In this episode of Ready Radio, hosts John Rush and Bill Anderson delve into the pressing issue of RV homelessness in Denver. The conversation unravels the complexities and unseen realities faced by many struggling individuals. From the precarious situations that lead here to the misconceptions surrounding homelessness, they address the importance of awareness and preparedness in avoiding such dire circumstances.
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This is Ready Radio, preparing you to be ready for anything, now.
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Here’s your survival guide for Ready Radio, John Rush. And it’s Ready Radio, KLZ 560 on this fine Friday, October the 24th. Bill Anderson with me as well. Bill, welcome. How are you?
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I’m doing well, John. How are you doing?
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I’m good. Thanks for filling in last week. I appreciate it greatly. I corrupted all your listeners. I highly, highly doubt that. So, all right, always stuff to talk about. You sent me a video this week that I’ve watched the majority of. I kind of skipped ahead even on some of it because, as you know, some of those videos can get sort of monotonous. It’s like, okay, yep, I get the drift. I’ll move on to the next one. But this has to do with a RV homelessness crisis in Denver, which – I guess, I mean, I felt like I keep up on things pretty well, Bill, but I had no idea some of what I watched in this video was actually going on.
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Yeah, and that’s always the concerning thing with information these days is, you know, what is true news, what is true information versus what is made up. And, you know, after watching that video, I was trying to think, you know, because I drive through Denver quite a bit, and I was like, I don’t think I’ve ever seen these, but, you know, Also, as the video made point, you know, they’re not necessarily out there in the open. But driving on I-25 today around the Colfax area, around where the stadium and stuff is at, I did see a whole bunch of people on the side of the road off one of the roads off the highway there, you know, camping there. And it’s like, oh, okay, well, I guess it is there. You know, and here’s the thing that I really got out of that video is Again, we’ve got to take the information with a grain of salt. But just how people are really on that tipping point of whatever the event may be, John, loss of job, whatever, car breaks down, rent goes up, and they’re just right on that razor’s edge of going, oh, now I’ve just lost everything. And then you’ve got that perpetual downfall.
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Cycle.
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that this stacks up and this stacks up, and you just can’t get caught up.
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No, this is a great topic, and I think the approach that I want to take on, and I’ll get your opinion, but the approach I want to take is, okay, how do we help people to not get into that pattern in the first place? How do you avoid that cycle? And there might be some people even listening that have found themselves in that cycle. Okay, how do you get yourself dug out of that particular cycle? And again, my heart goes out to some of these people. I don’t by any means, Bill, uh feel like all of these people are you know wanting to be in that situation or it’s a lifestyle choice and there’s a lot of homeless where that is the case but i i don’t see this being uh you know that situation these are people and i think the the video is pretty accurate in describing some of these folks as you know if you were to actually see them at work or at school you might not even realize this is the life that they’re living because they’re doing the best they can to try to disguise that and try to make things even for their family be as normal as possible. And I get that. And I’m not trying to be, you know, you know, speak down upon these individuals at all. Rather, you know, how do we how do we maybe help them if there’s any of them that are listening, get out of that. And then on the same token, if we’ve got listeners that are listening that maybe are a little bit on that edge, how do you get yourself out of that position in the first place? Again, this is the preparedness show. This is the Ready Radio program. You know, be ready for the what-ifs of life. And some of that, to your point, could be, okay, you lost your job. Now what?
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Right. Yeah, and I think that’s an eye-opening thing as well. You know, often when we throw that term homeless out there, we think of the, you know, the bum on the street pushing the shopping cart. Right. And it’s like, you know, there’s a lot of people out there that, you know, wouldn’t give the appearance of it. That’s right. To your point, because they’re doing the best they can. They don’t want to be there.
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No, they don’t.
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But for whatever reason, you know, they’ve got to live in their car. They’ve got to live in this. You know, actually, you probably, if you ask around… You know, there’s probably more people than you think at one time in their life have done that. You know, there’s even famous actors who have stories of, hey, I was living in my car. Lots of comedians. I was living in my car, you know.
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I’ve known some people along those lines, Bill, where, you know, I look at them and really my first thing is, you know, Lord bless you. I mean, you did something that, you know, I’ve done everything I possibly can in my life to never be there. But, wow, I mean, it got, you know, hats off to actually being able to do that and make it and get yourself back on your feet and, you know, move forward because that would not be an easy task at all.
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Right. And the other thing in that video that really kind of, you know, opened my eyes a little bit and, you know, not to say that we didn’t realize it, but, you know, brought back into awareness was the story of that retired gentleman who, you know, worked all his life, paid his house off and retired from his job thinking, hey, my house is paid off. I’m good. Right. And then all of a sudden the developers around him started developing the area and then his property taxes went above what he could afford on his fixed income. Right. You know, and that’s something that, hey, we’re all facing at some point. You know, there’s probably going to be, you know, for the most people, there’s probably going to be a point where, you know, you can’t go out and work physically. I mean, I guess you could always be a greeter at Walmart or whatever. But, you know, and, you know, we say that kind of tongue-in-cheek. We say that in jokes sometimes. But you know what? If you don’t take care of yourself, that’s going to be you. You know, and you’re going to be doing – They’re retired and for whatever reason, you know, didn’t get enough put away and ended up having to go work at a Safeway. And he’s like, I work all week long and I bring home, I can’t even, you know, pay my grocery bills with what I bring home because they pay so little and everything costs so much, you know? And yeah, we could go back and go shoulda, coulda, woulda. And the point of this situation is, you know what? It’s that when’s the best time to plant a tree? 20 years ago? Yeah, we didn’t do that. So the best time is today. So let’s figure out what we can start doing today to get something put away. Because even if you think you maintain a standard of life, just with the projection, the trajectory, I should say, of inflation, if you put your money in the bank, your money, you’re losing money because the interest rate isn’t as high as the inflation. And so therefore… You know, it doesn’t stay the same. I mean, sometimes it’s right there. But the point is, is things are coming up substantially. The cost of things are coming up substantially, but the pay isn’t going up substantially. And I don’t want to get into that. Well, let’s raise minimum wage because that’s not the answer either, because everything will maintain. You know, proportional. Okay, well, if you raise the minimum raise, if you raise the pay rate of the guy working at Burger King, well, your Whopper’s going to go up. I mean, people don’t understand that simple math. That’s right.
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Well, and so let’s back up for a minute. I think something you just said a moment ago is, you know, let’s plant a tree. and you’re prepared 20 years later because you’ve already planted the tree. Well, a lot of folks haven’t, so they’re trying to figure out, okay, how do I, you know, now something’s happened. There’s been some sort of a tragedy, emergency, or whatever. And the one thing that was in this video that it just always comes to my mind, and again, folks, please be aware of what I’m going to say now. I’m not trying to be rude or mean to anybody, okay? This is not the case, Bill. But I have been self-employed my entire adult life. I have never, even until this day, worked a 40-hour week job. I still work far more than 40 hours even today. Don’t have to, but I do work. It’s just me, Bill. It’s intrinsic, I think, to who I am. But at the end of the day, I’ve never worked a 40-hour-a-week job. And so this particular video talks about how this is why it’s hard for people to make ends meet. And they base everything off of an X amount per hour. The average wage in Denver, $24 an hour, 40 hours a week. They do the math. And at the end of the day, there’s not enough to go around. Yeah, so go work two of those. And again, I’m not trying to judge or be rude, but go work two of those if you have to. You can work an 80-hour a week and still have plenty of time for all of the other quote-unquote luxuries of life if you can afford it at that point. And I’m not even factoring Sundays into that. You can work an 80-hour a week, have all day Sunday off, still have time during the week for the rest of your family. And granted, sometimes that means there’s not a lot of family time. Been there, done that, Bill. So have you. That’s what self-employed individuals do at times. And my point is… Don’t let yourself get in that position where you can’t make ends meet because you’re not working enough, is my point.
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Yeah. And, you know, we don’t even have to go as extreme as saying getting 240 hour a week jobs. Right. We could say, hey, it doesn’t matter. Just get multiple streams of income, whatever it may be. You know, I mean, even if I. you know, start a little side business of selling whatever my hobby is or whatever. Listen, here’s the thing, John, everybody wants a prescription, but here I can’t, I can’t give you a prescription because I don’t know your skills. I don’t know your physical capabilities, your mental capabilities. And here at the end of the day, stop making excuses and go FSO, as far as saying in our family, go figure something out. Right, right.
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No, no, you bring up a great point. And, and I can’t tell someone what a secret is either, mainly because, again, to your point, I don’t know what your strengths and weaknesses are. I don’t know what you’re good at. And I do know this, that we live in a day and age now with technology and the ability to learn almost anything that’s out there. And Bill, do it for relatively little. I mean, I always say, you know, you can’t say no cost because even an internet connection is costing you money, but relatively inexpensively, you can pretty much learn anything. And the other thing that I know that a lot of, you know, that happens to a lot of folk is, you know, by the way, myself included, because we do this continually, what do you have kicking around the house you no longer need that you can turn into cash?
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Right, right. Start looking at what is a liability, because if it’s a liability… you know, get rid of it, turn that liability into an asset if you can, you know, and I get, cause you and I kind of have the same philosophy in, in savings, by the way, sometimes it’s not necessarily cash in the bank. But sometimes it’s tangible things. I think there’s something to be said with that of, hey, I’ve got this whatever it may be item that I’m investing in and I’m getting use out of it. It’s making me money. Let’s just call it a tool. And I’m using it to produce. And then there may be a day that comes along where, hey, I can turn that into a bartering or I can even sell it. Yeah, I’m not going to get top dollar for it. But guess what? It’s earned its life through whatever I’ve used it for. And I’ve gotten a little something out of it in the end. So, you know, sometimes don’t think you need cash in the bank. Right. Good point. Great point. And tangible things could be considered an investment.
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Now that we’re along those lines, here’s an idea for everybody listening. And this is something that very, very few people end up doing. They might do it mentally, but I doubt very seriously, Bill, if anybody ever does. sits and actually makes a list of this, and they should. You’re in a position where you’re thinking, man, things are going okay, but there’s not a lot of money left over. There’s more month than there is money. We’re making it, but one little thing, and you know what? We could be upside down. If you’re listening and you’re one of those individuals like we’re talking about, here’s the first thing. By the way, I think everybody should do this, Bill, is get a legal pad out. and start writing down on one side of the page, what are all your strengths? What are the things that you actually are good at, that you know what to do, things that you’re capable of doing, and so on. And then on the other side, write the things down that, frankly, you’re not really good at. And there’s no sense masking that. If you’re not good at finances, for example, then don’t say that you are. If you’re not good at fixing things, then don’t say that you are. In other words, go through that list and determine, okay, what are the things that I’m really good at, and let me build upon those strengths rather than me trying to fix a weakness. Because when you’re really trying to To move that football forward, Bill, there’s no time to focus on the weaknesses. You’ve got to build on the strengths. And there’s a great book, by the way, a great book called Strengths Finders that even talks about this. You don’t have time to build on the weakness. You’ve got to focus on the strength at that point.
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Yeah, you know, it’s funny you say that because I just had a conversation with a fellow pastor this morning, and I told him, I said, you know, sometimes on Sunday I’m up in the pulpit and I’m looking there going, hey, John’s not here today. Oh, you know, Bob didn’t show up. Oh, you know, I haven’t seen Susie in a while. And it would consume me because I’m sitting there pulling out three or four people that I haven’t seen. And, you know, the Lord spoke to me and said, Bill, stop worrying about those that aren’t here and worry about the ones that are there. So that kind of is your point, right? You know, sometimes we worry about things. It goes back to what I talked about last week when you were gone, things we can’t control versus things we can. We get hyper-focused on some of those bad things. And, you know, you’re sitting on a goldmine with things you can do. And here’s another thought. Let’s say I am a little weak. Let’s say I’m not very good at fixing cars or small engines or something like that. Hey, go knock on your local repair shop and be like, hey, I want to learn. I’ll come for free. Let me just spend some Saturdays with you, you know, and you show up. And maybe the first couple Saturdays, the guy’s like, you know what? You’re actually pretty good help. Here’s $100, and you’re learning something, and nobody can take that away from you. And now, John, I’ve acquired a skill, and now maybe, hey, no, fix the neighbor’s lawnmower for $100 or whatever it may be.
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That’s right.
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Great idea.
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Great idea. The other thing, too, for basics, and this is another thing where I know folks will do budgets and not do budgets and so on, and I would highly suggest that if you’re somebody that really is on the edge, You’ve got to do a budget. You’ve got to sit down and say, okay, what are we actually, at the end of the day, spending money on? And this is where it’s got to be written out. And I get it. You’re like, listen, John, I already know what we’re spending money on because I see it. Okay, still write it out. I mean, the entire family needs to be involved in this, kids included. What are you spending money on? And by the way, you know… Living proof. You don’t have to have cable TV, satellite TV, you know, all of the 15 dozen, you know, subscription services that are out there, so on and so forth. I mean, the reality is, Bill, you can live on darn near an Internet connection alone and get about every bit of information you need. And even entertainment, entertainment for that matter, if that’s what you’re looking for, which, by the way, if you’re in this position where you’re really trying to make ends meet, there’s no time for entertainment anyways. And I’m not trying to be again, not trying to be rude to people, Bill, but that’s that’s the brass tacks. That’s the fact.
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Yeah, and you can shift your focus, right? So, you know, there’s plenty of sources out there. I mean, even any more, shoot, there’s plenty of videos on YouTube that you can just watch for free. Correct. You know, and watch those.
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And my point, even with some of those folks, is really look at, you know, Again, I know this bill because of helping people throughout the years inside the church, outside the church, in my businesses, and so on. And it never failed that folks that were really struggling, I would look and say, okay, well, you know, let’s look at where you’re at even with your vehicle, for example. You know, do you really need the vehicle that you own? In other words, maybe there’s a way to downsize that. in said vehicle or downgrade maybe is a better way to say that not necessarily size depending upon your family but downgrade in other words do you need to be buying you know or do you need to be driving that five-year-old vehicle or could you go to a 15-year-old vehicle and still be better you know still be have the same mode of transportation when it’s all said and done but therefore save a bunch of money because you might have car payments on that five-year-old vehicle Again, I don’t know everybody’s situation, Bill, and not trying to be accusatory, but I’ve known throughout the years, and I’ve tried to help some people along these lines, and one of the first things you look at is, okay, it even talked about in that video on this homelessness or this RV homeless crisis that some of these people have car payments, and I’m thinking, okay, if you’re in that position, You shouldn’t. I mean, at the end of the day, you should not have a car payment. Whatever you need to do to get out from underneath that thing to where you don’t have a car payment is what you need to do because if you’re on the edge, you should not have a car payment, period.
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Yeah, and I think people feel trapped because they’re like, well, if I give up my car, now I can’t get to work. I’ve got to have my car. So they’ll justify that car payment because they’ve got to get to work or whatever instead of exploring other options. Can I buy a junker? And yeah, in our business, and you know this, You’ve yelled at me for this on many occasions, but we don’t have new vehicles because especially trade people, they don’t take care of them. And so we buy old cars. We pay cash for them. We buy them for $5,000, $6,000. And yeah, I do have to take them to the shop to get repairs and things like that because they’re worn out. But you know what? I think at the end of the day, the cost of the repairs versus the cost of a $500, $600, $700 a month car payment, which I’m going to ultimately have repairs on anyway because the technicians beat them up so much, I think I come out in the end.
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And that’s a great point. And for everybody that’s listening, you have to make some of these decisions on your own. My point with a lot of these folks where, and again, not saying that in this video because I don’t know individuals, I don’t know where they’re coming from and so on, but I do know that there’s times where I’ve had, face-to-face, one-on-one conversations with folks, and you start mentioning some of the things where you just know you could be better off by doing X, Y, Z, but there’s 101 excuses as to why you need to drive that fancy Suburban.
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Yeah, and you’ve got to sort it out, too, because I’ve heard the other side of the argument. Hey, if you buy a new truck and you go out there and you know it’s going to fire every time, then you’ve got somebody on the road versus a broke-down truck, and now the guy on the road making money.
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And for business owners, that one I fully understand, but when you’re trying to scrape enough money by to feed your family, that one doesn’t hold as much water in that case, Bill.
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Yeah, I don’t think so, especially where you live. If you live downtown… You can pretty much get anywhere, really, in the metro area, you know, through public transport. Yes, there’s some safety concerns. But at the end of the day, John, you have to kick the excuses out, and you’ve got to start figuring stuff out. Because those excuses and that way of thinking is probably what’s got you there to begin with. You can’t have the same thinking and expect a different result.
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That’s right. Okay, great segue. That’s a perfect spot. We’ll come right back. All of you listening, feel free to text in as well with your thoughts and ideas. 307-282-22. You can call us as well. 303-477-5600. We’ll be right back again. It’s Ready Radio. Bill’s website, by the way, is prep2protectco.com. We’ll come right back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. And again, talking about really what started all of this, Bill, was a video that you had sent me talking about how bad the homelessness slash RV thing in our area has gotten. And some of you may… may have seen some of this, maybe not, but these are RVs where they’re not even in the same place constantly because most of the city codes won’t allow them. So these are individuals where they’re moving these around. It’s why you, Bill, might not notice some of these. You might see an RV park someplace for a couple of days because that’s about all the more they can, 72 hours they get towed. And so in a lot of cases, Bill, you’ll see them stay maybe one night, two nights, and then they’re off to a another location. And again, you know, heart goes out to these individuals and we don’t want to see people get there. And I just feel like and I get it. There’s always, you know, extenuating circumstances. Bill, at times I just wonder, OK, if if when things were going better and you had a job and income and so on, and if you were putting like the Dave Ramsey approach, some some cash aside. So if something happened, you’ve got something to fall back on. You know, if you were doing some of those basic things, you probably probably wouldn’t find i’m not saying it’s a guarantee but you probably wouldn’t find yourself in that position right now yeah at least not not that far deep right because when something comes up you’ll have some kind of buffer there well well or you’ve you’ve got other options i mean if you’ve got a little bit of a cushion and you know well i mean i just lost my job we’ve got a couple you know we we did the the dave ramsey approach we’ve got three months of salary put away and i’m going to hurry up and see if i can’t find another job really quick But if all of a sudden you don’t find one here locally, and this is where I think, and again, I can’t tell people what to do, Bill, neither can you. But, you know, maybe this isn’t the best place for you. Maybe there are other places where you might be able to go find a job and even take the rest of that little nest egg that you’ve got and live for half of what you’re spending here in Colorado. And maybe that’s a choice that you really mean. I get it. Colorado is great. It’s a great place to live. It’s beautiful. All those things. But it’s expensive also, Bill.
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Yeah. And I get, you know, situations like, you know, even a personal situation, you know, go back to the seventies with my mom and dad and, you know, when they got a divorce, My dad had some hard times there, but he wasn’t willing to leave because he didn’t want to leave me. I get that, too. I get that. Mom had custody, and he got to see me on the weekends. But here’s another thing. I’ve talked to a lot of people that have lost their jobs, and they’re coming to me, especially in the church and stuff. They’re like, it’s getting tight. And I’m like, well, have you gone to Walmart? Have you gone to Safeway? Have you gone to the gas station? Oh, I can’t. I’m not going to take a job for that.
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Well, and that’s kind of what we’re talking about right now, Bill, and this is my fear is I think there are times where folks may very well have that attitude. In fact, that’s in a situation where I would say, you know, I probably go apply both because some of those run 24-7, meaning – You know, you could work one shift at one place and another shift at another place. And now you’re you know, now you at least got a 60, 70 hour a week income. And you know what? It may not be wonderful, but if you had to do that for six months, that may be what it takes.
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Or even if you take an after-hours job because you still need the daytime to apply for your chosen profession. People throw that stuff out there, John, and they just lack the want to. And here’s what I would say the reality of the situation is, is people have become so dependent on expecting the government. Well, I’ve got employment. I’ve got this. I’ve got that. I’m going to find a job. And it’s like you ain’t guaranteed nothing. And that’s where you’ve got to take control of your life and stop worrying about what everybody else is doing and what you know, who’s in the office and what’s… At the end of the day, you’ve got to survive, and you’ve got to do the things that you can do to survive.
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And dovetailing into that, which this is the other side of this equation, by the way, the other side of the coin here, folks, is the better you are… at learning the things that we’re talking about right now, that Bill and I are talking about, if and when some big event does come along to where, wow, this is sort of an end of the world, you know, this is a whole game changer, big EMP powers out, you know, there’s at least half the population that probably is gone in a very short amount of time. Okay. You’re one of those people that really did figure out, how am I going to make ends meet and make things work? Well, guess what? You’ll be one of those survivors that figure that out at that time as well. Bill, if you’re somebody that’s entitled and you’re just expecting something to come to you, you’ll be one of the 50% that doesn’t make it.
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Yeah, and then that… presents a whole other new set of circumstances, doesn’t it, John? Because now I’ve got everything to take care of my family, but now everybody still has that same mentality. So they’re coming to my house thinking I’m going to give it up. I need to give it to them. they deserve it.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s right. If you think the entitlement mentality is bad now, Bill, wait until something like I just mentioned, and I don’t know if it’s going to happen. It may, it may not. I have no idea. I don’t have a crystal ball. But let me tell you what, if in fact that does happen, those folks that are entitled, there’s one thing I think all the authors of the books that I read and listen to have right is that entitlement mentality increases.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I was just going to follow up with that as well. Every book I’ve listened to, there’s always the mob mentality of we deserve.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that is one thing. It’s funny, Bill. All these authors, and they all come from different walks of life and so on. It’s funny, though, that is the one common theme. They all have different angles and different things that happen and different stories with the folks that are in them and so on. But there’s one common theme, and that’s what we just said. That one doesn’t change from any of those books.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. Right. And you know, here’s the other thing. We just did a couple of training sessions with our church and you know, everybody wants to do the gun stuff and all this. And I said, okay, we’re going to set up a scenario and no guns are allowed. And they’re like, well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I says, you know what guys, we always go to the extreme. You know, we’re talking church security. We’re talking scenarios. We’re talking this. And you guys instantly think, Oh, active shooter, big mass casualties. And it’s like, Statistically speaking, that’s probably not going to happen to us. But what is going to happen to us? You know, these more common things. Somebody’s going to get upset about what I said. Somebody’s going to be upset. Maybe it’s a struggling marriage, and the guy wants to come get his kid out of the Sunday school, and mom’s got bites, and there’s restraining orders, and all these things. And my point is, it might not be an EMP, John. It might not be a doomsday apocalypse. On one of the shows I covered for you, I talked about the future of AI. And they’re saying that AI has the potential of replacing 30% of the job force by around 26%, 27%. Do you understand that 30 percent is greater than the Great Depression?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, it’s huge. And there’ll be a shift and some will, you know, acquire jobs in AI and things along those lines. But I’m here to tell you, Bill, and I talk about this on The Daily Program, you need to be proactive in this particular area and determining that, wait a minute, if I’ve got a job that’s highly susceptible to, you know, and losing it to AI, for example, and if that’s me, wow, I probably ought to be figuring out, do I have enough set aside? Could I, if I’m older, can I retire? Can I live on what I would have coming in right now? Are there things I need to do to maybe position myself to be a little bit better along those lines? Is there other skills I could be learning right now while I still have income and a job? Is there something else I could add to the skill set that I currently have? Again, going back, Bill, to the legal pad I mentioned earlier, writing out all the things that you’re good at or not good at. Okay, what are some of the things that now that you’re working and do have income, what are things you can shore up on so that if, in fact, that day comes, you’re ready for it?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and every time we have this conversation, people say, oh, well, I’ve got an AI-proof job. I’m a tradesperson, or I’ve got something the AI can’t replace. I say, you’re missing the point. Do you understand that 70% of the U.S. economy is on consumer spending? So if you’ve lost 30% of the job force, what has that done to the 70% of the consumer spending? You may be an electrician, which I am, but people can’t afford you. They’ll go with the lights out. So don’t think that you’re going to keep plugging along like normal. All of a sudden, now people can’t pay for your services. And then you’ve got people that will come in and do your things for a lot cheaper than you. So, John, everybody is going to have to make some type of a shift, right? And this is where the legal pad… You’re writing down what you can do, what you’re good at, what you’re bad at. But then you also start to need to write down, hey, what can I start self-producing? I talk about this all the time. Everybody can produce something as ways of garden, right? Maybe you don’t have a garden space. You can get like what I have, the indoor tower garden. You get what you have. You’ve got the sprout microgreen thing. You learn how to grow in pots. You know what? Learn how to grow something and get good at it and start replacing the dependency. that you have on, quote, the economy, going to the store, going to here. Start looking at my life going, I can provide for myself. I can produce. Here’s how you sum it up, John.
SPEAKER 06 :
start looking at how you can stop being a consumer and start being a producer for the needs of your life great point great point and again what we’re trying to accomplish with today is the whole video of people living in their motor homes their their vehicles in some cases in trying to survive and again our hearts going out to them but trying to get those that are listening that maybe are already there, or maybe there are some folks listening that aren’t that far from there. And hopefully, Bill, the majority of our audience is never going to be there. I mean, I really hope that’s the case, although we have a large listening audience and people come from every single walk of life. And I guarantee you we’ve got some folks listening that are wondering, okay, wait a minute, I’m really on that. really paycheck to paycheck basis right now. And sometimes the paycheck, you know, the month outlasts the paycheck, in other words. And I’m struggling. Credit card debt is up, you know, things along those lines. You know, we’ve supplemented as a family, you know, in other ways. And yeah, I really need some help along these lines. And I’m just trying to be, to all of you that are listening, I’m trying to be as truthful as I possibly can, because the one thing that And I know the assistance is out there, but I guess for me, Bill, personally, I’ve always been one of those individuals that I don’t want to hand out from anybody. I am going to figure this out on my own, no matter what it takes, because I don’t want to live by the golden rule, meaning the guy with the gold rules. I want to be the guy in charge, and I’m not taking any assistance from anybody. I’m going to figure this out.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, yeah, and remember what assistance means, right? It’s giving me a hand up so that I can get back on my feet. It’s not for me to live under. That’s one side of it. But the other side of it is, you know, if everything does kind of go down, And there’s not just you in the situation, but the whole community, the whole city, the whole state, the whole country is in that situation. Assistance ain’t going to help you none because there’s no assistance for everybody.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, if that’s what you’ve been relying on in your life and something major really happens, and again, Bill, it could be a natural disaster. It could be a huge event that we have here along the tri-state, quad-state region that folks listen to us in. We have any number of things that happen along those lines. Do you have what it takes to survive no matter what? Because if you’re going to rely on so-and-so to come and bail you out, well, guess what? That so-and-so might not be there.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, because they’re bailing themselves out or they’re bailing their own family out. And I guarantee you, yeah, I love our police, our fire, but you know what? When it comes down to their family versus your family, if they’re in the same boat, they’re taking care of their family.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, I’ve said that numerous times, Bill. I think even before… having you involved with the program, you talk about some of those end of, I hate to say end of the world, but some of those large scenarios where our power grid is taken down or something along those lines. Yeah, emergency services, they’ll be around for a little bit until they all start realizing that, oh, wait a minute, this power thing is a big deal and it’s not coming back on. I got my own family I ought to go take care of. At the end of the day, you might have a few single people that are running around, Bill, that don’t have families that might be willing to help some folk out. But that’s going to be a small percentage of all of the emergency services that are out there.
SPEAKER 08 :
Right. And, you know, we’re living in this situation right now, John. I don’t know if you realize this or not, but there’s a lot of people that are living in this situation with a shutdown and not getting their checks. They’ll get back pay, but how long can you float? How long can you sustain? you know, until that back check comes, you know, I mean, I’ve done several jobs here in the past, people who were furloughed from the, you know, air traffic controllers and stuff, because they’re like, hey, I’m at home, I might as well get this stuff done, you know, whatever, they’re spending money on me fixing things, that’s a whole nother topic, versus, you know, I guess you’re pretty positive we’re going to come back, you know, and we should be, right, they’ll figure it out eventually, but he’s like, yeah, I mean, I haven’t gotten a check, I’ll get it eventually, but you know, hey, if I didn’t have money, you know, in the bank or, you know, food in the pantry or whatever.
SPEAKER 06 :
And to that person’s credit, they’re at least looking ahead saying, wait a minute, okay, I’ve got an opportunity. I’ve got some time right now where I wouldn’t normally have this to get some of these things done. And no, I can’t do anything myself, but I probably need to get this stuff done no matter what. Yes, I’ve got that check coming. And yeah, probably will at some point. We all know that’s probably going to be, it’s going to happen. It’s not going to be that much further down the road, by the way, it’ll get figured out. So At the end of the day, by the way, I don’t think that’s being unwise on their part. They’re figuring out, wait a minute, I have some time. I’ve got the ability to do some things right now. I’m managing that time well. Let’s get it done. Kudos to them, by the way.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and again, we can’t impose our own standards. thoughts or feelings into the situation. I don’t know what that guy’s circumstances have, you know, heaven knows he could have $30,000 in the bank and be fine, you know, for, for a while, but I don’t know. I can’t, I can’t assume what his situation is, but you know, that’s, that’s the point. You know, a lot of people are like, Hey, I got two weeks worth of food. I’m good. It’s like, well, I don’t know.
SPEAKER 06 :
Maybe you need three or four or five or six or more. Yeah. No, it just comes down to, you know, as we talk constantly, you know, as we, we talk on this program a lot, Bill, Taking inventory, knowing where you’re at, making sure that you’re dialed in, knowing if you’ve got some hiccups that come along, you’ve got the ability to handle that. And I think, again, going back to how do you avoid that whole scenario of having to live out of your RV or live out of your car, go buy a cheap RV because you can’t afford rent and things like that. Okay, how do you avoid all of those things? um i’ll just tell you straight up bill and i don’t know any other way to say this in a nice way it takes it’s a four-letter word it’s called work w-o-r-k meaning you got to outwork the guy next to you so that you don’t find yourself in that particular situation those of you that work for others even with ai coming along make yourself invaluable to the company that you work for do whatever you need to do to do the extra things to go the extra mile so that they see you for what you are you know and i can’t stress that enough bill because I don’t think, frankly, and I mean this as sincerely as I can, even among Christians that are listening to us right now, I don’t think most people do that, Bill.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, they don’t. They don’t. And you know what, John? I even find myself, you know, sitting on the couch going, oh, it’s been a long day. I’m just going to sit here and watch TV, and there’s like, man, there’s so many things I could be doing right now. I could be doing this. I could be doing that. And you’ve got to also walk in wisdom here, right? I mean, the Lord said rest. I mean, we understand theologically that we rest in Christ right now, but there’s wisdom in, hey, don’t work yourself to death, right? Take a break and reset a little bit. But But I can even find myself, you know, getting into that. And, you know, it’s interesting because, you know, an object of motion stays in motion. An object of rest stays at rest. And it’s like, yeah, you got to keep going. You got to keep going. So what do you do, John? You look at, you know, your situation. You look at your current needs. You look at all these things. You take an inventory of your life. And I always tell people this. I just taught it on Thursday. I said the number one self-defense that you have is situational awareness. Listen. Be aware of your situation. Here’s what I have. Here’s what I don’t have. Here’s what I need. Here’s what I really don’t need. Start taking inventory of it. And then in the Bitcoin world, they talk about stacking stats, which means, hey, you know, you’re just adding to your portfolio a little bit every day. Like, for example, I have $5 every day that pulls out of my bank account and buys, you know, a milli fraction of a Bitcoin. But you know what? You look at the end of the month going, oh, wow. Hey, you know, and then the next month and the next month, all of a sudden you got $2,000 in there and you didn’t even really miss it. You know, maybe you didn’t go to Starbucks and buy that $8 coffee or whatever. But going back to the principle of that is now I start stacking stats and every day I better my position little by little, little by little. If I’m going to take the beach, John, I’m going to take it little by little. I’m not going to go in there and Take the whole thing in one day, right? That’s how we win a battle. That’s how we win the war. Little skirmishes, little battles, little battles, little skirmishes, and then ultimately you win the war. So you take that inventory. You’ve got to be situationally aware as to your life, your lifestyle, what you can fix, what you can’t fix, what you can improve, what you can improve, what you can get rid of, what you can add. And then start going, okay. Little by little, I’m going to start doing it. I’m going to start doing it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep, that’s exactly how you need to handle things. Okay, let’s do this. We’ll take a break. Oh, sorry, Charlie said we can’t take a break right now, so we’ll keep rolling along. Okay, let’s shift gears here just for a second. I sent you an article about somebody that had passed away, and not a good scenario, somebody that was even going to be a new dad, that’s all he wanted to be in life, and so on, and at the end of the day was punched from behind. I didn’t read the entire article, Bill, but that is not a good situation.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, not good. You know, a lot of times people, again, we’ll go back to that same conversation I had with the church. Right? We’re training gun stuff. We’re training shooting stuff. Statistically speaking, you’re more likely to get sucker punched. You’re more likely to get stuck by a screwdriver, hit with a blunt force object such as a hammer or a bat or a stick than you are to get shot or stabbed. You know, as we see life developing before our eyes, those statistics are changing a little bit. People are becoming more bold with what they’re doing. But still, at the end of the day, you’re probably more likely to have to deal with that. So again, observation situational awareness man is something we can practice all day long get your head up look around start noticing people start knowing what they’re doing and you know what like we talked several weeks ago about if I’m getting worked up in a situation hey let’s work our de-escalation I don’t need to get into a fight is it worth it whatever was said and I don’t know the story I don’t know what what brought to this I don’t know if there was some kind of an argument I have no idea But let’s just say that there was. Did it need to get, I push you, you push me, I say this, you say that. At the end of the day, I end up getting hit and losing my life. Was it really worth that? You know, for that ego of I’m right, or I’m going to push you, or I’m going to, you know, whatever I’m going to do to you, I’m going to get my point across. It’s not worth it. It really isn’t worth it. And people can say you’re a coward or whatever. But listen, those who walk in confidence, They’re not really cowards. It’s called meekness. The Bible calls it meekness, which is power under control, John. Power under control.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep, absolutely. And we’ve got to learn that. Absolutely. All right, we’ll come back. I want to follow up with some of that as well. Don’t go anywhere, guys. Ready Radio, it’s ready-radio.com. Bill’s website, Prep, the number two, prep2protectco.com. We’ll be right back.
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SPEAKER 06 :
All right, we are back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Myself, Bill Anderson. Bill, really quick, too, before we continue on, let folks, again, know what you’ve got coming up when it comes to classes and things like that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, our classes are pretty much done for the year, John, because we do all of our training outside, and with the weather coming in, it’s pretty hard to do stuff outside, even though in my old Army days, if it ain’t raining, you ain’t training. But we don’t do that to people. So we do have some what we call level three. It’s really not named correctly because you don’t have to do level one and level two to do level three. But we do have that level three, which is scenario based training. We take the church that I pastor at and we actually turn it into a shoot house and we run lots of scenarios, restaurant scenes, church scenes. home invasions, and we talk about what to do, how to handle those, room clearing. We do all of that. And then we actually allow you to go through that scenario with green gas airsoft. So you’re actually shooting the airsoft that have protected people. They’re padded up and everything, but you’re actually experiencing that. So we do have that coming over the course of the winter, and then we also run arms. stop the bleed, and BLS classes through the American Heart Association. Awesome. Because I think those two go, you know, 90 seconds, everybody suffers from, not everybody, but every 90 seconds, there’s somebody suffers from cardiac arrest. So, again, going back to that statement I made before, you’re probably more likely to need a first aid or a, you know, life-saving device something life saving to somebody before you’re ever going to get in a fight with somebody or shoot somebody.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. So going back to this particular situation, this story, not situation, this story where, uh, this particular, uh, by the way, not a very old, uh, uh, man, not, not you and I, by the way. So not, not an old man by any stretch of the imagination. So in this particular case, um, again, one, almost a new dad, wife, uh, fairly along. There’s a picture of the wife and he with, uh, her pregnancy and so on. So this isn’t something where, you know, he’s an old guy like us walking along and then gets, you know, hit from behind, Bill. This is something that, again, you know, A, shouldn’t be happening, but B, this didn’t happen to – Not that it would even be any different if it was somebody that was our age, but I guess what I’m trying to get at here is, you know, people think, well, you know, I’m young, I’m vibrant. Why would anybody do this to me? This guy’s 29 years of age, Bill. This isn’t somebody that is, again, he’s not 69 or 59, 29 years of age. Most people wouldn’t think about this being 29 years old, but he was blindsided from behind. This is in Arizona, by the way, not here in Denver, but still in Arizona, Old Town Scottsdale, and died from his injuries. I mean… This is the kind of stuff that, and I don’t know, this is what I’m bringing you in as the expert. How do you keep something like this from happening?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, is there more information? I didn’t have a chance. You texted me while we were on the show.
SPEAKER 06 :
It says there’s five suspects that they’re looking for. It doesn’t say exactly if there was any kind of a motive or anything along those lines. Basically, they were walking along, him and his wife, and it was 10 o’clock at night, basically. They’d gone to a baseball game, and… Looks like they must have been downtown for a little while. So it was 2 a.m., which my dad always said nothing good happens after midnight. But regardless, they were waiting for an Uber to pick them up. It was raining. The crowds were kind of huddled together. So they weren’t alone, by the way. It wasn’t just two people walking alone. They were with other people. And as TJ and his friends kept walking, the woman and four of her male friends followed them. So there were five people and I guess attacked them from behind unknowingly and I guess a punch to the head and he’s dead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. So even in that situation, you know, there was no previous altercation or nothing leading up to it. It sounds like it was ambush. And, and by the way, you know, 90% of robberies happen ambush style, 30 to 50% of assaults happened ambush style. So it kind of goes back to, you need to know where you’re at. You need to know your current situation. You need to be situationally aware. um you know i don’t know the circumstances kind of like you said i don’t imagine any baseball game that would require me to be out after you know two o’clock in the morning most games are not that late um obviously they they probably you know did other things you went to a bar or whatever i don’t know what they did but you know right there you start questioning knowing where we live right if you know you live in tornado alley then you know that there’s a pending tornado so if i and going to a downtown area at night, late at night, I know there could be trouble. So if I choose to put myself in that situation, then I’m definitely going to be on the more alert side and staging myself and things like that to prevent that as much as possible. So you can’t live in a bubble, but you can also choose where you go and ask yourself that question. Is me going to the bar? Is me going… to this party is me going to this event. Is it worth it? You really got to ask yourself. And again, you know, it’s, that’s such a hard thing, John, because people will hear that as, Oh, just, you’re telling everybody just to stay locked up in their houses, saying that, but if you are going to go know your situation, right? Pre-planned your routes, pre-planned what you’re doing. Could he have brought something with him? Arizona is a pretty conservative state. I know you could have had something with you. Could you have done something to force multiplier? And even if you just go down to that water bottle and that flashlight, I don’t know. Could there have been something done? I don’t know. Ambush style to me, though, says that he probably wasn’t paying attention. I don’t know. I don’t know, John. I can’t. I can’t give you a definite because the number one self-defense answer is it depends.
SPEAKER 06 :
And according to the rest of the – as you were talking, I read a little bit more in depth into the story. And for all of you listening, this story – I just saw this story before coming on here so I can get a chance to read everything word for word. Evidently, it was him and some of his friends. And they were walking along this other group of five were, I guess, walking the opposite direction. One of not him, but one of the guys bumped the lady that were the girl that was actually with these other five. And nothing really happened at that point. Everybody went along their way. And you know how things are. You can kind of bump into somebody. You know, I don’t think anybody doesn’t sound like anybody did anything intentionally, but evidently the other five did. didn’t like what happened, and that’s when they followed these other individuals and then punched this guy in the head from behind, and nobody even knew that was even happening at that point. That part of the story is pretty clear.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, so we don’t know if, hey, sorry, I didn’t mean to bump into you guys. Hey, have a good night. Hope you had fun tonight. I mean, something like that could have happened, or, hey, you bumped into me. Sorry, you were taken up. Again, we don’t know the details, right, because those are two things major conversations that’s going to lead that into two different ways right even if i just look at you like what’s your problem why’d you walk into me and not say a word that could be enough of a spark to whatever fuel that adds to those guys to take them to that to that position you know i always talk about this stuff you know as a like a lighter you know there’s two things that have to happen for me on my bick even when i flick my bick right you know the first thing is is that you get that spark from the Flint, but unless there’s fuel, there’s no flame. So there’s sparks that happen all the times in our lives, John, you know, a guy drives by you and looks at you funny. He cuts you off. He, whatever bumps into you, that’s a spark, but I don’t have to add the fuel. I don’t have to add the fuel. You know, I had a situation yesterday where we’re come to a four way stop, you know, The guy looked at me. I looked at him. I thought, okay, well, I’m going to go. Then he started to go, and then I started to go, and he started to go, and threw his hands in the air, and I’m just like, okay, I’m sorry. And then you wait back and you, hey, I’m sorry, too, confusion. Right. You see how that could have gone two ways?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Well, in today’s world, it can very much go the other way. And, again, I don’t know the exact thing that happened in, you know, Scottsdale. And I’m like you, Bill. I’m not telling anybody, you know, don’t go do anything. I get it. Sometimes ballgames run late. You want to go have some fun with your friends. You want to do whatever. I’m not telling anybody, you know, really, Bill, you ought to be able to walk anywhere you want in America at any time of the day or night, and it should make a hell of a bit of difference anyway. So I get that. Although… You know, I think my dad was pretty, you know, pretty accurate when he said nothing good happens after midnight. So, you know, when you’re out and you’re out later, I think, if anything, the one thing my advice would be, boy, you’ve got to be self-aware even more then than you would be at 9 o’clock at night.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, and our world’s changing, John. Our world’s changing. Evil is getting more bold. It’s happening more regularly. We have to understand that this isn’t the 50s. This isn’t the 60s, the 70s, the 80s. Heck, it’s not even the 90s where people were still pretty decent towards each other. Now, because of the government, now we’re going to get off on another tangent, right, has worked so hard at creating a divided population that everybody’s walking around on a trigger wire. Everybody’s walking around because we’re so divided, right? I mean, look at it. And it’s like at the end of the day, I was talking to somebody, and they’re like, oh, Republican, Democrat, Democrat. I said, you know what? At the end of the day, we’ve got to start treating each other as Americans because they don’t really care.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yep. Right. Yep. No, you’re right. Absolutely. Fully agree. Fully agree. And again, folks, we’re not trying to be naysayers by any means on some of this stuff. But I do think, Bill, you know, the whole being prepared, being vigilant, knowing your surrounding, what’s going around, what’s going on at all times. Where are you at even in your own life when it comes to your own finances and all those different things? And I know it sounds like a lot. And it is, Bill. I hate to say this, but you can’t let your guard down at any point in time. Yes, you can still have fun. Yes, you can relax. But at the end of the day, you’ve got to keep pushing forward or you’re going to get behind.
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Yeah, and John, we can sum up this whole show. Every single thing that we talked about, hit on today, can be summed up in one thing. It’s time you wake up, and it’s time you be situationally aware of what’s going on in your life. That’s right. Financially, personally, and even socially and around the world. You’ve got to wake up. You’ve got to be aware. Awesome. Get your head out of the sand, John.
SPEAKER 06 :
I’ll leave it at that. Bill, thanks a lot. Have a good weekend. Talk to you later. All right, and that is Ready Radio, KLZ 560.
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