Welcome to the Kim Monson Show podcast. Kim Monson is your host. We are in the Third Founding of America. The first was our War for Independence. The second was the Civil War. My fellow Liberty Toastmasters weigh in on this third founding of America and the proper role of America’s Constitutional Republic. Realtor Karen Levine and mortgage specialist Lorne Levy address Trump II and home ownership. Co-founder of Colorado Parent’s Advocacy Network Lori Gimelshteyn notes details about CPAN’s upcoming summit. Cattleman with La Vaca Meat Company Jim May shares a cowboy poem. ————————————————————————————– The Kim Monson Show airs
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I don’t think that we should be passing legislation that is so complicated that people kind of throw up their hands and say, I can’t understand that.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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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. 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 Friday, Producer Joe. Happy Friday, Kim. Yeah, man, what a fast week. Seems like time keeps going faster and faster. But check out our website because we have a lot going on over here at the show. And there you will be able to sign up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. It highlights our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. We will be rolling out the essay for Pam Long. She was on yesterday to talk about this. vaccination or the flu vaccine and our military so you won’t want to miss that you can email me at kim at kim munson.com i’m behind on those my friends i’m going to work on that this weekend text me at 720-605-0647 joe i’m kind of getting behind on those as well so i’ve got a lot of work to do this weekend so i love hearing from everyone and so anyway love to hear from you 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 shouldn’t have to force people to do it. And we focus on the issues on the show. We’ll talk about the people pushing those issues, but we try to stay out of all the personality fighting as well. Pleased to have in studio with me my friend Dennis Haynes. He is the president of Liberty Toastmasters North, and it’s going to be Liberty Toastmasters Day on the show this first hour. Great to have you here.
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Thanks, Kim. It’s an honor to be here. Thanks for having me.
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So you’re starting to like this, huh? Yeah, it’s fun.
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I can just wake up on time.
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Well, you’re here on time. Yes, it is an early morning hit, that’s for sure.
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I’m physically here. I’m just not…
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Well, you’ve got 30 minutes, okay, to really get going on that. But the show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. And the first hour is rebroadcast in the afternoon, 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Second hour, 10 to 11 at night. You can hear it on the KLZ website anywhere in the world or the KLZ app. Or if you have Alexa, it comes in loud and clear there as well. And so be sure and check all that out. In the spirit of Toastmasters, Dennis, Our word of the day is juggernaut. And the first definition could be a massive, inexorable force, campaign movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path. Or number two, it could be a large, heavy truck. And it’s spelled J-U-G-U. g-g-e-r-n-a-u-t and i’ve got to think that the trump to administration has been a real juggernaut for the radical extremists pbis those politicians and bureaucrats and interested parties that have been entrenched in our government how’s that for using that in a sentence today
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That was actually my first thought.
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Yeah, okay.
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It feels very much like that, right?
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Yeah, I know. Although the radical activists are getting organized, so we can’t not be engaged in what’s happening here. I think that the Trump administration has opened the door, but we are in the third founding of our country, and that means that each and every one of us has to step forward. And speaking of stepping forward, This is Friday, so I take a quote from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. I was down there yesterday. They had a great On Values presentation with Dr. Walt Laramore. regarding his book about his father. It’s called At First Light. And his father was a World War II hero. And Dennis, I shared with you before we went on air, as the emcee of the event, ideally you’re supposed to always have it together. And it was such a powerful presentation that after it, I actually had tears in my eyes. I had to really… get a hold of myself here. It was a powerful story. And I have had it on my list that I wanted to get the book, his book, At First Light, and ended up talking with a bunch of people. By the time I got to the books, it was sold out.
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So I’m going to have to now get it on Amazon or something. Yeah, I’m going to have to look for that as well.
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Dr. Colonel Bill Rutledge, who lives up in Fort Collins, 96 years young, referred the book to me and he said, this is absolutely the best book I’ve ever read on World War II. And his father was involved. Well, I think he was in all five campaigns, the five campaigns of the South. and uh in world war ii and they’re not as well known as d-day and so yeah it’s a great book so would highly recommend it but so special and support the center for american values their next event will be april 16th which i’m planning on being down there as well and so but that website is america’s american value center.org and they are doing amazing work there Also the show becomes comes to you because of all our sponsors and one of those is Hooters restaurants they have five locations Loveland Aurora Lone Tree Westminster and Colorado Springs and it is March Madness so Dennis Haynes are you a basketball fan are you apparently America is not as productive during March Madness because everybody’s talking about basketball.
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I know you’re from Kansas as well. Honest to Pete. I’m a Jayhawks fan. That sucks.
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I guess a lot. And you know what? I had them in the finals.
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We’re spoiled, though. I guess we are. They usually make it pretty far.
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But going out in the first round is not.
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First round, honestly.
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So for those of you that don’t know, KU got kicked out the first round. And I had them in the finals. So my bracket’s all messed up already. Yeah. Anyway, let’s get to our quote of the day, though. This is from Clarence Eugene Sasser, born 1947, died 2024. He was a United States Army soldier and recipient of the United States military’s highest decoration of forevalor, the Medal of Honor, for actions that he took on January 10, 1968. And here’s his citation. okay so for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty specialist fifth class sasser distinguished himself while assigned to headquarters and headquarters company third battalion he was serving as a medical aid man with company a third battalion on a reconnaissance in force operation His company was making an air assault when suddenly it was taken under heavy small arms, recoilless rifle, and machine gun and rocket fire from well-fortified enemy positions on three sides of the landing zone. During the first few minutes, over 30 casualties were sustained, and without hesitation, Sasser ran across the open rice paddy through a hail of fire to assist the wounded. After helping one man to safety, he was painfully wounded in the left shoulder by fragments of an exploding rocket. Refusing medical attention, he ran through a barrage of rocket and automatic weapons fired to aid casualties of the initial attack, and after giving them urgently needed treatment, continued to search for other wounded. Despite two additional wounds immobilizing his legs, he dragged himself through the mud toward another soldier 100 meters away. although in agonizing pain and faint from loss of blood sasser reached the man treated him and proceeded on to encourage another group of soldiers to crawl two hundred meters to relative safety there he attended their wounds for five hours until they were evacuated Sasser’s extraordinary heroism is in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army. These take my breath away, Dennis Haynes, as I read what these men did on these days where they ultimately were awarded the Medal of Honor.
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Yeah, that incredible story. I can’t even imagine… Having that kind of bravery. I can’t either. In that circumstance.
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And so we’re engaged in this battle of ideas now. We’re not having to do this. But we are asked to step forward and engage in this battle of ideas. And that’s why learning how to communicate, having your voice, what you can learn from Liberty Toastmasters… is so important. I emceed this event at Center for American Values last night, and really, it’s from things that I learned from Liberty Toastmasters, and I would highly recommend that people at least come as a guest and join us.
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Yeah, that’s going to be my new motto for Toastmasters for the week is if you want to be a juggernaut in political conversations, join Toastmasters.
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Well, that is well done. Well, well done. And this is the quote from Clarence Sasser. He said, I often see people proclaim their patriotism on their sleeve. I believe it thrives best when nurtured in their hearts and minds. And that is Clarence E. Sasser. I always like to talk about a bill of the day as well. And the bill of the day that I selected, and there’s a lot to choose from. And let me just give you a quick report as of this morning from Bill Track 50, which is what we use at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. Here we go. There’s 555 bills and resolutions that have been proposed down at the statehouse right now. That’s an awful lot.
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How do they even get through all that?
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It’s a bill mill. It’s not representing the people. It’s a bill mill. And Republicans are doing their best to slow this whole thing down. But Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which is an all-volunteer group, is watching this legislation. And I do want to say thank you to my fellow board members. This is an amazing group of people. When you see them, say thank you to them and join us. It’s only $25. Go to coloradotaxpayer.org. John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Remy Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizori, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. This bill that we have on here is Sunsetting the Community Health Service Agency. And we are recommending a no on that. And this is sponsored. Let me just get to this. They put these sunsets on because people say, okay, so this will go away. But then they start to then want to extend those sunsets. And then many times they want to extend them indefinitely. So we are a hard no on this particular bill. And the sponsors on this are, let’s see, it is prime sponsors, Senator Lindsay Doherty, Senator Iman Joda, Representative Cecilia Espinoza, and Representative Lisa Ferrette. And it says these community integrated health services are out-of-hospital medical services that may be provided by an emergency medical service provider who obtains a community paramedic endorsement. And the fiscal note on this, if I remember right, the fiscal note’s not that huge on that, but we really think that you should sunset this on it. It does affect our TABOR refunds, and so we’re a no on that. All this happens regarding these conversations because of sponsors, our sponsors. One of those is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team, and they can help you with all of the things that you have, your home, your condo, boat, motorcycle, business, renter’s coverage. They might be able to save you some money. You don’t know unless you give them a call, 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan Team is there.
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it is friday welcome back to the kim munson show thank you for joining us and check out our website that’s kim munson m-o-n-s-o-n dot com and i wanted to say thank you to the harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show we are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity and it’s because of our sponsors and because of you that we are on the air uh on the line with me very pleased to be talking with jamie reed and Dr. Travis Morrell. And both of them are very concerned about this transgender activist agenda targeting our children and wanted to bring them on and let you know what they’re concerned about, let them give you a little bit of their story, and then there’s a very important event April 6th. So Jamie Reed, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. It’s so nice to speak with you. And Dr. Travis Murrell, I talked with you earlier this week. You’re back. It’s great to have you.
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Thanks for having me back and with Jamie.
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Okay. Jamie, I met you in person earlier this year. I went down to the Statehouse to testify on one of Representative Scott Bottoms’ bills, and this was regarding forcing insurance carriers to cover the malpractice insurance for physicians that were doing transgender surgeries or pharmaceuticals on kids. And you testified there riveting. Tell us a little bit about your story.
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Thank you, Kim. So I am a whistleblower from the gender industry. So I worked in a pediatric gender center for close to five years in St. Louis, Missouri. I became a whistleblower because this is simply an industry that is harming children and families across the country. And I have been advocating now across the United States to come back to sanity, so to bring back in alignment the way that medicine is supposed to work and just really find some justice for those who’ve been harmed by this and get these practices to stop.
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Well, and Jamie, you didn’t come to this issue from the right, you know, when you look at left or right, on the right side of the issue. No, not at all. You came from the other side, so tell us a little bit about that.
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Yeah, so I’m a lifelong Democrat. I’m kind of a very, very liberal Democrat. I began working in one of these centers in part because I really thought that this was the right thing to do, that the science and the evidence supported it. I’m also a lesbian. I was married to somebody who she herself had transitioned and lived as a man for close to 13 years. I very much am coming from this as a nonpartisan issue. This is simply the medical scandal of our lifetime that has been occurring right in the open as we’ve been publicly touting that we’ve been harming children. And I had to change my mind because ethically it was the only right thing to do. Wow.
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Wow. Dr. Travis Morrell, your journey is also super interesting.
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So in brief, over 10 years ago, the first four years I was a doctor after medical school, when patients would come to me and ask for cross-sex hormones and so forth, I would help them out, as I understood. And back then, 10 years ago, it wasn’t talked about much, but And they couldn’t get it from the other doctors in my clinic, but I would just read lots of information, much of it put out by the World Transgender Professional Association for Transgender Health, which we now know as an activist organization, not a medical organization. And, you know, you just have to understand that most doctors have 100,000, 2,000, 3,000 patients, and they don’t read every single thing about every single issue. And I definitely was guilty of that for adults at that time. So I had nothing against patients calling themselves transgender or anything. But when they started doing it to kids, having given the medicines, including actually taking care of patients with puberty blockers for adults, not for kids, and including helping with surgery and presenting on it, I knew that what the side effects would be for kids, and they’d be quite dramatically worse given their development. And so I realized that this was not medicine pushing this. It was activism. And when I looked into it more and more and more, that’s completely true in the evidence that we have. So I’m completely there with Jamie Reed on this.
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So, Jamie, I met you when and you testified, you flew in to testify against this particular bill that I mentioned on the malpractice insurance. But, Jamie, as I look at Colorado, we have many bills. that are trying to protect those that are, I really think it’s mutilating children. And so that’s not the only bill. Colorado seems to be maybe at the tip of the spear of all this radical stuff.
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Yeah, you’re kind of the heart of the beast right now. I really am focused on Colorado, not only because of the number of bills that you’re putting forward and You have a lot of legislative support to continue to do this, which is really just, it’s devastating to know that elected officials are on board with hurting kids. But in addition to that, I really have a personal stake in Colorado. So when I blew the whistle, the hospital that I worked at closed the center. Our state passed a law to stop these practices in the state of Missouri, and the primary endocrinologist that I worked with move directly to Colorado so that he could keep hurting kids. And so I very much feel like Colorado is part of my journey in that I know that this physician has not changed his practices one bit. And your hospital is willing to hire somebody that came from a clinic that was shut down because of these terrible practices. And you just really have my heart and my attention.
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So I know you’re traveling the country, Jamie, and I think you’re well, I know you’re traveling the country right now. Do you have plans to be back in Colorado on any of this legislation right now? And I know that you can also testify via Zoom. What are you thinking? Because we’re let’s see, we’re at the 21st of March. We’ve got until I think like May 8th or something. A lot can happen between now and then, Jamie.
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A lot can happen. I stay really flexible with my schedule. I am in Montana this morning. I’m getting ready to actually hopefully see the sunrise soon here, testifying on behalf of a bill that would give detransitioners the right to sue, the right to seek some justice. I’m still really very much focused on New Hampshire, where I think we are going to get restrictions on puberty blockers and surgeries. I take this one state at a time, and I absolutely am always willing and open to coming back to Colorado, and I will be back for your event that’s coming up soon.
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Okay. And so, Dr. Travis Morell, let’s talk about this. And we all, I think, so appreciate co-founder of CPAN, Colorado Parents Advocacy Network, Lori Gimmelstein. And there’s going to be a great event on April 6th. So tell us about that.
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Thanks. Yes, so Lori Gimmelstein of CPAN, ColoradoParents.org, she put this event on last year, and I was able to take part. And this year, my physician’s group is co-hosting with her. And so what you and Jamie said is right. So our state is really the heart of the beast. In fact, Colorado is just right now passing a shield law meant to protect the doctors doing the most dangerous procedures. that have to leave other states like jamie saw her doctor do and so this is called the rocky mountain summit on safeguarding children from gender affirming treatment and we want to equip adults especially clinicians and doctors but all definitely for all adults It’s Sunday, April 6th. It goes from 2.30 to 5.30. And we’re going to have an entire panel with Jamie Reed as well as January Littlejohn and Colorado mom Erin Lee and her older daughter Chloe. And there, Jamie and January and Erin can speak to the effects that this gender idea has on the family and how much it can degrade relationships between spouses or mom and dad and the kid. and before that at 2 30 we’re also going to have a kind of a clinical and ethics panel so People wonder, hey, if I’m going to the clinic, what can I do best to help my kid and not harm her? Or what can I do to not get sued if I’m on the clinical side? And we’re also always asking, how did this even happen? And so we have experts on this. Miriam Grossman, a psychiatrist who is well-known from her book and the documentary, What is a Woman? Leora Sapir, probably the most educated person on the history of how this has gone down in the medical societies. as well as Candice Jackson, a lawyer to help us navigate, and Dr. Michelle Stanford, a Colorado pediatrician.
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It’s going to be a great event. People can get tickets by going to coloradoparents.org is the website, or just take it and do a search for Colorado Parents Advocacy Network, and that’ll come up. We have just a few minutes left. Jamie Reed, you are fervent regarding this issue now, and when I gave my testimony regarding that bill, I said in the old days, Jamie, if the bad guys would have come into a little village and lined the kids up and cut the boys’ penises off and cut the girls’ breasts off, we would have said that that was absolutely barbaric. But that’s what we’re doing right now. And that’s why what you and Dr. Travis Morrell stepping forward to protect our children is so important, Jamie.
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Thank you for that. And, yes, we are in what can only really be described as a nightmare scenario. where part of what we have to do every day is remind people of the basics, the basics. You don’t harm your patients. That is part of the first primary oath that every single doctor and every single hospital really should be looking at. And right now what we’re doing is we are physically harming children and it has to stop.
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It simply has to stop. So Jamie Reed, how can people get more information about you?
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Twitter seems to be the best place right now. So I am at Jamie Whistle. But I also run an organization called the LGB Courage Coalition. And our organization is part of how we are getting across the country. We put together other concerned gays, lesbians, parents, those affected, detransitioners, to speak and testify and it’s an organization that we’re hoping to really grow nationwide because the other issue here is that everyone conflates this to gays and lesbians and it’s just not true. We do not support harming children.
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Okay. And again, one more time, that organization, the website?
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The LGB Courage Coalition. Okay. Also on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. All of the things that the kids know how to work and I barely can.
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Awesome. Awesome. And Dr. Travis Murrell, I know that you have an important organization as well. What is that and how can people find that?
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Sure, coloradodoctors.org, but I really want to emphasize that you can get the tickets. We’ll just send you over to the coloradoparents.org website. You can come to ours today in our events page because I think, Jamie, we really appreciate your expertise and your coming to Colorado to help us protect our kids, and we’d like to meet as many of your listeners as can make it on April 6th.
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Fantastic. Dr. Travis Morrell, thank you. Jamie Reed, thank you. And go to coloradoparents.org for your tickets. And keep up the important work that you’re doing.
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You too, Kim. Thank you. Thank you so much.
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Thank God it’s… Oh, my gosh. Producer Joey changed the music for Friday. That is classic. Okay, welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. That got me. That is awesome. Dennis Haynes is in studio with me. This is… This is Liberty Toastmasters Day. And yes, it is Friday. Dennis, it’s so great to have you here. And I always learn so much. This Table Topics is basically speaking off the cuff, although we’ve given a suggested subject to our colleagues here. But people have basically two minutes, two to three minutes to discuss. to speak just off the cuff on an issue. It’s so great because as people will go out and maybe go to a city council meeting or a school board meeting down to the state house, normally you have two to three minutes. You have to get your thoughts together. And that’s why I love this exercise. And I know so many of our listeners do as well. So what’s our subject?
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Our suggested subject for the day is the proper role of America’s constitutional republic.
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Okay. And who’s our first victim here on this?
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Our first speaker is a juggernaut.
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It’s Brad Beck.
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Distinguished Toastmaster Brad Beck. Brad, what are your… Good morning. Good morning. What are your roles on the proper… What is your thoughts? Oh, my gosh, I’m not awake yet. What are your thoughts on the proper role of America’s constitutional republic?
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Well, it’s good to hear your voices this morning, and it is a juggernaut topic because it does remind me of the idea that the word… democracy does not appear in our Declaration of Independence, our Constitution, the Northwest Ordinance, or any other American document at the time of the founding. And there’s a reason for that. Our founders understood that a democracy was a problem. Let me share a little experience I had. Many years ago, my son was graduating from Belmont University, their first graduating class in their law school. And Alberto Gonzalez was the dean who worked under George Bush. And Justice Alito was the keynote speaker. So it was an incredible day. And all my family was there. And, of course, after a couple hours of sitting through the graduation, everybody had to go to the necessary room. And my granddaughter, the oldest, Libby, came out of the restroom first. And around the Mike Curb Center inside, there are plaques commemorating all these different events around U.S. history. And when my granddaughter came out, I said, Libby, who was the first man on the moon? Because that was the plaque right behind her. And with a lot of enthusiasm, she said, Louis Armstrong. Well, she got half of it right. It was not Louis. It was Neil. But I bring that story up because so many people confuse democracy with our constitutional republic. And there’s a huge difference And we keep hearing about our democracies in crisis from the media and the usual suspects. But the proper role of a constitutional republic is really to balance our government out by our elected representatives. You know, government should have limited powers, and that Constitution gives those boundaries. And really, you look at the essential aspect of this idea, this topic, is to protect the rights of the individual, and in particular, the minority individual. And I don’t mean race. I mean the minorities of factions. It’s supposed to represent our citizens and through our representative government and to have a separation of powers. And if we don’t have that, if we don’t have this constitutional republic and understand that it’s not the mob rule of democracy, we will get in a world of hurt because too many people don’t understand their proper role and what their elected representative’s role is so i’d like to remind people to get it 100 right not only half right well done brad beck thank you thank you thank you you guys have a great day you too bro and who is our next speaker our next speaker is greg morrissey
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Hi, Greg. What are your thoughts on the proper role of America’s constitutional republic?
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Well, as I’ve said before, coming from Australia to live in America and going through the classes on the Constitution, how it works and how it integrates into our lives, what I’m seeing now, a lot of people don’t know how it works. I would like to see in the schools, particularly in the high schools and colleges, you can’t graduate unless you get a pass on the class on the constitution and realize how important the history of the constitution was and the role it played in having this constitutional republic to where it is today people need to get out there and get a take classes in it understand it turn the press off get some real instruction on it know how it works and then they need to come to toastmasters learn how to speak and go out and speak and make sure it’s kept And it’s the primary law function of the entire country. I want to see people who, like, I’ve asked a lot of people about it, some different parts of the Constitution. A lot of people don’t know. They know what the Constitution is, but the actual contents, how it should affect your lives, and like the people you were speaking before with this crazy kid surgery stuff they’re doing. I believe they could get the Constitution bringing that in and stop that. That’s ridiculous.
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It is ridiculous. And Greg Morrissey, you are such a fervent supporter of the Constitution. That’s a theme that on a regular basis you really encourage people to understand it. And like you say, just turn off for even an evening. It doesn’t take that long to read the Declaration and the Constitution. No. No.
SPEAKER 15 :
And get to know it. Get to know the history of why it came into being. It didn’t happen overnight.
SPEAKER 21 :
No, it didn’t, and it was a lot of research on that. Greg Morrissey, I so appreciate all of your thoughts on these things and also from coming, and America by choice, right? Yes. That’s Greg Morrissey. Thank you so much.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thank you, Greg. You’re welcome. Thank you, Kim. Keep up the good work, Kim.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you. All right, next up we have Rick Rome. Rick, what are your thoughts on the proper role of America’s constitutional republic?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, Dennis, Kim, I’ll tell you, I just joined a new Facebook social group. It’s the Flat Earth Society, and I love it. I’m able to go online as a flathead and make some of the most absurd and ridiculous assertions, such as the UN flag is a representation of the entire Earth as it stands. and watch the roundtards going to conniption fits and having kittens. It’s a fabulous process that lets me practice absurdity. And I think it’s important that we practice absurdity because then we can understand where people are coming from when they are saying things that are just completely absurd. The strategy of a group like that is to invest so heavily into the ridiculous notion and never acknowledge a rational argument. We have something like that happening in our body politic today. And it’s really very sad because the acknowledgement of a rational argument means that the absurdity collapses around them. And I think we’re seeing a little bit of that taking place. As it relates to the structure of our government, I think it’s important that we understand this, especially because the consequences are so dire in the face of absurdity. We’ve had a presidential branch that was completely taken over by the notion that the president’s a figurehead and his staff makes all the decisions and does all the work, and that’s evident in some of the things that we saw. We had a Congress that advocated its responsibility for the power of the person controlling the dollars and also managing the legislation, which they advocated to the judiciary branch. So it’s no surprise when we see activist judges doing things like striking down nationwide orders or providing nationwide orders when their family is benefiting from the financial benefits. So what’s the – I mean, what do we do in the face of that? Because clearly we’re never going to get to a place where a rational argument takes it to the next level where we’re able to get along and have those honest debates again because the rationality is gone in the face of that kind of an absurd approach. And I think the solution is accountability. If we start doing those things that the Constitution has put, that the founders put into the Constitution, such as impeachment proceedings for, you know, we’ve seen that happen with presidents before. We should see it happen with judges. We need to start seeing congressional accountability. We put some of these guys in jail for waste, fraud, and abuse. It starts to stop in the same way that they’re prosecuting domestic terrorists for the destruction of private property. It’s a politically motivated effort that warrants a federal response. And I think when we start seeing accountability, the consequences of being absurd aren’t something as frivolous as a Facebook group, and it becomes more real and impactful to the better for our daily lives.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well done, Rick Rome. Well done. And I never know what Rick’s going to come up with. It always surprises me. And the having kittens thing, I hadn’t heard that since I was back in Kansas, Rick Rome.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, we do have common roots.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes, we do. Thanks, Rick Rome. Okay, Dennis Haynes, who is our next speaker?
SPEAKER 04 :
Next up we have Marshall Dawson. Good morning, Marshall. Hey, Dennis.
SPEAKER 14 :
How are you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Good. Good morning to you again.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I’m still trying to greet the morning. I’ll let you know how it goes.
SPEAKER 04 :
What are your thoughts on the proper role of America’s constitutional republic?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, you know, almost a year ago, I was standing in front of a crowd accepting a nomination to run for Congress. And I dusted off the text of some of that speech. And I told them, I said, over the last two years, I’ve traveled thousands of miles crisscrossing our districts. This is the second time that I’d run, mind you, so I was still out there talking to people. And I said, I’ve been sharing my ideas for a limited government, a government that sticks to its primary purpose of protecting our individual rights, of defending our borders. I said, a government that respects the consent of the governed. You know, it’s almost like someone should write that down. I said, maybe we could put that into a document. We could call that document a constitution. and a constitution that tells government what its limits are. Of course, in Toastmasters, we know you have to use some humor every once in a while, and that definitely got a laugh and some applause. Of course, they did write it down. They wrote it down so that it’s easy to read, that it’s easy for an average person to understand. And on the topic of a dysfunctional government, as Rick was pointing out, look, in Article 1, it simply says, All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States. See, it’s simple. Yet for decades, legislation has given the executive branch so much broad latitude. Look, our founding fathers never imagined that one branch would absolutely cede their power to another branch. And that’s really what has given us this massive bureaucracy and has bred the deep state. So the result is not protecting individual rights, but it’s been a juggernaut that is controlling lives, that is trying to shape behavior, that is trying to force conformance down on the citizens. And it’s frustrating when our Congress critters go to the voters and they say, well, don’t blame me. That was the administration. But by golly, we’re going to hold hearings, and we’re going to campaign against it. We’re going to fundraise against that. And it’s kind of ironic that many of the successes that we’ve been seeing out of President Trump are really only the result of the broad ability for the executive branch to set rules. And he’s only using the tools that Congress gave the executive branch. And look, make no mistake, I could not be happier with what President Trump is doing. But we’ve seen sweeping, we’ve seen what sweeping power can do in the wrong hands. And I’m thrilled with what he’s doing and having that power in the right hands. But as I look into the future, even past THE SECOND TRUMP PRESIDENCY, I KIND OF WONDER IF IN RESPONSE WILL WE SEE CONGRESS GOING BACK TO ACTUALLY DO THEIR JOB AS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED, AS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN, BECAUSE WE WERE FAST APPROACHING A POST-CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC BEFORE. BUT NOW I’M OPTIMISTIC THAT THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION’S ACTIONS WILL RESULT IN A GOVERNMENT WHICH GETS BACK TO ITS CORE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING OUR RIGHTS.
SPEAKER 21 :
And, Marshall, you hit on something that I was wondering if we might hit on this, and that is the Trump 2 administration is doing so many different things, but it’s important that he stays within the confines of our Constitution. And it appears to me that he’s doing so. You think that as well, right?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I do. I mean, I think if you look at it through a purist lens— You might say, oh, well, he’s getting too close to the boundaries there or too close to the edge over here. But you know what? I’ll take a 99.5% success rate. He’s doing a very good job of staying within the confines of the powers that he’s given and of the Constitution.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, Marshall Dawson, thank you so much. Thank you, Marshall. Again, such great perspectives. All this happens because of our sponsors. Liberty Toastmasters is a great sponsor of the show, as well as Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages. And Karen and Lorne will be in studio as our guests in hour number two.
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SPEAKER 21 :
And 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. Something’s a good idea. Shouldn’t have to force people to do it. I did see Paula Sarles, the president of the USMC Memorial Foundation. last night or yesterday afternoon over at the Center for American Values in Pueblo. And she was just sprinting around after she had done her great climate challenge out at Red Rocks on Saturday to raise money for the USMC Memorial in observation of the Marine Corps birthday, her birthday, and the 100th birthday of some of the Iwo Jima guys at Cooper’s Troopers. So it was great to see her and to support the foundation, go to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And Liberty Toastmasters Day on the Kim Munson Show. Dennis Haynes, president of Liberty Toastmasters North, is in studio with me. And great subject, don’t you think?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it’s been great. Yeah. Everybody’s done a really good job, and we stayed on time.
SPEAKER 21 :
So far. It’s been good. And who’s our next guest?
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, our next guest is Ross Klopp. Good morning, Ross. Good morning. So what are your thoughts on the proper role of America’s constitutional republic?
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, I think this one’s actually a pretty easy one as far as the federal government goes, because in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, it describes in quite a bit of detail the, I think it’s 14 items that the U.S. government is allowed to be authorized to be involved in. And so there’s three categories of things that if you look at the current U.S. government, they’re They’re either doing the things that they’re supposed to, or they could be doing stuff that’s way outside of their role, or there’s a couple of things that are actually kind of close. You could actually interpret it either way. So the things that are authorized to do are things like national defense, printing money, and patents, post office roads, things like that. Those are all things that are authorized, and there’s 14 different items. And protecting people’s rights is in there as well. Things that aren’t authorized, I can’t find anywhere where it talks about HUD as far as a federal government function. Not in there at all. I can’t even interpret that to be an authorized function, so I have no idea how they got that in there. Then there’s a couple of things where you could interpret it either way, and that would be like the Federal Highway Administration and the interstate highways, things like that, you could possibly interpret that as being a post office road. If you’re being kind of nice on interpreting stuff, that wouldn’t be too far of a stretch. How they actually built the highways is interesting. They said that was for defense. But the last time I’ve seen any type of defense vehicles on our interstate highways was like during the Reagan administration. I think that’s a little bit of a stretch as well. I think the post office roads would be a little bit better for that. But anyway, that you could interpret to be an authorized function of government. Unfortunately, our government has kind of gotten outside of what’s authorized. And that’s happened for a while. That’s not something that’s brand new. And then it got way out of control during the 1930s with all the alphabet agencies and so on. And that part of the Constitution is actually pretty important because that is the most effective way, most effective check on our executive branch’s power, which has gotten out of control more and more. It seems like nothing’s really been reining it in lately. So I think, yeah, I think that’s the best way to actually make the Constitution work the way it’s supposed to.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. Ross, thank you. I always learn so much from you, so thank you so much.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you, Ross. Thanks.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. Dennis Haynes, and who is our final speaker?
SPEAKER 04 :
Our final speaker is Dave Walden. Good morning, Dave.
SPEAKER 17 :
Good morning, Dennis. Good morning, Kim.
SPEAKER 04 :
What are your thoughts on the proper role of America’s Constitutional Republic?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, as always, they’re interesting to me. I hope they’re interesting to everyone else. Tomorrow I’ll be giving a speech at Toastmasters on rights, their source and everything, which I urge anyone interested in improving their speaking to attend. You know, what’s the proper role? America’s founders were generally composed of above average men in the sense that they were relatively educated and relatively wealthy. Now, Many of them, almost all, were the first generation that was actually born in this new world. The initial progeny of an amalgam of adventurers, outcasts, visionaries, mercantilists, scoundrels, and even capitalists before the term was even coined. Now, why do I bring that up? I bring that up because they were born on the edge of a vast, unexplored wilderness. And they clung tenaciously to their business, what they had to do to survive. Survive in a country or a land that had ample predators, both from the old world and new, both four-legged and two-legged. Now, what was their their means of doing it? Well, it was to mind their own business. They understood that their lives were in their hands, and they wished to exercise the freedom of judgment necessary to sustain those lives in this vast, hostile wilderness. So when I net that sort of thing out, in my mind, you’ve heard many of us on the side of freedom argue on behalf that of government’s sole role being the protection of individual rights. And I totally agree with that. Now, what are we protecting them from? What do individual rights guard against? Well, if you think about it, one of the most important things it guards against is compulsory altruism. The idea that you have an obligation, and if you don’t fulfill it, your property or lives will be taken from you to help other people. Now, there’s nothing wrong with helping other people. As a matter of fact, I get a great deal of pleasure out of doing it with what is mine to do it with. When you start saying that you have the right to take from others in order to help other people, Well, that’s when you’re fracturing that ice of protection of individual rights. And one thing leads to another, and pretty soon you find yourself where we are, spending $6 trillion a year on behalf of other people. And so I would net out our constitutional republic, as the first caller astutely pointed out, The purpose of it is to allow each of us to mind our own business And if we want to mind the business of others, that’s fine as long as you do it with what is yours to do it with. That’s all.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well done, Dave Walden. Gosh, just pretty amazing on all this. Dennis Haynes, it’s great to have you in studio.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, thank you.
SPEAKER 21 :
And tomorrow is Liberty Toastmasters North meeting in Longmont, correct?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, tomorrow’s our meeting. I won’t be there, unfortunately.
SPEAKER 21 :
Because you’re doing something special.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I’ll be doing I’ll be serving in the Toastmaster contest, Toastmaster role in Fort Collins. So I’ll miss Dave’s speech tomorrow. But that was great. Thank you, Dave.
SPEAKER 21 :
And just we have about a minute left. Any other comments you want to say about our constitutional republic?
SPEAKER 04 :
I really don’t. I just wanted to comment more on our speakers today. Everybody stayed on time. What really stood out to me about a couple of our speakers is they told a story. Brad Beck started it off as our first speaker telling a story. And I just wanted to tell everybody… When you’re speaking to people, add a story into your comments instead of just your opinion. It really impacts people. And I listen to these guys and gals in Toastmasters speak, and they’re always throwing inspirational stories into their speeches. It might be a 30-second story, but it makes us stick. It does. And it makes you pay attention.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes, because people remember stories. Yeah. So Dennis Haynes, thank you so much. You’ll be here in a couple of months. Yeah, I’ll be back. That’ll be great. So we go back and forth between the presidents of Liberty North and Liberty Denver. And you’re becoming a real pro.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh gosh, I don’t think so.
SPEAKER 21 :
It’s good to have you here.
SPEAKER 04 :
It was great to be here. Thank you.
SPEAKER 21 :
And because it’s Medal of Honor quote day, I normally at the end of the show go to a bravery or a courage quote. And this is from General Omar Bradley. He said, bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. 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’re not alone. God bless you, and God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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But tell them if I don’t survive
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SPEAKER 23 :
It’s a delight to be here bright and early.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes. And thank you for guest hosting. That was what was that on the morning of the spring forward and you had been very busy with writing contracts and you still made it all happen.
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, we did our very best, and I did not appreciate my friend who reminded me that I was really getting up at three, not at four. And, you know, at that point, you’re just trying to have a spring in your step because you sprung forward.
SPEAKER 21 :
You did a great job, and you actually ended up having to – I call it filibustering, and that is when sometimes we get mix-ups on guests, and I tuned in, and I’m thinking – hmm, I think there’s a glitch here. And so I called in to Joe, we got it all taken care of. You were doing a great job.
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, you have to think quickly on your feet. So I was like, great, we have no content. Where do I get content? So I went and found a little bit. And then Joe was like, oh, our guest is on the line. Okay, we’re good.
SPEAKER 21 :
I get it. Brad Beck, the first time that he guest hosted, and Susan Kochevar also, it was the first time I’d really given the mic over to somebody, and the phone lines weren’t working. I remember. they it was them for two hours and they did it but you talk about rush limbaugh could talk for three hours but but when it’s your first time to host a show they did a great job fortunately we got it taken care of yes and lauren levy great to have you here for everything mortgages as well good to be here i’m glad you chose karen or else this would have become sports talk radio real quick My bracket’s all blown up. I had KU in the finals, if you can believe it.
SPEAKER 24 :
Did you not watch any basketball this year?
SPEAKER 21 :
No, I knew what their record was, but I thought, well, maybe they’ll pull it together. But I was wrong.
SPEAKER 24 :
Hey, that’s a donation. Thank you to whoever pool you’re in.
SPEAKER 21 :
Exactly. Exactly right. So let’s get into it. Our word of the day is juggernaut. J-U-G-G-E-R-N-A-U-T. And first definition could be a massive, inexorable, inexorable. Maybe that should be my next word of the day next week. Learn how to pronounce that for us. Campaign movement or object that crushes whatever is in its path. Or number two, in Britain, it’s a large, heavy truck. I think right out of the chute, Trump, too, was a real juggernaut on all these PBIs, politicians and bureaucrats and interested parties. But the radical activist extremists are not going to go away easily. And so you’re going to – I think you’re going to see – Karen, I think you’re going to see more violence. How is it that the side that said that that they were concerned about violence are the ones that are doing the violence? They’re destroying Teslas and Tesla shooting up Tesla dealerships. It’s like, but wait a minute. How’d they get guns? Because they don’t want people to have guns. How did all this happen?
SPEAKER 23 :
It’s very interesting. And in the first hour, one of your toastmasters made the comment about accountability. And I would say that our left activists have set aside accountability, especially for themselves, but for citizens in general. And that’s a lot what I hear out in the world is what happened to us abiding by, I don’t know, speed limits. Because you about get run over on the highways these days.
SPEAKER 21 :
If you’re going the speed limit. Well, yeah, exactly.
SPEAKER 23 :
And if you’re 20 miles over, you’re still at risk.
SPEAKER 21 :
It’s pretty crazy. But good luck. I drove down to… Pueblo yesterday for the Center for American Values. Great event by Dr. Walt Larimore, and their On Values presentations are amazing. The next one’s April 16th, and it will be, now I’m drawing a blank on her first name, but it’s Roger Donlon’s widow, and she’s going to be presenting at the next On Values event. Roger Donilon was the first Medal of Honor recipient that was awarded to someone in the Vietnam War. And so it’s going to be super fascinating. But you talk about, I don’t know where they’re spending the money on the roads, but it’s not the roads. It’s crazy. And you know, you drive around all the time.
SPEAKER 22 :
Oh, yeah. My poor front end.
SPEAKER 21 :
Thank you for that. I was thinking the same thing. And that voice you hear is Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages. And I know we’re going to get some questions on that. It’s always so fun to have you guys here. But Lorne. You can help people in 49 of the 50 states. And I think that as we were coming into the show, that’s good because you have somebody that’s traveling right now that may need to do something in a different state. So that’s good.
SPEAKER 24 :
Well, they were just going to need to sign potentially in a different state. They’re buying a house here, but they’re moving here by car and would have had to. potentially stop and sign at like a Starbucks in the middle of nowhere.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 24 :
Because of an issue. But it was no issue after all.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. So that just shows the customer support that you give your clients. Do what you have to do. Absolutely. So, okay. Juggernaut is our word of the day. J-U-G-G-E-R-N-A-U-T. Our quote of the day is from the Center for American Values quote book. And it’s by Clarence Saucer. uh s-a-s-s-e-r hopefully i’m saying that right he was born in 1947 died in 2024 and it was for actions he took january 10 1968 for his complete citation you can hear that in the replay in one to two uh in the afternoon this afternoon but he said this i often see people proclaim their patriotism on their sleeve i believe it thrives best when it’s nurtured in their hearts and minds so love that And it is Friday, so Jim May is on the line with us. He is a cattleman with Lavaca Meat Company. Jim May, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 10 :
Good morning, Kim. Good morning. You’ve got my two good friends there, Karen and Lauren.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes, yes. Hail, hail the gangs all here except you.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay. Well, I am out here in Stratton and listening to your show. Very interesting show this morning. And I’m just… It’s starting to get whitewater for me. We’re traveling. We’re going to be calving, and we’re starting sprinklers and all kinds of stuff. So we’re really busy, but I’m like Lorne. I did take enough time to watch a few games yesterday, and my bracket doesn’t look very good either.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, I should not. I knew better than to choose KU all the way, but I don’t know. I got crazy on that one.
SPEAKER 20 :
But I do have Houston.
SPEAKER 21 :
I do have Houston as the winner. So maybe I’m going to be good on that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah. I found out a long time ago you can’t pick your favorite team or you’ll never be successful at this. You’ve got to cut. But I don’t think there’s any way to really know. I think it’s more luck than anything.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, sometimes. But anyway, do you have a poem for us?
SPEAKER 10 :
You know, I do. As I say, I’m kind of winding down a little bit here, and I have to be on the road all of next week. So I looked through my thing, and I wanted to do something that I hadn’t done. I think I found one that I’ve never done, and I have to explain a minute. As I said earlier in my life when I was a dude, I just had a Toastmasters on, and I did do a lot of speeches and different things at times. I was on the TV for a while there in the 90s. We’re doing a nationwide commercial and different things like that. But I use these poems as crutches. And this is a salute back to my family. It’s kind of a personal one. My parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. We were just having a pretty small gathering, but 50 years is pretty special. And we had big celebrations at our little Claremont in the 42nd and 45th or something like that because they thought we’ll never make it to 50. because Dad got married pretty late. He was 33, but he did live to be 88. So they actually had a 55th wedding anniversary. I’m proud of those people. They’re the ones that raised me, and this is called the last 50 years. Okay? If we take a minute and think about life and the time spent together between a man and a wife, there’s a lot to be said for these two people here. They did a lot of things right these last 50 years. Like starting a family with nothing at all. When you start at the bottom, there’s no place to fall. Some of us remember the blood, sweat, and tears. A lot of work got done these last 50 years. At the end of the day, it’s not what you do, but the way that you do it that makes your life true. You’ve earned our respect and the respect of your peers. A lot to be proud of these last 50 years. We’re proud of your grandkids, all 16 of them. Eight pretty young ladies, each one a gem. Eight boys, and you won’t find any rings in their ears. A lot of good people going up these last 50 years. I think back on it now and I have to smile. It’s been quite a journey, but worth every mile. I’ve noticed here lately when looking in mirrors, we’re not getting any younger these last 50 years. They say that time flies when you’re having fun. I guess that’s why these years seem to run. So let’s raise your wine glasses, or maybe your beers. Here’s to our mom and dad in these last 50 years.
SPEAKER 21 :
I think you should have Kenny Chesney make that into a song, Jim May.
SPEAKER 10 :
You mentioned that. We just went to the Sphere. I’m thinking 50 years because Dan and I, as I told you earlier, our birthdays were earlier this month, the 3rd and the 10th, and our mutual gift to each other was a trip to Las Vegas to the Sphere to watch the Eagles. One of our favorite bands, and… Man, what an experience. If you guys ever have a chance to go to that place, it’s like a video going on all around you and the acoustics and everything. It was just the most mind-blowing experience I’ve ever had, and it was a lot of fun. So shout out to Dan, and thank you all for helping him get in the Hall of Fame and all those things, and many thanks for everything that everybody’s done for us.
SPEAKER 21 :
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SPEAKER 20 :
It’s right!
SPEAKER 21 :
And 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 on an independent station searching 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 thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. It’s because of them, these great sponsors, Karen Levine, Lauren Levy, all of you that we are on the air. And Karen Levine is in studio for Everything Residential Real Estate. Be sure and reach out to her at 303-877-7516. And for Everything Mortgages, Lauren Levy, that number is 303-880-8881. So, Lauren, first thing, I asked you during the break. about mortgage rates, interest rates. And we sat here in the studio when interest rates were being kept artificially low. And Karen and I have talked about what that actually did to the housing market. And now, it looks like inflation numbers have eased a bit, and that would maybe indicate that mortgage rates might come down. And you said that you had just seen a Fed director that said they didn’t really know, so I have to share one of my dad-isms. As you know, my father passed away a little over a year ago. But he used to say this. Somebody said, I don’t think… I know. And then he responded, I don’t think I know either. And I think that’s that Fed director. What do you think?
SPEAKER 24 :
I think it’s, I don’t know, the guy was funny. He’s the Fed director, the Fed governor I was listening to said, people ask him all the time, like, what keeps him up at night? And he says, my job keeps me up at night. My job is to be up at night. Like, he doesn’t sleep. So because people are always wondering, are they going to raise? Are they going to cut? It’s never ending, you know. It’s a tough job, but. Now, I got an email from Steve, the producer, just asking, because the Fed didn’t do anything on Wednesday. So he said, was that expected that they didn’t cut rates? And what do I see going forward for a while? I think the Fed can have a plan until their plan gets changed by outside forces, whatever that could be. It could be a military event, not even in our country. And I think right now they’re dealing with how to handle these tariffs and what they’re going to mean. And I don’t think they have an opinion on them. I just think they just don’t know what they’re going to do. Like, are they just negotiating tactics right now, you know, to get someone to do something else we might want them to do? And then once the – because the main tariffs, we’re talking outside of China and Mexico and Canada, all the other countries that we’re supposed to implement on April 2nd. And, you know, the matching tariffs that they have on us and will other countries retaliate and what will that mean will – The guy was saying today that of our entire GDP, only 11% of that is imports. So he was saying if all the tariffs are maintained within that 11%, the economy will handle them just fine and things should move along to where they could lower rates again soon. But if it starts to spread outside of that, like if… one company that’s involved in imports has to raise prices that expands outside that 11%, then we could have a problem. So the question is, how long do they last? When are they implemented? How long do they last? Are they one-time things? What does retaliation look like? And do they spread? And they don’t know the answer to that yet. So that’s why they’re waiting.
SPEAKER 21 :
OK, so the question on retaliation, because it makes it sound like, hey, we were the first one. It’s like kids. He hit me first. But as I’m learning more, it’s not necessarily that he hit me first, that they have been charging tariffs on our products going into their countries. So it’s actually, no, they hit us first.
SPEAKER 24 :
Right.
SPEAKER 21 :
And Trump is saying, wait a minute. And so I think it’s important that people understand that.
SPEAKER 24 :
Well, I think absolutely. And that’s the April 2nd ones that are like supposed to be evening out, like evening out what they’re already doing to us. Okay. The retaliation ones are more like ones we put on Mexico because we want help at the border or Canada. And then China just, you know, because of our relationship with China, those become more retaliatory because they’re bigger. But I agree. No, the ones that they’re not necessarily retaliatory if… If they’ve already had a 10% tariff on us and we just match it and everything stays the same, they’re not going to retaliate. Do they then go from 10 to 20? You know what I mean?
SPEAKER 21 :
They may say, will they go from 10 to 5?
SPEAKER 24 :
Yeah. We’ll have to see. And it’s just unknown. Again, no one’s saying these are right or wrong. It’s just they don’t know the effect. And will they happen? If they prepare for them to happen and assume that, okay, tariffs are all going to happen, prices may go up, Well, that’s inflationary. Then they’re not going to cut rates. In that case, they would raise rates, right, to further tighten. But if they say, well, these aren’t real and the tariffs are just a negotiating tool, they’re not really going to implement them, so then we’ll lower rates, and then they do implement them, then they’ve got a problem as well. So they’re on hold, kind of.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. So if, Karen, it’s spring selling season in real estate. So give us an update on what’s happening there. And then, Lauren, what will be your advice to people that are wanting to maybe get into a house? So what are you seeing here in Colorado now in the spring selling season?
SPEAKER 23 :
Activity is picking up as it is.
SPEAKER 21 :
And you’ve been busy anyway.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yeah. Activity is picking up, which is typical for this time of year. We are seeing multiple offers again on well-priced properties. It is surprising. A lot of realtors are choosing what we refer to as a coming soon strategy, which means they will put it in the MLS in a status of coming soon. And if you utilize that strategy, you must go active within 10 days of putting it in the MLS. But they put it in and they whet the appetite of the consumer. So I was showing a property that went from coming soon to active yesterday and had been coming soon the last less than a week. came active yesterday and we were in that property at 8 15 last night because these buyers believed it had been positioned well in the marketplace and they wanted me to write an offer last night really and i called the agent and i said i’ve discouraged the buyers to write an offer tonight because it is 9 30 and didn’t think you would really respond and she said you know, we’re going to hold an open house on Saturday and we want to see what the market tells us about the pricing of the property. So please submit your offer, but we won’t respond until after the open house because they want all buyers to have an opportunity to see it, which potentially can then push, you know, that net price up. So it’s interesting to watch the behavior of buyers. I think the conversation about interest rates and the bit of movement down that was seen, what was that about two weeks ago, Lorne, that created buyers to understand if they didn’t get in the marketplace, that multi-bidding, bidding the price up scenario was going to increase. because buyer activity increases. And well-priced, prepared homes are getting activity and getting sold.
SPEAKER 21 :
What does a prepared home mean? What does that look like?
SPEAKER 23 :
It really means decluttering your home, making it very appealing to more people, more buyers. And I do this in offering a service called a walk and talk, which means a professional stager slash interior designer comes and meet you at your home and walks your property with you and makes suggestions about furniture placement and artwork and your personal possessions and minimizing that so that one, when photos are taken, they see the home and the space offered.
SPEAKER 21 :
And it’s one of the reasons so that when you’re presenting it, people don’t look at it and go, oh, that’s their house?
SPEAKER 23 :
Yes. And what happens is, and I was an advocate for leaving a family picture in the house because buyers always want to know who lives there. But what ends up happening is, say you have collectibles, and I’ll use Precious Moments as an example, and you have an entire curio cabinet of Precious Moments. and that my buyer client walks in and loves precious moments and they get absorbed in the collection and they have no idea what the house looked like so curious huh so the goal of staging and doing a walk and talk those type of services make your property more presentable both in photographs and then when they buyer walks in They already have an idea of where furniture placement is, where their family is going to move into. And we have found that that will bring a better net dollar to the seller and the experience for the buyer is better.
SPEAKER 21 :
So some people close to me, you help them buy and sell their home. And I had gone into the home that they were preparing to sell. And this had occurred, which it did. It really was presenting beautifully. And I said, oh, I love the centerpiece on your table. They said, that’s Karen’s.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yes. So one of the things that I do do is when my stager comes in and does the walk and talk with you and she may make some suggestions. If I have artwork and centerpieces and tchotchke things down in my basement, as opposed to you going and purchasing those, I will bring them to you and you will get to use them free of charge because there are things I can recycle.
SPEAKER 21 :
And you know that they work.
SPEAKER 23 :
Yes, and they work. And we needed specific pillows on a bed for that home as well.
SPEAKER 21 :
And you had them. I did. And you have a whole stash, is not the right word, but a stash of painters and inspectors. All the resources. You trust on that. Okay, we’re going to go to break. And in studio with me are great sponsors of the show, Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages. How can people reach you, Lorne Levy?
SPEAKER 24 :
Just call 303-880-8881.
SPEAKER 21 :
And Karen Levine, Everything Real Estate, Residential Real Estate, that number?
SPEAKER 23 :
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SPEAKER 21 :
And 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. Something’s a good idea. You shouldn’t have to force people to do it. Did want to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show and also the Center for American Values. I was down in Pueblo yesterday. for their On Values presentation with Dr. Walt Larimore. And a couple of my buddies, Teresa and her daughter Adara and Yvonne all joined me. And Teresa said, this is such a special place. You need to have it on your bucket list to visit the Center for American Values located in Pueblo and get more information. Go to AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. Lauren Levy, you have helped people for so many years with mortgages to start to buy their homes. And it used to be that young people would buy a condo, and they’d be able to start to create wealth for that, equity. And there’s been such a challenge to do that with some of the different policies here in Colorado. And I know they’re trying to address that. But do you see anything happening in the condo? Are you helping people with mortgages on condos right now?
SPEAKER 24 :
Not that often, to be honest. I know there’s been a lack of building of condos for many years just because of the legislation you’ll talk to Karen about. But I haven’t done a lot with condos with young families. I’m more on the townhome side of things. So there are townhomes. Yeah, where they own from the ground to the sky.
SPEAKER 21 :
I like that.
SPEAKER 24 :
It’s more of a single-family residence. But, yeah, I haven’t done a – I used to do a ton of condos and then it kind of really dried up and I haven’t been doing much lately, to be honest. Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
And Karen, I look at all these apartment buildings up and down the corridor, and I think about it. These people are not creating any equity as they’re renting, but certainly those developers on many of these apartment buildings, and many times they’re getting incentives to do this. They’re making bank on it, from what I can gather.
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, that might be extreme, Kim, but with that… With that said, we’re good friends, so she can always go. But I think what we need to understand is that when you incentivize one portion of a marketplace, you’re going to get results. And I have had this question and we started to delve into it when I was the guest host is. how do you provide a new product to a marketplace without incentivizing and so how do you bring affordable housing to a market without incentivizing and that has been the role and good or bad that has been the role of government and whether that was the people encourage incentives to have it happen or government seeing that if you incentivize things happen and So with apartments, developers were given incentives to build apartments and they did not have the same standards of construction and they were not open to litigation like developers and builders are if they choose to build ownership units. there was a higher standard of construction placed on building condominiums. And then with construction defect legislation, which is now more than a decade old, we did not create an environment that builders and developers were willing to take on the risk for the minimal profit margin it would have given them. Okay. And so… The Colorado Association of Realtors has been trying very diligently year in and year out to find ways to chisel away at some of the limitations that construction defects placed on our marketplace to then bring condominium ownership units back into our market. And we know that if we had that product in our marketplace, it would help affordability.
SPEAKER 21 :
Absolutely. We’ve got just about three minutes left here, Karen and Lauren. There’s a couple of different construction defects bills down at the legislature. You mentioned in during break House Bill 25-1272, and this is regarding construction defects. So what’s your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, I was just reading the piece that comes out from the Colorado Association of Realtors to its members weekly about updates, and that bill passed out a committee overwhelmingly, 12 to 1, and so it will move ahead. And the bill was striking an important balance between protections for homeowners and for builders, introducing thoughtful reforms, to construction litigation that can help reduce excessive costs and promote development and i think i said asked you what cut the colorado union of taxpayers thoughts were and you had indicated they had said no and i think in the environment of which we are working here at our state legislation if we can whittle away at this it is better than doing nothing
SPEAKER 21 :
And I get that. And we struggle with that as well. So this is what we came up with at Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And be sure and join us so that you can get these. And these are our positions, and we want them to be thoughtful so that you can delve into it. You can read the bill. You can think about it. But this is what we said. We said to be certain existing construction defect laws are impeding new construction and, as a result, housing affordability. but this bill creates as many problems as it solves. More mandated inspections increase costs, and the carrier of the liability burden is unclear. Is it the architect, the engineers, the constructor? And mandating by legislative fiat the number of plaintiffs required for class action is unacceptable micromanagement. So, Karen, this is how it’s supposed to be in America, that we bring forward these different opinions, and I think that’s what makes us somewhat unique on the show. I do, too.
SPEAKER 23 :
And I think what’s interesting and it’s it’s a sad affair and you made the comment about it is that renters are are good citizens from the standpoint that based on their life cycle, based on their goals, their experiences. not having a ownership unit might not be apropos or appropriate for them. And so we need rental units. But we also know that the net worth of a renter is at a mere $10,400, which contrastingly it’s sharper If you are a homeowner, I did not say that well, contrasting sharply with a homeowner whose net worth is close to $400,000. And so we know homeownership creates net worth over time. It does require responsibility.
SPEAKER 21 :
And I think that’s important. So Karen Levine, Lauren Levy, you’re in studio. And for this next segment that we’re going to go to is yesterday. So the Colorado State GOP is going to be electing their new chair. And any of these candidates that reach out to me, we will get them on the show. We had Richard Holthorff on yesterday. He’s a cattleman out on the Eastern Plains. We had a terrible connection. And so what we decided to do is let him get to a point where he had a better connection. And we prerecorded that because we wanted to make sure that people heard exactly what he had to say. So we’re going to go to break. When we come back, we’ll introduce that, listen to that interview, and then we’ll wrap everything up. And all this happens because of our sponsors. If you’ve been injured, be sure and reach out to John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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SPEAKER 21 :
And welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is, I forgot the five seconds. Joe, you tell me to wait five seconds on that. Oh, it’s so hard to teach an old dog new tricks. So anyway, we’re going to be talking with Richard Holthorff. We did pre-record that interview in studio with me. Our great sponsors, Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages, Karen Levine for Everything Residential Real Estate. I did want to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation. They’re a great organization. I saw Paula Sarles down at the Center for American Values yesterday. She’s actually the person that’s introduced me to so many of these different organizations and support the USMC Memorial Foundation by going to their website. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. So we want to get into this. Very important election is going to be occurring at the end of the month, and that is to elect the new state GOP chair. And we wanted to talk with Richard Holdorf. And so we prerecorded this yesterday after the show so that we were sure that we had a great connection. And I’m pleased to have on the line with me former Colorado State Representative Richard Holthorff. And we had him on yesterday, had some technical difficulties and wanted to make sure that we really had a good connection so we could hear what he has to say because he’s decided to throw his hat in the ring for Colorado State GOP chair. which is a very important position. And it’s people love you, people hate you, same people can hate you, love you at the same time. It’s a very difficult job. Representative Richard Holthorff, question. Why have you decided to put your hat in the ring for Colorado State GOP chair?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, thank you, Kim, for having me back on the show. I’m on a tall hill here in northeast Colorado, so I’ve got three bars now instead of one. So, you know, I’ve been watching the field. I just left the state house as the House Republican whip. At a micro level, I had the same challenges the state party has managing our caucus and trying to get our caucus to be the mighty 19 and work as one as a team. Because of that, there’s a lot of things I learned. We’re a diverse set of Republicans in Colorado. anywhere from centrist and moderate republicans that may be socially liberally minded but staunch fiscal conservatives to the farthest right evangelical republican that will not waver or compromise on any principle in any manner so that is the diverse landscape of colorado and colorado republicans now i sent you a plan as I announced my platform to empower Colorado Republicans. Because, Kim, I want to make Colorado Republicans win again. It’s a seven-point plan. It’s the Holtorf plan. At the last candidate forum debate that I attended, I gave it to my opponents. I said, look, folks, this is the way ahead. You need to read it, study it, and see if you can incorporate in your mindset THE TENANTS AND PRINCIPLES AND THE STRATEGY THAT I’M PROMOTING. BECAUSE IF WE DON’T, I HAVE BEEN AT THE STATE CAPITOL IN THE MINORITY AS SUPER MINORITY. I’M TIRED OF BEING WALL PAPER AT THE STATE CAPITOL. I’M TIRED OF BEING ON PREVENT DEFENSE. AND THEY RUN THE BALL AROUND US AND SCORE POINTS EVERY CHANCE THEY GET CLOSE TO THE BASKET. SINCE IT’S MARCH MADNESS, WE KNOW ABOUT BASKETBALL. BUT WE HAVE TO GET THE PRIMARY MISSION IS TO GET REPUBLICANS ELECTED TO STATEWIDE OFFICES. That is the most important fundamental thing we must do. Everything else is secondary, tertiary, or really is insignificant. You can preach from the highest 14er in Colorado about our principles and how far right we all need to be to be Republicans so we can promote our message. But you know what? If people don’t understand or it doesn’t resonate or they don’t believe what you’re saying or it’s not the message that falls in there and lands in their household they’re not going to sign up to be republicans and vote for republicans and statistically we have seen that over and over again kim and we’re not winning until we change we need a new coach new approach to make colorado republicans win again
SPEAKER 21 :
So seven points you are highlighting. What are maybe the top three key points that you have in your plan that people should know about?
SPEAKER 08 :
I’m going to start with empowering the grassroots. We need to have a bottom-up model. The most important person is a Colorado Republican. Then precinct caucus persons. Then county central committees. And I’m the president of the Washington County Central Committee. The chair, rather. I’m the chair. So I understand the county politics. But if the state central committee doesn’t support the counties, if the state executive committee and the chair doesn’t empower and support the bottom-up model, we fail. And it’s been a top-down model too long. How about empowering county organizations and elected officials? We absolutely have to understand that the county, the role of the state party and the state party chair is not to be out in front on policy. When I’m the state chair, I’m not going to be a media hound. I’m not going to try to get in front of every TV camera and microphone. I’m going to push elected officials out. I’m going to push organizations out that represent our principles, that have legitimacy and credibility, that need to be promoted in their districts, in their spaces, so we can get more Colorado Republicans elected. The other thing, the days of pre-primary endorsements need to go. That does not help Colorado Republican candidates. In fact, it disenfranchises people and makes people not want to run because they think it’s an inside game and it’s all rigged. And that’s not right. I can give you more, but let’s stop with that.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. Next question. This is a big question. And with Prop 108, that I think it was in 2016, it was passed by the people of Colorado, which opened up primaries for both Democrats and Republicans to unaffiliated. So an unaffiliated gets both a Republican and a Democrat ballot in the primary. They can only vote one. tremendous cost to Colorado for doing so. And this is a big issue. What is your perspective on the open primary?
SPEAKER 08 :
So we need to understand a couple very fundamental things about Colorado. Colorado is a blue state. Colorado has more unaffiliated voters than than the Democrat and Republican party. In fact, over 50, 55% of the electorate in Colorado are affiliated. There’s like 20, I think it’s 28% that are Republican voters and 32% that are Democrat voters. The rest of them are unaffiliated. Many of them have left the Republican party because they are disenfranchised. We talked about it last night when I was at a debate in candidate forum in Franktown. Some people have left because we’re not far enough right, and they’re more libertarian-minded, and they’re very far right. But most of the people have left because all we do is infight, and we are not in the middle and more centrist-minded to get things done for Colorado specifically. So it’s the will of the people. The state central committee decides. The state executive committee takes action on what the state central committee votes on. without putting our thumb on the scale, or without trying to hyper-manipulate that body, which is what’s been happening the last two years, with bullying, shaming, and even improper parliamentary procedures at the last state assembly. Gross failings, which I don’t have time to get into. But having said that, I don’t want to disenfranchise over 50% of the electorate. Rather, I would like to win them back. And I have a plan A specific plan that I can’t talk about right now, but I will be talking about very soon, to try to win those unaffiliated that have left our party, over 500,000 voters, and bring them back to being Republicans again, to make Colorado Republicans win again. It’s doable, but you have to have the strategy, you have to have the vision, and then you have to execute on that vision and strategy.
SPEAKER 21 :
So, Richard Holtorf, how can people get more information about you, about this plan?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, the first thing you can do is go to Holtorf for Colorado, my Facebook page, Facebook Holtorf for Colorado. I put the plan, I call it the Holtorf plan, my announcement to empower Colorado Republicans and make Colorado Republicans win again, I put it on my Facebook. Anybody can access it. If you want to email me at Holtorf4Colorado at gmail.com, I will send it to you. Holtorf4Colorado at gmail.com. I will talk to anybody about this. 970-520-0010 is my personal cell phone. We can have a conversation because I’ve been on the front lines in the statehouse. I’ve been a leader in the statehouse, and I’ve been a candidate, not only for state office but federal office. I know how difficult this is. And nobody wants to take that journey if they don’t have all the support in the world they can get behind them, including the support from the state party.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, so Richard Holthorff, and on this, the number four is spelled out, F-O-R. So one more time, your Facebook page and your phone number.
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s Holtorf, F-O-R, Colorado, at gmail.com. And Holtorf, F-O-R, Colorado is also my Facebook. Go read the strategic plan. And my phone number is 970-520-0010. But, you know, Kim, we’ve got to put these elected officials in front. You know, the state party hasn’t coordinated with Paul Lundeen, hadn’t coordinated with Rose Puglisi in two years. Why? Why? They’re the ones leading our party in the upper and lower chamber in the General Assembly. We’ve got to connect the dots, and we’ve got to start working together and unify. I bring a message of unity, Kim. We have to heal our wounds and repair, rebuild, and reconstruct our party so we can win again.
SPEAKER 21 :
So, Richard Holtorf, again, thank you so much for throwing your hat in the ring for Colorado State GOP Chair and sharing your comments on this. Greatly appreciate it.
SPEAKER 08 :
You bet.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay, are we back on here? Okay. There we go. So thank you for everything on all that. And thank you, Richard Holthor for that interview. We’ve got just a few minutes left. Lauren Levy, everything mortgages. It’s a crazy market. There’s some real opportunity. There’s people that are waiting. What are you recommending for people in this spring selling season?
SPEAKER 24 :
Same thing we talk about almost weekly is rates are where they are. I don’t think we’re going to see much movement up or down quite honestly for a little while. I think if you’re comfortable and you talk to someone like myself and you get pre-qualified and the payment is comfortable for you and manageable, then by all means get after it. If rates drop, people like me that are good at what they do will call you and let you know there’s an opportunity and try to cover as much cost as possible for you the second time around to make a refinance way more affordable. But if you can afford the rates of today, then by all means, get after it.
SPEAKER 21 :
Question, and I know that you pay for the appraisals for all Kim Munson Show listeners. If somebody does refinance, what are the fees that they’re looking at?
SPEAKER 24 :
The fees are standard, and when you take out the appraisal, you’re typically looking at about $2,400. The title fees will change the larger the loan. So if someone has a $3 million loan versus a $300,000 loan, their closing costs will be different because of the title fees primarily. But even then, we can talk about that. So if you don’t need an appraisal because I’m being covered by someone like me, it’s about $2,400. Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay. And it depends.
SPEAKER 24 :
So you have to look at the break even, how much you’re going to save, how long is it going to take you to recoup that cost? And are there other ways, you know, adjusting the rate ever so slightly where we can have the lender help pay for some of it to make it not be $2,400 and make the break even be sooner?
SPEAKER 21 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 24 :
And that’s all things we look at.
SPEAKER 21 :
A phone call is a good thing?
SPEAKER 24 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 21 :
And what’s that number? 303-880-8881. Karen Levine, spring selling season, there is opportunity. You just gave an important statistic in the past segment regarding net worth from a renter to somebody that owns their home. Super important. I know there’s so many young people that would like to get into that home. I know you’d like to help them.
SPEAKER 23 :
I’d love to help them, and the best way to start that process is give me a call at 303-877-7516. We’ll take about an hour, have a really nice conversation, a consultation, so you are empowered with the information you need to be able to be successful on a homeownership journey. And for sellers, the same is true. It’s never too early to start the conversation and get you positioned to achieve the goals that you’re wanting to achieve with your real estate portfolio, whether that’s buying or selling.
SPEAKER 21 :
And this whole staging thing that you mentioned in the earlier segment is really important. We don’t realize how important it is, but it certainly can make a difference of net dollars in a seller’s pocket.
SPEAKER 23 :
It definitely does. And we can thank the world of HGTV for promoting such a thing, which is, you know, As consumers, we spend hours on the TV watching these shows, and then we expect to see that when we go to buy. And so my job is to make your home look like that so that it sells. Okay.
SPEAKER 21 :
And so what’s the best way for people to reach you?
SPEAKER 23 :
That number again is 303. 877-7516.
SPEAKER 21 :
And that’s Karen Levine, award-winning Remax Realtor for everything residential real estate, whether or not you’re buying a home, selling a home, or a new build. That number is 303-877-7516. And you want to be ahead of the game. You want to be prepared. And that’s why you want to reach out to Lorne Levy for everything mortgages so that you have that ready to go if you find that property. that you dearly love. And that number for Lorne Levy is 303-880-8881. Lorne, I so appreciate your partnership on both the Kim Munson Show and America’s Veterans Stories.
SPEAKER 24 :
Thank you. It’s my pleasure.
SPEAKER 21 :
And Karen, same with you. We’ve been, all of us, we’ve been together for a long time, and you know I greatly appreciate you.
SPEAKER 23 :
Well, thank you, and it’s a great journey.
SPEAKER 21 :
Glad we’re on it. And in all this, we are reclaiming Colorado. We are dedicated to doing that and reclaiming our great country as well. And our quote for the end of the show is from Omar Bradley, and I like to go to bravery quotes, courage quotes on Fridays because of our earlier quote with our Medal of Honor quote book. But he said this, bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death. 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.
SPEAKER 06 :
Like a new moon rising fierce Through the rain and lightning wandering To this great unknown And I don’t want no one to cry But tell them if I do
SPEAKER 02 :
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