by Peter Boyles | Jul 22, 2022 | Blasting with Boyles
When I was a young boy, I didn’t know either one of my grandfathers, but I always envisioned Dwight Eisenhower as the grandfather I never knew, keeping the commies off me growing up in Pittsburgh.
I believe that if you were in the time frame of the Cold War regardless of where you grew up, your parents, or friends, or teachers would tell you your city was targeted for thermonuclear war. I later met guys from Detroit, Cleveland, Washington, D.C., and New York City who believed they were the first place to be struck when Khrushchev or Stalin launched. My Uncle Gene was sure it was Pittsburgh because of the coal mines and steel mills. Giving this some thought later, I don’t know how much steel would have made a difference.
But it affected the movies we saw from Hollywood, it was the foreign policy of the United States bringing us McCarthyism, The Thing From Another World, and the Vietnam War.
Now seemingly we are at war with Russia. But not against communism and certainly not against Stalin or Khrushchev. Back to Eisenhower, he warned us of the military industrial complex. Now as the last man turned off the lights in Afghanistan, and all the rending of garments and tearing of hair that we left hardware behind, I think the complex cheered that on because now we can sell them more. Joe Biden, remembering what his former boss said about there being nothing Biden can’t “f” up, has sent over $64 billion of military hardware and assistance to Ukraine.
We have all up and down the Front Range now what we should be calling Bidenviles. And yet Putin is the devil and somehow these people believe the Russians are subverting American democracy. The industrial lobby makes it clear sanctions just aren’t good enough. Advocates on both the GOP and Democrat sides and the media summon up the cry for blood.
Joe Biden and Uncle Sam, what a team.
Do you understand how this is going to be the inevitable outcome? George W. Bush screwed up American foreign policy in the Middle East and to an unforeseeable future; now Biden has done the same in central Europe. We now have the biggest war in Europe since the end of the Second World War. We were able to stay out of it all through my childhood, my young adulthood, and now as an old man, what am I watching?
Remember Eisenhower stayed out of it when the Hungarians were crushed, the Poles were crushed, and Stalin and Khrushchev stayed out when we crushed the government in Guatemala and Iran. How do these fools think they can end this? As people far smarter than me have said, it’s easy to get into a war, the hard part is getting out.
Orwell knew this. So, people have said whether it’s lockstep or goosestep, what is it the industrial complex now wants of you and your children when we face such domestic catastrophes that we now must stake the future of our country with a NATO alliance against Vladimir Putin.
Remember Eisenhower’s warning and the warnings of Thomas Jefferson. After the endless wars in Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iraq, Syria, and Central America, imperialism isn’t just a term thrown around by the Marxists, it really was the policy of our country. Like so many different things happening in the country today, people just don’t want to believe it. The truth speaks for itself. This is a rathole. If the European Union wants Ukraine to be in the EU, so be it. if Ukraine wants to be in the EU, so be it. The question to ask is, why are we involved?
by Peter Boyles | Jun 24, 2022 | Blasting with Boyles
There’s a philosophical theory if you took all the money in the world and divided it up equally the same people who have all the money today would have all their money back in just a few years.
Wouldn’t you love to have a job where you vote yourself your own salary? What a gift. Recently one of the greatest lucky sperm club families in the history of Denver sports, the Bowlen’s sold your Broncos to an even greater lucky sperm club factory, the Waltons. No, it’s not John Boy; it’s not Walton’s Mountain. However, hide and watch.
The first thing on the agenda is Stan Kroenke, the founder of Kroenke Sports and Entertainment, which is the holding company of the LA Rams of the NFL, the Denver Nuggets of the NBA, the Colorado Avalanche of the NHL, the Colorado Rapids soccer team, the Mammoth lacrosse team, the Arsenal FC and Arsenal WFC, and the esports teams the LA Gladiators and LA Guerillas.
Now his wife is the lovely Ann Walton Kroenke. Ann is the daughter of Walmart co-founder Bud Walton. Now enter the dragon. You call him Rob Walton and he is Ann Walton Kroenke’s cousin. He now owns your Broncos who play at Empower Field, previously known as Broncos Stadium at Mile High, before that INVESCO Field at Mile High, aka Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Is it all starting to come together for you?
He bought your Denver Broncos for a record $4.65 billion. The real question that seems to be pending in the background is a new stadium.
Now remember you marks paid $400.9 million in 1999 to keep Pat Bowlen from skipping out of town with your Broncos back then. It appears your current owners, the Bentonville gang, are going to want a new stadium. They probably will move Elitch Gardens and redevelop that entire valley where the Platte River runs, possibly move the Ball Arena along with a new stadium. How much money do you think they’re gonna make? How much will the Broncos fans go into their pockets again?
But the better one is for all of us in the media to know that Stan Kroenke controls Altitude Sports. If you put together a sports package for every Colorado team but the CU Buffs and Colorado Rockies these guys are going to have some serious power. KOA has the radio rights to broadcast the Broncos games and every TV outlet claims to be the official Denver Broncos station.
The Broncos haven’t been that successful in recent years and people I know and respect tell me Russell Wilson is the quarterback that saved KOA Radio. With one family owning almost all of the teams and controlling almost all of the broadcast rights that’s a lot of political and economic clout. Kind of reminds me of DIA, light rail, the 16th Street Mall, and every other such project where you paid for it and someone else got rich off of it.
This is an early warning. Watch what happens and see if after these people paid all that money how long it will take for the Bentonville team to get all of their money back… from you. You get marked again. That’s called sports grifting. You got sports grifted again.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | May 20, 2022 | Blasting with Boyles
When I was a little boy and went to the movies, I saw Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments with Charlton Heston in the role of Moses. Using that as my go-to, that clearly proves the existence of a historical character by the name of Moses. Well… I would defy anyone with at least room temperature IQ to seek out or show me any historical evidence of the existence of that character/man, Moses. This just in, there ain’t no Moses.
Moses is the equivalent of King Arthur, Paul Bunyon, and Babe the Blue Ox, or any other mythological creature that people use and need to prove their point. Substitute Dinesh D’Souza for Cecil B. DeMille. Here’s your proof the election was stolen for Donald Trump. By the way, Donald Trump is another mythological figure.
The premise is for 2000 fools. People will go through history, life, and religions seeking square pegs to fit into round holes and D’Souza has done it.
When I was a little boy raised in Irish culture, I truly believed Saint Patrick ran the snakes out of Ireland. You guys all know there’s no proof of that, and the other question is where did all the snakes go? And also, by the way, Patrick the mythological figure wasn’t even Irish.
So, we’re at this point where the cheerleaders tell me this film shows clear evidence and is the truth. Then why don’t all these media outfits and individuals who are being sued, and now working to payoff, not taking Dinesh into the courtroom with this so-called proof?
The answer is obvious. It’s a mock-umentary. I watched it, and the company that I still work for underwrote the cost of the operation and it really is third rate, endorsed by any number of people who are in the employment of Salem Broadcasting. Donald Trump is mad at Fox News and OAN and others who will not even begin to cover this film. I’ll give you the reason why they haven’t, they’ve had their rear ends sued off. They’re not going to make any further problems for their chief financial officers. This is the Shroud of Turin. This is Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph Of The Will.
And for any of you who want to know where the snakes went when they left Ireland, many of them are here in Colorado in the Republican Party, and others are doing talk radio.
I thought it was interesting and it also reminded me of 1950 science fiction movies with horror movie music and what used to be called bad video or grainy video of these shadowy figures stuffing ballot boxes. This nefarious conspiracy of these so-called mules, a name Dinesh lifts from people who illegally bring narcotics into this country. These people submitted ballots in large amounts based on their surveillance video of drop boxes and cell phone data. In watching the trailer, they actually make the charge that it’s organized crime. I’m sure that was funny for John Gotti and Rudolph Giuliani. Nothing that was shown supports their charges. If there is any credible evidence it should be in the courtroom defending OAN or Fox News. And, by the way Dinesh, if it is criminal activity you don’t try to deliver it to the Secretary of State you take it to state or local prosecutors like the AG or District Attorney or the Justice Department.
From my reading the movie is based on research by Texas-based True the Vote which was founded in 2010 and has been a misinformation spreader that equals Black Lives Matter, the Proud Boys, Progress Now, and any number of organizations that exist in the country today all leading to a very bad place.
— Peter Boyles
by Peter Boyles | Apr 21, 2022 | Blasting with Boyles
There was a time in very recent history when Denver was known as the Queen city of the Plains, with incredibly low crime rates, wonderful parks and open space, a thriving downtown, safe streets, no gangs, great schools, respected police, and most of us held the government in esteem. Sure, there were minor problems and sure people from time to time would speak out, but by and large whether they were Democrats or Republicans (and there used to be Republicans in Denver) people respected the city, the state, and the system.
Now let me tell you a joke.
On a Native American reservation, a fat cat blow hard U. S. Senator arrives to solve the problems of the native people. When speaking to their leader the senator asked what kind of help did he need from the federal government?
“First,” the man replied, “We need clean water.” The senator immediately went into a huddle with his aides and briefcase carriers and minions and started screaming into his cell phone that he needed water filtration systems and he needed it now.
He went back to the native man and said, “All of this is on the way. What’s your second problem?” The Indian man said, “Medical care.” Again, the senator retreated into the huddle with his little delegates from D.C., starts screaming into his cell phone and demands loudly medical care, and staff and his traveling companions from D.C. gazed on him with adoring eyes.
He returns to the chief and says, “By the end of the week there will be doctors and nurses here and next year at this time there will be a hospital. What’s your third issue?” And the chief responded, “Cell service.”
Now, can you find the elephants and the giraffes and butterflies in that picture? Of course. How many years now did Webb, Peña, Ritter, Hickenlooper, Owens, and Hancock tell you next week this time there’s going to be clean water, doctors, and all will be well. Are you starting to understand? Are you just so conditioned to being lied to by a combination of the media, Republicans and Democrats, bureaucrats, and law firms? Have you finally had enough?
There is a pending election but like most they will promise you fresh water, medical care and, of course, cell service.
by Peter Boyles | Mar 18, 2022 | Blasting with Boyles
He’s Going To Meet The Devil At 4 O’Clock
On Thursday, March 10, about 12 minutes after the hour of eight o’ clock, while I was hosting my award-winning radio show on 710 KNUS, I got a mouth full of marbles, brain full of mush, and I began speaking in tongues. Now normally none of you would have guessed. But I was experiencing what the medical profession calls a TIA, (a mini stroke).
I was awake through the whole thing, it lasted about 10 minutes, and I could read but the words that came out of my mouth came out backwards. I really never realized I could speak Arabic.
Thanks to Steffan Tubbs who was listening in his car, Ellen Graham and, of course, my show producer and friend Billy Thorpe. The train had gone off the tracks. I had just finished a segment with Brother Jeff who was blaming Donald Trump for Tina Peters, and about to talk to Jimmy Sengenberger about Tina Peters. Now I ask you, is it possible that Tina Peters cast a spell on me with eye of the newt, whisper of the cat, and the banshee cry of the Republican Party?
So, I took an ambulance ride, sitting backwards in the snowstorm, with a young paramedic saying, “Sir, we think you’ve had a stroke.”
I immediately said I don’t have strokes, I give them. I was taken to Aurora Medical Center. I can’t tell you how great my medical treatment was, the team that was led by neurologist Dr. Spencer, and Kaitlynn (first name only) that I promised ski lessons to.
I came through with flying colors. They told me after my trip through the MRI using the Michael Jackson drug because of my claustrophobia, and any number of heart stress tests, there seems to be zero sign of me having a stroke. But I had one.
So, they kept me overnight for observation and kicked me loose Friday afternoon. And I realized from the conversations with the doctors these things are caused by stress, stress, stress, blood pressure, and more blood pressure, and not really controlling my diabetes as I should.
And so, I’ve decided to step away from the 710 KNUS golden microphone and, you knew I’d say it, spend more time with my family. I will still be involved with the radio station at a very personal level. The men and women I work with, from Brian, Kelly, and Mel, I can’t thank all of you enough. It’s been a hell of a run.
One of my favorite fighters in boxing was Rocky Marciano. Rocky was 49-0 and took the gloves off and walked away. He died later in a plane crash but had no trauma to his head and body. On the other hand, Mohammed Ali, Joe Frazier, Sugar Ray Robinson, my childhood heroes stayed too long at the dance and paid for it. Even now with Tom Brady trotting back out on the field my fear is he’ll be hurt.
And so, I don’t know what more we all have to prove. I’ll be 79 in the fall. I played my first record at KAAT Radio and I think it was an Engelbert Humperdinck hit, and now I get to say take care of yourselves. The column will continue here at the Chronicle thanks to Chuck and Julie. I’ve got a great career at 710 KNUS that I can be behind-the-scenes, and for the first time in quite a while I feel relieved.
P.S.: I’ll do a gofundme for Tina Peters if she’ll release me from her evil grasp.
— Peter Boyles
