Join John Rush and Bill Anderson on this week’s episode of Ready Radio as they dive into the chaos and charm of springtime activities. With gardens sprouting and new life hatching, they discuss the importance of establishing effective systems to manage busy schedules. For anyone feeling overwhelmed with to-do lists and responsibilities, this conversation offers practical insights into navigating the craziness of life with preparedness and a proactive mindset.
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This is Ready Radio, preparing you to be ready for anything.
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Now, here’s your survival guide for Ready Radio, John Rush. All right, it’s that time. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us. Live program today on March the 28th. So almost one quarter of the year is down. Bill Anderson joining me now. Bill, how’s your week?
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Oh, it’s crazy. How’s your week, John?
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About the same. Like I just said, it’s like the end of the first quarter, and man, it just felt like Christmas.
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Yeah, you know, it’s, I don’t know. The spring is crazy. We’ve got chickens hatching. We’ve got rabbits being born. We’ve got gardens to get in. I’ve got jobs kicking off like crazy. We’ve got ACPMs coming up. It’s just, it’s nuts, you know, and part of Hoping with all that is really having good systems in place because otherwise it can become overwhelming.
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That’s exactly right. Let’s get into some of that as well, by the way, because I think there’s a lot of people, Bill, that feel the same way. They feel, you know, in a lot of cases overwhelmed. You know, they hear us talk about the different things that we get into on a… A weekly basis here, and I, for those of you maybe listening for the first time, thank you. We talk about preparedness and how to be ready for the what-ifs of life during this particular hour every Friday from 2 to 3. Bill’s agreed to join in here of late and really add a lot of value to what we do here. We’re doing this now for… several years and so again if you’re just listening for the first time thank you you can listen on our app even if you’re just passing through and you like what you hear you want to keep listening just go to klz radio that is our app you can listen really anywhere you want to around the world as long as you’ve got some sort of a data connection you can actually do that of course you can listen right here at klz 560 as well but bill a lot of people i know because i hear it They’re like, guys, I understand everything that you say, and I get that I need to do this and I need to do that, and we’ll talk about some of those things today. But they also, I think, Bill, can feel very overwhelmed. It’s like, okay, I’ve got all of these other things that I need to do, especially those that are still raising families. You and I are a little older than that, so we’ve got grandkids now, not necessarily kids to raise. But, you know, they’re busy. Everything’s going on. They’ve got a lot of things to do. As you just mentioned a moment ago, even for you and I, it’s a busy time of the year. And I think some of them can feel very overwhelmed with, hey, I’m just trying to live life and make ends meet, nonetheless do the things you guys talk about.
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Yeah, and, you know, I would say, you know, it’s funny because when people say, I don’t have time, you know, I would challenge them every single time I hear that comment because, you know, you and I, we’re two peas in a pod, right? We’ve got… several balls in the air. And listen, if we can do it, really anybody can. But it’s important to set up little systems and things. That’s the only way. For me to go down and take care of my chickens and my rabbits and stuff, it literally is a 15-minute deal every day. I mean, obviously some days are a little bit more where I went down there and, oh, I had five chicks today, so I had to set up a brooder. But if you have all that stuff up, the whole – point of this program, John, is be ready. And so whether it’s I’m ready to have chickens hatched, I’m ready for AC season, I beat the rush, I scheduled a tune-up, and I beat the rush, that way I’m not waiting indefinitely. And by the way, John, if you schedule one of those at this time, I’m sure you’re going to talk about this maybe tomorrow on your Fix-It program, but if you schedule that ahead of season, oftentimes you’ll get a discount, right? That’s absolutely right. slow times. And, and the whole point is, is be ready for it. You know, I mean, um, I knew that these things were going to happen and the chickens, uh, the, we’re going to be hatched, you know, and, and the, the, the rabbits were going to be born. I’m sitting on three letters right now. And another one started building a nest today. So she’s going to have her any day now. Um, I’ve got, you know, all these listed on the Facebook, and, you know, I’ve got people coming to buy rabbits today. I’ve got people coming to buy chickens today. There’s just a ton going on. It’s just so much. You know, I just got notice today that we’re getting awarded. two more big jobs. We do a lot of wiring of pole buildings and things like that out here in Elizabeth. And we’ve got two underway now that are getting ready to start any time. So it’s just, you know, you have to be prepared for these things. And like I said earlier, that’s the whole motivation of this program is, you know, be ready for stuff, you know, and then life doesn’t overwhelm you, because now you’re not being reactive, John, you’re proactive.
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Very well said, and that’s one of those things, frankly, Bill probably could take an entire hour and even just go through, you know, some of the basic things that, you know, we as owners have to do. And, you know, one of the first things a lot of times I have to do, especially with, you know, new clients or even new businesses when I’m consulting with them is, OK, let’s make sure that we’re managing all of our time correctly. Are we able to get everything done? Are your people getting everything done? Are you, for example, you know, I’ve even… I do it sometimes exactly what Dosh has done of like, you know, write down for me over the course of a couple of weeks the things that you do each day. And by doing that, it’s not a punishment. It’s more of, okay, are there things that there are other services, for example, and for some of you listening that are in business for yourself. There are now even automated attendance and virtual assistance and things like that that can help for really pennies on the dollar when it’s all said and done that can assist you in things that might be very mundane. You feel like you need to do them, but the reality, Bill, is in a lot of cases, no, they don’t. They could go on and do things that are a lot more productive that are actually making money and putting cash and food on, you know, cash in the bank and food on the table. But we kind of get into this realm of doing the same thing over and over again, and a I understand, but I think one thing about this program that I need to try to remind everybody of is change is good as long as you do it correctly.
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Yeah, absolutely. You know, and you’re nobody, I don’t think the listeners know this, but you’re coaching us in our business, and you know, you’re helping us, and you’re probably looking at my wife shaking your head going, what do you do it, Bill? I mean, I’m a pastor. I teach firearms. I got a class tomorrow. I got
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you know, my little homestead going on, I teach self-defense, I got the church, and you’re trying to run an electrical business, and, you know, you’re probably going… Well, you’re very diversified, and again, for those of you listening, there’s nothing wrong with that, Bill, and again, it’s the things that even you and I talk about on a pretty routine basis, which is, you know, that’s great, we still have to juggle all those things, and, you know, that old saying, the main thing still has to be the main thing, and in your world, of course, and we don’t have to remind anybody of this, but in your world, that’s pastoring a church and putting food on the table through, The business, which is the main line of income, everything else is ancillary.
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Yeah, and, you know, that’s another point that I would like to kind of talk about if we can. You know, I was thinking about this just earlier today. You know, a lot of people will have things. They’ll be hobbies, okay? And hobbies cost money. And, you know, that’s just the bottom line. But I’ve found a way to at least take my hobbies and at least try to supplement – And again, there’s a price for that, right? There’s a price versus value, and price is time, money, whatever it may be, resources. But what’s the value in it? You’ve got to start looking at that. But I’ve found a way to take my self-defense hobby, my gun stuff hobby, you know, my chickens and rabbits hobby. And, you know, at least I found a way to come up with some type of an income with those so that it’s not a liability, John.
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Correct.
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And I think that’s huge.
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I agree. That’s huge. I agree. No, I can’t disagree with you on that at all, Bill. And I think for a lot of folks, unfortunately – you know the hobbies can and nothing against this if you’ve got the time and the ability and the resources and you’ve got a hobby that is more of a you know time slash money you know sucker if you would uh bill fine you know i’m not going to tell anybody not to do something provided they’ve got the wherewithal to do it on the same token like you i mean there’s there’s hobbies that i have where you know cars being one of them to where i try to turn those into a profitable at the end of the day, and that’s hard, I think. For some, it really doesn’t make sense. They’re like, wait a minute, how can you make money on a car? Well, just like some of the things that you’re doing, when you learn the ins and outs and some of the basics of what’s going on and you know what to buy and when to sell and so on, yes, there can be money made on some of those. Your daily driver and things like that, no, those are depreciating. They’re not even assets. They’re liabilities. Those are depreciating things on a daily basis. Everybody knows that, and that’s not what I’m talking about. But to your point, Bill, I think you can take – some hobbies not all but some in your case you’re doing a good job of that and actually turn them into something that can be somewhat you know profitable at the end of the day or at least break even to where you’re not spending a lot of money on them and unfortunately bill i think far too many people and this is not a criticism because everybody has different things they like to do and different releases i guess you could say and different ways of even networking let me give you an example I like golf. I can’t say that I love golf because I’m not very good at it, but I like being outdoors. I like playing around here or there, but I’ll be honest, Bill, since I’ve been doing this program here daily for 10 years, I haven’t played a round of golf more than probably a half a dozen times in those 10 years, and most of that’s been when My boys want to go out and do something. It was more of a family affair than anything else, mainly because of the amount of time and effort and so on that it takes. It’s not necessarily the money side of it. It’s just the sheer time that it takes to actually go do that. Now, I also know, Bill, that there’s a lot of folks, business guys even. Donald Trump being one of these where they play golf, they make connections, they make deals, you know, they’re doing business basically at the same time they’re playing golf. And if that’s what you do and you can do your hobby and quote unquote still make a little money at the same time, you know, more power to you. I think, though, Bill, that’s probably more the rarity than it is the norm for that particular endeavor. And again, no criticism for guys like playing golf. If you love it and you can do it, more power to you. But typically that’s not going to be a moneymaker.
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Yeah, absolutely. And that’s okay. And a lot of people will push back on that and go, well, then my hobby becomes a job, and then I stop enjoying it. And it’s like, okay, well, I guess you need to find that balance. But again, it’s a mindset, and that’s just the way I’m wired. And every time I learn something new, I instantly go, okay. How can I turn this around? How can I make this an enterprise? How can I? I mean, that’s just the way I’m wired. How can I teach it? Yep.
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Well, and I don’t think that’s and that’s, you know, that’s a mindset. And it’s one of the things that we’re trying to get people to think about through this program is, you know, are there things that you’re doing? And again, I know, Bill, it’s not going to be equal for everyone, and we’re not trying to make it that way. You or I either one are saying that everybody has to go out and do these things. That’s not at all what we’re saying. But I do think that if you have a little different mindset and you say, you know, I built myself a chicken coop. Let’s use that one as an example. And I’ve got the thing working. It’s all dialed in and so on. Well, guess what? There’s probably folks around you that don’t have the same skill level that you do. So what’s it take for you to duplicate that, maybe make a little money on it, and sell that to some of the folks that are around you? That’s some of the stuff that I’m talking about, Bill.
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Yeah, absolutely. And then that kind of goes back to the point of, hey, John, I don’t have time to build a chicken coop. So, well, there’s people out there that can do it for you. Right. You know, it kind of goes back to that conversation that you had. I have a lady today buying three of my, they’re not quite a year old, laying hens. And you know what? That’s done for her. She gets a chick that’s instantly laying eggs right now. She doesn’t have to go through that process of getting the chicks, raising them up.
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Hoping they all live, all of that stuff that goes along with it, right?
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Right. And she’ll have eggs. Got it. And, you know, I’m charging.
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So I went out and I bought because I’m trying to— Okay, so really quick for a reference because I don’t think most people know this. I mean, I don’t. I don’t know what a price of that particular hen would be. So in that realm where you’re doing that, what do you get on a per-chicken basis?
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Well, it depends on, right? It depends on whether it’s what you would call a purebred or what they call a barnyard mix. you know some people care some people don’t care uh but but it all kind of boils down to that you know you’ve also got to look into it how much you got into that chick you know if you’re buying organic food and you know over the course of a year how much did it cost you know and things like that some people will say you know hey that chicken’s 40 bucks okay you know i i i’m i sold those three for 25 each so i’m getting 75 bucks okay but here’s my mindset i went down because i want to try to start having a a line. I’m going to raise a very unique, rare line. Rhode Island whites. You may have heard of Rhode Island reds. They’re a common bird. A very rare bird is a Rhode Island white, and they’re hanging on for survival. I’m going to try to go ahead and keep that line going. I went out and I bought or one rooster and three chicks, three hens, of these particular birds. That costs me $4.50 for each chick. Okay. So that times four is, you do the math, right? What’s that cost?
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$18 or so, roughly, by the time you’re done with the $0.50, I think.
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Yeah, $18. And I’m sitting here going, okay, I’ve got enough chickens, and I’ve got 12 of these other, and so I’m going to go ahead and sell three of these birds because I replaced those three birds with this other. There you go. So… I mean, check that out, $18 versus $75. Yeah, I’ve made the feed, but guess what? I’ve got eggs for a year or two that I got out of those hens. I was already feeding a flock, so they weren’t really costing me that much. I figured out a way to minimize my costs. I got a local brewery that gives me their spent grains. They eat all our chicken scraps, all our food scraps, I mean. I grow fodder for them. I do all these things to offset the cost. of the chicken feed, and I don’t buy much chicken feed. I don’t buy much of it at all. Obviously, when they’re chicks, you have to have special feed and things like that. And then when you get into the summertime, they’re eating grass, and they’re out there foraging, and your expense goes way down. So here’s the point. What’s my rate of return on those girls? I’ve had them for… pretty much a year they started laying you know i got them in september they started laying and actually i got them in august they started laying in mid winter so i had chickens all winter long okay you know right interesting enough right when the whole so you had eggs right when everything was going sky high everything was going sky high i was like i got all these eggs you know i don’t know what to do with them you know i’ve taken i’ve got probably about 30 eggs right now that 10 and 20, actually more than 40 eggs, 25 in an incubator, and I got 10 under each chicken. And I’ve already hatched 15 chicks that I’ve got live right now, five more hatched today. And these eggs came from those chickens that I’m now getting rid of. So people look at the price tag of, oh, you’re getting $25, that’s not much. But I’m looking at the value I’ve had of those birds for the past year, offset the cost, plus what it costs me to buy the new chicks, the replacement. I don’t know, John. I think I’m money ahead.
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Oh, I think so. Yeah, I think the route that you’re going on top of that, what you’re actually getting out of it on the production side of having some of them lay eggs and you’re not going to the store and this, that, and the other. Yeah, I mean, I think at the end of the day, Bill – And again, a lot of people are listening and saying, yeah, guys, that’s all great if you have time and all of that. And I understand everybody’s in a different place along those lines, Bill. I think what you’re saying, though, is I think some people look at this and think, oh, man, that’s just too hard. There’s no way I can do that. Honestly, Bill. It really isn’t that hard. Most anybody can do it. And there’s plenty of information out there, including, you know, calling you and, you know, just even just, hey, how do I get started? How do I do this? I mean, there’s plenty of resources around, is my point, to get going in it if that’s something you’ve thought of doing.
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Yeah, here’s an old story that I had. This one guy I knew, he was from Houston. He’s an old Texan guy, and I worked with him for a little bit several years back, and he always told a story. He went on a trip, and he told his kids, he said, hey, I want you to mow the yard. And he came back, and the yard wasn’t mowing. He said, well, what happened? He said, well, the lawnmower wouldn’t start. So he went out there and, you know, it wouldn’t start. So he had to choke it a little bit and push the little button to prime the carburetor and all that stuff. And it took a minute, you know, but he got it going. And he came back in here and he says, the lawnmower wasn’t the problem. The problem was you lack the want to. The effort. And so, you know, that’s kind of a saying of mine now is like, hey, you lack the want to. Because here’s the reality of it. You know, you’ll sit there and look at something like that, John, and go, oh, that’s way too hard. But then, you know, figuring out what your hobby is, no matter what it is, if it’s a video game or if it’s a car or if it’s whatever, man, you’ll figure that out. You’ll figure that out. And so, again, it comes back to, you know, do you see the value in that? Do you see the value in what is in… whatever i’m looking at you know and the reality is you’re not going to want to and and here’s the truth of the situation and i said this several times on the program is we’ve got the dangers of comfort complacency and familiarity and and i think unfortunately that’s where society’s at it’s like you know they come home They plop down on the couch, they throw on the wheel of fortune, and they veg out, whatever. And that’s life to them. And if anything interrupts that, oh, my gosh, it’s too hard, it’s too whatever. You know, last night my oldest daughter and my oldest granddaughter were – I told them to come over. I said, hey, we’re going to make some noodles. You know, I’ve got – literally a fridge full of eggs i mean we’ve got a spare fridge in our garage and it literally is full of eggs and i’m like i gotta do something with these eggs right so let’s make some noodles and so i taught them last night how to make you know homemade fresh noodles from from the eggs that we raised and and you know my 10 year old granddaughter she’s gonna look back and remember that day you know those are things she’ll never forget those are life skills that she now has Yep. And to me, John, that’s what life’s all about. It’s just that’s what it’s about. It’s not about the Bronco game or who’s in office or what’s happening around the world, around the country. Those things are going to happen, John. They’re going to happen. But you can control your world.
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Well, and to add to that before we go to a break, and this is – we’re not trying to be out of line in what we’re going to say here and along those lines, but Asia just had a huge earthquake, almost eight on the Richter scale. You saw some of those tall buildings collapsing, people still inside of them and things along those lines, and it’s just an utter – Yep, that’s the whole mindset. You know, you’re always…
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bettering the worst case scenario that you can think of um we can’t we can’t predict what’s going to happen you have no idea do you think those people woke up that day going hey there’s an earthquake happening today nope we had no idea there were um and of course i was in in my mirror and in thailand and it was 7.7 and just reading about it 7.7 and
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No, in fact, Bill, I will tell you that you can see from some of the videos, there were people that were even, you know, as this was happening, they’re on their scooters, their bikes, their cars, they stop because, you know, the earth is shaking and they’re looking around and things are starting to fall and they’re wondering even what do they do? How do they get out of the way? I mean, no, they had no idea this stuff was going to happen. Had they, they wouldn’t be there.
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Yeah, yeah, and that’s the whole idea is, you know, it takes a little effort to You got to have the want to, John, and you got to start looking at things in life, because I’m going to tell you, you know, we’re not living in the 80s anymore. The decade of decadence. Right. Things are getting tough. Things are getting hard. They’re volatile things. Look at the stock market. Look at the economy. Look at the political situation. Look at even state level of what’s going on. They’re down there talking again about SB 25003, banning the magazines. They can’t even define what a magazine is. It’s just a mess, right? Yep. and all of this goes on, and then all of a sudden you have an earthquake. That’s right. Guys, it’s the world we live in today.
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It is, and I’m going to really quick put a plug in for Drive Radio tomorrow. There’s all sorts of talk now, and we’ll get into this here in a moment, on tariffs and things like that that are happening, and certain things are going to go up in price, and actually car prices most likely will rise because there’s so many parts that are coming from overseas, even on cars that are made here. In America, even Ford, who makes most of their vehicles here, only about 75% of what they sell is actually made in the U.S. And even those that are made in the U.S., a lot of those parts that are coming in are still coming in from overseas and other places. Point being, you’re going to see a raise. in the value of things and the expense of and my point is listen to our program tomorrow between 10 and 1 we teach you how to save money on you know the maintenance and repair end of your vehicle because bill that’s another one of those where the longer you can keep driving what you own and not have to go out and buy that other replacement vehicle new or used the more money you save at the end of the day
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Absolutely. I mean, I don’t know if you watched what happened, I think it was yesterday, when Trump again talked about terrorists. GM just went in the toilet. It just sank.
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Yep. Yep. And rightfully so, because they only make about 50, if I’m doing this from memory, I think about 54% of, 52, 54% of their cars, the things that they actually sell here in the U.S. are actually made in America. Guys, we’ll come right back. And by the way, you can text a question and we’ll get that answered for you as well. 307-200-8222. 307-200-8222. We’ll be right back. Ready Radio. It’s ready-radio.com. KLZ 560.
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Absolutely, yeah. In fact, we have a gun class tomorrow, and I just had two people call and say, unfortunately, something came up, and they’re not able to make it. So I know it’s last minute, but if you jump in that gun class, I’ll give you a deal, because we definitely need to try to fill those spots. It’s PrEP, the number two, protect. co.com prep to protect co.com and if you’re looking for generators uh or anything like that that’s arc electric ehc.com and that’s ark ehc.com i think i said that incorrectly the first time so
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We’ll get some links up on the website for all that as well. We’ll talk about generators in a moment. We had a question that came in, though, about chickens, and that is, how do you raise baby chickens without heat lamps? In other words, like year-round, can you do it without heat lamps? Do you have to have heat lamps? How does that part work?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, so until they get feathered out, it is suggested that you do have a heat lamp or, you know, you can even go onto Amazon. I have this little 25-watt heat thing. It’s a little plastic thing, and you could change the levels of it. And, you know, you could put that in there for 25 watts, which is pretty good. But you’re definitely going to want to kind of keep some heat source on them. If you have them inside, like we, you know, unfortunately, my wife doesn’t like this, but they’re on my dining room table right now. And you can even just put a regular old light bulb incandescent. Now, don’t go LED because LEDs don’t get hot. Yeah, you need to have some incandescents kept on your light bulbs, folks, because they’re hard to come by anymore. You know, back when Obama was there, he put that law into place where getting rid of all incandescents. And then Trump came in first term and said, that’s ridiculous. And said you can get them back, but they’re kind of hard to find. It’s hard, yeah. Keep hold of those, because those will create a heat source. So at any rate, you put that down there on them. I do have heat lamps on mine, even in the house. The chicks will self-regulate. They’ll go in and out of the heat, but I just actually moved four of my chicks, because they started to feather out, and I moved them down into my little chicken coop, but I have a little heater down there for them, too, and they’ll self-regulate. So Yeah, you’ve got to have a heat source on them where they’re little.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. All right, so there is your answer on that. Okay, let’s talk about because of just the volatility that’s out there. We as a country, period, take EVs out of the picture even. We’re still a country that is lacking when it comes to electricity generation. Yes, this administration is trying to get some of that back on, although it’s going to be slow. And then you’re still relying on the grid and other things to make things happen. We’ve got an issue with, of course, Canada, where a lot of our upper Midwest, a lot of their power is coming out of Canada as well. And by the way, for those of you that maybe don’t know this, some of that power, believe it or not, reaches all the way down to where we are here. in colorado just the way the grid and bill you know far more about this than i do but the way the grid is designed and so on some of that electricity believe it or not still makes it down here into you know wyoming and colorado so not saying that you know we’re going to have any big issues because of that but here’s the thing just like we were talking about earlier with the earthquakes You don’t know. I mean, at any point in time, if all of a sudden the grid is overloaded and it’s a super hot day and everybody’s running their AC and they decide they want to run some, you know, rolling brownouts or blackouts, they have the ability to do so. They’re not even going to apologize for it, by the way, Bill. They just turn off the switch in a way, quote unquote.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, you can’t control it, right? See, the problem is, especially in the state of Colorado, is they’ve gone the way of electrification, and that’s what they call it. They want to get rid of natural gas, and the city of Denver has already passed this. And once Denver passes something, you’ve got the trick. Everybody else does it. That’s right. That’s right. Yeah, I heard from a Douglas County inspector. It’s like, yeah, as soon as Denver passes something, we’re going to be a little slow, but we’re going to be right behind them. And what that means, it started with multifamily right now, and, you know, multifamily, they’re saying, hey, everything needs to be electric. Now, that sounds all great, but the problem is the grid can’t control it. And we run into this a lot with car chargers. People are like, hey, I want a car charger. Well, Douglas County, Arapahoe County, a lot of these counties are requiring a load calc on the house to see if the service can handle it. And when we do the load calc, it’s like, oh, you’re over 200 amps. And what do you do? Well, you can’t, you know, it’s not that easy to get a 400 amp service brought to your house because, you know, if it’s transformers in the backyard and then they got to upgrade all that and it’s just not going to happen, right? Overhead’s a little bit easier, but, you know, out in the rural areas, it’s a lot easier. But, you know, in town, it’s just not practical. And so the answer is, is, well, you have to start load shedding. And what that means is they’re going to put a device on your house. And we have to put this in that once you reach a certain ampacity, it’s going to start to say, hey, what are we going to shut off? And usually it’s a lot of the conveniences, meaning it’s going to shut your air conditioner off. It’s going to shut your car charger off. It’s going to shut these things off. You know, so that’s the problem that we’re having. And, you know, that happens at individual residences. But then once that gets to the next level, it’s going to start happening in areas, and that’s where you get your brownouts and things like that. In California, it’s like, hey, it’s too much demand. Too much demand on what the power can plant or the substation can supply, so we’re going to have to shut her down. And, you know, during those peak hours, if you will, you’re not going to be able to do what you want to do. And so… Some of the things that we can do is we can set up generators. We can set up Franklin battery packs and things like that that we can program, by the way, to do that load shedding. But you’re not load shedding in the – in the idea of i’m shutting stuff off so it’s no longer available to me i’m going to become my own power plant i’m going to be my own provider you know you hear of like like kirk right uh from taking mortgage there and and by the way we used him uh great guy you know your referral you know he got us the all-in-one mortgage here, and we’ve had it for a while. And the idea is you kind of become your own bank. That’s right. You borrow against yourself. That’s right. And so electrically speaking, we store this energy, and we’re getting into summertime. So if you got solar, great. What are you doing with that excess? Because by the way, when you’re producing solar, it’s in the middle of the day when Most people are at work, so they’re not using it. So, you know, why don’t you capture it? Think of a rain barrel.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right, there you go. Good point.
SPEAKER 09 :
And then I’m going to water my plants when it’s dry and I have no water, right? And that’s kind of a little analogy there. But you can use… So generators are one thing, John, and they’re great for brownouts or power outages. And by the way, CORE is going through my area right now replacing a lot of things, and my power’s been off and on for the past couple of days because they’re working on the lines. And just last week we lost power for, I don’t know, an hour and a half or whatever. And for whatever reason, you know, you don’t know if they’re working on it or new communities coming up. You don’t know. But, hey, I’m out of power. So generators are good for that. But here’s the idea. The idea is to set up your own little microgrid system that I’m going to store that energy. And even if I have a power outage. and my generator kicks on, my generator is going to continually run whether I’m consuming that electricity or not. So let’s put the rain barrel up there. Let’s put the battery pack up there. Let’s capture that energy, offset the grid, and, you know, hey, by the way, if the power goes off and I’m going to drain my battery, then my generator is going to kick on, recharge my battery, plus give me power. Let’s do it.
SPEAKER 07 :
And for all of you listening, Bill, that’s one of the things that you guys specialize in. You have the ability to sit down and analyze what somebody has, what their needs are, what are they using, what’s going to work for them. Is it a combination of results when it’s all said and done? In other words, what works best for them and you can help them make that decision versus them watching a YouTube video or seeing an ad or something along those lines where, by the way, at the end of the day, they may not have any idea if that idea or that sales pitch is even going to be right for them.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, because all these installations, John, is like a, you know, it’s a personal thing, right? Because everybody has… a different demand factor of their house, a different lifestyle. They have a different setup. I mean, there’s no cookie cutter in all this where a lot of these things make you think that there is. There’s a cookie cutter, and it’s like, hey, one size kind of fits all. And that’s a fallacy, right? I mean, everybody’s a little bit different. Your utility’s different. Maybe you’ve got covenants in your hand. I mean, we have to come in. We have to take a look at what you’re trying to accomplish, right? What’s available, what you’ll have as far as maybe funding, things like that, and then we kind of build something from there. And what’s great about what we do, John, is we can start off with a base package. And then in time, you can add to it. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
In other words, you can have the start, the foundation or the building blocks, if you would, to where, OK, we ultimately want to get to this place, but we can stair step how we get there. And here is the one, two, three, four, five, however many steps it takes to get there. Here’s our process. And we can do this a chunk at a time.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, we can put it in the battery pack and go, okay, hey, that’s step one, and we’ll start with maybe a 5K or a 7K or whatever, and then we go, okay, next year or whatever, we’ll add another component. Now we’ll add the generator, or maybe we’ll add another 7K battery up there. I mean, you can continue to add. It’s like Legos, right? You start with one, and then you can put another one on there, put another one on there, and put another one on there. And the great thing about The systems that we use, whether they’re the Enphase or the Franklin, and honestly, I’m more of a fan of the Franklin stuff. It’s not dependent upon the brand that you already have. Like, let’s say you already have solar on. Maybe you already have a Generac or you have a Kohler or you have a generator that you bought from Costco. I don’t know. But, hey, I can plug anything. Any brand, it doesn’t care what the input is. Now, if you go with Tesla or, you know, some of the Generac power walls or things like that, it cares, right? And even with the base, I’ve got to go up there and change all your inverters, you know, for your solar to the IQ8s to make sure that it works.
SPEAKER 07 :
So what you’re telling me is some of it is proprietary.
SPEAKER 09 :
Exactly. You know, I have a way where, you know, we have a system that it don’t care. It doesn’t care what it is. It will fit everything, even the old stuff. Even the old stuff from 10 years ago, the old solar panels from 10 years ago, it’ll take.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, so just being the, you know, you know, me mechanical type guy that I am and thinking in my mind and so on, wouldn’t I benefit from you? Or I guess give me the pros and cons of if I’m using proprietary stuff, like you were mentioning a moment ago versus doing it this way to where we can retrofit and pretty much use whatever we want to use seems to me like that would be a better option or, or are there advantages and using some of the proprietary things?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I’ve kind of tried to sort that out, and I honestly can’t find any really that gives it the value for why I would want to keep it. Okay. The only reason that would be is let’s use the smart home, for example. Okay. And let’s say you have the ring system. Okay. You know, whatever it may be. And now I’ve got a Genie garage door, and I’ve got a sledge lock on my door. And the problem is, is now I need the Sledge app to work my door. I need the Genie app to work my garage. I need the Honeywell app to work my thermostat. And, you know, and so there’s a system out there. It’s called the Brilliant system, which will try to bring all those in. Google Home and things like that will also help with that. And they’re getting a little bit better. It’s getting better, yeah. They’re getting better, but… So think of long outlines. Now, if I go and I start, okay, I got a Tesla car charger. I got a Tesla, you know, power wall. I got a Tesla. There is some internal integration that works a little bit better because they can communicate to each other. And sometimes when you try to hybrid all these things and cross communicate against different brands, sometimes it, it does, you know, it’s like, It’s like talking to somebody down south, Louisiana, and you’re like, what did you just say?
SPEAKER 07 :
I know you’re talking English, but I don’t know what you’re talking about. Well, and I think there are those that have the ability to handle and not trying to be… I’m not trying to be rude to anybody or belittle anyone at all, Bill. But some people have the ability to run through, like in my case, I do have kind of a hodgepodge of different things at home for different things that I’m using, whether it be certain lights, whether it be certain plugs, whether it be the irrigation system, whether it be the door lock, the garage door. I mean, a lot of things you just mentioned, I’m kind of that guy. I don’t have anything that’s on one single system. So what I did to… kind of organize things even on my phone is I put all of those apps under a home category, meaning I hit that folder, I open it up, I’ve got all the different apps there. If I’m going to open the garage door, if I’m going to do this, if I’m going to do that, everything’s all in one place. Now, I say all that to say this. For me, I can get by with that. That works well. I know what each one does. It’s not a problem. And off we go. Now, I will tell you that… when it comes to even other family members and so on, it gets a little bit confusing. And, again, not trying to belittle anybody, but I kind of built it, did it. I know where everything’s at. It makes it easy for me to handle things, but I will tell you that it’s not as easy for everyone else. Does that make sense?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and I’m one of those guys, John. I’m like, you know, talking to my wife, I’m like, ugh. hey, what’s this password? What’s this? How do I get to this? How do I get to that? And, you know, I swear, every time I try to bring up my garage door opener, it’s like I’m starting all over again, trying to bring up You know what the worst one is? Sonos. Oh, my gosh. I get so fucked up with that.
SPEAKER 07 :
You and my wife. So don’t feel bad, Bill. She kind of is the same boat along those lines. And point being, this is where we’re going with this for all of you listening. There are – and, Bill, this is where you can help, folks. There are single-source items. Yes, you get into a little bit of that priority, you know, the proprietary end of things, I guess what I’m trying to say, to where if you’re going to keep everything unified – That comes with some advantages, and the disadvantage is typically you’re going to spend a little more money because a lot of those products have a little higher price tag. Because they’re integrating so many different things, they kind of do the – and I’m not belittling them at all, Bill, but they kind of do the gotcha plan. It’s like, well, we gotcha, so when you add this and you add that and so on, yeah, we can do all of that, but you’re going to be a little more money than if you went out there and found these individual pieces on your own. I mean, it’s sort of like – Bill, think of it this way. You can go take an old car, take like a hot rod, for example, and you can go buy an engine here and a transmission there. And you can even build the engine yourself if you’d like to. I mean, you can get into doing how much of it you would like and really making it unique to you. And you’ve built it. You know how it works. You know how everything is going. You know all the little idiosyncrasies of it when it comes to start it. You know exactly how to hold your mouth and turn the key and everything starts and runs and fires up. But go put anybody else in the car and that might be totally different versus, no offense, going down to the The lot and buying a brand new production car that’s all ready to go. Now, in the car case, probably not a great example because sometimes building that car will cost you as much as actually buying a new car. But you get my drift. I mean, you could build it all yourself and maybe save money at the end of the day. The new car is a lot more convenient, but you’re going to spend a lot more money to make that happen as well.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and, you know, I have this saying, and I probably said it to you, you know, I’m getting to that age where I forget what I say to people, but it’s like, you know, you’re going to pay regardless.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s true.
SPEAKER 09 :
You’re always going to pay somebody.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s true.
SPEAKER 09 :
And usually it’s pay, you know, if you pay first up front, it usually is cheaper, right? That’s right. So then happen to pay if like, oh my gosh, I, you know, put all this stuff in and it was the wrong stuff. Well, now I’ve got to start all over again.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep, yep. And so it becomes hard, you know. Well, and that’s where I want to – guys, listen, please. I want to put a plug in for Bill to where if you’re thinking about even some of this, you know, home automation stuff and the remote access of and even some of the power things that we’ve talked about, supplementing your own power, making sure that you can even run – you know, off grid, which is a whole nother realm that we haven’t really even gotten into yet, Bill, because that requires different things. And even some of the stuff that we’ve even talked about so far, I mean, the reality is you can help somebody with all of that and really build a system according to what they want to do. I think for a lot of you listening, you have to be kind of on the front side deciding, am I okay with maybe three or four apps that are going to control all of these things? Or do I want everything in one place for ease of use? Because Bill, those are some of the things you’re going to ask right off the bat.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, John, I’m not sure what you said. We had a little cut out there.
SPEAKER 07 :
What I’m saying is, you know, what you can help people with is really deciding on the front side, you know, do we want a smart home system where everything is all tied together, one app, make it easy, or are you okay with, you know, maybe a half a dozen apps to run all these different things that you’re doing? And those are some of the questions that you’re going to ask people. And by the way, how you build it out will have a lot to do with what their ability is on that front side, like you mentioned a moment ago.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, absolutely. It’s Like I said, it’s a tailor-made program with anything that we do, whether we’re talking generators or smart home integration or whatever. And it all kind of boils back, circles back to how we started. It’s creating those systems. It’s creating those systems that work for you, and everybody’s cut a little bit different. Everybody has… different skill sets, different things. You know, when it comes to Sonos, you know, some of these apps, I’m handing the stuff over to my two son-in-laws, and I’m like, you know.
SPEAKER 07 :
They can get a little flaky. No, and literally, they can get sort of flaky. And I think my opinion on some of that, and I can see why you just hand those off to, you know, your son-in-laws, if you work with them a lot and you know some of their idiosyncrasies, it’s not a huge issue. If you don’t, they can drive you crazy. Did I lose you? You there, Bill? Nope, I think I lost him. Well, let’s do this. I tell you what, Bill, if you’re still listening, appreciate you. I’m going to let you go. We’re close enough to the end here where I can do that, take a break. We’ll come back and kind of finish things up anyways. And again, for those of you listening, and maybe that’s Bill there, Charlie, we can grab him really quick. We’ve got a couple minutes left here. I was going to say, as any of you that are listening, please give Bill a call directly. Bill, you’re back with us. Give folks really quick your phone number in case they’re listening and they want to get an appointment and kind of figure out what some of their next steps are on some of these things. What’s your number? How do they reach you? Are you there, Bill?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, I’m not sure what’s going on.
SPEAKER 07 :
Now I got you. Now I got you. Give folks your contact info so they can reach out to you if they want to.
SPEAKER 09 :
All right, 303-656-3689. 303-656-3689, John.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, is that where they call, too, if they want to sign up? You’ve got two openings for the gun class tomorrow. They call the same number for that?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, we can all sort that through on that one. Yeah, get in on that. It’s short notice, I know, but I’ll make you a deal if you can get in. We’ve got about seven people signed up for it now. Actually, we’re down to six now, so I’d like to run about eight people in those classes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, perfect. Bill, I’ll let you go. I know you’ve got a lot going on. Thank you for your time today, sir. Appreciate you very much. All right, take care. All right, man, take care. And Bill’s website, again, for those of you that maybe didn’t hear that earlier, it’s prep2, so it’s the number 2, not spelling it out, but prep2protectco.com, prep2protectco.com, and then you can look up Arc Electric if you forgot their phone number or anything along those lines, and we’ll put some links up on our website for Bill as well. But if you’ve got any questions on any of those things we covered today, generation, battery packs for your wall, you know, wallpapers, Power walls, we actually call that in the industry, or he does. Anything along those lines, if you’re looking at how to do some of that, even some of the smart home technology, Bill can help you with some of that as well. We’ll come right back. Ready-radio.com is our website. You can go there and find out a lot of resources as well. We’ll be right back. KLZ 560.
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All right, we are back. Ready Radio, KLZ 560. Thank you for listening today, by the way. I appreciate it. And some of your questions that you’ve texted in on when it comes to how to raise chickens and so on, no, I am not a chicken whisperer. Not something that I’m doing at the moment. Got some family members that are. Bill is, of course. And so some of you that have questions on that, I would highly recommend that you call Bill directly. Or if you send me a text message, I do have resources where, like I said, I’ve got some family members now that are. raising chickens and so on and and quite honestly in my world i’ll be quite honest the biggest reason why we haven’t started doing that even as you know as a husband and wife is i’ll just be straight up honest when you leave town for any reason at all you have to have somebody available that will come and still tend to all of those different things that you have going on now at your home And so for me, given my schedule and the things that I do and the fact that we’ve got family members living in other states and so on, for us, that becomes more of a issue, I guess you could say, in figuring out who’s going to always be there to make sure that those things get handled and tended and you get the drift. That becomes a factor, by the way, when you start thinking about all of these other things as well. So again, when you start looking at what am I going to do when it comes to doing some of these things that Bill’s even mentioning with raising farm animals, growing your own crops, and so on, you have to factor into that who’s going to do all of that if you’re not around and you’ve taken a week’s vacation or a two-week vacation. For some of you that have family out of state and Maybe one half of you has gone for an extended length of time. Okay, great. Who’s going to still tend to all of those things when the other person isn’t there? How is that going to work out? And these are things that you have to talk through because the last thing you want to do is have all these wheels in motion. And then all of a sudden there is a glitch. Something comes up or in our case, you’ve got elderly parents that you’re also having to manage and handle and take care of. And so there’s a lot of other factors is what I’m trying to say that come into play with all of this. And again, this is why it is not a one size fits all. And I will tell you, don’t get into the comparison trap again. of where somebody else is doing it, so now I feel like I should. No, you have to do what works best for you and your family, and don’t worry about what everybody else is doing. But bottom line, this show is about being prepared for the what-ifs of life. Ready-radio.com is our website. This is KLZ 560.
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