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It’s the Kim Monson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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An early childhood taxing district? What on earth is that?
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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I don’t think that we should be passing legislation that is so complicated that people kind of throw up their hands and say, I can’t understand that.
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Today’s current opinions and ideas.
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And it’s not fair just because you’re a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn’t.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed. Let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You 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’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Friday, Producer Joe. Thank goodness it’s Friday. I think I’ve heard that before. But it is Friday. We are into 2026. It’s going to be a historical year. It is the 250th anniversary or birthday for America. We are in our third founding to determine whether or not we’re going to be able to conserve America. this great idea, this American idea that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. And I think we’re going to be successful, but it’s going to be an interesting year. Check out my website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Make sure you are signed up for our weekly email newsletter. That way you’ll get first look of our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. I was talking with Roger Mangan yesterday. a great state farm agent and a great sponsor of the show. He said he was going back through many of the emails that he’s received from us over the last couple of years. And he just was really grateful for all the different guests and subjects that we have. And so that way you’ll have an archive, but you’ll also know what’s happening. So be sure and be signed up for that. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com. A little behind on those, text message me at 720-605-0647. And I am watching those text messages come in. And so make sure that you do that. And I’m working on the emails. There’s a lot going on right now. And I could use a few more hours in the day. So I thank all of you who support us. We are an independent voice on an independent station and searching 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 not compassionate and it’s not altruistic to take other people’s stuff. such as their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, their childhoods, or their lives via force. Force obviously can be a weapon, but it’s also policy, an unpredictable and excessive taxation, forced fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites, and it plays out through the United Nations. And you see that the Colorado State Legislature, this governor, And it goes all the way into municipalities now. Remember, if something is a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on the people, not the personalities. We’ll mention the people that are in these issues, but we want to stay out of the name-calling and the things that can happen within politics, within day-to-day life. And so we want to try to take the high road as much as we possibly can That’s always our goal. This Sunday, 3 to 4 p.m. on America’s Veterans Stories, we are rebroadcasting an interview with 97-year-young Colonel Bill Rutledge, retired United States Air Force, regarding the Battle of New Orleans, which the battle occurred in – January 8th, I think it was 1815. It was during the War of 1812. Actually, the war was over, but they didn’t know it. And General Andrew Jackson, it was one of the really a great military victories. And Colonel Rutledge said, so many people don’t know about this. And so let’s do a show on this. So we recorded it last year. And I called him. I said, should we do a rerecord? He said, Kim, I listened to it. I think that we really covered everything. But it’ll be a great history lesson. And that is this Sunday, 3 to 4 p.m. And then actually at 10 to 11 on Sunday evening, we will be rebroadcasting the interview with Dennis Bush. who is a Vietnam veteran. He graduated from the United States Air Force Academy. He flew both wing and rotor aircraft. And he said, you can take the uniform off. But you can’t take the soldier out of who you are, the warrior out of who you are. So he decided the way to address that was to write. And he’s written a trilogy regarding D-Day and Omaha Beach. And this interview is regarding his second book. It’s absolutely fascinating. It’s The Real Heroes of Omaha Beach. And it’s just a great interview as well. So check those out. And with all the stuff coming at us all the time, to step back and listen to these stories of America’s veteran stories, you’ll learn a lot. It’ll give you inspiration. And I highly recommend that you check that out. Before we move on to some of these other things, I want to say thank you to my fellow Colorado Union of Taxpayers, my CUT board members. And that is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner. Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And we are gearing up. We’ll have our board meeting on Monday night, gearing up for the legislative session that opens on Wednesday. And we stand for you, the taxpayer. And that’s all of us. We also stand to protect TABOR, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. We stand for property rights and parental rights and education and parental rights across the board. And if you believe in those things, join us and support us. We’re volunteers. You can get a lot for your money if you join us. It’s only $25 a year. You can do that at coloradotaxpayer.org. And we are a total independent voice. 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And I thought that would be a good word of the day. And as you know, on Fridays, we normally are using a quote from the Medal of Honor quote book that has been published by the Center for American Values. And as we are moving into 2026 here, we are in historical times. And you really were made for this moment in history. We’re here for a reason. As Dr. Deb Sheffel said in one of the broadcasts that we had during Christmas week, that we are here by a divine appointment. And that means we have things to do. And we can take so much… from these stories of these Medal of Honor recipients, and I so thank the Center for American Values for their beautiful portraits of valor. You need to get down to Pueblo and see that. And you can get all the information, and you can order the book by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. But here is the citation of Louis R. Rocco, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient born 1938, died 2002, actions taken May 24, 1970. says Warrant Officer Rocco distinguished himself when he volunteered to accompany a medical evacuation team on an urgent mission to evacuate eight critically wounded Army of the Republic of Vietnam personnel. As the helicopter approached the landing zone, it became the target for intense enemy automatic weapons fire. Disregarding his own safety, warrant officer Rocco identified and placed accurate suppressive fire on the enemy positions as the aircraft descended toward the landing zone. Sustaining major damage from the enemy fire, the aircraft was forced to crash land, causing warrant officer Rocco to sustain a fractured wrist and hip and severely bruised back. Ignoring his injuries, he extracted the survivors from the burning wreckage, sustaining burns to his own body. Despite intense enemy fire, Warrant Officer Rocco carried each unconscious man across approximately 20 meters of exposed terrain to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam perimeter. On each trip, he severely burned hands and broken wrists, which caused excruciating pain, but the lives of the unconscious crash survivors were more important than his personal discomfort and he continued his rescue efforts. Once inside the friendly position, Warrant Officer Rocco helped administer first aid to his wounded comrades until his wounds and burns caused him to collapse and lose consciousness. His bravery under fire and intense devotion to duty were directly responsible for saving three of his fellow soldiers from certain death. His unparalleled bravery in the face of enemy fire and his complete disregard for his own pain and injuries And his performance were far above and beyond the call of duty and were in keeping with the highest traditions of sacrifice and courage of the military service. And he said this. He said, a man’s integrity is his greatest asset. Without integrity, you have nothing. And that is Louis R. Rocco, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient. And again, I thank the Center for American Values for all of the great work that they do. And that is recognizing these Medal of Honor recipients and then continuing to Make sure that we are passing this on to the next generation through their great educational programs, 4K through 12, and their great On Values presentations. Support the Center for American Values because they’re doing just such important work for our next generation and to remember. Another sponsor of the show is Hooters Restaurants, and they have locations in Loveland, Westminster, and over here in Aurora on Parker Road. And I think they have the best nachos I’ve ever had. You should try them out. And these, I’ve got an amazing announcement that we will tease for the beginning of the next segment. 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There’s so much noise coming at us. Sometimes it is difficult to make sense of it all. How can you sift through the clamor for your attention and get to the truth? The Kim Monson Show is here to help. Kim searches for truth and clarity by examining issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Tune in to the Kim Monson Show each weekday, 6 to 8 a.m. with encores 1 to 2 p.m. and 10 to 11 p.m. on KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM. The KLZ website, the KLZ app, and Alexa. Play KLZ. Shows can also be found at KimMonson.com, Spotify, and iTunes.
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Indeed, it is Friday. Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. As you know, the show comes to you live 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour is rebroadcast 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Second hour, 10 to 11 at night. And then shortly thereafter, we’re getting to the point where within the next few weeks, we will hopefully have that up on the website, Spotify and iTunes within a couple of hours. So that is our goal is to really work on that. But let’s see. I think I said it all. Then at that point, you should be able to get that on the streaming services. And do you want more freedom and confidence with your money in 2026? Well, Mint Financial Strategies can help. They’re an independent firm with over 25 years of experience and is an accredited investment fiduciary. They put your best interests first, always. With a strategy-first approach, they’ll help you build that plan that fits your life. So call Mint Financial Strategies today. That number is 303-285-3080. 303-285-3080. And as all of you know, in mid-December, we all came together to work together to sign a petition to call on Governor Jared Polis to do the humanitarian thing and to show mercy and compassion and kindness to Tina Peters and release her from prison. And as I was preparing for the show early this morning, I happened to see this headline. And my friends, this is amazing. And this is from CBS. Let’s see. Let me get over here to all this. This is from… I get these different pop-ups. So darn it. It’s CBS News is what it is. So let’s go ahead. The headline is Governor Jared Polis considers clemency for Tina Peters as he begins his final year in office. And this is a quote from the article. It says, as he nears the finish line, this is Polis, he’s not only focused on the state budget and issues like affordable housing, there’s your political thing in there, but also which state prisoners should receive clemency. Among those who have asked the governor for a reduced sentence is former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who was convicted of several felonies in connection with a 2020 election fraud scheme. Again, this is CBS News. that’s couching this but it goes on this is what polo said he said she got a sentence that was harsh it was a nine-year sentence so we always look at people’s sentences and when you have people that are elderly and we’re looking at this across a number of many people people in their 70s or 80s in our system how much of a threat to society are they and how do we balance that in a way that makes sure that they can spend their last year last few years at home Okay. And my commentary on this is this is an exciting development. And we have given the governor the cover to do the humanitarian thing, which would make him look very magnanimous. And so pray that that happens. And there may be other things that are going on. We are part of all this. But today, you all have something to do. And that is call the governor’s office. That number is 303-866-2471. Again, 303-866-2471. Or email him, governorpolis at state.co.us. And be very respectful. And call on him to do the humanitarian thing and to release Tina Peters. Call on him to exhibit mercy, kindness, and compassion and release Tina Peters immediately. And then also pray that God will soften Polis’ heart and that he releases her immediately. My friends, this is absolutely huge. And this is an opportunity. So take action and do that today. Next headline that I wanted to mention is, and this again is from CBS News, and we talked about it yesterday. My heart is broken, and that is the Colorado board denies zoning application to allow workers to live on property of popular French bakery at CBS Colorado that reported this. And from the article, it says a popular Colorado bakery now faces an uncertain future after a zoning hearing. The Jefferson County Board of Adjustments voted down two applications from Et Voila French Bakery at Lookout Mountain. The bakery, and again, this is from the article, they’re really tiny homes, but the bakery has two trailers on the property that are used for housing and as a test kitchen for the bakers. A complaint, and that’s an anonymous complaint. We need to maybe find out more about that. But a complaint was filed last year over the trailers because the land is owned for commercial use, not residential. And this is my commentary on this. The Jefferson County Commissioners elected and the Jefferson County Board of Adjustments appointed positions appear to have no common sense. Jefferson County could have easily remedied this with a permit for special use or some other tool. Instead, Jefferson County Commissioners and Board of Adjustment are stomping on the American dream of Rachel and Eric Dufour and their dream to bake delicious French bread and pastries for their community. I don’t know yet, my friends, what action to ask you to take. But stay tuned because this is a travesty. And we see municipalities and counties all the time changing zoning or figuring out a way for things to work. And they need to figure that out. Let’s see. Next article that I’ve got here is from KDVR. It says the Colorado governor responds after Trump says Polis doesn’t want to do anything about TDA or Trinidad and this is from the article, said at the end of 2024, the governor’s office congratulated the city of Aurora for the arrest of assumed TDA members and said the state added resources over the summer and was ready to assist Aurora police. And my commentary on this is the arrest of the Trinidad and O’Rourke members in Aurora in 2024 happened because of the bold action of Aurora City Councilwoman Danielle Jarenski, not because Governor Polis was looking to crack down on Trinidad and O’Rourke. Again, there seems to be something happening, Trump and Polis. I just find it very interesting. I’m not quite sure how all of this is connected, but I think we can take some great heart in some of the headlines that we’re seeing. The next headline, UN says the U.S. has a legal obligation to fund agencies after Trump withdraws from several. And the article goes on to say the top United Nations official on Thursday said that the United States has a legal obligation to pay its dues after that fund UN agencies after the White House announced that it is withdrawing support from more than 30 initiatives operated by the world body. All four other veto-wielding permanent members of the UN Security Council, now listen to who that is, China, France, Russia, And the U.K. have paid their dues in full. China paid over $685 million. Now, this is from the Associated Press. And as you start to read these articles, you can start to practice and say what’s in here and what isn’t. So they highlight that China’s paid over $685 million. But I thought, how much does the United States pay? It wasn’t that easy to find. And you know, I don’t really like AI, but this is from Search Assistant. And it says that the United States contributes approximately 28% of the total funding for member governments to the United Nations, which amounted to about $13 billion in 2023. This includes both assessed voluntary contributions for various UN programs and operations. My thoughts on this is Trump is right to pull this funding. According to this AI search assistant, the United Nations funds $4.7 billion of the UN’s budget. Next is China at $685 million. This is not fair. This is taking dollars from hardworking Americans and funding many ideological agendas, many of which are anti-American agendas. And anti-human flourishing. And Trump is right to do this. And I find that this is just quite interesting that the AP article forgot to mention that I think if people saw, well, okay, China has contributed $685 million. But the people of the United States have contributed $4.7 billion. And we’ve realized that I think a lot of this ideological spending has gone to organizations that are doing things to undercut either America or human flourishing. And this is from the AP. There are 66 global organizations that the Trump administration is leaving. And don’t you find it interesting that the UN, top UN official says that, oh, no, you can’t do that. Yeah, we can. We can do that. And some of these organizations that he’s pulling funding from, and this is under non-UN organizations, right? is 24-7 carbon-free energy compact, the Colombo Plan Council, the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Education cannot wait. Just a comment. You take a look at where American students are regarding reading, writing, and arithmetic. Remember last year that we reported the University of San Diego said that they almost don’t have enough room for their students for, I think it was remedial math. So anyway, we’re funding education cannot wait, but we’re not really taking care of education here in the United States. Let’s see. The European Center of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats. The Forum of European National Highway Research Laboratories. Freedom Online Coalition. The Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund. The Global Counterterrorism Forum. The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise. The Global Forum on Migration and Development. the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Those are non-UN organizations that have been funded with this. So again, as we are looking at the fraud that’s happening in the Somali community or in Minnesota, and there’s more and more fraud that’s being uncovered, and I look at our young people, I look at Producer Joe and all of these young people, that they want their shot at the American dream. And how is it when they’re seeing so much money taken out of their paychecks, and then they find out that a lot of this money is going to these different organizations, which I am sure politicians and bureaucrats, interested parties, are taking money off the top on this. There is something unconscionable about this. 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Indeed, it is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And on the line with me is Wendy Volk. I know you’ve gotten to know her. She is a realtor in Cheyenne, Wyoming. And she has done an enormous amount of research regarding what she’s now calling the Wyoming Wind Wall. And it’s been quite a journey for her. I think it started maybe just this last June. Wendy Volk, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you. And if people don’t know what we’ve been talking about over the last few interviews, set this up for folks so that they can understand your journey to… And then the headline that you sent me yesterday with Governor Gordon saying to… Was it the Secretary of State Chuck Gray at a Wynn meeting? Do you want to step outside the… And it has an article that you were in via online. That had to be interesting. So set this up for us, Wendy. Sure, sure.
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So this all started five, six months ago. In June, we got a letter from a wind company out of Spain called Next, and it’s called… Repsol, I’m sorry. And the local LLC that they were going to create is called ConnectGen. And they just announced saying, you know, kind of Audi neighbor, we’re going to be doing a project within a mile of your property. And we’re just giving you a heads up. And then a couple weeks later, we get another letter from the county saying, yes, this company has submitted a site permit for 56,000 acre project to do 170 wind turbines. And the more I started looking into it and reading what was online in terms of the permit on our county planning office, I got more concerned that I really didn’t understand where this project was in relationship to Cheyenne. Where was it in relationship to our family’s historic legacy ranch that the family homesteaded there over 150 years ago? So when the company and I started communicating, they said they would send me a map. When I finally got the map, it was just a few days before public comment was closing, and it was the wrong map. It didn’t clearly delineate where our property was, and then that’s when I just started I’m a real estate professional background with 30 years experience. And so I just started using our county assessor maps and other maps that I have access to to realize, oh, my gosh, this is on two sides of our ranch. And I started raising awareness about, you know, are we looking at all the potential impacts of a project of this magnitude? It’s two and a half. Well, it’s 68,000 acres, right? 56,000 acres, yeah. 6,000 of it is state land, the state land trust, and 50,000 is private acres that are owned by two of our neighbors. And we’ve all gotten along. Great neighborly relationships. This isn’t, you know, I understand and respect that they are looking at wanting to use their land differently. What changes the component of, you know, instead of someone wanting to build a or use a pig farm versus a cattle operation, this is going 56,000 acres is two and a half times the largest size of the state of Wyoming, Cheyenne. Two and a half times the size of land than Cheyenne. And so it’s going to forever change the landscape. But it’s a huge wildlife corridor. It’s 26 miles northwest of Cheyenne. So when I started getting involved and I started writing some opinion pieces to the local news medias, Then I started hearing about other people saying, did you know about this project up in Chugwater? It’s another 50,000 acres. Someone else said, well, between Cheyenne and Laramie, there’s 20,000. Did you know about between Laramie to Fort Collins is 26,000? And all of a sudden, it started looking like, wow, these have all been looked at as kind of pieces of a patchwork quilt, but all of a sudden you could start to see this mosaic of being an entire wall of wind. And it’s at least, I thought, I kept calling it a 100-mile wind wall, but it’s closer to 200 miles of wind corridor. And I think anyone from Colorado coming into Wyoming will be greeted by wind turbines. And I think it’s one thing when the initial projects were much smaller, but these are industrial scale wind projects that will forever change, in my opinion, the landscape of Wyoming.
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Well, and you, I totally agree. And the visual pollution for 200 miles of a wind wall is so significant on our landscape. So that’s just that particular component. But you mentioned that these are wildlife corridors, but also looking into the future. Well, there’s several things. I remember regarding wildlife that in one of the hearings, it sounds like it’s, But it’s not. And that is one of the citizens brought up earthworms, that just the vibration of the wind turbines could affect earthworms, which earthworms are very important. to good soil health, which is important for grazing and for farming, all those things. And I thought that was really interesting, all the different things that people have looked at to say this will really affect really the quality of our soil and our wildlife, our earthworms. I thought that was super interesting, Wendy.
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I would agree. And I think that’s been the part that when you see this type of a massive change that would be happening on a scale that I don’t think has happened in Wyoming in recent history. And to just say, all of a sudden, what are we doing in terms of switching from agricultural use on land to industrial projects? If we’re not looking at the more cumulative review of these corridors, the long-term risks of, you know, fragmenting grazing, altering access, infrastructure strain, all of that was going to fall on these working lands. And I just kept saying, why are we not pumping the brakes here? We need to look under the hood. We need to have a better understanding because once that infrastructure is built, The leverage is gone, but the impacts will remain. And so it’s really, I appreciated, excuse me, hearing how many different people with expertise and insight, the gentleman that brought up earthworms, someone else brought up about the impacts to bats. You know, I took that for granted thinking, okay, what’s, you know, what, What was the person really getting at? Well, every rancher and farmer, they depend on bats. They help minimize insects and bugs that could be a nuisance to, you know, a ranching operation. Well, the bats are mammals. They only give live birth. It’s the young bats. The recent studies I’ve been reading, the bats, you know, the young bats are really impacted by the change of pressure when the wind turbines are starting up and getting going that that’s We’re going to be having this, but it’s not just one project on the project that’s adjacent to our family’s ranch. It’s on land that’s adjacent to a lot of people’s properties. So I think that’s, I really appreciate the time you’ve given to kind of cover this because there’s not a lot of other people that are covering this in our region right now.
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Well, and the other thing is, and Trump had a headline on this, that these wind turbines are bird killers. And in fact, an eagle can be killing eagles. And the environs used to say we want to protect eagles. And I think that they’re starting to pay more attention, people that are really serious about caring about life. Whether or not we kill eagles, I think, are paying attention. But then there are those that have used that narrative to push certain political agendas. But, Wendy, another thing that we’ve talked about is the mitigation into the future. And I think you said one of the reports said that the company would be required in the future to mitigate just a few things. Maybe a few feet down, maybe even not that. But again, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that there has to be a whole bunch of infrastructure, concrete, rebar, in the ground to support a very high wind turbine. And So we need to look responsibly into the future that when that industrial wind project might be shut down for some reason, what happens? Who’s going to be responsible? Will this company just walk away and leave? And will that 200 miles of wind wall, will it just be there? And I think that’s a question that you have been asking. Yeah.
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And I think, you know, I was asking only because this is all very new to me. And I feel like we’re all drinking from a fire hose of understanding the size and the magnitude of a wind turbine. And so this generation of wind turbines that are being proposed for Wyoming are much larger than the other sized previous generations. So when I was asking the company and I was reading the information, was it going to be a 500 turbine? These are closer, the ones that would be proposed outside of Cheyenne would be almost 700 feet tall. And to put that into context is that’s a 70-story office building. Seventy? Seventy? Seven zero. So 700, you know, each floor is of a, you know, apartment, high rise is 10 feet. So, you know, these are 700 feet tall. So it’s a 70-story office building. And our tallest building in downtown Cheyenne is maybe 10, 10 stories high. And so… These things, when you have 170 of them right outside of Cheyenne, and then you go along either one of the interstates, Interstate 25 or Interstate 80, it’s going to change what that skyline is going to look like with blinking lights and transmission lines. And, you know, so if this is the wave of the future, but I think what everyone, regardless of political perspective, should come together to just say, Does this make sense in terms of what that cumulative impact is going to be? Well, that’s an excellent question. Yeah, I think that’s the part that, you know, even yesterday at the meeting, I mean, it was a five-and-a-half-hour meeting that the top five elected officials had. It’s the State Land Board Commission, and they were to come together to have public comment to talk about, There’s a wind and a hydrogen type project outside of Douglas in Glen Rock, Wyoming, that’s being proposed. And it’s being, you know, fought in the courts right now is a district court had said that the state did not comply with the rules for the land use on these commissions. And so the public, it was amazing. People from multiple counties. It came yesterday starting at 10 o’clock in the morning, and it lasted five and a half hours.
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Yes, you know, the meeting started at 10 o’clock yesterday morning, and they conducted some business in the early part of that meeting, but the majority was dedicated to public comment. And then the top five elected officials were able to either ask the individual providing public comment questions or comments, or it was, I thought, a very civil conversation. But toward the end, and I think everyone was getting tired, And I wasn’t physically present. I had to participate via Zoom, like many others. But then all of a sudden, Secretary Gray wanted to make a motion to terminate the wind leases on that project because it is getting tied up in the courts. And boy, all of a sudden, things just got escalated. And I would always like to think that cool heads need to prevail in something like this because it has such a big impact. And I hate to have a distraction from what really is at issue. It’s not these two political figures that are having, you know. a disagreement that could have been handled, but the secretary of education, she, she tried to, you know, intervene and again, tried to just calm the waters and get back on topic. So it definitely got heated. It was toward the very last portion. Um, but this, you know, trying to, do you want to step outside and, I was hoping they wanted to step outside to see where the wind turbines might be located, but instead they went off on a different tangent, I’m afraid. But, you know, I think I was hoping there would be, they’re going to go forward, I believe, at the next public meeting so that they can look at possible solutions with making a motion and putting something in place, either revising the rules. um either you know trying to um work with you know what they have on the books but it’s it’s just i guess i’m looking at it from a much more larger macro level is i think kim the tallest building in denver might be the republic plaza right and it’s close to 700 feet tall imagine 170 And then you know the Glen rock project is over 200 some of these type wind project wind turbines and the impact to the environment, but water water is such a crucial resource in this part of the world. And we’re in a drought we don’t have any any water right now flowing in horse creek that goes through our property and there’s you know fire danger. Present weather conditions continue to make things worse right now in terms of drying out and air it. Adding this level of industrialization, it’s going to have a massive impact on our aquifers.
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I think to make concrete, you need water. Oh, yes. And each one of those turbines, like you mentioned, with rebar and concrete, it’s 16 tons of rebar on each turbine. And so during these construction periods, two to three years to build these projects out and having 400 or 500 employees working on those turbines, There’s going to be a lot of, they’re going to not only have to haul water, but they’ll probably have to get some sort of a water use agreement in place. You know, we’re at 6,000 feet above sea level, so we’re higher in elevation. And we’ve got a couple aquifers that when people are drilling wells for their houses, they’re having to go down 600 feet, or better yet, they’re even going deeper than that and having to do more expensive wells for their homes, including cisterns, just so that it takes the deeper you go to dig a well, the more, you know, if you go down 600 plus feet deeper, to replete water coming back into your home or your business that are on wells, you’re going to need cisterns. And so this is just mind-boggling to me that just looking at the sheer scale of 200 miles of wind turbines that are going to really be exasperating water supply.
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Well, Wendy, as you’re talking about this, I’m also thinking about how dry everything is. And, of course, I’m from western Kansas, and I remember the stories about the Dirty 30s with the land, the soil was not being taken care of, and that farmers and ranchers have figured that out. They’ve done a really good job on that overall. but this would be like putting 200 miles of hair dryers on top of land and think about how hair dryers can dry out your hair i know this is a very simplistic example but it’s pretty real think about that Day after day after day. And again, this whole thing doesn’t work without government subsidies and government tax credits. So we need to get rid of those. What if those go away and this is no longer economically viable for these wind companies? Will they continue to pay the leases? I know that that was one of the questions regarding the secretary, somebody regarding education and education. that they were in favor of this because it would put money towards the Department of Education. But what if those leases go away? What if they are not paying those? I know those are two kind of novel questions, but again, 200 miles of hair dryers, what would that do to the land?
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Yeah, I think it will only put, you know, undue strain on everyone, both where the turbines are situated on those individuals, you know, private property or state land, but also on adjacent property owners. They just, it’s, I keep, Just saying, it’s a very competitive industry, it sounds like, in terms of the energy industry. We know it is, depending on whatever type of energy it is. But let’s say these wind companies go out of business. And I know that they set aside as part of their permit to decommission them. But the project was between right on the Cheyenne and Colorado, the Wyoming and Colorado border, there were some turbines that initially when they needed to be decommissioned, when they tried to start taking them apart piece by piece as part of a decommissioned plan, they realized they were going through the money too quickly. There was not going to be enough money, and it was taking too long. So then they started blowing them up. so you take a very arid land and we start blowing things up to get rid of outdated turbines or decommissioned turbines and over the next whether it’s in 10 years from now or 30 years they say these projects are 30 years 30 to 35 years the wind leases that the state could enter into on state land could be 75 years We have state land that we graze and we lease from the state, and it’s a 10-year lease. And so it’s just… It just doesn’t make sense, right?
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It doesn’t make sense. Actually, Wendy, I ended up with one of our listeners, Jenny, and a rancher up in northern Colorado. We got in a pickup, and we drove around that. I think probably the decommissioned industrial wind project that you mentioned and the amount of concrete there. and rebar and wiring and looking at what that has done to the land. I’ve got the pictures of it. This was several years ago. These are questions that have to be answered. We’ve got a minute left. I’d seen a headline a while back that looked like Governor Gordon was in favor of wind, these wind projects. So where do you think he’s at right now? I know that’s a tough question. If you can answer it, do. If not, not a problem.
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You know, I think he’s now realizing this is his last term as governor, and he understands. I mean, he understands that we are at a pivotal point. This is why engagement matters. now matters. We have a window before a lot of these leases are finalized and these corridors are locked in. We need to insist on better governance. We need to have clear rules. We need cumulative impact analysis. We need meaningful public input. And I think he’s hearing loud and clear that the land will still be here long after today’s energy market shifts. But our policies need to reflect that reality. And I think that’s why if this is his last his last go around, he needs to really pull back and step aside from this conflict he has with Secretary Gray. And let’s get some meaningful work done.
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Wendy Volk, thank you so much. Wyoming Cheyenne Realtor, we will or Cheyenne Wyoming Realtor. We will stay on it. Have a great day. You too. Thank you. And our quote for the end of the show is from Nathaniel Hawthorne. He said, All brave men love, for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life or in physical contests. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for our number two.
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you have had in this whole process a lot of people tend to get uh pretty nasty when it comes to stuff like this and the way you’ve gone about doing this is very very classy and very respectful so i tip my hat to you because a lot of people don’t have that discipline not to take it there You know, you’re doing this in a very respectful way. So I applaud you for that.
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Well, thank you, Alicia. And at the bottom, at the end of the day, we just want her released. And again, our strategy is be respectful, call or email the governor, ask him to do the humanitarian thing, which this makes him look good, to exhibit mercy, kindness and compassion. And so this is a big deal. But I think you and I both have a big, and that is the legislature convenes next week. And you’re watching things from a Second Amendment standpoint, which we do as well at the Colorado Union of Taxpayers because it’s a property rights issue and there’s a lot of tax issues. But you’re looking at it from the Second Amendment. And what’s your ear to the ground saying that might be coming down the pike regarding infringements on our right to keep and bear a firearm to protect ourselves against bad actors?
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For some time now, we’ve had the rumor mill talking and speculating about an armory bill, which would essentially limit the amount of firearms one in Colorado could purchase. and you know there’s every year we face the opportunity that this could be a possibility we also have some rumors that people may or may not be challenging sb 25003 to take it even further back to when the the bill initiated and make it even more harsh on coloradans so impose even more infringements than it already does which would be effective the first of august this year Another issue that we’re facing is Stephen Woodrow has openly, you know, stated how much he despises the Second Amendment. And, you know, he feels that people like myself are, you know, quote unquote, you know, terrorists and, you know, violent, etc. But he’s actually been… been proposing to people that he would like to have some form of ban on NFA items, which, as we talked about previously on the show, we discussed how the Big Beautiful Bill affected the Second Amendment, and even though we didn’t get what we wanted completely out of the Big Beautiful Bill for NFA items such as suppressors and short-barreled rifles and things of that nature, it helped us take a bite out of a lot of these infringements. So… We have a lot of people right now at that Capitol that are very, very anti-gun for the public and that want to impose these type of infringements on us. So it’s quite important that people stand up, they get prepared, and they understand that it’s so important for them to reach out to testify against these anti-gun bills and to stay informed. And if they’d like to stay informed, they can reach out to us at the Second Syndicate. So They can reach me at Alicia at the second syndicate dot com. They can go to info at the second syndicate dot com. They can go to the Web site, the second syndicate dot com and just sign up for information because we do have a Colorado watch page or any information on any bills that are going to have the word firearm in it. We are going to be reaching out to people, telling them what is going on and they can stay more involved and get more proactive about pushing back against these anti-gun bills.
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And I’ve got to find this quote, Alicia, and I cannot find it right now. And it was the socialists into Casablanca. And in it, it was, I think they said, you know, round up the usual suspects and something along that line. But the socialists closed Casablanca, the great movie with Henry Bogart. and now I’m Ingrid Bergman, is that law enforcement would come in or the socialists would come in and say if they saw a crime scene and they would say, okay, go ahead and round up the usual weapons instead of the usual suspects. Anyway, that I know it’s not a funny thing, but I kind of got my funny bone, Elisa Garcia.
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Indeed. And something that I really want to implore people to embrace and understand is that they will only continue if we continue to tolerate it. And there is there’s no excuse now to make the statements like, oh, that’s unconstitutional. It’ll be challenged. There are so many of these bills that have been and are unconstitutional. And yet nothing is being done by about it. And it’s up to us, the people, to be that stronghold and to push back because when it comes to gun control, this is a disease that will affect every other state in the United States. If we don’t demonstrate that we will be that stronghold and be that barrier, it will continue to spread and infect like a disease. So we have to do something and we have to get involved. Absolutely.
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And again, what’s that website for the second syndicate? TheSecondSyndicate.com. Okay. Alicia Garcia, I know, let’s fasten our seatbelts, and we will talk with you next week. Thank you so much, Kim. You have a great day. You have a great day as well. And another great sponsor of the show is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And you might be able to save some money if you bundle everything together, all of your insurance coverage. The only way to find out is call them. That number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan Team is there.
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And she snuck in, and that is award-winning realtor with Remax Alliance, Karen Levine. Great to have you here. Good morning. And property ownership, property, whether or not it’s tangible, intangible property is inherent in the American idea, and home ownership is. Karen Levine has created wealth for generations of Americans. Homeownership, I know, is near and dear to your heart. So we want to talk about that. What do you see happening here in Colorado as we’re moving into 2026? I’ve seen, because of public policy, that we’re seeing out-migration from Colorado. And so what is that doing to the housing market? Because Colorado used to be one of the places to move to. But again, public policy, people are saying, I can’t afford it, I’m leaving.
SPEAKER 18 :
The good news is the market’s still good. And there is good choice for buyers. And because of equity positions of sellers, because values shot up over the COVID years, People have equity in their homes, and so a little depreciation in their home values is not detrimental to the market and or to the seller. They’re able to still walk away with some nice equity to buy the next home. And whether that is to buy the next home in Colorado or to buy the next home outside of Colorado, they’re positioned well. So the market is good. And I think we’re going to see an improvement over 2025 in 2026 that more housing units will sell nationwide.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. And many times you have different properties that you highlight. Is there anything in particular you want to highlight right now?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, I do have a couple. One is a condominium just down the road here off of Parker Road in Florida. Very affordable, priced at $97,500. It’s a one-bedroom, one-bath. And it qualifies for the Community Investment Act program. mortgage concession that’s offered through sunflower bank competing with lauren but lauren and i’ve looked at this product and sunflower bank is giving up to 1.75 of the loan amount in either buying down your rate or towards your closing costs and i know we always think there’s a catch or a A cost of free money, but in this case, because of the act that occurred in the 70s, this bank has chosen to give back to the community in this way. So it presents an affordable option for somebody who’s wanting to get into homeownership. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
And so moving over, Lauren Levy, there’s all kinds of different things that affect mortgages. And the unemployment rate, I think I saw they were pretty good numbers regarding employment, yes?
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, it came out at 6.30 today. I believe the unemployment rate was 4.6 today. I want to say down a little bit, down from 4.7, I believe. And the headline number was 50,000 new jobs. They were expecting 65, so ever so slightly lower. But it just showed a stability in the labor market. We didn’t have a big negative number. And we didn’t have a blowout number.
SPEAKER 06 :
These are non-government jobs, yes?
SPEAKER 02 :
Yes. They’re called the non-farm payrolls. The government is in there. So that’s why, you know, the last couple of numbers were skewed with the shutdown. So the government jobs are in there. It’s just non-farm payrolls are called.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. I wonder why they differentiate that. I know they’ve done that forever.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah. As long as they’re consistent, I guess. You’re comparing apples to apples. It’s really all that matters, you know? Okay. But yeah, and the inflation data lately has been relatively the same. So we’re just kind of in this cruising thing. But what that leads to is the fact that the Fed may or may not need to do anything, right? Because we don’t have big job losses. We don’t have a struggling economy. And that’s usually when the Fed would cut rates.
SPEAKER 1 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
And the GDP numbers, I’m not sure we talked about those, but it was annualized at 4.3%. Which is high. That’s awesome.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s really awesome.
SPEAKER 02 :
So that means the economy is doing well, which it’s interesting because if we just want to talk about the president, that’s really good for them, right? When you’re in charge and you have really good GDP numbers, that looks great.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right.
SPEAKER 02 :
But that doesn’t provide a lot of incentive for the Fed to cut rates, and they’re pushing for that as well because the Fed has to really worry about inflation. And so it’s an interesting back and forth.
SPEAKER 06 :
So one thing regarding Trump is he is a man of action, clearly, with what happened in Venezuela this last week. I can’t believe the reports on that. But regarding action, I saw a headline. You mentioned it in between. about Trump saying something about the mortgage mark, 200 million or something?
SPEAKER 04 :
Billion.
SPEAKER 06 :
Billion with a B? Mm-hmm. Okay. Explain this to me.
SPEAKER 02 :
The headline was, and there hasn’t been a lot put out about it yet, but the headline was that he was instructing his representatives to instruct Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac because they’re sitting on a pile of cash, which they get when people pay off their home loans and move or just pay off their house, whatever, or refinance. They collect those funds, and they have exactly $200 billion on hand. And so he instructed them to buy $200 billion worth of mortgages, which when people hear that, they think that’s like when the Treasury was buying mortgage-backed securities through COVID and rates went down into the threes. The difference is it’s Fannie and Freddie. It’s different. The market doesn’t operate that way. They don’t have people in place to do it. And it doesn’t necessarily drive down rates if they’re the buyer because it definitely creates liquidity out there, which can cause inflation. But it’s just the natural course of things, like the way the thing works. I love the fact that the president is trying to find ways to help housing because that helps everybody. Yeah. It’s just nothing’s happened yet there. We thought there’d be a big reaction in the 10-year Treasury. It would go down, which lowers rates, but nothing’s happened yet because people don’t know what this means. It’s another good idea.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, I still don’t quite understand it, so I think I’m going to need you to unpack this for me when we come back. from break because I don’t quite get it in my brain. So if all you have it, okay, that’s great. But we’re going to have to walk through this for me in studios. Karen Levine, Remax Realtor. And what’s your phone number? 303-877-7516. And Lauren, what’s your phone number? 303-880-8881. And we have these important discussions because of our sponsors. And if you have any challenges with your own personal climate, and that is being warm in the winter or cool in the summer, reach out to Ben’s. Oh, I’m ahead of myself. Sorry, I was going to tease Ben’s plumbing, heating, and cooling, but I’m supposed to tease. And that’s Karen Levine. We’ll be right back.
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SPEAKER 02 :
And he’s talking about mortgage-backed securities specifically, not the actual, like mortgages get pooled together into a bond, into a security that you can buy on Wall Street. Okay. So he’s talking about purchasing those securities. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
So if he purchases those, and is that like a mutual fund of bonds or something?
SPEAKER 02 :
You can think of it that way. Okay. If you remember back in the crisis of 08, one of the things that happened is while the rating agencies were supposed to be, you know, the people that grade bonds, triple A, double A, were supposed to be watching, what was happening was banks were taking mortgages for people like you and I that pay on time and everything, and great mortgages where… we had to show our income and our assets to qualify. And let’s just, to keep it simple, let’s say there was 100 mortgages in a bond portfolio, They would label those as AAA and sell them even to foreign countries. But unbeknownst to anybody, probably 30 to 40 of those were subprime mortgages that were in there that people hadn’t qualified for. They didn’t show their income. And when those went bad, the bonds went bad, and the rating agencies looked terrible because they hadn’t properly rated the bonds. Got it, got it. So that’s what mortgage-backed securities are. They’re a pool of mortgages put together to make a huge dollar amount that are then sold off.
SPEAKER 06 :
So he’s saying, go out and buy 200 billion of those. Now, this is not like creating money.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, it’s spending money they have, but it’s creating demand for these mortgage-backed securities that may or may not already exist. So Fannie and Freddie are already operating in the market as a buyer. They do that every day. And so they’re saying, we have extra money. Go spend it and buy these mortgage-backed securities. And what would happen is, as you create demand for a bond, the price of that bond goes up like anything else, right? The more demand there is for something, the more you can charge for it. So the more people will pay for the bonds, the corresponding interest rate yield on those bonds works like a teeter-totter. It’s hard to explain. But the more demand there is for a bond, the more the price of that bond goes up, the yield goes down, the rate they offer, because it doesn’t have to be as attractive to find buyers. The rate comes down, and mortgage rates are tied to that rate on the bonds. So he’s thinking, if we can create all this demand for these bonds, the price of those bonds will go up, and the yield will come down, bringing mortgage rates down. He’s right about that. The question is just the mechanics of it and how it works, because Fannie and Freddie are already out there buying every day anyhow. How much will it move markets if they just add $200 billion to it? Is it sustainable? Is it a long-term fix, or is it just something that would create a short-term pop for people to refi? Which, again, wouldn’t be bad, but it could help people that have rates in the low sevens to high sixes lately, refi. So it would be good. It’s just how do the mechanics of it work, and is it going to be a big deal or not?
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. So, Karen Levine, what do you think about this?
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, I understand the desired outcome, which is if we get rates down from their current levels, it makes housing more affordable, which then should create more demand. But if it creates more demand and we don’t have enough supply, that will make the prices go up. So… What I heard yesterday, we had our annual, the Denver Metro Association of Realtors had their annual economic summit. And we bring in two national economists along with a, we had a local land guy who is amazing, who shared about what was happening in the front range with land acquisition. But anyway, these two economists come. indicated that even though we have more supply nationwide of homes on the market, we still don’t have enough supply to cause prices to come down, which means if you have an oversupply of homes, more motivated sellers are going to be more aggressive in their pricing to get their house sold. Mm-hmm. We’re not at that point that’s putting downward pressure on pricing nationwide to create that. So the question is, is you lower interest rates, which then increases buyer participation, more buyers in the market. Does that then cause housing prices in certain markets, and Denver would probably be one of those, to go up? So do you really solve the problem?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t know. So this is from one of our listeners. It says that Trump is on our side. He genuinely wants to recapitalize the middle class. Lauren, I’m middle class. is it’s really part of the whole American dream. This idea that people could have property and do with most of their property. What they want to do is, I don’t think the founders knew what would happen, but what would happen is that America happened. Regular people like us can thrive and flourish. And not that… I’m thinking of my grandmother, who on the plains of western Kansas lived in the original green sustainable house, and that was a sod home. It was made out of dirt. And it was very affordable also. There were no building regulations or anything like that. But the idea of generation upon generation to have it better, the next generation. It’s been part of the American dream. And when we are seeing these headlines of money that America, that we’re being defrauded of, and it looks like this thing in Minnesota may be just the tip of the iceberg, this is taking money from the American dream for, like, Producer Joe, our young people. I do think this listener is correct that I think Trump really wants to protect Americans and the middle class. And I’m not asking you to make a statement on that. But at least that’s what it looks like with his actions. He’s trying to make that happen.
SPEAKER 02 :
I agree with that. You know, you can question or people can question how he goes about things, but he definitely seems to have a plan. He’s not afraid to implement things. He’s trying to reestablish our nation as at least the power in the Western Hemisphere with the things he’s doing.
SPEAKER 06 :
You mean the Monroe Doctrine? Did you hear that instead of the Monroe Doctrine?
SPEAKER 02 :
Oh.
SPEAKER 06 :
The Monroe Doctrine?
SPEAKER 02 :
No. Yeah, but he’s trying to make people respect us, if not fear us again, which is not a bad thing for everybody. But I agree. I mean, it’s different. When we used to have recessions or things caused by COVID in the past, we’d have people would talk about like, are we going to have a V-shaped recovery or a U-shaped recovery? How long would it take? In Japan, they’re known for having an L-shaped recovery from their last downturn, meaning it went down and just never came back. They’ve had problems with their interest rates for 30 years now. They’re talking about us right now having a K-shaped recovery, which is new. I’ve never seen that. So the K means that the wealthy people, the people who had money in big 401ks and can afford to buy stocks and ride this artificial intelligence wave with all these companies, are just hammering away money more than ever and that’s true it is and the people that don’t that are living day to day paycheck to paycheck that are dealing with the inflation that don’t can’t afford to suck away a lot of money are having trouble and that’s the bottom part of the capital k where they’re kind of going down and I’ve had this talk with my family. My kids are 23 and 21. We talk about this. A lot of kids are living at home to older ages. They just can’t afford… It’s one thing to afford the home, but then you’ve got to afford the groceries and the everything else that you need to live day to day. And then if you want to start a family and potentially look at child care or someone staying home, it’s a lot of pressure. And… That’s why credit card debt is at an all-time high right now, that it’s higher than it’s ever been.
SPEAKER 06 :
And so, Lorne, that’s why I am so frustrated as we are seeing these headlines regarding the fraud in Minnesota and all of this other fraud. And then the fact that Trump, one of the headlines that we hit this morning is he said to the UN, we’re not going to fund 66 of these different agencies. And again, this is money that’s being taken from our young people Via now or via debt. And I totally agree with him on reassessing that. And the AP article that I had referred to, they said the five – let me get to it here.
SPEAKER 02 :
I’ve always maintained that if the government wanted to hire people on a low salary with a commission structure – I remember I watched, I think it was a 60 Minutes, but they did this years ago. They did a story on Medicare and Medicaid fraud. And they had gone about to find these storefronts in South Florida where it was supposed to be a medical device company, but it was just a blank glass window. And they had ordered two prosthetic legs on some guy’s Social Security number, paid for by Medicare. And they interviewed the gentleman whose Social Security number they used. And he had his legs. He was sitting there being interviewed. Oh, his own legs. His own two healthy legs. He had never even had a leg surgery. And Medicare had funded two prosthetic legs on his Social Security that were delivered supposedly to this false storefront to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you hired people and paid them X amount with a big commission structure to just find fraud in government spending, that wouldn’t be a bad gig.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’d be a great kind of a variation on Doge. What do you think about that, Karen? Well, I like the concept.
SPEAKER 02 :
The ice for fraud.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right, the ice for fraud.
SPEAKER 02 :
Go out there and get them. Just let them out like ants. Go find it.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, and it’s interesting because the culture of government employment is stability and no risk. And I find it interesting that maybe… bringing in some risk and accountability would be a good thing. Transparency? Transparency, you know, result-oriented.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, and if someone brings in $10 million in fraud and they make $300,000 for doing it, terrific. Right. Still save $9.7 million.
SPEAKER 06 :
I like your thinking, eyes for fraud. You heard it first here from Lauren Levy. I love it. We’re going to continue the discussion. Text line, and I’m trying to keep up with all of you on the text line. So 720-605-0647. I so want to hear from you as well in studio. Karen Levine, what’s your phone number? 303-877-7516. And Lauren Levy?
SPEAKER 18 :
303-880-8881.
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SPEAKER 02 :
Yep, you got it. Good to be here.
SPEAKER 06 :
And Karen, you’ve been with me since before the Kim Monson Show, and we are starting our eighth year of solo broadcasting. And it’s been quite a ride. You and I have been, we’ve really been on this journey together in looking at these ideas. I remember you and I sitting here looking at each other saying, I think we should do a show regarding the World Economic Forum and their agenda. And you and I both thought, this is dangerous territory, and do we look crazy? But we weren’t crazy. No.
SPEAKER 18 :
No, I think we’ve seen truth get exposed over time. I don’t know if we’ve seen action, you know, a little action. It just takes a lot to unwind some of this stuff.
SPEAKER 06 :
But it’s been a great journey. And then we talked a little bit about it earlier. Lauren, you came on, I think, two or three months after… Because you knew Zach, or you know Zach, I know Zach, and he thought that we might want to work together. And I’m just so grateful for that.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, it’s been great. I just can’t believe it’s been that long. I know.
SPEAKER 06 :
It flies. I know. Okay, Karen Levine, during the break, you had a revelation on what Lorne was talking about, economic curves. There used to be V-curves. U curves. U curves. He said that Japan’s an L curve. That’s about the last thing you want, except I’m not sure we want a K curve as well. And you had a really interesting revelation.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, you know, my name starts with K, so I’m very familiar with that letter. But I was looking at Lauren’s description. And so if the wealthy are getting wealthier, which is the top of the K and the distance between the line and the vertical, you know, whatever the V piece. And then the have nots are getting bigger. And that center point is middle class. That is a whittling away of the middle class. And I think we’ve seen policy continue to not support middle class to take from the middle class so that we don’t. I hate to say it, we don’t exist. And yet we are the fabric of and the foundation of America.
SPEAKER 06 :
But the middle class, everyday people going after their hopes and dreams has been under continual attack. Just think about COVID. When you had PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that came out with policy that said that there were essential businesses and non-essential businesses. And I remember that it’s almost like a bad dream now. But that I was considered, since I was in media, essential, which really made me mad. Because I guess to paraphrase 1984, there’s no one who’s more essential than anybody else. And so I would drive over to the station. I would be the only one, it seemed like, on the highway. I thought, did the rapture occur and I’m still here? Or what happened? I was the same way.
SPEAKER 02 :
I was considered essential. And we drove around with a letter in our car in case we got pulled over.
SPEAKER 18 :
Show me your papers. Really?
SPEAKER 02 :
I loved it. I was the only one in my office for miles. Great. Had the whole building to myself.
SPEAKER 18 :
Well, we have three essentials sitting here, which is interesting because real estate was not essential throughout the nation. It was a state-by-state decision, which in looking back, thank you, Governor Polis, for understanding that housing is essential. We appreciate that. But why couldn’t we stand on the foundation of our founders, which is capitalism and free market, and let the people decide what was essential?
SPEAKER 06 :
I know.
SPEAKER 18 :
The other thing I remember. Germs. Oh, right. I forgot about that. There was a virus. Or it still is a virus.
SPEAKER 06 :
There still is a virus. There is still a virus.
SPEAKER 02 :
I was shocked to see Kim wearing a mask when I walked in today.
SPEAKER 06 :
I was going through my Christmas decorations as I was pulling them out. Somebody had given me a mask that was embroidery that had all these Christmas decorations and balls and things and a little battery on it that it put lights on it. And I showed it to somebody. I said, oh, is this not a flashback to history? But the other thing that the insidious messaging as we were driving around, remember those electronic signs? On I-25? On I-25 that said, stay home, save a life. The implication is, if you’re not staying home, you want to kill somebody. And that was going to kill somebody, my blood pressure, because I just saw all of these 1984 things that was going on, Lorne.
SPEAKER 02 :
I agree with you. I was right there with you. I remember looking out my window because my office backed I-25 and couldn’t believe you could land a plane.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know.
SPEAKER 02 :
No problem. It could be a runway at DIA. There was nobody on it.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know. Except a few of us essential people.
SPEAKER 02 :
But once they got to work at 8 or 9 o’clock, there was nobody.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know. So when people complain, Karen, about congestion on the highway, I don’t. Because people are voting with their dollars that they want the… freedom of mobility, and they are willing to sit in congestion to do so. So instead of these PBIs thinking that, oh, how to get rid of congestion is to force people onto trains or buses or into apartment buildings that look like Soviet block apartments because they’re getting government money to subsidize them. I just had to throw that in there. So people are voting and saying, I like the convenience of my personal vehicle. So PBIs need to be figuring it out on how to make it better. When I drive, you drive Jefferson County all the time, so you probably drive 470. And when I am driving over to Jefferson County for our cut board meetings, there are parts of 470 that it could jiggle your teeth out. it’s pretty bad. And so they need to be figuring that out for us. So anyway, I guess let’s get kind of close to final thoughts. We’ve got about three minutes on that. Important discussions. I guess I shouldn’t. Let me just make sure. Risk and accountability in government jobs, great concept. That is a good concept for sure. Okay, let’s see here. Regarding the subprime subject, this is from Sondra. There’s a must-see docudrama. I’ve not seen it, but I’ve heard about it, The Big Short. And that’s an incredible real-time scenario.
SPEAKER 02 :
I love that movie.
SPEAKER 18 :
That’s a great movie.
SPEAKER 06 :
As a mortgage broker, you would.
SPEAKER 02 :
No, even the financial. Yeah. Because I also do financial stuff and just watching that guy. That guy was a genius. He was so far ahead. Just watched it coming and no one trusted him. No one believed him. They were trying to pull their money from him and fire him and boom.
SPEAKER 06 :
He was right.
SPEAKER 02 :
Heck yeah, he was right.
SPEAKER 18 :
That’s worth going back and looking at.
SPEAKER 06 :
I guess so. Lauren, great to have you here. What’s your final thought that you want to give to Coloradans out there as we’re looking at all this?
SPEAKER 02 :
Maybe the final thought would be that things are always in motion. We talk about it all the time and watching for opportunities. I tell people that we can always have a conversation. It’s free. You can get on. Our radar, if you want, if you’re unhappy, like I got a call yesterday from someone who just flat out said, I’m not happy with my interest rate. It may not be that bad, but I would prefer if you just kept an eye on things and add me to whatever list you maintain. Here’s my current rate. Here’s where I’m at. If you see an opportunity, please call me.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, that’s proactive.
SPEAKER 02 :
Yeah, because they’re hearing things are going on. They don’t know what’s going to happen. If Fannie and Freddie do buy this $200 billion, if they don’t, if the Fed lowers rates. Basically, they were just saying, I don’t have time to watch this. That’s what you do. If you see an opportunity, call.
SPEAKER 06 :
What a smart thing for somebody to do.
SPEAKER 02 :
So that’s always available. They’re ahead of the game now. We’ve got their information and we can jump.
SPEAKER 06 :
And what’s that number? 303-880-8881.
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And Karen Levine, your final thought?
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Well, I think based on yesterday’s economic summit, a lot of positive in the housing market, not the affordability that we would like to see, but still there is opportunity. And I think one of the takeaways, which we talk about when we’re together, is I am available to help you navigate new construction projects. And builders who are holding inventory are offering some very good incentives, and they are willing to get homes under contract and closed with very little to no profit margin on their side of the ledger, which gives opportunity to you as a buyer. Also, there are some great properties on the market in the resale arena because sellers have been motivated and have a good equity position and can be more aggressive. So don’t miss out on those opportunities. And if you’re looking to sell your home, I’m available to start a conversation about that as well, because we always need good inventory. And what’s that number? My number is 303-877-7516.
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It’s always great to have you two in studio. Thank you so much. And our quote for the end of the show is Nathaniel Hawthorne. He said, All brave men love, for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life or in physical contests. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, if honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America.
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And I don’t want no one to cry.
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But tell them if I don’t.
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