidnapped. She's terrified and it shows. It's not her fault she's up against someone so formidable. The kills and action are well staged and brutal. It's well done. And here's something not preachy at all. Here we go again. Zero agenda. Zero agenda. You've got a very impressive ending with impressive visuals. I'll just leave it at that. Now, what doesn't work in Dead of Winter? Because right now you're listening to this thinking, man, I've got to see this movie.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, sounds good.
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, this sounds great. Well, the worst killer in a murder thriller is implausibility. Okay? I need to believe each step in the story. This could happen. That could happen. So could this. You can surprise me, but keep it real. Okay. Well, Dead of Winter has a couple big implausible moments. And I did talk to some other people who watched the movie afterward, and they said the exact same thing. No way. Okay. And a couple of these. Two hunters really do something dumb. Barb allows something dumb with a car. I mean, look, these people were acting like they were making teens in a slasher flick look smart. Got it. With some of these choices they were doing. So this is a thumbs-up movie, but with a real, hey.
SPEAKER 15 :
Just make sure you're aware of that.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, you're watching this and you're going, they're not really going to, no. Okay, they're doing it. All right, then. All right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
John, how many hunters have you known? Tons, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
A lot, yeah.
SPEAKER 18 :
How many would open themselves up? to gunfire from a known threat?
SPEAKER 15 :
None.
SPEAKER 18 :
None. Okay. I'll leave it at that. Okay. Rotten Tomatoes gave this 76%. I am going to give it, just like Gabby's Dollhouse, 3.5 stars. 3.5 stars. Don't let the implausibility keep you from seeing some incredible acting and a good story. This is... A well-made movie. It has a great look to it. You're going to feel these characters more than you feel most characters. You've got a great cat and mouse between the main two characters. It is a good movie. I enjoyed this movie. For me personally... The implausibility bugged me, but for me personally, this is at least a four star just for me.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right.
SPEAKER 18 :
But I'm going to go three and a half stars in general because of implausibility, political three moral religious. I'm going to go three and a half.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
Because I just thought I had a really good moral about her and her husband. Oh, And I really like that about remembering your husband, honoring your husband, you know, your spouse in that way. And I really liked it. Do I recommend going to Dead of Winter? Folks, I do. This is an unexpected little jewel in late September. I did not expect this. I enjoyed it. And Emma Thompson is a treasure. Go see her in Dead of Winter. I do believe it's worth it. Just understand when you see some things that you're like, eh, that wouldn't happen, blow it off and enjoy the movie.
SPEAKER 15 :
There you go. As you know, there's a lot of movies out there that you could kind of say that about. I get that.
SPEAKER 18 :
There are. There are. I just don't want it in a thriller, right, in an action, you know, a tense, more tense thriller than action thriller, although there is action. I mean, this poor thing is she's running her heart out. She's doing everything she can.
SPEAKER 15 :
Again, the implausibility side of it. Why didn't she have a weapon? I mean, you're going to the middle of nowhere. You know you're going to an area where not only strangers and things like that, but animals and so on. Why would you not go with a gun?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, first of all, she doesn't seem to be like a gunny, not anti-gunny at all. She's just, you know, fishing is what she does. She's just going up to a lake to scatter her husband's ashes, you know, drill. She has to drill through the ice to do it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
And she's going to scatter her. She doesn't think she's going to see anyone up there, John, because there is no one up there.
SPEAKER 15 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 18 :
Except maybe Dan Muir out in the forest.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, you might run into him.
SPEAKER 15 :
So she's not counting on encountering anything.
SPEAKER 18 :
No. No, not at all. This was totally surprising.
SPEAKER 15 :
So there maybe is some plausibility to that.
SPEAKER 18 :
It's not too bad. Here is where the plausibility... outranks the implausibility for me. In so many of these kinds of movies where you have older stars like Liam Neeson, they make them able to move and do things like they're almost 25. They don't do that with her at all. I loved it. And you might think, oh man, that's going to slow it down and make it boring. No, it made it more interesting. It was really neat watching this elderly woman have to struggle through doing this, doing whatever it took to rescue this young girl. And that felt incredibly real. So it was kind of weird having it feel incredibly real in just a couple moments. By the way, a couple little scenes. That's all I'm talking about that really, you know.
SPEAKER 15 :
Other than that, not a big deal.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. Other than that, no big deal. And if you let that slide, you're going to have a lot of fun.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay. Okay. Good to know. I mean, the previews look really good, so.
SPEAKER 18 :
I thought so, too. So, yeah, I was actually, when I saw the previews, I was actually looking forward to this movie, and it did not disappoint. Dead of winter, it's worth seeing.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. And we are back, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Tanner Coleman, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, of course. All right, tomorrow you're going to a big meeting that we're having here in the Aurora because of, or we're having in Aurora, it is the GOP's, is it not annual? It's just a state meeting they're having, right?
SPEAKER 18 :
It's annual, a state central committee meeting.
SPEAKER 15 :
And is this the same time every year? Is this something that is...
SPEAKER 18 :
I don't know if it's exactly the same time every year. I'm sorry. I forget.
SPEAKER 15 :
But a meeting you'll be at.
SPEAKER 18 :
They have a couple big issues that they want to address.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, and we talked about this a little bit on Tuesday. They want to do the opt-out of the primary. Now, one thing I read today that some on one side are saying, and I wanted you to clarify for me, is they're saying that we shouldn't even be voting on the opt-out again because it was already done once before. So basically, why is it happening again? Give me some... Insight onto that.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, actually, both sides are kind of saying that because one side, those who are in favor of the opt out say that they had a vote. Golly, I forget when quite a ways back saying that like 90 percent of those present. voted in favor the problem is is that it's not of those present okay you have to have 75 of the total membership of the party okay i mean the total membership of the state central committee okay okay and that's over 400 members and so you've got two or maybe is it five i forget the exact number but it is a lot of people you've got to have 75 of all of them not just those present And I think there's some confusion where they say, well, they held a meeting, and the vast majority of those present, they had that. And therefore, that should be locked in. It wasn't, and they're upset about it. Now, on the other side, they say, we have voted on this before. We didn't reach the quorum. We didn't reach the amount that we needed. This should be a dead issue. Both sides saying we shouldn't be voting on this, and yet we're about to vote on this.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 18 :
And obviously, as you know, I am while I am against open primaries in principle, I think only Republicans should choose Republican candidates. I think that makes sense. I mean, you're choosing candidates who are going to represent you and your party before the electorate. You should be able to choose who represents you. OK, I wear an R. I should be able to choose who, you know, represents me with an R. I get that. But the problem is the state voted in open primaries and a strong majority as a ballot measure. Yeah. As a ballot measure. This was not put through by any leaders. This was not put through by Jared Polis. This is put through by the voters. The voters said and with a heavy. I think a majority of unaffiliated voters said, we want to have open primaries. And I think you brought up a great reason why the other day. A lot of them feel disaffected. They still feel some allegiance to one of the two parties. But they left for other reasons. And they want to be involved.
SPEAKER 15 :
OK, so really quick, because this came from Rhino Watch, which I hate mentioning that name, but they talk about how, you know, Horn is trying to pretend that the state central committee has the option of voting against opting out of the disastrous open primary. It does not. More than 2000 delegates at the 2024 assembly and convention voted overwhelmingly more than 90 percent to direct the SEC to affirmatively opt out of the open primary system. This wasn't a suggestion or an advisory note. It is binding. Is that true or not?
SPEAKER 18 :
That's not true. There was no vote held there that was a binding vote to make us opt out of the vote. That's why we're holding votes specifically for the opt-out. I wasn't there. I assume it was a statement of some sort.
SPEAKER 15 :
I mean, these people are crazy, so I'm not taking this with any kind of validity at all, but I thought I'd bring it up.
SPEAKER 18 :
Look, all I know, and, you know, I'd have to look into it in more detail. I'm afraid I have not. I apologize. But I do know that these people lie more than they breathe.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 18 :
And so, you know, I'm not going to believe what they say.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay, what about the attorney situation?
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, the attorney situation is that the attorney right now for the state party is also, what's her name?
SPEAKER 15 :
Brita's.
SPEAKER 18 :
Brita's personal attorney. And apparently this is a real problem, they say, because there's a lawsuit against Brita and also against a number of other people. As you know, that lawsuit was brought by the Davidians beforehand. Brita was voted into power and said, I'm going to dismiss this. We don't need this, obviously. And it is ridiculous. It was utterly ridiculous. And now what they're saying is you can't have a lawyer... representing you and representing the party at the same time. To which I say, why not? They're both the same interest. It's both in the interest of the state party to not be sued in this way, and it's in the interest of BRITA to not be sued in this way. Now, if they had conflicting interests, that would be a problem. They don't, so there's no conflict of interest. And also, there's another big problem. We paid, as you detailed before, tons of money Correct. Okay. I don't know. Was he Williams' personal lawyer? I don't know that because he wouldn't have had to be because Dave directed so much party money to the guy. Why would he have to hire him himself?
SPEAKER 04 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 18 :
And the guy represented Dave's interests at every step of the way. In the name of representing the party, he represented Dave's interests every step of the way. Okay, now do I have a problem with that? Actually, no, I don't. That's okay. I don't like the way they wasted all that money on a lawyer. I don't think there should have been any lawsuits. All of that set aside... Dave had a lawyer that represented the party's interests that he simply linked to his. Brett is doing the same.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, and I've got to go back through for everybody listening, and I will at some point. I just have been so busy I haven't had time. I'll go back through some of the FEC reports and look at some of that. Oh, the amounts were staggering. No, I meant now, currently, where we're at. I haven't done any of that. I apologize. Normally, I do, but I haven't had time to do that lately.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, keep in mind, here's the thing really quick here, John. The same side caused the lawsuits in both cases.
SPEAKER 15 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 18 :
That I understand. Yeah. Right. The lawsuits that were being thrown out before were being led by Dave's side.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, this is the pot calling the kettle black.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. The lawsuits that Britta is fighting off were started by Dave's side.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Correct. I fully understand. Now, and I've said this before, and I'll say this again today, as you guys are all going into this meeting tomorrow, and I know some of you are listening. If, in fact, it does pass, I don't know that it will, but if, in fact, it does pass to opt out of the primaries, and I said this Tuesday, I'll say it again, the party's over. We're done.
SPEAKER 18 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 15 :
You might as well just close up shop, call it good, because the GOP in Colorado is done at that point. There's no sense doing anything else. We're finished.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, yeah. I mean, first of all, I mean, there's so many reasons why.
SPEAKER 15 :
This whole idea that because of open primaries we don't have good candidates is absolute hogwash. That has nothing to do with it whatsoever. In fact, I will counter that, and Andy has many, many times. It's because of open primaries that we actually have individuals like Gabe Evans that did win. Right. that are representing us in D.C., that are doing the things necessary, the Jeff Herds, which I know a lot of you don't like, but I talked about that some yesterday. You know, you guys in your purity test and having no grace has to end. You ought to all go look in the mirror at some point in time and look at yourselves and understand what you're actually doing when it's all said and done. I talked about that in depth yesterday, Andy, on the program, but at the end of the day, reality is I would go as far as to say that the open primaries have actually helped us
SPEAKER 18 :
the gop not only in colorado but nationally because if you had it your way we wouldn't have those same representatives today there's absolutely no question that in 2024 the open primary really the primary okay and it happens to be open uh rescued the gop here in colorado there's no question let's just take a look at cd3 and i'll leave it at that okay um who did jeff heard beat in the primary Ron Hanks.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
Had he won, that would have been disastrous. Well, we would have lost. We would have lost. We have to keep in mind, that's a very tough district that Lauren Boebert won by less than 1%.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's right.
SPEAKER 18 :
Barely won. And she was going to lose again. That's why she fled that district to go to CD4. That's right. Ron Hanks, not only was Ron Hanks such a horrible candidate that the Democrat was pouring money into ads, big money, to help Ron Hanks in our primary. Right. I mean, think about that for a moment. That's right. Tanner, that would be like the Chargers pouring money into getting the Broncos to play a worse quarterback.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay?
SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, seriously. But not only that, but Ron Hanks had nowhere near the funding. to be able to compete in that election against a democrat millionaire he would have gotten swamped and also ron hanks held a number of positions which whether or not i agree i actually agree with a number of them but the problem is that they are positions that could only possibly win in a deep red cd4 kind of district okay that's just reality that's the market you're right okay So the open primary gave us Jeff Hurd. We have that seat. And as a result, we have a House majority for Donald Trump.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. Absolutely. Which Andy and I have talked about many times. We would not have had you guys gotten your closed primaries prior to all of that.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. Well, and actually not even a closed primary.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, they don't want a primary at all. Just get rid of it.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. They want it to go away. Yeah, and by the way, it's right there on the state party website. If we do not have the open primary, if we opt out of it, we don't get a closed primary.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
And by the way, that's a myth.
SPEAKER 15 :
You get caucus only.
SPEAKER 18 :
You get caucus and assembly.
SPEAKER 15 :
And assembly only. Yeah, I should say that. Sorry.
SPEAKER 18 :
You get caucus and assembly only. Right. Those are attended by less than 1% of Colorado Republicans. And they say, well, anybody can attend. Doesn't matter who can. It matters who does. So you would use a system that 99% of Colorado Republicans have said we don't want to go to. And you would say, that's what we're going to use to choose our candidates. In that, Ron Hanks would have won.
SPEAKER 15 :
All right. Question of the day. Yesterday's, which U.S. president dedicated the Vietnam Memorial? That would be Ronald Reagan. Today's impossible question. This comes from Jersey Joe, by the way. Which letter of the alphabet is never silent in the English language? Which letter of the alphabet is never silent in the English language? Any ideas? Charlie, do you know? By chance, Mr. Grammar Expert? Charlie does not know. I'm surprised at that.
SPEAKER 18 :
It's never silent?
SPEAKER 15 :
It's never silent. So some letters, you know, get sort of skipped over or they don't get enunciated or whatever the case may be. This is the only letter in the language that doesn't.
SPEAKER 18 :
K?
SPEAKER 15 :
No. Can I tell you, there's lots of times K is silent.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. I don't know. Q? I can say them all. How's that?
SPEAKER 15 :
Guess this one, or not guess, but put this one into our Facebook. If you want our Facebook page, Rush to Reason, that's where that's at. If we have time later on during the program, I'll give you the answer. By the way, I never would have guessed this, so if I didn't have the answer in front of me, I wouldn't have the foggiest idea. All right, we'll be right back. Don't go anywhere. Cup Creek Heating and Air Conditioning coming up next. I talked to Hunter today, by the way, and they've got, of course, their furnace tune-up special. He's a little bit behind right now because of how much we've had, you know, how many people have called because of the cold weather we had just a couple of days ago. Rest assured he'll get to you as quickly as possible. One thing, too, that he reminded me of, you can always make an appointment online. You can go right to the Cub Creek website and make an appointment online. Do that, by the way. Just go to klzradio.com, find Cub Creek there, and you can go right to their website and make an appointment online. Again, klzradio.com is where you find them.
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SPEAKER 15 :
All right, some of you may be thinking, and I just asked Andy this, why did he not review One Battle After Another? Because it's really big. They're promoting it huge. You'll see it even on some of your social media feeds and so on. And frankly, folks, all I had to do was watch the previews to know I'll never watch it because it's about as woke as it gets, Andy.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, yeah. It's highly political, super-duper woke, left-wing, left-wing, left-wing. But that isn't actually the biggest reason. For me, a lot of this is scheduling. It's almost three hours long, and it overlaps.
SPEAKER 15 :
It knocks out everything else.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. It overlapped with the other movies. I could not have reviewed other stuff. So that's fine.
SPEAKER 15 :
And, again, that one's pretty easy. That happens now and then. That one's pretty easy to tell you what that movie's all about because literally you can watch. They don't disguise it. Watch the previews, and it's as woke as woke can get.
SPEAKER 18 :
Look, you can see the message of that movie. Just watch the Oscars. Right. Okay? And you're good. You're good. You don't have to watch the movie.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's Leonardo's, like, second woke movie in a row that's supposed to be a cool action movie, but...
SPEAKER 15 :
It's so woke. They're no fun to watch.
SPEAKER 03 :
I've seen the preview like 10 times. I saw it last night while watching football, and I was like, this looks awful. I think it'll have a semi-okay first week.
SPEAKER 15 :
The liberals will go see it the first week.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. The Libby's will go. They'll pack in.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
And then it'll fall apart. That's my prediction.
SPEAKER 15 :
Dow's way up. Andy mentioned that a moment ago, too, for a lot of you that not to beat our own drum.
SPEAKER 18 :
But we must.
SPEAKER 15 :
But we've talked about this now for a while, Andy and I have, because there's so many naysayers. One of them we talk to on a pretty routine basis. I love Jordan Goodman. We have a lot of fun with him. And I know some of you listening even at times struggle with Jordan. I don't. I've been talking to Jordan now for so long that, believe it or not, he has actually moved to our side more than what some of you out there would ever have guessed. If you go back and listen to even some of his early shows that he did with me years and years and years ago. I mean, I'm talking almost a decade ago.
SPEAKER 18 :
He used to be totally green energy.
SPEAKER 15 :
He's come way much over to our side than what he used to be.
SPEAKER 18 :
John, what were we telling people when the stock market was down around 38? Just wait.
SPEAKER 15 :
Wait. Just wait. Hold. Hold. Just wait.
SPEAKER 18 :
And now it's over 46.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's all going to be fine. Just wait.
SPEAKER 18 :
We made you money, folks.
SPEAKER 15 :
And again, Andy and I, by the way, would have even been more accurate faster if you could have got the Fed to do what they should have done prior to. last week and i know we keep saying that i sound like a broken record but the reality is it still isn't enough they've got to get more done and if they will you'll see because the one i talked about this yesterday and wednesday the one biggest sector that still is waiting for a little bit of a shot in the arm is the housing sector which is a huge sector huge section i should say of our economy because of all the sectors connected to That's exactly right. We've got to give it a shot in the arm. It still hasn't happened yet. It's coming. It's too late in coming. Andy, Tanner, both, you can blame that on the Fed. Because they've made it political. Jerome Powell has made it political. Everybody talks about it. It's what cracks me about the left. Well, you know, you can't push the Fed, and we need them to be separate. We need them to be independent. Then quit being so dang political, Jerome Powell. Yeah. If you if you want to be that way and you want to stay independent and you don't want the White House interfering, then you know what? Then do your dang job in a nonpolitical way.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. Look, I don't like the idea of the president controlling the Fed.
SPEAKER 15 :
I don't either.
SPEAKER 18 :
But the Fed right now is nothing but an activist against the president.
SPEAKER 15 :
They're acting exactly the way you would expect some hardcore lefty to act against Trump.
SPEAKER 18 :
They just want Trump.
SPEAKER 15 :
That's all they're doing. And in turn, and for all of you listening, make sure you remember this. They're all doing that off the backs of middle America. It's not really hurting that even low end of the spectrum because they're on government cheese and so on. So that part of it's not as big of a deal. But those that are in the middle, especially, they're the ones that are getting affected the most by what the Fed is doing. And really, those folks are even on the left that are in the middle in that middle section should be realizing this and frankly should be as mad at Jerome Powell as guys like I, Tanner and Andy are, because the reality is, yes, they're affecting your paycheck. He's affecting your paycheck on a regular basis and taking money out of your pocket when it's all said and done. So be mad at him. Don't be mad at Donald Trump. Our two is coming up next. We'll have NFL picks to start with. This is Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 08 :
All right, we are back. I'm number two. Myself, of course, Charlie Grimes, our engineer, Andy Pate, Tanner Coleman with us. You guys are going to do NFL picks. Before you get going, though, so here's what AI said about last night's game. And that's the only one I'm going to talk about because I'll let you guys do the rest of the game. So this was Thursday Night Football. Seahawks at Cardinals. Seahawks defense has the edge, but if Arizona protects the football, the Cards could spring a Thursday night surprise, which they did not. They lost by three points.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. Seattle got it at the very end. Oh, but it's close enough. A field goal at the end.
SPEAKER 08 :
Very, very close game.
SPEAKER 07 :
If you turned it on in the fourth quarter, it was a great game.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, it was. It was boring before that.
SPEAKER 04 :
But it was good then. That's why it's so hard to pick so many of these games. I know. I mean, one fumble, one whatever.
SPEAKER 08 :
You guys are on, so take it away, guys.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hit it, Charlie. All right, Tanner, let's start out with the Minnesota Vikings. They are on the road at the Pittsburgh Steelers. Minnesota favored by two and a half. Now, Minnesota is just a much more talented team. However, Pittsburgh has Aaron Rodgers. Can Aaron Rodgers will his team to an upset?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, this is like that Chargers-Chiefs game. The Vikings are away, but it's in Dublin at 730 in the morning. I think the Steelers win purely because Carson Wentz is playing.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree. You think the Steelers are going to beat the Vikings just because of wins?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I mean, the Steelers defense hasn't lived up to expectations. I think this is the week they might do it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, well, we'll see. I'm going to take the Vikings just because, and it's nothing against Aaron Rodgers. I just don't believe in his team. I don't think they have enough talent. Next game, the Washington Commanders are on the road at the Falcons. Falcons favored by one and a half at home. Terry McLaurin is out for the Commanders. Is Daniels going to play?
SPEAKER 07 :
He's out as well.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, he's out as well. Will the Falcons just pound the rock?
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, them losing 30-0 against the Panthers makes it hard for me to take the Falcons at all, so I'm still going to take the commies.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, I am going to go with the Falcons. Yes, I am. Because, I'm sorry, without both Jaden and Terry McLaurin, that's pretty tough. Okay, next game is an easy one. The New Orleans Saints. They're on the road at the Buffalo Bills. Bills favored by 15 and a half. Okay, here we go, Tanner. Tanner, can the NFL officially award New Orleans the top pick in the 2026 draft yet? I mean, is it too soon?
SPEAKER 07 :
Um, I think they're right there. And yeah, I mean, there's not a lot of teams that look as bad. Granted, they have been in some close games or just, you know, coming back from behind. So I don't know about that 15 and a half point spread, but I wouldn't be surprised if they doubled that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I mean, this could just be an absolute blowout. Okay, next game. The Cleveland Browns are on the road at the Lions. The Lions are favored by 10.5. Detroit's offense is unstoppable again after failing in Week 1. Can the tough Browns defense slow them down?
SPEAKER 07 :
Everyone thought the Packers would run away with that game. They ended up losing. I still think the Lions will win, maybe not by 10.5, but it will be a good game for their Lions fans.
SPEAKER 04 :
I'm going to take the Lions, too. I think they'll bounce back. I think they're going to take it to the Browns. Next game, the Panthers, who won big last week. They are on the road at the Patriots. Patriots are favored by 5.5 at home. Now, the Panthers have talent, and it exploded last week. Can they surprise the Patriots?
SPEAKER 07 :
Other than their first game, they almost came back on the Cardinals and then destroyed the Falcons. I just think the Patriots' Drake May looks pretty good. I think they're going to win. I don't know about 5.5, though.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree. I'm taking the Patriots next game. Your L.A. Chargers. They are favored by 6.5. They're on the road at the New York Giants. Here are my questions. First of all, is 6.5 enough? Right. Shouldn't Herbert have another big day? Is Hampton, Omarion Hampton, getting comfortable with the Chargers?
SPEAKER 07 :
Najee Harris is out for the year, so he has to be comfortable now. He scored last week, caught a few big passes. Jackson Dart's first game, I don't think it's going to go well. I think the Chargers will win by at least 6.5.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I agree. Although, I do think Dart is the right decision. Yeah. And by the way, what did I say to John from Cheyenne? If you're listening right now, what did I say at the beginning of the year? I guessed week four would be the first game for Jackson Dart. We are now in week four. He is starting.
SPEAKER 07 :
What about Jameis?
SPEAKER 04 :
Nah. Okay, next game. Philadelphia Eagles favored by 3.5 on the road at the Buccaneers. This could be the game of the week. They're both 3-0, but have the Buccaneers played anyone?
SPEAKER 07 :
Mike Evans is most likely not going to play. We'll see. I think the Bucs are injured. The Eagles are still the Eagles. We saw what they did last week after they looked terrible. They just blew up out of nowhere on the Rams. I think the Eagles win. 3.5, I don't know.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I agree. I'll take the Eagles. Next game, Tennessee Titans at the Houston Texans. Texans favored by 7.5. Both teams are 0-3. But if the Texans somehow lose this game with all that talent, is their coach on the hot seat?
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't know what happened to them. They can't seem to score. Granted that no tank Dell and they got two rookie receivers out there, Nico Collins, Nick Chubb, and Steve Joe mixing at running back. I think the Texans will win, but I don't think they're going to cover because for what the Titans are, Cam Ward doesn't look awful.
SPEAKER 04 :
I agree. I agree. Okay, next game. The Colts are at the Rams. Rams are favored by 3.5. Now, the Colts have started out 3-0, and the Rams are 2-1. But the Rams almost beat Philly. Can the Colts' offensive line hold up against that lightning Rams front? Is Daniel Jones for real? That's another question. What if he wins this game? What if Daniel Jones wins this game against that Rams defense? Do we have to start taking him seriously?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I mean, we've seen this with Sam Darnold last year. I think the Rams are going to win, but the Colts look like a formidable team. I have them winning the AFC South.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I mean, they're looking really good. Okay, next game. The Jaguars, Jacksonville Jaguars, are on the road at the 49ers. Niners are favored by 3.5. Now, look, the Jags, they have an unimpressive 2-1 record. It's unimpressive, though. They haven't played anyone. Well, the Niners are 3-0. Is this the kind of upset that Trevor Lawrence needs to regain his status as a top 10 QB? I mean, does he need to go in and win this game and get an upset like this on the road for people to start taking him seriously again because nobody does?
SPEAKER 07 :
I 100% agree. The 49ers are without Nick Bosa for the year, so I think there's a good chance for the Jags. But Brian Thomas hasn't gotten going, nor has, what's his name, the Colorado kid. Travis Hunter, I forgot because he's so irrelevant. But I think the 49ers are going to win still just because they're better coached.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, honestly, I would have Travis play in defense.
SPEAKER 07 :
I agree.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's just me. But, you know, I love the guy either way, but I'd have him play in defense. We'll see. Okay, I'll take the Niners, too. Next game. Ooh, the Ravens. Okay, they're favored by one and a half going in against the Kansas City Chiefs. Now, here's the big thing. The loser of this game goes to one and three. Just how bad would that be?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think the Ravens, their defense hasn't looked great, but their offense is more explosive than the Chiefs. Worthy might be coming back for this game, so I still think the Ravens are a better team. I also need the Chiefs to be 1-3 for my Chargers.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so you're going to take the Ravens. You know what? Golly, I don't like either of these teams. Honestly, I think both these teams have a rotten defense. They're just not good. I'll take the Ravens as well. The Bears, they are on the road at the Raiders. Raiders are favored by one and a half. Should they be?
SPEAKER 07 :
I was kind of shocked by that since Geno Smith has looked terrible in their O-line. Genting can't even find a hole, and when he does, he's got to juke out three defenders to get five yards.
SPEAKER 04 :
He has nowhere to run. He looks great, but he has nowhere to run.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. I think the Bears just have more weapons, and they're a little more sound on defense.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep, I'm taking the Bears, too. Next game, my Packers are favored by six and a half on the road with the Cowboys. Okay, I'm just going to say Green Bay has a bad offensive line. They do. Right. Period. After getting destroyed by Cleveland's defense last week, what must the Packers do to be taken seriously again? Because right now, they're nothing. They're done. And people have written them off. Stephen A. Smith has said they are a complete pretender. What do you think they have to do?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think Micah's going to have a great game. Cowboys are without CeeDee Lamb. It's not like they have a pass rush once they let Micah go. I still think the Packers will win. Six and a half, we'll see. I kind of think it's either going to be a close game or Packers are going to win by a lot.
SPEAKER 04 :
I kind of think so, too. Next game. Yuck. I'm just going to say right away, yuck. The New York Jets are on the road. The Miami Dolphins. Dolphins, for whatever reason, are favored by two and a half. I guess because someone has to be. Can both these teams somehow come out of this game 0-4? I mean, who will stick with the Saints in the race for the top pick?
SPEAKER 07 :
0-1-3 is what I want from both teams. But, I mean, Tua just did maybe the dumbest thing he's ever done in front of the media, going back and forth kind of with Cam Newton. And Cam Newton went to a Super Bowl, led a 15-1 team. So I wouldn't be talking to him. He's won playoff games. Tua has not. I think the Dolphins will win just because the Jets have Tyrod Taylor as QB. Yeah, that's pretty ugly. Yeah. Jets have a lot of talent.
SPEAKER 04 :
This is going to be tough. I'm going to go with the Jets. And you're taking the Dolphins?
SPEAKER 07 :
I'll take the Dolphins. I don't want to take either team.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, me either. Take them away. Next game, this one, why even have this game? The Bengals are here in Denver against the Broncos. Broncos were only favored by 7.5. That has to be higher now. After two airtight losses, will the Broncos utterly demolish a bad Cincy team with no Joe Burrow? I don't know. I smell blowout here.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I could see it. I don't know. I mean, if you just give Jamar Chase the ball anywhere, he can make things happen. So I think there's always a fighter's chance, but I don't see any way the Bengals win after last week's performance.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, and how is Jamar going to get the ball when his quarterback is on his back? okay their quarterback they have no offensive line they have no running game they have no defense whatsoever now they have no quarterback what does that leave this has been cheerleaders i mean how are they going to compete with denver here in denver and that that d line of denver is will be coming i mean they might have eight sacks look i'm picking denver by something north of 20 i am i think that this is i think they win by at least 20.
SPEAKER 07 :
Who knows? Jake Browning had that one season where he almost took, I think did take him to the playoffs.
SPEAKER 04 :
So you never know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. But we're both taking the Broncos. John, back to you.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. And so you think the Broncos are actually going to win one, huh?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, my.
SPEAKER 08 :
I don't know. Can we?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, first of all, right now Cincinnati, without Joe Burrow, is as bad as the Saints.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
They are.
SPEAKER 08 :
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SPEAKER 08 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Debra's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. All right, movie rental the rest of this hour. Murder Mysteries. Andy, take it away.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, first of all, real quick question. Do you guys like murder mysteries?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, I do, actually.
SPEAKER 04 :
I do.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's one of my favorite genres.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let me ask you this. Can I get totally sexist? Is that more of a guy kind of theme? I think women can really get into that, too. Some of the best murder mysteries are led by women. True. What do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
There's a weird stigma where girls like watching crime and murder mystery because... they're shocked it would ever happen. But granted, I mean, most of the time it'd be a man murdering a woman. So it's kind of weird that they're into that, but I love it. Any crime related murder, serial killer type of thing. That's right up my alley.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. All right. Well, let's jump in. I think certainly one of the most popular of all time and one of the most impressive in a lot of ways, although I don't like this movie, it's too depressing for me. Fargo. Here we go.
SPEAKER 08 :
Fargo.
SPEAKER 01 :
I want you to tell me what these fellas look like. Well, the little guy, he was kind of funny looking. Can you be any more specific? He wasn't circumcised.
SPEAKER 10 :
Jeez, that's a good thing. Yeah. From the creators of Barton Fink. I'm cooperating here. And there's no... And Raising Arizona. What do you fellas got yourself mixed up in? Oh, jeez.
SPEAKER 20 :
You're there in 30 minutes where I find you, Jerry, and I shoot you, and I shoot your wife, and I shoot all your little children, and I shoot them all in the back of their little heads.
SPEAKER 17 :
You got it?
SPEAKER 20 :
You should shoot your other guy.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, geez. Fargo.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, that is Fargo. Obviously, she won Best Actress. I thought Fargo was very impressively good. Great movie.
SPEAKER 07 :
I loved it, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, it's the title of our topic, but Murder Mystery with Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, I didn't know. It wasn't bad. I've got that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, not terrible. I love Jennifer Aniston until she starts talking about politics.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, leave that away. Or leave that alone, I should say.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, it's kind of funny, too, because she's very close to Adam Sandler, who, you know, he's not very political, period, but he leans right.
SPEAKER 08 :
He leans right, doesn't say much like he's supposed to, and off he goes. Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
And makes money. And he makes money.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's kind of funny how that works, right? Yeah. John, you're up. Surprisingly enough, that's how that works. L.A. Confidential.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, good one. What a great movie.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
What a great movie.
SPEAKER 08 :
1997, by the way.
SPEAKER 04 :
So many good performances. The thing that really blew my mind was just how many good performances there were in that movie. It was just devastating to watch. Now, another movie that had some really good performances, and this was directed by Clint Eastwood. Here we go. Mystic River.
SPEAKER 09 :
like she was preparing to never see me again. You don't think I'd have hurt her, do you? She isn't hurt, Brendan. She's dead.
SPEAKER 16 :
I loved her so much.
SPEAKER 09 :
I know in my soul I contributed to your death, but I don't know how. I'm gonna find him before I'm pleased.
SPEAKER 20 :
I'm gonna find a man and I'm gonna kill him.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know what I was thinking about?
SPEAKER 20 :
A vampire. Maybe one day you wake up and you forget what it's like to be human. Maybe then it's okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
You're not making any sense.
SPEAKER 15 :
Sometimes I think all of this is just a dream, you know? How about you tell us what really happened Saturday night, Mr. Boyle? And why is your wife acting like she's afraid of you, huh?
SPEAKER 04 :
Anyway, it goes on. But so many great performances in that movie. And, yes, Sean Penn. Right. Tons of Libby's, I understand. But they do a good job. So there you go, Mystic River. You are up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I would say Murder Mystery, too, but that's just too easy. So I'm going to go with Glass Onion, Knives Out.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh. Knives Out. So that's actually the sequel. Right. Glass Onion. So you're not saying both.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Just Glass Onion we'll start with.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, Glass Onion. There you go. Roger Craig was in both, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Daniel Craig, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Why did I say Roger Craig? I have no idea. Anyway, Roger Craig was a great running back for the San Francisco 49ers. Or the Cat Francisco 49ers. John, you're up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wind River. Have you seen that? Yeah. Have you, Andy?
SPEAKER 04 :
No.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's a lot. It's a great movie. Jeremy Renner stars in it. I like Jeremy Renner. He's basically the game warden, I guess you could say, or the park ranger game warden on Indian Reservation. I can't believe you haven't seen it, Andy. It's a really good movie. Okay. Both you and Corey, I'm not joking, you would really enjoy it. It's a really good movie.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. I like Jeremy Miller.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I won't say any more because it's one of those movies where you think you know who did it, but you don't.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, it's about reservation. Is it a bunch of anti-white man? No, no, no. No, not at all. Woke stuff? Nothing like that?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I don't think they... No, it's not that at all. I don't remember any woke stuff, no. No, in fact... I'm not saying I wouldn't watch that. No, at the end, you're like, this really could happen?
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, it's that kind of a movie. You'd like it. It really is a good movie.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Well, one thing we always like to see in these killer movies is a great cop.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. Somebody who really knows who's just brilliant. He's always a step ahead. And we have that in Scary Movie with Doofy. Here we go. Scary Movie.
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Hello, Cindy. Hi, Principal Squigman. Hey, Doofy.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's Special Officer Doofy today, Cindy. Now, Cindy, Sheriff has some questions that he would like to ask you today.
SPEAKER 10 :
What is that? That god-awful smell.
SPEAKER 16 :
I don't know.
SPEAKER 10 :
I got poopy. I'm sorry. Did you just say that you went poopy?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, it was good.
SPEAKER 10 :
Get him out of here.
SPEAKER 17 :
You should now go back to special ed.
SPEAKER 08 :
Maybe a change of underwear, son.
SPEAKER 04 :
Bye, Doofy. What movie is this? Scary movie.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, scary movie.
SPEAKER 04 :
Officer Doofy. And what that was was a play on the officer from Scream.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, gotcha.
SPEAKER 04 :
And so the officer in Scream was an idiot played by David Arquette.
SPEAKER 08 :
Gotcha.
SPEAKER 04 :
And so they decided to make a super idiot in Doofy.
SPEAKER 08 :
Gotcha.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 07 :
I had never seen this movie and thought it might be kind of weird, but I watched it within the last year. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I loved it.
SPEAKER 08 :
I liked that movie.
SPEAKER 07 :
I loved it. Yeah, good movie.
SPEAKER 08 :
It doesn't have great reviews, but I think it's a good movie.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Rotten Tomatoes is 86, IMDb 7.8. Was that Daniel Craig as well? Yeah. I loved it. I did too.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's not on my huge master list. Why not?
SPEAKER 07 :
Christopher Plummer's in it as well. He's great. Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
John, you're up. Okay, this one, you wouldn't think of a murder mystery, but it is Dirty Harry.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Because you don't know who the killer is. Dirty Harry is trying to find the killer, actually.
SPEAKER 04 :
Totally.
SPEAKER 08 :
He's running around trying to find him.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's just, though, it's more about him than the mystery, but I don't care.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's more about him being the cop going after the bad guy, you know?
SPEAKER 04 :
He's just such a... What a great character, by the way, Dirty Harry. Well, how many cops in the movies have been based on that template since then?
SPEAKER 08 :
Most. That tough cop who disrespects authority. Going against the woke.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, who's anti-woke, disrespects authority, tough cop.
SPEAKER 08 :
Even in the 70s, he was going against the woke.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, he was great.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right, John and Cheyenne, you're next.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, guys, John, you stole my Wind River. What a terrific movie. It's a great movie. Oh, it also has Elizabeth Olsen in it. And you would never expect her to play such a great character. She was the FBI agent, John?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Great movie. She was terrific.
SPEAKER 08 :
That is, John, you and Tanner both know this. That's one of those movies where if it's on, you just keep watching it. Right. You know, you just stumble across it, and you just keep watching it. It's that kind of a movie.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I have another one that if it's on, I'll watch it over and over again, and that's The Maltese Falcon. Oh. Bogey. Bogey as Sam Spade, the detective. What a great movie. Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Agreed.
SPEAKER 06 :
And, John, you said just the original Dirty Harry, but all the Dirty Harrys, you didn't know who the killer was. That's true.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's true.
SPEAKER 06 :
So I will give them all. One of my favorites is the one where all the young actors are playing cops that are committed.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the one guy's name? Megaforce.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, it had Robert Urich.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, but what's the blonde guy's name that was in all sorts of other movies at that same time? David Soule. Ah, there you go.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes. It also had Tim Matheson, who played Otter in Animal House, and a lot of other characters. That was one of the best ones, I thought.
SPEAKER 08 :
True.
SPEAKER 06 :
But, yeah, I'll just throw with those two, and then I'll just say somebody will send some names, but any Hitchcock murder mystery is always worth a watch.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah. I agree. I agree.
SPEAKER 22 :
You guys have a great day.
SPEAKER 08 :
You too, John. Appreciate you. Joe, let's squeeze you in. Go ahead, Joe.
SPEAKER 22 :
Red, you may not think of this one as a murder mystery either, but it is the first Jack Reacher movie with Tom Cruise that opens with five people being shot on the grenade. Good. Did the ex-Army guy really do it or not?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, that's a good one. No, that one counts. Yeah, that counts.
SPEAKER 22 :
I love that movie.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
I loved it.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's another one, if it's on, you just keep watching.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, every time. And Tom Cruise, I think, did a much better job of capturing the essence of the Jack Reacher character than Alan Richardson did. Yeah. Although he didn't look the part, he just captured the essence of the man.
SPEAKER 08 :
He's a good actor, as you know.
SPEAKER 22 :
Great. All right. That's all I got.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good stuff, Joe. Appreciate it. All right, Andy, take it away.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Let's see here. Sorry. I was having a hard time getting there. Okay. Here we go. The usual suspects. Here we go.
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And these are not the usual suspects. Keaton. I'm a businessman. McManus. There's nothing that can't be done. Hockney.
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What, you got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this? Fenster.
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Flip you. Flip you for real. Verbal Kint. Roger, really? People say I talk too much. He doesn't know what you want to know. I don't think he does. Not exactly. But there's a lot more to his story, believe me. In a world where nothing is what it seems. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled. He's here. Was convincing the world. I know, he's here. He didn't exist. You've got to look beyond. the usual suspects.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, that was a very well-done movie. Did you ever see it, John?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I haven't either.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, you haven't?
SPEAKER 07 :
It looks good. Good ratings.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, Tanner, I think you'd like it. I really do. And John, I think you might too. A lot of good acting. Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thriller, crime, psychopath, I'm all over it. The Maltese Falcon, I was going to say that to show you how old I am. But let's go with maybe my favorite psycho movie, Seven, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman. Okay, I got a clip. Here we go. Maybe.
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It's dead. There are seven deadly sins. Gluttony.
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You're going to come take a look at this!
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Greed.
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No one touches anything!
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Sloth, wrath, pride, lust, and envy. Seven. You can expect five more of these. The body was found on Tuesday morning.
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I hate this city.
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We're going to get who did this. This will be the very definition of swift justice.
SPEAKER 05 :
There are two more bodies, two more victims. This guy's methodical, exacting, and worst of all, patient. He's laughing.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, Seven was really good. Morgan Freeman, to me, it's not one of his roles that most people think of as his greatest roles. I think it should be.
SPEAKER 07 :
I thought him and Brad were amazing, and the ending is unbelievable. I mean, it's one of my favorite movies.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. John, you're up. Hold on. Let me cross that one. And it's Seven, but it's spelled weird.
SPEAKER 04 :
S-E-7-E-N. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Really strange as far as that goes. That's okay. Let's do... How about The Vanishing, 1988?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, wow. I have not seen it.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's a good movie, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, okay. We've got to go to one of John's favorite actors, Steve Martin. Here we go. Dead men don't wear plaid.
SPEAKER 08 :
Dead men don't watch him.
SPEAKER 19 :
Steve Martin, Ham, Rigby Reardon in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid.
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Will $200 be enough in advance, Mr. Reardon? 200, I'd shoot my grandmother. No criminal is too tough for him.
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No pain is too great.
SPEAKER 15 :
Where'd you learn that?
SPEAKER 19 :
At camp. No joke, too disgusting.
SPEAKER 15 :
Do I look like a dame?
SPEAKER 17 :
Not as much as I do.
SPEAKER 15 :
I haven't turned on the charm yet. He'll laugh in the face of danger. He'll dace in the fange of laughter. I'm on an important case. I need your help. These people we're dealing with are killers. Well, thanks for telling me. Say something like, no, no, Miles Oak, listen to me.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's good enough. It was a lot of fun. By the way, he mixes in, it's black and white, and he mixes in a lot of clips from old black and white movies, like with Bogart and other characters. Really good.
SPEAKER 08 :
Sure it is.
SPEAKER 04 :
I enjoy it. Dead men don't wear plaid. Steve Martin.
SPEAKER 08 :
Doesn't even look familiar to me. I can't watch him. I'm sorry.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let's go with Get Out.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, you're right. That is a murder mystery. I had not thought of that. I always thought of it more in horror terms. But yeah, well done, sir. Well done.
SPEAKER 08 :
Only because this has come in from several listeners. Clue.
SPEAKER 04 :
Totally. Clue. That was a really good one. Okay, let's go with one that you may not have expected. Minority Report. Good one, Andy.
SPEAKER 20 :
He set me up. He set me up.
SPEAKER 10 :
And DreamWorks Pictures.
SPEAKER 20 :
Who's the victim? I've never heard of him, but I'm supposed to kill him in less than 36 hours. He's coming here to get her.
SPEAKER 10 :
Tom Cruise.
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I need your help.
SPEAKER 22 :
You contain information. I need to know how to get at it.
SPEAKER 09 :
In a Steven Spielberg film. I have to know. I have to find out what happened in my life. You tell me, who was it that set this up?
SPEAKER 04 :
I don't know.
SPEAKER 09 :
How about now?
SPEAKER 10 :
On June 21st.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, Minority Report, which I think is a very underrated movie. Nobody ever mentions it in the lexicon of great Tom Cruise movies. I think they should. What do you guys think?
SPEAKER 07 :
I've never seen it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, I think it's really good. What do you think, John? It is.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's a good movie.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think you'd like it, Tanner. Give it a chance. Okay, you are up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Another one of my favorite movies. You can see the trend. I like Psycho-Pass for some reason, but Zodiac.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah. Zodiac is good.
SPEAKER 07 :
Great cast, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, Jake Gyllenhaal. You got Robert Downey Jr. Mark Ruffalo. Mark Ruffalo. Yeah, really good. John, you're up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Andy just reminded me of a movie that you don't think of as a murder mystery because he's on the run the whole time, but it is The Fugitive, Harrison Ford.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes. That's on my list. Actually, that's one of my favorite mysteries.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's a great show.
SPEAKER 04 :
I loved it. Okay, one of the great murder mysteries of all time. Here we go. Who framed Roger Rabbit? I have never seen that. Booga Booga.
SPEAKER 10 :
Every moment they were together was a new adventure in trouble.
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Hide me, Eddie. Please.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's a motion picture about friendship.
SPEAKER 14 :
Take it easy, Booga. Please, Eddie. Don't tell me I'm making a big mistake.
SPEAKER 18 :
Love. Eddie.
SPEAKER 10 :
All right, I'm sorry I yanked your ears.
SPEAKER 14 :
All the time you yanked my ears?
SPEAKER 23 :
Marvin Ackman. A rabbit cacked him last night.
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Remember, you never saw me.
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Sex.
SPEAKER 11 :
I'd do anything for my husband, Mr. Valiant. Anything.
SPEAKER 04 :
Jessica Rabbit.
SPEAKER 08 :
I've never seen it. I've got to stop and watch it sometime. Is it really good?
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, it's hit and miss. There are definitely a lot of good moments. It was very impressive what they were able to do at that time. Nowadays, of course, you mix cartoons and people all the time. But then it wasn't. Yeah, back then it was hard.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. There you go. Have you ever seen it, Tanner?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, and I don't think I want to.
SPEAKER 08 :
I want to see it just for that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Jessica Rabbit basically was supposed to be the ideal woman ever, and it was just kind of funny. Anyway, okay, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let's go with Red Dragon. Oh, yes. Anything with Anthony Hopkins especially playing on him being Hannibal Lecter, I love that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yep. In fact, that's going to be my next one. Go ahead, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
I've got one that just came in from a listener that I'll use, The Bone Collector.
SPEAKER 04 :
Ooh, good one.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good job.
SPEAKER 04 :
Very good. Okay, here we go. And my next one was Silence of the Lambs.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'll help you catch him, Gary. Believe me, you don't want Hannibal Lecter inside your head. With the darkest of all minds.
SPEAKER 20 :
Just do your job and never forget what he is. Oh, he's a monster. Pure psychopath. So rare to capture one alive.
SPEAKER 05 :
So close to the way you're going to catch him. Do you realize that? Oh, Clarice, your problem is you need to get more fun out of life. You told me you don't spook easily.
SPEAKER 12 :
You call this easy, sir?
SPEAKER 22 :
Fletcher's missing hand and arm.
SPEAKER 10 :
Man, it's a raging maniac. Who knows what he'll do?
SPEAKER 1 :
Thank you, Clarice.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you. Hello, Clarice.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, my gosh. What an incredible performance. By the way, Jodie Foster was terrific, too, but he was so dominant.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Anthony Hopkins. Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let's go with Righteous Kill with De Niro and Pacino. Who? Have you seen it?
SPEAKER 04 :
I have not.
SPEAKER 07 :
I have not. They are partners, and then they're trying to find this murderer, and one of them finds out it's the other one.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Very cool. Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Along came a spider.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, so good. That's good. That's very good.
SPEAKER 08 :
All right. We have to take a break. Yeah, let's do it. We'll take a break. We'll come back. We'll keep going. Golden Eagle Financial coming up next. Al Smith did a great interview here just recently. Listen in. We'll be right back. Find him by going to klzradio.com.
SPEAKER 21 :
TJ here with KLZ and Al Smith of Golden Eagle Financial. And Al, I have a question for you. I've been putting money away for a while in a savings account or maybe a couple of investment accounts. But what am I doing wrong and what can you do better than that?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I think a savings account is important because all the financial gurus, including myself, agree you should have three to six months savings that you have ready liquid access to. But retirement planning is a bit more long term and it's a bit more strategic. We want to take a look at the sum of money you'll need way into the future. And we want to look at how that money can last by providing you income for as long as you live.
SPEAKER 21 :
What kind of planning or strategy do you provide for folks with that that have a big savings but haven't made that next step?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, that's a good question. If someone has a large amount in savings, one of the things I do is we have a conversation about their risk tolerance. Nobody's comfortable losing money, but having money in the market over a long period of time is a mechanism to accumulate wealth. And so we talk about the different levels of risk and the different products that are available. And we don't put everybody into one box, but I have an enormous assortment of financial products. And it's not that there's good ones or bad ones. It's there are some that are more appropriate for some people, but not for others.
SPEAKER 21 :
And that sounds excellent. How can folks get in touch with you for that meeting?
SPEAKER 13 :
You can reach me at 303-744-1128. And if I'm not there, it goes to voicemail, but I return my voicemails promptly. And we could have a conversation in the office. If you live a considerable distance away, we can have a long phone conversation or a Zoom call, whichever you would prefer.
SPEAKER 21 :
And as always, you can find him at klzradio.com slash money. Al, thanks so much for joining us today.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, thank you, TJ. Thanks for the conversation.
SPEAKER 21 :
You bet.
SPEAKER 08 :
Live and local, back to Rush to Reason. And we are back. Rush to Reason, Debra's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And, Andy, take it away.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, the next murder mystery, and it really was Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow.
SPEAKER 23 :
We have murders in New York without benefit of ghouls and goblins. You're a long way from New York, Constable.
SPEAKER 02 :
We have many things to talk about, even in this backward place.
SPEAKER 23 :
Excuse my manner. I'm not used to... Female company?
SPEAKER 1 :
Murder!
SPEAKER 23 :
The horseman's killed again! The assassin is a man of flesh and blood, and I will discover him.
SPEAKER 12 :
Are you so certain of everything?
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, that was really a surprisingly good movie, Sleepy Hollow. Obviously a supernatural murder thriller. You're up, Tanner.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let's go with The Commuter, Liam Neeson. Surprisingly better than you would think.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it was. I was impressed by it. You know what? Yeah, that wasn't bad. It was pretty good. A lot of his have been bad.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, him and Nick Cage, you never know what you're going to get.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, you don't. John, you're up.
SPEAKER 08 :
No Way Out.
SPEAKER 04 :
No Way Out.
SPEAKER 08 :
No Way Out.
SPEAKER 04 :
That was actually pretty good. Okay, how about Happy Death Day? Here we go.
SPEAKER 07 :
The way I see it, you have unlimited amount of lives, unlimited opportunities to solve your own murder.
SPEAKER 12 :
So I'm supposed to keep dying until I figure out who my killer is?
SPEAKER 07 :
You want to live to see tomorrow, right? Whoever's killing you knows it's your birthday.
SPEAKER 12 :
Pretty much the entire school knows it.
SPEAKER 09 :
These are signs of major trauma. You should be dead.
SPEAKER 11 :
You relive the same day over and over again. Kind of start to see who you really are.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, and basically it's Groundhog Day for murder on a campus. It was pretty good. It was very good, actually. Okay, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let's go with Basic Instinct. Oh, good movie.
SPEAKER 08 :
sharon stone i'm blanking on the man uh douglas douglas michael douglas john you're up that was a good movie made her famous right not one of the first ones that she ever did was she really she did that scene that everyone got upset about right but that was like her her initial you know big debut or whatever you want to say right right but it really got her going
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and she did a lot. There you go.
SPEAKER 08 :
Game Night.
SPEAKER 04 :
Game Night.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's hilarious, by the way.
SPEAKER 04 :
That was hilarious.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's a good movie.
SPEAKER 04 :
And who stars in that again? Is it Jason Bateman?
SPEAKER 08 :
Bateman.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, yeah. I like him.
SPEAKER 08 :
I do, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, here's one. If you want to see a bunch of great actors all surrounding Sylvester Stallone, Copland.
SPEAKER 15 :
Freddie's a hell of a guy.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, he should call me. But now, he has uncovered something that could force him to choose between protecting his idols and upholding the law. Babbage isn't dead. You know it and I know it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Do you have any idea how connected he is? It's over. The case is closed. You butt heads with these friends of ours? You're going to come at them head on? I offered you a chance to be a cop, and you blew it.
SPEAKER 04 :
It is intense, and it's really good. It's a slow burn, but it picks up toward the end, and it's very good. Have you guys seen Copland at all?
SPEAKER 07 :
I have not.
SPEAKER 04 :
What did you think, Tanner?
SPEAKER 07 :
I liked it. Okay. You're up. Let's go with Spiderhead. I have not seen it. Chris Hemsworth, Miles Teller. It was a little trippy, a little futuristic-like, but it was good. Okay. John?
SPEAKER 08 :
The Sixth Sense.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh. Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now, is that murder? I see dead people.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. Oh, you're right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, what brought her back? Okay. Here's one.
SPEAKER 08 :
I see dead people.
SPEAKER 04 :
I see dead people. Is that a Kendrick Lamar song?
SPEAKER 08 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 04 :
What a great performance, by the way. Okay, a few good men. Here we go. Oh.
SPEAKER 23 :
Good one. I think I'm entitled. You want answers. I want the truth. You can't handle the truth. Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Lieutenant Weinberg? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, without the Santiago part, I say all of that every time my wife disagrees with me.
SPEAKER 08 :
You can't handle the truth.
SPEAKER 04 :
You can't handle the truth!
SPEAKER 08 :
What a movie. And Tom Cruise was young then. Oh, he was so good. Him and Demi Moore, I mean, they're young.
SPEAKER 04 :
And they were terrific.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, great movie. That's another one of those where if it's on, you just keep watching it.
SPEAKER 04 :
But Nicholson, as the villain, was spectacular.
SPEAKER 08 :
Awesome.
SPEAKER 04 :
He really was.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good movie.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, Tanner, you're up. Bad Times at the El Royale.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
I actually liked it. Didn't get the best reviews. Yeah, why didn't it? I don't know.
SPEAKER 04 :
You never know. I mean, so many times I don't understand the reviewers either. Go ahead, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
Gone, baby, gone.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, good one. Good one. Okay, how about Charade with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant? It's a classic. Trust me.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm surprised it's not on my classic list. It's not.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, it was good. It was good. Okay, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wrath of Man with Jason Statham. That was a good movie. Yeah, I liked it.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think it was an Amazon one. I don't know.
SPEAKER 07 :
That was a good movie.
SPEAKER 04 :
Only thing is, a little long. They could have cut it a little bit, but yeah, I liked it. I like him.
SPEAKER 08 :
I love him.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah. So do I. John?
SPEAKER 08 :
Let's see here. I got to cross one off because Andy already did that one. Give me one second. How about... The Big Sleep. That's an old one, 1946.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow. Humphrey Bogart. I have not seen it.
SPEAKER 08 :
I figured John from Cheyenne would have picked something like that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, he would. Okay, since I'm already on the Jack Nicholson train, we've got to go with Chinatown.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, that's next. It was on my list next, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, he's terrific. Okay, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let's go with, I think this counts, Money Monster. Don't know it. George Clooney movie. He's like an investment guy on radio or TV.
SPEAKER 04 :
What's it called again?
SPEAKER 07 :
Money Monster.
SPEAKER 04 :
I never watch movies with liberals in them, so I haven't seen a movie in 16 years. Sure, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Sure, Andy.
SPEAKER 04 :
John, you're up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Internal Affairs.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah. Good, good, good. Okay. The Little Things, because I can't do a week without Denzel. I can't do it. I'm not capable. Great movie.
SPEAKER 07 :
Tanner, you're up. Jared Leto in there. Kiss the Girls, Morgan Freeman.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Another one he's in.
SPEAKER 04 :
He's so good.
SPEAKER 07 :
John?
SPEAKER 08 :
The Nice Guys.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, yeah. Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling. Yeah, I enjoyed that. Okay, how about Identity with John Cusack? Boy, does that have a surprise ending.
SPEAKER 08 :
He's another one I like.
SPEAKER 04 :
He is, yeah. He's really good. Okay, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Flaming liberal, but I still like him. Yes, he is. Let's go with Gone Girl. I did that one, didn't I? No. No, you did Baby. I did Gone, Baby, Gone. Gone Girl. That's a good one, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I liked it. No more movies with Gone. Sorry, we're done.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Go ahead, John. Blue Velvet.
SPEAKER 08 :
Blue Velvet.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, gosh. That's a disgusting movie, but it's good. It's well made. John, I have to go with another one of your favorite actors, John Travolta in The General's Daughter. There you go. Tanner, you're up. John hates John Travolta. Just so you know.
SPEAKER 07 :
Murder on the Orient Express. I'll just take both of them.
SPEAKER 04 :
Classic. There you go.
SPEAKER 08 :
Murder on the Orient. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
John, you're up.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hang on. I'm typing.
SPEAKER 04 :
We're going fast now.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I'm doing the best I can.
SPEAKER 04 :
I know.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hold on. I'm trying to keep up with you guys. Let's see. How about Cape Fear?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah. Is that De Niro?
SPEAKER 1 :
1991.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I think so.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, okay. And let's go with Young Sherlock Holmes. That's a good one. It's kind of silly and fun. I enjoyed it. Okay, Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Midsommar.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Only seen it once. Still love it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Is it summer or sommer? Sommer. But it's midsummer, yeah. Midsummer. That's a rough watch.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's creepy.
SPEAKER 04 :
You ever throw people off a cliff? Not yet.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now you can. Did you guys say Knives Out yet? You did Glass Onion, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. So you can say Knives Out. Knives Out. Okay. There you go. Okay. Here's one you probably haven't seen. Brick. Brick.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I don't even know that movie.
SPEAKER 04 :
Rick? Yep. Tanner, you're up.
SPEAKER 08 :
The Batman. The newest one.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Does that count? Eh, I haven't seen it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, like some secretary or something dies and they don't know who it is, but we all find out.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, this is one I'm going to mention that I've never seen, but I want to watch it because I've heard it's really good, but maybe it's not Shutter Island.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, yeah. It's a murder mystery, but... Doesn't that have Leo? DiCaprio. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
We were just talking about him.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, here's one. It's an obvious one. Scream. Scream is a murder mystery. Yeah, true.
SPEAKER 07 :
Canada or Europe? Lost Girls. Yep. Lost Girls? I don't think I've seen it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, at least it's not Gone Girls. That's true. No more Gone. Murder by Death. Murder by Death. That was funny. Here's a classic. Gosford Park.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think that's on my list. I've got to cross that off now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it's classic.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's on my list. The Killer. New Netflix movie.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
I don't know that movie.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's been out for like two years on Netflix.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Don't know it. Tell no one. Tell no one. Have you guys ever seen Miss Marple movies with Angela Lansbury? Yeah. Okay, The Mirror Cracked. It's one of the classics. Angela Lansbury played such a great sleuth. She was wonderful. Okay, Tanner, you're up. Cold Pursuit with Liam Neeson. True. Slow, but good. Okay, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
How about The Secret in Their Eyes?
SPEAKER 04 :
I have not seen it.
SPEAKER 1 :
2009.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oscar-winning mystery.
SPEAKER 04 :
John, you already said Clue, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, I did.
SPEAKER 04 :
Just making sure. Listeners did. Okay, I'm going to go with a spoof. No, no, no, no. I'm not going to go with that. I'm going to go with U.S. Marshals.
SPEAKER 08 :
Ooh, that's a good one too, Andy.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Ooh, I forgot about that.
SPEAKER 04 :
I love Tommy Lee Jones. I can't get enough, so there you go.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let's go with the new Russell Crowe, Unhinged. Oh, that's such a good movie.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's such a good movie. Now, is it a murder mystery? Cause you kind of know who's doing all the murdering.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. That's where, uh, he's like attacking, he's like attacking you. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
But it's still a good movie. That's what I was telling you about to where they have a little road rage incident and he just goes off and it's a good movie. It really is.
SPEAKER 04 :
Don't we all go off after road rage? It's the only time I get angry. It really goes off. Go ahead, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
Uh, let's see here. You, did you do Sherlock Holmes? One of you already?
SPEAKER 07 :
He did young Sherlock Holmes.
SPEAKER 08 :
Let's just do Sherlock Holmes then.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Hound of the Baskervilles. That's Sherlock Holmes.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, you can do that one. I'm going to do the reverse of Sherlock Holmes where he and Watson reverse roles, and that's in Without a Clue. With Michael Caine, it's a comedy. that basically says Watson was always the smart one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, you're up.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't think Taxi Driver would count as mystery. I don't know that movie. With De Niro? Yeah, De Niro. It's a cult classic. It's been a long time since I've seen it. We'll say that doesn't count. We've talked about Hannibal Lecter, but let's just go with the movie called Hannibal.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. That counts. All right. I'll end this one, and we'll come back after the break. Rear window, because that's an old Hitchcock movie that John was even talking about.
SPEAKER 04 :
Great one.
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SPEAKER 08 :
All right, we've got about a minute or so left here, Andy. Take it away.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, some primal fear. You might not think of that. It was awesome. Memento. The third man. The long goodbye. Seven deadly sins. Go. Anatomy of a murder. Excellent. Tanner, any? The Prestige. Ooh, good one. Okay. Murder by Death. You already said that. So we're going to go with something you wouldn't think of. Lethal Weapon. Beverly Hills Cop. Believe it or not. And Heart Eyes. Go. Death on the Nile. Oh, classic.
SPEAKER 07 :
The Pale Blue Eye.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. How about Underworld with Kate Beckinsale? It is a murder mystery. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
North by Northwest. Tanner? The Talented Mr. Ripley.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. I Know What You Did Last Summer. That was a good one. Go ahead, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
Evil Under the Sun.
SPEAKER 04 :
Tanner?
SPEAKER 08 :
Shaft, the new one.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. American Psycho with Christian Bale.
SPEAKER 07 :
Witness.
SPEAKER 04 :
Ooh, yes. Harrison Ford.
SPEAKER 07 :
Training Day.
SPEAKER 04 :
Ooh, that's another Denzel. Okay. How about Fallen Idol? Go ahead, John. Prisoners. Okay. Tanner? Monster. All right. And then there were none. Go ahead. Chinatown. Did one of you say that? I did.
SPEAKER 08 :
You did? You said Chinatown. Nightcrawler.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Good.
SPEAKER 08 :
The Town.
SPEAKER 04 :
The Town.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good one.
SPEAKER 04 :
How about The Thin Man with William Powell Myrna Loy? Go.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's it. We're done. All right, we're done. Guys, thank you very much. Have a great evening and a great weekend, by the way. We'll be back on Monday, but don't forget tomorrow morning, Fix It Radio. I'll be here at 9 o'clock, followed up by Drive Radio. Have a great evening. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
I'm a rich guy.
A heated road-rage shooting in Parker sets the stage for a gripping conversation between John Rush and Bill Anderson on https://ready-radio.com —an argument, a gun, and a deadly choice that could happen anywhere. Is any town truly safe anymore? What would you do if a routine drive suddenly spiraled out of control? They dive into the chaos of eyewitness confusion and then turn to the everyday habits that might save your life. Why avoid the center lane? How can a simple wave—or a smart “zipper merge”—keep tempers from exploding? From spotting aggressive drivers before trouble starts to leaving escape routes in heavy traffic, this discussion transforms an ordinary commute into a masterclass on staying alert, staying courteous, and staying alive.
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SPEAKER 06 :
Now, here's your survival guide for Ready Radio, John Rush. And we are ready. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us on this fine Friday, September the 26th. It's beautiful outside. Bill Anderson with me. Bill, how are you today? I'm doing well, John. Doing good. Survive all the weather we had earlier? Yeah, and then it's, what, 80 today? Very nice day, actually. Beautiful day today. It's going to be a beautiful weekend, so those of you that most everybody should have been out and about by now, but if not, get outside because it's really nice out, Bill.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep, got our last day of bear season tomorrow, so we're going to. Go spend some time up in the mountains ourselves tomorrow.
SPEAKER 06 :
Very nice. Very nice. All right. What I want to start with today is some of you may have seen the news, may have not, but there was a incident that happened kind of down on your neck of the woods, Bill. Partly why I want to talk about it is this is really kind of in your area, and police are still investigating. There was a shooting that involved a couple of cars. I guess there was some sort of an accident or road rage or something along those lines, and A man told the officers that his only option was to shoot the other driver, which he did and killed him in the process. The problem, Bill, is he left the scene, went to his friend's house, deposited the shell casings there. The police, of course, end up catching up to him, find where he's at, find the shell casings, they arrest him. And it didn't go very well for him, let's just say that. And this particular individual has a little bit of history with... the law, so I'm not taking sides one way or the other, but what I thought we could do is walk through that whole scenario and what the proper things would be in light of what happened there, because that didn't end up very well when it was all said and done.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, it doesn't sound like you made very good decisions all the way through, but before we start on that, you know, like you said, here in Parker, you know, and Parker's considered a pretty safe area, and the point is I don't think there's any such thing as a safe area anymore, John. I think, you know, stuff can happen no matter where you are. I remember when Columbine, we were affected by Columbine. My brother-in-law was a senior in Columbine that year, and my in-laws live on a block where one of the One of the students that was shot and killed was across the street, and a couple of teachers lived on that block. And so it impacted, you know, our family quite a bit. And everyone kept saying, that stuff doesn't happen here. I can't believe it happened here. And, you know, we're way beyond that, John. So before we kick that off, you know, people need to realize, you know, I don't think there's a safe, quote, safe area anymore. You know, stuff is just popping up all over the place.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. And you know what? I can't disagree with you on that. And we tend to think, and I don't say this is a bad thing, Bill, but we tend to think that, yeah, the areas that we live in, the areas that we traverse, we tend to think that, oh, you know, things like that won't happen around here. Well, it doesn't really matter what part of town you're in. And by the way, you could even be in small town USA, Bill, as you know. I mean, the reality is we live in an area whereby things can happen, period.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, and there's so much, you know, division in the world, and people are on edge with everything. I mean, look at, you know, leading up to this, and John, I don't think it's going to get any better, to be honest with you. I think people are going to get more tense, more trigger-happy, if you will, and I'm not taking that statement trigger-happy, you know, in context of a gun. I get you, I get you. They're going to react, you know, and there is no more... conversations anymore you know um there's there's just sudden knee-jerk reaction to violence and and plus no matter where you are whether you're in a small town or a safe town or whatever people are coming and going so you don't know who's coming and going into your neighborhood you know so
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and some of this will dovetail into some of our conversation we might get to in the latter half of our program today, which is, you know, if something major happens. We saw a situation happen earlier in the week where Secret Service thwarted some individuals in New York City where that could have been a real disaster had that particular operation that these nefarious individuals were trying to accomplish, had that actually happened, that could have ended up very badly. We might get into that a little bit later because some of what we're going to talk about right now could lean into that. But let's talk. Okay. You know, people, a lot of people, not, you know, I'm guessing the majority of people that are listening to you and I, Bill, drive. And when you drive, things can happen. People can have altercations. You know, as you were stating a moment ago, we live in a day and age where people are on edge. Road rage, we read. consistently you know happening on a regular basis and you know you try your best to avoid those things but sometimes things just happen in this particular case i don't know what led up to this i'm sure we'll learn more as time goes by supposedly there were some you know eyewitnesses that saw some of this and actually in this case saw the man that had stopped actually go through the the window that was rolled down, the guy rolled his window down, and supposedly that guy did go into the car and attack this particular individual, and that's where some of that provocation happened. But again, I don't know all of the steps that happened, nor was I there. And frankly, Bill, eyewitness accounts, as you know even from being a pastor, eyewitness accounts, that's why police get different ones from a lot of different people, because they're not always super accurate.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and they could be coming in at different snapshots of time. You know, we play this game in our self-defense class called Quantum Leap. You remember the show back in the 80s? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. He would pop into somebody's life, and he'd have to figure out, okay, where am I and who am I? You know, and so sometimes eyewitnesses, you know, they're busy, they're distracted, they're whatever, and they take a look. Well, we don't know where we are in the timeline of what was played out. This is why, you know, especially in defense, this is why the good guy who maybe defends himself takes the gun. could be interpreted as the bad guy, depending on when that person comes into the event or into the scenario, if you will. So, you know, that's another thing. Well, I saw this guy just shoot him. Well, did you see leading up to that? So there's lots of different perspectives and perspectives. And view timelines, if you will, as to these witnesses and what they account for. But, you know, right out of the gate, I don't know, again, what happened. We can speculate. But, you know, there's a couple things you said to me already. It's like, nope, nope, nope, wouldn't have done, wouldn't have done. You know, first thing is, you know, we're – and I really have a hard time with this one because I like my window down. I like the fresh air. I love it. I like my window down. I'm the guy that has the heater on in the middle of winter and the window down, you know, and the AC on and the window down just because I like the fresh air. I just like it. So one of the first things you can do is your vehicle is a barrier. And if you have that window open, unless they're busting that window out trying to come into your car, you're still not justified. You have a barrier. So I'm not sure. I wouldn't be rolling my window down.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, so let's back up. Let's walk through this. Let's say, for example, number one. Let's do our very best to avoid altercations. So I think all of you listening from the driving standpoint, and I get it, Bill, all of us can be on edge at times. You're late to someplace. You're driving home from work. You want to get home. You're tired. There's all sorts of other things happening. And all you need is one jerk getting in your way and starting to frustrate that. And some of the other things that have happened of late are these motorcycles that are splitting lanes that aren't supposed to be. And they can cause some havoc. And I've seen... you know, even altercations with those guys. I haven't had that, but I've watched others in that regard. And so I think where I'm coming from, Bill, is, you know, first things first, try to avoid that at all possible. And I mean, if that means, you know, you drive away from the scene, you ignore, you don't look over, you don't acknowledge that that person is, you know, flipping you off and getting all mad, I mean, whatever the case may be, as much as sometimes we want to counter that, I think, for me at least, Bill, in most cases, just avoid eye contact even if you can.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, yeah, get out of there and ignore it, you know, and somebody's yelling at you, honking at you, giving you gestures, whatever, putting their phone up like they're recording you. Somebody did that to me, and I was like, I don't even know what I did. I was just driving down the road. Maybe I was going too slow. Maybe you cut him off without realizing it. And I was just like, okay, sure. Because at the end of the day, John, ego's... you know, they don't matter when it comes to somebody losing their life and you potentially go into jail. I mean, was it really worth it? Was it worth it? So, you know, you diffuse those situations. You, like you said, somebody is, you know, tailgating you, honking you, cutting you off in front of you, break checking you, whatever. Maybe, maybe that's what I pull off or, or that's where I call the cops at that point. Say, Hey, I got this going on. Just want you to know what's happening. You know, get, you know, be proactive in that scenario, but don't engage with them. Don't engage with them. Just let them go. You know, and then if you get, you know, coming up on a red light or whatever, you know, you don't box yourself in. You know, I've always had a rule that, hey, if I can't see the tires of the car in front of me, then I'm too close. Right. You know, and that might even be too close, John. And then when driving, too, you know, we're not tailgating people. We're giving ourselves, you know. Yep. places to go, you know. I try to stay out of the center lane.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, me too. Yeah, for me, Bill, it's either, I'm either going to be, depending on how fast I need to get where I'm going, I'm either in the right lane or the left lane. I rarely am in the middle lane, and the reason for that is you have less options on what you can actually do with the shoulders and so on. I think that's where you're going with that, I'm sure. You know, You eliminate an option right or left, depending upon which other lane you're in. I get it. Sometimes you're on a two-lane road, and in those particular situations, yeah, I get it. That's a whole different scenario. But I agree with you. I think when it comes to driving, be more proactive. Not even defensive so much, Bill. I mean, that comes into play. Got to have defensive driving as well, which so many people have never been taught. But you got to drive defensively. But I think... even to your point, drive proactively. In other words, how far are you from the car in front of you? What kind of a gap have you left? And by the way, I'm also a big one on this, Bill. Don't agitate those people around you by leaving 15 cars between you and the car in front of you when it's rush hour traffic. That's irritating the person behind you. And by the way, rightfully so. That's how the traffic jams even get worse and worse. Now, that doesn't mean you need to be three inches from the bumper in front of you, but within reason, stopping distance and so on, Give yourself some room, but also don't be that guy that's adding to the pressure of traffic because you're that guy that's got that huge... By the way, if you're going to do that, get in the far right lane if that's what you want to do. If you're that nervous, well, frankly, Bill, if you're that nervous to drive in rush hour traffic, wait until it's over and then go drive. If that's you, I mean, I see that so often where these people are leaving 15 spaces between them and the car in front of them, and they really won't close the gap, and all they do is... is literally irritate every other driver around them. Don't be that guy, because now you're just starting something you don't need to.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, yeah. I like that, being proactive. You know, on one tone, it is defensive driving because we say everything is self-defense, right? When I teach my classes, you know, you take in a water bottle, having water, that's self-defense because you're defending against something, right? Defending against the potential of something. But I like that proactive. And, you know, a lot of times, John, you know, we just got to get our heads focused into the drive, paying attention, staying alert, staying aware. And that'll solve so much right there, you know, paying attention and You know, looking at cars and noticing people and, you know, it's kind of like you can turn it into a game. You know, let's see what kind of crazy stuff people are doing. And you'll start noticing all kinds of stuff. People, you know, changing their clothes, eating food, eating their breakfast.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and I just sent something from a listener. This is up in Cheyenne, by the way. There was a shooting involved up there with a 19-year-old girl. And there was a road rage, altercation, all the stuff, Bill, that we're talking about. So, again, it doesn't have to be in Denver, Parker, Colorado. This is in Cheyenne, which, you know, no offense, is not a large city per se, Bill. So our point of where this stuff can happen, it can literally happen. happen anywhere you don't have to be in a big city for this to happen so i think you know to our point a moment ago drive you know not just defensively and you're right it is always defensively but also proactively defensively i guess would be the way you know for example i wanted to throw something in here so you're in rush hour traffic you can see that there's maybe some folks around you that are you know maybe there's even another couple of cars that you can just tell are Not happy with one another. And I've seen some of this, by the way. You can just see that these two are getting into it. They are not getting along. For me, Bill, I'm looking for an exit path out of even that entire area of the lane, even if that means getting off the road, getting up on an off-ramp, on-ramp, whatever. Even if it means I'm delayed five or so minutes by getting away from those two knuckleheads, that's what I'm doing. I don't want to be around that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep. Yep. If you see that or you see somebody weaving in and out of traffic, you just get out of the way. Correct. I mean, who cares? Correct. Who cares? And I mean, there was a time in my life, John, where somebody was driving like an idiot and I'm like, oh, I'm going to show them. You know, I mean, I'm not proud to say that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Those days are long gone for me.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. But it's like, you know, you, you sit back and you think about it. It's like, it's not worth it. It's just, it's really not worth it. The other thing I like to do is I will never be side by side with somebody. I'll always be slightly behind or slightly ahead. I do not want to agree with you on that.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I get it. Sometimes in rush hour traffic, that's really difficult to do. But that's where you change your your gappage, I guess, would be the way to say that, Bill. If you're in rush hour traffic and you're trying to again, if you're on outside lane, this is a little easier because you can adjust where you're at in that outside lane to make sure you don't have somebody directly next to you. meaning you can spread that gap a little bit tighter in front of you or widen it a little bit more. I'm with you. I do my very best, even at stoplights. I don't want to be directly next to another car. Again, if it means I tuck up a little more or I stand back a little more, I'm doing whatever I can to not be directly next to that person that's to the right or left.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, and even from a safety standpoint, like let's say you're an elderly person or you're a female, right? You don't want somebody watching, looking over at you going, oh, hey, you know, especially if it is a bad guy going, hey, there's a potential target there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. There's a victim.
SPEAKER 09 :
There's a victim, right? So you don't want to be seen. So I will be slightly ahead or slightly behind, you know, the driver next to me if I can. And I'll ride there, too. I won't go right next to somebody. I'll ride back there so that they can't see me and I can't see them. It's fine. It's taken the dominant position, really, in my opinion. I agree with you. Those things right there will solve a whole bunch. Plus, let's say you did do something and you didn't even realize it. Well, that happens all the time, by the way.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think people do things at times inadvertently. They don't, you know, you and I, I mean, let's face it, you're doing so many different things. There could be times where you're, I mean, I try my best to not talk on the phone, period, and be in the car, but sometimes it's unavoidable, Bill, and you just are. And I mean, not talking with the, you know, with the, you know, phone up to your ear, but through the hands-free end of things. And even then, Bill, as you know, you're just not quite as focused on as you would be otherwise. And sometimes, you know, you may inadvertently do something or there's somebody in your blind spot, you don't really notice them, you didn't turn your head like you should have. I mean, you know, Bill, stuff happens to all of us. And by the way, that includes the people that are around you. Give a little grace here and there. But sometimes, Bill, people are very graceless.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, right. You know, you weave over a little bit because something dropped or something fell in the seat and you're looking over. I mean, it happens all the time, right? And I'll even be, if I do something to that person, I'll just throw them a quick wave, like, hey, I'm sorry. You know, like, hey, sorry about that.
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm sorry. Yep, yep, yep. And by the way, sometimes that little gesture, even from the other person that does that, it's like, oh, okay, I get it. You know, it's when none of that happens where you're like, geez, what a jerk.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, yeah. And, you know, when people let me in, I throw them a wave. I mean, you used to see that a lot in Colorado. It's going, you know, it's not happening anymore. But, you know, it used to be where people would let you in and they'd throw you a little wave. Right. You know, now it's just like, hey, I expect you to let me in. You know, I expect you to let me in and you're the bad guy. You know, they don't understand. You know, I'm supposed to safely merge into traffic.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and just somebody asked me a minute ago, you know, do I ever have anybody, you know, after me, you know, in these scenarios? And I'll tell you when it happens to me the most because no one knows how to zipper merge, Bill, and I do, and I will, and I don't feel one bit bad about it because that's actually the law. That's what CDOT even recommends. Instead of everybody waiting in one line, you zipper merge up every other car, every other car. Mm-hmm. And I can't tell you how many times you get that dirty look, the honk, the flip off, the whatever it is, because you went up and went ahead and zippered in like you're supposed to. And another person gets extremely angry. I'll be honest. They can be angry all day long. I'll do my best to make sure there's no huge altercations. But I'm still going to zipper merge. That's just the way it's supposed to work.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, what I don't like is when they use the median or the shoulder to try to do that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah, you're not supposed to. That's against the law.
SPEAKER 09 :
Or the turn lane, and the turn lane, and they use the turn lane, and all of a sudden, oh, they want to get over it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, no, that's against the law.
SPEAKER 09 :
And they have to do a complete stop. Yeah. So they're, you know, waiting for somebody who's like, hey, you know, this is the off-ramp or whatever it may be.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and by the way, the zipper merge, just for everybody listening, just as a side note, because maybe people don't realize this, Bill, zipper merge is different than you merging with an on-ramp. With an on-ramp, you are supposed to yield and merge to the traffic that's oncoming. It's not expected for the other traffic. If they're gracious and they move over or they slow down or they allow you in, that's them being gracious, but they don't have to. That's different than an actual true zipper merge where there's three lanes merging into two or there's construction and it's going from two to one and they're zippering you in. The zipper merge is way different from an on-ramp.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, yeah. And I think that's the point I was making earlier. The law says I... I on-ramp or I merge into traffic when it's safe to as the merging car, not the traffic. I don't have to stop to let you in. I'll tell you, actually, now that I think about this, something happened to me yesterday, and this was way out east in the sticks, right? So I'm driving, and I saw this big truck with a horse trailer. and he's coming down, and I know he's going to turn on the road. Like, he's turning right, and I'm turning left, and I know he's turning on, so I stopped, you know, I don't know, 30, 40, 50 feet from the intersection, you know, and I didn't do anything, right? I must have done something with my gesture, because he pulled up to me and rolled down the window, and he says, are you trying to say something to me? And I was like, no, I'm just giving you room. And he's like, oh, I really appreciate that. Thank you. But you see where that could have... Are you trying to say something to me? Could have... I was just giving you room to turn. He's like, oh, I really appreciate that. Thank you. Because he had a trailer, I had a trailer. And it was just like, hey, you can come on. I'm going to show you courtesy. We need to show courtesy, too, I think, a little bit more on the road. Agreed. But how we position the car. Where we stop on a stoplight, you know, remembering the rules of a four-way stop. And you know what? Let the other person go. If they want to go, they want to break the rules, go ahead. That's right. And here's another thing that really irritates me, John, is as soon as that light hurts hits green, people are laying on that horn. You know what? I'm going to pause a minute because there's too many.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah. I want to make sure nobody else comes to the intersection. If I'm the first one in line, I'm waiting a second or two because I want to make sure nobody else is coming through.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Yeah. And people are on the horn. Go, come on, come on, let's go. Let's go. Turn, turn green. And I'm like, you know, they're just, it's just, it's, it's ignorance and it's stupidity on, you know, really. And that's what gets people hurt and gets everybody all worked up.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, let's do this. I want to take a break, come back, and what I want to get to next is sometimes things may just be unavoidable. You do have to, you know, at some point stop, stop at a stoplight, whatever, and all of a sudden somebody's out of the car coming at you. I want to talk about that scenario and what people should do here, Bill. We'll do that next as soon as we come back. For all of you listening, don't forget, you can go find Bill on his own website. It's prep2protect.com. Prep2ProtectCO.com, and that 2 is a number 2, so Prep2ProtectCO.com. Ours is Ready-Radio.com. You can find everything you need there, including previous episodes. We'll be right back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Bill Anderson, joining me as well. All right, Bill, let's talk about how, you know, you may not have even known you did something. We've just got done talking about some of that. But all of a sudden, you find yourself, you pull up to an intersection. You didn't have any choice. Lights red, cars in front of you. You don't have any place to go. There's no exit. You didn't even know, by the way, you had done anything. So in this particular scenario... You really didn't even prep yourself properly for this because all of a sudden somebody is getting out of the car, they're angry, and they're at your side window. What's next?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, at that point, if you don't have any escape, meaning that you can't pull out for whatever reason, you're boxed in or you're at a red light, there's too much traffic going on, Whatever you lock you first of all when they're coming out you lock your doors your doors should be locked all the time You're in your car, right? They should just be locked because especially if you pull up at a red light and someone tries to carjack you and we do Carjacking scenarios we teach that kind of stuff and that's one thing we say is you know Soon you get your door lock them lock them right because that's a level or a layer of deterrent Keep those windows up, keep the door locked. If somebody's coming up to you, just say, hey, sorry, sorry, yeah, sorry, whatever. I'm not going to escalate it. I'm not going to escalate it. I'm not going to roll my window down. I'm not going to start getting into a verbal thing with him. I'm going to have my hand on the phone. Maybe I'm going to, depending on where it goes, maybe I'm going to start calling the police. Maybe I'm going to start recording his actions. that's where we're going to go from there. That's what I would do. You've got a barrier, stay in the barrier.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, what if, because I've seen this, you have too, you've seen videos, things along these lines to where that person now, because of that, you're not responding, and all of a sudden they've now got something that they're beating on the side of the window with. What do you do then?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, now they have escalated it. So they've brought it up to the next level and they're showing intent. And so now, you know, if they penetrate that window or look like they're coming in, you now are justified to defend yourself. And so at that point, you know, maybe you think layers. Maybe you're thinking, do I have some... hornet spray that i could spray out or some bear spray or something i mean uh you know i'm not necessarily a fan of the pepper spray in your car because guess who also is going to get that pepper spray maybe use that gel type pepper spray or something something okay so you know what really quick
SPEAKER 06 :
Let's talk about that for a moment because this is one thing that I don't know that I've ever even covered on all the programs I've got, including Drive Radio. So in this particular scenario, which I'm like you, I think you should do everything you possibly can minus shooting the guy. I mean, we'll get to that. We're not there yet. So in this particular case, what should, because I can put a link up on our website, give us a product, something that you could have in the car that would be a good deterrent for that individual that could, keeps us from having to pull a gun out?
SPEAKER 09 :
Honestly, I keep wasp spray. Okay. Multifunction, because, you know, we do an electrical business, too, and there's times where I open up a panel and there's a wasp nest in there, so I've always got wasp spray there. I've got a hammer. I've got a hammer sitting by my seat. That hammer may be a drywaller hammer, which may have an axe head on the other side. Right, right. Not sure. I will neither confirm nor deny that.
SPEAKER 06 :
And again, for a lot of us where you've got tools, things like that in the car, it makes sense. Some of us even carry pretty sizable flashlights that have the tangs on the end that can double up as almost a hammer, if you would, Bill. So some folks travel with those. But I'm talking even for some of the ladies that are listening out there where it's probably not going to be – something they're going to carry around with them. They're probably not going to have a hammer in the console. And so I'm looking at, okay, what other types of things, pepper spray, et cetera, and I'm with you. You're now going to have that back on you. But if that deters the other person and you're still able to diffuse the situation, that's better than just letting them go, correct?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's absolutely better if you, you know, get them to stop, you know, the forward momentum and stop.
SPEAKER 06 :
So this gel, this is new for me. I've never heard of the gel pepper spray. What is that?
SPEAKER 09 :
So it's more of a gel that will go onto your face instead of an aerosol type, which you could get blowback with the aerosol. So pepper gel.
SPEAKER 06 :
I see a listing here on Amazon now for it. I didn't know they made a gel. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah. I like that better.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. And it's a lot better, you know, it takes a little bit more aiming with it. Correct.
SPEAKER 06 :
But if they're right there next to your window and they're doing what we're talking about and they somehow break it and they're literally right in front of you, you're pretty much going to get to them at that point.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, yeah. And like I said, I carry the law spray, you know, you have bear spray. And that stuff too, John, is, you know, it's a little bit more gray man, like you already talked about. Hey, I'm a worker. I've got my hammer here. I actually have a hammer with a axe head on the side of it. I can't think of the brand of it. I can't think of what it's called, but a drywaller's hammer, the old drywaller's hammer. I know what you're talking about. Oh, yeah. I carried that not for self-defense, but I carried that actually because I use it. I use it all the time in what I do. Yeah. You know, it's not practical, and it's not in the console. It's right there next to my seat, you know. You could have some kind of a stick in there or something. It's a little hard to wield a stick in a car. Excuse me, wield a stick in a car. But I'm doing something like that. But here's the other thing, too, right? If I am concealed carrying, here's the thing. You need to learn, and this is something we teach in our class, how to get the seatbelt out of the way in order to access that weapon. Because, you know, your seatbelt, like if you carry it at 3 o'clock and you're right-handed, well, if you're the driver's seat, guess where your seatbelt is. You have to unbuckle it and go to it. So we teach a way with our left hand to go down the chest strap, if you will, hit the button, clear the weapon, and clear the belt. so that we can access it with our right hand and draw. And there's another thing you have to keep in consideration is how you draw in a car. Because it's no different than drawing from a seated position whether you're at a restaurant or whatever, you need to, as best as you can, roll to your side and extend that leg because you don't want to bring that gun up and potentially shoot yourself in the leg. And I know someone could say, well, you're going to shoot your – no. If you see how I'm drawing, I'm clearing my leg with that draw stroke. And you need to learn that. But maybe I'm accessing it and maybe I'm not – you know, fully displaying it. But I have on the ready because here's the thing. This goes quick. You know, they start beating on the window. They start doing that stuff. Maybe it's all timing. You have to learn to judge and to read the intent of somebody. Is there multiple people? Do you have somebody banging on your passenger window and the driver window? You know, the whole thing, the answer is, John, it's the favorite answer we have in self-defense. It depends. But these are some things you have in there that you can layer it. You start honking your horn. You start getting attention. Start calling people. Do all those deterrents. Do all those things. But stay in your car. Don't roll down your window. Don't get out to engage. Stay in the car. Even if you're in an accident... And this is hard. If it's questionable, stay in your car and wait for the cops to get there.
SPEAKER 06 :
I agree. Yeah, and you know what? I'm glad you brought that up. One thing else that I don't know that I've ever covered here is there's all these scams going on to where people will intentionally run into you so they can thereby scam you. Maybe, for example, their car was already damaged, but now by running into you and blaming you, by the way, for the accident, which is exactly what they'll do, sometimes they'll even back into you whereby it looks like you ran into them. And unless you're videoing that, it ends up being their word against your word. These are all things you have to be really careful of when you're out there. And I'm sorry, folks, this is just the world we live in because there's, as you know, Bill, just so many people out there trying to scam things and hurt you.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Yep. Yeah. And especially if you're driving a company truck.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, yeah, because you're now a bigger target.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. And they're thinking, oh, insurance, you know. There's a lot of that, you know, they'll park in front of you and then park behind you if they're working in teams or, you know, maybe they have, you know, like a lady and the child sitting on a corner and you roll down and then, you know, and you're good in your heart, you're doing something and you get ambushed. I mean, this, The problem is, is this stuff is going on. And again, stop thinking, oh, that'll never happen here. That only happens in sketchy areas. No, it's happening everywhere.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, it happens everywhere. I'm getting text messages in as we speak about various things, Bill, that we're talking about that are happening in all sorts of, I can tell by area codes, all sorts of areas around the country, not just Denver.
SPEAKER 09 :
Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah. And St. Parker, you know, it was a few months back, a guy went through Walmart stabbing people in Parker, you know. And I've known two people in Castle Rock that were approached filling up their cars at the Safeway gas station. And they tried to take them, you know, and this is right there in Castle Rock. So, you know, there's no safe area anymore, I don't think.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, and I'm getting, again, I'm getting people that are talking about how irate people get when it comes to some of the correct zipper merging, and they're doing things correctly in traffic, and yet it makes a lot of other people around them irritated. And, again, you may be doing what you know you need to do correctly, but it irritates somebody else to the point that, yeah, now at that next stoplight or stop sign or whatever it is, they're out of the car. And, again, folks, you've just got to be so careful now. As we said earlier, I would at all times, this is where even at intersections, guys, I don't like being in the middle lane. And for the reasons, Bill, that we're talking about right now, if there's, you know, I'm in the left lane and there's maybe even a turn lane and I've got the ability to zip into that to get away from somebody. or I'm in the right lane and there's another turn lane or there's a shoulder that I can go to. You know, I'm looking for all of the exits. Where it's worse and where you typically see a lot of these videos from, Bill, is those people that get stuck in that middle lane because you've got nowhere to go. You are now a quote-unquote captive audience and you have no ability to get out of that. So, folks, I am suggesting that if at all possible, you're always on one of the outside lanes, even at an intersection. Even if, you know, well, I'm in the middle lane because I know I'm going to have to get over one more lane to turn left. And that's coming up rather quickly. Here's the other thing that I've always learned. I tell my wife this all the time and she's always laughing at me. Bill, there's always somebody asleep at the wheel, so never fear about merging in even if it's 100 yards down the road because you're always going to have room because there's always somebody asleep at the wheel that you can merge into. So stay out of that middle lane. If you're thinking, listen, well, I've got to get over and I've got to get in the middle lane right now because I've got to get right over right after the intersection. You know what? You've got plenty of time to get all the way over to the left lane without much issue at all because, again, most people are asleep at the wheel and And you know what? Worst case scenario, you go down, you make a U-turn, you come back, you do whatever. It's not the end of the world. But stay out of that middle lane is my point.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that's exactly right. Even if you miss the turn, go down, turn around. Again, is it worth it?
SPEAKER 06 :
No. Is it worth it, John?
SPEAKER 09 :
It's not. You're a few more minutes late. I mean... I get it, you know.
SPEAKER 06 :
And again, and this, I think, too, Bill, it really doesn't. I'm sorry to say this. You know, some would say, well, you know what? Yeah, that late at night, that's what I'm doing. But during the day, I'm just going to do what I do. Well, no, Bill, these things can happen in rush hour traffic. They can happen in the middle of the afternoon. They can happen in evening traffic. They can happen at dark when you're coming home after going to the restaurant, you know, whatever the case may be. Reality, Bill, is they can happen at any time. It doesn't make any difference what time of the day it is at all.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, no, it can happen. You know, I'll give you another example. And I know somebody who did this. And I'm like, why did you do that? They were picking up a child from school and they were going through the carpool lane or whatever, the child pickup lane, I don't know what they're called these days. And somebody came in and somebody like jammed their way in the front of the line, didn't wait their turn. And then, you know, they're all mad at them. And then they sped out, you know, they were going fast in the school zone. So they followed them to their house and started yelling at them. Now, the person that I know, is the person that followed them and started yelling at them. And I'm like, why in the world would you do that? And they're like, I don't know. I was just so mad. I can't, you know, but see the point, see the point how that could have gone. Yep. That can go really bad. It could have gone anywhere. Oh yeah. Right. And the person that followed them is not an aggressive person, but what are you doing? You know, what are you doing?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, don't be that person. You don't know what that might actually, you know, get you into when it's all said and done. And, you know, I mean, ultimately what we're really trying to get to is after reading these types of stories, and I don't know where this one ends, Bill. I'm guessing that, you know, one person's dead. The other person's still in jail. I don't know exactly what's going to happen next. Not a good situation. Now, one other thing I wanted to add is in this particular scenario where this altercation happened— The person does get their gun out. They do shoot and kill the person that was, quote-unquote, attacking them, and then drove off. Now, I will say this, Bill. This I do know for positive. I don't know what led up to this. I don't know what happened up to this point. But I do know this. Don't drive away.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, you don't leave the scene.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that is the worst thing you could do.
SPEAKER 09 :
You never leave the scene. I had a friend when we were very young, you know, 21 or whatever. You know, I wasn't with him at the time, but he was driving home late at night. I think he was leaving the Grizzly Rose. He ran into the median, left, left, and came back. And the cops were there, and they gave him a DUI.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, no.
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And I'm like, well, why did you leave? Why? why did you leave? And, um, you know, and his whole argument was, well, I drank after I hit that. We all, everybody knew that was, you know, baloney, you know, he just, he made it worse by leaving because now, Hey, you've changed everything when you've left. Now you're showing, what are you trying to hide? Why did you ditch the gun? Why didn't you just stand there and wait? According to the new Colorado state law for CCW, by the way, we have to teach engaging with law enforcement even after a shooting. And how do you handle that? And even with traffic stops with concealed carry-in, yeah, you could second amendment and say, I don't have to tell you anything. You could do that, but usually if you... State to the officer or state to the 911 call, hey, I fired shots. The person is down. Please send an ambulance. I am here. I'm dressed in here. How would you like me to proceed? And wait for instruction. You're way better off, John.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. Yep. And somebody's asking me, can we talk about the issue that happened down at the Safeway in Castle Rock? And I just asked him, if they would send me that story, yes, we can talk about it. I'm not as familiar with that one. Maybe you are, Bill. I don't know what happened at the Safeway in Castle Rock. And I read a lot of stuff throughout the weeks and months and years, guys, so I apologize if I somehow missed that one. I kind of remember something about that story, Bill, but I do not have that one at my fingertips.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, it didn't make news or anything. I just knew two people on two different occurrences that were at the Safeway parking, the one down on Founders there, Point Creek, excuse me. They were filling up their car and they had a woman and a child approach them asking them for gas money while a van tried to box them in. And both of the people that this happened to at two different occasions were told me the story, you know, are trained, we train in self-defense. And so they recognized what was going on and they avoided the situation, but they were being approached by a woman and a child saying, hey, we need some gas. And meanwhile, a van was trying to box that other car in And probably trying to nab one of them is probably what was going to go down.
SPEAKER 06 :
Gotcha. Gotcha. So, you know, you bring up another great point, which thank you for bringing that up because I didn't even get to that part yet. And we'll dovetail into this is, you know, there are more altercations. This is a known fact. There's more accidents and altercations in parking lots than there is anywhere. So you're more likely to have a problem in a parking lot. than you are anywhere else because people aren't paying attention. In some cases, they've gone to the restaurant. Maybe they have a little too much to drink. I mean, on down the line we go, Bill. People just don't pay as close of attention in parking lots as they typically should, and that's typically where accidents happen. That's why, by the way, and sorry to get off on a tangent here, but that's why I'm such a big proponent of backing in to your parking places because it's much easier to see everything going on around you pulling out than backing out. And I know that's hard for a lot of people because that initial backing in might take a little bit more time. But Bill, I'm a big one on that because your chances of having issues backing into the space is far less than backing out of the space. They lose you, Bill. Oh, yeah, I lost Bill. Well, we'll get Bill back. You know, let's do this. Charlie, let's take a break. I'm sure Bill will call back here in just one moment. We'll take our last break of the show anyways. Again, ready-radio.com. We'll be right back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560 website, ready-radio.com. Bill, I was talking about how a lot of altercations happen in parking lots. I have several messages, text messages that have come in along those lines as well. And that's another, we can almost do a complete hour on just how to handle yourself in a parking lot, walking out from the store. Where do you park in the first place? And maybe next week we ought to just dovetail into that because that leads into a whole other conversation, especially as we get into more of the You know, darker evenings and we'll have folks that will be out shopping for all the holidays that honestly aren't that far away. I think Christmas is, what, 90 or so days away. If that, I think it's a little less than that. So it's not as far away, Bill, as we think.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, well, I better get you my Christmas list, huh?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, man, yeah, because it's coming fast. So, yeah, get it to me. So, yeah, we get things dialed in. And, you know, seriously, though, there's a lot of things that happen in and around parking lots and from everything you were talking about where there can be, you know, close encounters with abductions and things along those lines. And, by the way, there's also a lot of – conspiracy theories around sorts of things that are happening where you know don't touch this don't touch that now i'll get into some of that next week on things that i do think you need to be aware of that are real threats but there's also a lot of things out there bill where people get all worked up over stuff that's frankly it's a it's a wife's tale that gets passed down that's not real yeah like they they put something on your car and you touch it and then you correct you
SPEAKER 09 :
Put you to sleep and things like that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, those things really aren't happening. But there's other things that I do believe, Bill, are, and that's where you've got to be extremely careful, cautious. We can get into some of that next week. Let's finish up, though. And I've had several people talking about what would happen with them at a stoplight if something like what we've talked about happens. And again, the biggest mistake that I see this particular individual making, Bill, was leaving. I mean, you now look, and maybe I'm wrong in saying this, Bill, but you look more guilty when you leave than had you just stayed there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. It's like, well, why did you feel the need to leave? What are you hiding? Right. You know, and you change the whole scenario. Did you change, you know, did you change your clothes? Did you hide the gun? Did you, I mean, there's just so many.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, in this case, he's throwing the casings away. Why are you doing that?
SPEAKER 09 :
Why are you doing that? If it was justified, you don't need to do that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hide anything.
SPEAKER 09 :
There's nothing to hide. Nothing to hide, right? Now, again, we don't know the backstory here, John. I mean, he could have been a felon that wasn't allowed to have them, and maybe... I don't know. We don't know the backstory. Could be. There's so much. Again, it depends. But, you know, we already started back all the way from the beginning of this scenario in how many options this person had where... it didn't have to lead to this, you know, with the whole, Hey, just whatever. We had a little disagreement on the road, go your way. I'll go my way. Um, to the point where the guy's out of the car, my windows down. I mean, there's a buildup to all of this and what we try to do, you know, there's five stages of violent crime. You know, you got the intent, you got the interview, you've got, you know, kind of the, the, the, you know, I'm targeting, I'm positioning, and we can go through all five of those, but the point is, is you can interrupt those at any time. It doesn't need to get escalated continually. It's like, you know, the intent, I see that this person shows intent with their face or their body language or whatever, and I could be like, okay, I'm going to cross the road. You know, he gets out of his car, he shows intent. Okay, I have a decision to make right now. You know, hey, stay back, stay back, I'm picking up the phone, I'm calling the phone, stay back, and you can do that, roll your window up, lock your doors, you know, get out your pepper spray, your wasp spray, whatever, and then he gets closer, he starts banging on it. Well, you got to take each level, each layer at a time and deal with it. But remember, you know, you can escalate it and you can turn from victim to assailant in a snap, in a heartbeat. Right, right. You know, I will tell you another story of somebody I know. that was in a road rage. They were going down the highway, and these people were just, you know, cutting them off, brake-checking them, getting them behind them, you know, doing that whole game. Right. And this particular person pulled their gun out and put it on the dashboard. And so the car sped off. They're like, he's like, all right, yeah, I guess they got the point. Well, guess what? Before he knows it, he was being pulled over. They called the cops on him. Yeah, because he flashed a gun.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 09 :
And he...
SPEAKER 06 :
went went to jail and and he's like well i was the good guy here i was just trying to get these guys no you took it to the next level you are now the bad guy wow that's a new story now that doesn't shock me doesn't surprise me in today's day and age but you know that goes back to the whole course that you teach bill don't get it out unless you plan on using it right i lost you for a minute bill
SPEAKER 10 :
Sorry about that.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, you're back. What I said was, in your case, and you teach this, that goes back to that old training that you guys teach when it comes to concealed carry. If you're not going to use it, don't get it out.
SPEAKER 09 :
Right, right. And it goes back to my Army days.
SPEAKER 06 :
You shoot to kill.
SPEAKER 09 :
And so if you don't intend on killing somebody, you better not deploy that weapon. Because even if you deploy it with the intent of, I'm going to shoot you in the leg. Yep. You know, with a 10 feet, John, that gun comes out and we're within that range, which most aggravated assaults happen within that range. There's two things that's going through that person's mind. One, I'm going to take it from you because you're going to use it against me, or I'm going to take it and use it against you. It's probably more I'm going to take it so you don't use it against me. But here's the point. The fight for the gun is on.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right. That's exactly right. No, you've got to be so careful. Put it off. And I'm going to let you go, Bill. You're still breaking up really bad. I'm going to let you go, though. We're about end of the show anyway, so not a big deal. Appreciate you, Bill. All you do for us. You can find Bill, by the way, go to prep2protectco.com. Prep2protectco.com. Dave, I've got exactly one minute. Go for it, sir.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, just want to reiterate what you guys are talking about. You know, that's just what that's called, a felony menacing. And obviously, if you're caring for your own protection... and as your instructor friend is talking about, when you go through that training and you pull it out, it's because substance has hit the fan and there's no other way out, and you're defending your life. You don't threaten anybody. You don't use it like you would if you were shaking your fist.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right. Yeah, you do not want to do that. That's like Bill just talked about in the story that he gave, Dave. You're going to end up in more trouble than the other person. Don't do that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Even if it's a justifiable shooting.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right. Don't do it.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that you're going to go through hell.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's right. You're going to be in trouble. That's exactly right. Dave, thanks. I appreciate that. We're going to end up things here. Ready Radio, again, go to our website, ready-radio.com. That's ready-radio.com. You can look at all of our past episodes that are there. And, again, I think next week we'll continue on with what do you do to keep yourself safe when it comes to the parking lot scenario and so on as we get into that time of the year where more and more people will be doing that. We'll be back again next week. This is Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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That's right. It's time for Florida Man on the Dana Show, D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio, and X on Twitter. I am Craig Collins filling in. A Florida man put somebody else in his car over a crazy, crazy argument that happened at a 7-Eleven. So a Florida clerk is working, and a dude comes into the 7-Eleven in Florida, of course. The guy, I think, is 49 years old. This is in Seminole County where it happened. And he wants to buy some black and milds. He wants to buy some some cigars, some very popular small cigars, actually. He said that the clerk didn't immediately stop cleaning up to serve him. So he got mad. He started to yell and they got into a verbal argument. And at one point, the clerk at the 7-Eleven decided to usher the man out of the establishment into his vehicle and lock him. which I find hilarious. I also do think that it's the kind of thing that you're sort of weak if you allow someone to do. But anyway, nonetheless, yes, the guy, the defendant, wound up getting shut inside a vehicle that he couldn't get out of for some reason. That's when he called 911 to say that he had been detained and arrested by the 7-Eleven clerk who thought he was being disrespectful in the first place. This only happens in Florida, man. You only have somebody walk into an establishment, get mad about the service they provide, and then have that person who you're mad at decide to pseudo arrest you, which is illegal. That is a crime. You do get in trouble for that. He said the defendant that he was scared that something else might happen, which is part of the reason he went along with being locked inside the guy's car. Come on, dude. Just leave. Just decide not to get your black and mild and leave when the clerk is berating you for being upset with them and then also threatening to lock you into their vehicle. This story is crazy, though. Another Florida man that I do like, a guy in Marion County, decided to build a tire fortress around his property when he thought people were being a little bit too nosy. This is the kind of thing I just accept and not even really pay attention to, to be honest. If I live next to a Florida tire fort guy, I just think that was the cost of living in beautiful Florida. All right, quick break. A lot more. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show. I would not have said that Biden's brain was broken if he was doing this many interviews this well with media every day. But of course, his administration knew that he wouldn't. So they protected him at all costs from anyone and everyone in media. And actually, it's not like they could roll out the vice president. Her word salad broken crazy things seem to demonstrate that her brain might also be broken at a much younger age, which is probably bad. Case in point might be this. There's a new viral clip that shows Kamala Harris talking about how babies would be passed around at her rallies. This is a weird thing to brag about, by the way. Like, not pass to her to kiss them. She just, like, would see in the audience a whole bunch of people just passing around babies. Whether or not that's my child and I trust all the people around me to give the child back to me, that's not important. We're celebrating the vice president, apparently, and her run for office by passing around babies just at any kind of event for some reason. Here is how Kamala Harris described this.
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You know, one of my favorite things to see, and it would always happen spontaneously at our rallies, and thousands of people would come, and it would happen is invariably somebody would want me to take a picture or to hug their child, and someone in the back would hand that baby over. Just hand the baby. Through the crowd. Up to you. Of people who would. Bless the baby. But pass the baby. See. And then pass the baby back.
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Pass the baby back. This is ridiculous. It didn't happen, by the way. This not only didn't occur as often as Kamala Harris wants to say it did, but if it did, she should have immediately said no to this. Like, don't just hand your baby to strangers. Don't do that just to get a picture with me and the baby. This seems ridiculous and bad. It's insane. And there's so many different versions of just broken, ridiculous, lying craziness. But that is Harris. And she also said it with that twang and voice that she's trying to use, depending on who she thinks her audience is. Her speech changes, which is weird, and it happens for a lot of people in politics. And I want to say another thing about that real quick. I know that's not what this rant is about, per se. If you're someone, Jasmine Crockett's another name that comes to mind, and Trump recently called her low IQ again. But if you're someone who talks like that in your real life, like when the cameras are off, when you're not in front of the microphone, and you can say it's because of your ethnicity or whatever you want, If you're someone who talks in that weird version of speech that I don't use as a white dude, then do it all the time. Don't do it occasionally. Do it constantly. Own who you are. Be yourself. Don't be performative in another way if your performance is actually the version of you that doesn't speak like that. I think that that would be good for society is to be who you are all the time, because it would make me not accuse you of being performative when you do it occasionally, when in front of certain audiences. And Hillary Clinton did this. A bunch of other people did this. And I know if you're a black, you'll couch this in. Well, this is how I actually am. I just can't be this way because white people wouldn't like it. Well, that's as inauthentic as the opposite, as pretending that you're something you're not, depending on what crowd you're in front of. Just be yourself and see if you can get votes that way. But that's why I don't believe it. I don't think that these individuals are like this. And actually, what I most appreciate... I guess this is the last thing I'll say before I take a break. I most appreciate about Trump, about Elon Musk, about Charlie Kirk. Very tragic to have lost Charlie Kirk. I know I didn't fill in for Dana after that, and she did an amazing job. You should check out the videos and audio that's out there, Dana, who knew Charlie and how she talked about him. But something that they said about Charlie Kirk that they say about Elon and Trump, same person. in front of microphone, in front of camera, as they are off camera, off microphone, exact same, same beliefs, same thoughts, same mannerisms, just identical individual. And that is so rare in our society, especially in politics. It's so rare that it deserves to be celebrated. And these individuals who don't do it, who don't do any form of it, deserve to be told that they need to behave differently and be rejected by society until they actually are the real version of themselves, whatever it is. Because the performance is the thing that acts like you and I are stupid. It definitely does not respect the audience when you do performative versions of anything. And so I think it's sort of amazing that, That we have that version of defense that comes out whenever someone does throw in the slang more. And then they say, well, that's who I actually am. But you can't take it as the white people out there or the whoever out there in society. So I can only be myself occasionally. That means you're a liar. And that means you're probably lying about a whole bunch of other things. If it's even true that that's the lie that the lie you're telling us is actually a fact and not just another lie.
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Erica Kirk demonstrates the power of her Christian faith by forgiving her husband's murderer. The communist Chinese are likely culprits in a plot against critical U.S. communications. Will we ever get serious about confronting them? And Google's parent company admits what we already knew, that it censored YouTube accounts on orders from the Biden administration. I'm Greg Karumbas, inviting you to join Jim Garrity of National Review and me each weekday for the Three Martini Lunch podcast. We'll give you the top news, some good laughs, and we'll be done in less than 30 minutes. Follow the Three Martini Lunch on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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That's right. It's time for a Quick Five on the Dana Show. Thrilled to be with you. My name is Craig Collins filling in. This is funny whenever this happens. But a ref turned on a microphone during Thursday night football last night. And just as he was talking and making a call, a player walked by him and said a very bad word. Seattle, Arizona, final score 23-20. This moment probably, you know, as entertaining as a very good game. Here we go.
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Jackson Smith and Jigba, who didn't really need to make the hole, is right in front of the ball carrier.
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Offense number 11. 10-yard penalty. Be careful. He even looked, didn't he? He did. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah.
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Beautiful.
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I love all the reactions to it after they hear the bad word that gets played on television, mostly because I bet you the player did it on purpose. I think that you know as the mic's on, you want your side of the equation to be thrown in there, and that's what it was. So I like that all the time. I like when players are mic'd up. I like when baseball does it. Everything about it is just a lot of fun. Let's get more of that going on. I don't care if bad words happen. It's a part of the game, baby. They're saying a whole lot of bad things on the field all the time. Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit about deceptive practices and forcing you into certain things as far as your Amazon Prime membership is concerned. Deceptive Prime enrollment practices is what it was saying. The suit was filed in 2023 under the Biden administration. It claimed that Amazon created confusing and deceptive user interfaces that led consumers to enroll in Prime without knowing it. to pay a whole bunch of money. So yeah, yet another company that's big and terrible and overly powerful in our society doing something bad and getting hit with a speed bump that they'll pay. Even if the speed bump is that significant, they'll figure out a way to throw that money in and just keep going, just keep doing more of the same. All right. Another thing out there, Starbucks has announced significant store closures and layoffs. This is causing a whole lot of chaos on the left. CNN is one of the places that reported on this and talked about how it might be because Starbucks has dealt with a whole lot of employees who have unionized. And that means that Starbucks is bad, not the other thing. The thing is that Starbucks is struggling a whole lot because a bunch of its stores are Not as popular, apparently. And the amount of money they're paying off their workers, maybe not as great as it used to be. So, again, a big reason why likely this whole thing is shutting down or not all of them, but a bunch of Starbucks are closing is because you can't force a business to do something that doesn't benefit the business. Inevitably, they just close the whole thing down. Not surprised at all. And again, I don't think I'll go into the fear mongering version of this is bad because because this is how companies react to losing money. They close businesses. There's a guy that needs to be publicly roasted. Ticketmaster CEO says concert tickets are too cheap. Actually, that's ridiculous, of course, to a whole lot of us. But the CEO at Ticketmaster would like concert tickets to be more expensive. So he makes more money. Mostly what he's saying is that they get resold on the secondary market for more money than actually people pay for them originally, and it's cutting into his profits, baby. What an idiot. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show.
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Our partners, our friends at Caltech who actually understand trigger discipline. You know, it's a it's a thing. The PR 57. Now everybody's got to start thinking about protection. Guns do save lives and they are used three times more to save lives. And this is not you have to take my word for it. You can take Democrat criminal researcher Gary Kleck down at University of Florida. You can also take Obama's DOJ 2013 and 2016, respectively, two separate studies which confirm this, that they are used more in defense of life. than by criminals in illegal possession to do criminal things and so we all have to start thinking about our security one of the best ways to do this obviously is get something you're going to shoot and train with it i would suggest to you especially if you like five sevens or if you want something that's you know a little bit more five sevens this their new uh pr 57 chambered in five seven this is the lightest five seven that's on the market 40 lighter than the competition And it is they achieve this through two different ways. They have the rotary barrel that makes it lighter, but also the very unique way that it's loaded. It's a top loading design. So it replaces the magazines with stripper clips. So you have a slimmer carry profile, 20 plus one capacity. MSRP makes it affordable. Only three ninety nine gun safe lives. and I think it's always good, especially when you can buy American, and that's what Kel-Tec is, American company based in Florida, everything in the USA. Learn more at keltecweapons.com, K-E-L-T-E-C, weapons.com. Tell them that Dana sent you.
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And by the way, celebrating... Kimmel this week has probably been one of the most annoying things the left has done. I don't think they'll be watching long term because Kimmel's just really not that good. He alienates half his audience and how hardcore politically he is something that, um, You know, I really love a quote from Johnny Carson about this. And I'm about to be 40, so I'm not someone who grew up watching Carson. But you can still appreciate the significance of Johnny Carson to late-night television. And one thing he said about not sharing his own opinion in that world is that if you do it too often, it starts to become something that you believe is more important than just entertaining people. You start to be so full of yourself—this is Carson's opinion— That you no longer are serving your audience. You're serving yourself and how you throw out your opinions on a daily basis in the world of late night entertainment television. And I think he's absolutely right about that. There are places and forums where what you, you know, choose to go and consume is going to be opinionated, political, whatever. I mean, this show is a great example of that. Dana is not going to be shy about her opinions on a daily basis on this show because that's what this show is about. But if she were given a late night, you know, entertainment talk show, I shouldn't speak for Dana, but I think if anybody were given a late night entertainment talk show, some part of them might say, hey, if I can try to lay off the politics a little more in that atmosphere, maybe I'd have a larger audience. This is something that Kimmel and others seem to refuse to learn that Johnny Carson knew is that if you're not coming to me for political opinion and when you used to turn on late night entertainment interview TV, you weren't going there for political opinion. And a whole lot of people do not go there for political opinion now. That's why they don't watch it. Then you shouldn't add it. You actually you know what I also love? It's something that a couple guys in sports radio talk about. I won't name them. I don't want to push you anywhere other than this show. But I do love when people say that the audience determines what I pay attention to, not what I think of it. That's not how the audience gets to tell me what to do. My opinion will always be my own. I have to share my own. I have to be honest about what I think because anything else is going to fail. Honestly, that's the number one trick I think of media in general, whatever form you're on, is say what you actually think. It'll be easier than trying to make up stuff that you don't believe. But as far as what topics you discuss, absolutely, the audience can dictate which ones you should be focused on because it's the ones they care about. and the ones they probably most want your take on. And that's something that comes from sports media too. And I love that when people say that, when they push you that road, because it is true. It is valuable to pay attention to the things that other people are paying attention to. Now, case in point, to get back to something else I was trying to say though, is late night hosts celebrate it. Trump being censored and removed from all media. Jimmy Kimmel, for about a week, lost a network talk show. He got it back, but he lost it for a few days. He wasn't silenced at any form of social media. He absolutely joked about the death of Charlie Kirk, and he absolutely tried to point the finger at MAGA. and claimed that the killer of Charlie Kirk was a MAGA individual, which he's absolutely not. No part of that makes any sense. He then came back without apologizing and said that he never meant to say the things he evidently said. But nonetheless, he wasn't silenced as much as Trump was. This did not occur in the same capacity whatsoever. And here is the left celebrating the silencing of someone that they heavily disagree with. Again, something that didn't even happen to Kimmel. But now Kimmel and others are pretending as though it's a freedom of speech thing for them and for, you know, this one person to be kept on network television, even though, as I said a moment ago, he's already alienating half of the audience. and how he chooses to be overly political when they're really coming there for entertainment, or at least used to come there for that and not for the political ranting.
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Trump has been suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and even Snapchat. But don't worry, Mr. President, there are still plenty of apps you do have access to. You still have Spotify to drown out the sound of millions of people cheering as you leave. Google, Apple and Amazon removed the Parler app from their platforms. Parlor is where all the right wingers gather to post QA nonsense and misspelled the word parlor. Trumpers are complaining bitterly that they're being silenced. In fact, they won't shut up about being silenced.
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I love having Donald Trump off Twitter, not to mention all the other toxic racists and conspiracy theorists that have been booted off.
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Damn, a lifetime Twitter ban has got a sting. They took away his precious. Twitter isn't the only social media site that wants nothing to do with our president. He's also been banned or restricted from a bevy of other platforms, including Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Reddit, even Twitch. What are you waiting for, Pornhub? It's not a coincidence. Yeah, way to go.
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Stephen Colbert, hilarious, hilarious stuff. Anyway, again, they all celebrated this. And these are the same people that are up in arms now saying that, you know, the right to have a talk show is the same as the right of a president of the United States to be left on social media platforms. The silencing of Trump while he was still in the office of president is absolutely one of the most ridiculous things that ever happened in our society. And it should be the same thing where the, you know, free speech warrior is up in arms screaming and yelling and all of them were celebrating it. So you reap what you sow seems to be an aspect of that in the world of these individuals being so proud of something. If it inevitably even remotely close to the same, which it wasn't happens to them, they get to react the way they do. But guess what? We're not all that surprised that it occurs. And maybe more of these people deserve to be fired because they don't have anywhere near the audience that Carson used to have. because no one cares about hearing their political opinion so much. Let the audience tell you what it wants to hear you talk about. Don't be defiant in the face of that when your ratings are terrible.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Greg Collins filling in on special assignment. Thrilled to be with you. D Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her and all the awesome things that are happening on social media for her and her team. And honestly, you really should follow that because there's a lot of great things that happen there. All right, let's do some stuff. Let's talk about things. James Comey has to be a topic of conversation. And I want to do this the best way I can, because I think a lot of mainstream media is going to trash this. And then a lot of far right media is going to praise it without contextualizing what exactly is happening. Or they'll do some version of it, but I don't think it'll be good enough. So I really want to go the extra step here to help you understand what is occurring. The left forever has told us that no one's above the law. It doesn't matter what you do. If you break a law, any law, you deserve to have the book thrown at your face as hard as it possibly can be. And that would be essentially their their big, giant version of we didn't go after Trump unfairly. We went after Trump because he deserved it. All the crazy times that they tried to get him in a courtroom. What I think is amazing about that is Comey definitely lied under oath. And that is something that is against the law. You're not allowed to do it. You're not supposed to do it, etc., etc., especially not if you're someone who's involved with, say, the FBI, for example. Let's go ahead and prove that first before we do anything else. Comey, who in his own book has made certain mentions to things and also has definitely demonstrated that he was a source that leaked things to news media. Well, under oath to Congress, he said, I did no such thing. How dare you for even accusing me of something like this? You horrible, terrible people on the right.
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Director Comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to to the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
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Never.
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Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation?
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No. I needed to get that out into the public square, so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. I do it myself for a variety of reasons, but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.
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Wait a minute. So you lied under oath. And you're the one admitting it, by the way. James Comey is the one saying, yeah, I did the thing that I told you I didn't do. My bad. Whoops-a-daisy. How dare I do this? And by the way, remember, everyone was so, so happy when they said that no one was above the law. Everyone deserved to be in trouble, including, I think, James Comey, who at several times during 2024 said that Trump needed to be thrown in the hooscow and had absolutely no remorse in believing that Trump was guilty of something and deserved to be imprisoned, even as he was running for political office and evidently in front of Joe Biden at the time.
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a lot of people have suggested that there are a range of factors that would make it difficult to put a former there's not the system has not been tested in this way do you agree with that that would be difficult or nearly impossible for the law enforcement institutions to put him in in actual jail no they would just put him in a double wide somewhere out near the fence out in the grass and he would eat there he'd shower there he'd exercise there he'd be away as donya perry said from general population but it's obviously doable
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Obviously doable. We'll throw him in a double wide. I hope James Comey gets thrown in a double wide. But anyway, all of these things were to demonstrate the fact that Comey definitely broke the law. And that's what he is being indicted for, for making false statements and obstructing justice. It's that simple. By the way, James Comey's son-in-law apparently has also resigned. He was someone who helped prosecute the January Sixers. He has left his office as assistant U.S. attorney because the trash is now taking itself out, as Nick Sordo and others said, which I love. There's so many versions of this, though, that seem to demonstrate to us How ridiculously hypocritical a certain side of the political world is, the landscape in which we live today. And actually, this might be another interesting example of that. The FBI has finally acknowledged that there were plainclothes agents in the massive crowd on January 6th. But you're going to be surprised at the exact amount. I'm not surprised, meaning you didn't think this was true all along, but surprised that they've finally given us a number that seems to demonstrate how many of the, I don't know if you want to call them conspiracy theorists anymore because they keep being right about stuff, but how many of the conspiracy theorists really thought existed. 275 plainclothes agents were in the massive crowd on January 6th, 2021.
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275.
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That's a lot of people. That's a significant amount. of the individuals who are in that crowd, maybe potentially telling people what to do or how to make something worse and not better. All of this seems to matter quite a bit. Again, In the grand scheme of things, there's a lot of people who have forgot about it. It's four and a half years now. Who cares? You've moved on. Well, actually, if you're the left, you haven't moved on from the idea that January 6th was the worst day in society, which it wasn't, of course, not at all. And context definitely demonstrates how far from the truth that actually is. But more so than anything else, what I think is important about that idea or about that discussion is Because it's just the same old, same old for people who pay attention that eventually you get the truth. You eventually hear it at a place when they believe that we're not paying attention anymore. And that's when we have to pay attention the most. We have to eventually throw this in people's faces because we want the truth from jump. We don't want them to delay it. We don't want them to try to avoid it and try to push the goalposts as far back as possible before inevitably, you know, doing what they're doing. All right. I do want to play this audio, too. This is James Comey talking about how there's a cost to standing up to Donald Trump. He's an innocent man, even though he himself admitted that he lied under oath when he gave a different answer later on to a question he had definitively said no to. It seems pretty easy in the grand scheme of things. If you haul this gentleman into court and just play his audio against his audio, you should have an open and shut case.
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My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees and you shouldn't either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant and she's right, but I'm not afraid. I hope you're not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it.
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You know what's really interesting about this, too, by the way? James Comey is someone who absolutely lied under oath by his own admission. He didn't say it that way, but he demonstrated that it's true. And then he goes the other road in telling you that you need to be motivated and fight the tyrant. Every time that they tell us, that we're the bad guys, which the left does all the time. They claim not to. They claim not to have supercharged and this version of rhetoric that does make things dangerous in society. They claim that that's not them. And every time they say that you're the bad guy and they're the good guy, you just have to see stuff like this. because it's always about what's best for them. It's always about what helps them the most. Complaining or pretending that this is a version of dictatorship because James Comey is actually going to be held accountable to something he did that was wrong. And remember, nobody is above the law. I believe that's something they told us a whole lot of times. that everyone is, you know, the same and we're all supposed to be prosecuted no matter who we are, no matter what our role is. I think Letitia James said that multiple times. I think I even have the audio of that, actually.
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No one is above the law. No matter how rich, powerful, or politically connected you are.
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Our job is to follow the facts and the law without fear or favor.
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The fact is, no one is above the law. No one, not even the president, is above the law.
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Yeah, but James Comey is. Apparently, according to the left. But anyway, they tell you you're the bad guy, that they're the good guy. And then you find another example of how they are liars. How they are people who are manipulating and changing anything and everything for their own benefit. And by the way, one other quick thing. We're doing a walk down memory lane, I guess, to start the show today. All the late night hosts who were up in arms about Jimmy Kimmel. And the fact that he was almost fired and then he was allowed to have his job back. What I think is amazing about that. And there's two things, actually, that I think are really important. First, Jimmy Kimmel wasn't imprisoned. He wasn't murdered. He was allowed to keep doing everything that he wanted to do, just maybe not on network television. That is definitely an example of the freedoms that exist in our country. If this was actually a dictatorship and a horrible place where free speech wasn't allowed, Jimmy Kimmel wouldn't be a man walking around free. He'd be in jail somewhere, imprisoned there by a dictator who didn't want to hear him talk anymore. That didn't happen. That never happened with Kimmel. But the other thing that's amazing is the hypocrisy. It's always the hypocrisy, people, because so many times... Late night media praised the idea of Donald Trump, President Trump at the time, being silenced, being removed from social media because they thought it served the greater good. And then Jimmy Kimmel absolutely tried to pretend as though the person who murdered Charlie Kirk was somehow a MAGA Republican. He claimed that. Absolutely, he did. There's no version of rewatching that where you think something else happened. 100%, that's what occurred. And then he pretended as though he didn't say that when he came back in his non-apology. But again, nonetheless, people wanted someone to be held accountable if it's someone on the right or if it's someone as significant as Trump. to things on social media. They wanted them actually to be removed from society much more than Kimmel was. His Twitter wasn't shut down. None of the things he had access to were taken away other than network television. And really because he made a whole lot of people mad, which he's done for a while. And that doesn't really help his ratings. It has nothing to do with punishing him because the people who are upset with him are in power. It has to do with the fact that it's bad for television business if half the people in the country think you're an absolute jerk. But here is late night media celebrating Silicon Valley and the removal of Trump, the censorship of Trump, something that they then were up in arms about when it even sort of kind of not even all that much at all happened to Jimmy Kimmel.
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Trump has been suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and even Snapchat. But don't worry, Mr. President, there are still plenty of apps you do have access to. You still have Spotify to drown out the sound of millions of people cheering as you leave. Google, Apple, and Amazon removed the Parler app from their platforms. Parler is where all the right-wingers gather to post QAnon sense and misspell the word parlor. Trumpers are complaining bitterly that they're being silenced. In fact, they won't shut up about being silenced.
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I love having Donald Trump off Twitter, not to mention all the other toxic racists and conspiracy theorists that have been booted off.
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Oh, damn. A lifetime Twitter ban has got to sting. They took away his precious. Twitter isn't the only social media. I'm good.
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You get the idea. There's a whole bunch more of this, but it's terrible. It's awful. And they were thrilled about it when it was someone they disagreed with, not when it was one of their own. How dare you do that? That's the end of society. All right. Quick break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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Our partners, our friends at Caltech who actually understand trigger discipline. You know, it's a it's a thing. The PR 57. Now everybody's got to start thinking about protection. Guns do save lives and they are used three times more to save lives. And this is not you have to take my word for it. You can take Democrat criminal researcher Gary Kleck down at University of Florida. You can also take Obama's DOJ 2013 and 2016, respectively, two separate studies which confirm this, that they are used more in defense of life. than by criminals in illegal possession to do criminal things. And so we all have to start thinking about our security. One of the best ways to do this, obviously, is get something you're going to shoot and train with it. I would suggest to you, especially if you like five sevens, or if you want something that's, you know, a little bit more five sevens, this their new PR 57 chambered in five seven, this is the lightest five seven that's on the market 40% lighter than the competition. And it is they achieve this through two different ways. They have the rotary barrel that makes it lighter, but also the very unique way that it's loaded. It's a top loading design. So it replaces the magazines with stripper clips. So you have a slimmer carry profile 20 plus one capacity. MSRP makes it affordable only 399 gun safe lives. and I think it's always good, especially when you can buy American, and that's what Kel-Tec is, American company based in Florida, everything in the USA. Learn more at keltecweapons.com, K-E-L-T-E-C, weapons.com. Tell them that Dana sent you.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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That's right, it's time for a quick five on the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. At least two scientists are telling us the best way to fight back against AI is to bomb the labs. That's real. A couple scientists say that right now artificial intelligence is outpacing human thought at a very scary amount. Essentially, the computer can think about things in about 16 hours that would take the human brain 14,000 years. to process, which is bad, according to at least two scientists out there. They say there's no real way to turn it off. It'll just figure out how to turn itself back on for the best course of action, and they think we should do it now. Bomb the AI lab. I think I'm fine with this, in all honesty. The version of AI that I experience on a daily basis that is constantly annoying is when it tries to finish my text messages for me. It's never right. It's always wrong. I don't want it to do that anymore. Stop it, AI. Let's bomb the labs. I'm all for that too. Obviously, you want people to leave the labs first and then we bomb the labs in case anyone wants to go after me for saying bomb people. I didn't say that part. This is a great story. Producer Steven sent this along. There is a South Bay area woman in San Francisco who's trying to find love, and she's doing it in a very weird way. She's put up a bunch of billboards throughout all of California asking people to marry her instead of going on the dating apps, which apparently might not have worked so well for this young woman, although she's not exactly that young either. She's now doing it this way. And I think Channel 4 News in San Francisco decided to cover this story, which I thought was ridiculous.
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When it comes to love, some people swipe right, but one Bay Area woman named Lisa is taking her search for a husband to new heights, quite literally with digital billboards from Santa Clara all the way to San Francisco off 101. I just want to meet somebody, and I was just not having any luck any other way.
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the billboards showcase lisa's face and her website marylisa.com a page she built after too many bad dates and there it's where you can apply to be her future husband yeah uh no everybody should be saying no to every part of this this is crazy this is scary and in all honesty the thing i love most about the ridiculousness of marylisa.com and that is you'd never ever want to admit to anyone this is how you met the person you're married to You wouldn't be like, well, I was driving around one day and your mom put up a bunch of billboards throughout all of California begging someone to marry her. And I was like, I'll give it a shot. She's obviously got some cash because she spent all this money on these billboards and this website. So maybe that's what it is for some guy out there. But no, this is a level of desperation you should not reach in your life. We all know this. And you would never want to be again proud of someone eventually meeting you this way. Just talk to people at bars, lady. Men are easier than women, I think, in that way, in who you talk to. No one's going to get mad at you. Just try it out. No more billboards. Quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. A great way to stay connected to everything going on for her in this show. By the way, this is just sort of fun for me or anyone else out there. The president's at the Ryder Cup this weekend, which is something I would do if I were the president of the United States and got an opportunity to travel to the Ryder Cup. There was also a really cool flyover. that occurred as President Trump, I think, arrived there at the Ryder Cup, which is a golf competition for anyone that doesn't follow or isn't aware of that part, which is just sad. You should be more aware of these things. But here we go. Here's a little of that.
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For the land of the free
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By the way, every part of that. You know what I love about Trump going to a bunch of sporting events, whether it's UFC, anything, is how different it is than Biden showing up in this stuff or anybody on the Democratic side of the aisle. Because there's two things that are great about it. First, when Trump goes to certain events, he demonstrates that sports is something that's accessible to conservatives, which oftentimes the agencies that run these sports, you know, like the NBA and whatnot, would desire for you to stop paying attention. They seem to almost hate you and how they behave on certain things. Golf is not within that world. I think that's one of the exceptions. UFC, other things are. But the other reason I love Trump going to this stuff is that Biden would have been afraid to be seen in public. It seemed like very, very often. And there are other people in the Democratic Party who show up and get booed places. But Trump often gets celebrated at a bunch of the sporting events he attends, which demonstrates how much of the actual American people like him. how much they actually do approve of this man, even if mainstream news media is going to tell you that he's a horrible, terrible, awful person. By the way, this is just funny. I'm going to play this audio too. This is Trump saying that Jasmine Crockett is a low IQ person. Again, he's been saying this a lot. The Texas politician does seem to be a person who's just Definitely not up there. I would not rank her high along the Einsteins of the world in society, especially as she becomes more and more of a person that likes to speak in that weird slang that she didn't use when she first ran for office. But she definitely seems to use now. And she wants to be this tough person all the time and how she talks about certain political issues. But this was this was pretty funny. Here's Trump.
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Jasmine Crockett.
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Remember what I said? Is she a relation to the late great Davy Crockett? I don't think so. Jasmine Crockett, let me tell you, before you even ask. She's a very low IQ person. I mean, if we ever had to pass an aptitude test, that's the one should take one because she shouldn't even be in the crowd. So I have no idea what you're going to. But I don't think we should waste our time. This is a low IQ person who I can't even believe is a congressperson between her and Ilhan Omar.
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OK, I do like that he mispronounced Ilhan Omar's name. That was pretty funny.
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Somalia. Did you know that? And I suggested that maybe he'd like to take her back. And he said, I don't want her.
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That's hilarious, too, by the way, that he's like, hey, we have someone here in our country that claims that our country is terrible. Would you like to reacquire this individual? And Somalia says no. Like, no, thanks. We're good. You keep that one. She can stay with you. That's hilarious. By the way, Trump did actually touch on something important, too. He talked about how George Soros and others might actually be probed for how they back left wing terror groups. This is absolutely stuff that I voted for. I love when someone on the left actually shares their version of this and says, did you vote for this? This is authoritarian or a dictatorship again or whatever crazy Nazi Germany version of things. And I'm like, yeah, I absolutely voted for the rules to be applied equally to both sides and not disproportionately applied to just one side of the aisle. Investigate people like Soros to see if they have ties to terror groups. And guess what? If they do, throw them in jail for it. That would be wonderful. That is not a bad thing. I hear Trump talking about that.
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Yeah, go ahead. Let's see you defend them, Jeff. No, I'm not defending anyone. So that we can explain this in our stories, could you name a couple?
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You don't explain it right, though, Jeff. Go ahead, let's go. Maybe let's give you another chance.
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Go ahead. Antifa, Soros. What names are we talking about?
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Well, Soros is a name certainly that I keep hearing. I don't know, but Soros is a name that I hear. I hear a lot of different names. I hear names of some pretty rich people that are radical left people. maybe i hear about a guy named reid hoffman somebody's a pretty rich guy i guess and i hear about him i don't know maybe maybe could be him could be a lot of people we we are the same names but they're bad and we're going to find out and if they are funding these things they're going to have some problems because they're agitators and they're anarchists these are anarchists Really bad. Okay, yeah.
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Yeah, they're really bad people. The Antifa and the individuals who show up and do horrible things at all kinds of events, they're not good people. And if you're forking over cash to get them to show up at things, you in fact are part of the problem and you need to be held accountable for it. I love the version of media that tells you that you can do anything you want to investigate the right. Any red herring that you want to chase down is fine if it's in the name of making sure that everything's on the up and up. That's what mainstream media will tell you is there's nothing wrong with an investigation. Let's see what's going on here, except when the investigation is on the left. And yeah, if nothing gets turned up from this, fine. If something does get turned up, I love this part of it too, actually. I'll respond to this idea because I'll have this conversation with a friend of mine on the left and he'll say, well, they'll make something up. They'll investigate and then they'll create something that's not real. And then they'll hold somebody accountable for this fake thing. I've never heard of that before. No one's ever done that to the right or to Trump before. But here's the part that I love about that. is it immediately assumes that you're an idiot or that I'm an idiot or that everybody in society is a moron because we wouldn't be able to parse out the truth ourselves given more information. The left is terrified of giving you more details. They don't want you to even want them. And as I said before in the show, the fact that 200 plus plainclothed FBI agents were part of the January 6th crowd, even though they denied anyone being involved for quite some time till eventually getting to the point where, oh, yeah, we had almost 300 people in that group of individuals. The thing about it is they always tell you that like the information could hurt you. If it looks bad for us, it'll radicalize you and that'll make you a danger to society. So we have to keep this secret. But also we have to go after anything and everything, no matter how ridiculous it sounds, as long as it's going after the other side, because at the end of the day, all they believe is that they can shape the narrative. They believe that they can convince you of anything. And unfortunately, there's a lot of people on the left who repeat all the talking points that demonstrate to me that you haven't done enough research. You haven't looked far enough. I'll tell you this. I have a social media page, Radio Craig C. It's nothing compared to the Dana Lash, D. Lash radio pages that you should be following. Those ones are way bigger, way more important. But I put something up on my Facebook at Radio Craig Z, and this crazy lefty came after me. And all I said was that I was shocked and needed to process the death of Charlie Kirk. That's literally all I said. I said there'd be a podcast out. I'll talk about this in more detail. But right now, it was one of the most shocking moments of my entire professional life, honestly, of my entire life. Not the most shocking. That would be 9-11. But one of the most shocking. And this left person was so angry. that I would actually care about the murder of Charlie Kirk at all, that they came after me and they said all kinds of crazy things. And my favorite thing happened within that interaction with this nuts person who seemed to be overly mad about something that they shouldn't be anywhere near this mad or mad at all about. If I care about Charlie Kirk and you don't, which says something about you to me, why does it make you mad that I care? Why do you want to change my opinion of who and what matters to me? That's a unique thing that makes the left so deranged and insane. But going back and forth, the person accused me of not caring about January 6th. And then I told them that they had the wrong data. And so I shared a link with them. And I think the link was from like factcheck.org, which is overwhelmingly to the left, that demonstrated a lot of the things they were saying were false. And my favorite thing happened. There's a long story. I promise it has a value. They shared the same link back, which means they didn't read my link. And they said, we can play the link game all day long. And then they sent me back the article I sent them. And this is a wonderful demonstration of, I think, what we deal with a lot when you talk to people on the left. They are so arrogant. They are so full of their own opinion that they demonstrate how little research they actually do. My response to the person who tweeted me back, or this was on Facebook, sent me back the link I sent them, disproving their narrative, believing it proved their narrative simply because of the source and the headline, and they didn't actually read the article. The only thing I said back is maybe you should actually read that, that thing that disproves what you're saying and proves what I'm saying, that I cherry-picked from the left, even though there's more of them, because the truth is simply the truth in that scenario. But I love the arrogance of that. And when the left is confronted with the idea that they've done very little research to have the opinion they have, they double down even harder. They go, how dare you? How dare you say this? How dare you say that? And they continue to demonstrate how little information they actually have and how little information they want. So, of course, their side of the aisle assumes that they're idiots. It's a unique version of demonstrating how little you care about finding the truth to do something like that, where you share something that disproves your point that someone just sent to you, not paying attention to any part of it. I know I'm overly harping on this, but it was such a chef's kiss moment of the stupidity of this is incredible. Because if it were me, like, let's say, and I know I'm... Sort of a public figure, barely a public figure. Certainly the fanciest thing I do is fill in on the show for Dana, who's definitely a public figure. But let's say that in a scenario where I'm arguing with someone, I share a link that definitively disproves my point. The first thing I do is read the article, especially if someone had to point out to me that I hadn't read it, which is uniquely embarrassing. I would go and read it and I would actually sit there for a second and try to process why I believed something that I accidentally proved to myself wasn't true. Like there's something about that, that desire for more information that just seems to be the biggest weakness for some. You just shouldn't, you need more of it. And so again, to go back to, I guess to make the main point, I was trying to make this odd rant of a thing and promoting my social media page at Radio Craig C. If you want to follow, that would be awesome. It's not really valuable. At DLash, at DanaLashRadio is better. I probably shouldn't say that about my own social media pages. But the thing that I love most about all of this is the idea that some people absolutely knee-jerk away from gaining more information. I think that's why people hated Charlie Kirk so much on the left and seemed to celebrate someone's death. which is uniquely horrible. That's a part of our society that you think you'd never get to. We're even the people who are doing it. I think if they really searched their soul, there has to be something. At least I knock on wood and pray there has to be something in them that knows they're doing something horrible. But it's because Charlie Kirk would disprove people to their face using basic truth and knowledge and information and did it respectfully. As Dana said, they killed the nice guy. He was very nice and respectful. And all these videos you might be seeing now of Charlie pop up after his death, which makes him more significant, more impactful in society, continue to show how respectful he was compared to the average person, especially a lot of people on the left and how they behave in these arguments. But it's just amazing to me. Again, to watch all that unfold and to watch someone actually be a useful idiot, you know, in the moment, showing me how little information truly matters to them and how that can be weaponized and used. The best thing you can do left, right, middle, I don't care what you're at, is to actually educate yourself more. And this is something that Charlie Kirk also said a lot by being someone who's constantly learning. who learns for your entire life, who never stops learning, who never accepts a narrative simply because you heard it once. Dive deeper, read more, see if you believe it after that. All right, quick break, a lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in just for the day. Dana will be back on Monday. Thrilled to be with you. DLash, DanaLashRadio on X, on Twitter, on all kinds of social media. You should be following The Dana Lash Show. Both Dana and her team, including producer Stephen, do a great job of keeping you up to date and giving you a whole bunch of stuff that you might have missed that you should check out there. The NFL is going to Brazil, baby. In 2026, they'll be playing a game in Rio. This is part of, I think, a five-year deal to play NFL games in Brazil. I think this is abundantly cool. I think it's cool when baseball does it. I think it's cool when football does it. When you go play our sports, somewhere else in the world, you give more people an opportunity to appreciate our version of football or our version of anything, not the horrible soccer version that people everywhere else in the world seem to think is actually football. No, no, baby. It's the real deal. There was an odd thought that came across my mind, and I don't know. I'm going to use this as a word vomit section of the show where I just tell you or a thought vomit section of the show where I tell you stuff. For some reason, I thought that Brazilian cheerleaders would also be a big draw. Brazil is known to have very attractive women. Maybe during the game in Rio, they also get a set of Brazilian cheerleaders to pop up onto the field for a bit. there but we'll see but it should be cool I love that they do this again that the NFL that MLB this is the best thing they're doing all the woke horrible stuff that happens in the world of sports right now is the stuff that makes me and I'll never tune out I like sports too much to ever turn it off I definitely will tune out to the stuff that I don't care about though and only pay attention to the stuff that I do but this is an exactly different version of that and you know what's also funny You see this anytime they go somewhere else. They don't preach as much. It's not about anything other than the product of the sport. There's not, you know, the woke statement inside the end zone as often as you see other places because the other countries don't care about that. And oftentimes you'd actually be unpopular in some of these countries for some of these things you might say and do, which is why I think they don't do that. All right. other stuff out there. There is one other thing that I thought was pretty interesting, and we'll probably get to it more in a little bit here, but the UK is going to have a digital ID for the right to work there, which is crazy. I have some audio I'll likely play after the break about that. But the United Kingdom... Maybe one of the only places that's an exception to the rule I just said about how wokeness is unattractive, at least for the politicians, maybe not the people, is blazing this crazy trail that we've seen again and again fail in other places throughout the world. but getting further and further away from you having any rights and freedoms at all as a person. No freedom of speech, no freedom of all these certain issues, which is just interesting to see from afar how terrible of an idea it's been. Quick break, a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is The Dana Show. DLash, DanaLashRadio, and X on Twitter. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo some boobs on is just a great... I need that as a bumper sticker for DanaLash. My name is Craig Collins. I'm filling in. That is funny. You cannot do that, by the way. nor would you ever want to. Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo some boobs on. All right, let's talk about some things. This is amazing. This is the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth. By the way, much cooler name. I would prefer if we had always used Secretary of War instead of ever getting away from that. But he called for an urgent meeting for all military leaders to report to Virginia. They're going to have a chit chat. A rare urgent meeting is how it's been described a whole lot of places. The big question being asked by some is our woke generals getting fired. And I think that would also be great. I think there's no problem with that. Actually, it's funny. Let me parallel it with another story out there. Let me try to add both of these together. The White House has said it might lay off some people. This is a response to a potential government shutdown, which the left is saying is not their fault. And the right is saying is not their fault, of course. You know, it's interesting about this, too. Whenever the government's about to shut down and the left is in power, my reaction is I don't care. Not that it's changing because the right is in power. I want to make sure that you expect that going in. I'm not going to change my mind, but I don't care. The government can shut down for a little while, for a long while, and I feel like it's not actually going to impact my life all that much, your life, a lot of our lives. And eventually, unless you work for the government again, you're probably not even going to notice when it gets turned back on because it will. They also should stop. They should stop paying the politicians who are in charge of shutting down the government. They never do that, but they should anytime they shut it down. The only exception to this rule is I think it's ridiculous that we stop paying military. A military always deserves to be paid, should always be paid. That should be the group of people that's above shutdown, not the politicians who are doing the shutting down for all kinds of political and stupid reasons. But anyway, when that happens and when the left is in charge, that's usually my reaction. What I think is interesting is that people actually react differently now with the right in charge, who would also say that they would say, oh, it's important or all the left is being terrible. I don't actually care. And to be honest, I'd kind of like to see it if the White House can use it as a way to fire people who are probably far left leaning, bureaucratic, longtime, you know, government employees who don't need jobs. If the secretary of war can use it as a catalyst to fire people from that part of our military slash military. a political system. I'm fine with that too. Maybe all of this barreling towards shutdown is inevitably to actually fire a bunch of people, which again is something I voted for. I'm totally fine with that. That sounds great. Let's do it. I just think it's funny when people do flip flop on some of these issues, when they're not intimidated by the idea of it, when Democrats are wielding power and seem to be doing it on purpose. And for some reason they and I'm not saying who, but other people less so seem like they're gung ho about it. If the Republicans are in charge, I'm totally fine either way. Shut the baby down and fire a whole bunch of people. I totally fine with me. All right. Other things out there? I thought this was interesting. President Trump said that he believes there's going to be a deal in Gaza, a deal to end the conflict, another conflict that the president would end, yet even more so demonstrating that he is the commander-in-chief of peace, something that he will not get credit for here in this country, but may get credit for on a world stage. Let's hear a little bit of that.
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I think we have... Maybe a deal on Gaza and very close to a deal on Gaza. I think it's a deal that will get the hostages back. It's going to be a deal that will end the war. It's going to be a deal. It's going to be a deal. I think we have a deal. That'll be number eight, Peter.
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Number eight, Peter. He's talking to the Fox News guy. That's number eight as far as the amount of peace deals we've created during my time, my very short time in office. What I think is really interesting about this, too, and that was right before Trump headed off to the Ryder Cup, where he definitely seems to be having a good time, and I would be, too, if I was the president and got to go to the Ryder Cup. What I think is interesting about the potential for a deal in Gaza or a deal anywhere else or any of that ushering in of peace is how the left inevitably tries to change it. They try to somehow discredit it, somehow find an avenue to where this was done wrong or this could have been done sooner. Biden not only was terrified of being in front of media, he did not do what Trump does on a daily basis. Anyone who does what I do for a living, what Dana does, anybody who pays attention to media, you can find a Trump clip every day. And it's not because he did one thing that's been viral for weeks. It's because Trump is providing a clip to media every single day. When the left says that his brain doesn't work, that it's broken, that he can't pronounce acetaminophen, which I don't know, that did happen. I'm not going to pretend it didn't. I don't know why. Maybe Trump's not a guy who takes Tylenol a lot, so isn't aware of that. But nonetheless, when they point to those things, they ignore the ridiculous amounts of audio that exist on a daily basis that disprove that idea. I would not have said that Biden's brain was broken if he was doing this many interviews this well with media every day. But of course, his administration knew that he wouldn't. So they protected him at all costs from anyone and everyone in media. And actually, it's not like they could roll out the vice president. Her word salad broken crazy things seem to demonstrate that her brain might also be broken at a much younger age, which is probably bad. A case in point might be this. There's a new viral clip that shows Kamala Harris talking about how babies would be passed around at her rallies. This is a weird thing to brag about, by the way. Like, not pass to her to kiss them. She just, like, would see in the audience a whole bunch of people just passing around babies. Whether or not that's my child and I trust all the people around me to give the child back to me, that's not important. We're celebrating the vice president, apparently, and her run for office by passing around babies just at any kind of event for some reason. Here is how Kamala Harris described this.
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You know, one of my favorite things to see, and it would always happen spontaneously at our rallies, and thousands of people would come, and it would happen is invariably somebody would want me to take a picture or to hug their child, and someone in the back would hand that baby over. Just hand the baby. Through the crowd. Up to you. Of people who would hold and care. But pass the baby.
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And then pass the baby back.
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Pass the baby back. This is ridiculous. It didn't happen, by the way. This not only didn't occur as often as Kamala Harris wants to say it did, but if it did, she should have immediately said no to this. Like, don't just hand your baby to strangers. Don't do that just to get a picture with me and the baby. This seems ridiculous and bad. It's insane. And there's so many different versions of just broken, ridiculous, lying craziness. But that is Harris. And she also said it with that twang and voice that she's trying to use, depending on who she thinks her audience is. Her speech changes, which is weird, and it happens for a lot of people in politics. And I want to say another thing about that real quick. I know that's not what this rant is about, per se. If you're someone, Jasmine Crockett's another name that comes to mind, and Trump recently called her low IQ again. But if you're someone who talks like that in your real life, like when the cameras are off, when you're not in front of the microphone, and you can say it's because of your ethnicity or whatever you want, If you're someone who talks in, you know, that weird version of speech that I don't use as a white dude, then do it all the time. Don't do it occasionally. Do it constantly. Own who you are. Be yourself. Don't be performative in another way if your performance is actually the version of you that doesn't speak like that. I think that that would be good for society is to be who you are all the time, because it would make me not accuse you of being performative when you do it occasionally, when in front of certain audiences. And Hillary Clinton did this. A bunch of other people did this. And I know if you're a black, you'll couch this in. Well, this is how I actually am. I just can't be this way because white people wouldn't like it. Well, that's as inauthentic as the opposite, as pretending that you're something you're not, depending on what crowd you're in front of. Just be yourself and see if you can get votes that way. But that's why I don't believe it. I don't think that these individuals are like this. And actually, what I most appreciate... I guess this is the last thing I'll say before I take a break. I most appreciate about Trump, about Elon Musk, about Charlie Kirk. Very tragic to have lost Charlie Kirk. I know I didn't fill in for Dana after that, and she did an amazing job. You should check out the videos and audio that's out there, Dana, who knew Charlie and how she talked about him. But something that they said about Charlie Kirk that they say about Elon and Trump, same person. in front of microphone, in front of camera, as they are off camera, off microphone, exact same, same beliefs, same thoughts, same mannerisms, just identical individual. And that is so rare in our society, especially in politics. It's so rare that it deserves to be celebrated. And these individuals who don't do it, who don't do any form of it, deserve to be told that they need to behave differently and be rejected by society until they actually are the real version of themselves, whatever it is. Because the performance is the thing that acts like you and I are stupid. It definitely does not respect the audience when you do performative versions of anything. And so I think it's sort of amazing that we have that version of defense that comes out whenever someone does throw in the slang more. And then they say, well, that's who I actually am, but you can't take it as the white people out there or the whoever out there in society. So I can only be myself occasionally. That means you're a liar. And that means you're probably lying about a whole bunch of other things, if it's even true that the lie you're telling us is actually a fact and not just another lie. All right. One last thing. I do want to play this. This is an announcement in the UK that a digital ID will be required to work there. More authoritarian, crazy Nazi type of stuff is happening in the world. It's not happening here. It's happening in the United Kingdom.
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And that is why today I am announcing this government will make a new free of charge digital ID mandatory for the right to work by the end of this parliament. Let me spell that out. You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID. It's as simple as that.
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Yeah, this is a thing that's happening. More things are happening. A digital ID is the first step toward Chinese government takeover is what many people are reacting to on social media because China. use this as a foundation for their own surveillance, their own state surveillance of their people. So great job, UK, barreling further and further toward an unrecognizable thing, or at least it should be unrecognizable, to the people here in the United States and what we deserve to have, the freedoms that we think everybody is entitled to, a right that you were given by God and not by any sort of military or political system. All right, quick break. A lot more. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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That's right. It's time for a Quick Five on the Dana Show. Thrilled to be with you. My name is Craig Collins filling in. This is funny whenever this happens. But a ref turned on a microphone during Thursday night football last night. And just as he was talking and making a call, a player walked by him and said a very bad word. Seattle, Arizona, final score 23-20. This moment probably, you know, as entertaining as a very good game. Here we go.
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Jackson Smith and Jigba, who didn't really need to make the hole, is right in front of the ball carrier. Offense number 11. 10-yard penalty. Be careful. He even looked. He did. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Uh-huh. Oh, yeah.
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beautiful I love all the reactions to it after they hear the bad word that gets played on television mostly because I bet you the player did it on purpose I think that you know as the mic's on you want your side of the equation to be thrown in there and that's what it was so I like that all the time I like when players are mic'd up I like when baseball does it everything about it is just a lot of fun let's get more of that going on I don't care if bad words happen it's a part of the game baby They're saying a whole lot of bad things on the field all the time. Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to settle a lawsuit about deceptive practices and forcing you into certain things as far as your Amazon Prime membership is concerned. Deceptive Prime enrollment practices is what it was saying. The suit was filed in 2023 under the Biden administration. It claimed that Amazon created confusing and deceptive user interfaces that led consumers to enroll in Prime without knowing it. pay a whole bunch of money. So yeah, yet another company that's big and terrible and overly powerful in our society doing something bad and getting hit with a speed bump that they'll pay. Even if the speed bump is that significant, they'll figure out a way to throw that money in and just keep going, just keep doing more of the same. All right. Another thing out there, Starbucks has announced significant store closures and layoffs. This is causing a whole lot of chaos on the left. CNN is one of the places that reported on this and talked about how it might be because Starbucks has dealt with a whole lot of employees who have unionized. And that means that Starbucks is bad, not the other thing. The thing is that Starbucks is struggling a whole lot because a bunch of its stores not as popular. apparently, and the amount of money they're paying off their workers, maybe not as great as it used to be. So again, a big reason why likely this whole thing is shutting down or not all of them, but a bunch of Starbucks are closing is because you can't force a business to do something that doesn't benefit the business. Inevitably, they just close the whole thing down. Not surprised at all. And again, I don't think I'll go into the fear mongering version of this is bad because because this is how companies react to losing money. They close businesses. There's a guy that needs to be publicly roasted. Ticketmaster CEO says concert tickets are too cheap. Actually, that's ridiculous, of course, to a whole lot of us. But the CEO at Ticketmaster would like concert tickets to be more expensive. So he makes more money. Mostly what he's saying is that they get resold on the secondary market for more money than actually people pay for them originally, and it's cutting into his profits, baby. What an idiot. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in for the day. Dean Lash, Dana Lash Radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her at Radio Craig C if you want to follow someone way less successful than Dana who's way less active because I don't have people like the fancy producer Stephen helping. Dana does a lot of it herself too. I make for some awesome social media posts. All right, let's talk about Call Me. It's the topic of conversation. The left is going to tell you that this is politicizing the DOJ, weaponizing it against your political opponents. All the stuff the left did to Donald Trump while he was running for the office of president is now happening to James Comey. This is according to the left again. Not someone who's actually significant. Comey's not going to be running for the president and winning anytime soon, which is why that narrative is uniquely ridiculous. But let's first prove that it's a thing that actually deserves to happen. Comey lied under oath. He is going to be in trouble for that, most likely, in trouble for all kinds of things like, you know, preventing obstructing justice is actually the way to say it, but preventing investigations from going the way they should go because of the lying and the dishonesty and the whatnot and the illegal stuff. Again, all ways to say it. But here's proof that Comey actually did the thing that Republicans are likely to hold him accountable for doing.
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Director Comey, have you ever... been an anonymous source in news reports about matters relating to the trump investigation or the clinton investigation never uh question i really love how quiet it got after that answer from years ago uh because everybody's like yeah no we know he's done this two one relatively related. Have you ever authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports about the Trump investigation or the Clinton investigation? No.
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By the way, eventually Comey went on under oath to say that he did exactly that thing that he just said he didn't do. So lying under oath all that bad, not good. These are things that get you in a lot of trouble. Comey, for his part in all this, is saying, let's have a trial. Let's figure out if what I admitted to doing is something that I inevitably did. And you can prove in a courtroom I did because you can just play tape of me doing it and then, you know, disagreeing with myself years later. Here we go.
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My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump, but we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees and you shouldn't either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant and she's right, but I'm not afraid. And I hope you're not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it.
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Which it does. Yeah, by the way, I love the fact when he says she and then he's trying to refer to somebody he loves because it sounds a whole lot like it's Hillary Clinton. That's not my joke, by the way. I'm stealing that from Sergio Sanchez of KURV, a Dana affiliate, who texted me that this morning. He's like, hey, man, you should just say that it's Hillary that he's talking about because it kind of sounds like it's Hillary that he's talking about. But I love the fact... That he says we're going to fight. We're not going to bend the knee to Donald Trump. This was a person when he was in a position of power that claimed he wasn't politically biased, which seems ridiculous and insane when you watch who the person's been after he thinks the rules don't apply anymore. And they're they're off and he's allowed to say and do whatever he wants. By the way, I'm fairly certain. that a whole bunch of people claim that no one's above the law. So if Comey lied under oath, if he obstructed justice and prevented an investigation from going the way it should go by protecting himself from getting in more trouble, but actually causing himself to likely be in a lot of trouble now, then he deserves to have the book thrown at him. That's not my opinion. That's the left's opinion.
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No one is above the law. No matter how rich, powerful, or politically connected you are.
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Our job is to follow the facts and the law without fear or favor.
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The fact is, no one is above the law.
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No one, not even the president, is above the law.
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And not as James Comey, above the law, according again to the left and their rhetoric, at least as I'm supposed to believe it. By the way, James Comey's son has also quit. He was a assistant U.S. attorney. He resigned. He said it had something to do with his dad or some crap. But the reality is he's probably hiding and running from anything that's terrible that he's also doing and a part of. What I love most about this And this is what I'll go back to in the audio from Comey before. I can play a little bit more of it, but some part of me doesn't want to. I think that's enough. He said, let's have a trial. And I agree with him. Let's have a trial and see how much trouble he actually gets in. But the thing is, they always have to make it about you. It always has to involve you. A James Comey lied under oath about leaking information to the press that he shouldn't have leaked to the press. And his version of rhetoric to try to get you to support him is you're next. You're the next person on the chopping block. And the Democrats as a whole, the people who voted for the Democratic Party, haven't done that. They haven't had the opportunity to lie under oath themselves. So it's not about everybody. It's about him. It's not a fight against authoritarianism. It's not a fight against, you know, the dictator that Donald Trump is not, but they claim he is. It's actually just a person getting their comeuppance that they deserve, that they were stupid enough to admit themselves to having done. All right. Another piece of audio that's pretty interesting out there and more left-leaning people or just far-left crazy people that could get in a lot of trouble involve George Soros and Reid Hoffman, President Trump, who said he doesn't really know who they are, which I do love that, too. I don't believe it, but I find it amusing when he says these things. But he's not deeply tied to the investigation is what he's trying to get across. They might get in some trouble for backing some left-wing terrorist groups. That would be another no-no in our society.
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Yeah. Go ahead. Why don't you defend it?
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Let's see you defend them, Jeff.
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No, I'm not defending anyone. I just want so that we can explain this in our stories. Could you name a couple?
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You don't explain it right, though, Jeff. Go ahead. Let's go. Maybe let's give you another chance.
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Go ahead. Antifa, Soros. What names are we talking about?
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Well, Soros is a name certainly that I keep hearing. I don't know. But Soros is a name that I hear. I hear a lot of different names. I hear names of some pretty rich people that are radical left people. maybe i hear about a guy named reid hoffman maybe he's a pretty rich guy i guess and i hear about him i don't know maybe maybe could be him could be a lot of people we we hear the same names but they're bad and we're going to find out and if they are funding these things they're going to have some problems because they're agitators and they're anarchists these are anarchists Really bad. OK.
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Yeah, they're really bad people. A whole lot of people are very bad people. In fact, actually, in other news that seems somewhat related to the whole anarchist thing and the whole funding of terrorism thing. And this is just something that the FBI has finally admitted. They had almost 300, like 250 plainclothed agents in the crowd on January 6th. And of course, those people didn't actually try to push to have the thing that happened happen that day. Of course, that wasn't the FBI agents in the crowd trying to make something worse and not better because they were doing it for political reasons at the time. Of course not. But they finally admitted this years later that a whole bunch of, quote, conspiracy theorists thought was happening that were then told and, you know, yelled at for being horrible people that needed to be canceled and their social media pages needed to be removed. And then apparently they were right all along. Because very often now the conspiracy theorists are actually right, which is why we probably can't call them conspiracy theorists anymore. And by the way, celebrating Kimmel this week has probably been one of the most annoying things the left has done. I don't think they'll be watching long term because Kimmel's just really not that good. He alienates half his audience and how hardcore politically he is. Something that, you know, I really love a quote from Johnny Carson about this. And I'm about to be 40, so I'm not someone who grew up watching Carson. But you can still appreciate the significance of Johnny Carson to late-night television. And one thing he said about not sharing his own opinion in that world is that if you do it too often, it starts to become something that you believe is more important than just entertaining people. You start to be so full of yourself—this is Carson's opinion— That you no longer are serving your audience. You're serving yourself and how you throw out your opinions on a daily basis in the world of late night entertainment television. And I think he's absolutely right about that. There are places and forums where what you choose to go and consume is going to be opinionated, political, whatever. I mean, this show is a great example of that. Dana is not going to be shy about her opinions on a daily basis on this show because that's what this show is about. But if she were given a late night, you know, entertainment talk show, I shouldn't speak for Dana, but I think if anybody were given a late night entertainment talk show, some part of them might say, hey, if I can try to lay off the politics a little more in that atmosphere, maybe I'd have a larger audience. This is something that Kimmel and others seem to refuse to learn that Johnny Carson knew is that if you're not coming to me for political opinion and when you used to turn on late night entertainment interview TV, you weren't going there for political opinion. And a whole lot of people do not go there for political opinion now. That's why they don't watch it. Then you shouldn't add it. You actually you know what I also love? It's something that a couple guys in sports radio talk about. I won't name them. I don't want to push you anywhere other than this show. But I do love when people say that the audience determines what I pay attention to, not what I think of it. That's not how the audience gets to tell me what to do. My opinion will always be my own. I have to share my own. I have to be honest about what I think because anything else is going to fail. Honestly, that's the number one trick I think of media in general, whatever form you're on, is say what you actually think. It'll be easier than trying to make up stuff that you don't believe. But as far as what topics you discuss, absolutely the audience can dictate which ones you should be focused on because it's the ones they care about. and the ones they probably most want your take on. And that's something that comes from sports media too. And I love that when people say that, when they push you that road, because it is true. It is valuable to pay attention to the things that other people are paying attention to. Now, case in point, to get back to something else I was trying to say, though, is late night hosts celebrated Trump being censored and removed from all media. Jimmy Kimmel, for about a week, lost a network talk show. He got it back, but he lost it for a few days. He wasn't silenced at any form of social media. He absolutely joked about the death of Charlie Kirk, and he absolutely tried to point the finger at MAGA and claim that the killer of Charlie Kirk was a MAGA individual, which he's absolutely not. No part of that makes any sense. He then came back without apologizing and said that he never meant to say the things he evidently said. But nonetheless, he wasn't silenced as much as Trump was. This did not occur in the same capacity whatsoever. And here is the left celebrating the silencing of someone that they heavily disagree with. Again, something that didn't even happen to Kimmel. But now Kimmel and others are pretending as though it's a freedom of speech thing for them and for, you know, this one person to be kept on network television, even though, as I said a moment ago, he's already alienating half of the audience. and how he chooses to be overly political when they're really coming there for entertainment, or at least used to come there for that and not for the political ranting.
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Trump has been suspended from Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and even Snapchat. But don't worry, Mr. President, there are still plenty of apps you do have access to. You still have Spotify to drown out the sound of millions of people cheering as you leave. Google, Apple, and Amazon removed the Parler app from their platforms. Parlor is where all the right wingers gather to post QA nonsense and misspelled the word parlor. Trumpers are complaining bitterly that they're being silenced. In fact, they won't shut up about being silenced.
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I love having Donald Trump off Twitter, not to mention all the other toxic racists and conspiracy theorists that have been booted off.
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Damn. A lifetime Twitter ban has got a sting. They took away his precious. Twitter isn't the only social media site that wants nothing to do with our president. He's also been banned or restricted from a bevy of other platforms, including Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Reddit, and even Twitch. What are you waiting for, Pornhub? It's not a coincidence. Yeah, way to go.
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Stephen Colbert, hilarious, hilarious stuff. Anyway, again, they all celebrated this. And these are the same people that are up in arms now saying that, you know, the right to have a talk show is the same as the right of a president of the United States to be left on social media platforms. The silencing of Trump while he was still in the office of president is absolutely one of the most ridiculous things that ever happened in our society. And it should be the same thing where the, you know, free speech warrior is up in arms screaming and yelling and all of them were celebrating it. So you reap what you sow seems to be an aspect of that in the world of these individuals being so proud of something. If it inevitably even remotely close to the same, which it wasn't happens to them, they get to react the way they do. But guess what? We're not all that surprised that it occurs. And maybe more of these people deserve to be fired because they don't have anywhere near the audience that Carson used to have. Because no one cares about hearing their political opinion so much. Let the audience tell you what it wants to hear you talk about. Don't be defiant in the face of that when your ratings are terrible. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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It's his life mission to make bad decisions. It's time for Florida Man.
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That's right. It's time for Florida Man on the Dana Show. D-Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. I am Craig Collins filling in. A Florida man put somebody else in his car over a crazy, crazy argument that happened at a 7-Eleven. So a Florida clerk is working, and a dude comes into the 7-Eleven in Florida, of course. The guy, I think, is 49 years old. This is in Seminole County where it happened, and he wants to buy some black and milds. He wants to buy some cigars, some very popular small cigars, actually. He said that the clerk didn't immediately stop cleaning up to serve him. So he got mad. He started to yell and they got into a verbal argument. And at one point, the clerk at the 7-Eleven decided to usher the man out of the establishment into his vehicle and lock him up. which I find hilarious. I also do think that it's the kind of thing that you're sort of weak if you allow someone to do. But anyway, nonetheless, yes, the guy, the defendant, wound up getting shut inside a vehicle that he couldn't get out of for some reason. That's when he called 911 to say that he had been detained and arrested by the 7-Eleven clerk who thought he was being disrespectful in the first place. This only happens in Florida, man. You only have somebody walk into an establishment, get mad about the service they provide, and then have that person who you're mad at decide to pseudo arrest you, which is illegal. That is a crime. You do get in trouble for that. He said the defendant that he was scared that something else might happen, which is part of the reason he went along with being locked inside the guy's car. Come on, dude. Just leave. Just decide not to get your black and mild and leave when the clerk is berating you for being upset with them and then also threatening to lock you into their vehicle. This story is crazy, though. Another Florida man that I do like, a guy in Marion County, decided to build a tire fortress around his property. when he thought people were being a little bit too nosy. This is the kind of thing I just accept and not even really pay attention to, to be honest. If I live next to a Florida tire fort guy, I just think that was the cost of living in beautiful Florida. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. D-Lash, Dana Lash, Radio on X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her. I'm going to laugh every time I hear bippity boppity some boobs on. That is not something you can do and not something you want to do, in all honesty. Great show, as always, for Dana. Great everything. Check it out on social media. I listen to this every single day. Thrilled to be here today for... All right, let's do this. The president signed a national security memorandum that's going to establish a comprehensive strategy to investigate, disrupt, dismantle, do everything against organized political violence. Essentially, the people who fund what is domestic terrorism in our country, we're going to attack it and go after it. This should be universally praised as a good thing because and this is kind of crazy that I'm going to say this as if it's something people don't agree on. Terrorism is bad. All kinds, even the domestic kind, even the kind that causes all kinds of violence and horrible things in our country based on politics. Here we go with President Trump.
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Sir, this is a presidential memorandum on countering domestic terrorism and organized political violence. In recent weeks, months, and years, we've seen a tremendous upsurge in some highly visible but also other acts of domestic terrorism and organized political violence being perpetrated by radical politically motivated groups all over the country. What this presidential memorandum will do is set off an administration-wide response to that. ranging from the Joint Terrorism Task Forces to other components of the Department of Justice to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Treasury. We're looking at interdicting these groups, preventing them from performing acts of violence and also looking at sources of organization and funding and support that prop them up and allow them to do the acts that they have been doing.
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This is great. Let's let Trump continue to say that, but this is a good thing.
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We're looking at the funders of a lot of these groups and... You know, when you see the signs and they're all beautiful signs made professionally. These aren't your protesters that make the sign in their basement late in the evening because they really believe it. These are anarchists and agitators, professional anarchists and agitators. And they get hired by wealthy people, some of whom I know, I guess, you know, probably know them. And you wouldn't know it at dinner with them. Everything's nice. And then you find out that they funded millions of dollars to these lunatics.
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Yeah, this is the kind of thing that we should actually investigate and go after and check. And anyone who says that this is a slippery slope, that all you're going to get is a whole bunch of manufactured fake, you know, not actually guilty of anything accusations in order to go after your political opponents. I'll then prove that when it happens. That's usually my best response. Let's actually see what the accusations are. Let's react to them in the moment as they're happening. But let's go ahead and make sure that people can't fund terrorism. Even here domestically, that seems like a good thing, even though somehow this is something that people disagree on, who are saying that the DOJ is now weaponized and that James Comey is an example of it, which is insane in other ways. All right, I'm going to shift gears for a second away from Comey. I'll probably talk about it in about 20 minutes or so before we get out of here today just because it is such a big story. He has been indicted by a grand jury, and he's likely to get in a whole lot of trouble for lying under oath, something that you can easily verify he did via the video of him doing it, and then the other video years later of him contradicting the thing he said. So this should be an open and shut. a version of a thing where Comey gets in trouble for actually breaking the law. And if no one is above the law, then it's good, right? On the left, that Comey's in trouble? No, of course not. All right, let's play this. I have two pieces of audio. that I love. There is an obsession with talking about race that doesn't need to exist in our society right now because it seems to be designed only to get political points. A case in point might be Representative Presley, who recently said that as a black woman, she is both hyper-visible and invisible, which doesn't make sense. That begs the logical question, how are you both of those things? I'll play this audio real quick.
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There has been such a targeting. To be a black woman is to just walk in this dichotomy of being hyper-visible, where you are surveyed, targeted, criminalized, while also hyper-invisible. Because contributions are ignored and denied, if not relegated to a footnote, and our pain delegitimized. And that's the dichotomy that we're
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Yeah, no, wrong. I'm sorry. I don't know how to say this differently. And I know that you're not allowed to talk about race at times. Some people believe this. I don't believe this. I'm assuming you don't believe this. I'm a white guy. I'm going to talk about race. Charlie Kirk would often debate certain topics with race as a component of it. And then the left called him a racist, which he evidently wasn't, not even at all. And essentially they killed it for they being society in general, for being willing to have these types of discussions as a white guy. I think that is a byproduct of what happened there. But anyway, what I think is crazy about this idea is that saying that you're being silenced because of your race provides you a microphone in our current society. There's a lot of things that provide you a microphone saying, this thing that I did is not getting the amount of recognition that it deserves because of my race, my sex, my whatever. If you're anything other than a white guy, the odds of someone amplifying that megaphone around you because they believe that narrative is through the roof right now. So Presley absolutely has more of a presence in society and the things she says and does are focused on by a whole bunch of people in society because they believe it's somehow a reaction to the racist world in which they believe they live in, not the actual society that we live in where people are hyper-focused on in a positive way. for being people that say they're being marginalized. That is simply the world we live in now. Jasmine Crockett is another individual who all the time says that the focus on her isn't fair or isn't enough or it's too much at other times. When she also says a bunch of really ridiculous and idiotic things, this is something that Trump reacted to yet again. Someone asked a question about Jasmine Crockett and Trump did not pull any punches in how he feels about the representative.
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Jasmine Crockett.
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Remember what I said? Is she a relation to the late great David Crockett? I don't think so. Justin Crockett, let me tell you, before you even ask. She's a very low IQ person. I mean, if we ever had to pass an aptitude test, that's the one should take one because she shouldn't even be in the crowd. So I have no idea what you're going to, but I don't think we should waste our time. This is a low IQ person who I can't even believe is a congressperson between her and Ilhan Omar and the group. You know, I met the head of Somalia. Did you know that? And I suggested that maybe he'd like to take her back. And he said, I don't want her.
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He doesn't want her back. Here's the thing. Jasmine Crockett and a bunch of other people are going to say that Trump's being a racist. And then anything I say that's negative about someone who's in a position of power politically, if they happen to be a black woman, is racist. Like, oh, that's racism. That's horrible. That is a protection that exists in our society that wouldn't happen if someone says that Trump's a low IQ person. And the left obviously says this all the time. No one would be like, how dare you marginalize a white man? That's not how they behave in society. So that inevitably allows you to protect someone who does seem like just a low IQ person. And it has nothing to do with her race, her sex, anything. It simply has to do with the ability of her brain to think valuable thoughts and the lack of ability to do that. That's a Jasmine Crockett. That's some of these other people in society, but they're protected. To a certain extent, they're immune to criticism because they can pull the race card, the sex card, the whatever, a marginalized version of a card that they want to try to pull in order to get a larger microphone, not a smaller one, which is why it's ridiculous for politicians to say, Presley and anyone else, that it makes them invisible to be anything other than, say, a politician whose thoughts matter most. There's a reason why Democrats... keep trying to bring a woman forward to be the next president of the United States. The reason why is they think that you would vote for her because she's a her, not because her thoughts are valuable or good. They want to do the same thing they did when they believe Obama got elected because of his race. even though Obama, I think, partially got elected because he's a very eloquent speaker. Now, granted, he didn't actually do things that were good for society the way that he might have convinced people in 2008 he was going to. He did all the bad stuff that people behind closed doors do. But I think the real reason... that someone got elected has more to do with, you know, their capability, at least publicly, more so than their, you know, simple color of their skin or whatever. But that's not how Democrats think. I mean, look at the politicians that they've paired with Hillary Clinton and with Kamala Harris when they ran them. Generic older white dude who's overly woke, overly, you know, feminine. The Tim Walls, the Tim Canes of the world are people that are eerily similar because they also think very little of you. They think that you will vote for someone based on anything other than the the content of their character. And the beliefs and the, you know, things that they espouse, the policies and the things that they stand by, those things are things that are marginalized on the left instead of your race, your sex, etc. And yet the left still complains that somehow those things are what's holding those people back. That is insane. Anyone and everyone. who's in a position of power because of DEI type of stuff, knows it. They know that it's something, and they lean on it, and they claim that it's still harming them when it's done anything but. And as a white dude saying that out loud, I could get in trouble, and yet I don't care at all. All right, quick break. A lot more. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five.
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That's right. It's time for a quick five on the Dana Show. D. Lash, Dana Lash Radio and X on Twitter. Great ways to stay connected to her and everything going on for this show. Let's do this first. An elderly care home had introduced robotic dogs and cats as a way to tackle loneliness. Also, I think in China right now, there are more robot workers than anywhere else in the world combined. The amount of robots doing work in China is skyrocketing. scary. But elderly people in England now get to interact with robotic dogs and cats instead of just getting real dogs and cats, which feels like the thing you should have done. I think there's some audio for this story, too. I'm not okay with the robotic cat purring sounds or the robotic dog barking sounds. All this just seems wrong. It just seems weird. I'm not okay with it. Robots are slowly taking over, essentially, is the story there. And a twofer, both in China and in the UK. All right. Another story out there that I thought was interesting. A Linkin Park lullaby album is dropping today. A Rockabye Baby is the name of a group that turns music into lullaby music. I have a piece of audio for this one, too. But I just think it's hilarious that Linkin Park is the latest to get the Rockabye Baby treatment. Because if you're someone who loves this music and you want your kids to love it too, no better way to start the brainwashing early than to play it as lullaby music as they're going to sleep. Here's an example.
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If you can't tell, that's In The End by Linkin Park without any vocals and a lot of lullaby treatment. This is a company that does a whole bunch of this. I actually kind of like this. I think this is kind of cool to be able to rock your kid to sleep with whatever the rock music of choice or whatever music of choice you have is. so that you can demonstrate to them how great this music is and slowly and surely turn them into someone who's as big of a fan as you are without them even knowing it. You're brainwashing your baby in the best of ways to make their musical taste match yours. That I'm okay with. A lot of brainwashing I'm not okay with. But the music today is so much worse. I'm not even calling Linkin Park an example of great music. You got to go back further than that. But darn it, so much good music. The ACDC Rockabye album is a good one to check out too. That's my own suggestion. Miriam Webster dictionary added more than 5,000 terms, which seems ridiculous and demonstrates how it's not really a dictionary at all anymore. Among those terms are things like beast mode and dad bod, which apparently were not defined before. A dad bod, by the way, as defined by Miriam Webster, is a physique regarded as typical of an average father, especially one that is slightly overweight and not extremely muscular physically. See, now this is interesting because my perception of a dad bod is it's a dad who hasn't given up entirely. That's what I thought it was. There's demonstrations of how you still care about your physical fitness while you might not currently be in good shape. That's what I thought it meant. I thought that, you know, sometimes hitting the gym was the version of creating the dad bod that may or may not. be a reflection of even myself now. As I get closer to 40, you haven't given up entirely. You've just mostly given up, is a version of it. A dumb phone is another term that got defined by Merriam-Webster. This is a cell phone that's anything other than smart. something that can just make phone calls and maybe not do things like browse the internet. Essentially, you could just call it a phone and not the computer that's in your pocket now. And finally, love language is something that's been defined. It's a person-specific desire for how they're shown love or care, meaning that you have a specific love language that people communicate to you that you like and stuff that you don't like. I'm not really sure how I feel about the idea that that's a Merriam-Webster-defined term. But it is a reality. There are versions of treating someone a certain way that they like that other people don't. My wife loves to be bought gifts. I imagine very few people don't like to be bought gifts. But my wife says that's her love language. Buying her things, you know, nice things is a great way to show her that I care. Convenient, I'm sure, of course. For me, it's just anything. It's just any sort of niceness, any sort of anything at all. You don't even have to buy me stuff. I'm a dude. I'm much, much easier to make happy. One final thing. Hershey's defended a lawsuit claiming its Halloween candies weren't spooky enough. Someone brought a $5 million suit against Hershey's, a woman, last year, saying that their Halloween candy needs to be scarier. The pumpkin, essentially, on the Reese's shouldn't be smiling. It should be upset. Hershey's actually defended themselves in this lawsuit because they don't want the frivolous suit to gain any kind of benefit to the woman who brought it. Way to go, Hershey's. Quick break. A little bit more coming up. Greg Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A whole bunch of stuff to talk about out there in the world. And yet a big announcement happened today. Sinclair has folded. They have decided to stop preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live starting tonight and air the show. Now, Sinclair has tried to have some sort of moral victory or some sort of lesser than actual victory. They lose, but they're claiming that they didn't completely because they've made suggestions on how to make the show better, how to make it something that doesn't alienate half of the people here in the United States of America with how Jimmy says and does stuff or his lack of apology. Now, granted, I will say one thing about Kimmel when he first came back. His praising of Erica Kirk was, I think, genuine and also a smart thing to do, an easy thing to do, because Erica's behavior over the last week or so has been incredible. Her saying out loud that she forgave the person who killed her husband a mere days after it happened was one of the most Christlike things I've seen in society in a long time. And so praising someone like that is uniquely easy, even for the hardcore lefty that is Jimmy Kimmel. But that shouldn't be enough for Sinclair to, quote, bend the knee or fold or say that, you know what, that's fine. He tried, you know, and so we're going to start carrying the show again. But here's what I think is really interesting about this. I'm not exactly upset that it's going to occur because the ratings aren't going to be good. Long term, the ratings are going to be as bad as they've always been. Kimmel will continue to struggle. We know that. You know that. I know that. And so inevitably, the narrative won't be that the big bad media outlets like Sinclair prevented Kimmel from having the audience that he's supposed to have, but his own behavior. his own inability to retain that audience that may or may not have been watching for the last couple of days is in fact going to be the true narrative, the true story. And eventually these late night shows will go the way of everything else that slowly and surely faded from our society because it's just not relevant anymore. He's just not relevant. The only thing that made Kimmel relevant was him becoming the news. And that's the worst case scenario. For you as a broadcaster or an entertainer or anyone out there, you never want to be the news. And on the off chance that you are the news, it's going to be the least permanent form of having people pay attention to you. And he made it all about himself when he actually came back, too. He did not apologize, et cetera, et cetera. But I'm not surprised by this, to be honest with you, too. to be honest with anyone out there, anyone that's upset with Sinclair or any of these other broadcast platforms, because essentially the narrative was too easy to wield against them, that they're the big, bad, horrible person doing the terrible thing, when the reality is that, say, a year from now, if Kimmel gets fired like Colbert, because his ratings don't wind up being amazingly better long-term because he's as hardcore to the left and unapologetic about it as he is, then eventually you won't be able to say that it was the fault of the conservatives that prevented this from happening. And also it continues to demonstrate that we do live in a free and fair society. Well, I don't know about fair all the time, but we live in a free society because he is not, you know, in jail and incapable of doing a show. He's doing his show. It's fully back. None of the things that that were talked about happen. And if the FCC and Trump actually go after him, which I know that Trump has made some more references to that on social media, on Truth Social. which Kimmel then used to his own benefit to say that it's still like a silencing of his speech thing, they still would go to a courtroom, they'd still battle it out in a courtroom, and they'd still decide whether or not what Kimmel is doing is essentially free propaganda media for the left, which is absolutely what it is. But the thing that makes me most mad And I think it's the thing that I wish we could all agree on. Because just agreeing on it, even if you don't think that it's, you know, something that should have happened differently or you can be upset about it, happy about it, I don't care. But we should at least be able to agree that Jimmy Kimmel absolutely made a joke that not only seemed to belittle the death of Charlie Kirk in comparing the president's reaction to the way that a baby reacts, you know, not getting a toy or candy or something. but also said that it was a MAGA person who did the killing. That is what Kimmel said. And that is what Kimmel should apologize for in the horrific response to the death of Charlie Kirk from that show and from that entertainer, if that's actually the word you want to use to describe him. And that's not a thing that happened. If there were anything that made me want to have Sinclair and these other places continue to preempt the show, it was the inability for Kimmel to tell the truth and to apologize for the thing that he absolutely did. And actually, you know what's really interesting? Out of all the people who reacted to this, Bill Maher might have been one of the more interesting ones to me. Because Bill Maher said something to Jimmy Kimmel that I thought was... He said it publicly. He said it into a television camera and a microphone. He probably also may have tried to communicate it directly to Jimmy. But I don't care. The thing that I thought was interesting about it, and I'm certainly a guy who disagrees with Bill Maher on a lot of stuff... But he said that you're allowing hate to run your life, more or less. I'm paraphrasing. But Bill Maher told Jimmy Kimmel that he was blinded by the hatred he had for Donald Trump, for the right, for wishing that people during COVID would die who disagreed with him. All kinds of things that Jimmy Kimmel has done He was allowing that to influence all of his thoughts and behaviors. And that's why he would accuse someone who killed Charlie Kirk of being a MAGA Republican. That it's just hate that motivates you that far and then makes you refuse to acknowledge when hate has pushed you that far into the corner. Because that's the other thing about the power of hate is it's influential and significant enough to make you double and triple down on the horrible things that you say and do and never repent or never acknowledge the mistakes you're making. And so, again, I just think it's sort of amazing that Sinclair is going to start airing the show, mostly because he never apologized. But as I said a moment ago, it does selfishly give me some level of of, you know, I wouldn't call it happiness, but some level of, see, I told you so, because I believe that when Kimmel fails, it won't be something you can blame on Sinclair or any sort of media that stood up to him. You'll be able to say that it's just the fact that he's terrible at entertaining people on television and his ratings actually are awful. This is not an untrue statement when Trump made it that he gets something like I think like a million viewers or something, which is horrible for a late night network television. But all of the late night network television people are fighting it with a million here or a million there. And the YouTubers have way more people bet this radio show. has way more people that pay attention to it than late-night television does, and that should say something to the late-night television people. Maybe give Dana a show at some point. All right. President Trump also referenced George Soros, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, as people that might be probed for funding left-wing terror groups. I think this is great. I think it's weird... Let me say it this way. This is the best way I can say it. I think it's weird that the left is now a proponent of violence in cities because Trump trying to end violence in cities by using the National Guard in places like D.C. should be something that everybody's fine with. It feels like a lot of the traps being set by Republicans right now for Democrats are trying to show just how extreme the Democrats have become. They're for violence in cities, apparently, because they don't like ICE and they don't like the military. They're also for terrorist groups getting money from their would-be giant rich financial backers themselves because they think that this is political witch hunts or some other version of something else, as opposed to just being an investigation to see if Money is being given to Antifa, who then riot and loot in cities with Democratic dollars and us thinking that's bad as a society. Essentially, all of these are ways to demonstrate how far the left has gone from what the average American thinks simply makes sense. Here we go.
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Yeah, go ahead.
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Let's see you defend them, Jeff.
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No, I'm not defending anyone. I just want so that we can explain this in our stories. Could you name a couple?
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You don't explain it right though, Jeff. Go ahead, let's go. Maybe let's give you another chance.
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Go ahead. Antifa, Soros. What names are we talking about?
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Well, Soros is a name certainly that I keep hearing. I don't know, but Soros is a name that I hear. I hear a lot of different names. I hear names of some pretty rich people that are radical left people. Maybe I hear about a guy named Reid Hoffman. He's a pretty rich guy, I guess, and I hear about him. I don't know. Maybe it could be him. It could be a lot of people. We hear the same names, but they're bad, and we're going to find out. And if they are funding these things, they're going to have some problems because they're agitators and they're anarchists. These are anarchists. Really bad. Okay, yeah.
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Here's my favorite part of what happens very often in society right now with left-leaning media. The tariffs is a good example. The Hunter Biden laptop is, of course, a great example people still lean on today because of how amazing it is in demonstrating this. COVID's another example of this. They tell us the future, they claim definitively to know the future, and then they're absolutely wrong about the future they told us was going to happen. They say tariffs are going to be bad for the economy, and that doesn't happen the way that they claim it would, as quickly as it would, etc., etc. They claim these things about COVID and the shots, and then everything that's the opposite of that winds up being true. Again and again, they tell us the future because they don't want to react in the moment where the actual information is there. They want to tell you they know what the information is going to be. You don't have to pay attention to what it is or what it ends up being. You have to look away by the time that we know for sure that we get the receipts to whatever the story was and that you just have to trust that they were right all along. The FBI agent story is another amazing thing. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, just quickly, there were 250 plus plain clothed FBI agents in the crowd on January 6th. This is something that the left and left leaning media definitively told us could not have happened, was not true, was absolutely a conspiracy theory. Years later, we now know that it absolutely was true and the FBI has admitted it and acknowledged that it happened. And whether or not those people were agitators is you and I's obviously a best guess that they were. But nonetheless, what's amazing about that is they just assume you no longer care on the left. And so you won't pay attention to that part. And it's ridiculous and it's upsetting because it works and it needs to stop working. The people who pay attention more now to the end result of a story are the people who are best informed. And as Trump said a moment ago, when investigating whether or not left leaning money is going to, you know, domestic terrorists, we're going to find out is what he said. We're going to investigate it. We're going to find out. And the American people are going to be told about the things that we find. In that moment, at that time, you could then decide whether or not you think it's true. But media won't give you that opportunity, or at least they'll discourage you from taking it when it does happen. They'll convince you that you need to react now. You need to be sure that there's no way that George Soros could be funding Antifa. And then when inevitably the proof comes out, they hope that you've already made up your mind and will no longer look back. They count on you to be the type of society, and a whole lot of people who listen to this show are not these people, but they count on their supporters to be the type of society that only reads the headline once and doesn't go back for the real information later. And I told this story before, but I'll do it very quickly now. I had an argument on my social media page at Radio Craig C. This was on Facebook, not Twitter, with someone about January 6th, which was totally not the context of what I had posted. I had posted about Charlie Kirk and how impacted I was and shocked I was that he was killed and how I was going to put out a podcast about my own feelings about it. And someone came at me and tried to make it about January 6th, which was uniquely stupid. But then when I tried to share with them proof that what they thought happened didn't happen and I cherry picked out a left leaning source that still told them that they were wrong about what they believed to have occurred on that day. The funny thing about it is they responded back by trying to defend themselves by sharing the exact same link, which showed me they didn't read the link when I sent it to them. They Googled for what they thought was going to be their opinion. They found a source that they thought they'd agree with. And then they shared that back with me. It's the funniest thing I've seen happen on my social media page in a while because it absolutely demonstrates how little thought goes into the feelings that the left has as strongly as it does in a wide variety of topics. Because if they had read the story the first time when I gave it to them, it would have disproved the thing they thought instead of when they shared it back with me, believing it proved them right. Because they only read the headline, and they only did it once, and they did it well before the story had all the facts. That's what the left wants. That's what the right refuses to do. And for some reason, they get incredibly mad at us. We know the reason for doing that, for actually caring about the truth. All right, quick break. A little bit more coming up. Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show.
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This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in for just a few more minutes. Dana is back on Monday. Thrilled to be with you on a Friday. A couple quick things in the world of sports. College football has been incredible this year. Week five has a bunch of really interesting games. Oregon Penn State is probably one of the best ones. Penn State doesn't know how to cover a spread, by the way. That's just a helpful tip for you, for anybody out there. No matter what the spread is, betting with Penn State is usually a mistake that you shouldn't make, that we don't want to make. But anyway, Oregon-Penn State, good game. Lots of good games. College football has been incredible, even as my favorite team, Notre Dame, has lost a lot more at the beginning of the season than you would have wanted them to. But those games were interesting, too. Also in the world of sports, Aaron Judge is clearly the MVP in the American League. It's not Cal Raleigh. It's not the big dumper. I know this isn't a sports show. I know that I can talk about other things and I will, I promise. But I love an article in The Athletic about this for anyone who does care about this out there. Because part of the argument being made is that Judge, and I quote, is obviously superior statistically. He was superior to Shohei Ohtani in 2022. He is superior to Cal Raleigh this year in 2025. But that's not the reason that voters might decide that Cal deserves the MVP award. It is, quote, novelty, at least in some part. The fact that Cal's a catcher, that he's a switch hitter, and that he's hit 60 home runs so far this year with three games left to go all make him someone that a lot of voters would like to vote the MVP award for. even if, in fact, he's not actually statistically better than Aaron Judge, which feels like the part that should matter. Darn it, I'm a Yankee fan, though, so I can't help it. All right, two other things, non-sports, before we get out of here. First, I thought this was hilarious. A first grader told his teacher that he was ill. I wonder if this is a demonstration of woke being an aspect of what is happening for him at home, or if it's just a misunderstanding, like a cute kid is one to do. But the kid told his teacher that his illness was caused by something unique. And here's how the teacher responded to it. I loved this audio.
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You said the reason you cough was what? Morning sickness. Morning sickness. So do you have morning sickness? Sometimes. Sometimes? You know who have morning sickness? Pregnant women. Are you a pregnant woman? No. So you don't have morning sickness. You just got the sniffles, okay? Bye. morning sickness.
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Okay. I love everything about that audio because it demonstrates something about actual people in our society that the left doesn't seem to understand, which is that we think a lot of the things the left says is insane, but the left would think that a man can get morning sickness. And obviously that teacher doesn't think a little boy can have that. So it's sort of insane. All right. That's it. That's the show. Thrilled to be with you as always. Dana back Monday, Greg Collins filling in on the Dana show.
In today's episode of Sekulow, we dive deep into the recent indictment of former FBI Director James Comey. Out of the Eastern District of Virginia, Comey faces charges for making false statements and obstructing congressional proceedings. Join us as we analyze the details of the indictment and discuss the legal journey ahead for Comey with insights from our experienced legal panel, including Jay Sekulow and Jordan Sekulow.
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Today on Sekulow, we have breaking news. James Comey set to surrender to law enforcement after his indictment.
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Keeping you informed and engaged, now more than ever. This is Sekulow. We want to hear from you. Share and post your comments or call 1-800-684-3110. And now your host...
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Welcome to Sekulow. Will Haines here, joined in studio by Jordan Sekulow. Hey. And you have heard it right, folks. We got an indictment. That's right. Out of the Eastern District of Virginia in the case United States of America versus James B. Comey Jr. Jordan, we talked about it yesterday. We expected this could happen, but now we have it.
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Yes, and I think it's likely what we kind of talked about on this broadcast. You guys talked about the broadcast yesterday with count one being false statements to Congress and then count two an obstruction of a congressional proceeding. It appears that those both arise out of the same because they're dated the same. I'm going to read it for folks because I think that, one, this is short enough, clear enough, and it just kind of shows you again, you know, we've been seeing these when it comes to – president trump and former uh trump officials uh what we don't usually see is this um when it's this comey world that felt like they could kind of i think get away with saying anything they wanted to to congress usually very coy which is why i think you probably only got a couple indictments usually he didn't really answer questions directly because he was a professional at doing these hearings and you know of course coming from the fbi knowing exactly the opposite of of what you are the uh, uh, don't want to do, but here it is. Count one false statements within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the United States government. That's 18 USC, uh, 1,001. That's one we talk about all the times as a, one of the easier, uh, uh, uh, ways they get you legally is that you, again, you take that oath before Congress, and if you answer questions with any kind of definitive statement, a yes or no or something similar, then if they've got evidence that you were incorrect, that you didn't correct that in a very timely manner, again, so let's read it. So on or about September 30th, 2020 in the Eastern district of Virginia, the defendant James B. Comey Jr. Did willfully and knowingly make a material false fictitious and fraudulent statement in a matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative branch of the government of the United States by falsely stating to a U S Senator that during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that he, James B. Comey Jr., had not, quote, authorized someone else at the FBI to be an anonymous source in news reports regarding an FBI investigation concerning person one. Number two, that statement was false because as James B. Comey Jr. then and there knew, he in fact had authorized person three to serve as an anonymous source in news reports regarding an FBI investigation concerning person one. All in violation of 18 USC 1001. So that is count one. Count two is the obstruction that goes along with that of a congressional proceeding. That's 18 USC section 1505 on or about September 30th, 2020. So again, same incident. The defendant, or at least during that hearing, did corruptly endeavor to influence, obstruct, and impede the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which an investigation was being had before the Senate Judiciary Committee by making false and misleading statements before the committee. all in violation of 18 U.S.C. Section 1505. So we know at some point today, James Comey will be surrendering in the Eastern District. That means he will go through the process again and then likely released. But he will be fingerprinted, and the photograph should be taken and should be released, just like it has been for the others.
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And Jordan, we're joined in the next segment by... By your dad, Jay Sekulow, to break this all down. He was on yesterday talking about what may be coming. Now we know he'll be joining us to talk all through that.
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I want you to know what's coming will be an honest assessment because I think a lot of people probably have questions out there knowing, okay, this guy, we know he's pretty – He knows, for the most part, how to not answer and try to get around this. He's gotten around it for so many years. So what's the likelihood here? How serious is this for James Comey? We'll take your questions. 1-800-684-3110. Right back on Sekulow. Share it with your friends and family.
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Welcome back to Sekulow. Will Haynes here in studio with me, Jordan Sekulow. And we have Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow of the ACLJ joining us to break this down. Jordan, I'm going to toss it to you.
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Yeah, Dad, I want to go right to you because I told people, you know, after yesterday when we knew this was coming, but was still some speculation on exactly what it would be, we now have the two grand jury indictments. So I want to get your first... your reaction to the indictments themselves, because we're always fair and honest with people. I would say usually there's a bit more than one statement, usually, or there's more people involved. Now, there are others involved here that we believe obviously represent were the impetus for this. People like Andrew McCabe who said, yeah, he told us to leak things and he would tell which person to do which thing and had me do it before. So that may be it. But just first, your reaction to the actual indictments themselves for our audience.
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Well, first of all, I think it was probably very wise to just have the two counts. So it's a very focused indictment. It's not a scattershot indictment. Sometimes you talk about these talking indictments or speaking indictments here. It's very specific. And, and we just played in the clip that just aired for those that got to see that, you know, I think what, What you have here is it's either yes or no. Either he lied under oath or he didn't. Andrew McCain basically said he did. Andrew McCain was his deputy and did lie under oath because he said he was authorized by James Comey to make the leak. And then you have the second aspect of the leak, which is the one involving the professor, who was also, by the way, a special government employee at the Justice Department. At the FBI. So, look, I think it's very targeted. So I've heard I've seen some criticism where people are saying there should have been more. I can't believe this is enough. No, this was the smart way to do it. It's very clear. It's very concise. It's very direct. Now, look, the indictment is the easy part. trying the case in the Eastern District of Virginia, the rocket docket, as I mentioned yesterday on the broadcast, is going to be another matter. It's not going to be easy, but I think that this was the right move by the Department of Justice and the targeting the narrow scope of the injunction, excuse me, the indictment, I think is really the right move here.
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Yeah, and usually, Dad, we didn't see a lot of yes and no's from Comey when he was asked these types of questions. We would get, even the question on the professor, it was, I think his answer, or one of his answers, I remember saying, multiple times he would use is that you know I wasn't exactly sure what he might do with it he might share it he might not you know it was always those kind of again as someone who led the FBI he kind of knew how to answer but so there were kind of rare moments even when you go back through these years of his testimony where it does feel like he's not being truthful to Congress and the American people, that he gets himself caught with the, as you said, it's either yes or no. And we've already got someone on the record, his deputy, who, again, no ally of the president, no ally of the administration, but who was, when being questioned about this themselves by investigators, said, yes, this happened, in fact, all the time. This was a regular occurrence. So he said no to something that others have said he has said yes to, that he's told them to do many times. But as you said, you've got to then take that into court, into Virginia, a lot of former bureaucrats there. A lot of people have prepped people to testify or have testified before Congress or at least have been in part of investigations. I would say they don't always usually reach the level of actually testifying before Congress. So it's like D.C., a unique place to try these types of individuals.
SPEAKER 09 :
And not easy because the Eastern District tends to skew very much Democratic in its political leanings. So the jury selection is going to be critical here. But I want to focus on one thing here that people may have forgotten. You've got to remember what James Comey did throughout all of this, not only what he did to President Trump, but the stuff he did with Democrats. And the way he handled the Hillary Clinton investigation and then opened it back up days before the election. So there's a lot of stuff with James Comey. But don't forget this. And I want everybody to remember this. And we had to deal with this, of course, during the representation of President Trump and during the first impeachment proceedings. But here's what you have. James Comey left the meeting of the President of the United States, went into his government vehicle, took out his government computer, typed a memo, and sent it to a professor in New York, who then allegedly leaked it to the press. So think about that for a moment. The head of the FBI meeting with the then sitting President of the United States, and this is what happens. So it's outrageous what he did. His conduct was illegal in my view, and I think this
SPEAKER 05 :
indictment very tailored very specific narrow is the way to approach this case and when you look at also the fact that he even admitted that that memo that you talked about uh he he told susan collins that he he showed it to that professor to give to the new york times to leak he had already counsel He'd already established a pattern that this was his M.O., but yet was trying to have it both ways when it came to his testimony before Congress. The fact that, as you mentioned, this is very narrow and very tailored. I think that is one thing that our audience I know is thinking about is, wait, you know, with when Trump, they raided Mar-a-Lago. with other associates of Trump. They raided their home. The Justice Department here, I feel like, is showing restraint, using the appropriate charges and not raiding his home, letting him know, you're indicted, surrender. I wanted your take on that.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, I think that, look, the Department of Justice under Pam Bondi is doing it the way you're supposed to do it. None of the showboating, none of this calling CNN when you're raiding someone's house so that they can get it on camera. Here it was done in the way it's supposed to be done. So I think that's Very good for the Department of Justice and it's restoring some credibility, but also procedure and process that was necessary. But what everybody needs to realize going forward. This is going to be now in the litigation mode and Virginia is pretty quick at the Eastern district, particularly, and I think it's going to move relatively quickly. But the reality is, by targeting it with just the two counts, I think that was a really smart prosecutorial move in order to tailor the evidence to the specific charge. And I think that will serve the country well, and hopefully There will be, in my view, hopefully a verdict of guilty. And then this matter can be put to bed. But what the Department of Justice did and the FBI under James, remember, he jumped over Loretta Lynch's his attorney general, who's his boss in some of these announcements he made on the Clinton matter. So. None of this is right, what Comey did. His attitude after leaving office has also been unbelievable. I mean, you had those threats on the beach earlier, about six months ago. This is just James Comey's modus operandi, and I think it finally has now caught up with him. But he'll get lawyers, and they'll put up a real fight.
SPEAKER 05 :
One final question for you. I know it's something we care about here at the ACLJ and fight for every day, and that is upholding the rule of law, upholding the trust in the justice system. Do you feel like this indictment is a first step at restoring some of that trust?
SPEAKER 09 :
I do. I think it reminds me very similarly of when we were vindicated in our case that we brought against the IRS for targeting the Tea Party a decade ago. And when the case was resolved, you felt like we got justice. I think this is the first step it's the first step though there's going to be a lot of motions and a lot of activity between now and the actual trial but i do think it was the right step and i hope the american people and our audience understands it takes time but the right thing was done here and the right process is being followed and we need to now give the department of justice the ability to do their job and of course you know we know about this case probably more than any lawyers in america is the truth
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, and when we come back, we're going to play for you now that we can kind of piece together the statements that led to this indictment so that you can hear them for yourself, hear the evidence that likely the grand jury heard and that the jury will be hearing in this case. We also have James Comey has issued a video statement, so we can play that for you when we come back. This is his first, at least, full statement. He's making it, I will tell you this, very political. Um, goes after Donald. I think Donald Trump's name is said within the first sentence. So, I mean, this is again, I, you see how he's setting it up already, which is, this is just me standing up to Donald Trump. And as my dad reminded everybody. talking about interfering in the election, if you were Hillary Clinton, wouldn't you have fired James Comey too? I think I said it multiple times. The answer would be yes. I mean, the fact that he went against or didn't inform the Attorney General Loretta Lynch, we'll see if we ever get answers to that, and just reopened investigation, and ultimately what was found on that other laptop was the same information. But it was days before. So, you know, this bipartisan in the sense of, you know, that feeling that at that time were the were the FBI. We run the government. You know, you put these politicians in, they come and go, but we're the ones who are really in charge. And while we've gotten used to maybe just in the last months of a very different FBI, that has been kind of the, and of course, you know, the Trump administration was fighting it. This has been kind of the norm. And so we've gotten used to a new normal. Don't get used to it, you know, too long because we've got other elections coming up. But you see the difference already. The feel is that it's not an FBI there to try and say, we run the government. We'll take your calls, too. We come back. 1-800-684-3110. Support the work of the ACLJ. Donate today at ACLJ.org.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back to Sekulow. We're going to continue this discussion on James Comey's indictment. But I did also want to point out, you saw on the break maybe there, some sound from Bibi Netanyahu's speech at the UN. We represented many of the hostage families that were taken by Hamas on October 7th. We've had some celebrations and some tragedies out of that. But Prime Minister Netanyahu read the names of the 20 hostages believed still to be alive. And two of those are brothers, twin brothers that the ACLJ represented the family, took their brother to Congress to meet with the Speaker of the House and to advocate for them. So there was some good news this morning that Bibi Netanyahu mentioned that Gail and Ziv Berman are among those still living. They were taken hostage by Hamas. We'll talk about a little bit of that more later, but say a prayer for them, their family. Absolutely. And for a resolution to this, that they can be brought home to their family because we have been advocating for more than two years for those, or almost two years as we approach October 7th next week.
SPEAKER 04 :
saw during the break, but maybe if you're listening at radio, as well as you had President Trump saying they think there's a new deal in place. That's something brand new that wasn't really being discussed much and it didn't look like there was something on the horizon, actually. Things had kind of stalled out. So would that deal involve those brothers returning home alive and how wonderful that would be because Israel has had a lot of criticism of saying when they started the conflict to say it will not end until all the hostages are released and returned, that that was always going to be a very difficult or maybe impossible standard. And so to say you won't end the conflict on that and, and, Maybe now we're at a point where those remaining living hostages and any other bodies of those who were killed are ultimately returned and that we can continue on then into getting Gaza kind of figuring out these situations in a way that I think takes some attention off of Israel for a little bit, which would not be a bad thing for the state of Israel right now because of the ongoing war and just the PR campaign that Israel has had to face. Jordan, let's go ahead and switch back to this James Comey indictment.
SPEAKER 05 :
Let's play this. This is from Instagram that James Comey posted after the announcement of the indictment. This is bite six. And then we'll break down just what his statement is. Bite six.
SPEAKER 03 :
My family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump. But we couldn't imagine ourselves living any other way. We will not live on our knees. And you shouldn't either. Somebody that I love dearly recently said that fear is the tool of a tyrant, and she's right. But I'm not afraid, and I hope you're not either. I hope instead you are engaged, you are paying attention, and you will vote like your beloved country depends upon it, which it does. My heart is broken for the Department of Justice, but I have great confidence in the federal judicial system, and I'm innocent. So let's have a trial and keep the faith.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay, Jordan, a lot to break down there with that statement. But first of all, it can't be lost on anyone where he says, my family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump. Boom, right away politics. What was standing up to Donald Trump, to James Comey, sending spies into the new White House? Two days, yeah. Entertaining and weaponizing intelligence that they knew. was from the Clinton campaign to go after him and then leaking his personal notes to try and get a special counsel to undercut the president that fired him because he was undermining his presidency. That's what standing up was to him. That is at best disloyalty. I know he says he has a higher loyalty.
SPEAKER 04 :
right in his his uh writing career but at best disloyalty at worst constitutionally troubling when it comes to uh treasonous conspiracy as tulsi gabbard has called it yeah i mean right away listen jim comey was someone who decided um to try and make this case that he is fbi director and um different you know because he even talks about the so upset about the Department of Justice and what became of it in some of the Obama years, certainly towards the end of the Obama years, and then especially as James Comey exposed even the worst of it. I mean, there were some things done in the Obama years, Fast and Furious and others, where Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress, a big deal. But then you got to James Comey and it took it a step further. And it said, we are actually going to play politics and we're going to decide winners and losers and we're going to have insurance policies. And if a guy is going to come and say, you know what, I think Washington needs a shakeup, just like all these conservatives have been saying for years that we need a shakeup at our Department of Justice, which oversees the FBI directly. And then he goes along in this statement and his heart is broken over the Department of Justice. The Department of Justice is finally doing its job, which is law enforcement. Its job is not to play politics. You know, Kash Patel had said today, the FBI, the entire investigation was done by career. It was not done by political appointees. By the way, the FBI has a handful. I mean, I think there's three, four. It depends on administration to administration, but it's very small. Department of Justice, of course, has more political appointees leading those different departments, but the FBI who conducts the actual investigation does not. And on top of that, so on top of that,
SPEAKER 05 :
The idea here that it's a call to vote. Right. This is what I want to ask you about because he says, I'm not afraid. I hope you're not either. I hope you instead are engaged. You are paying attention and you will vote like your beloved country depends on it. Here's the only thing I can take from that because president Trump can't run for another term. The midterms. What? I mean, he cares about litigation and blocking funding bills. No, what he's calling for there is another impeachment. Why else would, would voting in this instance matter?
SPEAKER 04 :
It would matter because you could, yes, you could midterm elections and impeaching Trump again, which I have no doubt, as we know that we've already seen impeachment resolutions, but I have no doubt, especially if some of the new leadership that's been discussed, if the Democrats do take control of even just the House of Representatives, that they will impeach, even if it is a loser in the Senate, and they will drag the country through that, they will drag the administration through that, and as someone who's been through that, they will try... and distract the administration and Donald Trump from doing their job I thought they may have learned from the first impeachment that that was not the case that Donald Trump you know what first of all look at what they did to him out of office this is a guy who could who could take everybody again and go three hours further and three hours longer and work that much more and And I don't say that about many people, but I can say that about people I actually have worked with, and he can. And he no doubt showed that as he was sitting through those ridiculous criminal trials in New York. And that is who James Comey is demonizing. A man who has faced the worst of both the federal and local justice systems. Donald Trump. He is the man who has faced the worst of the federal and local justice systems. And you know what he said? I want to come back because I want to fix it so that those Tea Party groups, all of you, You don't have to fear that they're going to investigate you or do this to you because of your politics. You know, we do this work at the ACLJ with those whistleblowers. Support our work today. Donate right now. ACLJ.org. Donate today. This moment.
SPEAKER 08 :
Keeping you informed and engaged now more than ever. This is Sekulow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back to Sekulow. Will Haines here, joined in studio by Jordan Sekulow. We've got Rick Grinnell coming up in the next segment, so stick around for that.
SPEAKER 04 :
And if you missed my dad, too, he was on in the second segment. So if you're watching, listening, however you get podcasting, Go back and definitely listen to that because he again, he's been on the last couple of days. He knows his stuff when it comes to obviously Comey, but also when it comes to this indictment, because you're going to hear people breaking it down lots of different ways. I told you we want to be very honest about it here. Honest about our thoughts about the initial indictment itself, but then honest about what's the road like in court. And I think as you saw from that Jim Comey video we played, he's kind of smiling. That's kind of his style, is smiling about it, that this is part of being Comey and trying to make it. The unfortunate part about indicting Jim Comey is that it puts Jim Comey back in the news. Right. and so it gives him a platform. That's the only part I think I don't like about this whole thing is that Jim – most people that get indicted, they're quiet. Right. But Jim Comey will take the opposite. He'll probably be on the morning shows tomorrow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, he'll do the full Ginsburg on Sunday. Maybe he'll be on Jimmy Kimmel. Right, probably. Let's go to the phones, and if you want to be on air with us, 1-800-684-3110. Martin is calling from North Carolina on line two. He's an ACLJ champion. Welcome to Sekulow. You're on the air.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you. You guys are doing great, but do you have a comment, question? First of all, what Jordan just said, that's the height of hubris, what Comey is, that he's got that smirk on his face. But what I wanted to ask about, With all the, as Will said, recorded documentation of what he did and the written applications Letitia James had, actual evidence, why did the previous prosecutor not think that there was enough to go for an indictment? It doesn't set well with me for some reason.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and we can get into that as well. But one thing, sometimes false statement cases are difficult for a prosecutor to bring because you do have to prove the intent that the false statement was meant to... I also always want to look into their background where they conflicted out of people that could be involved in this.
SPEAKER 04 :
And again, we've had a lot of issues. And I think this is a Washington issue, folks. Not a Republican Democrat issue. It's a Washington issue of draining the swamp. Right. Of, you know, the kind of saying, well, you know, we don't do this to our own. And so I'm not I don't feel comfortable doing this. I'm resigning. And and and so and again, if you feel like you don't have a case. um and you're a prosecutor and you feel like um i'm just not the person to do this you should step aside that doesn't mean there there may not be a case there um and we've have someone new come in and they believe very quickly boom boom well and this this speaks to that exactly so ken delinean who is right msnbc legal analysis but he put out on on x what i'm hearing from doj sources
SPEAKER 05 :
The Comey indictment is among the worst abuses in DOJ history. Shocking. It's hard to overstate how big a moment this is. So those are people still in the Department of Justice, right? Really? Raiding the home of a former president wasn't one of the biggest abuses. Crossfire hurricane wasn't one of the biggest abuses. Going after Catholic churches, trying to send spies in there wasn't one of the biggest abuses. All these things that went after the constitutional rights of Americans weren't some of the biggest abuses in DOJ history. That's where their mindset is. So there's still these people within DOJ talking to MSNBC saying, it's shocking, hard to overstate how big a moment this is. No, he lied before Congress. Justice is coming.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, I mean, it's clear there's laws on the books on that. You lie before Congress, you can be indicted. And in fact, you will be indicted. And usually that's the case. It's just that oftentimes these individuals... hedge every answer they give, and so it's very tough to bring. I think just remember who you're dealing here. You're dealing with Jim Comey. We're going to play more from it when we get back from the break. We're going to take more of your calls at 1-800-684-3110. Rick Grinnell is going to be joining us, too. Let's support the work of the ACLJ. We've been battling this out for over a decade. ACLJ.org. Donate today.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back to Sekulow. Will Haynes here, joined by Jordan Sekulow in the studio and also joined by Rick Grinnell. As always, Rick, thanks for joining us today. Before we get to the James Comey talk, I have to ask you, you were in the lion's den yesterday. I saw you at CBS News. You were in person. It wasn't a remote, but you were talking about the good work of the Kennedy Center. And I will say they were very respectful. What's changing in big media, Rick? I don't understand it.
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, as you know, CBS has been purchased and there's a new set of owners. And so I think they're reading the room, as we say. But you're right. I mean, I sat there with Gayle King and she was lovely. She came into the green room beforehand to talk with me and she couldn't have been nicer. And I thought that they were very respectful and we had a good back and forth. And they asked tough questions about the Kennedy Center and allowed me to answer. And I think that's... You know, that's what's crazy about today's world is that some people still believe in critical thinking to be able to sit, listen, and then lo and behold, find your own opinion and your own belief. And so we got to get back to that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Something I wanted to ask you actually with the Kennedy Center was, as someone who lived in D.C. for over a decade and still is there a lot, obviously with our office there, is that, you know, it did get, it felt like for a while, like, again, like those family kind of friendly, the ones I'd want to take my kids to, just didn't. weren't there. They might have been in other theaters in Washington, smaller productions, but they weren't in our capitals, a premier facility. And now they're coming back and tickets are selling because I think families can go again. It's not just going to be kind of whatever, again, the arts community is interested in, which Kennedy Center has lots of different theaters for different size events. That's fine. But also bringing back some of these, like you said, like Sound of Music, and things like that that have brought back and honoring some of the people from the Kennedy Center honors that mainstream America really loves.
SPEAKER 02 :
Look, President Trump's vision was always to make it more accessible and less elitist. And that's exactly what we're doing. I think President Trump was once again ahead of the curve because the New York Times this past week did this big, huge profile of how Broadway is dying. And when you look at between the ticket price for Broadway, the content that they're pushing, it's just not appealing to the masses anymore. And so they're struggling, but I don't think it's anything more than a supply and demand. You have to supply something that a huge crowd wants if you're going to run a theater. And so what we're trying to do here at the Kennedy Center is, first of all, say everyone is welcome. Two, we're gonna have programming that appeals to the common folk so that we can fill seats and not make this place elitist. I don't want people coming into the Kennedy Center who get booed just because they happen to be a Republican. And I certainly don't want it On the other side, I wouldn't want someone walking into a theater who's a hardcore Democrat and getting booed either. What we want to be able to do is sit and watch shows that are inspirational. And there's so many genres of dance, music, spoken word, lecture series, all sorts of different arts genres that can really inspire. And that's what we're going for. That's what President Trump asked us to do. And it's making us get on a better financial path. And as we see so many arts institutions struggling, I think this is gonna be the path they need to follow.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I can't believe the New York Times was shocked that people didn't want to pay seven, eight hundred dollars to get preached at for three or four hours in New York. But Rick, we got to go to this other issue of the day. James Comey has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
SPEAKER 04 :
It's a lovely man.
SPEAKER 05 :
He is. He's responded. What is your fresh take on this, that now James Comey has been indicted for false statements to Congress and obstructing proceedings?
SPEAKER 02 :
Well, I was hoping that this whole bloviation from James Covey about walking on the beach and finding these shells in a formation, which is clearly a lie, and he stood there and pretended like we believed it. The funny part is that he's so gullible, he thinks people believe him. This is a man that has consistently, consistently created a whole alternative universe for himself. And he aggressively does it and he's confident in his lies. And I'm just glad that we have a system where no one is above the law And there are a whole bunch of people who manipulated the public, who lied to Congress, who certainly did some injustices to our system that need to be held to account. And that doesn't mean that they go straight to prison. It means that we have a trial and the prosecutors put forward their arguments. The defense gets to put forward their arguments. And let's see what happens. It's exactly what the left kept telling us about President Trump when President Biden was in charge. That's all they wanted to see was the process work. And so here we are. Let's let the process work.
SPEAKER 04 :
You brought up, too, how Comey kind of creates this alternative universe like he did in the video even that he released in his first statement about this. I wouldn't be surprised if he's on some of those morning shows, too, or evening maybe with Jimmy Kimmel, as I said earlier tonight, because he kind of lives in this own world where he forgets, too. And unfortunately, many on the left forget. his election interference you might want to call it when he reopened the Hillary investigation three days before an election and it ended up being the same information there was nothing new there made a big deal of it and the Clinton campaign and the Clintons and the left then were outraged at who? Jim Comey and then he did similar kind of things to Donald Trump he was living in this world where it wasn't even about he's gotten a little bit more partisan now I wish the left didn't let him back in. I wish they remembered, kind of, Rick, what he did to think that law enforcement and the FBI should be really running Washington, D.C., not elected politicians.
SPEAKER 02 :
Look, these elite individuals on the left have enjoyed decades of controlling the institutions of America, whether it's government or academia or NGOs. They have enjoyed this small group that cater to just a portion of the country. And they forget the rest of us. They forget the masses. They forget the rule of law. They got together and they created this idea of sanctuary cities, for instance, which is an undermining of democracy, a ridiculous concept where people ignore federal law, but they were immune from prosecution because they created this nice name. These are the types of things that the elite left do. And I have to say, Thank God that we won the election. Elections have consequences, people. Get out, get involved, vote, get more people registered to vote because otherwise this small elite try to control us and they give us people like James Comey. When we're in charge, when the people are in charge, when we try to take over institutions and bring common sense back, then we have real rule of law. And that's what James Comey has seen, and I'm glad for it.
SPEAKER 05 :
And in James Comey's video, he did say, my family and I have known for years that there are costs to standing up to Donald Trump. We can't let people forget what he thought standing up to Donald Trump was. It was weaponizing intelligence. It was going along with a rival campaign's made-up dossier to try and smear him. Leaking to get a special counsel. when he got fired because he had already done these things. Sending FBI agents into the White House to spy on members of the incoming team. This isn't standing up to a president. This is subverting the duly elected president of the United States. We can't let people forget that.
SPEAKER 02 :
Such a good point. Well, but, you know, they don't believe that they're doing anything wrong. This is the whole elitist mentality where they believe that by any means necessary, they should be able to to to. make sure that Donald Trump fails, that they stop him. And by any means necessary, we're now finding ourselves in the place where violence is what mentally unstable people are doing because they think they have permission from the elitist left. When people like Eric Swalwell and Adam Schiff and some others come forward and call people Nazis and fascists. Nazis and fascists are the people who kill other people by tens of thousands and millions. And so the idea that we are like that, that a whole nother political party that you disagree with is like that, you're giving permission to unstable people to go kill them.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, and we've seen just unlimited violence. Even today, there was a rioting somewhere, again, against ICE officials and just preventing them from doing their job. And we saw that out of California, they have to take their mask off by January, which most law enforcement, again, when you are in the process of actually going in and doing the job, you're going on to the mission to make the arrest. Many times are masked, many times. different kinds of protection levels, none of which is because they're being photographed a lot of times on camera, even with their own cameras, and just their personal security and their families' personal security as well, and the security of those that are being apprehended. That's also on camera for our legal system, which is the best in the world. Rick, thank you for being on with us, folks. When we come back, we'll take your calls on this 1-800-684-3110. You want to be part of the show.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back to Sekulow. We're going to get right to your phone calls. We're going to go to Bill calling from Wyoming on line one. Bill, you're on Sekulow.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hi, thanks for taking my call. I'd like to present my opinion to you guys, because I think after seeing this video of him talk about what he is, I think he's going to try and troll the president, By proving that he's more intelligent as well as innocent compared to the two of them. By putting his mug shot out on the Facebook as well as on coffee mugs and t-shirts. Are you guys more familiar with this than I am?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I mean, Bill, I think, and I'll get your thoughts on this, Bill. I think the difference is that, listen, I have that shirt from Donald Trump. One, because I thought it was historic. And two, hilarious. The former FBI director doing that, yes, he might do things like this because he acts a lot more like a politician, but he's actually more of like a salesman now. He's the Jim Comey salesman, and it's the books and the appearances and just the industry of being anti-Trump. That's why in the first sentence in the video, That's what it was about. It wasn't about his innocence. It was just about standing up to Donald Trump. But Bill, I mean, your thoughts are, and I guess as Rick said, it's like the left just kind of forgot that he was trying to make the FBI into an institution that was above the law, Republican and Democrat. So he especially didn't like... Donald Trump saying drain the swamp. But he also wanted to push Hillary Clinton too. And he did that by, I think inappropriately, making that whole press conference about reopening investigation before they looked and saw what was in there, which was information they already had. Yet the left just forgets this bill. And so I guess I want to go back to you, Bill, and just say, do you think he's still got a big enough constituency? And is it just the... Trump derangement syndrome crowd that jumps on?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think my intelligence has grown a little bit more ever since listening to this guy, so I don't think so. I think people are really thinking, are really going to turn their backs on him as far as I'm concerned.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, yeah, that's what I kind of think. Jim Comey, the 86, 47, first of all, you know who he's acting a lot more like?
SPEAKER 05 :
J. Edgar Hoover. Who didn't have the greatest reputation.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the weird part is he's still acting like it when he has zero power. Right, exactly. And I'm not sure how many friends he has left. I'm really honest about that, though he might have some liberals that say, oh, this is horrible, and the press says this is horrible. Maybe the press, because it's a good story. But actual friends inside Washington, do you want to be around Jim Comey? Because even Andrew McCabe, who was a very close deputy of his, totally contradicted him. I don't know what their relationship like is now, but I'm assuming that if he is the person that it sounds like in some of these documents, that he will be called before And I doubt that he is not going to just repeat the same line unless he takes the fifth, which is a whole other issue since he's already... I think he was probably under oath when he was giving that testimony to congressional investigators. If he was, I don't think he would then be able to take the fifth then. First, they could play it as well. I'm sure they have the audio, if not the video, of that for the jury. So I don't want to go too far down that... Well, let's go back to the phones at 1-800-684-3110. If you want to be on the air, I'd call right now.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, let's go ahead and take Annie calling from Florida. Line four. Annie, you're on Seculo.
SPEAKER 01 :
Thank you. Make sure that all my thoughts, that I don't lose trend in the conversations that have followed from the time I called are incredibly online. I mean, just on point. I think that this person, years ago, he would have been executed. And I think that it is extremely dangerous, the posture that he has taken. I realize that he has been favored. So he took a very political stand that That he chose to do. That is not what he should have done under a... People have said traitor.
SPEAKER 05 :
People have used the word traitor. Tulsi Gabbard described what both Jim Comey and John Brennan and James Clapper as a treasonous conspiracy.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, yes. The whole... And listen, we know what the punishments for that can be if proven. in court now that is not what this case is this case is lying to lying to congress so you know again serious so i don't think we have to jump to these other conclusions if we have fbi directors lying to congress And these were guys who hardly ever answer with yes or no's. But the one time he did, and it might be one of the very few or only times that he really kept doubling down with the yes and no's, is the time to get them in trouble. And why is that? Because the one time they actually sound like they're trying to be definitive in their answer and honest with the American people, it appears at least to this grand jury and the Department of Justice that they lied.
SPEAKER 05 :
If you were to go through James Comey testimony, you would hear a lot of, I don't recall, or that doesn't ring a bell, which are ways to get around definitively answering.
SPEAKER 04 :
Or it's possible someone interpreted my words as that. I didn't know exactly what the professor might do with the documents.
SPEAKER 05 :
Even the professor, the documents that just the news got with John Solomon, they asked him, did you ever leak documents? classified material that james comey gave you and he said i i don't believe i did but with a discount which is the most open-ended like saying no but a discount how much was that discount 100 off and the reason why they were answering like that is because they were prepared right
SPEAKER 04 :
They knew ultimately that, listen, when you start playing politics like this, the other side is going to investigate. Ultimately, they're going to get that information. So you couch almost everything you say. That's why so many of those congressional hearings can be so just kind of infuriating for those members of Congress who are just looking for answers from government servants. They are there to serve the people. That is why they are there. We pay their salaries to provide a service to the American people. And in the FBI's case, it's to protect us from criminals, from both. And typically their involvement is mostly domestic. But they've seen, of course, kind of an increase into, and I think that's the global economy, some of that makes sense. It's gotten a little bit more difficult, and I think that's why the position that Rick Ronell, who's on staff with us, and Tulsi Gabbard, who was on staff with us, has now as Director of National Intelligence, is so important because really all of these agencies, play part in these roles. Like she said, you don't just say Comey because he only does domestic in this. In fact, he was doing Russia and he was doing Ukraine. I mean, it was going through. And look at the actual consequences of some of their politics. War, I mean, you could look to Ukraine and say, this certainly could play a role because we were debating it around and throwing it around to play domestic politics with. And so I think this is why, it's a reason why to support the work of the ACLJ. Because I don't know of another organization... especially that has got the legal policy, the C4 side with ACLJ action, the Washington, the international representation, that can have this conversation in one hour with you on all of these topics, bring in experts who have lived it, some of us who really lived these, and bring it to you in one hour. And really, it's less than that if you take out the commercials. And some of you who listen to the podcast can see that. That is why you support the work of the ACLJ. It's not the commentary. It's the commentary that comes from the people who are doing this work. And we're doing this work because you make the donations so we can. So donate today so our team continues to do the work at ACLJ.org. In fact, donate right now.
