In this episode of The Kim Munson Show, we explore the intricacies of socialization in sectors such as transportation, education, and energy—areas increasingly dominated by governmental control through regulations. Delve into the latest political headlines, including a candid discussion on the implications of bipartisanship in today’s America. Join Kim as she navigates the delicate balance between freedom and force, and the truths obscured by nonpartisan labels. Engage with rich historical insights from this day in history, reflecting on significant past events that continue to shape our current political landscape. We also dive deep into the controversial headlines surrounding recent
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It’s the Kim Munson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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The socialization of transportation, education, energy, housing, and water. What it means is that government controls it through rules and regulations.
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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Under this guise of bipartisanship and nonpartisanship, it’s actually tapping down the truth.
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Today’s current opinions and ideas.
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On an equal field in the battle of ideas, mistruths and misconceptions is getting us into a world of hurt.
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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 Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You’re each treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose today. Strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, Producer Joe, and did you have a good Thanksgiving? I did. You and I got to take a little bit of time off. It didn’t mean that we weren’t working, but we didn’t have to get up at, oh, dark 30. Although, you know what? I tend to wake up at, oh, dark 30. Anyway, Joe, how about you? Did you sleep in? I guess we’ll go to work, huh? But it was great, and we’re excited to be back in the saddle. So much is happening. Check out the website. That is kimmunson.com. You can find our show recaps there. What you do is you just click on the picture, and it’ll bring up a summary, a written summary, as well as the podcast. And you can actually listen to the show on all KLZ 560 platforms. That’s KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. And once our shows are posted on the website, then that link also goes to Spotify and iTunes. So you can find us everywhere. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You will get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. And you can email me at Kim at Kim Munza dot com. And the text line and I do want to hear from you is 720-605-0647. And thank you to all of you who support us and greatly appreciate all of you. The show big show plan for you today. We’ll be talking with Doyle Glass, who is the author of Swift Sword, and also with Joshua Lowenstein in our number one. And our number one is rebroadcast. on all KLZ platforms, one to two in the afternoon. Second hour, our featured guest is Jeremy Portnoy with Open the Books, and he’s going to be talking about his columns at Real Clear Investigations, Waste of the Day. And so you will not want to miss that. Second hour is rebroadcast 10 to 11 at night on all KLZ 560 platforms. We look at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. We’re searching for truth and clarity. Remember, my friends, it’s never compassionate. to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunities, or lives. Force can obviously be a weapon, but it’s also policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the World Economic Forum, the Davos globalist elites, the United Nations, this Colorado state legislature, the Colorado governor, the World Health Organization, land use codes, zoning regulations, forest fees, and the list goes on and on and on. And if something’s a good idea, you should not have to use a forest to implement it. First thing, our word of the day is Advent. And I chose that because yesterday was the beginning of Advent. It’s the four Sundays before Christmas. And it means this. It’s spelled A-D-V-E-N-T. And the first definition is the coming or arrival of something or someone that is important or worthy of note. Number two, the definition is the liturgical period preceding Christmas, beginning Western churches on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and in Eastern churches in mid-November. It’s observed by many Christians as a season of prayer, fasting and penitence penitence. And it is also the third definition is the coming of Jesus at the incarnation. So your challenge is to use the word Advent in a sentence today. So Joe and I and the team took a respite last week and ended up watching the Reagan movie. So many of you had reached out and recommended that I watch it, and I did. In fact, I ended up watching it three times because I wanted to really understand everything about it. It’s a fabulous movie, and I would highly recommend it. And Ronald Reagan is our quote of the day. He was born in 1911. He died in 2004. He was an American politician and actor. He served as the 40th president of the United States. He had been a member of the Democrat Party, and the quote is, he was asked, when asked, why did you leave the Democrat Party? He said, I didn’t leave the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party left me. So he became a Republican, and he was a very important figure in the American conservative movement. And when we use the word conservative, what we mean is to conserve and preserve these ideas of America. that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. And he said this, if we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. And so we must engage in this epic battle of ideas that we are engaged in today. And my friends, when I say at the beginning of the show that we were made for this moment, I’m not kidding. We were made for this moment. Several things, there’s a whole bunch of different things on this day in history, but I’ll just try to get to five of them. 1777, British General Howe plots an attack on Washington’s army for December 4. In 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the French at the Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony officiated by Pope Pius VII. In 1823, U.S. President James Monroe declares the Monroe Doctrine, opposing European colonialism in the Americas, arguing any European political intervention in the New World would be a hostile act against the United States. And in 1845, U.S. President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West, a widely held belief termed Manifest Destiny by newspaper editor John O’Sullivan. And in 1859, abolitionist John Brown was hanged for murder, treason, and conspiring slaves to revolt at Charlestown, Virginia. So that’s this day in history that we have. And I think it’s important to look back and see what’s happening in history. And so let’s see. Next thing, let’s get to our… And of course, I think the first big headline is Joe Biden. He pardoned his son. And this is from just the news says. And here we go. Let me get up here to the top here. Says Joe Biden began his presidency with a series of lies about his son Hunter’s business dealings. The laptop was Russian disinformation, the family didn’t get China money, and the future president never consorted with influence-seeking associates. Just the news goes on to say… And he is ending his tenure in the White House with a stunning broken pledge. After months of the White House and Joe Biden personally insisting that there would be no pardon, the 46th president granted clemency Sunday night to his son that erased his federal gun and tax convictions. The bookends to a major political scandal left Republicans who investigated tens of millions of dollars informed payments to the first family crying anew about a dual system of justice. Then next headline, this is from the Daily Wire. It says two Democrats speak out against Biden pardoning his son. And it says that one Democrat governor and one Democrat member of U.S. Congress spoke out against President Joe Biden pardoning his son on Sunday night, despite his repeated lies that he would not do so. Biden issued the sweeping pardon for his son that covered every crime he committed or may have committed or taken part in over an 11 year period. Daily Wire goes on to say that far left governor, Colorado Governor Jared Polis posted on X. Well, as a father, I certainly understand President Joe Biden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him. I am disappointed that he put his family ahead of the country. My friends, we have talked about. Jared Polis and his handlers are very politically astute. And word on the street is that Jared Polis wants to make a run for the presidency. And I think that’s what this whole X post is all about. And the quote goes on to say from X, this is a bad precedent that could be abused by later presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation. He said, when you become president, your role is paterfamilias of the nation. Hunter brought the legal trouble he faced on himself, and one can sympathize with his struggles while also acknowledging that no one is above the law, not a president and not a president’s son. So, again, I think this is political posturing by Jared Polis. The next thing that headline is, of course, Mike Johnston, mayor of Denver, has said that he’s not going to, that he is, says, this is from the Miami Herald, it says, Denver mayor takes strong stance, plans to block the Trump deportation effort. And it says, Democrat Denver mayor has revealed a strong opposition to President-elect Donald Trump’s deportation agenda. He affirmed that the Denver Police Department would not cooperate with future deportation measures. More than us having Denver Police Department stationed at the county level or county line to keep them out, you would have 50,000 Denverites there. Hmm. Interesting. Stay tuned on that. And then the next headline is Tom Homan. And this is from American Greatness. He says this. President-elect Donald Trump’s borders are didn’t mince words last Monday night when he asked was asked about Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s fighting words about protecting illegal immigrants from deportation. The article goes on to say Johnston recently claimed in an interview that he was prepared to use military force against anything he considered to be illegal or immoral or un-American in the Mile High City and that he was willing to go to jail for standing in the way of incoming President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. Tom Homan said this on Fox News’ Sean Hannity show. He says, you are absolutely breaking the law. All he has to do is look at Arizona versus U.S. and he will see that he’s breaking the law. But look, me and the Denver mayor, we agree on one thing. He’s willing to go to jail and I’m willing to put him in jail. And so stay tuned on that. We are, as I say, Colorado, we are at the tip of the spear. And then I just thought this was really cool. This was a great little headline. This is from high school sports, I think. It says a California small school with 71 boys beats a public school with 3,635 kids enrolled in a championship football game. And it says this story comes from Los Angeles, where Rio Hondo Prep, a small private high school in Arcadia with just the 71 boys, they played Warren High and Downey, and they won the football final. So take a lot of hope. Never give up. Work, work, work. Fight, fight, fight. And we’ve got a lot of work to do. And all these shows come to you because of our great sponsors. And one of those is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. Roger’s been in business for 48 years. He has new offices. So make that complimentary appointment now and you can see their new offices. And that phone number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. And you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. and wanted to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. As you know, we are an independent voice, and it comes to you because of our great sponsors, and really appreciate the Harris family. And very pleased to be promoting the book Swift Sword by Doyle Glass. He is on the line right now. He was our featured guest yesterday on the broadcast for America’s Veterans Stories. Doyle Glass, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. It’s an honor to be here.
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Well, and we broadcast an extensive interview with you yesterday on America’s Veterans Stories on all the KLZ 560 platforms. That will rebroadcast this next Sunday, 10 to 11 p.m. Mountain Time, and then the next Saturday, 10 to 11 p.m. as well. This is a powerful book, and I highly recommend, Doyle, that people have this book in their home. on their Freedom Library, because we need to understand our history. And I am learning more and more about the Vietnam War. But this book, Swift Sword, set it up for us, Doyle.
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I’d say about 20 years ago, I’m a history buff, and I saw a real gap in the historical record. I grew up during the Vietnam War. I was too young to be a part of that, but I saw the men that went and they came back and the way that they were treated and Their story really hasn’t been told. We know about the Battle of the Bulge. We know about Pearl Harbor, the great battles of World War II, and what those men went through for our freedom. But their sons, who fought in Vietnam, who fought for the same reasons for American freedom, their story was not told, and specifically what they really went through fighting in Vietnam.
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Well, and so this book, Swift Sword, in the promo, it says this. It says, Eyes peeled and moving quietly, Lance Corporal Jack Swan led 164 of his fellow U.S. Marines from my company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, over the face of a bare rocky knoll deep in the Khe Sanh Valley of South Vietnam. And they were on their way. They were trying to help another group of Marines that were under attack. Right. So tell us what happened.
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Exactly. This was the time of elections in South Vietnam. The South Vietnamese were electing their own president. And in order to help with that process, marine units, companies of about 160 men were sent out into the Quezon Valley, which is the breadbasket of Vietnam. It’s a wide agricultural region. We’re sent to help provide security for the Poles. That night, one of those companies, Company D, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, was ambushed by a much larger force of North Vietnamese. My company, who the book is about, my company… 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines was back at Hill 51, which was the Marine base, to act as basically a quick reaction force. They called it a bald eagle to be sent out if another Marine unit ran into trouble. And that’s exactly what happened. B Company 1-5 – I’m sorry, D Company 1-5 was ambushed. My company and another company, K – were both set out to try to help them. And this is the story of the 160 Marines of Mike 35 and their attempt to go help their Marines who were under ambush.
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So as they’re making this attempt, something rather remarkable happened with the initial Marine out, right? He noticed something which was so important.
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Yes, and so we have our company of Marines moving out, and the point man of any Marine unit or Army unit is probably the most dangerous job because you are the tip of the spear. You are the person that is moving forward, and it’s your job to – find any enemy, to see if there’s any trouble. And Jack Swan, who was about 20 years old, was the point man. And he volunteered for this very dangerous spot, leading all of those 160 Marines. And as he moves forward over a knoll into a large rice paddy, he sees what he thinks is a bush move. And this is a bright, sunny day. It’s completely quiet in this large rice paddy, which was eerie and odd to begin with. Usually the men would see a water buffalo or some people farming the rice paddies. There was nothing. He sees what he thinks is a bush move. He turns back to his squad leader. He said, thought I saw a bush move. His squad leader said, if it moves again, shoot it. The Bush moved again. Spahn was carrying a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, or just a grenade launcher. The Bush moved, he fired, and then basically all hell broke loose. The Marines were about to walk into a massive, camouflaged ambush by a much larger force of North Vietnamese troops.
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Well, and Doyle Glass, in your book, Swift Sword, the Mike Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, their weapons were not working properly, which I think is a travesty.
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Exactly. And what we have here is the North Vietnamese were waiting. If Jack Swan had not set off the ambush early, the entire company would have been surrounded by about 4,000 soldiers. veteran, very skilled North Vietnamese, heavily camouflaged North Vietnamese soldiers. The ambush was triggered early. They had the minor advantage of a knoll that was bare. The men quickly circled, formed a perimeter, and they’re armed with the M16, which they had been issued an experimental version of the M16 that did not work. properly because of the way the inside of the rifle was chromed and the ammunition that they were using, the rifle would jam. So one round would get caught, another round would then come in and get caught behind it, and the Marine would have to get his cleaning rod push it down the barrel of the M16 to knock out the cartridge before he could fire again. Think of the Revolutionary War when you’re firing one shot in a musket, or the Civil War, and you have to reload it with your ramrod down the musket. This is what the Marines were facing as they were about to be completely overrun four to five to one odds against an enemy they had trouble seeing because even though it was a bright sunny day on an open knoll, they were expertly camouflaged. So yes, it was a travesty, but due to the camaraderie and the grit and the teamwork of these Marines, they were able to survive.
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It’s really remarkable. And so the book Swift Sword, it says the true story of the Marines of Mike 3-5 in Vietnam on 4 September 1967. You interviewed a number of these Marines, and that’s really what compiles the book, correct?
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Exactly. Like I said, about 10, 15 years ago. longer than that in some cases, I was able to find these Marines and interview. I interviewed about 50 of them who were part of the operation and also some of the family of those who didn’t come home. So the book is unique in that it sets up the story of this 24-hour period, and it’s told in their voices. Their quotes are in italics, and it makes it truly powerful. powerful even for me going back to look at it to read their words of what they went through in in real combat in vietnam
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Well, and it is a remarkable story. And Doyle, the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo, is they do several things. But one of those is they have portraits of valor of over 160 of our Medal of Honor recipients. It was co-founded by Drew Dix, a Medal of Honor recipient for actions he took during the Vietnam War and Brad Padula. who is a documentary filmmaker. And so over the years, I’ve really gotten to know them and the Center and the amazing work that they’re doing in keeping these stories alive. And I’ve learned so much about the common thread of the Medal of Honor recipients is that they received the award because of something that happened on a very difficult day. But they took action to protect those around them. And so I recommend people check out the AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s the website. But there were two Medal of Honor recipients from this battle, correct?
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And I want to emphasize that Operation Swift was a two-week period. This was the first day of Operation Swift. So, yes, it’s remarkable. We had two Medal of Honor recipients in one engagement and a relatively small engagement. The first one was a young man by the name of Sergeant Larry Peters, who at the age of about 20 was a veteran who was led a squad of Marines, a small number, over this knoll to engage the enemy. He was ordered to do so and was himself ambushed with this small group of Marines, expertly led them in a tactical retreat up the knoll to engage. keep the perimeter think of a wagon circling the wagons to keep that perimeter intact if that perimeter is broken all of those marines are dead so it’s it’s vitally important that that marine that that perimeter stay intact so he led expertly his men back up the mill to keep the perimeter intact and then regardless of his own safety stood up with a machine gun in fire to fire at these advancing units of NVA to help his other Marines who had taken what cover they could, help them to see where the enemy was. By firing that machine gun and making himself a target, the NVA would fire back. The other Marines could see where the enemy was. So he basically gave his life for his fellow Marines to fight back that onslaught and to keep that perimeter intact. The other Medal of Honor recipient was Father Vincent Capadano, who was the battalion chaplain. He was a Catholic priest who was not even supposed to be on this mission. He had been ordered to stay back at battalion headquarters, but when he saw his Marines, as he called them, getting on these choppers, he was basically a stowaway and got on the choppers. When he saw The company being ambushed itself, regardless of his own safety, he went out and was all over the knoll providing first aid, helping the corpsmen who were basically the medics to handle grievous wounds on the battlefield. He was providing first aid and last rites to those who didn’t make it. Once again, regardless of his own safety, he himself was killed running to aid a downed Navy corpsman by the name of Armando Leal, who had been mortally wounded and who himself had been out. Leal was awarded the Navy Cross. Some of the acts of valor in this one 24-hour period, it boggles the mind. But Father Capadano went out to Leal and in the process of trying to help him to help him come up the knoll, Capadano himself was killed. So the valor just exhibited by these young Americans, those were just two examples of the valor that we saw on that knoll.
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Well, Doyle Glass, it’s a powerful book, and people can certainly purchase it via where you can purchase books. But if they purchase it through your website, they’ll get something special, correct?
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Absolutely. Through my website, DoyleGlass.com, the book is available at a discount. And also I will send each of you who buys it from the website what’s called a signed book plate, which is basically – a signature sticker with a message from me as if you were handing me a book to sign. So I’ll sign that sticker and send it to you, and you can put it on the inside of the book. It’s a great In my opinion, a veteran in the family, a Vietnam veteran especially, anyone who wants to know about our American history, it’s an incredible gift. And I encourage folks to buy, especially between December 16th and the 21st, a week before Christmas, because that’s the week when we’re really trying to honor veterans. all of our Vietnam veterans. It’s vitally important that we do so, just as we did our greatest generation from World War II. It’s time to honor our Vietnam veterans. And that’s what we’re trying to do the week before Christmas.
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Well, good for you, Doyle Glass. And again, that website is doyleglass.com. That’s D-O-Y-L-E-G-L-A-S-S.com. Doyle Glass, thank you so much. I highly recommend Swift Sword.
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Thank you, Kim. And like I said, it’s been an honor to be here.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter, and you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And we were just talking with Doyle Glass regarding his book, Swift Sword, regarding these Marines in this battle. And that is one of the reasons why I so support the USMC Memorial Foundation, which is raising money for the remodel of the Marine Memorial. The Marine Memorial is right here in Colorado, and it is so important that we honor and remember it. And as we are in preparing for Christmas and Hanukkah, a great gift for that veteran in your family would be to buy a brick that will be on one of their pathways of service, and you’ll receive a beautiful certificate. My father passed on one year ago yesterday. and he was an Air Force veteran, and I purchased a brick to be on the pathways of service for him. And that certificate, he had it framed. He had it out. He was so proud of that. So it is a beautiful gift. More information, go to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. So pleased to have on the line with me Joshua Lowenstein. And he is the founder of Our American Lands. And that website is OurAmericanLands.com. And he understands that Our American Lands and access to them is so under assault right now. Joshua Lowenstein, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. How’s it going?
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It’s going well. And you’ve been concerned about our lands. And so you have founded this to protect our public and private lands from government and eco-activists. And we have really seen these activists trying to limit property rights and access to these lands. And so you hosted the first conference back in October. And I had the great honor to be the emcee for that conference in Monta Vista. So informative and great experts that you had as guests on that, Joshua Lowenstein.
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Well, thank you, Kim. That was great to have you be the emcee for that event. And that was a huge event as far as breaking some ground with some new stuff related to these land grabs and bringing in definitely some great speakers, Sean Pond and Shad Sullivan and Simone Griffin. and, uh, many others. And, uh, it was, uh, um, while our attendance for that wasn’t super huge, we, uh, what we did have since then is, uh, almost a thousand views of the conference on the, of the live stream on rumble and, uh, all together with the various, uh, views over 6,000 views. so far. So that’s, that’s been really good as far as getting the word out. And, uh, since I, since I started this, uh, which was basically about the, uh, the national conservation area proposal in Canales County, uh, I, uh, I’ve been contacted by lots of people around the country, um, regarding their dilemmas with, uh, land grabs and other monuments and and um it’s been it’s been crazy with the volume of responses so it’s uh it’s brought me to a uh a little bit of a crossroads where i’ve taken on a new board member for the uh for the our american lands um non-profit organization and that’s uh Terrell Riggenbaugh is now our Chief Strategy Officer for our organization. And she’s definitely been hitting the ground running with getting a lot of local support for all of the various issues with the stop in the National Conservation Area or threat of a national monument here in Canales County. And we’re just pushing on with getting some of these things stopped with now instead of one of the reasons for starting the organization was to quit playing defense and start playing offense with these people that are attacking our freedoms for our private property rights and public ground access. for multi-use and, uh, it has, uh, brought us to a point where now where we’re starting to hold our own local meetings and, uh, we’re, uh, we’re having one on, uh, December 11th here in Canales County. Um, a couple of different locations are still in the works, but that’s, uh, upcoming probably in the next day or so. But, uh, Yeah, our counterproposal is really about our freedom to be able to be free of government wanting to use eminent domain and basically pushing these conservation easements on private ground and be able to stop the activists from just locking up and or just changing rules and regulations that are already lots of, you know, all these public ground is all federally protected anyway, from, you know, from the wildlife to the land to the water to the plants, everything already has federal protection. So one of the things that’s been of greatest concern with these eco-activists is that they won’t specify what they really want. And that by itself, of course, is reason enough to be against all of this. And, uh, at the last two of their meetings where they’re proposing these things, um, the one back in, uh, in August.
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So, so what are they proposing exactly? Uh, Joshua Lowenstein, or are you saying it’s difficult to figure it out?
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They want to put permanent protections on this 70,000 acres in, uh, Eastern canals county which does cross over some into Castillo county as well, but they they won’t say what those protections amount to as far as being above and beyond what is already protected. And, of course, the protections that are there already are permanent protections. So I’m not sure if what they’ve found out there is some mineral deposits and they’re trying to prevent those from being mined. We don’t know because they won’t say. And they’ve been pointedly asked these questions, but they just avoid the answers by saying, having panelists and stuff that are not related to the question at hand.
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So ultimately, don’t you think, Joshua Lowenstein, that this plays into the 30 by 30 and ultimately, probably ultimately the goal is to prevent any kind of human interaction with these properties. So it would then prevent the use of those lands for agriculture and grazing and recreation and hunting and fishing and natural resources. Ultimately, the activists don’t like humans, and so they don’t want humans to be able to access the land. Ultimately, at least I think that’s what the end game is.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, absolutely. And they even have it on their own website. It’s buried pretty deep in their website now, but it used to be on their front page was that they are fully advocate for 30 by 30.
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And you’re talking about 70,000 acres in your county. Sean Pond has really gotten organized regarding, and we’re going to leave that as a cliffhanger here, regarding the Dolores Monument. And so we’re going to go to break and we’ll come back and talk about that. And he was one of your panelists for Our American Lands. That website is ouramericanlands.com, ouramericanlands.com. And these are important discussions, and they come to you because of our independent voice. That comes to you because of our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, reach out to Lorne Levy.
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Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity as we look at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. I’m talking with Joshua Lowenstein. He’s the founder of Our American Lands. And Joshua, we hadn’t really, I don’t think, realized what was really happening, and that is that we’re losing access to our lands and our property rights via… like conservation easements or monument declarations. And one of your speakers, Sean Pond, at our American Lands Conference back in October, talked about the Dolores River National Monument. And it’s almost like the Biden administration was going to try to sneak this through until Sean started to shed light on it. Is that correct, do you think?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, and it’s still – unfortunately, it’s still possible that he’s going to sign – there’s nine national monuments that are sitting in the – in D.C. right now waiting for a signature, and there are various ones all over the country. And I’m guessing that even the Canaos County one is, you know, because – The local rep for Senator Bennett has even threatened that if we don’t accept the National Conservation Area here in Canaos, that we’re going to get a national monument. So that could be included in this whole rash of national monument designations being signed in before Biden is out of office. And, of course, that would be just horrifying. But I guess it’s better than a congressional act in some ways.
SPEAKER 12 :
Could Trump reverse that?
SPEAKER 05 :
Absolutely. OK, because the Dolores River, all of these things are abuses of the Antiquities Act, which probably should have some major restructuring of in this in the new Congress.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and the Dolores River Monument. And basically, this is, I think, the steps to prevent human access and human use of these lands. And they’re talking about 600,000 acres on that, right? It varies between 400,000 and 600,000, yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
But the biggest thing is the way it’s enveloping and blocking off access and closing a uranium mine. Here we are, busy buying uranium from Russia, and we have one of the largest uranium mines in the country, or in the world even, right there in what would be ended by this monument designation. and uh you know if we’re going to be looking at uh you know nuclear power you know that that’s great plan keep on buying you know uranium from russia and and uh not even have it right here at our fingertips and it’s an existing mine that’s already been you know it’s been mining for for decades out there in that area but of course I’m not sure exactly what the plan is as far as just, you know, ultimately globalist control of all of these lands, minerals, water, food production, you know, push everybody into 15-minute cities and You know, runoff of wind and solar power, which, of course, isn’t going to power anything realistically. So who knows exactly what the end game is?
SPEAKER 12 :
Joshua, I think the end game is, after watching the Reagan movie this weekend, ultimately is communism. in America. And under communism, everyday people, they don’t have property rights. Many times they don’t have food. They don’t have freedom of mobility. You’re just hitting on all these things. And so to block America from, for example… A designation for the Dolores River Monument, which would prevent human access to these lands eventually. It might not initially, because that’s the thing with communism, is it takes incremental steps. And the radical activist enviros have been doing the bidding of moving us towards communism. ultimately would be taking down uh the american idea and the american idea has helped everyday people thrive and flourish not only in america but across the globe and i think that that is i think that is ultimately i think that’s what is at stake here joshua absolutely you know it’s 100 that is uh exactly they’ve been it’s been 70 years of or more of this plot to uh
SPEAKER 05 :
to slowly weasel communism into our society and getting people used to the conveniences of big cities and conveniences of, you know, just having everything at their fingertips. And it’s also taking away from the independence of just human independence. Everyday people.
SPEAKER 12 :
At the conference, Joshua, I shared a story from COVID. And, of course, I grew up on the plains of western Kansas and love it. I have lived in the Denver metro area for many, many years. And Denver is not the city that I loved. It’s dirty. It’s dangerous. And we’ve got to reclaim Colorado. We’ve got to reclaim Denver. But I remember doing research for the show many years ago, then Senator Kamala Harris had talked about wanting to make sure that there were parks within walking distance for all Americans. And I thought, huh, I kind of like my own park, which is my own backyard. And then COVID hit. So she says we want to have parks, implying that people get out and they enjoy the nature and blah, blah, blah. And we get into COVID and I went down to our little neighborhood park and there was yellow police tape around the playground equipment, preventing children from being able to play on the playground equipment. And I thought, this is an example. of what they are trying to do with our public lands is they say they want to have people have access to public lands and then ultimately they want to limit access. That was a very stark example to me when I saw the yellow police tape around the swings and the slide and all that. I thought, huh, this is what they really have in store for us. So what do you think about that, Joshua?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, absolutely. And the methodology of doing it is to try and get what they call the stakeholders, even though we’re all really stakeholders in this, but the stakeholders that they name as far as ranchers and the people that are actually utilizing the public ground, like out in the Dolores area and here in Canals County, The ranchers are being told that their permitted grazing allotments aren’t going to change. There’s nothing about their contracts that’s going to change whatsoever. And, of course, some of the ranchers in Colorado Cattlemen’s Association and stuff are buying that, thinking they’d rather have a national conservation area where they can at least write some of the rules as opposed to a national monument, which could block them out. So they’re playing kind of a devil’s advocate kind of game. But unfortunately, the reality of it is that what they’re going to do and their plans for out in the Dolores area, they’ve been very clear about it, is that there’s only going to be one road out of hundreds that’s still going to remain open that goes through the monument should it be a designation, which of course would ultimately block out most of the ranchers from getting, you know, truck access into their allotments, which would effectively just block them out of having their allotments at all. So it’s a sneaky way of… you know, forcing this issue. So there’s basically just a lie about the whole thing.
SPEAKER 12 :
And how this affects us is if our farmers and ranchers are denied property rights or denied access to the lands that they’re using for grazing. And I will also mention that the ruminant animals, such as cattle, grazing on those public lands helps in the preventing intense prairie fires as well. But ultimately what this affects is our food source for those in the urban centers. And so this is all connected and it’s all really important that we understand that. Joshua Lowenstein, first of all, I thank you for your courage. I thank you for what you’re doing at OurAmericanLands.com. What’s your final thought you’d like to leave with our listeners?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, What we need to do is just be more, start getting people unified that there is this crisis of these land grabs going on and start to, there already is a unification. There’s groups in Oklahoma, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Utah, California that are all starting to come together. and start becoming unified organizations to fight against these things. So instead of it’s, you know, shooting BBs at this problem, we’re starting to, you know, use shotgun blasts against some of these proposals. And it’s getting these proponents of these things really riled up. In fact, at this last meeting that they put on, They strayed as soon as Carol Riggenbaugh walked in the door. They started attacking her and asking her why she was even there. And we know what your position was on all of this. And then they tried to block me out from speaking at all. And all… The whole thing has been they were angry.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow. Well, check everything out at our American lands dot com. Joshua Lowenstein is doing great work there. Joshua, thank you for all that you’re doing. Thank you.
SPEAKER 05 :
It just means we’re over the target.
SPEAKER 12 :
You got it. You got it. And my friends, we’re going to go. Well, we’ll be right back with our number two. Stay tuned.
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Indeed. Let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Munson Show Hour number two. Thank you so much for joining us. You’re each treasure. You’re valued. You have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, Producer Joe. And we’re off to the races. Great show planned for you for this second hour as well. So stay tuned. It’s with Jeremy Portnoy with Open the Books. Check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com. Thank you to all of you who support us. And you can listen to the show on all KLZ 560 platforms, which is KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. We are on live 6 to 8 AM, Monday through Friday, unless we, during the holidays, have our prerecords. And then you can listen to the first hour, 1 to 2 in the afternoon, every weekday, and the second hour, 10 to 11 at night. And America’s Veteran Stories is the initial interviews are broadcast 3 to 4 p.m. on Sundays. And be sure and check out Doyle Glass’s interview. It will be broadcast this next Sunday, 10 to 11 p.m., and then the next Saturday, 10 to 11 p.m. as well. We are in Advent, which is the first, the beginning of the Christian calendar. And so Advent is our word of the day. And the first definition is it could be the coming or arrival of something or someone that is important or worthy of note. Number two definition is the liturgical period preceding Christmas, beginning in Western churches on the fourth Sunday before Christmas and in Eastern churches in mid-November and observed by many Christians as a season of prayer, fasting and penitence. And then lastly, the definition is the coming of Jesus at the incarnation. Our quote of the day is from Ronald Reagan. And as you know, the team, we took some respite last week and broadcast some previous shows that were just awesome. I heard from many of you and love hearing from you at our text line, 720-605-0647. But I watched the Reagan movie, and Dennis Quaid did an amazing job. Just amazing. And I think you should get an Academy Award for that. But since he’s portraying Reagan, I’m sure that he won’t. But he did an amazing job. And I learned a lot and remembered a lot. And so Ronald Reagan was our 40th president. And he said this. If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. And I’m convinced that Colorado is at the tip of the spear. When I say on the show that we were made for this moment, I’m not kidding. And exciting things are happening in Colorado. Several things over the break. I did send emails to all of the county clerks. on the Friday before Thanksgiving, requesting that they delay certification of the elections until after we’ve been able to do a hand recount and audit in light of the bios password security breach from the Secretary of State’s office and fraudulent ballots getting through in Mesa County. I imagine that most of them did certify, but we are preparing to raise the money for our next step in our election project. I think I’m going to name it Reclaim Colorado 2025. As you know, we’ve got these two lawsuits out there. This next one will be to get a hand recount and audit of our elections. And so stay tuned on how you can help us with that. And I think it’ll be very exciting. You all have been amazing. The fact that you’ve raised the money, you’ve contributed the money to make this happen. And again, I’m convinced Colorado is at the tip of the spear on all that is going on here. And a sponsor that has been with us for a long time, and it’s because I got to know them, it’s a story of freedom and free markets and capitalism, is Hooters Restaurants. And they have five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. And they’re a great place to get together for lunch specials Monday through Friday. And a way to support me is to support my sponsors as well. So be sure and check out my website if you’d like to learn the whole story about Hooters Restaurants. But do appreciate their partnership with the show. And the show comes to you because of all of these great sponsors. And I am blessed to work with amazing sponsors, partners, that they strive for excellence in their particular fields. And in the insurance field is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. Roger Mangan has been in business for 48 years, taking care of his clients and his family and giving back to the community. And you’ve seen a lot that has happened in insurance over all these 48 years, Roger Mangan. What would you say is the state of insurance in Colorado today?
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It’s being challenged, Kim. I think everybody would agree to that based on the premium increases they have seen of late. There was an interesting article in the Denver Post, October 26, by Sarah Hansen. She did a good job of really… crystallizing some of the issues that face us in Colorado. For example, Colorado’s the second highest property damage loss state among all of the states that have hail losses, which the first state, believe it or not, is Nebraska, and the second is Colorado. In Colorado, We had $151 million in annual hail losses. And the state also has about 321,000 homes at risk for wildfire. at a reconstruction cost of about $141 billion. So when an insurance company starts paying out that kind of money on a consistent basis, they have a reserve that they have to maintain in order to pay future claims and not just hail claims. So we don’t have a separate reserve for hail. All your money goes into a pot. And by the way, as a consumer… This may be obvious to many of you, but it may not be, so let me touch upon it for a minute. Let’s say your premium is $2,000 a year for your homeowner’s policy, and in 10 years, you put in $20,000. If you have no losses in that 10-year period, the insurance company loves you, of course. But if you have one loss, let’s say the second year, where you put in $4,000 and you have a roof that has to be replaced that costs $20,000, the insurance company hasn’t had enough time to collect enough premiums to cover your loss. So everything goes into a pool of money where there’s millions of dollars in that pool where and that pool can get exhausted. Reserves can be depleted. So insurance law requires a certain amount of money in reserve based on your market exposure. So, for example, I know last year State Farm, they… their loss ratio is 120%, which means they collected X number of dollars of premium, let’s say a million dollars, and they paid out $1,200,000. So they’re in the hole. When they’re in the hole like that, they’re going to increase rates. Now, when they collect your dollar from, let’s say it’s a dollar or $2,000, about 28% to 35% of every dollar goes to operating the company. The rest is all claims. So it’s 70% to 80% of the money that we collect from you goes to pay claims, right? The other 25 to 30 cents on the dollar, or 30%, goes to running the company. And they keep so close track of those expenditures. They do a great job.
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Well, and so I think that because of this, that’s why State Farm has a great financial rating. And I think that it’s important people look at these increases in premiums and they’re like, how can I save money? You want to make sure that you’re working with a reputable company and that you have an agent that you can work with. I think those are two very important things, Roger.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. And you can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And the show comes to you because of our great sponsors, and I thank the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. Very excited to talk with Jeremy Portnoy. He is an investigative journalist, and he’s with Open the Books, which we all love Open the Books. Certainly miss Adam Angieschi significantly, but the team is continuing on with this great work. And you can find these reports that Jeremy is putting together at Real Clear Investigations on Waste of the Day. Jeremy Portnoy, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 15 :
Thanks for having me, Kim.
SPEAKER 12 :
It seems like, and you’re with Open the Books, it seems like that you’ve got a lot of job security if you’re looking at waste of the day in the government.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, now’s the time, right? It’s going mainstream. We’ve been working on this for about a decade, trying to start a transparency revolution. But now with this Department of Government Efficiency coming on, it seems like it’s going to be happening for a long time.
SPEAKER 12 :
So when did you start these posts?
SPEAKER 15 :
Open the Books was founded in 2013. So we’ve been working since then to capture every dime online in real time is our motto. So we file 60,000 Freedom of Information requests every year. We publish every grant that gets spent, every salary, every pension that gets paid out with your tax dollars. We look through all those spreadsheets to identify some of the biggest sources of waste in the government.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and there is a lot of waste in the government. And, Jeremy, I was thinking about Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy and their work at the Department of Government Accountability, DOGE. And I’m thinking we should start DOGE Colorado out here. And I’m going to encourage my fellow Coloradans to do that. But I was just looking at the one that you posted yesterday. On Waste of the Day, Detroit nonprofit splurges on deluxe coffee maker. And I noticed one of the first things is this is not the proper role of government to be funding these nonprofits. And I think we need to stop that. But tell us a little bit about yesterday’s Waste of the Day.
SPEAKER 15 :
You know, that’s just a great example of a lack of oversight, right? This is a grant that was peed out by the state of Michigan yesterday. to this woman, Faye Badone, who actually sits on the Michigan Economic Development Corporation board. That board is the one that’s supposed to be auditing this spending, making sure it gets sent properly, but she herself is on the board, so they’re not giving that same oversight. And it was just revealed by the Detroit News that she’s been spending part of her $20 million grant on a $600 coffee maker, on $1,000 tickets to Budapest, and this is all taxpayer money that she’s using however she sees fit.
SPEAKER 12 :
So, Jeremy, first of all, so I sat on city council. for four years in 2012 to 2016 in my little town and i heard the term economic development and we like that economic development but what i realized is actually economic development and you’ll have cities and you’ll have counties and you’ve got states that have economic development programs what it is in essence is is its government picking winners and losers many times with our money or by giving special incentives or special streamlining maybe of permits to different companies. And so it’s totally antithetical to the American idea where we are able to compete in a free market. Instead, government is picking winners and losers with economic development.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, the story is an example of where they’re picking winners and losers, arguably not based on merit, but just more on the connections that you have in the government, right? This woman, Faye Badone, she pitched her business to the state legislature in 2020. They said, no, we’re not going to give you grant money. She tried again in 2021. to this state development corporation. They said, again, no, we’re not going to give you money. It wasn’t until the third try, finally, she got a grant from the state legislature. It’s still unclear how she got that money. The House Speaker, his name is on the paperwork, but he’s denying that he actually gave her that money. So it’s a little shady behind the scenes. It’s unclear where that money was actually approved.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and so as we need to roll this back, what’s your ear to the ground, Jeremy Portnoy, regarding Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I’d say I’m very optimistic that they’re going to hopefully create some change in the government, right? I mean, we’ve been looking for years into all the waste that happens in the federal government every day. There’s a lot to clean up. So we’ve had some conversations with them. They’ve been posting some of our work online. So we’re hoping that the next one thing for transparency, right, for everyone to see how their tax dollars are spent, and then the next step from that is to have accountability and make some actual changes in policy and in Congress. So hopefully now that the federal government is creating this agency, maybe it will take things a bit more seriously and try and save taxpayers some money.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I totally agree. And let’s go back to November 24th, your waste of the day. And that is that Fauci is still getting a chauffeur and security detail. Talk about that.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, so that was actually after Dr. Fauci retired in 2022. Turns out we just discovered this through a freedoms information request a couple months ago. He’s still been getting a security detail for $15 million a year. As a private citizen, that’s unprecedented. I mean, former presidents obviously get Secret Service, but for normal private citizens, it’s very uncommon. We can’t see another example we’ve heard of where that happened. They never announced it publicly, but we put in a request with the Marshal Service to get that contract.
SPEAKER 12 :
Who makes the decision that he would get that? Who made that decision, or is that difficult to find out?
SPEAKER 15 :
So the Department of Health and Human Services is saying that he needed that security. And, I mean, he himself is saying it, right? He’s saying that he’s been receiving death threats since the pandemic. And obviously that’s a terrible thing. I don’t mean to make light of that. But he’s not a government employee anymore. And while he was a government employee, he had the highest salary in the history of the federal government, almost $500,000. So if he wants security now that he’s retired, he should be able to pay for it himself.
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I think you’re spot on on that. So what about this waste of the day on the federal department? HHS goes all in on DEI. And I talked with some of the folks over at the Center for Renewing America, and they had – this was several months ago, before the election, in fact. They had proposals that we could balance the budget within 10 years by getting rid of a bunch of this woke and – you know, funding this woke agenda. And there’s a lot of money that’s going into this woke agenda, correct?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, this is definitely a piece of it, right? I mean, balancing the budget is going to be a huge effort throughout the federal government, but there is a lot of money going into DEI at HHS, for example. And it’s mostly because of just how bureaucratic the system has gotten, right? So there’s one overall office of diversity for the whole health department, and then each sub-agency, like the CDC and the FDA, They have their own office of diversity. And then within those, there’s a marketing team and a customer support team and an outreach team. So that total payroll ends up to about $38.7 million for 294 DEI employees in the health department.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow. I think this is fascinating. How can people – I imagine you’re sending this out like notifications every day. People could sign up someplace to get this, yes? Yes.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, of course. Yeah, you can always head to OpenTheBooks.com to see our latest work. And you can sign up for our Substack is where these reports get published at OpenTheBooks.Substack.com. So you can sign up there for email notifications every time we publish a new report.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Tell me about your November 14th post, Waste of the Day, BLM Escape Room got federal funding?
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, yeah. So that was a grant to combat so-called misinformation. The government’s been spending millions of dollars on that. So this money went to the University of Washington to make an escape room to combat misinformation. So the themes they chose were a Black Lives Matter themed escape room, one based around the Korean boy band BTS. You know, usually an escape room is about a murder mystery or a big robbery. But this was their choice. They spent $1.2 million on it. They created a whole system to replicate it in other libraries. So the reasoning is that some BTS fans are very online. They’re going to be exposed to misinformation and potentially manipulated for political gain. So this is, you know, something of dubious merit that money seems tense on.
SPEAKER 12 :
So, Jeremy Portnoy, in all your research, is there one particular waste of the day that really stands out that you’re just a gas jaw-dropping that I guess each of them may bring that up, but is there one out there that is just so egregious that people should know about that?
SPEAKER 15 :
One that’s been on my mind recently because we just had the fiscal year end in September is is this happens pretty much every year, but it was particularly bad last year. The Pentagon goes on a spree of what’s called use it or lose it spending. So at the end of the fiscal year, they want to use up their entire budget because they think if they don’t use all the money, Congress is going to say they don’t need as much money next year and give them less funding. So to get rid of it all, they’ll splurge on lobster dinners and flat screen TVs and pretty much anything they can think of the last week of September to get that budget totally out the door before the year ends. So last September ended up being the most expensive month in the history of the Pentagon in, I believe, 12 years. We’re still waiting to get the data for this year, but we should have it any day now. We’ll find out again what they surged on.
SPEAKER 12 :
Jeremy, this is mind-boggling. A friend of mine, she’s an author here at the Kim Munson Show, and she’s a former captain in the Army Medical Service Corps, a West Point grad, Pam Long, is going to be on the show later this week. And she sent something over to me, let me get to it, that out here in Colorado at Fort Carson that – There is food insecurity among U.S. service members and their families. And it says for soldiers at Fort Carson, food is scarce. How on earth can they be doing a use it or lose it on splurges like that when our soldiers are not even getting a proper diet?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, right? And when you see the dollar figures, it just gets crazy. I mean, last year, just on September 28th alone, the last weekday of the year, they blew $9.8 billion on all these purchases. They spent $15 million on ribeye steak. They spent $586,000 on one order of grape juice.
SPEAKER 12 :
Say that again?
SPEAKER 15 :
How much on ribeye steak? $15 million just last September.
SPEAKER 12 :
Goodness gracious. That’s a lot of ribeye steak. I like steak, but that’s a lot. And how can that be when our soldiers at Fort Carson are having food scarcity? The priorities are not right, obviously. I’m saying the elephant in the room. The priorities are not correct when this kind of stuff is happening with our tax dollars.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I mean, that’s a theme for the entire Pentagon, right? If you look at their budget breakdown, only about 18% of their money actually goes to the active militaries. Much more goes to what they call operations and maintenance, such as their everyday business and all the bureaucratic jobs throughout the Pentagon, different research and procurement contracts. That’s taking up about 50% to 70% of the budget each year.
SPEAKER 12 :
So do you think Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can do something about that with the Pentagon? Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I mean, it’s going to be a big job, right? This has been going back. It really took off after 9-11 was when those proportions started changing and less money started going to active sources, more money started going to operations and maintenance. So it’s not going to be a one-year fix because at this point, they’re so far in, it’s going to take a few years of progress to hopefully change things. But Doge is definitely a good start, right? They say they’re going to work until July 4th, 2026. So we’ll see what they can accomplish in that time. But I mean, the government’s in such a mess in some departments with their fiscal situation that, unfortunately, it will take longer than that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Boy, this is so interesting, Jeremy. I want to find out your journey, how you ended up doing this kind of work and what your day looks like as you’re trying to figure all of this out. I’m talking with Jeremy Portnoy with Open the Books, and you can find these posts at RealClearInvestigations.com. His last name is spelled P-O-R-T-N-O-Y. So you can do that search for that. And we had Doyle Glass on in the first hour. And he is the author of Swift Sword and a fascinating book regarding the Vietnam War. And the week of December 16th, they will have a national focus on the book in honor of our Vietnam veterans. And so be sure and check that out. It is a fascinating book.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We are an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And I got ahead of myself on my nurtures. I talked about Doyle Glass’s book, so we’ll hear that spot here in the next round. But Lavaca Meat Company is a wonderful sponsor of the show, and they have a beautiful product. It is really the steakhouse experience at home. And if, in fact, the Pentagon was buying all of these ribeyes, if they would have purchased them from Lavaca’s meat company, they certainly would have had some of the best of the best. And so really do appreciate Lavaca Meat Company. I’m talking with Jeremy Portnoy, and really he’s a watchdog. on government waste. And it’s really, it’s a travesty to take money by force from everyday hardworking people or borrowing it from the future, our future generations, and then not be judicious and spending it on things that are the proper rule of government. And so Jeremy Portnoy with Open the Books, and you can find his book, Wasted the day at real clear investigations. Tell me about your story. How did you end up getting into in this field of watching all this government waste?
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, I mean, I’ve always known I wanted to be a writer. I’m a graduate of Stony Brook University in Long Island. I was an English major there. So during my college days, I did an internship with Open the Books. And that’s what I really got more interested in the company, right? I like that nonpartisan nature we have. I mean, things can be so polarized now working in the media, but you can’t argue with hard numbers. So I definitely enjoyed being able to report on that and, you know, finding issues that both parties could agree that things need to change. So I took a full-time job with them. And, yeah, it’s been a great ride so far. I started this January, so it’ll be coming up on a year pretty soon.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, and how do you – what’s your day look like? How do you come up with your waste of the day?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, well, we’ve got a big data capture team that files about 60,000 freedom of information requests every year to capture every dime the government spends, local, state, federal. So we get these massive spreadsheets and millions of rows. So then we sift through those to kind of convert, okay, these abstract data points into stories that we can tell, right? We’ll group them by categories and try and find trends. to see where’s the government spending too much money, what’s being wasted. So it’s a lot of numbers, and then that gets converted into a story, right? So I think that’s a really fun process to be part of.
SPEAKER 12 :
So these FOIA requests, does it cost you money to get the information?
SPEAKER 15 :
It can. They’re allowed to charge a reasonable fee. That’s what the law says. But there’s unfortunately nobody keeping track of what reasonable really means. So I would say the majority of time they don’t charge you, but when you’re asking for a large record or more often when you’re asking for something that they don’t really want to release, they’ll try and charge you potentially tens of thousands of dollars to try and discourage you from filing those requests. But we’ve pursued action in court sometimes to get those fees down, or sometimes we’ll just pay them because people need to know.
SPEAKER 12 :
So I was thinking about this this last week regarding Doge. And so at the local, the county, and the state level, there are federal grants that come down for pushing certain agendas. And we talk about the bureaucratic administrative state at the federal level, but we have it at the municipal and the county and the state levels. I’m thinking, how can we walk that back? And I think one of the first things is that we start to take a look at these government contracts coming down or government grants coming down from the federal government and start to put pressure on the federal government not to be doling that money out. And I think that’s a place to start. But how would you recommend grassroots people like myself and my listeners to start DOGE on the local level?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I mean, it’s all about transparency, right? As long as you’re informed, you can make change. So, I mean, OpenTheBooks.com is a great resource, but that’s just one, right? Anywhere you can go online, see where the money is being spent locally, find out how much your school board is making, find out how much your mayor is making, and find out who’s making those decisions, right? Where are they spending their checkbook money? Because a lot of times you will find weights in there. You’ll find pay raises much higher than you would expect. Uh, and when people latch onto that, when everyone in the community knows what’s going on, that’s when you can really force change to take place.
SPEAKER 12 :
So let’s talk a little bit about Open the Books. And Adam Andrzejewski had been a regular guest on the show, and his passing on suddenly was just a shock to all of us. And so I’m so pleased that we’re continuing this relationship with all of you at Open the Books. But explain a little bit about the website, because I’m at the website, and it must capture… my computer where I’m at, so what’s coming up is all kinds of different reports regarding different entities in my geographic region, which I find remarkable, Jeremy.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, so that’s what we call the Spending Genome Project. We’ve actually renamed it now Project Adam in his honor. But yeah, pretty much any entity, no matter how small, it could be your local library, your local fire department, all the way up to the Federal Department of Energy in the We capture every salary, every pension that gets paid out. We capture every checkbook payment that gets paid out so you can know what vendors are doing government business. And that’s where that transparency really starts, right? So if you’re curious, you know, hey, how much is my kid’s teacher making in school? What’s my school spending money on? You can head right to OpenTheBooks.com. You can find every dollar broken down going back about five, six years.
SPEAKER 12 :
If for some reason, like my city had not been on there, I think that your team was going to work on trying to find that information. But if for some reason you’re searching for a specific entity and it’s not there, what would be the process in reaching out to Open the Books to ask them to research that out and get that on the website?
SPEAKER 15 :
Oh, yeah. We have a contact form on our website. You can always reach out to us there. You can always find us. you know, online, Twitter, Instagram, or even just our email address on the website. But yeah, I mean, we’ve got a pretty comprehensive collection, but it’s possible that it could always be somewhere missing.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, and it is comprehensive for sure. And I’m just watching as it comes through here. And hold on, it might see if we’ve gotten added in. I know that you guys did it. It’s there. So that is a great tool for us. And we’re going to go to work on transparency for all of this, Jeremy Portnoy. Are you hopeful? Because we are headed towards financial oblivion if we continue down this road of the government getting bigger and bigger and bigger and the individual getting smaller and smaller, government taking more of our money and taking more of our posterity’s future. Are you hopeful? And if so, why?
SPEAKER 15 :
I’d say I’m cautiously optimistic. It does seem like it’s starting to become more in the national consciousness, right, that the national debt has crossed $36 trillion now. We’re racking up too much money, and it’s just unsustainable in the long term. But this is truly a bipartisan issue. Both parties are to blame, right? Donald Trump in his last term racked up the federal deficit more than any president in history until Biden took over and broke that record. So now, you know, Trump, I mean, came back into office promising that he’s going to reduce that deficit, balance the budget But it’s really going to be on him to actually make changes now and make good on that promise and set the precedent for whoever takes over for him afterwards, whether it’s another Republican or Democrat.
SPEAKER 12 :
I feel that there’s some real danger, danger between now and when President Trump is inaugurated. I think that there could be all kinds of spending. I’m concerned. In our first hour, we talked about National Monument. And I feel that we’re in some danger, danger. Is there anything over the next couple of months that you’re concerned about that we as citizens should really be watching for?
SPEAKER 15 :
A lot of what you’re seeing now with the Biden administration is trying to send a lot of money at the door while he’s in this lame duck period, right? The secretary of state just promised that before Trump takes office, we’re going to send every possible dollar we can to Ukraine, is what he said. So, I mean, whatever. Obviously, that’s a political issue. We could have varying opinions on that. But the point is they’re really trying to get as much spending done as they possibly can in the last couple of months before Trump takes over with a new political agenda. So that’s definitely something to keep an eye on and see how much money is being spent these last couple of months during Biden’s leaned up period.
SPEAKER 12 :
So and what should we as citizens be doing about that? Is there anything we can do? Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, I mean, same motto, right? Keep making sure you’re informed. Check openthebooks.com, check the news, make sure you understand where that money’s going. And once you do, you need to take action on it and try and get some accountability on Congress, right? Go on social media, write to your congressman, tell them you notice that this is going on and that something needs to change. And if they hear enough voices, eventually they can’t resist that kind of pressure.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Well, you’re doing such great work at Open the Books, Jeremy Portnoy. And, again, what’s the best way for people to get information on what you’re doing?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, OpenTheBooks.com is the best way. You can also sign up at OpenTheBooks.substack.com. That’s where we publish our longer reports each week. And you can also head over to RealClearInvestigation.com. That’s where I publish my daily column, Ways Through the Day, every morning.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I appreciate it. Keep up the great work, and we will stay in touch.
SPEAKER 15 :
Sounds good. Thanks for having me, Kim.
SPEAKER 12 :
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter and you can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something’s a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And we had talked with Doyle Glass in the first hour. He is the author of the book Swift Sword. And it delves into the harrowing experiences of the Marines of Mike Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines during Operation Swift on 4 September. Well, Operation Swift, he said, was for a couple of weeks during September of 1967. And our Marines, I so appreciate all our service, men and women, but I’m so excited about the Marine Memorial that is located here in Colorado. It’s in Golden at 6th and Colfax, and it was dedicated in 1977. And Paula Sarles, who is a Marine veteran, a Gold Star wife, and president of the USMC Memorial Foundation, is tirelessly working to raise the money for this remodel and refurbishment project. And right now, a great gift would be to buy a brick that will be on one of the pathways of service for your loved one to honor their military service. And you can get all the information on how to do that at USMCMemorialFoundation.org. That is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. And I’d love to hear from all of you. The text line is 720-605-0647. And email is Kim at Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And we’ve talked about a lot of different things here. But I was we’re in Advent. Yesterday was the first day of Advent, which is the beginning of the church calendar, the Christian church calendar. And Advent is the four Sundays before Christmas. And I found this George Washington’s prayer for his country. And I thought I would share this. And this is, again, a prayer by George Washington. I thought now it’s a very appropriate time to share this with you. And it’s this. He said this. He said, I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have the United States in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government. to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another for their fellow citizens of the united states at large and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field and finally that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice to love mercy and to demean ourselves with that charity humility and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the divine author of our blessed religion and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Amen. And when he talks, though, about subordination and obedience to the government, he’s talking about a government such as the United States of the people, by the people and for the people. When governments are doing things that are out of hand, we have a duty to engage in this battle of ideas, to shed light on it and to stand for freedom. And so that was, again, George Washington’s prayer for our country. I do want to hear from you. The text line is 720-605-0647. And, oh, okay, this was from one of our listeners. When I said that the Center for Renewing America has said they could balance the budget in 10 years, it says, are you kidding? We need to pay off the national debt now. That is true. We need to be working towards that. And, okay, let’s see. Eric had this to say. He said, here’s an idea for you. Since we, the people, pay the government salaries with our tax dollars, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy Doge should have a website for we, the people, to have a suggestion box of what we want to get rid of in government spending. Eric, I like that. And I think that we should see if we could institute that here in our Colorado Doge. And I think we should have Doge, Colorado. I think we should have Doge for each of our counties. We should have Doge for each of our municipalities. We should have Doge for each of our school districts and Doge for each of our special districts. Now, I know that’s a lot of work, but somehow we’ve got to get our brain around it and make this work. uh next thing i wanted to re-mention reclaim colorado and reclaim colorado 2025 which that is the extension of our colorado 2024 election project thank you to all of you who together we raised the money to file these two lawsuits the first is with united sovereign americans that lawsuit is in the legal courts and it’s a kind of a ping pong back and forth between the attorneys And those lawsuits were filed in nine states. Colorado was one of them because we raised the money. The other states were primarily battleground states. And the basis for that lawsuit is that Colorado is not hitting the minimum standards as set forth by Congress. for our elections. The second suit, and that was filed in September, and then this other suit was filed on November 1st, right before the election, through Peter Brunegger, his legal team. And again, we raised the money for that, that they offered proof that our voter rolls are not clean. And so this next suit that we’re going to go to work on because of the BIOS passwords security breach and the fraudulent ballots that were counted in Mesa County. We wonder how many counties that happened to that we are asking for a hand recount and an audit of the elections. And so we will be talking more about that on exactly what we think that’s going to look like. I’m learning that what we think it’s going to look like and what actually happens sometimes can be two different things. But we’re in the game. We’re in the fight. And all these lawsuits give us standing. And so, again, thank you. And Colorado is at the tip of the spear. on all this. And we’ve got to get our elections so that we are sure that they are transparent and honest. And granted, Donald Trump, very grateful that he won the election. But we must make sure that our elections are honest and transparent. And because if we don’t get that done, We don’t have a country. And after watching the Reagan movie, what I’ve realized is this communism, this march of the evil one is they don’t give up. They come back and they come back and they come back. We, on the other hand, think the election is over. We want to go back to living our lives, taking care of our families, going to our jobs, creating our businesses. And the radical activists, they never give up. And so I thought that I would wait until after Thanksgiving to really get started on all this. But actually, we started before I sent an email on the Friday before November 27th, which was the day deadline for county clerks to certify the election, requesting that they delay certification. until after we’ve had this hand recount and audit, and did send a letter via U.S. mail as well so that we had notified them. I think probably most all of them had certified under the pressure from the Secretary of State’s office and also from Matt Crane, who is the Executive Director of the Colorado County Clerks Association. So now we’re going to have to take our next step regarding legal action. So stay tuned. I’ll let you let you know all about that. So but it’s really important. And I ended up speaking at a luncheon a week ago Tuesday. And the gentleman that I was sitting next to, he said, Kim, this is so exciting that we’re taking action. And certainly we’ve talked a lot about things, but now we’re taking action. And so certainly really appreciated his comments on that. So we’re working on Reclaim Colorado. We’re going to start a Doge Colorado project as well. And I would recommend that you add into your repertoire being a member of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And this is an amazing group, and they’re all volunteers. It’s been volunteers since 1976, keeping an eye on all of the legislation that is scheduled for hearings during the legislative session. And Colorado State Legislature will convene I think the second week in January, which is right around the corner. And we as volunteers go through all of this legislation that is proposed and then scheduled for hearing. And then we do a weekly email with recommendations on legislation that affects the taxpayer. And we’re all taxpayers. And so we’d love to have you join us. It’s $25. Join us so that you’re ready to get those emails, so that you’re informed on all of the things that are going on. And again, it’s $25. You can go to coloradotaxpayer.org. We are going to have an event, a legislative kickoff on January 23rd. We’d love to have you join us. But this group is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Carl Honiger, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Joseph O’Loughlin, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, and Mary Jansen. When you see these people, be sure and say thank you. And I was thinking about, well, we’ve got something exciting that’s going to happen here in probably middle part of January. We’re going to be starting a Kim Munson community that will keep you informed and it’ll be interactive. And so stay tuned on what we’ll be doing with that. But I was thinking, what are some of the best ways for us to improve on what we do? First of all, we need to be informed. So for Doge Colorado, we need to be watching this legislation. And so you can do that by becoming a member of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers and getting that weekly email. And then we need to be able to communicate better. And that’s why Liberty Toastmasters is so important. And you can’t wait until, oh, I think I want to give a presentation. Oh, what do I do? Liberty Toastmasters is a discipline. to be able to communicate and talk with others and be able to speak, evaluate, speak for three minutes, two to three minutes if you’re going to make public comments. And so that should be something that you should add to your repertoire as well. You can get more information by going to Toastmasters International and then searching for Liberty Toastmasters. So we’ve got all kinds of work to do. We’re not waiting until the next election. We are working on it now. And that is why I think it’s really exciting here in Colorado, because we clearly are at the tip of the spear on all that’s going on. Our quote for the end of the show, and again, because I saw the Reagan movie, really a great movie, highly recommend it, is from Ronald Reagan. He said this. He said, freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance. It must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again. 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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