In this engaging episode, Kim Monson discusses the challenges posed by modern legislation and its impact on freedom. With insights on Second Amendment rights and privacy concerns, Kim takes a deep dive into the idea that force should not overshadow good ideas. Tune in for compelling discussions, and gain perspective on how we can reclaim our liberties in this third founding of America.
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It’s the Kim Monson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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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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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 each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body, my friends. We were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team that I get to work with as Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Friday, Producer Joe. Happy Friday, Kim. And it is a great day. Yesterday was a little wild. If you were listening, the last two segments I ended up broadcasting from my car because I had a little grandson that ended up being born yesterday afternoon. And I am so grateful. And thank you all for your prayers and well wishes. And I tell you, the miracle of a baby, it is pretty amazing. And thank you to Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins, who are our featured guests. They’re with the Second Syndicate for making all that work. It was wild yesterday and really a blessed day. So thank you. To all of you, the website is kimmonson.com. While you are at the website, make sure you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. It highlights our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. I thank 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. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it’s never compassionate to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods, or lives via force. Enforce obviously can be a weapon, but it could be policy. Unpredictable in excess of taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites that’s played out through the United Nations, this Colorado state legislature, this governor. We also see it at the local and county levels as well. And we can see that through land use codes and zoning regulations and force fees and conservation easements and a whole bunch of different things. We need to reclaim the liberty of our country. And we are in the third founding of our country. Remember, if something is a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. And we focus on the issues. We don’t focus on the personalities. We will mention the people. involved in those issues, but we really try to stay focused on these things because those other things are distractions. And the distractions take our eye off the ball on reclaiming the liberty, the responsible exercise of freedom that is foundational to our American idea. I wanted to say thank you to Hooters Restaurants. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster, and in Aurora, right down the road here on Parker Road, and great specials Monday through Friday for lunch and for dinner. And I walked in, and a TV was on yesterday, and a football was on. So it was the first preseason game. So a great place to watch all those games is Hooters Restaurants. And, of course, they really do have… Great food. So check that out. Our word of the day is kind of a fun word. It’s hooey. I remember my grandmother using the word hooey. And it’s H-O-O-E-Y. And it could be nonsense, silly talk or writing, or senseless talk. And there’s a lot of hooey that is coming out of Washington, D.C. these days with, well, and… You know, one other thing. Did you see this thing in Cincinnati where – I guess there was a jazz fest or a music fest, and apparently two white people got beat up. And the way the police chief is trying to backtrack this and – I don’t know if they said something or not, even if they did say something. It’s the old sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. You don’t beat other people up. And so the press conference by the police chief, I think, is a bunch of hooey. And so you can choose to try to use that word in a sentence today. It shouldn’t be that difficult. Our quote of the day on Fridays, I take it from the Medal of Honor quote book that has been published by the Center for American Values. And I would recommend that you all have this book at home on your Freedom Library so that you can talk with your children, your grandchildren, about what these men did. When the situation presented itself, they took action to protect those around them. And we can take great heart from that because a situation is in front of us. It’s in the battle of ideas. And we need to dig deep inside each one of us and step forward to protect this American idea. But this is from Harold A. Fritz, United States Army. He was born in 1944. It was actions that were taken on January 1, 1969. And this is the citation. It says, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, Captain, then First Lieutenant Fritz, armor, U.S. Army, distinguished himself while serving as a platoon leader with Troop A near Kwan Loy. Captain Fritz was leading his seven-vehicle armored column along Highway 13 to meet and escort a truck convoy when the column suddenly came under intense crossfire from a reinforced enemy company deployed in ambush positions. In the initial attack, Captain Fritz’s vehicle was hit and he was seriously wounded. Realizing that his platoon was completely surrounded, vastly outnumbered, and in danger of being overrun, Captain Fritz leaped to the top of his burning vehicle and directed the positioning of his remaining vehicles and men. With complete disregard for his wounds and safety, he ran from vehicle to vehicle in complete view of the enemy gunners in order to reposition his men to improve the defenses and to assist the wounded, to distribute ammunition, to direct fire, and to provide encouragement to his men. When a strong enemy force assaulted the position and attempted to overrun the platoon, Captain Fritz manned a machine gun and through his exemplary action inspired his men to deliver intense and deadly fire, which broke the assault and routed the attackers. Moments later, a second enemy force advanced to within two meters of the position and threatened to overwhelm the defenders. Captain Fritz, armed only with a pistol and a bayonet, led a small group of his men in a fierce and daring charge, which routed the attackers and inflicted heavy casualties. When a relief force arrived, Captain Fritz saw that it was not deploying effectively against the enemy positions, and he moved through the heavy enemy fire to direct its deployment against the hostile positions. This deployment forced the enemy to abandon the ambush site and withdraw. Despite his wounds, Captain Fritz returned to his position, assisted his men, and refused medical attention until all of his wounded comrades had been treated and evacuated. The extraordinary courage and selflessness displayed by Captain Fritz at the repeated risk of his own life above and beyond the call of duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the U.S. Army and reflect greatest credit upon himself, his unit, and the armed forces. And this is his quote. He said, America, love it or leave it, many have died to protect it. And that is why we stand for the flag. That is why we honor those that have been given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our liberty. And so I would really recommend that you check out the Center for American Values in Pueblo on the beautiful river walk there. It’s a great day to go down to Pueblo and check all that out. And they have the Portraits of Valor, which is over 160 of our Medal of Honor recipients with their quotes underneath that. It’s really a reverent place. And then they’re doing great educational programs as well. And then Drew Dix, co-founder of the Center, the Medal of Honor recipient, has started a great podcast series as well. Words from the Silo, and you can get all that by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. A couple of headlines. This is one, and I’ve got to think a lot about this. These flock cameras, and this is from Nine News, K-U-S-A-T-V. It says, Nine News investigates questions, flock safety, CEO over mass surveillance, and ICE access concerns. And what’s amazing, you see the CEO, he looks like just a young kid, says, despite Denver City Council voting not to renew the contract with Flock Safety out of mass surveillance and immigration and customs enforcement ICE concerns, the creator of a national license plate camera network believes he can convince officials to renew an agreement with his company. It says the Denver Police Department and Denver Mayor Mike Johnson, I think it’s Mike Johnston, I think that’s a typo there, call the License Plate Reader Network a critical tool that has reduced car theft rates and tracks down murder suspects. Currently, 111 cameras have been recording license plates at 70 locations throughout the city since the pilot program began last year. While the camera has demonstrated they are an effective tool at tracking stolen vehicles, Nine News found a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive agent tapped into the flock network in Loveland and used it to do searches for ice. City council members voted this past spring not to renew the $666,000 contract with flock safety because of the potential damage. for ICE to use local police agencies as proxies to tap into the network. Since then, Denver has blocked access to its camera network to agencies outside of Colorado. However, Loveland and dozens of other agencies in the state still have access to the city’s cameras. I find it quite ironic that they are using this mass surveillance under the guise of public safety to, they said, to get to track down stolen vehicles and track down murder suspects. That’s how it’s couched. And then when it is being used to track down potential criminals that are here in our country illegally, city and county of Denver says no. I really think that we need to stop all of the surveillance on the people of America. Granted, they may track down a few criminals in doing so, but the mass assault upon our freedom is so significant. And I think that this is actually, we have not given permission for them to be doing this. And I think this goes directly against the Fourth Amendment and the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. And we need to stop all of the surveillance on law-abiding citizens. And so let’s continue these discussions about this because this is ongoing for sure. But we need to be pushing back on that. And we have these discussions because of our sponsors. And the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team knows that life can be challenging. And it’s their mission to maximize your financial security as you manage the risks of everyday life. So call Roger Mangan at 303-795-8855 for more information. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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Well, we are watching here in Colorado what is happening regarding our Second Amendment rights, the right to keep and bear firearms, to protect ourselves against bad actors. And, of course, shooting sports are also really important. We talked with Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins yesterday with the Second Syndicate, sponsors of the show, about these issues. And the Colorado Shooting Sports Association is really watching this as well. So tell us about that.
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Yeah, absolutely. I mean, just like you mentioned in your last segment, they are targeting some of the most law-abiding, responsible citizens in the state with all of these regulations and punishments. Like, we’re the ones that are causing all of this crime here in Colorado. We’re refusing to go after actual criminals. And so, CSSA has launched a lawsuit against the excise tax bill. which paints gun owners as sinful members of society for just simply exercising our constitutional rights. We filed that earlier this year and we’ll be filing against Senate Bill 3, which I’m sure you cover on your show extensively. later this year because, again, it puts unnecessary burdens on Coloradans’ right to not just protect themselves, protect our property, but also protect our freedom. The Second Amendment is there to make sure that citizens of this great state and our great nation are able to protect the freedoms that are outlined in the Constitution. It was not built around the Great Deer Uprising of 1776. It was built to prevent tyranny from encroaching into our country and our state.
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That’s funny. I did not know that there was a deer uprising.
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Well, they always paint the Second Amendment as a hunting right, and of course we support hunters with the Colorado State Shooting Association. But what we are really looking at is freedom for every responsible gun owner in the state to be able to exercise those Second Amendment rights, whether it’s for hunting or for competition shooting or for self-defense or protection of our freedoms. And so that’s why we’re putting together an event later this year, September 20th and 21st, that we’re going to all get together and celebrate The fact that we’re responsible gun owners in this great state. And so it’s going to be down at Magnum Shooting Center South in Colorado Springs. We’re going to have two days of shooting machine guns, shooting firearms that haven’t been released to the public yet, that they’re still in prototype stages. We’re going to have a BB gun range that’s run by our local sheriff to teach kids how to shoot properly. We’re even going to have a Nerf gun range for kids who might be a little too scared to jump up to the BB guns. But we’ll have something for everybody that’s there. We’re going to get together. We’re going to celebrate the Second Amendment. We’re going to raise funds to continue our lawsuits. We have 17 potential lawsuits that we can file as soon as we have the resources to. And since we’re an all-volunteer board here at the Colorado State Shooting Association, every dime we raise goes directly to the fight. And with so many just horrible laws that have passed this year, Both at the state level and the local level, we have plenty of opportunities to be able to go launch lawsuits and defend our rights. And we’re going to have a banquet on the 20th where we’re going to get together and hear from some top-notch speakers from across the country about the value of the Second Amendment and why Colorado is now the testing ground for Michael Bloomberg.
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Well, and thank you. I want to make sure I get the name right. It’s the Colorado State Shooting Association. I had not said that correctly. So I think that’s important. Daniel, as I was looking at headlines for today, I’m realizing that there’s legislation that is basically, I think, being cut and pasted across the country. So as president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which is an all-volunteer group, that we are watching different pieces of legislation down at the statehouse. We look at everything, and then we will take positions on legislation that affects the taxpayer, which is all of us, our property rights, our school choice, and also to protect TABOR, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. But what I’m seeing is that there is things happening all over the country. And so there was a safe storage policy piece of legislation here in Colorado, which basically says that the state has the power to say how you will store your firearm at home. Now, I’m just thinking about it, Daniel. If I have a firearm in my home to protect myself and my family, And the bad guy is trying to break into my house. Do I say, wait a minute, I need to go get my firearm out of the storage that might be someplace else in the house? It makes no sense to me. But I just saw a headline that in Illinois, Pritzker just signed a safe storage piece of legislation. And so this is not only happening in Colorado. I think that many times they start it here. And that’s why we have to really shed light on it, stand against it. But it’s like they try it here and then they send it out to other states, Daniel.
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Yeah, that’s absolutely right. I mean, SB3, almost a carbon copy version of it was just passed in Washington State. You know, our excise tax, we’ve seen carbon copy versions of it in Illinois, California. And one of the things that is a benefit of that is there’s these national groups that we have relationships with, like the Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, and the NRA, which we just filed our most recent lawsuit. We filed all together to help save on resources. But what we’ve seen is we can bring in some of these national-level lawyers and law firms to fight this who have already won against these bills in other states. And so we have – this is starting to backfire on them because as the courts reformed under President Trump have become more second-minute friendly, we are now able to bring in some of these law firms that have experience in actually winning these cases. to be able to fight them here in Colorado. So you mentioned Illinois. The law firm we brought in for our excise tax actually defeated excise taxes in Cook County, Illinois, and have won several levels in the California excise tax. And so as they see Colorado as a blueprint, they can get whatever they want through. We’re going to be the testing ground of not just getting the blueprint through for the Democrats and the anti-gun side, but also we’re going to be the blueprint of our side using the courts to be able to defeat these bills and tell the Democrat legislature here in Colorado that the Constitution still stands strong in our courts, especially after President Trump has reformed them.
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Well, and so this is pretty exciting as you’re talking about this, because what I’m learning and my listeners and our followers, we raised money for two lawsuits regarding the elections. And it’s a long process to go through this legal process. And it’s very methodical. But if you are working with a firm that has already done a whole bunch of research and and one in another state, that is, like you say, it’s a great way to bring those resources together. And since they’ve done all that research, you don’t have to repay for all of that.
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Right. And we have an internal legal review team of lawyers that volunteer their time. So we can do a lot of the initial research without any cost to our organization, without any cost to our members and our donors, which has helped bring those costs down. And that’s allowed us to be able to file more lawsuits. And we, you know, like I said, we have 17 that we can be looking at filing, including several for municipalities up in the Denver metro area. And so what we’ve seen is as we’ve been able to bring those costs down, we’re seeing more and more lawsuits that we’re going to be able to file. And the fact that we have national groups that are willing to join us here in Colorado, some of them for the first time, to help get us in the fight. So whether that’s Firearms Policy Coalition, probably the premier pro-Second Amendment legal group in the country. is jumping at the bit to file on more lawsuits with us because they’ve seen the success that we’ve had here and they want to see that replicated over and over and over again here in Colorado.
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Okay. So how can people get more information about the event that is coming up and also to support the Colorado State Shooting Association? And also while you’re doing that, be sure and support the second syndicate as well. I think I called them the second amendment, the second syndicate. So how can they get more information?
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So the Second Syndicate’s great partners with us. They’re going to be at our event in September. So if you go to cssa.org forward slash events, and if you use the code MONTH and you’ll actually get 5% off the banquet or the range event, we’re going to have tons of machine guns there, firearm raffles and all that, and that code gets you 5% off for your listeners. And then if people want to become members of CSA, just go to cssa.org forward um we give away a firearm a month to members we just gave away a daniel defense uh nine millimeter pcc which is a beautiful beautiful gun um and we’re going to be giving away another one at the end of this month um because at the end of the day we want to show polis and all of the anti-gun establishment here in colorado we’re not going anywhere we’re here to fight and we’re not going to give up our second amendment rights and so i appreciate you having me on the call thank you yeah most definitely and one more time what is the website again daniel cssa.org forward slash events.
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Okay. And if you put in Monson, and it’s actually M-O-N-S-O-N, you will receive a 5% discount. Daniel, thank you for this very important work that you’re doing. Let’s stay in touch and really appreciate that you are partnering with the Second Syndicate as well, because… Okay. And so thank you so much. We greatly appreciate it.
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Thank you so much.
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Okay. And I wanted to also mention the USMC Memorial Foundation. And it is August. Can’t believe that it is August 1st. The 23rd is their celebration for their 48th anniversary. And a great way to say thank you to those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives is to support the USMC Memorial Foundation. And you can buy tickets for that event by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And we were just talking about them, and that is the Second Syndicate, great sponsors of The Kim Monson Show.
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Thank God it’s Friday. It is Friday, and welcome back. We are going to jump into this. Wanted to first of all, though, say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because 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 that’s a great segue into our guest robert bryce is an author speaker and film producer he’s been writing about energy power politics and innovation for more than three decades he’s also the acclaimed author of six books including his most recent book a question of power electricity and the wealth of nations he’s also done some very important documentaries one is juice How Electricity Explains the World, and then Jews, Power, Politics, and the Grid. He was also a guest for our A Climate Conversation podcast series, and you can watch A Climate Conversation, which is the brainchild of Walt Johnson, at aclimateconversation.com. Robert Bryce, welcome to the show.
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Glad to be with you, Kim. Thank you.
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And, boy, you are writing amazing pieces at Substack under Robert Bryce, and that’s spelled B-R-Y-C-E. And I wanted to begin with one of the ones you recently published regarding what the media won’t tell you about the energy transition. So tell me a little bit about that.
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Well, thank you. Yes, glad to be with you again, Kim. Well, you know, you just don’t hear the facts, the numbers, really, from mainstream media outlets about what is happening globally. And so every year, I’m such an energy nerd, Kim, I look forward to the release of the Statistical Review of World Energy. That’s how much I love a good spreadsheet. But the Energy Institute used to be BP. It’s now the Energy Institute. Publishes the statistical review every year. And what’s great is that they publish a spreadsheet with it. You know, a lot of documents, a lot of reports, including EIA and IEA, they don’t necessarily publish spreadsheets. So it’s more difficult to, I’m not going to say manipulate the numbers, but to illustrate the numbers, to put the numbers into your own graphics. Statistical review provides a spreadsheet. So in any case, but here’s the punchline, what the media won’t tell you, natural gas continues to grow. Natural gas use continues to grow faster than any other form of primary energy globally. And in fact, last year, again, globally, it grew more than two times the rate of wind and solar combined. And yet, as you know, Kim, all we hear, not all we hear, we are inundated, rather, inundated with claims in The New Yorker, in The New York Times, in The Washington Post, in NPR. that, oh, wind and solar, these are the energy sources of the future. The reality is they’re not growing nearly as fast as hydrocarbons globally, and that’s been the case for decades.
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But here in America, as you say, we have all the mainstream media that is pushing this on a regular basis. In fact, I had pulled this headline. It said, why Texas cutthroat approach to net zero is paying off. And as I read it, I was thinking about you because Texas is rich in oil and natural gas, but yet they’re pushing this net zero thing. What’s your thoughts about Texas? And that’s where you live.
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Yes, I do. I live in Austin. I’ve lived here for 40 years. I know of no net zero push in Texas. There’s no law in Texas that is mandating or even a suggestion or even a goal of net zero in Texas. So I don’t know what they’re talking about. Now, I will say that it is clear that when it comes to solar in particular and wind, Texas is adding a lot of capacity, of alt energy capacity and a lot of batteries. And it’s a big part of the state’s generation mix. There’s no doubt about that. But let’s be clear. Texas is not America. Texas is anomalous in many ways. And I’m not bragging about Texas. I’m from Oklahoma. But it is a very big state. It has the second largest state only after Alaska. And we have a lot of parts of the state up in, you know, the West Texas and the Panhandle where there’s a whole lot of land and not a lot of people. And, you know, on that land there’s, you know, rattlesnakes and prickly pear cactus and mesquite trees and not a lot else. So those areas you can put significant wind and solar capacity because it’s not near people. And further, Texas has its own, effectively its own grid in ERCOT. And finally, and perhaps most important, this state has massive amounts of natural gas and natural gas fire generation. So adding significant quantities of alt energy, as I call it, it’s not renewable, it’s not clean, it’s not great, it’s just alternative energy, it’s somewhat easier in Texas than it is in other states.
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Well, and I like the fact that you’re calling it alternative energy because language is so important. And so using this term green energy or renewable energy, those seem like those are positive words.
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They’re marketing terms. Yeah, they are. They’re marketing terms. They really don’t. And that’s the other part. Hydrocarbons is the correct word, not fossil fuels. Hydrocarbons. Coal, oil, and natural gas are hydrocarbons. Fossil fuels is their term. I don’t use their terms. I don’t use clean, green, renewable. Those are marketing terms. As my friend Jesse Osserville put it, he put it very well. Solar and wind energy, solar and wind may be renewable, but they are not green. And I think that’s a really, really succinct way to think about this. Yes, they use renewable sources of generation, the sun and the wind. But they require massive amounts of land. And as we can talk about solar and Chinese supply chains, I just looked last night, 95% of the solar-grade polysilicon produced on the planet comes from China. And one other quick point. On Sunday, I’m going to be releasing a new mini-documentary. You graciously mentioned my other documentaries. It’s called Sunblock, The Global Fight to Save Farmland from Big Solar. And I it’s only 10 minutes and I made it on a very small budget and worked on it with my daughter, Mary. And we’re putting it out of my step stack and on LinkedIn, on Twitter, on YouTube, on Instagram, TikTok, et cetera. Just pointing out that this massive expansion of solar energy, which is clearly underway, is in many cases, including here in Texas and now big fights are way underway in Iowa. paving some of the best farmland in the world. And this is just insane. What are we doing here? We’ve got to be very thoughtful about what we’re doing.
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Well, and we’ll talk a bit more about, well, taking of land here in the next segment. But this all wouldn’t happen without all of these tax incentives and grants and all that, right, Robert Price? Yes.
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Well, yes. And now we’re finally seeing with the, you know, the big, beautiful bill act that, you know, Congress has that the president signed into law on July 4th. that there is an end in sight to these massive subsidies that have been going to solar and wind. But to your point, this has clearly been the driving force. After years of all these claims from the left and the progressives and climate NGOs that wind and solar are the cheapest forms of generation, well, okay, so fine, you keep saying that. Well, then if they’re so cheap, they shouldn’t need subsidies. And therein is the question is, how much solar and wind capacity will be built now in the wake of the passage of the Beautiful Bill Act, which in many cases will end the subsidies for wind and solar as soon as next year.
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So, Robert Bryce, you mentioned that, and again, it’s because government is doing these subsidies and all these grants and things, once that goes away, the whole landscape will change on that, no pun intended.
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Oh, no, that’s the right word. That’s really good. I’m glad how you worked that in. Well done. See, this is why you’re a radio professional. The landscape will change. And thank God for that. And in fact, the landscape will be saved. We will be preserving open space instead of paving it, which is just where is environmentalism? It’s gone. These environmental groups, they’re not environmental groups. They’re climate NGOs is the right term. They used to care about whales. They used to care about birds and bats. Now all they care about, all they care about is wind and solar because that’s this church of climatism and alternative energy.
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And taking farmland out of production ultimately will affect our food supply, Robert Price. Yes.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, yes. Hello. And like you, I have a steel trap mind for the deadly obvious. This is what are we doing here? You know, why are you taking prime farmland out of production? I’ve seen this over and over, and farmers are fighting back. And this was part of what I wrote in my new mini-documentary coming out, Sunblock, on Sunday, pointing this out, that farmers and ranchers all over the world are fighting back in Spain now. There are over 100 farmers fighting a solar project that would end up bulldozing thousands of olive trees in Spain. It’s in China, in India, here in the United States. This is all over the world. This is happening. But this insanity over and mania really over solar, we’ve got to be sober about what’s happening.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and I remember when the Ivanpah solar project was put to, this was maybe what, 12 years ago in California. And it got so hot that it was frying birds. And I was thinking, where are the environmentalists on this? And now that my understanding is that solar field is closed down. Is that right?
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It’s going to be shuttered. The project, you’re right, it’s called Ivanpah. The offtaker is Pacific Gas and Electric, and it was concentrated solar. And when it opened, concentrated solar through their mirrors, the massive array of mirrors that are pointed at heliostat, where then they heat water or oil or another liquid or something, and then they run that through a turbine to create steam and then create electricity. But yes, it was very soon after opening, they found that it was a wildlife sink. That’s the word for it as something where it comes, you know, it just kills wildlife. And birds were flying through this area where the solar energy was being concentrated and they would be killed. They would be burned to death in midair. And the biologists called them streamers. And it was hundreds of birds per year. Now, the exact count, we’re not clear of because biologists aren’t going to sit out there forever. They’ll go out there for a short period of time and then do an estimate. But just another example of how this climatism And lack of concern for the natural environment because of climatism has led to the destruction of wildlife. And the same thing has happened with wind energy. And I’m a bird watcher and have been for 40 years, and it just grills my cheese to see that we are losing hundreds of thousands of birds per year, particularly raptors and birds of prey to these wind projects.
SPEAKER 04 :
So what’s going to happen with Ivanpah then with all of those mirrors and all that out there? How are they going to recycle that? What’s that going to look like?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, we’re going to find out, aren’t we? Oh, you’ve got these massive mirrors. Oh, now are you going to recycle those? Where do they go? Are they going to a landfill? And the same is going to be true, Kim, with all these solar panels and wind turbine blades. You know, what’s the end of life for all of this stuff? And this is something, again, that has not been given due consideration. And You know, we will see. But right now, it’s clear that these wind turbine blades in particular are being landfilled. You’re in Colorado. Some of them are being cut up and then landfilled in Wyoming. But, you know, these solar panels, I think the overwhelming majority are going to end up in the landfill because they’re not at their end of their life. The contents of the material contents inside are not worth enough to recycle.
SPEAKER 04 :
Boy, this is – it’s unbelievable. It’s about power, I think, and power and control, not the kind of power that powers our lives. Let’s button up this piece that you’ve written. People can find it at robertbryce at substack.com, and that’s robertbryce at substack.com. How do you want to button this up? Because I can’t wait to talk with you about the next subject that we have when we come back. What the media still won’t tell you about the energy transition. What’s the takeaway that you want people to have on this?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, first, it’s robertbrice.substack.com. Otherwise, they’re going to email me, robertbrice.substack.com. But I think what’s the takeaway? Know your numbers. For all of the spin, for all of the hype, for all of the media coverage that is given to Alt Energy, the reality is this. Not my numbers, the numbers. Not my numbers, the numbers from the Statistical Review of World Energy. 87% of the world’s primary energy still comes from hydrocarbons. Exactly 1% comes from solar and about 2% comes from wind.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow. That is an important takeaway. And again, what is that? Substack again? How’d they get that?
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, God bless you. God bless you, Kim. RobertPrice.substack.com.
SPEAKER 04 :
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. And I’m talking with Robert Bryce. He’s an author, speaker, and film producer. And he’s been writing about energy, power, politics, and innovation for more than three decades. He’s an acclaimed author of six books. His most recent book is A Question of Power, Electricity, and the Wealth of Nations. He has filmed two documentaries, Jews, How Electricity Explains the World, and Jews, Power, Politics, and the Grid. And he has a mini documentary that is coming out sunblock this Sunday. Robert Bryce, will people be able to get that at your website as well?
SPEAKER 15 :
They should be able to. Well, it’ll definitely be on my Substack, robertbrice.substack.com. But yeah, we’re going to post it. We’re going to post it all over the place. I’ve made it, you know, I’ve made a couple of documentaries and, you know, had large budgets and took a long time. This we made for, you know, a couple thousand dollars and it took two weeks. And so, yes, I want to get it seen. I want people to understand the importance of this issue, which is farmland, prime farmland being paved over by the solar industry.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and then another component of that is they take this farmland, but then ostensibly want to get that power, which is either 1% to 2%, depending. You said I think it was 1% of our energy output. portfolio is solar and 2% is wind, then taking all this land, but they need to get that 1% to 2% to what they say is to the population centers. And so there’s a big land grab as well with these transmission lines. And so you just published this most recent or very recent piece at Substack, and it is Transmission Unplugged. And this is, one of them is right in my backyard. So tell us about that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Sure. Well, you’re right. So what is the other issue in the land use conflict involving wind and solar is that the best resources are far from cities. So what do you have to do then? You have to build high voltage transmission. And what do we know about high voltage transmission? I know about these lines. No one wants them. No one wants them near their homes. No one. I don’t use the word NIMBY because I don’t like this slur. Everyone everywhere cares about what happens in their neighborhoods. So the key to this, the way into this article that I wrote, transmission unplugged on my sub stack, was pointing out that the Grain Belt Express project is now effectively dead. Why? Because the Department of Energy rescinded the loan guarantee that was made in the final days of the Biden administration by the loan programs office. Well, that project, Grain Belt Express, had faced fierce opposition in Missouri for more than a decade. And Josh Hawley, the senator from Missouri, was involved in that and getting the government to rescind the loan. So that project, it’s about almost 800 miles. It was being pushed by Invenergy, which is a Canadian-owned company. That project now, I think, is effectively dead. But I also mentioned the project in Colorado that Xcel is pushing called the Power Pathway, that now in the span of a few weeks, both Elbert County and El Paso counties have have now voted unanimously, their county commissions have voted unanimously to refuse permission to Xcel to cross their counties with this big high-voltage project, which is, again, aimed at bringing alternative energy from rural areas into Denver. So this is really important because, again, another land-use conflict involving alt energy, but this is on the high-voltage transmission side.
SPEAKER 04 :
So Robert Bryce, I went out to Albert County, and I’m from Western Kansas, so as I would drive to Western Kansas, I drive across Albert County on a regular basis. It is a beautiful county. And I thought, I need to go out and watch what’s going on at the hearing. And ultimately, I made public comments. There was probably at least 100 farmers and ranchers there. And I’ve seen this act before. I knew what was going to happen. Staff takes an hour of time to present. Then Excel took an hour and a half to present as well. And then you finally get to a point where the public, the people who’s really affected, could speak. And the county commissioners did let everyone speak before they adjourned the meeting to then come back the next day with their decision. But these are everyday people that have jobs and families that are showing up. To have that many people show up is so important. But what’s crazy to me, Robert Price, is that Excel presented an incomplete request for the permit, and yet they have been out there with condemnation papers threatening to take land via eminent domain. And that is really concerning to me, Robert Price.
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, and it should. But a quick point on what you said about the people who show up at these meetings, and it’s remarkable. You know, I’ve been tracking this, the land use conflicts and the renewable rejection database, which I’ve been maintaining now for 15 years. And you’re exactly right. What is this all about? It’s about ordinary people and rural folks, many times women of a certain age, working at their kitchen tables, fighting corporate interests that they have no idea that they’re outmanned, outgunned, out-moneyed, out-PR’d, out-boyeared. But they’re there because they care about their neighborhoods. And on the other side of the table are these massive corporate interests, many of them publicly traded companies, some of them not, but invariably very wealthy, very large corporations from out of town, even out of the country. And what are they after? They’re after the money. And that’s the bottom line here, Kim. This doesn’t have, whether it’s Xcel and the Power Pathway Project, whether it’s these big solar and big wind projects, it doesn’t have anything to do with climate change. It’s all about money.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and one of my listeners said, because I have wondered why Xcel is just doubling down. And on this, and she said that many of these subsidies are going to run out at the end of 2026 for wind and solar. So they’re trying to get this transmission line up and running or get the land for that. Is that your understanding as well, Robert?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, this is slightly different on the transmission projects because for a public utility like Xcel, they can just add all of that cost into the rate base. So I think there are two separate issues in terms of the money here. The wind and solar subsidies under the Inflation Reduction Act, the investment tax credit for solar production, tax credit for wind largely, those are going to run out. But the transmission lines is a somewhat separate issue in that for utilities like Xcel, whatever they spend on those things, they can just put into the rate base and charge ratepayers. So this is the perverse incentive in the utility world is that, The more money these big utilities spend, the more money they make. And they don’t care, ultimately, I mean, they say they will, how much electricity costs. But their motivation is the opposite of the motivation for consumers, which is to make the system as expensive as possible.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, yeah, which is what they’re trying to do. So if those subsidies disappear for wind and solar, so that source for those transmission lines, that may go out of business, yes or no?
SPEAKER 15 :
Well, it should slow down. There’s definitely this is definitely the case. And there are a lot of different projections about what impact it will have. I mean, there’s some some estimates that, in fact, that once these subsidies run out and they I think that the projects have to be start construction by within a year or so by by summer of twenty, twenty six is varying. varying analyses of this, but if they don’t start construction, they don’t get the tax credit. So this could bring this alt-energy craze, this alt-energy build-out and land grab by big solar and big wind. I mean, it could cripple it. Now, it won’t kill it altogether, but it will definitely take some starch out of it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, gosh. Okay, Robert Bryce, we have 45 seconds. Tell people how they can find you and also about this documentary that’s coming out.
SPEAKER 15 :
Sure. Well, the doc, the mini doc, it’s only 10 minutes. Folks, this is called Sunblock, the global fight to save farmland from big solar. It’s coming out on Sunday. We’re going to put it on YouTube, LinkedIn, my sub stack, et cetera. And I’m very excited about it. You know, very pleased to be able to spotlight this issue of prime farmland. But Robert Bryce dot sub stack dot com is where I write now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Robert Bryce, thank you so much. Fascinating. And keep up the amazing work that you’re doing.
SPEAKER 15 :
That’s very kind. Thank you, Kim.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation. And welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You’re each treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose today. Strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Friday, Producer Joe. Happy Friday, Kim. And, boy, that was a great interview in hour number one with Robert Bryce. You can hear that. It will rebroadcast in the one to two hour. And all of this happens because of our sponsors. I want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it’s reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal hydrocarbons. that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And so these are important discussions. Pleased to have in studio with me Rich Guggenheim. Rich, welcome. Thanks. So we did a practice last Friday, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER 13 :
Got my dates mixed up, but now I know how it works.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, that’s great. And you have written a book, Escaping the Rainbow Plantation, which we’re going to talk about, but it’s doing very well.
SPEAKER 13 :
It is, yes. It’s blown me away. It is a number one seller on Amazon right now. Wow. So I joked about making tens of dollars. Now I might make hundreds of dollars. Okay.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, it’s always nice to add some zeros on there, isn’t it?
SPEAKER 13 :
Amazon definitely likes to take their slice of the pie. Actually, I think what they do is they take the pie and they leave you with a slice.
SPEAKER 04 :
Aha. Okay. They take their fair share, huh?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. Well, and I didn’t do this to be making money, let’s be honest. If I was doing this to make money, I wouldn’t be giving away the Kindle edition for free on Amazon. So it’s free. Download it if you have a Kindle. If you don’t have a Kindle, buy the paperback. I will tell you, when I wrote the book and I finally got the author’s proofs, there’s a couple of different types that I set up and I wanted to see which one I liked the most. And the first thing I did was I opened the box when it showed up on my doorstep and I opened up the book and I smelled the paper and the ink. There’s just something about the smell of ink on paper that you can’t, you can’t get any other way. There’s just a connection that we have with that.
SPEAKER 04 :
I totally agree. And as my friend Brad Beck says, he says, he doesn’t have a bookshelf problem. He doesn’t have a book problem. He has a shelf problem. I can totally understand that. So let’s jump into some of the things that we do, though. And our word of the day is hooey. And I remember my grandmother using that word. And it’s a real word. H-O-O-E-Y. It could be nonsense, silly talk or writing. or senseless talk. And Rich Guggenheim, there’s a lot of things out there that we see every day that is a bunch of hooey, isn’t it?
SPEAKER 13 :
I got a bunch of that that I talk about in the book.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. So we’ll get to that. Our quote of the day And I take this from the Medal of Honor quote book, which you can purchase by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. I’d recommend that you have this on your bookshelf at home as well in your Freedom Library. And we highlight one of the quotes each Friday from the Medal of Honor quote book. And this is from Harold A. Fritz, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient, born 1944-1945. actions taken during the Vietnam War on January 1, 1969. And he said this. He said, America, love it or leave it. Many have died to protect it. And again, that is Harold A. Fritz, Medal of Honor recipient. And that website to purchase the book is AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. So check that out. And a lot of different headlines out there. But this is one, and we’ll talk with Virginia Maka about this later on in August. But the Grain Belt Express Project, and this is from Robert Bryce, his substack. I aim to carry wind-generated electricity from Kansas to the Indiana Illinois border appears to be in they’re losing a bunch of these government subsidies let’s just put it that way and Robert said this. He said in May, Michael Polsky, the CEO of Chicago-based Invenergy, I-V-E-N-E-R-G-Y, appeared on Fox Business to announce that his company was awarded some $1.7 billion in contracts to build the long-delayed Grain Belt Express transmission project. In an interview with Maria Bartiromo, Polsky claimed the 780-mile high-voltage project would create 22,000 jobs along the way between transmission and generation. Polsky, net worth $2.5 billion. Now, he is doing it for the money, Rich Guggenheim, I would say. went on to serve up more spin than Rafael Nadal. He claimed that the project will be unleashing American energy. We will be creating energy independence in a way. But as Robert Rice says, here’s a tip. Whenever you hear anyone, particularly a hype man like Polsky, promise energy independence, grab your wallet. Invenogy, which is a majority owned by a Canadian firm, CDPQ, also claims the project will result in $52 billion in energy cost savings. And that the transmission project is private sector-led and market-driven. He also he recently announced a 75 million gift to the World Resources Institute so it can help accelerate the global energy transition, concluded the CNBC appearance by saying his company needs clarity from the Trump administration. We need to know the rules. Well, he got that because. Polsky neglected to mention that his project gets built. It’ll saddle ratepayers with $500 million in costs to integrate that power. But then it goes on, he did get this clarity last week. The Department of Energy gave Polsky some high amperage clarity from the Trump administration because they canceled a $4.9 billion loan guarantee for the Greenbelt Express that the agency’s loan programs made last November as Biden was on his way out. This is crazy, Rich.
SPEAKER 13 :
I just keep going back to the question, what is the proper role of government? And if the proper role of government is to subsidize one aspect of the energy sector.
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Is it?
SPEAKER 13 :
I don’t think it is.
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It’s not the proper role of government to take from one to give to another.
SPEAKER 13 :
No, that’s not. And that’s not. I struggle with these people who say that. Yes, I do believe that we should have diversity in our energy sources. That’s great if private sector wants to step up and do that. But I, as a taxpayer, should not be subsidizing any aspect of that.
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Totally agree. And that’s foundational in the American idea. And speaking of foundational in the American idea and protecting the American idea is our military. There are those that have stepped up and given their lives, have been willing to give their lives for our liberty. And one of the ways to honor them, remember them, is to support the USMC Memorial Foundation. And a woman that does that and her teams, but Paula Sarles is the president of the foundation and her team are doing amazing things to maintain the memorial and raise money for the remodel. And we happen to have her on the line. Paula Sarles, welcome to the show. Well, good morning. And Paula, it is important that each of us remember and honor. And one of the great ways to do that is to support the foundation. And there’s going to be a great event on August 23rd at the memorial to celebrate the 48th anniversary. So tell us a little bit about that.
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Well, we have a wonderful singer, Dave Bray, who is generally a country singer, but he’s going to bring his patriotic selections and do a performance for us. And it’s just a lot of fun. It’s a much more intimate setting than you might see at one of his concerts. He gets thousands of people that generally attend his stuff and Our audience isn’t that big, so it’s a lot more fun, and you get a chance to talk to him up close and personal. So it’s a really great time, and he makes it a lot of fun, and we just have a good time out there.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and he’s a veteran, yes?
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Yes, he’s a Navy corpsman, FMF corpsman, which Marines love them, and they wear the Eagle globe and anchor, so he’s served really well. And in the same box, as they say. And we’re really excited to have him come back again. He was here last year, and we had just the best time. And it’s in the evening, so you can bring a picnic lunch or dinner, or you can buy some food from the food truck and just sit around and sing and listen to his music. And it’s just really fun. Very interactive with him, too.
SPEAKER 04 :
Now, Paula Sarles, I have not been to a concert in a long, long time. My understanding is that they are very, very expensive. And so the tickets for this performance of Dave Bray are very reasonable and, of course, supports the memorial as well. And where can people get tickets?
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Well, all the funds go to the Memorial Foundation and they’re only fifty dollars. And unless you want a VIP ticket right up front, and that’s if you buy a brick, you know, with our program that you donate using the Buy a Brick program, you get, like, front row seating. And otherwise, they’re $50. You bring your own lawn chair and just have a great time there. It’s great. You get it on our website at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And either way, it’s a great opportunity to have some fun, a good, clean fun. It’s outdoors, so it’s nice. And the evening we start the singing at 630, but you can arrive earlier, like it’s starting at 5, and just visit with veterans and have a good time.
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And just to clarify, the Buy a Brick program is people can buy a brick to honor their loved one’s military service or their military service. And those bricks will be on pathways of service that will be at the memorial when it’s completed. But in the meantime, people will receive a beautiful certificate regarding their brick. I purchased a brick for my father for his Air Force service and then also for my father’s cousin who was killed at Pearl Harbor in World War II. And it’s a way to memorialize your loved one’s military service. And I love the fact that you are doing that, Paula Sarles.
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Well, it’s really a great keepsake because it may take us a while to get all the funds raised. And we hope to start our capital campaign this January and maybe break some ground to do part of it or all of it in August of 2027. which will be our 50th anniversary.
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Ah, that’s awesome. That is awesome. And that website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org, usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Paula, thank you so much. Thank you for all your hard work, and thank your team as well.
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Well, thank you, Kim. We really appreciate your help.
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Indeed, it is Friday, and welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Our website is kimmonson.com. In studio with me is Rich Guggenheim, and he has written a book, Escaping the Rainbow Plantation, and it is taking Amazon by storm, yes?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I think it’s taking them by storm. I hope so, because they’ve got to be responsible for printing it and distributing it. That’s why Amazon is, you know, a distribution company that has taken over the world.
SPEAKER 04 :
You know, I… I find it so interesting. I was very reticent to get on the Amazon train just because I was afraid they were taking over the world. But it is pretty remarkable that a guy that started distributing books from basically this garage has become one of the wealthiest people in the world.
SPEAKER 13 :
It’s crazy. And you know what’s crazy to me is how people love to hate on Jeff Bezos. But isn’t that what… capitalism is all about. Yes. And I just, people are like, oh, blah, blah, blah. And I’m like, if you’ve got a better idea, feel free to step up to the plate and put it forward.
SPEAKER 04 :
And if you have an idea that’s a good idea, and some people want to trade their hard-earned dollars for it, which is called capitalism, that is great. But if you have an idea that a lot of people want to trade their hard-earned dollars for, then you get fabulously wealthy.
SPEAKER 13 :
You know, I share my own family story, last name Guggenheim. My ancestors, the Guggenheims, came over and they were poor Jewish immigrants. And what they wound up doing was creating and selling stove polish for black stoves in New York City and that area. And they literally went door to door. And then the wife said, oh my gosh, I have something that I can sell along with this as my husband is selling black stove polish. And that was lace for dresses. And so they started very modestly making their money. And as you probably know, the Guggenheims later went on to become… The Jeff Bezos is of the day, right? They they owned mining and they own they didn’t just own the mining itself. They owned the transportation and the logistics. They owned the smelting and they owned the railroads and they owned all of this money. And surprisingly enough, one of them became a senator for the state of Colorado. Simon Guggenheim was a senator. And if you ever go to School of Mines, that’s why the administrative hall is the Guggenheim Hall because of the School of Mines and mining. But it starts out small and it’s humble. And then they wound up becoming one of the major players. They were out there with… you know, the Strausses and the people that were the musks and people like that of their day.
SPEAKER 04 :
That is fascinating. I had no idea. Now, there is the Guggenheim Art Museum in New York. That’s from their money, yes?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yep. That’s a whole fun part of the story. They got into money, and then the daughter of one of them decided to go to Europe and start collecting money and did some other things that one of them, being in politics, was like… Collecting money or art? Art. Okay. And making money off of the art and… She was also known for a few other things. And the family was like, no, we don’t want you tarnishing our image.
SPEAKER 04 :
A little unconventional, we might say.
SPEAKER 13 :
We’ll just pay you to stay in Europe. So that’s how that came about. And then, of course, there’s a story of Benjamin Guggenheim who died on the Titanic. Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. Wow. Fascinating. I had no idea. So let’s talk about… Your book, Escaping the Rainbow Plantation. What is the rainbow plantation?
SPEAKER 13 :
The rainbow plantation is symbolism. If you’ve seen the cover of the book, you can see it’s packed, chock full of symbolism. The rainbow plantation is really an ideological plantation. And the people who buy into this ideology are enslaved on this plantation. And this ideology is… the gender ideology and it’s enforced by what I call the gender industrial complex. And I break that down. I literally go in chapter by chapter to talk about this. And in the modern day LGB movement, which has become the 2SLGBTIIQAA movement, plus and I think the plus is a premium subscription where you get a pierced septum when you make that subscription I don’t know what that is but there’s so many letters and it’s exhausting even for us who are gay and lesbian people to keep up with all of it but you are not allowed on the plantation to question this ideology right so you’re not allowed to question the edicts that come down from the slave masters and if you step out of line the slave masters are going to punish you and so I paint this whole picture of We’ve become enslaved, not physically, but mentally and ideologically to an ideology and to these corporate overlords and these NGOs. And I talk in the book about gender ideology is undermining the foundation of society, and that is the family and how we need to step up as parents and as a society to protect families. And then the other pieces of it are the five pillars of society. And I talk about science, I talk about academia, I talk about medicine, I talk about the media, and I talk about the government and how all of these pillars have been corrupted because they’ve been appropriated and colonized by these people who are pushing this ideology.
SPEAKER 04 :
So, Rich, I really think that, well, I’ve seen it with environmentalism. And then what you’re alluding to, I think, is almost a religion.
SPEAKER 13 :
I actually talk about that in the book. In fact, I can just tell you, it’s right here in the very beginning of it. And when we talk about how gender ideology has become a belief system enforced with the fervor of religion, but without the humility of faith.
SPEAKER 04 :
Interesting. Okay. I think let’s clarify something. As I opened up the book, you have this dedication to James O’Rourke. And it looked to me kind of like the opposite of what you are standing for. So I think you need to explain this just a little bit, okay? Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, James O’Rourke, I know he listens. I know everybody at the Colorado Times Recorder loves to listen to your show. They’re probably some of your most dedicated audience. Really? Oh, man, they love it because that’s where they get their hit pieces from. So they I was on the Mandy Connell show a couple of months back talking about pride. And I made the statement about the rainbow plantation on the show. And it was just kind of a happenstance that I came up with that statement. And apparently he took great offense on that and decided to write a whole hit piece on me in the Colorado Times recorder, which isn’t actually media. It’s just far left media. propaganda and so he wrote this whole hit piece on me in it and talking about the rainbow plantation and so I decided to dedicate this book to him and it says to James O’Rourke and the trans rights and queer activists who inspire me every single day and that’s because honestly they do inspire me to keep going and keep speaking the truth and the fact that I live rent-free inside their head I just I’m sorry to say this, but you’re not going to shut me down. You’re not going to silence me. And their tactics that the media uses are literally a whole chapter. It’s chapter seven of the book. And it’s also there would be no fight to protect our children if it wasn’t for these trans queer activists going after our children.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. And there’s so many that are in our Colorado legislature now.
SPEAKER 13 :
How did that happen? Well, that goes back to the voters.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I believe, you know, I remember growing up and my dad would listen to Rush Limbaugh and he would talk about the low information voter. And there’s so many of them that are. And there’s a section in this book that I talk about the Mahmoud case. And that was the case that the Supreme Court recently issued their opinion on regarding these books that are in school libraries and the parents who were objecting to their children being forced to to sit through these lessons with books, and these books, there was no opt-out. And let’s be honest, these books are not teaching inclusivity. These books are sexually explicit and graphic, and we’ve had these conversations. Kane, who you had on last week, is great at exposing this stuff. And so when the Mock Mood case came out, Steph Vigil, who is a former legislator from Colorado Springs, and I don’t know what she identifies as, That’s she is a woman. And I think she just needs to come to terms with biological reality. I think that she openly talks about being a sexual assault victim. And I think that there’s some unprocessed trauma that may be leading to all of that. But I empathize with her in that regard. But that doesn’t mean that you get to force your ideology onto other people’s children. And she went on and talked about in the book. I mentioned her social media posts. Oh, but it’s OK to have the Ten Commandments placed in schools and teach your children about that in schools. And it’s like, no, Steph, this is what, first of all, we call the logical fallacy called a red herring. You’re trying to distract from the actual issue. And second of all, they’re good point. There are four things, there are four cases that the Supreme Court already ruled on that said, no, we can’t do this. But I talk about how she wants to go on with this, what I call Christophobia. She wants to attack the Christians because, oh, this is a far right ideology and the Christians and the Christians and the Christians. That’s another group of people that live rent free inside the TQI plus activists head. But Mahmoud, just think about that. That was a Muslim family that brought this. And so I talk about how this has united people across religions and across politics and across race. Because at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter where we grew up. It doesn’t matter what our socioeconomic background is. It doesn’t matter what our faith is. We all are concerned about protecting our children. And then I talk in that chapter also about the dangers of the Queers for Palestine movement and the LGBTIQA plus community aligning with the Muslim ideology. And it’s just about exposing the hypocrisy of that whole entire thing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Let’s talk about that when we come back, Rich. I’m talking with Rich Guggenheim regarding his new book, Escaping the Rainbow Plantation. And these discussions are so important. They happen because of our sponsors. And for everything residential real estate, reach out to Karen Levine because there’s opportunity out there.
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SPEAKER 04 :
Indeed, it is Friday. Welcome back. Check out the website, KimMuntz.com. I’m talking with Rich Guggenheim regarding his new book, Escaping the Rainbow Plantation. Rich, you mentioned in the last segment about pornographic books in school. And when I was a kid, I was always taught to be careful of that creepy person that might invite you over to try to show you some… Yeah, stranger danger. Yeah, nasty movies and sexually explicit stuff to try to then take advantage of a child. If you would have told me that we would have sexually explicit material in our elementary schools, in our junior highs, in our high schools… and that there are people that are fighting to keep it there i would say you’re crazy and then if you would tell have told me that we were had a whole industrial complex that was either pharmaceutically or surgically cutting off healthy breasts of our girls and and penises of our boys i would have said you’re crazy but that’s where we’ve gotten to
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, here’s what’s even crazier is when we talk about what they’re doing to children and you’ll hear this and this is what one of the tactics that bullies use to emotionally manipulate people and they’ll gaslight you and tell you, oh, that’s not happening. If it’s not happening and it’s not being done to children, then why did they fight so hard against Tennessee Senate Bill 1 in the Scrametti case? Why did that law have to go all the way to the Supreme Court if it’s not happening?
SPEAKER 04 :
And explain to people what that is, if they don’t know.
SPEAKER 13 :
The Scrametti case was a case that came out of the Tennessee issue, passed Senate Bill 1, which banned gender-affirming care, which is the hormones, the cross-sex hormones, the puberty blockers, and the surgeries. And by the way, there was just another study today, I was reading it, because it came out yesterday, a new study that talks about the harm of cross-sex hormones. And the medical complications that result from it and the medical harm that’s doing it. They’re purposely sterilizing and mutilating children. And it’s no coincidence, and I talk about this in the book, that one of the biggest pushers and suppliers of this type of stuff is Planned Parenthood. And Planned Parenthood, as you may know, was the founder of it. Margaret Sanger was a eugenicist. She was also a racist. Yeah, and… When you talk about that aspect of it, it makes perfect sense when you start thinking about the fact that Planned Parenthood with a background in eugenics and racism is pushing the sterilizing and mutilation of children. And who’s being subjected to it? Children who don’t have a family that have, don’t have the family with the wherewithal to be able to pull their children out of public school and put them into a private school or a charter school or homeschool. And so we’re taking children who are vulnerable to, And we’re sterilizing and mutilating them. And the ones that don’t have the means, our parents don’t have the means to be able to protect their children from gender ideology.
SPEAKER 04 :
It’s really unbelievable. That’s why the back of your book, I was reading it. You said that this is a new form of captivity that has emerged, draped in rainbows, driven by ideology and enforced through shame. Tell me that.
SPEAKER 13 :
In this book, one of the first chapters. So as I read the book, I start out with my own story happening right here in Denver. And I talk about some of the experiences that have happened to me at gay bars. And even at the state capitol, as you know, you’ve covered this, I was silenced in the state capitol. And by the way, oral arguments is happening September 10th at the Buy and White courthouse. Because you sued them? I am suing the state legislature. You aren’t going to tell me in the people’s house that I can’t use certain words. You’re not going to compel my speech and you’re not going to silence me when I refuse to conform.
SPEAKER 04 :
So what happened?
SPEAKER 13 :
I was testifying in the House and the Senate Judiciary Committee on House Bill 24-1071, which was Tiara’s law. And that was the law that allows for transgender-identifying individuals with felonies to be able to legally change their name and basically give no notice at all. Nobody knows, right? So the bill was named Tierra’s Law and Tierra is a transgender identifying male who has a rather extensive rap sheet. And his legal name is Dwayne Powell. And one of those things on his rap sheet is the fact that he was a sex worker. This is the same guy. who goes by Miss Tierra and works with children down in Colorado Springs and throughout the Front Range and was a former chairperson of Parasol Patrol and works with children who perform in drag. The children perform in drag at burlesque houses and churches. At churches? Yeah, there are churches out here in Colorado who will have children perform in drag shows. And these drag shows are where the children will dress in rather scandalous clothing, like you would expect a drag queen to do. And then they perform sexually and gyrate and things like that in front of adults who shower them with dollar bills.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, my God.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I just as a gay man is extremely offensive to me. And they’re like, oh, that’s not happening. Well, it is happening because we have the videos of it happening. So you’re lying to us again, trying again to gaslight us. And gaslighting is a form of emotional manipulation and emotional manipulation is bullying. So so they’ll try to shut you down. But the fact that they’re doing this to children and even if they sanitize this for children, what it does is. is it is a form of and i as you read the book you’re going to see that there are themes colonization so we’re colonizing this and then as colonists have done they’ve sanitized cultures throughout history so that it makes it marketable and can be appropriated by others and that’s what this has done is it has taken part of the gay nightlife and sanitized it so that they can market it to children. And then the children then I talk about how this teaches children to venerate people like that so that they then are easier to manipulate. And unfortunately, That’s what predators do. And then they can take advantage of those children. And I think it’s absolutely disgusting, one, because that’s what they’re doing to children, and two, because I’m seeing my culture sanitized and colonized by people that have no business being particularly white, liberal women. Really? Yes. Without a doubt, one of the largest appropriators and colonizers of gay culture are heterosexual white women. Why is that? I think they think they’re being allies.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
But, again, I also talk about the privilege.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 13 :
Like, you know, I’ve seen it time and time again at gay bars where you go to a gay bar and all of a sudden there’s no room for you and your friends because… There’s a bunch of women there? There’s a bunch of heterosexual white women having a bachelorette party at a gay bar. And it’s like, do you think… about how offensive that comes across to gay men who just within the last decade got the right to marry, something you’ve had for time immemorial, and let’s go appropriate their culture and let’s colonize their spaces to flaunt the fact that we are doing something we’ve had the right to do our entire life. Go back to Applebee’s.
SPEAKER 04 :
So the other thing before we go to break on this, and then if you want to send me some text messages with some questions, 720-605-0647, is you mentioned this, that this whole gender movement is an industrial complex.
SPEAKER 13 :
It is what I call the gender industrial complex.
SPEAKER 04 :
And that means there’s a lot of money involved.
SPEAKER 13 :
Billions of dollars.
SPEAKER 04 :
And a lot of taxpayer money involved.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah. Well, hopefully we’re getting to the point where that is becoming less of the case. But yes, especially here in Colorado.
SPEAKER 04 :
OK, so we’re seeing all of these headlines that Colorado is going to have a billion dollar shortfall because of the big, beautiful bill, Trump’s big, beautiful bill. And a lot of that is clawing back Medicaid funding. And I met with someone just this week for coffee who kind of slid across the table the summary of the Colorado budget bill. And there’s zero dollars of general fund money that is going to transportation, to our roads and bridges. But there is billions, I think it’s billions of dollars that’s coming in from the federal government for health and human services. And that’s not the proper role of government, Rich Guggenheim. No.
SPEAKER 13 :
I agree. And I think the other thing that we have to ask ourselves is when we have taxpayers funding this and taxpayers fund a lot more than we realize. We’re funding the pipeline into the gender industrial complex. And when I say the pipeline, we have mayors here in Colorado who are taking taxpayer dollars in. and using taxpayer resources to have drag queen story time and all-age drag shows in public venues for children. And that is the pipeline that starts children onto the journey, which I talk about those people being the slave traders that lead children onto the rainbow plantation, where then they become enslaved by gender ideology And then the medical industrial complex gets involved. And that’s where they start the hormones and the puberty blockers and the surgeries, which then turns that child into a lifetime patient.
SPEAKER 04 :
And that is being funded many times by government.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
Boy, our founding fathers, if they ever thought that we were taxing people to do this, they would say that’s… It’s what the Jews did during World War II.
SPEAKER 13 :
It’s Yosef Mengele did the same thing to children. He medically experimented on children. Under social regimes, this is what they do.
SPEAKER 04 :
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Indeed, it is Friday. I’m talking with Rich Guggenheim regarding his book, Escaping the Rainbow Plantation. And we’ve got callers. We are taking calls 303-477-5600. Johnny is on the line. Johnny, what is on your radar?
SPEAKER 12 :
You know what, I’m thinking like this is like their plan on population reduction. They got women on board with killing the babies. Now they’re getting women on board with mutilating their children. Because I think there’s mostly women that follow through with saying, yes, my child doesn’t know who he or she is. But if they get this cut off or this, you know, sold on,
SPEAKER 13 :
they’ll be happy and that’s just a false narrative as as is the false narrative of you kill your baby and you have a better life yeah it is my gosh johnny here’s what’s the here’s the missing side of that equation okay the father yeah and this goes back to the core premise of my book that this is about undermining the foundation of society which is the family
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow, and Johnny, I, gosh, I hadn’t connected those two dots. That’s important. Anything else, Johnny?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, that was the main thing I was thinking about, and I’ve heard this enemy before, and it’s like, wow, it’s like, if you had brought the video in, was it like, could you set up like a screen saying, okay, you guys saying that this is not happening? Here’s the video. And now, tell me you’re lying again. I mean, that would be a good punch.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, it’s like lie to me once. Okay, shame on you. Lie to me twice. Shame on me. Right, Johnny? So, hey, Johnny, thank you. Greatly appreciate it. God bless. Boy, good point that he made on that, Rich.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and it’s absolutely true. And again, this is why it’s important for people to understand why organizations like Planned Parenthood are so behind it. And then we’ve got these schools that are acting as these pipelines to funnel these children into this type of ideology. You know, I think it’s just extremely important that parents are aware of what’s going on. And I think one of the things that is important to talk about, too, also in this book is when I talk about in Chapter nine, I talk about a political battle that’s being waged. And there are a majority of the Democrats there. went in multiple polls that I referenced in this book, a majority of Democrats do not support this. They do not support 67% of Democrats do not support transgender identifying males in women’s sports. And 54 to 55% of Democrats do not support doing this to children. And we’ve seen a 9% increase in that number within the last year. And I think it’s because people are starting to understand the medical complications and the medical science is coming out. And the the medical implications of it that have been buried and suppressed so for so long by the gender industrial complex is breaking through and so the democrats are even starting to say hold on a minute well and uh i have some other comments i want to make on that but let’s gammy’s on the line let’s get her on gammy what’s on your radar
SPEAKER 04 :
OMG.
SPEAKER 05 :
Hi, Rich. You owe me a phone call. I’m sending you a hug. And listen, Kim, Rich, all of us, three things need to be said. The Federal Trade Commission put out a big email to everybody with a segment on July the 9th on gender, and it ripped my guts out with the first several boys and girls or men and women who were detransitioners who testified against I’m not kidding you. It tore me up because even our legislature would not vote for money for the D transition only for the transition because they’re idiots and criminals. But secondly, People can go to Google, FTC, Federal Trade Commission. We can comment until way into September, but that’s only part one. PK, you know, Protect Kids Colorado, the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network, all of that can be Googled, CPAN, PKC. Get involved as parents. Because we got kicked out of school boards for complaining about all this. And worse, my good friend Jordan Scott has been threatened over and over when he goes to tape the pride shows, the drag shows. We went and protested at the bars, you know, where they were bringing the kids in. And they threatened us. I don’t care. But they have threatened Jordan often because he exposes these kids dancing on the stage. This is so bad in Colorado, the gulag, as I call it, because brave people like Rich Guggenheim and Jordan Scott and all the parents and Aaron and Lori Gimelstadt, all these people, Kevin Lundberg, all these people are fighting Cain, Task Force Freedom. All these groups and more, grandparents, four kids with a four. There are so many groups out there right now, Genspec, right? And they’re fighting the Cass Report. What Rich is saying is so important because there aren’t enough parents and grandparents standing up in outrage. And I don’t care if they think I’m crazy. I’m 75. Come and get you some.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m not quitting, and they shouldn’t. Gammy, thank you. She is so well-informed, Rich Guggenheim.
SPEAKER 13 :
She is, yes. Gammy is very energetic and very passionate about that, and I just wish that we could have that kind of energy and that kind of passion in every parent.
SPEAKER 04 :
If so, we would make sure that this is not happening to our kids. There was a clarification that one of our listeners asked, and you mentioned Mengele, and you said it was what happened with the Jews. She said, did you mean what the Nazis did to the Jews?
SPEAKER 13 :
Exactly, yeah, what the Nazis were doing. He was a Nazi doctor. And he was medically experimenting on children, specifically twins. And in my book, I go back and I talk about the origins of gender ideology. But the medical aspect of it started with someone named John Money and his experiment on David Reimer. And I talk about how this entire thing is built on a failed medical experiment. David Reimer eventually went on to detransition, but more importantly, also wound up committing suicide.
SPEAKER 04 :
And didn’t they experiment on him and his brother, if I remember?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yes. Well, it started out with a botched circumcision. And because of that, it itself was a medical experimentation with a new procedure. But then they decided, well, we’re just going to have you live your life as a woman. And it’s interesting because the trans activists are always saying, oh, why are you so infatuated with genitals? Well, you’re the one who brought it up, first of all. But secondly, while we’re on that, that’s exactly what John Lenny did.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. So Rich Guggenheim, this book, you hit a lot of different, explain, let’s just quickly run through here, a lot of different topics here. So what do you want to make sure that people know?
SPEAKER 13 :
You know, for me, it really is. It isn’t just a warning. It is a roadmap and a path forward. And my hope and the goal of this book is to give people a voice and give you the tools to be able to speak out about this. Because the number of people who have come to me and said, oh my gosh, I completely agree with you. And the number of gay people who come to me and say this. I just want people to know you are not alone. And the way we fight this… is to speak the truth. And that’s exactly what I say in my introduction. And this is about talking again and really not allowing your voice to be silenced because we have to reclaim our pillars of society. We need to reclaim science. We need to reclaim medicine. We need to reclaim our children’s education and even our higher education. And we need to reclaim our government from this form of captivity. And Also, to take the time to strengthen our families, because this isn’t a war on families. This isn’t a war on children. This is a war on our society.
SPEAKER 04 :
It really is. And you said at the very back on the back of the book, it says this book is a warning and a roadmap, a warning that if we do not resist, we risk losing the meaning of one, the safety of children and the integrity of our civil society. Rich Guggenheim, thank you so much for writing this book. Where can people buy it?
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on Amazon. If you just go to Amazon and search for Escaping the Rainbow Plantation, I also want to say thank you to you, Kim, and also to everyone else who has helped me promote this book. I never in a million years would have ever thought that this would become a top seller, a number one seller on Amazon. So I really appreciate all of your help and all of the help that everybody else has given. And the people, I will specifically say this, it is in my in the back I want to talk to the people that helped me and inspired me. Greg Lopez, first of all. If you know Greg Lopez, that man is everywhere and doing all kinds of things. But, you know, first I just got to say Aaron Lee, Laurie Gimmelstein, Aaron Friday, January Little John, Travis Morrell, and Jamie Reed, Jamie Macell and Shasta with Gays Against Groomers. You inspired me. You encouraged me. And so thank you to all of you who made this possible.
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Rich Guggenheim, author of Escaping the Rainbow Plantation, thank you for being here. Thanks. Our quote for the end of the show is from Teddy Roosevelt. He said, Courage is not having the strength to go on. It’s going on when you don’t have the strength. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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And I don’t want no one to cry But tell them if I don’t survive
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