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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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Under this guise of bipartisanship and non-partisanship, it’s actually tapping down the truth.
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Today’s current opinions and ideas.
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On an equal field in the battle of ideas, mistruths and misconceptions is getting us into a world of hurt.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim 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 birthday, Producer Joe. And thank you, Kim. And you’re just an old guy, right? 28 years young.
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Oh, so old.
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So old now. And Colonel Rutledge in six weeks is going to be 98. So you both have an eight. That’s impressive. It is impressive. But happy birthday, Joe. Do you have big plans for today?
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Mostly just hanging out with my family, going to play some board games and stuff.
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Great. Well, happy birthday. And thanks for being behind the boards, though, on your birthday. We’ve got another great show planned for you. So fasten your seatbelt. Check out our website and join our community. It’s a place where we are connecting, conversing. communicating, contemplating these big issues and ideas. And right now we have Alan Thomas’s class going on on Thursday evening, 745 to 9 p.m. And if you’ve missed it, everything is all recorded so you can watch it at your leisure. But going through the first half of the Federalist Papers and how they’re relevant to today. And we’ve got so much that is going to happen in this community. The workload has been extensive, which is great. And time is very valuable on this as well. So join us because we’ve got great plans for everybody. And so that website is KimMonson.com. And you can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. And the text line is 720-605-0647. And as you know, on the show, we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it’s never compassionate to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhood, or lives via force. Force can be a weapon, but it can also be policy. Unpredictable in excess of taxation, fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, legislation, the World Economic Forum and globalist elites. with their agenda that plays out at the United Nations, but in all levels of government, all the way down to municipal government and school districts, special districts here in America. So we need to identify that and stand for freedom on all these things. And so that’s one of the reasons the community is such an important thing. Because, my friends, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. And on the show, we focus on the issues, and we’ll talk about the people in those issues that really work to stay out of the personality fighting that happens out there. Let’s get over here to our word of the day, and that is affable. And it’s spelled A-F-F-A-B-L-E. And it could be easy and pleasant to speak for, gentle and gracious, or easy to be spoken to or addressed, receiving others kindly and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner. And, um, I’m trying to think, who would I say is very affable? Somebody that is very easy to approach. I’ve got to think about that. Who would be maybe one of the number one people in that? I’ll think about that. So who in your life would you say is affable? And again, that’s A-F-F-A-B-L-E. And our quote of the day is, comes from james madison he was born in 1751 he died in 1836 he was an american statesman diplomat and founding father he served as our fourth president of the united states and he’s popularly acclaimed as father of the constitution for his pivotal role in drafting and promoting the constitution of the united states and the bill of rights and he said this He said there are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. And I can certainly say, as we’ve watched this legislative session from the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, that that is the case. When you have pieces of legislation, well, let’s see, there was over 700 bills and resolutions that were passed. proposed this year. And let’s say on average, and I think this is low, but let’s say on average that that’s 10 pages of legislation. Now, not all of them passed, obviously, but that’s over 7,000 pieces of legislation that would be proposed. And a few of those were for more freedom, but all of those died in committee. Those did not see the light of day. And so James Madison knew exactly what he was talking about there. So I do want to say thank you to my fellow Colorado Union of Taxpayers board members. We are working on getting the bills selected. There’s 30 bills that we’ll write a little more extensively on in our ratings report and getting our ratings report. done, so we’re working diligently on that. But when you see these folks, say thank you to them. That’s Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson. Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. When you see these folks, they have volunteered their weekends every weekend during the legislative session, which was mid-January to mid-May, to take these positions so that we can know what’s going on. And join us. It’s only $25 a year. That’s less than $2.08 a month, less than a cup of coffee at most places. So be sure and join us. Did want to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show and also to Hooters restaurants. They have been great sponsors of the show since, well, since before the Kim Monson show and also their sponsors of America’s veteran stories. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster and in Aurora. And as the abs are marching towards winning the Stanley cup, certainly Hooters restaurants is a great place to watch all the games. And so, again, I thank Hooters Restaurants for their sponsorship. Big news is regarding the elections. It seems like many or most of the Trump-endorsed candidates won their primaries. The big news is U.S. Representative Thomas Massey loses his Kentucky GOP primary to Ed Galrein. And I don’t know, and I’d be interested to hear what you think this will mean for Lauren Boebert out here in Colorado. And so text me at 720-605-0647. Because she came in and supported Massey, and she said it’s because he’s her friend. And certainly that’s… uh, something that I’m just wondering from a strategy standpoint, if that was really necessary to put up political capital to make that endorsement. And if that’s going to make it more difficult for her here in Colorado, because she does have her hands full, I think with the suburban woman, um, representative Bobert is very attractive. And, uh, sometimes, um, Women don’t like that in another woman. And I think that’s difficult for her somewhat with the suburban women in Douglas County. And so I’m concerned with Boebert using political capital to jump into some of these races that she really doesn’t have to. And so that just my commentary on that is so interesting. Massey gone against the president on some real key things. And so the president was was very, I would say, somewhat aggressive in supporting his opponent on that. And so it’s important that we watch all these things. And again, I caution Bobert on using her political capital on some of the endorsements that she has made because I’m not sure that she really needs to do that. And we talk about these important issues because I have amazing sponsors that support the show. And I’m talking with show sponsor, Carl Jones. He is the owner of Radiance Power. That website is radiancepower.net. It is a beautiful website. Carl, welcome to the show.
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Yeah, so a lot of homes usually don’t have adequate lighting when it was built. You’ll get the occasional light around the front, the garage, and then the back porch, but a lot of times houses need more than that. Whether that’s from putting additional lighting on extended balconies and wraparound porches, accent lighting on walkways from the house to any External garages or shops or things like that, as well as illuminating long driveways, gate entrances and stuff in that category.
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Well, and I know that people think a lot about conserving energy, conserving power. However, I do think that lighting really is good for security. In fact, I saw something on Nextdoor just the other day that they said that there was a car driving around looking for houses that were dark. And then… They were concerned that they were going to be broken into or something. So I think that lighting is a good investment for security.
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Yeah, and especially with LED light being so popular now, lighting doesn’t take nearly the electrical draw that it used to. So having lights on at night or while you’re away from the house, should no longer make a significant impact on your electric bill as well.
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Okay. And light bulbs. You mentioned the LED light bulbs. And I became frustrated when I think people should have choices on their light bulbs. And when the government got involved in telling us which light bulbs we could have, I’m like, I don’t know that I like that. And I didn’t really like the LED light bulbs. Initially, remember the curly Q1s, and they said you had to be careful about how you disposed of them? But they’ve improved a lot since then, yes?
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Yes, and that’s actually a different style light bulb. That is what’s called a compact fluorescent, which is what older style bulbs used to see in stores and restaurants and things like that, the long tubes. They had made that accessible for residential use. LED light bulbs that are out now are actually a different style. where the diode is directly on a board and shines a light versus the compact fluorescent was a lot like the traditional incandescent. And the fact that it was an actual filament that could expire or go bad in a much quicker timeframe. But I do agree the compact fluorescent was never a good alternative. And we tend to shy away from using fluorescent as well as a company.
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Okay. Next thing, I’m kind of a lighting snob, if you will, and I like warm light. And a lot of the LED bulbs seem to be much starker. So are there options in that arena?
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Yeah. So there’s actually four or five different warmness options for LED bulbs. A lot of times the standard bulb will come with a higher setting, which a lot of people tend to not like. The lower the setting or the option, the more traditional the warmness looks coming out of the bulb. I find that a lot of times what you have to do is spend a little bit of extra money on the bulbs themselves to either get a color selectable option so you can choose which of the colors works best for that environment. whether it be like a bathroom or a kitchen or a living room, or just to make sure that you’re buying LED bulbs that are the style that you would like.
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Okay, and I didn’t realize there were different kind of levels of that. If I like warm lighting, what would be the level I would be trying to look for?
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So the range is from 2,700K to 6,000K. The higher the number, the more fluorescent or blue the look is going to be. So traditionally around the 3,000 to 4,000 is the most popular. 4,000 being kind of that middle ground between good modern bright lighting and the traditional warmness. When you get down to around 3,000 or 2,700K, That’s going to be the very gold, yellow, traditional look of a light bulb.
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Okay.
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Gosh, that’s really great to know. Now, Carl, you do so many things at Radiance Power. So obviously lighting, but you do electrical panel and service upgrades, generator installation. How can people schedule a complimentary appointment if they are in need of any of these services?
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And that website is radiancepower.net. Carl, thanks so much. We’ll talk with you next week.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And I did want to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. And then we all know that education is so important and there is something that is so exciting happening in Centennial. And that is Excalibur Classical Academy. And it is a new private school opening this fall and centennial serving kindergarten through third grade with 100 percent scholarship tuition available. Their classrooms are rooted in a classical Christian tradition where students can grow through phonics and math, music, art and the great books that have shaped generations. Excalibur believes that young minds thrive on wisdom, virtue and truth. So give your child a strong foundation for life. Enrollment is now open. Space is limited. Don’t miss out. Visit Excalibur, that’s E-X-C-A-L-I-B-U-R, classicalacademy.org today. And please have on the line with me, engaged citizen. He’s with the Ralston Valley Coalition, and that is Mike Rolick. Mike, welcome to the show.
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Jim, good morning. How’s it going?
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Well, it’s going well, and I think you’ll be very proud of me. I attended my city council meeting last night.
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Very nice.
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How’d that go? It went well. It was the swearing in of the new council members, and I had met the candidates from my district in the spirit of Mike Rolick. I’d had coffee with them, and I thought it’s time to re-engage, and so it went very well, and Your idea to be respectful, reach out, have coffee with your council members and your mayor is really an excellent idea. And at the Kim Monson community, in the spirit of you and Karen Gorday, the folks at Littleton, all these people that are coming together, we have this opportunity to create spaces at the Kim Monson community. And the first space that I really want to Get going is a local government space because I think people can learn from all of the work that you all have done. So I wanted to say thank you.
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Wow. Well, thank you as well. And just just to be sure, if you’re going to be having coffee or trying to meet with a with a local representative, it can’t be about something that’s already being decided, like a quasi judicial land use decision. And that’s not something that we try to do. But it’d be more a general broad topics, get to know somebody, see about the vision, things like that, and potential new ideas. Like I actually brought up a whole new idea the other day regarding drones and airports, and we can get into that in a different day. But it’s kind of a way just to introduce yourself, see how you can get involved, but not on active cases.
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OK, well, yeah. Yeah. And I think, yeah, just to initially get to know you coffee and do that sooner versus later. So when that issue does come up, you’ve already had that initial get to know each other coffee. And I think that’s really important. OK, let’s let’s jump over here. We’ve got a lot to talk about data center moratoriums. This is very interesting. What’s going on with that?
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Well, I have been talking with the county through email channels and also public commentary where you can write to your commissioner, what have you, on their private email and ask about data center moratoriums and things like this. And one of the big concerns that we’ve had at another group that I work with is the fact that these aren’t really discussed in the zoning and one could say private property rights again for the, the person who owns the land that, that a data center would go on, but then you have all the other private property interests, uh, that, that you could see, i.e. the quiet enjoyment, uh, the noise, the fact that your bill might go up, the fact that water infrastructure cannot handle certain data centers, depending on the, on the type of design. So, um, In the spirit of just reaching out and saying what’s reasonable, what’s not, I mentioned to Jeffco that Denver was considering a data center moratorium, and I believe Wisconsin had voted one in on a state referendum, and they put one together. And then two weeks ago, it was voted in as a temporary measure on the consent agenda, and I was there to support that online. And then yesterday, they went ahead and extended it for up to the full year from the first enactment. So I think it comes up next March and next April. And the idea here is it doesn’t stop all data centers. But what it does, which I think is a reasonable situation, it will say, if you have a data center application, you can submit it if it’s going to be on industrial land. It has to be a PUD or planned unit development. There’s no use by rights. And what that means is a county commissioner, in this case, the Board of County Commissioners would have to vote on it via the quasi-judicial process, as opposed to a use-by-right, which would just be a site development plan. And then it has to be a minimum of 1,500 feet from any residents. Whereas you and I talked about, Nevada has a 300 feet from residential zone district. That doesn’t count mixed-use districts, which could be residences mixed in with commercial, live-work play, what have you. This is 1,500 feet from any residence. Now, we could look into low-frequency noise and argue if 1,500 feet is actually sufficient or not, but this is a really good first bite at this apple, I believe. And we have now a year. The county commissioner said they want to actually set up meetings with the public, get comments, get engagement, do some studies, and then see what happens next year. So anywhere you guys are at in Colorado, I would suggest you know, looking at that model and asking for the same at your local district. It doesn’t eliminate data centers, but it places some severe restrictions as far as location. And then it requires the elected to actually make the final decision.
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Okay. This is so interesting, Mike Rolick. Now, where could we find that? Because, well, that’s the first question. Where can we find that again?
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Well, well, I know, it looks like ABC seven just did a story on it yesterday. I can send you the actual memorandum in case you want to put it on the website. It’s just a five pager. And one of the interesting things as well is when I spoke with staff on this as well, because this is kind of a process, right? You say, what is a data center? And I said, guys, you know, think of the average 20 year old and how innovative they are, how quickly the words change similar to what we saw with, gain of function, if I might go there. Then it became dual-use research of concern or enhanced study of pandemic potential pathogens and things like this. The names keep on kind of evolving. So what I thought was really good, if I could, data center facility in their new definition is a purpose-built structure, substantial modification to an existing structure, or integrated group of structures that is designed and used primarily to house computer servers, data storage systems and large-scale digital data processing and or networking equipment and the associated infrastructure, but not limited to cooling systems, because obviously that’s a big deal, cooling systems, backup power systems, which makes the noise as well, telecommunication facility and battery storage, because there’s a lot of fire risk with battery storage, sometimes referred to as digital infrastructure facilities, industrial-scale computing facilities, or high-intensity computing facilities typically operating on a scale, requiring significant electrical power consumption, water consumption and or infrastructure support. So, you know, I mentioned to them, make sure that your definition is future inclusive. Make sure that, you know, I’m a big proponent of cryptocurrency. However, it has to include Bitcoin miner type facilities, crypto staking pools. And I believe that that definition would hit those as well. And I think if anyone’s going to go out there and talk to city council, that’s an important step just to say, hey, what’s coming down the pike in 10 years? How do you create a definition to include those?
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That is good. My eyes were glazing over on that, actually, Mike Rolick, with all those definitions. But it’s important. But the other thing that, and when I was on city council, I had to wrestle with this. And I finally realized, for example, we have these industrial apartment buildings. If you go over to Broadway and Dry Creek and look to the east, it looks like an industrial, it looks like Soviet Russia to me. And but I’m thinking, OK, when I was on city council, it’s like, OK, property rights, people should be able to do with their property what they want to do with their property. They certainly need to. It’s good to be a good neighbor and responsible. But so I’m like, OK, property rights is so important because that’s inherent in the American idea. But then what I realized is government is putting its finger on the scale and picking winners and losers. So, for example, I’ve learned through Lorne Levy that these big apartment and industrial apartment complexes are probably getting favorable federal financing. They may be getting streamlining approval. Sure. to get through that. And so that is antithetical to property rights. You have to make sure that government is not putting its thumb on the scale and then hide behind, oh, property rights as well. And I think that having these moratoriums right now, because if in fact a data center, for example, There was a headline last week that 50,000 residents in Lake Tahoe were notified that their power provider will no longer provide them power next year because they’re going to provide power to a data center. That seems to me like an assault upon a property right. What do you think, Mike Rolick?
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Yeah, when in Rome, don’t be a vandal or a visigoth. You know, that’s something that I think about a lot. You know, people say when in Rome, be a Roman. But also when you show up to someone’s neighborhood that they’ve already visited, worked through for generations to create a nice neighborhood, you know, good roads, good schools, good infrastructure, good electricity. Then you show up and you say, well, I can use that for personal gain or personal gain for a company. That doesn’t honor what has come before. And it violates, to me, it violates the original inhabitants’ property rights. And if I’m going to lose my electricity services because you moved in and you told me it’s good for jobs, I call foul. What I did look at is a study where 40% of all data centers want to be fully automated within about three years. That means you’re going to move into my neighborhood. And if you know, I have a four out of 10 chance that you’re going to go fully automated. So once the construction jobs are gone, there might be some maintenance, but it’s not going to be a benefit to the economy, but it will be a drain. And that, And if you’re going to drain that and you’re going to charge more for infrastructure and you might actually cut off infrastructure, then what happened to the original inhabitants’ private property rights?
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Yeah, I think you’ve nailed it. Mike Rolick, we’re out of time and we have two other things that we really want to talk about. I’ve got to figure out, what’s that?
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There’s always next week.
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We’ll do that next week. Yeah, we will do that. We’re going to talk about the rental car lawsuit, the flock safety lawsuit. So we’ll do that next week because this is such an important issue that you highlighted here, Mike Rolick. So as always, thank you. We’ll talk with you next week and have a great day.
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Thanks to you as well. Bye-bye.
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Hey, Kim, good morning. How are you?
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I am well. And for people that don’t know you, and you’re pretty famous, but if somebody does not know you, please tell us a little bit about yourself.
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Well, I’m a physicist, a scientist. I have 60 scientific peer-reviewed publications, including cover and feature articles on the leading journals in the world, such as Nature and Science Magazine. In 1990, I became world-renowned for a scientific discovery I made. It’s a property of electrons. That’s a whole nother topic. But I was I got nominated for a Nobel Prize for discovering a new property of electrons. But that is back in the 90s. And I went into business for myself after leaving academics in 1996. And as it turns out, when the election happened in 2020, I was invited by several legislatures around the country to look at their elections because I’m a numbers guy. And what I found was shocking. And it kind of wrapped me into this movement that I’ve been in ever since.
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Okay. And so what’s the latest? Because I’m concerned with the midterms right around the corner. Is there funny stuff going on? Are we going to get it straightened out? What are you finding, Dr. Frank?
SPEAKER 08 : 36:00
Well, I’m here in Colorado with you guys right now. A simple way to kind of introduce the situation is you guys are very similar to the state of Oregon. And what do I mean by that? Well, we’ve had Department of Justice lawsuits against you and Judicial Watch lawsuits against you. In fact, just last month, the Judicial Watch lawsuit was settled and you were required by the court to remove 372,000 people from your voter rolls. Now, the question is, why hadn’t you removed them already? Well, the answer is because you’re out of compliance. Your state has not been following the law with regard to your voter rolls. And I’ve been telling you guys that for years and your own people. We have election integrity teams in your state that have been telling you that for years. But your state has been saying, oh, you’re just a bunch of wackadoodles. You know, you know, you’re making unsubstantiated claims. Well, sorry, we’ve just proven it in court. You’ve been out of compliance with state and federal law in multiple categories. Just one of them is the voter rolls. So that’s what I’ve been doing in your state. Now, we did the same thing in Oregon. It’s just that we’re ahead of Colorado. We’re ahead in Oregon versus Colorado. But you’re now going down the same road. So I can use that kind of as an example, as a prototype of what’s about to happen in your state. And if you go to my YouTube channel, Douglas Frank 5204, You can see what we’ve been doing is county by county in the state of Oregon. We are reading actual cases of fraud, actual cases of abuse in the voter rolls right into the public record in the county meetings. We’re naming names. We’re giving addresses. We’re saying, hey, John Smith died in 2011, yet he’s voted in three elections since. Here’s the records. And we are putting those exact sorts of things into the record in Colorado in the coming weeks. So why are we doing that? Because we’re showing you that we’re not crazy. We have actual hard evidence and it’s been confirmed in court, the same sorts of stuff. Now, why would we do that? Because we want people to realize that you’re being sold a bill of goods. We know your elections are compromised. We can prove it. In fact, it’s been proven in court. So here, that’s what’s about to happen. You guys are going down the same road as what we did in Oregon. In Oregon, They have to remove 800,000 as of April. We had the same lawsuit going on there. It’s just that we were ahead there in terms of the local county work. And we’re just now catching up. You have a place in your state called the San Luis Valley. There’s six counties down there. And just this two days ago, I was with county commissioners in one of those counties. And they are going to implement what was already implemented in your state in El Paso. I don’t know if you’re aware of that. But in El Paso, the county clerk there used Experian, the credit company, to clean the voter rolls there and removed about a third of the people from the voter rolls. All of your counties are dirty like that, not just El Paso. So why aren’t the other counties following suit? Well, that’s what we’re arranging to happen. So get ready. Here it comes. This is what’s happening in Colorado.
SPEAKER 13 : 39:19
Okay, so the goal then is to, well, clean the voter rolls, correct? So that is to make sure that the people that are on the voter rolls exist and they’re legitimate voters. Would you say that’s the end goal on all of this, Dr. Frank?
SPEAKER 08 : 39:40
That’s kind of one step in the way. The real problem isn’t that the rolls are dirty. The real problem is that the local clerk is not in charge of the local rolls. So even if you did a great job cleaning your voter rolls today, they could be dirty tomorrow because the local clerk is not in charge of the rolls. The state is managing that. So really, the objective is to say to a clerk, to say to a local community, the local commissioners, Bring your voter rolls back home and maintain them locally, because as long as you let the state maintain them, they’re automatically adding people who are getting driver’s licenses, who are touching any government agency. And the problem is there’s so much of that happening that, for example, when I was in Alamosa County just two days ago, their voter rolls. have changed 98% in four years. In other words, 98% of the names in the voter rolls have changed in just four years. How can that possibly be? It’s ridiculous. There’s no way that their population changed that much, but yet their voter rolls have changed that much. And when you show the actual names being added or removed from the rolls, the local clerks are like, well, who are all these people? The point is, it’s not them doing it. The state is doing it. So the goal, yes, is to clean the rolls, but it doesn’t do much good to clean your kid’s room if you let your kid back in afterwards. So we got to clean the voter rolls, but then take back local control of them. So the real goal is local control.
SPEAKER 13 : 41:11
With this Colorado State Legislature, which is now really being run by radical activists, as well as the governor, there’s legislation that has really given the Secretary of State’s office more and more control and centralized this legislation. And so if there’s state laws there, how how can these clerks bring it back to the county level? What does that look like, Dr. Frank?
SPEAKER 08 : 41:43
That’s a great question. If the beautiful thing about the lawsuits and the reason why we’ve arranged for the Department of Justice to sue Colorado and for Judicial Watch to sue your state is because we’ve proven in court. This is not just Dr. Frank showing you the numbers anymore. We’ve proven in court that your voter rolls are out of compliance with state and federal law. If the voter rolls are out of compliance, you don’t have to use them. In fact, why not have the counties follow the law better than the state is? So the counties are not necessarily they’re not breaking the law at all. In fact, since we proved in court that the state is not following the law, we don’t have to comply with a noncompliant system. So that’s the principle. Now, in practice, it doesn’t usually work for one county to do this at a time, you know, one county to stand against the state and say we’re not going to comply. But yet El Paso has already done so and done so legally and has withstood the assault of the Secretary of State. In fact, the county clerk there has divorced himself from the County Clerks Association as well. Well, guess what? We’re about to add six more counties to that. So in other words, we don’t stand alone. We don’t, you know, individually say to the state pound stand. We say, look, we’re standing together as a group of counties. The sheriffs are standing with us. The county commissioners are making the decision. The commissioners love this because if I can save, since you mail a ballot to everybody in the voter rolls and since. Well, here, let me give a simple example in Rio Grande County. last year in the general election, I guess it’s two years now, in the general election, 25% of the ballots that were mailed out came back undeliverable. Just think about that for a minute. That’s exactly what I’ve been telling all the counties. About a third of the people in your voter rolls don’t belong there. So if you’re mailing out the ballots and a third of them come back undeliverable, why would you re-mail ballots to those people in this election? Of course, that’s preposterous. So yet your county is paying for all of those ballots to be mailed out. Why would you do that? Not only do you pay for the expense of mailing it out, but you pay for the return postage as well. And that’s a third of the cost of your election just eliminated, boom, right off the bat. So that’s what’s going on, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER 13 : 44:09
Okay, that does. We’re going to continue this discussion with Dr. Douglas Frank, and this makes a lot of sense. And I know that many of my colleagues, shout out to Meg, shout out to Patty here that have been working diligently on this as well. So we’re going to continue this discussion, and it happens because of our sponsors. And for everything mortgages, talk to Lauren Levy.
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SPEAKER 13 : 47:03
And welcome back. A couple of things I wanted to mention is Memorial Day is this Monday. And it’s important that we stop and reflect upon those that have given their lives for our freedom, our liberty. And a great event will be at 2 o’clock out at the USMC Memorial. And you can get more information by going to that website, usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And then also the Center for American Values is also there. going to have an event, and you can get more information about that. And they’re in Pueblo by going to AmericanValuesCenter.org. We’re talking with Dr. Douglas Frank. He’s involved in many different states. Of course, we’re interested in Colorado. And you are doing work right now in the San Luis Valley. You said that there are six counties that will be hopefully reclaiming their voter rolls to the county. So are the clerks there in those counties working with you? And the reason I ask that is because we have the County Clerks Association that just released a statement regarding Tina Peters. They said they were speaking for everybody that’s a member. El Paso County is no longer a member, but all of the other counties are at this time, that they were… and the language, you’ll have to look up the article, but basically they said they were very disappointed that Governor Polis had commuted Tina Peters’ sentence. So are the county clerks in those counties working with you, Dr. Frank?
SPEAKER 08 : 48:35
No, the county clerks are, as a rule, terrified of the state because of the Tina Peters situation. So our strategy isn’t hey, county clerk, we want you to stand up against the state, similar to what happened in El Paso. Our strategy is the commissioners say, why are we wasting a third of our budget on this? And the commissioners instruct the clerk to follow the model that was used in El Paso. And the nice thing is, you know, where the real power is, is the money, the checkbook is the money. And so for a County commissioner to say, or a group of commissioners and the County leaders to say, by the way, we’re cutting your budget by 30%. Um, for your mail budget, it forces the clerks to comply. We don’t want to put the clerks in a situation where the state’s coming after them, similar to how they came after Tina Peters. We don’t want to put them in that situation. What we do is we build it up from the local level. We get people involved, people engaged. And that’s why if you go to my YouTube channel, you can see this. What we do, for example, I’m going to do this on Thursday night at the event. I I’ll put the voter rolls up on the screen and I’ll ask people at random, tell me what’s your address. And so we look up somebody’s address and, you know, I was just in a County in Oregon recently, and there were about 150 people in the audience. And I just asked at random, three people, give me your address. And I look them up in the audience and, And sure enough, three out of three addresses, there was something wrong with that address. Too many people at the house registered. We’ve, we found a ghost voter, somebody who’s, there was actual election fraud. We proved it right in front of everybody. Somebody who didn’t vote yet about was casting using their name. And so when people see it themselves. then the people rise up and go to their commissioners and go to their commissioner meetings. And we read these cases right into the public record. And we say, look, there’s fraud happening. There’s illegal voting happening. Why are you wasting all this money mailing ballots? This is our tax money. So that empowers the commissioners to say, wow, we need to follow the same model as what was used in El Paso. And so the commissioners then instruct the clerks. Now, if the clerks are not compliant, We’ll we’ll impeach him. We’ll remove them. We’ll remove them from office because they have to do the will of the people. The clerks are not kings. The clerks serve the people. We the people are the government. And so we have to remind them of that. My it’s the reason why we’re using six counties at a time is because that takes the heat off of the clerks. You know, the problem in the Tina Peters case is she was one of only two counties in your state that actually backed up the machines as they were instructed by the governor. Yeah, I mean, by Jenna Griswold. People, you know, complain about Tina, but she was following the instructions given by the state. Only two of the counties actually backed up their systems. Jenna Griswold sent a letter out to all the clerks telling them to back up their systems. Well, as it turned out, only two of them did. Now, there’s a question about how Tina did it, and that’s why there was a lawsuit. But but the fact is, they were supposed to back up their systems and most of them didn’t. Well, we’re not going to put the clerks in the same situation this time. We want to have multiple counties at the same time acting together. And it gives the. the clerk’s cover, if that makes sense.
SPEAKER 13 : 51:56
Okay. Now, this is the first time I’ve heard this, that you said that Jenna Griswold’s office said, back up your systems, but yet, because I’d not heard that. I knew that she had said that there would be a trusted build. And my understanding is Tina said, will this possibly override or overwrite things that we have or delete things? And The answer to her was yes. And that’s why she did back up her systems. But I had never heard that Jenna Griswold had said back up your systems.
SPEAKER 08 : 52:29
The letter that you’re referring to where she said, guess, get ready. Here comes the trusted build. Make sure to back everything up beforehand. By law, clerks are required to maintain the election records for 22 months following the election in such a way that they are able to audit the election afterwards. And Tina was well aware that during the trusted build, what would happen would be that they would be deleting some of the records that would make it impossible for her to reconstruct the election, impossible for her to audit it afterwards, which is why we arranged for the backups to be made. Only two counties did that. The other one was Dallas Schroeder. I’m trying to remember the name of his county. It’ll come to me. It’s Albert. Yeah. Albert County. That’s right. He was the other one that did backups. Now, when the state found out in the actual letter that Jenna wrote to the clerks, it says right there, make sure to back up everything necessary. So in the same letter you’re referring to where they talked about the trusted build, it’s The clerks were instructed to back up, which is why Dallas Schroeder did so in Elbert County. Now, when the state found out we had those backups, the state was very upset about it. So it’s sort of interesting. They’re sort of they’re talking out of both sides of their mouth. They’re saying we want you to back up. But at the same time, if you did back up, they panicked and came after. Now, when they went after Dallas in Elbert County, he relinquished the rolls immediately, the copies that he had made. And and so he they didn’t prosecute him when they went after Tina. It was too late. We’d already given the roles to a group, a team of cyber experts who were analyzing the data. So even even if we had given it back, it was the information out. The cat was out of the bag. And that’s why they freaked out and prosecuted Tina.
SPEAKER 13 : 54:19
OK, Dr. Frank, very interesting. First of all, I want to make sure you get your information out there. Final thought. And then just what do you think about Tina? She’s supposed to be released from prison on June 1st.
SPEAKER 08 : 54:35
My understanding, I honestly I haven’t read the news like the last couple of days, but my understanding is. that she’s going to stand before the parole board on June 1st. I don’t know if they’re releasing her on June 1st. I think I think, you know, there’ll be conditions of her parole and I don’t know what those are going to be. So I’m not I’m very excited about that, of course. I was part of the effort with President Trump to get her pardoned and part of the effort to, you know, to get her out of prison. I’m delighted to do that. I don’t you know, I think it’s clear that. that, um, at least, and she admits that she made some mistakes, but we had legal counsel involved throughout her process. So it’s not like she was trying to break the law. She was trying to follow the law and it’s possible that she made some mistakes. She admits to some fine. I would probably make mistakes. We all make mistakes, but that doesn’t mean she should be spending nine years in prison for it. Uh, I think, you know, Rubenstein said it best, the local prosecuting example out of Tina so that no clerk in the country will ever question the integrity of our elections again. And that’s clear evidence that this was not a trial based upon her particular quote unquote infractions. It was more based upon them trying to scare all the other clerks into compliance. So that’s that to me, you know, I’m very unhappy that she’s even spent one day in prison. She I know I was the one who helped arrange this from the very beginning. I’m the one who sat in her office and heard her mind and heard her heart. She never had any intention of becoming a national figure. It was all about, gee, there’s problems in my election. I want to investigate that.
SPEAKER 13 : 56:14
Wow. OK, Dr. Douglas Frank, how can people find you?
SPEAKER 08 : 56:20
If you go to my YouTube channel, that’s the fastest way. That’s Douglas Frank 5204. Or you can send me an email, Dr. Douglas G. Frank at Outlook dot com. And I’d be happy to reply. I’m pretty good about getting back. Or you can sign up at cause of America dot org. And we’ll connect you to your local team and give you a copy of your local voter rolls. You can see your own neighborhood.
SPEAKER 13 : 56:41
OK, well, thank you so much, Dr. Douglas Frank. And good luck. I really appreciate what you’re doing.
SPEAKER 08 : 56:48
Great talking to you, Kim. Thanks for having me.
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And he said this, he said, there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. And that is why we need to become engaged in our local government. As you know, I’ve been on city council 2012 to 2016 and had really walked my engagement back with that. And I need to reengage. It’s a responsibility that we have. And so we had just had an election. There were it was a contested race on for both of the council seats, which we haven’t had a contested race in a long time for the people that were running for my district. I reached out and had coffee with each of them. And I would say each of them was affable. I really enjoyed getting to know them. And I thought they were all three excellent candidates. But I thought I need to continue this relationship. So I attended my city council meeting last night. where the new council members were sworn in. And I think really this first space that I’m going to really focus on in the community and what Zach has built, it’s really amazing. There’s all kinds of different spaces where we’re going to be able to engage. But this first one I think I’m going to focus on is local government. because that’s where a lot of things are happening. A lot of things are being pushed down from the World Economic Forum whenever you see these road diets, and that could be these bike lanes, the cost of paint, the pylons, the little turtle things. All of that costs money, and that’s money that’s coming out of the pockets of we the people. So anyway, join us at the Kim Monson Community. So let’s see. I had mentioned this, and again, on the text line, somebody said, Kim, I agree with you. For these primaries yesterday, one of the really big primaries was in Kentucky with Representative Thomas Massey. And he had a primary, and Donald Trump endorsed his competitor. And his competitor won handily, which I think sends a big message. And I had mentioned Lauren Boebert here in Colorado. I she’s made some really good decisions. And then there’s some things that I’ve been concerned about regarding using her political capital to endorse other candidates, which I don’t think she needs to do that because that starts to create division with the people that are supporting the other candidate. And she came out in support of Thomas Massey. And I don’t think that’s something that she really needed to do. And thank you to Mark. He said he saw it that way as well. And let’s see. It did want to mention Little Richies. And this next Monday is Memorial Day. And at 2 o’clock out at the USMC Memorial, there will be a really great event. The speaker is Billy Gallegos. who was one of the Iran hostages. And he’s a Marine, and he will be speaking. The new Marines will be sworn in at 145. The event starts at 2. It’ll probably be over by 245. 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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And there are multiple core areas of planning for your financial freedom. With over 25 years of experience in the credentials of an accredited investment fiduciary, Jody Henze and our team at Mint Financial Strategies can help you navigate corporate and business structures, tax-aware planning, investment management, risk management and asset protection, qualified retirement plan design and administration, retirement plan and IRA distribution strategies, and business succession planning. So for a complimentary consultation regarding any of these things, Give them a call. That number is 303-285-3080. That’s 303-285-3080. It is Wednesday, and that means it is a Trent Luce Wednesday. Trent Luce is a sixth-generation rancher, lives in Nebraska, and continues to… shed light on the issues that the people that feed and fuel us are facing on a regular basis. And of course, the dot to connect with rural America is urban America. And if the people are under assault in rural America, that means our food and fuel are under assault in urban America. Welcome, Trent Luth.
SPEAKER 09 : 71:41
Hi, Kim. That was an interesting introduction. Thank you.
SPEAKER 13 : 71:45
You’re welcome. It’s true, isn’t it? Don’t you think that’s true?
SPEAKER 09 : 71:50
It is. And when you recognize that we imported $50 million more agricultural exports in the past year than we exported, you recognize that there is an assault on food and fuel.
SPEAKER 13 : 72:05
There really is. My dad said that whoever controls the food controls the people. But we can extrapolate that out to even more whoever controls the food, whoever controls the water, whoever controls the energy. All of those things, they control the speech. Of course, the common theme there is control, isn’t it, Trent Luce? Yes.
SPEAKER 09 : 72:28
It is about control. And I know that I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll just bring it up again, that when 87% of the residents of this country rely on city municipal water and electric to get it to them, you are at a greater risk than you realize, whether you’re in rural or urban America, either one.
SPEAKER 13 : 72:49
Well, and I remember as a kid, my little town had their own little power plant and provided the water. And so I hear what you’re saying is… reliance on municipal water, particularly in the urban areas. But we’ve seen more centralization of power, the power grid, centralization, I think, of water. And whenever you start to centralize things, then that makes it easier to control things, correct?
SPEAKER 1 : 73:22
100%.
SPEAKER 09 : 73:24
And we just had the Broken Bow, Nebraska, which had its own little power facility that was generating electricity. And they had a fire about a year ago, and now they are part of the Custer County, Custer Power District, which we are on ourselves. But Nebraska is unique in that 100% of the electric generated is by a co-op, membership-owned co-op. But that’s been hijacked. And it’s hijacked because one year we had six individuals in the state of Nebraska that were funded by a George Soros funding mechanism that were elected to the Nebraska Public Power District Board. And we’ve been chasing net carbon zero since that day and time. In fact, I know of multiple communities throughout the state that the individual town had its own backup power facility and they’ve MPPD has really removed all incentives and pretty much demanded that they shut down. That creates a vulnerability. And so I’m bringing it up because MPPD is also in the crosshairs this week. They have now asked the Public Service Commission for a permit for what is called the R-Line, which comes from Gothenburg, Nebraska, goes north through the pristine Sandhills. And the same story, this will be the same story like we’ve heard in Ebert County when we’ve got to get this power, we’ve got to get this power to underserved areas when, in fact, it’s just a big land grab.
SPEAKER 13 : 75:11
It is. And so you said NPP, that’s Nebraska?
SPEAKER 09 : 75:14
NPPD, Public Power District.
SPEAKER 1 : 75:17
Public Power, okay.
SPEAKER 13 : 75:19
Boy, I tell you, you mentioned Soros, and this agenda, it really came out of, was it Rio de Janeiro back in the 70s? 1992 Rio de Janeiro climate summit. So, Trent, I had an adventure this last week, and that is on Friday and Saturday, we filmed the sequel to A Climate Conversation. And the whole focus on this is this whole net zero thing. And the experts in the film, obviously, are Walt Johnson. who is, it’s his project, it’s his vision. And I thank him for doing that, him and his wife, stepping forward, funding it. And so he’s one of the experts. And then Dr. Will Happer with Princeton flew in. Ken Gregory from Calgary, Alberta, with Friends of Science. Steve Gorham, who is a climate expert and is on the show on a regular basis. And Gregory Wrightstone, senior fellow with the CO2 Coalition. And in fact, Gregory Wrightstone, somehow your name came up. And Gregory Wrightstone has a mustache. He says Trent Luce has a real mustache. So did you know we were talking about you?
SPEAKER 09 : 76:42
No, I did not.
SPEAKER 13 : 76:45
But I really think this is going to be a film for the ages, Trent. And we address this net zero, which basically it’s a bunch of bunk. But George Soros and the World Economic Forum, they’ve been playing long ball on this. And people are finally waking up to this huge land grab. And what we’re seeing is there’s They’ve positioned themselves to try to do a double down on it. And so we’re in such an interesting time on all of this, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 09 : 77:18
This is fantastic. Will you have it out next week?
SPEAKER 13 : 77:24
You know how long editing takes. And so we hope to have the release this September.
SPEAKER 09 : 77:31
I can’t wait till September. We got to get this out now. I’ll give you June 1st.
SPEAKER 13 : 77:36
Well, Colton needs to do his magic on this. Colton Moyer is the producer-director on it, and so it just takes time. Trent, you know that everything worthwhile just takes time to do the job right, and that’s why I say this will be a film for the ages, because it is going to be done so well.
SPEAKER 09 : 77:57
Did you just say that what you and I are doing right now
SPEAKER 13 : 78:03
is not worth it because everything takes time this is live this is a living color it doesn’t take any time at all oh you know do you know how do you know how much time it takes to prepare for all of this every day yeah it took me 59 years i get it i get it but we are we’re in such a our 250th birthday. And I believe that we are in the third founding of our country. It is becoming crystal clear what this agenda is to me. And I don’t know if they’ve reached out to you yet, but I’m going to be in Cheyenne, Wyoming on Thursday, June 4th. I’ve been asked to speak at this, this, this, I don’t know what the wall of wind is. Yeah, it’s the Wyoming Wind Wall. And I talked with one of the organizers yesterday, and they said that they were reaching out to you as well. Has that happened yet?
SPEAKER 09 : 79:03
It has.
SPEAKER 13 : 79:05
Okay. Are you going to be there?
SPEAKER 09 : 79:07
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 13 : 79:08
Hey, I’m going to see you in person then.
SPEAKER 09 : 79:11
That will be great. It’s been a long time.
SPEAKER 13 : 79:14
Yeah, it’s been a long time.
SPEAKER 09 : 79:16
And we’ll get to meet Wendy.
SPEAKER 13 : 79:18
We’ll get to meet Wendy in person and I would love to have all of you. I will get the details. We’ll try to have that in the newsletter this week on the details on that. And I think what I will do is I will, I think I’m going to broadcast from Cheyenne. I’m going to go up. maybe the night before to make all that happen. I know I don’t need to talk about schedule with all of you listeners out there, but I’m doing this with Trent because we’d love to have you join us as well to get as many people there as possible because this comes down to the foundation of America, and that is private property rights. And George Soros, Larry Fink with BlackRock, who’s also the head of the World Economic Forum, and all of their tentacles were at the point where they just about have their plans done regarding taking all of this property. A few years ago, when one of the… individuals, I think she was either from Sweden or Denmark, said by 2030, you will own nothing. And then they said, you’ll be happy about it. We won’t be happy about it. But that is their agenda is you will own nothing. And they are using eminent domain for these industrial solar projects, eminent domain for wind projects, eminent domain for these industrial transmission lines. And people are taking a stand. And that’s why this event on the 4th is going to be so important, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 09 : 80:51
Eminent domain for 15-minute cities, eminent domain for any project that BlackRock or some other capitalist wants to put together. Eminent domain is on steroids, and it must be shut down.
SPEAKER 13 : 81:04
It must be stopped. Okay, let’s go to break so that we don’t interrupt the conversation. We’re talking with Trent Luce. We want to talk about AI data centers. We talked a bit about that in the hour number one with Mike Rolick. And so we want to drill down on that a little bit more because Trent had made a post regarding the dangers of AI data centers in your community. And it’s probably connected because you said that you wanted to talk about these data loyalty cards as well. So we’ll do all that when we come back. These discussions happen because of our sponsors, and one of those is Radiant Power.
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SPEAKER 13 : 83:52
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SPEAKER 09 : 84:49
Well, I mean, it’s now I’ve been thinking about the very first data center that I saw up close and personal. And I guess I should qualify that, Kim, because in November of 2022, I went to the border in Eagle Pass, Texas. But on the way, I stopped by a place in Kansas where an employee of Sunflower Power called me. Because he said, we got this new thing they’re calling a data center. And Trent, they’re electric. We’re supplying their electric. They’re supposed to be pulling off of some personal generation, but we’re supplying their electric. And their electric bills are over $600,000 a month. And in 2022, I’m like, what? So I drove down there and it was just these four buildings that looked like overgrown outhouses, to be honest. They’re air-cooled. There were Bitcoin, actually some of the first Bitcoin mining operations. And so that was my very first exposure. And I started talking about it and started putting data together because they’re doing data mining. And I’m like, what does that mean? And then we had about a year and a half ago in Ellendale, North Dakota, what is now to be a hyperscale, as we didn’t know the term now that we do now, And that thing was reported to use, for whatever reason, I didn’t choose Denver. They chose Denver. The information said that when complete, all three phases, this particular building would use seven times the amount of electricity that the city of Denver uses 24-7 because they run constant, right? That’s why the electric company likes them because there’s no peak, off-peak. They’re just constant. But I was thinking… How can you have a place that’s going to use… And by the way, Denver uses 1.2 gigawatts nonstop. So think about seven times that amount in one location in a very small community. And so I have focused for coming on two years now, the amount of electricity and the amount of water that is generated. But in the path of doing that, Kim, I’ve had people call me and say, I had a guy in Kansas call me and say, we had a data center built across the road from us. We didn’t even know it was going to be built. They built it. And we have to move now because my son is experiencing health problems. They came and measured the decibels inside of their home, 73 decibels. That’s like standing on the runway at DIA nonstop with planes going by you nonstop, 24-7. That’s inside their home. And so I… Go ahead.
SPEAKER 13 : 87:42
Well, Mike Rolick and I were talking about this from a property rights standpoint. So finish your thought, and then we’ll move over to how this is affecting people’s property rights.
SPEAKER 09 : 87:53
So I always was focused on the property rights. That’s been my focus. And then there’s a group of concerned landowners in Sedgwick County, Kansas, and Wichita’s in Sedgwick County, Kansas. And they have a proposed… three different hyperscale systems in Sedgwick County. And this group of concerned citizens have been getting information out. And last week, on Tuesday, they had a symposium. And they brought in two ladies who are industrial hygienists, which I didn’t know was a thing until last week. But Tammy Clark and Kristen Megan Kelly, were on my rollout program, and they’ve got careers in nursing. They’re really medical professional people, and now they spend most of their time just explaining these dangers to folks about what you don’t think about. And COVID really brought them to the forefront, particularly with the jab and things of that nature. But they walked through for an hour on this broadcast, and it’s definitely worth anybody going to find a watch. It’s rollout from last Thursday, May 14th. such things as the frequencies, such things as the hearing issues, and all of the components of living close to a data center that are not directly tied to property rights issues, that are not directly tied to electric use or water use, the things that we haven’t thought about in terms of the health risk that is posed to anybody that lives in the area. And I got to tell you that in 23 years of producing a rural route on a daily basis, no show has generated a better buzz because there’s so many communities. In fact, I’m not going to tell you what county because I was just told not to. There are, you know, I talked to a guy in Oklahoma that was arrested at a public hearing because he spoke seven seconds too long. He was arrested for trespassing. There was a guy in Michigan that was just arrested for trespassing for speaking too long in a public session against AI data centers. And I’ve just been told that two friends of mine, uh, another county that’s gotten to be extremely heated are going to be arrested today for terrorizing because they were willing to implement their second amendment, right? Excuse me, their first amendment, right? The freedom of speech. Terrorizing with their tongue because they’re willing to tell the truth and motivate people to stand up. Kim, this is not about generating data. There’s something very nefarious behind the push to get this to happen. And here’s the big kicker of this whole story. So many communities, and my phone rings every day with somebody that wants help on this, no matter whether it’s in Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado. Every day, somebody has got a new proposed AI data center going into their backyard, hyperscale, using a massive amount of electricity, not enough water to make it happen. And so I thought, what is the demand for AI data? And with the current U.S. infrastructure for data centers that’s already built, not the ones permitting or permitted, the ones built, we are currently using 17% of the available space. So if we’re only using 17% capacity of what’s already online, why is there an immediate need to get these permitted and up and going now?
SPEAKER 13 : 91:52
Now you mentioned something nefarious. Have you come up with the answer yet?
SPEAKER 09 : 91:57
Only theories.
SPEAKER 13 : 91:58
Okay, what’s your theory?
SPEAKER 09 : 92:02
Concentration camps. Oh my gosh. Lock us up.
SPEAKER 1 : 92:07
100%.
SPEAKER 09 : 92:08
Do you want a 15-minute city? They’re building them right under your nose with your taxpayer dollars.
SPEAKER 13 : 92:18
See, that’s the other thing. And that’s one of the things that Mike and I were talking about. Because when I was on city council, talking about property rights and that people should be able to do with their property what they want to. So, for example, if… individual wants to sell their land because they’re getting a great offer and what’s going to go in there is a data center. I wrestled with it. I’m like, well, gosh, that person should be able to sell their land and receive that compensation. But then what I realized is when government puts its finger on the lever and through tax dollars, through incentives, through favorable permitting, actually picking winners and losers. And that data center is able to go in because it’s receiving tax credits. I’ve seen legislation here even in Colorado saying, That they come in, they may not have to pay property taxes. And that burden then goes to everybody else that we are who is paying taxes. That’s antithetical to property rights because that data center or whatever the project is would not be able to offer that compensation to that property owner Without all of these benefits that they have. And so that whole thing is antithetical to property rights, which that we can go right over here to what you’ve talked about regarding the transferable tax credits on industrial solar and industrial wind. We got to get rid of all these. Whenever you see tax credit, tax incentive, the answer should be no. We’ve got to return to where each and every entity and individual is treated equally under the law. And if that happens, then our property rights, I don’t think will be under risk, but they’re under big time risk right now.
SPEAKER 09 : 94:26
And there’s a secondary phase of that. I agree with everything you just said, but the secondary phase, and now I’ve been working with places long enough that this has actually come to fruition. The developer of these AI data centers gets, as you said, a property tax abatement. So they don’t have to pay property tax. But they also don’t acquire the land at normal land values for a given area. I got an example of where land that would normally bring roughly $1,200 an acre, they paid as much as $120,000 an acre for the property to get it. And this was an entire section that was purchased in three phases. So the average was about $80,000 where it was worth, according to the typical use, is $1,200. So then what happens? All of our property tax at some level, what your state index is, that, like sales, contributes to what the new property tax assessments are. And so the people who don’t sell, the people who have to pay the price for the burden of having 1,200 semis a day in your community that you previously didn’t have 12, and all of the costs associated with keeping a county working, when you have this just automatic, just this swarm of people showing up, you now have to pay a significantly higher tax rate because your assessed value has just gone up because somebody artificially used taxpayer dollars to increase the cost of this land.
SPEAKER 13 : 96:14
You absolutely nailed it. And this is another way, these property taxes is another way to take people’s properties. I drove by it really fast, but I saw a little election sign. It said, are your property taxes too high? And so this narrative, people are really starting to pay attention. And so we have this big ideological fight that is going on right now. We are on the precipice. Well, one of the things that I would say really with net zero is it really comes down. Ultimately, it will come down to socialism slash communism. And Ivana said she grew up in Latin America. She said, do you know what the difference is between socialism and communism? Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 09 : 97:10
I don’t know where Yvonne is going with that. I have several definitions.
SPEAKER 13 : 97:14
Okay. She says the difference between socialism and communism is about five years.
SPEAKER 09 : 97:22
Yeah. Well, the actual definition of socialism is a country in transition from capitalism to communism.
SPEAKER 13 : 97:33
And that’s, we’re on the precipice of that right now. And so one of the things we must pray, as George Washington did during the revolution, and we must act, which means we need to engage in this battle of ideas and people are stepping forward. We’re going to continue the discussion with Trent Luce. The text line is very busy. We’d like to unpack a little bit of data centers and your loyalty merchant cards as well. And I’d also like to hear from you. Text line is 720-605-0647. And the call in line is 303-477-5600. And we’re talking a lot about private property. And of course, one of those things is your assets. And your financial freedom is shaped by more than numbers. It’s shaped by planning for the realities of your life. And at Mint Financial Strategies, Jodi Henze and her team can help you assess your current reality while planning for your future. Additionally, Mint Financial Strategies can help you navigate through all of these emotions regarding everything. and encouraging you to put together a plan, a strategy for your financial well-being. So give them a call. That first appointment is complimentary, and that number is 303-285-3080, 303-285-3080. And if you’ve been injured, you’ll want to talk with John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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SPEAKER 13 : 101:38
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 check out the website for the Center for American Values as well, because they are doing amazing programs focused on our American values, such as honor, integrity, and patriotism, and support them. They have education modules, virtual programs, modules on value speaker series doing amazing work. They’re located in Pueblo and more information. Go to American value center.org. That’s American value center.org. Okay. Trent loose. This came in from Jenny. She said the net zero is the reason the U S is two decades behind China in energy infrastructure and And she said she heard there’s going to be almost 4,000 data centers, the most in the world, 70 planned for Wyoming alone. And she said, think about this. Government is not to own land, but now these municipalities have purchased all this open space, conservation easements with our tax dollars, and now they can decide what they want to sell off. And they also swap parcels. She’s got a lot in those text messages, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 09 : 102:54
And 100% that I agree with. The interesting thing about this, and I brought this up once before, but of the existing, we’re to have 5,300 total is what they project for the United States long term. 40% of the existing data centers that are currently in operation are in the Colorado River watershed. So an area that we know is struggling with access to enough water to begin with before 2026, what was the intended purpose to put so many data centers in Phoenix and Las Vegas and all of these very arid, drought-stricken areas?
SPEAKER 13 : 103:44
Right. So the east has been having a lot of rain. So first and foremost, why would you, to your point, why would you put a data center, which is an energy hog and a water hog, in the desert when people are already struggling with water? Why? It makes no sense, right?
SPEAKER 09 : 104:10
It’s called a desert because annually there’s a restriction on water. And yet you put the most water-intense water. And I would just want to address this because this is the number one issue. But these are closed loop systems like your radiator of the car. Well, nobody has a car radiator. They don’t have to add water to from time to time. And their closed loop system holds 30 million gallons of water at one time. And it requires the addition of about 10 gallon per minute. So the closed loop story is blown apart altogether.
SPEAKER 13 : 104:49
So all of this is connected. And this came in from Patty. She said the people need to understand that property tax, our property tax system is leading us back to serfdom. And she’s absolutely correct. But the way property taxes, these school taxes, I need to get Mitch Vexler on again. is that they’re sold to us as a property tax increases. Oh, it’s only the price of a cup of coffee a week or, oh, it’s only the price of this or that. But then you add it all together and it’s a whole bunch of money. And and increasing. So we’ve got to change this property tax as well. And I have to ask Trent Luce, here in Colorado, we had these increased assessments, which means automatically those property taxes are increased. Where is all the money going? Right? That’s the question we need to be asking.
SPEAKER 09 : 105:53
If you go to any of the local meetings, particularly school boards. I mean, most of this money is spent at schools, property tax money. But then the county commission, they tend to be a little more frugal of the ones I’ve set in on, the ones I’ve looked at the budgets, but they still spend money on equipment in a way that they, like they have it. And then they continue to ask for more. But schools, just had a conversation this week with Tony Young, who is running for state superintendent of public schools to the state of Oklahoma. And she brought up a statistic that I’ve never put into index form like this, but she said in Oklahoma, 61% of the school budgets statewide are spent on something other than instruction. 61% spent on something other than instruction. So that means buildings. and school boards, and administration, administration costs. And pension plans, and pensions. All of these things, aside from actually teaching kids.
SPEAKER 13 : 107:03
And our kids, many of our kids at these government-run schools are not reading, writing, or doing arithmetic at proficiency levels. So I think I would like to go in and say, I’d like my money back.
SPEAKER 09 : 107:20
Yeah, I think that would be a fantastic move.
SPEAKER 13 : 107:24
And so that’s why, and at the Kim Monson community, we are, we have this opportunity, what Zach has built, is to have all these different spaces where we could engage on things issues. And the first one I’m going to dedicate to is to local government. Now, next thing here, because you might be the one person that could answer this. This is from Holly. She says, do we know what is actually in the data center and what information is being stored? Who has actually been in one to see what’s there? Have you been in one, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 09 : 108:00
No, I’ve asked. They won’t let me in one. But I can tell you, I know everyone that I know of, particularly the hyperscales, even the truck drivers who go into these centers, which look like prisons, they have a chain link fence around them, barbed wire, the whole thing. Even the truck drivers who deliver product there must submit their phones and they must sign a nondisclosure agreement just simply by delivering product there. I can tell you anybody that even gets close has to sign an NDA. I mean, it is just the most hush mouth thing I’ve ever seen. Now I do know state legislators who have been toured through these data centers during different stages of development, but I’ve never personally been a part of that.
SPEAKER 13 : 108:50
Okay. We should try to do that. So, okay. This came in from Mark. He says, wait a minute. Do data centers truly consume water or do they just use it for cooling? Do you know the answer?
SPEAKER 09 : 109:01
I do know the answer. They use it for cooling, and there’s a level of evaporation. The concern comes in that when this data center is cooling, it actually acquires contaminants. And as that water does get back into the system, it has a contaminated level about it. That is something that the two individuals I had on the air were generating. I’m talking about Tammy Clark and Kristen. Megan Kelly. A person with three first names. Kristen, Megan, Kelly.
SPEAKER 13 : 109:36
I wonder if she used to go by Megan Kelly, but she didn’t want to be confused on that. I don’t know.
SPEAKER 09 : 109:42
Actually, she said her name was Kristen Megan, not middle name Megan.
SPEAKER 1 : 109:48
Okay.
SPEAKER 11 : 109:49
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 : 109:50
I do have to ask you this, Kim, because this gets glossy-eyed. Who is the number one champion in the U.S. for AI data centers? Who’s pushing them harder than anybody else?
SPEAKER 13 : 110:05
I think I know who you’re going to say.
SPEAKER 09 : 110:09
Yeah, you probably do. It’s Donald Trump. He led all of the AI data center gurus to Saudi Arabia in May of 2025. He issued a December 11th, 2025 statement. I’m looking at it right now in executive order, ensuring a national policy framework for artificial intelligence. It was Donald Trump who demanded that states could not control AI data center development as part of the big ugly bill, which he called the big beautiful bill, was removed by the Senate. And most of the people on this trip to China last week were AI data center developers. He needs to be the champion.
SPEAKER 13 : 110:50
In the spirit of Trent Luce, because there’s things that I really like about Donald Trump, we need to engage in this and reach out to him on that. Hey, Trent Luce, we didn’t really get to the loyalty card pricing thing, so we’ll do that next week. As always, it’s a robust conversation. I really appreciate it. Have a great week. We’ll talk with you next week.
SPEAKER 09 : 111:12
Thanks, Kim. See you in Wyoming.
SPEAKER 13 : 111:14
See you in Wyoming. And the quote for the end of the show is from James Madison. He said, every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the Union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
SPEAKER 14 : 111:59
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