Join Kim Munson as she brings forward an invigorating dialogue on the crucial issues facing our nation. This episode sheds light on the dynamic between governmental force and personal freedom, emphasizing the foundational rights that govern our lives. Engage with the thought-provoking reflections on current political trends, national discourse, and the cultural revival echoing in households across America. The conversation with Kevin Lundberg highlights developments on both state and national stages, providing a comprehensive look at the reawakened pursuit of liberty.
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Indeed. Let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Munson 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. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Tuesday, Producer Joe. Happy Tuesday, Kim. And you and Producer Luke will be my featured guests in hour number two. We’re going to finish up our book report on economics in one lesson. So I’m excited to do that, Producer Joe.
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I am too. It should be a really good conversation.
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I think so. I’ve learned a lot. And I’d actually read the book before. But I’ve really learned a lot. And I’ve learned a lot talking with you young guns as well. So it’s going to be a good conversation in the second hour. And I really do appreciate that. Check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. You can sign up for our 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 Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And my friends, it’s never compassionate to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, childhoods. or lives via force. Force can be a weapon, but it can be a policy. Unpredictable in excess of taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, that silent thief, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalists, and these all fit in together, the United Nations, this Colorado State Legislature, what they’re pushing forward with this governor, land use code, zoning regulations, force fees, conservation easements, national monument designations, All of that comes down to force, and we need to be walking that back. That seems like what the Donald Trump administration is attempting to do, and oh my, there are many that are now saying that they liked all of this grift and graft and fraud and abuse, Producer Joe.
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It certainly has been so interesting to watch what is going on. And certainly we don’t want to govern our country by executive order, but executive order is needed at this point to walk this stuff back. Then Congress needs to step up and do their job, and we need to reclaim our constitutional republic. So we really are, my friends, in the third founding, I think, of our country. It’s an exciting time. It’s a dangerous time. There’s all kinds of things going on. But we will focus on the issues and the people that are pushing them, but we’re not going to get over in the personalities. We’re really trying to stay out of that and stay focused on the message. The show, you can hear it 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. The first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night. That is on all KLZ platforms, which is KLZ 560 a.m., KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. Then we do post the shows with a written summary on my website, kimmunson.com. And then you can also hear the shows, stream them via Spotify, iTunes, and all of those streaming services. I want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. We have taken it for granted, reliable, efficient, and affordable, and abundant energy or electricity that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. When it is so cold out today, we’re not having to go out and get wood to continue to tend the fire, which takes a lot of time and energy, And Joe, I think you said as a kid, you had that experience at one of your grandparents’ house. And it is a lot of work to heat a home by wood.
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Yes, and it is a lot of work to make sure you have the wood cut and that you have the wood stacked and that you tend that fire so that it doesn’t go out. And so thank you again to all of this reliable energy that we have. Last night was our Colorado Union of Taxpayers board meeting, and what an amazing group of people that I get to work with. And this is an all-volunteer group that we are watching legislation down at the Statehouse, and I probably need to give you an update on how many pieces… of legislation have been introduced so far down at the State House, so hang with me. I will get that here in just a second. But this group, when you see them out and about, say thank you to them. And this is my fellow board members, Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamel, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizorg, and we are very pleased to welcome uh ray and paula beard to the board as well and uh so we have a just a stellar group and uh okay as of this morning there have been 398 bills that have been introduced down at the state house and we don’t need another another bill i need to somehow go through and see if i can count how many words that is producer joe now some of these bills are to get rid of some things but most of them by this radical activist democrat group that has taken over the democrat party most of these are more and more control over our lives joe and who are they to govern they’re supposed to be representatives not dictators You think? And so that’s why the work that we’re doing at Colorado Taxpayer is so important. We’d love to have you join us. It’s just $25 per year. That’s $2.08 a month. And you will receive the email that we send out on Mondays to the legislators and the governor taking positions on bills that are scheduled for hearing. uh this week and we use our our cut pledge which you can see at the website coloradotaxpayer.org as our guiding force on all of that so again we’d love to have you join us and what an amazing group and i’ve got something i’m going to let you know we’re going to hopefully have it rolled out by the weekend and we will be selecting different bills that we will have our cut position on the bill, but there will be a place where you can put in your own commentary if you so desire, and you can basically automatically send that to the bill sponsors, the main bill sponsors, And if you want to add in, your legislator, your representative, or your senator will have the tools there so that you can find their email address. You can stick that in, and all you have to do is hit send. And I think it’s a pretty amazing service for a nonprofit organization that is all volunteers, Joe. That’s pretty amazing. I think it’s going to be awesome. And so Zach is working on that, and I do appreciate that. So let’s get into, let’s see, our word of the day is… now I had pronounced it, cacophony. And it is C-A-C-O-P-H-O-N-Y. And it could be a harsh or jarring sound, dissonance, or an incongruous or chaotic mixture, a striking combination. I would say the cacophony of what The radical activists left, what we’re starting to see regarding them pushing back on the Trump administration and what DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, is finding is remarkable. I saw two different people sent me videos regarding a pastor in Tennessee, a far-left pastor in Tennessee, a black pastor who is calling for violence in our country. And remember, this is the group that has said that it was the MAGA people that were pushing violence. But it’s always they’re projecting what they’re really going to do. And so this is rather remarkable that we’re seeing that in our country. And so I would say the cacophony of all of these different voices as they are so worried that they’re gravy trained. of graft and fraud and abuse and free money from the taxpayer is just about over. And so just think, if we hadn’t had all of this fraud and abuse, that we all would have more money in our pockets. And so I do want to hear what you all have to say about that. The text line is 720-605-0647. Our quote of the day is from Learned Hand. He was born in 1872. He died in 1961. was an american jurist lawyer judicial philosopher he served as a federal judge on the u.s district court for the southern district of new york from 1909 to 1924 and as a federal appellate judge on the u.s court of appeals for the second circuit from 1924 to 1961 and he said this liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there no constitution no law no court can save it No constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. I do believe that liberty does lie in the hearts of most Americans, and we are at a time where we are reclaiming it. Our bill of the day, and I am going to continue our Colorado 2024 election project. Thank you to all of you who contributed. We’ve got our two lawsuits out there, the first with the United Sovereign Americans, which was filed in September, that along with other states, I think it was a total of nine states, the suits were filed that these states are not meeting the minimum standards as set forth by Congress for our elections. And so that is back and forth in the legal wrangling. Then I think it was November 1st, our lawsuit with the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice was filed challenging our voter rolls that the different different voters and their registration that our voter rolls are not clean. And that’s going back and forth as well in the legal wrangling. And so we are going to continue on in this fight to reclaim our state and our elections. However, down at the State House, they’re continuing to add more and more on regarding elections. And this is Senate Bill 25001. And that is the very first bill that was introduced on the Senate side, which means that is a priority for the radical activist Democrats. And it is being heard in committee this week. The prime sponsors on this are Democrats Senator Julie Gonzalez. Democrat Representative Jennifer Bacon and Democrat Representative Judy Joseph. And it is titled Colorado Voting Rights Act and concerning the administration of elections and in connection therewith, creating the Colorado Voting Rights Act. And it says that the bill creates the Colorado Voting Rights Act and modifies certain election-related statutes in four areas. Election and voting statutes related to Indian tribes, voting-related services for individuals and disabilities, election-related language access, and election-related data collection. The Colorado Union of Taxpayers is recommending a no vote on this. And our reasoning is this. Multiple laws of multiple levels of government already provide more than adequate assurance of equality and ballot access. Adding a requirement for multilingual ballots will open the state up for lawsuits. Why does the state need to have a database on voting? This is for the counties to handle. The bill will cost $3 million and 22 added employees at a time when the state is teetering on the brink of deficit spending. The only thing this bill provides is a launching pad for trial lawyers looking to sue somebody, somewhere, sometime, or anybody, anywhere, anytime. And so that is the bill of the day. Regarding news, I think top headline with all of the work that I do with our veterans, America’s Veterans Stories, this first one I thought was pretty important. And that is Fort Bragg. is going to be renamed fort bragg under the o’biden harris administration they renamed it fort liberty and all of this was i think to tear down tear down our heritage apparently fort bragg was named after a civil war i think it was a general but this is uh this is interesting uh and this uh is from fox news Defense Secretary Pete Hegsteth on Monday directed the U.S. Army to change the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, but with a twist. Hegsteth signed a memo aboard the U.S. Air Force C-17 before landing in Stuttgart, Germany, ordering the renaming of the North Carolina base to Fort Roland L. Bragg, not the Confederate general that was the previous namesake. That’s right, Bragg is back, said Hegsteth after signing the memo. I love the very creative twist that they have done on that. Let’s see. I think that is it. 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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something’s a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And now that the Super Bowl is over, it is now we’re getting into really focusing on hockey, basketball season. Of course, March Madness is right around the corner as well. The place to watch all those games is Hooters Restaurants. They have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. And great specials for lunch, Monday through Friday. get together with friends for that and also happy hour and how I got to know them. It’s a really important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism. You can find that at my website. It is Tuesday. So we are talking with former state Senator Kevin Lundberg. He is the author of the Lundberg report, which you can find at Kevin Lundberg.com. Kevin, welcome to the show.
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Well, thank you. It’s great being with you. And, uh, I’m looking forward to a lot of discussion on a lot of issues. There’s a lot out there.
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There is a lot out there. What do you think about Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Doge? What has happened over the last… Has it just been three weeks?
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I’ll tell you what. They get things done. And I’m thrilled with what I see coming out. But I also see a rather fascinating… challenge that they’re met with. And I think it’s going to spin their direction, actually. And that’s all of these federal judges who said, no, you can’t do this. No, you can’t do that. They’re trying to put the brakes on what the administration is doing. And there is an appropriate level for the judiciary to step in and balance the power between the executive and Congress. But these federal judges just don’t get it. I don’t even think they’ve read the Constitution, because issues at that level are to be dealt with by the Supreme Court, not any of the inferior courts, which is the technical term for all of the other federal court systems. And so I think that’s one underlying theme that’s out there that I haven’t heard a lot of discussion on yet. These judges who think they can dictate to the presidential administration how to conduct their business on a really, you know, almost a day to day decision by decision level are only hurting their own credibility. I think back to what President Andrew Jackson said once when the Supreme Court actually made a ruling. And he said, well, OK, they’ve made their decision. Now let them enforce it, which was pointing out that they really have no no enforcement except their own credibility, which I believe is a very important component to our balance of power at the federal level. But when judges step out and just, you know, it seems like in wholesale, there’s a judge a day that says, no, you can’t do this, can’t do that. They need to have to understand that they are just hurting themselves by making such judgments. But overall, I’m thrilled with what I’m seeing happening. I think we have to be careful and make sure that everybody stays within their constitutional lanes. But the president is, I believe, making strides of a historical nature. In other words, we’ll look back on this years later. and say when Trump stepped in and really started taking charge and rolling back the bad ideas and pushing us forward on a lot of very forward-looking issues, I believe that it’ll be seen as a watershed moment for our nation.
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So, Kevin, I really think that we are in the third founding of our country. We’re in this huge ideological battle. And interesting, I mentioned it in the first segment, that there is a pastor in Tennessee, a far left radical pastor. that is calling for violence. And I find that rather remarkable when it’s been the radical activist left that has continued to accuse the people that love America of violence. And all this projectivism that they have projected on
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to the mega movement people that love america donald trump saying that they’re going to do x when it in essence is what it’s what they’re going to do and it’s somewhat troubling well you know i’ve noticed it’s it’s somewhat a bit of a maximum of human nature by my observation that whenever anybody is calling for something or or accusing somebody of of something um you might want to look at who’s doing the calling and the accusing because they’re showing their hands as to what their intentions are far too often. And I know that’s kind of a vague generalization I’ve made there, but I’d also say this, that politics really follows culture more than culture is driven by politics. And the culture has changed. People have This is why Donald Trump was elected in the first place, is the general population has understood that all of this nonsense that has been thrown at them, and it just seemed to amplify during the Biden administration. I mean, it had been out there for a long time, but, you know, I mean, pick a topic. government growth or, you know, the regulatory environment that’s just been overwhelming everybody or the climate change alarmists who seem to have been running everything or in our schools and our sports systems, the transgender idiocy that seemed to capture all of the power structures. Well, that seems to be crumbling because the people have had enough. And I believe that I saw somebody do a comparison to how the Super Bowl, I know we’re past that now, but nonetheless, looking back to just the tone in the Super Bowl culturally, and there was a renewed sense of patriotism and a rejection of the, the woke values and i’m not talking about what was necessarily presented by the organizers as much as how the crowd reacted to what you know trump shows up and and it’s it’s a political rally in a sense for for a short while of course um and and then of course it’s a football route which is another story yeah that was unbelievable Right. But unfortunately, Denver, we’ve been there, done that in the past, too. So you feel their pain, shall we say. Yes. But the tone of the culture has, I believe, turned. You know, you said it’s the third founding. I like that concept. I would also present the spiritual aspect of it. because I believe we’re seeing a renewed revival in many ways in our culture, and I’ve been watching that for years, but everything seems to be blossoming in more of a, let’s put it this way, a return to common sense, a return to understanding that there are true values out there that our nation was founded on principles of of eternal consequence and um we’re seeing um in a a a lot of uh elements within our culture re-embracing those principles and values and um you know i mean i on saturday we had the larimer county gop reorganizational meeting and when I was given an opportunity to speak for a minute or two, I said, I see God’s hand working in our nation. And I’m not trying to be a rosy picture on this, because there’s a lot of rough water we’ve got ahead of us. But I really see more hope, optimism, and positive direction than I’ve seen in my entire adult lifetime.
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Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I know it’s going to be chilly tomorrow. However, there’s going to be a great event down at the Center for American Values. in Pueblo. The center is located on the Riverwalk and the founders on that are Drew Dix and Brad Padula. Drew is a Medal of Honor recipient for actions he took during the Vietnam War but he was also stationed in Greenland and he is going to present on the real Cold War regarding Greenland at the center tomorrow afternoon. Doesn’t cost anything but you need to RSVP because they are getting to capacity You can do that. You can get the information by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. I’m talking with Kevin Lundberg. He’s the author of the Lundberg Report that comes out every Saturday. He’s got the good, the bad, and the ugly of what’s happening down at the Statehouse and also commentaries on other things that are happening in Colorado. And so, Kevin, let’s talk a little bit about the good, the bad, the ugly. What do you see as far as things happening down at the Statehouse this week?
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Well, it’s more business as usual as we’ve seen for the last several years, with a little bit of a modification, I think, but reflecting a little bit on what I’d said earlier on how I believe there is a bit of, there is a sea change in general attitude, but down in the state capital, it seems that they’re the last ones to figure it out. A lot of good bills are out there. And I just did a little bit of a quick search on the transgender issue. And Representative Scott Bottoms has a couple of really good bills that one is malpractice insurers, gender affirming care for minors, which simply means if a doctor engages in any of the medical mutilations that unfortunately far too many doctors are conducting on kids, that they ought to be held responsible for it. And the insurance companies shouldn’t have to bear that burden and therefore And what this is basically getting around to is if you’re a doctor who wants to engage in medicalization of minors for transgender stuff, you might not be able to get any insurance for that. I think it’s a great idea. That one is, let’s see, House Bill 1068. And then he has another one.
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Well, and I just wanted to comment on that 1068, Kevin. I went down and testified, took one for the team, went down and testified last week on 1068. It did die in committee. And Erin Lee was there, who is your colleague. You and she have worked together to tell her family story regarding their daughter that was targeted in Little Wellington, Colorado. after-school programs. She thought it was Art Club. She and her husband John thought it was Art Club, and it was actually a transgender indoctrination session. And people can get, I think, an overview of what that whole agenda has been by going to the movie that you produced with them, artclubmovie.com, right? Right.
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It’s called Art Club, but the website is artclubmovie.com, right? And go ahead. Go ahead.
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Well, my comments on that. It was somewhat riveting to see three pediatric doctors, all women, that testified via Zoom that this surgery was evidence-based and everything was OK with that. And first of all, I was thinking, these are people that are treating children. But I thought, OK, if, in fact, As they say, it’s evidence-based and there’s not really a problem with it. Then what I suggested, instead of having the force of government coming in and saying, insurance companies, you have to cover this action by these doctors. Or the other alternative is they wanted to have taxpayers pay for that malpractice insurance. How about if all of you are so convinced, evidence-based, that everything’s fine? come together, you can create your own insurance pool and self-insure. What do you think of that?
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I think it makes perfect sense and it shows the hypocrisy of their claim that this is a perfectly appropriate medical activity because they can’t really face up to the responsibility down the long term. You know, the two things is one, getting the insurance, and number two, a statute of limitations. on how much time an individual has to go back and say, this doctor did me wrong. And those need to be recognized as long-term situations when it comes to taking minors and either just prescribing hormone blockers that just completely mess up their development as children and all the way to actual mutilation through surgeries. If they’re going to do this, they need to be held responsible for it. And yeah, you noticed, you noted that the legislature killed it. Why? Well, because they don’t get it yet. They just don’t get it. And, you know, so he has another bill. Let’s see, which one is that?
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It’s the trafficking minors. That’s eleven forty five.
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Right. Eleven forty five prohibits transporting minors into the state. for these child mutilation procedures. It recognizes that those people who are trying to make Colorado a destination or who have made Colorado a destination spot for this are really no better than a child trafficker for any other reason.
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Action, yeah.
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Yeah, and I think that, again, when they kill these bills, And I’m talking about the majority party down there in the legislature. They show their hands that they are, you know, A, they don’t understand where the people are going. Let’s take one more issue that isn’t on Representative Bottoms.
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And let me just mention, that’s going to be heard today in the Judiciary Committee beginning at 1.30 is when that committee convenes. So if you want to have some testimony, you can do that. Okay, your next one.
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And it’s important for people to do that. But the other issue revolving around the same subject is the men and women’s sports. And I believe it’s important to make some observations there while we’re on the subject, which is, of course, the president said, we’re ending that. Well, he has only so much constitutional power and authority, and he can control the funding mechanisms to school systems that engage in this practice of allowing men to play in women’s sports. But there are a whole lot of other areas that he doesn’t have control over, any private sports activity. And you mentioned Erin Lee. She was telling me that when you look at the big picture of youth sports programs, 70% of them are private. And so they’re not subject to the control that the president can put on it. But, and here we go back to, I said, politics follows culture. It’s not the other way around. I’m told that 80 percent of the population know that it’s absurd to allow men to participate in women’s sports programs. Understand that and take some action to secure that problem in their state is is just not understanding where the culture is and a little fortification on that. on this whole issue of controlling this transgender ideology in schools and in their state, 26 states have passed some pretty solid laws to counter all this, but not Colorado. No, Colorado continues to rush down the opposite road and try to facilitate more and more transgender ideology in our schools, in our foster care systems, in our libraries. You know, you name it, and this legislature wants to back the very worst ideas in this arena, and yet most states really have figured it out. Now, there are the red states, and guess what? We’re not there yet. If there’s a silver lining for Colorado, I think it’s that the people of Colorado are slowly coming around to figure this out. I mean, you know, we found more Republicans elected to the statehouse this year which is a good step forward at the congressional level. We finally have a balance between the R’s and the D’s going to Congress in the House. And I’m looking forward to maybe we’ll pick up a U.S. Senate seat next go-around, too.
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Well, and Kevin, I saw this headline. This is from the Daily Wire. This is unbelievable. On this issue, it says the Daughters of the American Revolution National Board of Management on Saturday rejected a proposal from its Texas chapter to keep trans identifying men out of the group. In a letter to the Martha Laird chapter, the DAR National Board of Management said it found a proposed amendment to prohibit all men, including trans-identifying males from the group, not to be suitable for inclusion in the bylaws and not to be in the best interest of society. I’ve got to think that Dolly Madison is probably turning over in her grave on that one.
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Wow. Actually, my wife is active with DAR. And I have a feeling that just might affect that.
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Something might happen at the Lumberg household today, huh?
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Yeah, well, I know. Anyway, I won’t go into that much further. But yeah, again, they don’t get it. You know, apparently whoever said in charge of the administration of that organization, which has a fine reputation and is, you know, made up of I don’t know how many thousands or tens of thousands of women across the country who are good, solid patriots.
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It’s… Time for new management at the National Board of the Daughters of American Revolution. So we’ve got a couple of minutes before break. What’s the next thing you wanted to hit, Kevin?
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Oh, well, the other… While we’re talking about legislation, you know, this is a typical year in Colorado politics where THE DEMOCRATS ARE COMING UP WITH ALL SORTS OF GUN CONTROL MEASURES, BUT THEIR BIG ONE, WHICH IS SENATE BILL 3, SEEMS TO BE HAVING SOME TROUBLE NOW. AND I THINK MAYBE THEY’RE STARTING TO LOOK AROUND AND DISCOVER THAT THEY’RE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY. THEY ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF FREEDOM. THEY ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY. AND EVEN THOUGH I SEE A REALLY BAD CROP OF BILLS THAT REALLY ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND THE WRONG THING TO BE DOING, I DO BELIEVE THAT, AGAIN, IF THERE’S A SILVER LINING TO THIS, IT’S THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE ARE SEEING THE CONTRAST. AND I’M ENCOURAGED THAT, YOU KNOW, At the reorganizational meeting for the Larimer County GOP this past Saturday, we had a huge crowd of people who showed up, one of our biggest meetings of this sort. And that’s because the people are rising up and they’re realizing, you know, we’ve got to roll up our sleeves and get down to the basic issues of politics if we’re going to change these laws that have been going the wrong direction here in Colorado.
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Well, and it is exciting what is happening on the national level, but I am convinced that we have to step forward at the municipal, the county, the state level here in Colorado to reclaim this state. So that’s great news that you had such a great turnout on that. I think that’s happening across the state, and it’s important that we have these discussions. If you’ve been injured, you need to take immediate action, and one of the things you need to do is, is reach out to John Bosen with Bosen Law.
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Well, here’s… If you go to my website and you see the bad bill list I have, I try to identify the worst of the worst, if you will. And, man, that list is growing so fast. Here’s one that is a little bit of a sleeper, but it kind of goes back to some of the things we were talking about, and that’s Senate Bill 63, which is a bill that – pretty much eliminates the possibility of removing any books from public schools because they’re inappropriate. It sets up this whole complicated system that makes it too difficult to actually challenge bad books. And it went through a committee yesterday and passed and is on its way to the Senate floor, I believe is the next step for that bill. That’s Senate Bill 63. There are, as I said before, several bills that deal with the gun issue. And then another important issue that I know that you really doubled down on and very appropriately is this whole climate change alarmism that the legislature just seems to be, you know, following in lockstep on any idea where they can supposedly eliminate carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or minimize it, if you will. And they continue to rush down that road. Senate Bill 137, greenhouse gas credits for water quality projects. This is buying into the argument that somehow we need to have greenhouse gas credits. This is a backdoor way of PUTTING THAT IN AND IT’S, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE THAT I THINK I DON’T KNOW BETTER DOWN THERE ARE ACTUALLY BEHIND SOME OF THIS ONE BECAUSE IT HAS TO DO WITH ENABLING WATER PROJECTS TO GO FORWARD. BUT IT’S DOING IT BY TRYING TO, YOU KNOW, BEND TO THE KNEE OF GLOBAL WARMING ALARMISM. that I want people to keep their eye on because I think it’s one of the most dangerous ones out there this year, and that’s the health care payment system analysis. Senate Bill 45. It’s a bill that just sets up a study, if you will, but it’s a study to lay out to the legislature on this is how we can make the state the complete authority payer of all medical systems in colorado which is socialized medicine by another brand i mean you know they say no our hospitals are doctors they’ll still operate privately but if the only entity paying the bills is the state they will dictate oh and speaking of that there is a brand new bill that i saw that was introduced yesterday i believe Let’s see if I can find this, because it’s kind of in the middle of my queue on how I keep track of these things. And it’s called Reimbursement Requirements for Health Insurers, House Bill 1174. I’m still in the midst of studying this one, but it looks like it’s a cost-fixing system for… FORCE SOME MEDICAL INSURANCE POLICIES. SO THE STATE WILL DICTATE WHAT THE PAYMENTS WILL BE FOR VARIOUS MEDICAL PROCEDURES AND WILL NOT ALLOW ANY VARIANCE FROM THAT IF THEY’RE GOING THROUGH, I THINK IT’S THE SMALL GROUP INSURANCE PROGRAMS. THAT’S BAD NEWS. YOU KNOW, WHENEVER THE GOVERNMENT STEPS IN AND SAYS WE’RE GOING TO DO PRICE FIXING, I REMEMBER Richard Nixon did that to gas way back in the 70s. And yeah, they held the price back for a few months. And then when they let go of it, it just exploded. And when you control prices, what you do is you frustrate the free market system. And if you continue to control those prices, it’s like rent control. What happens? Well, the supply goes away because nobody is willing to do business under those circumstances.
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Well, and producer Joe, young 26-year-old producer Joe, had figured it out when we were talking about this. He said, okay, so let’s say the price of bread is fixed at this particular price, which you’re seeing also there’s that price gouging bill that they have regarding grocery stores. And I just want to say, the biggest price gouger out there is government, because look how much they take out of your paycheck. You talk about gouging, that’s gouging. But what happens is, so what if the price of bread is X? If you go to the store and there’s no bread, it doesn’t matter. And when government gets involved, the quality goes down, the supply becomes limited, and gosh, I can’t remember the other thing, but those are two of the main things that happen.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, again, you’re trying to manipulate a market that really works best on its own. And I think you’re talking about House Bill 1010, prohibiting price gouging and sales of necessities. At least that’s the bill that’s on the table now. And it passed committee, you know, because the majority party just doesn’t quite get it. And unfortunately, we see so much. Here’s another bill, 1109, Gender Identity Certificate of Death. This would make some death certificates as far removed from reality as some Colorado birth certificates are already. You know, in Colorado, if you change, supposedly change your gender, you can go back and have your birth certificate changed and It is to look like that was the original birth certificate. There should be no hint that this was modified. And they want to change that to death certificates as well. Why is that a big deal? Because those are some of the appropriate statistics that are maintained by the Colorado Department of Health for birth certificates. validating medical research on, you know, what did people die of? Who were they? Now we’re, you know, we’re wanting to put in nonsense rather than common sense, false facts rather than real facts in statistical data. You know, and what happens? Well, I suspect this one’s going to move through like the rest.
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Kevin, to your point, though, 80% of Americans are saying this is crazy. And so we – Colorado’s at the tip of the spear on crazyville, though. We’ve got about 30 seconds left. It’s always so interesting. How would you like to wrap this up, Kevin Lundberg?
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Well, I’d just say stay tuned. There are so many things. And a point of clarity here, 80% is for the men and women’s sports. It degrades a little bit on some of the others, but you’re right. The average citizen is starting to get it and to understand. And I’m. hopeful and upbeat. But, you know, let’s come back next week and check notes again, because I’m sure there will be a lot more to talk about.
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It’ll be four weeks with the Trump administration. Who knows what’s going to happen over the next week? Kevin Lundberg, thank you so much. Be sure and check out the Lundberg report. You can find that at Kevin Lundberg. That’s L-U-N-D-B-E-R-G dot com. Kevin, we’ll talk next week.
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Thanks, Kim. As always, great time.
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Ancient wisdom teaches that if you want less of anything, you tax it. If you want more, you subsidize it. Have we forgotten that simple principle? If we look through the lens of liberty, we see a government that rewards unemployment and business failure with welfare, and taxes productivity, profit, growth, job creation, and wealth. We pay taxes on our wages, our homes, and our cars. We are taxed on clothes, food, drinks, and gas, and on everything we leave behind after death. We complain of high taxes, but maybe we ought to look more closely at what we tax and what we subsidize. Maybe we should stop subsidizing things that fail, and start rewarning things that succeed. Then maybe we would get less failure and more success.
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That’s on all KLZ platforms, KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. our word of the day is cacophony spell c-a-c-o-p-h-o-n-y it’s a noun be a harsh or jarring sound dissonance or number two an incongruous or chaotic mixture a striking combination and i would say the cacophony of all of these judges that are trying to stop the agenda of donald trump And Doge, trying to get this government back in the proper role that it’s supposed to be in, has been rather interesting to watch and to listen to. Our quote of the day, I went to Judge Learned Hand, born in 1872. He died in 1961. He was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher. He served as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1909 to 1924. As an appellate, a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1924 to 1961, he said this, liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. No constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. And I really think the radical activists left, really Marxist communists, have tried to squelch that fire of liberty in our hearts, but we are seeing that Americans, it is in our DNA, and I do believe that we are in our third founding of our country. But elections are super important, and Colorado’s elections have a number of vulnerabilities, and we continue to see more and more stuff piled on that. Our bill of the day is Senate Bill 25001, That was the very first bill that they introduced. That means that this is a priority of theirs. And again, this is the radical activists. This is a priority. Elections matter. The work that we did with our Colorado 2024 election project, getting those two lawsuits filed that are now back in the back and forth legal wrangling. um is so important and we’re going to be doing some new things here in 2025. i hear my ear to the ground says that the trump administration will be doing some things regarding elections but my friends we have got to take the mantle here in our own state in our own communities and so stay tuned On that, but that is Colorado Voting Rights Act. The sponsors on that are all Democrats, Senator Julie Gonzalez, Representative Jennifer Bacon, Representative Junie Joseph. And again, this elections are so important and this seems to be a priority. On the line with me is John Boson with Boson Law and If you’ve been injured, reach out to them. John Boson, before we get into it, one of the things, I’ve never done much in the legal realm, and we raised the money for these two elections for our Colorado 2024 election project. We had hoped that one of them would get to the Supreme Court before the elections. What I’m learning is in the legal world, there’s a lot of back and forth and kind of ping pong ball back and forth, and So it all takes a lot longer than I anticipated, John Boson.
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Yes, it does. It’s one of the things that when I meet with a prospective new client, I kind of give them a little bit of an education in terms of how long getting a claim may take to get resolved. And I always see the eyes kind of go wide open. Yeah, there’s lots of… ways and tools that I deal primarily with insurance carriers and big corporations and they have lots of tricks up their sleeve to kind of slow things down delay things because by doing so a lot of people just want to just be done with it and so I have to coach and mentor and guide my clients not to fall into that trap to hang tough and it’s tough to do that sometimes because Accidents can be financially devastating, especially if they keep somebody from working. And so that kind of delay tactic is unfortunately sometimes successful on folks. And I understand it. You know, got to put food on the table.
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Well, and yes, that legal wrangling back and forth is super interesting. You at Boston Law, first of all, you are willing to go to trial if need be, which I think is important that people understand that.
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Absolutely.
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What kind of cases do you work in? I know Social Security disability and accidents. So what is the realm of what you guys cover?
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You know, I tell folks, Kim, anything that harms a person or a loved one. And the gamut runs from motor vehicle collisions, which is kind of, you know, the wheelhouse, to slip and falls on ice that should have been removed or some other material or something on the ground that a business allowed to have there. It could be grease on the floor of the dining room table outside the kitchen. Trip and falls, that can be anything. We’ve had a slew of dog bite and dog attack cases recently. rafting accident, zip lining accident, anything that hurts someone, bad pharmaceutical drugs. We’ve talked about Ozempic, Wegovia, Montero. We’ve got bad products cases, the talcum powder in products. Anything, Kim, that can hurt someone. In addition to those things, then workers’ compensation claims. If someone’s injured in an accident on the job, it doesn’t matter how it happened, just that it happened. That person has the right to seek benefits under the Workers’ Compensation Act. And then Social Security disability. If someone is unable to work for any reason, sickness, injuries, if they can’t work and they’ve paid into the system, They qualify to seek Social Security disability benefits. So wide range of claims. And I’ve got attorneys that focus on particular types of claims. So for example, if it’s a trip or slip and fall, I’ve got one of the best attorneys in the state for that type of case. And others that handle specific, more specific types of personal injury cases. So we do a lot under that personal injury umbrella.
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So, John Boson, how much does it cost to have an initial consultation with one of your experts?
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It costs nothing to meet with me or any of our senior lawyers, and typically it’s an hour and a half. Sometimes it can go longer. But, again, we’ll just go through and talk about the claim, get all the information, talk about – what needs to happen, when it needs to happen, and guide the individual or the family on how things go, the process, the procedure.
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So that is complimentary for that first appointment?
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There’s no charge for that.
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Okay. How can people reach you?
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It’s that oh-so-easy-to-remember number, 303-999-9999. Call and talk to someone and Sometimes it’s over the phone, but often it’s getting folks into the office for an in-depth consultation.
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So one other question. Do you only practice here in Colorado, or are there other states?
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We’re helping folks in the surrounding states. It can be anywhere in the United States because I have a large network of attorneys that I’ve worked with, I continue to work with out of state. So if we have a Colorado family, go to florida there’s a problem down there i can co-counsel with a florida attorney or i can refer them outright to a florida attorney to help them with their situation john boson i really appreciate you and boson law for caring for people not only in colorado but throughout the country and so thank you for the update and we’ll talk next week thank you kim keep fighting will do
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and welcome back to the kim munson show be sure and check out our website that is kim munson m-o-n-s-o-n.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter you can email me at kim kimmunson.com as well thank you to all of you who support us we’re an independent voice we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something’s a good idea you should not have to force people to do it i did want to just comment this came in from one of our listeners Kevin Lumberg and I talked a little bit about this in the first hour, and that is the Daughters of the American Revolution on Saturday rejected a proposal from its Texas chapter to keep trans-identifying men out of the group. In a letter to the Martha Laird chapter, the DAR National Board of Management said it found the proposed amendment to prohibit all men, including trans-identifying males, from the group not to be suitable for inclusion in the bylaws and not to be in the best interest of the society. Hmm. I wonder what all of our founding fathers and mothers would think about that. But this is from one of our listeners. She said, Our state regent is the only person to speak publicly and maybe only our president general at DAR headquarters. The president general is Pamela Edwards Rouse Wright. And that is a very important issue. And that’s what we have seen is that we’ve seen the management of nonprofits and media academia, our churches. We’ve seen many times that’s been hijacked by radical activists that have gone on up and volunteered and gotten to the top levels of these organizations. And we want to keep men out of girl sports. How about we keep men out of the Daughters of the American Revolution? What do you think about that, Producer Joe?
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I totally agree. I mean, just because they say one thing doesn’t mean it’s deemed that way, and the rules kind of make sense.
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Right. We don’t all have to then, if they want to kid themselves, that’s one thing. If they want us all to be part of that, that’s quite another thing. But gentlemen, I’ve got Producer Luke is on the line. Producer Luke, you said that the family has got this crud that’s going around, right? So you’re not in studio, you’re calling in.
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Yeah, yeah, so sorry if I sound a little out of sorts. We’re all running pretty high fevers, suffering a bit right now, but getting through it.
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Well, thank you for making this happen. And there is something really tough that’s going around. Teresa on our team, she was knocked out for a couple of weeks on this. I know that Trent Luce said he’d gotten the dimmer crud when he’d been at the National Western. So take care of yourself and get through it. But thanks for rallying for our final. Producer Luke, Producer Joe, we have done it. Economics in one lesson. We are finishing it up. and this is the book by henry haslett it says the shortest and surest way to understand basic economics and basically we’re going to talk about saving and then just a wrap up on this so luke let’s go to you first producer luke regarding chapter 24 the assault on saving yeah i uh i don’t think there’s a whole lot of discourse to be had on this chapter um famously my
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my position with Hazlitt has been pretty back and forth, and this is one of the chapters I find myself primarily agreeing with him on the chapter itself, sort of in short terms being, savings are good. Yeah, yes, I agree. Savings are good. I think sort of near the tail end of this chapter and sort of leading into the next one, it gets into some more positions that I don’t necessarily agree with. So maybe once we jump into those chapters, I’ll have a bit more to say on the issue. I know he also mentions in this chapter, he goes on to say something to the effect that low interest rates predominantly seem beneficial, but on the whole sort of lead to misallocation of resources and economic imbalances. I’m not an economist, so I don’t know if I can speak too hard to that other than I know high interest rates suck, and I don’t like them very much. I would prefer low interest rates, but again, I’m sure if I was a bit more studied on the subject, I’d have a more informed opinion on that specific matter.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and Luke, we had seen that interest rates have been held artificially low for a number of years. And whenever you have artificial intrusions into the market, it does skew the market a bit. And I think we talk on somewhat a regular basis with you and Joe regarding home ownership. And you guys are both 26 years old and I think would love to own your own home. But those low interest rates, I think were a contributing factor to the increase in value of homes which makes it less affordable for you guys to get homes. People that have homes love to see that increased value on their balance sheets. They don’t like the fact that property taxes have been attached to That increase in value, and they’re paying more in property taxes, which I think then does undercut their property rights because they’re paying basically taxes on unrealized gains. And I think a lot of that could go back to artificial interest rates. Producer Joe, you want to weigh in on this?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I was just thinking about both sides because, you know, interest rates can be good as well. Like high interest rates can be good as well. Like in the case of having a savings account with a high interest rate, you’re going to accrue more money over time. But with that being said, Henry Hazlitt did make a comparison between or not a comparison, tried to defer the two between an investment and a savings account. with the savings, if you have a high interest rate, you’re going to accrue more money. But if you still have a high interest rate towards your investment, now you’re looking to be a little sad, kind of like you were saying about the housing market. And so keeping the artificial low rates, I think it’s kind of like price setting, kind of like what they’re talking about in the grocery stores. It just kind of turns it around.
SPEAKER 03 :
yeah and so yeah whenever government comes in to fix a price whether or not it’s interest rates or we were talking about this bill down at the state house regarding price gouging at the grocery store or health care there’s this analysis bill down at the state house which would move us to government run health care whenever government gets involved The supply becomes limited, the price goes up, and the quality goes down. And Joe, you’d made an excellent point regarding price fixing or price, this price gouging bill that is down at the state house. And I always want to make the point, who’s the biggest price gouger in your paycheck?
SPEAKER 05 :
The federal government every time.
SPEAKER 03 :
The government or the state government also with this other thing. So that’s where we really need to address this price gouging is with government. But you’d made this point and this was a real aha is you could have government say the price of bread is X. But if you go to the store and there’s no bread, it doesn’t matter, does it?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, it doesn’t. And it also reduces the ability for small businesses to be able to supply it as well. It just takes away kind of all of asset.
SPEAKER 03 :
Good point, because you might have some new innovative products that might be coming in that might be at a higher price point. If you’ve got price fixing, then good point. That would eliminate that new creative small business. What do you think about that, Luke?
SPEAKER 20 :
I think it’s a good point. I think it’s a good point.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. What did you guys think about the example of the two brothers, Alvin and Ben, who they both had been left some money, and they both had, it says here… Let’s see. Gosh, there’s quite a bit in there. But they both have received a $50,000 income a year. But Alvin, the first brother, is a lavish spender. He spends not only by temperament, but on principle. He’s a disciple, to go no further back, of Rodbertus, who declared in the middle of the 19th century that capitalists must expend their income to the last penny in comforts and luxuries, for if they determine to save, goods accumulate, and part of the workmen will have no work to do. So Alvin is a lavish spender. He goes out. He lives high on the hog, you will. But he spends more than he takes in. And so everybody liked him while he was tipping and out there, but he then, five years later, doesn’t have… And people look at him as a fool. However, his brother had been investing, had been living on $25,000 a year, investing the other $25,000. And that $25,000 invested was going out to help create new businesses, create wealth for himself. And at the end of five years, he not only had his income, but he also had his investments, which were helping to grow the economy. So what do you think about that, Joe?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, I was just thinking, well, you can live the lavish life and spend some of the money, but at the end of the day, you kind of have to live like both the brothers where you can have some fun and enjoy your life, but also invest in your future and plan for, hey, this money is not going to be around forever. The value is not going to be around forever. So how do I battle that? And that’s what savings and a lot of people do recommend like saving cash instead or not cash like gold or jewels, stuff that retains the value over time. Your home is a big one as well.
SPEAKER 03 :
And in tough times, you do want to have things that you could barter back and forth as well. So Luke, let’s have your thought on this. We’re going to go to break. We’ll continue the discussion with you guys regarding economics in one lesson. But what’s your thoughts about the brothers?
SPEAKER 20 :
I mean, not to turn too far away from economics and jump into philosophy, but I think there’s something to be said about the love of money, right? Money isn’t the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil. So I think there’s a balance. I think if your entire existence is in the pursuit of wealth for the sake of wealth, then that’s a pretty shallow existence. I think, I mean, making money isn’t a bad thing, right? Doing good work and working hard is something that should be valued. I think that’s very good. But I also think, I don’t know, you shouldn’t give either of the brothers in the example too hard of a time, right? Depending on circumstance, depending on what they want to do, to each their own, I’d say.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I think to your point, there can be a blend between the two, between going out and doing something special every once in a while, but not on this regular basis that Brother Alvin was doing, but yet not—and they use the word hoarding as well— you know, making sure that you are able to enjoy some of the fruits of your labor as well. I think that there is a good blend to that, gentlemen. So we’re going to continue the discussion. I’m talking with producer Joe, producer Luke, regarding economics in one lesson. And these are important discussions. They come to you because of our sponsors. And Lavaca Meat Company is truly a premium product. It is a great protein source in your diet. And the And Jim May Cattleman says that the only preservative is the freezer. I love that. So Lavaca Meat Company is located on the corner of Maine and Nevada in Old Littleton.
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SPEAKER 03 :
And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And do check out the USMC Memorial Foundation. That website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And buy a brick that will be on one of their pathways of service to honor your military service or your loved one’s military service. And you’ll receive a beautiful certificate, which you can put on the wall. It’s a beautiful gift as well. And more information, go to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Talking with our young producers. And that is producer Joe, producer Luke. We have finished up the book, Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt. Before we move away from savings and just have an overview of what you guys think about the book, Susan texted this. Keeping interest rates artificially low actually winds up hurting most regular folks. In the past, a savings account or having a certificate of deposit was a way for people to make money on their money when the interest rates are held artificially low. Ordinary people can’t make any money on their savings through the safety of a bank. Excellent point, I think, Producer Joe.
SPEAKER 05 :
I definitely agree. And it just kind of leads right back to that price fixing thing. Once it sets it in motion, you eventually do not have the supply capable to maintain it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. And so free markets, although I say free markets, I know that there’s a lot of tariff conversation out there. And free, fair, honest, and transparent markets are really important. In fact, we’re going to talk with Brian Dimitrovic, economic historian on Friday about the Trump tariff. So stay tuned on that. Luke, this whole discussion on economics in one lesson, and you have been such a sport on this, Producer Luke, and we’ve added Producer Joanne on this as well. I love getting your perspectives as young individuals in America. And we finished the book. And so you are suggesting our next book will be The Prince by, who is it by?
SPEAKER 20 :
By Machiavelli.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so I will get that book for the three of us and we’ll start that next month. But what’s your overall takeaway regarding economics in one lesson?
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, Mr. Haslett, where to begin? Like I said, sort of at the beginning, famously me and Haslett don’t always agree, which I think is a good thing, right? I think it’s important to have discourse and differing opinions. not to get too verbose, mostly on account of I don’t want to take up too much time and also it hurts to talk. I think Hazlitt’s sort of economic ideas function well in a vacuum of raw numbers, but I don’t think a lot of his ideas hold up well under scrutiny, especially when you implement the human element. I think, again, if you threw out all of his policies and theories and ideas onto an Excel sheet, it would add up very nicely. But human beings aren’t Excel sheets. We’re not numbers on a page. So I think a lot of it starts to fall apart. Not to get too anecdotal, but he mentioned sort of in his wrap-up that a lot of people try and pursue – government interventionist policies into a market, and he mentions that on the whole that’s not necessarily a good thing. Hazlitt is a free market capitalist, so obviously he takes a very laissez-faire approach of keeping government hands out of the market. But I’d like to bring up a small sort of anecdotal piece of evidence that kind of goes against that idea. And this is something I wasn’t aware of up until recently on a different show. Sort of let me down a rabbit hole doing a whole bunch of research. And you get into a situation where the 3M company, they’re a manufacturer of PFAS, 3M Corporation. They’re a chemical company, primarily responsible for Teflon and Scotchgard and stuff like that. And The 3M company is responsible for poisoning the water supply of a town, significantly so. You know, cancers and diseases and some really, really nasty stuff. And the 3M Corporation knew that they were poisoning the water for some years, a number of years, not an insignificant amount of time. And they came to the conclusion that covering it up was less expensive than paying out the lawsuit for damages once they were eventually discovered. This is an example of a corporation acting without the best interest of the people. They are doing something actively malicious. And it took the government coming in and saying, no, no, you’re not allowed to poison people. And only then did they make an effort to stop And I think that’s important to look at. Not all these corporations are going to operate within the realm of free market capital. Oh, if something’s bad, we’ll fix it because no one wants to compete or whatever. So I think that’s, again, and it’s global, mind you, but important to look at.
SPEAKER 03 :
So I’m not totally familiar with that, Luke. So ideally, the judicial system should come in and that’s where that that should be decided is within the courts. Yes. Is that what happened or was it the EPA that came in? I’m not totally familiar with the case.
SPEAKER 20 :
It was the EPA that came in only after a number of employees blew the whistle. But I think the point is, in this instance, the only reason the 3M Corporation stopped poisoning the water is because the government became involved and put in regulations. They would have continued because they showed no signs of stopping if they were never regulated.
SPEAKER 03 :
So I would think, though, there should have been a class action suit, right?
SPEAKER 20 :
There was, but again, the 3M Corporation said that it was cheaper to deal with a lawsuit than it would be to fix their own product and stop doing this. They found it more beneficial to continue making money while poisoning people because dealing with class action lawsuits is cheaper afterwards. And again, I think to sort of tie it back to Hazlitt, Hazlitt said that people jump to government intervention more. Well, I think when it comes to corporations actively being malicious, then yes, the government should definitely intervene. And that’s where I think me and Hazlitt differ probably the most, among some other places. But that’s just a little piece I wanted to get out there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Joe, any thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 05 :
I kind of agree with Luke on this one. It kind of made me think about Google and the censorship that was going on on YouTube and other places like that where they would actively take down things and censor people’s words, and that didn’t end up changing until Trump put in an executive order for it to stop. And so there had to be some intervention because we can’t bank on… values anymore. There’s been a degradation of values for a while now that we can’t bank on it. And so yeah, we need a little bit of government help. But that’s also brings up the biggest question. How much help are you willing to give and give up some of your freedoms in the process?
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, that is really the question. So but for example, this censorship that we saw under the Biden-Harris administration, the veil is coming off that it actually was government that was trying to influence these corporations in doing so. So as I always mentioned, big government and big business like each other. And so the fact that Trump is coming in and they’re rolling that back is we need to get back to free markets and and Luke to your point the EPA I agree and has had some And some of the things that they were initially tasked to do made sense. We needed to clean up our rivers. We needed to clean up our air. But now what we have seen is that the EPA has become an out-of-control federal agency, unaccountable to people. to really congress in many ways and that they have wielded their power to prevent people from maybe even putting a pond on their own property and so something that did have a good idea if it’s can get out of control and that is what has happened with the epa is they’ve gotten way out of their wheelhouse and we need to get that put back into the proper role of government luke
SPEAKER 20 :
yeah i agree i agree there’s definitely a lot to be said about uh people in power getting out of control with said power you see it in a lot of different fields just about anywhere you look right if someone has power for long enough eventually it corrupts what’s the saying absolute power free ups absolutely yes and i think that you can see that on the you know highest levels and you can see it at the lowest levels just look at any hoa
SPEAKER 03 :
Sometimes I think that the HOA can be the most onerous sometimes with people getting a little bit of power. It’s rather remarkable. I also saw that when I was on city council. Gentlemen, we’re going to continue the discussion to finish up this book. And again, you both have been just great sports on this, and I really do appreciate that. We have all these discussions because of great sponsors. And for anything mortgages, reach out to Loren Levy. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York.
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And welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com. 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. Something’s a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. I’ve got a previous engagement, so I’m not going to be able to make it. But I’d love to be down in Pueblo tomorrow night at the Center for American Values. which is located on the Riverwalk there, for the presentation by Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient and co-founder of the center, regarding the real Cold War, about his time when he was stationed in Greenland. It’s going to be super interesting. If you want to attend, you can get more information by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. Let them know that you’re planning on attending. They need to have a head count. They’re getting close to capacity on this. But again, more information at AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. And this is in from Susan regarding, we were talking about Google, and she said the government was ordering Facebook and other giant social media companies to censor the people. And of course, they should have said no, but they didn’t. So we’ve got Gammy on the line. And Gammy, do you want to weigh in on our young guys and economics in one lesson?
SPEAKER 08 :
Actually, I just want to say we got to do more outreach to young people. I want to steal the time for Scott Bottoms. HB 1145, Trafficking Minors for Abortion or Transgender Surgeries Care, etc. This is a bill that will be read today in the Judiciary House Committee. at 1.30 and I wrote three pages to the whole assembly and I want to read you just a snippet because this is devastating concerning prohibiting the human trafficking of an out of state minor into Colorado for the purpose of assisting in certain reproductive health care services and it obviously is devastating here’s what it says This is me reading my own stuff. No child can give informed consent. Many crucial changes have occurred regarding current protocols, which will begin to reshape the policy and cultural landscape surrounding transgender ideology in the coming years. On January 28th, President Trump signed two significant executive orders declaring his intent to return our country to true and ethical standards regarding sex. Under the first order, defending women from gender ideology extremism and restoring biological truth to the federal government, he affirms two and only two distinct biological sexes, male and female. Under the second order, that will protect children with gender dysphoria while protecting children from chemical and surgical mutilations. Hospitals across the country will be required to suspend any gender interventions on individuals under the age of 19. This order states that it will neither fund, sponsor, promote, assist, support in any way all of the blockers and surgeries for so-called children. transition, and it’s also supported by the Doctors Protecting Children Coalition and the American College of Pediatricians, which came out and said, this is horrible.
SPEAKER 03 :
Thank you, Gammy. And to your point, you are fearless in watching what’s happening down at the Statehouse. Thank you for what you’re doing. Thank you for shedding light on this. And Scott Bottoms is trying to prevent Colorado from becoming a destination place for for people and I find it so interesting when they say reproductive health when they’re talking about abortion because in that there is no reproducing with abortion. But they have such a play on words and gender affirming care is actually gender mutilation and so it’s important. Cami, I thank you for the great work that you are doing and shedding light on all this. You are so informed and you are fearless and that is what we need. Luke and Joe, Luke, have you thought about any of these issues that GAMI has brought up? Because I think it really is affecting our young people. What’s your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 20 :
Boy, that’s a hot one, a hot topic. My opinion on it is going to be a bit controversial. I think, you know, you’re a legal adult, 18 years old. You do whatever you want to do. It’s none of my business.
SPEAKER 03 :
But what about children? What do you think about children?
SPEAKER 20 :
I think, you know, children are children. Like I said, 18 years old, you do what you want to do. Anything before that, that’s not kosher in my book. Though I also think this… uh this incredible focus on not to say that it’s not important but i think uh it gets to a certain point where it gets to be too much for example i’ll say this right i don’t care what a person does with their body when i can’t afford groceries uh there are more important more relevant issues for me as an individual uh to deal with and i think a hyper fixation a hyper fixation on what adults do is sort of not conducive of a conversation. Again, you want to talk about children, that’s a different topic.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I do think, Luke, I think that really is the issue that we’re talking about here is children. And to your point, people that are 18 or older, yeah, that’s their business. But children, that’s another thing. We’ve got just a few minutes. Joe, do you want to weigh in on this?
SPEAKER 05 :
So my opinion is kind of in between both y’alls. I think that when it is children, it is up to a conversation between the child and the parent. So if the parent believes in that and that’s what it does, that is the parent’s choice to mutilate the child. It is not our spot to tell them whether they can or cannot do that. but it has to be with conversation with the parent where the parent is over 18. if the child is younger than 18 the parent has to say yeah okay we’ll do this and that’s kind of the uh thing that sticks out to me is when you’re 18 you are legally able to sign your own documents you’re legally able to sign up to fight a war so if you want to make that decision by all means you have the right to do so and the freedom to do so but When you’re a child who does not fully understand the repercussions of the decisions early on and into the future, I think it has to have a conversation with the parents.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I love the fact that you’re standing for parental rights on that, Joe. My concern is, though, that to mutilate a child, because sometimes there are parents with particular agendas. And I think we do need to protect children across the board from child mutilation. I just think that we really do. Anyway, great discussion. Go ahead, Joe.
SPEAKER 05 :
But those parents have the freedom to make that decision. That is the key thing. It’s freedom on all sides, but we don’t get to restrict rights.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, parental rights. I like that. I’m going to have to think about that, Joe. I’m going to ruminate on that for the rest of the day. So let’s wrap this up, and I do thank Gammy for shedding light on this. Joe, I’m going to go to you first. We’ve got a minute. This has been fun, the economics in one lesson. You’ve been a real sport. Thank you.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s my pleasure. It was so much fun and I learned so much. It kind of even helped me with my own financial stresses.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s good. And one of the things on you young people, all of us, is I want to get less government intervention into your paychecks. How’s that?
SPEAKER 20 :
I love that. Lovely.
SPEAKER 03 :
What do you think, Luke? What’s your final thoughts on all this?
SPEAKER 20 :
Thank you so much for having me on, Kim. I really appreciate it. I think discourse in all of its forms is very healthy to the greater conversation. You know, even if the things I say aren’t always, you know, very party-like, I think it’s important to have these discussions.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I think that it is, too. And so I’m excited about we’re going to start a new book, The Prince by Machiavelli. And that is we’ll do that next month. And again, gentlemen, you’ve been real sports on this. I appreciate you putting on your thinking caps and engaging and not being afraid to share your thought processes with us. And it’s really important. So, again, Joe, thank you so much.
SPEAKER 05 :
My pleasure, Kim.
SPEAKER 03 :
And, Luke, you’ve been a real sport. I hope that the whole family get that chicken soup, and I hope that you all get to feeling better.
SPEAKER 20 :
Oh, I hope that I get to feeling better, too. I am in incredible pain.
SPEAKER 03 :
I’m sorry. I know that this thing that’s going around is just pretty tough. And so, again, get to feeling better. But thanks for being a sport and making this happen, Producer Luke, as well.
SPEAKER 20 :
I had to be here for the finale.
SPEAKER 03 :
You did have to be here for the finale, that’s for sure. So thank you. Of course. Thank you. Okay. And, again, these are such important discussions, and we’ll continue to have them. So we’ve got a big week planned for you. Tomorrow we’re actually going to be talking with – let’s see, what does it look like tomorrow? Oh, my fellow CUT board members and then Susan Kochevar, entrepreneur and owner of 88 Drive-In Theater, will be weighing in. And then Trent Luce, I want to talk with him about the CO2 pipelines as well. And it is so important to be kicking the tires on these ideas. And Colorado is at the tip of the spear. And thank you to all of you who support us because it is so important that we do this right here in Colorado. We’ve got to reclaim this beautiful state that was built on the rugged individualistic spirit of the West. And our quote for the end of the show. is from Learned Hand. He’s a jurist. He said, in the end, it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. So again, we must engage in these conversations, kick the tires on these ideas. And in doing so, I think that we really are going to reclaim our state. We are at the tip of the spear here in Colorado for all the the wacko stuff that’s going on and god has put us here for this particular point in time so today be grateful read great books think good thoughts listen to beautiful music communicate and listen well live honestly and authentically strive for high ideals and like superman stand for truth justice and the american way my friends you are not alone god bless you and god bless america
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