Join Kim Monson as she digs deep into the nuances of freedom versus force in current policies, highlighting important conversations around the socialization of essential services like transportation and water. This episode examines the expansive reach of government regulation and its implications for individual liberties and societal access to resources. With insightful analysis and compelling arguments, listeners are taken on a journey to understand the stakes and strategies of reclaiming autonomy in a rapidly changing world.
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It’s the Kim Monson 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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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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Happy Wednesday, Kim.
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And so make sure that you’re signed up. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. And I do thank all of you for your support of all the work that we are doing with all of these projects together. We are going to reclaim Colorado and reclaim our great American idea in our country. Let’s see. As you know, 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 use force to implement it. And it’s never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods, or lives via force. of course, can be a weapon, but policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, fees, coercion, government-induced inflation, the World Economic Forum and globalist elites agenda, and their tools are the United Nations, but they are playing out all the way down to Counties, municipalities, special districts, school districts. And in fact, we’ll talk with Mike Rolick in this second segment in this hour. He had texted over that Jefferson County is looking at a new comprehensive plan. And many times what we’re seeing is in these comprehensive plans by municipalities and counties that you’re seeing the agenda of the Rural Economic Forum. So we’ll find out because I’m sure that Mike has taken a good look at that. And on the show, we focus on the issues. We’ll talk about the people behind the issues. But we really work to stay out of the personality fighting that can happen in politics and in eighth grade. Let’s see. A couple of headlines. There is a ceasefire in effect for a couple of weeks regarding the Iran war, which that is welcome news. And we’ll talk with Lauren Levy in the next hour about what this is doing to the markets, the mortgage market, because there’s a lot of unrest in our world today. But that is good news to at least get to a ceasefire and would love to get a peaceful end. outcome to this and make sure that Iran does not have the capability of nuclear attack. And so stay tuned and certainly pray for God’s guidance on this particular ceasefire. The other thing is, as I look at the moon, don’t you find it fascinating to think about this moon mission? I just find it so fascinating. I remember back when the first time that we went to the moon, looking up at the moon, thinking about that we were actually were sending people there. And it’s really, really a remarkable thing. So let’s get over to our word of the day. It’s confiscate or confiscatory. And thank you, Mike, for the word. It was confiscatory fees. But confiscatory is based on confiscate, which is C-O-N-F-I-S-C-A-T-E. And it could be deceased as forfeited to the public domain, appropriate by way of penalty for public use. Number two, to seize by or as if authority appropriate summarily. And number three, seized. And we are seeing our… The equity and equity stripping is of our values of our homes and our businesses through property taxes is a way to confiscate our wealth. And there’s a lot of different ways that government is doing that. And we’ve got to get government put back into its proper role. Our quote of the day is from James Madison in Federalist No. 46, which we will be starting our classes in the Kim Monson community. And Alan Thomas will be teaching on the first half of the Federalist Papers. But this is from Federalist 46. James Madison said this in 1788. And he was born in 1751. He died in 1836. He was an American statesman, diplomat, founding father, and the fourth president of the United States. And he said, besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments to which the people are attached and by which the militia officers are appointed forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition more insurmountable than any of which a simple government of any form exists. can admit up. And I chose that because our bill of the day is sponsored by representative Ava Flannell and representative Carlos Barone. And, uh, they are both Republicans. It’s house bill 26, 12, 12, the constitutional carry of handgun, uh, and, uh, This is the Colorado Union of Taxpayers commentary on it, and we are a yes on this. It says the bill grants a person who is at least 18 years old and otherwise legally allowed to possess a firearm the same privileges as a person with a concealed handgun permit and makes other changes to laws regarding carrying a concealed handgun. The bill would remove some recently added infringements on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This would be a significant restoration of personal liberty, especially for adults between the ages of 18 and 21 years of age. It will also save the state over a million dollars in processing costs and about seven full-time employees. County sheriffs will also see reduced workloads. And freedom and liberty will certainly grow under House Bill 26-1212. And that cut Colorado union of taxpayers is a yes. This is in our cut engaged bills, which there are five that were just posted yesterday that you can make your voices heard. And I’ve not done my mind yet, but you can do this within less than five minutes. Go to coloradotaxpayer.org. Click on the Cut Engaged tab and you can make your voice heard. It is very important. And I know we’re busy with family and work and life, but it is important to be engaged citizens and Cut Engaged can help you do that. And we have a jam-packed show planned for you today. And that happens because I work with great people. And I am pleased to welcome Radiance Power as a new sponsor partner of the show. And the owner is Carl Jones. We’ve got him on the line. Carl, welcome to the show.
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Thanks for having me. It’s nice to be here today.
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And your website is really a good-looking website. I love the tagline, Powering Homes, Lives, and Love. It says, power up your home with the expertise of Radiance Power. You offer a broad range of reliable electrical services designed to ensure safety and efficiency for your home. And Carl, you’re able to bring this to people at a good price as well. Explain that to us.
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Yeah, so it’s pretty straightforward. Since we’re a smaller, locally owned company, we try to keep our overhead as low as possible, which allows us to offer reduced rates to the homeowner, primarily in the way of we do not charge service call or call-out fees, which is one of the big ways to save the customer money. And by having low overhead, that allows us to both get fair wages for our services, and then not overcharge the customer for those services in their home.
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Well, and the reviews on your website are really excellent. But I wanted to move over to one of the entities that you are involved in, and that is generator installation. I have some good friends. He has a medical condition, and so they wanted to make sure that they had a generator installed. But as we’re hearing more and more about brownouts and blackouts, People that do have medical conditions really should consider a generator. If people work from home, these brownouts and blackouts can disrupt their work. So a generator, I think, is a good idea. What should people know about them?
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The biggest thing to know is, you know, kind of the cost of the process. Normally, a whole home generator can range anywhere from about $15,000 to $25,000 for an installation, which is a pretty significant cost. It is a good idea for the coming future as far as weather and the Excel and other local power companies with their brownouts and blackouts, as this will just become more common. So it does have a high initial setup fee. It usually will be worth it over time and also pay for itself in the resale value of the home. So that’s the biggest thing to kind of make sure they have in mind is the budget that is involved with this type of project.
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Well, and I imagine that there is there different qualities of generators, probably different warranties on them. How do you address that?
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Yeah, so we focus on two major brands, Generac and Kohler, for our generator installs. Generac has a very large market share. though Kohler tends to be a more reputable brand long-term and their product in general tends to have less issues, less service, less complaints by the concurrent homeowners that already have those units. Generac is great in the way of them being so popular. They are very easy to get service for and tend to be a little bit more affordable.
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Okay. And how would this work if somebody would like to explore getting a generator for their home. What’s the process?
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So usually we have the homeowner reach out to us and we’ll set up a free consultation. We’ll do a full walk down of the home with a load calculation where placement of the unit would be best and to kind of set expectations and get a solid work scope with the homeowner of the project. That’s pretty much the first move to go forward with it. And then after that, we look at getting in the schedule for the work, ordering the generators, stuff like that. Right now with this year… And what’s the… Power… Oh. Sorry, go ahead.
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No, go ahead. I was going to say, what’s the timeframe?
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Yeah, so this year with power outages being a lot more frequent… Generators are usually a little bit easier to come by. Right now, you’re looking at about a four-week average lead time for getting physical generators, as none of the local dealers, including ourselves, have backstock currently. And we expect that to kind of project through the end of the year as far as supplies go.
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Okay.
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And how can people reach you for a complimentary appointment?
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You can always feel free to give us a call. We also have a information submittal form on our website. We can be contacted that way as well. If you do submit information, someone will reach out to discuss your project and set up a consultation time.
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Terrific. And people can get that information. The phone number is 720-506-0605. But you can get that at the website and schedule there as well. That’s Radiance, R-A-D-I-A-N-C-E. So RadiancePower.net. Carl, thanks so much. We’ll talk with you next week.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And want to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show, because it is that’s what keeps us on the air is all of your support and all of our sponsors, because we are an independent voice searching for truth and clarity. Did want to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation, their golf tournament is May 14th. at the Ridge at Castle Pines North. It is an 8 a.m. shotgun start, so get your foursome together and register at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. You will support the foundation and the memorial and have a great day of golf. We have Mike Rolick on the line. You know him. He is with the Ralston Valley Coalition. He’s also an engaged citizen watching things that are happening on the local level, which can get under the radar, but they really affect our lives. Mike Rolick, welcome to the show.
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Kim, good morning. How’s it going?
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Well, it is going well. And we’ve got a lot to talk about and pretty jam-packed here. So where do you want to start?
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Well, real quick, I would love to bring up the Lakewood, Colorado vote. I don’t know if you saw it, but Common Sense won yesterday. And I don’t want to say a whole lot because this is really Karen and her group, but we won.
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That is amazing. And Karen Gorday with Radiant Painting and Lighting and her and all these volunteers worked really hard. That is amazing news, Mike Rolick. So we will talk with Karen Gorday about that tomorrow. But congratulations to you. Karen and Mary and just everyone. That’s fantastic. But let’s get over here. You texted me something that stopped me in my tracks, and that is Badger. So explain this to us.
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Well, I’ll do my best, but I was looking into water. Obviously, Denver water is now having a restriction. Our vat of water has to follow suit because there are The majority of their water comes from Denver. So I was looking at the website and saying, okay, like how much water do we actually use? What are the savings goals and what have you? And then I see that we’re moving towards smart water meters across this state. So there’s a app called IOM Water, an IOM water program as well. And I’m just reading off the Nevada website here. The Eye on Water program provides information about and more control over your water habits. Your Eye on Water account can help you see real-time information about your water use, track water use habits over time, set up alerts for potential leaks. And I’ve seen this potential leak thing across different cities kind of being copied and pasted in a way to say, look, this is great because a leaking toilet uses this much water per day and what have you. When I looked at the basic water usage of a person in a small home, it looks like about 50 gallons a day, according to Denver, and they’re trying to shoot to get to 40. Okay, not bad. We need water. However, to start putting us on smart meters for water is kind of insidious because we already dealt with smart meters on the homes for electricity, and we do have an opt-out program. And then Sheila Leder put in some better language for the opt-out program. Still, people don’t know about it. But what I’m finding is no opt-out for these smart meters for water at all. And that’s a bother because some are out by the street and some cities are closer in towards the house if not attached to the house. And again, it’s a cell signal and is also giving 15-minute intervals of patterns of use. When we consider… the Naperville smart meter awareness versus the city of Naperville. This was heard in the seventh court back in 2018. And the court didn’t argue that this constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. But the frightening thing is how they dismissed it. The conclusion, Naperville could have avoided this controversy and may still avoid future uncertainty. by giving us residents a genuine opportunity to consent to the installation of smart meters, as many other utilities have. Nonetheless, Naperville’s warrantless collection of its residents’ energy consumption data survives our review in this case. Even when set to collect readings at 15-minute intervals, says the court, smart meters provide Naperville-rich data. Accepting smart meters’ awareness well-played allegations as true, this collection constitutes a search. But because of the significant government interest in the program and the diminished privacy interest at stake, the search is reasonable. We therefore affirm the district court’s denial of leave to amend. So I hope this ends up at the Supreme Court one day because in there, I don’t wanna go through the whole 11 pages, but they do say collection of your data at 15 minute intervals is a search. However, the data is so rich and so important to the government that it’s reasonable. And that’s frightening.
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It is frightening. And so we need to actually step back and take a much bigger view of this. And first of all, our utilities are there to provide a service. It’s not to decide how much of a service that we can use. They are to provide that service. And the deal is, is we pay them for that service. They do not need to be monitoring usage. And then ultimately they, That can lead to control of usage, as we can see. But what we need is a much bigger picture. And so this is all about control. But we need to be thinking about, first of all, water storage in Colorado. We are in a drought right now. This is not the first time we’ve ever been in a drought. It’s not going to be the last time. So we need to have elected representatives that are rolling up their sleeves and saying, we want to address this challenge of water storage. So that is the first thing, because a few years ago, we had a great snowpack. But all that snowpack just went down the river, and then that gets us into the water compact with these western states. And I was just out in California recently, and I said, California ultimately gets the water that comes down the Colorado. They’ve got a lot of water. and they could start desalination of the water that’s right there on their western seaboard, desalinate that, use that water. That releases water for usage up the Colorado River Basin, and that’s another way to address these problems. And so we’ve got to, instead of this control, we need to start to address that. Then lastly, how on earth… Are we continuing to incentivize data centers that are water hogs and energy hogs? And then in the meantime, trying to limit access to electricity and water for everyday people. So we’ve got to look at this from a bigger picture, I think, Mike Rolick.
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uh yes a few things really quickly there was a very interesting bill on uh trying to help reintroduce or not reintroduce but to help protect beavers and there is credible evidence that beavers themselves are great water storage for humans and then yes there’s a few programs where they’re trying to use old quarries for extra water storage along the platte river usually about uh um gravel and aggregate, I believe it was. And they’ve proven that model as well. So unlike what you might be seeing at Bear Creek Lake Park, these are pits ready made. They’re sitting there, you know, ready to be filled up with water on good years. So, yeah, both of those things. I find it interesting when I lived in California, the desalinization plant in Carlsbad used to have been an old power plant that was along the coastline. And from what I remember, there was multiple lawsuits to keep it shut down because of the salt. But then you find out that the salt was going to get transported and used for water softening or collagen type of situation. So there’s an industrial use for the salt. So they weren’t going to be putting the salt right back into the water anyway. So that was a very, very invalid argument that they had. So finally, the desal plant started, and I think it was doing about 8% of San Diego’s water. And as far as data centers go, interestingly enough, I did bring this up last night to City of Nevada. I flew over Micron. There’s a new Micron facility in Boise. And they were required to have a complete water recapture recycling plant on site. So I think they have to recapture 80%. And that’s chip manufacture. I support chip manufacturing not being across the world, only we need that at home as well. But it is nice to see that they’re recapturing and reusing their water. And then the Avada City Council thought that would be a really good idea to start looking at that, saying if you’re going to move a data set in here, you have to start recapturing your own water because we’re on a 20% water restriction right now. And they’re obviously saying you can’t even run your – sprinklers at certain times and certain days and what have you. I get it. It’s a critical resource, but we haven’t done a good job on the good years to get ready for the bad.
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Absolutely. Mike, I know there were two other main things that we want to talk about and we’re running out of time, but I think they’re a little bit time sensitive. Denver City is voting on surveillance cameras, yes? Yes.
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Yeah, they approved it seven to six. So they flipped from Block Safety to Axon. And I saw the same thing happen in Longmount as well. Aurora is using Axon now, Adams County, Lakewood. So basically what has happened is everyone’s made such a thing about a particular company, which I understand, Block Safety, that Axon’s now moved in. And next week we can get into how they’re starting to work with Edmonton on a brand new facial recognition program. system as a test bed. But Acton is in, Denver, Flock is out. But the same technology is still there. You know, the basic ALPR, obviously there’s difference in patents, but the same basic premise of ALPR is standing.
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Okay. And then Jefferson County is doing a new comprehensive plan. We’re going to need to spend more time on that. So we can do that next week.
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Yes. Yeah. I was going to say, if anyone’s in Jefferson County, the vote is tomorrow at the planning commission. So The only plug I would say there is just go to planning commission or get your comments in early. And they’ve done a pretty good job. They’ve done a pretty good job. There are some things that we like to see differently, but it is an interesting situation over there in general. And they spent about three years and they had a lot of meetings with citizens. We don’t always agree, but I would say that they’ve done a pretty good job for sure. But yeah, please show up if you’re in Jeffco.
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Okay, Mike, great information, great work. We’ll talk with you next week. Have a great day.
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Perfect, Kim. You have a good day as well. Bye-bye.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And the Center for American Values located in Pueblo has a couple of really interesting events coming up. April 11th, 7.50 a.m., the Navy announces that they will be commissioning the Harvey Barnum Destroyer. And that’s Harvey Barnum is a Medal of Honor recipient, good friend of Drew Dix, who is a co-founder of the center. And so they’ll be streaming that. And then also their On Values series, they’re going to be having at 4 p.m. on April 15th, Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. And you can get all that information by going to AmericanValuesCenter.org. Pleased to have on the line with me, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler. He is the founder of IPAC-EDU, which is the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge, and their educational program, and then writes extensively at Substack under Popular Rationalism. Dr. Jack, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. How are you this morning?
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Well, I am doing well. And as I was preparing for our conversation today, I was looking at your sub stack and I didn’t know where to start. But so I think we’ll start with this piece that you did last month regarding the Washington Post and their rewrite of history regarding COVID. And you were having none of that.
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Yeah. Well, listen, it’s 1984 all over again, really. They’ve distorted the truth and saying that the truth is distorted and that they’re going to set the record straight. Listen, just to cut to the chase here, they were trying to soft sell Fauci again. They’re trying to rehabilitate him politically. I really believe there’s a contingent of people that want to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and put Anthony Fauci in charge of HHS. And, you know, this is something that would only possibly happen if everyone forgot that the vaccine actually did not stop transmission. And yet Fauci allowed our leaders and our celebrities and our past presidents to say that the best way to protect your children and your family is to get the vaccine. It will protect them from COVID. It doesn’t. It never did. And then, you know… The WashPo also wants to promote the idea that risk from COVID is shared by everyone, the children, young adults, healthy young adults, sick young adults, the elderly, and it’s not. The risk of COVID is absolutely almost 100% isolated in a subgroup of people. We know what these subgroups are. We know what their risk factors are. Those are the people that need special attention. And by the way, Washpo will never publish that everyone in America has deficient vitamin D. And if everyone in America was given enough vitamin D, practically no one would die from COVID. So between vaccine effectiveness and, you know, a misunderstanding, misrepresentation of risk gratification, which is the foundation of Jay Bhattacharya’s, you know, The Great Barrington Declaration and now the NIH and the HHS policy on vaccination is risk stratified. They also did a strange thing where they said that pandemic policies were just innocent bystanders in this political world until they became politicized, which is absolutely ridiculous. There’s very good reason to think that a lot of the falsehoods around COVID are uh, and around the vaccine had political timing when, how in the world did they know about it in October? And yet, uh, didn’t say anything, uh, until, you know, it would have the political effect that it had. Um, you know, the lockdown, everyone should always, always remember Joe Biden’s signing in ceremony, uh, swearing in ceremony where he, uh, was behind gates in the United States of America. The public could not attend the event. There was maybe 50 people. It looked like something out of a dystopian film. But, you know, there’s something that they’re counting on, and I pray that they’re wrong about it, that the American tension span is famously short. This is something that, like the JFK assassination, like 9-11, COVID-19 and the failure of the vaccination program will be something that will not be erased from people’s memory. But they’re doing this kind of waxing nostalgia thing in this article that they wrote. Um, and it’s frankly quite dangerous. It’s dangerous to try to lull the American public back into sleep where they’re not going to pay attention to Rand Paul. They’re not going to pay attention. Um, to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then I could pay attention to James Lyons Weiler and Del Bigtree and others who say, we have to have reality-based policy, reality-based medicine. Your fundamental rights come first when it comes to your relationship with your doctor, and the doctors are going to be forced to respect those. So, yeah, it was a passionate article written with some dry analysis, but it’s an important one. Thank you for bringing it up.
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Well, and Dr. Jack, I recently did all my physical stuff and I haven’t really been in a doctor’s office for a while. And I am a bit surprised about many young health care professionals saying, I feel have really been influenced by wokeism, I would say. I’ve just been a little shocked, and I’ve had conversations with Dr. Jill about this a little bit with you, is that our medical schools, I think, have really pushed a bit of a woke ideology. Is that what you think has happened?
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There are some very dark things that have happened over the past couple of decades in medicine. The medicine that people seek out when they are infertile, for instance, is a huge money generator for that. 20 years ago, it was $75,000. It’s got to be $150,000, $160,000 now to try to get pregnant. We’re talking real numbers here. Right. Cosmetic surgery famously has always been something that people could charge whatever they wanted for because you could transform yourself by looking this way to looking that way. And some cosmetic surgeries, you know, important for a person’s ego. Like if you’re born and one of your ears is noticeably larger or smaller than the other or off balance, if you have symmetry problems. But this kind of like bulk medicine, and actually it’s funny you bring it up because yesterday’s article, I think April 6th, so two days ago, I mentioned that fast food medicine is exactly that. They want to make medicine as cheap as possible and charge the maximum amount possible for it. Well, then what do they also do? They have a new drug or like we see with statins, they’re trying to open the market so statins appear to be useful in younger people. and they’re barely useful at all. 0.3% absolute benefit in the elderly for cholesterol and heart disease. You know, they do reduce cholesterol, but the net effect on the real issue is tiny. And then, you know, they open up markets with vaccines and they say, oh, everyone should get this vaccine. And so just the people who are at risk. And now we have a history of decades of men wanting to become women and women wanting to become men, and they want to open up the childhood market and keep it open. And the problem is that many countries in the European Union were doing this as well. They were transitioning really pre-teen kids whose parents were convinced that they were transgender. they found that the suicide rate due to regret was much, much higher after the kids went through puberty and realized that their parents and society and medicine had basically screwed them over permanently. It’s a sterilizing procedure in both directions for the most part. Depends on how far you go with the procedures, of course. But this is a business model. This is not Right. And so here’s the message in medicine. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of HHS, is working to transform medical education in many ways, starting with food. But that’s just the beginning. He’s still only one year in. Right. So so we have other areas of medicine to reform medical education that which you subsidize will grow. Whatever you invest in will grow. So if you invest in the business model that, hey, call it medicine, there’s nothing medical about this. It’s not a medical procedure to alter the gender of a child. It’s really just, you know, unacceptably cruel. And that’s not my personal opinion. That cruelty is evident in the suicide rate in the people who regret it afterwards. it’s an uncontrolled experiment. There’s never been randomized clinical trials on the mental health effects of any of this. There’s been nothing. And so to come up with a thing and call it medicine and be able to charge huge money for it and then try to get CMS to pay for it, if you subsidize that, then allow it, you know, it will grow. So why don’t we subsidize?
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Well, and that’s, that makes insurance costs go up for everybody. When I look at the premiums that I’m paying for my medical insurance, it is exorbitant. And whenever you put these mandates on that, we have to pay for all that stuff. And that this becomes a wealth transfer from people because, when they have to spend this money on health insurance and health costs. This is really a wealth transfer as well from their pocketbooks.
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Yeah, you’re right about that. We should not all pay for other people’s not taking care of themselves either. Why don’t we reform medical education, for instance, so that so that doctors can be reimbursed for consulting people on what they’re eating and how often they get off the couch, how they move. And then why don’t we do randomized clinical trials on these interventions of lifestyle, proper sleep, getting sufficient nutrition in your food, eating high density food, high nutritional density, making sure your minimal levels are right. And what about supplements? We can study the combined of lifestyle changes with medicine together. And ironically, then some of their medicines might actually start to work better. So there’s every incentive for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary Kennedy, to get under the hood of medical education and just start tearing out the wires and tearing out the parts, the machinery, and putting it back together in a rational way That will cause doctors that emerge from that process of education to understand that the bottom line is secondary to human health. And that’s where we went wrong in America. We made medicine for profit. It used to be a charitable thing. Hospitals used to not be able to report a net profit. And, you know, now not even charged for parking. It was considered unethical because it would bias the way you think about how many people come to the, you know, the doctors of a generation or two ago were well aware of this problem. And they lost the fight. They lost the battle. And big corporations now have it. We have big medicine. We didn’t used to have big medicine. You know, huge hospitals are not a sign of huge children’s hospitals are not a sign of a healthy population. We are going down the drains on health and we need to have this reversal.
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Well, and that’s a great segue, Dr. Jack, to when we come back to talk about another piece that you have at Popular Rationalism, which is Kennedy brings serious nutrition education to medical schools. We’re talking with Dr. James Linesweiler. He is the founder of IPAC, which is the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. And he’s put together a great educational program. And you can find all those classes at IPAC-EDU. And these discussions happen because of our sponsors. And we’ll talk with him in the next hour. And that’s Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages.
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Well, that’s what our mind does. We want to… distance ourselves from pain that’s quite natural and it’s human. But don’t worry, it’s in there. You’re never going to forget it. It’s horrible. I’m laughing because of the inevitability that these people are going to try again to do things like this. And, you know, our continued vigilance is it can be exhausting. But someone has to do it, and I’m happy to say that I happen to be available and be part of the team that’s making sure that we have our constitutional rights intact in every aspect of our lives, including medical experiences.
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Yes, and that’s why what you’re doing is so important. That’s why so many voices throughout the country. That’s why we’re doing what we’re doing here at the Kim Monson Show and our new community and newsroom as well. Let’s talk about this piece that was published last month. by you at Popular Rationalism at Substack. Kennedy brings serious nutrition education to medical schools. You talked a little bit about it in the last segment, but this is a big change, but it is just common sense. And I traveled just recently and there are a lot of, you know, bigger. And we can change that. But I think that this nutrition education is really important.
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Yeah, it’s really important. So if you go to any major hospital and if you have a serious problem, you have a serious health condition, they’ll send in a nutritionist. But at the same time, that same hospital will bring food and leave things on the menu for you that you just really shouldn’t eat. I mean, they’re probably still cooking with seed oils, even though we know highly processed seed oils are highly oxidative and all the rest. When you look at the experiences within hospitals and the food that many doctors eat in the same cafeteria as their patients and get their food from the same place, doctors know shockingly little about nutrition. It’s just an afterthought. And, you know, there’s no there has been no formal clinical nutrition coursework required a couple of hours, maybe exposure in different classes. And yet food is such a huge contributor to our health. It’s such a determinant of our health. For 30 years, the food pyramid has been backwards to be able to sell the American farm product of huge amounts of carbs and keep that industry going. And in reality, we’re all exposed to eat cheap and easy garbage food. I call it garbage food. It’s the cleanest way to talk about it. Anything that is basically pure sugar products. has no nutritional value. So you walk into any 7-Eleven or you walk down certain aisles in your grocery store and you’ll see tons of carbs and tons of sugar, which turns into tons of human adipose tissue. It’s not just the subcutaneous fat that causes the problem. The most serious type of fat is the visceral fat. It takes a long time to build and then you get a belly you can’t get rid of. And then it’s hard to get rid of. And then it takes a lot of exercise, intense intermittent fasting combined with exercise, increasing the protein, reducing and eating low carb and no sugar to get rid of that adipose tissue. But adipose tissue is a serious threat to human health. Adipose tissue and cardiovascular disease go hand in hand or one in the same. Adipose tissue is the cause of Insulin resistance in people. So when Kennedy out there, hey, we’re going to transform nutrition education. There’s 53 medical schools across 31 states as of March 11th last month to require 40 hours of training so that they can learn exactly what I just said. most doctors, they know people should have lower weight. They kind of know the importance of BMI, but they don’t take it seriously. And like I was talking about the last segment, if they were taught that it’s very important when you see a family moving in that direction to talk to the family members about, listen, I can only do so much. I need you to help me make you healthy. I need you to get more movement in your life. And that can be walks at the park. That could be exercise that can be going shopping together. That can be, you know, um, going to the gym and having a challenge among the family members to lose, you know, X number of, of a percentage of body weight. You can’t do pounds because parents, you know, can lose more pounds than kids can. It’s just not fair, but you also don’t want to be obsessive in the other direction. Kids need things like, saturated fats to keep building their brains. And adults need them too. And yet the messaging on saturated fats is that they lead to high cholesterol. High cholesterol is bad for health. It’s not true. It’s not true. High cholesterol is a sign that you may not be using the cholesterol properly, but that’s a metabolic situation. Cholesterol is an essential part of our brain function and other functions of fats throughout our body. It’s actually produced by our liver. It doesn’t come from our food. So, you know, when you look at what doctors think that they know, they’re regurgitating something that they think they’re supposed to say and moving on to the next topic, which most normally is how do I get a script into this person’s hand because I’m supposed to make them healthy with pharmaceuticals.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right, right. And the other thing that you mentioned is that we’ve got just a minute left. But again, you and I met during COVID and I got soft during COVID and didn’t really realize that. And so I have been starting to get on a better exercise regimen and it is really making a difference. And so this whole thing with Bobby Kennedy is great. Good nutrition, exercise, that will help a lot. We’ve got 30 seconds. How would you like to wrap this up, Dr. Jack?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, let’s accept the Dr. Jack challenge. I go to the gym now at least five days out of the week. I do 45 minutes at a stint. I’ve prioritized it, made it the most important thing in my life and my day and what I do right now. I’m 59 years old, and I’m amazed at how my body can still respond to this. I’m getting rid of that belly. I’m putting on muscle so that I can use my insulin better, and I’ve reduced my carbs to almost nothing and sugars to almost nothing. So I want everybody to take the Dr. Jack challenge and try to lose those 10, 20, 30 pounds, whatever you can do, And if you do it naturally without GLP-1, you won’t risk weakening your bones. If you do it naturally with really a serious intent, it’ll last a long time, and the payoff for your health will be massive.
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Okay, we’ll talk with you next month, and that’s the Dr. Jack Challenge. Thank you, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler. And our quote for the end of the show is from James Madison. He said, Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant. 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. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation, and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Wednesday, Producer Joe. Happy Wednesday, Kim. And super interesting conversation in hour number one with Dr. James Lyons-Weiler and Mike Rolick and Carl Jones. And we’ve got another great hour planned for you. If you missed that, though, that hour will be rebroadcast this afternoon, 1 to 2 in the afternoon. We should have the complete show posted by noon this morning on my website, complete with the transcript. as well as the podcast. 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And our guest will be John Eastman, constitutional expert, as well as he was an attorney to President Trump. and so it will be a very interesting conversation. And then our class kicks off on the 23rd. Alan Thomas will be teaching a class. It’s a 10-week class, and if you miss it, not a problem. We will have that archived, and you can listen to that at your leisure. But that will be on the 23rd, and we’ll begin with the Federalist Papers, the first half of the Federalist Papers, and how they’re relevant to today so be sure and get all that information at the website text line is 720-605-0647 and as you know 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 our word of the day is confiscate or confiscatory. Thank you, Mike, for his suggestion of this. And confiscate is C-O-N-F-I-S-C-A-T-E. And Mike had used the term confiscatory fees. And confiscate is the first definition is to seize as forfeited to the public domain, appropriate by way of penalty for public use. Number two, to seize by or as if authority appropriate summarily. Number three, seized. And certainly we are seeing in government here in Colorado confiscatory fees. And they are really taxes, but they’re calling them fees because if they call them taxes, we get to vote on it. And our quote of the day is from James Madison. And I chose this regarding the right to bear arms because our bill of the day has to do with that. But James Madison was born in 1751. He died in 1836. He was an American statesman, diplomat, founding father. He was our fourth president. And he’s popularly acclaimed as father of the Constitution. He said, besides the advantage, and this was Federalist No. 46, written in 1788. He said, besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, The existence of subordinate governments to which the people are attached and by which the militia officers are appointed forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. And that is our quote of the day. The day is House Bill 26-1212. And that is part of Cut Engaged. And you can make your voices heard on the five bills that we posted yesterday. And I will do this after the show. And if you… want to put in your own commentary, you can certainly do that. And that will take a little longer. If you just want to make your voice heard and affirm the Colorado Union of Taxpayers position on that, it doesn’t take long at all. And I hope to be able to do those five bills in less than four minutes. And we all have a duty to do something regarding being engaged civically and cutting gauge can help you do that. But this is House Bill 26, 12, 12. Title is Constitutional Carry of Handgun. The sponsors are both Republicans, Representative Ava Flannell and Representative Carlos Barone. And it says the bill and this is cuts commentary. The bill grants a person who is at least 18 years old and otherwise legally allowed to possess a firearm the same privileges as a person with a concealed handgun permit and makes other changes to laws regarding carrying a concealed handgun. The bill would remove some recently added infringements on the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This would be a significant restoration of personal liberty, especially for adults between the ages of 18 and 21. It will also save the state over a million dollars in processing costs and about seven full-time employees. County sheriffs will also see reduced workloads as well. And make your voice heard. Go to coloradotaxpayer.org and click on Cut Engaged and make your voices heard on that. On the line with us is Lorne Levy. And you know him. He’s an expert regarding mortgages. First, second, reverse. He can help you in 49 of the 50 states, just not New York. But if you know somebody moving out of New York, Lorne can help them with that new mortgage. Lorne Levy, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim.
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Well, and big news last night, and that is a ceasefire regarding the Iran war. And the Iran war has had the markets very British. So what is happening today?
SPEAKER 19 :
It’s interesting. Even right now, just with the word of the two-week ceasefire, the 10-year U.S. Treasury has come down 10 basis points overnight, which is a big move in our world of home loans. So we’re talking about, this is what you and I have been talking about for a number of weeks now, is the effect of the uncertainty on the markets and people trying to, you know, buy homes and figure out what their rate is going to be. Just yesterday, before all this stuff, the 10-year treasury was like in the low 440s. And then later on the afternoon, when the market was down and then started to come back on word of this, it dropped to like, you know, into the mid 430s. And then now it’s the mid 420s. So huge moves in one day. And that makes it interesting for us to try to figure out not only how do we quote rates, but what do we tell people that we expect? It’s very hard to tell people what to expect when things change all the time.
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It seems to me, though, whenever there’s volatility, there can be opportunity. And you and I have talked about being able to lock in a rate. It seems like there’s opportunity this morning. If people would call you if they’re looking for a new home, it seems like there’s some real opportunity this morning. And I think you said if you lock in a rate and rates go lower, then you can still take advantage of the lower rate, yes? Yes.
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You can, you know, there are certain rules for that, but yes, it is a possibility for sure. And the other thing that we always tell people to do whenever you and I talk is to have the conversation in advance so that you can jump on an opportunity. I did receive a call yesterday from someone through the show who was saying that they have a relative that has recently bought a home and wants to just be in position to refinance. So they’re going to have them call. so that we can figure out exactly what rate it is that they need to be comfortable at the point where they want to refinance. And that way, when that rate hits, it’s a simple text, hey, we got the rate, you’re ready to go. And we don’t have to do all the background work, which quite frankly doesn’t take all that time. It’s just a matter of getting together on the phone. But once that’s done, we can jump when opportunity does present. Because sometimes it’ll present it like in a morning and then be gone in the afternoon. For example, if Iran were to lob missiles at Saudi Arabia this afternoon and blow up the ceasefire. Things could go the other way pretty quick. So it’s always good to be prepared and have the conversation and be ready to jump so that we can do that.
SPEAKER 14 :
Boy, it’s a great idea. And so there certainly is opportunity this morning. It doesn’t cost anything to have a conversation with Lorne Levy. What is the best way for people to reach you?
SPEAKER 19 :
The best way is give us a call at 303-880-8881.
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And again, that’s Lauren Levy for Everything Mortgages. And the other thing, Lauren, is you work with a bunch of, I should say, several different companies, which I think is great because you’re not just working with one company. You’ve got all kinds of options for people. And I think that is really important, Lauren.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, and you are right. It is a bunch because it’s over 100. So there’s a lot of them and a lot of different types of loans and a lot of different choices for people for sure.
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Okay. That number for Lauren Levy is 303-880-8881. Lauren, thanks so much. We’ll talk next week. You got it. Thank you, Kim. And another great sponsor of the show is Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. And that’s Ben’s B… Oops. I always get ahead of myself. And Joe said in my ear, remember, Kim, the nurture is Roger Mangan. And the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team knows that life can be challenging and they want to be there to help you with all of those different challenges on your insurance coverage. Give them a call. The number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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Well, welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation because registrations are open for their golf tournament, which is on May 14th. at the Ridge at Castle Pines North. It’s an 8 a.m. shotgun start, so put your foursome together, support the memorial, and more information on that is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And we’re talking with a sixth-generation rancher, Trent Luce. Trent Luce, welcome to the show.
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Did you miss me? Did you miss me?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, yeah, it was like a whole week off. It was good grief. How’d that happen? I got furloughed.
SPEAKER 14 :
You got furloughed. We prerecord for the week of Easter, the 4th of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, so the team can have a little respite. And so you got a little respite, but I’m curious. What has happened with you in the last two weeks? Because a lot happens in a day. So what’s going on? How’s the Sandhills in Nebraska with all the fires? Bring us up to date.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, the last thing I did significant, I got my potatoes planted, but I missed Good Friday. I got it done on Easter Sunday. Grandpa always said you plant your potatoes on Good Friday. But I got it done, so that’s a good thing.
SPEAKER 14 :
That is a good thing, and I guess that’s close to Good Friday, so on Easter, that’s good. And how big’s your potato patch?
SPEAKER 06 :
Six rows wide.
SPEAKER 14 :
Ooh. And what kind?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t think I had any Yukon Golds in this batch, so I might have to do another batch. Okay. We’re partial to Yukon Golds, and the best Yukon Golds ever came from St. Louis Valley and San Luis Valley and Colorado. Man, they were fantastic. I need to get some seedlings from there.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay. Anybody in the San… I know some people over there. If they’re listening, maybe they can get connected with you. What about the fire in the Sandhills? Where is that at?
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s actually occupied more time than anything else I’ve been working on in two weeks. I went out… It will be two weeks this week on Thursday that I went out The fires officially were 100% contained last Thursday, which was the 22nd day. It was a Thursday, the very first fire started in Morrill County. I’m calling it, just by being there and piecing things together, over a million acres, maybe as much as 1.3 million acres has burned. Oh, my gosh. It’s massive. And now… The interesting thing about what has developed is that we don’t really have an appreciation for the grass and the forages that grow in the Sandhills. So now I’ve got people sending me videos driving down roads that looks like they’re driving through a blizzard and it’s a sandstorm. So there are a lot of families that are truly in peril. Amazingly, Rose White is the only life we lost, and I don’t minimize that, but it’s just a blessing that not more lives were lost. There was maybe up to 15 homes the day before. I was in Ashby, which was on Friday, two weeks ago. Two weeks ago, tomorrow, Thursday, there was a fire that If you can imagine this, and I think that Matt Covert put this into the perfect context. He said, Trent, when that fire first started coming at us, it was a wall of fire 70 miles long. So they had a 70-mile fire coming at 55 miles an hour. And this was very intense. And so to be there and to see it is just quite remarkable. And putting another thing into context, there are trucks rolling in with hay. There’s a lot of folks from South Dakota. Yesterday, I saw somebody from Iowa that posted a picture of a convoy of 23 semis running on I-80 to give hay relief. And that is all phenomenal. And the generosity of people is incredible. One guy that I talked to, lost 2,500 tons of hay. So if you have 23 semis, which is a big convoy of semis rolling, each semi holds 33 tons. So just to put that into context, to get to one guy’s hay supply to 2,500 tons is virtually impossible. But here’s the problem. The Sandhills In fact, next week, I’m going to Brownlee, Nebraska, that had a fire in the Sandhills a year ago. I talked to Matt Blackford yesterday, and he said it was just one year and two weeks ago that I was up there where a fire had burned. I believe that one ended up being about 60,000 acres, and that one was started by the Fish and Wildlife. I remember you telling us that. So I’m going next week to video from the same exact spot that I videoed a year ago when the fire, the week after the fire had burned. They have grazed zero cows on this area. Nobody in the fire of 1.3 million acres believes they will graze, nobody’s gonna graze anything this year. They don’t believe they’ll graze next year. So it takes a semi-load of 33-ton hay to feed 100 cows for a month. So if you look at the number of cows that occupy the sandhills and the amount of feed that it’s going to take if they cannot go out and graze the sandhills, it’s pretty daunting to think about what the next two years is going to be like. And I had a lady, Paula Brown, who’s just been a tremendous advocate for ranchers from Banner County. Banner County is in the Sydney area. It’s right on the Wyoming border. They had a fire at their place six years ago, and she said there are parts of their ranch they still can’t graze. The fragility of the sand hills and what happened before we came, the bison overgrazing areas and the sand dunes blowing out, That’s all going to happen again. And so the key will be to try to minimize the wind effects. And how you do that is just beyond me. So that you can keep intact the sand hills as they have been. And the importance of cows and grass and all of that together, it just comes full board.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, Trent, this is tragic. And first of all, it’s tragic that a life was lost, but it is amazing that there wasn’t more human life lost regarding this. Throughout history, we have had droughts and fires. This is not anything new, but we’re so focused on it. But it happens throughout history, yes?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, absolutely. Fire is part of nature’s normal ecology. Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. And so so what about you said the fragility of the grasslands and that it takes time for this to grow back? I, you know, I emcee the Constitution Day up at Grand Lake, which is right around the 17th of September. And now, gosh, was it a couple of years ago that there were the fires there? The forest fire is up near Grand Lake. And last year when I drove up, it was amazing to me, though, to see the new growth that was coming up in the area. And so it’s amazing about creation that there will be new growth. We will come back from this, Trent.
SPEAKER 06 :
We will. It’s just that the Sandhills are unique. I mean, there are a lot of people that burn trees. Take the Flint Hills of Kansas, just to describe a difference. Every year, they burn everything at this time of year because that new growth comes. But the Flint Hills of Kansas is in an area that gets about 40 inches of rainfall a year. And the Sandhills, this part from Bridgeport to Hyannis, north of Ogallala, that burn, they get about 14 inches of rainfall a year. It comes back to moisture and the conditions. And when you have sand at 14 inches of rainfall a year, you don’t have the same rebirth of that seed taking place like you do in other places.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
So it takes a long time. Yeah. So that root system just has to get well established or you destroy what you’ve already started.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah. And do you know how the fires started?
SPEAKER 06 :
So the three big fires, the Halsey fire, which is in the general area of the one that I’m going to go see next week that was burned a year ago, that was again started by Fish and Wildlife doing a controlled burn that got away from them. That was actually, it was USDA. It doesn’t matter. It was a government agency in a park system, Halsey. People go to Halsey. That was a prescribed burn that got away from the Cottonwood Fire, which is along Interstate 80 from North Platte, down even on the south side. Fires got started down around McCook. That’s roughly 140,000 acres, maybe 150. That started with a permitted fire that got away from not the government, but an individual. I don’t know why they were granting permits to burn on this particular day. That was the 12th day of March because it was just so extremely windy. The fire that caused the biggest batch of damage, what is called the Morrill fire, started straight north of Bridgeport. They are reporting that an electric pole broke, wires hit the ground, and started a fire. That is the same exact report that we have from the recent fires in the past two years from Oklahoma, Texas. I struggle a bit with the commonality and all of that.
SPEAKER 14 :
I know. There are some common themes that I think many people are struggling with. So we’re talking with Trent Luce, a sixth-generation farmer and rancher, and we’ll continue the conversation. And I was nurturing Ben’s plumbing, heating, and cooling last segment, but it’s actually this segment. And Ben’s is spelled B-E-N-Z, and they can certainly help you with your own personal climate.
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SPEAKER 14 :
And welcome back. And Little Richie’s is your local neighborhood spot where you can get authentic New York style pizza and pasta. They’re locally owned and they’ve been serving Parker and Golden for over 20 years. You spell that L-I-L-R-I-C-C-I-S. And let’s see, Wednesdays, let’s see, Mondays is buy one pizza, get the second pizza half off. Tuesdays, kids eat free after 4 p.m. with the purchase of an adult entree. And Saturdays is Calzone Day. You buy one calzone, you get a second calzone half off. And that is at Little Richie’s in Parker and in Golden. I did want to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show as well. And on the line with us is Trent Luce. He is a sixth-generation rancher that hails from Nebraska. And Trent, I was looking at your Substack. People can find you at Substack under Trent Luce. That’s spelled L-O-O-S. And the Farm Bill is under consideration right now, yes?
SPEAKER 06 :
The Farm Bill has been approved in the House Committee, and it is going to the entire House, correct.
SPEAKER 14 :
And there’s normally a lot of pork in the Farm Bill. Is that the case this time?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t like that word. Do we have a different word? Excessive spending.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, what word would you like to use?
SPEAKER 06 :
Excessive spending.
SPEAKER 14 :
Oh, excessive. Okay, got it. Is there a lot of excessive spending in the Farm Bill, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 06 :
Enormous. It’s absolutely ridiculous. I despise the Farm Bill. I’m becoming to where, in fact, my Trent on the Luce today, and it’s on my subsect now. I would encourage anybody to watch that. Chris Larson joins me from Sioux Falls. And he’s really got a handle on these government economic development programs, not only through a farm bill, which is what the farm bill is, but also what happens in cities, what happens in states, and how that’s just a total disaster. Anytime you have excessive spending from government in one area, you pick winners, losers, you chase people out of business. And there’s more in this one than ever before. The reason… For those that may not know, about 74% of this proposed farm bill is government food stamps, WIC program, supplemental nutrition assistance programs. So all of those food welfare programs are part of the farm bill. The reason that I posted it on my sub stack and I did a commentary on this is that at the last minute, HR 5017, an amendment was thrown into the farm bill, which I really have issue with. And this amendment, which passed by a voice vote, I don’t know why GT Thompson chairman would have done that with the voice vote. It actually was targeting. And it was put in there by two representatives, but the champion for it was Wayne Pacelli, who is the former CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, one of the leading animal rights activists and wealthiest guys in this country in that field. They put in there a provision that said they would ban the ability to train dogs with sight instead of only sense. What? Yes, exactly. The theory that they’re proposing is that the greyhound racers use a dead chicken running around in a circle to train these greyhounds to race. The animal rights industry has eliminated greyhound racing in the United States except for two racetracks in West Virginia. And so for them to throw this whole concept in there, targeting greyhounds, but it does not say it’s exclusive to greyhounds. It says the dogs cannot be trained by sight instead of scent. I work my cattle with a border collie. I train her. You absolutely train all of these dogs with sight. There’s no scent involved in training a dog for herding cattle. Consent is a big part of a dog’s life if you’re trailing coons or mountain lions or wolves or whatever that might be. But to blanketly throw an amendment in the Farm Bill that would ban the use of training dogs by the means necessary of the dog owner is absolutely absurd.
SPEAKER 14 :
It is absurd. And on a voice vote as well. Now, I’ve heard that and I’ve been back to Washington, D.C. and have walked the halls of Congress and they don’t work very hard, I don’t think. are congressmen and senators, congressmen and women. And so they need to actually go to work and do what they’re supposed to be doing, and that is represent the people, not pick winners and losers, don’t take our money so that they can give it out in grants to other people, and protect our liberties and our property. That is what they’re supposed to be doing, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 06 :
100%. And that’s not at all what they’re doing. In fact, I would challenge anybody to go on to the website. You can easily find the makeup of the house ag committee and GT Thompson from Pennsylvania. While I’ve taken issue with particularly one thing that he did, which was last year, he slid the sustains act through, which was to, uh, increase the public private partnerships, which I have a major problem with. T. Thompson’s from Pennsylvania. He is, uh, he’s fairly adept understanding ag issues. Pennsylvania is still a great agricultural state, but the rest of the makeup, Mary Miller is on there from Illinois, Mary Miller and her husband, Chris Miller operate a cattle operation. The rest of the makeup of this ag committee, uh, If you ran a cow and a sheep in front of them, you’d probably have to give them a clue as to which one was which.
SPEAKER 14 :
Hmm. I’m going to try to take a look at this. What about the states? Are the states ag states at all that are represented on the Ag Committee?
SPEAKER 06 :
I should just pull them up while we’re talking, shouldn’t I?
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, I’m working on this as well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, it’s fairly accessible. It does look like a tremendous value in the DEI quotas for the federal government.
SPEAKER 14 :
I thought we were getting rid of those DEI quotas.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, that’s just more rhetoric that doesn’t actually happen.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, now this Thompson, you mentioned this Thompson, and you said something that he’s related to the Humane Society?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I did not say that. I said that Wayne Pacelli, who is an animal rights activist, got two of those members of the committee to sponsor HR 5017. And one of them is from Iowa. By the way, Iowa is number one or two agricultural state in the nation. But Zach Nunn is not from the farm region of Iowa. He’s from West Des Moines. And he was one of the co-sponsors of this bill to eliminate training dogs with sight.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
That’s an amendment to the farm bill.
SPEAKER 14 :
I am perplexed about how… Are you lost for words? I am. I am perplexed on this. Yeah. And that doesn’t happen very often. And normally when it happens, you’re involved on that, Trent Luce, so I’m going to blame you on that.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you. I want to take credit for something.
SPEAKER 1 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 14 :
Why wasn’t this? Why didn’t somebody bring this up? How did this sneak through?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t think it’s not true. They point blank discussed it and voted on it. I don’t know why he called for a voice vote, because with a voice vote, you can’t go look at how people voted.
SPEAKER 14 :
And that’s a problem.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that’s a problem. And he said afterwards that he was very displeased with the outcome. Well, G.T. Thompson, you didn’t do much to have an input into this.
SPEAKER 14 :
Right. And we need to be having these issues, discussions on this. This is a big committee. You know what? I’ve never ever really looked at committees for Congress. This is a big committee.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s huge. What is it, 27?
SPEAKER 14 :
I don’t know. It looks like it is. And, hmm. Okay, so the farm bill, anything else that you want to talk about regarding the farm bill?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, it just leads to so many problems in the country. I had a friend of mine call, and we need irrigation. You know, I’m pro-irrigation, but I’m just going to give you an example of how this thing runs amok. In Nebraska, there is still an incentive to to put and this is to equip funds to put center pivots you can get money to put center pivots irrigating crops on your fields and i know now of two people that live in neighboring counties not my county that tore up some ground that should be grass they put an irrigation system that’s gravity fed. Do you know what I mean by that? Gravity fed is the original irrigation where there’s a water reservoir somewhere, a major irrigation ditch was created to deal with gravity, and then you flood irrigate. And flood irrigate is no longer considered cool because it doesn’t as efficient with the water, they say. And so if you’re flood irrigating, you can get EQIP funds to put in a center pivot. And I now know two guys that tore out grass, pasture, flood irrigated just so that they could document they had flood irrigation so that they could tap into funds to put in a center pivot. This just leads to so many problems in the country at a time when we don’t need these problems. And we have a USDA report last week that says we’re going to plant an obscene amount of corn even though the soybean acres are up because why are we planting so much corn when everybody knows inputs are so high and the price is less than it was in 1987 and fertilizer prices are 250 percent higher none of it makes any sense but nobody looks to alternative crops because the farm bill gives protection And through crop insurance to people who plant corn and soybeans. It’s government nudging people into production methods that are not tied to supply and demand. That’s what I’m opposed to.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, government intervention grants. And again, government can’t give money to one entity without taking it from somebody else. And that’s really important that we understand that. And all of the excessive spending that is in the Farm Bill that disincentivizes people to be productive, to take care of themselves, is… is really, it takes away the dignity of people as well, but it can then be, it’s all about government control. And so we’re going to continue the discussion with Trent Luce regarding agriculture. I do want to ask him, he mentioned about irrigation, and I know out on the western plains of Kansas and Nebraska, there’s concerns about the aquifer. And so I’m going to ask Trent about that when we come back. And these important discussions happen because of our great sponsors. And one of those is John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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SPEAKER 06 :
The first time I was aware of the Ogallala Aquifer would have been like 92, and I really became aware of Nebraska and what was taking place. And the word was that we are depleting the Ogallala Aquifer, we’re just not going to have the water. Here we are in 2026, we’re depleting the Ogallala Aquifer, we’re just not going to have the water. I don’t know that that’s a true story, but I do know that we need to always be as prudent as possible with our water use. If you look at crop production and our ability to continue to produce vibrant, big crops each year, it’s thanks to irrigation. And Nebraska is the number one irrigating state in the nation. No doubt about it. York County, Nebraska, by the way, is number one county in the nation. But, you know, we have some new water users coming into the fold right now. And I’m talking AI data centers, particularly the big ones. the hyperscales, they are going to use a tremendous amount of water. We continue to have areas where folks had an abundant supply of water, enough water, and that rationing is starting to occur. In Nebraska, that water rationing, water management is under what they call NRDs, National Resource Districts. And places that only monitored water use, they’re now starting to limit water use. That’s going to continue. So a prudent use of water, and particularly what’s happening in Colorado. Colorado drives so much of the water availability of the rest of this country. If you look at the western slope, that Colorado River goes west and takes care of a chunk of Nevada, particularly where the people live in Vegas. It goes down to Phoenix. And then when you come this way, you’ve got the South Platte, which is a continual discussion. You’ve got the Republican River, which comes out of Colorado in Nebraska down to Kansas. And there’s another called the smaller river that comes down south of Colby and where you were at Sharon Springs area. All of those are actually running at historic lows. And so. We’re very blessed in Nebraska that we’ve been having the surface water that comes from Colorado and snow melt, which just hasn’t happened this year. But we also have that underground water. And we’ve got a 2026 is going to be a very challenging year for a lot of people in the water world.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and our quote for the end of the show is very appropriate from James Madison. It’s, crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant. And I was talking with Mike Rolick in Hour Number One, and he is with the Ralston Valley Coalition. He’s an engaged citizen who has just… It’s not his vocation. He went to college, I think, and studied music. But he’s become very involved. And he came across something that’s of great concern to me. And you and I are both concerned about the surveillance state. So there’s these different surveillance systems, flock cameras. Let’s see, the other name was… Axon ALPR, but he came across something. It’s called Badger Meter. It’s a water metering technology and flow solution. And it’s basically a smart meter for water regarding individuals and businesses. And I’m really concerned about that because if they can control our electricity, if they can control our water, then they totally control us. Now, we are to be good stewards, that’s for sure. But Holly, I’d ask the question, why have not our elected representatives rolled up their sleeves and tried to find real solutions? So, for example, in the years when we have significant snow, why are we not… putting that water into reservoirs for years when we have years like this. And then with the water compact on the Colorado River, Colorado has to send water down the river because other states need it as well. But it ultimately ends up in California. Well, California is has a whole bunch of water on their western seaboard. Why don’t they start desalinating that water, use that water so that we can have more water upstream? And we could really solve these problems. And then you hit on it. Why on earth? If we are having these challenges regarding water and electricity, are we subsidizing and encouraging these huge data centers that you’re probably not going to want me to use this word, but I’m going to use it. That is hogs. They’re electric, they’re power hogs and they’re water hogs. And why on earth are we continuing to build those and then saying over here that we are going to limit the use of everyday people and businesses? It just doesn’t make sense to me, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 06 :
That was a perfect use of the term hog, by the way.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, good.
SPEAKER 06 :
If you’ve ever fed a group of sows, you’ll understand that. Okay. The California situation is even worse than you said, because they have that whole body of water that they could desalinate. They just choose not to. But in 2015, in a ballot initiative, the California voters voted to take X number of dollars to develop those reservoirs that you were talking about. California does not fall short of water on an annual basis. They fall short of water at the right time of the year. And they should be capturing the only mountain ranges got any significant snow this year is the Sierra Nevada. And when that Sierra Nevada snowmelt takes place, they should be capturing that water so that it’s available year round. They had the money, and the Assembly of California robbed the money from the place it was supposed to go to develop reservoirs. The people voted, and they chose not to do it.
SPEAKER 14 :
I know it. And this is on the text line. This came in from Holly. She said, we have to ask ourselves why our elected representatives did not allow the reservoirs to fill with the great snowpack we have had over the last few years. Knowing that Colorado’s population has grown tremendously over the last 20 years. Part of that’s because of illegal immigration. That’s my editorial comment. Where was the preparation to make sure that we had enough water and utilities to take care of the citizens? What would have been their reasoning for not addressing these issues? I think Holly probably knows. I think I probably know. But what would you say, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 06 :
Control. They absolutely cannot control people if they have access to the right amount of food and water they need on a daily basis.
SPEAKER 14 :
And the When we talk about No King’s Days, I’ve commented every time somebody says something about that, there is a No King’s Day. And that was July 4th, 1776. And that’s where we fought for our liberty. And We have, I’ll have this in air quotes, kings in a number of bureaucrats and politicians and interested parties that want to control our lives. And that’s why you do what you do, Trent Luce. And that’s why I do what I do is that we need to reclaim our liberty, our responsible exercise of freedom. You’re doing a great job. Final thought. We’ve got about 20 seconds.
SPEAKER 06 :
It was actually Napoleon, I believe. that said, I’m probably not quoting it exact, but when your enemy is, sometimes we need to take 20 minutes and just let the enemy continue to screw up instead of interjecting ourselves and destroying their own mess up. I think we need to all live by that a little more. Sometimes we maybe just need to sit back and wait and let nature run its course instead of interfering.
SPEAKER 14 :
Okay, well, we’ll think about that for the next week. We’ll talk with you next week, Trent Luce. And our quote for the end of the show is from James Madison. It says, Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant. 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.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don’t want no one to cry, but tell them if I don’t survive.
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