In today’s episode, Kim shines a spotlight on climate change policies and the economic implications of government actions, particularly in Colorado. Listen as she breaks down the strategies being deployed by the state legislature and discusses the larger global agenda. With important conversations about elections and property rights, this episode offers a comprehensive look at the ongoing battle for individual liberties and the preservation of the American way.
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indeed let’s have a conversation and welcome to the kim monson show thank you so much for joining us you each are treasured you’re valued you have purpose today strive for excellence take care of your heart your soul your mind and your body my friends we were made for this moment in history thank you to the team that’s producer joe luke rachel zach echo charlie mike theresa all the people here at crawford broadcasting it is wednesday producer joe happy wednesday kim Happy Wednesday. And if it’s Wednesday, that means it’s Wings Day at Hooters restaurants. And for to-go or to dine-in, if you buy 20 wings, you get an additional 10 for free. And that’s at all their locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. I particularly like when the girls come over the lemon pepper rub or the Texas barbecue rub. And so be sure and check that out at Hooters restaurants. Treat yourself to some great Hooters wings today and check out the website. How I got to know Hooters restaurants. It’s a really important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism. and overreaching government and interest of parties. And you can find that all at my website. And that website is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for a weekly email newsletter there. You’ll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com. Our text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice on an independent station. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to use force on that. So, my friends, it’s never compassionate to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their freedom, their livelihoods, opportunities, or lives. Via force, force can be a weapon, but policy, an unpredictable and excessive taxation can It could be fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, World Economic Forum’s agenda, the globalist elite’s agenda, the United Nations agenda, which you see that playing out at the Colorado State Legislature and with this Colorado governor. In fact, this Colorado governor, Polis, says he wants to continue the movement towards clean energy. Well, clean energy is this Green New Deal. The Green New Deal is the green that’s going into PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties, their pockets. it’s making our lives more expensive and it’s making it more difficult for us to warm our homes in the winter and cool them in the summer and fuel our our vehicles all those things and so this and this clean energy we’re realizing is not really that clean if you will they’ve not really talked about everything that’s why you should check out the documentary that i had the great honor to moderate Climate Conversation, which is the project of Walt Johnson. And you can watch that for free at a climate conversation dot com. It does. It’s been airing regularly on Newsmax as well. So be sure and check that out. We’ve got a great podcast series as well. But this Colorado governor is in headlines as trying to appear more libertarian. But his policies, his agencies, his commissions, this legislature, they are radical activist extremists. So we need to realize that. And the radical activist extremists basically want to control everything. They don’t believe in individual freedom. So then also we see this force in land use codes, zoning regulations, force fees, conservation easements, national monument designations. The list has gotten long, but in this Trump administration, he’s starting to peel some of these things back. So that is pretty exciting. And remember, socialism is not about free stuff. The free stuff is just to get you to vote for it. And government cannot give something to somebody for free that they’ve not first taken from someone else, either neighbors via taxation or via all this debt that we have to pay off. Or we think that we’re going to pass that or it looks we’re going to change this. But when you incur debt, then the next generations have to pay that off. And so we will. We’re seeing things start to change, and that is pretty darn great. I’ve been thinking about the show. There’s so many big themes that we talk about. We do human interest stories, but a variety of things. But I want to – this year, focusing, first of all, this whole agenda around climate change, which if that would continue – if climate change, that agenda continues, it will bankrupt America. It will bankrupt Americans. And it’ll throw us back into the dark ages. So we’ll focus on all those issues. Elections. I’ve been thinking a lot about what to do about our elections here in Colorado. My understanding is, is that President Trump and his administration are going to work to do things that would clean up our elections. But I think we’ve got a lot of work to do here in Colorado. Our Colorado 2024 project. We have those two lawsuits out there. I did receive a text from Peter Bernager. Apparently, the lawyers back and forth with the Colorado secretary of state wanted to run our the votes that we were challenging against the voter rolls for. November 5th. And so Peter had requested that information. He just got it. And so we will be seeing what’s happening with that. But we’ve got those legal challenges out there, my friends, which are super important. So we’re going to talk a lot about elections, climate change. I will always focus on our children and property rights. So those are our big themes that we certainly will focus on today. throughout the year this year so that is super important i want to say thank you to laramie energy for their gold sponsorship of the show it is this reliable efficient affordable and abundant energy from coal and natural gas and oil that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams and empowers us to change our own personal climate. Now there is something exciting down at the State House that it looks like nuclear energy, there’s a bill to say that nuclear energy would be designated as clean energy. And so adding nuclear energy into that mix will be very interesting. as well. So lots of exciting things happening in our world. And when I say, my friends, that we were made for this moment, I’m not kidding. We were made for this moment in history. We must step forward into this, ask for God’s guidance on this and then step into each day with courage. And so the show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday on all KLZ 560 platforms. That’s KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. The shows then are posted on my website with the written summary as well as the audio. I love it that we’re offering both. I think that’s important. Some people like to read things, some people like to listen to things, or both, but you have those options. And then once that happens, also this show can be heard on the streaming services such as iTunes and Spotify. Our word of the day, I pulled it from yesterday. And it’s a word that I’ve never heard. And the word is cavil. And it’s spelled C-A-V-I-L. It’s an intransitive verb. And it’s to argue or find fault over trivial matters, raise petty objections, or to quibble. And I would say that in these hearings for the confirmations for Donald Trump’s cabinet, that I would say that the Democrats really cavil as they are bringing up things regarding each of these particular nominees. And yesterday, RFK Jr., And I think Tulsi Gabbard both made it out of the hearings. So they’re moving towards confirmation. We’ll talk with Dr. James Lyons Weiler as our featured guest here in our number one. And he’s very good friends with Bobby Kennedy about what’s happening with all that. So stay tuned for that. But so you should be able to use the word cavil in a sentence. Again, it could be to quibble about, point out petty flaws, to raise captious and frivolous objections, to find fault without good reason. Cavil, C-A-V-I-L. Your challenge is to use that in a sentence today. And our word of the day. I went to J.R.R. Tolkien, and I’ve got two here at the beginning because we do put our quotes of the day out on social media and on the website. And we’d like to keep them within a certain number of words. So the first one is from J.R.R. Tolkien was… He was born in 1892, died in 1973. He was the English writer and philologist, and I may need to use that as a word of the day. He was the author of the high fantasy works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. And he said this, first of all, he says, “…you have been chosen, and you therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.” And when we talk about you’re made for this moment, we were chosen for this moment. But he also said this, and I was thinking about the Center for American Values and Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient, and their portraits of valor of all the Medal of Honor recipients. And these Medal of Honor recipients received the highest military award in America, in the United States, for actions they took to protect others. And so he said this, J.R.R. Tolkien, that war must be while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all. But I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. And that really is the warrior, the lion. I had a good conversation with some friends a few weeks ago about our men to be lions, to be lions to protect their families and our children and our country. And that lion, that warrior mentality has been so under attack through this Biden-Harris agenda, which it started much more before that. But we must uphold our warriors, our lions, our men, and teach our boys to become men, to protect those around us. And so I loved both of those quotes from J.R.R. Tolkien, and so wanted to share those with you. I think the main headline that most all of us have just been watching with such interest is this whole thing regarding U.S. aid. And the spending during the Biden administration was absolutely crazy. And White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt. She is young and she is fearless and courageous. And this list of things that our tax dollars were being used through USAID and Trump, apparently they closed down the – well, they – Closed the offices. Apparently there were some Democrats, senators, and congressmen and women that wanted to try to get into the offices. They were stopped. And it looks like they’re going to roll this into the State Department. And it has been an independent, I have that with air quotes, independent agency, but with all of our tax dollars. So this is from a little station, KRCR. And it says, in the past week, there’s been a lot of discussion around the U.S. Agency for International Development and where billions of dollars in humanitarian aid actually goes when being sent overseas. The Trump administration has been a huge advocate in wanting to shut down USAID as an independent agency and putting it under the authority of the State Department, which I think that makes sense. President Donald Trump has said USAID is being run by a bunch of radical lunatics, and as part of his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order pausing foreign assistance for 90 days. Taxpayer funding for USAID doubled from the beginning of Trump’s first term in 2017 to the end of President Joe Biden’s, and that went from $20.5 billion in 2017 to $42.4 billion in 2023. And Caroline Levitt highlighted, or low-lighted, you might say, some of the things that we had been funding. $50 million to fund condoms in Gaza. And many of you have said that those weren’t for the purpose you would think condoms are for, but they could actually make them into little explosive devices. I hadn’t thought about that, but that’s what you guys said. Sounds interesting. $1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia’s workplaces. $70,000 for the protection of a DEI musical in Ireland. $47,000 on a transgender opera in Colombia. $32,000 for a transgender comic in Peru, $37 million to the World Health Organization, of which we no longer belong, $16 million in funding for institutional contractors in gender development offices, $4 million of funding for the Center for Climate Positive Development. And the list goes on and on and on. And these are funding things that are not in the best interest of the United States. And they’re certainly pushing this radical activist agenda. So this is super interesting what is happening, my friends. And so we’ll continue to stay tuned on all that. And all this happens because of our sponsors and the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team knows that you would like to feel safe and know that you’re well served. And so their office is available via call or text 24 hours a day for that 24 hour peace of mind. 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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I had mentioned in the first segment the Center for American Values located in Pueblo, and they’re going to have a great event at the center next Wednesday, the 12th of February. Co-founder Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient, is going to present on the real Cold War, about his time when he was in Greenland. And so give them a call if you plan on attending. That website is AmericanValueCenter.org. On the line with me is Mary Jansen, one of my fellow board members on the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And we wanted to go over some of these bills that we had in our weekly email that we sent out to our members. But it goes to legislators and the governor. And we’d love to have you join us. You’ll get that email as well. There were 39 bills on there, which was hard to believe. And you can do that by going to ColoradoTaxpayer.org. Mary Jansen, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. What an inspirational opening you gave.
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Oh, yeah. Those were great quotes, weren’t they? And you were on Lakewood City Council, an amazing representative of the people, understanding the issues. We are so jazzed that you are on the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which is this all-volunteer group that we’re working with. It’s a pretty amazing group of people.
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It really is. And you know, when they say God opens doors or windows for you, and maybe it was a window I didn’t want opened. But when I was on council, I was put on the legislative committee. And I said, I don’t know if I can do that. I don’t know anything about this stuff. You know, and I started reading the bills that were coming in that could affect our city. And, oh, my gosh, some of them were, well, this is really going to affect the people in our city. And some of the half of them wanted to support it. And there were two of us that were standing up next to it, you know. We can’t let this zoning go to this state or to, you know, that’s just wrong. What happens to our local control? And so we stood up for a couple bills that were coming down the pike back then, which ended up getting passed after I got out of office. So it shows what a minority can do if you speak up. And I think that’s what people need to start doing is speaking up.
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Well, and I feel like they’re flooding the zone with all of these bills, and so it makes it difficult for people to know what’s happening. And that’s why what CUT is doing, and also Liberty Scorecard is doing great work, Sue Moore and her group as well. We are all volunteers, and I just want to name these people. When you see them at the grocery store, say thank you to Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson. Mary Jansen, of course, Dave Evans and Corey Onozorg. And so let’s get into it. You and I talked yesterday. We selected, if we can get to them, five bills out of those 38 or 39 that we had on the email. So that first one, Senate Bill 25057, non-citizen voter registration cancellation. And the prime sponsors on that are Republican Senator Mark Baisley and Representative Chris Richardson. This is a good one, right, Mary? Yes.
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Yes, this is such a far cry from last year. It seemed like we hardly had any good bills, but this is a great bill. It’s a common sense bill, and it’s just going to increase confidence in our elections because we really don’t know if noncitizens are voting or not, do we?
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We don’t, and because noncitizens can get a driver’s license, and when people get a driver’s license, they’re automatically registered to vote. Can we not see the danger, danger in that? So that’s one of those things I’m going to focus on also regarding elections. How about this next one? This is a really bad boy, and that’s Senate Bill 25081.
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Oh, yes, this one. This is like opening up the bank vault and just letting them take the money without any kind of – security or anything. Nobody’s going to know anything. We’re not going to know how much money they take out. There’s nothing. No transparency at all.
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So and what it’s doing is it would allow the Treasury office to issue bonds, which really is a runaround on Tabor. So this is what we said in our email. This is a blatant and runaround Tabor, which is Colorado’s taxpayers bill of rights by enabling the new unelected agency, its own bond issuing authority, thereby bypassing voters for new debt. this is a is the very opposite of transparency fiscal prudence and sound management that senate bill 25081 and obviously we are a no on that and oh i need to mention the sponsors um i think it was mark said kim be sure and mention sponsors these are democrats that senator jeff bridges senator judy emma bile and representative shannon byrd they are wanting to run around we the people
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Oh, yes. It’s almost like opening up something for slavery. It is. I mean, I feel debt is slavery.
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Because they make a commitment, they take the money, and we have to work and pay it off, right?
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And we have to pay it off, yes.
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Okay. How about this next one? House Bill 251010. What do you think about that? Prohibiting price gouging.
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Oh, my goodness. So they put these in. It’s kind of a slippery slope. And it seems like they put these in. It seems like, oh, yeah, we need to do that because we’re having such problems with inflation. And so the government decides they’re just going to, oh, we’re going to go to the business and we’re going to make sure that they can’t go over certain prices. That’s called price control. It’s a socialist tactic. And it’s a scary one to me.
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Well, and Mary, it leads to shortages. So this is regarding grocery stores. And the write-up that we had on this is this bill prohibits price increases over 10% for necessities. This is the first step to price controls, as you mentioned, and mentioned slippery slope, to the state setting prices on all commodities. And the bill’s use of many undefined terms will invite lawsuits who determines what a necessity is. And the bill could easily lead to product scarcity or unavailability. as with inflation, costs of business are increasing everything greatly. And so instead, as Joe and I talked about this, you may have a fixed price on something, but if you can’t buy it, if it’s not in the store, it doesn’t matter. And that’s what this will lead to. And these sponsors, let’s see, I’ve got it in front of me, is Representative Yara Zoke, Representative Kyle Brown, Senator Mike Weissman, all Democrats.
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Yes, shame on them. Shame on them. Shame on them. This is a bill that came right out of the Soviet Union.
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It is, definitely. And, yeah, so that one. Okay, a couple more. I think we’re going to make it. This is like so speedy, speed bills, I guess. So what’s the next one? We are speedy Kabbalists. So what’s the next one, Mary, that we should talk about?
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The next one is House Bill 25-1104. It’s concerning the right of a landowner to stop the occurrence of squatting on premises. I was a huge yes on this one. It’s a very common sense bill. It just helps the ownership of the property ownership by providing a legal mechanism to evict people that are squatting on their land. I mean, how common sense is that?
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Well, and we have one sponsor. That sponsor is Rebecca Kelty. And she’s new down at the legislature. And she won her race. It was a recount. I think it was like by seven votes. So, my friends, if you wonder whether or not your vote matters, your vote matters. Because here, because of that election, we’ve got a common sense bill regarding property rights, House Bill 251104. And Mary, I think there was one more. Oh, the national popular vote one. That was House Bill 25-1102.
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Yes. Yes, that’s that way. We voted all. All of us voted yes on this because Colorado is one of the what do they call it? The compact, as part of, we voted to go into the compact to just have a national popular vote. Now, Donald Trump won the national popular vote. So we would have voted for that. But if it was opposite, it would be someone else. So the national popular vote is not constitutional. And this is a bill to override the Constitution. And so I agree with this.
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Okay, well, so let’s just clarify. We in Colorado, there was a ballot question to whether or not we wanted to become part of this national popular vote compact, and that was several years ago. And I think that that was pushed forward by radical activist Democrats because they never thought that Democrats would ever lose the popular vote. And so what that would mean then is it would take away the voices of each of the states. regarding their votes for president, overriding the electoral college, and all those votes would go towards the candidate that won the national popular vote. So this bill is to repeal that compact, and it’s House Bill 25-1102, and the sponsor on that is Representative Ken DeGraff. He’s got his name on a bunch of good stuff. I think there was one thing that we were a no on, but typically he’s got pretty good common-sense votes on everything and the kinds of bills that he’s bringing forward, Mary.
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Oh, yeah, well, sometimes, you know, we disagree on some things, and that’s fine as long as we can talk about it and debate, but… With the bills that they rush through at us, it’s hard to do that. It’s hard to do the debate, and it’s hard for the people to understand what is happening. That’s why cut is such a great idea, because we actually do the peeling the onion for you, so you don’t have to cry as much.
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i love that and people can join us it’s just 25 a year two dollars and eight cents a month so for two dollars and eight cents a month just look at all of the great analysis that you get and you can join us by going to coloradotaxpayer.org and you will then be added to the weekly email that we send to the legislators and governor and uh And I want to thank the team. It was monumental. When I opened up Bill Track 50 on Friday evening to look at the bills to select, and I saw that there was 127 bills that were scheduled for hearing for this week. Now, some of them were crossovers, but that is not governing. That is not representing the people, Mary Jansen. That is pushing an agenda. And I If legislators don’t have time to read a bill, to understand the bill, to think about the consequences of what that is for we the people, they are doing us a disservice. But I am so grateful for the Republicans that are down there. They’re standing in the gap, and we really do appreciate each and every one of them.
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Oh, yes, and it’s not just Republicans. It’s the unaffiliates, too, and it’s the Libertarian Party. who is, you know, they are screaming really loud. And we need more people to not be afraid to speak up. And I guess I think for people to not be afraid is they need to be armed with the truth. And so by joining CUT, you will be armed with the truth and you will be able to fight back because, you know what, the bullies can’t stand it when you actually know what you’re talking about.
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Well done, Mary Jansen. Well done, Mary Jansen. So thank you so much. And again, you can join us by going to coloradotaxpayer.org. That’s coloradotaxpayer.org. We will talk very soon. Thanks, Barry. Thanks, Kim. Have a great day. You as well. And these important discussions happen because we have amazing sponsors, and one of those is Karen Levine.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. and so pleased to have on the line with me Dr. James Lyons-Weiler. He is the founder of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. He’s a scientist, and he’s a good friend of Robert Kennedy, Jr., and there’s a lot happening. So, Dr. Jack, welcome to the show.
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Tim, thank you so much, and thanks for continuing to be this beacon of reason and logic and sensibility out there.
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Well, we certainly are trying. And you and I met during the whole COVID thing. And it’s crazy as I look back on that. But here we are now to RFK Jr. Got through hearings yesterday. You really have your ear to the ground on all this. We’re on pins and needles. Tell us what we should know about everything that’s going on with that.
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Well, I wish I could tell you everything that’s going on, but I’ll tell you what I can tell you. How’s that? Okay. Okay. So, yeah, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was put forward by the Health Committee with the majority rule vote. It was unfortunately split down party lines, not unpredictable, to go to the Senate floor for a full Senate confirmation vote for Director of, I’m sorry, the Secretary of Health and Human Services at HHS. This is a major milestone development. It is a testament to the voice of the people saying, we know what you did last summer with COVID. The protocol of the career bureaucrats to lie incessantly, repeatedly, perennially to the public about matters of public health Failed their protocol of putting out vaccines that have risks and then telling everyone gas lighting. There are no risks whatsoever to get to to vaccinating your children or yourself. Has failed the United States public has woken up to the fact that if we’re going to be healthy, we’re going to need an advocate for making America healthy again. And that advocate is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the cadre of administrators and scientists that he’s going to put into 5,000 appointed positions at HHS.
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I tried to watch the hearings, Dr. Jack, and there was so much posturing, and I felt disrespect and dishonesty by some of these senators. I really couldn’t slog my way through it. What did you think about the hearings?
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It was rough, a bit like making sausage in public, right? I mean, if you enjoy sausage, if you’ve ever seen it made, it’s quite a different procedure. You know, Kennedy had to hold his own against people who for a number of reasons had to say things in public that they might not actually believe. And that’s because the answer to their donors, the answer to their base, and it’s politics. I’m a scientist. I don’t pretend very well. When I speak, I tend to speak the truth, the old truth and nothing but the truth as I understand it. And as a scientist, I feel like I am safest when I say I don’t know if I don’t know something. But the positioning and posturing was so grotesque because it is a caricature of what they used to be able to pull off years ago. So imagine someone yelling at an HHS nominee about what they have to say and what they’re not allowed to say. Well, that conversation Probably should have been done somewhere in a hallway or in an office, but it was done on mic, on the record, dictating what this employee of the executive branch of the government can and cannot say is overreach on the basis of any senator that thinks that they’re going to control him. But nevertheless, that’s political posturing, but that’s politics for you.
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Well, it was certainly interesting. Now that he’s headed to the full Senate, the chances are pretty good that he will be confirmed, yes?
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Oh, I think the chances are excellent, yes. It’s not quite a rubber stamp, but the chances are excellent, yes.
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Wow. Okay. Well, you had written a piece that you’d sent out via email to your list, and it’s the first 14 what RFK Jr. and his new HHS NIH FDA should be doing right away. So what are some of the first things that should happen?
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Well, as I mentioned earlier, the public health Infrastructure in the United States is about to undergo a major brain transplant and when that brain transplant takes place, there are certain things that I feel that the public should be made aware of. For instance, prior to 2014, the number of deaths from influenza in the United States to average year to year about 5000, but after 2014, someone got this. This idea that we could just lump in all other deaths from respiratory illnesses, whether it was influenza or not as long as there was no molecular test that said it wasn’t influenza and we’re going to call it influenza disease. CDC went along with this FDA went along with this certain white houses went along with this to put it into play. And it’s problematic. The press, when they talk about influenza, they now talk about 50,000 to 80,000 deaths per year. That’s a tenfold increase in the number of deaths from influenza, but they do it by using this diagnostic substitution called influenza disease, which is not a thing in medicine. It’s not a thing in medicine to say, oh, you have influenza disease and you have an influenza infection, or you have an infection or coronavirus or bacterial pneumonia. And the problem with that diagnostic substitution 2014 is they did it so that they could apply more pressure, political pressure and leverage. To fund vaccine development for influenza, but then also then to turn around and try to. Coerce the public into taking influenza vaccines. But unfortunately, it led to unnecessary deaths from untreated and undiagnosed bacterial pneumonia. When you tell someone that they have a respiratory illness and you don’t know what it is, the next thing you should do in medicine is straightforward. Find out what it is if you can. And there’s a whole panel of tests that can be done to do differentially diagnosed bacterial pneumonia from RSV, from influenza. But as long as they can report your hospitalization and death as influenza, Then they have more leverage. Then along came COVID. Everyone understands that influenza went away. Zero cases for months at a time. Zero hospitalizations, zero deaths. And they were all attributed now to this other virus. Well, the public needs to understand exactly how that happened, why it happened, who put it into play, and why that’s a bad thing that should never happen again. Those are just the first two.
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Well, what about some of the others of the 14 things he should do?
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Right. So this playing around with diagnosis continued in COVID with the use of the wrong kind of PCR test to get a diagnosis of COVID. They should have – and I told Peter Marks this at the FDA. He’s the director of the division that oversaw diagnostics. The FDA should have required – manufacturers of this PCR test, not only to determine the accuracy and the ability of the test to be able to detect the virus when it is present, but also the ability of the test to not detect the virus when it’s not present. And so if there’s a result of a PCR test that says it’s positive and you have COVID, but you don’t have COVID, it’s called a false positive. And just mathematically, It turns out that the number of cases skyrockets if you have a false positive rate when you do a whole population wide screen. Let me give you an example. If everybody in the United States got a CT scan, the number of false positives for cancer would just absolutely skyrocket. And then all these people would have to get biopsies. And the risk of death from infection from biopsies would dwarf the number of deaths from cancer. That’s why we don’t do that. Well, here we have a case where in the PCR test, they went all the way out with cycle thresholds to 35, where you have a massively high false positive rate in a screening modality of the use of the test that ends up where most of over 90% of cases of COVID are probably false positives. And that means that the person, just like before, doesn’t get a proper diagnosis. Most people who died on ventilators, New York Times has reported died from bacterial pneumonia and sepsis, which is the outcome of having a prolonged untreated bacterial pneumonia, never given an IV of antibiotics while they’re hospitalized. That’s where most of the people who died on ventilators, they died from bacterial pneumonia and sepsis.
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It’s common knowledge.
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Wow. Okay. Well, we’re going to continue that discussion. But before we do that and go to break, the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, which you founded this whole educational system or project during COVID and these great classes, I think people have probably been so focused on the election and wondering what’s going on that I think we kind of probably took our eye off the ball on learning. So tell us about IPAC-EDU.
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Yeah, well, you know, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his cadre of scientists and administrators get into the HHS, they’re going to need a really well-educated public, a public that can understand some of the technological things that are going on, some of the scientific things that are going on, so that the public can assess the difference and appreciate the difference between the lies of the past and the truths of the present. And so you can act responsibly and taking care of better, better care of yourself and your family. So our courses go very deep into topics like biology and immunology autoimmunity. We have courses on how to read it and interpret a scientific study, environmental toxicology, the whole scale changes that are going to take place at the FDA, for instance. Well, you should be. Continue to be prepared because there are maneuvers afoot like Iowa just wants to pass a new bill to indemnify pesticide makers from cancer diagnoses. So come to IPEC EDU and stay up on all these topics and be well informed so that you can understand exactly the link between toxins in the environment and poor health. And that way you can be a major player in helping make your family healthy again, helping make yourself healthy again, and therefore you’re helping to make America healthy again. So I would love to see a lot of people sign up for courses. The courses start after February 15th. We delayed the start of the semester because of all the transition. We’ve got about 30 instructors, I think 45 courses, a lot for people to sign up for. So, yeah, if you want a discount, you can use the code AUTISM50. It’s all caps, A-U-T-I-S-M-50, and you’ll get a 50% discount on any course you sign up.
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Okay, and that’s ipac-edu.org, right? Do I remember that right? That’s correct. Okay. We’re going to continue the discussion with Dr. James Lyons-Weiler, and we have these important discussions because we have amazing sponsors. So for everything regarding mortgages, reach out to Loren Levy. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York.
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Welcome to the Kim Monson Show.
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Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force. Force versus freedom is something that’s a good idea. You shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And I did want to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation. They are raising money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial. And go to their website and purchase a brick to honor your military service or your loved one’s military service. That will be on one of their pathways of service and is a great way to honor and remember. And that website is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. Pleased to have on the line with me, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler. He is the founder of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, which is IPAC, and also this great educational courses at IPAC-EDU.org. And he’s very good friends with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. And we’re watching these confirmation hearings. Bobby has been approved to go to a full vote of the Senate today. which, Dr. Jack, it looks like that that will probably occur here, what, within the next week?
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Yeah, that’ll happen this week. The vote’s going to be a celebration. You know, Robbie got his start when parents of vaccine injury approached him and said, you’re concerned about mercury in the Hudson River. What about mercury in vaccines? And that was quite some time ago. It’s been a long journey for him. And those moms are still on his team. They’re still a driving force. So this is really a long time coming. It seems surreal to many of us. But, you know, with him at the helm of HHS, we can see families and kids with autism finally getting people now young adults finally getting the respect that they deserve better medical care to have better days. Yeah, it’s really a revolutionary reform is coming. to make America healthy again, I’m really excited.
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And I think that’s how you and I got to know each other was back during the whole COVID thing. I had a number of moms here in Colorado that had reached out to me and Pam Long handles the military component for Children’s Health Defense, which is the group that Bobby Kennedy had founded. I think he was the founder of that. And that’s how I think you and I got connected was through all that because As I looked at some of this legislation that was being proposed many years ago here in Colorado, looking at that, I’m realizing it would give the power to unelected bureaucrats to dictate what we would put into our bodies. And that was my great awakening on all of this, Dr. Jack.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, it’s very important that people realize that once Bobby’s in, then we’re going to see hopefully whole scale changes of how science is done and funded by the federal government so that they can’t manipulate the results and hand the public sham studies just to support a particular narrative. Like, vaccines do not cause autism. You know, we have a problem with the types of studies that have been funded and used to shore up a false narrative They are manipulated and that’s part of the reason why I got involved. I have 2 sons who were raised to understand that science is a valid way of knowing. And the people who are dictating our future, all of our future by lying to us about whole scale. Public health issues. Determine our fate and change our lives, especially for those who have vaccine injury or altered no development or auto immunity. These kinds of diseases are preventable by reformation of how we approach immunity and our approach to communicable diseases in America. It’s not going to be easy because there are billions of dollars at stake, but nobody’s those of us who have been at this and I’ve been at this now 10 years. We didn’t go into this because we thought it was going to be easy. We went into it because I wanted to reduce human pain and suffering. And I knew that reality would one day come forward and be able to emerge through the noise and the bias and the fraud. And so I’m very proud to support Mr. Kennedy in everything that he does. And this is the next phase of his life. And maybe four years from now, we’ll see him join in another phase of his life and He’s a great crystallizer when it comes to this. And the man has a mind like a steel trap. He’s very intelligent. He remembers everything that he reads, everything that he’s told. And he’s highly ethical and very concerned about kids, women, families, people. It’s great.
SPEAKER 22 :
And so you mentioned autism, and in the hearings when I was watching that, there were a lot of questions about RFK Jr.’ ‘s stance on autism vaccines. What should people know about that, Dr. Jack?
SPEAKER 10 :
People need to know that the CDC and the AAP and others have put forward partial cherry-picked studies. They’re not the full representation of the scientific body of literature. that pops up their position that they want people to believe that vaccines are not involved in autism. The fact is that the deep dive research I did many years ago into the scientific literature, I read 2,000 studies, showed me that vaccines are very, very, very much one of the environmental factors that can contribute to the onset of regressive autism, where kids making their benchmarks on a regular basis their neurodevelopmental speech language and so on benchmarks and then they regress and they lose those capacities and then it can be a permanent situation in them unless they get detoxed immediately we are not allowed to talk about chelation in children because that was made a you know like like it’s some kind of a woo science or made into some kind of a sham medicine you know, quack medicine. But in reality, there are families that have adults who are 23 and 24 year old because the parents went through a very difficult trial under the supervision of doctors to get the mercury and aluminum and other toxins out. But they found that when they detox their kids, arsenic came out and other things that they had no idea that their kid was accumulating. Kids with autism are sponges for environmental toxins. They can’t detoxify as well as other kids. They’re an identifiable minority. They’re protected under the consideration of equal rights under the law to be protected from the risks of harm instead. Congress decided in nineteen eighty six to tell the people these vaccines are so risky that we have to indemnify. vaccine manufacturers from liability. So we, the government, will take it on, meaning passing the cost of it on to the taxpayers, passing the risk of the cost by destroying people’s lives with autoimmunity, with autism and chronic illness. So it is a very bright day for families who are at risk of environmental toxins, not only because there’s going to be questions in science on vaccines, but also how do we get the toxins out? How do we detoxify through integrated pathways to health and integrated pathways to mental health? And what can the FDA do about getting other toxins out? Like red dye numbers, whatever. The point is we’re on top of it from stem to stern, and we’re going to be crawling all over HHS with armed with study after study after study that we can convince our colleagues when we get into HHS that the prior administrations really missed the boat on this. The number one cause of chronic illness in America is not genetics, it’s environment. And we know that. So we’re going to change environment, change the lifestyle. But it’s not a judgment to say that you should exercise. It’s just common knowledge now in medicine, but they don’t tell you. The more you move, the healthier you are, period. If you’re sitting on your couch, if you’re laying in bed watching TV all day or whatever, get up and move. You are accountable for your own outcomes now. Listen to what the scientists have to say, not because you should trust the science, but because we’re now going to be doing objective science. And it’s a big, big ask for the public to trust the CDC or the NIH or the FDA now. We’re not going to ask that. We’re going to earn it, right? Wow. We’re not going to demand it. We’re not going to expect it. If we’re successful, trust us. If not, fine. We failed at our job.
SPEAKER 22 :
And you know what? That is the opposite of force is to have merit and provide results on that. Dr. Jack, thank you. We’re out of time, but can’t wait to see what else is going to happen. And check out IPAK, I-P-A-K dash E-D-U dot org. Dr. Jack, we’ll talk soon.
SPEAKER 10 :
Excited to do it again. Talk soon. Thanks. Bye.
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And then once that happens, you can also listen to the shows via podcast on the streaming services such as iTunes and Spotify. So our word of the day is Cavill. And this came in from Richard. He said, congratulations, your word of the day is one I’d never heard of before. And he does have a very large vocabulary. So he said, so well done. And the word is cavil, C-A-V-I-L. It’s an intransitive verb. It could be to argue or find fault over trivial matters, raise petty objections, quibble. I would say that the… many of these hearings for the confirmation of Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees that the Democrats are cavilling as they are asking many of these questions. But again, the definition could be to quibble about, point out petty flaws. or to raise captious and frivolous objections to find fault without good reason. And so we’re seeing CAVIL on the national stage right now. So C-A-V-I-L, good luck. Try to use that in a sentence today. You’ll probably have to… give people the definition of that as well, since that’s one that we hardly ever use. Our quote of the day, I chose two from J.R.R. Tolkien, and J.R.R. Tolkien was good friends with C.S. Lewis, and they were the members of an informal literary discussion group called the Inklings. Can you imagine what those discussions would have been like? And J.R.R. Tolkien was born in 1892 and he died in 1973. He was an English writer and the author of the high fantasy works of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. And so the first quote, he said, you’ve been chosen and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have. But this other one, and again, I mentioned in the first hour, I was thinking of the Center for American Values, which honors our Medal of Honor recipients. That website’s AmericanValueCenter.org. And it’s in Pueblo, co-founded by Medal of Honor recipient Drew Dix and Brad Padula. And the Medal of Honor is awarded for these men when they took action. I think there’s one woman that is a Medal of Honor recipient. But these men that took action when the situation presented itself to protect those around them. And I thought this was just a really great quote by J.R.R. Tolkien. And it is this. He said, War must be while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all. But I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. And there had been an On Values presentation by James. David Bellavia, who’s Medal of Honor recipient. And this was one of their On Values presentations. And those things are so fabulous. And in fact, next Wednesday, February 12th, Drew Dix is going to present regarding the real Cold War of his time in Greenland. But he and Brad really have put something amazing together there at the Center for American Values. If you want to go down to that On Values website, presentation, just let them know you’re coming. They’re getting close to capacity on that. So you need to let them know that you’re coming. But David Bellavia had said that for a while he had been, and I’m paraphrasing how I remember it, that he’d been consumed really by hate of the enemy. He’d seen the enemy It killed his brothers in combat. And he had been consumed by hate. And hate can certainly motivate you. It can certainly move you forward. But it’s all-consuming, and it’s not good. And he said he realized that really why he was a warrior was not because of hate, but because of love, of those that he loves, his brothers, those that he loves. And so… Once consumed by love, he could still be the warrior, but it was because of love, love for family and your colleagues and your fellow soldiers. And so I thought that was really an interesting point. thing for me to learn. And so that’s why I thought I wanted to share that J.R.R. Tolkien quote with you, because patriotism is not a bravado about our country. It’s our love of country and our love for what that stands for, that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. That’s what patriotism is. And down at the center, they focus on honor, integrity, and patriotism. So, again, check out the AmericanValuesCenter.org. That’s AmericanValuesCenter.org. And I’m really blessed to work with amazing sponsors. I know each and every one of them personally. I highly recommend them. They strive for excellence and meritocracy. And one of those sponsors is on the line right now, and that is Lorne Levy, and regarding everything mortgages. So, Lorne Levy, welcome to the show. Hey, good morning, Kim. And interest rates have been basically staying about the same. And interest rates, it’s really the cost of money, the cost for people to buy homes, to borrow money to build businesses. And right now, with all that’s going on, they’re remaining steady. They’re not going up, not going down. Or what are you seeing?
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That’s exactly right. We’re seeing… If anything, they’ve crept ever so slowly down a little bit, not gone up anymore, which is kind of nice. We talk all the time about how rates are data-driven. That’s what we’d like them to be. And the data has been remaining strong. The economy is strong. People aren’t losing their jobs, which is why the Fed didn’t lower their rates at all last time, because things seem to be going along just quite well with the economy. And it’s going to take For interest rates to go down, it usually takes something to happen, something data-driven like a bad report on employment or something that would make the Fed act to lower rates. The alternative is something bad that happens, which we don’t want to get into like an attack on a country or something like that, but we don’t want to mess with that. So for right now, rates look like they’re just going to hold in this range for a little while.
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So as people are getting used to this in the mortgage arena, there are always new creative products to help people if they want to get into a new home, right?
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Absolutely. And we’ve been talking about some of these for a little while now, like things like temporary buy downs for the interest rate where your rate might be, you know, 6, 8, 7, 5. But for the first year, you can get 4, 8, 7, 5, then 5, 8, 7, 5 the second year before it settles back in at the start rate. And that helps people get into a home if they think it’s a little bit of a stretch for them. It can allow them to plan for a while or wait and see if rates do come down over the next couple of years. There’s definitely creative things we can do to help people absorb the a little bit higher payment. But I do think you’re right. I think people are starting to get used to this new normal of this. This is kind of where rates are for right now.
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And so we talk about the cost of money. If rates would happen to go down and what, even a quarter of a point could make a difference on somebody’s mortgage, right? So then you’re going to see more people, more demand for money. So that’d probably push rates back up. But if people want to be ready, if rates go down, does it cost them anything to be pre-qualified?
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No, it doesn’t cost them to do anything and be ready and That’s kind of what we do to help people. And you make a good point, Kim. For a long time, I’ve heard from people who say, if you can’t lower your rate by at least 1%, it’s not worth refinancing. Well, that’s a theory back from when homes were being purchased for $200,000 or $250,000. When people are spending the money they’re spending now on homes, there are plenty of people that if a rate drops by a quarter to three-eighths of a point, might save them a couple hundred dollars a month. which is real money, and that’s where we take the time to do the math first. And if there’s an opportunity to refinance at a low cost where it makes sense, we would call the client and say, look, this is the time to do it. Why give extra money to the bank every month? So, yeah, we help with that as well. Rather than the person having to keep their eye on the market, we do it for them.
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So what’s that phone number? 303-880-8881.
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Okay, thank you so much, Kim.
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salute the ones who died and the ones that gave their lives so we don’t have to sacrifice welcome back to the kim monson show be sure and check out our website that is kimmonson.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter you can email me at kim kimmonson.com as well and thank you to all of you who support us we’re an independent voice we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues Through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And the show comes to you because of sponsors. And thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from coal, natural gas, and oil that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. and it is Wednesday. We missed him last week, and that is sixth-generation farmer and rancher Trent Luce. Trent, welcome to the show.
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Thanks for having me back, Kim. Well, how are you feeling? Oh, I’m about 98% good to go. That’s great. I got another stock show under my belt already.
SPEAKER 22 :
You did, and you said you got the Denver crud, that that’s what that was, and so you were under the weather.
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No, since that… I’ve been at the Black Hill Stock Show in Rapid City this week.
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Oh, I bet that was fun.
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It was fantastic. It’s very different than the National Western, but just in its own way. And last night there was a ranch rodeo, and my goodness, people came out of the woodworks, and the Charlotte show was yesterday. And I spoke on a little panel discussion about, A lot of the same things you and I talk about, and that’s the erosion of the infrastructure of our food system, and in particular beef. And we talked about avian influenza, and we had a very good discussion.
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Well, so there’s been a lot of headlines for a couple of weeks. So next thing is whatever you had, I think Teresa, who’s on our team, has that. So she said she hardly ever gets sick, and she’s really been under the weather. And so there is something kind of nasty that’s going around, Trent.
SPEAKER 08 :
There is. In fact, I’ve talked to a lot of people that were at the National Western that have had the same situation, but You just keep track of your immune system, keep yourself hydrated, and get out of it. It’s part of life.
SPEAKER 22 :
That is part of life. Okay. Well, I want to talk about all these things, but Trent, and I don’t know if I can quite get through it, because you had a meme on your website that just really took my breath away regarding a father to a son. And I know you have three daughters, but Trent, Do you want to tell us what it says or I’m happy to, but why did you put that on there? I just, I’m not sure I can actually get through it because last night when I was putting it on the outline, I almost had tears in my eyes.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, it’s the time that I found it, which is most interesting. And this was a couple of years ago. I was assisting. I think this was before you and I started visiting and, Teresa Thibodeau was running for the governor of Nebraska. And in the last couple of months of that campaign before the primary of 2022, in February, she asked me to be her running mate as lieutenant governor. And the story probably doesn’t need to be this long, Kim, but it’s how it happened that matters. And part of the discussion in the gubernatorial issues and leading up in that campaign that year was our education system. And at the time, we were talking about schools where kids are designating themselves as furries and how we’ve gotten away from reading, writing, arithmetic, and history. And so there was a state school board meeting that was taking place in North Platte, Nebraska, And Teresa and I, as part of the campaign, we went. But also, as a parent, I wanted to be there because there were so many things going wrong with the Nebraska Association school boards that we just had to have some say. And so we were on our way, and she had to do an interview on a radio station in Omaha for the campaign. So we stopped in Arnold, Nebraska. I walked into the place called The Exchange, and there was this sign on the wall And it was so timely because I was going to this state association of school board meetings to speak in the public comment period. And it was like, I’m supposed to talk about how my father taught me about these things in life. And really what’s happening in today’s world is we’ve demonized the father. And so it was the timing of how that all came about and came into my life, and it’s now actually my screensaver, and it’s on my sub stack all the time. And I just have to read it and remind myself to it, but I think you should read it for us.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay, I’m going to try to get through this. I said, wherever in life your journey may take you, I pray you’ll always be safe. Enjoy the ride and never forget your way back home. I can’t promise that I’ll be there for the rest of your life, but I can promise to love you for the rest of mine. Love, Dad. I love it.
SPEAKER 08 :
It was just the timing of when it hit me, and so I’ve kept it handy every day since.
SPEAKER 22 :
So, Trent, it’s like you must have listened to my first hour. However, I know that you are typically on the air, so I know you didn’t.
SPEAKER 08 :
I was producing roll route for the first hour. Sorry, Kim.
SPEAKER 22 :
Right. And so I found this quote last night. I was going through for our quotes of the day and found J.R.R. Tolkien. And I found this and I talked about the Center for American Values, our Medal of Honor recipients. And I’d been with a number of friends recently. And in fact, Kane and Wyatt and Jenny and Yvonne and Scott, and we were talking about um, lions, uh, that men need to be lions to protect families and children and our country. And, um, and the lion, the, the man, the man has been, uh, really, uh, attacked our, our warriors and our lions. And I found this quote by J.R.R. Tolkien, uh, was, he said, this war must be while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all, uh, But I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. And I think that’s the real warrior. The real lion is that they protect those around them. And that has been so demonized. through this whole woke culture. And we need to reclaim supporting our men, our lions, and young boys becoming men. That’s one of the reasons I don’t think that we should have girls in Boy Scouts. And it took me a while to figure that out. But we need to let boys be boys and grow into men.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yvonne’s listening, but I also take that one step further. I believe that men should be the protectors of not only the family, but the country. And I don’t believe that women should be on the front lines in war.
SPEAKER 22 :
And Yvonne, she and I have had these discussions as well because she’s an excellent soldier. I’ll just put it that way. No doubt. But what she said is that we should not be relaxing standards to have women involved. in the military, and I think she’s absolutely correct regarding those that should be on the front line. Now, certainly, you and I are in agreement on that, and she might even call in. If she wants to call in and comment on that, she can do that, 303-477-5600. But I think it does, we’ll just move on from that. I really think that men need to be Let me just give you a little example.
SPEAKER 08 :
Go ahead. Well, I had another experience this week that I don’t want to be very respectful with, but it’s been troubling me. You know, I lived on the Rosebud Reservation for five years in South Dakota, and I stopped to see some friends on my way to Rapid City this week and ended up doing the time-honored tradition of transporting a 25-year-old young man from the Rosebud to rapid city, which is 130 miles. He had walked from rapid city to the Rosebud for a job or two weeks ago. And so the fact that I could bring him home was very good, but I got, got the listening to him and he started getting quite chatty and it was just incredible. We know the history of the warriors of, of all the tribes. But to listen to this 25-year-old talk about his peers, the other 20-somethings and teenagers on the reservation, it is a perfect epitome of what happens when government destroys a culture. There’s no skill set. There’s no desire. And for those that may not know, I actually employed tribal members from 1998 to 2002 to on a pig farm on the reservation that was a joint venture with the tribe itself. And I ended up, Kim, interviewing over 120 tribal members just really because it became a sociology project. And you think about this warrior culture and what the American Plains Indians represented at one point in time. And today, to talk to these kids who don’t even think about tomorrow, They live every day in the moment with no hope and a little faith. And it was just a stark reminder in a two-and-a-half-hour ride this week with a young man who I have respect for because he walked to a job and walked 120 miles to a job. And he said, all of my friends are like, what’s wrong with you, man? You don’t need a job. You got money. That’s destroying a culture and a society that has just been so strong through the generations, and that’s where we’re headed. We, not just on the reservation, but in this demonization of the family unit and the lion that you’re talking about in the father and the protector.
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah. So, okay. And this came in from one of our listeners. She said, the piece women miss about not having women on the front lines in the military is the cohesiveness that bond the men together. When you inject women into this, the bond is not the same. Hormones play a very strong role that women simply refuse to acknowledge. She said, I want them to have that bond, whatever that is, and we don’t understand that. And so women can serve many other roles in the military. I just don’t think they belong in combat. And so that is from our listener, Holly. So very thoughtful. This wasn’t really what we were going to start talking about, Trent Luce. I never know for sure where we’re going to go. But this is so important, and we have seen it in our schools, really emasculating our young men if they – are doing things sometimes that boys do they’re chastised for that uh and um we’ve got to get this turned around i think we’re going to so i’m going to continue this discussion with trent luce you know him sixth generation farmer and rancher all of these discussions come to you because of our sponsors And the sponsor that I dearly love is Lavaca Meat Company. And Jim May has shared a recipe for sliders. And, of course, this is Super Bowl weekend that Zach actually put together. It’s on the website on the very top there. You can click on that and get some of that Lavaca beef for some great sliders for the Super Bowl.
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SPEAKER 22 :
And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. I have Trent Luce on the line. He is a sixth-generation farmer and rancher. And my good friend Yvonne is on the line. And Yvonne, you and I and our friends were in this conversation about Lions, about our men protecting children in our country. And you and I have had discussions about women in combat. And so thank you for calling in, Yvonne.
SPEAKER 20 :
Sure. And I guess you guys have a lot to talk about. So I just wanted to chime in that the bottom line, I mean, obviously, the men being lions and everything, it is so, so important in our family structures. And I think everybody understands that. And as a matter of fact, they’ve been put, like Trent said, pushed into a corner through all this feminism and all this stuff where they die. say things and do things about men, but men just need to rise up and take their place and continue to be the lions that we need them to be for our society, to be what it needs to be. But on the second topic, as far as the women in combat and stuff, no doubt there are some women who can do incredible things. I have seen women that could run in circles around some men, and when I say some men, obviously not all men, but they are phenomenal. But the thing is, everything is mission first. And women in certain places on the front lines and stuff present logistical problems. There’s other problems. So it’s really not about their ability. It’s about what Trent was saying. And I say logistical problems, there is that bond thing, like the other lady that texted in said, that bond is important. And if that bond helps contribute to mission more than those broken bonds or anything, then it’s mission first. And so there are many arguments for it as far as capabilities, but the capabilities come second to the mission. So there’s a lot of arguments to where it can cause things that may hinder the mission. And one of those, I’m going to say, is all on men. It’s not on women. And that’s that chivalry reflex, which I think is wonderful and I love. But if they truly can’t keep their mind on the job because they’re worried about the woman that’s, you know, in the foxhole next to them or something like that, then that is detrimental to the mission. So I’ve said enough about that one. And so I just wanted to let you know that, yes, we need the men to be the lions. And, oh, the third point was what he was talking about, the Native women. I don’t claim to have a lot of knowledge in that, just the general knowledge of the destruction of their culture through government influence. And they practiced on them. They’re now doing it to the rest of society, because if you can destroy the culture and the children and all that kind of stuff, then that’s it. That’s all she wrote. So we need to stand up, and we also need to help stand up for our Native cultures and to try and help them restore.
SPEAKER 1 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 22 :
And Yvonne, you have authority on this subject regarding women in the military because you were in the military and a very successful career in the military when you were there. So you have the authority to be talking about this.
SPEAKER 20 :
Yeah, I did. I saw a lot of things. But I was just on the inception of the women going into military. The combat position, so, and I was not on any of those, what we call the combat arms, the three where they would be up there, that came later. But, of course, you’re related to the people who are living that and breathing that and talking to you about it. So firsthand knowledge on some stuff, secondhand on another. But thank you.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, thank you for sharing that, Yvonne. Greatly appreciate that. Trent, your comment? Amen. Okay, well, let’s shift gears now because you and I always talk about the people that feed and fuel us. And regarding the people that fuel us, on my thank you to Laramie Energy for their goal sponsorship of the show, I had talked about that it is this reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams. But I just added this in, Trent, I thought you might like this, a little play on words, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. What do you think of that?
SPEAKER 08 :
I heard you mention that earlier, and I like that.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay. I thought, I thought, thank you. Okay. Let’s talk about then the people that feed us. And that is beef. Of course, I appreciate Lavaca Meat Company as a sponsor, but I saw this last week. I guess this was February 2nd. Associated Press says livestock auctions could be coming to an end at America’s last big city stockyard. So what does that mean for the beef industry?
SPEAKER 08 :
Actually, that’s not an implication for the beef industry, but it’s something I’m quite passionate about. And, in fact, when this comes up, I always give the little song and dance that I’m going to go to every place in the United States that once had a stockyard and no longer exists. And you name a city, St. Louis, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, they all once had stockyards that are gone. Oklahoma City is the last remaining functioning stockyards, and it’s for sale at this moment is what that story is alluding to. The shift in how the beef industry takes place, brought this about. And so it doesn’t have really, I don’t want to say a negative impact, because then we can have that discussion about, are we having less competition for our product? And if we’re not selling the auction way, are we not capturing the true value? And that’s not part of this discussion. What is part of this discussion is that that we have changed the infrastructure on how cattle are marketed from one sector to another. And unfortunately, those stockyards are not part of that scheme anymore.
SPEAKER 22 :
And probably there’s a demand for that land as well for development, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
I was speaking in Minnesota yesterday. This was probably 10 years ago. I can look it up to be exact. But South St. Paul Stockyards was a stockyards that many people from Nebraska and the Dakotas would get on a train. They would ride on the train with their stock to the South St. Paul Stockyards. And I happened to be speaking in Minnesota the day before the last sale took place at South St. Paul Stockyards. And somebody said, Trent, are you going to go? Well, I hadn’t even considered going. And then when that came up, I was like, well, yeah, I better go. It was the only time I’d ever been to that stockyard. And, Kim, I can’t imagine missing it. I mean, it was just very emotional, and it was just the place to be that day. If you were to drive past that stockyard six months later – You would not recognize any part because, as you just indicated, it is always in very high-valued property area, and urbanization is taking a toll on where these stockyards once were.
SPEAKER 22 :
So the beef industry is not going away. Actually, somebody sent me something about the attack on the beef industry and that it really has had so many attacks on it. So what do you see future for beef?
SPEAKER 08 :
I did not say the beef industry wasn’t going to go away. I just said that the stockyards is not going to be a contributing factor. They’re two separate discussions. I’m greatly concerned, and this was our discussion yesterday here at the Black Hill Stock Show with U.S. Cattlemen, was we have a crippling inventory and infrastructure of beef production. So what does that mean? We have the same number of beef animals that we had in 1947. We’ve been regressing. And I’ll just give you our own personal situation. We have not kept back heifers for a few years because we always need the cash at the time. And if you don’t keep back heifer calves, you’re going to run out of cows. That’s just how it works. And right now, last week, we had a payment that’s due. So we went into our replacement heifer pen. We pulled out enough to make the payment because everybody needs cash and the calves are worth a lot of money. And the demands on the cost of continuing to produce beef is very high. And so we sold those calves and they brought a big check. for a group of young calves, and that’s a challenge for every single cattleman today, where you have demands on making payments, so you dip into the heifers, which would be your replacement cows, consequently, because of all these factors, and then throw in drought, maybe the most severe drought the western half of the United States has seen in anybody’s lifetime. you have a concerning low number of beef inventory in the United States. And if you don’t maintain that mother cow herd, you cannot maintain the beef business. I’ll quickly tell you one other example. In 1884, there were 51 million head of breeding sheep in the United States. Today, There are less than 5 million head of total sheep in the United States. We have crippled the infrastructure. And back in the fall when we were getting ready for the general election and that ballot measure was on the Denver ballot that said, should we have meat processing in the city limits of Denver? And when I said, if in fact this goes into effect, 20% of the lamb harvest capacity will go down right here. It will be the end of the lamb sector because you have so few players that you’re so vulnerable to any one situation. And we are fast approaching that same scenario in the beef business.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, and the radical activists that do not want us to eat beef because beef is such a great protein source, or lamb, or chicken, all of these, pork. These are great protein sources.
SPEAKER 08 :
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Don’t put chicken in the same category as lamb and beef, Kim. Oh, my goodness. That’s a cardinal sin right there.
SPEAKER 22 :
I’m sorry. Okay, we’ll put chickens over there. But they’re under attack, too, with this whole avian bird flu thing. And that’s a whole different discussion. So we’ll say pork and sheep or lamb and beef. This has been, to me, and again, you mentioned that there’s nature as well that makes it difficult for our farmers and ranchers. But, boy, public policy has really been pushing them around. And then high property taxes, you and I are both focused on that to try to get these property taxes lowered because property taxes is an assault upon private property. But there has been a concerted effort. I really think it’s been since… Do you think it’s the 70s or before? When do you think all this started?
SPEAKER 08 :
I actually think now it started at the end of World War II. But it’s certainly 1977 is when it accelerated.
SPEAKER 22 :
And what happened in 77?
SPEAKER 08 :
There was a guy from Minnesota named Ansel Keys who started sending out misinformation about animal fats and as it related to healthy diets. And that was when the shift occurred from butter to margarine. And now we’ve all taken a relook at that and said, oh, wait a minute, butter is the healthy fat for us to go forward. And when we made that and when we started demonizing eggs, and now we’ve shifted back where people recognize that eggs are absolutely incredible in terms of the essential aspect of human health. the egg yolk will identify toxins in your gut and go neutralize those toxins. I mean, it goes beyond just the dietary protein and the density of the available nutrition. It goes to human health. But a guy named Ansel Keys at the University of Minnesota is the one that literally changed the concept of animal protein, animal fat, and we’re still paying the price for that today and slowly getting that fixed.
SPEAKER 22 :
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And we’re talking about our protectors. And the USMC Memorial Foundation was dedicated in 1977. They’re working on a remodel. And both men and women serve our country. And we want to remember and honor all those that have served our country. and protected our freedoms and put their lives on the line or given their lives for us. And a great way to do that would be to add the USMC Memorial Foundation into your giving this year in 2025. So that website again is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Okay, several things coming in, Trent Luce, on the website. First thing, this is from Mary. She said, less beef makes us deficient and our bodies deteriorate faster. So you have to ask where… And I wanted to ask this motivation. Have you delved into this University of Minnesota professor from 1977? Was he influenced by this World Economic Forum group or whatever the precursor was to that?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I don’t believe he was. I believe he was influenced by poor religious choices.
SPEAKER 22 :
What do you mean by that?
SPEAKER 08 :
We have certain religions in the United States that profess to be Christian in nature and do not accept everything the Bible has to say about the foods that are blessed for us.
SPEAKER 1 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 22 :
And so a little bit more on that. I’m questioning. What does that mean exactly?
SPEAKER 08 :
The Seventh-day Adventist church is the worst church. Helen White, the founder of the church, was the dietician for the Kellogg’s brothers, and in the late 1800s, they wanted to know how to transition people away from bacon and eggs for breakfast to cereal, and so they were running an insane asylum, and they were practicing diets on people in their insane asylum, and that led to the Seventh-day Adventist church. I’ve been to Loma Linda University in California where they actively promote a vegan lifestyle. And as a result, you can find a lot of mental illness problems within the church, to be honest.
SPEAKER 22 :
Huh. Okay. I had no idea. Okay. Next thing, let’s move over to women and men in combat. And Yvonne mentioned this, and that is chivalry. And again, this came in from Mary. She said, chivalry always ruins the mission. Why do you think the bad guys always put women and children first? on their front line. And I’m also thinking about the pictures of these illegal immigrants that the mainstream media would put out when we’ve had reports that primarily it’s been military-age men that have crossed the border, but many of the photos have been of women and children. And I think those two things are connected.
SPEAKER 08 :
No doubt about that. I mean, Most of the images that we see today are to sway people in one way or another. I’ll just give you an example from my world that just still wreaks havoc for us today. Back at a time when the United Kingdom was going through bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and there was one dairy cow that every time this discussion took place, no matter what the news organization, they had this same foaming at the mouth, stumbling dairy cow which was that photo was acquired by an animal rights organization that wanted to end the utilization of animals for human life, and they provided that picture because they knew that one image was going to detour people from consuming animal products. Images, and we are continually subjugated to our emotions, our hormones, all the things that lead to people with a certain opinion.
SPEAKER 22 :
And it’s important. The work you’re doing, the work I’m doing, is to be shedding light on this. So we only have a few minutes left. But, Trent, I know that you went down to the Colorado State Legislature. It was a wonderful experience. You were going to testify. And there’s games that go on. I realize I may be into that game today because I’m going down to testify regarding Scott Bottoms and Mark Baisley’s bill to – Concerning the protections for medical malpractice insurers relating to gender-affirming care, right now medical malpractice insurers are forced to provide insurance for those that are mutilating our children, and this bill would say that no, that can’t happen. And I know what the game is. It starts at 1.30. I may be down there for a while, but I thought I’m going to go down in person to testify in favor of this particular bill. It’s House Bill 25-1068 because I think that it’s really important.
SPEAKER 08 :
Funny thing is I’ve already addressed this across the pond today, Kim. There are six state capitals that I keep track of, and I will watch testimony. In fact, as you mentioned, in the Colorado capital, I was supposed to last week on Thursday testify in Bismarck. I keep track of what’s happening in my home state. I have never seen a blatant disregard for the will of the people at the state government level like I am seeing right now. No potential lawmaker, policymaker is walking into a hearing to try to learn information. They walk in, try to figure out how to blast through what their latest big money donors have wanted them to do. It is god awful this year. And I don’t know what’s in the water, but it’s in every state, everywhere I go.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, and I say that Colorado many times is at the tip of the spear on so many of these crazy activists, extreme things that are happening. With your experience watching these legislatures, would you agree with me? Or are there any that are crazier than Colorado? Or what are you seeing, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 08 :
None crazier than Colorado. I’m going to let you maintain that honor, Kim. But there are many states that are racing, trying to keep up. And to be honest, I’m going to also tell you, while most people in my camp like the outcome of what this guy who is now the president of the United States is doing through executive order, And all of these, he has become the lone wolf. He’s running this country like a kingdom, not implementing the will of the people or going through congressional approval. He’s just doing it. That’s going to come back to bite us. It sets a precedent on what’s happening in these state capitals.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, and to your point, we need to have Congress actually take these executive orders and put them through Congress and put them into law so that we get back to this constitutional republic that we have. So many of these executive orders seem to me to be common sense. And I’d like to see us get back to common sense legislation. And that requires our congressmen, congresswomen, and our senators to step up and do their job. Let’s balance our budget. Let’s stop the spending. They need to do their job, Trent Luce. We’ve got a minute left. I’m glad you’re back and feeling better and back in the game. Your final thought.
SPEAKER 08 :
My final thought is something I’m working on today in my own state capitol, but it’s happening in many state capitals. The National Guard should not have the ability to deploy its members without a congressional declaration of war. That is basic constitutional USA. We need to get back to the Constitution, as you just said.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay, stay tuned. That’s going to be super interesting as well, Trent Luce. So we’ll talk again next week, and so much to talk about of what’s happening in our country. And we’re going to work to protect our private property, and let’s go to work on lowering property taxes across the board as well. Trent Luce, have a great week. We’ll talk next week.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thanks, Kim. Can’t wait.
SPEAKER 22 :
Okay. And our quote for the end of the show is from J.R.R. Tolkien. He said this, we are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to. So today, my friends, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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on a rough road riding high through the mountains climbing twisting turning further from my home young like a new moon rising fierce through the rain and lightning wandering out into this great unknown And I don’t want no one to cry, but tell them if I do.
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