Join Kim Munson as she delves into the depths of history with Dennis Bush, author of The Real Heroes of Omaha Beach. Together, they explore the intricate dynamics and the sheer courage displayed at Omaha Beach during D-Day, highlighting the incredible acts of bravery by American soldiers. Discover the stories of lesser-known heroes whose actions were pivotal in one of the most significant battles of World War II. Through engaging dialogue, the episode uncovers layers of strategic maneuvers, unexpected challenges, and the drive for freedom that defined the soldiers on that day. Dennis Bush paints a vivid picture of the Omaha Beach ordeal, offering insights into why it's remembered as 'Bloody Omaha' and how patriotism fueled these men to face insurmountable odds. This episode is a tribute to courage, sacrifice, and the enduring spirit of American G.I.s.
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Okay. Well, I am a proud, unashamed patriot of the United States of America. I revere this country and its history in spite of some very dark chapters. But that's just the nature of history. No group of people is without sin in their past. It is just part of the enigma of the creature we so narcissistically call wise human or homo sapiens. Over the past many years, I have sensed a waning in patriotism in our country. When I heard a president of the United States declare that America was never exceptional, I knew that I had to step up and do something. To borrow on another theme, I had to do my part to make America proud again. So I wrote what turned out to be a trilogy of books on the story of what actually happened in early June of 1944 in the battle for Omaha Beach as part of D-Day. Once you understand this story in its entirety and accuracy, you will see that the battle is a microcosm that screams to the heavens. It is the people of America, the men and women, that make this nation the epitome of exceptionalism.
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So, Dennis Bush, when I was in Normandy, one of the things that I realized in some stories is, first of all, our veterans are revered in Normandy, even to this day, because they liberated people that were under oppression. And what an American... What an American thing that these men would put their lives on the line to liberate people that they didn't even know. It's something that is inherently American. So set the stage for us. Okay.
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Okay. Well, I've got to draw a visual map for you. The Omaha Beach is an inward arc of shoreline about five kilometers or three miles across in Normandy, France. As there is such a tremendous advantage it provides then for the defense, you've got crossfire and you've got the enemy kind of pinned in. It's always best to be in that defense in that situation. There are steep cliffs at each end, and there was a wide, flat beach covered in sand and a sea of man-made obstacles that once you crossed, you encountered a steep slope up to the Normandy Plateau where the primary German fortifications were strategically placed, the military high ground. The slope was steep. Vehicles could not make the climb. Even jeeps, which can climb trees, couldn't do it. But trained, in-shape soldiers could. But it was an arduous, slow track, and under heavy fire, it is difficult to imagine how any man made it, let alone the thousands that eventually did. So the Omaha Beach battlefield itself worked heavily in the favor of the Nazis. It certainly posed to the Americans assigned to liberate it a tremendous challenge.
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Well, Dennis, I ask why we attacked there. But ultimately, as we were getting ready for this interview, you said that the Allies needed to get a port, but they didn't want to attack directly on the port. So this is why this decision was made for the different beaches in Normandy.
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That's correct. The obvious, the Germans thought that we were going to attack at the narrowest point between England and France, which is a place called Pas-de-Calais. And in a clear day, which is rare, you can actually see the cliffs of Dover from France. So it's a very narrow distance. But the problem is the Germans figured that out, too, and it was extremely heavily fortified. And so the American planners knew that they had to go somewhere else. And one of the things I'm researching for my next trilogy is why did we have to go into France? If you look at a map, Belgium seems to be the place we should have attacked, but I haven't been able to really discern that. But once you decide that you're not going to the Pot of Clay, the next best place is down around the Normandy area because you needed a wide front. Okay. 50 miles is what they wanted. Montgomery said if you can't launch a 50-mile front, I want no part of it. And so you've got to have a lot of area, and you have to have suitable, you know, You have to have an area where you can get inland and can't be trapped. And so that's why the SHAPE, Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force, that's why their planners decided that the best course of action was to attack at Normandy. And Utah Beach, Omaha Beach were the American beaches, were soared. And gold were the British beaches, and Juneau was the Canadian beach. So you had this 50-mile front. Wow. So it was just picked basically because of geography and necessity. Wow.
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Well, Omaha ended up being known as Bloody Omaha because of all the beaches.
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Well, we can talk about that.
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Yeah, let's talk about that. But what would you say was the primary element that made this acceptable place? I guess you kind of explained that already, though, right?
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Well, no, not really, because you have this steep slope. But you can't get vehicles up it. And if you can't get vehicles off the beach, you can't win the battle. You got to get tanks. You got to get trucks. You got to get half tracks, all these weapons of war. You have to get them up into the battle. But the primary element was the fact that there were four stream beds. that ran down from the top of the plateau to the beaches below and over millions of years of erosion created shallow sloped passages from the normandy plateau down to the shoreline there was even a road of sorts through each Omaha Beach, before the war, was a resort area. And so there were lots of cottages and things actually down on the beach that the Germans had pretty much destroyed, but they were there. At least one of these gas stations gulches had to be captured as soon as possible and in order to get the machines of war off the beach and into the battle and it could not like i said could not be won until we did that but in essence these draws posed an enormous deadly temptation that we should have been smart enough to see the danger they posed so what was that Well, the Germans figured this is too. And so that's where they put all their heaviest fortifications, on each side of the draw at the point where at the top of the slope. And so there was an enormous trap, if you think about it, with the Widerstand. These were called Widerstand nests or resistance nests. And they contained every manner of killing device or implement available. We'll talk about it in a minute here, about how big these were. Everything was interconnected with trenches, and so the defenders could move from place to place with good cover. It was, in essence, a series of traps with the draws as the bait and the Widerstahn nests as the jaws poised to snap shut. Rommel was not given much time or adequate resources to build an impregnable defense on Omaha Beach, but he did manage to install eight major gun emplacements of 75 millimeters or more, larger, which are yay big, right? And Rommel was the German commander, right? Right. He was the—well, he was— By far the best tactical commander the Germans had. He was known as the Desert Fox because he ran the British all around Africa, which he was most known for. But he was assigned in late 1943 to command the defenses of the Atlantic coast, Normandy just being one of those. But he built not only the 75, the eight major gun emplacements, he built 35 other concrete bunkers with smaller caliber artillery and lots and lots of mortars, machine guns, and flamethrowers in what were called Tobruks, which are just basically a concrete foxhole.
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And when I was in Normandy, you can go into those and you can see them. Yeah.
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They're still there. I mean, they're three feet of reinforced concrete. But anyway, he was very cleverly that when you see the pictures, they show the guns pointing out to sea. But Rommel was much more clever than that. He actually pointed the guns on Omaha Beach up or down the beach. so that they were aimed at soldiers trying to cross the beach, not the ships in the channel. But as a result, the Navy couldn't see them. And so when they attempted to bombard them, they missed because they had really no idea of where they were. I mean, they had them on a map. But once it's on a map, how do you translate that to where you're shooting? So anyway, it worked against, or again, the guys on the beach, as almost everything seemed to conspire against them. I would say that that was the deadliest three miles in the world at that time. And as expected, the landing craft who beached in front of those draws sustained the highest casualties.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. And you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues. Through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom, if something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And wishing you all a very Merry Christmas. And for this Christmas week, we have prerecorded very special shows with very special guests. And I'm talking with Dennis Bush. He has written a trilogy of books. about the World War II battle on Omaha Beach. And the first book is published. It's called The Real Heroes of Omaha Beach. And really, I think everybody should have this book in their freedom library because you talk about some individuals who we don't know that much about. But Omaha is known as Bloody Omaha because it was very lethal, right?
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Yes. Well, and it wasn't just the Germans that made it lethal. There were other issues that had an immense impact on the horrendous cost, and these were self-imposed by the leadership and planning of the Allied forces. Doesn't make sense. I was hoping I could go into these areas in more detail, but I simply don't have that much time, so I will just list some of them here. If you want more detail, I do that in the first book of the trilogy on sale now. Okay. Sorry for the plug.
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Okay.
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These errors are most disturbing to me because they should have been addressed by the extensive planning that went into the operation, and it is very difficult to understand why things happened as they did. One, at the top of the list is the inexplicable failure of the Air Corps and the Navy to effectively eliminate or otherwise severely damage the German defensive positions prior to the attack. Their efforts were massive. 2.3 million pounds of explosives were dropped by the 8th Air Force prior to the battle. Wow. And they all missed for reasons that just astound me. It's such that if they had done nothing in their pre-bombardment, and this includes the Navy, nothing would have changed. These powerful forces were in effect a no-show on Omaha Beach on D-Day. Two, one of the great and inexcusable factors that was not taken into account in the planning was the strong, totally predictable easterly current that was set up by the incoming tide. This drastically affected where every landing craft was planned to land versus where they actually did. They spent weeks studying the maps and they had sand tables and aerial photographs of where they were going to land and what was there. But none of them virtually landed where they were supposed to. And they were off, because of this current, they were off as much as a mile. Wow. And you can imagine the confusion that caused these poor guys. Three, both types of personnel landing craft in the first wave had a maximum capacity of 36 troops. Well, the standard platoon size at that time was 40 to 50 men. This is what's called an inexcusable error in engineering. I mean, so they couldn't even board an entire platoon on a landing craft. They had to break them up into pieces. They called these... boat sections. So the Army, in fact, had to reorganize before the battle. And then after the beach was secured, the plan was to go back to their normal structure of platoons. But you can imagine the confusion that that creates. Something that a lot of people don't know is that a large number of tanks, you know, the big machines with the guns on them, was supposed to be landed with the first wave of But the implementation of this was so incompetent that the effect was virtually nil, leaving the infantry to basically fend for themselves. And most of the tanks and the crews lie on the bottom of the channel to this day. Many still contain their crews.
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I did not know that.
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Yeah, most people don't. That's one of the things, like I said, I had a fairly large section prepared to explain that. The question is, how do you get a tank from a boat to the shore? Well, they built these really elaborate contraptions where they erected a canvas screen on the deck of the tanks. The principle is very simple. It's Archimedes' principle. You can float something as big as a tank if you offset enough water. And so the tanks were actually underwater, but this skirt was above water. Well, the problem was you could only do this on calm seas. And Normandy on D-Day was anything but calm. And if enough water splashed over the top of this screen, the tank sank. And out of—let me just look at my notes here— out of the 119 tanks that were launched to the shore, 63 of them sank to the bottom of the Seenglish Channel.
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Oh, my gosh.
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And the few that did make it to shore, because the Army Air Corps and the Navy had not eliminated the German positions, they were fair game for these big guns.
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Right.
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So very few of these tanks survived the day. The reason most people have never heard of it is this information was classified until the mid-'60s.
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Huh.
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And you can imagine why. Right. Anyway, those are things that also exacerbated the problem for the ground troops. I think it's only proper to understand what they did in spite of all of this. All of these failures did not cause the operation to fail. So what bailed it out? American G.I.s.
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It takes my breath away, Dennis Bush. And that's why these books are so important. And so you have, in these books, you have, you tell the stories of men whose most people haven't ever heard their names. Yeah. So where do you want to start?
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Well, I call it the real heroes, and it's based around about 12 men. 35,000 men actually landed on Omaha Beach on D-Day. But you can actually attribute the victory to about a dozen guys who stood up. And the amazing thing about this is that they ranged from sergeants to generals. Virtually every rank you can name were some of these heroes. But they stood above the rest. Now, there are obviously many, many more heroes. I mean, virtually any of the 35,000 had to be considered a hero. But these guys were significant. And when you understand what they did, you will feel just like I did. I was absolutely astonished at what they had done. Well, so who do you want to start with? Well, let's start with Lieutenant Jimmy Monteith. Monteith was a boat section commander in Love Company, which is L, of the 16th Infantry Regiment as part of the 1st Infantry Division. Okay. Let's start with him because he is the subject. He is in this first book because the first book is about the eastern half of Omaha Beach, which is under the direction of the 1st Infantry Division. Book two is about the western half of the beach, and book three is about Pointe du Hoc. Okay. And they're all written. They're done. I'm just waiting for publishing.
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Yeah, so the first one's published, and it was published this last October.
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Yeah. Okay. uh and it's now in the if you've ever published a book it takes forever uh and it's now in the sales marketing phase of the the publisher so uh i i just moved on i mean i finished these books back in 23 uh and i'm now writing another trilogy about utah beach so that's what i'm doing uh Love Company was in the 3rd Battalion of the 16th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division under the command of Captain John Armellino aboard six British LCAs. Thanks to the unexpected current, they landed between 0650 and 0700 hours. They were 20 minutes late. Worse, they landed on Fox Red Beach, some 800 meters east of where they were supposed to, and as such were confronted with a very different situation than expected or planned. They were directly in front of the formidable Widerstawn nest, WN-60, and right next to the K-Board draw. Now, remember, these Widerstad nests were major guns and minor guns, big and small guns, lots of machine guns, this thing called an MG-42, flamethrowers, mortars. They were heavily armed. Wow. Okay, and our guys were basically carrying rifles. Some of them had what's called a BAR. Right. They had a weapon called a bazooka, which we'll get into a little later. But fundamentally, light warms. We didn't have artillery on the beach. We didn't have aircraft strafing like they would do now. They were not doing that during this. So these guys were on their own. Yeah. In getting across the beach, only about 55 men out of the original 235 men made it across that beach in such a condition as to continue their mission. At the end of the beach, they found sanctuary of a cliff about 10 meters high. It provided temporary respite from the German position directly above them. There, the medics could work on the many wounded with some sanctuary. Regardless of the horrible casualties initially and suffered, Armalino was intent on getting atop the plateau, take out WN-60, and then move south to assault the villages beyond. But he was seriously wounded trying to get tank support. Lieutenant Jimmy Monteith took his place, helping the two tanks engage the enemy, while Armalino fought for his life. He lost his leg. Lieutenant Cutler, the senior lieutenant, assumed command of what was left of Love Company. He split his small force in two and sent half to the east to flank the German Widerstand nest, and the rest went to the west up the Cape or draw to do the same. the two groups met in the rear and took out the formidable German fortress from there. And so doing, they not only eliminated one of the German Widerstand nests, its complement of big and small guns and men, but also eliminated a critical spotter position that had a total view of Omaha Beach and was in direct contact with several artillery units in the rear. And so they blinded them. So now the German artillery was firing blind. They also created, in effect, the eastern flank of the American assault. Fortunately, they only suffered one dead and a few minor wounded in the attack. It's a big difference when you assault a strong position from the rear rather than the front. Incredibly, This all occurred before 9 a.m.
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He grew up in Virginia. The thing that's amazing about these heroes is because they're mostly just average people. They didn't come from wealth, in most cases. They didn't come from privilege. They're just sons, mostly, of normal American families who, on the worst day of their life, behaved incredibly. And to most of them, after the war, some of them, the ones who did, continued to the war and continued to be of great service, but then they just went back to their life. They didn't, you know, some of them were... One guy that we may have time to talk about today, he worked in a department store selling men's suits. It's remarkable.
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But those stories are of everyday people from the Revolutionary War. We recently talked about Henry Knox in the Revolutionary War that got the cannons from Fort Ticonderoga and helped eliminate the British siege of Boston. And I think he was a bookseller. Yeah. Regular people.
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So tell us more about Jimmy Monteith. Well, remember now, we're down to 55 men out of what should have been 200. But they're either dead or wounded back on the beach. But they took a short break and then immediately headed south to a crossroads where they set up a defensive position. Two patrols were sent out. one to the east to scout the village of La Grande Hamue, pardon my French, the other southwest to scout out the small village of Kaborg. So soon after, the Germans regrouped and attacked the remaining forces of the defensive position, which was probably now down to about 40 men because they had these two patrols out. Greatly outnumbered, the Yanks dug in and returned fire as best they could. The greatest threat was four machine guns that hit them from all points of the compass. Lieutenant Jimmy Monteith set out by himself to eliminate this threat. He succeeded in taking out three of the positions, but was but was cut down by the fourth gun. To take them out, he used what's called rifle grenades and pineapple grenades. So he had to get real close. So it was amazingly that he was able to take out three. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his valiant efforts. Meanwhile, Love Company finally beat back the German counterattack, and by the morning of the 7th of June, captured the villages of Le Grand Hommeu and Kaborg, as well as a portion of the critical coastal highway. Today, no one seems to care or know about one of the three men to receive the Medal of Honor on Omaha Beach on D-Day.
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Oh, my gosh. And he did not survive the battle?
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No, he was killed. And I think he's buried there in the cemetery.
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At Normandy?
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Yeah.
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Okay. I just get chills thinking about him. What about our next hero?
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Well, his name is Raymond Strojny, and he was a tech sergeant. And what he did, when I read it, my jaw hit the floor. Let me just read about his exploits. The men of Easy and Fox Companies of the 16th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Division came ashore for the most part directly in the mouth of the Colville Draw, euphemistically the jaws of the Nazi beast. They were supposed to have landed about 1,500 meters to their west, but again, the strong easterly current and the smoke-shrouded bluffs led their coxswains to land them considerably to the east of where they were intended to be. Unfortunately, this was in the front of German Widerstandnest WN-61 and its powerful 88-millimeter killing machine, along with considerable other firepower. Hmm. In command of the 5th Section of Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry Regiment, was Lieutenant Otto Clemens. Tech Sergeant Raymond Strojny, a decorated veteran of both Africa and Sicily, was his assistant. After only a few minutes on shore, Sergeant Strojny found himself in command of not only the 5th Section, but all of Fox Company as his superiors were all dead. My, okay. He immediately herded what was left of his company to the left and to the top of the beach where they found some cover. From there, he watched in horror as the WN-6188 took out three of the few tanks left on the beach. Incensed, Strogini called for a bazooka team, but none heeded his call, if there were even any left. So he went back down to the beach and scrounged a bazooka. along with four rockets from a badly wounded soldier. Then after crossing through a minefield, he made it back to his former position where he discovered that the bazooka had been pierced by several pieces of shrapnel, making it a weapon as dangerous to him as any target he fired on. It could just as well have blown up in his face rather than launch a rocket at the enemy. Also, the bazooka is normally a crew-served weapon with both a loader and a shooter because you have to keep the rocket tube level while loading, aiming, and firing lest the rocket fall out the front or the back. Oh, boy. Well designed, right? Yeah. But he went ahead and did this with the four rockets he had. The first two rockets missed the target altogether, but the third and fourth round hit the concrete fronted position but did not stop or deter the 88 from firing at the men and vehicles struggling to get across the beach.
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Okay.
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Out of ammunition, Strangene yelled to his men to see if any of them were carrying rockets. Getting no response, he went back down to the beach and secured several more. He then loaded and fired six more rockets at the strong German position, and with the last round hit what was apparently the ammo dump, and after a massive explosion, most of WM-61 went silent, including the 88th. but the position still had teeth and continued to fire at his men, along with any others who came into their sights. Once again, out of rockets, Strogini took up his M1 rifle and began to shoot at the enemy. This next piece is incredible. After a few minutes, he was struck in the helmet by a German bullet just above the left eye. The concussion knocked him back and flat onto the ground. Stunned, but apparently unhurt, he took off and examined his helmet, which had both an entry and an exit hole. But miraculously, the bullet missed him altogether, but rather left just a deep scratch that ran from the front to the back of his head. It didn't penetrate enough to bleed, but he escaped certain death with no discernible explanation. When he showed this to his men who were nearby and putting up a minimum of resistance, the effect was that it shocked them back into the war and made them ready to take on their adversary. Strojny would then lead the remnants of Fox Company and elements of other rifle companies and attacked and captured the German Widerstand nest. They were aided by two tanks that had survived their swim in the channel and German guns, along with a British destroyer, which came perilously close to shore where it was able to see the German positions. Once WN-61 had been neutralized, Strogeny led his makeshift band to attack up the hill where they reached before noon on D-Day. The tech sergeant was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his efforts, which seems way too little acknowledgement for his actions. Worse, no one today even knows who he was or anything about what extraordinary things he did on 6 June.
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Until this book, Dennis Bush, The Real Heroes of Omaha Beach. And we will continue the discussion. Before we go to break, I did want to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation Foundation. And keeping these stories alive, honoring those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives is so important. And so I would really recommend that you make a contribution. It's tax deductible to the USMC Memorial Foundation. And that website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And for everything mortgages, reach out to Lauren Levy. Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimmunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter, and you can email me at kimmunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And the show comes to you because of our great sponsors. And a sponsor that's been with me since before I was solo is Hooters Restaurants. And they have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. Great place to get together with friends for a happy hour or lunch specials Monday through Friday. And, of course, the place to watch all the bowl games. So, again, that is Hooters Restaurants. In studio with me is Dennis Bush, and we have prerecorded these shows for Christmas week, and very special guests, very special subjects. We're talking about his book, The Real Heroes of Omaha Beach, and of course, Omaha Beach is known as Bloody Omaha for that battle in World War II. But we're talking about guys that people don't really know their names. And we have talked about, let's see, it was Jimmy Monteith, and then Tech Sergeant Raymond Strogeny. But there's three others on that, is it the east side of Omaha?
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That I designate as the real heroes.
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In this book one. So who are they?
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Well, Lieutenant John Spalding was a boat section commander. This was his first combat assignment. But they always put an experienced sergeant with the lieutenant. I mean, this was basically a training ground, if you think about it. And the sergeant was a guy by the name of Philip Strissick. And he was extremely experienced, had already been awarded the DSC for actions in Africa. And the lieutenant was smart enough to know that technically he was in command, but he let the sergeant make all the tactical decisions. So it was good. Now, the boat section... They were in Easy Company, but the Easy Company by and large landed right in front of the Colville Draw where they were heavily engaged and took a lot of casualties. But for some reason, his boat did not land there. But it kind of did worse because it hit a sandbar. And so they dropped the door of this LCVP, which was the front end of the boat, and they're still 200 miles from the shore, 200 yards from the shore. Oh, jeez. And they're on a sandbar, but beyond the sandbar, the water is deeper than over their heads. So these guys have to tread water to get to shore. With their packs on, right? With a full pack, a rifle. Oh. and other equipment. And it's a miracle. They helped to help each other because they could all, you know, they fortunately made it, but some of them could have drowned. I mean, they were that heavily carried. So anyway, they hit the shore, and now they're dead tired. But they're being shot at, so they got to run as fast as they can. Now, fortunately, only one guy was cut down because they had landed far enough away from these Widerstand nests that the German resistance at the top of the slope was minimal.
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Okay.
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So they got across the beach and lost only one guy, although eight were wounded. They found some ruins of walls that had been there from when I told you the resort area that had been there previous, which gave them a sanctuary. But they could tell that right beyond it, between them and the slope, was a huge minefield. because the Germans put up signs, Ochthund Meinen. And so they knew it was a minefield. But Sergeant Strzic started to reconnoiter the area. And in the meantime, a lot of these guys had lost their rifles swimming to shore. So they scrounged down the beach, again under fire, and found weapons from either wounded or dead soldiers, and then all reformed. Well, Strzic finds a path. up the shore. And if you go to Normandy, this path is very highly publicized on the beach. And then they go up this path and get to the top. Now there they find a machine gun, which they take out, but three men are wounded. The guy that mans the machine gun happens to be a Polish conscript. The Germans, when they captured armies, would give the soldiers an option. You either go to POW camp or you can join the German army. And so this is why on Utah, they ran into Mongols who were captured on the Eastern Front. I did not know that. And in this case, most of the defenders of this area were Polish who had been in the Polish army and were given opportunities to serve in the German army. And because it was better food, obviously, they chose that option.
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Okay.
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Okay. So anyway, Strzic, who is extremely angry because he finds a Polish guy serving in the German army. And, of course, he's an American. And he interrogates this guy, which I'm assuming he broke a few rules. But he was able to get the information about what was around them in terms of both enemy forces and terrain and things like that. And so they take a break. And in the meantime, the entire company of George, it was a George company, came ashore roughly at the same point. Now, this is a company, which is six boats of men, and they get across the shore again because of light German resistance. The only real casualties was the headquarters boat. which took a direct hit from artillery after the commander, Captain Joseph Dawson, got off. And that entire group of men were killed before they ever got off the boat except for the commander of the company. And Dawson had been a staff officer up to this point. He was basically in command of a company and they knew he was green as could be. And so he knew he had to prove himself to his men. And after this day... They did not question his leadership one bit. So what did he do? Well, he went up the same trail that Strzic and Spalding had gone up. And is he by himself? No, he's got all the rifle. The only thing that was damaged was the headquarters company. The rest of the boat sections of the guys carrying rifles survived. Okay, so they— headquarter boat though everybody everybody but Dawson was killed okay okay so these guys are following Dawson up the ridge and then he gets up and he meets Spalding and they talk and he says I'm going on to Colville which is a village about a mile further inland that was his assignment for the day and But Spalding says, no, I'm going to take out this German Widerstand nest to our right and then I'll join you. And so Spalding heads off to Colville, which he attacks about an hour later from the west. And they were told that there were only about 20 Germans in the village. It turns out to be closer to 200. Plus, while they're fighting for this village, the Germans decide to counterattack, and they use Colville as their initial point of attack. So he's being hit by a heavily armed force. But his men hold their ground. The villages in Normandy are mostly made of stone, the homes and barns and stuff, which make great fortifications. So his guys were able to hunker down until they got reinforcements. Meanwhile... Spalding and Strzic take out. They're now in the rear, so they come back and come around to the flank of this entire German Widerstand nest, and they take it out systematically from the flank and the rear, moving down the entire line. And then, of course, they're greatly outnumbered. They're only about 22 guys. because they were a boat section, and they lost eight coming across, nine coming across the beach. So there's only a guy like 22 guys, and they take out this entire German feeder stone nest, capturing 19 and killing an untold number of German soldiers and eliminating all of these guns. And so the guys down on the beach are stunned because all of a sudden they're getting no fire from the east side of the Colville draw. It just stops. Now, the guys on top have to throw out yellow smoke grenades because the Navy's shelling the place, and the yellow smoke grenades indicate that the Americans are there. And so they took this. And then he goes back and joins up with Dawson trying to take the village of Colville. Well, they don't actually participate in taking the village, but they are used as the reinforcements that help take out or stall the German counterattack, which they defeat. And so by the morning of the 7th, Colville falls to Dawson's men. And both he, Dawson, Strzic, and Spalding are awarded, again, the DSC. Have you ever heard that story?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, I've never heard it. So these depictions of what these men did is in your book, The Real Heroes of Omaha Beach. And Dennis Bush, I think that in 2024 America, that as we listen to the or read these stories and think about these men, it gives us inspiration as we engage in this great battle of ideas that we are And what I find so amazing is that as fierce as the fighting was on Omaha Beach, by that afternoon or evening, the Allies had a toehold on the European continent. It's remarkable, and it's these young men that did it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and what I'm trying to do is highlight the actions of a few men who did extraordinary things on the worst day of their life, right? And that's what I was trying to do with this book, is tell their stories. So anyway, this is a brief synopsis of the book, the first book in the trilogy, called The Real Heroes of Omaha Beach. We have only discussed here the efforts of five of these men, those that were on the eastern half of the Omaha of the beach. Keep in mind that there were many, many, many more heroes that made Omaha Beach the success it was. But I have selected these few men to illustrate the character, the courage, the ingenuity, the exceptionalism of the American fighting man and now women, Omaha Beach will forever be a testament to these things.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and we've got just a couple of minutes left, Dennis. These books, such as yours, are so important. And one of the reasons why is our young people don't know these stories. And once they start to—there were students with us when we went to Omaha Beach. There was 24 to Normandy. And as these kids are hearing these stories, you can see the light go on. It's like I want to know more. And so I would really recommend people get the book, read it, and then start to share these stories with children and grandchildren. I think that that can make a big difference for our country. Sure.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, that's why I wrote it. I mean, like I said, I'm trying to do my part to make America proud again because this is an exceptional nation, and we are the greatest nation the world has ever seen or probably ever will. And if I can do my part, then I have lived a successful life.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I think that you are doing your part, and each of us is called to do our part. Normally, for the regular show, as I greet our listeners, I say that we were made for this moment in history, and I am convinced that that is the case. And we stand on the shoulders of those from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War to World War II, Omaha Beach, and we can take such great inspiration from from these men and women that stood for liberty for all of us and worked to pass that on. So Dennis Bush, I thank you for taking the time to write these books. The first one is for sale right now. You can get it at all the booksellers. It's The Real Heroes of Omaha Beach by Dennis Bush, and Bush is spelled B-U-S-C-H. So I thank you.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. Well, it's on Amazon, so it's the easiest way to get it. And just all you have to do is search for my name, Dennis Bush, and you'll find the book.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Our quote for the end of the show is from Dwight Eisenhower as he is talking with the troops on D-Day. He said, "...the eyes of the world are upon you. The hope and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you as well." So today, my friends, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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Indeed, and welcome to our number two of the Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured, you're valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And I get to work with an amazing team. That's producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. The show does broadcast six to eight a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour rebroadcast one to two in the afternoon. Second hour, 10 to 11 at night. And that's on all KLZ 560 platforms. That's KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website and the KLZ app. And then we do post a written summary and a podcast of the show. And the way you find that is go to the website and just click on the image for each date, and that'll bring that up. And then once that is posted, you can listen to the podcast at all the streaming services, such as iTunes and Spotify. On the line with me is Marlee Hornick. She is one of the co-founders of United Sovereign Americans, who... did amazing work in this last election, and we're honored that they would include Colorado as one of their states where they filed a lawsuit to basically says, hey, Colorado, you're not hitting the minimum standards as set forth by Congress for our elections. It's a civil rights issue. I guess, in a way, just get your act together. Marlee Hornick, welcome to the show. Thanks, Kim. It's great to be on again. And we were very pleased to be one of the nine states that filed suit before this last election. And my understanding is, I'm just learning about all this legalese stuff, but you kind of get into this ping pong back and forth with the attorneys. And that seems to be the case with these nine lawsuits, yes? Yes.
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That's correct. We are in a ping pong battle with the government in all nine states. And what each state is asserting is that basically the arguments don't have standing. There's not a particularized injury that's been claimed. It's a generalized injury, meaning every citizen has suffered injury to their vote. Therefore, there is no injury, which of course is not real. That is a fake argument in this instance, because if every citizen suffers an injury to their vote, that doesn't make it equal. There's no way to know whether or not it was equal, but they use these kinds of nonsense arguments, honestly, when you really look at it deeply. Superficially, you might be able to bind yourself back into that one and justify it. But on a deep level, it just doesn't meet the standard. And of course the Supreme Court has ruled in the past that actually you don't have to have a particularized injury in regards to voting. It is possible for everyone to have the same injury. It's somewhat akin, and this is one of the arguments raised originally by Bruce Castor III in one of his motion briefs in in the state of Ohio now in the mandamus lawsuit in the state of Ohio so similar to the one in Colorado that it's similar to air pollution right how can you say just because everyone's air is polluted equally that the pollution doesn't exist you can't and no one has any idea what the impact actually is of all of that pollution touching everyone so You know, in the case of pollution, well, the EPA says, all right, now we have to study it. In the case of an election, we say, well, now we have to open the books or they have to fix the problem. So that's, you know, the mandamus lawsuits, those nine federal lawsuits of which Colorado is one of those nine states. They all make the same argument that they either have to fix the problem. Well, actually, they basically make the argument that says, on the one hand, they have to fix the problem, and on the other hand, they have to satisfy the court. that they understand why the problem took place, and it's repaired truly, not just superficially.
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So, Marlee Hornick, for people that don't know about United Sovereign Americans, it is a group of volunteers, and you have chapters throughout the country. Here in Colorado, we do have a chapter, and Mike Cahoon is the Colorado director who is doing amazing work here in Colorado. Marlee?
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Yes. One of the things that makes United Sovereign Americans a pretty unique volunteer organization is that our original pool of volunteers is unique. It is all people who are credentialed data analysts, software developers, programmers, auditors, legal analysts or scholars. The idea is not just that we kind of got together and did like a big cheer and a yahoo, but we actually got together and operated in the same way that you would operate a professional auditing agency. We took a very professional approach to, I guess, pouring through the state's records in 21 states total and making... comparisons and analogies across and using prevalence studies and using statistical methods, using programming methods that were uniform across the entire investigation and professional and based on expert credentials in nature. So that's one of the things that sets United Sovereign Americans apart. Yes, there's lots of people who are upset about elections. There's lots of people who reasonably have suspicions about the way elections are being administered and how the representatives are ultimately being authorized to serve in public office. United Sovereign Americans, instead of just getting mad and shouting, we took the approach of professional auditors tracking fraud, which is to say somewhere underneath all of that noise, there is an actual operator functioning. The way that the states lineup, what we discovered in Colorado relates to what we found in Ohio. It relates to what we found in Pennsylvania. It relates to every single state we audited, California, New York, Georgia, all of them. They have similar problems at a similar magnitude. And it's not just something you can easily excuse by saying, you know, it's a clerical error. It's some kind of a, quote, glitch in the system. IT HAS TO BE INVESTIGATED. SO THE ISSUE THAT WE, WHAT SEPARATES UNITED SOVEREIGN AMERICANS IS THE WAY WE SAT BACK INSTEAD OF JUST GETTING MAD AND TAKING OUR SUSPICIONS AND TURNING THEM INTO CONCLUSIONS AND SHOUTING ABOUT THEM, WE STARTED TRACKING WHAT WE CALLED A MARAUDER THROUGH THE SYSTEM. THE ACTUAL UNDERLYING UNDERNEATH ALL OF THAT NOISE AND BUSINESS, UNDER ALL OF THAT, THERE'S AN ACTUAL MARAUDER WHO IS CHANGING the certified outcomes of elections. And we started tracking them.
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Well, I think that is really important because we don't have a country if we don't have free, fair, honest, and transparent elections. And that's why the work of United Sovereign Americans is so important. And the show comes to you because of great sponsors. And throughout the month of December, we are promoting Doyle Glass's book, Swift Sword, which is about the Marines of Mike 3-5 on 4 September 1967. And as I've mentioned, we are pre-recording all these great shows for Christmas week and also pre-recording conversations with our great sponsors. And I'm talking with Karen Levine. She's a REMAX realtor, has been in the business for a long time. We've been friends for many years. And when I think of blessings, your friendship is one of those great blessings.
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Well, thank you, Kim. And it's funny when your youngest son said, I think you've known me since birth. I'm like, oh, my, I have known your mother a bit, haven't I?
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I think that is true. So cute. We've been through lots of different things together in this journey with the radio show and you coming on being a regular guest. You and I have have. connected dots that we didn't even realize. And you stand for property rights. We realize that homeownership, property rights has been under assault. And I feel we have a great opportunity this next year, Karen, with the new administration. We've got work to do at the local, the county, and the state level. But you've been doing that at the local, county, state, and national level regarding property rights and homeownership. And I thank you for that.
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Well, thank you. I've had the privilege of chairing the Government Affairs Committee at the local realtor association, the Denver Metro Association of Realtors, for the last two years. And then I was the vice chair prior to that. I've relinquished that position because I was term-limited, Kim. But I'm excited. The Denver Metro Association of Realtors is bringing on a new government affairs director, and I'm looking forward to good direction, good leadership, both from the staff perspective and then from the volunteer perspective. And I... not being in a chair position, I'm going to be a bit more vocal about things that add cost to housing and why we should not be supporting these type of policies, legislation, referendums, whatever they are, and having conversations with
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city councils and the state and we just need to keep having the conversation we do and you just mentioned something that got my attention and that is here you've been done a great job as the chair of this committee but you're term limited but yet and this was when I was on city council as well term limited but the bureaucrats are not term limited so I know people that want to have these forced term limits the founders thought we would do that at the ballot box but if we're doing some kind of term limits we need to also do term limits for bureaucrats I think we start there first correct and our dear friend
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Oh, dear. Just you know how that happens. My friend from North Carolina, Lee Brown, Lee Brown, when she was running for office, term limits was very important to her as well. And I look back at it was a it was a young man that was a bit older than me growing up. But he served as our congressman here in my well, he wasn't in my congressional district until they redrew the lines. But Congressman Perlmutter, and he was not term limited, and there was a period of time that it really was time for him to move on. And it wasn't until they redrew the districts that he said, I'll retire. Mm-hmm.
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But we as voters, that's really where I think it should be. So we're going to work on that in 2025. We have a lot to do in 2025. But just we got about a minute. Your reflections regarding this Christmas Hanukkah season.
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Well, it's one of my favorite time of seasons, times of year, I should say. And I love the fact that we can cram more into these 30 days than we do any other month of the year. I can have more social activities, more time with family and friends and still do more business. And I find it just amazing. But then you're exhausted. Right. So you need January to recuperate. But I'm looking forward, already have delved into time with family and friends. And we have a retreat in the mountains, which we'll partake in for some snowmobiling and fun and games up there. And I just look forward to the reason for the season, which we are blessed to obviously have a baby be born who has saved us to reunite us with God. And that's super important, I know, to you and to me. And so we need to remember to celebrate that beautiful gift that God gave us. And I look forward to hanging out a lot at my church and and then bringing in 2025 well and taking hold of the opportunities that God will give us in the new year.
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Thank you very much. And same to you, Kim.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I am so appreciative of the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. They've been friends of the show and sponsors for so many years and greatly appreciate that. And also, as you all know, I support the USMC Memorial Foundation. The actual official Marine Memorial is located right here in Colorado in Golden at 6th and Colfax. And during the month of December, if you buy a brick that will be on one of the pathways of service, to honor your loved one's military service or your own military service, there is a donor who has stepped forward and will match the cost of that brick and help get us closer to our goal to be able to start that remodel. On the line with me is a co-founder of United Sovereign Americans, which is a group of all volunteers in a number of states that are focused on making sure that we get ourselves to a point where we have free, fair, honest, and Marlee Hornick, would you say that that's accurate? Is that the total focus on that?
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That is our current focus. Actually, United Sovereign Americans will have a broader focus in time, but at the moment, the most fundamental constitutional right is on the line, which is the right to choose our representatives in free, fair, honest, and accurate elections. So that's the first crisis you could say. I hate to say that word, but it really is.
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Well, it is. And before we went to break, you mentioned a marauder or marauders in our election system. So tell us more about that.
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Sure. Well, it's unknown whether it's singular or plural, because we cannot get law enforcement to investigate the problems that have been identified by United Sovereign Americans, by other organizations, New York Citizens Audit, by the work of Harry Howery and others, Harry being a co-founder of United Sovereign Americans also. But without law enforcement willingness to investigate the evidence of crimes from a criminal perspective, we can't know yet, let's say, about the qualities and nature of this marauder, except we can monitor them. So we can track what they're doing, we can measure it, and we can count it. And that's exactly what United Sovereign Americans did with the 21 state scorecards and the nine federal lawsuits. So the scorecards demonstrated that in 21 states, the problems are related to each other. It's not like Colorado has one problem and California has a different problem. They have basically the same problem, and we measured that and tracked it. And the first problem is that The states are registering people to vote without verifying their identity on a deep level, right? Not a superficial level, but on a deep level. That's going on everywhere in the country. And this amounts to, in the 21 states, it amounts to 29 million registrations. We could easily identify that there's an open question as to whether anybody even verified the accuracy of the information at all because these are circumstances like people who are registered to vote before they're born according to the official records. That's an example of the kind of data that is represented in those 29 million records. The second issue that we have across all the states is that the authorities are granting ballots to these people who are clearly not verified and not valid according to the law. Third problem is that no one can count in America. And this could be like the problem with the Common Core curriculum and whatnot. But it seems like maybe we haven't quite. Those kids aren't yet working at the Board of Elections, but they still can't count. And so they always ask either more or less votes counted than voters who actually participated. And that's the difference between those two numbers should always be zero. Right. Those three issues are all called election fraud in U.S. criminal code. Those are all called election fraud. I'm not making an allegation. This is the way the United States Department of Justice defines those three actions. And people have been prosecuted and sent to federal prison, for example, for certifying a false tally of votes in a single polling site. Multiple times in U.S. history. 1888, 1941, 1973, and countless other decisions that didn't even go to the Supreme Court. They were decided in district or circuit court. These are the problems we've unearthed. And the marauder is doing this by basically vote laundering. So you know how money laundering takes place, right? You want to get money from point A to point B, but you have to go through all these sub points along the way. You have to send it to different countries and send it through different parties and put it through a factory and whatever. And then by the time it gets to your destination, nobody can figure out how it got there. Nobody can trace it all the way back. It's clean. And the same thing they're doing with actual votes. They have all of these extra registration records. The 29 million we found, there's probably way more that we didn't find. These are the ones we found, right? Running like basic SQL queries. You know, we didn't touch the NCOA issue, for example, that Peter Wernicke ran for the state of Colorado. So there's all of these registration records that are basically parking places that a real voter doesn't put their car into and never will. So they know where these are and they can fold votes into the system through the process and then shift them around as they go. And so Basically, they certify an election. And what we've discovered, our scorecards show this, is that once the election is certified, then they start another massive manipulation of the vote, including the shocking finding, for example, that New York's 2020 election, at the time we first started studying it, was October of 2021. And there were 109 double votes recorded in 2020. in the 2020 election, now in the fall of 2021. When we audited that election again in the summer of 2023, there were 226,000 double votes recorded in the 2020 election because they are really bad at this. They're moving votes into places that are easily trapped. I mean, it just doesn't make any sense except that it's a really bad cleanup job. And we found this. So we took very careful records of the 2024 election now, and we have tracked literally in some states hundreds of thousands of votes attached to a single registration, appearing, disappearing, reappearing, disappearing, reappearing, and then getting certified. And now we're tracking them, washing those somewhere else. This is the marauder. It is a vote laundering operation. Why did we win the 2024 presidential election? I don't know 100 percent, but I do know that this marauder was highly intimidated by the fact that expert auditors, analysts and so on and so forth, programmers found these issues, counted them. reported them to state officials in 21 states, reported them to the FBI, the DOJ, and the Department of Homeland Security, and then even took the outrageous, unprecedented, historically unprecedented step of filing a massive wave of federal litigation pointing this out in court. And if I were that marauder, and this is what I believe happened, and this is what we believe at USA happened, I would back way off right then.
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I'm sorry, you would what? I missed that. Marla, you would do what? Back off. Okay, back off. Okay.
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It doesn't mean they're gone. They're definitely not gone. And you can see what happened down ballot. And believe me, we are tracking all of these issues very, very meticulously in a forensic manner. And we have provenance and chain of custody. This is all evidentiary quality research that USA does. Because clearly, they didn't leave. They're not gone.
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No, and they're not giving up. Even before the election was over, I really believe that they were planning on... They play long... When I say they, I don't know exactly who that is, but I would say it's people that don't love America, that want power. And they... They don't give up, and they're very, very patient. So we're going to go to break. I'm talking with Marlee Hornick, co-founder of United Sovereign Americans. These discussions are so important. They come to you because of our sponsors. We're an independent voice, and we are independent because of sponsors like La Vaca Meat Company. It is a great protein source for that steakhouse experience at home.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter, and you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. And while we're on break... I highly recommend to take the kids down to the Center for American Values. They have their Portraits of Valor, which is a very reverent place of over 160 of our Medal of Honor recipients and quotes by each of them. And it's a great learning experience. They've got this great little Medal of Honor quote book that I'd recommend you have on your desk. at home on your Freedom Library, on your Freedom Shelf. And so be sure and check all that out. Go to AmericanValueCenter.org to get their hours and all of their information. And again, that's AmericanValueCenter.org. And talking with Marlee Hornick, she is a co-founder of United Sovereign Americans. It is a group of all volunteers throughout the country. They have chapters in many different states. We've got a chapter here in Colorado. And Mike Cahoon is is the Colorado director of United Sovereign Americans. And I have to tell you, the more I get to know him, the more I work with Mike Cahoon, the more impressed I am with. He's a very humble guy, but the more impressed I am with him, Marlee Hornick.
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Yeah, he's a real treasure, an American treasure. So many people volunteering with United Sovereign Americans are like that. They're true People who want to get to the root of things, they want everything to be good in creation. And we come at it from maybe slightly different perspectives, but that's what we're looking at. We look out the window or go out in the fresh air and think, how can anyone not love this and want to figure out how to protect it?
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Right. And make sure that we pass that on to our children. I am convinced that we are in a unique time in history. And on the beginning of our show, I normally say we were made for this moment in history. And I believe that. And I also think that we are in the third founding of our country. Marley, on whether or not we Americans are going to step forward and reclaim our country, these founding principles. Our founding, obviously, was the Revolutionary War, then the Civil War. And I think that we're in that time right now. I'm encouraged, but we've got a lot of work to do. And it's really in this battle of ideas that we need to engage in, which you're doing that on a United Sovereign Americans, how many states are you active in right now with different chapters?
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Right now we have 24 states operating under United Sovereign Americans. We are working towards getting all 50. So that is one of our objectives. Although obviously our primary objective initially was just to get to assist in securing the 2024 election, which I believe we definitely accomplished. I don't know if we hadn't done this, if citizens who love this country and love this world and love liberty and believe in the principles of this country hadn't taken that step all over the nation. I don't know where we would be right now post 2024 election. I don't know who would be the incoming president and what the circumstances would be in Congress. So I'm so grateful that people did that.
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Well, I am as well. And so let's talk a bit about Colorado. Out here in Colorado, just right before the election, it was made known that the Secretary of State, on a hidden tab on the Secretary of State website, had published the BIOS passwords to the voting machines for 63 of the 64 counties. And instead of notifying the county clerks that there was this security breach, the Secretary of State's office, they started – I guess checking it out, you would say, but they didn't let the county clerks know. And so we sent a letter to all of the county clerks asking, when did you know and how did you find out? And initially it was a letter by the Colorado State GOP that sent that out. And I find that pretty unconscionable that there would be a security breach like that and that the Secretary of State would not let all the county clerks know immediately, Marlee Hornick.
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Yeah, I agree. That's extremely concerning. And also, actually, what they should have done is not try to hide this and try to run their own side investigation, but they should have immediately shut down the website. And I know that may sound like a drastic solution, but when you have a security breach in a system that is sacrosanct, the system that determines representation in the United States of America, in the federal and state governments, you cannot tolerate a breach. It immediately has to be closed, whatever that gap is. And then the investigation begins. And it's literally an emergency. It's a breach of national security infrastructure. And a single official or a solitary official in Colorado doesn't have the authority to decide that that is not worthy of an emergency circumstance. And it begs a lot of questions as to what is the perspective of this individual in terms of their authority or their duty, rather, to the federal government and to the people of the United States of America as a whole to have Kind of like this idea that, hey, there's been a complete breach of security protocols regarding the system that's used to uphold the third sentence of the United States Constitution. And I'm just going to sweep it under the rug. That's unacceptable. And that could be considered a civil rights abridgment. I mean, obviously, without prosecutors, you can't make a criminal claim. But you can call that a deprivation of a fundamental civil right acting under color of law, depending on how the circumstances lay out, because that person had a duty to have a sworn duty to protect the election infrastructure of the United States of America from their seat. And they failed to do so. And no one knows. The problem is no one knows what the repercussions were. Right. You have to investigate and you have to close that gap instantly. That's how the law sees this.
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Well, and of course, apparently, the Colorado Secretary of State's office hired a firm to come in and take a look to see if anything had happened with this. And I think it would take an extensive amount of time to actually do that properly. And the Libertarian Party did file suit. on this and that case was heard the monday the monday right before election day and this is and i i went down and watched the hearing and the judge this is my understanding really of what the judge ruled is and this was the state of colorado saying you can't prove that anybody any any nefarious action was taken by anyone and since you can't prove that any nefarious people did anything nefarious, then everything's okay, and so move on. Yeah, that's a breach of federal law, actually.
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I know this is, like, overwhelming because how do you enforce federal law when the judges themselves either are ignorant of the law, they're ignorant of the philosophy of the law, or they just don't care, which is, you know, there's a lot of questions right there to answer, but that's improper. The law... A concerning critical national security infrastructure is very clear. A breach has to be, you don't have to prove that it was material, you have to prove that it was not material, okay? And the Colorado Secretary of State's office does not have jurisdiction over a breach of critical infrastructure. The agency that is actually authorized under federal law to examine and investigate breaches of critical national security infrastructure, she might think it's her website, but she's mistaken, is what I'm saying, is the Foreign Intelligence Task Force of the FBI. Because the threat that there could have been a foreign government or a foreign actor penetrating the system for their purpose is only authorized to be investigated by that branch of the FBI. So there are so many breaks in civil rights here. And you could say, oh, there are breaks in the law, but, you know, breaks in the law happen all the time. But this, again, third sentence of the United States Constitution says the people of the several states shall choose their representatives. Congress said we're going to have this electronic system. All the states purchased this electronic equipment. Now they have this digital system. They have websites. it doesn't change the fact that the entire system has to be surrounded by an impenetrable security barrier, a fortress, because this is how we govern our nation. So even losing a single congressional seat to some kind of private actor operating for their own benefit is abhorrent to the principles of the U.S. Constitution.
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Well, and so what we'd like to see, and trying to figure out how to go about this, is for a remedy to have an actual audit of the election and a hand count, because that seems like that would be very helpful in determining if anything happened with that. So we're asking for that, Marlee Hornick. What do you think about that?
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Well, I think transparency of all records is critical in auditing. You cannot simply have a hand count. You have to have a comprehensive audit. It doesn't have to count every item. You don't have to actually have physical possession of every single record and audit every single record. You have to use prevalence studies to sample the entire process at critical junctions. This is one of the remedies that United Sovereign Americans will be proposing in federal court for the problems that we have. And we would be happy to help you, you know, instantly implement this remedy into whatever litigation you're looking at. And I highly recommend that we bring the USA team in to work with you if you're thinking of going further in litigation with this. because the hand count is not going to be sufficient and it's not going to be conclusive.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And for this Christmas week, we are prerecording these shows with amazing guests. So pleased to have on the line with me, co-founder of United Sovereign Americans, Marlee Hornick. Marlee, we're talking about elections. And for us to have our country... We need to have free, fair, honest, transparent elections. And that's really what United Sovereign Americans has been focusing on. You've got chapters in 24 states. Colorado is one of those states. We have a lawsuit that is out there right now with eight other states regarding it was filed before this last election. And it's in that legal ping pong back and forth right now, which this whole legal thing is kind of a long game from what I'm learning.
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Well, there are ways to, I guess, force it to go a little bit faster. But even when you try to force it to go faster, there's ways that the adversary that you're facing has ways to slow it down again. It's a challenging landscape. But like all things in American government, it's designed to happen slowly on purpose because changing our government through the kinds of decisions that can come through a major federal court should be deliberated over. And it should take time, as frustrating as that may seem in a moment, and especially with the massive challenges we're seeing regarding the invalidity of our current election process. So it's a
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A tough balance, I guess. It is. And Marlee, I know that you look at things nationally, but I look at Colorado. I think Colorado is the petri dish for all kinds of things that extremists are trying to get through. And I think that happens in our elections as well. And this is a head scratcher for me. The secretary of state has admitted that there were fraudulent ballots that went that got through in Mesa County. And that begs the question, I guess, first of all, is how can you certify an election where you know that there's fraudulent ballots that have gotten through the system? But if it happened in Mesa County, it seems like we should check the other counties as well, Marlee.
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Well, yeah, that would be what you would do if the process were legitimate. And the concern over the validity of an election was sincere. You cannot certify an election where I think it was over 10,000 ballots, if I remember correctly, went out. And no one really knows the nature of what happened after that. But, you know, there's this kind of superficial quality to the administration process of elections, which, you know, in defense, not that I want to put myself in this position right now on your radio show, but in defense of the secretary of state, this is how elections have been operated for a very long time it's been uh over a hundred years since people really took this seriously it took the civil war you know to really light people up about the validity of elections and um and and then we kind of went down into the the status quo again which is there's always going to be some fraud and you can never fix the whole thing but The problem we're having is that she's saying this. Meanwhile, United Sovereign Americans has their other set of facts out there. Meanwhile, there's this other breach on the website. I mean, how many of these breaches can they just sweep under the rug and pretend that that is still representative government? So I think we agree that they are way past their surplus here. They're way over the top.
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So what would you say that everyday people, that they voted, there's many that say, relieved that Trump was elected and that the Biden-Harris-Walls team is not at the federal level pushing forward this radical agenda that they've been pushing forward. And so everyday people going back to their jobs, taking care of the families, their businesses, I don't know that they understand that there's, Really danger, danger on our elections still. But but they're busy. They're trying to keep it together. High inflation. What would you say to them?
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Well, that's a really hard question, because I think I would probably just go to pieces. I mean, I just feel like it's such a hard landscape. We're not dealing with, you know, a little hush-hush. We're dealing with a massive information warfare scenario. That's what we're living through right now. And, you know, you calling this the third founding, I think, has some legitimacy. I have to, you know, it's the first time I heard you say that. I'm thinking it over. But we are in a war right now for our country. But it's a war of ideas. Like you said, it's an information war. And we... hold very few of the levers of power. So I actually, and I guess what I would say is, you know, please just contemplate these problems. There are so many problems we're facing as Americans. Each one of them is resolved at the root through true representative government. So even if the problem hasn't touched you yet, what happens is, you know, you look out and you see the problem, but you defend yourself against the problem. Your bank account is still OK. Your kids are still in school and they haven't been transitioned. You're this. You're that. You know, your kid is still doing really well on the baseball team and you want to make sure that that keeps going. Right. It's like. But the problems, it's like that statement they have. They came for the Jews, and I wasn't a Jew, so I didn't say anything. Then they came for, I don't know, the tree huggers, and I wasn't a tree hugger. Eventually, they come for everyone. So that's really the problem that we need to solve, which is, okay, you don't have to be interested in all of this myriad mess that some people are now, many, many, many Americans are embroiled in against their own wishes and against their own will. But if we all agree that elections should be fair and honest, let's work together to make sure they are. Let's just double check.
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And I think the big, broad part of America, and that would be your moderate Democrats, unaffiliated libertarians, Republicans, conservatives can come together because I think that we all want to make sure that we have these free, fair, honest, and transparent elections that we can trust. I have a quote that producer Steve had given me. This is by a woman named Martha Gellhorn. She was an American novelist, writer, and journalist. She lived 1908 to 1998. And she said, people often say with pride, I'm not interested in politics. They might as well say, I'm not interested in my standard of living, my health, my job, my rights, my freedoms, my future, or any future. If we mean to keep any control over our world and lives, we must be interested in politics. I think that's a great answer to maybe the question I posed to you.
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Yeah, and actually... I agree with that. And if you go back to Plato and his depiction of Socrates speaking to the political authorities in Athens, and they asked him, hey, who should run the republic? And he said it should be philosophers. Why? Because we have to be aimed at the good. We have to keep aiming ourselves at the good. And right now, our aim is going anywhere. all over the place. Like you're saying, hey, Colorado is the petri dish. Well, I'll tell you, the people in Michigan feel like they're the petri dish. The people in New York feel like they're the petri dish. All over the country, people feel, they look around and they say, this just doesn't make sense. This doesn't feel like the human society we were having. And all of a sudden it's changing and it feels like they're testing things out. Well, because we're not aiming at the good right now. This marauder who's mucking around in the elections is mucking around in civil society in ways that are unprecedented in human history. And we have to come together and say, we have a higher purpose. And that higher purpose is to together aim our country at the good. What is good for our children? What is good for our land? What is good for the water? What is good for everyone? What is good for the economy? What is good for freedom and liberty? Because And that's what makes America so special, because that's what happened. Our first founding, and now I'm kind of latching on to this idea, Kim, that our first founding examined these ideas so thoroughly throughout the entire Western philosophical tradition and took all of that information, all of that human experience, and turned it into a United States Constitution that said, here's the best solution human beings anywhere in space and time have come up with yet. to continue to point an entire nation at the good. That's what the Constitution means.
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That's what it's about. And that good, I would say, Marlee Hornick, is that everyday people, we are good stewards of this God's green earth that he has given us. But also that good is that human beings can thrive and flourish in liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom. Marlee Hornick, I so appreciate all the work that you're doing with United Sovereign Americans. And we've got to fasten our seatbelt. We have much work to do. But I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, thank you, Kim. You too. And thanks for having United Sovereign Americans on the show again. If people want to find us, unite4freedom.com. U-N-I-T-E number 4 freedom dot com is where you can catch us on the web.
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And if you go to the progress tab at the website, you can scroll down and you'll see the lawsuit and the actions taken for Colorado. So, Marlee Hornick, thank you so much. Thanks, Kim. And our quote for the end of the show is Thomas Edison. He said, Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. So never give up, my friends. And today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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If, in fact, you are working for the man, it's a new form of slavery. is it freedom or is it force let's have a conversation indeed and welcome to the kim munson show thank you so much for joining us you're each treasured you're valued you have purpose today strive for excellence take care of your heart your soul your mind and your body my friends we were made for this moment in history and thank you the great team that i get to work with and that is producer joe uh zach Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Joe, Luke, and Rachel. I'm blessed to work with a lot of really amazing people. We are pre-recording the shows for this week with amazing guests and amazing topics. And very pleased to have on the line with me Dr. Don Sweeting. He is the Chancellor of Colorado Christian University and wanted to talk with him about Christmas since we will be broadcasting this on Christmas Day. Dr. Sweeting, welcome to the show.
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Hi, Kim. It's great to be with you today.
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Well, it's great to be with you as well. And Christmas, what would you say to people that may only really think about Christianity during either Christmas or Easter? What would you say to them?
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Well, that's a good place to start, because Christmas emphasizes the incarnation of Jesus Christ, God sending His Son into the world, and Easter emphasizes His work on the cross and the resurrection, and those are the two pivotal moments in His first coming. So I'd say that's a great place to start. But I'd say go deeper. There's so much more there. This is a an incredible story that is transformational. And I'll give you an example if you want some examples of the power of the story. Okay, so I love Christmas. I love Christmas stories. You know, I love watching It's a Wonderful Life, which is about a transformation of George Bailey. And I love watching Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol, which is about the transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge. And I love watching The Grinch Who Sold Christmas because It's about someone whose head wasn't screwed on right and his shoes were too tight and his heart was two sizes too small. And I'm thinking, that's us. That's us. We desperately need the hope and the transformation that comes from the Christ of Christmas, not just the Christmas celebration itself. you know, and working up a sentimental feeling, but from the Christ of Christmas, because that's where the hope is. That's where the light is. That's where the power is. That's where the music, that's what inspires the music and everything else. That's the very center of Christmas.
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Well, and as we were preparing for this interview regarding Christmas, I continue, for some reason, I think of the shepherds. They just keep coming to mind. And what the angels said to them, and we'll use this for our quote at the end of the show, but he says, do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. What a message to our world, our country in 2024.
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Yeah, it is a great message because it's so easy for fear to grip us, whether it was pre-election fear or post-election fear or, you know, drone fear or New Year fear. We had the head of our school of theology do a devotional on the angels the other day on this passage about the shepherds. It was fascinating. And he had some really great reminders. His name is Dr. David Cotter. And he said, you know, first of all, angels are not what we think they are. They were terrifying. They were not the Victorian ladies. They had to make sure, you know, tell people, do not fear. Do not fall apart in our presence. And then he said, isn't it interesting that with the shepherds, there was a multitude of heavenly hosts, a multitude, a vast, vast number, which probably would have also frightened them. And he said it was the same thing at Jesus' death at the end when he was talking to the high priest. He said, don't you think I could call 12 legions of angels right now? And the phrase used, in Luke 2 is there was a multitude of heavenly hosts. There was an army of angels. And Dr. Cotter said, now why a mighty army? And he said, because this was an invasion of This was God coming to earth to deliver us from sin, and the powers of hell were there to try to stop it. And the angel armies around these pivotal events in the work of Christ enabled them to go forward and for evil not to triumph. That's just a fascinating insight on what we've tamed. We've tamed the angels, haven't we?
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I never thought about it that way. But I'll contemplate that, I think, throughout the season. I was just getting chills as you were saying that. The other thing I think a lot of people don't understand was the shepherds were kind of the lowly of the lowliest. And in the Producers of the Chosen series, they have a film about the birth of Christ. And so they really portray the shepherds as kind of the lowly of the lowly. And the fact that the angels came to them means that all of us, with all the stuff that we have going on and We think we're not worthy. I think that that is a message of the angels coming to the shepherds. Your thoughts, Dr. Sweeting?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I believe that little clip of the shepherds was the pilot project that launched the Chosen series. If I'm not mistaken, that's how Dallas Jenkins began, and then it grew from there. So it was really well done. But I think you're exactly right. It speaks to the fact that Christ is for everyone. He's not just for the high and the mighty. He came in a lowly way. And it also points even further into the— not just the lowliness of the shepherds and Christ's availability to people of a lowly estate, but it talks about how God humbled himself, the eternal son of God humbled himself, as Philippians 2 says, taking the form of a servant, even to the point of becoming enfleshed in pink crying flesh and then being laid in an animal feed trough. I mean, it's absolutely stunning to think of what's happening there. There's an incredible... there's an incredible condescending, humiliation, descent of God to be with us, to lift us up, whoever we are.
SPEAKER 10 :
Boy, we need that message so much today. People, I was thinking about this the other day, is people want to believe in something. And so people will believe in something, and you can fill in the blanks. And that's why understanding why Christ really came to earth, why he went to the cross, was raised from the dead to overcome death and sin is really the foundational thing. Because the fact that the God of the universe would take human form because he wanted to have a relationship with each and every human being on this earth, it's beyond understanding for me, Dr. Sweeting.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, of course it is. It's beyond all our understanding. It's a grand mystery, the grand miracle, as C.S. Lewis called it. If you try to, you can't explain it all, right? I think back in the Old Testament, there was a time when Solomon was dedicating the temple, and he prays. This is in 1 Kings 8. And in his dedication prayer, he says, but will God indeed dwell on earth? Behold, heaven, even the highest heavens cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built. You know, he's saying, but God chose to make himself known in that temple. But he's so much bigger. This is what Solomon was wrestling with. And this is the wonder of the incarnation. The God of creation, the God who created the super clusters and the black holes and the galaxies, This is the God who came to be with us. And there's a British writer in the 19th, early 20th century, G.K. Chesterton, who said, here's the wondrous thing about the manger. The thing inside the manger was bigger than the whole world. Okay, he's jogging your thoughts, as Chesterton always does, but you have the eternal second person of the Trinity accommodating himself to this world, taking on flesh, and he enters a manger, but he's the one who made the world. And it is an ultimate mystery. But it's a wondrous mystery, and life is filled with mysteries. But this is the great good mystery, and it's a story that's true. And it has power to lift you out of the doldrums and to give you hope and to transform your heart and to bring light into your life, because that's what Jesus does.
SPEAKER 10 :
Dr. Sweeting, I have a dear, dear friend who is really creative and smart and funny. But she had gone through a dark time in her life. And she has been transformed with her faith in Jesus Christ. It's a remarkable thing to watch. And she's more fervent than many, I think, of us regarding her faith. And that happens many times, yes?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah. Again, that's, you know, we have all these transformation stories to tell us that there's something at the heart of Christmas that is fantastic and wild and can change your life. And that something is not, you know, watching enough Christmas movies to get the spirit up. That something is a person, the person of Jesus Christ who came into the world, who is alive, who's real, who can be reckoned with, who can be known. He can, you know, forgive your sins. He can give you a new foundation for your life. He can bring hope when you're going through just incredible trouble and sorrow, which happens even at Christmas time, by the way. I mean, but that's the message of Christ. It's the message of the Bible.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and the other thing is, and this was a few years ago, my journey's been a long one, and that is I realized Christ to the cross is, Everything that we can experience as human beings, he experienced that. They took away everything. All of his friends left him. He was physically and physical, you know, physically hurt. So whether or not people are going through cancer or what. When he says he takes on our burdens, he takes on our burdens. And he can do that because he can understand it because he went through that, which I think is so important to reflect upon.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it is. I mean, I remember when I was a pastor at Cherry Creek Presbyterian Church in town here in Greenwood Village. And it was one Christmas, and I love Christmas. I got all excited about it. And there was a family, and the husband died in a plane crash. And, you know, just horrible, terrible news in the midst of the holiday. And at first I thought, oh, this is going to ruin our Christmas. And then I thought, well, it's deeply tragic for all of us in the family. But this actually confirms the message that, you know, we live in an ER world. And we need someone just like Jesus, a Savior, to deliver us from the captivity that we all experience. I think Christmas is confirmed by the hard things that happen. It's not undermined in any way.
SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, they do. How do you address that? Well, you know, people have loved ones who pass away, and this is the first holiday, Christmas, that they're not going to be there. That's hard. Or, you know, you have a spouse leaves, and you're single, and you're with the kids, and that's hard. And sickness hits the family. So there's so many things that are just a part of life that happen. And hopefully you have a Christmas strong enough, you have a faith strong enough to withhold you. And that's what Christmas does. It's about Christ coming into a broken, dark world where people are suffering and they need a Messiah. They need a Savior. And I'll give you some personal examples for our family this fall. So this fall has been a season of loss for us. In September, I lost my dad. He was 99.9. He was in pretty good shape. He was still driving. They were still in their own home. He fell, broke his hip, and so I lost my dad. Then about a month later, I lost my mom. They were married 77 years, and Again, they were at home, and she passed away. And then I lost my dog. Fourteen years. Our dog, Autumn, who's just been an incredible friend. Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. And we've had family who've been very, very sick. And so this has been such an extraordinary experience. It's a different season for us. But one thing that happens to me every Christmas, Kim, is there's usually one Christmas carol, and sometimes it's a line from one Christmas carol that lodges in my mind. I mean, one year it was, O Holy Night, that phrase, and in his name all oppression shall cease. and I was just overwhelmed by the oppression in the world. Last year it was this beautiful choral piece, O Magnum Mysterium, by Morton Lauderson, talking about the Incarnation. This year it's O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, which is a song I've known and I've heard many times, but it speaks about Come, O come, Emmanuel. Come and save your people. Give them victory over the grave. Death's dark shadow put to flight. We're living in the land of shadows and where we're captive and we're mourning in lonely exile. I mean, that speaks to me this year because I'm sad. I'm grieving. But there's hope for those who are sad and grieving. And the hope is God with us. The hope is, I think it was C.S. Lewis who said, the Son of God became the Son of Man to enable man to become the sons of God. He lifts us up. He saves, and He gives us eternal life and victory over the grave. So that's what carries me in my grief this season, and it's all bound up with the coming of Christ and the message of Christmas.
SPEAKER 10 :
So my father passed on last year on December 1st, and he'd been in failing health. Wow. I have a couple of pictures in my room of my father. He was a man of tremendous faith. He was an old, stubborn German farmer. I love it. But he was a man of tremendous faith. I had peace knowing, I just am sure, that he was with Jesus, who he talked about, had a personal relationship with, loved. He had Bible verses that he would teach us. And I am so grateful for my father. And I know that he is in a much better place now.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. Well, that hope is a hope that, I mean, it comes from Christ coming and living among us, being with us, his promise to remain with us, his promise to raise us up. So I look, you know, my parents knew the Lord, and they're more alive than ever before. They're in his presence. They're experiencing. I don't know if they experience Christmas, but it's better than Christmas. And isn't this the case, though? Christmas is about his first coming, and the Bible says his second advent is coming. So every Christmas should look forward to what's next. And what's next, according to Scripture, is that Jesus will come again, and he's going to come in glory, and there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth. And there will be people reigning with him in resurrection bodies. I mean, this is a hope. This is how the Bible ends. And it ends with the plea, come, Lord Jesus, come. So that just puts the death of my parents and perhaps your dad in a whole new framework. Like, okay, there is a future. The best is in front of us. And this is a gospel hope that comes from Christ himself. and his saving action on the cross and his promise to come again, and the promise of not just redemption, but a consummation with he's going to complete his plan. The promises of the Bible will come true. So, Dr. Sweet. You got me preaching. I'm part, you know, I'm a chancellor, but I was a pastor for many years. I can't help myself. It's good news, right? It's great news.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and it's so important that people hear that now. And as you were just talking about this, I was thinking about faith and how faith can actually change. give us courage as we live each day in this fallen world. And so the song, Onward Christian Soldiers, that just popped into my brain. And there's a purpose with that thing, getting up every day. And the church that we go to, one of the things that it says is, send me out to do the work that you would have me do, that I would perfectly love you and worthily magnify your holy name. Now, as a human being, I don't hit that. I just don't. But that is what I aspire to. And it gives me courage for us to step forward as Christian soldiers. And so Onward Christian Soldiers just popped into my brain.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Well, you know, faith has to have a solid foundation, right? Everybody has faith. So if you're listening to this and you go, I don't have faith, you actually do. You have faith. You know, in so many different things, you exercise it. You have faith that the world's going to work, the sun's going to come up, the light's going to go on when you turn the switch on, that there's going to be food at King Soopers and all the rest. But what is the ultimate foundation of the sort of uber faith of your life, the most important faith of your life? Is it your own flesh? Well, good luck, because that's going to fail. Is it the economy? Well, you know, that's going to go up and down, and you're going to take none of it with you when you go.
SPEAKER 10 :
Somebody said, I've never seen a hearse with a U-Haul.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that's right. I mean, we spent Thanksgiving emptying my parents' home of all this stuff, and they left it all behind. It was just a sobering reminder. So what is the faith foundation of your life? And of course, the good news of Christmas is there is a solid foundation, and it's found in God's promise to the world to send a Redeemer, and that Redeemer is Jesus Christ, and He's alive. He's the light of the world. And there are It's not just onward Christian soldiers is a great hymn, but so many of the Christmas carols, they celebrate this faith. Good Christian men rejoice. Christ was born to save. He was. He can. Look to him.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and the word joy has—this last election cycle, I think, was somewhat—they tried to co-opt it. And I want to make sure that we have the proper context of joy. And you think about Christmas hymns, Joy to the World, and just all of these—joy. And joy is— Joy, I think joy is a way of living life. Being happy is, I think, more of an emotion. But joy, I think, is deeper than that, Dr. Sweeting.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that's right. I don't know if you heard the siren in the background. A reminder, we live in an emergency ER world, right? And we need a savior. And that, you know, my favorite, I think one of my favorite Christmas carols is joy to the world. The Lord has come. Let earth receive her king. And it's just filled with lines, you know, no more let sin and sorrows grow, nor thorns infest the ground. He comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found. Oh, my goodness. I mean, that's good news.
SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 10 :
And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. and wishing all of you a merry, merry Christmas. And we're pre-recording these shows for Christmas week with special guests, special subjects, and I'm talking with Dr. Donald Sweeting. He's the Chancellor of Colorado Christian University, and we're talking about Christmas. Dr. Sweeting, there's so many traditions around Christmas, some from a society standpoint, some family, personal. What's your thoughts about traditions?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, the traditions are wonderful. They can add a lot of meaning to the holiday, as long as you don't miss the center of what it's all about. And if it's just about your Christmases, your traditions, and, you know, I've got to watch It's a Wonderful Life so many times to get my spirit up or something, you're missing it. So you've got to start at the center and make sure you keep the main thing the main thing, right? And the main thing is the birth and the coming of Christ. And then the other stuff is sort of tinsel on the tree, and it's great. So we have many traditions at Colorado Christian University. At Christmas, we have many family traditions. Kim, I'm sure you have many Christmas traditions, too.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I do. And one of them is my next-door neighbors. For many, many years, we both have put out luminarias. And for those of you that don't know what those are, it's just basically a brown paper sack with sand in it and a candle. And we light them on Christmas Eve. And they used to live in New Mexico many years ago, so it's a real tradition there. And our understanding is the tradition is it's lighting the way for the Christ child. And so we all go out then and we go across the street and take pictures and look up into the sky. And it's just such a special tradition. And yeah, that's one of mine.
SPEAKER 03 :
We've never done that. I've seen that. And I've got a question for you, because when I see them, I keep thinking, well, aren't the bags going to burn up? How do you keep that from happening?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, you want to make sure I like to get a little bigger bag, but not everybody does. But you want to make sure that you really open it up. And sometimes we'll roll the top of the bag over so it stays open a little bit more. And then you put the sand in. And then I get the pottery barn candles because they last all night. And knock on wood, I've never had a bag in all these years ever catch fire.
SPEAKER 03 :
If I did it, I'm sure we'd have numerous little fires.
SPEAKER 10 :
That siren you heard in the background in the previous segment, huh?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Well, we haven't tried it yet, but I'm afraid to, actually. But we do put up Christmas lights and have Christmas trees and things like that. So I had four children and for many years served as a pastor. And that's interesting when you're trying to celebrate Christmas. It's a commitment. Everything in your life gears up to Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. which means it's really hard to balance family and church. And I was pastor of a fairly large church, Cherry Creek Press, and wonderful church. And we had four Christmas Eve services. So all the normal traditions we had growing up, we had to alter them. Otherwise, we would self-destruct as a family. So here's what we did. So Christmas Eve, we just said, it's church night. We had the kids involved in choirs and services, and we didn't have any family thing because I didn't get home until midnight. And I was kind of wasted. So what we normally did, we used to do, when I grew up, we'd have family special refreshments and maybe exchange a gift or two on Christmas Eve. So we said, okay, we'll have to do that the night before Christmas Eve, which our kids called it Christmas Adam, okay? So Christmas Adam, we had our little family gathering, and we had Christmas Eve, which is church night. Then Christmas morning, I was shot. I wasn't worth much. So we would only have the kids do their stockings, and then we'd go to a grandparent's house for dinner. And that was enough for the day. And then we would open up our gifts on Boxing Day, the day after Christmas. Now, some of you may think that's cruel and unusual punishment to children to do that, but our kids loved it because then they started going, hey, everybody has one day of Christmas. We have four days of Christmas. And the thing is, we still do it. I mean, you know, I'm not serving as a pastor right now. I'm a Colorado Christian. But they still want to do it that way. And it was honestly, it was a survival mechanism so that, you know, we could have meaningful alone time as a family, but also serve really well at the church and celebrate with everybody else. And that's what we did. We called it the four days of Christmas.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, a couple of things. First of all, Boxing Day. We've not talked with any of our guests about Boxing Day for any of the interviews this week. And so Boxing Day is the 26th and Epiphany goes from Christmas to January 6th. And Boxing Day, my understanding was that back in Western Europe, of course, there's the celebrations by the monarchy and the royalty on Christmas Day. And so the servants had to work. On Christmas Day for all that. But then on Boxing Day, the next day, leftovers, some money, a variety of things might be put into boxes to give to the servants because of that. So hence Boxing Day. So that's my understanding of the holiday. Is that the way you understand it?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and you'd box up your gifts, right? It was a British thing, and I'm not even sure all they did. But typically it's December 26th. And so that day, you know, for us ended up being where it's quiet. We're at home. We're not going to anybody's house. We have the whole day to just we open gifts in the morning and just, you know, it's it's the, you know, Christmas Day.
SPEAKER 10 :
So, Dr. Sweeting, this year has been different for me. And I really think that women, moms, it can be a lot of work. Christmas season can be a lot of work with children and the different programs and then get the gifts and get the tree up and do this. It can become a lot of pressure. And I would adhere to that pressure. It's like, ah, I've got to get this up before my friends come over. This year... I've decided Christmas is Christmas Eve when Christ comes. And so I am preparing. I'm recognizing Advent as preparation time. And my goal is to have everything prepared. done by Christmas Eve and it's really taken a lot of pressure off so I've had friends over I've got a women's group that comes over I would have loved to have had my house totally decorated but time just would not allow it and so I decided I'm going to give my myself permission to say I'm going to do my best I'm focused on Christmas Eve and somehow this has been the most relaxing Christmas I've ever had
SPEAKER 03 :
That's wonderful. And I think that's because you had a premeditated plan. And a lot of times I've just stumbled into the holidays and then there are all these parties and there are all these things you've got to do and the kids have their programs and it can drive you, well, it's frenzied. That's a good word, yeah. Have yourself a frenzied little Christmas. That's what it is, right? So here's something you can do that might help. And we had to do this. Because, again, we had family stuff, kids stuff, and church stuff, all the church stuff of the month. So Thanksgiving weekend, Christina and I would actually go out for dinner or just get away, and we'd say, okay, Christmas is coming. We know there's going to be so much. Here are the things that we could be at. We can't do everything. What are we going to do? Let's have a plan, and let's agree on the plan ahead of time. That took a lot of pressure off of us because then we said we don't have to do every party. We don't have to do every tradition. We can emphasize different things, and it just put sanity back into our December.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and again, I want to speak to certainly fathers. But moms, I think that there can be a lot of pressure for moms with little kids. And I just want to encourage you all to give yourself permission to say, if this isn't done, that's okay. Just look at things. Prioritize it. Say, this is something I really want to get done. This can wait. And again... It's been a lot of years for me to finally get to this point, Dr. Sweeting.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah, right, right. And you know what? Especially for those of us who are empty nesters, you can help other people who are in the thick of it with lots of maybe... kids or single parents, you can make a difference in their lives and come alongside of them and that they need help. So I would encourage you to open your eyes, look around at the people. It could be a family member, it could be a neighbor, and that'll add so much richness to your holiday.
SPEAKER 10 :
It really, really will. And any other traditions? Those are pretty important traditions, Dr. Sweeting. Anything else regarding maybe traditions from a societal standpoint?
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, man. Well, traditions from – I'm not sure what you mean by societal standpoint.
SPEAKER 10 :
So Christmas trees and shopping and all those things.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. Yeah. When we think about gifts, we try to think, okay, we want to give some really meaningful gifts that will be totally appreciated because there's deep need. That could be our own family. It often isn't. It's often extended family or neighbors where you give yourself to other people, and when they receive it, they're just shocked. You know, those are the kind of gifts that really make a difference. And we have so much. We all have so much stuff. And how much stuff do we really need? And there's so much what I call meaningless gift giving that we could stand to do without. But there's a meaningful gift giving that can really lift people and help them keep going. Think about that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and one other thing as a gift, and I hadn't really thought a lot about this because we've always had Bibles in my house. I remember my paternal grandparents, they had a picture window. And again, old, stubborn Germans. And in that picture window, they actually had a little stand with the family Bible right there. And so it was such a focus. And so I just kind of assumed that everybody has a Bible, but a lot of people don't. And there was one year that I had a friend who was quite ill and he said something along the line, he didn't have a Bible. And so I gave him a Bible. And so even though we're broadcasting this on Christmas, the gift of a Bible for people that don't have one could be a really important gift, Dr. Sweeney.
SPEAKER 03 :
It could be. And hopefully, you know, if we have a Bible, we'll read the Bible. Good point. I mean, you know, some people said it's the most unread book in America. And I often fear that it is. But this is where the good news of Christmas is found, and there's so much more as well. But it could be a Bible. It could be something else. It could be a big basket of fruit and goodies that a family that can't afford much will just be shocked when it comes in the door. It could be you send a check to... a friend or neighbor who's really having hard times. It could be you just help out. You're with somebody if they're very sick or their spouse is very sick and you're just helping them get through. There's so many ways that you can bless them and lift them during the season and way beyond the season, too. It's not confined to Christmas. But Christmas is one of those times where it's a spark for joy kindness and goodness and reaching out in love to others.
SPEAKER 10 :
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Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimmunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. And you can email me at kim at kimmunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And we prerecorded these shows for Christmas week with very special guests and just learning so much on a variety of topics. And talking with Dr. Donald Sweeting, he is the chancellor of Colorado Christian University. And Dr. Sweeting, we were talking about traditions in the last segment. What's your favorite Christmas movie?
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Oh, my. Okay. Well, I think my all-time favorite that I watch every Christmas week is A Christmas Carol. And there are lots of different versions of A Christmas Carol. I think there are almost ten, probably more, film versions of that. But my favorite is Black and White, Alistair Sim, 1951. It's very British, but that's the one that I've got to watch. I still do. What about you?
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Well, I think mine is a Christmas story about the little kid that wanted that Red Ryder BB gun, and everybody kept telling him that he'd shoot his eye out, and he wanted it. And just the story, and then, of course, what happens with the turkey for the Christmas dinner, so they end up at a Chinese restaurant. Just the humor and the child... You know, the child wanting that gift. I have to watch that every season.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's great. That's great. Well, there are a lot of them, and you can't watch them all, but that's my go-to.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. So we're broadcasting this on Christmas Day. What about moving forward, reshaping Christmas for each person in the future? Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. So if you're listening to this on Christmas Day, then you realize that Christmas is already here and it's really too late to retool your December. But it's also a good time to just think about not just next year, but how you'll do Christmas differently in the future. And to I guess I would encourage you to recenter it on Jesus so that that's the main thing and everything else. revolves around that. And everything else is extraneous, really. You can cut things out. Nothing is sacred. But Christ is. So keep Christ. So then how do you keep Christ central in Christmas? Here's some things you can do. Number one, if you want to put Christ back into your Christmas, put Advent back into your December. Advent is a season of preparation. Many churches will emphasize it. There are four Sundays. You have an Advent wreath. You can do readings. You light a candle for each Sunday of Advent. And Advent is a season of spiritual preparation, too, to just prepare your heart and make Him room. So start with Advent. And that begins right after Thanksgiving. Then secondly, make sure you have time to worship the Lord in December, that you go to church. Christmas Eve, if your church has a service Christmas Day, the Sundays of Advent, that will usually help you get re-centered because pastors are always, they're preparing series of messages that will focus on Christmas. Another thing you can do is have a creche at home, a nativity set. And one of the things we do in our family is before we open gifts, our Christmas gifts, is we go to the nativity set. We have an olive wood set from Bethlehem. And we put Jesus in the manger because he hasn't been there. And we read the Christmas story and just give thanks and we pray. And then we go to the tree and we open gifts. So have a nativity set or a creche. Read a book on the grand miracle of the Incarnation. There are many books. There are some really good devotional books. There are also a lot of fluffy ones that aren't worth your time. We're reading a book by Sinclair Ferguson called The Dawn of Redeeming Grace, and it's great. That's our book for this year. Take in some of the great Christmas music concerts. I'm listing past churches. Colorado Christian University, we put on a fantastic Christmas concert early in December with our students, but there are so many. Rethink gifts. so that you're giving gifts that really do make a difference. And get behind some of the traditions. Think with your family. Why do we give gifts? Because God gave a gift. Why do we have lights? Because Christ is the light of the world. Why do we think of the poor? Because Christ was born in a manger. Why do we do music? So there are lots of things you can do to re-center, re-focus your Christmas on Christ and And plan early. Think it through ahead of time, not just in the moment.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I think that that's really good advice. And at this time, 2024, America, as we're looking into the future, more than ever, I think that we need to recognize that the Christian values, that Christ came to earth because he cared about each and every individual. I think matches up with the American idea beautifully, where we realize the importance of the individual, that the Declaration says that we are endowed by our Creator with these rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. I think that those two things match up really beautifully, and that is the individual. And so each and every one of you is so important i say it on the show all the time you're each treasured and you're valued and you're unique and um and god is you are made exactly the way god wanted it wanted to make you and so never question that uh so i think that's kind of my final thought on all this what's the final thought that you'd like to leave with our listeners uh well just think of the world if christ had never been born you know think of all that the world would have missed um
SPEAKER 03 :
and the gifts that he gave to the world, including the gift of dignity and lifting children and women and the elderly and the slave, and the impulse of education and the impact he had on health care and the arts and everything else, and the impact... The Christian faith had on the founding of our country, as you were just saying, Kim, extraordinary. The pilgrims wouldn't have come. A lot of the people wouldn't have. Columbus wouldn't have sailed. So many wouldn't have come if they weren't motivated in some way by Christ. It's not to say they were perfect or they didn't make mistakes, but Jesus Christ had extraordinary influence on our world. He still does. And so, you know, Have fun at Christmas, but make sure you got the center right. And it is about Jesus.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, absolutely. And then just I think one last question. We have just a couple of minutes because you work with so many young people at Colorado Christian University. And they're so bombarded with all these different messages and public education. What would you say to the young people of America right now?
SPEAKER 03 :
I would say, first of all, build your life on a solid foundation. Jesus said, the wise man builds his house upon the rock. The foolish man builds his house upon the sand. What's going to last? And, of course, the rock, as the New Testament puts it, is Jesus Christ, a solid rock to build your life upon. He will give you a new identity. He'll forgive your sins. He'll bring light and life into your life. For many of you, he can help you build your life and your future on a whole new foundation. And the other thing I would say is if you sense you're supposed to go to college, go to a college that actually believes in something solid. They believe there's a God. They believe there's truth. They believe in the humanities. They believe in the liberal arts. They're not ashamed of Jesus Christ. And I wish there were many colleges that were that way, but there are some, and Colorado Christian University is certainly one of them. So consider a college like CCU, and we'll help you build upon that foundation.
SPEAKER 10 :
And again, Dr. Donald Sweeting, who is the chancellor of Colorado Christian University, thank you so much for these important insights and conversation. And I wish you and yours a very happy Christmas season here and a very prosperous 2025.
SPEAKER 03 :
Merry Christmas, everybody.
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SPEAKER 06 :
Thanks, Kim. Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER 10 :
Merry Christmas. So I think we've talked about it before, but tell me, what is some of the Luce household traditions?
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, we have talked about it before and the traditions seem to morph. We had a very good set of traditions when all the girls are here. Now the girls are gone and they come back or they don't come back. We got two of the three coming back. But I actually wrote my column about this. And can I start with the Bible verse on Christmas?
SPEAKER 10 :
Please do.
SPEAKER 06 :
1 John 2, verse 15 and 16. That message to me is that Christmas, my friend, Pastor Jeff Weiss, who's co-host swinging a prayer every Sunday with me has got me in the frame of the frame of mind of saying Christmas instead of Christmas because we have worked so hard at taking Christ out of Christmas I had on another broadcast this week Julie Scott who joins me from Fairfax Halifax excuse me Halifax Nova Scotia from time to time and she said it's really gotten extreme in Canada and that you cannot say Merry Christmas. It's not illegal, but you will get chastised severely. And I just think that this Christmas 2024 is a great time to remind everybody that it's about Christmas. And we have the commercial aspect that this isn't a new thing and a reason for the season. But the truth of the matter is, I think it's really important to right now talk about Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Particularly on Christmas.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, you know, particularly at this time, I think so. And from that Bible verse, 1 John 2, 15 through 16, I think that we have gotten our focus onto so many things of this world. And I think so many people... feel empty with that. They say there's got to be something more, and that something more is Christmas, where God came as a baby and a human to redeem humankind. And I'll tell you, as I walk along and see all these different people, all different colors and all different weights and all different heights, and it just is so... unbelievable to me that Christ came to earth because he wants a personal relationship with each and every human being on this earth. It's almost more than I can wrap my brain around, but it is so amazing.
SPEAKER 06 :
It truly is amazing. And I remember as a kid, in Sunday school, because I grew up in church and mom and dad made me go to church. And if I didn't behave in church, I sat on a chair for the equal amount of time when I got home from church. And, you know, that doesn't happen anymore. You don't even get young families in church because we're playing ball games. I'm not opposed to ball games. But and I've got a whole new level of thought about the church itself. And the church should not be confused with Jesus. and everything you just said in your walk with Jesus. But, you know, as a kid, we learned in Sunday school that Christians are going to be under attack, and there will come a day when people will deny that you're even a Christian. And I can remember as a kid, like, no way, that would never happen. Everybody's a Christian, right? That attack is up close and personal right now. When you can't say Merry Christmas without getting chastised, that attack is incrementally coming to you.
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But that is why I think Merry Christmas is, let's do it. And so I have been wishing people a Merry Christmas and I've been getting Merry Christmas back as well. But I wanna, so I get your church experience. So I, as a child, we always went to church as well. And my mother tells this story, I think this was Easter. And for some reason I was wearing white gloves and I was in the children's choir which was up behind the choir loft, was right behind the pulpit. And apparently I thought it was a good idea to be talking. I'm sure you can't imagine that, that I'd be talking to my neighbors during the sermon.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, that's hard to imagine.
SPEAKER 10 :
But I decided that, of course, I would do that so nobody would notice. So I did that behind my hand. My mother said it was like sending messages all day throughout the sermon as I was moving my white hand to talk with my neighbors. She was so embarrassed.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know. Did you sit on a chair when you got home, Kim?
SPEAKER 10 :
I did. I did get chastised a bit, though. So anyway, I remember that story as a kid. One more Trent Luce Church story before we go to break.
SPEAKER 06 :
One more?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Do you have another one? Or is just sitting on the chair enough?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, sitting on the chair was just it. I mean, it was like motivation to be still and pay attention or pretend I was paying attention. Absolutely. Absolutely. But the other thing that's happening in today's world, which I'm just perplexed by, and I'm talking about in our world, where I go to so many meetings on a given week. And it all started for me, actually, in Albuquerque, when we were doing the Faith, Family, and Freedom Tour. I asked, this was 37 states in 57 days. We had events. We were celebrating freedom. And I would always start those events with a prayer. And I would ask someone locally, or I would do it myself, ask a blessing. And when we did this meeting in Albuquerque, the guy asked me, he said, is it okay if I do it in Jesus' name? And I looked at him and I said, what kind of a prayer would you do if it wasn't in Jesus' name? And he said, well, in New Mexico, that's frowned upon. And it's not illegal, but you can get in trouble. I'm like, really? Really? And now in today's world, Kim, I have people who are reluctant to start our meetings, no matter how big or small they are, with a prayer because they're afraid they might offend somebody. Doesn't the word in Jesus' whole plan to come to earth tell us to don't be offended by what people think? Display your faith openly.
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Well, and this is censorship. It is not so subtle, but it may be a subtle way of taking away our freedom of speech. And so it's a very important little subtle battle that we have going on during this Christmas season. So we're going to continue the discussion with Trent Luce, and we wish you all a Merry Christmas. We are pre-recording this, and we are promoting Doyle Glass's book, A Swift Sword During December. And it is a really important piece of history. And we are pre-recording our shows for this Christmas week. And so very pleased to be talking with Lorne Levy, who has been a sponsor of the show for just about since day one, since it's been the Kim Munson Show. And Lorne, we're going to be starting our seventh year solo. And a big part of that is you and your partnership and your sponsorship. And I really appreciate that.
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Well, thank you. I've been glad to help any way I can, and it's been a good mutual relationship, and it's been good to do my little part in helping the message get out that you're representing.
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Well, and let's talk a little bit about your business, then we'll talk about this Christmas, Hanukkah season. But you've been able to help people with first mortgages, second mortgages, and reverse mortgages, and through all different kinds of interest rate environments. And you realize, I think that people need to understand that there is flexibility as these rates move around. And I'd asked you the question a few weeks ago about... is there a penalty if you prepay or refinance, I guess? And you said that's gone away. I remember in the old days that did happen.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, there were a lot of loans that were, especially if there were these tricky arm loans that were what was called subprime that a lot of people blamed for bringing down the 08 crash. They had, you know, you'd get in a two-year arm with a two-year prepay, so you couldn't get out of it. It was just so cost prohibitive. There's been other loans like that along the way, but for the most part, those types of prepaid penalties have been banned through legislation, and so they don't have them anymore. So, yeah, people can refinance as long as it makes financial sense and the costs are not prohibited. People can refinance every six months if they want to. You can't just do it for the sake of doing it. It has to be worthwhile to save enough money, but they can do it.
SPEAKER 10 :
So what would make it worthwhile? Quarter percent? Half percent?
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I get that question a lot because there's a lot of people that I call old school. And the old school theory is that if you can't lower your rate by at least 1%, it's not worth doing it. But I think that comes from a theory of when homes were, you know, our parents were buying homes for $40,000 or, you know, not in today's world. You know, I had a client for a number of years that had a million dollar home. So his loan was like $800,000. And he would say, every time I can save a quarter point, you call me. Let's get started. Because a quarter point on an $800,000 loan was saving him $350, $400 a month. Wow. Which is real money. That's real money, yeah. That's real money. And that was only for a quarter point. So everyone's answer is different. It's what do you think is worth it. And I tell people, if I was to come to your house and knock on your door, Kim, and say, hey, I'm here to hand you $200. Would you send me away, or would you take the $200? And that's really what it is. It's just a matter of getting your pay stubs and your W-2s together and refinance, and someone might hand you $200 a month that you were paying to a bank.
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Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So what's the best way for people to reach you?
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The best way is always just call 303-880-8881. Okay.
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And we've got a couple of minutes left. And just your reflections on this Christmas, Hanukkah season.
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My reflection gets different as we've known each other because as a parent, I just love when the kids come home. My son has recently come home from college and I get to spend time until they have to go back. And when you're younger and you're just in the rat race and your kids are little, they're always around. And so it's a difference. And now when you get older... And you get family and friends together. It means a lot more when you see these 20-somethings that are all friends. We have a good group of friends as adults, and our kids are all best buddies. And to have them home and doing karaoke nights and whatever they're doing with their girlfriends and boyfriends and all be together, it's awesome. So it's a fun time of year, and that's what I like most about it.
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Yeah. Getting together with family. That's for sure. One other quick question. You grew up in Boston. You're a Boston kid. And there's a lot of history around Christmas in New England and with the Battle of Trenton, the Battle of Princeton. A lot of stuff was happening in Boston.
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Yeah. You and I have talked about that a lot where when you live there and you see the history, you kind of get second fiddle to it. You know, it's like, ah, I've done that. I've seen that. And then now when I fly home to visit family and friends, it's like, whoa, there's so much that happened here. Everything's so old in the history of it. And, you know, we just don't have that necessarily here. We don't have buildings built in the, you know, 1800s. And it's pretty crazy to see when you go back there. But there's a lot of history from just about everything back there.
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Yeah. Well, Lauren, I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Really prosperous 2025. And I really appreciate you.
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My pleasure. Thank you.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And we do thank Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It is reliable, efficient, affordable energy sources from oil, gas, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams. That whole industry is under regulatory and legislative attack. And so that's why we need to engage in the battle of ideas so that people understand that these things allow us to adjust our own personal climate. And that is being warm in the winter and cool in the summer. And also another sponsor of the show is Hooters Restaurants. And it's an important story how I got to know them. It was when I was on city council. And it's a story about freedom and free markets and capitalism and PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that are wanting to control capitalism. Every aspect of our life. And you can find that story at my website. But Hooters Restaurants has five locations. Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. Great place to get together with friends to watch the games. They have great specials for happy hour. It is Wednesday. We are pre-recording these shows for this week with great guests. And, of course, Trent Luce is a regular on Wednesdays. And it is Christmas Day. Wishing you all a Merry Christmas. Trent Luce, sixth-generation farmer and rancher. You're always shedding light on this attack on the people that feed and fuel us, and they're trying to take our freedom. And one of the ways they do that is self-censorship. When we censor ourselves because we are concerned, if we say Merry Christmas, that is actually an infringement upon our freedoms.
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Yeah, that's important, Kim. But I'm getting these notifications from Skype on my computer. Do you know how to turn those off?
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I bet that Joe probably does. I don't.
SPEAKER 06 :
Why are these notifications always showing up on my computer? Turn those things off.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. I don't know. You're talking to an old dinosaur, so I don't know the answer to that.
SPEAKER 06 :
I want to be an old dinosaur, too.
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Well, producer Joe is keeping me young.
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There you go. See, somebody's got to keep you young. And before we talk about self-censorship, we need to schedule a happy hour appearance when I come to town for the National Western.
SPEAKER 10 :
Happy hour for what, on one of the Trent Luce shows?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, no, we don't need to broadcast it. You were promoting go to Happy Hour Hooters. I said we could do that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, let's do that. Absolutely. I'm a little slow. Yeah, let's do that. That'll be fun. And in fact, you know what we should do?
SPEAKER 06 :
I can do a broadcast from there.
SPEAKER 10 :
You know what we should do is invite all the listeners so that they can come and meet you. Let's make that happen.
SPEAKER 06 :
Meet us?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. Meet us. Okay. We'll make that happen.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is my arm. All right, you set it up.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'll set it up. Let me make a note here, Trent. Okay, I have to make notes now because I don't think it's because I'm forgetting things. Maybe it is. I think it's because there's so many things going on in my brain. Okay, self-censorship. When people are afraid to say Merry Christmas.
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I'm going to reference my dear friend, Pastor Jeff Weiss, who once again co-hosts Winging a Prayer with me every Sunday. and he wrote a book called Free Indeed. You should get Jeff on as a guest. He would be a great guest for you, Kim. But he wrote a book called Free Indeed. And if you truly understand the biblical sense of freedom and being free indeed, you are not refrained in any way, shape, or form of censoring yourself. But you're absolutely right. The Bible is all about it, and Jesus' coming to earth and his resurrection His birth through his crucifixion is all about living without having fear. And you have to be free indeed in the fearing God only. And it just perplexes me. Go back and think about the people you know and people who you thought were really walking in the path of the Lord and how they were living in fear during COVID. Yeah. How do you do that? I just don't understand that. And that whole thing was a test on self-censorship.
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I really I agree with that. And as I look back at that, though, it was it was it took an act of courage to walk into the grocery store without a mask on. And it was it was it's surreal as I think back about that. Of course, in I think in rural America, they're like, no, we're not doing that. But man, in the urban areas, it was crazy. And you were afraid that there was going to be the mask police that was going to try to embarrass you. So I ended up I'm sure you're not surprised. I hardly ever wore a mask. But if I was someplace where I absolutely had to be there and had to have a mask, somebody gave me one that was transparent, kind of that transparent netting. And so if they say, you know, put on your mask, I put that on, which was clear that, you know, I could breathe and all kinds of things being being the rebel that I'm on. But it was just it was this test to see how far they could push our fear to comply. Mm hmm.
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I'll never forget the first week of May that year. So this would have been 2021, right? No, 2020. May 2020 was a bad year. And I had to make a pig delivery to Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Florida, and Kentucky. So Landry, because she was in school online... went with me. And so we made a 1700 mile journey that week. And it was the most interesting sociology project you could have ever had. And I'll never forget the one place that just really set me back was, you know, I wear a wild rag all the time. I mean, it doesn't matter what's going on. I'm summer, winter, I'm wearing a wild rag. And I walk into a gas station. And for those who don't know, I'm usually wearing a black cowboy hat at the same time. I walk in this gas station in Pennsylvania. There was a sign on the door that said mask required. Clearly, I'm like 10 months. I'm like, if Kim doesn't wear a mask, I'm not going to wear a mask. And this kid who, I don't know, he's probably 25 years old, working behind the desk. You would have thought I walked in there as a robber. He just went, he just started, his eyes got big. He was like, oh my God, you got to get a mask. You got to get a mask. So I simply took the rag that I wear around my neck. I pulled it up over my nose. I looked like an authentic robber. And a degree of comfort just came over him like, oh, okay. And I'm like, how weird is this? I walk in here looking like a bank robber, and they feel comfortable. I walk in with an open face, and they're scared to death.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and email me at Kim at KimMunson.com. And thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And check out the Center for American Values. I'd say put the family in the car. And go to Pueblo, make a day trip of it, visit the Center for American Values. It will inspire your children. And hopefully, as you look at the portraits of each of these Medal of Honor recipients that did something to save others on the battlefield, when they were on the battlefield. It's so important. And have these conversations with your kids about these heroic actions by everyday people when the situation presented itself. So get more information. You can go to AmericanValueCenter.org. You can visit the center. There's great restaurants there on the Riverwalk. And Pueblo is known as the home of heroes. And we are pre-recording for this week of Christmas, and we're wishing you a very Merry Christmas today. Talking with Trent Luce, sixth-generation farmer and rancher, and we were talking about fear and this whole experiment of COVID and standing up against that. So, Trent, I don't think I've told you this story. I was in San Diego during COVID, you know, some of those first few months. with the fam, and we were going to go to a restaurant, and I knew I was not going to wear a mask into the restaurant. This is California. And so I thought, I'll let the whole family go ahead and go in before me, because if they kick somebody out, I just want them to kick me out, not everybody. And so I waited until they got into the restaurant, and then I walked in without my mask, and I sat down. Looking around now, there were people at other tables that were didn't have a mask on. So you could take your mask off when you sat down, but you had to have it on when you walked in. And I'm thinking this is a bunch of bull dashery, you know, and so anyway, the the waiter comes over. No, the manager came over and said to me, I see that you came in without a mask. And I said, yes. And he said, well, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. And I said, well, I'll leave. Please let them – they're all hungry. Let them go ahead and eat. But I said, I understand. But I said, I just want you to understand that this whole thing is about freedom. And he said, okay. He said, well, I'll let you stay. Okay. but I'll have to see if our waiter feels safe waiting on you. I'm thinking, oh, my gosh. So he's waiting on tables, other people without masks on, but they have to. So he comes over. The waiter was as nice as anything. In the meantime, my daughter leans over to me and says, I hope that you are prepared to tip like a Rockefeller today. I said, I am. And so anyway, we ended up having a very nice time, great waiter, great food, and left. And I did leave a very healthy tip. And then my son had gone back to that restaurant a few weeks later, and the waiter recognized him, and he was all over himself trying to wait on my son. But it was an act of courage. It's so goofy to say it, just to say... I'm not doing it. But it was a big deal, and it was an act of courage, and a lot of people stepped forward. I don't think they're going to pull the wool over most of our eyes this time around. I hope not, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I disagree with you. I think a majority of the people will still comply. And it's coming hard and fast. It looks like it's coming in the name of avian influenza. Oh, yes. But as a side note, there's something that you said there that I also found very interesting during that time. And my most dark experience with that was on a plane, because on a plane, if you didn't have your mask on, unless you're drinking or eating, then you had to be covered up. And if you weren't covered up, they removed you. And I had an attendant, a flight attendant who got belligerent with me. I just would like put it up over my chin so to pretend that I had it on. I didn't have it on. She came chatting back there and she said, sir, I will have the pilots stop this plane and we will unload you. And like, you're going to do that? No, you're not going to do that. But she could. If you do not cover your face properly. And so what I bring that up for is that there were so many people not only compliant, there were so many people that felt like they had to be the protector of everybody.
SPEAKER 08 :
I know.
SPEAKER 06 :
And they were just like little militant Hitlers running around telling you what you had and couldn't do. And the only I mean, the only two times I wore a mask during that episode. was I ultimately did on that plane, which, interestingly enough, I remember clearly I was flying to Georgia to do a freedom festival with Devin Nunes, who obviously is in the news this week. But we were going to a freedom festival where I had no freedom whatsoever on the plane. And the other place is in the fall of this year when kids got back into school. The schools would not permit you in the building without wearing a mask. And that was the only time I was compliant because I wasn't going to miss my daughter's events, and I just did not take a stand. And I often think looking back if I really screwed up in that regard.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, I know. It was such a crazy time. But it's why we have to stand for freedom. And that's why in the Bible, I'm told that it's said many, many times in the Bible, do not fear. Isn't that one of the first things that the angels said to the shepherds? Do not fear. It is. And so we need to take heed of that, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 06 :
And you know what else I found interesting, tying it back to Jesus and ministering, is that just within the last six months, I noticed that there's an attack in China. Probably there's always an attack in China on Christianity. But one way that Christian churches can remain open in China, and I'm not talking COVID, I'm talking about just freedom of religion. is if they make their sermons and their church services available on the internet so that they can be monitored. Do you know how that hit me? That hit me so hard and fast because churches, for the most part, except for the megachurches, were not broadcasting sermons. But because of COVID, we moved into this era of, of now all church services are are available on the internet so we voluntarily did what china is forcing christians to do in china i just find that fascinating that is fascinating i know there are people that have liked that convenience of that um
SPEAKER 10 :
if we got to a point where we had real censorship of Christian churches, you can well imagine that those things that have been broadcast will be used against the churches in the future.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. Because they also, I mean, look, every day somebody is being convicted in court based upon something they say. I have a friend who spent three years in federal penitentiary because of something he said on a Facebook direct message. It's being monitored left and right.
SPEAKER 10 :
Three years. Correct. Wow. Well, we must not fear. We must speak the truth. That's what you do basically 365 days a year, and that's what I'm doing as well because I believe that we engage in this battle of ideas. Christ did not use weapons at all. He used words and ideas, and I think that those are so important. It's attributed to Stalin, who he said, and I don't know for sure if he said it, but it's still effective. He said, ideas are more powerful than guns. We wouldn't let our enemies have guns, so why would we let them have ideas? And that's why what you're doing and what I'm doing is so important, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 06 :
I agree 100%. And in fact, I gave you kudos on the air this week in one of my other broadcasts, because I said that, you know, for the most – I'll tell you what it was about. I looked at the number of people who are leaving or going to a state, and the migration is quite fascinating. And what they do is they check with the movers. And Colorado is seeing more people leave by about 5% than people moving into Colorado. And there's a lot of people who think Colorado is just lost and gone. And I said, you might think that, but when you have somebody like Kim Munson – who every day on KLZ is bringing the conservative thought process to the forefront. There are people showing up and standing up that previously thought they were by themselves and they couldn't do it because they just didn't have the comfort, and now it's happening thanks to what you're doing.
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Well, thank you. I feel that this is what God wants me to do, is to engage in this battle of ideas here in Colorado. Words are so important. And we've seen the demonizing of words. You mentioned conservative. And the word conservative, as in politics, has been demonized. And I think we need to reclaim that. Conservative, what does that mean? And those that have tried to demonize the word have said that conservatives want to control how you live your life and what you do. Well, we go through COVID and we realized who it was. No, it was the extreme radicals. And the conservative, what that means is to conserve and preserve these principles that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. And it's been attributed to, well, I'm sure he said it, Calvin Coolidge. He said, if all men are created equal, then that is final. So none of this reparation stuff, none of this dividing stuff, that's the ideal that we need to be working towards, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, absolutely. And I'll give you the greatest example, sad example, of a word being hijacked. And conservative is another good example. But I come from the world of agriculture. And my family, I can take you to the barn that my family started farming out of in 1839. Well, they didn't build the barn until 1889, but they started farming the land in 1839. It's still being farmed today, and that is sustainability. It is sustainable that you can be six generations in the same family taking care of the same land. And yet today, most farmers and ranchers are afraid to use the term sustainability because it's been hijacked by the green weenies.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, and sustainability is actually whenever you see that in construction or within any industry environment, sustainability has actually become a code word for a communist agenda. And that's some of the things we've talked about on a Climate Conversation podcast with some of these experts and scientists that I know that seems very strong, but they're using the word sustainability to push forward, control communist principles at Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 06 :
I agree. And we cannot allow these words to be hijacked.
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No, not at all. And so let's go to break. And there's a few other things that I'd like to talk about that we've let these things be hijacked. We need to reclaim them. And we have these important discussions because we have great sponsors. And one of those is both John Boson with Boson Law.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. And throughout December, the USMC Memorial Foundation, if you buy a brick to honor your military service or your loved one's military service, there is someone that is matching the purchase of that brick. So it'll be like double the money. And so get that done before the end of the year. You can do that by going to USMCMemorialFoundation.org. That is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. And we are pre-recording these shows for Christmas week. It is Christmas Day. And we wish all of you a very Merry Christmas. And we have Trent Luce on the line. You know him. He is a sixth generation farmer and rancher. And we were talking about words that have been redefined, co-opted by the left. Conservative is one of those. But a symbol that has really been co-opted by the left is rainbow. And here, all these little girls love rainbows. And so you can see co-opting that, I think, is a real—it's a not-so-subtle problem, but it is a subtle problem. What's your thoughts about co-opting the rainbow, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, you remember when I had my man march, the very first one. We didn't do it as much on this one this year. But the first one, which was in October of 2022— we had our man march and I coined it taking the rainbow back because the rainbow was God's symbol to us that he would not flood the earth again as he did when Noah had to build an ark. And now people hear or see a rainbow and they think of something that is completely opposite of the biblical view of the rainbow. And so I think it's a great, great analogy. And one of those words that We need to bring the rainbow back. We're going to take it back.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, we need to, instead of acquiescing, we need to be reclaiming these words. And there's so many different words out there. What's another one we should talk about?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, I want to talk about my favorite one because it's, well, it's not my favorite one, but if it's in the same vein of that in itself, then that is gay. You know, Jesus actually talked about being gayful and living our life happily. Well, the homosexual community hijacked that word. Homosexuality, the term would never be accepted by mainstream anything. But if you're gay, you are. And so I think that it falls right in line with the rainbow. But that's another word that's been hijacked.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, and how about a recent one? And that is by the O'Biden-Harris-Walls team, and that is joy. I love the word joy, but my, they have tainted that word right now, so we need to reclaim the word joy as well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Seems like we've got a lot of reclaiming to do. We better get in charge of the Department of Reclamation.
SPEAKER 10 :
That is true. Speaking of departments, what's your thoughts about DOGE? And that is Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. I'm thinking what we need to do is start a DOGE Department of Government Efficiency Colorado. So DOGE Colorado, and then we should start DOGE for each of our counties and each of our municipalities. What do you think about that?
SPEAKER 06 :
I have zero faith in government, making government smaller. And to go about getting rid of bureaucracies, we create a new bureaucracy, that sounds just a little too extreme for me.
SPEAKER 10 :
But OK, so but Doge Colorado would be from we the people. And I think one of the first things we need to demand is no more government grants and loans, starting with grants. If we would stop all of these these grants, you can start with DEI, all of these things that are pushing agendas with our government. either our tax money or borrowing it from our kids, I think that's a place to start because I really think that we are going to see a double down, Trent Luce, at the municipal, the county, and the state levels on the extreme agenda because at this particular point in time, they feel that they might be thwarted a little bit with the Trump agenda. And so I think you're going to see the whole agenda, the 30 by 30 and all that. I think we're going to see double down on that at the municipal, county, and state level.
SPEAKER 06 :
Can I forward half of my calls to you? Because what you said is exactly what has happened in the last two weeks. So where I was getting one or two calls a day, I'm now getting four to five calls a day where somebody is dealing with a situation where they're accelerating this 30 by 30 agenda. or some other World Economic Forum plan to come in and erode our local control aspects. But with all of that said, I have developed this tremendous friend in New South Wales, Australia. Councillor Ingrid started watching Across the Pond, the TV program, and I was talking every day about local control, local control. She joined her local council, which is equivalent to our county commission, And they are now making an entire change in the Reconnect Rivers project where they were trying to deem land that is not even wetland as a wetland area and putting off limits to people. And it's just a testament to what you just said about Doge, Colorado. We need to do all of these things at the local level and bring them up from the grassroots.
SPEAKER 10 :
And we can do that. That's how this country was founded. It was everyday people. For example, Henry Knox, who got the cannons from Fort Ticonderoga, got them down to Boston. And what an affair that was to make that happen. But I think he was a bookseller in Boston. Yes. Here you have everyday people stepping up from the ground up, and they were able to stand up against the most powerful empire in the world. And they were able to... to prevail. And the reason is, is because they had their priorities and their values in the right place. And that was this vision that all men are created equal by God and these liberties from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. And if we get ourselves in the right spot again, I think that we can reclaim our country.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Notice that those founding fathers said all men are created equal. And I don't know who screwed that up in Wyoming. Probably was Wyatt in Wyoming gave women the right to vote in 1921. We had it going good till then.
SPEAKER 10 :
You're not the first person that has said to me that once women got the right to vote, that that's where we were headed towards progressivism. So that's why I talk with my sisters on a regular basis about these principles. And when they say that all men are created equal, they don't mean men. They mean humankind. And that was something that I learned in my classical liberal education, public education when I was a kid. That was in the old days where you really learned how to read and write and do arithmetic in the public schools.
SPEAKER 06 :
You keep telling yourself, Kim, that it wasn't women that screwed it up. Maybe you'll get somebody to believe you.
SPEAKER 10 :
It's always a woman, isn't it, Trent? It's always a woman.
SPEAKER 06 :
It is always a woman. No doubt about it. Well, hey, want to talk about Eve? Let's go to the Bible.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, well, talk about personal responsibility. Adam said, oh, she made me do it. So let's talk a little bit about personal responsibility by the man.
SPEAKER 06 :
Women always hold the veto power.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's true. That's true. So, OK, well, I never know where this conversation is going to go. So let's get back to Christmas. And because of Adam and Eve, we needed a savior. And that Savior came to earth. I just got to think about just think about the night he was born. And again, the angels to the shepherds do not fear and what the skies look like that night. I can't even imagine what it was like that night. It had to be amazing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Do you keep track of the North Star on a daily basis?
SPEAKER 10 :
Not really.
SPEAKER 06 :
I do. I taught our three daughters the North Star all the time. And I think the North Star is something that wasn't just about the night Jesus was born, which, by the way, was apparently in September, not in December. And I've had many interesting discussions this week about whether that matters or not.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, but Bill Federer, I'll tell you, Bill Federer has actually gone through the calendar and he makes a case that it really was Christmas Eve.
SPEAKER 06 :
Who's done that?
SPEAKER 10 :
Bill Federer with the American Minute.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh. Oh. I would like to see that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. And we're broadcasting that. Let's see. I think we broadcast that pre-recorded. We broadcast that yesterday on Christmas Eve.
SPEAKER 06 :
Fantastic. OK, now I'm going to have to go back and catch it because I missed it.
SPEAKER 10 :
This is weird. We're pre-recording. I know it's a little it's a little crazy. So, yeah, he was able to actually go through and biblically. That's easy. biblically make the case that this is the correct date for Christ's birth. So now we only have just a few seconds left before we get to our close. So anything else you want to do to wrap this up?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, the close is going to be probably longer than you want it to be. Because I had, I've been trying to track this guy down for about six months. He's been busy jet-setting around the United States. His name is Papa Jake. Jake Larson lives in Martinez, California. He was, on Friday, December 20th, last Friday, he was 102 years old. He planned, he was in on, he wasn't the planner, but he was in on the planning of D-Day. He came out of D-Day without a scratch on his body. He is of such amazing sound mind and walked me back. And I just finished a three-day series with him. I got to tell you this, Kim, I said, Papa Jake, I need you for 20 minutes. Can you give me 20 minutes? He said, oh, just get it going. Let's go.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, wow.
SPEAKER 06 :
65 minutes later, I said, Papa Jake, I got to go. I can't keep doing this. But he gave me the quote. And you can attribute this to the World War II veteran. You can attribute this to the veteran. Or you can attribute this to Jesus. He said, Trent, they gave their lives so we could live ours.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yes, that is true. So, Trent Luce, that is perfect. I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas, and we will talk to you next week.
SPEAKER 06 :
Can't wait. Thanks, Kim.
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And my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
SPEAKER 07 :
If I don't survive, I will fall.
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It's great to be with you.
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And first question is really from, I guess, both Producer Joe and me, and that is the Christian liturgical calendar. I think a lot of people don't understand what it is exactly. So, of course, as we are recording this, we are in Advent. So Advent is the four Sundays before Christmas. But then we get into the Christmas season, the 12 days of Christmas, and then Epiphany, But there is more to that calendar. So explain this to us, Bill Fetter.
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Right. So one of the early questions is, was Jesus definitely born on December 25th? And so I've gone into quite a bit of research on that in my book. The title of the book is, there really is a Santa Claus, the history of St. Nicholas and Christmas holiday traditions. And to start off, we have to identify the birthday of John the Baptist, because he's six months older than Jesus, and the Gospel of Luke gives us a clue. Now, the first three centuries of Christianity, Christians were mostly Jewish, and they were more concerned about the Passover, Christ's death and resurrection, and Jews did not celebrate birthdays. Even Josephus, the Jewish commentator, talked about how they did not make festivals of their children's births. So it wasn't until a bunch of Greeks began to convert to Christianity that the question was raised, when was Jesus born? And so it's a little bit of a detective story, but we go back to the Gospel of Luke, and it says, in the time of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah. So in the time of Herod, the calendar has him dying anywhere from 4 BC to 1 BC. So I can get into it later, but it wasn't until 526 AD that the monk Dionysus exegesis counted back to make AD BC. Prior to that, they would date things based on the different kings. And so whenever you'd have some document, it would always start off in the reign of this king and this country, and then synchronize that with this other king's reign in this other country. And you sort of triangulate and say, okay, I get it. It'd be like us saying, you know, in the third year of President Trump's first term. It's like, okay. So they'd say in the time of Herod, king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah who belonged to the priestly division of Abijah. What's the priestly division of Abijah? Well, First Chronicles 24, King David separated the Levite priests into 24 groups and Abijah's number eight. and so, but the Scripture doesn't tell us exactly how these 24 groups did their service, and so it wasn't until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947 that they found what's called the Sacerdotal Rota System, and it's this system of the priest serving. And so each priestly division served twice a year, one week each, six months apart. And so now we find out that Abijah serves the eighth week, and then come back around, he serves the 32nd week. But when does the Jewish calendar start? When do we start counting off these divisions? There's lots of different questions on the calendar, but one that seems clear is the first division is called Jehoi Arab, and they were on duty when the temple was destroyed. And so we know from the Roman calendar, the temple in Jerusalem was destroyed on August 4th, 70 AD. And the Jewish date for that is the 9th of Av. And the Jerusalem Talmud says that the Jehovah Yareb family division was on duty when the temple was destroyed. And so since we know the temple was destroyed August 4th, that's the first week of August, and Jehovah Yareb was on duty, that means eight weeks later is when the Abijah family would be on duty. Well, eight weeks after the first week, August, is the last week of September. Now, this is an important week in the Jewish calendar. It's where the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles take place. And so Zechariah would have been in the temple for this very, very important week. That would explain why people are waiting outside. Now, the high priest gets to go into the Holy of Holies, but these other Levites get to go into what's called the Holy Place. It's sort of the first room you go into before the Holy of Holies, and that's the altar of incense is in there. And there's 24,000 Levites. And how do they decide who's going to get this honor of serving in the holy place? Is it on seniority? Is it popularity? Well, no, it's by lot. And so they would choose who's going to serve by lot. And so with 24,000, it's pretty rare to be chosen. And then to be chosen on this very important week, where you have the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, and the Feast of Tabernacles, is sort of a once-in-a-lifetime thing. And so the fact that Zechariah is in there this week, and the angel appears to him and tells him that his wife Elizabeth is going to get pregnant and bear a son, well, at the end of the week, he leaves, and his wife gets pregnant. And so the Byzantine Rite Church calendar marks September 23rd as the date of the conception of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ. And so now why is this important? The Gospel of Luke twice tells us that Mary visits Elizabeth in Elizabeth's sixth month of her pregnancy. And so if John the Baptist is conceived September 23rd, six months after that is the the last week of march and so march 25th is the date that traditionally has been for the conception of jesus right because called the annunciation when the angel gabriel appeared to mary and told her that she's going to conceive by the holy spirit she says i'm the handmaid of the lord and And so Mary conceives, and then she immediately goes to visit her cousin Elizabeth, who's in her sixth month. So if Mary conceives on March 25th, nine months later is December 25th. And so that's the traditional way of arriving at December 25th as the birth date of Christ. And then some people say, well... there wouldn't have been sheeps in the field because it's wintertime. Well, the climate of Bethlehem is like Dallas, Texas. It gets cool in the winter, but it's not cold. And there's many agricultural websites that says, here's one called the War Horse Valley County Farm Park. It says lambs are born around 145 days, about 4.5 months after the ewe falls pregnant. Lambing can start as early as December and go as late as June. And so another question is, well, wasn't December 25th picked to overlap the Roman festival of Saturnalia? Well, Saturnalia is the winter solstice. It's December 22nd. It's the furthest that the sun is, the earth is away from the sun. And you have the shortest day and the longest night. But it's December 22nd. It's not the 25th. So if you're going to pick a date to overlap something, you'd pick the date. And then some think, well, they pick the date to overlap the Roman holiday of Sol Invictus, the incomparable sun god. Well, that wasn't instituted by the Romans until 274 A.D., Emperor Aurelian. And this is obviously 274 years after Jesus, and we have records of church fathers like Pope Telephorus in 136 A.D. started the midnight mass on December 25th to celebrate what he believed to be the exact hour of Jesus' birth. Another church leader, Theophilus of Caesarea, 181 A.D., says we ought to celebrate the birthday of our Lord on whatever day the 25th of December shall happen. Another one is in 204 A.D., a saint Hippolytus of Rome, and he writes that the first advent of our Lord in the flesh when he was born in Bethlehem on December 25th. And so you have, these are all Christian leaders mentioning December 25th before the Romans picked Sol Invictus to celebrate their worship of the sun god. And so if you look at the bigger picture, the Romans are trying to stamp out Christianity. There are 10 major persecutions, Nero, Domitian, Aurelius, and they're all trying to wipe out Christianity. And so here comes along Emperor Aurelian, and he picks December 25th. And so the thought is maybe Christians did not pick December 25th to overlap a Roman Sol Invictus. Maybe Aurelian picked the date of December 25th to overlap the birth of Christ. similar to Kwanzaa that was started in 1966 by Ron Everett, specifically to be an alternative to Christmas. He was an ex-felon California State University professor and sort of into that period of racism. And so he specifically wanted to create a holiday as an alternative to Christmas that But it's right on the Christmas season, so that, again, people say, well, you know, did the Christians pick that date? Well, no Christian writer prior to the 12th century even hinted that it could have been the Christians overlapping the Roman date, right? And so the evidence is it's the Romans trying to stamp out Christianity. So with all that, that's why we celebrate Christmas, December 25th. And then you mentioned Epiphany. Well, I'll mention Advent.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And as you all know, a nonprofit I dearly love is the USMC Memorial Foundation. The official Marine Memorial is located right here in... Golden, Colorado, and it was dedicated in 1977. And Paula Sarles, who is the president of the foundation, and her team are working diligently to raise the money for a remodel. So you can find out all the information about the USMC Memorial by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. On the line with me is Bill Fetter. He is an amazing author, speaker and creator of the American Minute. And we're talking about Christmas and just went through on. It's so fascinating on how we've determined or it was determined that December 25th is actually really Jesus's birthday. So with that, we kept as our cliffhanger Advent and Epiphany. in the church calendar. So what is Advent exactly, Bill Fetter?
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Well, the word Advent simply means the coming, the coming of the Lord. And around 480 A.D. is when they began the practice of fasting three days a week, the four weeks prior to Christmas. So and then the lighting of the candles, they would have the candles in church with four candles and then one middle candle to light the others with, and they would light them as the week's approach to Christmas. But what is probably a more significant epiphany, so Eastern Europe and Western Europe had different dates that were important to them. And so Eastern Europe celebrated January 6th, most commonly called Epiphany, and that's when the three wise men visited. And Jesus was revealed to the world. The word Epiphany means revealed. And yet Western Europe celebrated December 25th as the holiest day. And they were trying to keep everybody together. So at the Council of Tours in 567 A.D., they decided to make all 12 days between December 25th and January 6th the 12 days of Christmas. So the 12 days of Christmas are not actually the 12 days leading up to Christmas. They're the 12 days between December 25th and January 6th. They were called Holy Days, and as the centuries went on, Holy Day got pronounced Holidays. And so when they say, well, don't say Merry Christmas, just say Happy Holidays. It's like, well, holiday means holy day. And what are the holy days but the 12 days of Christmas? So they can't get away from it. You know, I do want to mention something about the three wise men that came from the east. Well, east of Jerusalem is Persia. And what, you know, had been Babylon and then the Medo-Persian and then Cyrus and But Daniel, the story of Daniel, that he was obviously taken captive there. And Daniel five calls Daniel the master of the magicians, astrologers, child, Chaldeans and soothsayers. And the word magician, it's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat. The word magic meant wise man or consular to the king. And that's what Daniel was, a consular to the king. And so we know Daniel studied prophecy because Jeremiah said that the Jews would go back after 70 years of captivity. And the prophet Daniel was reading the prophet Jeremiah and saw this and set himself to pray. And that's when the angel Michael appeared to Daniel and said, you know, from the day you started praying, I was sent. But I was withstood for 21 days by the prince of the power of Persia or whatever. And but we know Daniel studies prophecies and he also studied the stars. And so he must have started a school of magi, of wise men who were counselors. And so he lived in the fourth century B.C. So in Persia, they must have had, you know, some Jews that were wise men that were counselors and And they kept up with it, and they saw the star of the promised Messiah and then went east. So just a little background there on the wise men. We don't know that there were three, which assumed there were three because there were three gifts mentioned, gold, frankincense, and myrrh. So we don't know the exact number of them. Of the wise men, we just know there were three gifts. So it's assumed they were three.
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What about the star? What's your thoughts about the star?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, that's really fascinating. There's a gentleman that did a video called the Bethlehem Star. And evidently they have computer programs installed. with simulations of all the orbits of all the planets and all the stars. And you can look at what the sky looks like on any day of the year. And matter of fact, Isaac Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, he spent more time writing on the book of Daniel than he did on gravity and optics and laws of science. So he was really, but he was trying to figure out where the stars were in like one BC. Um, but he didn't look at some of the other years. And, um, but with this, this Bethlehem star video talks about how you can literally go through, um, and, uh, just pick the date and it'll show what, well, One of those years, and I don't know off the end, you know, B.C., the stars line up. And so each constellation represented something. A regalist meant the regal or the king, the virgo, the virgin. There's a thought that what we look at today as the horoscope actually originally was God in the book of Genesis said that he put the stars in the sky for signs and seasons. And so it could have been that there was a prophecy of redemption in the movement of the stars that was twisted by pagans, similar to you could have different cults today, and they'll take the Bible and twist it. And so, but that's an interesting line of of study. I don't get into it a whole lot, but it is fascinating. So the thought is that there were constellations that represented the birth of a king. One of the stars, I'm going by memory of like Regulus, but they would go from the earth look like a circular pattern. So the earth is not the center of the solar system, the sun is. So the earth is going around and, but the other planets are going around. And so at some point it looks like, uh, like Venus is the largest, it looks like a star, but it's a planet. Um, and it looks like it's going one direction, but then all of a sudden it can turn in the sky and the next day it could be going back in an opposite direction. So they would call them wandering stars. Um, but, but the, um, but you know, from the earth's perspective, it looked like they turned, but if you were in the sun, they would just be going around you. Um, but, uh, Anyway, so there was very unusual movements of the planets and stars that the wise men interpreted as signifying that the king was going to be born. Right. And I'm not doing it justice, but the Bethlehem Star video was quite fascinating. I do think another point that I can speak a little more authoritatively on is the calendar. So originally, we didn't have ADBC, like 2024 or whatever. you had different kings and different kingdoms, and people would date things by who was in power. And so, for example, 2 Kings 18, 13 says, in the 14th year of King Hezekiah's reign. And then in Luke 1, 3, chapter 3, verse 1, it says, in the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar. So imagine if we didn't have our calendar and we would try to say, okay, well, this is a time when, you know, um, you know, queen Elizabeth the seconds in England, uh, Ronald Reagan is the president. Um, you know, you, you know, you have, um, you know, you, and you just sort of name the different people that were in power and people get sort of in their brain figure, okay, I can get, I can get the time period you're talking in. Um, but, um, So they were dating things in Rome to the emperor Diocletian, A.D. Anno Diocletiani. And Diocletian was a bad guy. He was killing Christians. And so he is gone. Constantine becomes the emperor. He's Christian. Then you've got several centuries. And then in 526 A.D., you have Dionysus' exegesis. He's a monk. And they didn't have copy machines back then, and so everything that's written had to be hand-copied. And so in these monasteries, these monks would laboriously hand-copy documents, and then they would copy the dates. And he thought that it was inappropriate that they were still dating events. back to Diocletian's reign, you know, and because Diocletian was a bad guy. So he takes it upon himself to try to overlap all of these different range of these different emperors and kings. It's quite complicated because sometimes you'd have a king keep the name of a previous king. And but he figured as best he could to the date that Jesus was born. We know he was a little bit off because there's no year zero. If you have a timeline and it's going from negative to positive, you have to have this zero there. Well, you skip that. He went from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D., so we know it's got to be at least a little off. But as best as he could, he figured out the year that Jesus was born, and he would write it in the margin of whatever he was copying. And then the other monks picked up on it, and they started doing it. And then as the centuries went on and until the Hun invades Europe, the cities are wiped out. And then you got, you know, Islam attacking. And then you have, you know, a lot of people are illiterate, but the only people that could actually read and write were the monks. And they decide to just use A.D. Anno Domini in the year of our Lord's reign as the dating system. And, uh, And then when the Muslims were invading what is today Turkey, you had Greek scholars fleeing west with all their Greek literature. This is what we call the Renaissance. And then after that was called the Age of Discovery. And then you have the Portuguese and Spanish and Dutch and English and French sailing around the world, setting up trading posts that turn into colonies that turn to them, taking their dating system with them. And so now you take this A.D. dating system and you're spreading it around the world until today. it is the worldwide accepted dating system. And so everything in the world is dated A, D, or B, C. Now, In the late 1800s, you had some archaeologists that weren't Christian, and they didn't want to do B.C. before Christ and A.D. Anno Domini, because they didn't want to mention Jesus. So they created B.C.E. and C.E., which means before common era and common era. And it's like, I have a question. When did it change from before Common Era to Common Era? The birth of Christ. They can't get away from it. It's there. The whole calendar in the world is dated back to the birth of Christ. I love this quote from Clarence Mannion. He was the dean of Notre Dame Law School. And he said, the long march of measured times suddenly stopped and did an about face and started to march in another direction to a different drummer straight through the ensuing centuries of Christ from Christendom. B.C., before Christ, and A.D., Anno Domini, in the year of our Lord, mark each one of the only reliable milestones along the path of world history. The end of the first time chain and the beginning of the second came together on the night that Christ was born in Bethlehem. The first Christmas day thus stands as the great divide. for the timing and recording of all people, things, and events that have lived or taken place upon this earth. The one place on the long, long trail of time where the magnetic needle of history stands vertical and points up.
SPEAKER 02 :
Wow, that is so fascinating. One other clarification, you said that this change from BC to BCE was in the 1800s. I thought it was something that was recent. Did I hear that correctly?
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Yeah, they had this movement called skepticism, and you had the German archaeologists going over, you know, Schliemann, and then... They were the ones that began to introduce into academia this alternative thing. It was not used by the common people. They tried to make a push by putting it in museums and stuff, but it's sort of fallen out of use.
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Right. So Lent begins 40 days before Easter. And that's where you'd fast. Matter of fact, it fits into my Christmas presentation. But the day before the fasting is Mardi Gras. And so it used to be a more religious day. And now it's turned into a lewd party in New Orleans. But it used to be the beginning of Lent when you would fast 40 days before Easter. And then the Gospels report that Jesus was with the disciples for 40 days and then told them to tarry in Jerusalem until they'd be endued with power from on high. And so for 10 days they waited in the upper room, and the Holy Spirit was poured out on the day of Pentecost. So the Pentecost is the Jewish feast. to celebrate the beginning of the harvest. And so the Christian application would be the beginning of the harvest of souls. And so 3,000 people became Christian the first day, 8,000 by the end of the week. And then at the end of the week, the Jews would go back to all their different countries around the world. So three feasts, The Jews had seven major feasts, and then Jesus' life fulfilled them, but three are yet to be fulfilled. So the Feast of... A Passover is when the Jews would sacrifice the lamb in remembrance of the families killing a lamb, putting the blood over the doorposts of their house in Egypt, so the angel of judgment, angel of death, would pass over, symbolic of saying, this lamb took the judgment in our place, and we're trusting in the blood of this lamb. And then the judgment passed over them, so they would call it Passover. The next day, the Jews would celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Leaven is symbolic of yeast And so they would get all the leaven out of their homes. And so since leaven symbolized sin, Jesus took all the sin out of the world. And then the day following is the Feast of First Fruits. It's when the first shoots would come out of the ground and the Jews would cut them off and then wave them before the Lord in the temple. And then the Apostle Paul says, Jesus is the first fruit of those risen from the dead and each in his course. And we're going to follow after him. And so Jesus rose from the dead on the Feast of Firstfruits, and then 50 days later is the Feast of Pentecost, the beginning of the Harvest of Souls, and that's when the Jews would begin their harvest season, which would go on all summer. And then at the end of the harvest season is the Feast of Tabernacles, where they would first have the Feast of Trumpets, they'd blow the trumpets, signify the harvest is over, and then they would gather together for the Day of Atonement, very serious, where they would bring the blood into the Holy of Holies the one time a year, and everyone's sins in the country would be forgiven. And then the Feast of Tabernacles is when they would celebrate. They build little booths to remember their ancestors lived in tents coming out of Egypt. But it's also symbolic of us living forever with the Lord. Jesus said in my father's house, there are many dwelling places. If we're not so, I'd tell you, and if I go to prepare a place for you. And so the idea is it will be fulfilled when we're with the Lord. So the last feast of trumpets and atonement and tabernacles, the Christian – The fulfillment of those are yet to be, but the first ones of Passover unleavened bread and feast of first fruits and then 50 days later Pentecost, those have been fulfilled, as we believe. One other thing I like to point out is on the day of Pentecost, they heard them speaking in their own languages, right? Arabic and Elamites and Scythians and all these different countries. And so why were they in Jerusalem? So once Moses had around 1400 BC come out of Egypt, he set these feasts. And then 722 BC, the 10 northern tribes of Israel were captured by the Assyrians and scattered all around. And then a century or so later, Judea was scattered to Babylon and And a small number went back. But now you have pockets of Jews scattered around the world. And then you have the Greeks conquer and spread the Greek language, Alexander the Great. And so now you have pockets of Jews, but there's an international language of Greek that you can communicate. And then beginning around 60 B.C., you have what's called the Pax Romana. The Romans built a road system, so now you can travel around the world. But Pax means peace, and so you have a century of world peace. And so that begins 60 B.C., then it goes to Jesus, and then 30 B.C. A.D., and so then the Feast of Pentecost, and then you have a few years right before Nero starts the persecution of the Christians, and then we're into the wars.
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But you have—and so— So, Bill, I just wanted to clarify for everyone on this church calendar. So it begins—the church calendar begins with the first Sunday of Advent, and Advent is the four Sundays before— Christmas. And then we have Christmas and the 12 days of Christmas that goes to January 6th. That's called Epiphany. And then that time from Epiphany goes until Lent. And it depends on the amount of time, because isn't the church calendar lunar based? Is that right or not?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, so the Jewish calendar is lunar. It gets a little bit confusing. Julius Caesar, he died in 45 B.C. He conquered, and he wanted one calendar for everything that Romans had conquered. So at the time, you'd have an Athenian calendar, a Jewish calendar, an Egyptian calendar, a Persian calendar. Oh, boy. Some are solar, some are lunar. Some would have a catch-all month at the end of the year. Some would have 30-day months. And anyway, so Caesar decided to have one calendar, and he moved the beginning of the year for most countries from March 25th. The spring equinox, equal means equal and nox means night. And it's where the Earth is halfway in its elliptical orbit around the sun. So for most of the world, March 25th was the beginning of the year. Julius Caesar moves it to January 1st. And the remnants are still there. So September, sept is Latin for seven. But now September is the ninth month. And oct, octagon, oct is Latin for eight, but now it's the 10th month. And nove is Latin for nine, now it's the 11th month. And December, decimal, right, that was 10th, but now it's the 12th month. So we still have evidence of the old calendar. Now Julius Caesar named a month after himself, the old fifth month, Quintilius, he made it July. And then the next Caesar was Augustus, and he wanted to name a month after himself, so he made it August. And those dates, Months only had 30 days, so they borrowed a day from the old end of the year, February, and added it to July and August. So that's why February has 28 days.
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And just to finish this up then, so we have Epiphany. That is fascinating. And then Lent is the 40 days before Easter. And then the calendar I'm looking at, you have the three days of Christ's death to his resurrection. You have Easter, that season. And then after Easter, there's Pentecost, the 50 days where Christ is making himself visible to people. and people on the earth for 40 days and then you said that he goes to heaven and then for 10 days the disciples are praying in the upper room waiting for the Holy Spirit. Am I getting that right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, yeah. And Mary's up there with them and they, you know, Judas is no longer their number so they have to, you know, choose another one to take Judas' place because, you know, there's 12 and And so, yeah, so that's, but they're still hiding out. It's not until they're filled with the Holy Spirit do they get boldness to proclaim publicly the gospel. And so, yeah. And then at the end of the week, all these Jews who had become Christians leave Jerusalem, go back on the Roman roads, can speak Greek to people they meet along the way. They go back up to their communities and In other words, for 1,400 years, the entire world was set up for the rapid spread of a message at the day of Pentecost. It's like, boom, within one week. I mean, think of it. If there were wars, you got this Pax Romana. There's peace. If there weren't road systems, I mean, it'd be really hard to go. If there wasn't a common Greek language, if there wasn't pockets of Jews already waiting... It would be really hard to spread the gospel. It's like the whole world for 1,400 years was prepared for this one week, this one day, Pentecost, boom, end of the week. It's all over the world.
SPEAKER 02 :
I just got chills as you said that, Bill Fetter. God's pretty amazing. I think as we live our lives, we don't know for sure what the whole plan is, but there's a George Washington quote or attributed to George Washington. What do we do? He says, we pray, we work, and we leave the rest to God. Because we don't know where we are in this whole plan, but these 1,400 years to get to that point to, as you say, boom, the gospel was spread. That is fascinating, Bill Fetter.
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Yeah, it's so special. And the other thing is the prophecies. They have to be not clear enough so the devil can't figure them out and try to stop them, but clear enough so that when Jesus, He could walk along the road to Emmaus, and beginning with Moses and the prophets, he could confirm that he's the promised Messiah. You know, you think of Herod. When the three wise men came and said, we're here to see the king of the Jews, Herod's in a panic. I mean, he's killed his own sons because he thought they were wanting to usurp his power. He killed his wife because he was thinking that she was plotting behind his back. I mean, here's Herod killing people that threaten his throne, and now these wise men come and say, we're here to see the king, and you're not it? And so he's panicking. So he plays along. Oh, you know. And then he tells his scribes, digging the scripts, they're telling him, where is this Messiah supposed to be born? And they say, oh, Micah says it's going to be in Bethlehem. And that's when Herod says, kill all the babies in Bethlehem two years in the year. And so if Herod, the devil, right, in Herod, if he could have known the prophecies ahead of time, he'd have killed them all beforehand. And so God had to, it's sort of like those little, you know, Cracker Jacks prizes that have the little picture and you look at it from one, you know. perspective and you see one picture, but you tilt it and look at it from another perspective and you see another picture, got the little plastic ridges on it, you know, it's like from the devil's point of view, he can read the scripture and it's a book that's locked. He can't understand it. But when somebody is filled with the Holy Spirit, all of a sudden you have the writer of the book living on the inside of you. Now you get insight into it. And it's like, okay, now I can see. So the prophecies had to be not clear enough so the devil couldn't figure them out, try to stop them, but clear enough so that when Jesus came, it's like turn the corner on a cornfield, you see the rose line up. It's like, oh, he's the promised Messiah.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. And you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I will be beginning my seventh year of solo broadcasting at the beginning of the year. And a sponsor that has been with me since before is Hooters Restaurants and how I got to know them. It's an important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism and PBIs that I wanted to exert here. Special power. And so check out my website for that complete story. But Hooters Restaurants is a great place to get together with friends to watch all of the games. And they have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster and Colorado Springs. I'm talking with Bill Fetter. He is the creator of the American Minute. He's an amazing author and speaker. And we're talking about, well, the church calendar, which is fascinating. But this last segment, let's talk about old St. Nick. Bill Fetter.
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Right. So St. Nicholas is the most popular Greek Orthodox saint. There are more Greek Orthodox churches named after St. Nicholas than anybody else. Nick is a common Greek name. He was born in 280 A.D. during the Roman persecution time. A movement was sweeping through Christianity called monasticism, where Jesus told the rich young ruler, one thing you like, sell all, give to the poor, follow me. And so you would have people becoming Christians and giving away their money and joining monasteries, and so that's what happened to Nicholas. He decided he wanted to give away the money anonymously because he didn't want to get the credit, so he'd sneak into town, throw the money in the window of poor people. Supposedly, it would land in a shoe or a stocking that's dropped by the fireplace. And so these Greeks would leave presents for each other on the anniversary of his death, December 6, 343 A.D. He also confronted corrupt politicians. He stood up for the Nicene Creed and the Trinity. But after his death, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian builds a church, names it after him. Then 988 A.D., Vladimir the Great, the emperor of Russia, converts to Greek Orthodox Christianity and adopts Nicholas as the patron saint of Russia. And then in 1087, the Muslims are invading Turkey. Back then it was Asia Minor. All seven churches mentioned in the Book of Revelation were wiped out by the Turks. And the concern was they would destroy the grave of Nicholas because they were destroying churches and destroying graves. In 846 AD, 11,000 Muslim pirates sailed up the Tiber River to Rome and trashed the Basilica of St. Peter's and trashed the bones of St. Peter and St. Paul. So the fear of them trashing bones of saints was very real. So in 1087, they moved the bones of Nicholas to a little town in Italy called Bari, B-A-R-I. Pope Urban II dedicates the church, and it's still there. Urban II goes to the consul of Claremont, 1095, begs European kings to send help. They do. It's called the First Crusade. So the same pope that welcomes Nicholas' remains to Italy is the one who calls for the First Crusade. But the gift-giving caught on, so much so that in 1223 A.D., Francis of Assisi started the creche scene, the nativity scene, to say the gift-giving's fine, but it's a distraction. We need to get back to the reason for the season. Jesus was born a major... And then you have Martin Luther starts the Reformation, 1517. And by this time, there's a saint's day for every day of the year. Churches are filled with relics of saints, little pieces of bone and hair and side altars. And Martin Luther considered all this a distraction from Christ. So he ends the saint's days in the Protestant Europe. But the Germans like the gift giving that was associated with the St. Nicholas Day. So Martin Luther moves all the gift giving to December 25th and says all gifts come from the Christ child. And the German pronunciation of Christ child is Christkindl. Christ means Christ, kindle, like kindergarten, kinder care, kind means child. So Christkindl over the centuries got pronounced Christkringle. So Christkringle is really Christkindl, which means Christ child. And then England is different. Henry VIII brings a reformation, not because he wanted to focus on the Christ child, he just wanted another wife, and he brings back the trappings of an old Roman holiday called Saturnalia. So Britain used to be a Roman colony, and Saturn was the god of feasting and plenty and merriment. If you saw the Christmas carol with Charles Dickens, there's the ghost of Christmas present, and it's the party guy. Robes, wreath in his hair, goblet of wine, and you're looking at him saying, who is this guy? Sort of looks like Santa, sort of looks like some Roman god. Well, That was Saturn, but they Christianized and called him Father Christmas. Shakespeare writes a play called Twelfth Night, and it's a big party time. So Windsor, England, under the Tudors, which is Henry VIII's family, Christmas becomes this risque party time of drinking, carousing, wassailing, which they take a drink of booze and throw the rest of it on a plant for a nice harvest the next year, cross-dressing, parties, throwing food. Bear bathing, where they'd put bears in a pit and watch them fight to the death. I mean, it was just so—and so the Puritans come along, and they outlaw Christmas. They said it's too worldly. That Puritan leader Cotton Mather said, can you in your conscience think that our holy Savior is honored by mad mirth, long eating, hard drinking? And the Puritans were so strict, they tore down Shakespeare's theater. They considered it sort of a lewd body placement. And so the pilgrims come to America. They don't celebrate Christmas. Puritans actually have a five-shilling fine in Massachusetts for everybody caught celebrating Christmas. So where the pilgrims, Puritans, and most Presbyterians did not celebrate Christmas, the Dutch did. And so the Dutch do a take on St. Nicholas, but in the Book of Revelation, Jesus will return at the end of the world to judge living and the dead riding a white horse. Saints will come back with him riding white horses. St. Nicholas is a saint, so he'll be one of those riding a white horse. But he's so special to the Dutch, they have him coming back once a year for a little mini judgment day, a little checkup on the kids, see who's naughty, see who's nice. And saints come from heaven. Well, that turns into the North Pole. And riding a white horse, well, in Finland and Norway, they didn't have many horses, so he's riding a reindeer, and that turns into pulling a sleigh. And then the angels turn into the elves. And then the Lamb's Book of Life and Book of Works turned into the Book of the Naughty and the Nice. And so you can sort of see where it gets off. And so the Dutch add a little bit. They say the good kids get presents. The naughty kids, Santa's helpers, Varte Pete, will put them in a gunny sack, take them back to Spain and sell them into Muslim slavery. Sort of a serious thing there. But then the Dutch settled New York, which became the first church they started was the St. Nicholas Dutch Reformed Church in New York. He was the patron saint in New York. I don't know if you knew that. And so the church grew and grew. They had to move it a couple of times. Teddy Roosevelt visited there. And once they sold the building to Sinclair Oil and tore it down, they built a new building called the Marble Collegiate Church. And that's where the Trump family actually went to church. In New York, you have Washington Irving writes, you know, Rip Van Winkle, Legend of Sleepy Hollow. And he writes about the Dutch traditions and then Clement Moore. And now for Christmas, I'll do the house and stockings were hung by the chimney with care and hopes that St. Nicholas would soon be there. But now he's not dressed as a bishop. He's dressed in a Dutch outfit. But it's a fascinating story all the way to, you know, Coca-Cola. He pioneered mass marketing. But underneath it all, there really was a guy, Nicholas, who loved Jesus, became a bishop, was a prison for his Christian faith, stood up for the Trinity, and he was generous and gave to the poor.
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Oh, Bill Federer, fascinating. And thank you so much.
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It's all in a book. There really is a Santa Claus.
SPEAKER 02 :
Okay, that's your book. There really is a Santa Claus, and people can buy that at AmericanMinute.com, correct?
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Yes.
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Okay, Bill Fetter, thank you so much. And again, check out AmericanMinute.com. There are many amazing books there. And our quote for the end of the show is from St. Nicholas. He said, kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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And welcome to our number two of the Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured. You're valued. You have purpose today. Strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you. I get to work with a really amazing team, and that is producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Echo, Teresa, Mike, all the people at Crawford Broadcasting. And we are prerecording the shows for this Christmas week. And we're going to be doing a lot of And special guests, special subjects, and so pleased to have on the line with me, Ben Martin. He's a patriotic historian. He's a graduate of West Point, former Army Ranger, and just so excited to have him on the line. So welcome, Ben Martin.
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Well, thank you very much, Kim. It's great to be here with you just around Christmas time and talk about something that really happened around Christmas time. So looking forward to doing that.
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Well, absolutely. So we are pre-recording. This will broadcast on Christmas Eve, which Christmas Eve is one of my most favorite days of the year because it celebrates the birth of our Savior. But there was a lot happening at the beginning of our country during this time. And George Washington, the general of the Continental Army, was making difficult decisions. So, first of all, set this up regarding George Washington and this time of year.
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Good, Kim. Thank you. Today we're going to talk about the New Jersey campaign, what was called the New Jersey campaign of 1776 and 1777. and the turning points in America's Revolutionary War for Independence. During the study of this war, there are really important turning points that are obvious. Kim and I, talking to the audience, Kim and I have discussed many of these in detail in the past right here on her program. And they include America's Army's superb performance at Bunker Hill, I'm just going to list a few of these that hopefully you can relate to. And the second was the American use of bayonets at the Battle of Concord and the British retreat. General Knox is hauling the guns of Ticonderoga to Boston to oust the British there. Washington, Generals Washington and Glover miraculously evacuating the Army from Brooklyn during the Battle of Brooklyn Heights. And then the American victory at Battle of Saratoga. Ben Franklin's persuading the French Army and Navy to join the American side. America's Army's greatest performance at the Battle of Monmouth Courthouse. We'll touch on that a little bit here. And then America's victory, American victories in the south, the south part of the country at Kings Mountain and Calpins. Those were great turning points. i've luckily i've visited both of those places and the french navy joining the battle of yorktown which sealed the deal for us and actually was uh... the end of the culminating battle of the war so after much study and reflection over the years on our revolutionary war i've come to believe that the turning points we are to discuss today or as important as any of them for in this situation as in most of them if washington had not had the perseverance and leadership to turn the american forces at this time the war could easily have been lost and along with it the declaration and all the good things that have come after that so this turning point campaign that led washington and the army on a run for their lives chase down through new jersey and across the delaware river and into pennsylvania is one of those great founding episodes of our remarkable founding history. And I hope that everybody can relate to this today. And this was a really tough time. Washington had so many challenges that he was doing, and he faced them all with great perseverance and great optimism that he was going to get through it, even though the situation seemed like that he wasn't. So here was the situation facing Washington in America. After their great victories in Boston and Charleston, that both happened during this time just preceded this campaign, they came to New York City to face the largest contingent of Army and Navy forces ever to land on the American shore. The British soldiers and sailors numbered over 40,000 men and hundreds of warships and transports. The battles in the New York campaign were the largest of the whole war. Without going into detail, the Americans unfortunately lost almost every battle. This included many men that were wounded, captured, or killed, along with prodigious amounts of cannon, weapons, ammunition, supplies, and provisions. Such catastrophic losses could easily crush the spirit of most seasoned commanders, but General Washington remained focused on his mission, what he called the glorious cause, the war, and protecting the Army and those soldiers with whom he was charged. His attentions were keenly focused on those missions and on the upcoming chase through New Jersey. To add to this dilemma facing Washington, during this critical time, he would be undermined and betrayed by two of his highest-ranking generals. and his personal aid.
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And so he had all these things to do, and then he was being undermined and betrayed really close at hand. And as early as October, Washington had shown prescience by working with Nathaniel Green, who in time would prove to be his most capable subordinate commander. He established supply points along the most likely route of withdrawal through New Jersey. And this would benefit and prove to be a critical benefit to the American Army as it stayed ahead of the British and Hessian forces that were pursuing them. The Patriot soldiers may have been without shoes and winter clothing during this chase, but they were relatively well fed. So still Washington persevered and stayed focused on the mission. An important action Washington took, another important action before heading south into New Jersey, was to hold a meeting with his senior generals on 7 November 1776 to provide a plan for the unexpected British chasing them through New Jersey. Washington had already established an extensive and reliable intelligence network to keep informed of British movement and plans. From these sources, he knew that despite the British threat to the New England states, which the New England states, of course, were very interested in, and the Hudson River, the biggest concern is the probable British attack south through New Jersey to capture the nascent American government and the capital city, the then capital city of Philadelphia. So the American plan was that Washington divided the army into four parts. He assigned the largest part to General Lee, approximately 77,000 troops, to prevent the British from going north and controlling the Hudson River and cutting off the New England states from the rest of America. In giving Lee, General Lee, the largest part of the army... Washington told him to stay in close contact with him and to be ready to bring your portion of the Army south to support me if the British move south and chase me through New Jersey. That was really critical. He gave him more troops than Washington was commanding at the time so that he could do the same thing, come down and attack the British from the rear if they attacked him. So that was really important to him. I'm giving you the most troops, but you need to be able to be in close contact with me and support me. So the second group, or second of the four, he gave 3,000 troops to General William Heath to protect the Hudson Highlands from the British control. The highlands are the southern part of the Hudson River. West Point is part of that. And then for the third one, he assigned eight regiments, approximately 3,200 troops, to General William Alexander, sometimes called Lord Sterling, and approximately 1,200 troops to Colonel Edward Hand to protect the northern New Jersey coast from the British attacks from the sea that would cut the Americans off. And they stopped them from coming ashore so that they could not prevent the British from that they could prevent the British from outflanking the American forces and coming between them and protecting Philadelphia and Congress.
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So, Ben Martin, let's take a break right here. I'm talking with patriotic historian Ben Martin regarding George Washington and two key turning points that happened right around this time of year in 1776. And we have these important discussions because we have amazing sponsors who strive for excellence. And we are pre-recording these shows for Christmas week. And so pleased to have on the line with me John Boson with Boson Law. Boson Law is a valued partner of the Kim Munson Show. And they specialize in personal injury. And they not only just try to settle, but they also, if need be, will go to trial for your case. And they just do amazing work. I work with people that strive for excellence. And I'm so pleased to have John Boson on the line. on the line. John Bosen, Merry Christmas.
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Well, and we need to engage in this battle of ideas. And I think that we're making progress. I think, John, I think that Colorado is at the tip of the spear for all of the crazy, extreme stuff that the radical activists are trying to push forward. And so that's why what we're doing is so important. And so I really do appreciate your support on this and your partnership. recommend them. As we're moving into the Christmas holiday season, I always like to ask you about how do we stay safe during this time of year?
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Well, it's difficult because to stay safe, you need to be focused. And there are so many good and bad distractions around the holiday season. But we really do when, and again, I'm speaking specifically not just with regard to automobiles, but that's one that's super important. When we get behind the wheel, we got to be focused. We can't be thinking about the Christmas party, the Secret Santa get together, all of the family coming into town, and how we're going to prepare for that big Christmas dinner. We have to focus on the task at hand. And when you're behind the wheel, that's driving. Also, when you're out and about, Christmas shopping, going to restaurants, it's just keeping yourself in the moment and and what i mean by that is just being aware of what's around you um looking at the ground And it's not something a lot of us will do. I do it as a personal injury attorney because I know how people get into it all the time. But this time of year, snow and ice and ice and snow that's not removed when it should be. And it can create a real bad situation. And nobody wants to have to deal with that ever, but especially around the holiday season. So it's really just keeping aware and being focused.
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You know, the other morning when we had the snow and ice just recently, I was going into the studio and it was slick. And it wasn't because I don't think that they were negligent or anything. It was just what the conditions were. And I just thought of what you said, and that was stay focused. And so I walked very gingerly. to get into the studio because I did want to get injured. And so I think that doing things to prevent yourself from getting injured is so important. Of course, if you are injured, we would recommend that people reach out to you. But again, we just have to use common sense and we can prevent a lot of problems in our lives.
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Yeah, common sense and slow down in situations like the one you just described and also when you're on the road and conditions are not ideal.
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One other thing, John Boson, at church, the church I go to, there's lots of families, lots of little kids, and little kids have their own time frame, it seems like, to try to get ready to go do something. And I think we need to give families permission to Even though they may be running late for whatever the event is because it takes a while to get the kids in the car, give them permission to say, I'm going to get there. When I get there, I'm doing the best that I can instead of worrying and hurrying. I think that we need to give them a little bit of grace.
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I think that applies to everybody, Kim. I'm thinking of my family, my wife, my adult kids. Yeah, give people grace this time of year. Give them grace all throughout the year.
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Yeah, most definitely. So we have about 30 seconds left. Your final thought you'd like to leave with our listeners, John Boson?
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Well, and right back at you, John Bosen. I wish you and yours a very Merry Christmas, and we will talk to you then next week. Have a great day.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter, and you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. And I want to say thank you to the Harris family, great sponsors of the show, bringing these great... voices to the air. I so appreciate them. And then also I wanted to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation. The Memorial for the Marines is right here in Colorado, 6th and Colfax. It was dedicated in 1977, so it's time for a remodel. And I would really suggest before the end of the year, make a contribution at the USMC Memorial Foundation as they're raising money for that remodel. It's tax deductible, but it's so important to honor Those that have given their lives have been willing to give their lives for us, for our liberty. And so you can get more information by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. On the line with me is Ben Martin. He is... a patriotic historian, a former Army Ranger, a graduate from West Point. And Ben, before we went to break, you had explained that in 1776, November 1776, George Washington had taken his army and divided it into four parts with 7,000 to General Lee, 3,000 to General Heath. Was that 3,200?
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William Heath, right?
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Okay, 3,200 to General Alexander and 1,200 to General Hand, correct? Right. Okay, so what happens then?
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So we have those four, and so just to quickly total those up for you, just to give you a concept here, there were like almost 19,000 troops there. that he portioned out to his other commanders, his subordinate commanders, so that they could protect other areas. And he took the least amount of troops. He took 5,500 of them to go down south, and he was going to be the bait. And this is the commander-in-chief. You know, with everything else going around, he's the bait, and he wants the other generals to be able to support him If the British Army, which he believes, will follow him, they want to get rid of him. They want to kill him. They think he is the source of all of our strength, which is pretty much true in the Army. So it shows how selfless he was as a leader. He took the smallest amount, and he said, you guys support me. You take the big guys. You support me. They'll come chasing me. So that's what happens then and then. The Howe brothers on the other side, they realized that weather was turning damp and cooler, the fall was coming in, and that the harsh American winters would soon arrive, too. So they had a big army and navy to protect during this wintertime because in Europe, the European wars, they really didn't fight during the wintertime. So they wanted these forces to be ready to assume the attack when the weather warmed again in 1777. And by early November, they devised a two-campaign plan to accomplish both these objectives, to take care of their army and to take care of their Navy. Now, the army was run by General William Howell, and his brother was Admiral Richard, they called him Black Dick Howell, because he was a pretty stern commander. And he would move his navy north to Rhode Island to control Newport and to use that warm, wet water port there to protect his fleet. And Howe would send this expedition for south to occupy the eastern counties of New Jersey and to take advantage of the rich farmland that was there that was unspoiled by the war at this time for food and forage. Additionally, they could use the small towns in New Jersey to shelter their troops. They believed this action could be accomplished quickly. They thought they could destroy the American army before winter. Since they thought that most of the beaten American army was north of New York City and could not respond, to any actions that were going to be done in the south. And Washington, like I said, he kind of thought of all this stuff, and he wanted to make them think that the army was going to stay north. But then as he went down and they chased him, then he expected the other commanders to send their armies down so that they got the British in kind of a squeeze box, you know, Washington in the south and the other forces in the north. And that would really surprise him. and win the campaign. But he will be surprised. So the occupation, they thought, would drive the remaining Continental Army out of this area, the area of New Jersey, and give them a free path to get down to our capital in Philadelphia and to destroy, capture our government. So they estimated, the British, that these plans were good and would maintain the initiative And that's always important with an army. You have to maintain the initiative. While providing a solid base to resume operations in 1777, if the American army survived the winter and another campaign was necessary. They didn't kind of believe that would happen. They believed they would crush them all before the winter set in. To lead this campaign, General Howell chose General Cornwallis. Now, this is another thing about these generals here. You know, Hal makes all these big plans, but he doesn't want to do them. He goes back to New York City to be with his concubine. He thinks he's going to spend the winter warmly in New York City comfortably, and he's going to send Cornwallis down there to take care of the heavy work. So then they start the race through New Jersey, and that's where it starts. And by 10 November, Washington had crossed the Hudson River and was headed south. And he set up his first headquarters in Hackensack, New Jersey. General Cornwallis and his forces crossed in 20, 10 days later, 20 November, to first attack Fort Lee, which was on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. But it had already been abandoned by Green, and he had taken most of the supplies out of there. Not all of them, but most of them. And that helped quite a bit. And then Washington sent a message to General Lee, the guy that had the most troops north, and he advised him to move his army expeditiously to join forces with him for support. Lee basically ignored Washington's request at this critical time and sent excuses as to why he could not respond. This initiated a long-running series of disagreements and disappointments with General Lee. which eventually led to his insubordination and ultimately is captured by the British. So we'll talk about that. So the chase through New Jersey started at the Hudson River on 20 November and extended to the Delaware River at Trenton, New Jersey, where Washington's forces crossed on 7 December. So this is, you know, about three weeks there. And during this chase, Washington repeatedly sent his aides and his subordinate commanders to Congress, along with various local leaders to inform them of the status of his army and to request more troops and supplies. And on 28 November now, when Washington was at New Brunswick, which is north of Trenton by about maybe 50 miles, he magnanimously sent his sick and wounded soldiers east to be protected in the American base in Morristown. So he's always thinking about his soldiers. That's what a good commander does, and not just himself, in the glory that he might get. So on 1 December, he ordered Colonel Richard Humptons with his 11th Pennsylvania Regiment to move to the Delaware River to collect and secure all the boats along the river. for about a 75-mile stretch along the Hudson River, paying particular attention to... The Hudson or the Delaware? The Hudson. I'm sorry, the Delaware. Okay. Yeah, thank you very much for clearing that up. The Durham boats, which he actually used during... the crossing of the river.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. And you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force. Force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And for this Christmas week, we are pre-recording some amazing guests and interviews. And I'm talking with Ben Martin. He is a patriotic historian, a former Army Ranger, a West Point grad. We're talking about Washington, George Washington, the Continental Army in November, December of 1776. And you said before we went to break. that Washington had Colonel Hamptons on December 1 go to the Delaware River and try to secure all of the Durham boats. So what happens then?
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All crap. But he was especially looking for the Durham boats because they were the heavy lifters. So he got down there the 1st of December, and he started doing this. And he not only tried to do it, he did a great job. There were no boats to be had along that river. When he got down with his troops during the first week of December, he, meaning Washington, he crossed the river. He had all these boats lined up for him. They were all there, so they could cross pretty easily. And he delayed the following forces from the Brits by cutting down trees along the pathways, destroying bridges and things like that to delay the— to delay the british coming down so he made it down there pretty easily crossed into the the uh... pennsylvania side across the river and that there was no there were no boats available anywhere for the british to to uh... comp problem across river because so he was pretty safe on the other side of the river down around trenton new jersey then for the southern part of new jersey and he was on the other side of the delaware west side so uh... During this time, the American government was getting really worried. So on 12 December, the Congress, as the enemy forces drew nearer to Philadelphia, they started abandoning, and they decided to grant Washington full power to order and direct all things relative to the operation of war for six months. And this is akin to what the ancient Romans did when they granted full power to a tyrant. for six months during these critical times of crisis, and most of the time it was caused by a military crisis. So on 12 December now, General Lee finally responds to Washington. Now, remember, Washington left the New York state and crossed the Hudson River around the 10th of November. So this is a month that he's been sending aides and messages to Lee to come to his support. And this is the first time Lee responded. So Lee finally responds to Washington's directive and ordered his forces to join them. But Lee did not lead them to Washington. Instead, he directed Major General Sullivan, another great commander, to march them there the next morning. So that would be the 13th of December. That night, Lee left. Now, this is what Lee was. This is kind of scoundrel he was. Lee left his main body of troops. He took his aides and some security forces to spend the night three miles away from his troops at a tavern. Can you imagine that during this critical time? And he wouldn't even go and face Washington. And that next morning, on 13 December, his guards were killed or wounded, and Lee was captured by the British forces of dragoons. And guess who was leading those dragoons? This guy named Bannister Tarleton that you heard about before. He was called Bloody Ban, in that he was the leader of the dragoons. So now I just want to tell you quickly, While he was captured for over a year, he was held by the British for over a year. And the thing that got him released, or one of the things that he did while he was captured, he gave the British forces a plan to defeat the American army.
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What a guy.
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Yeah, just a great guy. And he was Washington's highest subordinate at the time. He was second in command. So on 14 December... Washington began holding war councils again with his generals to plan for a major stroke to the British forces. Now, the British are thinking he's running from them. He doesn't have any plans just to keep away from them. And Washington's thinking the whole time, I'm going to win. So he was planning a major stroke to the British forces. to reestablish the spree and confidence among his army and the American citizens. So on 20 December, Major General Sullivan marched into Washington's camp. Now this is 20 December, so that's 40 days since Washington had gotten into New Jersey. And so he marched Lee's forces in. Not surprisingly, the number of men was great that he had. You know, he had had the largest part of the forces that would divide it. they were greatly reduced because of desertion. On 22 December, General Gates, his other betrayal artist there, subordinate, he arrived with 600 New England troops. And although Washington requested, this is another commander, he said Washington requested him to help lead the coming attack. And although Washington requested his help, to lead this attack, Gates declined and hurried off to Congress. And you find out throughout his career in the Revolutionary War, he kept trying to undermine Washington, too, and become the sink. So they were both trying to become the commander in chief. And so they were doing things to undermine him and cause him to be unsuccessful, to cause Washington to be unsuccessful. So can you imagine that? What kind of a leader, a general no less, would disregard his commander in chief's request to take part in the critical battle and also leave his army to participate in that battle without him?
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Terrible.
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I mean, no responsibility whatsoever. So Washington's response to all of this, you know, when you think, oh, he's depressed, he can't do anything and stuff like that, his response is, we're going to win. So they fight the first battle of Trenton. And he uses as his challenge and password victory or death. That's how important he thought this was, you know, to turn the whole scope of the war around. So they leave that night on 25 December. with even greater resolve, called another council of war to continue planning the details of this attack, and the plan called for four separate American forces to cross the Delaware River on the night of Christmas night, the 25th of December, 1776. Two of these forces were to cross south of Trenton, and one was to cross right at Trenton, and all of these attacks were to support the main force, which was led by Washington, which was to cross nine miles north of Trenton, and move the army on foot down to attack the Hessians at Trenton. And that's another thing. The British didn't have their forces there. They sent these mercenaries, the German mercenaries down there, to be out at these outposts. And the British were back to the north part of New Jersey and in New York City. And to underline the seriousness with Washington regarding this operation, he established those words, victory or death, to make every one of his soldiers understand how critical this was. So on the night of 25 December, he had planned for four crossings. A blizzard hit the area. Winds picked up. Temperatures dropped dramatically. Snowfall and sleet intensified. Invisibility decreased. And the river became choked with chunks of ice. Dangerous. That night, only one of the four forces successfully crossed the Delaware. Of course, it was a main force led by Washington. That meant that they would not have the tactical benefit of any supporting attacks. He was on his own with his guys. This marked the inauspicious beginning of Washington's famous 10 days. However, there was a benefit to bad weather. The Hessians relaxed their security measures, confident that no American forces would would be able to cross the Delaware in these conditions. With great difficulty, the Army slowly crossed there, the Delaware River, skillfully transported by a colonel, he was then a colonel, not a general yet, John Glovers Marinus from Marblehead. These were the same intrepid folks that miraculously transported the Continental Army safely across the East River on 29 August when they were bottled up at Brooklyn Heights.
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Wow.
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He's an amazing man. Once all these soldiers, horses, and cannon crossed the river, a lot of them in those Durham boats, they were organized into two groups. One was led by Major General Sullivan, who we'd spoken about before, leading the group on the right down the river road. So they're going from north to south, basically. And General Green, Nathaniel Green, leading the group on the left, and they were further inland. And they went down the Pennington Road, and many of the soldiers had no boots and shoes, as we talked about before. And their paths were marked by the bloody stains that were left in the snow. So Major General Green's force arrived around 8 o'clock. Now, they were supposed to be there at 4 o'clock, but because it took so much time, with all the chunks of ice, the dangerous river, and no visibility. To get there, it took them a lot longer. So they got there at 8 o'clock. They were supposed to get there in darkness, but this was light now. Luckily, the German troops were still, a lot of them were still in bed. So he arrived there, and the northern part of Trenton is a lot higher, and you go downhill to go south, down to the rest of Trenton. So... He was on the north end of Trenton, and he divided his force, Green's force, into three columns to attack downhill into the town along King and Queen Streets. And the American artillery, a lot of which was being controlled by Hamilton, he put the artillery up on the top of the hill so he could fire down at the German forces, the Hessians. And so he was on the high ground so as to fire down. And then Major Sullivan's forces came up. Now, they were on the right next to the river. So they came into Trenton but on the riverside. And so they went down so that they were on the right side of the town, as you're looking from Washington's position. And he positioned himself along that town near the river and working some forces into positions on the south side. So they went all the way around the town. to block any of the people trying, any of the Hessians trying to escape. And they secured the Assenpunk Bridge, which is in the south side of town, and along the Assenpunk Creek, and blocked the Hessians from escaping. And once the Americans initiated the fight, it took one hour for them to work the surprised Hessians into being surrounded and then surrendering. It was a complete victory for the Americans. They suffered only four kills. and four wounded, while the Hessians suffered 20 killed, 80 injured, and 900 captured. And after the battle, although briefly considering continuing the operation to attack Princeton, Washington decided his army needed sleep and returned back to Pennsylvania, crossing the river again. And this time they used ferries, too. You know, they did. It was amazing. And then on 27 December, General Kaltwalzer, you were talking about the Marines, sent word that he had crossed Delaware onto the New Jersey side along with 1,800 men, including the Philadelphia Associators and two companies. And I've talked about this before with our Marine buddies. Two companies of newly formed Marines under the command of Major Samuel Nichols. This marked the first land battle for the newly formed Continental Marines.
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Oh, my gosh. Let's leave that as a cliffhanger then, Ben Martin. I'm talking with Ben Martin, patriotic historian, about George Washington and these critical 10 days in December of 1776. We'll be right back.
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Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is kimmunson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter, and you can email me at kim at kimmunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. I'm talking with Ben Martin. We're pre-recording this for Christmas week. And, of course, we wish you a very Merry Christmas. And we're talking about George Washington and this time frame in 1776. So you mentioned December 27. So where do we go from here?
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So they had come back across the river. Remember the battle for the first battle of Trenton took place on the 25th and the 26th, over the 25th and 26th, crossing the river and doing that. And it was very successful. And Washington considered moving forward to take, to battle the troops, the British troops that were at Princeton. But he didn't do it on the consideration for his troops that had spent the whole night crossing the river, marching the nine, ten miles, nine or ten miles down to Trenton and fighting the battle. He said, okay, my guys are tired. I can't consider them fighting another battle, marching all the way to Princeton. So I'm bringing them back across the river, back to a safe area so they can rest up. And so they were doing that. So on the 25th of December, he called another council meeting and talked to his commanders, his subordinate commanders, and they all said, yeah, we're ready to go now. Let's go. But at the end of November, that's about a month since then, before then, Washington had lost over 2,000 soldiers because the term of their enlistments expired. So he was then scheduled to lose a like number at the end of December. So Washington sent a message to Robert Morris, who was considered the financier of the Revolutionary War. He's the richest man in America, and he lived in Philadelphia. He was a good friend of George Washington. So Washington just sent him a message down in Philadelphia, which is not that far away, to ask him to deliver $10,000 of silver coin to his army position so that he could encourage the soldiers to stay in the army for the Second Battle of Trenton and perhaps Princeton. Morris was a great patriot and the richest man in America, like I said, so He, in a short period of time, he collected that silver and sent it down to Washington. And this collection, this large amount of money in that time, in a short time, delivered to Washington. And that kept the soldiers in the Army for the next fight. So they crossed back over the river, the Delaware River, into Princeton, and they set up their defenses there. and they set them up on the south side across the Assenpunk Creek, which had one bridge that went from the town into the Assenpunk Creek, and that was a ridgeline there on the south side, and that's where he went in and he had some of his soldiers start making defensive positions there so he could continue the attack. But he knew that because he would occupy that area, And because he'd already won that battle, that the British would be coming down from their positions in Princeton and north of that, too, with forces to try to defeat the Americans who were in the town. And so this was a great time. He had everything set up, called Wallater, that I told you before, with the Marines and General Milfin's men, Thomas Milfin's generals, his men came in and so now he had approximately 6 800 men with 30 cannons so things were building back up again uh so washington conducted council of war and on 30 january and one or 30 january or 30 december 30 december and one january i'm sorry about those two okay to share intelligence and make plans for the coming thing so he did all this stuff but and then he brought uh these guys in that I was telling you about before called Wallader and those guys, and they had been in that area because they were from Philadelphia, so they were really close. And they had found these maps, and they were pretty familiar with the town, and they had found a way around the backside, or you would call it the south side, of Trenton to get to Princeton. So the The paths were really muddy and wet, and they were like, okay, we're not going to be able to get through this stuff. But Washington, being the farmer that he was, knew about the weather, knew that there was going to be a frost that night, a hard freeze, and that the mud and stuff would freeze and they would be able to travel. So he had his soldiers fake that they were there, just like they did at Brooklyn Heights. They built big fires. They made lots of noise to sound like they were all there preparing their positions for the battle tomorrow. Howe, who had come down to lead the troops, and Cornwallis. Now, Howe sent Cornwallis down there. And he had this, you know, he was so arrogant. He said, well, hey, look, let them do what they want to do. He says, I'll attack them in the morning. I'm not going to attack them at night. He had started attacking them, and the darkness fell. And they were in such a strong position, the Americans. that the British lost a lot of soldiers trying to cross the bridge. And so he said, we'll do it in the morning, you know, when it's light. And so while they were doing that and the fires were going on the American side, he started, he put towels and rags and stuff around the wheels and he started moving around midnight. Well, no, around really about 10 o'clock. And by four o'clock, he, four o'clock in the morning, he had all his troops down and they were headed to, down or up to Princeton, and the British didn't know anything about it. And the next morning, of course, they woke up, and there were no American troops there. So he had given them the slip again in the cover of darkness. It was just amazing in that he knew about what the weather was going to do and that it was going to freeze, and he planned for all this stuff. Just an amazing commander and a guy that really took care of his troops. And so they got there to Washington, and then, again, it was Green on the left and Sullivan on the right. And they were headed towards that, and they were on a ridgeline. They could kind of see what was happening. They could see Princeton, and then they could see what was happening along the Princeton Road, which was to their east, to their left, as they were marching up. And so... General Mercer, who was a really good friend, he was a Virginian, he was a doctor, he was a really good friend, he was a great commander, but he was also a really good friend, personal friend of George Washington. He takes off to the left to block the bridge that's on the Princeton Road to take care of that so that any troops that are coming from Trimpton up to counterattack them or those coming down from the north, Princeton, he was going to block that bridge. So he starts moving up, but he's in a valley, and he can't see anything, and he doesn't realize that the British have a big force up on the road, up higher than he is, and to his front, and he can't see them, and he's walking right into a trap. Washington and Sullivan, who are on a ridgeline headed to Princeton, turn around and see what's happening, And so they turn the force around. Now, when Mercer has a really small force compared to the British force that's on the road, Princeton Road, and he sees them, and they both start attacking each other. The British have their bayonets, and we don't have bayonets yet. And so they start attacking them, and the bayonet is the most dangerous weapon at that time, and it's scary. And so the Americans start breaking and running. So This is when Washington comes in, sees them, organizes the troops, and has them form a defensive line and start returning fire, not running away from them in haste. And they turn it around, and then Washington does this miraculous thing. He starts leading the force right at those British, and he gets within 30 yards of the British, and he's between the Americans and— forces and the British forces and he gives this command to fire he's right in the middle of the fire but they ultimately prevail we're just about out of time so they prevail they're miraculous he's standing there unscathed like he was in the British war during the French and Indian war when he was unscathed and everybody else was killed so I mean this just really inspires their confidence And they go on and they just, they run over the British. They take, you know, Sullivan's forces take Princeton. And then he has this one big decision to make. Am I going to go forward to the British, the big British force north of here that has, New Brunswick, that has all this money, British money and all these British supplies? Do I go after them and attack them with this force? Or do I go to Morristown? because my soldiers have been up again and they've been fighting all night. You know, they walked all night and marched all night quietly and everything like that. So he decides again, for the sake of his soldiers, to forego going to New Brunswick, and he goes to the safe area of Morristown. So that's the kind of guy he is.
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Well, and so what's our quote for the end of the show, Ben Martin?
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The quote for the end of the show was made by General Dave Palmer. who was my history professor at West Point and later became the superintendent of West Point. And he said this, had Washington done nothing before or after those 10 days from 25 December 76 to 3 June, On 3 January, 77, he would still go down in history as one of history's greatest masters.
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Oh, my gosh. Ben Martin, thank you so much. Merry Christmas to you and yours. And my friends, Merry Christmas to you and yours. And we wish you a very great day.
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Sure. And we mentioned this on the EVs. There's some incentives with those pretty good, isn't there?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. As a matter of fact, the state tax, and that just, boom, comes right off the price of the car. It's $5,000 today, and come January 1st, it goes to $3,500. So if you're thinking about EV, it probably behooves you to move sooner rather than later, at least $1,500 for absolutely no reason. But yeah, those things are... great they lease great you know low payments and you know for as we've talked about before you know for the person that's unsure about ev but might want to stick their toe in the water you know a lease is a great way to go because you're you know you're not completely married to it you're just kind of on a honeymoon stage and it works out for you and you love it you know you can always buy it at the end of the lease and it works out all about the same and you get all the tax credits. You get the $5,000 state, you get $7,500 federal. It's huge money, which, because of those two items, that makes for a fairly low payment on a really, really nice car.
SPEAKER 05 :
Sure. Once again, Dan Johnson's with us. It's Lynn Lyle Chevrolet, 14500 East Colfax. Now, today's Saturday, kind of normal hours?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, we're normal hours. Now, New Year's Day, sales will be open, service and parts and body will be closed. Sales will be open 9 to 4, something like that, so we're here. you know, for, you know, those times. And like I say, if you're a little late, we could always date at 1231. Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Good deal. And, you know, man, you still got a good selection there, Dan. You know, as a matter of fact, I was there this morning just kind of looking around. And, you know, man, I'll tell you, there's just something about, you know, being able to get a new car. Maybe it's just new to you, but, you know. No matter what, if you're in the pre-owned market, Dan's got some good choices for you there. And, Dan, here's what's funny, too. As a matter of fact, from our conversation this morning, you never know what you're going to get on any given day. And there was, you know, one clean one that just came back that make a really good card for somebody.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, yeah. I mean, you know. I always say, you know, and this is the perfect example, that car that you're referring to, I believe, was a 16 Equinox owned by an elderly lady. You know, absolutely clean as a whistle. All the services are done. Good Carfax at 39,000 miles. You know, it's just, you know, that's a value for somebody. You know, we take them in trade and, you know... Your lady's car had 100,000 miles, but, boy, you don't find a car much cleaner than that, and it's not a whole lot of money. Sure.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, I'm telling you, now's the time to get by. Hey, it is just a few more days left here in the year. But Dan, his team will take great care of you. And, you know, if you just haven't looked around and it's amazing, Dan, how many times people, you know, I've met there or talked to them and they've got their mind made up what they want. But I've just asked them to be open minded. And like, you know, the lady we just did a transaction with, she was she was really wanting to replace her car. But you guys don't make that anymore. And hey, Stepped into an Equinox, saw her last night. She's owned it 48 hours, and she is as happy as can be. So you never know what you might end up with.
SPEAKER 11 :
And most of the manufacturers are getting away from the car-car. They're all SUVs, small SUVs, midsize SUVs. They're just more practical. You can see better out of them. They're easier to get in and out of. It's just mostly all-wheel drive. and you know most cars are either front wheel or rear wheel drive and uh you know it's just safer and you know yeah i did ask her a little better i did ask her i said so i mentioned to you you might like sitting up high or do you like that and she said i absolutely love it you were right yeah i mean i you know there was once upon a time that's all we had were cars but now i'm i wouldn't even think of getting a car you know unless it was a sports car or something but uh you know that's a whole different animal but an everyday car suvs are so much easier and trucks are so much easier to get in and out of you see better handle better you know it's just that's why we're all going to them you know general motors for you name it you know all the manufacturers are going to small or midsize SUV type thing.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. And there's still some deals financing. I know there's different models. Don't have time to get into all those, but there are some still really good deals on financing as well.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, yeah. I got, like, on some of the Silverado pickups, I got 0%, you know. So, you know, and it just varies. Like you say, you know, they all kind of are different. So, you know, we could spend an hour going through every single model and what the interest rates are. But, yeah, there's manufacturer's incentives for interest rates, which make them quite a bit cheaper than... you know, prime rate now, I think, what, six and a half, something like that. So, you know, quite a bit cheaper. So they're coming to the party and, you know, trying to make cars more affordable and payments more affordable. So, you know, and when they hadn't done that, you know, in the COVID days or a little bit after, you know, there were nothing on nothing. But now we have some inventory and the manufacturer knows they have to support it. And, And, you know, the deals are good.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep, absolutely. You know, I do just take a minute and touch on the story with the lady I just brought you, because I think there's so many people out there that make this mistake. And that's that's repairing a car, whether it be body work, whether it be mechanically, when it's really not worth sticking that money in the car. A lot of people go, well, I don't want payment. But you know what? When you get into a car that's, you know. No. 120,000 miles up, whatever the case may be, and you're sticking $7,000 to $10,000 in a car, that's going to be a very unique situation where that's worth it, isn't it?
SPEAKER 11 :
Scott, I had four this week that are the exact same scenario. The guy I told you they'd call his accountant, and he said, do it. He had a $5,000 repair bill sitting in service, and he said, no. You know, I got 80,000 miles on my Tahoe, you know, so it just worked out. Your lady, same thing. She had, you know, $7,000, $8,000 worth of damage, and it just, you know, it just... And it was, what, I think a 2016 or something? 2016, yep, yep. Yeah. And, you know, and 107,000 miles, and the car wasn't worth that. Right, right. You know, and I still gave her, you know... No, she was very happy. Yeah. And she had $7,000 worth of repair. $14,000 out of the car that, you know, that was worth seven, $8,000. So yeah, it just doesn't pay to, you know, you're just doing, and, and then, you know, then what happens? Okay. So you spend that four or $5,000 and, Eight months down the road, something else.
SPEAKER 05 :
Something else.
SPEAKER 11 :
Completely different. Yep. And then all of a sudden you say, well, I don't want a car payment. Well, you just spent $10,000. That's kind of a car payment.
SPEAKER 05 :
No doubt. No doubt. Well, folks, hey, you're in the market. Get by and see Dan. And when you go in, hey, just let them know whoever greets you. You'd like to say hello to Dan and really thank him for helping us with Haystack Up Radio and our Sportsman of Colorado radio show. We couldn't do it without their help. And so... Dan, we're looking forward to 2025 with you, sir, and appreciate all you've done for us and for all our listeners and friends. And, you know, business relationships should be fun. And I honestly say this, man, in 14, 15 years we've been doing stuff together. Man, it's awesome. It's so much fun.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it is. It's been great. I mean, you know, we're friends. Yeah. Not just business partners, we're friends. And, you know, and that's how a lot of my customers are, too. You know, they just become friends over years and, you know, just do stuff together and, you know, if they need anything, they know we're here for them, take care of them. They feel like they can walk in here and... You know, they're comfortable. Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
And you look at all the people out of state, man, over these last, you know, few years of friends of ours and stuff that have come. I mean, they call you like you're their neighborhood dealer and they're in Kansas or Texas or Oklahoma, you know, and they feel the same way. So that's when, you know, you've taken care of people, man.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, we try, and that's what builds our business is repeat and referral. There's a lot of dealers out there that, you know, they're just going for the one-time whack, so to speak, you know, and, you know, they don't help mountain service. You know, they're strangers to the dealership. I'm sure the people hate going there, and, you know, but I try not to run this deal that way. You know, we have, you know, everybody's, good and friendly, and like I say, we depend on repeat referral. You're about the only guy I advertise with, and I spend very little money advertising just because our repeat referral business is so strong. Yes, sir.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, we appreciate it, Bud, and Happy New Year to you, your family, your staff, and I'm sure I will see you very soon. All right.
SPEAKER 11 :
Happy New Year.
SPEAKER 05 :
Take care. Happy New Year to you. That's Dan Johnson, Len Lyle of Chevrolet. Drive east and pay the lease. This is Sportsman Colorado. We've got to take a quick break, and we'll be back with more right after this. Are you ready to experience the thrill of seeing the biggest selection of firearms, ammo, and accessories you've ever seen? Hey, Scott Whatley here inviting you to the final three-day Tanner Gun Show, December 27th through the 29th in Greeley at the Island Grove Regional Park. Load up on ammo and save big. Hey, the new tax hike hits next year, so save now. Tickets available at the door or get them online at tannergunshow.com. Tanner Gun Show, December 27th through the 29th.
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SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 15 :
You're listening to KLZ 560, your home station.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome back to Sportsman of Colorado. Again, thanks so much for being with us. Well, hope everyone had a wonderful, wonderful Christmas. And we are looking forward to wrapping up the year here. And if you listened last week, we ran out of time with our friends from Bighorn Farm. So Ryan Resch is back with us. So, Ryan, good to see you, sir. Good to see you, too, Scott. And Houston West. Now, I ask him, how did he get that name? Dude, he should be in cowboy movies with that name or something. I don't know. The parents did me right. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Did one of them pick Houston and one of them pick, oh, I like West. I was supposed to get named after my dad, and my mom wasn't too quite fond of that one. Now, you can't say that without telling us the name. I can't say it. I'll get in trouble. You might be in trouble already.
SPEAKER 05 :
I know. I think I did.
SPEAKER 07 :
I just have to tell him not to listen.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. But Houston West is with us. And we were talking about that. Ryan, let's hit the store real quick. Still some closeouts going on.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yep. Yep. Still running all of our holiday deals. Up to 15% off select firearms. We've got tons of great stuff. I know we're going to get into talking about some duck hunting and when duck season closes. We've got a considerable amount of time left on that. Now's a good time to sneak in and still grab a good deal here before the end of the year on a brand new shotgun that maybe will make the difference on your next hunt. We've got stuff from... Franke, Benelli, Stoger, what else we got hanging up on the wall there right now? We've got some CZs, some over-under action, side-by-side, stuff like that. Yeah, we picked up a couple of cool used vintage side-by-sides, some brownings, over-unders from some customers over the last couple of weeks too. Those are either up on gun broker or, uh, making their way towards that way. Cause that is where we kind of, um, highlight a lot of our used guns. If you see them on gun broker, you can come in the store. You can, as long as there's no bids, you can come in and purchase them at a buy it now price. Um, you can also, uh, just come in and get some eyes on them and even check them out, you know, put your hands on them. And even if they do have bids and then go place your bid online. So, um, yeah, we got some really great inventory right now. And, uh, and some great deals going through the end of the year. So come on by and we'll get you set up.
SPEAKER 05 :
Good deal. You know, maybe this time of year, maybe just recently through the Christmas holidays, we're maybe around some loved ones and you're like, Dad, what are you going to be doing with all those guns? Or Uncle Bob, what are you going to do with those guns you got? And they didn't know. Hey. This is something that Bighorn Firearms can help you out with. So take just a minute, Ryan, and tell us about that.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, we purchase guns, gun collections. You know, I mean, it could be one or two guns or it could be 125. You know, you can either call ahead or shoot an email to me directly, ryan at bighornfirearms.com. If you've got a spreadsheet or some photos, happy to take a look at those and let you know what we're interested in and what maybe is, I mean, really there's not a whole lot we're not interested in. Sure. We can just kind of get the conversation going that way. We can always, if it's a large collection, we can come out to you at a time that's convenient for everybody. If it's just a handful or something like that, or even if it's like a dozen, we can set up the classroom during a weekday and put up a couple tables in there and have some private space to lay everything out and talk about what you got. And either make you an offer. Consignment is also an option, too. If we can't necessarily agree on a price or you're not in a huge hurry to sell everything and you want to squeeze a few extra dollars out of them, we can maybe go the consignment route as well. Yeah, just give us a call or shoot me an email, and we'll start the conversation.
SPEAKER 05 :
That's Ryan at Bighorn Firearms?
SPEAKER 13 :
Correct. Bighornfirearms.com. All right.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, Houston. We talked last week a little bit about the hunting world a little bit and all the guns that you guys have, but let's focus on shotguns a little bit here for our time today. Yeah. You know, sometimes guys like you moved here, you know, and they may not have been into waterfowl hunting or upland bird hunting or whatever. So if somebody comes in and just says, hey, man, kind of looking for a shotgun. What's kind of your if I came in and said, hey, I'm looking for a shotgun. I've never owned one before. What would be your type interview questions to me to help me make a good buying choice?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. that's a great question i mean most of the time first off it's you know what do you want to do with it is it something you just want to go hunt with is it something that you want to do you know have as a protection at the house as well um because you can really get into something that can do it all uh you can you know have something you can go rabbit hunt you can duck hunt and you could deer hunt if you needed to probably not out here but back home you know we throw some slugs or some buckshot sure and take it out um You start there, and then you get into how much do you want to spend because that really creates, are you going to go pump? Are you going to go semi-auto? Do you want to go fancier and get the over and under or side by side? Do you like the look? Do you like the feel? Are you mostly shooting targets? You probably want to go with something that's more of the over and under line, and you can get into those from all across the board for price ranges. Are you going hunting? You probably want that third shot, little things like that. You must have seen me shoot.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. We were just out last week, and we went with Kevin Flesch to a tournament. We were out in Kansas. Real quick, there was seven of us. In three days, and I only got to hunt one day, but in three days, 461 birds. Oh, goodness. Dude, it was crazy. We were shooting like crazy. I want to come on that one. Chucker, Quail, and the Quail were flying unbelievable in Pheasant. I mean, it was awesome. But anyway, yeah. But it is nice. But, you know, every other guy there. Head over and under. Over and under.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. I mean, you see that a lot, and it's great. Over and under is great when you're smoking the birds, but when that one gets away, you really want that third shot a little bit where you'll just struggle to reload real fast. But all of those little things can go into it. Do you already have a gun that's your hunting gun? Do you want something that's more just enjoyable that you— you know get more pleasure in taking out i mean that's kind of how i am i get weird about it i like hunting with side by sides and over and unders for ducks just because it's more of a challenge and it's makes me feel cooler yeah that's half of it sure um so and you know i kind of i grew up just shooting 12 gauge i mean that's all i ever shot until really last couple of years and actually i got a couple from ryan and uh over the last few years and
SPEAKER 05 :
Got one real nice Benelli, you know, in a 20 gauge. And I shot that out there when we got into the quail and chuck. And it was really nice to shoot a 20. I mean, it really was because I'm just so used to that 12 gauge. So, again, there's a lot of just trying to figure out, you know. What you want to do with it.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'm a big fan of the 28 gauge because it patterns essentially the same as a 12 gauge will, just less pellets per capita. But you have hardly any recoil and just enough power. If you spend money on shells, that's where that overlap is. But it'll do everything a 12 will do if you can hit what you're shooting at.
SPEAKER 05 :
Right. Again, Houston West is with us. It's Bighorn Firearms, also Ryan Resch, the owner. They're located at 2175 South Jasmine. And maybe you've heard Ryan on before, and you knew they were a gun store, but you didn't really realize all they carry. So, hey, if you're into hunting, hey, this is a great store to go check out. And they've got a great selection of rifles, shotguns. They've got it all. So go check them out. Now, when we talk about a gun fitting, and again, we talked about this last week, shotgun is super, super important. Not all shotguns you buy are going to come with different adjustments. So kind of break in about even what you're talking about with shims and fitting and, you know, the pitch and things of a gun.
SPEAKER 07 :
So that's all it really comes down to, you know, body style. Unfortunately, the gun industry, they make most shotguns for your average Joe, you know, your normal dude. Most of us aren't built that way. We're all built different. So, you know, length of pull can be a big one. That's that's where I like to start with people when stuff's just too short and you're jammed up on something. You might be shooting it all your life, and you don't even know. And how do they measure that length of pull? There's a lot of different ways you can go about it. The easy, quick way is you put the butt of the shotgun right in the crook of your elbow and see where the trigger lays on your finger. You'd like it to be on about that middle pad. It can be a little bit short, a little long. Everybody's different. But that's a really, really great place to start because if it doesn't fit you there, it's not going to fit you anywhere else. And you can get more into it in the drop. And like we were talking about, the Benelli's come with the shims. And if you're listening out there and you have a Benelli Super Black Eagle and it just doesn't shoot right, put that 60 degree shim in and it'll change it. I've told so many people that and they'll go from hating it to loving it. Right. And all that really does is change the angle of the stock. So it makes that barrel more in line with your eyes. So you're seeing what you're shooting at.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Looking over it.
SPEAKER 05 :
But I would think there are probably a lot of people, and I mean, I was guilty of this for a long time, get a gun, take it out of the box, throw the box up, never even looked underneath the what all came with it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Exactly. Do you see that sometimes? All the time. Mostly with shock. I mean, even me growing up, you know. You just give a shot. Someone give you a shotgun and you go point it at the birds and shoot them. You know, there's not much more to it. But, I mean, most people you talk to that, unless you're, you know, a turkey hunter, most people don't even pattern their shotguns. And people don't think it's a big deal. I mean, if your pattern's going far right, you're going to miss every bird that you shoot at that's flying left. So that, I mean, little stuff like that, it gets a lot more technical than just a scatter gun, which is what most people...
SPEAKER 05 :
You've got to shoot different loads, too. Like we said earlier, maybe last week, but just because your buddy has that shotgun and uses that shell, for whatever reason, it may fit all of him perfect, but it may not be for you and your gun.
SPEAKER 07 :
And his gun might shoot dead on, so that shell works great for him. Yours might shoot three inches high and to the right. And that's where it really is important to go in and test and know what works and what doesn't. And, you know, unfortunate for me, I have that itch to fulfill. So I like to go out there and test a lot of stuff. My wallet doesn't like it, but I sure do. But it also, it's interesting to know, to set myself up for as much success as I possibly can. And others. That's, you know, that's what we're doing it for.
SPEAKER 05 :
And here's the cool thing. People can just come in and talk to you. Exactly. I mean, that's free. Exactly. It's free. Just to come in. Ryan has to pay me for it. Yeah, yeah. They don't.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. Just come in. It's worth it, though.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. But just check some guns out, hold some, see how they feel to you.
SPEAKER 13 :
And, yeah, that's great. I'm pretty sure he likes talking about shotguns and shooting birds and stuff, too.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, yeah. I do. No doubt. And then, you know, chokes. Now, once you get into a certain level of gun, I don't know, price point, whatever, sometimes they'll come two, three, four chokes, right? Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, most everything these days at least comes with a three-choke set, which is great. Most of the chokes you're getting, depending on price range, the higher in price range you get, the better quality they're going to be. But that is something that can make a huge difference. If you have a gun that's just not patterning, it's not shooting well, if you invest in a quality choke that's drilled out the way it should be and is concentric the way it should be, it can make a very big difference in your pattern. You can take a $300 gun, put a $200 choke in it, and it's going to shoot really, really well. You can also have a $1,000 gun with a $50 choke in it, and it might shoot horribly. You can get into that conversation for hours. There's so many different chokes out there. But definitely specializing them. If you're looking at duck hunting, it's probably a good idea to get an extended... duck hunting choke because it makes a big difference.
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. Over these last few years, I've really seen that. I'm using a turkey choke now. I forgot what it's even called. I'm shooting some Apex ammo, number nines, I think it is. And I've got it on video, shot a turkey at 93 yards in Montana, dead. I mean, didn't flop, nothing. That's a long shot. I mean, 93 yards, just dead, dead. It's cool when you've got the right stuff.
SPEAKER 07 :
When you have the right setup, yeah. And that's where... Kind of what we're talking about, you should think of a shotgun as pick it up and go shoot it. You can really get into them and do some real cool stuff with shotguns if you spend the time and energy and research on it to set them up the right way. Yeah, for sure.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hey, get by and see them. It's Bighorn Firearms, 2175 South Jasmine. When you go in, hey, make all the other guys jealous. Ask for Houston. Tell him you heard him on the radio, all right? And he'll get you fixed up. He can go through some shotguns. If you're looking at rifles, whatever, the rest of the crew there can help you out as well. But once again, when you go in, let them know you heard them here on Sportsman of Colorado, and we'd appreciate that as well. So, Ryan, thank you very much, sir. Thank you, Scott. Appreciate it. Glad you brought Houston in, and Houston will do this again. Yes, sir. You're listening to Sportsman of Colorado. We've got to hit a quick break, and we'll be back with more right after this.
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Welcome back to Sportsman of Colorado. Hey, thank you so much for being with us today. It is our final show of the year. And, man, I was just quickly thinking our first show was in January of 2013, the very first Saturday of January 2013. And as I look back now, I had no idea. You always hope for the best, but I had no idea that we would be saying, hey, we're looking forward to 2025 with you at Sportsman of Colorado Radio. And we certainly appreciate all of our listeners and, you know, those who have supported us. I mean, these shows are not cheap, so to speak. So airtime cost and we could not do it without all of our sponsors. And we just appreciate them so much. And One of the guys that's been very good to us is Tim Christopherson, shooting doors Buckley. And, you know, Tim, first of all, welcome to the show.
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Thanks, Scott.
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Happy to be here. Thanks for being with us to wrap up the year. But, you know, it's so much fun when you have really good people. that run a good business and you're trying to do the right thing by people, your employees, and, and that shines through on your shows too, and your longevity of your employees and all and your customers. But, um, I just want to say, you know, personal thank you and a, and a, uh, business. Thank you for your support for us because, uh, uh, we couldn't do it without you, man.
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And we're, we're always happy to be here. And, uh, I'm looking forward to 2025 and see how we can work together some more.
SPEAKER 05 :
So when you think about your first year when you did shoot indoors to where you are now, I mean, do you look back and go, wow, how'd I get here in a good way?
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Yeah, for sure. I mean, my first year was 2020. We opened in July of 2020. So, you know, into our fifth year. But may have picked the worst time in history to start a business if you recall what that year was.
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We did the same thing with Haystack Health. You know, we started that in 2009, right after the 2008 collapse of things. Yeah, I mean, there's never a real good time probably, but you just never know the obstacles you're going to face.
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Absolutely. And it just felt like, you know, I blinked and here we are in our fifth year. You know, July will be five years for us. It's quite an accomplishment considering the really rocky start that we had and almost not even getting off the ground with COVID. And, you know, I was built out and waiting for city approvals and that kind of thing. And, you know, it was like open the doors and there was just no customers. So we had to get creative those first few months. And then that first January of 21, it just felt like a switch flipped and customers found us. They were coming in and it really really saved us that having a good start.
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So did people have to wear masks to come in and shoot? Cause it cracked me up going into, I went to my bank, you know, the first time, you know, after the, all this hit and they're like, must wear a mask. And I'm like, how ironic is that? What about coming in and shooting? Yeah.
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It was the same thing. We had the same regulations, which was hard for me to wrap my head around just because our range has 100% fresh air system. So being outdoors is the exact equivalent of being indoors in a shooting range when we're running that air through at three, four miles an hour. You're not rebreathing any of that air. You're not, you know, rebreathing any of that, you know, what's coming out of the firearms. So it's really, it was hard for me to wrap my head around for the fact that masks were required indoors in this environment just for, you know, our air handling equipment and what we had in place. Right.
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Again, Shoot Indoors Buckley, a store that Tim's mostly at, I guess, but you do have some other locations.
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Yeah, we've got four locations in the metro area, and we've got the original location up in Broomfield off of Highway 36 and 120th. We've been around for 11 years up there, which is quite an accomplishment as well. Then we've got our Denver location right off the exit of 6th Avenue and I-25. And as of the beginning of this month, you can see our brand new 32-foot tall sign from the highway. So we're harder to miss now than we were a month ago. And then the newest location of Shoot Indoors is right off of Central Park location.
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Is that right off of – that's the one off 70, right?
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Yep, off of I-70.
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Off 70, right there, Central Park. Okay, right. I know where that is. It's pretty close to Bass Pro.
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Yes, very close to Bass Pro. A few-minute drive. They've built a good partnership with Bass Pro as well. So they're working well over there. They're entering their second year now. So as you guys can tell, I spend the least amount of time there.
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Yeah.
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But that's independent owners. I'm just helping them out with the franchise. But great, great location. Great staff over there as well. That's what you'll find in common among all of our stores is our staff and our enthusiasm to help new shooters really get oriented with the range and really feel comfortable with firearms. Right.
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What do you think has attributed to your success? You know, there's a lot of different ranges around. A lot of people try to have all the frills and bells and things. Do you think just kind of keeping it simple is one of the things?
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I think simplicity is one of our strongest points. We aren't selling firearms, so there's no pressure to come in and, you know, try something and buy it or look at something and buy it. Very low pressure when it comes to anything you're doing at the range. We're gonna help you get out there safely. We're gonna help you operate the firearm safely. And even ensure that you're washing up properly as you're leaving to make, you know, for your safety after the range day as well. You want to get all that residue off your hands and make sure you're leaving as clean as you came in. Sure.
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Don't want to be going and catching a flight and going through TSA. Right.
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You know, funny story. My wife got hung up by that one time.
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Oh, really?
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When I was reloading one day. This is years ago. and took her to the airport, hugged goodbye, and she called me 30 minutes later. She basically got pulled aside and asked why she had explosive residue on her hands and clothing. Yeah, I got an earful on that one. It can happen, but, again, we ensure that you're washing up properly. We'll always send a receipt with you if you're on your way to a flight, that type of thing, so you can show them, hey, this is why I'm not, you know, triggering your sensors or whatever.
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Exactly. Cool. Once again, Tim Christopherson is with us. It's Shoot Indoors Buckley. And I'll tell you what we're going to do, and we normally don't do this many, but celebrate Tim's four years. Tell you what we're going to do. And we're going to make this where you can text with us, all right? First four folks. that will text 720-201-8585 again 720-201-8585 we're going to give you a 25 gift card to shoot indoors buckley now there are several locations but the card is only good here at tim's store the one off buckley and 225. so the first four people to shoot me a text send me your name and of course i'll have your phone there and then i will get with you after the show And I tell you what, we're going to open this up because our show does replay on Sunday at 8 in the morning, 8 at night, and Thursday morning at 9. So we're going to take a chance here. We're going to help some people out, get you over to shoot indoors Buckley. So the first four people, text 720-201-8585 when you hear this, and I will get with you, and we will get your gift card. So, Tim.
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try to get some new folks yeah absolutely and just want to reiterate that buckley location uh 225 in mississippi that's where you'll pick up those gift cards uh last winter's uh somebody showed up at the denver location trying to get one they did and she called me and she goes if you remember i told you she goes i i do remember now so yeah so yeah let's reiterate that and just make sure you're not driving unnecessarily anywhere so we'll take care of you
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Now, another thing, you offer some classes with CCW, and we've got some laws changing.
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Yes, CCW classes have been a hot topic here this last six months, per se, with some new law changes that take effect in July of 2025. So you're going to want to get in sooner than later if you're looking at obtaining that permit. Right now our curriculum is about four and a half, five hours of really good information. You do get range time with it. And starting July 1st, that class is gonna almost double in length, a requirement of eight hours by the state. A shooting portion with an accuracy requirement as well. And it's just gonna increase price also. So you're gonna see prices increase across the board on those CCW classes. So if you wanna save yourself some money and a little bit of time, I would encourage anybody interested to get out probably by March at the latest. that's when I start rolling out the new curriculum along with the new certified instructors to ensure that you've got time to get that permit issued before those certificates expire in July. Right.
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And then renewals have to be sooner too, right? Yes.
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A couple of years. The new renewal requirements are every time you're getting a renewal on your permit that you've got, they're good for five years, you will be required to take a two-hour, what they call a refresher course. You can go over any new state laws in the last five years, as well as a shooting portion and a range portion as well.
SPEAKER 05 :
Now, you've got a few special groups you try to help out with some membership, and we'll get into memberships, but what are some of your specials you offer some folks?
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Yeah, so the specials are offered on our daily rates. Any of you that's current or former military, law enforcement, firefighter, EMT, just show your credentials, ask for that discount, and we'll ensure you're saving about $6 on your range fees. Also not paying our $10 new shooter processing fee either. So you save $16 on that first visit. And then the discount continues after that. So we try to take care of those that take care of us. Absolutely. And now let's talk about some benefits of membership. Our membership has some very, very good incentives when it comes to signing up. We don't offer discounts on memberships for anybody just because of our value already. But you're going to get unlimited range time. You know, for $40 a month, you get unlimited range time seven days a week, along with 30% discount on targets, 20% discount on classes, and very steep ammo discounts. We're taking it down to, we're trying to compete with our big box stores, really, on ammo prices for members to make us their one-stop shop when they're coming to the range. They don't need to go anywhere else first. So we made it really cost-effective for them to come in, buy your ammo, buy your targets, and not spend any more money than you would anywhere else. Right.
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Tax hike next year, too.
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Yeah, it's coming in, what, I believe, April. Yeah. 6.5% tax hike on ammunition. So one more thing we'll have to factor into our pricing, but you'll be paying those prices everywhere starting, I believe it's in April when that tax takes effect.
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And I tell you, hey, if you're looking for a great place to kind of a, I don't know, team building event, hey, maybe a bachelor party, bachelorette party, Tim, I see a lot of things on social media where people come to celebrate it.
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Yes, absolutely. We are well outfitted to help groups of any size, really. We've had... you know, groups of 5 or 10 people come in. We've had groups of 30 or 40 people come in. We definitely would ask that you reach out before bringing a group of that size just to allow for staffing, make sure we've got lanes open. But in Aurora, we were able to close off our shorter bay, which is 15 yards, and really turn a group loose in there. Five lanes, 15 yards, you can easily house 20 people in there for a private event. Anything larger than that, we would probably end up closing the range down or going outside of our business hours, but we have accommodated that in the past and are happy to do that in the future.
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Is there anything off-limits that you can't shoot at Shoot Indoors?
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The one thing you can't shoot, and supposedly you can, but I'm not willing to test this, would be .50 BMG. We do not allow .50 BMG, but any other rifle caliber and all... handgun calibers as well as shotguns with buckshot or slugs. Right.
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All right. Well, once again, the first four people that will text 720-201-8585. Just send me your name. I'll get in touch with you after the show. We're going to give a $25 gift card to the first four people. Now, this is our live show on Saturday. but we do replay twice on Sunday. So if you hear one of those times, we're still going to give you one. And if you hear us on a Thursday from 9 to 10 a.m., we're still going to give you one. So, hey, this is the time of giving, and Tim's going to help us out with that. And so we really appreciate it. And, folks, if you're looking for a great place to shoot, a great staff, and, Tim, 30 seconds here, but if somebody wants some kind of one-on-one time with maybe an instructor, like this is their first time to shoot, and they just don't really know what they're doing, but they want to start out with some help, is that available anywhere?
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, absolutely. You're going to get that inherently when you walk in. We're going to ensure that safety is our number one priority. But if you do want some more one-on-one training, we've got instructors available for that. Generally $125 for a 90-minute session will be your first session, and then they're $125 for 60 minutes after that. But we'll definitely take care of you and get you out on there safely.
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Well, congrats on your success, sir, and we look forward to 2025 with you, and we'll get over and see you soon. Absolutely. 2024 was great, and 2025 is going to be better. All right. Sounds good. And once again, the gift cards are only good at the Shoot Indoors Buckley off of Mississippi and 225. So once again, remember that. But give us a text, 720-201-8585. I want to thank all of our guests, but really thank you for being with us not only today but throughout the year. And once again, we look forward to 2025 with all of our listeners and sponsors. So happy new year to everyone. And we will talk to you next year.
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In this Free Speech Friday edition of the podcast, Joey Hudson covers a revealing new set of photos showing then-Vice President Joe Biden with Hunter Biden meeting Chinese officials. These photos have been released following a lawsuit by America First Legal, prompting questions about the Biden family's business dealings and potential influence exerted during Joe Biden’s vice presidency. Hudson discusses these findings in the context of previous investigations and the implications they may hold for the Biden administration. Listener calls highlight concerns about ongoing corruption and the possibility of reopening investigations by the House Oversight Committee.
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Yes, it is Free Speech Friday. Whatever's on your mind, I'm all ears. Joey Hudson in for Mike today. 800-655-MIKE.
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1-800-655-6453 is how you join today's Free Speech Friday. Anything that you want to talk about, I'm ready to listen to you today. These photos that I mentioned to you were obtained by America First Legal. They had sued the National Archives and Records Administration, known as NARA. And the photos show then Vice President Joe Biden introducing Hunter Biden to Chinese President Xi Jinping. Other photos show Joe Biden posing with Hunter's business associates from BHR Partners, one of the many LLCs that Hunter Biden and the Biden family had set up, including Jonathan Lee and Ming Zhu. The America First Legal said in a press release this week, these images shed light on the connections between then-Vice President Joe Biden, Hunter, and his Chinese business associates and Chinese government officials, including the president of China. America's First Legal said in this release, lawyers and representatives for President Biden and President Obama delayed NARA's release of these photographs as they did other records until after this year's election. So they basically have been fighting, the Biden administration has been fighting the release of these photos. They go on to say these photos corroborate the House Oversight Committee's investigative findings that Hunter Biden arranged for his father to meet with his business associates, specifically Jonathan Lee and other BHR executives during the 2013 China trip. where Mr. Lee sought and received access to Vice President Biden's political power, including, for example, preferential access to then-Ambassador to China Max Baucus, a condition of Hunter Biden and his associates' participation in the BHR deal. America First Legal goes on to show other things that will prove that Joe Biden was lying when he said he knew nothing about Hunter Biden's business dealings. America First Legal wrote that according to the committee's investigation, the Biden family benefited from their business dealings with BHR. Hunter Biden was asked earlier this year by the House Oversight Committee about his meetings while traveling to Asia with his father. Biden said at the time, when we returned from an event to the hotel, there was a rope line, and Jonathan Lee was in the lobby of the hotel where I was going to meet him for coffee. In that line, I introduced my dad to Jonathan and a friend of his, and they shook hands, and I believe probably took a photograph, and then my father went up to his room, and I went to have coffee with Jonathan. The photos released, though, show a lot more than a rope line. Hunter Biden added then that he did not tell his father anything about who Jonathan Lee was. And they expect us to believe that. They expect the American people to be just that stupid. You think there's any chance at all that the House Oversight Committee will reopen the investigation into this? The Biden family... Well, we know for a fact that Hunter Biden received millions of dollars from not only this company, but through his Ukrainian connections. And we know that Joe Biden has never hesitated to send a billion, two billion or more to Ukraine anytime they ask for it. Anytime Ukraine needs money, Joe Biden has been there to send it. Is that not suspicious to you? Of course, he justifies it by saying we have to protect these people. We have to help protect them from the Russians. But Joe Biden has a very cozy relationship with Ukraine. So did his son. Because it was a Ukrainian energy company that paid him a million dollars to sit on the board when he knew nothing about energy. I think Tom will tell that the Biden administration, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, his brother Jim Biden, they were the biggest crooks who've ever been in that position. 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The Mike Gallagher Show.
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The moment that President Trump puts his hand on that Bible and takes the oath of office, as he has said, the occupation ends, liberation day begins. He will immediately sign executive orders, sealing the border shut, beginning the largest deportation operation in American history, finding the criminal gangs, rapists, drug dealers, and monsters that have murdered our citizens and sending them home.
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In the relieffactor.com studios, here's Mike.
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Joey Hudson in for Mike on this free speech Friday. Whatever's on your mind, I'm all ears. 800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation. Texter on the My Fellow text line says, Joey, the American people need to know how corrupt the Biden family is and the damage they have done to America. Also should be disclosed. is the Democrat Party and their corruption to cover up. You always should include America will suffer for many decades from the damage the Democrats have inflicted on this country from the last four years. Yeah, they have. Not only have they added trillions of dollars to debt to the bottom line, but just the – just the corruptness. Joe Biden, of course, has denied this all along. He said on the campaign trail, I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings, but emails that were found on Hunter's laptop make a different point. They argue a different outcome there. In one email in 2017, it shows Hunter requesting keys for Joe and Jill Biden along with his uncle Jim Biden for space that he planned to share with an emissary to the chairman of the now bankrupt Chinese energy company. So if Joe Biden knew nothing about Hunter's business dealings, why was Hunter... wanting his dad to have a key to the office that he was setting up as part of a partnership with this Chinese energy company. In another 2017 email, Biden wrote to the same Chinese energy company's chairman extending, quote, best wishes from the entire Biden family and urging the chairman to quickly send a $10 million wire to properly fund and operate the Biden joint venture with the company. We've just touched the surface, and I'm just hoping that the new Congress will not let this lie. I hope that the argument that, well, let's just let the old man go into retirement is done, it's over with, forget it. I don't think we can forget it. I think we need to use whatever resources we have to dig in a little further and and see exactly what Joe Biden was up to. What do you think? 800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation. Let's go to Philadelphia, where Keith is standing by. Welcome, Keith. You're on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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Thanks, Joe. I appreciate it. I would echo what you said 150%. I think James Comer has been so fastidious about going through the details of falling to the LLCs and the money trail. To Joe Biden, it's just, you know, Democrats, you know, maintain and be wasting our time for the last two years. But it's so clear that it's all gone to Joe. I mean, there are pictures of him with Hunter's associates and 12 flights on Air Force Two to foreign countries. This is treason. I mean this is – and clearly he's given up things to the Chinese. What was that balloon a year or two ago that was allowed to hover over sensitive sites in the U.S. and not back down until it was over the water? He's clearly been a traitor, and I can't – it would be horrible if all this work went for naught and he was not held accountable for this even though he's leaving office.
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Yeah. You're right, Keith. You are so right. Appreciate the phone call. Happy New Year to you in Philadelphia. One line open, 800-655-6453. Keith is right. I mean, at the very least, I mean, first off, just think about this for a moment. Is it believable at all, again, that a father would not talk with his son Particularly if you're vice president of the United States and you've taken your son to China on official business trips with you, is it even possible that they didn't discuss who Hunter Biden was meeting with? These relationships that Hunter Biden had? That's not possible at all. But then when you read some of the e-mails... that Hunter Biden wrote, how can Joe Biden continue to deny that he didn't know anything about this and that his son did not do anything wrong? I mean, how is it so clear to us but not to others and particularly not to the Department of Justice? Back to the phones. Ronnie is in Oregon. Welcome, Ronnie. How are you?
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I'm doing fine. I'm pretty aggravated at the Democratic Party. Let's consider Biden is pardoning criminals, but he's doing nothing about those that are in prison for January 6th. It was innocent in 99 percent of the time. It did nothing wrong. They let the police officer that shot the lady there get off with nothing when she wasn't doing anything. She wasn't threatening anybody. And yet he'll pardon all these criminals, rapists, murderers and stuff, letting them go and taking away death sentences for those that have killed innocent people. But it's not just Biden. It's Obama. It's all the other Democrats, Obama and Trump. Pelosi and Shuler shift Sanders to a whole dirty bunch. And when's people going to wake up? But it's not just one Democrat affair that's hurting the American people. It's all of them.
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Yeah, just wipe them all. And, Ronnie, I think people have wakened up. I think that's what we saw on November the 5th. Appreciate your phone call. Happy New Year to you, Ronnie. I think people are awake. I think we have their attention now. It's just I hope that Congress will have the backbone and the fortitude to not just say, well, Joe Biden's an old man. He's sick. You know, just leave him alone. He had a 40-plus year career in public office. No reason to drag this up again. No, we've got to get to the bottom of it. We can't just have the attitude of let him go. Let him go quietly to the beach. Sit on the beach the rest of his life. Gene is in Alabama. Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show, Gene.
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Thanks. Thanks, Joey. I hope you and your family had a wonderful Christmas.
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We did, Gene. I hope you did, too, and I hope you're looking forward to 2025. Oh, absolutely, absolutely.
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It's going to be a wonderful year since Trump got in. One thing I was curious about, if old Sleepy Joe actually – and stocking up for his estranged granddaughter.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I, of course, wasn't invited to the Biden Christmas party. But I'm going to go out on a limb here, Gene, and say that he did not. I mean, he's never really acknowledged her, has he?
SPEAKER 08 :
I don't think so.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yep. Yeah, I don't think that that little girl was invited to the Biden Christmas party. So that's just another example of the true Biden family and how they operate. Hey, Gene, hope you have a great New Year, Gene. Happy New Year to you. Appreciate your phone call. Richard is in Columbia, Missouri. Welcome, Richard.
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How are you doing today?
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I'm wonderful. How are you, sir?
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Pretty good. I have a question that's been nagging at me. If you have a judge that they find incompetent, they will go back and revisit his cases. Can that happen to Biden? Look at all the crazy stuff he's doing. If they find him incompetent, would they go back and revisit his cases?
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Well, you know, so many of the things that he's done, first off, it's congressional action that he has just signed. So those would still stand. We already know that on day one, on the afternoon of the 20th, Donald Trump is going to undo a big part of what Joe Biden has done via executive order. So, you know, I don't know that we'll ever know the exact numbers, but I think that Donald Trump will probably – counter just about every single executive order that Joe Biden signed over these past four years. So that in itself is going to negate a lot of the horrible things that Joe Biden has done.
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But he's had a lot of people that has fallen through the cracks that Biden has dealt with. And if they find him incompetent, like in a regular court case, other people could say, wait a minute, wait a minute. I don't know how that works with presidents.
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Well, I don't think it can be undone just simply because of his incompetence, but I do think we have a Congress who has the appetite to undo a lot of those things. And I know that Donald Trump won't hesitate to sign an executive order to reverse that. what Joe Biden has done. So I think we can accomplish a good bit. And that's, you know, that's the plan. I mean, I'm told that Donald Trump has a stack of executive orders already, that they're going to be ready for him to sit down and start signing. He said the other day at two o'clock on January the 20th was when he would start unraveling what Joe Biden has started. So I think that's what we're going to be able to watch.
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And I think the American people need to hear that, you know, that he's really – I believe that he's willing to step in and take over, do what he has to do.
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Oh, I know he is. I know he is. So now it's going to be just get your popcorn out for January 20th, Richard, and be ready. Happy New Year to you. Appreciate your phone call. 800-655-MIKE, 1-800-655-6453. That's how you join the conversation on this Free Speech Friday. Your phone calls are welcome. Tracy will put you in queue. We'll talk as time permits. You can also text me on the MyPillow text line. Always use promo code MikeG when you go to MyPillow.com. And, of course, emails are welcome as well, joey at joeyhudson.com. Go to my website, joeyhudson.com, and subscribe to my podcast, Just the Truth, and stay in touch with me. That's a daily podcast, and we just dig a little deeper on the issues. So if you listen to podcasts, wherever you listen to, on the Odyssey app, wherever, just search for Joey Hudson, Just the Truth. I hope you had a blessed Christmas, and I want to thank every single one of you who stepped up and helped make our Angel Tree campaign such a success this year. You came through again like you always do. The work of Prison Fellowship, though, doesn't end on Christmas. It continues all year round. There are Angel Tree-sponsored sports clinics for the kids, Angel Tree summer camping, and so many other wonderful outreaches to help the children of prisoners. Right now, if you didn't have a chance to donate before Christmas, you can still help out, and you can score a great end-of-the-year tax deduction as well. Your donation today can literally change a child's life for eternity. But the impact of your gift doesn't stop there. Please go to MikeOnline.com. You'll see a new banner up, Change Prisoners' Lives in 2025. You can phone your generous gift in as well, 888-206-2788, or just text MikeG to 717767, and we'll send you back a link where you can donate. But remember... To get a 2024 year-end tax deduction, you must make your donation before December the 31st. So why not just go ahead and do it today and have that done with. Thanks for considering a year-end donation to Prison Fellowship's Angel Tree program. I'm Joey Hudson, in for Mike Gallagher.
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O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem.
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He's the happy conservative warrior. From the Relief Factor studios, sitting in for Mike today, here's Joey Hudson.
SPEAKER 05 :
Welcome in as we continue today's Mike Gallagher Show. Glad to have you. Joey Hudson in for Mike. 800-655-MIKE. 1-800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation. Lots of ways to do so. You can send me a quick text on the MyPillow text line. You can call. We love your calls. And, of course, today is Free Speech Friday. So whatever's on your mind, I'm all ears. Love to get your phone calls. We've got a lot to cover, but, hey, I'm interested in what you have to say as well. And, of course, I welcome your e-mails, and you can send those directly to me, joey at joeyhudson.com. So just a few things that are happening that we're going to touch on this hour. Trump's first day in office, of course, January the 20th. And he jokingly said this week that at 2 p.m. on the 20th was when he would start changing a lot of the things that Joe Biden has done these past four years. We're told that he has a stack of executive orders already. All ready to go. But we're going to kind of do a deep dive into what that first day can potentially look like. We know some of the primary issues he's going to be covering on that first day. The Hill is being criticized for an editorial that appeared on The Hill this week that is suggesting that Congress can prevent Donald Trump from becoming president. Opinion columnist for The Hill called on Congress to invoke the 14th Amendment disqualification to block Donald Trump from taking office on the 20th. In a column published yesterday, Evan Day and David Schulte argued that the 14th Amendment enables Congress to object to the electoral vote since they consider Trump, in their words, an oath-breaking insurrectionist. We're going to jump into that in just a moment, too. And your favorite federal government agency, the IRS, they are admitting that back in 2021, this was when Joe Biden was giving away trillions of dollars in the name of COVID, there was a COVID rebate that certain families could be eligible for. You had to check a box on your tax return, and evidently it was so complicated. And honestly, I haven't had a chance since finding out about this earlier this morning. I haven't had a chance to even check my tax return for 2021. But evidently it was so complicated, over a million Americans who should have received this rebate did not because they didn't know how to complete the section on the tax return for this. So the IRS is saying, we're going to do it for you. We're not going to make you file an amended return. We owe you this money. So we're just going to automatically send it to you if you qualify. IRS Commissioner Danny Warfel put out a statement saying the IRS continues to work hard to make improvements and help taxpayers. Well, that's kind of rich coming from an agency that asked for billions of dollars for new funding and hired, what was it, like 80,000 people. I hope that the Trump administration, if they haven't hired the 80,000 yet, remember what all the pushback that Republicans in the House and the Senate did at the time, but they didn't have the numbers, they didn't have the votes? You think they can go back and undo this? and eliminate those 80,000 additional IRS agents that Joe Biden hired for enforcement. But they went on to, Warfel said that this was about minimizing headaches for taxpayers. Now, what's really happening here is the IRS, of course, they're covering themselves. They're realizing that the credit was so confusing that a million people didn't even know they qualified for it. And so the money, I suppose, is just sitting in an account somewhere, hasn't been distributed. So if you filed a 2021 tax return, and left the recovery rebate credit field blank, or if you put a zero in, which a lot of people did evidently, you're on this list from the IRS, and... They're going to send you a check. Now, if you have direct deposit, don't worry. If you've changed bank accounts, because the IRS says that they'll mail you a check instead. If they can't make the direct deposit in the account they have on file, they're just going to send you a check. How much? Well, some households are eligible to receive the maximum, which is $1,400. Now, $1,400 is not a lot, but hey, could you use an extra $1,400 right now maybe to pay off those credit cards that you ran up during Christmas, shopping for Christmas? Besides, it's your money. I mean, they owe it to you anyway. The total amount that's going to be paid out, $2.4 billion. Now, when I first read this, my first thought was this is just Joe Biden giving away money again. And it does seem like the Biden administration in these final weeks are just scurrying around to give away as much money as they can. In this case, though, it's our money to begin with. And I want it back. If they owe me $1,400, I want it. Do you? 800-655-6453, they're saying that, first off, you had to have filed a 2021 return. If you did not, they're going to give you an extension, and you have until April of 2025 to file that 2021 return. And then you'll be eligible to get this rebate. But it's just another example, though, of how complicated... Our tax returns are and our tax code is. Don't you think it could be a lot simpler? Don't you think it could get to the point where we don't even need to hire a CPA to complete it for us? Now, I know the CPAs aren't going to like that, but still, to do a tax return just takes too long. Gathering all the information, I hate doing tax returns. I absolutely despise it. There's got to be an easier way for me to pay my fair share, and that's all I want to pay is what my fair share is. I don't want to pay any more. Wow. 800-655-6453 is how you join the conversation today, and it is free speech Friday, so whatever's on your mind, I'm interested. You can text me. You can email me directly as well. Hey, let me take a minute here to remind you. And Mike told me before he left, he said, you know, you got to remind our listeners about the Patriot Alaska cruise coming up next summer. Folks, I went on this last year. We had a blast. I'd never been to Alaska before. It is so beautiful. But it was just great being on this cruise ship. with several hundred other like-minded conservatives. We had a wonderful time. We got to do a lot of things, see a lot of things during the day, but then late afternoons, early evenings, we'd gather and just talk, just have open panel discussions. Imagine seven days of breathtaking Alaskan beauty. You're going to see incredible wildlife, but then... you end each day with some powerful conversations with fellow patriots. This year you're going to be hosted by Mike Gallagher, of course, Larry Elder, Joe Piscopo, Jennifer Horn. It's a great group. You don't want to miss it. And if you've never been to Alaska, this is a great time to see it. If you've been, it's time to go back. It's real easy. Just go to TravelWithSalem.com. TravelWithSalem.com. You can call 855-565-5519. 855-565-5519. It's August the 16th through the 23rd of next year. So let me encourage you to join Mike Gallagher, Larry Elder, and special guests Jennifer Horn and Joe Piscopo for a wonderful trip. It's the Patriots Alaska Cruise. Travelwithsalem.com. I'm Joey Hudson. In for Mike today.
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Yet in thy dark streets shine the everlasting light. The hopes and fears...
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Mike Gallagher.
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Joey Hudson in for Mike today. Axios has a column today talking about day one of Donald Trump's new administration. They write, no issue has defined Trump's political identity more than his crusade against illegal immigration, particularly after border crossings surged to record highs under Joe Biden. They speculate, led by Stephen Miller and former acting ICE director Tom Holman... Trump will unleash a flurry of executive orders ending Biden's temporary parole programs, restarting construction of the border wall, and suspending refugee admissions. They also say that Trump is determined to immediately launch the largest deportation operation in U.S. history, despite some of the logistical concerns that no one quite knows how they're going to do this. Axios says, watch out for a day one photo op flexing the new administration's deportation muscle. They also say that President-elect Trump has vowed to issue an executive order ending birthright citizenship, setting up what is probably going to be a constitutional clash over the 14th Amendment and will probably end up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. The second big issue, of course... Axios writes, the second bucket of executive orders will seek to institutionalize the conservative culture wars that have dominated Republican politics over the last few years. Top priorities for day one include a ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion, programs and requirements across the federal government that have used DEI, pardons for supporters convicted for breaking into the Capitol on January the 6th. We're expecting to see that on day one. And then he has spent millions of dollars – they're referencing Donald Trump – on anti-trans ads who want to use executive action to ban trans women from women's sports, though Axios says the exact mechanism for doing so is yet unclear. Then they move on to regulation and big business. They write, the CEO and investor confidence has soared in the wake of the election as corporate America revels in Trump's promise to slash 10 regulations for every new introduced during the Biden administration. They say that Trump has vowed to expedite permits for drilling and fracking. Inauguration will also start to clock on his one-year goal of reducing energy prices by 50%. Second, Third, Wall Street meanwhile is working to persuade Trump not to impose sweeping tariffs on U.S. trading partners, but he seems intent on ushering in a new era of MAGA protectionism as quickly as possible. is saying that Trump will do in those first few hours of being back in the Oval Office. They point out that they believe it's going to be hard to bring down prices, and they quote... Trump on NBC's Meet the Press recently where he says it's hard to bring prices down once they're up. It's very hard. They, of course, are saying that Trump is now backtracking a bit on his promise to be able to make things affordable again. But look, the market can take care of that itself. We get inflation down and leveled off. and then let the market take care of things through competition, through the supply chain, we can see some of those prices start falling. And I think we will. He also, of course, one of his big things, too, is ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict. And he admitted recently, too, that might be a little harder than he expected, but he plans to work on that as well. It's going to be an exciting day, January 20th, and I'm so happy that I'm going to be there on Inauguration Day sitting in the Capitol Mall watching him take the oath of office. It's going to be fun. We're going to have live reports for you as well on that day, so that's going to be fun to watch. 800-655-6453. Glad to have you with me on this Friday edition of the Mike Gallagher Show. Hey, let me take a moment to remind you real quickly again about the Prison Fellowship and the end-of-the-year donations. You know, we've had a great year as far as the Angel Tree campaign. You can still give those end-of-the-year donations, though. You can go to mikeonline.com, click on the Change Prisoners' Lives in 2025. Let's continue to help these kids. I'm Joey Hudson, in for Mike.
HR2 Drive Radio Encore Presentation of December 14, 2024 (12-28-24) by John Rush
SPEAKER 27 :
Being an expert on general automotive knowledge, what would the correct ignition timing be on a 1955 Bel Air Chevrolet with a 327 cubic inch engine and a four barrel carburetor?
SPEAKER 23 :
It is a trick question. Watch this. Because Chevy didn't make a 327 in 55. The 327 didn't come out until 62. And it wasn't offered in the Bel Air with a four-barrel carb until 64. However, in 1964, the correct ignition timing would be four degrees before top dead center.
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Get ready for another hour of Drive Radio, brought to you by Colorado Select Auto Care Centers. Got a question for the experts? Then give them a call, 303-477-5600. Now it's time to pop the hood and get our hands dirty. Drive Radio on KLZ 560, The Source.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Again, myself, Patch Knight from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Steve Horvath from Geno's Auto Service down here in Centennial as well. Lines are open, 303-477-5600. We're talking about, of course, Christmas gifts and items to buy and so on. You've got this weekend and next to get done whatever you're going to do. And then Christmas is here, so it's much faster. We hear much faster than what... Most of us think somebody texted also and said, can I talk about how to care for a late model commons engine instead of just saying don't buy one, which a lot of you already own one. So at that point in time, there's nothing you can do. And I do, too. I still own some of these as well. This is a twenty two with sixty five thousand trouble for your miles, which, by the way, good for you. So, number one, if you've had trouble for your trouble free miles, you must be doing something right already or you wouldn't have had anything. any issues. Now, one thing that you can do, and this is true with all diesel engines, not just the Cummins end of it, but given that we have low lubricity in our fuel today across the country, running an additive, whether you want to do it every tank or not is up to you, but periodically running an additive that will add some lubricity to it and do some cleaning of the fuel system and such at the same time, not a bad idea. Some people I know do it every single tank. Others will do it once every third or fourth tank. It just depends on you and what you want to do and so on. But I would say on this particular unit at 22 model year with 65,000 miles, yes, I would be running some diesel additive into it. And then on top of that, make sure you're doing your oil changes in a timely manner like you should. Don't forget your fuel filters and such, which, again, if you've got 65,000 trouble-free miles, you're probably already doing some of those things. Outside of running some fuel treatment periodically, BG's got a great product. There's other products on the market as well, but BG has a really great product that we highly recommend. You can find that on their website, bgprod.com. Napa sells a lot of that up and down the front range now as well. So, yeah, that'd be one of those things that I would do. Outside of that, really, there's not much else you really need to do. So what is the lubricity doing? In the fuel, the lubricity would help lubricate the injector pump because all diesels have an injector pump that is, and modern diesels are now running that pressure way up. It's even different than what you used to have in a mechanical pump on, some of the old tractors and so on, but they all have an injector pump, which is increasing that pressure way up there. And the way that pump works, and if you look online, you can get a breakdown of how these pumps actually look inside. Those of you that are listening, you can look at a CP3, CP4 pump and see what they look like on the inside. but they literally have internal components that the fuel of course is the only thing lubricating what's inside there and when you have a low lubricity fuel like we have today there can be scoring and other things that happen inside of the pump which is where then they come apart they get into the injectors and you have big issues and you're doing complete fuel system replacements and so on so the longer you can keep that pump lasting And the late model pumps are worse about that than some of the earlier model pumps were. Less forgiving is what I should say. And this is not limited to a particular engine brand, is it? This is all late-model diesel engines. Bosch does the majority of injector pumps out there for a lot of diesels, period.
SPEAKER 12 :
Permax, Cummins.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, reality is that lubricity is really key in keeping those injector pumps going. So, yeah, for any of you driving diesel engine trucks, yeah, I would look at doing something along those lines. And, again, the light-duty diesels are way different than even the over-the-road type vehicles. you know engines and so on way different as far as all of that goes now one other thing you should do i was thinking about this the second one i think was really not much else you should do actually there is when it comes to the diesel trucks and the exhaust systems that they have the dpf the filters and so on and and again bg makes a cleaning solution for those as well that i would periodically probably once a year run through the truck just to make sure that you're keeping that system as clean as possible because that's another super expensive item that you can have if in fact that goes bad now there's warranty on those not a 22 i believe you're 8 and 80 so you're getting up there getting close to bumping up against the warranty on that even though it's a 22 with 65 000 you're going to bump up to the 80 faster than you're going to run out of time so Just something to think about there as well. Somebody said repeat the info about how to repel rodents and keep them from entering. Okay, I'll do that here in a moment. Let me get Mike in first. Go ahead, Mike.
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Hey, gift idea. Garage floor mat. I don't know if anybody mentioned it.
SPEAKER 07 :
They did not.
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There you go. That's all I got. That's a good one, too, Mike.
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And I forget about that, even though I park on one all the time. And that's another one, too, Mike, that originally those things were a couple hundred bucks, 300 bucks. I think he's even the first one that I bought. You can now buy them for 100 bucks.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
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Way less than they used to be. Yeah. Mike, appreciate you very much. All right, appreciate you. We've got another call coming in. Really quick, repelling the rodents and keeping them from entering the house. And, again, everybody's got their own way of doing this. And, number one, seal up your holes as much as you can. If you know you've got a known hole, seal those up. That's the number one. I have really great luck in my barn and even in my garage with the electronic rodent repellents. They're about the size of a half dollar. You can typically buy them in a three-pack. They're either round or square. And you find an outlet nearby, plug it in, and it emits a signal that they don't like. Now, will it eliminate all of them? It eliminates a good portion of them. I'm not saying you're going to get rid of every single mouse, but you'll get rid of a good portion of them. Now, the other thing that I still do, and, yes, I have animals, so I use the enclosed ones. I still do the poisons. You can put the block of poison in a little square box to where your dogs and cats can't get in there and eat it. But for those that the electronic repellent doesn't take care of, the block will. They will find their way to it. I don't know how. Must be able to smell it or something. But they will find their way to it. And once they eat some of that, it's all she wrote. That one is done.
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That's a good tip. That's how I do it. I'm a little more old school. So at our house, we have two cats that are excellent hunters.
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And then...
SPEAKER 12 :
If they get past the cats, then we have old-fashioned mouse traps.
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Again, they work as well also. Again, to each his own. The thing about the traps that's nice is they don't go off and die and stink. My way, they can. Now, in my barn, it's not as big of a deal because it stinks for just a little bit. then, you know, it's not any longer. Uh, but I will tell you though, the electronic devices that I use, cause I'm, I'm in the, you know, I'm in the rural area and have fields and things around me and so on. And I have used those now for years and have very little problem rodent wise, uh, by using those. So just, just a side note, Jim and Centennial you're next.
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Hey, how you doing today, Jim? I've been listening to you for, I don't know, 20 plus years now. So I really appreciate your show and stuff. Um, I had a quick question. My daughter bought a new Mazda CX-50. Okay. And it's the turbo car. Do I need to be running?
SPEAKER 07 :
Are you there? We lost you, Jim.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, I'm there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Should you be running and I lost you?
SPEAKER 11 :
EPR, every oil change on the turbo engine?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. On the Mazda? That's a direct injection engine as well. In fact, Mazda's been direct injection for a while because of their configuration and what they're doing with compression ratios and so on. That, Jim, of all cars is probably one of the highest cars on the list for doing what we're talking about.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, carbureting up and stuff?
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Yeah, just because the way they handle their compression ratio and so on, that's a very high compression engine that they run in that, and the way they're achieving that and such, yes, I would be running EPR in that every oil change.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, 44K as well?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, 44K, the MOA, all of that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, all right, all right. I just did my first oil change on it, and I already did that, so I'll just do it every change and every 5,000.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, you'll be in good shape if you do that.
SPEAKER 11 :
All right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, sir. Jim, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Pat, you want to add any of that?
SPEAKER 12 :
I was just going to say, I was wondering how he liked that MX-50.
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We like that car a lot. Yeah, that's a great car. And Mazda builds a fabulous car, as you guys know. I'm not going to knock those cars at all. They've been a great, solid car for years and years. Solid platform. They do a great job. Good fuel economy. Great power. They've got some luxury features inside that even a lot of other vehicles in that class don't have. They do a great job. So congratulations, Jim. Do that. You'll have a car that will really... literally run as long as you want to keep driving it. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. So, all right, guys, we'll be right back. Don't go anywhere. Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks so much for listening today. We appreciate it. Aaron and Golden, go ahead.
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Yeah, on your air filter conversation this morning.
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Yes.
SPEAKER 15 :
A couple years ago, I took my 2004 Ram 300,000 miles into the dealer for the airbag recall. The closest dealer to me here calls me and says, oh, your air filter's dirty. Can we change it for you? And I'm like, no. It has an air filter minder. Yeah, why are you even looking?
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 15 :
It's got an air filter minder.
SPEAKER 07 :
You're proving my point, Aaron. I mean, again, technicians even, I hate to say this, even in our own industry, don't understand what I mean by this.
SPEAKER 15 :
And then same dealer, I have a 22 Ram that I got from a company truck, take it into the same dealer at about 10,000 miles for an oil change, oil and fuel filter. They call me back and say... We looked at your air filter. It's dirty. Can we change it for you? Like, no. It's at 10,000 miles.
SPEAKER 07 :
And what's the gauge say? It's fine.
SPEAKER 15 :
What's the gauge say?
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, I can already tell you on that truck, until it gets up to about 50K, it's probably fine, as you know, Aaron.
SPEAKER 15 :
Right. So I'm like, no. It has 10,000 miles. It doesn't need an air filter. So on the 22 Ram, I've got 30,000 miles on it now. After that experience with the dealer, I now take the 22 Ram over to Arvada West and just have them do the 10,000 mile oil filter, fuel filter, and just, you know, I don't need the dealer.
SPEAKER 07 :
I agree with you. I mean, again, as you know, you're just proving my point.
SPEAKER 15 :
So then... The 22 RAM, I'm on a road trip up in Granby, and it goes into the don't stop because your DPF is going to plug up. You've got to keep driving. And then finally, when I make it back to my house here in Golden, it finally clears itself. But then it has some temperature. It's got a code. I check the code. I call the dealer, and they're like, and this is about the time when they come out and say that there's a sensor missing on that DPF. And so I called the dealer, and they're like, well, have you changed the air filter? I'm like, what?
SPEAKER 07 :
Nothing to do with it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Nothing to do with it. But so on that Cummins, the 22 I found with the DPF, and, you know, a short trip for me is still 20 miles one way down the canyon and back up. If I all drive and put six hours of run time on it, Watch the DPF gauge. It'll go into region every six hours. If I, if I just do short trips like that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 15 :
But if I, if I get out on the highway and do 200 miles, it'll go 24 hours of runtime before, you know, then it hits this mandatory region. Right. And, and he, unless, unless I hook up to a trailer and really put it under a load, uh, You know, the DPF just goes into regen all the time.
SPEAKER 07 :
One thing you might try, too, on that, because this is something that, again, learned through our BG person that we had on here a few weeks ago. You might try running. There's a two-step cleaning solution that they've got that you can run, Aaron, and you might try that and see if it changes some of that for you.
SPEAKER 15 :
I think it's just that anymore, if I'm just doing a short trip, I take one of my other trucks.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Yeah. Can't argue that. Yeah. Sure.
SPEAKER 15 :
I mean, I just did a – I had a job out in Grand Island, Nebraska, you know, a six-hour drive. I drove out there and back, and it never went into regen.
SPEAKER 06 :
Right. Yep.
SPEAKER 15 :
And, you know, it's just these trucks just, to meet the emissions, just driving around empty –
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 15 :
Just never gets things hot enough.
SPEAKER 07 :
You're correct. You are correct, Aaron. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 15 :
I think that's... And, you know, I can... I have the job where I need to go out of town and do road trips, so that helps. And I can also hook up to a trailer and haul a skid steer somewhere and really put a load on it. So I think that's, you know, helps this truck out.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 15 :
Because you're not up in the DPF, but... Somebody buying one of these to just drive around town and maybe just haul it around town.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, don't. Buy a gas truck if you're going to do that, Aaron. Honestly, don't buy that truck. We say that all day long, too. These are not good. If you're not going to haul and do things with it and you need to do heavy work with it, don't buy it.
SPEAKER 15 :
And heavy work is then, like, going down the highway for two, three hours at a time. Like, just hauling a skid steer around town isn't going to load that engine enough.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. One of the things we struggle with, Aaron, and I can't do anything about it, is, you know, we plow snow, as you know, and worst thing you could ever do when it comes to what we're talking about on the emission side of the fence. But, again, I don't have any choice, and those trucks do enough other stuff outside of snow that we need the diesel end of it. And, man alive, do we struggle in that area. I bet you do.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. Yeah, pound snow, I mean, people think that that loads the engine a lot.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, it just fills it full of soot, and you have a hard time getting it cleaned out.
SPEAKER 15 :
If you're applying snow right, you're not putting a lot of load on it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nope. You are correct. Yep. And, again, it is what it is. I mean, nothing I can do about it. Unless you choose to afford two trucks. You know, we've bought some gas trucks for that very reason. The problem then, Aaron, as you know, is when you do have a nice heavy load on them and you're doing real work with them, the diesel comes in so much more handy, as you know. Yep.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. yeah i mean that you know this 3500 single wheel i can haul 20 000 pounds around and um you know it's you know it's there but it does it and doesn't overheat doesn't you know just yep it just goes and it doesn't even have a good transmission good for you so aaron i appreciate it thank you no i appreciate that very much just really solidifying some of what we talked about earlier all right let me see if i can squeeze one more in here before we go to the bottom of the hour steve up in mead go ahead
SPEAKER 19 :
hey i've got a 2021 chevy with the baby duramax in it and i'm calling about the 10 speed transmission and the uh the uh it can you can be going down the highway and it'll jump from fifth gear down to second gear and lock up the rear end that's the recall yes good yes so i'm i'm wondering do i try if i can find one get a transmission valve body to have on hand. I don't know if they'll sell me one without a core, but I'm worried this, it's not happened to me, but if it does, you know, my truck's probably going to be in the shop for months waiting for a valve body. Do I get rid of it? I mean, this has got to be detrimental to the value of the truck.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's not helping them at all. I mean, they will fix it as time goes by, as we know, but as of right now, you are correct. And yes, it's going to affect the value of those used trucks. I will say, Steve, and this is my own personal belief, I can't verify this, but common sense would tell you that if you're keeping the fluid in it clean, doing the services on it as needed... I would still go ahead and at least do their software update for now that will eliminate the thing actually locking up the rear diff, which that's all they're doing is a software programming right now to help with that. Eventually, I do believe it will need a valve body. You won't be able to buy a valve body, by the way. They can't get enough to even handle the warranties. They've got nonetheless selling you one. But I would say, and how many miles, Ron? I didn't ask that. How many miles?
SPEAKER 19 :
Under 50.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, if you would do a service at 50 and keep doing those at 50, honestly, I highly doubt you'll have much issue with it, period. My feeling is the folks that have had issues, and I get it, some have had issues with them from the start where the transmission's almost brand new and have had issues. But in your case where it's gone this many miles, I feel, Steve, if you just keep servicing that, highly doubtful that thing will ever lock up.
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, well, that's reassuring. The other thing, I heard you talking about the diesel. Now, this is the baby one, and I heard it's more like an automotive than a truck diesel, but I kind of went back to work, and I'm doing some deliveries, and I might make 40 stops in a day. That's probably not going to make that motor very happy.
SPEAKER 07 :
It's not the same as the heavy diesels that are in the heavier 2,500, 3,500 trucks. So it's not the same on that. The thing on that truck, honestly, that you really need to look at, and this is where if I owned one of those, and they're great. We have as a fleet even, we've had some of those. The thing to remember on that one is it has a timing belt for the oil pump that's on the back of the engine that requires transmission removal, and that's due at about $100,000. So in my... Belief on that truck, I wouldn't own it that long.
SPEAKER 19 :
You wouldn't want the truck that long?
SPEAKER 07 :
Nope. I'd have it gone before $100,000. So that you wouldn't have to do that repair. Right.
SPEAKER 19 :
You would sell the truck?
SPEAKER 07 :
Before then, because I don't want that expense at that timing. At that point in time, it's a very expensive maintenance slash repair. I would have it gone before $100,000. You said the transmission has to come out? Yeah, it's on the back of the engine. It requires transmission removal to do it.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, I knew about that, and that was disappointing. I probably wouldn't have bought it if I knew that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Most didn't, yeah. But now, again, as far as that goes, Steve, there are people looking for that particular vehicle with that engine in it, and you've got fairly low miles considering. You do have value in the truck, and the new trucks are pretty – they're discounted right now a lot, some good deals on them. So if there's ever a time to look at making a change, you're there now.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, it's hard to know what to get. I mean, I don't really, I'm not interested in a turbocharged four-cylinder. I think that's just driving around a little hand grenade.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think you're working that. I'd buy a V8, personally. That's just me. Well, that's what I own, so I'd buy a 6.2 or a 5.3.
SPEAKER 19 :
I'm kind of back to, I just want a key and a heater and AC and maybe power door locks.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, good luck with that. Those days are gone. Don't we all.
SPEAKER 19 :
Find something old. Mm-hmm. All right, guys, thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, Steve, no, appreciate it. Great questions, by the way. Hope I answered that well for you. Gary, Eric, you guys hang tight. We'll come right back. I've got a review coming up next on a 2025 Genesis GV80. Stay tuned. We'll be right back. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Richard, you recently drove a 2025 Genesis GV80 3.5 Turbo Prestige all-wheel drive.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, so this is kind of a mouthful, Dad, but yeah, 2025 GV80, there's several different trim levels to choose from, as you know and as some of the listeners know. Genesis sort of does it kind of, you sort of buy the trim level, right? There's not necessarily additional add-ons and stuff you do. They're definitely available, but you kind of buy the trim level you want. And you can get this car, Dad. For less than $60,000, if you want to opt for that a little bit smaller engine, the four-cylinder turbocharged, which still works great, or you can kind of go to the higher end, which is where we were at, which is the V6. that twin-turbo V6, I should say, which worked really, really well. Fuel economy, 16 and 22 for an average of 19. And, Dad, the one we had is right up there, because this class of car, this not-extra-large SUV, but I'm still going to call it a large SUV, right? This larger-size SUV class that doesn't necessarily have the third row, but it's got plenty of room in the second row, is becoming a very, very competitive class. It is. Especially in the luxury segment, which is where this Genesis is meant to be. And at $81,000, you would expect that. And some of you listeners, Richard and John, $81,000. What I would say, folks, is look at some other competitors. And for a car similarly equipped, you're going to be $10,000, even $20,000 higher for a very similarly equipped car. So what has Genesis done, Dad? Well, they introduced this car, let me see here, back in 2021, kind of the first GV80 generation. So this year, not a whole lot's changed. some subtle exterior um and changes enhancements whatever you want to say it and the instrument cluster is nice and now nice one nice big 27 inch display it's got a lot of the creature comforts that you would expect on a vehicle of this you know price points inside massaging front seats heated and cooled you've got heated seats in the back i think you've got cool cooled seats in the second row. This one, Dad, was outfitted not with the third row, but sort of with the, I'm going to call it, and I'm probably going to butcher it, so my apologies, Genesis. I'm going to call it the chauffeur's second row. And what I mean by that is basically the second row is more of a Well, it's more of a you can have it as a chauffeur car, right? If you're an executive, you want someone to drive you around, it's got the ability to do that because the second row passenger can actually move forward the front passenger seat if they desire, give them some more legroom. They can actually recline those seats a little bit. It's got your color-changing interior. It's got a fragrance dispenser in it. I could go on and on, Dad, about the list of technology in it. But Genesis has done that. And you see this badge? And honestly, Dad, you see this car, and I'll say it, even at $80,000, you think this car's worth a lot more money than that. And they've done a phenomenal job at it. They really have some cool tech, Dad. And you can sort of speak to this as far as suspension-wise goes to where it actually has cameras. that search the road in front of you and find, basically, find potholes, whatever it might be, and essentially prepare the suspension for said, you know, for said environment, right, that it's ready to go over. So, yeah, so maybe the right side is going to go over a bump. Well, it can actually anticipate that, have the suspension system plan for that just on the right side and keep you going as smoothly as you can. And I will say this, Dad, driving down the road in this car, It is smooth. It is quiet. And it's just something that you get in this car and you feel luxurious. It's even got this mood, Dad, or this mode where it sets the mood or kind of lets you be in this zen mode where you can sit in the car and it can massage you and it plays this relaxing music. So you can just kind of veg out for a second, to be honest with you. So it's a really cool vehicle. You've driven some Genesis over the years, and they tend to impress every time you get in them, don't they?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, you know, Genesis is a brand that for a lot of folks, and they're becoming more and more popular because you get a lot of car for the money, and I've said it numerous times, you're going to go spend in a lot of cases, depending upon the model of Genesis and so on and what you're competing against, but anywhere from $20,000 to $50,000 more to go find another like luxury vehicle like the one you're looking at on the Genesis side. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. That's how much of a better value they are than some of the other vehicles that are on the road. And for those that are listening, yes, Hyundai is the parent company, but there is no other Hyundai Kia that matches what Genesis is doing. It literally is its own line. It's a lot like what some of the other luxury car makers do that are out there as well. So, no, it is not like the other sister companies that are there underneath the Hyundai brand or the Hyundai label, if you would. Richard, Genesis is its own deal, if you would, and they build a very nice luxury car for a very great value.
SPEAKER 04 :
They do. And the other thing is, as we've talked about this before, they're willing to stand behind it in terms of their warranty, right? Right. is in direct competition to some of the other manufacturers, right? Some of the other luxury brands that are kind of doing some of that. So overall, I was pleased with it. Like you said, business is getting to the end of the year. I don't know if it necessarily fits your requirements, whatever you're looking to do, but I would strongly encourage you, if you're looking for a large luxury SUV or whatever you want to refer to it as, right? Enough for four full-size adults without any issues at all. I would encourage folks, head to your local Genesis dealer, test drive it, get out and experience this car. And if it's been a while since you have, I really encourage you to do that because I think you'll be really happy. And when you do that, let them know that John and Richard Rush from Drive Radio and Rush to Reason sent you.
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SPEAKER 07 :
All right, we are back. Eric and Aurora, what's going on, sir?
SPEAKER 16 :
Hi. Two things, or three things. Sure. First, are there any legitimate ways to, I guess they call it, decarbonize catalytics?
SPEAKER 07 :
No. No.
SPEAKER 16 :
I didn't think so.
SPEAKER 07 :
See, even a struggle for, you know, we were talking diesels a minute ago, Eric, and there's been some devices and some people that, you know, claim to even be able to clean, you know, the DPFs and so on, and I will tell you, even on those, it's sort of hit and miss, and most of those didn't turn out near what the manufacturer of those machines said they would do, and they don't fulfill it either, to be honest with you.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right, right. That's what I suspected. That's why I phrased it as legitimate.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. Right. Anybody claiming they do that is probably lying.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right, right. Now, along those lines, as long as I buy a California-compliant catalytic, are there any reasons why the backyard mechanic would not be allowed to replace his own catalytic?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, there's no law against that. None.
SPEAKER 16 :
I didn't think so, but somebody told me that. No, they're lying. I've never heard of it.
SPEAKER 07 :
They're sorely mistaken. Let's just say it that way.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, they're mistaken. They aren't a mechanic.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, they're sorely mistaken.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah. And then the other is I, you know, in the past I've told you I have the two Toyota Highlanders 2006 model year hybrids. And at 300 and some thousand miles, 18 years. It looks like I may have lost my primary hybrid battery pack in one of them.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 16 :
So that's a good lifespan. Not bad. That's good. Yeah. Now, I do... I did have a load in the car, and some of it had fallen down into that footwell area where the vents are.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 16 :
So it's a possibility that maybe it was just indicating reduced air flow. So before I... Officially declare it dead and consider whether or not I want to replace it at $4,000, you know, with 300,000 miles on an engine. I will do more, you know, hook up the scan tools and clear all the bits, you know, vacuum any filters, all that, just to make sure. And then, of course, the scan tool I have can look at the individual battery cell volts.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nice. Nice.
SPEAKER 16 :
I just wanted to say, hey, 18 years and over 300,000 miles.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'll add to that also that Legacy up in Boulder, Josh and the guys, if you go to rebuild that battery, Eric, he's a good resource on that to help you if you decide to go that route.
SPEAKER 16 :
OK. OK.
SPEAKER 07 :
He does that.
SPEAKER 16 :
So with all my electronics background, I've got the ability. I just I know I don't have the time.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And in some of that is even having the right, you know, getting it in and out of the car and, you know, lifting mechanisms and so on. But, yeah, if you decide to go down that route, you know, call him and at least talk to him.
SPEAKER 16 :
Copy that. Yeah, well, do you have anything down in Colorado Springs? No.
SPEAKER 07 :
Sorry.
SPEAKER 16 :
I live and work down there now.
SPEAKER 07 :
I do not.
SPEAKER 16 :
No longer.
SPEAKER 07 :
I don't even know anybody down there doing that type of work. Even the one person I know that I do send a few people to, I don't think he does any of that. So I don't have anybody at all, Eric.
SPEAKER 16 :
Okay. Okay. Yeah, so I'll consider that legacy in Boulder, correct?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, because he's doing a lot more of that and even getting into a lot of the EVs and so on. So, yeah, they can do a Tesla repair and all that also.
SPEAKER 16 :
Speaking of Tesla, my wife just bought a brand new one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Nice. Good for her. Congratulations.
SPEAKER 16 :
So I inherited her minivan, and that's the one that's got catalytic indicator on it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Now you can replace that. You're fine. You can do that.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right on.
SPEAKER 07 :
You'll be fine.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right, John.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good man, Eric. Thank you very much, by the way. Appreciate you always listening and calling in. Your wealth of info has helped me out on some of my other shows as well, so I appreciate Eric greatly. So, Gary, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, John. Happy holidays.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, happy holidays to you, too.
SPEAKER 18 :
A pretty pedestrian issue, our favorite check engine light. Okay. Okay. I went, and it almost seems like it's a, I bought my car new in 15, paid cash because I hate car payments. Right. But it seems like every year my car payment is when I have to get the check engine, like, diagnosed. And it's always, you know, it's that time of the year. It happened a year ago. And, you know, I went and had them pull the code, and it's the same code. It always is. It's P05. 456 EVAP system leak detected.
SPEAKER 07 :
I almost said EVAP before you said it, because that's what it was a year ago.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and so, you know, the light's on. I usually, you know, I hate this light staring at me, so I try to get it diagnosed and fixed.
SPEAKER 07 :
Which you should. Good for you.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, and it usually is, you know, $500 to $1,000, depending on what they find.
SPEAKER 07 :
And I don't remember, Gary, what they find last year. I'm sorry, I don't remember. What did they do last year?
SPEAKER 18 :
um i don't remember it i know that they had to do like a smoke test yeah something sounds right and they asked me to bring it in when it was uh less than half full and gas right right um i i don't know i i don't remember that stuff but i'm gonna bring it in you know get it yeah but is this my i guess my question is you know my car is almost 10 years old is it For this particular EVAP issue, is it just something that you should expect because things wear out and it'll trigger this problem?
SPEAKER 07 :
Depends on the car.
SPEAKER 18 :
What kind of car is this, by the way? It's a Kia Forte Coupe.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, on that one. Now, tip for you and anybody else that has this coat on an older vehicle like what you have, Gary, before you do anything else, go buy a high-quality gas cap and install it and see what happens.
SPEAKER 18 :
Where do you buy those gas caps?
SPEAKER 07 :
Napa. Or dealership. Or the dealer, but Napa will have that. And they'll have a high-quality cap, so buy a high-quality cap. Don't do an online rock auto, whatever. You'll buy a high-quality cap, put it on it, and see what happens.
SPEAKER 18 :
I know that they test for that when I bring it in. They've tested it in the past, and they haven't found a problem with the cap.
SPEAKER 07 :
Again, being it's 10 years old, I would just put one on it, Gary. Right. Right.
SPEAKER 18 :
All right, I'll try that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Do that and see what happens. If it turns it off, then we're ahead.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, they seem to replace a lot of charcoal canisters on that one.
SPEAKER 07 :
That one, too.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, the funny thing, you know, replacing a cap used to be easy. Now it's attached to some wire.
SPEAKER 07 :
Got the little tether on it. The keeper. Yep.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah. So, you know, for someone like me, detaching a wire is a challenge.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, what you could do on that one, because it's pretty simple, worst comes to worst, take a pair of scissors, cut the tether off, put the new cap on it, and call it good. All right, I'll try that. It's not hurting you. All right, thanks, John. You bet, Gary. Appreciate you very much. See how that works and let us know. All right, Ivan and Paul, guys, hang tight. We'll come right back. Drive Radio KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Myself, Pat Schneipp from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Steve Horvath from Geno's down here in Centennial. Ivan and Parker, you are next. Ivan, are you there? I know he's holding a while. Ivan, we'll give you one more chance. Otherwise, I'm going to move on to somebody else. All right, let's do this. I'll put him back on hold. You can find out, Larry, where he's at. Paul in Black Forest, you're next. Hey, good morning, John. Good morning, Paul.
SPEAKER 14 :
It's really great to hear Larry back on the line again.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, awesome.
SPEAKER 14 :
He even remembers me, and I don't call that much.
SPEAKER 07 :
There we go.
SPEAKER 14 :
Good job. Hey, on that 2012 Subaru I just picked up for my daughter and my little grandson to run around in up in northern Idaho, I texted you about it. It's a 2012 with 21,000 miles on it.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's awesome.
SPEAKER 14 :
And pristine, pristine condition.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's awesome.
SPEAKER 14 :
A couple little minor hail things, but... I texted you, you know, whenever I'm not sure I want to dig into something, I text you. And just like my dad, you say, yeah, do it. And so I'm doing that. When I first got this thing, I'm going through it and inspecting it. And holy cow, this thing is really nice. I put some sound insulation in the back. And in the back is a little funny story reading into my question. In the back, there's this gasket package, you know, typical MOLLE like a Felpro thing with a big old ring and a couple of collars. And I'm thinking, well, what the heck is that doing in there? I didn't think much of it or really even analyze what it was for. So I drive it a little bit. They gave me a 1,000-mile warranty on it. So I'm doing the plugs after your recommendation. Go ahead and do them. It's got the brown town car. And, you know, the Subaru is so easy to work on most things, but the plugs are real tight up against the frame rails. I got the passenger side done no problem. I'm doing the driver's side. I get the front plug out, and the coil is just coated in oil. I'm going, oh, man, now I've got mission creep here. My quick spark plug job has now turned into pulling that. It's really a top cap style valve cover on that non-turbo 2.5. So I kind of think back and say, wait a minute. What about that gasket that's still in the spare tire well? I pull that sucker out of there, and sure as heck, there was an extra gasket with the car for that side. Oh, boy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Figures.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, somebody does. I think they call that deferred maintenance.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep, yep.
SPEAKER 14 :
But the question I've got on that thing, I pulled the plugs out, and they definitely look like it had more than 20,000 miles, lots of hours of around-town driving. But all the threads on the plugs look like you'd get out of, you know, like, say, maybe a chainsaw or a car that's been flooded. And, you know, a lot of fuel residue, you know, kind of varnish around the plug threads, really a deep-set plug. And that... I noticed when I've had it in my shop running, that thing will high idle in 11, 1200 RPM for like three or four minutes. I keep the shop at 55, 60 degrees. And this exhaust exhaust is really, really rich. I mean, it's worse than my emission controlled diesel to run in the shop. I got to crack a door right away, but I've got no check engine lights. Again, gets 26 miles a gallon. Is there anything off the top of you guys' head that would cause that thing to high idle for so long?
SPEAKER 12 :
Maybe engine coolant temp sensor?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, that's what I was thinking. Back in the day when emissions and engine management was primitive, and so was antifreeze for that matter, you'd pull out a coolant temp sensor and it would have a layer of jelly around it. Yeah. But could an O2 sensor with a bad heater cause that and not set the light?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think you'd be getting some codes. Yeah, you don't find that that often anymore. To Steve's point, without it throwing a code or something, it would tell you that, Paul, typically.
SPEAKER 14 :
So when you get an O2 sensor code, it's also checking whether or not your heater's working. Correct. Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Different codes for different parts of the sensor, yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
But you're saying right now with the high idle or extended high idle, it does not have any lights or codes?
SPEAKER 14 :
Nope, nothing. I haven't had a check engine light since I got it. But it stinks to high heaven. Yeah. Yeah, it's real run and rich, which I think explains the fuel residue on the plug. That would make sense. Once it warms up. Once it warms up, it's fine.
SPEAKER 10 :
What's the mass airflow sensor on that one? Do you remember? Is it just a single wire type? I don't remember.
SPEAKER 14 :
No, it's multiple wire. It's like a five-wire.
SPEAKER 10 :
So it's heated, too. Yeah. I was just wondering if there's a little carbon got on it or something like that.
SPEAKER 14 :
That's worth checking. Yeah, that's worth looking at.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. You can buy that mass airflow cleaner and just spray it. Actually, a good idea just to do as maintenance anyway. It wouldn't hurt.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that wouldn't hurt anything.
SPEAKER 14 :
I've got some of that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good idea.
SPEAKER 14 :
I've got some of that. I ran into an old Buick on a friend of mine's car like that. The doggone spider he got.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. Absolutely, Paul. I don't know how many cars got fixed that way. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that's a wild little car. And, of course, being 12 years old, I know, John, you're kind of. objective about old low mileage cars versus new, but I was, I don't mind the older ones. They're a little easier to work on. I can buy them.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, no, as long. And again, a lot of that comes back down to all use cars, by the way, how's it been cared for? Absolutely.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, absolutely. And of course the only bloody light I do have on the darn thing is the TPMS. So I got to go.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that's normal. Yeah, that's normal.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. That's a real pain in the neck. And I also want to give a shout out to a local guys. I don't know. You probably have guys in Denver too, but, uh, I've talked to you before about that 07 Mercedes I picked up with 47,000 miles on it. Yeah. The E550 sedan, 4Matic, and that thing, 380 horse. It goes like a stall dog. Oh, yeah, they do. And I'm getting 25, 26 miles a gallon with that, too.
SPEAKER 07 :
Those were decent cars, actually. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
And no turbo, no timing belt, none of that stuff. But, boy, I had a vibration in that. I think I talked to you about that a while ago, and I couldn't find anything in the driveline. I finally got it up on the rack. You know, 4Matic, I could get all the wheels off the ground, even though mine's a runway. And the two right-side wheels, I swear they're bent. Ah, yeah. Half-inch to three-quarters of an inch. I can't believe it drove that smooth, but the wheels that bad.
SPEAKER 10 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 14 :
So the rims are actually... Yeah, you know, they have such a high offset. They're almost flush-mounted to the outside of the wheel, and the whole wheel extends in towards the car. And our lovely Colorado roads.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, somebody curb-checked it probably.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, you've got potholes here. Potholes and curbs.
SPEAKER 12 :
Interesting.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, but I found a place called Alloy Wheel Pros here in Colorado Springs. Very reasonable. I couldn't find any used rims for it anymore. It's too old. Yeah, and they'll fix them. Nice. They round them back out about 100, 125 a wheel. Two of them have a little curb rash. They're going to take all that out. That's all right. Good.
SPEAKER 07 :
Way less than half the cost. Good. No, that's awesome. That's a good tip for us even. Paul, thank you for that. That's a good tip. Yeah, it's a good story. Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, they mostly do work for dealers, but even my little shop up here in Monument, they come pick them up, take them to the shop, they'll bring them back.
SPEAKER 07 :
Very good.
SPEAKER 14 :
And I'm having new tires put on. Very good. Super nice guy.
SPEAKER 07 :
That's awesome. That's good to know.
SPEAKER 14 :
And even with my little home hobby shop, they're giving me their commercial wholesale discounts.
SPEAKER 07 :
Good deal.
SPEAKER 14 :
Alloy Wheel Pros down here in the States.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'll write that down.
SPEAKER 14 :
Super guys.
SPEAKER 07 :
I'll write that down. I'll let you run. Paul, thank you very much. We'll take a top-of-the-hour break. Ivan, I will take you first as soon as we come back. Russ and Cheyenne, you guys hang tight. Again, yes, somebody texted a moment ago and said, is this the text line I can ask a question? Absolutely. 307-200-8222. You can either call us directly on the main line or you can text us on the line I just mentioned a moment ago. Our main line here in the studio, 303-477-5600. Pat, myself, and Steve, we'll be right back. This is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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In this episode of Drive Radio, we dive into great gift ideas for the motorhead in your life. Whether it's essential tools for the garage or cool car gadgets that make driving a pleasure, our hosts have a list that promises something for everyone. Listen in as we also tackle pressing car maintenance questions from our listeners, ensuring your vehicle remains in top shape through the holiday season and beyond.
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And it is Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Had a great hour on Fix-It Radio. Hopefully a lot of you are still listening. We'll continue on with our theme of what are some great gift ideas. In this case, we talked about in Fix-It Radio about gift ideas for the DIYer. around the house we're going to just move that into what is a great gift idea for the motorhead in your world you know the diy you know car guy uh gal even in your world so we'll continue on with that 303-477-5600 steve horvath from gino's auto service with me today was this last hour as well so steve welcome to drive radio as well welcome thank you always appreciate you and patch night with us as well from all tech automotive up in fort collins
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, good morning.
SPEAKER 20 :
Merry Christmas. It's a great day to drive down anyways. Oh, beautiful day today. Gorgeous. So yeah, not any better than that. So appreciate you taking time out of your day, which given that it's so nice outside, you guys are making a big sacrifice. So thank you. We could be golfing. You could be doing lots of things outside besides being here. We appreciate you being here. And those of you listening, again, give us what your ideas are for, you know, great gift ideas for the Motorhead in your world. Now, On top of that, of course, Larry Unger is answering phones for us today, and Charlie Grimes, our engineer. But when it comes to some of those gift ideas and the reason why we're doing that today, and depending upon how far we get along, might continue this into next week. We'll just see how it goes. But bottom line. we know we're hard to buy for okay i will be the first to admit that and when you're one of those individuals that you know what's that old saying you have tools to fix tools which most of us do yeah it's hard to go buy another tool that you know that individual will actually enjoy although during fix it radio we had lots of great suggestions from not only the the callers and listeners that you know called in but i had a pretty good list of items that we'll continue on with next week as well so again what is that great gift idea for that motorhead in your world and we'll take those calls 303-477-5600 but i'll start with you guys any anything that you want to add to the list pat we'll start with you you bet i got one uh so this is colorado and the average day it could go from 20 degrees to 70 degrees and back to 20 again so in almost every car i just keep a car oriented hoodie sweatshirt when uh when it gets cool pull it out and let's go Yeah, it's not a bad idea. Again, that's another great. I talk about this on some of my other programs. There are some items that, for example, tape measures and flashlights. Can you ever have enough of? No, is the answer. Because you will stick those in each car. You'll put them in each toolbox, tool bag. You'll have them in a drawer in the garage. house. You'll have one in your nightstand. I mean, the reality is when it comes to, you know, flashlights especially, you never have enough. And the hoodie thing that Pat just mentioned as well, kind of the same deal. Okay, so you have an extra when you go throw in the car and it's always there because I do the same thing, Pat. I've actually got one in the truck that I keep in the back underneath the seat at all times. So you've got it no matter what. If you need it, it's there. They're easy and cheap. In my case, you end up getting some that are given away at times from promotional things and so on. So when I have one of those, I just go throw it in the back like you just said.
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I have those little magnet lights that they charge up and they click anywhere you want to put them and you can kind of adjust them. They're really small and they're cheap. And you know what the problem is, you always leave them on a car. And the car comes back like two months later. And it's still there. Oh, that's hilarious. It's still there, but I've lost a few of those.
SPEAKER 20 :
You do lose those. And tape measures, they get legs and walk off as well. I'll just say straight up, those are some items that even if you know somebody has a lot of items. Will they ever refuse another tape measure or flashlight headlamp, the little stick-on lights that Steve was just talking about? I mean, literally anything along those lines. Will they ever refuse anything like that? No, they will never refuse those. All right, let's get started on questions. Rich in Nevada, go ahead.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, I've got three or four questions here. Sure, go ahead. One thing is I've got one of these slime digital tire gauges. I also have a pump that shows a gauge. You stick it on and pump up the air. And then I also have a stick, and all three of them give me a different reading, as much as five pounds difference. Which would be the most reliable, would you think?
SPEAKER 20 :
Which one's the most expensive of what you own? Oh, really? Is that right?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm not.
SPEAKER 20 :
And by the way, the old sticks are usually fairly accurate, the way those things are designed. As long as it's a professional type stick, you know, pressure gauge, what I'm trying to say there. As long as it's a professional, you know, there are some really inexpensive ones that are out there. You know, what I'm talking about is if it's the heavy steel, you know, you pick the thing up and you know there's some robustness to it. Those are going to be, even though they're not digital, they're accurate, Rich.
SPEAKER 06 :
Is that right? Okay.
SPEAKER 20 :
Now, if it's a cheesy aluminum one, they're not as accurate.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, then. And then also on oil, does oil age out by just sitting there? Should you dump it every six months regardless of mileage, or what would you recommend?
SPEAKER 20 :
Once it's in the car, it can age out over time, and rule of thumb is you should change at least once a year, even if it's a vehicle that you don't drive much. Now, there's a caveat I'll add to that. If you have your vehicle, and a lot of you listening do, if you've got a vehicle and it's in pretty climate-controlled space, in other words, it doesn't get super hot in the summertime, doesn't get super cold in the winter, stays above 50 in the winter and stays below 90 in the summer, you don't have a lot of temperature variation, honestly, Rich, in that case, you could even probably stretch that with the new synthetic oils we have. You could stretch that to probably once every other year if you don't drive it at all. I mean, some people don't drive... you know, 100 miles a year, for example. In that case, yeah, you could stretch that out for a couple of years. Otherwise, if you're driving, you know, 3,000, 4,000 miles a year, that oil's really not aging out per se, but the type of trips you're using and so on, you need to do an annual oil change.
SPEAKER 08 :
Rich, are you talking about in the car or in the bottle?
SPEAKER 06 :
Is the oil still in the bottle? In the car.
SPEAKER 20 :
In the car, okay. Yeah, in the bottle, it never ages out. Right. It'll get too old for the SFI spec before it ages out.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. And then on a turbocharged engine, how often would you recommend having an oil change on that?
SPEAKER 1 :
4,000.
SPEAKER 06 :
Every 4,000?
SPEAKER 20 :
On a turbocharged engine, yes. Because it's most likely direct injection, meaning we need to do the full synthetic, the EPR treatment from BG, the MOA, which is the mortar oil additive, and the 44K, and you want to do that at every oil change. And that's going to keep carbon deposits and things inside of the engine down, therefore giving you better longevity. and saving money down the road. And there's all sorts of, for all of you listening that have direct injection engines, there's all sorts of videos now out there of guys even that do engine rebuilds and so on that will show you what happens inside the engine not doing the things that we're recommending. Yep.
SPEAKER 06 :
And you should do that every oil change. Every oil change. Really, is that right? Wow, okay. And then also, I've got an F-150 2011 model. And I had the first time I've ever done an engine restore, you know, that you talk about where they clean out the carbonation. And I've actually seemed like I've actually lost one or two miles per gallon after that. Could that have caused that or not?
SPEAKER 20 :
No. What specific product did you use, Rich?
SPEAKER 06 :
I'm not for sure.
SPEAKER 20 :
It wasn't a BG or anything like that. Okay. And again, if you could maybe even email me at a later date what particular product they used, I can do a little bit of research on that. But the BG product we talk about, You will generally, I mean, it's not a guarantee, but you will generally pick up some mileage with what we recommend because of what it's doing inside to the rings and so on. You will normally pick up some mileage when it's all said and done. So to lose mileage, that's where I want to know exactly what did they do and see if there's any correlation. There shouldn't be, but I don't know in your case because I don't know what they did.
SPEAKER 06 :
Sure, sure. And back to the turbocharged engine, how often should you change that air filter? I understand that... Only when it's needed.
SPEAKER 20 :
Only when it's needed, and that's one of those items. I'm glad you brought that up. We don't talk about this near enough. Most air filters are changed far too often. In fact, I'm one that believes that... Unless you've got significant mileage and or you've been driving in really dirty areas, don't even touch the box. I am not a fan of opening the box every oil change because, frankly, they don't need it. Air filters will run 30,000, 40,000 miles fairly easily, especially in all the modern filters we've got today and the good air boxes and so on. If you're using a good quality filter, I guess I should start off by saying that. If you're using a premium filter, they'll go that long. but I am not somebody that says they need to be checked every single oil change because, frankly, every time the box is opened, there's more risk of getting debris into it then than if you just left it alone.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 20 :
And that's coming from somebody that has a fleet of street sweepers that run in very dirty elements all of the time. And, Rich, we don't touch them until we know for sure it's at a point where they need replaced or cleaned because what I just said applies to that area especially, but it really applies to every single engine out there. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, then. Okay, well, thank you very much. Appreciate your help.
SPEAKER 20 :
You're very welcome, Rich. And that is something over the years that I learned. And that, by the way, is a little bit opposite of what they teach us in the automotive world. Because I grew up where every oil change, you check the filter. Of course, I grew up in the 70s to where you almost needed a filter about every other oil change. It was a little different time. But as we've gotten to where there's the enclosed air boxes. And we've got a flat filter. It's not a round filter anymore that goes around the carburetor. It's a flat filter inside of an air box. They're typically positioned in a spot, by the way, where there's not as much dirty air coming into it in the first place. Back in the day, you were sucking air right off the engine. As time went by, got into the... Oh, early 80s or so, they kind of started ducting even the air cleaners then kind of out to the front grill area of the vehicle. When we moved into the actual air boxes where the inlet of the air box is typically right up front by where one of the headlamps or the grill area is at, we are literally now sucking much cleaner air into the engine than what we ever did. And the problem is... Yes, there still can be some dirts and bugs and some contaminants and stuff in there. And remember, every time that box gets opened, some of what I just mentioned can naturally fall into the area that will then get sucked into the engine. So unless a technician is super diligent. And they've got, frankly, and I talk about this on Fix-It Radio a lot, one of the little portable shop vacs that's really handy to have that are cordless. Unless they're vacuuming all of that out really well and putting everything back together, which, by the way, most don't. And I'm not criticizing anybody. If you go to Quick Lube, by the way, none of what I just said is happening. They're opening it up. They're looking. They're putting it back together, and off it goes. And, frankly, you're doing more disservice on that engine than you would be if you just left it alone. And the other misconception, and, by the way, you don't hear it as much anymore. but used to be people talked about changing the filter and picking up fuel economy. That is actually a lie. On modern vehicles that are computer-controlled, a dirty air filter means there's less airflow going to the engine, meaning that the fuel-air ratio is going to change, meaning you're going to cut back on fuel, not add fuel. So it's actually the opposite. Putting a new filter in might actually decrease fuel economy, then increase it because power is going to increase and so on. So, again, that's one of those things where if you hear any ad out there, from any auto shop saying, yeah, change your air filter and improve mileage. You don't go there because they have no idea how things on the actual car itself work. And they're essentially misleading in the advertisement because nothing could be farther from the truth. And yet in our world, even a lot of old technicians will tell you what I just said is wrong, that changing an air filter will actually improve mileage. things um yeah no it doesn't been around it far too long and no it does not so lucy jerry you guys hang tight we have one line open 303-477-5600 pat from fort collins and steve from geno's we'll be right back this is drive radio klz 560.
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SPEAKER 20 :
All right, we are back again. I should add, too, on the air filter end of things, we were talking through the break, Pat, Steve, and I were. Also, the other big no-no, and some folks will still do this from time to time, never blow an air filter out with compressed air, period. This is not your furnace filter. This isn't the lawnmower. Air filter. I mean, we're doing, you know, this is a very high end thing that's in most modern cars. The age of the fleet's about 13 and a half years now. And these guys can answer this better than I. The average engine replacement cost, guys, is how much? 10K or more? Yep. North of 10. Okay. North of 10K. So you're going to blow an air filter out. And risk, in some of what I just mentioned in that last segment, risk damaging a $10,000-plus component on the vehicle, yeah, not worth it, folks. So, yeah, just don't go down that path. Lucy, you're next.
SPEAKER 19 :
Hi, John.
SPEAKER 20 :
Hey, Lucy.
SPEAKER 19 :
In October, I purchased a brand-new 2025 Subaru Outback. Beautiful. Okay. Crystal pearl, warm ivy interior.
SPEAKER 12 :
Very nice.
SPEAKER 19 :
I even upgrade it. I'm an avid listener, so I put a clear bra on it. Nice. I tinted the windows. And that ceramic coating, I learned about that on your show. It's amazing. Yep. The snow just falls right off.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 19 :
And the car looks like I'm back from when they put clear coat on cars years ago, and that's what it reminds me of. The color looks deep.
SPEAKER 20 :
Very beautiful. Everything you just said, you are the testament, so thank you. Nice.
SPEAKER 19 :
This is the thing. I drove a Lexus previously, and this is a very practical car that's comfortable and handles beautifully, but it's not my style. I want to put it on the market, and I want to know what selling platform you suggest. I only want a price fair to me and the buyer. But this is such a new car, it's different than selling a used car. So what do you suggest?
SPEAKER 04 :
That's a tough one.
SPEAKER 20 :
It is. It is. And the reason I say that is because most people buying this car that would be buying it on the used market will need to get it financed. You actually, Lucy, would be best off calling Josh and Justin up at Ridgeline Auto Brokers in Boulder, having them consign the vehicle. They've got the ability to help somebody get financed and handle that whole end of it. and still get you top dollar when it's all said and done, and you're not messing with somebody coming and driving and are they legit or not. And the transactional side of it would be so much easier. Safer. And safer, yes.
SPEAKER 19 :
And I'm actually buying the vehicle I'm replacing this with from Ridgeline Auto.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, perfect, perfect. Then just tell them what you want to do and let them handle the whole thing.
SPEAKER 19 :
But I was under the impression they only handle cars up to $25,000.
SPEAKER 20 :
That's their normal, but they will do other cars. I mean, I talk to them weekly, so, yeah, they will. I mean, their advertising and what they specialize in is that $10,000 to $25,000 range. But, no, they've sold and they have, at times, vehicles that are much higher in price than that, all the way up to $100,000 or so. So, yeah, they've sold many a vehicle in that upper price range.
SPEAKER 04 :
And they may have somebody already interested.
SPEAKER 20 :
On that particular car, Lucy, they may very well have somebody interested. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 19 :
And I'm willing to take a hit on it. I know the minute you drive off the showroom floor, it loses a little value. But I'm just at the point in my life where I want a car I absolutely love.
SPEAKER 20 :
Can't blame you.
SPEAKER 19 :
I don't want to just have transportation. Don't settle.
SPEAKER 20 :
No, don't settle, Lucy. I'm not going to argue with you on that. I can't blame you at all. But you've also put some nice features on this car, too. Sure. That'll upgrade it as well. Absolutely. What are you going to buy?
SPEAKER 19 :
A Lexus, and I've always driven a Lexus, and I got used to the Lexus product, which is incredible.
SPEAKER 20 :
It's a fine product. There's nothing wrong with them at all, Lucy. We talk about them. Even the ones I test drive and we give reviews on, they're just solid vehicles. There's not a thing wrong with them.
SPEAKER 19 :
And ideally, I'd like a 1984 911 because I'm from the— Oh, yeah, you and me both.
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm with you there, Lucy. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 19 :
So there's my wish list.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, that's a good one as well. Absolutely. You might need to have two cars.
SPEAKER 19 :
And I was willing to compromise, but I tried it, and it didn't work for me.
SPEAKER 20 :
And really quick, for all of you listening, Lucy, and I've driven plenty of Subarus over the years on test vehicles. I've never owned one, and I can fully understand what you're saying. While the Subaru is very practical, they drive well. It's a great car for the majority of people. It will go from A to B, especially in our snow and all of that. They have one of the best four-wheel drive systems out there for that end of things, and they're fabulous. But it's not a Lexus. That's right.
SPEAKER 19 :
My thought exactly. And I tried it and it didn't work. And, you know, at least I tried it. But once you drive something like a Lexus, you know.
SPEAKER 20 :
And for all of you listening, I mean, Lucy and you know, but for folks listening that may not. I mean, this is everything from the creature comforts, how it sounds inside, the driving factor as far as the way it feels and steers and so on. They're just not in the same category of cars.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, and my interiors were mahogany and real wood. And I walked up to my car, and I would just be so happy and proud to be getting into a Lexus. And I just don't have that feeling. And I'm at the age where life is too short to not be happy.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely. I fully agree with you, Lucy.
SPEAKER 19 :
So a few extra thousand dollars in the grand scheme of things is nothing if I'm happy with the vehicle. But I'm delighted you recommended Ridgeline. They have so much integrity and professionalism, and I've loved working with them. I've worked with them before.
SPEAKER 20 :
And Justin will be around even today, Lucy. Call Justin. And sooner than later, because this time of the year, people look to do things at end of year for all sorts of different reasons. So on this one, especially sooner than later.
SPEAKER 19 :
Agreed. And it doesn't have a scratch or door neck. Perfect. I parked it far away from everything. It's perfect. And the sooner I'm able to sell it, the better. Absolutely. So thank you, John. Thank you, Lucy. I love your program. I love it so much. Thank you.
SPEAKER 20 :
Appreciate you very much. Merry Christmas to you. And yeah, for all of you listening, too, if you're looking for a new used car or you're looking to do something even like what Lucy just mentioned a moment ago, Ridgeline Auto Brokers, and that's Legacy Auto Repair as well, they now have three locations as far as the service end of it goes so they can take care of your vehicle automatically. in multiple locations and then as far as the sale of it goes they can handle that as well they can sell you a new a new used car in the boulder area or they can do it up north in fort collins doesn't matter just give them a call and with lucy being in gold and not that far of a drive to boulder and she's already used them but for those of you listening doesn't really matter where you're at they will help you with that purchase and yeah it's a way different experience than going to your typical dealership in buying something new or used i'll just tell you that straight up so jerry and greely go ahead
SPEAKER 16 :
I've got a Craftsman brand clicker-style torque wrench that I bought about 40 years ago. I don't know why, but it's out of calibration now. It happens.
SPEAKER 20 :
It happens.
SPEAKER 16 :
And I've been on the Internet trying to figure out how to calibrate it. During my research, I find these people giving advice to exercise the wrench. They say run it all the way up to the top end of the scale and then back down three times.
SPEAKER 20 :
That's the way you're supposed to do it. Back in the day, we would do that, yeah. Nowadays, with the newer digital units and so on, Jerry, they have changed immensely from the one that you have. And I would just tell you straight up. They're imported, but for those that don't need them on a daily basis and don't need to spend $500 on a torque wrench, you literally, Jerry, could buy a new digital imported, wherever it's coming from overseas, buy one for less money than calibrating yours.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, I'd never heard of this exercising thing, and the instruction manual that came with the torque wrench new doesn't say anything about it.
SPEAKER 20 :
No, that was kind of an internal thing in the industry we just all knew to do back in the day. And again, they've changed so much from the one that you have that, and I still have some of the old ones like what you've got, Jerry, but most everything now has been modernized like a lot of other tools and much different than what you're using. And really quick, there's even some, you can watch some videos on this for those of you listening. A lot of those click type units are actually not torquing it to even the exact specifications that you're setting. So let's say you're setting 60 pounds on the torque wrench. I've seen videos on this. Even Snap-on's got a great video on this is how, how this works as you're getting ready to click. When it goes to the click, you could be at 59. You could be at 61. You could be at 62. You could even be as high as 65, the new modern high end wrenches, Jerry, that a lot of the guys use in the engine. you know, the engine rebuilt, you know, remanufactured world and so on. They're using wrenches that will actually give a tone. You go slowly and it'll tone it as soon as you're at the spot you're supposed to be. There's no click anymore because that break over click is where things can get out of adjustment on what you're trying to torque. The new modern wrenches that are very expensive and do the toning that I just explained are a lot more accurate and used in that engine. Typically in the engine end of things is this much more precise there than what you would need other places.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, something else that's new to me that I've stumbled across is the electronic adapters where I guess you can put them on any wrench. And what do you think about those?
SPEAKER 20 :
They work very well as well. Same principle. They're just using a, you know, they're putting the device between a regular ratchet per se or breaker bar per se and the socket that you would be on. The other thing you have to remember about torque wrenches, and most people that use them know this, but you can't use any kind of extensions or anything along those lines when you're using a torque wrench because it's going to change the torque value going through the extension and a lot of people a lot of home you know a lot of guys working out of the garage don't know what i just said don't understand that you can't use an extension and you even have to be careful how long your socket is and what kind of socket you're even using to make sure you're accurate when it comes to that impact sockets being the best because there's less movement in them right and what are you using the fork wrench for mostly
SPEAKER 16 :
torquing my wheels down when I rotate my tires.
SPEAKER 20 :
In that case, I mean, if you're off a couple of pounds, it's not going to make a Hilla bean's a bit of a difference, Jerry. That's one where it's not as big of a deal. Now, something else you can think about, and they're very accurate, and they work very well, and they're not as expensive as they used to be, just get what they call a torque stick. So you buy a torque stick that actually goes on the end of an impact gun, which most of us have even at home now because they've gotten so inexpensive, and you've used a torque stick to whatever that specification is supposed to be. They're all colored. You can buy them in a kit, or you can buy just the one that you want, and if you do that, you don't ever have to torque them.
SPEAKER 1 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 16 :
All right. Well, I appreciate the advice as always, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 20 :
You're very welcome, Jerry. Appreciate you very much. Yeah. And the torque wrench thing, we don't get into a lot of this because most homeowners and even DIYers aren't doing that much anymore with torque wrenches. And unless you're doing some engine rebuilding type stuff or even like differential work or things like that, very seldom are you getting into where you need a torque wrench and even a lot of technicians anymore. Would I... As a shop owner, would I require a technician to have a torque wrench? I'd probably buy that as a shop tool now just because you're using it so, other than wheels and things like we just mentioned, we're using torque sticks typically for that anyway. So, yeah, as far as a torque wrench in a shop goes, do you need one per technician? No, you could use one per shop and be just fine. Am I wrong, guys? You share it back and forth.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I think what you also said is the more precise the job, the better tool you need.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and when you're doing engine stuff, you're using the degrees. So we're torquing to 33 pounds, and then we're turning it 180 or 99.
SPEAKER 20 :
Way different than what it used to be back in the day. But for those of you that even do a lot of your stuff at home, as far as the torquing of the lug nuts and all that goes, honestly, to make it nice and fast, if you do a lot of that yourself, just get yourself a set of torque sticks. Typically, they'll come in, what, four or five different torque sticks. Most of them are four, I believe, and they've all got the different poundages and stuff. and the nut size that you would need for each, and off you go. And we've been using those in the industry for, gosh, how many decades now, guys? Two or three decades now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Two or three, yeah. They've been around.
SPEAKER 20 :
So anyways.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mine are all worn off. I can't tell the color anymore.
SPEAKER 20 :
Food for thought. So just something to think about when it comes to that end of things. Again, we're asking for great gift ideas for motorheads, and I just gave you one, by the way. The Torx sticks for if you know somebody that does a lot of this at home. Maybe they're even doing your rotations for you. You take it over, they do it, whatever. Yeah, these are great ideas as far as that goes because they're very handy to have around even in your own shop at home. And they're not as expensive as they once were. Another one of those items that has come way down in price from what they were a couple of decades ago. So we'll be right back. Drive Radio is, of course, what you're listening to. The website drive-radio.com. This is KLZ 560.
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They sell worldwide, but their showroom is right here in Denver. Find them today at worldwidevintageautos.com or call 877-378-4679 and make sure you tell them John Rush from Drive Radio sent you. All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Question of the day. Great gift ideas for that motorhead in your world, that do-it-yourselfer. Again, Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive with us today from Fort Collins. There's two locations up there to service you. And Steve from Geno's. It's on the other end of the spectrum, all the way down south here, Geno's Auto Service. So either way, if you want to find those guys, just go to drive-radio.com and Find them there. And Larry, who just walked in at the break and said, here, here's a great gift idea. Now, this one I get a lot of. Questions, even. I'll get text messages on this one. What do I buy? And it's jump box. So we've started talking about jump boxes, gosh, guys, probably a decade ago, and I'm not exaggerating when I say that. Advising people, throw your jumper cables away. If you want to keep them in the back room or whatever, and you had to go jump start your tractor or something, whatever. Okay, fine. Go for it. On modern cars, don't use jumper cables. The risk of having things get hooked up incorrectly, you've got a helper there, something happens, then wiping out a computer and other things, it's there. It happens. These guys are shaking their heads because they see it happen all the time. So use the jump boxes. All of the good ones, which for the most part now is almost everything. have a circuit protector in them where you can't hook them up backwards. If you do, they'll just not do anything. They're just, hey, I'm hooked up backwards and I'm not going to do anything. So there's some internal protection as far as that goes. And then you're also just you're just not worried about having these cables running around. You're not pulling up next to the car. You know, all of the stuff that can go wrong, you know, jump starting a car, you eliminate with a jump box. And when I say jump box, we in the shops use an actual box. It's like a lunchbox kind of, you know, small igloo size lunchbox, you know, has a battery pack in it. And you can use that to start pretty much anything, including big diesel trucks and so on. And that's Sort of what we use in the shop world. That's overkill for most people at home. Unless you've got a big diesel truck, most of you guys can go buy the Norcos or whatever other brand. There's a lot of them even sold at Napa. Pick your poison. The biggest thing there is they're really kind of rated for what car are you trying to start and what engine is in it. The bigger the engine, the bigger the starter, the more amp draw we have, and so on. And so that's one of those where you really have to kind of determine what do you own, who are you maybe even helping at times, and what size jump box do you need in that process. So a lot of this I always tell people, well, my number one question typically back is what are you driving? because then I can help you with what size of a jump box to actually go by. Because, again, if you're driving a diesel truck, you're going to need something much, much more than the guy driving a Civic with a four-cylinder engine. Literally, you're going to be two to three times as much on the one end of the diesel than you would be on the four-cylinder Civic. So that's one of those where, yes, great idea. It could be a great gift idea, although if you're going to do it as a gift, you need to kind of know what you're buying for the gift because you don't want to undersize it because if it's undersized, it's – It's a paperweight. You're not going to get any use out of it at that point. Now, also, really fast, Larry said, some of these also come with a built-in air compressor. Yes, they do. So that's another one of those where look at it, what's the size and so on, and how does that work? I'm still a guy where I love the Milwaukee air inflators. They're small enough, and they work with some of the batteries that you probably already have kicking around, and other brands have them as well. Those things work like, I mean, they're so slick. They're just built-in gauge, the whole nine yards. They just work fabulous. So, Darrell, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hi, I got an auto insurance question. Okay. Body damage. My car was rear-ended. Not too bad of damage. Took it to the body shop. The at-fault vehicle that hit us is going to fix it. They were going to pay it. And then the body shop delved into it deeper and put in a supplemental claim.
SPEAKER 20 :
Supplemental claim, that's normal. Yeah, that happens.
SPEAKER 09 :
Which put that up above their threshold, and now they want to total it. It's a 24-year-old car.
SPEAKER 20 :
Not surprised. What is it? What's the vehicle, Daryl?
SPEAKER 09 :
It's a 2000 Toyota Camry.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay. What's the total claim now up to with the supplemental claim?
SPEAKER 09 :
It was getting upwards of right around about $3,200. Okay.
SPEAKER 20 :
What do you feel the vehicle is worth?
SPEAKER 09 :
That's tough to say on a car that old. Their offer is, they gave two offers. One is if I surrendered the vehicle. Mm-hmm. And one is if I didn't surrender the vehicle. Well, I'm keeping the vehicle. I just put $1,400 worth of work into it, and it's drivable.
SPEAKER 20 :
And that's beside the point, and I'll tell you why in a moment. What are the two offers? Give me the offers.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. One was $3,200, and the other one was $3,500. $3,200, you keep the vehicle. $3,500, you don't.
SPEAKER 20 :
Correct. Keep in mind, with the $3,500, the other thing that's going to nick the car, not that it matters if you're going to keep it long-term, is you'll have a salvage title when it's all said and done.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, and they won't cut a check until apparently I can get on the Colorado DMV website and change the title myself to a salvage title?
SPEAKER 20 :
I think you can. Bottom line, you're not going to get a check until it is. That's how they do that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, so that's standard.
SPEAKER 20 :
Now, here's the other thing. I think they're too cheap. The buyout is not enough money. That car, if it's in good condition, you said you just put $1,400 into it, which should be taken into account. If that car is very roadworthy, interior is good, paint is good, it's not all beat up, dented up, and so on, it's worth more than $3,500. Agreed. You could replace it for that.
SPEAKER 09 :
No. Is there like a website that I could kind of verify any of that stuff? Nope.
SPEAKER 20 :
The best thing to do, I've got a sponsor. We interviewed him last week on Fix It Radio. And your best bet is to call Burke Payne. At BP Appraisals, he does this all the time in this arena because the other thing you need to make sure that you're getting full credit for is the money you've already put into the car. He can help you with all of that. He's got a process whereby he'll get receipts and things from you, and he will give you an actual certified appraisal that you're going to go back to the insurance company with, and believe me, they will pay off of that or you'll go get an attorney, one of the two.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, okay.
SPEAKER 20 :
So we'll get you more money out of this when it's all said and done, by far, Daryl. Thousands more than what you're getting right now. You're not getting near enough. Okay. All right, his number. You ready for his number? Yeah, I've got it there. 720-295-10... Or, sorry. 720-295-0108. Tell him you listened to me, and I told you to call him, and he will do the rest. Great. Now, he'll have a fee, because he's going to give you a professional appraisal out of it. But believe me, the fee you pay him versus what we're going to get out of the insurance company will far surpass what it costs you to do this.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. Excellent idea.
SPEAKER 20 :
Is it a flat fee, or is it a percentage? No, he does a flat fee, and he'll help you. And he'll even help with the insurance side, in some cases talking to them for you if need be, Darrell. Nice.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, well, great. I appreciate it very much.
SPEAKER 20 :
You're very welcome, Darrell. Great call, by the way. And for those of you listening, yes, BP Appraisals. I interviewed them again on Fix-It Radio last week. I haven't interviewed them on Drive Radio just because we did Fix-It Radio last week and spent almost half an hour with them. You always go back and listen to that. But I will tell you, for all of you listening, any kind of an accident, especially when it's not your fault, but it could even be your fault. Maybe you're dealing with your own insurance company and you're not getting enough money out of what your car is actually worth. This is where Burke comes into play because he can give you that certified appraisal because he's a certified appraiser. And when he does that, the insurance company all of a sudden starts paying more attention because they've got some real documentation as to what the vehicle is actually worth versus you arguing with them. So give Burke a call. He'll take care of that for you. This includes classic cars, modern cars, wrecked cars, whatever the case may be, an estate, you name it, Burke can do all of that. And he's, again, on our website. Just go to drive-radio.com, but his direct line is 720-295-0108. We'll be right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 20 :
All right. Merry Christmas, everybody, as well. Myself again, Pat from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins with us today. Steve Horvath from Geno's Auto Service with us as well. Thank you for all the calls, by the way. I apologize. I haven't checked the text line here. We've been chatting so much with callers. I will do that here momentarily. But we're asking the question to give us some great gift ideas for those, you know, Hard to buy for folks in your life. Maybe they're gearheads or just do-it-yourselfers, whatever. You know, what is a good item to buy them? 303-477-5600. And really quick, I was going to say this anyways. So kind of the segue into we've had Lucy call in about, you know, changing cars and so on. And the last call we just got on what's that value of that used car and so on. Some of you will be thinking about buying a car as we head down the stretch into the new year. And some of you may be doing it for business purposes, tax deductions. Some of you may just be doing it because it's a good time to do it. Maybe you're getting some bonuses or whatever the case may be. You might even have a new driver coming up in the family. So here's where I wanted to go with this. Number one, there are some great deals right now. Now, prices of used cars are down because the price of new cars are also. Now, in all in all, they're up. I understand that. But they're down from where they were a year ago. You're no longer paying full list price for a new car. There's a few rare exceptions to that. If some dealer is trying to sell you a car at list price and it's a regular everyday car and you see 10 of them on the lot, go somewhere else. That car is not worth this price, and they will have to discount that car to get it sold. Now, the best week of the year always, always, always is between Christmas and New Year's. Here's the reason. Most dealers get what we call discounts on the cars based upon volume, not just for the month, but especially for the year. What they pay for models coming in even after the first of the year will be heavily based upon what they did in 2024. So in some cases, and I've had it happen to me, in some cases, you can buy a car at a little bit of a loss even for the dealer if they're so close to their numbers that that one or two car sales is going to put them over for the year and help them with future discounts. You can sometimes take advantage of that. So I'm not joking. The best week... Of the entire year, to always buy a car is the last week of the year. That week between Christmas and New Year's is the best time to buy a car because of what I just said. So for those of you that might be in that market, car, truck, whatever, and you're looking at popular models, I mean, I'm not talking about a one-off. You're not going to go buy a Ford Raptor R. No, that's a whole different situation. But regular, everyday vehicles. If you look at any of the lots, and there's a plethora of, you ought to be able to get a really great deal on that vehicle. I mean, all the way down to almost what invoice is or less. If you're anywhere in that list price area, go somewhere else.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, on taxes, too, don't they, if they have that inventory still kept on their lot after the first year?
SPEAKER 20 :
In Colorado, it doesn't change anything.
SPEAKER 04 :
It doesn't change. Okay.
SPEAKER 20 :
It doesn't matter. Rob, really quick. We'll come back to that, by the way. But, Rob, go ahead. I want to get you in before the top of the hour. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 05 :
Good Christmas present for anybody is those Napa glass cleaning microfiber cloths.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely. Great, great tip.
SPEAKER 05 :
Keep one in the car. It's a safety thing. Great, great tip, Rob.
SPEAKER 20 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
And if you can maybe tell me on the other side of the break, do you have any ideas on how to reset the tire warning indicator on a 2008 Dodge Charger? It was the spare, and I was able to reinflate it, but the warning indicator is still on there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Probably the batteries are down on one of the other tires, I would guess. Or that one. Or that one, yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
They all check out apparently, but the only one that was down was the spare.
SPEAKER 20 :
Has anybody looked at it to see what the charge of battery is like in that spare tire? Being an 08, I'd be shocked if it's not dead.
SPEAKER 05 :
There's that. They're not the original. The tires have been replaced once, but you're probably right. Well, I'll just have to take it to the shop then.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, I mean, I don't think, Bob, that's a reason where I'm going with this, Rob, is I don't think that's a reset issue. If that battery in that particular sensor is down, it's never going to go away. I would agree.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, if you, well, you're in Centennial, not far. I have a little thing that will tell us how, if they're even registering. Yeah, if even they're sending a signal. If you want to swing by sometime.
SPEAKER 05 :
Steve, we're old friends. If you want me to do that again, I'll be glad to see you.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah. Rob, that'd be the way to do that because that one may not even be sending out a signal.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I can just put a little thing on it and tell me if it... If you don't use a power tool often, think about corded. If you can still get corded, it's those batteries going dead on you because you're not using the thing that much, and the batteries are not being titled and everything else. If you can get just cheap corded, it's an awfully good way to solve the problem. I have a little tire inflator I bought from Home Depot. I use that to power the sewer blaster tool I bought from Amazon to clean out my drains with it. It worked beautifully. But it's corded. I don't have to worry about the batteries going flat. You are correct. Anytime I just plug it in.
SPEAKER 20 :
You are correct.
SPEAKER 05 :
By the way, I couldn't agree with you more about the batteries, but by gosh, the cord stuff works.
SPEAKER 20 :
No, and Rob, as a side note, for a lot of you listening where you may be on a really tight budget, but you still would like to have some of these amenities, a lot of these secondhand stores, Rob, will have the very things that we're talking about with a cord on them because most other people don't want them and they will donate them away.
SPEAKER 05 :
It saves an awful lot of suffering.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, you guys are talking so much common sense. Rob, no, thank you very much, by the way. I appreciate that. Yeah, so side note, back to Rob's initial question of the tire sensor. It's an older car. He's gone through and he's called plenty of times. This is a family member's car that he's gone through and done some things with and so on. Yeah, when you've got even a spare and it's an 08. I can almost guarantee you, I'm not a betting person, but I can almost guarantee you or bet on that that sensor is no longer sending a signal out because those batteries are typically good for, I don't know, five to seven years. Yeah, if it's Curtis Parked. It doesn't get used a lot. They could go as long as 10 because the battery's not being used much. It's really not.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's just hanging out.
SPEAKER 20 :
It'll kind of go to sleep, if you would, because it's just hanging out. But if it's being driven at all, six, seven years, Steve's .10 max. So in that case, that would have been 2018. So, yeah, I would say that most likely that is dead, and that's an issue there. I agree. And we forget that they have batteries.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, in most repair shops and certainly every tire shop has a tire pressure monitoring system tool that you can just hold up next to the tire sensor and see if it's still putting out a signal or not.
SPEAKER 20 :
Which is exactly, in this particular case, what you really need to do. Now, so for some of you listening that are... Do-it-yourselfers at home and so on. That's another one of those things where back in the day, TPMSs first came out. All the tooling was super expensive. Tool dealers were kind of the only place you could go buy that or from the dealer itself. And they were very – I mean, I'm talking thousands of dollars back in the day to get equipped to do TPMSs. you could shave an entire zero off of that today or less. Correct. There are tools out there, even universal-type tools, not for all cars. Get to some of the exotics. It's going to get a little weird. But for the type of vehicle we were just talking about on that Charger, you can literally go out and buy some aftermarket stuff, have it at home in your own home toolbox for relatively $50, $60 even, and find everything you need to do for that particular end of things. Again, as technology evolves, It gets improved, and more companies manufacture those things. The less of the price there is, and off you go.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the designers are better on the car end because that used to be the biggest problem is you could never get them to work right, even when it was more on their side, the automotive manufacturers.
SPEAKER 20 :
The longer they're out, the better things get. All right. That's it for this first hour. We've got two more hours coming your way. We're asking, again, for some of those tips of things to buy that hard-to-buy person in your automotive world. Give us a call. We'll take some of those calls as well, 303-477-5600. But this is Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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In this episode of Drive Radio, we delve into essential auto maintenance tips that every vehicle owner should know. Hosts and guests discuss the importance of synthetic oils in smaller engines, like lawnmowers and golf carts, emphasizing their role in improving performance and extending engine life. We also cover crucial recall information for popular models like the 2021 Trail Boss and explore why manufacturers' guidelines on transmission oils can be misleading without regular checks. Listeners also gain insights into the world of auto part choices, comparing new to remanufactured parts and highlighting the pitfalls of prioritizing cost over quality. With expert advice, this episode aims to empower listeners to make informed decisions about vehicle upkeep, ensuring safety and efficiency. Further discussions include techniques for air filter maintenance based on driving conditions and the advantages of state-of-the-art tools, like rivet nuts, in enhancing repair work. This episode is packed with practical advice to keep your vehicle running smoothly, whether you're doing routine work or tackling complex inquiries on your own.
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SPEAKER 03 :
All right, Hour 3, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Welcome back. Again, we've got Steve Horvath, Geno's Auto Service down here in Centennial, and we also have Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins with us today. Ivan, I'm assuming you're back. Ivan, how are you?
SPEAKER 12 :
I am here. There we go. I'm not very high-tech, and I accidentally hit the mute button.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, that's fine. Not a problem. Glad you're here.
SPEAKER 12 :
Anyway, all right, thank you. Just a couple questions. The first one I have is, I've heard you say on the show before that you put synthetic oil in everything.
SPEAKER 03 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 12 :
Is that true? Do I remember that right? Yep. Okay. So that would include a Yamaha golf cart, a gas-powered Yamaha golf cart.
SPEAKER 03 :
My lawnmower, I still use synthetic oil in.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, okay. So if I'm just using what they call for, the right weight and small engine oil.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. Then I'm good to go. Honestly, this is a great question, by the way, Ivan, because I don't think people really think through this well enough. Especially on some of the things that you're mentioning now. They do not have the filtration and tolerances and so on inside of them like a regular car engine would have. In my opinion, those things especially should have synthetic oil in them. And why they don't come factory fill is beyond me because most of those engine manufacturers are cheap.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yep. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
So snowblowers and lawnmowers and all of the like, yes. They don't have a cooling? No, they have nothing. I would put synthetic in those especially.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, yeah, because you're right. It does not have a filter. It's air-cooled, all that stuff, right? Absolutely. Okay, good. Good to know. The other question I had was, with the manufacturer's recommendations for transmission – and rear-end and front-end oils, transmission oils, gear oils, whatever. Do you recommend following what they say? For example, I've got a 2021 Trail Boss, Silverado Trail Boss, and I think it says in there that you don't have to do anything for the transmission ever, it seems like. And then with the Durango, I haven't checked that one, but they both only have like 30,000 miles on them. They're not driven a lot. But when do you recommend... transmission and rear end and front end oil swap outs filters whatever on the drango and the trail boss both i do them at 50k at 50 000 so i got a little bit of time a little bit 50 000 but i do the whole drive train at 50k if it were me okay all right all right yeah because i think that When I looked at the manual, the Silverado said like 100,000 miles before you do anything to the transmission.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I talked, you know, we had a caller in the first hour kind of talking about the recall that's on those trucks and, you know, the potential for the valve body to actually have a problem, lock it into gear, which then locks the diff and so on. I mean, that's what the whole recall is about. And I'm not saying that it can't happen on some of the new models because I've had some listeners even text me and say, hey, I've had a problem on a brand-new truck. So I'm not saying it's not limited to just trucks with miles on them because they've had some new truck issues as well. But I think once a vehicle starts getting miles on it like yours has, if, in fact, people would change the oil in the transmission to the transmission services like they should be, I don't think some of that recall would be as big of a deal personally. I got you.
SPEAKER 12 :
You're saying the 2021 Trail Boss has a recall?
SPEAKER 03 :
That one, I think, falls into that. I'd have to look. Here's what to do. For any of you that are in that realm on any vehicle, this is true with anything. It doesn't have to be a Ford or a Chevy or whatever that have some of the transmission recalls that are out there. Go to the NTHSA's website, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website. Put your VIN number in, and it will tell you if there's a recall or not.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
You don't even have to call a dealer. It'll tell you right there whether there is or isn't. Okay. What was that website called again? National Traffic Highway Safety Administration.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 03 :
And THSA. THSA.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Gotcha. Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
I'll do that.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, I just did the same thing on my truck. I hit the 50,000. Yep. And this time I went ahead and I made sure I used the factory oil. Right. Just because there's a little problem, you know, with the oils, getting a good oil for that particular one with this. Yep. With this problem. And I think that's the way to do it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Okay. Good to know. All right. Thank you, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 03 :
You bet. No, great questions, Ivan. Thank you, by the way, for that very much. Russ and Cheyenne, you're next. Go ahead. Hey, good morning. Good morning.
SPEAKER 11 :
Tool idea. I discovered rivet nuts.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah. Nut zerts, we called those back in the day. All of us had tools for that. What a great invention, aren't they?
SPEAKER 11 :
They're pretty cheap. You can buy a decent kit for them. Man, those things are indispensable.
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 11 :
So that's one thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
For everybody listening, what that is is it's like a rivet gun, but instead of actually putting a rivet in with the pin and that's all it does, these actually put a threaded nut, all different sizes, depending upon what you're trying to accomplish and what you're trying to fasten and so on. It's like a rivet with threads inside.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and only one, I guess one quick tip I've kind of discovered with them is sometimes it's easier just to run a tap through them.
SPEAKER 03 :
Good idea. Yeah, great idea. Chase them a little bit. Yeah, good idea.
SPEAKER 11 :
Every now and again, it kind of boogers them up.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and that way it keeps that from having any issues twisting and getting stuck or anything along those lines. That's a great idea.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, yeah. So I have a good problem and a bad problem, I guess. I bought WeatherTech mats, and I absolutely love them. But my Hydro Boost started leaking inside my truck, so I didn't notice it was leaking until it started running over the rail on the side. So I've ruined my carpet on that side of the truck because of it. But I'm wondering with the Hydro Boost, are those rebuildable, or do I just need to buy a new one?
SPEAKER 03 :
I would not buy. There's some guys out there that will rebuild Hydro Boost. I wouldn't do that. I would buy a new one. Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. And you wouldn't do a reman. You would do a new.
SPEAKER 03 :
New only. Yep.
SPEAKER 1 :
New only.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Because, I mean, my truck's 20 years old. I've never had issues. Between this and the steering box, I don't know if they were correlated or what.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, the same fluid runs through all three. Right. So power steering pumps running the hydro boost and the power steering pump both. Or power steering gear both, I should say. The pump, power steering pump is running the brakes and the steering.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and I mean, I've always been good about flushing my power steering fluid. So I've never let it just go. It gets changed when I do my training.
SPEAKER 03 :
And sometimes, I mean, as the boosters age, especially if they're not driven regularly, you might actually have more issues with the hydro boost than ones that are driven daily.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. Well, I've noticed that I guess it leaks when I step on the brake. Yep. More than just normal. Very common.
SPEAKER 03 :
Very common.
SPEAKER 11 :
So, yeah. Okay, that's what I just wanted to know if I should bother. With a reman or if I just should buy a brand new one?
SPEAKER 03 :
That is one of those items that, you know, and again, Hydroboost has been around for a long time. People may not know that, but they've literally been around since the 80s. It's been a system that's been used by GM, I think, first on that end of things. And it kind of, you know, came into some of the other manufacturers as well. And even some cars now use a form of a Hydroboost. So it's become more and more popular as time has gone by. But even back then, I would not put anything. I mean, even in the 80s and 90s, I wouldn't put anything on back then that was remanned, and I won't today.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Okay. Okay, same with the power steering pump because I figure I'm going to change the booster.
SPEAKER 03 :
Same thing. Even from the late 80s, that hasn't changed. Even back then as a shop owner, I wouldn't put a reman or a rebuilt power steering pump on. And sometimes you didn't have a choice because there wasn't anything else around at the time to actually get your customer up and running and never failed, Russ. Those were the ones that always came back and bit you. You ended up doing twice. Yep.
SPEAKER 11 :
I couldn't afford the brand-new steering box, so I bought a reman, and I absolutely regret it. Yep.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, same thing. I mean, again, some of these things, that's in a way frustrating because in all of this time, in four decades— we haven't improved and maybe even gotten worse when it comes to the rebuilding of some of the components that you're talking about. And in 40 years, you think we could have come up with a way to rebuild a steering gear properly, and yet, Russ, we haven't. Isn't that crazy? It's amazing.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I mean, I hate to, you know, because I spent basically half on a reman of what the new one cost, and I mean, I just absolutely hate it. I hate the feel of it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, they're junk. I mean, I have no other way to explain it. They're just junk.
SPEAKER 11 :
So I figure I'm not going to make my wife happy, but when I do it, I think I'm just doing the system, and I'll get another 20 years out of it without any trouble.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, given the fact really all you're going to end up doing is another gear, which you don't like the one you have anyways, I would. And hoses. Do the hoses and everything at the same time. Do everything. Yeah, the whole system. I would, too. Do the lines and all.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, I put new hoses on it when I did the box. Okay, cool. But, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
You might as well, too, though, while you're at it doing all of this, you might as well look at the master cylinder since you're going to be doing all the rest of it. You're more or less going to have it all. I think I would do it, too, Russ.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. It's time, huh?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. I mean, you're there. You're doing everything else. Why not? Well, that's what Dad said. Any job worth doing is worth doing well. Your labor is already there. You're buying a cylinder is really all you're doing.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right. Well, I mean, the deal is, like I said, I've had the truck 20 years now. I've really not had to put any money into it other than basic repair, you know, maintenance. It will cost me less than a truck payment. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, when a new diesel or, you know, even the high-end gas, you know, three-quarter tons and one tons are 80K starting.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, no, I'd love a new diesel. I'd absolutely love a new Duramax, but I just... Yeah, 90K now. Crazy expensive.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Well, I just wanted to know which way to go.
SPEAKER 03 :
There you go. I appreciate your help. Great questions, by the way. Thank you, Russ. Somebody texted and asked, okay, since we're talking air filters earlier in the show, not to mess with them, when should you? Great question, by the way. So we'll answer that as soon as we come back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. John and Cheyenne, hang tight really quick. Somebody asked a question. If you're not supposed to mess with the air filter and the air box and all of that, then when should you? I am of the belief and try to teach the shops even that I coach and consult with to make that a service, not just an inspection, but an actual service based on time and or mileage, mainly mileage, because time is really not affecting an air filter. And this is where it comes back to knowing your customer. So where do they drive? Are they on a dirt road? Do they live out in the country? Are they in the city mostly? Are they a construction worker? Are they around the construction sites more and there's more dust blowing in and so on? And so I would know, A, your customer, and then base that upon how often should we be inspecting the air box on this particular vehicle. Now, if you're a home do-it-yourselfer and you're doing your own vehicle maintenance and so on, Honestly, $30,000, you really don't have to mess with the majority of air filter and cars that are on the market today. If you're starting fresh, you really don't need to mess with that thing for at least $30,000. And I'm not exaggerating at all, and there's probably some people that might debate me on that. Go for it. Prove me wrong. I don't think you will, because the reality is, even though it may look dirty... It's flowing more air than you really think it is at that point. And is it really degrading from the performance of the vehicle? Probably not. So I would do it more based upon mileage of the vehicle. I'd look at it at 30K, and here's the deal. If you're going to look at it and it's 30K, just put a new one in. My advice on air filters is more along those lines than it is opening the box every time you change. air filter and I don't on my own vehicles I don't in our fleet shop we don't you guys have heard the stories on that and as to why because I am still one that feels the more you open it the worse you are you're better off just leaving it alone changing it when it's needed and then moving on but that was a great text question a moment ago because you know when do you that's my advice now if you're I have a vehicle, and you're in a really clean environment and do mostly highway driving, for example. You're hardly in the city at all. You don't have the same contaminants. It's a larger air filter box, and you know what I mean by looking at it. You know what? You might be able to go to 50K. And that would be one where if you opened it at 30, everything looks nice and clean. Vacuum it all out, by the way, before you put things back together. Maybe tap on the filter some to get some of the loose stuff back out of it, which it shouldn't have a whole lot anyways if that's the case. Put it back in. Run it another 20K. Check it and replace it at 50K and call it good. And some of the larger air boxes, you guys know what I mean by that. In some cases, and really based upon the volume that the engine is using airwise as to how they fit the air box to the vehicle. So a smaller four-cylinder car, of course, is going to have a smaller air box. Keep in mind, it's not moving as much air, but it is a smaller air filter. So that's one that you're probably going to be in that 30K mark when it's all set. And I know for everybody listening, I am probably saying things that most... shops and others out there would never say but for me i've learned a lot of this from having machinery and equipment that runs in very dirty elements all of the time and through the years i've just learned this and have reduced and have never had an engine failure due to you know dirt and contaminants that way which means how i'm doing it must be working or we would have other issues and we don't so there's my answer on all of that john and cheyenne you're next
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, John. So you just changed totally what I was going to ask you because where I live is, as my cousin calls it, an unimproved goat path up to the house.
SPEAKER 14 :
There you go. A little dusty.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, a lot. Southeast Wyoming, it's all dust. There you go.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and your wind, of course, is another factor, John, for you. You have more debris and things that are blowing around. And, yeah, you would be less time than some of what I mentioned a moment ago, although even in your case, you could probably go 20K pretty easily.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, but here's the other thing. I have found in the past that at certain times of the year, and I don't know how they get in there, but mice get in there and start building a nest in the bottom of the box.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
So that's why I have a spare for mine and my wife's truck in the garage now, and I will open it up when I do change the oil just to make sure there's not like a rat's nest or something in there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now for you, and if you've had issues of this and everybody else listening, if it were me, I would take some chicken wire, tight type wire, and I would adapt that to the intake portion of that air cleaner, and then they would not be doing that any longer.
SPEAKER 09 :
I will try that.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's fresh air intake. The fresh air intake, yes. Don't put it on the outside. The hole that the air is coming into the air box itself, I would wire mesh the front of that.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and that's the two rams that we've had the issue on. But they got my wife on Wednesday, John. Middle of the day, hotel parking lot, they got her catalytic converter in Plano, Texas.
SPEAKER 21 :
Great. So...
SPEAKER 09 :
I called that shop you recommended, Paul, is his name? Yep. And he told me he doesn't do that, and I found a muffler shop, an exhaust shop in the area. Okay. And come to find out that's a catalytic converter that was on that Sportage. I don't know because it was bought in Cheyenne, but I wonder if it was built for California because he said it was – a California-compliant cat. Could be. To put a new cat on and a new O2 sensor was $800. I thought that was a reasonable price.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, that's not bad at all.
SPEAKER 09 :
Because he said the cat was $500.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, that's not a bad deal at all. You'd be hard-pressed to get that done for that here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Well, in Colorado, yeah. I think in Wyoming I'd probably get it about the same, maybe a little more. But the big thing was they – Broad daylight, Plano, Texas, hotel parking lot. She parked on the side of the hotel right by her room. She comes out. She starts it up to go have dinner with her brother, and she said it sounded like it was going to die.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep, like a tank. It was so loud.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 03 :
Shameless.
SPEAKER 09 :
And had the check engine light, of course, because they cut the wire on the O2 sensor. That was the other thing. So I thought 800 was really reasonable.
SPEAKER 03 :
With an O2 and everything, yeah, that's not bad at all. That's very reasonable.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. The other thing I wanted to remind everybody by telling that story is they're still out there stealing cats.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, they are.
SPEAKER 09 :
And, yeah, because the guy I called, he goes, I thought they were done with this nonsense. The price of metals went down around here.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, even though it has, it's still easy money. I mean, no offense, even if they're only getting 50 bucks out of it, it's easy money.
SPEAKER 09 :
And the higher clearance vehicles are easy because they don't have to jack up or anything and just lay underneath.
SPEAKER 03 :
You are correct.
SPEAKER 09 :
So last thing, my 80 Chevy, the front seat had given up the ghost. I took it in. He had to redo all the springs, replace the foam, and then reupholster it, the whole thing. The guy in Cheyenne, he's not done yet. He's going to charge me $1,000. Is that reasonable?
SPEAKER 15 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 09 :
I think so. I thought so, but I just was asking. Is it a bench seat and a pickup?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. What is the seat that you're working on? Is it a bench seat?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, it's an 80 Chevy three-quarter ton bench seat. You know, regular cab. And I pulled it out myself. And, you know, old school, four bolts. You don't have to worry about popping an airbag.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, that's perfect. You definitely couldn't replace that seat for less than $1,000. You could not.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, and I went online to a couple of the CarDash parts to look, and... For something in good shape, they were wanting at least $1,000 and would have had to pay shipping. So I thought that was a reasonable price. Guys, if I don't talk to you, John, have a Merry Christmas. You too.
SPEAKER 03 :
Everybody, Merry Christmas. Appreciate you, John. Merry Christmas to you too as well. Okay, I think I can squeeze this in before we get to the bottom of the hour, and that is somebody texted me and was asking on an older vehicle. So everybody with a newer type vehicle, this doesn't apply, nor would you need to do this. But some of you that are driving... older vehicles. In this particular case, it's a 90s style Chevy truck, and those doors are very heavy. So the question is, the doors are starting to sag. They're hard to get shut. He's got to slam them to actually get shut. What's the fix? And he said there was somebody on one of the social media channels talking about how to use a particular device to adjust it and so on. And I'll tell you the simplest, easiest way to do it. And I told him I would do this on air. And again, this is for him. Not for everybody else, although this can work on other types of things. But the easiest way to adjust those, first of all, make sure the hinges are in good shape. Because if the hinges are all worn out, you may actually have to put hinges on it, depending upon how worn the actual pins and stuff are. But if they're not too bad, what you do is get yourself a floor jack and a couple of 2x4s. And you open the door just enough to where the jack and the 2x4s will go to the bottom edge, back edge of the door itself. And you want to use a fairly long 2x4 because we don't want to bend the door by doing this. But you get to the underside of the door in between the actual outside skin of the door and the jam itself. There's a nice little lip there. Put the 2x4s right underneath there. And what you want to do is jack the door up. And you'll kind of know just through trial and error, have I moved the door at all? And sometimes you actually have to jump on the truck a little bit and pull the body some to get that door to kind of come up a little bit. But if you'll do that, you'll get the door to adjust up some. We're kind of tweaking the hinges by doing this a little bit. The door will naturally come up. It should hit the striker where it's supposed to. It won't drag anymore and should close nicely by doing that. So that's my trick. You don't need to go spend any money. Go buy anything. If you've got any kind of a jacking system, bottle jack, floor jack, and some 2x4s, you can do exactly what I just said and don't go do anything. And I don't know what they're saying online because I've not watched the video, and that's how I've always done that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, basically you're saying these hinges have sagged and bent a little bit down, and you're going to re-bend them back up. And if that doesn't work, you can always replace the hinges.
SPEAKER 03 :
You can put hinges on it. But if you're just trying to move it a little bit to keep it from dragging on the striker, it's a really quick way of doing a door adjustment. And it works on especially those older type vehicles. And so if you're listening to that and you sent me that text message, please let me know you heard it. And it's a really simple way to do what you're saying. And I guess I should start my own. channel and show some of this because i don't know what's out there what people are showing but this is much simpler than i would think any other way of oh for doing it because i don't know whether a device you would even use besides what i just explained so all right it just can be hard so and the door adjustments can be as well but this is a really easy quick way of doing things along those lines so all right guys we'll be right back other questions 303-477-5600 we'll be right back drive radio klz 560.
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SPEAKER 03 :
All right, we are back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Myself, Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins. Steve Horvath, of course, from Geno's Auto Service. And Conrad, what's going on, sir?
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, guys. Good show, as always. Getting ready to head over to see Rob on the engine build for the Torino.
SPEAKER 03 :
Nice.
SPEAKER 10 :
That's what I called about. I'm taking a buddy up to South Dakota after the first year to get a pickup that he's going to buy. And we're going to go on my F-150. Now, it's got close to 300,000 miles on it, but I keep it serviced. I know how you do things. Yeah, and I use that Ford full synthetic 520 in it. Anyway, I was wondering, I've been taking it over to Olds Garage to have them check it all out and get it serviced on Tuesdays. Anything else you can tell us? Do you think I could make that trip all right without anything worrying about breaking down?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, absolutely.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay, yeah. It's never really given me any trouble, just some little minor things. It's been a really good vehicle.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, Conrad, the way I know you, the way you take care of things and so on, have a good once-over done on it, and as long as there's nothing that crops up as a red flag, go.
SPEAKER 14 :
But you've had that truck for a while, so you know it. I mean, if you feel any funny noises or vibrations, get it taken care of before you go. Otherwise, you're going to be fine.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, no, I haven't had anything like that, for sure. And like I said, I never let it go over 5,000 on an oil change. Usually I try to do around 2,000 to 3,000.
SPEAKER 03 :
Like I say, I know you, so you won't have any issues. What year is the F-150? It's a 2010.
SPEAKER 10 :
We've got the 5.4 Triton engine.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yep. If you have any issues, you'll be great. Yep. Have fun. All right, guys. Don't worry and have fun.
SPEAKER 17 :
Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER 03 :
You too, Conrad. Merry Christmas to you too. No, I know Conrad. I know he takes care of things and all of that. So, yeah, go have fun. Get it checked and then go and have fun. James, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hi, John. My wife wanted to buy a car from Carvana, and I don't know if it's appropriate to ask you what you think of that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Very appropriate to ask me. I'm not a Carvana fan. I mean, be careful. I don't want to slander anybody. But Carvana has been known, especially in Colorado, and they have been reprimanded from the state on this end of things. They are very well known for not delivering the paperwork like they should and also selling branded cars as non-branded. And that is one of the problems I have with Carvana specifically, James.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, and when you say branded, what do you mean by that?
SPEAKER 03 :
Salvage title. They'll wash the title somewhere else. The car actually is a salvage title car, but they wash the title and still bring the thing into Colorado and sell it as a non-branded, non-salvage titled car.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. And what does it mean when they say it's a certified? That doesn't mean much of anything, does it?
SPEAKER 03 :
It doesn't mean diddly-squat. And this is true, by the way, with anybody. And here's my feeling on—great question. This is universal to anybody out there buying used cars— Certified means by whom? Now, I get it. Toyota has their, you know, it's going through this many inspections and so on. But, James, really, at the end of the day, it comes down to who's in the used car department at that time, because that's typically not their regular service department doing the certifications. It's their used car department. repair side that's doing this because they're certifying non, in the case of Toyota, non-Toyotas, you know, now they're certifying Toyotas as well, but they're doing this quote-unquote, you know, certified inspection. Now, when it comes to like Toyota, for example, to be certified, it even has to have a certain amount of, you know, under a certain amount of miles and so many owners and so on and so forth. So that's a little bit different. But as far as the actual checking of the vehicle, it really comes down to who did it. How thorough were they? And every technician could be a little different in the things that they're actually looking at and so on. When it comes to Carvana, I have no idea what their specifications on that are. No clue.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. And you don't know what you're getting, really, right?
SPEAKER 03 :
I have no idea. And again, I really want to be careful that I'm not trying to slander or say anything bad about Carvana. But what I'm telling you are known problems that they have had across the country in multiple states, not just Colorado. and they have been known, James, to go as long as 90-plus days getting all of your final paperwork to you to even get the vehicle titled properly. To me, that's a problem. Why they haven't been fined by multiple states over the years, James, is frankly because they're so large, no one will do it. That's the only reason. If any other car dealer in Colorado, if Ridgeline Auto Brokers did what Carvana is doing, their license would have been pulled. Right, right. It's not fair.
SPEAKER 08 :
And what about the other thing like Carfax? Carfax will tell you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Another great question, by the way, James, for all of you that are listening, please pay attention to this. Looking at used cars. Carfax is a indicator of what's been done on the car. And now the part of Carfax that's always going to be pretty true is who bought it, when did they buy it, And where was it registered and when? That's pretty accurate on Carfax because all of the states report that end of things. Beyond that, it comes down to did the shop, you know, did the car go to a shop that actually reports those things? Because not all do. And or if an owner even does think, you know, like, for example, James, on the truck I'm driving right now, I've done two oil changes myself. That will not be on a Carfax. It's not going to show up as having changed. I could manually go in and build a... a report in Carfax if I wanted to, but you know, who's got time to dink with all of that? So the reality is, even though mine's been done twice, if you were to look at Carfax, it's not going to show that. So Carfax is a indicator, but it is not the Bible as far as what's been done on a car. That's why every used car that gets purchased or is about to be purchased has to have a used car thorough inspection done on it, no matter who the dealer is and what they're saying about the car.
SPEAKER 08 :
In other words, I should take it to my mechanic?
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, before you do anything.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I'm saying this, James, and I tell this to everybody all the time. It has to be a pre-purchase inspection, not a post-purchase inspection. Because in the state of Colorado, once you've bought it, you own it, and you want to know the problems on the car prior to the purchase.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, so anything your mechanic writes down, like they want you to stay there if you're bringing a car in for inspection so they can point stuff out to you.
SPEAKER 03 :
It depends. I mean, when I was doing this back in the day when I owned my shops, a lot of times even the used car dealer themselves would drop the car off. You would pay me through... You know, our system of payment, usually a credit card over the phone at that point. I would only give you as the potential buyer that report, the used car place or the new car place, even that maybe had a used car department would come and pick the vehicle up and take it back to themselves. But I would give you the report, not them.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. The other question I have is I'm looking up at the Ridgeline Motors, and everything they sell is pretty dependable and checked out, isn't it?
SPEAKER 03 :
They put a warranty on each car. Because they have their own repair shop, yes, they're thoroughly looking at the vehicle and in some cases doing repairs on the vehicle because it needs it before they actually feel comfortable about selling the vehicle. And then on top of that, you know, they can do the financing, and if you want to do an extended warranty or anything like that, they can handle all of that as well. But, yeah, their cars automatically come with a 30-day warranty.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. And I have one more question, too.
SPEAKER 03 :
These are great questions, so keep them coming, James. These are all good.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. Well, yeah, part of it was if... you got something from them, they would be looking at it that way.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and I'm glad you asked that because Josh and I, who's the owner there, we've talked about this many times, and he has said this openly on air. If you don't trust them being the persons that have inspected and certified, quote-unquote, the vehicle, and you want to take it to your own mechanic, he doesn't care. Be their guest. And I was going to say that to say this, James. If any of you listening are looking to buy a used car from anyone and they will not allow you to have it inspected, walk away.
SPEAKER 08 :
Walk away as soon as you can.
SPEAKER 03 :
That tells you that they're not comfortable in how they're presenting the car to you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now, is that the same true if you go to a dealership? Yep. I don't care who it is. I don't care who it is. You should be able to drive it and take it to your mechanic. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 03 :
When I say I don't care who it is, I don't care if it's your brother-in-law. Have it inspected. Right, right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I'm glad I got a hold of you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, because hopefully, James, through this process, we'll save you a lot of potential headache. Yep. Well, I appreciate it, and I'm going to pass that along to my wife. There you go, James. Great questions, by the way. Thank you so much for calling in because a lot of folks this time of year will be looking at doing different things along those lines, you know, trading, trading up, trading down, even depending upon financial situations or what you're looking to do. Maybe there's a new driver coming on board early next year, which, as a side note before we go to break, if you have a new driver coming on board, teenager, I mean, and I think in Colorado now they can start driving at 15. I think they have to have driver's ed and some other things, but I think they can start at 15 now, not the 15 in six months or so, but I think they can even start now with mom and dad at 15. I'm a big proponent, and I've raised many a kid, And I'm a big proponent on putting your child in the car they're going to be driving once they're driving. Teach them how to drive in the car that they're going to be driving. Now, some would say, no, they need to learn how to drive everything. Well, and I'm not against that, and I'm not against them driving other cars as well, but I really want that teenager that's going to be 16 driving on their own by themselves. And statistics show you... That the majority of accidents that happen in the United States of America are between that 16 and 18 years of age. Because they're new drivers. They don't have the experience all the rest of you that are listening have. So I'm a big one on if you've got a new driver and you're going to place them in a car, maybe you're going to pass your car down. Okay, great. So be it. If that's the way it's going to work, teach them in that. Pass it down when it's time. Fine. But if you're going to put them in a car of their own... Get that car as soon as they start driving with you, and that becomes their car they're going to drive down the road when they turn 16. That's the way I look at it, and both of you guys are agreeing. So that's how I would do it. So, guys, we'll come right back. Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, last segment, Drive Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Again, Pat Schneidt from Alltech Automotive up in Fort Collins with me, and, of course, Steve Horvath from Geno's Auto Service as well. Vic and Thornton, you are next, sir. Go ahead.
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Hi, John. I've been trying to winterize my rototiller, and I'm afraid I waited too long, and I got kind of a varnish-y smell. into gasoline. So wondering what you could recommend for that?
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If you're starting, this is for all of you listening. If any vehicle you have or even any piece of equipment starts to get that varnish smell, you need to get that fuel out of it as quickly as you can. There's no treatment you're going to put in it to get rid of the varnish. The gas is starting to go bad is where I'm going. That's where the varnish smell is coming from. And the only way to get rid of that, Vic, is to get all of it out or as much of it out as you can and put fresh fuel back in it. Since it's a vehicle that evidently must sit quite a bit, put some BG Supercharge in it to keep the fuel from going bad. And I've literally had fuel last up to two years long with the BG Supercharge in it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Did you say B?
SPEAKER 03 :
BG, which is one of our sponsors. BG, it's a product called Supercharge.
SPEAKER 07 :
And where will they get that?
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NAPA.
SPEAKER 07 :
Napa.
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Yep, in retail.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. I suppose the directions are on it as to how much... Yeah, exactly.
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Yep, if you've got, you know... For example, Vic, I went and got a five-gallon can filled up the other day because I had some equipment at home I needed to run through the winter and so on, and that... Five gallons will sit all the way through the winter and probably early summer. You know, I went ahead and looked at the bottle and added as much of the BG supercharge as I felt that five gallons needed just to have it treated through the winter. And whether I use it up or not isn't going to hurt anything anyways. A BG supercharge is just a nice cleaner as well, but it will stabilize the fuel and make it last.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, so once I get the fresh fuel in, don't try to start it.
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No, I mean, once you get fresh fuel in it, you can start it and run. In fact, that'd be a good way to get some things cleaned out and so on. And the supercharge in that fuel will even help with some of what we're talking about. So, no, once you get the fuel down and you get fresh fuel in it, start it and drive it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. So that's better than the... Oh, it's kind of red stuff. I can't think of the name of it. It's a fuel saver.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, a stable. I like the BG product better than the stable because it's got some other properties that do some fuel system cleaning that the stable does not have.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, well, I'll get that stinking gas up.
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There you go, and it is stinking. Now, also, Vic, for you and everybody else listening, a lot of people want to know, what do I do with that bad gas? Where do I take it? Anybody, anybody, shop or otherwise, that has a waste oil heater to heat their shop can take that old fuel and burn it in their waste oil heater, and they'll just take it off your hands for free.
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Cool. Okay.
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Okay? Just something to know.
SPEAKER 07 :
I knew you'd have the answer.
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There you go, Vic. Appreciate you very much. Have a great... Yeah, for a lot of you that are listening, and most people don't know this, but if you've got a waste oil heater, and a lot of us do. I have a waste oil heater in my fleet shop, even, that we heat it with. And a lot of shops, automotive shops, will have a waste oil heater, fleet shops as well, because they get a lot of oil that comes in. Yep. And rather than trying to pay to dispose of all of that, they'll use it for heat. They burn it, use it for heat. It works extremely well. These heaters are very, very efficient. You won't even notice anything coming up out of the stack at all because they're literally burning everything up and it works extremely, extremely well. Keep in mind, back east, there's a ton of people heating homes. off of oil. It's not much different in that regard. And a waste oil heater, again, that bad fuel that won't burn in your vehicle mixed in with enough other oil and things will burn just fine, and it'll run right through that waste oil heater no problem, and it works extremely well, and it's a good way to not have to pay somebody to dispose of your old varnished So for some of you that may end up with some of that, that's a really great way to get rid of some of that. And then also, too, Napa and a lot of places will also take your old oil, your recycled oil. But I will tell you that a lot of facilities that used waste oil to heat their facility with, they will love you to no end if you drop your oil off with them. because you're helping them heat their building. And in a lot of cases, they need as much of that oil as they can get throughout the winter months especially. So like right now where they've already been running the furnace through October, November, and now December, they will take that waste oil, no problem, no questions asked, as long as there's nothing that is – How should I say this, guys? Hazardous, I guess you could say, in that oil. I mean, you can't have old carb cleaner, which has now become really tough to get rid of. Some of you guys even have those five-gallon cans of the old chemical carburetor cleaner. Yeah, that stuff's really hard to dispose of. Outside of that, a waste oil furnace will burn automatic transmission fluid, power steering fluid, cooking grease out of your frying pan. I mean, I can go down the list. I mean, literally, if it's any kind of an oil along those lines or bad gas, it will burn it up. No problem. You guys get some diesel fuel even that might have a little bit of... of, you know, buildup inside of it or it starts getting some algae buildup, it'll burn that as well. So anything that you're trying to dispose of that's an oil-type product, anybody with a waste oil heater will take. Now, for some of you that have your own home shops, I mean, Barnes maybe is a better way to say that. These are also things that as long as you've got the ability to fuel that waste oil heater, you've got enough waste oil around and so on, and you feel you can feed that. I guess the best way to say that for those of you that have built barns and things like that, and you're trying to figure out a good cost effective way to heat them. I just gave you the answer. They work extremely, extremely well. And again, a lot of shops, I don't know if you two guys have them, but you do. Okay, so Pat has one. So yeah, they work extremely well. There's a little maintenance on them that we on our end have to perform on typically either an annual or semi-annual basis. But if you've never been around one, most of the time you don't know a shop has one because you can't smell it. You don't know it's there. You don't know it exists. It works just like any other furnace would. They have a thermostat on them just like a normal furnace would have. And They work, Pat's over here shaking his head. They work extremely, not in his head I should say, they work extremely well, right?
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They do, and they're actually quieter than the forced air furnaces that we use too.
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And you don't feel so bad about turning the heat up when you have one of those. That's right. Because you know that what you're really the only thing it's costing you is the electricity to run the fan and the pump. Other than that, again, most of the waste oil in shops is coming in, you know, free gratis from what you're actually draining out and so on. And it works extremely well. So just a side note for those of you that are trying to dispose of some old fluids and so on. All right. Hope you guys had a great day today. Charlie Grimes, of course, our engineer. Larry Unger in there answering phones. Appreciate him as well. Pat, thank you very much. Give folks your phone number on how to get a hold of you.
SPEAKER 14 :
You bet. Alltech Automotive at 970-224-9718. And Steve Forbath from Geno's, you as well.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, you want the phone number too?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, please. 794-6700.
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All right. And again, if you guys miss any of that, go to right to our website, drive-radio.com, and you can pull all of their information up there as well. And again, all of the other sponsors that we have that make this show happen on a weekly basis, please utilize them also. Tell them you listen to us. We've got everybody involved, even that aren't in the automotive world. from attorneys to you name it, doctors and so on. We've got a lot of different partners here, and we appreciate each and every one of them. So if you use them, please let them know that you heard them here. Otherwise, guys, have a great afternoon. We will be back next week right before Christmas. Never fear. We'll get into a little bit more of what you can buy that person that you're always struggling to buy for next week as well. This has been Drive Radio, KLZ 560.
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In this episode, our hosts guide you through the maze of warranties and consumer rights with a focus on home and auto sectors. As the holiday season approaches, we delve into practical gift ideas for the DIY enthusiast in your life. Our hosts provide personal anecdotes and professional advice to navigate through warranty issues effectively, ensuring that you are equipped with the knowledge to make informed decisions. Dive into our detailed discussion about understanding the nuances of your warranties, cement repair advice, and dealing with builder discrepancies. Our conversations aim to empower listeners, armed with both insights and real-world applications, ensuring a stress-free holiday season and beyond.
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Walter? Upstairs! Are you alright?
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In the floor behind the chair.
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This is America.
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Does everybody know what time it is? Fix Your Radio.
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And it is that time, Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Myself, Steve Horvath, with me today from Geno's Auto Service. Good morning, Steve.
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Good morning.
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And, of course, Larry Unger on the other side of the glass, along with Charlie Grimes. So, Larry will be handling all the calls coming in today. Throughout the four hours, we're here. I know if you're listening to this as a replay on Tuesday, no, it's just the Fix It Radio part. We do Rush to Reason right after. But on Saturday, we do Drive Radio right after this. So we're here for a total of four hours. So if you guys have any questions at all, please let us know, 303-477-5600. You can call or you can text us as well. I should say 307-477-5600. 200-8222-307-28222, which I've already been answering a few questions on the text line this morning. So you can always do that. And given that we're getting closer to Christmas this weekend and next, that's really all you have left for Christmas is this weekend and next, meaning there's a full business week left is all. And we're winding things down. So get your presents and shopping and all of that, you know, done as much as you can this week. In light of that, here in a moment, we will get into some great gift ideas for that, you know, DIY person in your life. I thought I'd do that today because a lot of people struggle with, you know, what do I get? You know, so and so and people need ideas. And so we've got some ideas for some of you because all of us have and I am one of these. you're the hard person to buy for. A lot of us men especially are. Because we, myself included, if I need something, I just figure out what I need and it's done. And go get it. Yeah, I don't, how should I say, Steve, when it comes to the gift giving end of things, there's not a lot of things that I really need.
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Well, that shows me too, we don't need, when we get to our age, we've got everything we need.
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Yeah, I don't really need much of anything else at this point. So, But anyways, we're going to talk about some of those things. But if you have a question for anything around the house, and a lot of times you guys do, especially as we head down this stretch into the end of the year, given the way the holidays will work, just so you all know as far as questions and answers and getting calls in and so on, we'll be here this weekend. this saturday and next and then through the holidays we will be off so you'll hear best of shows while we were off over the christmas new year's holiday we'll give everybody some time off charlie included so reality is you've got this saturday and next if you've got questions on not only around the house but the car as well and then drive radio just a little little uh teaser there Get into a little bit today about, you know, buying cars. It's the end of the year. There'll be some good deals out there. Some of you may want to know, you know, how do you do that and what's the best approach and so on. And there's tons and tons and tons. And I mean, I can't exaggerate enough or stress enough how much inventory is on a lot of dealer lots right now. Yeah, there's a few specialty models that you might find in short supply. But in general, there is a lot of inventory. And I'll talk a little bit about that. and drive radio as well. But if you have questions for us, by all means, let us know. Again, 303-477-5600. But hard to, or, you know, buying things for that DIY person in your life. And I was going through some of these this morning. I found a good site on, of course, how should I say this? Popular Mechanics. So you would imagine that that's where there would be some good ideas for this. And that was a... a magazine, Steve, just real quick, back in the day that I don't know if you guys as a family, but we did, we had a subscription to, and we read, I mean, I read a lot of things in Popular Mechanics back in the day.
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Oh, my dad loved it. Oh, mine too. I remember he'd just read it.
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Cover to cover. And we'd have, you know, multiple copies of, or, you know, multiple issues of, I should say, kicking around. In other words, you know, you'd have this month, last month, the previous month, and so on. And, you know, you'd have a stack of them at times where you could roll back through and look at different things and cut out different articles and so on.
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That National Geographic.
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It seemed like those were the two things that came in. I don't know. We didn't have Geographic, but we had, well, because in my house we had Hot Rod Car Craft. Some of the others along those lines as well. And my dad was a big hunter-fisherman shooter, you know, shooting and all that. So we had all of the, you know, guns and ammo and shooting times and all that kind of stuff as well. So we kind of had this plethora. You know, keep in mind, you know, when Steve and I were young, and a lot of you listening were young, we didn't have these fancy devices and laptops and iPads and the Internet and all of that.
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We had four TV stations. You had four TV stations, that's right. Four TV stations, that was it. PBS kind of counted as one.
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I guess five, but yeah. We didn't have what a lot of these young kids and what we even have today to go even research things. You had to have it in some sort of printed form or you didn't have the ability to look it up.
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And consequently, you went out and played.
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So you did a lot of other things. That's exactly right. We spent a lot of time outside. Let's just say that. So I've got 41. I don't know if we'll get through all of these or not, but we will do our best. But 41 best tool results. gifts gadgets organizers workshop accessories and more and some of these i'll be straight up honest are probably a little bit cheesy and we'll explain some of these but and we'll put this article in our show notes and uh producer ann will give you guys access to that a little later after she gets all of our notes done so for those of you listening on tuesday that should be done by then uh but let's get into it so first one off and this is by the way i don't think this one is How should I say? This would pretty much apply to anyone, pretty much apply to anyone. You know what? Let's do this, though. Let's take a call first, and I make sure that I'm ready to go here on my end. I think I can do this. Yep, Tom, go ahead, sir.
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Yeah, good morning. Thanks for taking my call.
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You're welcome.
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Got a question. You know, over time, concrete gets these hairline cracks. They don't necessarily have any gap to it. Is there any sealant? You know, that's more clear on the clear side other than the gray and the sandstone colors to just put on top of that so it doesn't get any worse.
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I don't know of any clear type. In fact, there's even some different new products out now where it's even kind of a powdered product, Tom, that you actually... sort of sprinkle down into the crack, and then you just spray some water, you know, lightly out of a spray bottle. You don't use a hose or anything. You just lightly water the top of it, and it blends into the concrete. Now, that stuff matches pretty well where you don't really notice that you've got a big crack that you have fixed, but it's never going to be exactly the same color-wise. You're still going to know you did something there.
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What if you took a little bit of, you know, as you put it down while it's still wet, put a little concrete powder on it, maybe make a little bit of, like sand a little bit off, you know, might make it blend a little better.
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Maybe. Maybe. It's, I mean, I'll just tell you, Tom, concrete getting color match and so on is probably one of the most difficult things there is. And by the way, it's why we're, you know, going to a lot of commercial properties and things like that where they go in and they redo the floor and stuff. You know, they'll take all those cracks and everything out, most of the imperfections, and then they stain and do other things color-wise with the floor because otherwise you'd see all those imperfections.
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Okay. All right. I've got another item. Um, Kind of related, in a way, to your comment on Drive Radio about not buying Ram trucks or Ford vehicles because of warranty issues. Right. I'd say never buy a Meritage home. We've had a problem with a new build over in Kipling Park West where, during the warranty period, they agreed to repair stairs that are pulling away from the porch and cracked stairs on the front, and now they're reneging on it.
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Really?
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Yeah. So, in other words, they told you they were going to fix it, and now they're not?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. And it's even in writing. They still, you know.
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That's one where, frankly, Tom, I would get a hold of an attorney, somebody like Kevin Flesch, who's one of our great sponsors, and have him review even the documents that you have and find out if there's the ability to move forward on that end of things. And sometimes it's just a simple letter from an attorney that will get things rolling along, and you don't have to do a whole lot. So in a lot of cases, it doesn't cost you a lot to get that done, Tom, and I would. I would proceed in that manner.
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Okay. That's a problem, too. They dig those foundations out, and they don't compact the soil back down so that you have to get it settling. But a lot of times you can do that mud jacking stuff that will lift it back up.
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Okay. All right. You can. They use either the mud or the foam. There's multiple different ways, Tom, to do that. But bottom line, this should not be on you. If they agreed to do this and are now backing out of it, you need to hold them to the fire. Absolutely. Absolutely. okay great well i appreciate your help you're very welcome tom okay thanks you bet you merry christmas to you too appreciate you calling in yeah and really quick this is for all of you listening any kind of a you know warranty issue doesn't matter whether it's on you know new car whether it's on your home now there's different laws in the state of colorado so here i'm talking colorado i don't know what it's like for our surrounding states i can't tell you what the laws in wyoming or nebraska or kansas are like, and some of you listening in other parts of the country, Oklahoma, Texas, and so on, Montana. We have a lot of listeners. Michigan, Minnesota. I mean, we have them from all over. So I don't know what the other states are like. Typically speaking, they're very similar because most states will sort of follow what the next is doing, but not always. So in this particular case on the home end of things, since this is Fix-It Radio, Warranty-wise and so on, you really need to dial in what are the legal ends of things as a state. In other words, what is a builder required to do or not do because there are things that they are held accountable to even by law. And again, this is where even an attorney typically can look these things up for you or even may know off the top of their head. But in a lot of cases, you can look this stuff up for yourself and figure out exactly what are they supposed to do, not do, and so on. Now, on cars, it gets a little dicier. Lemon laws, for example. We have a lemon law in Colorado, and it's very specific. It has to be a certain amount of times into the dealership in a certain amount of time for the exact same problem. And what a lot of... dealers will do and this is not knocking on it's just what happens what a lot of dealers will do is let's say that you've got a vehicle that has a i don't know vibration i'm using an example of what one of mine i had way back in the day has a vibration only at a specific time specific speed specific temperature but it happens all the time and you can replicate it pretty regularly. What the dealership will do is when you take that vehicle in each time, they will write a little different description as to what the problem is. And according to Lemon Law, that means it's a different problem every time. So you literally have to be very specific in the wording and literally make sure that the service advisor, whoever's writing the invoice up, the repair order up is writing it in exactly the same description of complaint every single time because in colorado that's very important when it comes to the lemon law so something just to you know let you guys know i know it's fix it radio but it applies to other areas as well And folks, this could include everything from TV problems, appliances, your home, and so on. Every warranty is going to be a little bit different, but follow what some of those things are and what some of the idiosyncrasies are. And different industries, in Colorado especially, will have different laws around some of those. For example, in Colorado, I say it all the time, if you buy a used car, From a dealer. You are going to sign a piece of paper by law that says, as is. In other words, it's yours. Yeah, you own it. You can try to go back on the dealer for that, but typically in Colorado on a used car, because you're signing that particular document that it's an as-is transaction, you're not by law. You're going to have a hard time going back on the dealer if the engine blows up three weeks later, for example. Now, they may be... able to do something for you and out of the kindness of their heart and so on. And again, it's really hard to prove that somebody was deceptive in that. And that's another conversation for Drive Radio. Point being, know your warranties, know where you stand in this particular case on the home side. And he did a really good job. Tom did a good job. Document, document, document. If they have agreed to do something, make sure it's in writing, not something verbal. Or Something else you could do. If it's verbal, record it. Everybody now carries around this nice little video camera thing we call smartphones. All of them have some sort of a video capability. Record what's going on. Even if you can't get it in writing, if you're talking to the local foreman on site or whatever the case may be or a salesperson or what have you. In Colorado, by the way, again, I don't know about the surrounding states, but in Colorado, you do not need consent from the other person to record.
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Those conversations.
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Colorado is a one party consent. You're consenting. That's all you have to have. You don't need the consent of the other party to record the conversation. So now, by the way, that means if you're in that world, be careful what you're saying. And unless you can back it up, be careful what you're saying, because you could very well be recorded at that point in time. And by the way, there's all sorts of other recording devices, including doorbell cameras and so on. They may be catching some of these conversations. So those of you that are in that world, be very careful as well as to what you're promising because it could come back on you if it's something you can't fulfill. So just a side note for that side.
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So if you're buying a new home, and this is what I would think I would do, wouldn't you have a separate inspector come in? Yes. There's a guy that you follow on TikTok. I don't know if you see that guy. I would. Out of Arizona. I would. But personally, and then hopefully they catch the structural stuff.
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In this case where you've got concrete that has settled long after you've bought the home, that's something that the inspector even may not find on the front side. And that's one of those where in this case Tom's got an agreement that they're supposed to fix it, and now they're not wanting to. Yeah, that's not kosher. We're going to hold them to that and make sure that they do. And that's one of these where, yeah, have it in writing or video or even audio, whatever you need to do as far as that goes. You know, I would be doing that this day and age.
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Just more of a sidestep, but this is another way the builders are kind of doing something. So my sister built a brand-new house, but they put in the wrong cabinets. Ah, okay. But, you know, by the time they notice that, but what's happening is your loan's coming out of – you only have that lock for what is it 90 days so then you're kind of stuck because then now maybe interest rates have gone up right you can't get that new loan so then you're stuck buying those cabinets you really didn't want or else you can't get occupancy to own the home to get the loan so it's it's i don't think they that's actually what they're doing i'm not sure they're doing it as nefariously but and when it happens you're stuck you're stuck yeah and then they're they're not hurting because they don't have to buy new cabinets correct
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We'll come back and talk about some of these items you can buy. If you've got another question like Tom had, by all means, let us know. 303-477-5600. Text line again, 307-282-22. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back, give a little bit long segment that way. Don't go anywhere. Myself, Steve Horvath from Geno's Auto Service. We'll be right back. This is Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right, we are back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Website, by the way, fixitradio.com. You can add a dash in between the fix it if you want to, or fix it in the radio, but you don't have to. That one, we've actually got the no dash situation. I wish I could do that on some of the others, but I continually work on that. But for now, the other ones have a hyphen. Fix-It Radio does not. It's all one word. And you can find us there. All right, so let's get started on some good ideas for folks in your life, whether they're do-it-yourselfers. And some of these are just sort of universal. You don't even have to be a do-it-yourselfer. They're just good to have, period, like number one on this list. The Mechanics Wear Tactical Work Gloves. Now, Mechanics Wear is a brand that's been around the automotive world for a long, long time. That's where they got started. I remember them being at SEMA, Steve, you know, years and years and years ago, one of our big trade shows in the automotive world. And they now since have expanded into most industries. Mechanics Wear, that's why it's called Mechanics Wear is because it started in the automotive world. But literally, you see construction guys, you see a lot of people wearing it because they're made in a way that they're usually – And they've got different variations, but usually they're very flexible on the backside, but have, uh, either, you know, leather or, you know, a face to them for your, your palms, if you would. So when you're grabbing things and so on, you've got more protection for your hands, but yet they're very flexible. Uh, you know, old leather work gloves. You can't do anything with those. You couldn't, you couldn't hardly put a nut on a bolt and I'm not exaggerating with a regular leather glove. So mechanics, where it came along, they were one of kind of the first inventors of wearing gloves to work on cars. Cause I, I grew up and Steve did too. We didn't have that. You didn't have any gloves to wear at that time, and it's why our hands got all tore up and beat up, and today why some of us even have issues with our hands is because we didn't have any of that stuff back then.
SPEAKER 03 :
And they had that little gel sometimes in the palm, so when you were using... Correct. And that's great for building and stuff when you have that hammer and you're not taking those vibrations.
SPEAKER 17 :
Correct. So, again, mechanics wear, a great item. And, again, this is one of those universal items to where literally you could buy a pair of these for almost anyone and they're going to use them. So this is almost a no-brainer as far as that one goes. The next one is very cool, and these have gotten to be more and more popular. That is, in this case, it's a Klein brand, which Klein is a very, very good brand. It's sort of the... Snap-on, if you would, for electricians and that end of things. Klein, very good products. I own some of their tools, and they're very nice. They make a digital level and angle gauge. So if you're looking to make something level or you're trying to figure out an angle of something or so on, very handy tool to have. Now, with some of these, by the way, even mechanics where there are competitors to them. So this just happens to be the brands that are in this particular listing that I'm reading you. And I don't know whether there's a kickback to popular mechanics on this or not. I don't know exactly how that works, but there's other brands of these as well. So the idea is here's a idea for an item to go buy for that person you have a hard time buying for. It doesn't mean you have to buy that brand. You do a little bit of your own research and find out what you want to do, because in a lot of cases, These will be sold by a lot of different people, like the next one. This is Carhartt, but they call it the Carhartt Legacy Tool Bag. Well, there's a gazillion different tool bags made now. Everybody from Milwaukee on down, Husky even, I think that's the Lowe's brand. Everybody's got some sort of a tool bag, and they've become very popular. And again, for somebody that You know, either is, you know, wanting to do some things on a little bit more mobile basis and you don't want to carry your, you know, used to be guys carried metal toolboxes around. No one hardly does that anymore. Everybody's got some sort of either a bag or a backpack. that they typically stick all of their tools in because, A, they're more organized than what you could do in the toolboxes, and they're not clanking around. They're not sitting them down on the floor or the counters or whatever.
SPEAKER 03 :
The bags work much better.
SPEAKER 17 :
And you're not losing them.
SPEAKER 03 :
I always lose something when I do them around the house. And if I have a little bag, it makes it so much easier.
SPEAKER 17 :
The bags make it simple. And what I've even done is you can even divide the bags up into different things that you may be wanting to do. So I do my own kind of IT work where if I need a Cat5 cable running an input on it and so on, I've got a bag just for that kind of stuff. that's different than, say, the bag I have to do plumbing stuff, which is different from the bag that I would use to go do electrical stuff. Because each one of those requires a little bit different tools inside, and why have everything in one when you can have little bags to go do whatever that little job is that you're trying to do? So that's how I've kind of organized my end of things. So yes, I have a tool bag for doing some of the IT cabling and all of that computer stuff. I've got a bag for doing electric stuff and I've got a bag for going and doing plumbing stuff and it just makes it simple that way. So just go pick up that bag if I know I need to go do X job because everything now is in that bag. So even if I need to go to somebody else's house and help out, you just go grab that bag and boom, I've got what I need to go help that particular person. And I'm not, you know, fumbling around trying to figure out exactly what I would need to take to go do, you know, XYZ jobs. So that's how I organize those things. And it works out really well. Jeff in Montana, what's going on?
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, life is wonderful for me up here, especially now that we have a new boiler.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, nice. Definitely.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. We've, we've been limping along on a, uh, old, uh, I had to go out and reset about half a dozen times a day. Excuse me or so. I kept getting a gas out there. Apparently they had a hard time keeping a constant temperature. So I'm looking at it right now and I'm thinking life is great.
SPEAKER 17 :
Nice. Good job. Nothing's better than boiler heat. Exactly.
SPEAKER 06 :
Heat, period. Well, that's true, too.
SPEAKER 17 :
Heat, period. You're right. Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
Especially in an in-floor radiant heat system. Yes. It's pretty essential. Oh, yes. But, yeah, two things, two comments. First, my first subscription ever was to Popular Science.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, that's a good one, too. I forgot about that one. Yeah, good one.
SPEAKER 06 :
I like Popular Mechanics, but Popular Science, I was a science guy. I would like reading about it. But one of those articles in there, to kind of bring it full circle, with Smokey Unik, he always has a... He wrote something for each month's edition, and that's where I learned so much about cars. The story I remember is that there was a guy who was working. They had no Willys Jeep, and it had a miss. And they asked him, you know, they took it to him to diagnose, and he took a quick look. He goes, okay, which of you guys dropped spark plug number four? And then they went, what? What are you talking about? He goes, yeah, when he had dropped it, the gas was not firing. So they took it out, and sure enough, they just readjusted the gap, and it worked just fine.
SPEAKER 17 :
I've seen some of those over the years. Don't see that much anymore, but back in the day, yes, you could see those occasionally.
SPEAKER 03 :
And they had to check them before you put them in.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right. Oh, yeah, gapped them before you put them in. Absolutely. Yeah, we actually had the, you know, a lot of us that were in that industry, you didn't even have the feeler gauge gappers. We actually had a tool that you actually, whatever the gap was, you put it in, crimped it, and off you went and made it really fast.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, I still have some of the old feeler gauge.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, me too. Don't use them much anymore, but still have them. I guess nostalgic I've got them, but you don't hardly use them anymore.
SPEAKER 06 :
right there with the timing light yeah yeah yeah that's kind of a uh unless you're gonna go work on your old you know 70 something or 60 something car yeah you don't really need that either yeah um a couple ideas for gifts though uh one that probably most folks wouldn't think about for a guy but uh a water distiller um we uh i
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, good idea.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't like to get our coffee pots all calcified and everything.
SPEAKER 16 :
Great idea.
SPEAKER 06 :
Plus, we're of an age where we use CPAPs, and we have a humidifier. And so buying distilled water, $1.20, $1.50 a pop. I bought this, and I didn't get the cheapest one. I got one that was good quality, and one of the reasons I did it was because they didn't boil it dry. And so I put over 250 gallons to it in a year, and I've never cleaned it out once. I've wiped it out. I've gotten rid of the little water that's left. That's a great idea. All the minerals. Yeah. We'll say it looks quite as good as new, but I have never had to clean it, so that was something that was... And you hard plumb that in, or how do you do that, Jeff? Oh, it's just a countertop thing. You just open it up, you pour a gallon in, come back in six hours, it's distilled, you pour it into a jug, and If you have more than one jug, you repeat the process.
SPEAKER 17 :
I had a family member one time that had one of those, but it was a hard plumb in and did everything that way. And it worked, yeah, to your point, worked extremely well.
SPEAKER 03 :
I have to run mine out in the garage because it's a little noisy. So I put it out there so it's quieter, at least in the house.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, mine's in the basement. But it's not disturbing the noise. It's like a fan. That's all the noise is really is just the fans running to cool down the the distiller tube. So, I mean, it's not something you think of for a guy typically, but it is a really, really handy. No.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and given even some of the things that we need to do, uh, around the house shop and so on having distilled water, for example, your iron or what you put in your cooling system and so on the ability to keep that water more stable and have a lot less issues with the water itself. For example, the calcification even that can come up in an iron using distilled water. And it just helps a ton.
SPEAKER 03 :
I suppose you're trying to clean your own windows and stuff. All that would help. Yeah. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely. All of that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. And then, uh, the, uh, another idea would be the little roll around tool kits. You talked about bags. Right. And, uh, and I, uh, I have bags up in my shop, but, uh, just here at the house, I have a little three or four piece, uh, roll around kit that, you know, you have a toolbox on top and then various containers underneath it. And they, uh, And, you know, I just, it's my constant go-to thing. I have a drill down here that I use. I have all the screwdrivers and stuff.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yep. And even for guys at home, and this is something else for a lot of you that are thinking, what do I get that person that I never know what to buy for? The other thing along those lines, Jeff, that's really handy. In the automotive world, guys have been using them for years. And back in the day, we used to make our own because they didn't exist. But that's the tool carts. And a lot of them now have built-in drawers where you can put that thing in a place and have most of the tools you need for the majority of jobs you even do. around the house and so on instead of a full bore toolbox you use a you know four or five drawer six drawer you know tool cart lid closes and so on you've basically got everything you need inside that cart
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 17 :
And really quick, Jeff, they have gotten to be, yeah, I'm not saying go and buy a Snap-on or one of those because, yeah, they're super expensive, but you can do the Harbor Freight, Napa, and so on and buy those for, oh, gosh, probably starting in the low hundreds.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, they're not too bad. Yeah. And now they've gone the other way, too, where we have these trays. They're like a, kind of like I always call them a TV tray on wheels, and you don't have anything on them, so then you grab your fuel tools and then you run over and do your job and bring it back.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 17 :
in their in their sturdy yeah and they're uh usually made out of like a like a polyurethane or something along those lines correct no these are metal and metal telescope and everything oh nice nice nice put a brick rotor on it okay gotcha gotcha gotcha gotcha yeah
SPEAKER 06 :
and something while you were talking, I thought, uh, that I have in every one of my cars. And that's one of those, uh, 13 and one screwdriver kits that you can get, you know, eight different, eight different bits and a bunch of different things for taking nuts off several different sizes. And that's my go-to tool for most everything. Uh, if I, if I can't do it without a head out to the toolbox, but, uh, more often than not, I can do everything with that too, with that one screwdriver. So, uh, And they're about $15, I think, now.
SPEAKER 17 :
And for those of you listening, you buy, say, we talked about Klein a moment ago, Jeff. You buy one of those that's a Klein. The way that works for everybody listening, it's not only that they've got all the different screwdrivers and so on. Some of them will even have Torx bits. And then on top of that, they're nut drivers as well, built in. So every kind of time you move that, tool or do something different with the tool you've got a different fastener you can actually you know work on jeff so to your point that one tool literally covers a ton yes and i've got the ones with the different bits in the handle and i those were kind of awkward to use this one they're all in the shaft that's right they're in the shaft that's right either ends
SPEAKER 06 :
And so you just pull them out and rotate it the way you need it. Yep, fabulous. But, I mean, it's a five-second job to get the tool you need.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I have actually a couple of those kicking around, the house tool bag, whatever, because to your point, Jeff, you literally can grab that one tool and do the majority of what you would need to do inside the house.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, and an example is out on the car, if I'm cleaning the battery terminals, usually I can just pull that out and find the right size and loosen the terminal, take it off, clean it, put it back on, and I don't even have to worry about finding anything else. So it's just really, really handy.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely, absolutely. No, great gift ideas, I should say. And by the way, the water distiller, you got me going on that one because that's right up my wife's alley, Jeff, so you're probably making her day.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, this mine was about $250, I think, and you can get them for a lot less than that. But like I say, this is one I've never had to clean.
SPEAKER 17 :
Nice. Nice. Great suggestion. Thank you, Jeff.
SPEAKER 06 :
You bet.
SPEAKER 17 :
Have a great rest of your day and enjoy Montana. I didn't ask him how the weather was. Our weather today is absolutely pristine. We've got a little reprieve. Had some wind and a little cooler yesterday. Supposed to come back a little bit tomorrow and be kind of the same way. So enjoy your Saturday because the outside temperature today is, for this time of the year, and I've always said to, and I even tell my voices constantly, If it's not going to snow, have it be like it is right now. I am one where I absolutely hate when it's cold and it's not snowing. If it's going to go ahead and get cold, you know, it might as well snow at that point. All right. Larry's answering a couple of questions. So for those of you that are on the line, hang tight. Larry will get right to you. Although I think I know who's this next one. I'll go ahead and take it. Is this John and Cheyenne?
SPEAKER 05 :
Of course. There we go. That's easy. Go for it, sir.
SPEAKER 17 :
That one's easy. You don't have to go through Larry and just come straight on.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, well, I missed saying hi to Larry, though.
SPEAKER 17 :
I know, I know. He's been on the phone for a little bit, so we'll let him keep talking.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, before I get there, to you, Larry, Charlie, and Steve, Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER 17 :
Merry Christmas to you, John. Appreciate you.
SPEAKER 05 :
So a couple of quick gifts that are great if you're doing chores around the house. Harbor Freight has a 52-inch straight-edge bar clamp that you can adjust to whatever width you need, and use it as a straight edge to rip a piece of board.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, good idea.
SPEAKER 05 :
And it's way cheaper than buying, like, if they call those new saws with the plate. You could use any saw with it. You just have to measure, you know. Yeah, yeah. I know on my saw it's one inch and three inch, depending on which way I'm ripping it. So you just have to measure over it. Great idea. But it gives you a perfect straight cut. without anything. Great idea.
SPEAKER 17 :
I'm stealing that idea. That's a great idea.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and they're 52-inch long. They're Harbor Freight. If they're more than $20, I'll be shocked.
SPEAKER 17 :
Typically not there. Yeah, you're probably right.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, I've had mine for about five or seven years, and I know I paid less than $20, so it might have gone up. The other thing that I recommend everybody have if they're doing projects around the house, it's the old wooden folding six-foot measure. You know what I'm talking about? It's like a ruler. It folds up.
SPEAKER 17 :
Wooden ruler, basically. The folding wooden ruler.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, they're like six feet long. What they're great for is inside edges because you can use that, measure three foot, and then turn it around and measure, what, another four inches, and you get the exact measurement you need. without having to try to use a tape measure that's going to go in and out.
SPEAKER 10 :
Got it.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know what I mean? Last one, a drywall T-square, the 48-inch T-square.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, that's worth that. Yeah, I've had one of those. Definitely come in handy for all sorts of things.
SPEAKER 05 :
And they're great for drawing straight lines or measuring, or if you want to draw a straight line to cut whatever. A piece of two-inch foam board where you can draw the line and then run it. Now, question for you. This two-inch foam board is a pain in the butt to cut. What I did was I took my small battery circular saw and I flipped the blade around so it wouldn't rip it. It just cuts through because it spins. You got any better idea than that?
SPEAKER 17 :
Jigsaw. With a fine blade.
SPEAKER 05 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 17 :
And then use your same 52-inch clamp you were talking about and use it as a straight edge and go.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. All right.
SPEAKER 17 :
Just use like a metal blade on it. Don't use a wood blade.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, no, no. That's why I flipped that. I had a wood blade in my circular saw, and I flipped it around, and I'm getting good putts. It's just really messy.
SPEAKER 17 :
And by the way, the other one that works really well, you do need something to help guide it, and I don't know if I can explain this correctly, but... Go ahead. Milwaukee and all of them now have the cordless saws and they've got the long different blades that you can put on them and they vibrate super fast and you can buy different types of blade depending upon what you're cutting. Those actually also, John, work fabulous. I have one of those that has probably been one of the, you start talking about, you know, what's one of the best tools you've ever bought? And my boys got me this, you know, years ago. I can't remember, Father's Day, Christmas, something like that. And with all the different blade configurations they now have and how you can even put the blade in it. In other words, you can put it straight out. You can put it at a 45-degree angle, 90-degree angle, whatever you want to do. And the reality is that thing, I mean, there is 101 uses for it.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I had one, I bought one of those that was corded. A decade or more ago, I had to pull up a whole – we were pulling up carpet and padding to put down hardwood flooring, and you got all those staples and a metal blade on that, and you just – Well, my Ryobi set, I have an 18-volt one now. So, yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and that one with the right blade will do that foam board all day long.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it's just, you know, it's met that foam board when you cut it with the circular saw. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
And this is what I just told you will cut that mess down immensely.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. Well, I guess I'm going to head in. I'm heading into town anyway. Go to a couple of stores.
SPEAKER 17 :
Get some blades and there you go. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
I'm going right next to Harbor Freight.
SPEAKER 17 :
By the way, Harbor Freight will have those blades also, John.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yeah. They usually have them in like a kit pack. That's right. That's right.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 05 :
So, John, you guys have a great day. You too.
SPEAKER 17 :
Merry Christmas to you, John. Appreciate you as well. Great suggestions, by the way, on things to buy. Bill and Lakewood, I'll take you before the break. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. You're probably going to think we're both standing in New York City talking to you.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's all right.
SPEAKER 04 :
But anyway, hey, well, remember when I called you up about Toyota or Trailblazer, right, a couple of weeks ago?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, uh-huh, sure.
SPEAKER 04 :
So my wife went out this week and drove them, and she liked the Trailblazer better. She thought the Toyota was noisier inside.
SPEAKER 17 :
You know, and I don't know that I could disagree with her on that. I think she is more than likely hearing exactly the same thing I would. I would agree with her on that.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so we'll probably go with the Trailblazer, I think.
SPEAKER 17 :
And really quick, and this is something I've even complained when I've done some reviews on some of the Toyota products, and again, I don't know who gets to listen to those corporately speaking, but that's one of my complaints with the majority of their product line. Until you get into the Lexus line, it changes then. But in all of the Toyota line, maybe with the exception of an Avalon, they're very noisy inside, and I don't know why.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, see, you know, in 1972... um i bought a brand new dachshund and at the time i went and drove the toyota and the dachshund and i liked the dachshund better you know yeah i don't remember why but uh sure what kind of dachshund was it a 510 it's a 510 uh that's a great car yeah i had three of them but they don't last yeah the bodies start rusting but i was living out here and i went back to new york for about six months And I parked it in my parents' garage on Long Island, and it rusted up just sitting in the garage. And then it just, it was a good car for, you know, I paid $2,000 or something like that for it. And they ran good. They were great. But they just stuck to the road like crazy.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's why they lasted so well out here. I think because we had them quite a while out here.
SPEAKER 17 :
yeah so okay just thought i'd run that by you guys no you're welcome no i appreciate that and i can't disagree with you or disagree with her on that at all uh somebody asked me too for links to the water distillers i actually found a nice product review site for them that i just Texted a couple of you. I think one went by mistake because sometimes my texting thing is a little weird. So if you got that link and it wasn't you, I'm sorry. But whoever asked for it, I did just send that as well. And that's one of those two. Just do a little research. Figure out what works for you. I'm looking online and to... to the point of what we were talking about a little bit earlier with Jeff, there are a bunch of those made. So just do your own research. Figure out what you think works best for you. They make them from little to large, and you can spend a boatload of money or not a lot, depending upon what you want with that particular unit. So we'll be right back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560.
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right, we are back. Fix-It Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks, by the way, for a lot of you that have called in and given other ideas on things to buy for gifts for this year. And as I hope some of you listening, and if you're listening on Tuesday, you still have plenty of time to get these things prior to Christmas. This is why I wanted to do it today, and I didn't do it last week. I'll be honest. I, like a lot of other people, just didn't think about how close we were to Christmas last weekend. after going through this week and realizing there's really two business weeks before next week there's one i realized yeah we probably ought to get this squeezed in today plenty of time even for some of you that would want to order something you know online or whatever if you did something today this is saturday but even if you were doing this tuesday typically you're a week before christmas you probably gonna get it just make sure on your shipping into things you've got all of that dialed in because we're getting closer and closer now all of the time. So yeah, we do not have a lot of time left prior to Christmas.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think this is the shortest distance between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Shortest I can remember in a long time. So generally we have an extra week or so.
SPEAKER 17 :
Thanksgiving fell and Christmas being on a Wednesday, it's always on the 25th, but Thanksgiving, you know, sort of floats, if you would, depending upon where that Thursday, you know, falls. And so this particular year, the way it fell was very, very, very late in November. And then given that just very short timing between, you know, thanksgiving weekend was the last weekend of november so literally we had three weeks before christmas is where we're at so yeah for a lot of you listening um you probably already know that but in case you don't there's a reminder now this is something that kind of coincides with john was saying a moment ago And the reason why I don't have one of the wooden stick rulers, measuring devices, the fold-up wooden tape measures, I guess you could say. And actually, this is the exact brand that I have. I own this exact one that's in this article from Popular Mechanics. I own the Bosch. 165-foot laser tape measure. And I learned that from a good friend of mine years ago. And this particular individual was measuring different rooms and things like that. And I'm like, what is that thing? Well, it's just my little laser measuring thing. I'm like... really i said how accurate is it test it for yourself so i i did and then once i did i bought one this thing is it is spot on uh there are very few things that you cannot use this for and it's really handy when you're measuring long distances and you don't have somebody else there to hold the tape measure because it works off of a laser so you literally can kind of point it at what you're measuring and it will literally tell you how far that is i mean you golf um steve a lot it's a lot like a rangefinder only much more accurate and granted not going near as far as what a rangefinder would but on shorter things you know this one's 165 feet out there i mean that's a long way uh most people only have measuring tapes you know i have a hundred foot tape and with this i don't need any more because you don't need a hundred foot tape when you have this because you can literally stand there And as long as there's something that will bounce back at you, you can literally measure. Now, if you're just out in the middle of a field and you're trying to measure distance, you need to put a cone or something out there to determine that distance. But as long as there's something to bounce back at, you can measure with this particular device. So it's a great handy thing. They're not that expensive. This is one of those things that I would recommend most everybody have in a toolbox because it comes in really handy at times when you're trying to do, especially longer measuring, longer measurements is what I should say. And you don't have that other person there to hold the other end. These things work out really, really well. Kyle in Dallas, you're next.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, John, how you doing?
SPEAKER 17 :
Good, sir. Welcome.
SPEAKER 07 :
Hey, I've called before on Drive Radio, but never had anything to add to Fix-It Radio. But I've got a tool that I bought about a year ago. They're 10-inch shears. They're made by Fiskars. Oh, yes. Best shear company out there.
SPEAKER 17 :
Say again? That's the best scissor shear company out there, in my opinion.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, well, they make these 10-inch shears on the handle. One of the loops is open, and they have serrated blades. And I've used this thing for so many things. I used to use a razor blade on. I was insulating some pipes down here recently, and I cut that. It's a foam core, and you can make your mark and just cut this. And I've used it on drip line in my flower bed. It's one of the best tools I've bought in a long time.
SPEAKER 17 :
Great idea. Like you, I have a pair of those and learned that years and years ago. I think for me, Kyle, at one point in time, way back in the day, I owned an upholstery shop. And in the automotive end of things, that's very common what you're talking about to have around the upholstery shops. That's kind of where I learned on cutting all sorts of things from foam to leather to Naugahyde to some of the things that you're mentioning, piping and so on. Handiest tool to have around. And that brand is, again, I think one of the best brands out there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes, I agree. It has a metal hinge on it, so you can really put some pressure on this.
SPEAKER 17 :
And as you know, Kyle, Fisker makes a huge line of that type of product. And some of them, I will say, they're a little bit less expensive and maybe not made to the quality of what even you have. And they've even got some that are on the professional end that are super expensive.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Oh, yeah. They make some scissors that can – they're very expensive.
SPEAKER 17 :
I have some of those left over from, you know, back in the day, which, you know, to your point, Kyle, these things are probably 40 years old.
SPEAKER 03 :
Really?
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
I saw they're not expensive. Well, there's one that's 8 inches, under $20. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 17 :
And most of these, as you know, Kyle, you can even sharpen yourself like you would a knife, or if you can't do it, there's people out there that, you know, sharpen scissors and so on, and you never really have to buy another pair. Yeah. They make replacements?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, anyway, I just thought I'd just call in and just... That's great.
SPEAKER 17 :
Great idea. Absolutely. And again, most of the items, and Kyle, you included in this, most of the items we've mentioned today are not that expensive.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah. The little Bosch thing is under $40.
SPEAKER 17 :
Exactly. So we're not talking about spending big money, Kyle.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, if I remember correctly, I think these were under $15, and they've been worth every penny. There you go. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 17 :
Great idea. No, that's perfect.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, John.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, Merry Christmas. No, Merry Christmas to you, too, Kyle. Appreciate you very much. Okay, this one, next one that's on the list, we talk about a lot. And this is not just the automotive side. We've talked about it on the automotive side, and most of us in the automotive world have owned these for years, in fact. When they were super expensive, we were buying them. And I mean super expensive. Back in the day, an infrared thermometer in the shops, and I'm not exaggerating, I think the first one I ever bought back in the day was $200. It was $800. Yeah, they were super expensive. They had a plastic carrying case and so on, and they were really expensive. Like all technology, not all, but the majority of technology, the longer it's out and the more they get sold, the cheaper it becomes. You can now buy infrared thermometers for... I'm not joking, 20 bucks or so. Take a zero off of what I paid initially to the point where I own a couple different ones and even keeping them different parts. I've got one up towards, you know, in my house, one out in the barn. It just depends on what you're doing. They're so handy to have. Even for some of you where maybe you smoke a lot or you cook a lot outside and you want to know what your temperatures are and so on. literally this will do all of that and tell you exactly, you know, what is my inside actual cooking temperature? You know, if I've got a griddle, you know, what's the griddle temperature right now? And on and on we go. I mean, so handy to have around for all sorts of things. And when you're looking at doing plumbing stuff, you know, where's the hot water line, cold water line, different things, you know, how hot is it actually getting? All sorts of things you can use it for. And again, as the technology has continued to improve and there's more and more companies making those, it's one of, Sort of like the scissors a minute ago from Kyle. One of the handiest items that you'll have around that you will typically use on an ongoing basis. And literally it's point and shoot. Wherever you can point that thing at, it'll tell you exactly what the temperature is. We use them in in our world for how cold is the temperature outside and how cold is the pavement itself at any given time because that kind of tells us when things are going to start freezing or not. So you literally can use it in that manner. How hot is that boiling water? On and on we go. You can really use it for all sorts of things, and it's one of the handiest devices. I personally would put that right up there with the – You know, the laser tape measure we were just talking about a moment ago and so on works extremely well. Carol has a question. Carol, go ahead.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yes, I have aluminum wiring in an older house. A bathroom vent just went out, and I have a handyman coming to put a new vent in. My son is concerned. about installing a new vent with the aluminum wiring. Is there a problem or something?
SPEAKER 17 :
There's no problem. He just is the handyman, and he should know. Most handymen are not certified electricians, so you have to be careful and make sure this is being done right. But there is a special way to attach the copper that he'll have with the new fan to the aluminum wiring and there's even special wire nuts that you're supposed to use for that so make sure he's asked those questions do you know how to attach this to aluminum wiring properly where because what will happen on that aluminum wiring down the road is they get loose as time goes by and it'll spark and that's where fires and things like that can start that's that's what your family member is concerned about
SPEAKER 18 :
Right, okay. So I'm going to write this down. There's special wiring that comes with the vent, and then... The vent has just its own copper wiring, because that's where everything is now.
SPEAKER 17 :
There's special... It will not come with the right wire nuts. He'll have to have aluminum wiring wire nuts to attach everything and make it work.
SPEAKER 18 :
Aluminum wiring...
SPEAKER 17 :
Aluminum wire nuts, they call them.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 17 :
Wire nuts for aluminum wiring, but he'll know what we mean by that.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER 17 :
And Larry wanted to talk to you, Carol. I'm going to put you back on hold for a moment here, so let's do that. So there you go, Larry. And yes, for those of you that have aluminum wiring, I don't talk about this much on... fixer radio but there are in all areas of the country because we were in was very popular for a while it was going to be the new thing at one point in time and as time went by they learned that it's not net it's not the aluminum itself That's the problem. It'll carry the current and all that just fine. It's the connections in the aluminum wiring and the vibration that's occurring in those connections and the fact that a lot of cases you're attaching the aluminum to copper. And in doing that, yes, that particular vibration between, let me just say it this way in simplest terms, the vibration at the connection can cause a problem. And there is special, again, not just wire nuts, but even I think there's some like grease or something.
SPEAKER 08 :
Like a bluish kind of stuff.
SPEAKER 17 :
it's not it's i want to say dielectric grease but it's not it's something like that but you put that on the aluminum and the copper and as everything goes together then you put the you put the right wire net on it and if you do that and those of you that are you know certified electricians you can text me and tell me if i'm correct but i believe that's the code way of actually doing it and there's a specific way of doing that even in the junction boxes and unless you know how to do that yes you could have problems down the road with you know sparking and issues that way which you know we do not want so yes so carol is on the phone with larry but yes those of you like carol that can be a very specific thing that you need to make sure is getting done correctly so that's it for today folks i think given the fact that we didn't get through all of my list i'll do some more of this even next weekend because you'll still have a little bit of time before christmas but that's it for today fix it radio klz 560.
SPEAKER 13 :
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