Dive into the dynamic discussions on the Kim Monson Show as we analyze the important stories shaping our world today. Explore the ongoing battle between freedom and force as we discuss property rights, taxpayer protections, and how communities are pushing back against expansive government policies. With insightful interviews and expert opinions, this episode promises to empower listeners with knowledge and a call to action.
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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 Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You eat your treasure, your value, you have purpose today. Strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Wednesday, Producer Joe. Happy Wednesday, Kim. And you know what? If it is Wednesday, what that means is it is Wings Day at Hooters restaurants. You buy 20 wings, you get an additional 10 for free. That is for to go or to dine in. I particularly like the lemon pepper rub or the Texas barbecue rub. They have five locations. That’s Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and… And Colorado Springs, great place for lunch specials Monday through Friday as well as happy hour Monday through Friday. As well, how I got to know them, really important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism. And PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties. And we see this play out on a regular basis every day. And that’s why it’s a really important story. You can find that at my website at kimmonson.com. Let’s see. Check out our website, which is kimmonson.com. There you will find the recaps of our past shows with the podcasts in there. Make sure you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. You’ll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com. Text line, I want to hear from you. Keep those cards and letters coming. And that is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We are 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. It’s not compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it is their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods, or lives via force. And force can be a weapon, but it can be policy, unpredictable, and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. The agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist leads played out by the United Nations, this Colorado state legislature, the Colorado governor. And they can take your property a variety of ways. One of those are these transmission lines, easements. which I was out in Elbert County yesterday. We’ll talk a little bit more about that. But remember, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on the issues. And we’ll talk about the people pushing those issues. But we really strive to to stay out of all the personality stuff that can happen in politics. I want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams. And we want to continue to Work towards reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy that makes economic sense, that doesn’t have a whole bunch of subsidies to try to make it work. And that way, everyday people can thrive and prosper. Our word of the day is plethora. And it could be a large or excessive amount of something. And that will be very easy to use that word in a sentence today with Rob Knuth, who is my fellow CUT board member. He’s the vice president. He’s going to be on in this next segment. Plethora is spelled P-L-E-T-H-O-R-A. And there is a plethora of bills and resolutions that were proposed down at the statehouse this last legislative session. And the CUT board is working on our ratings report as we speak. So stay tuned on that. We’d love to have you join us. And more information, coloradotaxpayer.org. It’s only $25 a year. Our quote of the day, since we have Dr. Jill Vecchio on as our featured guest in this hour, I went to Hippocrates, and he was born in 460 B.C. He died in 370 B.C. He was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period. He’s considered one of the most outstanding figures in the history of medicine. He is traditionally referred to as the father of medicine in recognition of of his lasting contributions to the field, such as the use of prognosis and clinical observation, the systemic category, easy for me to say, the different categories of diseases. We’ll just go with that. And his study set out the basic ideas of modern-day specialties, including surgery, urology, neurology, acute medicine, and orthopedics. And he said this, The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how to not need it. And I’m pretty sure the whole big pharma industry doesn’t like that particular quote. So yesterday, well, a couple of things. I’m seeing headlines that are saying that the attack on the nuclear facilities in Iran did not happen. did not actually take out the nuclear capability of Iran. And that very well may be the case. I’ve got to think that, yes, it did cripple those facilities significantly. But who knows for sure. We’ve got mainstream media out there trying to maybe discount the success of that particular mission. I think that it was successful, and the fact that they crippled it for sure is successful. Of course, then Iran lobbed some missiles over towards some of the U.S. bases in the Middle East. Which, of course, they’re going to have to do that. They have to save face to do something like that. I was talking with one of our listeners yesterday, and she really looks at things. She’s got a mind where she can look. look at things and say, gosh, could this happen? She’s really several steps ahead of all of us. And the real risk probably are these sleeper cells now that are in our country. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that that’s very possible with the millions of people that came across the border under the Biden-Harris administration. And so that certainly is a big risk. And with that, I found a headline. And that is ICE arrests Iranian nationals in Colorado Springs. Apparently there were Iranian nationals throughout the country. Two of them were down in Colorado Springs. Of course, Colorado Springs has significant military presence. With Fort Carson and now I’m drawing a blank on NORAD with all of that down there. And so we do we do need to be vigilant. I don’t know what that means exactly for each of us as America as everyday Americans as we go about our lives. But I do think that that is a significant risk for sure. Let’s see. Next thing, I did go out to Kiowa, Elbert County. Hour drive out, hour drive back. It is God’s country. They’ve been getting a lot of rain. It is absolutely gorgeous out there. But I went out for the county commissioner’s hearing regarding Excel presenting on transmission lines on a transmission corridor. And true to form, when I was on city council, I learned that this looks like a strategy. First, staff presents the project. And again, they’re paid, paid staff. You’ve got all the paid Excel people. And then you’ve got all of the citizens there that have to sit through all this. So that took an hour for staff to present the project. application now bear in mind the application by excel is incomplete uh and then excel presents and a big rainstorm came through there was a 10 minute recess because of the rain excel presents so that’s another hour and a half so the one o’clock meeting we’re now into 3 30 ish And at that time, then we start to hear public comment. And it reminded me of the Norman Rockwell painting of the common man. Let me see if I can get that of the common man. And this guy with it’s a a. a portrait of a man who is taking time off. He’s clearly a everyday person taking time off. Here we go. It’s a freedom of speech. It’s the freedom of speech is, um, um, by Norman Rockwell, and you have this citizen. He’s clearly working. He’s taken time off to go to a meeting, and he’s making his voice heard. And there were so many people that made their voices heard concerned about the takings of their land. And Xcel Energy, even though their application is incomplete – None of the electricity, I have that in air quotes, that they’re going to be transmitting across these lines benefits Albert County whatsoever. Then they actually have already started to reach out and serve condemnation, eminent domain papers to people in Albert County as well with an application that is not complete. So I encouraged, I sat there for a long time, and thought I needed to make comments as well. And let me just share some of the initial comments that I said. I said that owning property is foundational to the American idea, and your responsibility as county commissioners is to protect the property rights of the people of Elbert County. You do not represent Xcel Energy. I said that there are these two key issues, protecting property rights, then the eminent domain, Apparently, in eminent domain, land cannot be taken without just compensation. But again, listening to the testimony of a number of these people, it sounds like there’s lowball offers on this land. So that’s not just compensation. And then taking land which is tangible. and typically increases in value, and paying people in dollars, which because of inflation has declining value, is a real assault upon property rights. And so I asked the commissioners to understand that they’re representative of the people, protect the people’s rights, and to do the right thing and deny the application. Apparently all of the public was able to make comments. They recessed and I think they will be making a decision today. And so stay tuned and we will let you know what that decision is. Then lastly, the results are in for the home rule question in Douglas County. And it lost significantly. The no votes were 63,000, 71%, 71.5% of the vote. The yeses were 28.57%. And so that question went down. I think that many people were concerned about the compressed timeline, and when that’s the case, when you have questions on that, I think people vote no. And so those are the results of the vote yesterday in Douglas County regarding home rule. These discussions happened because of our sponsors. He’s going to be in a little bit later today, and that’s Roger Mangan. We’re going to record an interview for America’s Veterans Stories regarding his stepfather, who fought in World War II, and they went back and went to the different battlefields that his stepfather fought at. So that’s going to be super interesting. 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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And are you ready for your financial freedom? You can call our friends at Mint Financial Strategies because as an independent firm and an accredited investment fiduciary, they always put your interests first. Mint means more than money. It stands for meaningful relationship, information sharing, a network of smart strategies, and a thoughtful advisor who puts you in control. No cookie cutter plans. Everything is tailored to you. Call Mint Financial Strategies today. That number is 303-285-3080. That’s 303-285-3080. I am pleased to have on the line with me my fellow Colorado Union of Taxpayer, also known as CUT, board member Rob Knuth. He is the vice president. Rob, welcome to the show.
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Thank you, Kim. Good morning and appreciate you having us back on.
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Well, absolutely. And I know I brag about our board on a regular basis, but it’s a pretty amazing group of people. And as we sit around the table and talk about these issues that are down at the statehouse, and we’re going to start to look at ballot questions as well, I really feel blessed to… To work with these all-volunteer group, it kind of reminds me of the founding fathers as we kick the ideas around about, you know, is this the proper role of government? How does this affect the taxpayer? Is this protecting TABOR, our Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, property rights, parental rights with school choice? I really am just blessed to sit around the table with all of you.
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And I also enjoy the camaraderie that we have. It does kind of remind us of the days of the early founding of our country when they sat around in public places and discussed, you know, the policies of the day and how they were going to address the encroachment by the monarchy on their freedoms and their liberties without any representation. And we kind of feel like we’re in the same situation a lot of times as we discussed what’s going on with the current state of affairs with our uniparty control of state government.
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True that. And let me just give the names of our fellow board members. And when people see them, say thank you. And that is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, you, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. We’d recommend that people join us. It’s only $25 a year. We’re working on our ratings report. And let’s talk about something that you and I are both concerned about, and that is the attack on Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, which is an amendment that was passed by the people of Colorado. It’s an amendment to our Constitution, and it basically… wants to keep government limited in its proper role. And PBIs, politicians and bureaucrats on both sides of the aisle, do not want to have to try to stay within the constraints of what Tabor says. And so there’s a real assault upon that. And we saw that with a… House Joint Resolution 25-1023, which was – wanted to repeal Tabor, which I’m not sure that they can because Tabor is an amendment to the Constitution. But anyway, they floated that resolution, Rob.
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Yes. And, you know, we look back that Tabor has been under assault, well, probably almost since the very incipiency of it back in the early 90s when it got into – state law. But we see that repeatedly, usually, and I suppose there’s some folks from the GOP side of the aisle that would be sympathetic to ideas of reform or even repeal. But it’s been primarily from the one party that is in control of our state. That’s the Democrat Party. They don’t want any constraints on how they spend the taxpayers’ money. And Tabor is not some radical far-out concept of just trying to crimp the power of government. It’s a matter of constraining and giving guidelines. It allows for growth with inflation numbers, with population. It allows for a measured, reasonable budget and for expenditures. So it’s not some wild and crazy piece of legislation that’s been enshrined in the Constitution. And the last I saw, around 70% of the states taxpayers as a whole approve of the whole concept of TABOR. And I think even more would once they understand how TABOR is formulated and how it’s enshrined in the Constitution and what it actually does. It doesn’t constrict or eliminate government expenditures. It just puts reasoned constraints on it.
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Well, and again, and true. And TABOR is really about three things. And TABOR stands for Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. It’s one if if PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats and interested parties want to raise our taxes, they have to ask us if they want to incur debt that we the people have to pay off. They just have to ask us. And then lastly, and you mentioned if government growth, government can grow with this formula of population plus inflation, anything above that, the excess revenues that they’ve taken from us. I should say that the excess money that they have taken from us, if they want to keep it, they just have to ask us and we vote on it. That all seems really common sense to me.
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Well, it is very common sense, Kim. And I think that’s why such a high percentage of the voting public approves of Tabor, which given the statistics, there’s got to be a fair amount of people that would consider themselves an alliance with the party that’s in power. And yet when they understand what’s going on with how monies are gathered and how they’re expended, They agree with the whole concept of TABOR. It’s limited restraint on just unbridled government growth. And I know that one of our taxpayers’ heroes, Penn Fisner, had mentioned back in 2019 when there was a direct assault on TABOR that here in Jefferson County, which is kind of a flashpoint for a lot of things, good, bad, or otherwise, but he had mentioned that the county had taken in Thousands of dollars, probably millions, I don’t have the exact amount in front of me, more than what they were allowed under Tabor, and they’re giving it back. That didn’t mean that we were restricting what they could spend. It just means we were putting a fiscal control and restraint on what they were doing. We weren’t cutting services. We just weren’t going with unbridled expenditures and growth of services.
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Well, and Rob Knuth, on this House Joint Resolution 251023, and it failed, but they’ll try it again. Forty-three Democrats sponsored the resolution, including, this is from an article from Complete Colorado by, I better give credit here, I want to make sure I do that, by Brittany Trujillo. And this was Senator Kyle Mullica, Representatives Lorena Garcia and Representative Manny Rutanel, who is Manny has Rutanel has announced that he’s running for Congressional District eight. I think it’s important that people vote. connect the dot that here is someone that basically in repealing Tabor, I think what these PBIs are saying, these politicians, bureaucrats and interested parties is we don’t want to constrain government and we want all your money. I think that’s basically what they’re saying. And I think it’s important to connect that dot that Rutindel is now running for a federal office, congressional district eight.
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Yes. In a matter of public, we need to stay vigilant and stay engaged. And the final line of that article that you’ve referenced from Ms. Trujillo, she says it is critical that we all remain vigilant, educate our communities, and hold lawmakers accountable. Because in Colorado, power belongs with the people, not the political class. And that’s the whole concept. The legislators on the other side of the aisle seem to resent having to give accountability to the taxpayer, which is the pool of money that they work to spend. It comes from the taxpayer, and they resent that. They just want unbridled authorization to do as they please.
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Well, and Rob, to be fair, as we have watched all of this legislation and hats off to our team, out of 766 pieces of legislation right around there or resolutions that were introduced this last legislative session, there’s no way that our legislators can read all those bills and know what is in them and think about the consequences of those pieces of legislation. But the however is, is we also saw Republicans put their names on pieces of legislation that undercut Tabor. And we saw a variety of pieces of legislation. It might be maybe a few hundred thousand dollars here or a few million here. taking cuts at Tabor. And what that means is they’re trying to take some of that money out of what’s called a Tabor calculation, where you’re looking at money that should be returned to the people. They want to take that calculation, take that off the table. And so undercut TABOR in that way, it’s been a strategy that’s been very frustrating. And it was so frustrating when I look at this and I see Republicans have their names on pieces of legislation that is undercutting TABOR. Your final thoughts on this, Rob, and thank you for all the great work that you do.
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Well, thank you, Kim. No, I enjoy being involved with pardon me, with CUTT. And the more I’m involved and the longer the time, I recognize the value of what our organization does and what it has meant to the taxpayers here in Colorado. And I’m appreciative for the people that came up with the original concept 49 years ago to have cut and to institute it. And for those that have sustained our organization over the years, it just gets back to a matter of we need to retain vigilance. And the people that we would more often politically align with, they have to be held to account as well when they’re getting out of line and kind of getting divorced from the grassroots and the whole concept of Tabor. It’s not that we don’t believe in growth and we’re not trying to eliminate some growth of government. It’s to do it in a reasoned, responsible manner. And Tabor is a mechanism that provides for that. And it’s a protection to the taxpayers, not a hindrance.
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Well said, Rob Knuth. And thank you so much. You are the vice president of CUT, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And thank you for all the great work that you do.
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Thank you, Kim. And we wish you well. And thank you for providing great educational insight on a daily basis, Monday through Friday.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And as you know, I mention on a regular basis the Center for American Values located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. And Drew Dix, who is a Medal of Honor recipient, is a co-founder. He has started a podcast series, which I really need to get that on my repertoire because I always learn so much when Drew speaks. His most recent one has just been posted regarding domestic insurrection. and that was just posted 17 minutes ago. And check it out. You can find that by going to AmericanValueCenter.org, and then it’s going through the rotating banner there. Also, they’ll be doing a celebration on July 4th, our Independence Day. That information is at the website as well, which is AmericanValueCenter.org. On the line with me is Dr. Jill Vecchio. She’s retired now, but she was one of the few people in America that read the complete Obamacare bill and had a deep understanding of that was trying to move us towards socialized medicine. And we look at our health care system now, and it feels broken. You’re afraid to go to the hospital or the doctor because you will get a bill for thousands of dollars. But yet that’s a bit of a, I don’t know what word I want to use. I’m going to let Dr. Jill Vecchio tell me what word I want to use on that. Welcome. It’s a scam. Hi. Hi, everybody. Hope everybody out there is doing well. Yeah. Well, and Jill, this health care system is broken. People know it. But yet I think people have, they’re fearful if something happens, some big health care event happens in their lives, I think they’re really concerned about what that would look like for them. And so people know that health care is broken. Why? Why?
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Oh, wow. Well, we’ve allowed it to be broken over time. And the biggest problem is government took over, right? The minute we passed the Medicare law, everybody understand. And we kind of go over this once in a while. But there’s something happened yesterday. But that’s exactly I mean, I wanted to talk about something else today. But then I ran across this press conference that RSK Jr. and Dr. Oz had. about some big meeting they had with some insurance companies, which is exactly what you just brought up now. So I want to kind of touch on that, but go back to the Constitution of the United States, the 10th Amendment. The U.S. government was never granted the authority to oversee health care in our Constitution, which means that according to the 10th Amendment of the Constitution, it’s up to the states and the people. to determine their own health care coverage, not the government. Medicare is unconstitutional. Oh, wow. What a shocker. But nobody ever challenged it. Congress passed the act. Then they included Medicaid. So now it runs entire, all of our health care in our country is some way or another tied right back to the government and to Medicare.
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Well, Jill, in our deal, we started in radio together. And one of the things that I learned from you, you said that when government gets involved, the supply becomes limited, the cost goes up, and the quality goes down.
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Absolutely. And now we’ve got the government, Medicare, because it was so onerous and difficult and expensive for the government to administrate a program that they put in place. Now they’ve outsourced it to private industry. Well, at first, that wasn’t such a bad thing because private industry did a pretty good job with patient care. Well, that’s devolved over the last couple of decades, especially since Obamacare, when everybody had to have this massive coverage. And they changed all the mandates for insurance policies. So the insurance policies became so expensive. all of that trickled down from medicare so the uh private insurance policies like we talked about you know i was paying something like twenty thousand dollars a year for my husband and i with an eight thousand dollar deductible most of the time we didn’t even use our insurance when i had my first cancer my kidney cancer i had paid twenty eight thousand dollars in uh eight thousand dollar deductible And the insurance for my, what the insurance reimbursed the hospital, physicians, labs, everything for my kidney cancer was less than my premium for that whole year. So don’t tell me that we have to pay all this money for insurance that, number one, most of us don’t even use because of the high deductible. right every year do you even touch do you even tap into except for maybe a free mammogram that’s included in your insurance and it’s not free right so the whole system our whole mindset has to change why are we letting these companies so even though i’ve given them all this money and they paid out less than what i gave him for in just in that one year when i had a cancer okay so they’ve been making hundreds of thousands of dollars on me okay and i’m still okay with them telling me what i can and can’t have folks ask yourself this question that’s a pretty darn good question don’t you think it is letting them have all this control so so jrfk and dr oz had a press conference and i found it on on youtube yesterday Yesterday? Yesterday. Yeah, so they had a big powwow, big, great big meeting. Oh, it was so powerful with the CEOs or whatever, the executives of the six or seven biggest health care companies that cover Medicare Advantage, which is part of Medicare outpatient treatment stuff. That’s been outsourced by the government to Medicare. The private industries like Kaiser, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield. So those are the kinds of guys that were sitting at this table with secretary of HHS and all these, you know, politicians and senators and crap, right? Doesn’t that make you feel warm and fuzzy? Oh, I’m so much more confident now that you’re going to do a good job, right? Okay. So they met with these guys and the big healthcare people decided to be magnanimous and make a new pledge. to the american people they are going to have more timely access for patients for treatments they’re going to have more efficiency and less red tape they’re going to have more transparency and accountability what’s your first reaction to that well why weren’t they doing it in the first place and how long is that going to last are they ever going to do it They had a press conference say, we’re going to do this. How about having a press conference tell me you already did it? And how are you going to enforce it? And it’s voluntary, not mandatory. And this was all about pre-authorization. Sorry, I should have said that. They were addressing the problems of pre-authorization for procedures. Now, I’m sorry, when my insurance barely covers anything, number one, why do I even need a pre-authorization? And don’t they always say, even though this is a pre-authorization, it doesn’t assure payment, right? So it’s kind of like, even though you have an authorization, and as a physician, you know, I’ve seen both sides of this. Even though you have an authorization, there’s no guarantee. They can always come back and say, oh, you didn’t quite do this right. Oh, in looking back at it, No, we’re not really going to pay that. Oh, our policy changed. Who knows? So, oh, yeah. So they’re going to try to streamline and minimize the red tape and bureaucracy involved in preauthorizing procedures and treatments and diagnostic procedures and testing. So we’re going to streamline the preauthorization. Because people, you know, we know that people have died because we’ve been bureaucratic you-know-what. And people have died because of our preauthorization policy. Okay, so that’s what they were addressing.
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So they have people have died because of that?
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Yes. Yes. People have died. Wow. Because they didn’t get, oh, because, well, and somebody told a story, I think it was RFK Jr., told a story about a surgeon friend of his that does transplant, cardiac transplant surgeries. And there was a patient who literally was on the operating table to get his heart transplant. And the insurance company, in order, they were waiting for the heart to arrive. The guy needed to be put on an external heart machine in order to stay alive until the heart arrived and they could do the transplant. The guy was on the operating table, the patient. The insurance company refused. They had approved the transplant surgery, but they did not approve, they did not authorize the use of this machine, which would mean it’s like you don’t have one, you can’t have one without the other. But naturally, they’re playing their little games. Something like 80% or 85% of all claims or requests for preauthorization are denied initially. 85%. It’s a game they play, right? They don’t even look at it. Most of the time it’s just a numbers game. It’s just automatically kicked out. That’s what they do. There are a lot of whistleblowers that talk about this. So they get their little game. So this guy is on the table. His life depends on this one machine. They won’t authorize it. So the treatment team, the surgeon and his team go, well, we’re not going to let this patient die. So they went ahead and put him on the machine. The insurance company sued the physician. No. Sued him. Yes. No. Sued him. Wow. Well, they ended up dropping the case, but, you know, I’m sorry, but how much money did that surgeon have to spend? How much stress and anxiety just for doing the right thing for a patient? I mean, it’s kind of like what they should have done is countersued the insurance company. The insurance company should have had some kind of legal ramifications for that kind of treatment of a patient. But no, the insurance company goes on the offensive and sues the surgeon for doing the right thing for the patient.
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Which the message, and I’m sure that message reverberates throughout the medical community, which makes the next time something presents itself, that doctor is going to question what they should do. And I had chosen for our quote of the day, quotes from hypocrisies. Yeah. Yeah, is that how you say it? Hippocrates. Yeah, Hippocrates. Hippocrates. Yeah, the Hippocratic Oath is to do no harm. And I’m not sure that that’s being taught. We actually did a show on that one time, Dr. Jill Vecchio. But let’s figure out if there’s a way that we can fix this, because I know you are about solutions. And so we’ll talk about that when we come back. And we have these discussions because of our sponsors, and they were in yesterday. And I guess, was it two days ago? It was Lorne Levy and Karen Levine. And for everything regarding mortgages, reach out to Lorne Levy.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Coming into Independence Week, which is next week, and reflecting upon our declaration and our war for independence and thinking about all of those that have given their lives, been willing to give their lives for for our liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom. Next week would be a great way to honor them is to make a contribution to the USMC Memorial Foundation as they’re raising money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial. And you can get more information about that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Talking with Dr. Jill Vecchio regarding health care in America. You said that RFK Jr., Dr. Oz, had a press conference that they had sat down with the biggest, I hate to say health care providers. That doesn’t seem like the right word. But anyway, those in that arena, the top, the biggest companies. And there was a big announcement that they’re going to improve healthcare. this whole pre-authorization situation. What’s the real solution on all of this, Dr. Gilvecchio?
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Well, the funny thing is that the insurance companies say, well, the reason we have to have all this pre-authorization, you know, strictness and all of this oversight is because doctors order too many tests. And, well, I can tell you that’s true. you know doctors these days don’t even do physical exams they just order a lab test and imaging studies lab test imaging say that’s it so um and and they do that though to make sure that they can medications so jill don’t they do that though because they’re trying to cover you know themselves regarding making sure that they did that well partly they’re going to cover you because you know can i even trust my physical exam or whatever at the same time you know it’s the patients don’t even feel like they’re seeing a doctor anymore. And most of the time they’re not. Most of the time they’re seeing a PA or a nurse practitioner. But the bottom line is we wouldn’t have trouble with pre-authorization if the insurance companies didn’t have to pay for every single thing that happens. If we didn’t have the insurance companies stick in their face in our health decisions every step of the way, you know, get them out of the way, just like we talked about, If we only had to pay what the insurance companies pay the doctors. If we were allowed to pay the doctors the same amount, should be less, but the same amount as the insurance companies pay the doctors, which is 10% of what the doctors charge them typically, 10%, okay, of what you see is that big number on the bill thing that they send you. If we only had to pay 10% of that, instead of $40,000, for a surgery if we only had to pay $4,000, but we were saving $28,000 a year by not paying these ridiculous premiums and we just paid for a catastrophic policy at like, I don’t know, some of those catastrophic policies were like 100 bucks a month. And then we had like a direct primary care membership, something like that, or you went in and paid cash for all your own stuff out of your HSA account, whatever. If you got to pay only that 10% amount, The $4,000 for a cancer surgery, you could do that. You could do that in a heartbeat. Okay, but Jill. You get to make the decision. Then there’s no pre-authorization. The insurance companies, the governments, their faces out of it. You get to decide with your doctor, do I want this test or not? Doctor, explain to me what this test is because I’m paying for it now. I want to know what it is, why you’re doing it, what my alternatives are. You know, it’s going to increase discussion because otherwise the doctors just say, here, I’m going to, here’s a prescription. Take this. And here, I’m just going to order this test. And you just go, okay, the insurance is paying for it. Okay. You know, the whole system is broken because insurance. It’s so involved in it. We just feel like we’re this little puppet, and everybody just tells us where to go and what to do and what to take, and we just go, okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
So, Jill, though, if this was changed to this point, this would gut the health care industrial complex, and this would gut the hospital industry. industrial complex. And that’s why it would be very difficult to make this happen. I thought I heard in your voice with RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz and this press conference that maybe a little sarcasm on that. Oh, you think?
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SPEAKER 18 :
I mean, it was like listening to Dr. Oz was like, oh, my God, you learned how to talk like a bureaucrat. REALLY FAST. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE BROUGHT IN THE STAKEHOLDERS, WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY, AND IT’S LIKE, CAN YOU JUST TELL ME WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN THE MEETING? EXCUSE ME. BUT WHAT EXACTLY ARE THEY GOING TO DO? ALL HE DID WAS GIVE THESE GENERAL TERMS, BUT THEY WERE SO PROUD THAT THEY HAD THIS INCREDIBLY POWERFUL MEETING WITH ALL THESE INCREDIBLY POWERFUL PEOPLE. WELL, THE MORE POWERFUL THE PERSON, THE LESS LIKELY THERE IS TO GET SOMETHING DONE. And maybe you’ve got seven coordinating CEOs. They’ve been coordinating their approach to everything for decades.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, they were all at the table for Obamacare as well, remember? Exactly. Yeah, I think they wrote a ton of that legislation.
SPEAKER 18 :
Who won big? The insurance companies. They pretended that they weren’t going to, but they sure did. So, you know, it’s silly to watch this press conference go, yeah, we know there are problems, but I’m not seeing that what you’re doing is going to do anything. They’re just going to go huddle up in a corner and say, okay, now, how do we make it worse? So they’ll give us back our pre-authorization. Or how do we make it look good, but over here on the side, like now we’re going to start denying payment instead of just denying authorizations. Right. So we’ll make it easier for them to authorize. But we’re still going to say, hey, we may not pay this. So at your own risk. Well, and we’ve got three minutes to dump it off on the patient.
SPEAKER 12 :
Three minutes left, though. You talked about all this money that you paid for insurance or that we paid and for deductibles. But part of this is the mandates. And I’m thinking about the whole transgender activist mandates mutilating children. If if people had to pay for that themselves. They might think twice about that as well, but we have these mandates out there for that stuff as well through, I think, Medicaid dollars are being used for that, yes?
SPEAKER 18 :
You know, that I don’t know. I don’t know if Medicaid or Medicare dollars are being used. I can guarantee if it’s Medicaid, it’s not going to nearly cover the cost of those surgeries. I mean, this is plastic surgery, period. There is nothing medically, functionally required, like a necessity, a medical necessity for these surgeries. This is plastic surgery. This is like getting breast implants, okay? You want a facelift, you got to, if you have a cancer on your nose, you know, you got to have a little plastic surgery to fix that up. Come on, this is not medically necessary surgery. It is elective surgery. You should have to pay for it the same way that people pay for a facelift. You’re doing it for aesthetics. They are doing these surgeries for aesthetics to make themselves feel better. I mean, you know, Brazilian butt lifts make some women feel better. They’re not asking me to pay for that. OK.
SPEAKER 12 :
OK. We have a minute left. Final thought. Can we fix this?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, yeah. Yes, we could. But we need you. You’ve got to get the wrong people to do the right thing, as Milton Friedman used to say. In other words, we’ve got to get Congress and administrators. People are addressing the wrong problem. It’s like, OK, the first time just for an example, first time I made a loaf of bread. I was a kid. So I’m following the recipe. I accidentally put in. So I have my whole mixes all there. And it said something like two cups of water. I accidentally put in four cups of water. Oh, geez. Now the whole thing is messed up. What do I do? Oh, geez. Okay. Let me pour some of it out. Oh, well, there goes some of your yeast and your salt, the stuff you really do need, right? Okay. So, oh, geez. Now what do I do with this? Well, let me just put more bread mix in. Let me put more flour in. So I just kept adding crap. And it just kept getting worse and worse and worse and worse. What I should have just done is dump the whole thing and start over.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, there you have it from Dr. Jill Vecchio. And Dr. Jill, always robust conversations. We’ll talk again next month. Okay, take care, everybody. And our quote of the day is from Hippocrates. He said this, the natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well. 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. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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And another great hour planned for you today. We’ve got Trent Luce, 6th Generation Farmer and Rancher, as our featured guest. But check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Make sure you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter. You can do that at the bottom of the website. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. And the text line is 720-605-0647. I do want to hear from you. Keep those cards and letters coming. 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, remember you should not have to use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on the issues. and try to stay out of the personality fighting. We will talk about the people that are pushing issues, but we really try to stay out of all that personality stuff. The show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday, and the first hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon, second hour 10 to 11 at night, and that is on all KLZ platforms, KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app, and then you can find us on Spotify and iTunes as well. Our word of the day, you should be able to use this in a sentence as plethora. And it’s P-L-E-T-H-O-R-A, and it could be a large or excessive amount of something. And we’ve got a plethora of taxes and fees that are being used to take money from the people of Colorado. We need to get that turned around. Our quote of the day, I went to Hippocrates because Dr. Jill was our featured guest in Hour One. And he was born in 460 B.C., died in 370 B.C. He was a Greek physician and philosopher of the classical period. And, of course, they credit the Hippocratic oath with him of do no harm in medicine as well. But he said this. He said, the greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it. And again, that is Hippocrates on that subject. Let’s see, several different headlines. I had mentioned that there’s been headlines out there saying that the Iranian nuclear capabilities were crippled and not destroyed. And Eric said this, he texted and he said, if President Trump would have said that we missed all of our target, then CNN and MSNBC, ABC, NBC and CBS would have said that the targets were all destroyed. I think that what Eric’s saying is he doesn’t trust mainstream media. And I think most people are getting to a point where they don’t either. Next thing, Douglas County voted yesterday on whether or not to become a home rule county. And the people said no. 71.5% of the people said no. They did not want to become a home rule county at this time. So 28.5% of the people voted yes. I think my read on this is that people are not necessarily opposed to home rule, but they felt that it was such a compressed timeline that there were so many questions. And when that’s the case, people vote no. So I think that that is what happened with the Douglas County home rule question on that. Several headlines I also wanted to mention was this is from Rocky Mountain Voice. This was published back in on June 3rd by Montrose Commissioner Sean Pond. And this is really a big deal. And he starts this off. He says the views expressed here on my own and do not represent an official action or position of the Montrose Board of County Commissioners. He was appointed to District 3 and he said, I took an oath to uphold the Constitution. He says in recent months, there’s been a coordinated push to place more of Colorado under federal control. We already fought back against the proposed Dolores National Monument, a 500,000 acre land grab, and we won. Then came a 68,000-acre National Conservation Area proposal in Mesa and Montrose counties. We stood our ground again and stopped it. But now we’re facing two more massive federal designations. The first is the GORP Act, and it’s the Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection, also known as GORP, G-O-R-P Act, introduced by Senators Bennett and Hickenlooper. But it’s co-sponsored by Congressman Jeff Hurd, Republican. So Bennett and Hickenlooper are Democrats. But here we have a Republican that’s got his name on it as a co-sponsor, which is proposing more than 730,000 acres of new federal wilderness, special management zones, and conservation areas. It impacts Gunnison, Delta, Ouray, Hinsdale, Squash, and Pitkin counties. It will restrict oil and gas, mining, timber, and public access for generations. This is important to be aware of this. This needs to be defeated. And very disappointed that Republican Congressman Jeff Hurd has his name on that. And so we need to stay tuned on that. And there was… A proposal, I think, in the big, beautiful bill that some of these federal lands might be sold off, ideally to everyday people. I’ve talked to some young people and said this could be like homesteading so many years ago where young people could have an opportunity to own land. Now, that was apparently peeled out of the big, beautiful bill because the parliamentarian said that it couldn’t be in there. But I find that very creative thinking to – there’s so much land that is owned by the federal government. I don’t think that that’s the way it’s supposed to be. So let me know what you think about that. The text line is 720-605-0647. This next thing is crazy. This is from Fox News says top Biden aide admits to Congress that she directed auto pin signatures without knowing who gave final approval. Now, she’s got to know who gave her approval. But she said she was unaware of who in the president’s inner circle was giving her final clearance, according to a source familiar with the aides closed door testimony in front of Congress on Tuesday. Says Neera Tanden, the former director of Biden’s Domestic Policy Council. testified for hours Tuesday during an interview in front of the House Oversight Committee, which is investigating the former president’s mental acuity and his use of an automatic signature tool that allows aides to sign pardons, memos, and other important documents on Biden’s behalf. It says her testimony lasted five hours, and she told lawmakers that her role as staff secretary and senior advisor to the former president between 2021 and 2023, she was authorized to direct auto pen signatures on behalf of Biden. This is going to get real interesting, I think, on all this. She also said she had limited interactions with Biden, described an approval process that left her in the dark about who specifically was giving final approval on the decisions to use the automatic signature tool. I think there’s a nuance right there that we need to drill down on. She’s saying that she was in the dark who specifically was giving her final approval. But the question is, who was giving her approval to do this? And when we pull on that thread, then we could ask that person until we could get to the point of where we will really know who was giving the approval on that. Lastly… Ranked choice voting was defeated here in Colorado, even though Kent Theory and company put millions of dollars into it. I was very surprised that it was defeated on this last ballot. Bear in mind, there will be something that will be coming back. But in New York, on that Merrill primary, It says the race has emerged as a nail biter between New York Governor, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and State Assembly member Zoran Mamdani, a Democrat socialist. It says New York uses a ranked choice voting system which allows voters to number their top five candidates in order of preference. If no candidate earns more than 50% of the vote share in the initial round, the lowest ranked candidate gets knocked out, the votes then get reshuffled, and the process continues until a candidate earns the majority of the vote share. And it looks like with all of this, very possibly, I thought that I had the latest, but I didn’t. But I think that, and I’ll check it out, that this Democrat socialist will become the next mayor of the largest city in America. Does anybody see a problem with that? And so stay tuned on all of this, all these important headlines. We bring this to you because of our sponsors and the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team wants you to feel safe and well served to understand your insurance coverage and know that their office will respond or call to your text 24 hours a day. So for that 24 hour peace of mind, call Roger Mangan at 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, Roger Mangan’s team is there.
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SPEAKER 08 :
Hi, Kim. Has it been a week already?
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s been a week already. So what’s on your radar? What have you been up to?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, my goodness. There’s a lot of things going on. I don’t know where you want to start. I do know you said you have these big dreams. You just don’t know how to get there. Well, I saw a picture yesterday that caused me to get kind of dreamy. I saw a 20-mule hitch that would have been taken in about 1875 or something in the West, and they were using this 20-mule team to haul borax, and these mules were credited as being the saviors of the West. So there’s my dream. I want to drive a 20-mule hitch, and I don’t know how to get there.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, yeah. Interesting. So it was a photo that you saw. You’ve probably never seen a 20-mule team in real life.
SPEAKER 08 :
I have not. But the late Conrad Burns, who was a senator from Montana for quite some time, I had great conversations with him, and he actually drove a 42-mule hitch one time.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hmm.
SPEAKER 08 :
I can’t even imagine. That’s just a train wreck waiting to happen.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, so question about, I remember all those advertisements regarding Borax and 20 mules. So Borax, what is Borax exactly?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I had a feeling you would bring that up, so I actually looked it up so that I knew. It is a sodium borate. It’s basically a salt-based product. And I think that if you go look at the salt flats of Utah, you would find the borax, which was used for many things. And today, it’s used for household cleaning. And obviously, it’s a main component in laundry soap.
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OK. Because I bought some borax recently because I was going to try to make flubber from home. And I didn’t do a very good job on it. But it’s so interesting that you would bring borax up on this recently. So next thing, as you and I were communicating back and forth, one of the things you said you wanted to talk about was the exports, our 2024 beef exports. So let’s talk a little bit about that.
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Well, and I want to tie it into cotton, too. And I want to tie it into steel and timber and everything else that we once produced in the United States, including sheep. So the numbers that I came upon yesterday, because I continued to know and was told that we are now a net importer of beef produced, we’re importing more beef than we’re exporting. We’re importing 4.6 billion tons of beef a year, pounds, excuse me, pounds a year. And that is a 24% increase from 2023. a 24% increase on imported beef. At the same time, we went down in our exports to between 3 and 3.5 billion pounds. That’s a decrease of 5%. It’s predicted that we’ll have another decrease of 7% in 2025 and an increase of 7% in 2025 of imports. So the moral of the story is, don’t get confused in the numbers, we are now importing substantially more beef than we’re producing. And we’re a nation that is loaded with terrain and cellulose material that cannot be utilized for anything other than fire or ruminant animals, upcycling that into the most nutrient-dense food substance on the planet, which, by the way, I cooked some phenomenal lamb chops yesterday. I’ll tantalize you in a moment when I send you a picture during the break. But why are we losing this infrastructure? And I know everybody’s going to jump up and down and say drought, drought. Well, that’s not totally the case because drought’s always a big indicator and it’s caused our beef inventory herd to go down. But if I drive around the country, and I even witnessed this last week in Montana and the Dakotas because I went to Deer Lodge, Montana last week. And there is a tremendous amount of land that is being taken out of ruminant animal production in our part of the world. Kansas, Nebraska, parts of eastern Colorado are taking grass and putting corn and soybeans in production in these areas to an alarming number. And so my concern is we’re doing the same thing in the beef business and the cotton business. We have a 15% reduction in the number of cotton acres in 2025, 1 million fewer acres of cotton in Texas alone. There’s only one state that is seeing an increase in cotton numbers. And if it wasn’t for the state of Arizona, which is up by 32%, our numbers would really be drastic. 87% of all textiles go through Asian countries alone. Kim, the reason I wanted to bring this up is that I’m trying to bring awareness that the infrastructure for the essentials of life that we have, the resources to generate here at home domestically every day, just like steel, just like timber, like all of these other antibiotics. Why are 90% of all the antibodies coming from China? We have the same resource here to generate the antibiotics. We must maintain our infrastructure of food and fuel and fiber for a free future.
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Well, absolutely. And it seems that Trump is trying to get this turned around. The results here are the results of policies over a number of years under administrations from both sides of the aisle. And we do need to get this turned around. How are we going to do that looking into the future?
SPEAKER 08 :
Dismantle the federal government. That’s the only way. Because every bit of what you described is coming out of federal legislation from an environmental standpoint, from an endangered species standpoint, from a labor standpoint. I mean, the one thing that was a common denominator wherever I stopped last week in a trip that ended up being 2,600 miles, gas stations, restaurants, hotels, I got the same message at every single stop. We can’t get labor. It doesn’t matter how much we pay. And we can’t afford to pay what it takes to make it work.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I think that that can be then connected to our education system where we have not been teaching people the value and dignity of work and doing a job well. If you work and do a job well, then you can move up the ladder. And we’ve not been teaching good work ethic for a long time and then also a a dependency these dependency programs from the government where we people pay people not to work uh is a big problem as well so all of that needs to change trent loose i agree 100 except for one little thing that you said this is not teaching work ethic is not the responsibility of a government-induced education system
SPEAKER 08 :
It’s in your parenting manual. And kids learn work ethic from parents and grandparents, not from the school system. And what have we had happen? We’ve had a complete destruction of the family unit. The mother and the father are not there. 42% of all childbirths to single mothers. It has to start at home.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, it does really have to start at home. I do agree with that. But I think that the education system can complement that, and it should. And I think that it used to. And when I talk about the education system not doing this, Cherry Creek School District, which used to be the premier school district in Colorado, people used to try to buy a home in that district because it was such a a great school district no longer to my understanding offers or will award the uh um back oh gosh you know the top awards and now i’m drawing a blank on what those are you know the talk at top economic or excuse me educational awards for a senior salutary salutarian is that how you say that i can’t remember valedictorian and salutatorian That they no longer will recognize that because it makes other people feel bad. That’s a problem. So I agree with you that we at home have to be teaching work ethic, but we also have to make sure that we are recognizing that. people striving for success and working diligently in education as well. We need to get away from everybody gets an award and we need to go back to meritocracy where people do a job well and they’re rewarded for that, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 08 :
We have three daughters. All three of those daughters, two are valedictorian, one is salutatorian. And I would rather, I think that we have too many people that don’t care that some kid outperformed their kid. They just don’t care. I think they’re more worried about just getting by than being recognized as being the valedictorian or salutatorian. We should see somebody who sets an example for work ethic and try to achieve things to be similar. Instead, we either say, oh, our feelings are hurt, or we don’t really care about that. Why don’t we care? The reason we have athletics is to teach others to be better and try to achieve what somebody else has already accomplished. But we’ve lost sight of all that. Everybody has to be fair. We can’t offend anybody. Well, the only people that are offended by something are those that feel guilty about it anyway. So I don’t worry about offending people.
SPEAKER 12 :
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SPEAKER 12 :
And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That’s Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Wanted to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It’s reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. To be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. And also, check out the website for the Center for American Values, which is AmericanValueCenter.org. The center is located in Pueblo. And Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient and co-founder of the center, has started… Very informative new podcast series. And he just recently posted his one regarding domestic insurrection. So I’ve got to listen to that. But he is very knowledgeable about so many things. And check that out. That is AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. uh trent luce is on the line and we mentioned we’re talking about meritocracy and and work ethic and you mentioned athletics and people being able to excel do do well in athletics of course americans love that we love we love talent people doing their best you can take a look at all of the different uh professional athletic competition there There certainly isn’t DEI there. What there is is people that can do the job the best possible way that they can. Do you not think, though, that having boys play in girls’ sports is another way to undercut, well, particularly girls striving for excellence? If they strive for excellence… But still, they have a male in their profession or in their athletic competitions that they just can’t compete with. Don’t you think that’s an undercut of striving for excellence and meritocracy as well, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 08 :
If I say what I really think about that? KLC will get a fine from the FTC.
SPEAKER 12 :
So don’t do that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, FCC. Yeah, this is absurd. It’s intended to create chaos and to cause disruptions like it is. There is no reason for males to be participating in female sports or vice versa.
SPEAKER 12 :
And Protect Kids Colorado are working on a ballot initiative. Petitions will be distributed soon to get that onto the ballot to keep boys and boys sports, girls and girls sports, and co-ed and co-ed sports. And so stay tuned on that. Next thing, Trent, one of our listeners sent this over. I had not seen this headline, but he said, be sure and ask Trent Luce about this. He says, RFK Jr. said on national TV that they wouldn’t do this. However, the USDA is preparing to mass vaccinate poultry against the bird flu, ignoring scientific and public warnings. What do you know about this?
SPEAKER 08 :
So apparently USDA was trying to keep this quiet. And then I don’t know if Bobby actually outed them, but he’s been on Fox News yesterday talking about this. And there is, and USDA has now admitted, although they’ve not issued a press release to the particular topic, but they’ve admitted that by the end of July, they’re going to have a plan formulated that that they will mandate vaccination, mRNA vaccination of all poultry in the United States.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, that seems like a real problem because the MRNA was vaccination. That was the basis for the COVID experimental vaccination. And so many Americans don’t want to have that in their bodies. So if, in fact, that’s mandated to chickens, then that would mean if we eat that chicken, then we would have the MRNA in our bodies, yes? Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
That’s correct.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, that’s a real problem.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, it is a problem. There should be no mandated vaccine, period. And I’ll just gently remind people we’ve not vaccinated an animal for four years. And I got to tell you, across the board, we’ve never had a healthier population. And this is done in secret. And this is my problem with the entire Trump plan. They do a couple things to get headlines and make it look like they’re doing wonderful things. And people say, I really like some things that he’s doing. But behind the scenes, there are so many things, including what’s going on with USDA and health, what’s going on with the power plants, excuse me, the power transmission lines, which is 100%. And I’m sure we’re going to get to this because of where you were yesterday. This is 100% about enabling artificial intelligence to come into this country in a way that should not be in this country and utilizing and completely derobing us of the resources that we have. And the reason they’re trying to fast-track that Xcel energy pipeline through Colorado is the same reason they’re trying to fast-track one through North Dakota. It’s to get the AI inventory back. an investment from Saudi Arabia, $20 billion to come to fruition. This is really an extension of what you talked about before I joined in this hour, and that was the auto pen. I mean, it’s just AI taking over, and we can’t afford from an electric or a water use to do any of this.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, a couple of things, and I do want to address this because after you were on last week mentioning water, I agree water is so important. But a listener did say that it was very possibly a closed system with AI on their water usage. I don’t know for sure, but they want to make sure that I mention that to you.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is. They will reuse the water. But if that water is being used in that closed system, it’s not being used to produce your food. So it’s still water usage, even though the water doesn’t disappear. There’s only an allocated amount of water. You go to anywhere over the Ogallala Aquifer, and guys are prohibited from drilling a new well today because we can’t have new uses of water. This is a new use of water. Even though it’s a closed-loop system, they still use that massive amount of water in that closed-loop system.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, good clarification on that. Next thing regarding the transmission lines in Excel, it’s not a pipeline. It is a transmission line. And I was out in Elbert County at Kiowa yesterday and did leave. Apparently there were just a few more speakers. After five and a half hours, I knew I needed to do the hour drive back. I still had to do the research for the show today on our headlines and all. But this is crazy-ville to me that Xcel Energy has an incomplete application that they are wanting approval of, that they have an incomplete application. They are already serving condemnation powers on landowners in Elbert County to take their land via eminent domain And again, this is from testimony that I saw from the public that Excel is saying, no, you can control your land on this easement. But yet one of the citizens read from the letter that they’d gotten from Excel that says you can’t do that. Basically, Excel has total control. You can’t put up fences. He says we have to have fences for our livestock. And this is a mess out there. I love the fact it was a packed house initially. But, Trench, you’re in enough meetings. You’ve seen this act before. And that is staff. They’re all paid. They go for an hour to make the presentation, explain what the what I’s have to be dotted and T’s have to be crossed. So you have all that. You have the PowerPoint presentation, then Excel. And they had a table of. people and then they had another table it must have been of people behind them I bet there were 12 to 15 people there all of them are paid and then you have the public that gets up and says and that was an hour and a half so we’re now from a one o’clock meeting to 3 30 now we’re going to start to hear from the public the public who’s had to take time off from work And bless the county commissioners for making sure that all the public could be heard yesterday instead of adjourning the meeting and saying come back tomorrow. Now, I guess they’re going to make the decision today. They adjourned the meeting. But I’ve seen that act before as well where the staff electeds have said, oh – Too long, too much time, we’re going to start this over, and people can’t come back to those meetings, and that’s a strategy. But it’s just, I guess I can say I’m almost speechless, and that doesn’t happen very often, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 08 :
Several things. This is not just Colorado. This is happening in Nebraska. This is happening in North Dakota. The same issue came about with the Monday decision in North Dakota. It’s happening in Oklahoma. It’s happening in Missouri. Every place I go, this exact same thing is taking place. And we throw a fit because of what you said, eminent domain, and we don’t want to succumb to eminent domain. Now, I have a friend in Wichita who was given condemnation papers and eminent domain threats eight years ago for a transmission line outside of Wichita and Reno County. They’ve yet to build because once he went into eminent domain, he had the leverage. And they’ve not come to an agreement. You have to come to an agreement. And that is what gets left out of the equation. But the real threat is that I am told that this Colorado line that you’re talking about in Elbert County goes right through the town of Kiowa. Did that come up yesterday?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, they said it’s going to be very near their schools.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I have a friend, Joe Esposito, who I’ve had on roll route twice and three times in the last two months. He was injured. in as a marine with microwaves and radiation from radar because he was monitoring airplane aircraft radar and now he is making his entire living i don’t think it gets paid but he goes places and realtors he told me this week that realtors are contacting him because people are demanding to know what electric magnetic field is coming from transmission lines in the air before they buy And he says he’ll go, he’ll do a reading, and more times than not, they walk away and say, no, we don’t want to live there. The people of Kiowa need to rise up and say this is a public health issue, and they need more information. And I’m talking about every town USA. We have all of these frequencies, all of this 5G, all of these electronic magnetic fields that are rained upon us. And who’s really paying attention to what’s happening here? If you listen to Joe Esposito, you’ll get a monitor, which I got to order today. You get a meter and read these readings right now where you’re at. And these transmission lines, I was driving home through Montana again last week listening to my AM radio station out of Bismarck, 550 K-Fire. Every time I went under a transmission line, it would buzz out. I was like, that’s in my pickup line. What’s that doing to me? What’s it doing to you? We’ve got to get more questions about the safety.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and there were a number of people that did in their public testimony address that question yesterday as well. I really went at it from a property rights issue. Proper role of government to represent the people and their property rights is what I really focused on in my public testimony. We’re going to go to break. We’re talking with Trent Luce. We have these discussions because we have sponsors such as John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. And 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 check out the USMC Memorial Foundation’s website. That is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. This next week, which is Independence Week, I’d highly recommend, in honor of all of those, from the Revolutionary War to now, who have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our liberty to make a contribution to the Memorial Foundation and help them as they’re raising money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial. I’ve got Trent Luce on the line. Sixth Generation Farmer and Rancher, we were talking about this hearing yesterday out in Kiowa, Colorado, regarding the proposed XL transmission line, which they are threatening to take land via eminent domain, and the application has not even been approved, and the application is incomplete. seems like a problem to me. And Trent Luce is on the line. We’ve got Gammy. She’s got about a minute. She’s got an important issue that she wants to talk about.
SPEAKER 13 :
Good morning. I’m going to go quick. So yesterday, an op-ed or two days ago, Gazette editorial board put this out. The agricultural appointee to the land board, Mrs. Rose Marina, has a history of such activism for the wolf indoctrination against ranchers and farmers. We’re talking Colorado ag is about a $47 million per year industry, $4.6 billion in beef alone. And then what she’s doing is she got appointed by Polis and her history, this is one of the comments she made in 24, cows be gone. We only allow native grazers signaling a real hostility to the 4.6 billion industry of the ranchers and cattle people. In 2018, her rewilding institute, we can’t depend on the public lands in southern Great Plains to preserve biodiversity. So she’s behind all of that 30 by 30 rewilding and everything to do with taking animals, as Trent put it, the ruminants, the animals and us, off the land. And she’s on this land board, and they’re going to lose $2 million. a year for schools if they let people like that on the board. But it’s worse than that. She’s been involved. Back when they had a fire in Vail, some sort of arson, she actually applauded the arsonists on the environmental behalf. This is not someone that should be a public servant, whether it’s elected, appointed, or paid or not. And this circles back to all these people that have been put in positions of power need to be more scrutinized and dosed because this is destroying our food production. This is just one example to just circle that to everybody and his uncle. And I need to throw one quickie in. Last night I watched the two hours of the defund Planned Parenthood, defundppnow.com. They kill 400,000 kids a year. They are number two in trans chemical and surgical procedures. The New York Times did an expose of the horrible conditions in Planned Parenthood and how it is harming our women. in the procedures of abortions or other procedures, and all this money, they get $800 million a year taxpayer money, and they waste it. And then they raise $500 million for political action, and they go out to dinners. One dinner, they went out and they ate sushi off a naked woman’s body.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. And, Gammy, very important point. And that is why we need to get rid of government grants. We need to get rid of tax credits. We do those two things and we start to really start to chip away at this government that is out of control. And so, Trench, your comments on this?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I agree 100%. Tax credits and grants are the ultimate problem. If we fix that, many of these issues would simply go away. We wouldn’t be talking about this transmission line through Colorado, the eastern Colorado. We talk a lot about Elbert County, but just keep in mind it encompasses a lot of eastern Colorado. That’s all about tax credits. Get rid of tax credits and these land grabs are limited.
SPEAKER 12 :
So with that Trent Luce, Daily Caller, which is, I think that that was the news source that was founded by Tucker Carlson. I normally will run over there and take a quick look at what the headlines are there. That’s one of the sources that I look at. And so I was going through things the other day. This was on Monday. And this paid advertisement came up. It says, built for America. Trump country is booming. President Trump, don’t repeal. Energy tax credits. And then it says energy tax credits are creating jobs. President Trump, keep what works. Don’t repeal energy tax credits. Well, those tax credits are what are being used to, I think, connect the dot to fund jobs. green energy these transmission lines the co2 pipelines and you can see that money is going to come in to try to prevent getting rid of those i hope that trump and his team can understand what’s going on get rid of these tax credits get rid of these government grants that will start to get our spending under control which that means that we’ll start to get this budget under control So I hope, but again, here you have on a, air quotes, conservative media source and big monies coming in to try to fight this. We have to shed light on this. We’ve got a few minutes left. How would you like to wrap this up, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I have zero faith in Trump doing that due to the fact that Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is one of the largest receiver of tax credits in the country through wind development. But we talk a lot about what’s going wrong. There’s a lot of things going right. And what we need to always remind ourselves is we can’t sit back and expect these things just to take care of themselves. Going back to the lamb and wool and cotton and beef discussion that we had, you as a consumer and where you spend your consumer dollars dictate who’s going to be involved in this business. And there are people… in this listing area, no matter whether you’re in Wyoming, New Mexico, or Colorado, that have an option to buy from someone producing locally, it is your obligation. I’m going to say it’s your obligation to take it to the next level, get more information, and don’t continue to buy your essentials of life in the most convenient place. Buy it with the best investment for the future.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. And I wanted to give a shout out. Rachel Gable had written this, I guess, initially in the Denver Gazette regarding this woman that is, as Gammy had shed light on, that is now going to be the, I think, head of the state land board. And the title is State Land Board Pick Once Cheered Echo Terrorism. Now she could control 2.8 million acres. We could see that that’s a real problem because her policies do not want to have human access, whether or not that’s oil and gas development, whether or not it’s just humans being able to go onto that land, food production, all those things. She wants to keep us off the land. And when that happens, then humans, that goes against human thriving and flourishing. Your final thought?
SPEAKER 08 :
30 seconds Rachel Gable is outstanding not only in this issue but all issues she is on top of the fight that we’re against for our future and anybody can follow Rachel needs to do it in all venues possible yes she does a great job on shedding light on all of this Trent Luce thank you and we’re actually going to be pre-recorded for next week so we will talk to you in a couple of weeks I will see you soon
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