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Join Kim Monson and her guests as they tackle diverse subjects from the ethical implications of policy-making to the ongoing battle between freedom and force. Learn about the challenges facing today’s farmers and the pivotal role air conditioning has played in shaping modern society. This episode promises engaging discussions that aim to educate and stimulate critical thought.
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It’s the Kim Monson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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An early childhood taxing district? What on earth is that?
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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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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Today’s Current Opinions and Ideas.
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And it’s not fair just because you’re a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn’t.
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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, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body, my friends. We were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Friday, Producer Joe.
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Thank goodness it’s Friday.
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I think I’ve heard that before. And boy, we’ve got a great show planned for you. Hail, hail the gangs all here. In studio with us is Alan Thomas. You know him. He is a frequent guest host of the show now and an author at the Kim Monson Show. It’s great to have you here.
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Great to be here, Kim. Thanks.
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And Kane, who is the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado, working to protect our children. It’s great to have you here.
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Yes, ma’am. Thank you.
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And sponsor, Ben Williams, with Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. Last month when you were in and you gave the history of plumbing, people loved it.
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That’s awesome.
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And they’re going to learn something about air conditioning today.
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Yes, it’s going to be fun.
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Yeah, so great to have you here as well. And we are an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. And if something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. It’s not compassionate nor altruistic. And basically, altruistic is… I think coming out and working to use other people’s money to help other people, which that’s not a good idea because there’s force involved in that. So it’s never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods. We’ll talk about that today. Or lives via force. Force can be a weapon. But it can be policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. This agenda by the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites playing out not only at the United Nations, but at the Colorado State Legislature with its governor, but also local, county, and state governments throughout the country. And it can be using land-use codes when we talk with Mark Kostelik. and Blaine Clark earlier this week regarding what’s happening in Chafee County with their new land use codes. And so we really need to be watching this. But my friends, I’ve got some good news for you today. So stay tuned. And on the show, we focus on the issues. We try to stay away from the eighth grade girl fighting, which I never enjoyed that very much. Eighth grade wasn’t the most fun time of my life.
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You mean the name calling that I sometimes do? Okay.
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That’s right. Your lovely wife said, don’t do that on Kim’s show, right?
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She has, yes.
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But yeah, but we need some eighth grade girl fighting, but I’m trying to stay out of it.
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Yes, ma’am. Most of the time.
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So we’d like to focus, but you focus on the issues.
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It’s the issue, yes, ma’am. And so my issue is when the marxicons can call me names or demean my position as a black man who’s married to a Caucasian woman, then I feel like it’s okay for me to call them, you know, Jasmine crackhead Crockett. I think that’s okay.
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Sorry.
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It’s like they hit me first, so I’m going to hit back. So we do need that as well, Cain. So we’ll be talking about that. Let’s see. Let’s get over here to the word of the day, and it is panacea. Your challenge is to use it in a sentence today, and it’s spelled P-A-N-A-C-E-A, and it could be a remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties, a cure-all. And I think that liberty is the panacea for the evil of tyranny. So your challenge will be to use that panacea in a sentence today. So, Alan, I’ve got to get to this. You and I are going to give the citation for our Medal of Honor. From our quote from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values, I’d highly recommend that you check out the website for the Center for American Values. It is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And they are doing amazing work. They are putting together, and Kane, you’re also going to like this, they’re going to have a workshop for secondary educators focused on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And all that information is at their website. Awesome. Pretty awesome. So, Alan, let’s jump in here to the citation for Don E. Jenkins, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient, born in 1948, for actions he took on January 1, 1969. Why don’t you start that off?
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for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Staff Sergeant Jenkins, then Private First Class, Company A, distinguished himself while serving as a machine gunner on a reconnaissance mission. When his company came under heavy crossfire from an enemy complex, Staff Sergeant Jenkins unhesitatingly maneuvered forward to a perilously exposed position and began placing suppressive fire on the enemy. When his own machine gun jammed, he immediately obtained a rifle and continued to fire into the enemy bunkers until his machine gun was made operative by his assistant. He exposed himself to extremely heavy fire when he repeatedly both ran and crawled across open terrain to obtain resupplies of ammunition until he had exhausted all that was available for his machine gun. Displaying tremendous presence of mind, he then armed himself with two anti-tank weapons and by himself maneuvered through the hostile fuselage to within 20 meters of an enemy bunker to destroy that position. After moving back to the friendly defensive perimeter long enough to secure yet another weapon, a grenade launcher…
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Staff Sergeant Jenkins moved forward to a position providing no protection and resumed placing accurate fire on the enemy until his ammunition was again exhausted. During this time, he was seriously wounded by shrapnel. Undaunted and displaying great courage, he moved forward 100 meters to aid a friendly element that was pinned down only a few meters from the enemy. This he did with complete disregard for his own wound, and despite having been advised that several previous rescue attempts had failed at the cost of life of one and wounding of others, ignoring the continuing intense fire and his painful wounds, and hindered by darkness, he made three trips to the beleaguered unit, each time pulling a wounded comrade back to safety. Staff Sergeant Jenkins’ extraordinary valor, dedication, and indomitable spirit inspired his fellow soldiers to repulse the determined enemy attack and ultimately to defeat the larger force. Staff Sergeant Jenkins’ risk of his life reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army. Kane, you are a veteran.
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Yes, ma’am.
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This takes my breath away.
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It’s courage. And I think what people don’t understand about courage is they think you’re fearless. You’re terrified. absolutely terrified and you you tuck that fear someplace and mostly it’s with your training if you’re trained well you will you’ll react based on your training but courage just overpowers the fear and you know that if i don’t make this move if i don’t do these things i’m going to die or my fellow soldiers or citizens are going to die and so it’s important to understand that even these officers my wife and i watch a lot of uh YouTube videos with police officers.
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I’m sure she’s happy about that, isn’t she? Yeah. Okay, can we watch something about police officers tonight?
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She doesn’t like it a lot, but it’s important for her to see that even though there’s been shots fired, these men still run towards that danger. And sometimes it brings her to tears because she has seen what Barack Obama has done to the legacy of law enforcement officers. So…
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So with that, well, let me give you the quote. And then I want to expound upon that just a little bit more. And first of all, this is what Don E. Jenkins said. He said, sometimes you’ll be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Deal with it the best that you can. Is that not great, Ben Williams?
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That’s life.
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Yeah, that is life.
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Yeah.
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And that’s one of the things that we need to teach our children as well. So, Alan, the pieces that you write for the Kim Monson show, we get a lot of commentary. This is really causing people to think. And when Cain talks about training. of going into the battle we are are preparing for this battle of ideas and sometimes it seems like it’s David and Goliath but this constant training that we are doing on the show searching for truth and clarity is making a difference and you are a big part of this and we’re going to be talking about your very important piece about our children here in the third and fourth segment but this battle of ideas I think we can take heart from these Medal of Honor stories
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Oh, absolutely. You know, and it’s it’s always difficult to win. It seems like you’re facing a far superior force right in this battlefield because you have the mainstream media, you have very loud voices, you know, in 2020. We went through social media suppression as well. So it feels like you’re facing this indomitable force, but you’re not because these ideas are timeless. We know that they’re rooted in self-evident truths. And so it’s merely doing what you can when you can, right? And that’s kind of the… I love this quote. It kind of reflects a lot of Stoic philosophy, a very virtuous way of living of… You know, I may not be able to change where I’m at at the moment, but I can control what I do with the moment.
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So I have a couple of things of good news for all of you. First of all, as you know, we have been talking about the assault upon property rights. And of course, with this land use code thing down in Chaffey County, it’s an assault upon the property rights of individuals. And we’ve talked about these transmission lines and these easements and talking with Trent Luce about how farmers and ranchers are getting squeezed because of Property taxes and the Biden-Harris administration, increasing energy prices, which increases diesel fuel for tractors and combines. It increases the inputs for fertilizer. So our farmers and ranchers are totally getting squeezed. So in comes the green agenda with government, which is our money, either our money or money being borrowed from our children to offer money for easements, for transmission line corridors. for solar industrial complexes, wind industrial complexes. And the Trump administration is turning the spigot off on that money, which is one of the things that is so important. Now, I’m trying to connect these dots. And Jenny, one of our listeners, she’s so on top of all this. But apparently, a lot of these green energy projects And I have that in air quotes. Energy credits are going to run out at the end of 2026. So you’re seeing this fast tracking of really land takings, if you will. So we had had Kerry Giblets on a few weeks ago regarding this Xcel Energy using eminent domain. to take people’s land and they have submitted they submitted to albert county an incomplete application it was denied by the albert county commissioners the puc the public utilities commission was which is an unelected bureaucrats of that The bees and the PBIs had, my understanding, has authorized them to have eminent domain to take people’s land for this. So the Elbert County commissioners unanimously said no. Well, Carrie just texted this to me last night. She said, Kim, I thought you might be interested to learn that today the El Paso County commissioners Commissioners denied XL’s application to run their power pathway through their county. So this is huge. If we can get this thing delayed, this is going to prevent this land takings of all of these people. So hear, hear. I think that’s great news.
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That’s awesome.
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So I have some other good news. We’ll probably talk about that in the second hour because we just have a lot to talk about. But I did want to say thank you to a number of people. First of all, the Harris family, they are great sponsors of the show, and I greatly appreciate them. And then yesterday, Kathy Russell, who is the president of Liberty Toastmasters North, was in studio, as well as Kirk Gerwitz. And we went over to the nearby Hooters restaurants for lunch. It was delicious. I had one of my faves, and that is their nachos. But Hooters restaurants has been a great sponsor of the show. And restaurants in Colorado in particular are really getting squeezed. And so give them a little bit of your business. They have great specials Monday through Friday for lunch and happy hour in three locations.
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If I can add. That fish taco is delicious.
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That is for sure. He’s got the ball rolling.
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There’s so much noise coming at us. Sometimes it is difficult to make sense of it all. How can you sift through the clamor for your attention and get to the truth? The Kim Monson Show is here to help. Kim searches for truth and clarity by examining issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Tune in to the Kim Monson Show each weekday, 6 to 8 a.m. with encores 1 to 2 p.m. and 10 to 11 p.m. on KLC. We’ll be right back.
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Indeed, it is Friday, and we’ve got a house full here. We have Alan Thomas, who is a frequent guest host and author at the Kim Monson Show. Cain, who is the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado. And Ben Williams with Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling, great sponsor of the show. Hey, Ben. Why don’t we have our guests text in at 720-605-0647, their favorite temperature in the winter and in the summer. So 720-605-0647. And tell us a little bit about air conditioning changed things, particularly in the South, right?
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Yeah, it’s changed it all over. And I tell you what, so I got to start out with our word of the day, Kim. I’m going to take a shot at this. The Kim Monson show was the panacea for waking up and educating Colorado.
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I love it. Thank you.
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Yeah, so air conditioning is quite a deal. And, you know, here we are in 2025, and it’s just like, yeah, you know, this is the way it is, right? I need air conditioning. For most of history, people have been struggling with the heat. You know, the ancient rulers would have ice and snow brought in on donkeys, and they would have their slaves fan air over these containers of ice and snow to try and cool the king or the pharaoh.
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So would they bring it from the mountains? Is that what happened?
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Yep. So, of course, this was a thing just for royalty. They even tried with the aqueducts. They would bring water in from the mountains and run it through hollow walls in their palace to try to cool things down.
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Fascinating.
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So obviously not something that the everyday person was able to do.
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Right.
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So in 1758, Benjamin Franklin began experimenting with compressing ammonia from gas into a liquid. And he found that when the liquid was then decompressed, it would have a cooling effect on the thermometer. Not on the room, but on the thermometer. But, you know, that’s how ideas start, right? We play with a little something. That’s actually how the Wright brothers got going. Their dad brought home a little model airplane that would fly. And they thought, oh, if we make this bigger, we could, well, it didn’t quite work that way. But they figured it out. So a lot of other experimenters played around with other gases, and they could kind of achieve that same effect, but not on a large scale.
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Okay.
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So let’s just pause for a minute and think about, okay, we’ve got royalty doing this crazy stuff, but how have ordinary people stayed cool in the summer? Well, the Romans would soak reeds and hang them in their windows so that as the air would come through, that evaporative effect would kind of cool the air.
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Creative.
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Yeah.
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I love that. Okay. Okay.
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The Indians would make squaw coolers by putting freshly cut tree limbs over a wooden framework. So that would provide some shade and also that evaporative effect.
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Isn’t that something?
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Again, creative, yeah. And for most of us, we’ve probably seen, you know, ladies used to carry a hand fan in their purse. You’d see them in public meetings all kind of fanning themselves. The men would wear big cowboy hats with a broad brim. That wasn’t a fashion statement. That was to help block out the sun. And nowadays, a lot of times, you’re going down the road, you see these construction workers, and you’re like, what is that dude doing wearing a long-sleeved shirt and a hood? That actually helps to reflect the sun away and actually keeps them cooler.
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I did not know that.
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Yeah.
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I’d had that question. Okay. Yeah.
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It doesn’t make sense to look at, but it truly has a cooling effect.
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And I look at these guys doing road construction in this 90, 95-degree weather, and I’m thinking, oh, my gosh, it’s hot out there.
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It’s hot, and they’re probably drinking between one to two gallons a day.
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Okay, of water.
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If you stay hydrated, that is the key. Right, Cain?
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Yeah, 100%. Yeah.
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Yeah, you can also wear like a neck band or a vest that’s been soaked in water, and that kind of helps to cool your body. Okay. So those are just some common little things that you can do. Even watermelon. I don’t know what it is about watermelon, but man, that is the most hydrating, invigorating thing when it’s hot. Is it really? It really is. Okay. I haven’t like done a deep dive, but I don’t know if there’s minerals or what, but there’s something that just goes beyond water even.
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Huh. Okay.
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Yeah.
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Interesting.
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Yeah. So back to our air conditioner history here. In 1902, Willis Carrier, maybe you guys recognize that name, Carrier?
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I do.
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He made a machine to control humidity. He worked at a big printing factory, and the humidity was causing the paper to wrinkle. And so… This machine would take the humidity out of the air, but it also had a cooling effect. And he’s like, huh, well, that’s interesting. So he kind of toyed around with this. And in 1914, the first air conditioner was installed in a home. It was actually kind of a mansion. It was seven feet high, six feet wide, and 20 feet long.
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Wow.
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That’s a beast, huh?
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It is.
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So by 1931, the first window units for homes were commercially available. You could purchase these anywhere from $10,000 to $50,000. Again, that was for the rich then. I think that caused the Great Depression. So in today’s money, if you adjust that price for inflation, we would have been paying $120,000 to $600,000 for a window unit.
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Wow.
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Isn’t that crazy? Wow. I don’t know who had that kind of money back then, but… So let’s talk about some things that people can do to help keep their air conditioner running. The air conditioner kind of has two major units. There’s a unit that sits outside and there’s also a unit that sits on top of, typically on the top side of your furnace. So that unit outside, make sure it’s not covered with weeds. If you’ve got all kinds of plants and weeds growing up around it, the air can’t move and that can’t produce the cooling effect. And of course, if you’ve got cottonwood trees and it’s all coated with all that stuff, it’s not going to cool. So you want to keep that clean. Don’t let a bunch of weeds and stuff up against it. You want to keep on changing your furnace filter. Even in the summer? Even in the summer, because the A-coil sits on top of your furnace, and the air has to flow through there.
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Okay.
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So if you’ve got all kinds of pet dander or dust or whatever, it’s just going to clog up that A-coil, and that thing will end up freezing, and then you’re like, man, my air conditioner isn’t cooling. So keep changing your furnace filters. You can close the shades when the sun is shining through. That just helps to keep the ambient room temperature down so that your walls aren’t heating up. Also, make sure all the vents are open in all the rooms so that your air can flow and circulate.
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So it doesn’t help to close them in some room to push it to some other room?
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Well, you would think so. And it can make a little cooler in that room. But here’s the deal. Your duct work is calculated for a certain amount of airflow. So if that airflow is being restricted, it’s kind of like putting a damper on your carburetor.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Okay. Good to know.
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Yep. So I want to transition here a little bit. Our emotions can also affect our temperature, right? When you’re angry, you’re feeling hot. If you’re really scared, you might feel cold. So for those who might be feeling really frustrated with what’s going on in our state and they might be feeling hopeless, I just want to give a word of encouragement here. If you think back to the nation of Israel, when they escaped from Egypt, they were headed to the promised land. And they sent 12 spies out to check things out. And they came back. They said, man, you know, the land is awesome, but these guys are huge. We became like grasshoppers in our own sight. And they felt completely hopeless and powerless. So, of course, they wandered around in the wilderness for 40 years. Then it’s time for them to go into the promised land. They sent two spies into Jericho. And these guys hid out in Rahab’s house because they were, you know, the soldiers were trying to find them. And Rahab, who lived there in Jericho, says, guys, we’re all afraid of you. We’ve heard what God has done and the victories that he’s given you and our hearts have melted with fear. And the Israelites began to realize that they weren’t tiny little grasshoppers. They were going to go in and conquer the land that God had promised them. So I want to encourage people, when Kim says, listen to good music, read great books, stand for truth, that’s really the first part of this battle that we’re in. Our minds have to be in the right spot. So we have to know that we’re standing on the side of truth, and that’s why the radical communist agenda is so intent on shutting us down. They know that if the truth is freely spoken, they’ll be exposed. their evil, demonic plans that come from the devil to steal, kill, and destroy will be put to shame. So, those of you who have friends and family that you talk with regularly, don’t be afraid. Speak up. Go to the school board meetings. Go to the city and the county meetings. Let people know that Arapahoe County made 15,824,590 changes to the cast vote record for 2020. and ask people to explain why something like that would happen. Why is that okay? So know that we’re on the side of truth. Let the oxygen flow through your veins and stay cool. Kim, have we gotten any temperatures texted in? I love it when it’s in the 50s.
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74 degrees in the summer.
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74 in the summer.
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Okay. So thank you. So, Ben, this is so interesting. And these are just great words of wisdom. And that’s what we do is we engage in this battle and prepare and train. And there’s exciting things happening. Colorado’s at the tip of the spear. And because of what we’ve been doing all these years, I think that there’s something good that’s going to happen, Cain.
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If I can share my, like, I think my Renee sets it at 74, pretty much. But we pretty much live downstairs in our finished basement. and we call it club 65 because no matter how hot or cold it is outside it’s always a steady 65. yeah the ground temperature in a basement is awesome yeah it’s a beautiful place yeah like that’s our our place where we go and just unwind yeah well that’s good so again hey ben if people want to reach ben’s plumbing and heating what’s the best way to reach them
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Call or text 303-995-1636. And you’re always welcome to call for a second opinion. It’s not that we’re trying to garner business for ourselves. We want to make sure that people are not being taken advantage of. So if you get something that’s like, oh, am I going to have to take a second mortgage on the house to get this thing fixed? Give us a call. We’re happy to just give you a second opinion.
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Indeed, it is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Are you ready for financial freedom? We’ll call our friends at Mint Financial Strategies. As an independent firm and an accredited investment fiduciary, they always put your interests first. Mint means more than money. It means meaningful relationships, information sharing, and a network of smart strategies. and also a thoughtful advisor, Jody Hinze, who puts you in control. No cookie-cutter plans. Everything’s tailored to you. Call Mint Financial Strategies today at 303-285-3080. That’s 303-285-3080. And Alan Thomas, well, I need to let everybody know who all’s in studio, and that is Ben Williams with Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. Kane, who is the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado. and Alan Thomas, who is a frequent guest host and author here at the Kim Monson Show. And Alan, we’re going to be rolling out your piece, Powerful. Innocence is not a culture war casualty. It is the front line. So Alan Thomas, where should we begin?
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Well, it really began, as you know, Trump came in very hot and heavy on this issue, right? He came in and said, no more boys and girls sports and I’m going to start pulling federal funding if these universities don’t start cracking down on it. And that was great. I mean, that’s definitely one of the issues we needed to confront. And, you know, he’s suing California now over their Title IX violations earlier this month. But when I really sat with it, you know, sports is flashy. And this is coming from an avid sports fan. I love sports. And, of course, it commands a lot of headlines. But really this boys and girls sports is just the tip of the iceberg. when it comes to what’s happening in our public schools. We’re looking at the locker rooms and seeing issues, but really there’s, as Kane has pointed out many times on the show, it’s the classrooms that deserve a lot of our attention. And it really comes from this fact that when public schools were created, we really saw reading, writing and arithmetic, right? We saw a lot of how do we prepare kids for the workforce? Whereas now we’re starting to see the schools not be neutral anymore. And this is relatively unsurprising for those of us that really follow politics, right? Because we’ve seen the colleges, our secondary education really go the way of nihilism, of progressivism, and we’ve really lost hold of our cultural center of learning. And so it’s unsurprising because when these college graduates go and they learn these ideologies of progressivism, of… and all these radical ideas, it’s unsurprising that they would then take that back to the classroom because they have to have a college degree.
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That was the plan.
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Right. It was absolutely the plan. It was how do we teach the teachers these ideas? And now we’re at a stage in this ideological development to where they’re going back to our middle school, elementary school, high schools and promulgating these ideas that they learned in college. And so it’s a natural progression that we should see, but they still hide behind a lot of neutral language, right? They still try and claim that public education. is public, that it’s neutral, that they’re just doing their best to educate kids for the workforce. But really, we’re not seeing that anymore. And the other aspect that’s terrifying is this progressive ideology relies on experts. It relies on, hey, the experts know what is best. And so when these… college educated folks come back and they’ve bought into this ideology of progressivism, they now also believe they are the educational expert and that naturally subsumes the role of the parents. in the education of their children because they now believe they are the experts. They now believe they know more than the parents do about how to educate their children. And so it’s a very natural progression. It’s not one that’s necessarily needs to be purposeful. It’s a very natural outgrowth of the ideology of progressivism that, hey, yeah, you know, parents, you’re good at raising your kids at home. Leave your kids with us. We know what we’re doing. Eight hours a day, five days a week. Eight hours a day, five days a week. We know best how to educate your child because I went to college for it. I am the expert on it. You need to listen to me.
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So one thing I want to challenge just a little bit on language. is this educating kids for the workforce. When I was on city council, I was sitting in a meeting, they would bring in PBIs and we’d all sit around a table. And many of them were well paid as PBIs to do that. And they were talking about educating kids for the workforce. And I realized, at least in my opinion, Alan, education isn’t to educate kids for the workforce. Education is to teach kids how to read and write, do arithmetic, know history, critical thinking, so that then they can go figure out how they can fit into society instead of just churning out these kids to be a worker for somebody out there. So I think you didn’t mean that, but I want to clarify that word, workforce. Right.
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Well, and this is what they are doing increasingly well, right? Is they’re wordsmithing. They’re taking what we used to mean with words and transitioning it into what they want to do. So this is how they portray education as neutral. They use words like, we’re going to prepare you for the workforce. We’re going to prepare you for… And we see increasingly as well, we saw a big push of actually what that means is we’re preparing you for college because we want you to go to college where you can learn these… What we want you to learn. What we want you to learn, exactly. And so they’re hiding behind the guise of neutrality when it’s really not there. And we saw this and really the curtain got exposed around COVID. We saw a real… upsurgence or resurgence from our parents saying, wait, wait, we’re listening to what they’re teaching our kids. This is not just a typical English class anymore. There’s a lot more going on. And we saw a resurgence of trade schools coming in and people pushing to say, hey, you know what? I don’t think college is for everybody. Let’s actually start putting kids into trade schools. Let’s actually start getting them ready for their life beyond high school. And we also saw a lot of pushback against critical race theory in DEI and no small part to the previous Trump administration. And so all of that pushback. for those of us that follow politics, we knew it was going to come back again, right? We knew that, hey, you know, Governor DeSantis might say, hey, no critical race theory in Florida, no DEI in Florida teaching, none of that in the curriculum. And of course, in 2019, they just changed the name. So one of the ways they’re changing the name is it’s this social and emotional learning. sounds great right i mean of course you and i are sitting here going well probably not because it’s not reading writing and arithmetic but who can really be against social and emotional learning that sounds like a soft skill that like a business owner might like hey if you’re good at interacting socially if you have good self-regulation of your emotions that’s a soft skill that’s probably pretty good for for somebody that wants to get a job after school right And in fact, social and emotional learning was taught and has its beginnings in the 1960s. So it’s been around quite a while and has been a relatively low-key thing. It’s not something that has really elevated nationally because it was. It was used specifically when it was needed. to help students, and I believe it started in Yale Medicine, and they saw significant changes in test scores once they realized, hey, if we teach kids some of these soft skills, it can actually help their learning and help them behaviorally become better students. But in 2019, they co-opted it. And now it’s called Transformative Social and Emotional Learning. So it’s T-S-E-L. And you know a lot, if you see the acronym S-E-L, Social and Emotional Learning, that’s going to start cropping up a whole lot more. Because basically what they did is they took S-E-L, they put transformative in front of it. And then they just took all of the code word and the keywords from DEI and critical race theory. and have now moved it on over to this SEL.
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And speaking of words, as you know, I have this volunteer gig with, and I need to give, I haven’t said this this week. Thank you to the Colorado Union of Taxpayers board members, Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. When you see them, they’re all volunteers, and we look at this legislation, and I saw a piece of legislation, and they referred to diversity, inclusion, and equity. And I thought, oh, that’s not by accident. Okay, Cain.
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I am biting my tongue over here. I know you are. I can feel it.
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So what do you think?
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First, we have to understand that our school systems, our government schools, are indoctrination centers and they’ve been that way for decades and decades. And finally, they’ve done so much that now parents are like, wait a minute, why am I sending my kids to a place that’s going to tell my Caucasian son that he’s evil and black kids are victims? Why am I going to send my kid to a place where they’re going to push DEI? I say this all the time. DEI is discrimination against white people. And I would ask my Caucasian brothers and sisters, lawyer up because they’re telling you to your face, I’m not going to hire you because you’re white. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 says you get to sue their pants off.
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And that happened, actually.
SPEAKER 15 :
And millions and millions of my Caucasian brothers and sisters should have attorneys now and go get paid because you’re protected. But we sit back and we continue to let them do this to us, and they’re not going to stop. I call them marxicoms. Their job is to destroy you as white people, keep me as a black person as a victim. And so we need to fight back. And the way you fight back is you use our justice system. That’s all I’m going to say, Alan.
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Well, for right now.
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For right now.
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Ben, do you want to weigh in on this?
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Kane, I would share a foxhole with you any day, brother. Yes, sir. Back to back, my friend.
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Well, we’re in this ideological foxhole right now, and that’s why we’re doing what we’re doing. So we will continue the discussion. And for everything mortgages, reach out to Lorne Levy.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Before we get back into it, I wanted to mention the USC Memorial Foundation because we have our liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom, because there are those beginning with the Revolutionary War that put their lives on the line. for liberty. And a way to honor all of them is to support the USMC Memorial Foundation, which is supporting the memorial right here in Golden, Colorado. They’re going to have a couple of events coming up, one in August, one in September. Check all that out. That is at usmcmemorialfoundation.org, usmcmemorialfoundation.org. In studio with me is Ben Williams with Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. What’s that phone number? Ben Williams.
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303-995-1636. And Kim, I’ve got to say, it always amazes me. You start out Mondays with full afterburners, and it just increases from there. The testosterone in the room here on Friday is amazing.
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Thank you. And Cain, who is the co-founder or is the founder of Task Force Freedom, Northern Colorado. Great work that you’re doing for our children as well. We’ll talk more about that. And Alan Thomas, a frequent guest, a frequent guest host of the show. You like that, don’t you?
SPEAKER 12 :
It is. It’s a lot of fun.
SPEAKER 06 :
It is. And a great author here as well. We’re talking about innocence is not a culture war casualty. It is the front line. And Ellen, as I was thinking about this piece, because I think a lot of parents don’t know what’s going on in the classroom. And It used to be that you would caution your children to be careful of that creepy guy out there that might entice you over to try to say, hey, come on over, we’re going to have pizza and movies at my house. And they were actually maybe showing or reading things to children that would be sexually orientated to then…
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prepare them to possibly be victims of bad stuff well guess what now it’s happening in our schools and and not only that it’s it’s almost blatant the way it is and it’s a demand from the schools to keep those sorts of books in the school system you know last last month we were talking ben about um about this issue of the school library and the books that are available in it. And you had done some background research of like, hey, why don’t we start donating books to the school libraries? Because if they’re forced to take them, then they have to keep them out in their library. If parents are not able to say, hey, we’re going to get rid of PragerU or brave books if we can’t get rid of them just like we can’t get rid of the sexualized books that are in the school libraries let’s start flooding the system and and that’s part of the call is is this this idea that schools are neutral and that we need to take passive roles in our kids education is long past us you know it was something we needed to be doing a decade ago or more and But now it requires a very vigilant effort by all of us, not just people that have kids in the school system. It requires a vigilant effort because this Trojan horse now of SEL. is just disguising the same culture war that we are fighting outside of it, this DEI, this critical race theory. It’s not about empathy, self-regulation, and emotional language. It’s very clearly about inequity, critiquing norms, questioning institutions, and that should scare us all. I mean, when we needlessly denigrate institutions, institutions that have been around for a millennia or more, You know, when they’re questioning whether men should be masculine, when they’re teaching boys to question their masculinity before boys even have the chance to grow into that, that should cause all of us to question what they’re actually teaching and why. And that should cause all of us, parents and non-parents alike, to start to demand accountability, to demand transparency. into lesson plans, into curriculum, to make sure that they’re not, again, disguising what they’re actually doing under the auspices of these soft skill or these words and ideas that sound good in theory, but are truly disguising a dangerous ideology to our children’s innocence. Yeah.
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And so we’ve got Protect Kids Colorado, which will be working on these ballot initiatives. One of them is to keep boys out of girls’ sports, out of girls’ locker rooms. I tell you, if you would have told me when I was growing up that you’d put boys in girls’ locker rooms parading around without clothes on, I would say you’re crazy. But I think a lot of people still don’t realize that. what is happening. It just seems so unreasonable. And so I think that’s why Protect Kids Colorado is focusing on the locker rooms instead of this other issue because a lot of people don’t even understand this. And so this is a place to start, I think, Alan.
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And that is good as long as we view it as a place to start, right? And it’s very easy. It’s a very, especially as someone that was taught to protect those who can’t protect themselves. You know, I’m very, you know, six foot six, 300 pounds. I’m pretty big. I was always taught to stand up for the little guy that can’t help themselves. And I was also raised very chivalrous to stand up for women. And so it’s very easy for us to say we need to protect women. We need to protect girls, keep the boys out of their sports. But we also need to realize and also remember in the back of our minds that innocence is not gendered. You It’s also the boys in these schools that need protection from being over sexualized. It’s boys and girls alike that are on the front lines of a culture war that they should have never been dragged into. And we are sacrificing the innocence of our children at ever decreasing ages. to this ideology if we’re not willing to stand up and fight for school board candidates who will fight back against this. If we’re not willing to stand up at school board meetings and make our voices heard, if we’re just going to sit back and say, somebody’s going to do it sometime, then we are ignoring the calling that we need to be having in our own hearts saying, no, I can’t rely on somebody else to protect my kids. I need to do it. And so we need to have the courage of, it may be the wrong place at the wrong time, but we need to step up and say, I don’t care if it doesn’t feel like the right place or the right time. I need to stand up for my kids. I need to stand up for their innocence. And we need to stand up for them both in the locker room and in the classroom. And we need to allow people to, The opportunity to do both, right? And I would never sit here and say we need to stop protecting girls in the locker rooms. Absolutely not. But that’s only one front of this multifaceted war that we are now facing for the innocence of our children.
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I think it’s no longer acceptable to be silent. Whether you’ve… you physically get in the fight, your voice is important. So it’s no longer acceptable. It’s no longer okay to sit back and go, I see this happening to my kid. Oh, I see it happening to my neighbor’s kid. Silence is no longer acceptable. This is a full-on attack on our country and our freedoms. And they’re attacking our children so that they can control the future. So silence is no longer okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
And one of the reasons I also bring this up and I wanted to start, because as we know, Douglas County, we’re going to have a very contentious school board race. We got four outgoing school board members. We need to replace all four. Otherwise, we will see exactly what they did during COVID when they had a 7-0 extraordinarily leftist board. They only need one more seat to go back to that board. But a lot of this is around language, it’s around labeling things. And again, they are very, the left in this ideology is very good at labeling things so it sounds bad to be against them. How could you be against social and emotional learning? Really, you wanna be the parent that’s against that? And it’s coming at it with truth and saying, listen, I’m not against those things. But when the lesson plans in this transformative SEL are talking about inequity and are talking about tearing down institutions and questioning societal norms, I am going to be against that. So we need to be able to have truth in our back pocket to be able to fight against the inevitable consequences. War of rhetoric that is being fought with these schools and being able to stand up and really challenge it and say, that’s not really what you’re teaching my kids because I’ve researched this. I know this. I know that you can no longer lie to me about these soft skills you’re teaching our kids when actually you’re just using it to disguise what you’re trying to do. which is further an ideology of progressivism and further an ideology that allows for this moral confusion in this spiritual warfare.
SPEAKER 15 :
If I can share a phrase that I coined concerning CRT and DEI, and it’s called the hard bigotry of no expectation.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, totally agree with that. Okay, gentlemen, we’re just about out of time, but Mark, one of our listeners, said, how about these school libraries? We check out those books, those nasty books, and never return them. Ah, what a nice strategy. That’s a step in the right direction. Ben Williams, Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling, that number? 303-995-1636. Okay, and you’re going to stay in studio. Alan Thomas is going to stay in studio. And so is Cain, who is the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado. Our quote for the end of the show is from Admiral William Halsey. He said, all problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly and it pricks you. Grasp it boldly and its spines crumble. You like that one, Cain?
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That’s beautiful.
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I thought you liked that. Okay. Today, my friends, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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Well, and it wasn’t a problem. We wouldn’t want to say that. The interesting thing that happened was at 6.52, I get a text message from our featured guest for next week, and that’s Rich Guggenheim. He says, I’m at the door, and I’m thinking, oh, it’s next week, and so come on in. Gang, gang, or hail, hail, the gang’s all here, and it’s great to have you here, Rich Guggenheim, so welcome.
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Maya, I apologize for getting it mixed up.
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You know, I think life works out the way it’s supposed to. So I think it’s just fine. So we are going to jump in here with the conversations in just a moment. But I want to say great to have you here, Rich Guggenheim. And you’ve just written your first book.
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Yes, yes. It’s called Escaping the Rainbow Plantation. And we’ll talk about that next week. But, you know, I was listening on the way in since I moved up north and had a fun drive. Had a drive. Yep. It’s a fun drive. About the talk about schools and what’s happened with schools. And I actually have a whole chapter on that called School Capture, Indoctrinating the Next Children. And I’ll just leave you with a quote by Gary Demar. He says, whoever controls the schools rules the world.
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I think he, I think Stalin said that maybe too, or Hitler or somebody.
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It’s a very true statement. And I think based on that conversation earlier, we have political powers that know this, and this is part of their long game.
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Uh, Cain, uh,
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If I can share a comparison to bullying policies in the government schools and the horrific attack in Boulder, the guy that decided to burn people up. Our government schools have taught us for decades, don’t fight back. You call someone, if you’re being bullied, you tell the principal, you tell the teacher. If you look at what happened with this attacker, no one approached him. He was able to just randomly burn people. And I’m not saying there weren’t people that weren’t courageous because there were people that were helping folks that were on the ground and they were on fire while the suspect, while this dirt bag was still had the ability to set them on fire. And so I believe that at some point we taught these kids that you don’t fight back. People were taking videos, but no one stepped forward to create a problem for that guy. I’m not gonna say what I just thought, because I’m like, he should have died from lead poisoning from someone. But no one stepped forward. And I’m convinced that what we’ve done to kids for decades and decades, we’ve convinced them not to stand up and attack and go after the person that is trying to harm you or kill you or kill others. And it is blatant. You can see it on live TV. No one approached that guy. No one tried to walk up and hit him in the back of the head with a baseball bat. No one wanted to take the risk of maybe being hurt themselves to stop him from harming others. And I’m 100 percent convinced that our government schools have done that for decades. And now you have this entire culture of people who know. I’m not going to get involved.
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They don’t even want to say anything. No, exactly right.
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Well, and it’s been attributed to Stalin that we would not let our enemies have guns. Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, so why would we let them have ideas? Alan Thomas, that’s why what we do on a regular basis, you’re a guest host here on the show, we’ve got this piece that we’ll publish. Innocence is not a culture war casualty, it’s the front line. We are in the front line in this battle, and And America, yesterday, I was talking with Kathy Russell and Kurt Gerwitz after lunch, and Kurt said something along the line of, he said, Kim, you said that America was founded on an idea. And we were the only country that was founded on an idea. And what is that idea? That all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. This is what is under assault, Alan. And this is what is worth protecting.
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Well, and the interesting part about that is we were founded on an idea and then our constitution was passed short of the idea. And they knew it. They were pragmatic enough to know we needed a constitution. We needed to become an independent country. And the unfortunate reality is there’s slavery in our country. But they they always said this is the idea that we were created equal, that we need to get there. And they they always said, if we point our nose towards that North Star, we’ll get there. We’ll get as close as we can to to perfection without ever really getting there. Right. Because you can’t ever get true perfection in life. And unfortunately, it’s that reality is every time the progressives come in is they say, well, how did that work out for you? You’ve never reached that idea. And it’s like, no, but that’s a goal. That’s a lofty, noble, virtuous goal is to have that outcome. And they say, well, since you’ve fallen short of it so often and throughout history, it must be a bad idea. And that’s the battle of ideas that we’re fighting right now is they’re saying, well, you’ve never really achieved it. So it’s a bad idea. And we’re sitting here saying, no, it’s an impossible goal. It’s truly an impossible goal for broken humanity. But that is the goal. And that’s the North Star we should have. And that’s why we should constantly be fighting for it.
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Well, and Ben Williams with Ben’s Plumbing and Heating, you understand that as well.
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Absolutely. And you know what? I want to encourage people. We can all do something by listening to the show. You’re getting an amazing education. But also, you know, read some good books to your grandkids and your children. Talk with them. Come alongside young people who are struggling through school and encourage them to be the men and the women that they were created to be.
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And that’s for Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. And on the line with us is Teddy Collins. He is the owner of Spartan Defense, which is in Colorado Springs, and that’s firearms sales and training. but he and Alicia Garcia are also the co-founders of the Second Syndicate, bringing all of these disparate voices in a way together so that we can protect our Second Amendment, because the Second Amendment is there to protect all of this stuff that we’re talking about. Teddy Collins, welcome.
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Hey, thanks, Kim. Thanks for having me.
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The only thing missing today is that you’re not in studio with us, Teddy. We’ve got a big group here today.
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Well, we might have to change it. I might have to come down there sometime.
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I know, but it’s a drive up from Colorado Springs. What is the latest that people need to know regarding our Second Amendment? And there’s such an assault upon it here in Colorado. It’s been going on for a number of years down at the state legislature. It’s like they’re chipping away at the right for everyday people to keep and bear firearms to protect ourselves against bad actors. And that’s why the Second Amendment is in the Constitution, Teddy.
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Absolutely, absolutely. As far as the latest news, I mean, just support your local gun stores, guys. They’re having a hard time right now. We had the new state licensing going into effect recently. We’ve got the SB-003 that will be going into effect next year, and we were just told that there’s going to be a special legislative session in August because the state can’t make it. There’s a budgetary shortfall, so I have a feeling we might see some new taxes on firearms and ammo. We’ll see. Hopefully not. Hopefully I’m wrong. But it’s starting to sound like they’re trying to tax anything and everything they can.
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Well, I’m hearing that as well. And so, yes, make sure that you are purchasing your ammunition and firearms. What about the suppressor? We talked a little bit about it in the Big Beautiful Bill. And the piece that you’ve written that we published at KimMonson.com has had a lot of eyes on it. So there’s a lot of people paying attention. And you said that the Big Beautiful Bill – Did good stuff, but it didn’t go quite far enough. So what’s the latest on that, Teddy Collins?
SPEAKER 07 :
So it definitely didn’t go far enough. It just reduced the $200 NFA tax stamp down to $0. And the problem we have now is that the next administration, hopefully it’s a conservative administration, but the next administration, if it’s not, could change that fee back up to a higher fee. And we’ve already seen a Democrat, Chris Murphy, if I remember correct, has already introduced an amendment to a bill in Congress to increase the fee from $0 to $4,700 per NFA item now. So that’s well above the original $200. And the precedent’s been set. I really wish Congress had gone a little way further and just eliminated suppressors and SBRs from the NFA altogether so we wouldn’t have this. But now they’re just playing with the tax dollar amount. So, you know, come the next administration or if Congress changes hands, they could very well increase that fee from the $0 that it’s been reduced to up to whatever they want to.
SPEAKER 06 :
So what needs to happen is this Congress needs to pass a piece of legislation to clarify this and other things regarding our Second Amendment, yes?
SPEAKER 07 :
100%. And they need to pass federal preemption so that states like Colorado cannot become rogue states and infringe upon our constitutional rights. With federal preemption, the states would not be able to pass anything that supersedes or further restricts federal law. That would, for states like California, states like Colorado, it would be a huge victory for us because the majority, if not all, of the state regulations on firearms would be thrown out and it would default to the federal regulations.
SPEAKER 06 :
OK, so that’s the work that we need to do. And as you said, support your local firearms store. Tell us just a little bit about Spartan Defense.
SPEAKER 07 :
So Spartan Defense is one of the largest family owned and operated firearms stores in the state of Colorado. We’re located in Colorado Springs and we specialize in, you know, the things you don’t see at the big box stores and anything from brands from Staccato to Atlas. to Lago Arms, to Cabot and Alchemy, brands you don’t normally find. We even have some exclusives that are exclusive to the state of Colorado that you’re not going to see at any other store in the state.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, and what’s that website?
SPEAKER 07 :
SpartanDefense.com, and that’s defense with an S, not a C. SpartanDefense.com.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, and then you and Alicia bringing all these different voices together, what’s that best website for the Second Syndicate?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, so it’s the2ndsyndicate.com, and that’s spelled 2 and D, so the2ndsyndicate.com.
SPEAKER 06 :
Hey, thank you, Teddy Collins, for all the great work that you’re doing. We will talk with you next week.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. God bless, and thank you for having me on.
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303-995-1636. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
And then a cameo appearance by Rich Guggenheim, who has written a new book. You will be our featured guest next week. Your book, what is that?
SPEAKER 05 :
It is called Escaping the Rainbow Plantation.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. I was surprised you had texted me that you’d written this, and I didn’t realize you were doing that. I tried to keep it a secret.
SPEAKER 05 :
It is a great book. I really tried to write this from my perspective and through the lens of my experiences when I was with Gays Against Groomers. And I talk about how gender ideology isn’t just an attack on children. It’s an attack on the foundation of society, which is the family. And it attacks five pillars that I talk about in the book and undermines those pillars, which are science, academia, medicine, media, and government.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. So we’ll delve into that more next Friday as well, but great to have you here. And then Alan Thomas, who is a frequent guest host on the show and also in very important pieces that he writes, will be rolling out Innocence is Not a Culture War Casualty. It is the Frontline, Alan, and that’ll come out on Sunday in the newsletter.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and it was a fun discussion, and I guess the best teaser you’ve ever had, a one-week teaser leading into next week’s Friday discussion.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and it just happens. The good Lord has his hand on guest selection, subject selection, and just the fact that all this came together today is pretty amazing. And Kane is our featured guest here in this hour. He is the… He is the founder of Task Force Freedom in northern Colorado. And Kane, my first question on this, you have been such a fervent voice to protect our children. When did you realize that we had pornography in our schools?
SPEAKER 15 :
Actually, I want to say about three months after I started the nonprofit, because I actually started Task Force Freedom to fight CRT and DEI.
SPEAKER 06 :
And CRT is critical race theory.
SPEAKER 15 :
And diversity, equity, inclusion. Or you didn’t earn it.
SPEAKER 06 :
You didn’t earn it. And what you realized was this whole thing was putting people into groups. And it’s Marxist to put people into groups because if you put people into a group and can hate that group, then people can say it’s okay to attack people that are in that group.
SPEAKER 15 :
Absolutely. So what happened, though, is about two months in, to start three months into the organization, I got an email from someone, and it was two pages from a book called… Gender Queer? No, The Bluest Eye. Two pages. And the page depicted an adult male sexually assaulting his toddler daughter. Like, graphic detail. I read the two pages, and then I was up all night. I got a background in law enforcement, military, and I’ve always been a protector of the innocent, whether it’s women or children or individuals that can’t fight for themselves. And I was up all night, and I’m like, okay, this can’t be true. Had to do some research, and then I discovered There are thousands, tens of thousands of books like this throughout the whole nation. And so we just put together a team, and we started doing protests in intersections in different cities, speaking at city council meetings, telling these school board members that you’re violating federal law. Title 18 of the U.S. Code, Section 1466A says, It is a crime to have depictions, illustrations, pictures of children in sexual positions with adults. It’s a federal crime.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, and I mentioned this to you before. A couple of things. First of all, the author of that book is Tony… Tony Robbins. No, we’ve got to get that because she was good friends with the Clintons.
SPEAKER 15 :
And Oprah Winfrey, by the way.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, hold on just a second. And so I have a lot of books in my home. And I’m going through books, kids that had from school. And guess what? That book is at my house. And so I asked about it. And my daughter said, oh, yeah, we had to read that in English class. And that was in Douglas County. And that was a long time ago. Yes. and the bluest eye by tony morrison morrison and there’s pictures of her with clinton and oprah yeah and and she’s written several books and it’s unfortunate because most parents don’t know or didn’t know that this is happening in their schools well i’m an active parent i was in the school i in elementary school but then when they got more to junior high and high school then it goes it goes back to the full culture thing that you’re talking about
SPEAKER 15 :
They are hell bent on changing the culture. I tell this story when I give some of my speeches. Imagine this, that an adult male is having, sexually abusing a child.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t like to imagine that, but.
SPEAKER 15 :
Where did that child get indoctrinated? Where did they get the idea that this is probably not that bad because my teacher gave me this book and it shows a child giving fellatio to an adult male. It is indoctrinating. It is changing the culture of all of our kids.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s preparing them to be victims of this.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 15 :
Not only just victims. They won’t know that they’re victims. They will think what they’re doing is normal because of what our school systems have done to them. We don’t even know the damage that’s caused today from these kids five years from now, ten years from now. I know this, that when I was a police officer, most of the prostitutes that I had to deal with, they were exposed to sexual content early in life, as adolescents, five, ten, and they either chose drugs, they chose prostitution, or they became hypersexual. When you expose kids, kids cannot conceive, they cannot understand this information that they’re seeing. And it’s available to them just by asking. What schools will say is that we don’t have that book. No, your kid can go to the library and order it. And so when I say we need to speak up, our voices have to be heard to stop this from occurring. Can I share something just because I’m all riled up right now?
SPEAKER 06 :
Sure. Do you want to keep that as a cliffhanger, or do you want to do that right now?
SPEAKER 15 :
I would like to do this right now.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
Because it’s called The Tale of Two Cows. Most people haven’t heard this, by the way. I didn’t either. I found out last week. And basically, it breaks down the different isms. So socialism, you have two cows. Give one cow to your neighbor. That’s socialism. Communism, you have two cows. Give both cows to the government and they might give you some milk. Fascism, you have two cows. You give all the milk to the government and the government sells it. Nazism, you have two cows. The government shoots you and takes both cows. Anarchism, you have two cows. Keep both cows, shoot the government agent, and steal another cow. Capitalism, you have two cows, sell one cow, and buy a bull. And then this is my favorite. Surrealism, you have two cows. The government makes you take harmonica lessons. Barack Obama and the health.
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SPEAKER 06 :
And a teaser for next week for our featured guest. That’s Rich Guggenheim, who’s just published his first book. And that is?
SPEAKER 05 :
Escaping the Rainbow Plantation. It’s going to be interesting. How can we get that book? You can get that on Amazon. It’s available in three different formats. Electronic, if you have a Kindle, paperback and hardback. And just search for Escaping the Rainbow Plantation.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, so that will be next Friday that we’ll feature that. Alan Thomas, who’s a frequent guest host of the show and an author here at the Kim Monson Show, this is an important piece. Innocence is not a culture war casualty. It is the front line. And, Alan, I don’t know if I ever finished this thought. I tried to start it twice with you. And that is that our founders, people put their lives on the line for liberty, to pass on to the next generations. And we have to take a stand now to protect these children that are in the crosshairs of this attack upon their innocence, to take them, to take their future. We are at that ideological fight right now.
SPEAKER 12 :
And we’re at a crossroads, too, because if we’re unwilling, incapable, or cowardly enough to not stand up for our children, then we don’t deserve the liberty that our forefathers gave us.
SPEAKER 06 :
Bingo. That’s for sure. And then, Cain, before we get into the next subject that we want to talk about, you and I met each other. I was speaking at Perspectives 101, and you stepped up to the microphone. And I don’t know if you recall exactly what you said, but you’d been listening to the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes. I’ve actually been listening to your show since I moved here. And I started listening because you played the national anthem.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that’s something that Crawford does every morning.
SPEAKER 15 :
And I’m like, OK, I can I can hear the entire national anthem, hear a little bit of Kim, and then I’d have to go on tour. But that’s when I started.
SPEAKER 06 :
OK, so with that, you had reached out to me on your journey. You said it started with CRT, SEL. Then you realized this whole transgender radical activism and you called or I guess you texted me and you said, Kim, with Task Force Freedom, Northern Colorado, which you founded. What’s that Web site?
SPEAKER 15 :
Task Force Freedom, noco.com.
SPEAKER 06 :
You said there is a mother up here in Wellington whose daughter was targeted by this transgender indoctrination in an after-school program. Yes. And it’s been a journey. And I said, well, do you think that she’d come on the show? And you said, I don’t know. We’ll ask. And so we broke that story here on the Kim Monson Show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, ma’am. And I take my hat off to Aaron and John. People don’t know how long they’ve been in this fight. They they see her name. She’s she’s recognized throughout the whole world, probably the country and throughout the world. But it’s been a battle. I remember her and I going up and down the state to have do seminars with just five people. just driving up and down just to tell the story like this is what’s really happening. We have to wake up these parents. And so I know there’s some. I think relatively good news from her case. I think it went to the Supreme Court, I think.
SPEAKER 06 :
I think so. She can’t talk a lot about it right now as they’re going through that process. But that’s Erin Lee that you’re talking about.
SPEAKER 15 :
But it’s the fight. It is the fight that parents have to get into to protect not only their kids but their neighbors and to protect the future of this nation, man.
SPEAKER 06 :
We have a responsibility. So I’m going to make a plug for the Kim Monson show because having Aaron on. So Rich Guggenheim, you and I, other people, Aaron Lee, Laurie Gumbelstein, co-founder of Colorado Parents Advocacy Network. We met for lunch and we were going to go over to the Capitol to testify regarding one of the radical transgender bills. And I think I said, hey, we broke… Aaron’s story on my show. And then you said, oh, well, I broke my story on Kim’s show. And then Laurie Gimmelstein said, well, we how we got started was on Kim’s show.
SPEAKER 15 :
And I that’s how actually how I met Laurie is through your show.
SPEAKER 06 :
Wow. So here are all these people that are out there wanting to protect children. And I said, well, it’s just the right thing to do. And so anyway, but I guess I’m bragging just a little bit. I love the fact that we’ve been on the forefront on that. Ben, you had something to say.
SPEAKER 16 :
Kim, you are truly the Paul Revere of our day. You are taking the message out there and making people aware of what’s going on. Thank you for doing that.
SPEAKER 05 :
And I just wanted that time that you were at the Capitol that you were referencing a second ago on that bill. That was the first time. that I and many of the people who have been in this fight can remember in any state in the United States where we who oppose this gender ideology being forced on our children outnumbered the radical activists at the Capitol. That was the first time that has ever happened in this country. Wow.
SPEAKER 06 :
So I think the moral to the story is speak up and be brave. And that’s what you do on a regular basis, Kane. And I know that you’ve shared a bit of this story before us again, and you get very fervent on it. But let’s talk about it.
SPEAKER 15 :
Which story? I’m sorry.
SPEAKER 06 :
The one that you said that you wanted to.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, yes. Yeah. Okay. So I’m going to try not to yell. But Alan brought up something about just the culture and how we – We suppress our own rights. And so I’m actually in the process of writing a book there, Rich. And it’s going to be called Negro. It is your First Amendment right. You can say nigga.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 15 :
Don’t bleep that, Joe. So I’m in the process. I’m doing research and stuff. I think I have like 15 pages or something like that. But my point is you have a First Amendment right to say whatever word you want. You have that First Amendment right. And so I say this a lot in my speeches, that if I can say Negro and… Denzel Washington in the movie can say nigga. If rappers can say nigga over and over again, if it can be in the movies, then why can’t white people say the word negro or nigga? Now, people say, well, it’s tied to slavery and the oppression of black people, and so you can’t use it. And so I use the example, well, what did we do to the Japanese during World War II? We called them niggas. japs which is derogatory did they change their identity no no we call them nips because they refer to themselves as nippons and we call them nips did they change it they did not so why are we having to say because the spaniards took us from africa and they said we were negro because it wasn’t just spaniards there were also blacks that negroes that that also So the Spanders did the transportation. It was Africans that stole other Africans and sold them to the slave ships. But they said we were Negro, and we’ve been Negro ever since. So my question is, if you have a First Amendment right, shouldn’t you be able to say Negro and not self-censor? Now, let me say this. I’m not saying go out, Allen, and see your black neighbor and go, yo, what’s up, my Negro? He may not like that. I’m simply saying that you have the right to contest. You have a right to challenge your First Amendment. Challenge those who are saying, I can say this word. Kim says all the time. I hear it every morning. You can’t have equal rights if there are special rights. That is a special right for me as an American Negro that I can walk around and say Negro and nigga all day and not feel anything. And what did they do in the 70s? Jesse Jackson did this. Because we’ve been colored, we’ve been black, we’ve been African, African-American. Jesse Jackson changed it to African-American in the 70s. I simply say I’m an originalist, we’re Negro, and everyone should be able to say that word. When you don’t, when you don’t challenge the concept, then you’re accepting that I’m going to self-censor, and when you self-censor on that one word, what do they come after you on now? Everything else. We made these people, these Americans, these Caucasian Americans, we made them stop saying a word just by putting pressure on them. We made them self-censor their First Amendment right. We made them sit back and go, oh, I’m not going to say that.
SPEAKER 06 :
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SPEAKER 05 :
It’s called Escaping the Rainbow Plantation.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. And also, Alan Thomas is in the studio. We’ll roll out your piece, Innocence is Not a Culture War Casualty. It is the front line. This is an important piece, Alan.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, thank you. And thank you for allowing me the opportunity to write it and publish it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and people, it really, all of our authors are very thoughtful, but you’re really out there in that battle of ideas, and I appreciate that. And Kane, who is the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado, and one of the things you like to say that you are a proud American Negro. Yes, ma’am. So yesterday some friends came over, and we were talking about work ethic, teaching children work ethic. And we were talking about the attack upon masculinity, in particular the straight, white, Caucasian male, I think is at the bottom of the food chain. And we were saying why. And I know that in World War II there was segregation. And, of course, the Tuskegee Airmen. We rebroadcast Colonel James Harvey’s interview just this last week. And they didn’t look at themselves as victims. They said, we, because we are having all this stuff thrown at us, we are going to be the best we can be. Absolutely. And you had bomber pilots that would request them, the Red Tails, to accompany them in on their bombing missions, I guess primarily the gas fuels in Romania. We talk about the World War II guys, the straight white Caucasians as the greatest generation. And then what had to happen? These were the guys that put their lives on the line to save not only Europe, but to save the world. And so what did you have to do? You had to devalue them, right?
SPEAKER 15 :
You have to, in order for this marxicom agenda to work, you have to destroy the lions. The lion. The lion. If you look at abortion, my body, my choice, they removed the lion. If you look at the black culture after the 60s, LBJ removed the lion. Today, when you remove the lion, the jackals can play. And so that’s all it is. And so the biggest threat to the marxicoms is the Caucasian male. I don’t even look at TV anymore because of commercials. I see a white guy who is feminized or he’s stupid. And people don’t see that they’re being brainwashed and indoctrinated. They don’t understand it. I don’t look at TV the same. I look at a show and I’m like, why are they doing that to that guy? Why are they sending these subtle messages that a white person is this and now?
SPEAKER 06 :
They try to make the dad look like he’s just the dumb, bumbling, da-da-da-da.
SPEAKER 15 :
Either dumb or feminine. It’s not a gay or straight issue. It is soft. I know really strong and powerful gay men that will beat you to a pulp. Okay, so it’s not an issue of gender, it is just softness. And so they have to make the biggest threat, which is the Caucasian male, they have to make them soft. They have to destroy the lion in order for their agenda to move forward. And as far as being a victim, slaves 200, 300 years ago were not victims. They had to create new laws because slaves were constantly killing their masters. So they’ve never been victims.
SPEAKER 12 :
You see this, and for those of us following it, you knew this was inevitably going to happen, but it’s this oppressor versus oppressed paradigm, right? And the funny thing is, is this, it’s a snake that eats its own tail, right? We see this even within the left. especially out in california it’s like okay i’m checking off all the boxes i’m black i’m gay i’m i’m female and then it’s like oh but you’re not as oppressed as a transgendered black female right and so it’s this it’s this self-eating snake but it’s this what moral hierarchy hierarchy that they’re trying to create of this victim groups and that’s why labeling groups is so important to them and that’s why especially the white male white straight males we find ourselves at the bottom of the food pyramid because they’ve inverted our history into defining oh well if you have power you must be an oppressor and so they’re they’re redefining the way we think about and look at history and since they’re all drinking from the same trough of higher education they’re all buying into this ideology they’re taught it how
SPEAKER 05 :
They’re taught it in this book called Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire. And in these liberal schools of education, they’re teaching it to those who are going to become school principals and school teachers who are then graduating and teaching it to our children in K through 12. Yep.
SPEAKER 12 :
Which is an important point because it’s not a conspiracy, right? And I think too often we fall a little victim to using similar type language to say this is a conspiracy, this is what they want. And it’s like, no, it’s not a conspiracy. They just all drink from the same trough. Like if they’re all getting fed the same ideas, their interests and their incentives all align perfectly. to continue this ideology. So it’s not some conspiracy that they’re wanting to teach our children this. It’s just they’ve all been taught it, and they’re all promulgating it. So I say, look at what they’ve done to us.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, then I’m going to say two words. Tim Walz.
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, my. Tampon Tim? Can I say that? I literally was thinking the same thing.
SPEAKER 06 :
The candidate for the vice president of the United States.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes. Yes. It’s insane.
SPEAKER 06 :
He’s an example.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s their masculinity that they want. I want my daughters to marry a guy that says, if someone comes into the home, I’m going to take five bullets in the chest to protect my wife and my kids and my neighbors. And we’re convincing men today, you don’t have to do that.
SPEAKER 06 :
So, and I don’t know if this is what he would say, but the Tim Walls kind of guy would say, honey, call 911.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes, and stay in the bed. And that was my point with the Boulder situation and our schools indoctrinating kids not to fight back. And if I can add to that, parents, if your child’s being bullied, report it one time. And if the school doesn’t take care of it, take your kid to a gym, show them how to throw a punch, and knock that bully into next Tuesday. And then when he gets suspended, because they will suspend him, you take him to Disneyland, you take him to SeaWorld, you take him to the park every single day because your children need to know this is a mean, mean world. You have to fight. And they’ve made us docile.
SPEAKER 06 :
So I had a family member that lived in New York and every day on the way to the subway, there was some guy that said just, I guess, terrible things. She’d walk by and she’d ignore, walk by and she ignored. One day she turned around and she basically kind of almost grabbed the guy by the neck and said, you say that one more time, I’m going to take you out. He never did it again.
SPEAKER 15 :
Nope. And when you ignore those things, it empowers them. And so they take a little bit more next time.
SPEAKER 06 :
So is that not an example of what is happening in Colorado with this legislature, with this governor? We see it at local, county, and state government, but we’ve got good news. I talked about what happened regarding this land grab that’s happening. So stand up. The other thing… And Kane, we’ve heard this, is women are going to these meetings. They’re the mama bears. But you’re saying we need the men. And that’s why we do this.
SPEAKER 15 :
Mostly because these are sexist, misogynist, because when women speak, they don’t pay attention. When a guy stands up and goes, you’re going to listen to me.
SPEAKER 05 :
I will second that. And not only that, when you’re standing up against these trans rights activists, they’re men. They’re men. They’re autogynophiles. And it takes a man to put those men back in their place. Yes.
SPEAKER 06 :
And Dr. Guggenheim, I’ve seen you in action down at the State House, and you are fearless. And I thank you for that. We are just about out of time. I’m going to give you each 30 seconds to wrap this up. First of all, Ben Williams, are you having fun here?
SPEAKER 16 :
This is a blast. Fastest two hours of the day. Incredible. I just want to say evil is never satisfied. We either tramp it down and say absolutely not, no more, or it continues to grow.
SPEAKER 06 :
If we acquiesce and we think if we don’t say anything, then they won’t look at us and we can stay under the radar. It only gets worse. That’s right. To your point. Rich Guggenheim.
SPEAKER 05 :
I will say the same thing. You know, we have to stand up. Evil is powerful, but so is the truth. And the truth will always prevail, but it’s going to take us to be the soldiers in this army that are going to fight for truth and liberty.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s why we do the show. Cain.
SPEAKER 15 :
This is not a political fight. It’s not left or right. This is a fight against evil. And we need to love our Democrats. We need to love the left, love the right, love the middle, because our fight for our Constitution is to protect our country and our future.
SPEAKER 06 :
And standing for truth and truth. Actually, George Washington said something along the line is the truth ultimately will come to light as long as we continue to pursue it. Alan Thomas, your final thought.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, we’re circling all around it, but we’re really just asking people to live virtuous lives, right? To practice self-restraint, self-reliance, and probably more importantly right now, self-assertion. So live a virtuous life, have the courage to live virtuously, and we can turn this ship around because we have a good North Star to point it towards.
SPEAKER 06 :
And it is happening, and it’s exciting. Our quote for the end of the show is from William Halsey, and Admiral William Halsey, World War II. He said, “…all problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you. Grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. 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 09 :
And I don’t want no one to cry But tell them if I don’t
SPEAKER 17 :
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