In a jam-packed episode of compelling conversations, Kim Monson brings to light the urgent issues affecting freedom in America today. From discussions on the infringement of Second Amendment rights to the financial pressures of continual hail damage affecting homeowners, this episode covers a range of critical topics. Join Kim and her guests as they dissect the intersection of policy, personal rights, and community action, aiming to arm listeners with knowledge and a sense of empowerment to engage in the national dialogue.
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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. 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 Monday, Producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And we’ve got a jam-packed show planned for you today, so fasten your seatbelts, all kinds of great information. As you know, we search for truth and clarity. By looking at these issues through this 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. The force can obviously be a weapon, but policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist elites playing out. The United Nations, this Colorado state legislature, which the special session begins this Thursday, this Colorado governor, but we see land use codes, zoning regulations. Forest fees, conservation easements, all these things are ways to control people. And we need to be moving towards freedom. And freedom, actually liberty, because liberty is the word we should use. Because liberty is the responsible exercise of freedom. And freedom is something that we need to certainly protect, but we need to be very responsible on that as well. I wanted to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. We are an independent voice on an independent station. And it’s because of all of your support, our sponsors, is how we get to be in this battle of ideas. And we hope that we’re helping you get your brain around these ideas so that you can then engage with your friends too. and family with all that is going on. Our word of the day is baffled. And it’s B-A-F-F-L-E-D. It’s an adjective. Number one, it could be not understanding, uncomprehending. Number two, could be discouraged by failure to accomplish a goal and uncertain how to proceed. Used especially of feelings of defeat and discouragement. Or number three, thoroughly confused and puzzled. And I took a road trip up to Et Voila French Bakery yesterday to meet the owners, Rachel and Eric Dufour. And today is the day that Jefferson County said that if they do not move their They’re actually not trailers. They’re really tiny homes off of the property. And there’s residential right around them. It’s crazy that they would close them down. So I sent an email to the county commissioners. However, it wasn’t easy. In our newsletter, we included addresses for the Jefferson County commissioners. And that would be Rachel Zinzinger. Andy Kerr, and Leslie Dahlkamper, and they all kicked back. So I did send something via into the website. I will call them after we’re off the show as well to try to get the correct addresses. We thought we had them. And anyway, I sent an email to them to encourage the county commissioners because ultimately they are responsible for what’s going on in Jefferson County and to get a variance so that the Dufours can keep those tiny homes near where they work and continue to go after their American dream with their wonderful French bakery. And I would recommend that you go to change.org and sign the petition. And since Friday, another approximately 300 people have signed that petition. And so that sends a message that people are paying attention. So actually, Rachel said she was just baffled by what was going on. And I’m baffled as well. And so your challenge is to use the word baffle in a sentence today. And because the Dufours are French and they’re naturalized citizens, and Et Voila is a French bakery, I went to Alexis de Tocqueville for our quote of the day. And he was born in 1805. He died in 1859. He was a French diplomat, political philosopher, and historian. He’s best known for his works, Democracy in America and The Old Regime and The Revolution. In both, he analyzed the living standards and social conditions of individuals, as well as their relationship to the market and state in Western societies. Democracy in America was published after de Tocqueville’s travels in the United States and is today considered an early work of sociology and political science. Now, this is attributed to him. There are those that say he did not say it, but it’s attributed to him. But it is a great quote regardless. He said, “‘Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good. And if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.'” And we’re changing things around a little bit regarding when we’re talking with our sponsors. And I am really blessed to work with amazing people that have us on the air. And a great sponsor of the Kim Monson Show is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And Roger Mangan, I’ve got some questions regarding hail. In our conversations over the years, I’ve learned that Colorado is one of the hail capitals in the world. And so what should people know about hail damage?
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Boy, that’s a large answer, Kim, but let me start with this. The average cost to replace a roof in Colorado, what would it cost you to replace the roof on your house? Well, there are a lot of variables. Is it a two-story, the slope of the roof, how many angles? But on the high end, it’s probably 30,000. I’m talking averages. On the low end of that average, it’s probably 15. I have not seen too many major hail claims for less than 20,000. So you’re going to have a deductible, of course, you have to absorb. But there’s some advice I think the consumer should be aware of that would help the process. Number one, if a hailstorm hits your area, you’re going to have a lot of ambulance chasers in the neighborhood knocking on doors. So don’t ever, ever sign a contract with an adjuster or, excuse me, with a company until your adjuster shows up and does an estimate. Most legitimate roofing companies, once you get your estimate, would say to you, I will do whatever your insurance company’s estimate dictates. That way you’ve got kind of a safety net. I’ve had insurers, for example, that have signed contracts. The riffer signs up, puts a load of shingles on the roof, and doesn’t show up for two months. In fact, in one case, it was a year and a half later in lawsuits before he could get that contractor to step up and put his roof on. So you have to be very, very wary of people knocking on your door. Which brings up another thing. There’s something we call in the industry a neighboritis. In other words, my neighbor got a roof on my right and on my left he got a roof, therefore I deserve a roof. The adjuster’s going to come out there and look at your roof, and he may say you have a partial loss, and that loss might be under your deductible. So before you call somebody to come out and look. If you call your agent, what your agent’s going to do is say, you’re not sure, let’s get a roofer out there. Most of your agents are going to have roofers they deal with all the time who are eminently qualified and honest and above board. They will come out and do a free estimate and say, yes, you have a loss. Then you file the claim. If you file the claim first and it turns out you don’t have a loss, that loss a year or two or three later could accumulate against your record and it could be very negative you could get non renewed if you have let’s say a water loss and then a real hail loss so now you’ve had three losses most insurance companies in Colorado are not going to carry somebody who’s had three losses in five years And by the way, in Colorado, I don’t have to tell you this, since 2019, there have been rate increases every year through 2025. In Colorado, your rate has gone up 77% on your homeowners in that time period, six-year time period. It’s totally out of control. The worst state, believe it or not, is Nebraska. They’ve had higher rate increases. And then Utah. So those rate increases aren’t just from hail. In Utah, it would be wildfires as much as it would be hail. Now, the other thing I would encourage you to do is… When you put a new roof on, get a impact-resistant roof, IRR, impact-resistant roof. If you do that, and by the way, you might have to upgrade, and an upgrade might cost you $800. I’m not sure, but if you upgrade, find out what the cost would be. Because once you get this IRR roof on, impact-resistant roof, At State Farm, we give you a 30% discount. So if you’re paying $3,000, that’s a $900 savings. In the first year, the cost of the upgrade would be covered by the insurance savings on your premium. And that savings would be in perpetuity until either State Farm changes that discount, which is not likely because we know that we’re going to have way fewer losses with those impact-resistant roofs.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Do check out our website. That’s Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Pleased to have on the line with me Melissa Ogburn. She is the founder of UCLC, which is United Community Leaders of Colorado. And I wanted to get her on. She’s got an event coming up and find out exactly what she’s doing. So, Melissa, welcome to the show. Good morning. Thank you for having me. Well, tell us a little bit about UCLC.
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Right. UCLC, you’re correct, is United Community Leaders of Colorado. It is actually an organization we started back in October of 2022. And we did it in recognition that there are so many good people fighting for life, faith, family, and freedom in Colorado. And sometimes I can feel lonely in Colorado fighting for those values. So we wanted to create an organization that supports people that are doing that and also brings people together so that we could share ideas and resources and help promote each other’s events. And we thought doing it in a united way, we could be so much more effective and have a greater impact. So that’s what our organization is about.
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What are you focused on as of right now, specific issues?
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Well, I’m sure you know, but there’s some big ballot issues coming up. And so our organization is trying to help support that effort in protecting children and parental rights in Colorado. So we will be helping them. In the past, we’ve had a day of prayer at the Capitol. We have testified on bills and written veto letters, things of that nature. And more often than not, we just try to get together with people that are working on these kinds of values of life, faith, family, and freedom in Colorado, trying to get people to join forces and support one another and just be educated. We do have an event coming up. Our mid-year meeting and awards ceremony is set for Saturday, August 23rd. This is an opportunity where we can recognize people that are spending their time and blood, sweat, and tears in Colorado on defending life, faith, family, and freedom in Colorado. So we try to get together about August or September in recognition of them in, you know, after a busy and hectic summer, it’s a way to get back together, hear what we’re doing, where we’re headed.
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what’s going on, and just support one another. Okay, so that event is this coming Saturday. And where is it at? How can people get more information about it?
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Yeah, it’ll be at the Independence Institute. So it’s just outside of the Capitol, kind of that kind of area of town. And to get more information, you can go to our website. It’s unitedcommunityleaders.org. And there is information about the event there. We do have tickets for sale on ticket leap. So if you go to ticket leap and search for United community leaders, we should pop up. The price for the tickets helps pay for the cost of the event and then also helps pay for our operational costs throughout the year. So we’re hoping people can join us for the event and support us and our many members.
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Okay. And it’s going to be interesting this week. The Colorado State Legislature will be going into a special session, and we’re starting to hear some of the things that are going to be in this particular session. But We’ve got a lot of work to do here in Colorado, don’t we, Melissa?
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Yes, we do. And I think one of the things we want people to know is you’re not alone. Because I think if you’re defending any kind of conservative value in Colorado, you feel like you’re alone and you’re not.
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So reach out to us or reach out to other people and let’s work together. Okay. One more time on this, Melissa Ogburn, what is your website again and your final thought?
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unitedcommunityleaders.org so make sure you put the dot org at the end not dot com is a way to get our website with all of our information um i i guess you know the the last thing that i would would say is that i’ve said before but it it does feel sometimes awfully lonely if you’re fighting for any kind of conservative value in colorado and and you’re not We don’t want people to feel isolated or siloed, but we think that if we could work together, we would have such a greater impact. Membership of our group is open to anybody worth fighting for these kinds of values, if you have a voice and you’re willing to use it in Colorado, we want to work with you. So please check us out. My email is on the website.
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So we hope to hear from you. Great. Melissa Ogburn, thank you for stepping forward and being the founder of United Community Leaders of Colorado. And again, that was back in 2022. Can’t believe it. I remember when you were kicking all this off. So good for you. Yes, thank you. And what an honor to be on your show. Thank you, Kim. Okay, thanks, Melissa. Again, that’s Melissa Ogburn with the United Community Leaders of Colorado. More information, go to unitedcommunityleaders.org. And there is so much going on. As I mentioned, right now we are focused on saving Etfwala. French Bakery on Lookout Mountain. Today is a critical day for them. This is the day that Jefferson County Zoning said that they needed to move the tiny homes off of their property or the property they’re leasing. Otherwise, Jefferson County will shut them down. And it’s rather remarkable. I went up and had some great pastries and coffee yesterday and met Rachel and Eric Dufour and her sister, who is the, I would say, the master French baker. She’d gone to some of the finest schools in France. And so it’s really a treat. We talked with some bikers, and that would be the kind you pedal, that that is a destination at the top of Lookout Mountain on Lookout Mountain Road. And I guess it’s kind of a tradition to have coffee at a place at the top of the mountain. And that’s what… at voila is offering great pastries great bread and uh so today what we are really getting focused on is first of all signing the petition uh that and you can sign that at change.org and french bakery and just since friday and another 300 people or so have signed that petition. And I sent an email to the Jefferson County commissioners. I will call them after we get off the air here. And so we need to put some pressure on Because, you know, here this is the thing that PBIs talk about all the time, that you live near where you work, that homes need to be tinier, and they have solar panels on these tiny homes. They’ve really been very thoughtful about their water use, and they’ve just done everything right. And yet, just because of this zoning that the properties zone for commercial, Jefferson County says they need to get these tiny homes off of there, but right around there is residential. It just doesn’t make sense. And using the word of the day, I’m baffled by what is going on there. A couple of things. I did want to mention the Center for American Values. They’ve got a lot going on. First of all, Drew Dix has finished his season number one of his Words from the Silo, his podcast series. He is so very knowledgeable on so many different things. Then additionally, they’re on values presentations and also some great training for secondary educators. And then also they’ll be having an event for September 11th. All of that is, you can get all that information by going to their website, which is AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. Some of the other headlines that I wanted to go through, as you know, there is a real… by this Colorado State Legislature, this governor, and previous ones as well, to really infringe upon your Second Amendment rights to keep and bear firearms to protect yourself and your family. And they couch this that they want to make the community safer. Well, what happens is the community is less safe because the bad guys have firearms, the good guys don’t. And when the bad guys know that, then that emboldens them. But it’s not the firearm that is the problem. It is the people that are holding the firearm or, in this case, the knife. And this is a headline that there were, please respond to three overnight stabbings in the Denver metro area. So are we going to start to see legislation to limit your kitchen knives? I wonder. And so that was a headline that I wanted to hit. And then Xcel Energy, and I mentioned this I think on Friday, has decided to sue Elbert County over their denial of the permit for Xcel Energy to take land for a transmission line from industrial either solar or wind projects, ostensibly to get it to the metro area. But as we know, wind and solar is intermittent, and the sun doesn’t always shine, the wind doesn’t always blow, so it’s an intermittent transition. power source. And it only has worked because of all of these, from an economic standpoint, all of these tax credits. And those tax credits, many of them are going away in 2026. So there are those that think that Excel wants to double down and get this transmission line in. Now and from some industrial projects, because the economics may change in 2026. And so the goal here is to slow this thing down so that Xcel Energy cannot take farmers and ranchers land via eminent domain or threats of eminent domain. for a transmission line from an intermittent power source. And so we need to stay tuned and watch on that. And then we’re going to talk with Dr. Brian Joondepth here in this hour. And he’s got a really interesting take on the Trump-Putin meeting up in Alaska. And apparently Trump is going to be meeting with Zelensky from Ukraine today. today with other other leaders so it’s going to be very interesting so we’ll talk with dr brian june depth about a couple of things one is sydney sweeney and sexy jeans and sexy ads and the other is trump and putin in alaska and these are important discussions we have them because of our sponsors and for everything regarding residential real estate reach out to karen levine
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Good morning, Kim. How are you?
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I am well. And so we’re getting into the fall fashion ad campaigns. And American Eagle launched their fall campaign featuring this very beautiful woman, Sidney Sweeney, with this cheeky tagline, as you said, Sidney Sweeney has great genes. And the left went crazy, didn’t they?
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They certainly did. Yeah, I mean, it goes back to the old saying, get woke, go broke, and we’re seeing that play out now in real life. It’s a new era with Trump being elected and kind of an end to the wokeness and virtue signaling. He has pushed back on the DEI measures and a lot of these things, and it’s no longer fashionable anymore. And there’s also Gen Z, who are big consumers of these genes, that are big Trump supporters, very conservative compared to my generation of the baby boomers, for example. And they’re not putting up with this, and they’re ridiculing the criticism quite vehemently. It’s interesting. Normally, when an ad like this would come out, the company would apologize and grovel and uh… say that’s not what they meant that cetera american eagles standing by their answer between the standing by it and they have the support of millions on on social media especially young people who are the consumers of jameson their stock price popped up and all the objections are are falling flat there they’re being mocked uh… for their stupid commentary on this it’s it’s quite a remarkable change compared to this happened a year ago and a few years ago in my article there’s a side-by-side comparison of an ad from several years ago to the sydney sweeney ad and uh… pictures worth a thousand words if anybody wants to look at the article and look at the uh… uh… screenshot in there of uh… An older ad versus today’s ad, it’s quite remarkable how things have changed.
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It is remarkable how things have changed. And I love the fact that appreciating a pretty girl is finally okay again. And when I say appreciating, I don’t mean ogling or lusting or anything like that. Just, I would say, appreciating a pretty girl. And it’s a pretty natural thing to do. And it’s been under assault.
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Exactly. And I pointed out a few of the television ads from years ago. The Cindy Crawford Pepsi ad and the Joe Namath and Farrah Fawcett Noxzema ad. These are not, you know, perverted or obscene or anything. They’re just showcasing beauty. And whether it’s man and woman or woman only, this is something that’s been timeless. I mean, you look at the old movies and everything, it’s celebrating beauty and sensuality. And now, why has it become verboten? You’re celebrating obesity and transgenderism and purple hair and nose rings and things like that that are, to most people, not particularly beautiful. They’re not aesthetically pleasing. This goes back to artwork from hundreds of years ago. It celebrates beauty, not deviancy.
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And so Gen Z, what – I can never get my ages correct for all the different – so what is Gen Z approximately? What age group is that?
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Don’t quote me. I’m thinking it’s mid-20s to kind of mid to late 30s or maybe – Early 30s, maybe 20 to early 30s, because my youngest is 33, and I think mine are all millennials.
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Okay.
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But I get them confused, too. But basically, you’re 20-year-olds.
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Okay. Now, you had mentioned in here the Jaguar ad. These different companies that had just really gone woke, I remember that Jaguar ad. And it was, I would say it was just weird. And to spend so much money on an ad campaign on all this woke stuff and pushing this ideology, it is remarkable as you have the side-by-side ad from 2019 from American Eagle to 2025. You said that woke is now dead as a doornail. And I love that because I think we all understood there was something, it was the preachy virtue signaling that we were intolerant if we didn’t like these other ads. And deep down, you kind of looked at it and you’re like, this is just weird, I think. What do you think?
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Well, it’s very strange, and it was being forced down our throat, and you were partially criticized if you didn’t embrace it. I mean, it’s one thing if Sports Illustrated wants to put an oversized woman as their swimsuit model. Well, they can do whatever they want, but if the public didn’t embrace that somehow, you know, we were the bad guys. I don’t care. Any company can use whoever they want to model their clothes or market their brand, but it doesn’t mean we have to jump up and down with glee and say, yeah, that’s great, that’s a real woman. Sports Illustrated, for example, has a long tradition of their swimsuit issue of beautiful women wearing bikinis. You don’t like it, don’t buy it, don’t look at it, don’t read it. That’s freedom. but to to push something very different and force everybody to embrace it uh against common sense and against decades of tradition that’s what’s bothersome and i think people are pushing back against it well yeah you know it’s really it’s redefining uh uh normal values i mean it’s nothing personal against anybody it’s just they’re standards, aesthetics, things like that that have traditionally been held in high regard. And now we’re being told black is white and up is down and night is day. It doesn’t work that way.
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Well, and people are pushing back. And I really do love the fact that it is these younger folks. And speaking of Sports Illustrated, I remember a few years ago that they had Martha Stewart in the swimsuit edition. And she is an attractive older lady, but I thought, you know. Well, I’m not sure that’s necessarily the market that Sports Illustrated had been targeting with their swimsuit edition. I thought that was a little funny. Sorry, Martha, but somebody said, I wonder who got the photo brush contract on that particular Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.
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It’s fine if they want it. do that but uh don’t don’t push it down our throats because other people prefer what they have traditionally done successfully for years and years and it’s kind of telling us what to think it’s a very orwellian thing that you have to accept a new norm and something that’s been acceptable for years and years all of a sudden no you can’t do it you know men becoming pregnant is now you have to embrace that and accept that as fact and no that’s magical thinking and to force magical thinking down everybody’s throat at some point people say enough and we’re we’re living in a fantasy world it’s like the emperor has no clothes and finally a little boy says the emperor is naked and That seems to be what’s happening now is some of these ads are coming out, and they’re being embraced, and they’re very successful. And the usual woke pushback is not working. If anything, it’s backfiring because those criticizing it are getting mocked.
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So don’t you think this is also related? I continue to see these headlines of late night hosts or hosts of different shows that were very woke that they’re not having their contracts renewed. I find that pretty interesting.
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Well, it is. And it’s the bigger picture of the tide changing. I think wokeism and so much of this stuff was rejected last november when when trump was given the second term uh… people voted for this trump is not trump is the opposite of all this uh… whether his policies are personally you know he’s he’s a man’s man from back in the day you know the court gable kerry grant type characters uh… his wife is beautiful and feminine and she’s a woman’s woman it’s more of those traditional values that we we’ve had for decades not somebody pretending to be what they’re not and uh… i think it’s and and that has translated into the society and culture that people are just rejecting that and saying enough is enough the pendulum swung way too far in the direction of Just utter nonsense. And now it’s swinging back into kind of a more normal and healthy direction where people are not deluding themselves with abject nonsense.
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Well, and I think that this piece that you’ve written, I think it’s super interesting. And people can find it at American Thinker. And it’s titled, let me get to the top here, Sexy Genes, Culture Wars, and Prophets, the Sidney Sweeney Effect. And people can find that at American Thinker. And people can find you at American Thinker and Reuters. When we come back, I’d like to talk with you about this recent piece that you have at Reuters regarding… Trump and Putin meeting in Alaska. I think this is a very, very interesting article as well. So we’re talking with Dr. Brian June depth. And we have all these discussions because of our sponsors for everything mortgages, whether or not that’s a first mortgage, second mortgage, mortgage or reverse mortgage. You should talk to Lauren Levy.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. And we are talking with Dr. Brian Jundep. Before we continue the discussion, this Saturday I will be out at the USMC Memorial and I’ll be emceeing their event for their 48th anniversary. So we’d love to have you join us. It should be a really terrific event. And David Bray will be performing. And you can buy tickets by going to USMCMemorialFoundation.org. That is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. And Dr. Brian Joondepth has just great perspective on so many different things. We were talking about the American Eagle Jeans campaign with Sidney Sweeney in the previous segment. And that was, you can find that at American Thinker. But I think I said Reuters. It’s actually Rasmussen Reports as the other place you can find him. And so, Dr. Brian Joondepth, you just recently published… What’s that?
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Reuters wouldn’t touch me with a 10-foot pole.
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But Rasmussen Reports does publish you. And this is titled Anchorage, Russiagate, and National Guard, Coincidence or Calculation? This is a fascinating perspective, Dr. June Dept. Where should we start?
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Well, you look at the past few weeks and three unseemingly… connected events happened. First was, or is, the ongoing Russiagate revelations. Every few days, it’s drip, drip, drip. There’s release of classified communications, emails, other documents showing what Tulsi Gabbard described as a treasonous conspiracy. That’s her words, not mine. And she’s in the thick of it. And we hear of grand juries, and we hear of very nervous Russiagate players, Comey, Clapper, Brennan, Obama, Susan Rice, et cetera. So that’s one event. Event number two is the lockdown, basically, of Washington, D.C. Not necessarily a lockdown, but a big presence of the National Guard and law enforcement uh… to take control of the city but it’s a crime ridden city it’s it’s one of the most dangerous capital cities in the world uh… and one of the doge employees was beaten up very badly, and perhaps that was the trigger, or this was something else planned. So D.C. is suddenly much safer, and there’s significant military and law enforcement on the streets. Third is the sudden meeting of Trump and Putin in Alaska. None of these things happen like immediately. This is not a whim that Trump decides, oh, let’s do this, and snaps his fingers and it’s done. The military deployment takes weeks of preparation. And a summit meeting like this of two world leaders, that doesn’t happen immediately. There’s a lot of logistics and security details, and both countries trying to keep their leaders safe and have discussions and all of that. None of these things happen immediately. as a snap decision. So my premise is, is this just a coincidence of these three disparate things happening at the same time, or is this part of a larger plan? And is this something that’s been rolled out deliberately and months in the planning? In other words, this is there’s a script to this. There’s a rhythm to it, and it’s not just random events. So that’s my premise, and then I go on to speculate from there, and that’s all speculation.
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Well, and you said there’s something different that has occurred with all of this, and that with the media, is that in the past, there were leaks, and then the media would drive the narrative, and somehow, there were not leaks on this, and Trump’s been able to accomplish these three different events where it seems that instead of the media controlling the narrative, they’re having to be more like media instead of trying to influence the narrative.
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Exactly. The journalists are actually now being journalists. They’re reporting on the news. They can hypothesize all they want, but they’re not being fed information, not allowed to frame the narrative. Typically, you see articles in the New York Times or the Washington Post citing unnamed sources close to the matter. That’s their sourcing, and you have people in these agencies that are leaking to the various news organizations. and uh… they put it out ahead of time cnn knew of the swap rate on roger stone’s home before roger stone do it cnn was positioned to capture the whole thing so obviously there was coordination with the media uh… beyond just leaking in these three events we’re not hearing about unnamed sources i think trump has done a great job at clamping down on leaders in his administration who were blabbing everything to the media i think cash patel and pam bondi have been uh… very diligent about that they got into office in the that’s a hornet’s nest of of leakers and saboteurs and they’ve slowly weeded them out and it’s as you said very remarkable that there were no leaks about this the media had to report and react to things as they’re happening getting advance notice and trying to spin it and put out falsehoods that could sabotage the process. And that’s a change. That’s very different.
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Well, and it is a change. And even the attack on the Iranian nuclear facilities, that was remarkable to me that they didn’t know that we were doing that. And I think the reason is, and they were whining about it afterwards, is Trump didn’t tell the Democrats beforehand what was because I think otherwise that would have very possibly been leaked.
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Well, sure. There are intelligence committees on the House and Senate side, and they have Republicans and Democrats. The first thing the Democrats do are call their pals in the media and give out disinformation. And it’s not only wrong, it’s illegal. And Adam Schiff is finding himself in hot water over this, the fact that he was leaking classified intelligence to sabotage Trump. And hopefully that’s going to come back and bite him in a big way. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. That’s what they did. They leaked information and they framed it in such a way that the media would publish it. And then they’d use the media reports as evidence of what they’re saying. It’s the wrap-up smear, as Nancy Pelosi once described in an interview, where they leak to the media, the media reports it, and they use media reports as evidence. And they use that against Trump all the time in his first term. And it’s very different now. There’s operational secrecy, which is extremely important. And Iran was a good example of that. A mission like that doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It’s not, hey, boys, let’s go drop some bombs. There’s a tremendous amount of planning, lots of people, support, et cetera. And They have a cloud of secrecy over it, as they should. Loose lips sink ships, as they said in World War II. And it’s essential to have this. And I think Trump has a good handle on it. Nobody’s leaking about the meeting today. There’s speculation, but Zelensky’s coming to the White House and a cadre of other European leaders, and nobody knows what’s going to come of it. uh… you know everybody who do the media is trying to frame it as you know trump got owned by putin that he got a bad deal with federal federal that hasn’t played out in terms of keeping quiet and uh… nobody knows right i’ve not read of any leaks from unnamed sources familiar with the matter that that your complex the quote So it’s very different, and it’s a new Trump administration. He’s running things a lot differently than he did eight years ago, different people and different way of going about it. I think he learned his lessons well and is not making the same many mistakes he did in his first term, bad personnel choices, trusting people and allowing the leaking and being on defense. This term he’s on offense all the way.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and I think that it’s good for America. It’s good for us to get back to loving America and getting back to normalcy. It’s so important. We’ve got not quite a minute left. What can people be looking for in your next article?
SPEAKER 22 :
Oh, well, next, I have an article today in American Thinker that’s a little more about the three coincidences and media leaking. It’s in American Thinker, so it’s a little longer and some other examples of stuff. Next week, I don’t know. It’s a week away. Climate change is a favorite. Medical stuff’s a favorite, so you just have to stay tuned. But I’m sure I’ll have something out in American Thinker early part of next week.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, and that’s Dr. Brian Jundepth at American Thinker and Rasmussen Reports. We’ll talk with you next month, and have a great day.
SPEAKER 22 :
All right, thanks, Kim.
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And a lot is going on out there, as you all know. It came to my attention last week from two friends, and they’re also listeners, that at Voila French Bakery that recently opened up on Lookout Mountain, Jefferson County, zoning is threatening. to close them down because they have two tiny homes that they had been given verbal assurances that they were well within the purveyance to do that. But then they got a knock on the door from a Jefferson County inspector that said, you need to move those because the property is zoned commercial and you can’t be living here. And you need to move those. They gave them, they’ve been back and forth. The deadline is today. And apparently this inspector said they’re going to close the little bakery down if they don’t move those. And all Jefferson County needs to do is just issue a zoning variance. on this so that they can do that. And interestingly enough, I went up yesterday to meet the owners and it is they put their life savings into this great French bakery and and the little tiny homes or the tiny homes are done very tastefully. And so we need to be putting pressure on Jefferson County to issue that variance. I sent an email to the commissioners last evening. I’ll call them when we get off the air today. And you can sign the change.org petition by going just search for change.org French bakery, and that will come up. So with that, one of the first things I this was a great word of the day is baffled. And when I talked with Rachel Dufour, who she’s a naturalized citizen from France, she loves America and her husband does as well. She said, I’m just baffled with what’s going on here. Of course, she said that with a French accent, which so it sounds so So much better. But baffled is B-A-F-F-L-E-D. The first definition is not understanding, uncomprehending. Number two, it could be discouraged by failure to accomplish a goal and uncertain how to proceed, used especially of feelings of defeat and discouragement. And then number three, thoroughly confused or puzzled. And I would say that Rachel is thoroughly confused and puzzled. And as she told me the story, I was too. So your challenge is to use the word baffled in a sentence today. And since we were talking with the Dufours and the French bakery, I went to Alexis de Tocqueville. For our quote of the day, he was a French diplomat, political philosopher, and historian. And he was born in 1805. He died in 1859. And he traveled. Initially, he traveled the United States because he was going to look at the prison system. So he was traveling. throughout the country, and this quote is attributed to him. There are some that say that he did not say it, but he certainly could have. And he said this, “‘Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.'” And again, that’s attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville. And today, it would be very easy for you to go to change.org, French Bakery, and just put your name on that petition. Since we mentioned it on Friday, over 300 new signatures have appeared at that petition. at change.org. And we did have Rachel DeFore on the show on Friday as well. And the whole issue just came to my attention, gosh, maybe last Wednesday or Thursday, Kurt Gerwitz, who was our guest on Friday, and he likes to bike, the pedaling kind, and bike up. Apparently, for bikers, that bike trip up Lookout Mountain with the French Bakery at the top is just really… you know, really special. And he’s a biker. And he said they have fabulous chocolate croissants. And he brought that to my attention. And then Patty McKernan also brought it to my attention because Et Voila French Bakery donates 25% of their tips to a different charity, I think each month or anyway, periodically. And they’re just it’s a pretty amazing little business. And we need to make sure that we Keep them in business. So do what you can. And you might call the Jefferson County commissioners today and encourage them to issue a variance. And the reason is they have these small homes is they start. Actually, it’s Rachel’s sister who is the baker. She’s studied at many of the best French baking schools in France. And they are from France. But they need to be near where they work. Her sister wakes up at 1 o’clock to start baking pastry and bread and croissants for that 7 a.m. open, and they had asked, is it okay? They’d been given verbal approval, and the fact that they’re living near where they work And not commuting is one of those things that many PBIs opine that they want people to do. So anyway, we need to do what we can to save at Pola French Bakery. And we do all this work because we have amazing support from all of you and our sponsors. And on the line with me is Jody Henze with Mint Financial Strategies. Jody, happy Monday. Thanks, Kim. Glad to be here. And you have been busy. You just took your son to college. How did that go? It was a very emotional day. Yeah, I know. And things are changing at your house. And it’s good, but gosh, to have these young ones fly the nest, it’s hard. It’s very difficult, Jodi.
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Yes, it was. Yeah, yesterday was bittersweet. I’m very proud of him, but he’s my one and only. So it was very difficult coming home last night.
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Yeah, I mean, it’s a good question. I’m getting a lot of, you know, parents asking me a little bit about that because obviously building credit, it’s a little bit of a necessary evil. And so just a little bit of advice as our young people are going off to school. I mean, credit is an important thing, but we want to do it responsibly. So a couple of things that I recommend. I do think that it’s important that, you know, young people start thinking about this, but a couple of tips and techniques. Open up a small credit card. We don’t need our kids to have a credit card with $10,000 limit. I recommend, you know, $500 to $1,000. And then only use it for emergencies. Now, kids, going to Cancun for spring break is not an emergency. I recommend that you put a small recurring payment on it, like a subscription, like your Netflix or something like that. And then set up an auto-pay. So that that’s automatically paid off each month to build that recurring payment. And then always pay that off at the end of the month. We don’t want to have a recurring balance on that credit card. And it’s really important that you keep that utilization low. We don’t want to have a credit card that maxed out every month. Credit firms are looking at that to see are you keeping that limit all the way up to the 500 or are you keeping that utilization at 10 to 30 percent? So you really want to keep that balance low and paid off. And another thing that I see a lot is people bouncing from credit card to credit card to get those perks. You really want to keep credit history. So just keep one. And really build that length. Length matters with credit. So, you know, establishing a history is a good idea, too. And then just keep it steady and consistent. It takes time to build credit. So I do think it’s smart, but you want to do it wisely.
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Well, I think that makes a lot of sense. And people really should sit down with their students as they go off to college and have just this discussion that you have recommended, Jody Henze. This just makes so much sense. Now, you help people as they’re starting out regarding achieving their economic freedom. And then you also help people that have been investing for a long time. And what’s the best way for people to reach you, set up an appointment? What would that look like?
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Yeah, you can call me or text me. The office line is 303-285-3080. Again, that’s 303-285-3080. Or you can email me. My email address is Jody with a Y. That’s J-O-D-Y at MintFS.com.
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Okay. Well, Jody, thank you so much. And that’s Jody Hinzey with Mint Financial Strategies. I learned so much, and I appreciate these updates very much, Jody. Thanks, Kim. Have a good week. You have a great week as well. And again, a great sponsor of the show, MIP Financial Strategies. And then we had broadcasted in hour number one a very important interview with Roger Mangan.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Do check out our website. That’s Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And another great sponsor of the show is Hooters Restaurants. I love the fact that pretty girls are back in style. And Hooters Restaurants has five locations, Loveland, Aurora, and Westminster. And they have great specials Monday through Friday for lunch and happy hour events. And, of course, we’re getting into football season, so great place to watch the games. And, again, that is Hooters Restaurants. On the line with me is another great sponsor of the show, and that is Susan Kochavar, who is an entrepreneur and owner of the historic 88 Drive-In Theater. And I love to get her perspective. She reads extensively. She watches the news. And I always learn something when Susan Kochavar is on the line. Welcome, Susan. Thanks, Kim. Well, and coming in on the text line, and I do want to hear from you, 720-605-0647. There is a lot coming in here. But Mark had texted. He said, the French bakery people actually get up earlier than I do. And he’s right. They do. I don’t get up at 1 o’clock, but I do get up early, Susan Gochmark. This is true. So I know that you took a look at this whole story regarding et voila and Jefferson County inspectors wanting zoning inspectors who are wanting to close them down. What’s your thoughts on this?
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Well, I really want to encourage everyone to call the county commissioners, sign the change.org, um, send the county commissioners emails, everything you can do. You will probably recall something similar happened to me in 2012 when the city I’m located in for almost 50 years decided suddenly I was a safety hazard. Now I think that the city wanted my property, and they sent the city manager and the police chief out to tell me I had to rip up my driveway and run a line of cars right through the middle of my drive-in. Of course, there’s no way that you can operate a drive-in with a line of cars going through the middle of your theater. And they were just terrible to me. And the chief of police, finally got mad and sent because i wouldn’t respond and sent me a letter claiming they were going to cite me personally for people’s driving infractions and pull my business license so we took that letter and when most of our customers were online we posted that letter and sent it to uh A petition just like the bakery is doing. They’re going the right direction. And 20,000 people went after the city and told them to stop. And they did. So you have more power than you think. Sign that petition. Call Rice. Let them know this is not acceptable. What I feel for these people at this bakery, that’s a terrible position to be in when you have something you love, your livelihood. And people coming after you like this, especially after you had gained permission to have those trailers on the property.
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This is wrong. Well, my understanding is they had received verbal assurances that this was okay to have these tiny homes there from several different people. And so they were doing all this in good faith. And so today is a critical day for them. And having government get to this point of overreaching, and this was a – I don’t have the answer quite yet, but these words, the public good, the public welfare, this has given PBIs license. to take property. And it’s out of hand. And another situation is this Xcel Energy transmission line in rural Elbert County and rural El Paso County, under the guise of public good, that that is the metro area, people in the metro area need power, they need electricity, And Xcel Energy has been granted by the PUC, a bureaucracy, the right to take people’s land via eminent domain. And of course, with eminent domain, there’s a person supposed to be justly compensated, but who comes up with that number? And so I wanted to try to unpack this public good term, because there’s so much that is occurring of taking people’s property for the public good.
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Yeah, there’s a lot to unpack there. In my case, I was one of the few places that the people in my… my community could afford to go for entertainment for their families uh because you know our prices are low and it’s just a great uh family uh place to go and so that was that you can argue that uh for the public good and to try to shove me off um for any reason even using zoning would be wrong that is a property rights violation and this is the purpose of property rights Zoning and for the public good have all expanded into things that they should not be. In my case, they were using fear, accidents and a danger to try to accomplish what they wanted. In Xcel Energy’s case, I think you could argue the same. They’re, oh, you’re not going to have any power anymore. And anytime government does that kind of stuff, I become very suspicious. I would not be surprised to learn that they were scaring people. You’re not going to have enough power to be warm in the winter when the real problem is they’re closing brand new coal-fired power plants here in Colorado. So do we need those transmission lines at all? And to use that to take people’s property, you can’t pay those people enough sometimes for that property. You know, it’s been their family for years. They are providing food for the communities. That’s not a public good. And in the case of the bakery.
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Go ahead. Well, that’s an important dot that you just connected, Susan, is public policy here in Colorado is really making it difficult for our oil and natural gas and coal producers. And we’ve gotten to a point here in Colorado where we have clean burning coal. And so to shut down these power plants, to try to shut down the oil and natural gas industry, which these naturally occurring resources provide reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power sources. So you’ve got public policy shutting that down. And then I’m seeing in Excel’s asking for additional increases in rates, which we have to pay. But yet, weren’t we assured that wind and solar was affordable? Well, it’s not. And so our electricity, our bills at Excel are going up. And it’s this web in this narrative that they’re weaving. And everyday busy people, I don’t think, are connecting the dots like we’re trying to connect them right now, Susan.
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No, it’s really hard. You look at small business owners, like the people who own the bakery, that pretty well consumes their time 24-7. I’m seasonal, so I have a lot of time to follow the news and watch all this stuff. And I was politically active before the city did that to me. So I was aware of some of the things that I could do to push back. But now, since that happened to me, that’s one of the reasons why I follow everything so closely, because it can affect your business so much. You know, we build, gosh, if you go to Disney World or Disneyland or any of these kind of attractions, even Las Vegas, you’ll find it, especially in the New York, New York Hotel. You’ll see where they build these little interior cities, and they… where the bakery was at the bottom and the house was in the top, and next door there would have been a shoe repair shop with a house on top. And we kind of hearkened back to that time, you know, community people living where they work, and as if that’s something we could never have. And here we have zoning preventing that very thing. And this is a bakery where you go to get things that have not been, that aren’t full of, preservatives, which are now being shown to be so bad for us. Doing this to this bakery is not… in the public interest. This is a terrible thing to do.
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Well, and so PBIs, and all this is so interwoven. We hear of these 15-minute cities that the World Economic Forum wants people to live in. They want them basically to live in apartments, in transit-orientated development, get rid of their cars, so they’re making it more difficult to to park cars, to drive cars. And they say they want people to live where they work. And they give that model of people living in an apartment and going downstairs to work. And all that’s fine, except there’s force and coercion in that. And I think there’s an assault on freedom when you have, well, there is an assault on freedom when you have force and fear and coercion. So but many of these PBIs that are pushing those policies are the same PBIs that are trying to shut this down over here where you’ve got people living where they work. They’re being very concerned about the environment. It just doesn’t. So what’s the dot to connect here? It’s control. That’s what it is, is government control.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is. And I wonder who complained and why. And is there somebody, because whoever complained, they know this will shut this bakery down. So do they, there’s something behind it. If somebody didn’t just complain because of zoning, I doubt. I wouldn’t be surprised if somebody didn’t have designs on the property to build up another bakery. Oh, look, that was a good location. And that’s how these things go. This is why government cannot have this power. Zoning violates property rights and allows way too much control. And we’re seeing it everywhere.
SPEAKER 03 :
It just, it breaks my heart. Well, and then we see this Colorado governor and the state legislature passing land use codes. And we’re seeing a rewrite of land use codes, comprehensive plans of many counties and municipalities that really, I think, is usurping property rights. The goal is to… create more and more density, more and more people on top of each other, less places to park. People get frustrated. You come home from work and there’s not a place to park. All these things are really, I think, making it more difficult for people. And so I’m talking with Susan Kochevar. She is an entrepreneur, owner of 88 Drive-In Theater. And Susan, before we go to break, we didn’t even talk about the theater. You’re in the summertime. So what are you showing?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, we are. We’re open full time for a couple more weeks because, you know, all the kids are going back to school. So right now we have Bad Guys 2 and a picture called Nobody 2, which is kind of a comedy. So come on out and join us. After this, we’ll go down to next month. We’ll go down to four days a week, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. and start heading into fall. So we’re still open every night if you want to catch a movie during the week. It’s $10 per person, and children under 12 are free.
SPEAKER 03 :
And, Susan, we’re talking about the French Bakery that they get up at 1 o’clock. During your season at 88 Drive-In Theater, you put in some pretty long hours as well.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I’m going to bed at, you know, 1 or 2 a.m.,
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. The website’s kimmonson.com. That’s M-O-N-S-O-N.com. This weekend on Saturday, I’ll be out at the USMC Memorial. for their 48th anniversary celebration. You can buy tickets by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. It should be a great evening. David Bray, USA, will be performing and would love to have you join us. So again, tickets at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. On the line with me is Susan Kochovar. She is an entrepreneur and owner of the 88 Drive-In Theater. And Susan, one of our listeners, just texted this to me via the text line 720-605-0647. and found the article, U.S. President Trump has announced, and he announced it on Truth Social, that he plans to lead a movement to eliminate mail-in ballots and voting machines from American elections. This just came across the wire within basically the last hour. And he said he wants to bring honesty to the 2026 midterm elections, claiming that mail-in voting leads to voter fraud and and that voting machines are inaccurate, expensive, and controversial. This is huge, Susan Kochavar.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely, it is. And Tina Peters certainly showed that that’s true. You know, as you know, I ran for the statehouse three times. In my third race, that was the first race that Polis won governorship, or took governorship, I’ll say. At 7.20, you know, the polls close at 7. At 7.20, the numbers came out in my race and never moved again. Now, if ballots are being counted… That number would change, and it did not. So I have known for quite a long time that something is wrong in our elections. And I think Trump will be successful in this because I think the American people are behind him. The media tries to act like they’re huge and they know exactly what the public wants and that they can And in fact, that they can control it and they can’t. They did not control the presidential election this time. And I think this is a fantastic thing. And we need to push to help get that through. I think that will free Colorado. I don’t really believe Colorado is blue.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and that’s why. We did the two lawsuits and then also the Jefferson County voters study or it’s a it was a prevalent study. And thank you to all of our listeners that stepped forward to fund these two lawsuits and each state and the founders wanted the states to be able to administer elections. Ideally, it should go right down to the county clerk. And so mentioning Tina Peters, it’s crazy. that a county clerk cannot access the voting tabulating machines in her county. And that’s really what happened was, is Tina Peters, when Secretary of State Jenna Griswold told the county, this is my understanding, the county clerks that they would be coming in and doing a trusted build on the tabulating machines, My understanding is Peters asked, well, could this overwrite some of the existing files? And the answer was yes. And she thought, well, I need to know. We need to have a record of the previous files. But in order for her to get access to the machines, she ended up having to take some measures. That’s the policy thing that I think got her into hot water. And so but she was doing what she needed to do from a federal standpoint, and that is preserve election records. And this is crazy to me, Susan Kochvar, with all of these AI centers storing all of this data on all of us. It’s crazy to me that we are destroying. Election records after either 22 or 27 months here in Colorado, I think federal law is you have to keep election records for 22 months. In Colorado, I think it’s 27 months. I think we should keep that. You have to keep your records for the IRS for seven years. So this just doesn’t make sense to me.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, it doesn’t make sense to me. The only reason you’d do something like that is because you were trying to cover something up. It stuns me that that procedure ever would have been allowed to go forward. Also, even Elon Musk has come out and said that electronic voting like that is just ripe for corruption. You can get into it in so many ways. You can even write code that will um doesn’t matter how you vote it will count the votes differently so you can get the outcome that you want i don’t understand why people have so much difficulty understanding how much how easy those systems are to manipulate if you in each precinct count the votes and then send them on it’s much harder to try to corrupt that system because it’s all broke down in small you know, communities.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and you should be able to audit what is uploaded. I’ve talked with people that said that there is a vulnerability in the reporting of the vote tabulation from the counties to the secretary of state. We have a lot of vulnerabilities. Trump is mentioning mail-in ballots. And I know personally that mail-in ballots are flying all over the state and and so that those roles are not cleaned up, and then the voting machines as well. And I know that states are supposed to administer the elections, but the federal government, and this is the basis of one of our lawsuits, is the federal government, Congress has put in place rules, it’s a civil rights issue, that states meet some minimum standards because the elections affect congressional seats, which affects the electoral college. And so the minimum standards are important. And so I think Trump is within his rights to do this. And so this is a big, big development.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is. It’s fantastic. You know, he’s is really chipping away at some of the major issues that we have, you know, so the government has taken control or PBIs have taken the power away from the people. I’m very excited about this, and I think… I think it’ll have a profound impact on the United States in a very positive way.
SPEAKER 03 :
Now, the next thing is, is we will see and particularly Colorado is at the tip of the spear on this. I predict that we will see a narrative coming out that from Griswold and company that, oh, we’re the gold standard and elections are secure. And we want to they’ll probably accuse Trump of trying to restrict access to elections. But with our two lawsuits that we have filed that are active, and in fact, the lawsuit with Unite for Freedom, formerly United Sovereign Americans, was updated or amended, excuse me, on August 4th to include the Jefferson County Prevalence Study that our listeners stepped forward and paid for. So you want to ask Jenna Griswold and company, if there is some vulnerabilities, you should be working to assure the people of Colorado that it’s being taken care of. That is not what I’ve seen happen, Susan Kochavar.
SPEAKER 08 :
No. Well, especially not when there are passwords that were available to anyone on the Internet, excuse me, on the Internet for months. um there’s no there’s you know there’s no way at this point they could prove to me that that was a safe election it’s um it’s really crazy and you know um i think it is is it france or one of those countries um and i think it’s even in el salvador maybe brazil they went uh to all paper ballots you know in just a very short amount of time so it’s it’s not hard to do you know during the um During the last election, they have found where ballots were coming in from China. And so who knows who those were handed to and then turned in. I was going to say about those, in that third race I had, you’ll also remember in Adams County, a whole truckload of ballots went missing for a week of the mail-in ballots. And, you know, what were they doing? You know, that should never happen.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and what that does is that starts to dilute people’s votes. And the right to vote is a sacred and it is a responsibility. And people have a responsibility to be informed. And if you don’t take the time to be informed and really understand what’s going on, I think maybe you shouldn’t vote because the PBIs are betting on TV ads, mailers to influence your vote instead of you understanding totally what the issues are and the candidates. That’s why we do our voters guide regarding the issues so that you can really get your brain around these issues. And I think our voter’s guide was a big contributor to defeating ranked choice voting here in Colorado this last election cycle because people, when they really looked at it and understood it, they said, no, we don’t want to do this. Susan Kojavar, entrepreneur, owner of 88 Drive-In Theater. What’s that website?
SPEAKER 08 :
88drivein.net, and then you can find us on Facebook and Instagram as well.
SPEAKER 03 :
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Do check out the Center for American Values. That website is AmericanValuesCenter.org. They’ve got a lot going on. They have great on-values presentations, and those are periodically. They’re putting together a series or a program for secondary educators. Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient, has this great podcast series. And just check all that out. That is at AmericanValuesCenter.org. The center is nonpartisan, it’s nonpolitical, but they’re focused on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. Susan Kochevar, owner of 88 Drive-In Theater, has stayed on the line with us. And pleased to have Representative Rose Puglisi, a Colorado state legislator, on the line. Rose, welcome. Oh, thanks, Kim, for having me. I really appreciate it. Well, and you’re going to be busy this week. The governor’s called a special legislative session because Colorado has a budget that’s about a billion dollars approximately short. So set this up for us so that people know what’s going to happen.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. So I… I think the history, and it’s just more recent history, is really important because the way the Democrats are framing the issue and the way Republicans are framing the issue are so different. So for your listeners and obviously for the people who are engaged on this issue, the JBC, the Joint Budget Committee that deals with the budget, was informed on June 18th that we would start the next budget year, 26-27, in the red. about $700 million in the red. And so we were already dipping into reserves to pay bills, and we were already short. Now, what does that mean? Obviously, for you and your listeners, you understand we’re spending more than we’re taking in. We cannot do that as government. And when we had a $1.2 billion shortfall last legislative session, we spent a lot of time talking through that. A lot of that was solved with one-time money or starting new enterprises, which we know circumvents Tabor. I think it’s really important that listeners understand because, you know, it doesn’t get talked about as much as it needs to. The budget needs to be balanced, right, per the Constitution twice a year. And that is when the governor signs the budget into law and during supplementals. Then it becomes out of balance. And so it is the part that people don’t really talk about. So what the Democrats are saying are Republicans caused this. You know, the federal government, the Trump administration, H.R. 1 caused us to be in this deficit. That is not accurate. We were already in a structural deficit way before H.R. 1 was even signed into law. And so the Democrats are and the speaker even said this in a meeting. Don’t let a good crisis go to waste. We remember those infamous words. They’re using this opportunity to blame Republicans. Now, Republicans in the state are not in charge. We have not been in charge for quite a while for their overspending, as opposed to taking responsibility and trying to find true cuts that benefit the state of Colorado and our residents. And the last thing I’ll say, and then I’ll open it up to you, Kim, for questions, is that we don’t have a revenue problem. We have a prioritization problem. And as you know, if we prioritize the budget per the proper role of government, we probably wouldn’t be in this situation.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so what is this going to look like then? There’s special session bills that are being introduced on Thursday. The session is a minimum of three days. Do all legislators get to sponsor a bill? What does that look like?
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. So a special session is a little bit different than a normal session. Obviously, it’s a much abbreviated, thank goodness, a much abbreviated period. So bills are coming online slowly as legislators are authorizing them. So I have a bill that was posted online. Not every legislator is allowing their bills to be posted online on both sides, just for the record. And there’s no requirement that they be posted online. For me, I think it’s really important that the public be able to look at these bills and digest them since the session is going to go so quickly. But regardless, on Thursday is the first day of special session. We start at 10 a.m., Bills will be read across the desk, as we call it. So the bills will be introduced. There’ll be some bills, I believe, that could fit within the call, but the Democrats may not find fit within the call. So we’ll have to work through what that looks like. And then they’ll be assigned to committees. I do not know yet which committees are going to be assigned. be going on during session. Not all committees necessarily need to meet. That is a decision that is made by the Democrat majority, the speaker and the majority leader. They have not informed me yet which committees we’ll be using in session. And then we’re in the last 10 days of session rules. So if you remember, I know you remember, but if your listeners will remember, That’s when bills can go very quickly. A lot of the rules are discarded in order to get bills through in three days. Now, whether it’s going to be three days or 10 days or 14 days, we have no idea. It depends on how many bills make it out of committee, how long the floor fight goes, if the Democrats shut us down, which, Kim, you’ve seen and have advocated against. You know, we don’t know what this session is going to look like, but I think the messaging is going to be very different. Like I said, Democrats are blaming Republicans for all of their problems that they’ve created.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, and it’s important that people understand that because the first thing that they’re saying is it’s all Trump’s fault. Now, tell us about your bill that you are introducing.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. So we all know how important Tabor is. And I just want to take a minute to just thank your listeners. The grassroots movement in Colorado has been so strong. And the people of Colorado have been so strong to protect Tabor. We saw that in the defeat of Proposition HH, which Democrats hate when we bring up. But that was a real movement. And our grassroots leaders were We’re at the forefront of that movement. And so Proposition HH, when they were trying to mess with Tabor refunds, was pushed back by the people. We need to continue that pushback. We need to continue to respect the taxpayer bill of rights. And so I have a bill with Senator Kirkmeyer and Senator Byron Pelton in the Senate. And then Representative Jarvis Caldwell from Colorado Springs in the House. And basically what this says is that if there’s going to be additional taxes, this will start January of 2026. So additional taxes on overtime or additional taxes on small businesses. that basically that requires a vote of the people in accordance with the taxpayer bill of rights. Just because the Democrats have created this structural deficit does not mean that the people should be paying for it. And if they do, they should have the right to vote on any increase in taxes. This would start January 1st of 2026 because we cannot retroactively affect taxes. But basically, it would say that any change like that would affect net tax revenue gain would go to the people. That’s what the Taxpayer Bill of Rights says. And we can’t circumvent it. Now, we’ve got two bills. So my bill is a statutory bill. And then Senator Pelton is running the companion bill, which is Byron Pelton’s. which is a constitutional, putting it in the Constitution, so that going forward there cannot be any changes. You know, with a statutory bill, it means the legislature can continuously change it. But again, we cannot continue to circumvent the Taxpayer Bill of Rights. The people have said over and over and over again, keep your hands off our taper refunds. And so we want to make sure that we give them a say in this process.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, great. And we’re talking with Representative Rose Puglisi. Susan Kochevar has stayed on the line. We’ve got maybe about a minute for your comments. Susan, what’s your thoughts?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I think people are really waking up to the fact that we have a spending problem and it’s completely out of control. So I think that I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s not a lot of support from just the average person. Even the people who aren’t, you know, in the trenches in the grassroots for Representative Pugliese’s bill because I think it’s just, you know, from all the stuff we watch nationally as well, I think it’s quite apparent these people are just throwing money in the trash.
SPEAKER 03 :
And that’s money that should be in our pockets. So Susan Kochevar, 88driveintheater.net. What’s that website again? Let’s get it exactly right. 88drivein.net. Okay. And Representative Puglisi, we’ve got about 30 seconds to wrap this up. Your final thought?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I want to make sure that people get engaged in this special session. Please don’t sit at home. There’ll be opportunities to testify and get engaged, just like any other committee hearing. I think it’s really important that the grassroots be educated so that they can talk to the people, their friends and neighbors, who maybe aren’t listening this morning. So thank you for helping us spread the word.
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Well, and again, thank you, Representative Puglisi. And our quote for the end of the show, I went to Alexis de Tocqueville because we’ve been talking about the work we need to do to save Et Voila French Bakery at the top of Lookout Mountain. And de Tocqueville said this, democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference. While democracy seeks equality and liberty, socialism seeks equality and restraint and servitude. 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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