Welcome to the Kim Monson Show podcast. Kim Monson is your host. If you love your water heater, can you keep your water heater? As they were headed out the door, the O’Biden Harris administration sought to ban 40% of all water heaters. Natural resource expert Greg Walcher explains what Trump II may do about this regulation. Trent Loos addresses the loss of 107,000 independent cattle producers over the last five years. CUT vice-president Rob Knuth discusses bills scheduled for hearing at the Colorado state house. Lorne Levy shares the latest on mortgage rates. ————————————————————————————– The Kim Monson Show
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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 I get to work with, and that is Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Is it already Wednesday, Producer Joe? No. it definitely is it’s going by the blink of an eye and i bet you know what i bet he’s getting greg lopez on the line here as i was throwing it over to him check out our website that is kim munson mon son.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter you’ll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays you can email me at kim kimmunson.com The text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something’s a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. The show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. on all KLZ 560 platforms. That’s KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. Our word of the day is aphorism. And it is spelled A-P-H-O-R-I-S-M. And it is a noun. And it could be a concise statement of a principle. Number two, a terse formulation of a truth or sentiment. And three, I would say an ingeniously terse style of expression. And if you were aware of the interaction between Donald Trump and, gosh, now I think it was, I was thinking it was the governor of Maine, but it was one of the New England governors. uh states and you can text me if you can remember which one it was where she said that basically we’re not going to abide by your um your policies regarding illegal immigration and she said we’ll see you in court and uh i and donald trump said i like court so i would say that that is his reaction was an aphorism on that so your The challenge is to use the word aphorism in a sentence today, A-P-H-O-R-I-S-M. Our quote of the day is from Michelangelo, who was an Italian sculptor, painter, and architect. He was born in 1475. He died in 1564. He was also a poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence, and his work was inspired by models from the classical antiquity. had a lasting influence on Western art, and he achieved fame early. Two of his best works, the Pieda and David, were sculpted before the age of 30. And he said this, he said, the greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. And again, that’s Michelangelo. I’m hoping, Joe, do we have Greg Lopez on the line yet?
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No, ma’am, we do not, but I’m working on it. Okay.
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I am broadcasting from home, so I cannot see Joe. So you seem to have a little problem on that, so stay tuned. Okay, let’s get through some of these headlines, and this was one of the things that I wanted to talk with Greg Lopez about, and that was that Vivek Ramaswamy declares his candidacy for Ohio governor. And so hopefully we’ll be talking with Greg about that in just a moment as he was back there for that announcement. Next thing I just wanted to mention is there is manufacturing that will be coming back to America, and Apple unveils a historic $500 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing. And so Donald Trump is making America great again, bringing back manufacturing. And I wanted to talk with a former congressman from Congressional District 4, and that is Greg Lopez. Welcome to the show, Greg Lopez.
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Hey, good morning, Kim. How are you doing?
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I am doing well. And you’ve been traveling, haven’t you?
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I have. I have. You know, it was… I was in Ohio, you know, with my good friend Vivek Ramaswamy as he was announcing his candidacy for governor.
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And you and he got to know each other when you were back in Washington as you were completing the term of Ken Buck for Congressional District 4. And so you and Vivek got to know each other.
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We did. You know, we got to spend some time together on the Doge committee. You know, as you know, he was one of the him and Elon Musk were the ones that President Trump identified to help him with what was going on with the fraud, waste and abuse in the government. And so we had an opportunity to meet each other and had a conversation and we built this relationship. And when he told me he was a. going to be running for governor in Ohio. He said, hey, would you mind coming out? And I said, of course not. And so, you know, Lisa and I, my wife were out there and it was a pleasure to be out there with him and say some words on his behalf at his events.
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And do the people of Ohio seem pretty excited about this?
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Oh, they’re excited. You know, the energy is unbelievable. I mean, he has such a great following and more importantly, he’s got a great message. He’s got a great message about the American dream and how important it is for us to make sure that we understand that it’s alive and well, that we need to bring it back and that, you know, individualism and independence, it’s important. And more importantly, the opportunities that America has to offer us to everyone. So as you know, he’s a, he’s from India and his parents are in first-time, first-generation American, and he’s really excited about what’s going to happen in Ohio.
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And what about Doge? So I know that you were tapped to help with that. So what’s going on? What’s your role in that, Greg Lopez?
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Well, you know what, with the executive order that President Trump signed and having it put under the White House, most people that are involved with Doge have to be federal employees to be able to be a part of that. So I’m not looking to be a federal employee because I got other aspirations, but I am still involved with staying in touch with some of the representatives that sit on the caucus. So, you know, I’m kind of like everybody else now. I’m taking a step backwards, back, I should say, and letting them watch what they’re doing like everybody else. But, you know, while I was there, it was a pleasure to be working with them.
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Well, and so you were there in Washington for, what was it, about six months? Pretty historical time that you were there, Greg Lopez. And, of course, you were back there for the inauguration as well, right, you and Lisa?
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I was. Yes, we sure were. We were there. I was fortunate enough to be in the rotunda to watch the exchange of power between the two, President Biden and President Trump. And it’s just amazing to watch the transfer of power in our nation.
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Well, true that. There is this, however, I think, Greg Lopez, that the radical activists have finally gotten organized. I think that they had no idea what hit them the first four weeks of – I’m calling it Trump 2 – But they are now getting organized on all of this and all of these protests. So they’re not really trying. I think they’re really trying to undercut this presidency. But, Greg, I find it so interesting because I think that Trump acted so quickly in all of these reports regarding what Doge has uncovered. that these people that are out there protesting, saying, yes, we do want more fraud, waste, and abuse. I’m not sure their message is resonating with the everyday hardworking American or the hardworking Coloradan.
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It’s not, Kim. Look, they’ve been exposed. And even the fact that they are protesting and demonstrating for not us, To be able to see how the fraud and the waste and abuse is happening in our nation and for how long is a clear indication that, you know what, they are feeling very comfortable that they want to work government in the shadows. They want to do things the way they’ve always done, and now President Trump is exposing them. And they’re not happy, just like anybody else that gets caught with their hand in the cookie jar. They’re going to deny it. They’re going to say it wasn’t them. This is the way we should be doing things. And so I think the American people are realizing that – thank God that President Trump got elected because now we get to watch and understand how much wastefulness there is in government.
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And so while we are excited about things that are happening at the federal level, Greg, here in Colorado, we are in trouble. As president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, I get to put my eyeballs on each piece of legislation that is scheduled for hearing this week. And I finally last night got our email out that we’d like to have go out on Monday, but we’re all volunteers. I was traveling, and then it is monumental work to get this thing done. And as I look at what’s happening in Colorado, we are in trouble, Greg Lopez.
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Yes, we are. Look, the state government is almost identical to the waste that is happening at the national level. When you’re a billion dollars, and the number keeps shifting, but when you’re a billion dollars over budget and you don’t know that you’re going to be a billion dollars over budget, there is something wrong with whoever’s watching the purse here in the state of Colorado. And you know what, Kim? Others had warned us. Other Republicans earlier, three, four years ago, had warned us that this was going to happen if we weren’t careful. And here we are. So now they’re going to have to cut. Now they’re going to have to figure out how we’re going to balance this. And one of the things that really concerns me, and you’re probably aware of this, is how they’re starting to play with the numbers of the population in order to get more money as it pertains to how much money they can keep from Tabor because they don’t want to give it back to the residents. They want to keep it and use it against the debt that they currently have, or I should say the overspend that they have. But yes, Colorado is heading in the wrong direction as we speak.
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and uh we’ve got to really get this turned around and i think that we can but uh i really think that what’s going to happen is even though we love what’s happening with many of the things at the federal level that you’re going to see the doubling down by the extremist activist agenda at the local the county and the state level so we need to roll up our sleeves here in colorado and really be engaged in our government because i think this is an opportunity And it’s not going to come to us again. It’s one of these things that we need to act now to become engaged in this and reclaim our Colorado that we love as well. Greg Lopez.
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I agree, Kim. Look, I was at the Capitol yesterday testifying on two bills. And it’s interesting because you’re right, they’re doubling down. I mean, they are not moving. And we must be involved, like you said, engagement. But we also have to be present. We have to start picking up the phones. We’ve got to start talking to people. We’ve got to start talking to our representatives, regardless of whether they’re our party or not. If they’re your representative, then you need to call them, and you need to let them know how you feel because right now they’re running amok, and they’re going to continue to do that.
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Well, absolutely. So, Greg Lopez, your final thought, and it’s so cool that you were back in Ohio and making comments regarding Vivek Ramaswamy from the stage. Your final thought.
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You know, my final thought is, folks, look, our finest days are in the horizon. Yes, we you can see some things once again between the different worldviews. But let’s stay strong. Let’s stay in the gap. Let’s keep talking about truth. Let’s keep pushing it because our kids need it. Our grandchildren need us to fight for them. And one of the things is freedom isn’t free. So let’s get out there. Let’s exercise our civic duties and let’s be representative of our own voices and hold people accountable.
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Well, Greg Lopez, great. Thank you so much. And thank you for letting us be one of the first to hear about your trip to Ohio.
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You bet. You take care, Kim. Have a wonderful day.
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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. 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. 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 thank you, Richard. Clarification. I had my stories a little mixed up. The governor of Maine said she would not follow the rules concerning males competing in women’s sports. She said that and Trump said, OK, she said. Anyway, she said she wasn’t going to follow that. And Trump basically said that she said, we’re going to sue you in court. Trump laughed and said, yeah, I’ll see you in court. And I like that. This is going to be an easy one. And so that was what the interaction I got my I got my issues mixed up. And I wasn’t sure if it was the governor of Maine, but I think that many of the governors were back at the White House and they had that interaction. And so thank you, Richard. We like to try to get it right here. So do appreciate that. On the line with me is my fellow CUT board member. He is a vice president of the board of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. And that is Rob Knuth. It’s Wednesday. So we wanted to go through a few of these bills that are scheduled for hearing this week. Rob Knuth, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. Thanks for having me on with you. It’s good to hear my friend Greg on there prior to this.
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Yes. Yeah, that’s pretty cool. He was back there with Vivek as he was announcing his governorship for Ohio. So, Rob, you and I talked yesterday and it’s pretty monumental what’s happening down at the statehouse. And I say that not in a good way. Because as of yesterday morning, there were about 503 bills or resolutions that have been introduced down there. We don’t really probably need another law or fee or tax in Colorado, but this legislature is out of control, I would say, Rob Knuth.
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I would agree with you on that, Kim. It’s pretty amazing. It’s kind of like drinking from a fire hose for us to try to stay on top of this. It just shows the extent of what the importance of what President Trump and Elon Musk are doing on a federal level to work on downscaling government. We in Colorado need a massive. The way it’s coming at us now, it seems like we could cut it in half, but that’d probably be a little severe. But it’s just ridiculous the amount of stuff that we have to wade through. And like you stated, we’re all volunteers. We don’t get paid for this. The people getting paid for it aren’t even writing the bills. A lot of them don’t even read it. They just have their names on it, and it’s staff and lobbyists that are doing their work for them. And it’s kind of frightening that this stuff is happening to the taxpayers of Colorado in such a manner.
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It really is. So let’s jump in here. We have several different bills to talk about. And House Bill 25-1050, Regional County Jail Approach. The prime sponsors are Representative Lorena Garcia and Senator Judy Emma Bile. We’re a no on that. What’s your thoughts on this one, Rob Knuth?
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We as a board are reflective of our community, and so sometimes we among ourselves have disagreements as to the approach, and sometimes it’s a highly technical aspect why we come down one way or the other. In this case, I’m a dissenter from my colleagues in that it appears to me that this would be a big taxpayer savings for the counties that are in the rural sectors of the state especially, that need the resources to save money for their constituents and to be more effective in their law enforcement approach. And so when I went through it and looked at it and look at fiscal note stuff, I think that we should support the bill. But my colleagues on the board had some variance of opinion. It’s not a radical departure. A lot of times it’s just specifics, details. But I think that it makes sense. And so in this case, I found myself in an odd position supporting about 11 Democrats that brought the bill forward, which I thought, how did they come up with such a common sense approach to law enforcement when they’re not really known for that? So anyway, I’m a supporter of it because I think it would help the rural counties. And sometimes we in the metro kind of forget the importance of the issues that the rural counties grapple with.
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Well, and that’s what I love about this, Rob, which is I think what government really should be like as well, that we have debate on these issues. And the safety clause, they stuck that on there in the safety clause. And I’d really recommend that you join us so that you get this email because we have a and that we send out each week. It’s only twenty five dollars a year to join us. You could do that at Colorado taxpayer dot org. But if they so in Colorado, we have something that if if a piece of legislation does not have the safety clause, the people of Colorado could actually vote on this and say whether or not they really wanted to have that happen. The safety clause is there for. really, I would say, catastrophic events. But instead, they are sticking this on so many pieces of legislation so that the people of Colorado could not review it. And so this has that safety clause on it. And I think that that was the deal breaker with a number of our other board members. And if the safety clause wasn’t on there, I think that we probably would have come out as a yes and joined you on that, Rob Knuth. So again, great conversations that we have about this. The next one that we wanted to talk about is House Bill 1141. And this particular one was – we like this one. It’s a gift card and retail property crime penalties. And the prime sponsors on this are Representative Brandi Bradley and Senator John Carson. So your thoughts on this, Rob Knuth?
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Yeah, I – I found myself in support of this one because it seems to be tightening up some of the criminal activities where in the past it’s gone the other way from the other side of the aisle. Their approach was to err on the side of the criminal and to raise the levels of penalty and to where people got a break. This one tightens things up. And so I found myself in concurrence with the group approach on this. I think it’s a good step that we start establishing some
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practical reasonable parameters for what is crime and how it needs to be approached okay and that is um house bill 1141 you know i selected house bill 25 1170 and for all of you out there there will either be hb or sb so house hb stands for house bill sb stands for senate bill then it gives the year and then the bill number and this is lobbying by non-profit entities and prime sponsors on it are Representative Andrew Bosenecker, Representative Mary Bradfield, Representative Eliza Hemrick, and Senator Faith Winter. And we came down on the no side on this. What’s your thoughts on that one, Rob?
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Well, and I agreed with the group on that. To me, a lot of times with the current state of affairs with basically one-party rulership in the state at this time, there’s so many lines that are being blurred. So when we talk about nonprofit, and I’m engaged in and been in several nonprofits actually, and currently one for 30 years. I’m partial to nonprofits, but the way this is, I think that a lot of times the lines get bloodied and blurred between nonprofit and what is an actual lobbyist for profit entities. And we’ve seen like with those at national levels, again, that nonprofits were receiving billions of dollars, which doesn’t seem like that’s in the purview of the government to just dole out money as political favors. And so I found myself in opposition to this bill as well. I just think, yeah, it doesn’t make sense to me to put this legislation forward.
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Okay. Next one is House Bill 1224. Excuse me, 1244. Let me get to that.
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1244, HB 244, right.
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Right. Oh, this is Welcome Reception and Integration Grant Program. Prime sponsors, Representative Elizabeth Velasco and Representative Lorena Garcia and Senator Lisa Cutter. We’re a no on this. Your thoughts, Rob? Yes.
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Yeah, I thought it was telling when you look at the bill summary and what it actually says and then you get into it. It’s basically targeted to migrants that have arrived in the United States within the past year and instead requires community-based organizations to prioritize their assistance of migrants up to the last three years. So what they’re really doing is trying to give cover to illegal immigration. And again, the taxpayer will be on the hook for any of the expenditures. And so I don’t see how this benefits the Colorado citizenry and legal community.
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Yes. So we’re no on that. And that was House Bill 1244. The last one we’re a yes on. And this is Senate Bill 25047. Sponsors are Senator Mark Baisley, Representative Max Brooks and Representative Chris Richardson. Enforcement of federal immigration law. And your thoughts on that, Rob Knuth.
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Yeah, I think, again, this helps to strengthen the idea of law and order. And it just makes sense to me for us to go along with Senator Baisley’s reflections on this, who knows a lot what he’s doing and what the inner workings of government. When you look at the details, it tightens things up again from a law and order standpoint. And so it kind of gives cover for our officers of the law, which we all wish to support. And so again, I found myself Not a problem. I support this.
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Well, and, Rob, thank you.
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Go ahead.
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Well, I was going to say thank you. And we need to really give a shout-out to, I think, our fellow board members. Rob Knuth, you’re the vice president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, also known as CUT. But our fellow board members are Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, you, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. It is quite the group that we have that’s working on all of this. Indeed.
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Yep. It’s a good group to be associated with. So, yeah, I value our dialogue and discussion, even when we come to different conclusions on a particular legislation. but I have respect for each and every one of the people on board. And I think I’d speak for the board as a whole, Kim, that we’re appreciative of your stellar leadership and the effort that you put into saving our state and really as a reflection of our nation as well. And they’re looking out for the taxpayers. Thank you so much.
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Well, and we’re all taxpayers, Rob Knuth, so we’d love to have people join us. That’s $25. You can go to coloradotaxpayer.org. Rob Knuth, thank you so much. You have a great day, and we’ll keep up the great work.
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Thank you, Kim. You as well. Take care now.
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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. 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. 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. uh and one of the non-profits that i dearly love and support is the usmc memorial foundation we have the official marine memorial right here in colorado at the corner of sixth and colfax and uh it was dedicated 1977 and it’s time for a remodel and paula sarles and her team is working on raising the money for that and paula is the president of the usmc memorial foundation she’s also a marine veteran and a gold star wife And on her birthday, or in honor of her birthday, on March 15th, she’s going to be climbing 426 steps at Red Rocks, honoring Marines, our Iwo Jima veterans who are turning 100, and her birthday. And so you can support her. You can pledge a dollar, 10 cents, whatever, for her climb. But you can get all the information by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. pleased to have on the line with me greg walcher he is a natural resources expert he is an author and uh he’s uh you can find him at gregwalcher.com and that’s greg g-r-e-g-w-a-l-c-h-e-r.com greg walcher welcome to the show thank you good morning And you’ve written you write extensively. And I’d recommend that people get on your email list for this. But one of the pieces that you wrote at the end of January is that the Department of Education DOE throws cold water on the Biden legacy. But you said heading out the door, Biden sought to ban 40 percent of water heaters. It’s kind of unbelievable what’s being uncovered here, Greg Walcher.
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Yeah, the Department of Energy, actually. But I don’t know if anybody’s really surprised by it. I mean, they spent four years trying to ban appliances that we use every day of our lives. And when you add together four years’ worth of regulations of air conditioners and furnaces and gas stoves and fireplaces, even ceiling fans and lightbulbs, The Alliance for Consumers estimated that they had added $9,000 to the cost of the average home or to the cost of the average consumer who has to replace those devices. So it was kind of more of the same. I was particularly offended that they wanted to try that on their way out the door, knowing that the new administration would probably roll it back, but that it would take them some time. And it was just sort of, in my mind, kind of a mean-spirited 11th hour regulation. It has been. It has been rolled back by executive order, in fact, but I didn’t know at the time that I wrote it that that was about to happen.
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Greg, it’s crazy what they’re trying to do under the guise of trying to save the planet on just really controlling, as you mentioned, every aspect of our lives, making it more expensive for everyday people to be able to thrive and prosper. And then since you’ve written this, we saw that they had squirreled away $20 billion in the Department of Energy. I want to make sure I get that right. But the EPA had squirreled away $20 billion and $2 billion of it went to Stacey Abrams, who had run for governor in Georgia a couple of times. That’s real money. That’s unbelievable that they did that.
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Well, it is. And $20 billion, of course, has tipped the iceberg as we’re beginning to To learn, I’m among the number of people who, when Elon Musk first said that he would find a trillion dollars worth of waste and fraud and abuse, lots of people said, yeah, good luck with that. But I don’t know. I’m beginning to think there’s at least that much there. I don’t know whether they’ll be successful in rooting all of it out, but they found some of it, including the piece that you just mentioned. which a lot of people are justifiably outraged about. Nobody was offering to give me $2 billion, even when friends of mine were in the White House. That’s not the way it’s ever worked for me.
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Well, and I think that’s why your book, Smoking Them Out, The Theft of the Environment and How to Take It Back, is they’ve really used the environment, climate change, to put forth this spending and these policies. And as I’m looking at it now, people send me text messages on whatever new is being uncovered. And it looks like thievery to me, Greg Walcher.
SPEAKER 06 :
The great irony about it, as you know, Kim, is that so much of it isn’t really about the environment. I don’t know anybody who hates the environment on either side of the aisle. I know lots of people who’s I know a lot of the leaders of the biggest environmental organizations in the country. But I’ve known all sorts of people who make their living in oil and gas and mining and logging and ranching and those other kind of professions. Those people don’t hate the environment either. In fact, I argue that the people who live and work on the land love it more than anybody else. It’s this agenda that they use the environment because it’s popular, because we all do care about it. But the idea that somehow by banning the gas stove in my house, that we’re going to do something for the climate, it’s like an entire agenda to try and push a lower standard of living, to make us live in smaller and less comfortable homes and give up our day-to-day appliances and stop driving, stop manufacturing and consuming especially, while on the other side of the planet, people are getting off of their bicycles and into automobiles, people by the billions and living lifestyles that they couldn’t have imagined a couple of generations ago, all because of the availability and affordability of energy. which our own government spends all kinds of time trying to get us to quit. It just makes no sense from an environmental point of view because none of the things that we’re talking about here are going to change the climate in any measurable way.
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Well, here in Colorado, Greg, though, even though we see things happening at the federal level, here in Colorado, the radical extremists that are really in control of the state Senate, the state House, and the governor’s office, they seem to be doubling down on this agenda to make everything more expensive for everyday hardworking people. And I was in Steamboat on Sunday and very grateful. I gave the keynote for the Routt County Republicans’ Lincoln Day brunch. And one of the things we were talking about is the schedule to shut down the coal-fired plants in Craig and the Hayden plant. And as I was doing research on it regarding the Craig plant is some of the electives said, though, we’re just going to adjust here. We’re going to focus more on tourism. And quite frankly, and I think 146 people will be losing their jobs in Craig because of the closure of that plant. And these are good paying jobs. These are and then all the people that In the community that rely on people spending these people that are employed by the plant, you know, they buy their groceries and their businesses there. It’s really going to affect Craig. And you’ve got those out there saying, well, we’re just going to make it up by tourism. And maybe. I don’t think so. But the other thing is, is rafting down the river doesn’t create any affordable energy that helps people, you know, fuel their lives. And what’s your thoughts on that?
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Well, they’re also kidding themselves if they think that that economic impact will only hit Gregg and Moffitt County. It’s two power plants, actually two of the most productive and efficient power plants from a clean air point of view in the United States, and four coal mines that supply them, which are right next door to them. So there’s all sorts of economic advantage to that particular area, not only because it’s rich in some of the cleanest burning coal on the planet, but also being right next door to the power plant. It saves all sorts of transportation issues. And so closing all of that down is just plain insane at a time when the country is in dire need of more electricity, not less. So when they’re talking about building these giant AI data centers around the country, And the president is already saying, while he’s touting the investment in those, and he’s saying we probably have to build new power plants right next door to them because there isn’t enough electricity on the grid to power all of the data centers that they’re talking about. And we have an administration which rightfully, I think, wants the United States to be the leader in that. So for us to go around closing down power plants, as we’ve done all over the United States by the hundreds – It makes absolutely no sense. What makes more sense is to build the AI data center in Craig, where you already have the power plants. And instead, the state and the utilities that own those power plants are spending millions and millions of millions of dollars on what they call this transition, this just transition process, which is just nothing more than the state saying to the people in northwest Colorado, you’re going to have to live some other way now because you don’t get to produce energy anymore. It couldn’t be any more crazy than that because the country needs the power that they’re producing more than ever before.
SPEAKER 14 :
So can we get this turned around? And what I’ve seen, I used to think that Excel, the business, you would think that they would want to provide a product that is affordable and reliable and efficient for people. But instead, it seems that big government and big business like each other, Excel seems to be doing the bidding of these radical activists, extremists, shutting this down. And then I see reports that our electric rates are going to go up. Can we get this turned around, Greg Walcher?
SPEAKER 06 :
Our electric rates have gone up in Colorado, in fact, as much as 60% over the last decade. Xcel is involved in one of those power plants. The bigger one is owned by Tri-State Power and Generation. But yeah, nobody should make the mistake of thinking these are business decisions. I don’t blame the companies for doing what they have to do. Those decisions are based on government policy, not on consumer demand. So when the government declares war on coal and spends 20 years bankrupting the coal industry with regulations, and they have essentially put the vast bulk of the coal mines in the country out of business, the writing is on the wall. And so utilities all over America started closing down coal power plants, decommissioning them, as in this case. over a period of time, and then investing hundreds of millions of dollars in new natural gas burning plants and in wind farms and solar panels and so on. The city of Colorado Springs shut down another one of the most efficient coal power plants in the country, but the Colorado Springs utilities invested $100 million in building a new natural gas-fired power plant. They’re not going to be able to just flip the switch the next day and say, oh, policy has changed. Now we can turn that one back on. It’s gone. And shutting it down was completely crazy. Similar situation in Montana and in Wyoming and other places where they’ve shut down these super efficient power plants. You know, we spent decades regulating the emissions from power plants to the point where they had to develop clean burning coal and systems where like the power plant XL had in Cameo, which was a 100-year-old plant, but it had been improved to the point where it emitted virtually nothing into the air, and they shut it down. And, in fact, now it’s been torn down. It isn’t even there anymore. The ones in northwest Colorado are still there. They haven’t been shut down yet, so it is not too late. For governments and businesses to say, wait, that was a mistake. We’re leaving that one. And, in fact, we should build an AI data center there.
SPEAKER 14 :
Greg Walter, you are always thinking outside the box and explaining things. I love that. He’s a natural resources expert. His book is Smoking the Mouth, the Theft of the Environment and How to Take it Back. And such important discussions. We have them because of our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, reach out to Lorne Levy.
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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’re an independent voice. 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. Do check out the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. They’re doing great work. They’re nonpartisan. They’re nonpolitical. I love the fact that they honor our Medal of Honor recipients, but they have great educational programs as well, and they focus on these values of honor, integrity, and patriotism, and that website to get more information. is AmericanValueCenter.org. On the line with me is Greg Walcher. He is an expert regarding natural resources. His book, Smoking Them Out, The Theft of the Environment and How to Take It Back, is really an important book. His website is GregWalcher.com. So again, GregWalcher.com. Greg, I wanted to also talk a little bit about this other essay that you have there. That’s Shovel Baby Shovel. But before we get into it, one of our listeners texted in and said, their purpose is not to save the planet. We all need to stop believing what they say. And I think he’s absolutely right. How do you address that when you’re talking with people that say that this radical agenda is trying to save the planet?
SPEAKER 06 :
I completely agree with it. And in fact, it’s the theme of a lot of speeches that I make around the country because so many people are deluded into thinking that this agenda is all about the environment. I think people are beginning to get more and more skeptical, by the way, at the link between the climate change agenda and the environment. Everybody cares about the environment. We all want clean air, clean water. We all want an area teeming with wildlife and so on. People generally are very supportive of anything related to the environment, but I think people are getting more and more skeptical about this agenda that wants to ban all the stuff in our homes and claim that we’re warming the planet beyond its ability to support life. And in fact, for me, and the theme of the book that you mentioned is mostly that that is a false agenda that that it’s all about money and power and control and especially money. But a lot of that agenda is not really about the environment. And there’s plenty of evidence for that around. When you look at the things that we do that would actually improve the environment, like reintroducing endangered species, for example, and the environmental organizations and the federal government are opposed to it, and try to stop it, you can’t escape the conclusion that there’s some agenda other than the environment at work there. And it’s particularly obvious in the climate change movement, in my opinion.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and this is a good time to mention the documentary that I’m involved in, A Climate Conversation, which people can watch for free. It is a project of Walt Johnson. And we also did a great podcast series with that. And Greg Walcher, you were one of our podcast guests. It’s an excellent podcast. I’d recommend that people check that out at aclimateconversation.com. So let’s talk just a little bit about your piece, Shovel Baby Shovel. And we’d all heard Drill Baby Drill, but what’s Shovel Baby Shovel?
SPEAKER 06 :
In my mind, it’s about the need to reopen the mining industry in this country, the same as we have the need to reopen the domestic oil and gas industry. The idea that we should have our economy dependent on imports from other countries, particularly ones who are unreliable in this sense, is craziness. So when China has only 37% of the known reserves of rare earth minerals, for example – but produces 80 or 90 percent of the world’s supply and the United States is almost completely reliant on them for a large number of minerals, that makes no sense. People have the idea somehow that the mineral reserves in this country just kind of played out and the mines were exhausted. But, of course, none of that is true. They were closed because of government policy. So we need to reopen the mining industry just as badly as any other kind of domestic production. We should not have to depend on China for the 17 critical minerals listed that our economy and our defense actually requires. And so now we see this new negotiation with the Ukraine where we’re going to get access to rare earth minerals produced there. I guess in the overall sense, that may be a better idea than getting them from China. But the best idea of all is to produce them ourselves so we’re not dependent anymore on an unstable Ukraine than we are on an unstable China. So I write a weekly newspaper column, and that’s what Shovel Baby Shovel was there. And I maintain a national mailing list for several thousand people around the country that are interested in these issues. And so every week I send out some ramblings like that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I think that they’re very important ramblings. How is it, as we talk about this, it’s really dumb, I think, that we’ve gotten to a point where we are reliant on other nations, some of them enemy nations, for things that we need and things that we have here. And I think it’s really dumb to be closing down these coal-fired plants. And how… did we get to this? It didn’t happen overnight, Greg.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, it’s been building for all of my life, in fact. And it’s an ongoing battle. And people would make a mistake if they became complacent because we have a president in the White House who has a little different view of this now. But make no mistake, as you said, with respect to Colorado’s government, this is an ongoing battle. It won’t end during this four years. It’s a struggle that probably will continue for the That just means it’s more important than ever that we suit up and that we spread the truth about some of these issues and tell people the advantages, huge advantages, of affordable and available energy and minerals. It’s what has created the prosperous economy that we all are so proud of in this country, where we’ve done more to improve the environment, by the way, than any people who ever lived. And at the same time, created the most prosperous and free country in the history of the world. And for us to be made to feel bad about that somehow, like we should apologize for it, is nuts in my mind. I think we should be proud of it, and I think we ought to show the rest of the world how they can get it, too.
SPEAKER 14 :
I totally agree. We’ve got a question that came in on the text line that says they want to know how uranium mining and storage is clean. How would you respond to that, Greg Walcher?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, nuclear energy is one of the cleanest sources of power imaginable. in addition to being a lot cheaper to produce than energy created with coal or oil or gas or wind or solar or anything else. I find it’s interesting, in fact, that the executive order that the president signed not quite a month ago suggests that all of the agencies reexamine whatever regulations are a hindrance to mining and specifically talked about rare earth minerals. It also suggested adding to the critical minerals list uranium, which is interesting because I think it signals an intention on the part of the administration to work toward jump-starting the nuclear power industry, which even a lot of the big environmental organizations have come around to because it is cleaner than coal, oil, gas, or anything else. Wind and solar production, as you probably know – produce more toxins and more environmental damage in a lot of ways than digging up coal and burning it. So everything has an environmental consequence, no question about that. And so our job is to do it as cleanly and responsibly as we can, which is the main problem with producing it in China. We can’t control what they do there. China still throws their trash in the river, for heaven’s sakes. That’s why we have this massive floating island of plastic in the Pacific Ocean, almost all of which comes from China. So we can’t control the way they produce anything in other countries. We can control it here. We can produce it more sustainably, more responsibly in ways that our grandkids can be proud of if we produce it here where we can control it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and again, we can coexist as humans with our environment and we can be good stewards of this earth. That’s what we’re called to do. Your final thought, Greg Walcher, always goes so quickly and I learned so much.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, thank you. It is our responsibility to produce as responsibly as we can, more responsibly than anyone else on the planet can do. That is our duty to steward the environment correctly, as you say. But that isn’t all. We also have a duty to continue to support a prosperous society. The idea of conservation is twofold. It’s to make sure that we produce the resources that are needed for a prosperous economy and to make sure that they’re still available for future generations. And so that’s what it all comes down to in my mind.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, Greg Walcher, thank you so much. His book is Smoking Them Out, The Theft of the Environment and How to Take It Back. And you can find him at gregwalcher.com. Greg Walcher, thank you so much.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you. Always a pleasure.
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And our quote for the end of the show is from Michelangelo. He says, Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us. 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 hour number two.
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Thank you. Good morning, Kim.
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So what’s going on? Any changes from last week?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, well, we’ve had a little bit of data come out, namely the Consumer Confidence Index came out on a little bit lower side in the last few days. And so we’ve seen the 10-year note that we always refer to come down into the mid-430s from the 450 range, which that’s helped the rates ever so slightly. So, you know, not huge moves, but we’ve seen a little bit of relief in rates this week. which is always nice when people are looking to buy a home or potentially take advantage of an opportunity to refinance when they’ve bought a home at a higher rate in the last, say, year and a half.
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Okay. So let’s say somebody has bought a home within the last year and a half. $450,000 to $430,000 on the 10-year, do you think that would be enough regarding a mortgage?
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Yeah. It might be because we all know what home prices have done here in Colorado. So, you know, that old adage where, you know, you don’t refinance unless you can lower your rate by a full percentage point. That was from a long time ago when people, you know, the home prices were much lower. The loans were a lot smaller. And so rates really had to move further. But now with people taking on, you know, when I first got in the business, the maximum loan amount that Fannie Mae would cover was, I believe, like $232,000. And now it’s $806,000. which is what is considered a conforming loan amount. So loan amounts across the country have really gone up with home prices. So now if someone has a $700,000 mortgage and rates drop by a quarter to three to a percent, that could be a couple hundred dollars savings depending on the loan size. So that could really make a difference for people. So yeah, I would always say it never hurts to call to take a look. And again, if it doesn’t make sense, We won’t urge anyone to do it, but if you can recoup your closing costs in a reasonably timed manner, I would say it’s worth it for a lot of people.
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Okay. And so if people want to check that out, what’s the best way for people to reach you, Lorne Levy?
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The best way, as always, is give us a call at 303-880-8881.
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Well, and the other thing that I like people to know is that some people are moving out of state, and you can help them with a mortgage in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York.
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Yep, that’s right. So, yeah, anything that they may need help with across the board, whether it be, you know, we’re talking to people about reverse mortgages, and now there are second mortgages through a reverse where you don’t have payments that have come available in the last, I’d say, year. There’s a lot of opportunity and a lot of options for folks. So if folks are in a pinch or looking to move, you know, or feel like they might be able to get a better rate than what they have now, I would always urge to call and let’s see if we can’t get something done to help them ease the pain of, you know, prices and things like that that have gone on for a while.
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Okay. And that number, Lorne Levy, is 303-880-8881 for Everything Mortgages. And we’ll talk with you next week.
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Okay. Thank you so much, Kim.
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I was going to say, where are you? And Kelly won’t know what to do if you’re home, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
She’s got a list. No, no, she’s always got a list. Yesterday, though, I was at the state capitol, not in Denver, Lincoln, Nebraska, and was, you know, just getting caught up to date on how we become so befuddled and not knowing what’s really important to our people.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, we know that’s happening in Colorado, but it’s happening in Nebraska, too.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yes. We’re talking about how can we gather more revenue, not talking about how we can spend less. Government has become too big. No, that’s not the concept. And the really bad part about that in Nebraska, which this year they said they started out the year $432 million behind their revenue supply. And so they need more revenue, need more revenue. Well, I was on the Capital Commission for four years, and the Capital Commission was established to maintain the cultural significance and the upkeep and the maintenance on the state capital. And we literally, in my last year, had a guy come to us and say, we want to give $1.5 million to the Capital Commission to remodel and do an educational session up on the fourth floor, because basically the fourth floor is vacant right now. And I asked the question, I said, why are you here today? trying to give us money. And his response was, and it set me off, Kim, to be honest, as a member of the capital commission, he said, well, we’ve got so much cash. We just were trying to find places to put it. And my response to him was, well, why don’t you give it back to the people who said it’s their money? It’s not our money. Instead of trying to find places to stash in the capital. And that was three years ago. And now, now we have a $432 million, uh, Deficit. Why? Why are we short $432 million? So we’re adding sales tax here. We’re going to start adding a sales tax to people who pay for an escort service. Is that even legal? I mean, there’s 20 new areas that they’ve identified that could have a sales tax and not previously have not had a sales tax. If you pay a rent on a Learjet. There’s now going to be a, well, no, excuse me, the proposal of this bill were to pass and become law, but I don’t want to get lost in the details. It’s the bigger picture. We’re so disconnected on the challenge with the access. This is, you set it up this entire segment, the access to food and fuel for our feet future. And I caught the last five or six minutes of, Greg walked here on the first hour. He’s spot on. You know, I was like, man, this guy is reading the same playbook I’m reading. We got a problem. And we continue to reject the resources here that will improve lives and what we build an infrastructure to have.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, and ultimately the goal, this whole thing is really anti-human. Well, several things. I was up in Steamboat on Sunday and Monday. And a guy came up to me after I gave a speech for the Lincoln Day brunch up there for Routt County. And he said this whole wolf thing is very serious, that he has a neighbor who’s lost quite a bit of livestock to wolves. And then he said wolves got into a herd of elk that they ended up getting into a fence, and he said there was blood and legs everywhere. He said this whole wolf thing is really serious out here on the western slope. And that’s an attack, as you and I have talked about it, it’s an attack upon our food source.
SPEAKER 07 :
What species works at reestablishing a predator for the species? And when I say predator for the species, you’re attacking our food supply by doing that. What species ever reintroduced a predator to their own species? Only us. Only human beings would do that. It’s the stupidest thing ever. I hope that he captured good video and footage of that elk carnage because that would really resonate with the people who thought this wolf reintroduction was a good thing.
SPEAKER 14 :
I don’t know, and I have a listener that wants me to get some more, try to get connected with him. It’s one of those things, you know, at the end of a speech, somebody comes up, they give you their name, and it’s like, oh, I should write this down, and I can’t remember, so I’m going to have to see if I can reach out to him because there’s some people that want more information on it.
SPEAKER 07 :
I can get you people that have wolf predation problems in the Rockies if you want me to.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, that would be awesome. Let’s do that. Okay, so you say the word predator. What species would introduce a predator, you know, reintroduce it back in to the mix? But I want to go over to the Colorado State Legislature, and we want to talk about predators, and that’s people that prey on our children. And one of these things is this whole trans agenda and also having pornography in school libraries and our public libraries. And it’s predators on our children that are doing this. And when you say, why would we introduce the wolf, the predator, back in to attack our food supply? It’s beyond me that we would introduce predators to our children and the narrative that’s occurred there. And here in Colorado, we’re having legislation that supports that predator agenda on our children.
SPEAKER 07 :
I continue to tell myself I should spend more time. on this whole child sacrifice, child trafficking, what people are doing to children. And it just comes back to time and how much time you have to do things. But, Kim, I still can’t get my mind around how people rationalize, and apparently it’s a pretty large number of them, rationalize that these children are a commodity to be used. I just don’t understand how mankind gets to that point. But then… All you have to do is read the Bible. Look at the history of some of the Indian tribes in the United States before we came, the Aztecs in particular. It’s always been part of human history and culture, and I don’t understand that. How badly can you be messed up to think that a child is here for your pleasure?
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and that’s why the American founding, I think, is so amazing, is the fact that at the end of the Declaration, they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for this idea that all men are created equal. They have these rights from God of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. And they were willing to put their lives on the line for the next generation, for children. And so instead of sacrificing them, they were protecting them and working to pass on something good. And so when we look at throughout history, this whole American founding is so amazing. And then you look at people that have tried to demonize the founders and they weren’t perfect people. We get that. And but to demonize them instead of really understanding what it was that they were trying to accomplish. It’s been something that I couldn’t quite understand, but I’m really understanding it more is that they don’t care about the next generation. And then we talked with Greg about climate. They don’t really care about the climate. They don’t really care about the earth. They don’t really care about our children. They just care about themselves and their agenda and their anti-human. Sorry, Trent, I always get off on something that I didn’t really think that we would be talking about. But this is on my heart, is this anti-human flourishing is what this is all about. And the other thing, I’ll bring this back around to the fact that you were down at the state capitol in Nebraska. If you are taking all of this money from everyday hardworking people to feed this insatiable appetite of government, you’re making people become slaves to the government instead of being free individuals.
SPEAKER 07 :
Isn’t that the plan? That’s always been the plan of governments throughout the course of history. And if you go back 100 years, what was taking place in Russia with Lenin and the Bolsheviks, we are reliving that at every turn. By the way, I did just think of where some of that money went that were short. There’s $535 million that was devoted to the Perkins Canal project. And you and I have not talked about the Perkins Canal, but it has a direct impact on Colorado and Nebraska and our relationship. Do you know much about the Perkins Canal?
SPEAKER 14 :
No, so let’s leave that as a cliffhanger. Let’s go to break. I’m talking with Trent Luce, a sixth-generation farmer and rancher. We talk about the people that feed and fuel us. We take for granted going to the grocery store, and we’ve had an abundant and affordable food supply. We’re seeing that’s under attack, and everybody’s noticing the price of eggs, if you can get eggs. Eggs even were rationed up here in Colorado, and so… these are important discussions that we have. And so we’re going to go to break. When we come back, we’ll talk about, you said it’s the Perkins Canal. Is that what it is?
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s correct. In Perkins County, Nebraska.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. We’ll be right back.
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SPEAKER 14 :
And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That’s KimMunson.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’re an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force. Force versus freedom is something that’s a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And check out the USMC Memorial Foundation website. That’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And make a pledge for Paula Sarles and her climbing 426 steps out at Red Rocks. That’ll happen on March 15th. And she’s honoring Marines, Iwo Jima veterans who are turning 100, and her birthday. So get more information at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Trent Luce, this came in on the text line. It says moonshiners call these people down at the statehouse revenuers. I had not heard that, but that’s pretty apt on that. So tell me about this Perkins Canal.
SPEAKER 07 :
Actually, that is spot on. They are revenuers. Nothing changes. That’s proof right there. I love that. So, you know, the two rivers flow from… Colorado into Nebraska, ultimately become the Republican River and the South Platte. The South Platte runs along Interstate 76, and it provides mostly irrigation, but there’s also towns. I believe Aurora is one of those that have purchased farmland so that they can have the water allocated for the people of Aurora. And so there’s been this growing concern that the water coming from Colorado into Nebraska and the South Platte River is going to continue to decrease. Well, if you go back to a 1941 water compact, there was a guarantee on the amount of water that was going to come into the state of Nebraska with this river on an annual basis, just to ensure that we all had adequate water to do what we need to do, particularly irrigation so that we can continue to feed ourselves. And that’s the moral of the story that we’re talking about it every day. Well, in 2016, the Colorado legislature passed a bill that wanted to do a study to make sure that they were only supplying, that you, the state of Colorado, was only supplying what was legally required to be the minimum amount of water to your neighboring state, Nebraska. Well, when this water compact was agreed upon in 1941 and signed by Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado, they had intended on building a Perkins Canal, which is just inside the Nebraska line from Colorado. And they found a spot where they thought that they could bring water in what we would call an off-peak time of the year and store that water in the Perkins Canal so that we had basically a water reservoir. And this… So then in the 2021… Nebraska legislative session, after a lot of debate and discussion, they approved to build that Perkins Canal, which was approved to be built in 41, but it never was. And we allocated $535 million, and I know the number exactly because it was brought up yesterday that that money came out of our budget to go to build this Perkins Canal, which hasn’t even been started yet. but is 100% about building a water reservoir to capture water coming from Colorado into Nebraska that farmers rely on for irrigation.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, that seems like that makes sense, Trent Luce. And our friend Yvonne has said that you cannot have water conservation without water storage. And, of course, the environmentalists have been trying to stop any kind of water storage projects here in Colorado. So what’s going on with the Perkins Canal? Is it going to happen? Is the money put over in a separate account? What’s going on with that?
SPEAKER 07 :
The money has been allocated. It’s sitting there waiting for something to happen. Nothing has happened. There’s actually since the difference between 2021 and 2025 is that we have a different governor. And I don’t know that he’s going to try to back up the trolley car at all. In fact, I came out of yesterday thinking I need to go to Perkins County and figure out locally what’s going on with this. But Yvonne, as always, is just spot on. And this is California’s issue. California voters in, I believe it was 2015, passed a ballot initiative to fund a greater water storage system because California is not short of water. They’re just short of water at the time that they want it. It comes down the mountain and ultimately goes into the Pacific Ocean. Look at what’s happening right now. I believe last week they started the demolishing of the second dam on the Klamath River in the northern part of California and Oregon. If you do not manage the resources, the resources are not going to be available when you need them. That was Greg’s moral of his story. That’s still the moral of the story. And in this case, it’s water. We get big snow. There’s big snow this year in ski country of Colorado. That’s great for skiers, but it all melts. And it comes down to be a part of this water supply. And you have two choices. You can either find a way to store it, store the water and use it when you need it, or you it’s ultimately going to end its way in the Gulf of Mexico. That’s the two choices you have.
SPEAKER 14 :
So I’ve got to think about this. So we here in Colorado, we’ve not been building water storage here. From this water compact, there’s supposed to be a certain amount of water that flows out of Colorado to Kansas to Nebraska. And of course, farmers are dependent on that as they grow their crops. And the crops that they grow, they feed the people and are able to provide an affordable and abundant food supply. So all that’s connected. But if we’re not building water storage and we in Colorado only want to send the amount contractually that we’re supposed to, where is that extra water going in Colorado then? Is it going to be used?
SPEAKER 07 :
To your urbanization. You have a number of cities which have bought farmland along the South Platte and taken the allocated amount of water out for the growing urban issue. And so it’s going into your metropolitan areas.
SPEAKER 14 :
And of course, if you live in a metropolitan area, you certainly want to have water. But the urbanization, though, this has been a public policy thing to push people into these urban areas, into these apartments. small apartments, trying to get people to ride on trains and buses and bikes and walk around, taking away all of our freedoms. But the water is needed for these urban areas. But the other thing with Colorado being a sanctuary, well, and apparently 40,000 illegals came in. Gosh, now I think it was last year, but recently. You increase your population by 40,000 illegals. That’s going to put more demand on resources such as water. So you can see how this illegal immigration plays into more water, Colorado wanting to keep more water, affecting our food supply. All of these things are connected, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, absolutely, 100%. And then if you look at the big picture, let’s just talk about nature again. And I said, what species reintroduces a predator that puts peril on the species? Well, the same species, the human being, is also very good at migrating to where the resources are not at. Look at the areas of the rapidest growth in urbanization in my lifetime. Colorado’s been one of those. But more importantly, look at Las Vegas, what Las Vegas has done. What has the Phoenix area done in terms of urbanization? And these areas are not flush with water to begin with. We’re talking about having a shortage of water. There was a shortage of water before they had a million people there. And even the migratory bison, a buffalo of yesteryear, and the Plains Indians – They were driven by where the available resources were. Where was the foodstuff? Where was the water? And that is where they habitated. We as human beings go live where we want to live, no matter what the resources are, and then try to figure out how to get what we need to make it work. It just is not logical.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, through creativity and innovation, I really think that we can address these challenges. For example, regarding the Colorado River that goes to the west and to California. California, and again, it’s the same kind of compact that’s supposed to have a certain amount of water that flows out of Colorado. But it seems like creativity and innovation in California – If they would go to work to desalinate the water that’s on their western coast, that then that could lessen their demand for water, which I think would work its way all the way up with all the other states that are dependent on the Colorado. But it really works more towards control, I think. Ultimately, all these things are coming down to control of our human population. They don’t really care about people in these urban areas. It’s more of a tool, I think, to move to more control of people, I think, Trent.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I agree with you 100%. It’s all about control. I mean, you want to talk about people who are not smart enough to save themselves? You have Pacific Palisades… on fire, they don’t have enough water, and these people are looking at the Pacific Ocean saying, we don’t have any water. Can’t you figure out a way to make this water work, to desalinize this water? 20 years ago, I think it was 30 years ago, they put a pipeline from Bishop, California to Los Angeles because they don’t have enough water. They’re sitting on the oceans. Can you not figure out how to simply desalinate this water and make it work? Because at the end of the day, Kim, here’s the message. We have the same amount of water on the planet that we did when Jesus walks on the planet. Where it’s located and the amount of salt content is the only thing that’s different. And we’re supposed to be, as you said, innovative in all ways. We can fix this if we want to. It’s just there is no answer other than what you came up with. It is control of people.
SPEAKER 14 :
And so we’re at such a critical time as we are looking at this. In Colorado, I’m watching the legislation as the president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which is an all-volunteer group. And, Trent, I know you watch what happens in Nebraska, but as of this morning, we’re Gosh, six weeks maybe into the legislative session. There’s 503 pieces of legislation or resolutions that have been introduced down at the statehouse. And this is not governing. This is pushing an agenda. Now, there have been some pieces introduced by Republicans that have tried to roll back some of government. And, of course, these things are not really seeing the light of day. But I do appreciate them trying. But Colorado, I think, is the poster child for all the nutso stuff that’s going on. You travel around a lot. Is that too much of a statement, or do you think Colorado is the tip of the spear on, I call it, Crazyville?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think you still earned the title Crazyville. But I’ve got to tell you, there are other states that want to catch up. That’s the moral of the story. Yesterday I heard senators bragging about we only have 715 bills introduced for potential law this year. That’s down from 820 last year. You think about a time frame of literally four months, to simplify the math, four months, and you have to study and learn potentially 715 bills. In the state of North Dakota, they had more than 1,000 bills introduced, and the state of North Dakota is unique, and I don’t want any state to be like this. North Dakota should not be like this. A bill does not need to go through committee. Every bill introduced ultimately ends up on the floor in discussion. You want to talk about no possible way to actually study and learn the ramifications or the unintended consequences of a law that could be put into place? do what North Dakota is doing.
SPEAKER 14 :
How is that possible? This is not representative government. It’s not. Goodness.
SPEAKER 07 :
And you have five bills, by the way, in the Colorado legislature, two of which are extremely concerning, a direct violation of a Second Amendment. And one of them is SB 25003, I believe, and I’m doing that from memory. Right, yep. That is going blatantly, just read that language, is blatantly unconstitutional. But then you have another House bill that’s almost like a tag team approach about the cases you can or cannot have firearms in. And you can clearly see that somebody got together and said, okay, we’re going to establish this law that the case can lead to you being searched to see if you’re meeting the statute of the state of Colorado. And that, by the way, opens the door to see if you have one of these firearms that we’ve just deemed to be illegal. And everybody focuses on, oh, the semi-automatic. Well, look and read what is all in this. And again, it doesn’t matter if it’s a semi-automatic or a slingshot. It’s the person that has the intent and causes the harm, not the firearm.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and so this is the other thing, though, is they’re soft on crime, soft on illegals here in Colorado, and bad guys are going to figure out how to have a firearm. So this is one of the things that despotic governments do, is they disarm the everyday law-abiding citizen, and the bad guys will still have firearms, and it makes people sitting ducks. And that ultimately is why the… That’s why the founders put in the Second Amendment is so that everyday people can protect themselves against bad actors.
SPEAKER 07 :
And form a well-regulated militia.
SPEAKER 14 :
That’s there as well.
SPEAKER 07 :
That, by the way, was formed and was confiscated by government in creating the National Guard. I’m 100% for the National Guard. In fact, the only really thing I lobbied for yesterday in the state capital of Nebraska was There is a bill presented to defend the Guard, which is now I believe 34 states have had this bill presented. Defend the Guard should be pursued in every state. And that is where the National Guard within the state remains in the state unless there’s a declaration of war by U.S. Congress.
SPEAKER 14 :
Interesting. Okay. Let’s go to break. I’m talking with Trent Luce, and we’re talking about all kinds of things. I do want to get to the subject I wanted to talk about, and that is that over the last six years, we’ve lost 107,000 independent beef producers. So I want to talk about that. And we have these discussions because of our sponsors. And if you’ve been injured, prompt action is important. And one of those things you should do is reach out to Bozen Law.
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SPEAKER 09 :
a great day to
SPEAKER 14 :
It is a great day to be alive, and we were made for this moment in history. And so get our brains around these issues, and then we have to work, work, work on all of these things and reclaim this, our state and our country. We have some callers on the line. Gammy and Ron, we’ll get to you in just a moment. Trent Liu, sixth-generation farmer and rancher, I did want to just get your comments on this losing these independent beef producers. I don’t like to see that happening.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I just want to qualify that by saying that the beef industry is the largest financial sector of American agriculture. We sell more dollars worth of cattle than even U.S. corn. And I also want to point out that you may not know this, Kim, but Starting Saturday of this week, you have the corn and soybean and sorghum producers. I’m not sure if wheat is in there or not, coming to Colorado for their annual convention called the Commodity Classic. So you’re going to have a massive number of farmers. I’m talking 6,000 to 7,000 farmers in Denver for the Commodity Classic. And I had hoped I could come myself, but I’m not sure I’m going to make it. But you’re right, 107,000 farmers have left the ownership of cows behind. We still have about 700,000 people who own some level of cattle, and most of those are cow-calf. The interesting thing about that whole dynamic is that since about 1980, we’ve had a massive shift in the number of cows, and we’re up now. I’m going to ask you, what do you think the average number of cows that a cow-calf producer owns in the United States?
SPEAKER 14 :
Thirty? Thirty?
SPEAKER 07 :
In 1980 and for a long time through the 90s, it was about 28. So you’re closer than you thought you might be. That has nearly doubled in the last 10 years. And still, that’s not many cows, 50 cows as a national average. Because people have small acreages, they have a job, they like to come home and take care of the cows. And to be honest, a lot of that was more therapeutic than it was anything else. They have some grass that needs to be consumed by something else. But across the board in all agricultural commodities, there is still more independent cattlemen than any other sector of the American agricultural scene. And so it is truly the best case scenario. Now, if you want to take that another step farther, the concentration in the packer ownership and what I applaud, and Lubaca Meats is absolutely what needs to happen more, is that we as cow-calf producers maintain ownership of these animals and do more direct sales so that we can build that connection and release some of the centralization and control that four meat packers have on the entire beef sector in the United States. So at the cow-calf level, it’s very different than what we’re talking about here at the packing level.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. Good information. Let’s get over here. We’ve got a couple of calls and not a lot of time. Gammy, what’s on your radar? You’ve got about a minute and a half.
SPEAKER 12 :
Hi, kids. All right, look, down and dirty. I spent hours and hours on Zoom for Bill 047 about the illegal immigration law that they were trying to take away the right of our law enforcement to be able to properly comprehend, you know, get people who are bad and take them to ICE because Colorado has stopped our law enforcement from being able to properly interact with And this is important. It connects to everything you’re saying. The problem was all the people that came in to cry, they’re going to round us up. They’re scaring us. It was a litany of bull crap when the bill only said if a person is in the act of a crime, is apprehended in a crime, then they have the right to take them to ICE or have ICE determine if they’re here illegally, which would protect them. the illegal people here and the legal people here. And this goes to show you the circle is so huge of manipulation and control on every level. And the problem is, you know, you saw all these big protests in Denver and the Springs, these communist groups, these charity groups, these pseudo groups that Doge is trying to flush out. All of these people connect together to continue to do the control thing. But if you go bigger, stop worldcontrol.com, look up the movie The Secrets of the UN. This is a world economic global effort to destroy all of us. And it circles to everything, Trent, and you have said the land grabs. It circles to everything. And this governor is a World Economic Forum grad.
SPEAKER 14 :
I know that. And, Gammy, you are so informed, and bless you for sitting on Zoom to give testimony on that. You are truly a warrior, and I appreciate Gammy immensely. And let’s get over here to Ron. Ron, what’s on your radar?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, Kim, good morning. Let me see if I put this together. The Second Amendment, it’s a bait and switch. It’s going to be worked out in the courts. So you need not to focus on that. What you need to focus on are the individuals. Keep bringing up their names, who’s doing this, and just keep bringing up their names. And the reason why they’re doing this is to take away, again, bait and switch is from the elections. And I’m going to tell you the reason what tells you that is because that bill that they put in to where you can’t find, can’t read into the election. They’re trying to keep you out of finding out about the election. And that’s what they’re doing is they’re trying to take you away with the Second Amendment. And they’re trying to cover up to where you can’t investigate. Like the lawsuit that’s going on and the illegitimate voting and stuff for 300-plus thousand votes.
SPEAKER 14 :
So, Ron, thank you for that. And, yes, I need to research this House Bill 1225 a bit more. And excellent point. Thank you. Gosh, we’re just about out of time. Trent, again, it’s like I said, welcome, Trent. And now I’m going to say goodbye, Trent, because everything goes so quickly.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know we’re talking about cows, but at least I got my gammy fixed today. And thanks, Ron. I don’t agree at all. It’s a bait and switch. But I just wish we didn’t have to waste time and energy. defending what we know is unconstitutional in court.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and I think what he’s saying, Trent, and we didn’t bring you up to speed on this, we have this House Bill 25-1225, and it’s titled Concerning the Creation of Freedom from Intimidation in Elections Act. And it has a lot of references to firearms there. But I think what Ron’s saying, and I want to research more, is what it really is about is preventing us from being able to look under the hood on our elections. So I’m going to research that more. And so I think that’s what he was talking about, Trent.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, sounds good.
SPEAKER 14 :
Thanks, Kim. And as always, Trent Luce, you have a great week. We greatly appreciate it. And we’re going to stay in the fight here. It’s my fight fight on all of this stuff. So great, great, great show, Trent Luce. And our quote for the end of the show, and thank you, Sandra. She said that Michael was, oh, gosh, I’ve got so many texts here, that he was named after the angel St. Michael, who upon God’s calling came down from heaven. to ensure that Satan stayed chained up in hell. Well, we’ve got a lot. Satan’s running around quite a bit right now, my friends. But Michelangelo said this. He said, Do not fret, for God did not create us to abandon us. So, my friends, today be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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And fast on a rough road riding High through the mountains climbing Twisting, turning further from my home Young like a new moon rising Fierce through the rain and lightning And I don’t want no one to cry But tell them if I don’t serve
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