In this thought-provoking Friday edition of The Kim Monson Show, Kim opens with a reflection on freedom vs. force and the legacy of liberty. She discusses the dangers of indoctrination through climate narratives, the consequences of misguided energy policy, and the weaponization of government. Rich Wyatt joins the conversation to expose efforts to cancel conservative events in Colorado, and Daniel Turner from Power the Future shares explosive insights about Biden’s use of the autopen to push major climate executive orders. Plus, Professor Kurt Gerwitz explores the implications of AI, data ownership, and legacy-building in a digital age.
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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’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Friday, Producer Joe.
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And a great show planned for you today as well. And check out our website. That is kimmonson.com. That’s M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And sign up for our weekly email newsletter while you’re there. You will get first look of our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. That comes out on Sundays. And so be sure you do that. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com. And our text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. 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. And that could be their rights, their property, freedom, livelihoods, opportunity, childhoods, or lives via force. And force can be a weapon, policy, unpredictable, an excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the agenda being pushed by the World Economic Forum and globalist elites. And they do that through the United Nations, this Colorado state legislature, this Colorado governor. And they can use land use codes, zoning regulations, force fees, all of those kinds of things. That’s why we do the show, is to help you get your brain around these issues so that you can reason with the people in your office. life and persuade them to move us back to freedom to liberty where everyday people can go after their hopes and dreams and remember if something’s a good idea you should not have to use force to implement it on the show we focus on the issues we’ll mention the people that are pushing those issues we try to stay out of all of the personality fighting as much as possible i want to say thank you to the harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show great sponsors for many, many years, and really appreciate that. Today, tomorrow, is the summer solstice, which is going to be the longest day of the year. So now we’re headed towards shorter days, if you can believe it. It’s amazing. It is just amazing that the way God has created just all of this. It’s pretty darn amazing. Let’s see. Let’s get over here to our word of the day. It is inculcate. And it’s I-N-C-U-L-C-A-T-E. Transitive verb. It could be to impress something upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition in still. Number two, to teach others by frequent instruction or repetition to indoctrinate. And number three, to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions to urge on the mind. I would say that our young people have really been inculcated in this, or they’ve tried to, with this whole climate change narrative. I was at an energy meeting yesterday, and the predictions on the cost of electricity, the cost of energy, Here in Colorado, because of the policies of this legislature, this governor, I think that they said by 2040, I don’t have the exact percentage, but the increase in power, electricity to power our lives, will be so significant. And it’s because of really dumb energy policies that – because the climate change narrative has been inculcated with many of these young legislators. And I was thinking about it as I was driving downtown. I got off at I-25 and Broadway. And the trash and the litter and the disrepair of the roads, I was just shocked. And I thought, how is it that we have all these people that are so concerned about climate change? And we had pollution problems before. Most definitely. But we have done so many things to improve upon that. But that lever has been now used to move us to control of so much. And if they control the water and our mobility and how we move about, our food sources… land, all that, that is so antithetical to freedom. And they’ve done that, I think, initially with this narrative of we want clean air and clean water. Well, we do want clean air. And we do want clean water. But we also want clean cities. We want order in our cities. I was talking with a young person the other day who said, you know what? I think the Denver vibe is over. And it’s because of terrible policies. And it just breaks my heart. So we’ve got to continue to engage in this battle out there. You should be able to use the word inculcate, I-N-C-U-L-C-A-T-E in a sentence today. Our quote of the day, it is Friday, so that means I’ve taken the quote from the Medal of Honor quote book that’s been printed by the Center for American Values, which the center is located down in Pueblo. Pueblo is known as the home of heroes because it’s home to four Medal of Honor recipients. And it’s co-founded by Drew Dix, Medal of Honor recipient for actions he took during the Vietnam War, and Brad Padula, who is an Emmy Award winning writer. documentary maker. And Drew and Brad said, we need to remember these stories. We need to instill these values of honor, integrity, and patriotism into our society. And so, hence, they founded the Center for American Values. You can get the book and get more information by going to AmericanValuesCenter.org. And, of course, they would appreciate your support as well. And our quote is from Donald E. Ballard, a United States Navy, born 1945. for actions he took in 1968, and this is his citation, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as HC2C with Company M in connection with operations against enemy aggressive forces. During the afternoon hours, Company M was moving to join the remainder of the 3rd Battalion in Quang Tri, After treating and evacuating two heat casualties, Ballard was returning to his platoon from the evacuation landing zone when the company was ambushed by a North Vietnamese Army unit employing an automatic weapons and mortars and they sustained numerous casualties. Observing a wounded Marine, HC2C Ballard unhesitatingly moved across the fire-swept terrain to the injured man and swiftly rendered medical assistance to his comrade. Ballard then directed four Marines to carry the casualty to a position of relative safety. As the four men prepared to move the wounded Marine, an enemy soldier suddenly left his concealed position and after hurling a hand grenade, which landed near the casualty, commenced firing upon the small group of men. Instantly shouting a warning to the Marines, Ballard fearlessly threw himself upon the lethal explosive device to protect his comrades from the deadly blast. When the grenade failed to detonate, he calmly arose from his dangerous position and resolutely continued his determined efforts in treating other Marine casualties. Ballard’s heroic actions and selfless concern for the welfare of his companions served to inspire all who observed him and prevented possible injury or death to his fellow Marines. His courage-daring initiative and unwavering devotion to the duty in the face of extreme personal danger sustained and enhanced the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service. And his quote is this. He says, seek to understand, then to be understood. Keep a win-win attitude, and the world will be a better place. And again, that’s Donald E. Ballard, United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient. Headlines that I wanted to go through. The first one is from the Daily Wire, the Supreme Court decision regarding Tennessee. Well, the title is this. It says the trans agenda was just dealt a fatal blow. And they said there are two accurate ways to look at yesterday’s Supreme Court decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on so-called gender-affirming procedures for minors. The first way is to see the ruling as a historic victory that protects millions of children all over the country. And it’s a culmination of several years of efforts by lawmakers, conservative legal groups, and everyday citizens, including many who are reading the Daily Wire. It says the other way of looking at this decision, which is also correct, is to see it as a crushing defeat for trans activists and gender ideology as a whole. And he says it was an unforced error. I think this was Matt Walsh. The ACLU did not have to support this lawsuit and force it through to the Supreme Court. So that’s pretty big. But then the next thing, this is from CBS Colorado. It says Supreme Court ruling won’t affect. Access to gender care. Well, they say gender affirming. All these words are so important, but I’ll say gender mutilation care here in Colorado. But it says, but the impact may be felt. And it says Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser says a U.S. Supreme Court ruling issued Wednesday. will not affect access to gender-affirming care in the state. It says the divided court upheld a Tennessee law that restricts certain medical treatments for transgender minors, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and some surgeries. And it says in Colorado passed a law in 2023 protecting access to gender affirming care. And in a statement, Weiser said parents with trusted medical providers know what is best for their child and should have the option to seek the care their child needs. And again, this is gender mutilation of children. And Phil Weiser is running for governor. So just connect that particular dot. Next thing, I thought this was very important. This is from the cool down. It says, historic land deal more than 20 years in the making returns vast swath of land to native tribe, an unprecedented step forward. And it says this is a historic land deal. It more than doubles the Yurok tribe’s holdings after the transfer of 73 square miles along the lower Klamath River. It says on June 5th, the Western Rivers Conservancy announced that it, along with the California Wildlife Conservation Board and California State Coastal Conservancy, had conveyed the 73-square-mile portion of land along the eastern side of the river to the federally recognized tribe. And it says, on behalf of the New York people, I want to sincerely thank the Western Rivers Conservancy for their longtime partnership and commitment to return this major part of the land. And it goes on to say that, again, they hide this under… climate change. And that is why I definitely recommend that you check out a climate conversation. But it says, in addition to having cultural significance to the Yurok tribe, the Klamath River is crucial to the survival of commercially beneficial fish species like salmon imperiled by rising global temperatures and human activities along the river. So what you can see is they’re going to try to remove human activity there. It says restoration projects, including the largest dam removal endeavor in U.S. history, have helped reverse some of the damage. And the recent acreage transfer that brought the tribe’s holdings to 47,000 acres, valued at $56 million, is the largest in state history. 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It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. And this is either today or tomorrow is the longest day of the year. Pleased to have on the line with me, Rich Wyatt. He is the chair of the Jefferson County Republicans. And he’s been working to put together an event. And what’s been happening is radical extremists have been trying to put pressure on venues to prevent these events from happening. And this is a real problem. It’s an antithetical, I think, to freedom of speech. And so I wanted to talk with Rich about that. Rich Wyatt, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. Thanks for having us on today. Appreciate your show and what you do. Thank you.
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Well, yes, definitely. So what is going on?
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Well, you know, we were having our Second Amendment Saturday, which is a firearms training seminar, not something where you’re shooting, but just where you’re learning about mindset, mental preparation, how to handle the aftermath of a shooting, how to engage when you are contacted by police while you’re armed. And I am a retired police officer. And So we had it set up at Jefferson County Fairgrounds in our beautiful county. And the same people, I assume, that tried to stop Steve Bannon from coming and had us move locations for the state party at the centennial dinner have tried the same game on us. And they’re calling and making threats and doing things to stop it. And finally, the fairgrounds called us and said, you need 15 deputies, a sergeant, and a SWAT team to be security at your venue. Well, that equates to about $25,000 or $30,000 worth of extra expense, and it just eliminates you from being able to do it. And so they’ve had success with it or tried to have success with it with the state dinner, and now they’re trying to do it here in Jefferson County. They also, you know, there were some attempts to do that when Kristi Noem came in. And we just can’t allow these things to happen. You know, the former chair stopped the Kristi Noem event, and we’re not going to do that anymore. So we’ve moved it. We’ve gone to a secret location. We’re not telling anybody unless you purchase a ticket at JeffcoRepublicans.com until the night before the venue. And that’s the way we’re going to going to beat them. But it’s just aggravating to us, and I’m sure to you and your listeners, that this is the world we’ve come to today, where the left has taken up to illegal activities in order to cancel freedom of speech and stop Americans from doing things that they want to do on a Saturday. And we’ve got to stop it. So we just can’t let this kind of thing happen And I would hope that your listeners would react by saying, hey, I’m going to join those guys and go to that event on June 28th just to show these guys that we’re not going to tolerate that here in America.
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So, Rich Wyatt, where can people get tickets, get information?
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If they go to JeffcoRepublicans.com, they can get the information on it and tickets for it. It’s $150, and it’s worth every penny. We have a money-back guarantee. If you weren’t satisfied with the trading, we’ll give you the money back. But that never happens because people get really valuable training. You know, this is something, Kim, that everybody that has a gun, whether it’s in your home, your car, you carry it on your person at your place of business, needs to be aware of. Because if you got in a lethal encounter, whether you fired a shot or not, if you drew your gun, you’re subject to felony charges. And so if you don’t have this type of information, which most people don’t reach out and get and they don’t teach it in concealed weapons classes typically, Then, you know, you’re going to spend $50,000, $60,000, $100,000, $200,000 on an attorney, and just this little simple class could help you from doing that. For example, if you called in to the police department after someone broke into your home and threatened your life and you used deadly force to protect yourself and your family, What would you say to the cops on the recorded line that will be used against you when you dial 911? And if you don’t have the answer in your head right now and the proper one, you could be in trouble. And so it’s something as simple as that that we’re going to teach you out there that day how to handle that properly. And we’ve seen a lot of that in the media, of course, where people end up getting criminally charged for things that they didn’t do.
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And what’s the hour? When does it start and it’s from what time to what time?
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It’s from 9 to 5 on Saturday, June 28th, Second Amendment Saturday. And we’re very excited. It’s a fundraiser, of course, for Jefferson County Republican Party. And we use the funds to go out and help good Republican candidates win. get elected to office. Right now we’re working on our school boards here in Jefferson County, and as you know, those are in bad shape, and we’ve got to get that straightened out and get some people with values that Americans have back in office. And the other thing that we’re really focused on in Jefferson County this year is we want to bring kids into the fold and let them see how valuable it is to be part of the Republican Party, which the Democrats have been good at for so long, and we just haven’t done it.
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Well, I do think that that is really important. As you’re talking about this, Rich Wyatt, I find it so curious. These extremists, first of all, trying to shut down meetings, venues, pressuring venues. Really taking away the freedom of speech, the freedom to get together. So trying to take away all of that. But yet they also have no problem using public streets to protest, which I think is fantastic. Important to have the right to protest, but it’s devolving into riots, destruction of property. I saw a headline yesterday, an AutoZone store in Los Angeles was totally ransacked. This is people’s livelihoods that they’re going after. So this is a really important thing, I think, for people to take a look at this, trying to shut down voices, trying to shut down the opportunity for people to meet, which that’s pretty scary, but yet then taking over our streets. Yeah.
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And the problem is they’ve had success in so many places. Now look at Florida. They’re not having success there. The sheriffs and the governor have come out and said, hey, if you block the streets and you date and threaten people in their vehicles, their lives, run them over. Now, if you did that in Denver, you’re going to prison, not just jail, prison. And it’s going to be a real problem, even though your family and your lives could be threatened while you’re in that vehicle, certainly. And you see them surrounding the cars. Now, here in Colorado, we’re Sanctuary City. We look out for all these people that aren’t supposed to be here. And we do all these. We spend a lot of money on it. But now they’re coming into our personal lives and taking away our freedoms, not just our freedom of speech, but our freedom to train, to learn. They’re taking money out of our pockets. You know, the Denver Tech Center Marriott canceled Steve Bannon. speech that was there. Then the Antlers Hotel did the same thing. And that’s a huge boost to our economy when we have these big events where, you know, some 200 to 500 people gather and prepare to hear someone’s speech. And they just don’t want to hear it. They’ve never wanted to hear it. They want to stop us. They stop us in traffic. A protest is fine, you know. And all we’ve got to do is go out and have a peaceful protest. But they don’t have peaceful protests. They have illegal protests where they burn things and hurt people and do bad stuff to people. And… You know, that’s not right. I stand for their right to protest, but not to interfere with other Americans. And that’s the stuff we’ve got to stop. And that’s really what the Republican Party is about. We always hear these things about how bad the Republicans are. They want to take away your freedom. And Donald J. Trump, the best president we’ve ever had in the history of America, bar none. is uh tyrannical and wanting to take away our rights the guy has done nothing but preserve our rights preserve our country and preserve our freedoms and it’s just so we really uh stand up for donald trump and we and for our president and we look to move forward and make this country just a better place and i just see it slipping away which is tragic
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Well, and what you’ve just talked about is projectionism. They project upon others what they’re really about. So when they say Donald Trump wants to take away your rights, they want to take away your rights. And when they say no kings, the kings that they want is they want government. And what I see, Rich, is they want a government that basically takes it all. When we look at Jared Polis and this legislature and the attack upon Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, which the fact that they are working to try to get rid of that and they’ve been going at it and people really on both sides of the aisle. But when I look at it, it’s like, how much do they want? They want it all. They want total control and they want all of the fruits of our labor from what I can see.
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Kim, you’re 100 percent right. You know it. And, you know, it’s they never give up. They never tell the truth. You know, look at you can use gay marriage as an example. OK, they think the Republicans are against gays. We’re not against gays, but they’ve ruined the sanctity. testimony of the biblical marriage by saying, hey, so we said okay, and we let it pass, but it never ends. It goes on to the next thing. Pretty soon they’re going to say, listen, I’m in love with this German shepherd, and you can’t stop me from being in love with this German shepherd. The German shepherd and I are going to get married, and it’s going to be a wonderful thing. You know, it’s just, it’s so outrageous, the things that we see and do, and I look back to, you know, I’m getting to be an old guy, and I look back at my life, and And I say to myself, wow, these things just weren’t even on the radar when I was a kid. My children are growing up in a time when it’s very, very difficult for them. And, you know, my I have two young daughters and well, they’re not that young anymore, 16 and 18. But they have faced massive troubles at school for their conservative values. And they’ve been ostracized, and the teachers are against them, and they get mad because I’ve led a relatively public life. And, you know, I’ve had the DOJ weaponized against me. And as a former chief of police, I spent time in prison because the left doesn’t like that. me speaking out. And they try to stop you and they try to shut you down and they’ll do anything to do it. People have now seen that with, you know, Donald Trump. And, you know, now I was a became a felon before it was cool. But now that Trump’s a felon, it’s become kind of cool. So I get to wear that as a badge of honor now.
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Rich, what a colorful life. So again, your event is on the 28th and people can buy tickets to where?
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JeffcoRepublicans.com, at JeffcoRepublicans.com. That’s the place. If you go to that website, it’ll pop right up with the Second Amendment Saturday. We’d love to see all your listeners come. And we just appreciate your time, Kim, and appreciate what you do on the radio to make sure that America stays free. So thank you very much.
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Absolutely. Again, that’s Rich Wyatt. He is the chair of the JeffcoRepublicans.com, so be sure and check that out. These are important discussions, and we have them because of our great sponsors and really get to work with great people.
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Indeed, it is Friday. 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. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. And do you want more freedom and confidence with your money? Well, Mint Financial Strategies can help. They are an independent firm with over 25 years of experience and is an accredited investment fiduciary company. They put your best interests first always. With a strategy-first approach, they’ll help you build a plan that fits your life. So call Mint Financial Strategies today. That number is 303-285-3080. Again, that’s 303-285-3080. And pleased to have on the line with me Daniel Turner. He is the founder and executive director of Power the Future. Daniel Turner, welcome.
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Kim, it’s always great to be on your program. Thanks for having me back.
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It’s good to have you. You’ve been a little busy. And you founded Power the Future for the people that really feed and fuel us that have been, in a way, forgotten. And so just give us a quick update on that. Sure.
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I appreciate you saying that power of the future. Yeah, I started it a couple of years ago for energy workers in rural America, because even though our energy policy is made in places like Washington, D.C. and New York and San Francisco, when they talk about climate change and all that, the people who are actually affected by those policies live differently. In rural America, in small towns that people necessarily don’t know, and sometimes they don’t have the voice that they need in those power circles, and that’s what Power of the Future tries to be.
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Well, and it’s reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and allows us to change our own personal climate to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Right. So Power the Future, this is a press release that you had. It said Power the Future commends Chairman James Comer, Republican Kentucky, for his commitment to investigate who was behind Joe Biden’s controversial climate executive orders. And this is pretty big. You were on Capitol Hill to testify on this. So tell us about that.
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Yeah, thank you. This is an investigation that we launched really in the middle of the Biden administration because Anyone who was paying attention realized that Joe Biden was not a compost mentee. He was not the one really acting as president. He was a figurehead. And so for a while, we knew that there were people making decisions that were not made with the full input or even directed by the president. And clearly, that’s not how our government is supposed to operate. And then the auto pens scandal really got legs as President Trump started talking more and more about it. And things like the Jake Tapper book, other books that were written where people said, yeah, you know, we just did what we wanted. One former staffer said we were willing to do undemocratic things to protect democracy, which doesn’t really make a lot of sense. So we did a formal investigation into several climate executive orders. And all we wanted to demonstrate was was at any time did Joe Biden in first person talk about them? President Trump obviously makes a very big deal when he signs an executive orders. He has people in the room. He holds it up to the cameras. He takes questions from the press. But there were a number of really big climate executive orders and energy executive orders. That all we know is we’re signed by an auto pen and a statement was put out by the White House and that was it. And we tried to find any example of Joe Biden himself in first person talking about it. And we came up with eight very important ones. Probably the largest, which your audience is well familiar with, was when the Biden administration paused the export of liquid natural gas back in January of 2024. That was an auto pen executive order. Biden never spoke about it. We were just told, yep, the president decided we’re no longer exporting natural gas, period. Huge driver in the Russia-Ukraine war because all of Europe, no longer getting American natural gas, bought it from Russia. They bought it through intermediaries, of course, to give the optics that they were still obeying the sanctions. But they bought Russian natural gas, and that made Russia very, very rich. It really damaged many states, including your wonderful state of Colorado, but Texas and Alaska, New Mexico, most of all Pennsylvania, which it became the driving issue in their senatorial race. And Bob Casey, after 18 years on Capitol Hill, lost that seat, thank God. And Dave McCormick won because Bob Casey couldn’t explain why. why the Biden administration paused liquid natural gas. And so that’s just an example of did Biden actually make that decision? Or did just some staffers say, you know what, let’s just stop natural gas. We hate it. We hate fossil fuels and put his signature on it. He’s in Delaware. He doesn’t know. And it seems that that’s how the operations occurred. It seems that’s how the White House was functioning. And so I was thrilled that Chairman Comer is launching a deeper investigation. And I was called to testify as part of that.
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So give us some of the other ones that you uncovered. You said there were eight executive orders.
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Yeah, some of them came within the last week of the Biden administration, and that’s obviously just laughable, right? With days before President Trump is inaugurated, Biden passed an executive order that said all artificial intelligence had to be powered by green energy. What does that even mean, right? Like you can’t build a data center unless it’s tied to a solar farm or a wind farm. That got overturned, obviously, the very first day. The cancel of all oil and gas in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in Alaska. Hundreds of millions of acres just taken offline. And the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is exactly for that purpose. It’s because the government… since Alaska statehood recognized that this enormous area in the tundra, remote, no population, was full of natural gas and oil, and that’s why it was set aside. And the Biden administration, by executive orders, said, nope, no longer allowed to drill there. The banning of all oil and gas drilling off of the continental shelf, 500-plus million acres of land, just overnight, no longer allowed to drill there. And I think what your audience knows, because they’re in an oil and gas state, and this is a lot of their friends and family, but what a lot of Americans don’t know, not all oil and gas is ExxonMobil. A lot of oil and gas is mom and pop’s family shops, you know, the Kim Monson oil company that maybe has 10 employees. And on paper, people would say, oh, Kim Monson’s an oil exec. And you say, she’s a businesswoman who’s got a really great business, but she’s not this international conglomerate powerhouse. Those are the types of businesses that were crushed by these executive orders, businesses that don’t have stocks to sell to float more cash, that don’t have hundreds of millions in assets that they can – just regular small businesses. And America has tens of thousands of small oil, gas, coal, pipeline, trucking, servicing businesses tied to this industry. And they were decimated by these executive orders. And those are the people who Power the Future exists for. But those are the people motivating me to continue to fight this. Because when a bunch of little climate lunatics in the West Wing did this, Real lives were destroyed. Real families were destroyed. And your audience knows what happens when people lose their job and go bankrupt. There’s always the same series of events. Depression, sometimes divorce, sometimes suicide, alcoholism. How many families were destroyed because some little twerp in the White House decided, you know what, let’s ban oil and gas leases next week. And they just used the auto pen. Biden was in Delaware asleep. And because of the damage they did to real people, we as an organization are not going to rest until they’re held accountable. And that means hopefully in jail, because it was criminal to impersonate the president, and it’s criminal to have punished your fellow Americans for your stupid little climate agenda and cause real damage to fellow patriots. So this is criminal activity, and I want people thrown in jail as a result.
SPEAKER 11 :
This is the first time I can hear the emotion in your voice on this, Daniel Turner. And I think it’s because it ruins people’s lives. It makes it very difficult for people. So did Trump, when he, those first executive orders, did he overturn these immediately? Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
They’ve all been overturned. They were all overturned on the very first day. But the damage was done during the Biden years. And even some of those orders were overturned eventually by judges. But eventually, the oil and gas export ban was overturned about seven months later by a judge. A federal judge finally said the president can’t ban the sale of natural gas. Took seven months. Funny, you arrest someone in Colorado Springs who’s an illegal alien and a judge the next day has a verdict. But the international sale of natural gas took months for a federal judge to get his act together to determine that. So when people talk about weaponizing the judiciary, there’s a lot of evidence that it is being weaponized. how they slow roll the certain things, but what they want to do against President Trump, boy, they can get an injunction within hours.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it is pretty remarkable regarding that. Let’s continue the discussion with Daniel Turner. He is the founder and executive director of Power the Future. We’ll do that when we come back from break. We get to work with amazing sponsors. For everything mortgages, reach out to Lauren Levy.
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SPEAKER 1 :
Here’s to another world.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, and welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation. The official Marine Memorial is located right here in Golden, Colorado. And it was dedicated in 1977. They’re working on a remodel. And it’s important to take care of these things, to remember and honor those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our liberty. And that website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org, usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Talking with Daniel Turner, he is the founder and executive director of Power of the Future. He was on Capitol Hill earlier this month. And super interesting encounter there. So first of all, Daniel Turner, set this up for us to go to Capitol Hill to testify in Congress. And I think you were, was it the Doge group that you were with? So set this up. How does that look? What happens on that?
SPEAKER 03 :
So this was the House Oversight Committee, which is Chairman Comer. And then there are several subcommittees. And this was the subcommittee that focuses on DOGE exactly, on government efficiency and government waste. And this was a hearing about… What made a lot of news not long ago, the Stacey Abrams getting $2 billion for her nonprofit that she created a couple weeks ago, and Joe Biden awarded her a $2 billion contract. This was part of the investigation as to why did all these nonprofits exist. receive billions of dollars in terms of climate change funding and what did it really go to? That was another investigation of Power of the Future. And so, yeah, you get called to testify. You know, they invite you first. If you say no, then they’ll subpoena you. But, of course, I wasn’t going to say no because this was our investigation. And it’s a very, very strict order of how the hearings work. No one is allowed to speak out of turn. I broke that at one point because a congressman, I felt, threatened me. But if you’re not asked a question, you just sit there for hours and hours. Most of the members of Congress, especially the Democrats, walk into the room a minute before it’s their turn. They speak for five minutes. They yell. They point fingers. And then they walk out of the room. And the whole thing is for… The television. There’s no exchange. There’s no conversation. They read off of notes that they haven’t read before. Some staffer prepared them. I’m sure there’s inflection points about when to get angry and when to… It’s theater, basically. I had some wonderful exchanges with Republicans where they do ask you a question and you go back and forth. But with the Democrats, it’s just an absolute waste of time and quite insulting after a while.
SPEAKER 11 :
So was this a different time that you were on Capitol Hill? We talked about this regarding Biden and the auto pin. Was this a different hearing than when you were threatened by Democrat Representative Greg Kassar of Texas?
SPEAKER 03 :
No, that was that hearing, exactly. And that’s when I spoke out of turn. He, of course, is a Democrat, and he’s the head of the Progressive Caucus, and he was yelling at us about Republicans want to kill. They always need to pivot, right? They don’t want to address the fact that Stacey Abrams got $2 billion, which was funded back to Democrat groups. So they have to talk about Republicans hate nonprofits, nonprofits feed children, nonprofits clothe the homeless, Republicans hate children and homeless, Republicans are evil. And that was his whole point of view. And then he ended his conversation after saying how much we hate the nonprofit world, and we hate people and we hate women. And he talked about a crazed gunman in his hometown who killed several people, that awful shooting in San Antonio about six years ago. And he said, and that gunman’s manifesto said that he did that because of the political views of people. And then he pointed at all of us witnesses and said, and I just want you to know what goes around comes around. What goes around comes around. And then he ran out of the room, of course. But I I apologize to the chair, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene. But I was like, I’m not going to sit here and have some guy talk about a mass murder and look at me and say what goes around comes around. Is that are you saying I’m going to get killed? Are you saying you want me to get killed? And so I interrupted. And the chairwoman was very nice. She let me make my point. But she was very quick to end it because you have to follow protocol. And I was not given permission to speak. And they went right back to procedure. It’s very odd. It’s like this system that there’s no wiggle room and the whole system is structured in such a way to accomplish nothing.
SPEAKER 11 :
So there’s a lot of time, money, energy, resources spent on all of this. It’s theater. And it accomplishes nothing.
SPEAKER 03 :
It accomplishes – maybe puts it in the public square. It lays the foundation for further investigation or for maybe legislation. But if the Democrats were serious about wanting to have a conversation or about a hearing, they could ask me – they could ask me very pointed and very difficult questions. But that’s never what the conversation is. Representative Ayanna Pressley, a member of the squad – screamed about how we just hate Stacey Abrams because she’s a strong black woman. Of course, she had to play the race card because it’s the only card she has. Little does she know that, like, I’m not going to step away from a conversation if you interject race because I’m not racist and so I’m not afraid of conversations about race. But she thought that would shut us all up or at least make us cower. And she screamed about Stacey Abrams, strong black women, you don’t like black women. And how many of you raise your hand if you think Heritage Foundation is should lose its non-profit status. And I remember looking at her thinking, what the heck does that even mean? We’re not talking about Heritage Foundation. Heritage Foundation also doesn’t receive a dime from the taxpayers. We’re asking, why did Stacey Abrams create a nonprofit and four months later get $2 billion? What was she going to do with the money? And so this is just the exchange. And then she yells at me and is like, I knew you were a coward. You wouldn’t raise your hand because this is all blah, blah. And then she runs out the room. It’s just, it’s so silly. It’s so, but the only ones, Kim, who can amend the process is Congress. To amend the process to say that witnesses should be able to respond would be wonderful. But if you’re in Congress, why do you want the witnesses to respond? Because they may make you look bad. So you don’t want to look bad. All you want to do is look good. And so, no, let’s just leave the hearing exactly as it is. Give us each five minutes to yell and scream and rant and make little clips that we can put on social media and fundraise off of. And then I walk out of the room and I go to my next thing. It’s just it’s theater. It really is. It’s just political theater. Despite the chair’s best intentions to have a hearing, 15, 16 Democrats, all they did was scream about Stacey Abrams is black and you’re racist and you don’t like children. It was just it’s really pathetic.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and that’s the soundbite that they want to get out there. And those that only see those soundbites, they realize that strategy is successful with that group of people. Although I think that more and more people in America realize are waking up i think people are realizing that there’s something that hasn’t been right and it hasn’t been right for a long time and particularly here in colorado i went down to a meeting yesterday with a number of people in the energy business i drove to downtown denver mentioned this earlier in the show and dim this beautiful city daniel that i used to love is dirty and dangerous. And as I was getting off of I-25 onto Broadway, the trash that is along the roadway is unbelievable. And so they say they want clean air, clean water. They use that as the narrative. We all want clean air. We all want clean water. We also want people to be able to thrive and prosper. We want order in our lives. We want clean cities. And I was just aghast at they say they care about clean air, clean water, but they really don’t mind dirty cities.
SPEAKER 03 :
No, they don’t. And there’s been a lot of reporting in the last couple of days about how the DNC, the Democrat National Committee, is completely bankrupt. Conversations about how they are looking to take out loans because they literally have no money for operating funds. And I put this on Twitter yesterday. They lost their biggest donor, and their biggest donor is the taxpayer. And I think the Democrats are really, we are on to something that The cancellation of USAID and the millions of dollars there, the cancellation of all these EPA grants. So much of the Democrat money doesn’t come from Americans because Americans don’t want to live in dirty cities that are overrun with illegals that are dangerous. They don’t want to live with terrible schools. And so you realize a lot of the Democrat money base is. has just been tax dollars, that you create a fake nonprofit like Stacey Abrams. Stacey Abrams hires 15 different consulting firms at $800,000 a month. All that money goes to the consulting firm. The consulting firm writes a huge check to a PAC. The PAC suddenly runs a $40 million ad to elect this communist who becomes your mayor or your governor. And you say, how the heck did that person get elected? Now the Democrats are out of cash. The reason why is because Doge and President Trump and Elon Musk and Administrator Zeldin at the EPA and Secretary Rubio at USAID, they’ve realized this. This is how the system is operated. There is no climate movement in America at all. There may be some lunatics who believe in climate change, but the way we’ve been taught for 50 years that all of Americans are petrified, there isn’t. It’s fake. Just like there’s no trans movement in America. If it’s 0.02% of the population, how the hell is it something that we talk about? Hours and hours and hours a day. You know why? Because the money has been stolen from the taxpayers and put into these organizations to create this myth that we are a liberal country, that we’re a pro-abortion-on-demand country, that we’re a pro-trans country, that we’re a pro-climate change country, and we’re not. And all of this is being unmasked for the American people.
SPEAKER 11 :
That is so important. Daniel, we’re out of time. Daniel Turner, Power of the Future, thank you so much. Our quote for the end of the show is Alexander Hamilton. He said, there’s a certain enthusiasm and liberty that makes human nature rise above itself and acts of bravery and heroism. Stay tuned for our number two.
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SPEAKER 05 :
It’s good to be here. Good morning, Kim. It’s a beautiful day.
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s a gorgeous day in Colorado, as long as you don’t think about public policy here. But I think about that all the time. The clouds coming in quickly if you start thinking like that. Oh, my goodness gracious. That’s for sure. Let’s get to our word of the day. Are you ready for this, Kurt?
SPEAKER 05 :
I have a space in my journal for it right now. Okay.
SPEAKER 11 :
It is inculcate, I-N-C-U-L-C-A-T-E, a transitive verb. And it is, number one, to impress something upon the mind of another by frequent instruction or repetition. And they give an example, inculcating sound principles. I like that one. It could be to teach others by frequent instruction or repetition to indoctrinate. And it says, inculcate the young with a sense of duty was their example. And then lastly, to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions to urge on the mind. And their example was Christ inculcates on his followers humility. So your challenge is to use inculcate in a sentence today, I-N-C-U-L-C-A-T-E. Our quote for today is from the Medal of Honor quote book that’s been published by the Center for American Values. The center is located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk. And Pueblo is known as the home of heroes because there’s four Medal of Honor recipients that grew up in Pueblo. Pretty amazing. And they focus on several things, but all centered around these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. But the Medal of Honor quote book, I’d recommend that you have that in your library at home, and you can order it by going to AmericanValueCenter.org is their website, AmericanValueCenter.org. The quote is from Donald E. Ballard, United States Navy. Medal of Honor, born 1945, actions May 16, 1968. He said, seek to understand, then to be understood. Keep a win-win attitude, and the world will be a better place. And again, that is Donald E. Ballard. Several headlines. A couple others that I wanted to mention in addition to what we had talked about in the first hour is I find it interesting, Kurt, Tracer is on the Colorado Secretary of State’s website, and it gives all of the campaign finance information, people that have contributed to issues, to candidates. I have had discussions on whether or not we really should be getting that information. I think money is also an extension of freedom of speech. However, we have these campaign finance rules here in Colorado, and it’s supposed to be for the public to be able to, so there’s transparency. And after the—well, the Colorado Secretary of State has taken the tracer site down and has said that it is because of the shootings in Minnesota of these politicians, which is really tragic. But I don’t know how you can actually make that connection between the two, but they have. So it’s taken the whole thing down. And— Part of it is saying trying to protect politicians because it had their home addresses on the site. Well, instead of taking the whole site down, why don’t you just take those addresses off, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
What do you think? Well, it’s easier to press one button than to type a bunch of words in and go in and find the delete button on your keyboard.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 05 :
Maybe they’ll put it back up with what you just said, with the addresses down. I actually have the exact same thought you did, which is… He’s sort of questioning the why did it come down.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, why did it come down?
SPEAKER 05 :
What’s the connection to an assassination?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I don’t quite understand that.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, actually, you know what? I hear it. It’s the addresses. That’s it. That’s exactly it.
SPEAKER 11 :
The thing about it, though, Kurt, is you can find anybody if you want to work hard enough on that. Somebody could follow somebody home. You can find somebody if you really want to, particularly in this day and age.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. I mean, so I’m playing devil’s advocate here. They’re adding the friction of having to do a little bit more work to find somebody. I do. You say you can find anybody, but I was talking with one of my, I have a couple of different men’s groups. And I was talking to one of them about the Panama Papers. Do you remember this? It’s a whole thing. I’ll prepare a show for it for you one time.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 05 :
It was revealing how the world’s wealthy avoid sovereignty laws or taxes with offshore accounts. And somebody had dumped… I mean, they dumped millions or billions of data points. Yeah, but it was…
SPEAKER 11 :
But, well, you can find people if you really want to find people. So, yeah, we’ll talk more about that. Right now we have on the line with us Alicia Garcia, who is with the Second Syndicate, which are great sponsors of the show. The Second Amendment is there to protect the first. Alicia Garcia, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. How are you doing? I am doing well. And what do people need to know this week?
SPEAKER 09 :
What people need to know this week is to make sure that they are reaching out to their congressmen and senators, because we still have probably this weekend is the day that they are going to be meeting in regards to the big, beautiful bill discussing the Short Act and the Hearing Protection Act. which would, well, if people aren’t aware what’s going on, the term the Short Act refers to the proposed legislation and it’s aiming to remove the specifically short-barreled rifles and shotguns from the definition of firearms under the National Firearms Act. So this would effectively deregulate these weapons, eliminating the federal restrictions on their sale, transfer, and possession, which we absolutely want. We want that language to be included in the Big Beautiful Bill, the same thing with the Hearing Protection Act. We discussed this last week, as well as the article that I submitted to you, that the Hearing Protection Act is being submitted right now to be included some language into the Hearing Protection Act and to the Big Beautiful Bill. And we want to ensure that Section 3 and Section 4 of the Hearing Protection Act is included in the Big Beautiful Bill to make sure that suppressors are deregulated also and that we still have access to them in states like Colorado as well as plenty of others.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, in the Big Beautiful Bill, the intent was never to prevent Coloradans from being able to purchase and own suppressors. But in legislation, and with one thing on top of the other, it can create a situation which what it has, if these things are not added in that you just mentioned— that would then make it illegal for Coloradans to have suppressors. And suppressors, explain that to us just a little bit, Alicia Garcia.
SPEAKER 09 :
So what a suppressor is, is actually a benefit to your firearm rather than a hindrance. So they work just like a muffler does for a vehicle. So when you are shooting a firearm, when you hear that fun bang, what that sound is is actually the gas hitting the atmosphere from the firearm. What a suppressor does is it, through these things we call baffles, they’re little chambers that are in the suppressor, that every time the gases pass through the chambers, it disperses the gases outward into the atmosphere in sections so by the time the cartridge or while the bullet leaves the front end of the suppressor it doesn’t have that big loud of a bang because those gases have been dispersed by the time it gets there so it helps make sure that that sound isn’t as loud as it would be without those baffles dispersing those gases so it helps so for example if you have if you have to use your firearm your rifle your pistol in a home defense situation or an intimate setting, if you have it suppressed, it would prevent that from actually hindering you and hurting your hearing because of it. So they’re great things. And they also help a little bit with accuracy as well.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. Now, I’m a novice on all this, Alicia Garcia. Is there a difference? I’ve heard the term silencer. So a suppressor and a silencer are two different things, yes?
SPEAKER 09 :
Actually, no, they’re the same thing. A lot of people seem to interchange those terms because the word silencer is kind of a movie term. It gives the impression to people that it makes guns completely silent, which they don’t. They truly just do suppress the sound. So one of the terms that we use in the industry is can. We always say, oh, those are just cans. You just…
SPEAKER 11 :
throw a can on your gun and it helps suppress the sound okay okay and this week is important i know that they’re going to try to get this big beautiful bill passed i think by july 4th out of the senate was what i heard is that what you’re hearing yes so it’s a high likelihood that
SPEAKER 09 :
This entire language will be in front of the parliamentarian this weekend, and they will be discussing it. So it’s very important that we as American citizens and Coloradans reach out to these people and say, hey, you know what? I am your constituent. I want to make sure that you include the language of the Hearing Suppression Act and put that in to the Big Beautiful Bill as well as the Short Act because We want to be able to access these items, not just for some, but for all.
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay, and if people want more information, the piece that we published just recently that you had written, The Big Beautiful Backfire, has a lot of information there, and they can understand that. And the right to keep and bear firearms, to protect ourselves against bad actors, It was the Second Amendment. It’s there to protect our freedom of speech and freedom of religion, all of these foundational freedoms that we have in our Bill of Rights. And the work that you’re doing at the Second Syndicate, you’ve put this together to bring people together to protect the Second Amendment.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely. So one of the things and trends that we were noticing in the state of Colorado is not a lot of these national groups are really coming through to help us. We have reached out for quite some time and saying, hey, we need you here. We need your support. But we’ve kind of been, you know, the cheese over here standing alone. So we said, well, we need unity here in this community in Colorado to make sure that we’re protecting the civil and human right. So my business partners, Teddy and Rocia Collins of Spartan Defense. We three came together, created the Second Syndicate to create a grassroots movement, not only to educate and inform. We have a show that we have every other week on Wednesdays on our YouTube channel on Aspartame Defense Armory and the Second Syndicate, but as well as to organize, to lobby, to help get more legislation passed in the state of Colorado that is in favor of protecting these rights. as well as put the correct people in office. We had a lot of people that just walked basically into their positions in the State House representatives and Senate because either they ran unopposed or were appointed, which that’s ridiculous. We need patriots that are actually for the people representing us in these positions that are favorable to our civil rights, which we don’t have right now. So we need to change that. So we created the second syndicate as a unified movement to help organize and deploy patriots. like-minded individuals to putting people in office and educating everyone about what’s going on here in Colorado in the Second Amendment industry.
SPEAKER 11 :
So what is the website? I know you’re working on membership, a variety of things. You’re building this as we’re going here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Absolutely. So you can head over to thesecondsyndicate.com, the2nd.com. Excuse me, thesecondsyndicate.com. It’s spelled out, the2ndsyndicate.com. You can head over to, I believe it is… the give send go where you can give a donation to us we are a 501c4 so we are a non-profit and help support us anything helps any if you would like to donate equipment for us to do giveaways to raise funding we would love that however you want to be a part of us if you have a skill set that you feel is relevant say you know you are great with you know, organizing people. You’re great with fundraising. If you want to contribute in any way, that is a beautiful part of us as a syndicate. We want as many people involved as possible. So please feel free to reach out to us and join, join the syndicate.
SPEAKER 11 :
It is a movement. It is a movement and it’s so important. So Alicia Garcia, thank you so much. We will talk with you next week. Thank you so much, Kim. You have a great weekend. You as well. And another great sponsor of the show is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And they want you to feel safe and well served to understand your insurance coverage and know that their office will respond to your call or text 24 hours a day. So for that 24-hour peace of mind, call Roger Mangan at 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, Roger Mangan’s team is there.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. And do you have big dreams for your future, but you’re not sure how to get there? Call our friends at Mint Financial Strategies. They know your financial life is unique, and as an independent firm and an accredited investment fiduciary, they build personalized strategies that put your freedom and goals first. No sales pressure, no one-size-fits-all approach, just thoughtful guidance built around you. So take that first step toward your future. Call Mint Financial Strategies at 303-285-3080. That’s 303-285-3080. In studio with me is Professor Kurt Gerwitz. Kurt, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s always good to be here, Kim.
SPEAKER 11 :
And before we get into all of this, you are going to be speaking next week at Patty McKernan organizes this Dare to Dialogue. Amazing subjects. And so I wanted to just chat a little bit about that. You’re going to talk about AI. Is that right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, we’re going to have a panel on AI. You know, the St. John Institute is a Catholic institution, but all Christians, all humans are welcome to come and engage in the conversation. Patty had a good question in her own heart. It’s, you know, should Catholics, should Christians, should humans use AI? It’s what she asked. It’s a big question. And then she brings in, there’s going to be two panelists, me and one other gentleman, and I will be representing, you know, tackling the question from the side of reason. and the other panelists will be tackling the question from the side of faith. Should we use AI? And I’ve developed a lot of thoughts on it, and I’ve been studying the heck out of AI. It’s almost, it’s not my profession necessarily, but I do speak about it on stage. So I do think it’s the future, and I think it’s super important for us to be thinking about and talking about. So yeah, so we’re going to talk about what, you know, should Catholics use AI?
SPEAKER 11 :
Okay. And the event is at the St. John Institute, is that right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, it’s down south. I don’t have the address right here at me, but it should be easily Googled for the June St. John Institute. And then it’s Dare to Dialogue. The number two for the TO there is Dare No. 2 Dialogue.
SPEAKER 11 :
And Patty really is doing an amazing job on all that. And if she will, Patty, if you will text me the exact details on all that, we’ll make sure that we hit that as well. So AI. I’ve been thinking a lot about it. And I know you’re studying it a lot. And AI can be used to answer questions. It can come up with commentary on things. There’s that component. But we hear a lot about these AI data centers. And Kurt, what I’m connecting is is that these data centers aren’t necessarily there to be providing answers to our questions, but that actually those data centers will be collecting data on us as individuals from all of these different things that we use in technology, and it will be creating profiles on us, and I’m concerned about that.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think that concern is 10, maybe 20 years old. And I don’t know that… So AI will make… Let me tell the story real quick. So that concern is old or it’s in the future? Well, it’s both, of course. But it’s I think, you know, it was it was people smarter than me had told me, you know, oh, you know, your your anonymity on the Internet comes from just there’s just way too much information. And like they couldn’t possibly that they in this group is like those who want to surveil us. Right. Those who want to watch us and build profiles on us. And they couldn’t possibly collect all the information that’s happening on the internet. And then there was a whistleblower, and he worked for AT&T at the time, and he said, there’s two pipes at AT&T of information. This is more than a decade old, I’m telling you. So long before AI was really on the radar. Yeah. And the two pipes, well, one was going straight into the NSA, the no such agency, the National Security Agency, the America’s spy agency that spies on American citizens because the CIA has a mandate that it’s not supposed to spy on American citizens. Now they get around that by the CIA spies on British citizens and then the British MI5 or whatever the equivalent is over there. They spy on American citizens and then they just swap information. That’s how they get around their rules against spying on American citizens. But we have a whole agency just for spying on Americans, which is the NSA. And that pipe was going into there. And I was like, wow. So they actually are gathering and collecting our Internet activity. And then my mentor was in the CIA. Bless his heart. Bless his soul. Rest in peace. And he said to me, he said, there’s probably a profile on you. And this was, again, more than 10 years ago. And I thought, well, maybe he meant that every American with a college degree has a profile on them at the CIA. And well, but I think now I think it’s very I think we have the technology now to have a profile on every American. You know, and I think I think what what percentage of police work these days is just opening up Facebook and seeing like where criminals are bragging about the stupid things they’ve done. And so there’s there’s people we’ve opted into this for one. But I think what AI does is it makes all that information, all that data. It was hard to, you know, it wasn’t a good search function before. Like you try to type in someone’s name or you type, it would have keywords. Like if you type in the word bomb or if you have like, you know, terrorist language or something, you could look for that. But now AI is going to do the cognitive work, the thinking, the filtering to say this person, you know, doesn’t, And there’s going to be good and bad, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I think so. Somebody sent over an example of what they called longitudinal data on one person, on a student. And it was pretty darn scary as I looked at that. So we’re going to continue the discussion with Kurt Gerwitz. We have these discussions because we have great sponsors. And for everything residential real estate, reach out to Karen Levine.
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SPEAKER 11 :
And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That’s Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. I thank the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. And we’ll have Susan Harris on next week to get her read on current events. I always love to talk with her about that. In studio with me is Professor Kurt Gerwitz. And Patty McKernan is organizing a really great event. She has many, many great events with this Dare to Dialogue where she takes a look at these difficult issues that we have out there and brings in panelists to talk about that. So you will be the panelist on one. It is going to be June 26th, 7 p.m. at the St. John Institute. You can get more information about that at stjohninstitute.org slash events. But that will be June 26th, 7 p.m. That address is 4775 South Pearl Street. AI. I came up with this, and you know a lot more about it than I do, but this whole data collection, that’s something that I’m very concerned about. As you have mentioned, they’ve been collecting data on us for a long time, but they can… watch you as you’re traveling around the metro area now with these flock cameras and that data is going someplace somebody’s paying for it data is the new oil and i think one of the ways to get ai under control is that we own our own data. Now, I know that we’ve checked the box and said, oh, you can do this and whatever with our data. But what do you think about owning our own data?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, well, Europe is way ahead of us on that. Is it a human right? I love this narrative. I heard that every generation has had a constitutional amendment, meaning we’ve attempted to improve the… It takes a lot to make a constitutional amendment. You have to get like some 80, like what, 70, 60, 75 percent of Congress and the Senate to agree. Can you imagine what it takes to get that done? Well, we at my generation, if if if I can claim I actually claim both Gen X and the millennials, which is Gen Y. because I’m right in between the two, but there hasn’t not been a constitutional amendment. And one argument is that we’re just distracted by our screens, that our phones are too entertaining, so we don’t actually get politically active like perhaps we should, and to make America one step closer to being the… The ideal that we should be – well, my argument is that we should – the constitutional amendment I’m calling for from my generation is one on privacy. So it’s exactly what you said, that you own the data. And Europe is doing a better job with that. I forget the acronym, GDLR. And that’s a lot of the reason that we have those pop-ups on the internet now that say, how would you – can you stop the – the uh the cookies from following you on the internet to see what other websites you go to but it is absolutely the business model of google and facebook to sell your data to advertisers and their argument is they’re giving you better advertisements but they’re also completely monitoring your uh you know someone is interested in your political opinions i promise you that yes so if we owned our own data how how could would that change things I think it would change things drastically. What’s the name of this? It’s called surveillance capitalism. Google and Facebook would completely have to pivot their business models. You’d get less targeted ads. Or you could monetize it. That’s the thing is they’re selling your data. Right. And they say it’s anonymized when they put it in aggregate. They’re not selling your specific name to one thing, although there have been people who have shown that you can take that data and actually tie it back to an individual person. That’s what we call doxing. That doxing word, you’re hearing that in the ICE conversation right now because the ICE… soldiers or ICE officers are wearing masks because, you know, you can get hurt when you can. It’s the same issue we were talking about, like privacy withholding, like should somebody, should a politician’s home address be on a website? Well, you know, as it turns out, it might be one of the risk vectors. And so, yeah, what would it change? It kind of depends on exactly what what we decide that you own, but it means that if your data got sold, you would get a check for that. That would be nice.
SPEAKER 11 :
Wouldn’t that be nice?
SPEAKER 05 :
I think Facebook came out with it and said every one of their users is worth $4 to them, if I remember that correctly. I love to put these value terms into dollars so that we can compare them to other things.
SPEAKER 11 :
So I’m going down this road here. I had Virginia Maka on from Stand for the Land Kansas a couple of weeks ago. We were talking about data. And I need to talk with her about this and really get the details. But she had sent over information regarding the data that’s collected on our students, our children. through the education department, and that that data is being used and sold. And so maybe we start with owning our kids’ data and giving permission whether or not that could be sold. And if it’s sold, then we should be paid for that. What do you think about that?
SPEAKER 05 :
I love this. So what came to mind for me was how HIPAA is supposed to protect our medical data.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, right.
SPEAKER 05 :
And we ask, well, why do you even need that? And it’s almost kind of self-evident. Like, you know, if you had a terminal disease, maybe it’d be harder to get a job. Or if you, you know, if you had a disease that indicated your race or gender preferences, then you could be discriminated against. And it can just be embarrassing to have your HIPAA data out there. And so we have laws that are supposed to be protecting your medical data. But your reaction just now when you said, yeah, right, that’s the point I wanted to make about how do we protect our kids’ data. Well, first of all, we have to How do you enforce that? This is one of the major problems of all laws, right? Like, how do you enforce it? How do you how do you know that they’re a kid? Well, you have to know who they are and you have to know their age. So there’s some data on somebody that has to be, you know, well known. And then. Yeah, I mean, I think there’s some good intentions in there, and it’s a new world. These are things that our founding fathers could not have possibly have imagined.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, what about the Fourth Amendment that we’re supposed to be secure?
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, I used to want to wear—you get that underwear where it’s written in metal. The Fourth Amendment is written in metal on your underwear, so when you go through TSA and you have to put your hands up because they’re— The conspiracy, one conspiracy.
SPEAKER 10 :
I’ve never heard about this.
SPEAKER 05 :
One conspiracy I enjoy about the TSA is they’re practicing telling you, put your hands up. So every citizen has practiced that behavior.
SPEAKER 06 :
There’s there’s I’m going to use the word of the day.
SPEAKER 05 :
Inculcate? Yes, they’re inculcating us to put our hands up when they say put your hands up at the airport.
SPEAKER 10 :
I hadn’t connected that dot either.
SPEAKER 05 :
You know, I used to opt out. I used to actually just opt out because I didn’t trust the technology really. But then I wanted to get that underwear with the Fourth Amendment printed on it. It’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure. I want to live in America where, you know, to be surveilled, there has to be a – Between the cop who wants to do that and me, there needs to be a judge. So surveillance without cause is the problem, and I want them to have to get a warrant. And that’s what the Fourth Amendment basically says. Yeah, you have to get a warrant to surveil me. And so you can get it printed on your underwear in metal, and then it shows up on the – that’s what the TSA agent sees is your underwear. But, you know, I’ve actually – of course, there’s stories of TSA agents harassing people who have – I got some interesting reactions when I was opting out. That’s why I was opting out because I wanted to hear. I wanted to see how does the state respond.
SPEAKER 11 :
Opting out of what? Not raising your hands?
SPEAKER 05 :
So you could opt out of that. I don’t know what the name. I’m going to say the technology wrong. Microwave technology where you put your hand up and they just do this quick. you know scan it’s all it’s so much faster now that i i’ve traded my um my ideologies and my my uh unfounded or concerns uh for the convenience so i’ve started to go through that i won’t make other people that i’m traveling with wait for me but i used to say no you have to give me a pat down i’m not i’m not uh because they used to give us the right to to opt out you just you would go to the you go to the tsa line and say i’d like to opt out of this technology of this radar technology And then they give you a manual pat down. It was like a little free massage and a molestation. It was horrible. And only once or twice out of 10 or 15 of these things did they say something snide to me. Because it slows up their operation a little bit.
SPEAKER 11 :
Now, I opt out of having my picture taken. Oh, you can do that?
SPEAKER 05 :
I didn’t know you could do that. Yes, you can. I usually just frown.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, you can do that. I think they got me when I was flying back from Richmond, Virginia. And I didn’t quite, it was kind of new. I didn’t understand what was going on. But I will normally come up and I’ll step to the side of the iPad or whatever they have there. And I’ll say, I prefer not to have my picture taken. And they’ll say, okay. And I give them my driver’s license.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m going to try that next time. Yeah, you’ll have to try that. Because I like to try it just to see how they react. Auditing is what we’re doing.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I think it’s a conditioning because how so they’re doing this with the whole American public. But under the Biden administration, when they were bringing all these illegals across the border and then putting them on airplanes and flying them all over the country, they didn’t have to go through TSA or anything like that. I found that quite interesting. Now, I’m going to tell you’re too young, but there used to be a comedian. Do you remember? Did you ever hear the name Minnie Pearl?
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 11 :
OK. And she was a country and Western comedian. And when I was a little kid, she was the headliner at our county fair. And she came on stage and she said that – and she always was kind of making fun of being an old maid. And so she said she was coming on stage and a robber came up and frisked her and said, give me all your money. And she said, well, I don’t have any money, but if you do that again, I’ll write you a check.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, that is how I felt going through TSA. You have to make light of these things. We have to find humor in it because otherwise we’ll suffer and fall into despair.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and I do think that a lot of it is just this conditioning of the American people. That’s why COVID, to push back on COVID was, I think, it took, it’s amazing to me, Kurt, that it took guts to walk into the supermarket without a mask on. I’m thinking, is this America? I just couldn’t even believe it. You know, I’m going to let you ruminate on that. And you will be on the panel regarding artificial intelligence. And both Patty and Anna, thank you for sending this. The details are Thursday, June 26th at the St. John Leadership Institute, which is located… at 4775 South Pearl Street, again, June 26th, 7 p.m. So Patty and Anna, thank you for getting those details over to us. We’re going to continue the discussion. We’re actually going to hit what we said we were going to talk about when we come back, and that is legacy. Legacies. And if you have been injured, you want to make sure that you reach out to John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That’s Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter at KimMonson.com as well. Professor Kurt Gerwitz is in studio with me. He will be on the panel at the Dare to Dialogue at the St. John Institute, June 26th, 7 p.m. That address is 4775 South Pearl Street in Englewood. And you can go to the St. John Institute website. events and get more information about that. I know I said we were going to get to Legacy But we have to address this. This came in from Eric. And he took issue, I think, yes. He took issue with, you said, ICE soldiers.
SPEAKER 05 :
Oh, it was a slip of the tongue. I apologize.
SPEAKER 11 :
So, but I like us to be authentic. So are you calling them ICE agents with me and ICE soldiers with somebody else?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, it was just a slip of the tongue. Yeah, we were talking about during the break there, you and I were talking about, I listened to Tom Holman on NPR of all places. So it was a contentious interview. He does such a great job of explaining the narrative of the work of our law enforcement, that law enforcement agency. But I do want to talk about legacy. Okay. Okay. Okay, let’s do it. Let’s go to legacy. So I completely apologized for using the word soldier. Okay, okay. There we go. All right. Yeah, so you know what? Here’s a tie-in. We were talking about data, owning our data, the collection of data by the they. Okay. And so – but I am fascinated by legacy because my passion, my purpose and mission in life, my dharma is financial education. And one of the best things I do is I teach people to have a relationship with their future selves. I inculcate it by showing you a picture of your future self. We use technology to – to show you what it looked like when you get older. And I always, you know, I, my poor wife, she, you know, she hears me say that every time we spend money today, it’s stealing from our future selves because we’re not investing it. Right. And, uh, the poor thing. And I say that with tongue in cheek. Hopefully your listeners can hear my smile as I say that. But it is very powerful to balance or to think about, to have a relationship with your future self. And so for you, Kim, I mentioned this to you a couple months ago, and you said, let me think about it. It would be completely understandable if you’ve forgotten. But the question was, what do you want your friends to say about you at your 85th birthday? So that’s the question.
SPEAKER 10 :
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SPEAKER 05 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 10 :
Love that. I love that.
SPEAKER 05 :
So, so that just, what does that tell me? It tells me you value, you know, looking good or youthfulness and you do like you dress up so nice for the radio. You ought to be on TV because you dress so nice and you’re such an attractive young lady. But my question is, is like, if we think about our lives in the full context of all of the years or the decades that we have, um, We get some, I call it spiritual fruits. You get some perspective on the big picture and the long-term thinking. And this is what I do on stage is I challenge my audience to take the bigger picture and to think about what are your values? What do you want to leave behind? What are you leaving behind that is most important to you? Actually, so tying this into data, for you, Kim, I have my own thoughts that maybe you haven’t thought about. You’ve left behind, and it’s recorded, a lot of it’s up on SoundCloud, is all of your… All of these conversations, all of your radio broadcast, a lot of your radio broadcasts have been not just, you know, not just ephemeral, but meaning, you know, not just temporary and in the moment, but actually like being recorded and left for posterity. Well, that’s what AI is. does well is it takes in a lot of data and it can summarize it for us so i think we you and i could i think we should do this for one of our shows we could grab a bunch of your old shows and and put that data into the ai and then then it becomes interactive and summarizes it very well so there’s actually and it gets creepy and it gets ugly and bad and i’m going to say it anyway you know there’s going to be a virtual kim monson that will live on after you’ve uh you know, gone to the heavenly place.
SPEAKER 10 :
Gone to heaven.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 10 :
The heavenly place.
SPEAKER 05 :
I wasn’t going to try to predict how many years of purgatory you’ve earned.
SPEAKER 11 :
I don’t know. Interesting. Legacy. What we leave behind. I think about, of course, I’m going to take it to this, the legacy of the founding of America.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah. And this is what writing did for humanity. 200,000 years we had Homo sapiens living as cavemen, basically, or nomads. And then when we invented agriculture and then writing, writing really, like, wow, it took the data in our heads and we could put it… we could make it last for as long as that, that, that, you know, the papyrus or the, you know, the stone that we wrote it on lasted so that the, you know, the, the law of Hammurabi and, and, and, or the U S constitution, every, every one of our officials, not soldiers, officials, every one of them, you know, signs an oath, a swears an oath to our constitution. So our founding fathers, absolutely. And then, and then every democracy on earth is modeled after us right now, I think. And, and, So that’s an incredible – and John Hancock, what he did, everybody was signing the Declaration of Independence and they were like scribbling their names so it couldn’t be deciphered or they could deny it. It’s like signing with your left hand. Oh, I didn’t write that. That’s not my signature. Because they knew they were signing a death sentence that if the king had caught them, they would be murdered for – for terrorism or being a traitor to the English crown. And John Hancock was like, nope, I’m going the other direction with this. And he wrote it as big and as clear as anything. And that’s why the word signature is John Hancock. Talk about a legacy. That’s amazing. I love that.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, that is interesting. I’ve heard a story in all of these different conversations that some of the first declarations that were circulated only had Hancock’s signature on that. I don’t know if that’s true or not. Do you know?
SPEAKER 05 :
No, I don’t know that.
SPEAKER 11 :
But I do know the same thing is as they were signing the Declaration of Independence, 1776, and the year before, 1775, 250 years ago, things were hot right now. The Continental Army was founded. So this was the anniversary of the Army. Patrick Henry gave a speech, give me liberty or give me death. the Battle of Lexington and Concord, there was a lot that was going on. And the legacy that they were working to leave was liberty, which was the responsible exercise of freedom for the next generations, which is a beautiful thing.
SPEAKER 05 :
It’s so good. It’s better than they even realized, right? They had to compromise on slavery, but the words themselves talked about liberty, which became… the call for the abolition of slavery and so we don’t have slaves today because it’s written in our constitution that it’s illegal and we just kind of you know we had we had kind of ignored that for a hundred years uh in in as as economic needs were there or whatever or rationalizations and so yeah it’s one of the greatest documents on planet earth is the declaration of independence absolutely
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, this vision that we’re all created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, it is pretty amazing. And as you mentioned, they had to compromise on slavery at the time. But what was it, four score and 20 years later? Mm-hmm. And then Lincoln in the Gettysburg Address talked about this great battle that it was really the battle to determine whether or not one man could own another. The answer is no. If we’re all created equal, you can’t do that. But Kurt – I’ll throw this out. We have two minutes left. We are moving towards a modern-day slavery, I think, where governments, PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties, all of these different entities, all the debt that we’re incurring, not only at the federal level. I know we have these discussions about federal debt. Man, when you look at what we have at the local level, the school districts, local level, county, state debt, It’s making us slaves, economic slaves, and we’ve got to get this turned around. And Jason Bailey was on yesterday. We’ve got to begin with no new debt for government, no new debt whatsoever. We’ve got to get this turned around. So we can be, maybe since we’re talking about AI, virtual slaves.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think you’re onto something I think we have to worry about. I think one of the parts of your legacy would be, for me at least, I can tell you this is what you’ve put into my heart, is asking the question, where am I free? And where am I not free?
SPEAKER 10 :
Oh, I like that.
SPEAKER 05 :
I think you’ve I mean, you know, we’re all translating each other’s, you know, in conversation. We’re in a lot of that. A lot is lost in translation, I’m sure. But I think that’s I think you’re living. I think you are leaving a great legacy of of liberty first.
SPEAKER 11 :
Liberty, and it’s the responsible exercise of freedom, as my friend, patriotic historian Ben Martin has said. We’ve got about a minute left. How do you want to wrap this up, Kurt Gerwitz?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, come see me at Dare to Dialogue on June 26th at 7 p.m. on Pearl Street, 4775 South Pearl at the St. John Institute. Look at the St. John Institute on the interwebs. And thanks for having me and thanks for, you know, pushing for freedom. And I do want to, we’ll continue this conversation for sure.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it is really interesting. The legacy, though, of the American idea is something better for the next generation, and the way to do that is through liberty. And Alexander Hamilton said this. He said, there is a certain enthusiasm in liberty that makes human nature rise above itself in acts of bravery and heroism. 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, the american way my friends you are not alone god bless you and god bless america
SPEAKER 08 :
I don’t want no one to cry, but tell them if I do.
SPEAKER 12 :
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