Welcome to the Kim Monson Show podcast. Kim Monson is your host. Colorado Governor Jared Polis has signed SB26-032: Promoting Immunization Access into law. Military Director with Children’s Health Defense Pam Long delves into this radical legislation, now law. Producer Joe and Producer Luke begin our book discussion of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto. Molly Lamar continues to shed light on the toxic Cherry Creek School District administration. Owner of Spartan Defense Teddy Collins addresses legislation that makes it nearly impossible to protect yourself against bad actors. ————————————————————————————– The Kim Monson Show airs on KLZ 560 AM every Monday thru
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It’s the Kim Monson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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An early childhood taxing district? What on earth is that?
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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I don’t think that we should be passing legislation that is so complicated that people kind of throw up their hands and say, I can’t understand that.
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Today’s Current Opinions and Ideas.
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And it’s not fair just because you’re a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn’t.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That is Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Friday, Producer Joe.
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Happy Friday, Kim.
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And we’re having quite an adventure.
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We are.
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Yes, today is quite the adventure. In studio with me is Pam Long. You know her. She’s a West Point grad, a former captain in the Army Medical Service Corps. She is the military director at Children’s Health Defense. She’s an author here at the Kim Monson Show. It’s great to have you here.
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So excited to be here today, Kim.
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This is quite the adventure because we actually have the film crew and makeup crew in for a climate conversation. And we are preparing to do the sequel. This is a project of Walt Johnson. It was about three years ago when we filmed the initial documentary. And Walt and Rami have decided that they want to do a sequel. And so the team is in here doing some filming. And we were in early. And I don’t think Joe recognizes me because Grace has done a beautiful job of hair and makeup for both you and I.
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Kim, you are looking fabulous this morning at the very early hour we are here.
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We are. And it’s so funny because, you know, this is an early time to hit, 6 a.m. And I said to Zach, my media guy, I said, you know, some of these other radio hosts, they do video. What do you think? He said, Kim, it’s 6 a.m. in the morning. These other hosts have hair and makeup. You don’t. I’m like, you’re right. We’ll stay with audio. But today we could do video. Totally. Yeah. So it’s so good to have you here.
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Thank you.
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And this is your first time in studio with me.
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This is my first time in studio. It’s amazing. Thank you to everyone here in the house here at KLZ at Kim’s Kingdom.
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Yeah. So let’s just jump in here, though. The website is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com, and sign up for our community. There’s three different levels. The Montpelier level is $50 a year. And then you get more with the next level, which is $100 a year, which is the Monticello. And then everything with the $200 a year at Mount Vernon. Last night was our second class. Ellen Thomas taught the second class on the Federalist Papers. It is absolutely fascinating. And so join us. We’re having virtual town halls. We’ll be having in-person town halls and networking. So join us. And you can do that by going to the website. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. And I do thank all of you who support us because we are an independent voice on an independent station. And we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it’s not compassionate, and it’s not altruistic to take other people’s stuff. Pam, you know this, right?
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Oh, I know it.
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I know it. We know it could be a weapon, but it could be policy, unpredictable, and excessive taxation. fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, this legislature, legislation, the World Economic Forum, and globalist elites agenda. But Pam, we see this playing out into things at the Colorado State Legislature, but even into municipal government and school districts, special districts. It’s really permeating. But I think people are waking up and You have been on the forefront on many of these issues. And you and I met before COVID regarding a vaccine bill that we have the soundbite as we come into some of the different segments where I read the legislation and I looked at that, I realized they were putting in legislation that That meant that there could be some bureaucrat, some unelected person that could force us to take something that we didn’t even know anything about yet. And there’s another bill now, but that’s how we met. And that was pre-COVID. And I had some moms that reached out and said, this looks like a dangerous bill. Through that experience, that’s how you and I met.
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I know. And it’s just been a wild ride since then and what happened during COVID and everything that came to fruition. But you know what? It woke up so many parents of what’s going on in health with vaccines and so many other issues.
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And that’s why we continue to shed light on it. You’ve written some amazing, important pieces at the Kim Monson Show, and I really do appreciate that as well. And with this new rollout, it was a soft launch for the community at the beginning of March, and then the hard launch was in April. But Zach is getting to a point where he’s having everything for each author and guest compiled in one spot. And he spent hundreds of hours on this, Pam.
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It’s amazing, and I love the timing right now. The timing in an election year couldn’t be more perfect for all this information and all the different ways that you have it for your followers.
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And it is election year. But on the show, we focus on the issues. We’ll mention the people pushing those issues, but we work really hard to stay out of the personality stuff, the eighth-grade girl fighting. When I was on city council, I saw men that acted like eighth-grade girls, and I didn’t like that then, and I don’t like it now. So that’s why we try to stay very disciplined and focus on the issues, and then we’ll mention the people that are pushing those issues, Pam.
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You’re doing that very well.
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Well, thank you. So let’s get into several things. And first of all, I wanted to say thank you to one of our goal sponsors, which is Laramie Energy. And they’re not only a goal sponsor of the Kim Monson Show, but also of the Kim Monson Community and Newsroom. Because it is reliable, efficient, and affordable and abundant power from naturally occurring hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal. that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And if you’re having any challenges with your personal climate, being warm in the winter or cool in the summer, reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. That number is 303-995-1636. And our word of the day is caustic. And I was actually doing an interview yesterday with someone that lives in California. And he said, I don’t follow Colorado politics much, But I’m kind of hearing that your governor’s race out there is kind of caustic. And I said, well, yes, it is. I thought that’s a great word of the day. So it’s C-A-U-S-T-I-C could be capable of burning, corroding, dissolving or eating away by chemical action. It could be number two, sarcastic or cutting, biting. And number three, given to making caustic remarks. I think people should be able to use caustic in a sentence today, Pam.
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I’m going to try. I’m challenged.
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I’ll do it. Okay, we’ll see if we can do that in the show. And that is from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. As you know, on… Fridays, we give the citation of one of our Medal of Honor recipients, and I pull that quote from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. Pam, you’ve been down to the center, and it’s really a special place there in Pueblo.
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It really is. We’re honoring our Medal of Honor winners, and these are people who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, right here from Colorado.
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Well, and with that, some died in doing this, and then there are some that did not. But what it is, is they took action to protect those around them. And And that is why they received the Medal of Honor. And I think we each have our own duty now. When we see things that are happening out there, we have to step forward as well. And so I take a lot of great heart from the stories of these Medal of Honor recipients, Pam.
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It’s very inspiring. I’m so glad that you do this.
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And we’re going to share the quote of Ty M. Carter, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient. And he was born in 1980. And the conflict was the war on terrorism. And the action date was October 3, 2009, in the Kamdash District, Nuristan Province in Afghanistan. So, Pam, if you would start with his citation, please.
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For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his own life above and beyond the call of duty, Specialist Ty M. Carter distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a scout with Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy. in Camdish District, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan, on October 3, 2009. On that morning, Specialist Carter and his comrades awakened to an attack of an estimated 300 enemy fighters occupying the high ground on all four sides of Combat Outpost Keating, employing concentrated fire from recoilless rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, anti-aircraft machine guns, mortars, and small arms fire. Specialist Carter reinforced a forward battle position, ran twice through a 100-meter gauntlet of enemy fire to resupply ammunition and voluntarily remained there to defend the isolated position. Armed with only an M4 carbon rifle, Specialist Carter placed accurate, deadly fire on the enemy, beating back the assault force and preventing the position from being overrun over the course of several hours.
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With complete disregard for his own safety and in spite of his own wounds, he ran through a hail of enemy rocket-propelled grenade and machine gun fire to rescue a critically wounded comrade who had been pinned down in an exposed position. Specialist Carter rendered life-extending first aid and carried the soldier to cover. On his own initiative, Specialist Carter again maneuvered through enemy fire to check on a fallen soldier and recovered the squad’s radio, which allowed them to coordinate their evacuation with fellow soldiers. With teammates providing covering fire, Specialist Carter assisted in moving the wounded soldier 100 meters through withering enemy fire to the aid station and before returning to the fight. Specialist Carter’s heroic actions and tactical skill were critical to the defense of Combat Outpost Keating, preventing the enemy from capturing the position and saving the lives of his fellow soldiers. Specialist Ty M. Carter’s extraordinary heroism and selflessness above and beyond the call of duty and in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, and the United States Army. And Pam, you’re a former captain in the U.S. Army. When we read these citations, what goes through your mind?
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Honestly, I just can’t imagine being in that sort of situation that was just described. You know, I’ve been deployed, I’ve been in hazardous duty areas, but I have never been in, you know, under machine gun fire and running to save the lives of, you know, my brothers or sisters in arms. And this is truly heroic.
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It really is. And this is his quote. He said, And that’s one of the reasons that we engage in this battle of ideas at the show. You probably want to have that Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values on your library at home, your Freedom Library. You can do that by going to their website. That website is AmericanValueCenter.org, AmericanValueCenter.org. And all of these things happen because of our great sponsors. And one of those sponsors is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And I’m hearing from many of you that you’ve given him a call and his team has been able to save you some money. May not be able to help all of you, but it’s only a phone call. Just give them a call. It might save you real bucks that would be real money in your pocket. That number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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It is finally Friday, and welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com, and join our community. Also check out our news articles, and we will hopefully be rolling out our Daily Digest next week, and that will arrive in your inbox Monday through Friday in the afternoon. And these news stories, we are really working to write them with great journalistic content, integrity, showing both sides of the issues, sourcing everything. There is editorial comment, but we put it in a editorial box so you know what that is. And so join us. We’d love to have you join us. And that website is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. In studio with me is Pam Long. And it’s great to have you here. She’s a West Point grad, as well as a former captain in the Army Medical Service Corps. She is the military director at Children’s Health Defense and And she is an author here at the Kim Monson Show. And we’re having a blast because we’ve got a film crew in here. We’ve had makeup. We’ve been pampered. And it’s just great to have you here.
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Well, thanks for having me. It has been really fun this morning.
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Yes. And on the line with us is Paula Sarles. She is the president of the USMC Memorial Foundation. And they’re organizing one of their big fundraisers. It’s coming up. Today’s May 1st. I can’t believe it. So it’s right around the corner. the show. Well, thanks for having me, Kim. And yes, we’re just two weeks away. It’s hard to believe. So tell us about this. This is one of your big fundraisers. It is a great golf tournament. And so tell us the latest about that.
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Well, we’re getting up close to being full. So we have a I have a hole-in-one challenge with this 2026 Chevy Colorado.
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You know what, Paula? We’ve got a tough connection here, so let’s let Joe reconnect that. And while we’re waiting on that, Pam, you are involved in a documentary that’s going to be released here soon.
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That’s right. Children’s Health Defense. I’m the executive producer of Duty to Disobey. And this is a documentary about restoring our military members. Over 100,000 military members were forced out or under duress during the unlawful EUA COVID vaccine mandate. To date, only 150 of those have been reinstated under President Trump’s executive order. And we’re hoping this documentary out on June 30th in four locations here in Colorado and across the nation will really get the public support we need to promote advocacy for our military members for full restoration for everyone. Okay.
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Do you know which four locations it will be?
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Yes, the AMC in Fort Collins, in Denver, Castle Rock, and Colorado Springs, where we have a really large military community.
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Okay, and we will be talking more about this throughout the next couple of weeks as well. Okay, Paula Sarles, back on the line, president of the USMC Memorial Foundation. We had a tough connection, so let’s bring us up to speed again regarding the upcoming golf tournament.
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Well, it’s two weeks from yesterday, and we have a hole-in-one challenge with a 2026 Ford Colorado pickup truck as the prize, and we’ve still got a few spots to fill, a few foursomes to fill, so I encourage everybody to go to our website at usmc.org.
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And again, that is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And there’s just a few foursomes left. It’s a great day. If you want to go out for lunch, you can make a $50 contribution and just put lunch on there. If you can’t make the event, Your support is really greatly appreciated. Paula and her team have been working on several things, making sure that they take care of the Marine Memorial out at 6th and Colfax and then for the remodel as well. So Paula Sarles, we’ll talk with you next week. And again, that website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Paula, thank you and have a great day. And this is such important work, Pam, that they’re doing with the memorial.
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It really is. It’s a beautiful design and concept. It’s not just for Marines. It’s for all branches. And I really just want, I just thank Paula for all the work she’s done there.
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She is tireless.
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She is.
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She’s a force. She is a force to be reckoned with. And she’s one of those people that you can’t see no to. Because she’s passionate and she cares about this. And Pam, it is so important that we remember and honor those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our freedom. We are living on these blessings of it really started 250 years ago during the Revolutionary War of people stepping forward for something bigger than themselves, which was liberty, the responsible exercise of freedom to pass on to the next generation.
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And these types of places are meeting places that provide community for our veteran community. It’s very much needed that everyone is connected. And it provides that place of not just connection to each other for veterans, but for us, you know, civilians to honor our veteran community.
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And with that, yesterday we did a recording with Jeremy Stahlnecker, a Marine, and he lives out in California, Southern California. And he was on the front lines during the Iraqi war as they went from Kuwait into Iraq and then that march to Baghdad. So that’s a fascinating interview. But he is now the, I think he’s the head of, I’ll put it that way, of the Mighty Oaks Foundation, which is doing amazing work for our veterans, our military, and our first responders and their families regarding PTSD. And so that’s going to broadcast this Sunday afternoon, 3 to 4 p.m. It’s a beautiful interview.
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Oh, I can’t wait to hear it. It’s so needed. We need so much mental health support for our veterans and our military community.
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And so be sure and check that out. And he’s with MightyOaks.org. MightyOaksPrograms.org, I think, is the website on that. Before we get into this, a couple of things. I wanted to mention Hooters Restaurants, a great sponsor of both the Kim Monson Show and America’s Veterans Stories. And, Pam, I know you’re familiar with this story. It’s really a story about freedom and free markets and capitalism. And then I call them those pesky PBIs, those politicians and bureaucrats and interested parties that think they know better. than us and it happened when i was on city council and it’s a it’s a really important story and and the owners of hooters restaurants are great patriots um i it was long after i got off city council that they became partners of the show but they have locations in loveland westminster and in aurora and it’s a great place to get together to watch the avalanches march toward the stanley cup
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I mean, we have a lot of things to celebrate. Everyone should be getting out. I mean, here we are on a Friday. That sounds like a great Friday to me.
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It is a great Friday. So and again, I really do appreciate them. But let’s get over here. And I’ve stolen your line regarding the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. We watch a lot of legislation. And your comment was that CUT, which is our acronym, is a shortcut to know what’s going on down at the statehouse.
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That’s right. It’s a useful tool. You cannot keep track of everything, but you could use this as a tool to really pick something that you care about.
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And so you would receive our email that goes out to the legislators and the governor on Monday regarding these positions. And these people are all volunteers, and they are giving up a big portion of their weekend every weekend during this legislative session. So I want to say thank you to my fellow volunteers, and that is our board members of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, CUT. That is Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard, when you see these folks, say thank you. And one of our, another great sponsor of the show is Karen Gorday with Radiant Painting and Lighting. And she was on yesterday. She’s also watching legislation. She and Ramey and Mary Jansen, a whole bunch of people in Lakewood, organized Lakewood Citizens Alliance to bring light to this whole upzoning thing. There was an upzoning bill that was this House Bill 26-1308, which would allow people to split their lots, which once again, this is moving towards that density, which I think is moving towards trying to, it’s an assault upon single family home ownership is what I see this as, Pam.
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It is. It’s overreach. And we need what’s happening in Lakewood, if you’ve been following it. If you’ve been here for more than 10 years, you’ve seen the dramatic changes in Lakewood. And these citizen groups, this is exactly what they need to stop this from state government, big government coming in and changing the character of your town.
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Which is really, and wanting to control your town. So Karen texted me and said this actually was postponed indefinitely, which means that it’s not going to happen this legislative session. Although Mary Jansen and I say PI, it’s known as PI, or postponed indefinitely means next year.
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Exactly. That’s what happens.
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So let’s jump in here. First of all, let’s talk about the Senate Bill 32, removing liability for vaccines. It’s something I always have a hard time saying the word immunization, but that’s in that title. So walk us through through this just a little bit. And you know what? Let’s go to break early. Let’s do that so that we don’t. Interrupt that. And so we’ll go to break. And another sponsor of the show is Spartan Defense, which is the largest family-owned firearm store here in Colorado. It’s in Colorado Springs. We’ll talk with Teddy Collins, owner, in the next hour. But if you are looking at any firearms, check out Spartan Defense.
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Indeed, it is Friday, and welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website and join our community. And that can be done at kimMonson.com. Pam Long’s in studio with me. She is, and we’re having an adventure because we have a film crew in here. We’re preparing for filming the sequel to A Climate Conversation, which is a vision and project of Walt Johnson. He’s a geophysicist, and he just wants to have… reasonable Socratic conversations about these narratives out there. And so we filmed a climate conversation, one, about three years ago. Great response on that. And we will be filming on the 15th and 16th of May, the sequel to this. And the team is in here getting some B-roll. And so we’ve had hair, makeup, all kinds of stuff. It’s really a fabulous adventure. And thank you for being here with me.
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Thank you. It’s fun. Who didn’t say that politics couldn’t be fun? We’re making it fun here.
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But it is serious. So let’s get over here and talk about some serious stuff. And that’s Senate Bill 32. What should people know about this?
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Oh, this is serious. So this SB 32, Governor Polis signed this into law this session. And the name of it was about promoting vaccine access, which really is disingenuous. It’s a Trojan horse type of name. It really should be called vaccine. straight up panic because rfk jr is the secretary of health and human services that’s what that was the context for this bill so there was concern from our pharma lobbyists here in colorado that he would change the vaccine schedule and he would reduce the vaccine schedule which he did and And so they try to get ahead of it. And so this bill was I call it the fool’s errand for pharma, where it basically removes liability for any vaccine that is not recommended by the CDC. So this is part of the long game we talk about, Kim. So last year, the legislature switched over where there were no longer after decades of following the CDC’s guidance on vaccine recommendations. We’re no longer following them.
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Because that was like Fauci and all that. Yes.
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So now we’re following the American Academy of Pediatrics guidance.
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And they have diversed from the CDC.
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So you have two entities now that sound official, the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics. So it could be confusing to parents. Yes. Health and Human Services is over the CDC, and that’s been the longstanding entity that made vaccine recommendations, and they made significant changes under Secretary Kennedy. But Colorado is deviating from that and following the American Academy of Pediatrics schedule, which is the full schedules. If you follow every recommendation, you will get 72 doses from birth to age 18. which is not normal in international standards. It’s the most aggressive vaccine schedule in the world. So what Secretary Kennedy and the CDC made some changes to switch some of those to what we call shared clinical decision making, where they’re not an automatic mandate or recommendation that that parents would decide with their clinicians if those vaccines, if they had risk for those diseases and that they should get those vaccines. Well, of course, the entire pharmaceutical industry is up in arms about this. And I would say to parents and adults as well, that the American Academy of Pediatrics is not a neutral entity. It is a pharma lobbying. It receives millions of dollars annually to lobby, to take away your exemption rights, and to promote vaccines. So they want every vaccine on the market mandated to you and your family. And so this bill protects them. It says we are going to follow the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations, a very different schedule, a more aggressive schedule. And we will remove any liability from any non-recommended vaccines because most many people don’t know that. Since 1986, any CDC-recommended vaccine is shielded from liability. If you have an adverse reaction or injury or your child to that vaccine, that is on you. You will be responsible for that disability, for any medical bills, for any loss of employment. quality of life that is on the consumer. There’s no way to sue a vaccine provider or manufacturer. And so now with the vaccines that are pending not to be recommended, it’s in the courts right now under appeal because pharma basically sued Kennedy and said, we don’t want to change this schedule. And so it’s kind of at a halt right now. So it can be very confusing to parents.
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And a lot of parents, I don’t think, even are getting this information from their pediatricians. I think that parents want to be good parents. They talk to their pediatrician. The pediatrician is following the American Academy of Pediatrics, and they’re saying safe and effective.
SPEAKER 22 :
That’s right. So in the past, maybe your pediatrician said, you know, we’re following the CDC recommended vaccines and parents trusted that. And now they might not realize there’s a little sleight of hand going on here with two different schedules and the doctor saying, well, we’re following the American Academy of Pediatrics. It sounds very trustworthy. So that’s why we’re here talking about it today that there are two very different schedules. One is very aggressive and one is just common sense. We’re talking about, you know, the most controversial vaccine right now probably is the hepatitis B vaccine. That is if people who are at risk for hepatitis B, that’s a sexually transmitted disease. in populations of IV drug users and prostitutes. And right now, under the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations, every newborn is given that vaccine. And it just doesn’t make sense, right, for a newborn to be given an STD vaccine. But here in Colorado, our state board of health recommends that every newborn gets that vaccine.
SPEAKER 04 :
And they’ve been playing long ball. It isn’t just the Senate Bill 32 this year. Things build and build and build, right?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yes, this has been a long game. You know, citizens, they don’t ask for these types of bills. No one in Colorado, you know, contacted their state representative or state senator and said, could you please remove liability from vaccines? Could you please remove liability from any product? This is the only product on the market that does not have liability. And I always tell parents, Take that into consideration that this is a product that has been shielded from liability. And when you remove liability, you’re now taking away the incentive for the company to make a safe product. And so that’s your risk. You’re assuming that risk. And I think who pays for those lifelong injuries? The families, the families of the injured do.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the sponsors on this particular bill, they’re all Democrats. And I want to remind people that this Democrat Party, these radical activist Democrats, are not the Democrats of JFK or your grandpa and your grandma. And so this is Senator Lindsey Dottery, Senator Kyle Mollica, Representative Lisa Ferrett, and Representative Kyle Brown are the prime sponsors on this particular Senate Bill 26032, which is now law, right?
SPEAKER 22 :
It is now law.
SPEAKER 04 :
Because Polis signed it.
SPEAKER 22 :
Polis signed it right away. Again, not a constituent-driven bill. No one asked for this. I call it the state bailout of pharma. This bill was presented in some of the writing and language in the law as if Pharma was going out of business. I mean, how ludicrous is that? That is so far out of reality that if you have a product that has a mandate and no liability, how could you be going out of business? And that’s how this was portrayed. We need to protect the pharmaceutical industry. So ultimately, the state of Colorado is paying for vaccine injury, not just the families. But if you’ve been following the legislature this year, a big focus has been how HCPF, you know, our health care policy and finance office that manages our Medicaid programs. It is near financial collapse in the entire session has been our senators and representatives just desperate not to cut. funding for families with children with disabilities or any type of family member with a disability. And I introduced legislation, well, I drafted legislation with bipartisan support to quantify how many of these families with children with disabilities are vaccine injuries, right? Let’s quantify that. Because here we have, you know, we’re mandating vaccines, we’re shielding them from liability. And then on the other side, you know, we’re seeing this, you know, epidemic of families with disabilities, that many of those are vaccine injuries.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and… Very possibly, well, you probably know, these sponsors of this bill, they probably didn’t write the bill. Somebody else did, right?
SPEAKER 22 :
This is a pharma-written bill. It has so many tells in it, the language. And when you question these lawmakers about, you know, why are you writing this? They really can’t defend it. Or you ask them, you know, which constituent, you know, asked for removing liability from They can’t answer it. They want to protect the industry. That’s very clear. And that’s in the bill. We are protecting this industry that does not need any more protection. And, you know, and there’s a long game in the bill, too. It’s very stealth. When you get used to reading these bills, it mentions that we need to protect the future of mRNA cancer therapies. And those will likely be called vaccines. And, you know, they’re talking about the adult schedule. So when you read between the lines, you have a bill that’s removing liability, promoting this mRNA cancer therapy, potentially under a mandate decided by appointed people on the Board of Health, not elected people, not we the people either. Like that’s all being put in motion with this bill.
SPEAKER 04 :
So don’t you see what could happen then, not with this current administration, but let’s say if a different administration, through Medicare, you could then have with a bill like this, that if in fact you are going to receive Medicare benefits, you have to do this stuff, right? Right.
SPEAKER 22 :
Oh, we’ve all seen the coercion. Everyone during COVID saw what the state government is capable of with coercion and vaccines, with your employment, with your schooling, with credentials. Now, Kim, you’re alluding to benefits. We absolutely saw that in the military where people lost their benefits, where they lost their retirement. All of that is on the table for coercion for everyone. And in this bill, it gives the state of Colorado, the Board of Health, the authority to buy vaccines. This is new, right? Why do we need the state to buy vaccines? Why can’t we let the market decide who wants vaccines? Why? I’ll tell you why. Because the demand for many of these vaccines is endless. Absolutely plummeting. We have a 30% uptake now on the flu vaccine, on the COVID vaccines. Like I mentioned, the hepatitis B vaccine will plummet as well now that people are more informed that it’s a sexually transmitted disease that infants aren’t at risk for. Maybe 20 cases in the state of Colorado every year for a mother infected with hepatitis B that can be treated. So people are more informed than ever in looking at this long game and the very reality of coercion to force people to take these products that they don’t want.
SPEAKER 04 :
Last point before we go to break. You have said in here, minor consent expanded. I think a lot of parents don’t know, but your 12-year-old can consent to a lot of stuff that you will not know about, right?
SPEAKER 22 :
Right, and keep that in mind when you vote. Governor Polis has passed more minor consent laws than any other state in the nation in his two terms. And the Democrats in both the House and Senate rejected amendments that would require parental consent for pharmacists to give a vaccine to a child. So this bill now allows pharmacists to give vaccines to children 12 years or older And there is no requirement for parental consent. Democrats reject parental consent. And I really do think if more people were aware of, like, your child can consent to anything in this state. Mental health, physical, STD services, abortion services. I could go on and on. Pretty much anything in this state. And if we want these policies to change, then we have to vote differently. Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and conceivably so, your 12-year-old could go into like a Walgreens, and I’m not saying Walgreens would do this, but they could go into Walgreens to get some candy, right? And there could be, or the grocery store, and get your free vaccine. They could say, you know, that sounds like your flu shot. And they said, no. That sounds like a good idea. So your 12-year-old could march up and get that. Is this what this says? And you wouldn’t even know.
SPEAKER 22 :
Right. They could go in and say, you know, that looks good. It’s free. Sometimes there’s incentives. You get a free meal at the deli. It’s very predatory. And the pharmacist would not have your child’s medical records or contraindications or allergies or even sometimes like maybe they’ve already been vaccinated for this. They don’t need another dose or booster. Right. That’s what the legislature found acceptable, that we don’t want to limit pharmacists. What they’re really saying is this is a pharma-written bill, and we don’t want to limit pharma.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. And that’s Senate Bill 26032. It is now law here in Colorado. Remember that when you go to the ballot box. These important discussions happen because of our sponsors. For Everything Mortgages, talk to Lauren Levy.
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SPEAKER 04 :
And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And Jody Henze and her team do amazing work in helping you create a plan for your own financial freedom. And they also do great events. And their next one will be Tuesday, May 12th, 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. It’s virtual. And the subject is AI 3.0, Beyond Searching AI for Real Life. And it should be super interesting. And to RSVP, go to Jody at MintFS.com. You can RSVP at Jody at MintFS.com. Pam Long’s in studio with me. She’s a West Point grad, former captain in the Army Medical Service Corps. She is a military director at Children’s Health Defense and an author here at the Kim Monson Show. We’re having fun.
SPEAKER 22 :
We are having so much fun on this Friday and it’s May 1st.
SPEAKER 04 :
It is May 1st. Let’s get into and we’ve got a team in here that is doing hair, makeup and filming for the upcoming documentary, A Climate Conversation 2. I don’t know if that’s the name of it for sure. But you’ve gone through, again, we talk about this legislature. They build and they build and they build. But we’re also seeing then local governments doing things such as out in Lakewood and Littleton regarding this agenda as well. But you’ve gone through here and just talked about this agenda, this climate agenda here in Colorado. So walk us through this, Pam.
SPEAKER 22 :
So really there’s two camps, and the average voter and citizen in Colorado really isn’t even aware this is happening, in my opinion, that there’s this whole climate change agenda unless you’re following the legislature. So a big voting issue is affordability. And how do we create and maintain affordability in Colorado? And the Democrats have decided that the way, the path to affordability in Colorado is by creating high density housing near light rail stations in urban areas. And they’re really selling it with, you know, using this climatology, you know, language of green and sustainable. It sounds really good. But that that is not the American dream. Most people do not want to live in an urban area next to a light rail in like a very small, high density housing unit.
SPEAKER 04 :
With no freedom of mobility.
SPEAKER 22 :
No freedom of mobility. By the way, Tanya, I drove in today up from, you know, south of Parker and I was so thankful for my personal mobility because I think it would have taken me days to walk here, Kim. I don’t have light rail from, you know, Parker to your office here.
SPEAKER 04 :
And at that time of day, would you want to have been standing on a platform by yourself? No.
SPEAKER 22 :
No, absolutely not. It was cold, and I loved getting into my cozy little car and driving here and listening to my music and coming to see all of you this morning. It was just a great self-time.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the Democrats don’t want you to have that. They do not want you. And again, these Democrats are not JFK or your grandpa or your grandma.
SPEAKER 22 :
No. And people need to be aware. So you’re going to have choices on the ballot. You’re voting for basically ideologies. You know, the Democrats, that’s their vision for you. You didn’t you didn’t ask for that. They’re going to give it to you, though. But, you know, on the conservative side, just for comparison’s sake. They believe the path to affordability is by reducing costs and state spending. And some of these mandates that have been put in to reduce emissions are driving up your energy prices. And conservatives want to reduce your energy prices. They want less mandates and regulation. And overall, the Democrat approach to homelessness, crime, and this immigration sanctuary policies are really pushing people out, not just people, industry, out of the state and causing our net… GDP to go down. And so you have a choice on the ballot. You’re either voting for, I want to live in like a communist block, high density housing to take over my town and lose my car, parking lots, gasoline. There’s all sorts of bills and ordinances demonizing these things. Or do you want to live in the suburbs with your family as you so choose in the housing of your choice, single family housing?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and This is really the question that’s on the table. Now, in a free market, if in fact somebody wants to choose that, that’s one thing. But what we’re seeing is mandates, tax money, our money going towards that, streamlining, permits, all that kind of stuff. So that moves us into housing.
SPEAKER 22 :
Housing. So the priority under if anyone in the progressive Democrat following this climate change agenda is they want what they call transit oriented development or TOD. And again, it’s like this high density housing near light rail with all the noise and neighbors and everything that goes along with the urban environment. And they’re forcing local governments to increase things like duplexes, townhomes. These ADUs or accessory dwelling units. I was in Littleton recently picking up my organic chicken feed. I was amazed by all the high density housing in Littleton. And that is a beautiful area. And I just I couldn’t believe there were like three different developments. They were everywhere.
SPEAKER 04 :
It looks like communist block.
SPEAKER 22 :
housing it does and you now that we’re talking about you’ll recognize what we’re talking about and so and they really want to restrict um parking lots and gas stations so you won’t be able to fuel your car or park your car like it’s not obvious but once your eyes are open to it you see it and so the contrast to that you know conservatives want local control where town councils decide the character and the infrastructure of their towns like they always have And you move to that town where you live because you like the way it is. And, you know, most people prefer single family homes in the suburbs, private vehicles over unsafe, unreliable transportation. Surveys overwhelmingly say that people want elbow room, quietness, safety, and parks.
SPEAKER 04 :
There you have it. How about transportation, freedom of mobility?
SPEAKER 22 :
Right. So the big agenda here for if you’re voting Democrat, then you’re voting for expanding RTD, which is our regional transportation district. RTD is subsidized by the taxpayer billions of dollars a year with fares only covering 4.4% of costs. 46% drop in ridership because it is so inefficient and it is so unsafe. RTD, conservatives know this. They know that RTD is not cost effective and they want to focus on actually fixing our roads that we drive our vehicles on. That’s what the people have always wanted here in Colorado. And, you know, these RTD stations, the violent crime at these bus and train terminals, it has risen by 53% from 2019 to 2023. These are not small offenses. We’re talking murder, assault, robbery, drugs, rape. These trains and buses are unreliable and unsafe.
SPEAKER 04 :
And let’s talk about the last one here. We have just a few minutes left, and that is energy.
SPEAKER 22 :
All right, if you’re voting Democrat in the next election, their goal is for 100% of power to come from renewable energy in 2040 and closing all coal plants by 2030 and eliminate natural gas entirely in Denver. Or you could lean conservative. They believe that gas and electricity are reliable, efficient, affordable, that this weather-dependent energy sources are not reliable. Wind and solar are completely… completely subsidized by the government and not cost effective. I mean, The conservatives are the voice of reason on these issues, but I think the challenge we have is people do not know that this is creeping into Colorado.
SPEAKER 04 :
I think that’s true. That’s why with Walt doing a climate conversation, they personally have funded this with their retirement funds because Walt felt it was this important to have this conversation because people don’t realize this. This… On one hand, it’s underneath our noses, but I have gone down Broadway, right near Dry Creek. You look off to the left, there is apartment building after apartment building. And the thing about it is, is there are also Republicans that are benefiting from this. And that’s the problem with government incentives. When they’re trying to push an agenda, people say, well… gosh, I need to make a living. And so you see that coercion. That’s why we have to get rid of, as Ginny says, these government grants are like cocaine, actually. It’s addictive. We’ve got to get rid of these government grants. That’s one of the reasons why we have all this debt at the national level. And so we’ve got to get rid of that. And that creates coercion in the market. And even though Donald Trump is in office, these… this agenda of Biden, the old Biden-Harris administration, of putting people in these teeny tiny apartments where you can’t move around, it’s still playing out, particularly here in Colorado. We’ve got about a minute left, Pam Long. What’s your final thought on all this? And you’re going to be able to stay in. The young guys are good. I call them the young guns. They’re going to be in, and we’re going to talk about The Communist Manifesto, which is the book that producer Joe has chosen. So you’re going to get to stay for that, right?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yes, I’m so excited because, you know, often I do allude to the direction of Colorado as being commie-rato. So this is very appropriate that they’re discussing the Communist Manifesto.
SPEAKER 04 :
And this has really been a lot of fun. And I want to say thank you to Colton and Grace for being here as well. This has been a real treat. So thank you so much.
SPEAKER 22 :
Thank you.
SPEAKER 04 :
And Grace has made us look really good. You do look good. Yeah, you do too. Thank you. Okay. We’re going to have to go someplace and show this off here. So nobody’s going to recognize me. Or me. But it’s great having you here, Pam. And our quote for the end of the show, you’re going to love this. Thomas Paine, he said, The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. And 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 our number two.
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Through the mountains climbing, twisting, turning further from my home. A young, like a new moon rising, fierce. Through the rain and lightning, wandering out into this great home. And I don’t want no one to cry. But tell them if I don’t survive.
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SPEAKER 04 :
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I don’t think that we should be passing legislation that is so complicated that people kind of throw up their hands and say, I can’t understand that.
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SPEAKER 04 :
And it’s not fair just because you’re a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn’t.
SPEAKER 17 :
Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
SPEAKER 04 :
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. Happy Friday, Producer Joe.
SPEAKER 06 :
Happy Friday, Kim.
SPEAKER 04 :
That was quite the first hour, wasn’t it? It definitely was. Yeah. In studio with me is my friend Pam Long. She is a former captain in the Army Medical Service Corps. She is a West Point grad. She is the military director of Children’s Health Defense and an author here at the Kim Monson Show. And in the first hour, we had the film crew in, hair and makeup. We arrived very early. We didn’t know what to expect, but what a treat. Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
It really is a treat, and it’s so fun here on a Friday. And now we’re bringing the young guns in to talk about important issues. I’m so excited.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, so you just met Producer Luke, who’s sitting across the table here. And the young guns, it’s okay with you guys if I call you that, right? Yes. We’re going to have to ask Teddy Collins about that because there’s such an assault upon the Second Amendment. Is there going to be a law against me calling you guys the young guns?
SPEAKER 18 :
I don’t think so. In Colorado, maybe. Yeah, in Colorado.
SPEAKER 22 :
Right, right. Not if we can help it.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
But what we have done is, Luke, you and I were having conversations. And I think maybe it was even before Joe came on. And you were sometimes filling in.
SPEAKER 18 :
I had covered for Steve back in December for a month. And like during breaks or during the show, we ended up getting to talking. Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
And so what we decided to do, and then we decided to take the discussion a little bit more on air. And then we decided to do some book reviews. And I chose the first book, which was Henry Hazlitt’s Economics in One Lesson. Then you chose the second book, which was The Prince by Machiavelli. We just finished that. And Joe decided Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto. And had you ever read this, Joe?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, ma’am, I have not.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so we’re going to go through the introduction on this. So that’s our featured guest here. And Pam, have you ever read The Communist Manifesto?
SPEAKER 22 :
No, I’m so impressed that all three of you are sitting here with this book, and I’m thinking, I need to go home and order this book. I’ve heard of it. I have the Cliff Notes version, but now I feel like I need to catch up.
SPEAKER 04 :
And it’s a small book. I actually have another version, but I can’t find it right now. And when I purchased it, This was when I was just kind of starting this journey, and I was back in Lawrence, Kansas, and I went into a used bookstore, and I said, I’m looking for the Communist Manifesto. And then I thought, I need to give him a disclaimer. I said, but I’m really a free market capitalist. I just want you to understand that.
SPEAKER 18 :
Disclaimer before the purchase.
SPEAKER 04 :
Disclaimer, right. So let’s get into several things here. First of all, I wanted to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their goal sponsorship of the show. They are also goal sponsors of the Kim Monson community and the newsroom. And it is reliable, efficient, and affordable and abundant power from naturally occurring hydrocarbons. such as oil, natural gas, and coal, that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And if you’re having challenges with your personal climate, being warm in the winter, cool in the summer, reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. That number is 303-995-1636. And our word of the day is caustic. It’s C-A-U-S-T-I-C. Number one, it could be capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action. Number two could be sarcastic or cutting or biting and given to making caustic remarks. This is from the American Heritage Dictionary of the English language. And I’m going to go to biting as the use of the word. This legislation is very caustic as we look at how it is affecting our everyday lives. And so your challenge is to use caustic, C-A-U-S-T-I-C in a sentence today. Our quote of the day comes from Ty M. Carter, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient, born 1980, actions he took October 3, 2009, in Afghanistan during the War on Terror. He said this, he said, today’s, and he has this in air quotes, family comes in many forms, acknowledge yours and protect them. And Pam Long, when I was interviewing Jeremy Stahlnecker, who is, he is the head of the Mighty Oaks Foundation out in California, which are helping our veterans and our military and our first responders we realize as we talked about it that in combat well I don’t think anybody can understand combat unless you’ve gone through it that’s one of the things I’ve learned in interviewing all of these different veterans and so family certainly is your family of origin but you’re in the military it’s also the person to the left and the person to the right of you right
SPEAKER 22 :
And it’s law enforcement and the crisis response teams right here in Colorado. They don’t look like your typical military people, but they are also put daily under a post-traumatic stress situations where they have to be able to manage it. And they need their… Their tribe, their support.
SPEAKER 04 :
And so what Jeremy is doing, and we’ll be broadcasting him on Sunday afternoon, America’s Veterans Stories, is so important. But our quote of the day, again, is from Ty M. Carter. Today’s family comes in many forms. Acknowledge yours and protect them. And you can get these Medal of Honor quotes by going to the website for the Center for American Values, which is AmericanValuesCenter.org, and you can order it there. And someone that cares deeply about our veterans and first responders is the owner of Spartan Defense, sponsor of the show, great sponsor, and that is Teddy Collins. He’s on the line. Teddy, welcome.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good morning, Kim. How are you doing? Good morning.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, we are doing well, and one of the things I love about Spartan Defense is, first of all, the staff is very knowledgeable, but you hire many veterans and former first responders, correct?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, ma’am. We make a point, too. We want to make sure that they have a career or a job outside of the military in order to help society out and help the community out, and they love what they do, and we love that.
SPEAKER 04 :
And Spartan Defense is the largest family-owned firearms store in Colorado. And you have some very special product at Spartan Defense, correct?
SPEAKER 08 :
We do. We have about 28 state-exclusive brands from Cabot to Alchemy. We’re the top staccato dealer in the state. We deal in 2011s, AR-15s, you know, four of the, we’ll call it the tactical brands.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. And Teddy, so that’s one of the things you do during your day job, but you are also running for state house. And one of the reasons is because there is such an assault upon the right of people to keep and bear firearms to protect ourselves against bad actors. And so tell us a little bit about your race.
SPEAKER 08 :
So I’m running for state senate district four. That’s Mark Baisley’s former seat. He’s running for federal senate now. And I’m the only Republican on the ballot for that I had my assembly a few weeks ago, and it’s the only one to make it out of assembly out of the three candidates running. We do have a general election versus the Democrats. Democrats are looking to target the seat and try to pick up an unexpected gain, but we’re not going to let that happen. And, yeah, if you want to find out more, go to CollinsForColorado.com. Support the campaign. Make sure we keep the seat red.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. And Teddy, the legislature, we have, I think the last day is the 13th of May. So we’re coming in on the end. There still could be some wild stuff happening. What should people know? I know you’re watching what’s happening at the legislature. What do you think people should be aware of?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, as far as the anti-gun stuff, we have three bills on the governor’s desk right now, one of which we know is going to get – or one of which, I’m sorry, actually was signed this week, which is red flag laws. But he has yet to sign the firearms barrel regulation bill, which would require background checks for transferring a barrel, private party or from a store, as well as the firearms dealer regulation expansion, which is just to create the duplicitous process on top of the ADF for additional paperwork for dealers to keep, essentially creating a state – registry. So I would highly encourage your viewers and the people listening to this show today to give Governor Polis’ office a call. Be respectful when you do so, but urge him to vote against these bills. There’s a reason they haven’t been signed yet. From our understanding, he is strongly considering vetoing these bills, but he could use a little support to do so. So if you want to give him a call, his phone number is 303-866-2885. That’s the Constituent Services line. If you don’t get a hold of him, Just make sure you leave a message. And again, that’s 303-866-2885.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, 303-866-2885. And yes, as you say, be very respectful, but to request that he, what, that he just does not, well, no, he has to veto him, right?
SPEAKER 08 :
He has to physically veto it. If it sits on his desk without a signature, it can go into effect without his pen. So he has to physically veto the bills.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so 303-866-2885. Do you have the bill numbers on those, Teddy? I should have had them.
SPEAKER 08 :
I was about to give you. So we’ve got SB 26. The only thing that you really need to remember is SB 043. That’s the fire of Barrelville. Again, that’s SB 043. And then the fire of dealer regulation is HB House Bill 1126. That’s HB 1126.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, Teddy. Again, that’s Senate Bill 043, House Bill 1126. Phone number is 303-866-2885. What is the website for Spartan Defense and also the website for your campaign?
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. It’s SpartanDefense.com. That’s defense with an S, not a C. And then CollinsForColorado.com. Two L’s. CollinsForColorado.com spelled out.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Teddy, thanks so much. We’ll talk with you next week. Have a great day.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, Kim. Thanks. God bless.
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SPEAKER 04 :
It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. And check out our website, kimMonson.com. Join our community. And last night was our second class taught by Alan Thomas regarding the Federalist Papers. If you can actually think that you would be on the edge of your seat learning about the Federalist Papers, you wouldn’t believe it. But he is making that happen. And so be sure and join us. Little Richie’s is your local neighborhood spot. where you can get authentic New York-style pizza and pasta. They’re locally owned and have been serving Parker and Golden for over 20 years. And let’s see, Tuesdays are for families. Kids eat free after 4 p.m. Monday. You can buy one pizza, get a second pizza half off, and Saturdays is Calzone Day. You buy one calzone, get a second calzone half off, and it is delicious. Actually, I can get two meals out of one calzone, Pam Long.
SPEAKER 22 :
Calzone sounds really good right now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Doesn’t it? Yeah, we’ve been up for a while. We’re probably a little like… Do they do breakfast calzones?
SPEAKER 22 :
A breakfast calzone sounds even more amazing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Doesn’t that sound great? Okay, but again, check out Little Richies. You spell that. If you’re looking for it, L-I-L, then R-I-C-C-I apostrophe S. That is Little Richies. In studio with me is producer Luke. Of course, we have producer Joe behind the boards. We are affectionately calling them the Young Guns. And we are starting our… book discussion regarding the Communist Manifesto. And Joe, you chose this book. And I only got through the introduction. And the introduction was written by a guy named Vladimir Posner. And this was written in January of 1992. And Vladimir Posner Jr. was born in 1934. He’s a French-born Russian-American journalist and presenter. In the West, he represented and explained the views of the Soviet Union during the Cold War. He was a spokesman for the Soviets, in part because he grew up in the United States and speaks fluent English, Russian, and French. He later described his role as propaganda. Wow. After the Cold War, Posner moved to the United States to work with Phil Donahue before returning to Moscow to continue working as a television journalist. From 2008 until 2022, he hosted the show Posner on Russia’s Channel One, where he interviewed public figures. I wonder if it was Channel One, Pam, because that’s the only channel they had. Yeah.
SPEAKER 22 :
I’m sitting here wondering, I wonder why a propagandist is connected to a TV talk show type. Maybe there’s a connection there. Maybe we have our own forms of propaganda.
SPEAKER 04 :
You think? Maybe so. So, Luke, it’s great to have you here. And you’ve got… I have read this before. Am I the only one that’s read this before?
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, you’re the only one who’s read it before.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Okay, let’s go to you first, Luke. In this introduction, what was the takeaway? What was one of the things that you thought was important?
SPEAKER 18 :
There were a couple things. Again, as someone who has no experience reading this before, there were a couple pieces that I found particularly interesting. Granted, the introduction, again, is this individual kind of talking about and giving context to and a prelude to the actual meat and potatoes of what the Communist Manifesto is. And… As he was going through it, one of the things I recognized was that my understanding of what communism is has been changed ever so slightly in the sense that there’s the – I think the popular understanding of communism, when you and I discuss what communism is, when any of us talk about the word communism, there is – A certain idea of it we have, and then there is the slightly, I guess I wouldn’t say modified, the more original version of communism, which is described within the context of the Communist Manifesto. That being, if I remember which part I had underlined, it mentions that when you and I discuss communism, communism comes as, what is it, authoritarian economic left, right? It’s the upper left-hand corner of the political compass that I think a few of us are at least familiar with. In the body of the Communist Manifesto itself, which he mentions over the course of this introduction, that the goal of communism is to establish a classless society in which he makes a distinction that state-owned property is not the same as collective-owned property. And that the idea of communism as property owned and controlled by the state is simply a different idea. It is state capitalism, not communism, again, by definition, within the Communist Manifesto. And the totalitarian element that we all very heavily associate with communism comes in the implementation of the original idea. It is the forceful overthrow of a pre-established government to then create a foundation by which it is public ownership, not state ownership, which I wasn’t super familiar with. This is a piece that I didn’t know about. So I thought that was very interesting.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, that is very interesting. Okay, Joe, your initial takeaway from reading the introduction to the Communist Manifesto by Vladimir Posner.
SPEAKER 06 :
I saw it as interesting. Very enticing for those who are disenfranchised. If you feel like the system has been against you in some way or another, this new proposed idea, like we often talk about just something different than what is currently now, it is very appealing. And so I can see how people gravitate towards it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, in this, I had highlighted this. He said that the fact that under this, he said there were many things that I sincerely admired. The fact that everyone was guaranteed a job. Everyone had, therefore, a means of sustenance. There were no homeless. All people enjoyed equal opportunity through free education at all levels from preschool to graduate studies. All medical care was offered free of charge. Everyone was guaranteed retirement pension. All working people had paid vacations. Pam Long, that does sound good, doesn’t it?
SPEAKER 22 :
It sounds so good, but the free services that I have been offered in my life pale in comparison to the services and products that I worked for and paid for a better quality. So it is enticing. Free sounds so good, but free is not always good.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, the government cannot give to someone something that they have not first taken from someone else. Now, when the pilgrims came over, they initially worked as a commune, if you will. Commune, communists. And they almost starved because what would happen is those that were really industrious, the others would maybe be lazy because they knew the industrious person was going to plant the crops, you know, reap everything. The lazy ones stayed lazy over here because they were going to get to have part of the fruits of those labor. And then what happens is your producers go, well, wait a minute. Why should I be doing this when these guys are just over here not doing anything? And so then what happened, I think it was Bradbury, wasn’t it? Bradford, Bradford, William Bradford. He said, OK, tell you what, you can all keep a little bit of your own crops. Well, guess what? The starvation and the hunger disappeared. Because when people can keep most of the fruits of their labor, they become more productive. And then what happens? Well, America happens. So, Luke, this sounds good. And when we have government that is making things so expensive, we’ve talked about housing with you young guys. You want to buy a house, right? You’d like to have your own home. Why is it, Pam, I’m going to ask you this, that housing has become so unaffordable? It’s because of government intervention. And then in a way, that prevents these young people from being able to go after their dream of home ownership.
SPEAKER 22 :
Well, between the regulations and the property tax insanity here in Colorado, we’re driving ownership out, away. It’s unattainable for our young people. I just want to ask the young people here today, do you want to live in communist-style housing by a light rail? No, definitely not. I mean, it’s laughable. Do you think your peers know this is an agenda? No.
SPEAKER 18 :
I definitely don’t want to live by a light rail. Not my cup of tea, personally.
SPEAKER 04 :
But we’re seeing legislation from this Colorado State Legislature. They call it transit-orientated developments. And they’re subsidizing it. And when they’re subsidizing it, again, you can’t subsidize something for somebody over here without taking it from somebody else. So it might be money, but it might be your opportunity. And that’s not right. So, Joe, when we do the opening about that they take opportunity, that’s kind of the – the hidden thing that you can’t see. And I think that may be one of the things that young people are frustrated about is they can feel that this opportunity is being taken from them. And we have to re-institute that, Joe.
SPEAKER 06 :
You’re absolutely right. And it’s also the, we feel it and we speak out about it, but then nothing gets done to fix it. The local side tries to fix it, But it feels like the government just supersedes that rule and does what they want to anyways.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s why what we’re doing here at the show to shed light on this is so important. I really think, Pam, at this 250th birthday, that we’re in our 1775 moment. They basically was regarding taxation without representation. We are seeing that down here at the Statehouse through what they’re passing regarding fees, taking unclaimed property. I think we’re… We’re at a 1775 moment, and our call is not a call to physical arms. Our call is to ideological and mental arms.
SPEAKER 22 :
And look at what’s in their arms right now. You have young people, young voters, reading classic literature, informing themselves, going against the narrative. I mean, I could not be more inspired right now. Watching them with these books in their hands, talking about these issues that their peers are not talking about. The flag is behind you, Kim. I mean… We just heard the national anthem this morning. Like, this is our year. Right here, Colorado, if you’re pessimistic about what’s going on here, this is the year it’s all going to turn around. Like, this is our time right here. America’s 250th birthday. I cannot be more excited for Colorado.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow. Okay. Final thought on this segment. Then we’ll go to break Luke and what your, your thoughts.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh boy. There’s a lot. I don’t think there’s enough space.
SPEAKER 04 :
Is there any short button up on this Joe, or should we just go to break?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think break sounds like it’s a lot.
SPEAKER 04 :
So with that, again, these are the, I’m inspired. I’m just grateful, Pam, that these young guys are willing to do this.
SPEAKER 22 :
Right. Are you going to expand your book club? Are you going to have a little following online? We need more people reading these books.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, maybe one day.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, we’ve talked about it typically after the show, although I can’t today. But we may sometimes sit around for another 45 minutes to an hour, just the three of us talking about this. So I guess we should expand.
SPEAKER 18 :
I think we should. We’ll do an exclusive podcast. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 04 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
Indeed, I do have Friday on my mind, and also what I have on my mind is this great event that Jody Hinsey and her team are preparing for Tuesday, May 12th, regarding AI. It’s virtual, and it’s titled AI 3.0, Beyond Searching AI for Real Life. She said past years, they’ve covered the fundamentals, what AI is, how it works, and how to use it as a research tool. But now they’re going to be talking about how It’s having a very powerful reach, and it’ll explore changing the way we work, think, and manage our daily lives and what that means for you. So to access this, it’s Tuesday, May 12th, 5 p.m., put on by Jody Hinzey with Mint Financial Strategies. Just RSVP to her at Jody, J-O-D-Y, at mintfs.com. In studio with me is Pam Long, and great first hour. We did some filming for the sequel to A Climate Conversation. Are you having fun?
SPEAKER 22 :
I’m having too much fun. This should not be this much fun. And I’m in awe of what you’re juggling right now. I’m watching it real time and the computers and the papers and the microphones and the screens and kudos to you, Kim.
SPEAKER 04 :
Thank you. So, great. It is a lot, isn’t it? It’s a lot. And we’ve got the young guns here, and that’s producer Joe and producer Luke. We were talking about the Communist Manifesto, and you said you had something to say. There’s a lot.
SPEAKER 18 :
There’s a lot, especially in the introduction. By Jeremy Posner. By Jeremy Posner, which is very, very dense.
SPEAKER 04 :
Excuse me, not Jeremy Posner. Sorry.
SPEAKER 18 :
Vladimir. Vladimir.
SPEAKER 04 :
Vladimir.
SPEAKER 18 :
Which is very dense. But there are two kind of ideas presented near the middle point, which I think are worth talking about. And the prelude before I jump into the actual text itself is that They present the Communist Manifesto, despite the word manifesto. It is framed through an almost scientific lens in which Vladimir mentions that there is a distinction between the pie-in-the-sky version of communism and then the version of communism that is presented by Karl Marx here. Right. So I want to – as we go through discussing a lot of this, I think it’s really important to hold on to the idea – we kind of have to put on our logician hat. We have to play the role of scientists in the sense that to debate and discuss the body of the text as a self-contained piece – And that, you know, I don’t agree with communism, but in the debate of communism, I think it’s also important to apply a very critical lens to to the text itself, that being. Not pulling from abstractions, but to rather look at what the text is presenting and then debate those ideas within the text, not our interpretation of someone else’s ideas, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 18 :
There were two pieces that I thought were super interesting. One of them, quoting directly from the introduction, he goes… Vladimir says, thus I hung on and it took me a long time to let go. It took me years and years before I could admit to myself, let alone to others, that the shortcomings of other societies could not serve to justify those of the ones I lived in. And it took me even more time to conclude that the society I so profoundly believed in or wished to believe in was a sick society. And I think when you read part of that, it is easy to attribute kind of across the economic and political spectrum that that is a pressure a large number of people feel kind of across the aisle. So it’s easy, I think, to see how an individual would read this body of work and feel inspired by the ideas within it, kind of like what Joe was saying. Even if you don’t agree with the ideas presented, the way the ideas have been presented to you as in something is wrong. We can’t look at the failings of others. We have to assess our own shortcomings is in and of itself wrong. uh a way by which it kind of leads you into uh the body of the work and then uh when i was talking about uh assessing the communist manifesto as its own piece of uh sort of political science uh that it is not a to assess it not as a piece of propaganda even though it may be um but to assess it by the text that is written. And I think there was a super interesting piece because, again, we keep kind of going back to this classical understanding of communism versus our modern understanding of communism. It mentions here he’s talking about other the USSR. He talks about China, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, the German Democratic Republic, Hungary, People’s Republic of Korea, so on and so forth. He says, the contest, therefore, between the democratic world symbolized by the United States and the communist world embodied by the USSR was in fact not a struggle between democracy and communism. It was a struggle between two forms of ownership, private and state. State ownership lost. It might even be said that the struggle was between two forms of capitalism, bourgeoisie capitalism and state capitalism. Where again, within the introduction, Vladimir makes a clear distinction that if the state owns something, if the state or body of government that dictates the person is in control, that that is not the classical definition of communism. So whenever that idea comes about, again, just to sort of stay true to the debate and the logic of the discussion, that State-owned house, government-owned housing is not, by the Communist Manifesto’s technical definition of communism, that is not true communism.
SPEAKER 04 :
And if we want to approach… And what’s your understanding that he’s saying is true communism?
SPEAKER 18 :
True communism, by the Communist Manifesto’s definition of communism, true Marxist communism, is the public-owned communism. means of production and property is the abolishment of private property altogether meaning that there is no class system the way he describes communism again by its own definition so any mention of you know if the state owns it if the state controls it if the government has a say if it is a state government authoritarian approach to property then that is not classical communism by the communist manifesto’s definition
SPEAKER 04 :
However, there can’t be public ownership.
SPEAKER 18 :
That is what he’s proposing. It is a theoretical public ownership. He equates it to old tribal human society, pre-government like early agriculture. He says that the means of production within the context of an early human tribe is as close to true communism as you can get. Again, stressing by the Communist Manifesto’s own definition of communism.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so that’s his take on it. Joe?
SPEAKER 06 :
I pulled out the words directly from it. Real communism as defined by Karl Marx is a theoretical utopian, stateless, classless, and moneyless society where the community collectively owns the means of production and goods distributed based on need. It aims to eliminate private property and social classes operating under the principle from each according to his ability to each according to his need.
SPEAKER 18 :
So, yeah, I just, again, thought it was super interesting to, again, while we’re discussing the Communist Manifesto, to keep in mind its own definition of communism and to not bring in our sort of more modern, modified version of that word.
SPEAKER 04 :
So under that definition, Pam, my question is, is who decides?
SPEAKER 22 :
Right. I mean, it’s portrayed as utopia, but it’s actually kind of anarchy, right? If you had a small-scale experiment of this where you’re like, hey, everything’s a free-for-all, right? You could see where that is not going to end well. We need, you know, a structure. Joe has something over there.
SPEAKER 04 :
He’s jumping up and down. He is. So he’s running the boards and the phones and jumping up and down, too. So, okay, Joe.
SPEAKER 06 :
So I just had a thought, like, as I was reading this, it kind of seems like it’s read from the perspective of the fixer who would be in the kind of top class structure of this. And so if you’re one of the people that are deciding, of course, it’s going to turn out well for you, but maybe not so great for others. And I think that’s an important distinction of like how the book is written is from the
SPEAKER 18 :
perspective of an elite almost well i mean i would push back against that karl marx famously lived in poverty almost his entire life uh this perspective uh when karl marx wrote the communist manifesto uh him and his parents lived in poverty and then he died an absolute squalor uh and english also does not sound like a good outcome yeah no no uh it’s uh
SPEAKER 06 :
you know we’re still got more okay joe i think you’re right he was in those conditions but he’s obviously going to write it from an ideal ideal perspective for him which would be an elite uh centered place and i think that that’s kind of where i think well and
SPEAKER 04 :
So the key couple of things, my understanding with communism, it is the abolition of private property, owning property. And in fact, it says that there. Yes. And I’m going to connect this dot then, Pam Long. When we look at this Colorado state legislature and it’s wanting to move people into rental units, these industrial apartment buildings, and there’s people on both sides of the aisle that are making money off of this. But you as young people, if you want to choose to own a home and create wealth for yourself by home ownership, and you feel that opportunity, that abolition of the opportunity of private property, well, what that means to me, Pam Long, is that’s communist policy coming from this Colorado State Legislature.
SPEAKER 22 :
Right. And we’re using words like, you know, climate change and we’re, you know, we’re using different words to funnel people into a communist lifestyle. Like, do you want to be dependent on the government for, you know, say your social credit, you know, score? Yeah. goes low, and then your power’s turned off, your water’s turned off. No, I’m out there living in rural Colorado with my well and my chickens and my backup generator. I’m going to be as independent as possible. So it’s very enticing. We’re all going to do this together and live in squalor and all be the same, right? And then it goes really bad, really – Joe’s like –
SPEAKER 04 :
Don’t you remember COVID where they said we’re all in this together? But you know what? When I went to the toilet paper aisle, we weren’t all in this together because the toilet paper was gone. And it was like gold. Okay, Joe, let’s wrap this up.
SPEAKER 06 :
Much like COVID, and I think in the same point, though, is the only people that are making the decisions are the government. The people do not get a choice one way or another. The government is the only one that says, this is what’s going to happen, and you’ve got to do it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and that’s what’s so unique about the American idea is that it is governed by we the people. Now, we have been living on the blessings of all of this and not been paying attention. And then what’s happened is we’ve seen these policies that many of them are communistic. Gentlemen, I still have a lot that I want to talk about regarding the introduction. First of all, Producer Luke, I so appreciate you and Joe being up for this. This is just awesome.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, I’m happy to do it. I love intellectual, intelligent debate. I feel like it’s so few and far between, especially in this day and age. And again, so many people talk about political theory, but not a whole lot of people are reading and engaging with the foundations of political theory. There’s this weird abstraction that’s happening. It’s like, no, let’s pick up the text. Let’s put the book between our hands and let’s assess the body of work and debate it.
SPEAKER 04 :
And as we say at the Kim Monson Show, have a conversation. Joe, this is awesome. Great choice. Why, thank you. And the text line’s pretty busy here, too. Where do we find more young people like this?
SPEAKER 22 :
I’m over here. I need to up my book club game here. I’ve been reading about health, and it seems like fluff compared to this. How do we tap into your network here of young people informing themselves on important issues affecting our state?
SPEAKER 18 :
I think the best way to tap in is to engage in good faith. I feel like there’s a lot of, there’s a weird middle ground of to attack the idea on the understanding of the idea. It’s like to demean someone or to belittle someone. It’s like you might vehemently disagree with someone, but But to engage in a dialogue in good faith is opening a door. And the moment you open that door, and if you can exchange ideas back and forth, then you might be able to give them a little something. So engaging in good faith, I think, is the best way to tap in.
SPEAKER 04 :
Isn’t this cool we get to do this on the show?
SPEAKER 22 :
This is so cool. I’m having a moment here right now. I’m like, we need more of your people.
SPEAKER 04 :
So with that, just a few things. This came out on the text line before we go to break. We’re going to talk with Molly Lamar. But this says my understanding of Karl Marx and how he lived was that he didn’t have a job. He lived off friends and family and Ingalls did have money. That’s my understanding as well. Classless societies is complete fantasy. If there is force, there is no voluntary exchange of value for value. Therefore, that’s not capitalism. This is from Yvonne Y. Read about communism and pontificate. Relocate long-term to a communist nation and live it. Yeah, if you want communism, move there. Try it.
SPEAKER 22 :
You might not like it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Scott says the Communist Manifesto is a completely unrealistic vision of human nature and the incentive structures that drive behavior. Lots more here. You can text me 720-605-0647. We are going to talk with Molly Lamar in this next segment. But again, gentlemen… Thank you. Bravo.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you.
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With all the chaos and confusion in our world, how can you plant yourself on a foundation based on truth and clarity? The Kim Monson Show is here to help. Kim examines news, politics and opinion through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom and shares human interest stories that will inspire you and make you smile. Tune in to The Kim Monson Show each weekday, 6 to 8 a.m., with encores 1 to 2 p.m. and 10 to 11 p.m. on KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. Shows can also be found at kimMonson.com, Spotify, and iTunes.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Join our community. You can do that by going to KimMonson.com. There’s three different levels and doing great stuff. And we’re kicking around the ideas of new things. The sky is the limit with all of this. In studio with me is Pam Long, producer Luke, producer Joe. And we have Molly Lamar on the line who is just really been a – The children in Cherry Creek School District, because that is the district her kids went to school in or are going to school in. Molly Lamar, welcome.
SPEAKER 05 :
Good morning, Kim. Thanks for having me. Since we last spoke, we had major news. The director, one of our school board directors, Terry Bates, resigned last Friday, affected immediately by So that was a huge win for parents, students, teachers, staff, our schools, really.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, now was this an elected person?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. Or a selected person? I can’t believe it, actually, but yes. And it wasn’t a planned departure. It follows allegations of racist and sexist comments that he made toward district staff and families. Some of which happened at our district’s Golden Heart Awards, which is an award ceremony where you’re supposed to honor those who go above and beyond to serve students with special needs. It wasn’t just one bad comment. It was multiple bad comments, racist and sexist. And, you know, it just represents a culture of protected bad behavior at the very top for Cherry Creek schools. We had administrators who felt unsafe enough to file complaints. And yet, of course, the board’s first instinct was to handle it behind closed doors.
SPEAKER 04 :
Wow. I keep thinking, Molly, that as we’re exchanging text messages, preparing to have you on the show with a weekly update, that it’ll someday be good news when you’ll say, Kim, I don’t have anything. Everything’s great and I don’t have anything to say. But that’s not the case right now.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, no, but you know what? I think it’s really important to be optimistic about it because when you’re changing culture, Turning a ship around overnight, it doesn’t happen. It’s a process. And I think we’ve made real progress. In four months, we’ve had a superintendent resign. We’ve created a separation agreement At least one, hopefully two more coming soon. Top level administrators who we have uncovered that they were up to no good. And now we have a board member who resigned. You know, I do think it’s interesting that the board, after they met, came out and said, well, we also found out that he had made inappropriate comments during the election. Um, this, this is the husband of one of the board members who had served on the board for eight years. And she, she is part of, um, the cabal. And, um, I don’t, I don’t believe that they didn’t know, um, that he acted inappropriately. He violated campaign, um, finance laws. sorry, I can’t get this word out, municipality laws during the election. So this wasn’t just he woke up one morning and decided to say something inappropriate. He had a long history of behaving poorly. And we’re not going to let them, you know, hide behind that curtain and say they didn’t know. How will this vacancy be filled? So they have to, they will point Unfortunately, they say that right now they’re trying to work it out. Usually, there’s an application process, and so then they will have, you know, a number of applicants. They’ll do interviews, and then the board will appoint. In 60 days, if they don’t choose someone, the president of the board gets to select, and then that seat will be on the next, So in in 2027, instead of three seats up for our board of education, we will have four.
SPEAKER 04 :
OK, now going back to these administrators that have resigned, I think it is important, though, they are still they have healthy pensions and and and they will continue to receive those for the rest of their lives. Right. Yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Through all of these open records requests, I discovered that there’s no formal resignation letter and no formal documentation from Chris Smith actually resigning or retiring. They’re obligated by law to provide documentation. We don’t have anything that says he’s actually really gone. It’s just It’s one more indication that the Board of Education is not doing its job. That’s complete negligence. How do we not have… I mean, the superintendent of Cherry Creek Schools oversees a billion-dollar budget and the education of 52,000 students. We don’t have any paperwork that says he’s gone.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and that’s why what you’re doing, Molly Lamar, is so important as an engaged citizen and watching what’s going on. We’ll talk with you next week again, Molly. Thank you for your great work. Thank you. Hopefully I have good news next week, too. I’ve got my fingers crossed. That would be great. And Producer Joe, thank you for bringing this book forward, The Communist Manifesto.
SPEAKER 06 :
My pleasure, Kim. I just thought, why not go to the source?
SPEAKER 04 :
What a novel idea. And Luke, always, it’s a lot of fun to have you here. You really make me have to start to think on things. I love that.
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I love the fact that you haven’t kicked me off the show yet. I like to try and, like I said, approach it logically. Even though I might not agree with the work, I want to try and make sure that we are doing our due diligence to discuss it honestly.
SPEAKER 04 :
And that’s great. And Pam Long, this has just been a blast having you in studio. So thank you.
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Thank you. It has been a blast.
SPEAKER 04 :
And people can, you’ve got a documentary coming out.
SPEAKER 22 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. And we’ll have to do this again sometime. We probably won’t get the hair and makeup this next time.
SPEAKER 22 :
I’m here for the young guns discussion and all of it. You know, the coffee, all of it.
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Okay. And our quote for the end of the show is from Thomas Paine. He said this, the greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes. 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 Like a new moon rising fierce Through the rain and lightning Wandering out into this great unknown And I don’t want no one to cry But tell them if I don’t survive
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