Liberty, Markets and Monuments
Welcome to the Kim Monson Show podcast. Kim Monson is your host. August 7th through 9th is the 42nd Sculpture in the Park Show and Sale in Loveland, Colorado. Loveland sculptor Jane DeDecker, who is on the design team for the women’s monument in Washington, D.C., shares her story and invites you to see her art at the event. Dr. Brian Joondeph discusses a 2020 Westword article, Meet Denver’s Anti-Fauci COVID-19 Contrarian, and wonders whether Westword will acknowledge that what he claimed turned out to be correct. Plus we’ll talk with Jody Hinsey with Mint Financial
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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. Thank you so much for joining us. Each of you 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 Monday, producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And check out our website. It is extensive. It’s beautiful. A lot of great information. Zach has really created something amazing here. Join our community. Alan Thomas is doing an amazing job as he is going through the Federalist Papers. We’re in our second set of classes. The Federalist Papers makes the case for the U.S. Constitution. And those classes are on Thursday night. So join us. We are just scratching the surface on what this is becoming. And you can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. Although the best way to reach out is text line 720-605-0647. My email inbox is… and can end up being a dark hole sometimes. So text me at 720-605-0647. We search for truth and clarity on the show 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. whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhood, or lives via force. Force can be a weapon, but it can be policy and unpredictable in excess of taxation, fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, legislation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist elites, and playing out at the United Nations, but all the way to local governments, even down to special districts. And so we 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 talk about the people behind those issues, but we are working diligently to stay out of the personality stuff that occurs in politics and with eighth grade girls. And each day I have pulled this out. My dad would begin the day with this, with Psalm 118, 24. This is the day the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad. And also, I’d like to ask, as we have celebrated our 250th birthday, we’re moving into 251, and our 56 signers, they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to… put forth liberty for ourselves, our children and our grandchildren. And our time is now, who is our 56 that we will step forward and pledge it all so that we can preserve and conserve liberty and pass it on to the next generation. That is why we do the show because we are at a very tenuous situation in our country now with exorbitant debt, moving away from our principles. And so that’s why we’ve got to, We’ve got to conserve and preserve this great American idea. And I did want to say thank you to my fellow. These are people that are doing that. And that is my fellow Colorado Union of Taxpayer Board members. And they are all volunteers. The 2026 ratings report is on the website. So check that out. But when you see these folks, say thank you to them. And that is Steve Dorman, Greg Goliansky, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Rami Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And I want to say thank you to the team of these board members that manned our table at the Western Conservative Summit this last weekend. Thank you to them for doing that as well. And I want to say thank you to our diamond sponsor of the show. And that is the Harris family. I greatly appreciate them. And I appreciate all of our sponsors immensely as well. And one of those is Hooters restaurants. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster and in Aurora. And of course, great, great place to get together for lunch or happy hour with friends, watch all the sporting events. And they’ve been great sponsors of both the Kim Monson show and America’s veteran stories for many, many years. And our word of the day is recompense. And I was reading a Christian book this weekend about, and it was recompense that Christ did, was recompense for our sins. But it is spelled R-E-C-O-M-P-E-N-S-E. It says to give something to by way of compensation. to pay for, to return in kind, or as a noun, an equivalent or a return to something done, suffered, or given. Compensation. So recompense for our sins. Christ went to the cross and overcame sin and death. And so that is why I chose that word. And our quote of the day is from Winston Churchill. He was born in 1874. He died in 1965. He was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 51 to 55. And for some 62 of his years, between 1900 and 1964, he was a member of parliament and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. And he said this, he said, never give in, never give in, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. And that is Winston Churchill. And… we have these important discussions. There is so much happening in our world and there’s so much happening in our country as well. And I did want to mention this last weekend in twin falls, Idaho and Idaho is, we think of it as a place of safety twin falls. I think it’s a community of about 56,000 just had a new in and out burger that had opened and a 24 year old gunman, um, um, shot some people, ended up killing himself as well. And the first thing that I want to mention, first of all, we expect safe communities, particularly in like Twin Falls, Idaho. We don’t expect these kinds of things to happen. But the shooter was engaged by an armed citizen who undoubtedly saved lives. And that is why the Second Amendment is in our Constitution, is so that good guys can stand up and take out bad guys. Because if he had not been there, the police can’t get there as quickly. This guy was able to save lives. And the Second Amendment, we talk with Teddy Collins on a regular basis. He’s the owner of Spartan Defense, is also running for Colorado Senate District No. 4. is that we continue to see this legislation here in Colorado that is unconstitutional. It’s taking away the right for everyday people to keep and bear firearms to protect ourselves against bad actors because bad actors don’t go through the law. And so, again, I want to make the point that it was a good guy with a firearm that was able to save more lives in Idaho. So the shooter apparently killed himself. But my understanding is two other people. were killed as well. One was a young in and out burger employee. And this is, this is just, you expect when people go to work that they will come home. And so we’ve got to work towards safe communities and we’ll, we’ll address some more of that when we come back because all this happens because of our sponsors. And a value partner of the Kim Monson Show is the Roger Manget State Farm Insurance Team. And Roger, I have some questions for you. Colorado had had the distinction, particularly the metro area, I think, of being in the top five regarding auto theft in the country. I haven’t heard any reports lately. What’s going on with that?
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Good question, Kim. I think what’s happening nationally is a good trend. Auto thefts in 2024 fell by one million fewer cars stolen. But what does that mean? Well, 850,000 vehicles were reported stolen. And The national scene, we’ll talk about that for a second. Hyundai is still leading the charge with the Elante and the Sonata being the two most popular cars stolen. For example, out of 850,000, 31,712 were Hyundai Elantes and 26,000 were the Sonata. Not sure what the attraction is, other than they usually are easier to steal. However, I think also there’s a pickup truck that is right behind them. It’s the Chevy Silverado 1500 pickup. It leads the list with 21,666 of those vehicles stolen. A piece of trivia. The number of registered cars in the United States, unbelievable. 296,600,000 cars in the United States are registered. So when you think about, in context, the number of thefts, not too bad relative to the number of cars, but who would want to say? Car stealing is not as bad as it used to be. Now, what states lead? Colorado in 2021 was leading, and we’re still in the forefront. And of Colorado today, it’s still Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, then Pueblo, in that order. Denver, Aurora, Lakewood, then Pueblo. In the state of Colorado, other cities… in the United States, other cities that lead the charge are Albuquerque, New Mexico, New Mexico in general, and Oregon. So we have a big problem out west. You can surmise on your own why that is the case. I think a lot of cars, when they’re stolen, a lot of them are recovered. The Those that aren’t recovered end up going usually south across the border into Mexico where they’re chopped up into parts. And some of them don’t have to go to Mexico to be chopped up into parts. If you took a car and dismantled, let’s say, a $20,000 car or a $40,000 car, If you chopped it up and sold parts, that $40,000 car could bring somewhere around $100,000 in cash to someone in the car chop market. If you ever go out and try to buy a part like a taillight for a car, it’s an assembly now and it costs somewhere around $200 to $400 to buy a replacement lens. So if you steal a car, you start chopping it up and sell it piece by piece. It’s a very lucrative industry.
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And where does Colorado rank now regarding car thefts?
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Colorado is number one in terms of car thefts in the United States. Now, some cities in various states, like Bakersfield, is still number one for car thefts. But Colorado is number one as a state. So be careful. You know, and you’ve heard this before. When you park your car, park it if it’s at night where it’s lit, well lit. Don’t ever leave your keys in your car. You’d be surprised how many people do. Don’t ever let your car run to warm up in the wintertime because there are thieves driving around looking for that opportunity. One other thing that you should be aware of, if your car is stolen, you come out from work that day and you parked your car, you know where it was and it’s gone. Obviously, the first thing to do is report it to the police. One of the things that happens with your insurance policy is, If you left your key in your car, you’re still going to have coverage. If you left it running, it’s still going to be covered. There isn’t any exclusion in terms of theft. One of the problems I think most people have is the value of the car. If you owe $21,000 on the car and the car is determined to have a value of $18,000, you could be out $3,000. So you’d be upside down when it goes to replace the car. What you can do if you have a lien on that car at the time of the lien, you can buy what’s called gap coverage. And gap coverage covers the deficit. That $3,000 I mentioned would be picked up by the loan company, if you bought that gap coverage at the time of the loan. And you might be able to add it if it’s within six months to a year of the purchase. So if you’re nervous about it, and you should be in Colorado, we have a lot of car theft. You might call whoever has that lien and see if you could add gap coverage and what that cost would be. So it’s a lot of carelessness on a part of the owner or the consumer of cars.
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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. Check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation. They will be celebrating their 49th anniversary later this month. And it’s so important to remember and honor those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our freedom. Also check out the Center for American Values. It’s located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. And they focus on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism through their educational programs, as well as their portraits of valor of over 160 Medal of Honor recipients. It is clearly a very inspirational place. So check that out as well. Several things. First of all, we’re in this governor’s race here in Colorado, and there are three key candidates. There is Victor Marks, who is the Republican candidate, and he named his… running mate this last weekend, and that is George Markert. And he is a Marine colonel, retired. And I’ve met him once and seems like a really impressive guy. And so I certainly wish them both good luck on that. Greg Lopez and his running mate is Tara Lynn Romero. And she is a 40-something individual who basically had been apolitical until Jefferson County tried to take her land, tried to take her property. So she’s had a real property rights fight that I think is very important because our property rights are just so totally under attack. here in America. And so I think that that understanding brings a lot to the table because our property is being taken from us via taxes and fees and legislation and ordinances and all kinds of different things. So I think that that’s really important. And Greg Lopez, they are running as independents. And Greg Lopez… has very conservative principles to conserve and preserve our great American idea. But I wanted to talk about Phil Weiser. I want to continue to do research on him and look at his website. And I must tell you, the Democrats… are so good at messaging. And so this is Phil Weiser. He says, a republic as long as we can keep it. And first thing off, he quotes Ronald Reagan. And I think it’s important that we connect the dots that the radical Democrats, where I would put Phil Weiser over in that group, are so good at messaging. Because he says, he uses Reagan’s quote, freedom is a fragile thing and it’s never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance. It must be fought for and constantly defended by each generation. Then he goes to Benjamin Franklin and quotes Franklin. He says, the survival of our republic, Benjamin Franklin famously said, is for us as long as we can keep it. And then he goes on, he says, our founders fought for independence from a king, recognized the risks of a standing army that operated as an occupying force in our communities, were committed to a system where laws were administered fairly and equally, and safeguarded our freedom of speech. And then he quotes Supreme Court Justice Brandeis. He famously said about our founders’ commitment to our First Amendment protection of free speech in the face of speech we disagree with. The remedy to be applied is more speech and not enforced silence. That is what Phil Weiser has regarding a republic as long as we can keep it. My gosh, I basically love all that. I basically agree with all of that. So I think the key thing is to realize that what he is speaking to is probably most Americans agree with him on that. Now, the next thing he goes on to say is we are witnessing historic attacks on our fundamental freedoms. He said on law enforcement in blue states. And so the first thing I want to say is on that, there was a headline this weekend that a… The intersection, Broadway and Mississippi, I think it is, was closed down right around midnight by street racing. And the Denver Police, the reports are it took about 20 minutes for the Denver Police to get there. And then the Denver Post reported that there were no arrests in this. And residents have said that it was a bit scary of some concern. It was very loud. Fireworks were being shot off. And so when… Phil Weiser says that he wants to push back on attacks upon law enforcement in blue cities. Let’s just go back down memory lane and remember what happened during the summer of love of 2020. And that was primarily in blue cities where businesses were. And it didn’t matter whether it was a Republican business, a Democrat business, and somebody that was registered as independent. Those businesses were destroyed because in those blue cities, the mayors did not stand up for law and order in their cities. that there was a lot of crime that was going on in the East Democrat cities. So this is an example, though. Law and order was not upheld on Saturday night, early Sunday morning, in Denver, in this intersection. No one was arrested. And so we have to understand that that is a real problem. The next thing that he had said regarding, let’s see, Well, let’s go to freedom of speech. And I totally agree. We’ve got to protect freedom of speech. However, let’s go to the radical Democrats and look at what happened with House Bill 25, 13, 12. That basically said that if you do not affirm this language of transgenderism. Ultimately, your child might be taken away from you. There’s different legislation where businesses could be fined. And so while Phil Weiser is saying these things, which I think he’s playing to that big, broad middle, because I agree with him on these things as well. But he is, and he said, he goes on to say, and he quotes another couple of Republicans. One was… It was a justice, excuse me, Judge Emmergott, a federal district judge appointed by Trump, who he quoted, he said, called out President Trump’s actions in Portland as untethered in reality and a threat to our republic. But yet Portland was also a city that was devolving away from law and order. And the residents in Portland is losing law-abiding citizens. They are moving out of Portland. And actually, as I talk with people about Denver, this beautiful city that we used to have, Denver, people are moving out of Denver as well. And so it’s because of those policies. So again, Weiser, though, on his website is playing to the things that we want to hear instead of to what has actually been happening. And so I think that we can learn a lot. He again, he quotes our Constitution and our laws, but the the Democrat Socialists actually are calling for this was a new report, a new headline that was out this last weekend for abolishing the Senate. Well, if you abolish the Senate, you abolish our Republican form of government. And so it’s just important to understand that Weiser, I think, is talking to the big, broad middle. And we need to realize that that is something that is important to all of us. But we also need to call out the actual results. And he goes on in this particular… And this is, you know, there’s different dropdowns on his website. He says, we cannot be intimidated. We must continue to use our voice. Totally agree with him. He said, show up at no king’s rallies. Now, again, the king does not have to be one person. The king can be a government that is taking more and more of your stuff, such as we see here in Colorado with taxes and fees taking away everything. are opportunities with rules and regulations and legislation. And these people that are down at the statehouse and this governor have been acting like kings, and Phil Weiser will be more of the same. And he goes on to talk about the rule of law and the fair administration of justice. Totally agree with him on that freedom of speech. He says they are all under attack. They are all under attack here in Colorado. And so it’s important that we understand that. Again, he says together we must stand strong, clear and vigilant to protect our basic freedoms and keep our republic. He is saying the things that I do agree with. But his actions and the actions of his party and the actions of the radicals that have taken over the Democrat Party are opposite of what he is saying there. So he is saying to the masses what we want to hear. But the actions are totally something different. And so we will continue to show that distinction regarding Phil Weiser. You can text me at 720-605-0647. And for everything regarding residential real estate and the right to own your property, talk to Karen Levine.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Join our community. And I want to say thank you to Learn Me Energy, the Roger Megan insurance team for their gold sponsorship of our new community and also our newsroom. And then also Tradition Spice is a Colorado based family owned company serving the home cook who still believes the best conversations happen around a full table. At TraditionSpice.com, you’ll find individual herbs, spices, and seasonings, plus kits and bundles for birthdays, wedding gifts, or pantries that need rescuing. So shake taco seasoning into a skillet, add lemon pepper to fish, or give chili the slow cooker backbone it deserves. Good food does not need to be fancy. It needs small batch, rich flavor. Shop Tradition Spice Company today. That’s TraditionSpice.com for your next family feast. And yesterday, I ordered things to get my pantry… freshened up, and so I’m very excited. I can’t wait until all that arrives. On the line with us is Dr. Brian Jundepth, and he is a Colorado-based ophthalmologist. He writes frequently about medicine, science, and public policy, and we’re going to go back in history a little bit with Dr. Jundepth. Welcome. It’s good to have you on the line.
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Hi, good morning, Kim. Good to be with you.
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And you had sent something out just recently back in 2020. Westward had printed something. It says, meet Denver’s anti-Fauci COVID-19 contrarian, Dr. Brian June depth. So interesting now in 2026, after Fauci was just on Capitol Hill, invoked the fifth 111 times and kind of vindicates you. Yes. Yes.
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It does. I’m not doing it to, say, look at me and how smart I was at the time, but it’s sort of a statement of how the tide has turned. This was six years ago or five and a half years ago, and the things I wrote, I reread the article, and to me it seemed reasonable. It was common sense. I was asking questions and pointing out inconsistencies and hypocrisy, and Because of that, I was deemed a kook and fringe. And a lot of my posts and writings were censored. And I was reported to the medical board. And guess what? All the things, the questions I talked about have turned out to be true, from the fraudulent COVID testing to case counts, to masking, to therapeutics, et cetera. It was all poo-pooed at the time and there was no room for healthy dissent. And the nature of science is that we should be able to question and challenge. There’s so many things that certainly in the very narrow world where I practice, things we did 20, 30 years ago, we don’t do now because we know better and there are better ways to do it. And we question why we did things the way we did. And that’s replete in all areas of medicine. And to just dismiss anybody that’s asking questions or challenging the orthodoxy, that’s not science. That’s the opposite of science. That’s dogma. That’s Galileo’s days daring to question that the Earth rotates around the sun and not the sun revolving around Earth.
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So, Dr. Brian Jundep, in the previous segment, I’ve been going through Phil Weiser’s website and the messaging is, it’s, it’s good. It certainly, it looks like it’s trying to address things that are concerned. People are concerned about, but as you’re describing back in 2020, what was going on with you and that you were reported to the medical service board, it was such a crazy time. Yeah. Phil Weiser was the attorney general beginning in 2019. And I, as looking back, I don’t recall him standing up for people that were being penalized, if you will, for exhibiting their freedom of speech. So address that just a little bit.
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Well, sure. There was a statement that I don’t remember who issued it, but it came out in mid-part, late part of 2020 that doctors spreading supposed misinformation, disinformation, however that’s loosely defined, could be subject to medical sanctions. And shortly after that, there was an anonymous report to the Colorado Medical Board about, you know, I’m spreading misinformation and I’m saying bad things. I’m not. I had to defend myself. It was successful, but I had to prepare a report and submit it and wait nine months to have it all dismissed. But that’s my livelihood. And I’m writing as a concerned citizen. I happen to be a physician, but in my practice, I don’t treat COVID. I don’t see COVID patients. I don’t give vaccines. I’m an eye surgeon, so I take care of that. So I’m not giving medical advice, none of that. And I was offering an opinion as a physician and scientist, just looking at what we’re doing and asking why. Is what we’re doing data-driven? Is it based on good data? Is it based on tested hypotheses? What is the risk analysis? With every medical intervention, there’s a risk and there’s a benefit, and those have to be talked about. And we were overstated on the benefits of Dr. Fauci’s recommendations, and the risks were understated. You know, lockdowns were great, the masks were great, but they didn’t talk about the consequences of closing businesses, closing schools, keeping kids out of school for a year or longer. Um… So it was very unbalanced. And Phil Weiser, along with a lot of politicians, not only him, how many other states were aggressively backing this challenge, even other countries. The country I lived in for a few years long ago was New Zealand, and they were even worse. Over there, they’d censor doctors and take them off the medical rolls for challenging or questioning anything. So it was sort of a… a wave that caught up the entire world. And now we’re discovering that Dr. Fauci was the Pied Piper and leading the way. And from his own diaries, which he kept on government servers, by the way, so they’re not his personal diaries. They’re official government documents that should be the property of U.S. people. But in his diaries, he was saying… the opposite of what he was saying publicly. He had a group of fellow scientists that the majority felt this virus came from a lab. They thought it was human engineered because of the furin cleavage site, which doesn’t appear in nature. And Fauci was saying the opposite, put out his proximal origins paper about the wet markets and really to distract from the gain-of-function research they were doing. and who knows if it’s still going on. He was all over the place on masks. Originally, he said this looks like a bad flu season. And if it was treated as a bad flu season, it would have come and gone, and so many people would still be alive today, and businesses would be better, and you wouldn’t have a whole generation of kids that had missed out on a year or more of school and socialization and all of that. I mean, the damage is… We’re just starting to see it. This is going to play out for years. And in his private diaries, he was saying the opposite. It’s a bad flu season. Well, we’ve never locked the country down over a bad flu season. And, you know, the therapeutics and he’s written papers on hydroxychloroquine beneficial in coronaviruses. And then all of a sudden, no, you can’t do that because Trump suggested it. And the worst thing, Fauci was obsessed with his celebrity. He was acting like a a teenage girl that just became a TikTok sensation. You know, oh, all the celebrities fawning over him and how popular he is. It’s embarrassing to read his diaries and listen to the hearings last week of just what a fool he was. And unfortunately, so much credence was put into him and he was deified, very unjustly so. And pride goeth before the fall, so now he’s falling. Whether he’ll ever get prosecuted or held to account, I don’t know, but certainly his public standing, instead of becoming the science, he’s becoming the joke.
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So, Dr. June Depp, as we’re going down memory lane, which it’s almost like it’s unbelievable. I remember… going over to the station. And we had to have, supposedly, we had to have a piece of paper to be able to travel around, which I thought this is like communist, you know, this is like Germany or Russia back in, you know, back during World War II with Germany. To have a piece of paper to be out and about in America and Ultimately, I knew something was so wrong about this. And then the fact that Polis, they said that there were businesses that were essential and there were businesses that were not essential. That’s so antithetical to the vision that the declaration that we’re all created equal. So we should all be treated equally. And so I want to connect this dot to where was Phil Weiser back then? He was the attorney general. Where was he standing up? for small mom-and-pop businesses to say, no, you should not be shut down. He was missing in action from what I can remember.
SPEAKER 04 : 42:24
He was, and a lot of attorney generals were. They were kind of the herd mentality. They just went along. It was easier to go along than take a stand. I could have easily, you know, shut up and not said anything, but… I took a stand. I had personal involvement in COVID, and I wanted to speak out about it, not just ignore it. But most people don’t. You take a stand on anything, you’re shot down. Look at Sophie Cunningham in the WNBA taking a simple stand that men shouldn’t participate in women’s sports. And look at the grief she’s getting. Good for her standing up. But how many of her colleagues want to do that? They don’t want to bother. They don’t want to threaten their livelihood. Everybody, they’re cowed into silence because the pressure from the media and the peer groups. I mean, the peer groups during COVID. God forbid you say anything against Fauci on social media. Next thing you’re banned or you’re ridiculed. You know, look at mob groups that somebody spoke out against wearing masks or something, and they’re shamed. The herd came after them viciously. So there’s such peer pressure. And, yeah, it’s too bad Weiser didn’t have a backbone and stand up, but he’s far from alone. The governor didn’t, and attorneys general elsewhere didn’t either. Yeah. It’s amazing how that herd mentality works. And just as an aside, I was in Russia a month or so ago. Not once did anybody ask me for my papers. No one asked me for a passport other than checking into a hotel. We went through immigration. It was a breeze. No questions, no nothing. No interrogation. That’s Russia. I think we were expecting a lot worse, and it was a lot easier than we thought. So the big bad boogeyman of Russia.
SPEAKER 20 : 44:28
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SPEAKER 20 : 47:34
Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. And I want to mention MIM Financial Strategies. Jody Henze is going to be on in the next hour. But there are core areas in planning for your financial freedom. And with over 25 years of experience, Jody Henze and her team can help you with that. And there’s a whole variety of things. Investment management, risk management. qualified retirement plan design, all kinds of different things they can help you with. So reach out to them. That number is 303-285-3080, 303-285-3080. And we are talking with Dr. Brian Jundep. He’s a Colorado ophthalmologist who writes extensively. on medicine, science, public policy. And Dr. June Depp, I was talking about Phil Weiser and how the messaging on his website is kind of exactly what people want to hear. But actually, the policies of the Democrat Party here in Colorado, of which he’s a part of, has been… very onerous for freedom, taking more and more of our money through taxes and fees. So they say one thing and they do another. So this came in from Yvonne. She said, our rights are being taken away by them, this radical Democrats. And it says in politics, as in all relationships, ignore what they say, but watch what they do because the messaging is deceptive. And I think that Coloradans are getting played a bit with what is happening in our state. I was talking with some young people yesterday, and they really care. They want to be, they’re interested in what’s going on, but there’s so much coming at everyday people that it’s hard to sift through it. That’s why we do the show. That’s why I think your pieces that you publish are so important at American Thinker and Rasmussen Reports.
SPEAKER 04 : 49:31
Well, yes, of course. Politicians, I’ll be generous and not say that most of them lie, but campaigning is different than governing, and they all promised big things, and Hickenlooper was going to end homelessness, and if you drive downtown, you’ll see otherwise. Bolas was a libertarian candidate, and libertarian candidates are pro-business, kind of leave things alone, and he’s been quite the opposite. So… Phil Weiser is in a campaign, and he’s going to say what he needs to say to attract votes and when, how he’s going to govern. I would look at how he’s been as attorney general to get a flavor for how he’s going to be his governor. Watch what they do, not what they say. And that’s not unique to Colorado politicians. Yeah. Bill Clinton and on and on. George Bush, they all promise one thing and they lead in a very different way. So no surprise.
SPEAKER 20 : 50:36
Right. And so that’s why we have to hold them accountable. That’s why voices, freedom of speech is important. We talked about Westward, what they had written back in 2020. Have you heard from them regarding some recompense on this?
SPEAKER 04 : 50:52
No, a physician friend of mine sent that article to the author of the article about me, and I’ve heard nothing. No, Rush Limbaugh called them the drive-by media. They would do a hit piece and then drive by onto the next thing, even if proven wrong. Yeah, it’d be easy for them to do. Hey, let’s do a follow up. Let’s look at all these things. And where were we five and a half years ago versus where we are now? And, you know, what were you right about? What were you not right about, et cetera? But I’m not expecting that. So, yeah, good luck.
SPEAKER 20 : 51:33
I wouldn’t either. Let’s move over to a piece that was recently published, July 6th, in American Thinker. It’s titled, If the Land Was Stolen, Give It Back. And the first time I saw one of these acknowledgments of stolen land, it was at a graduation. And… I was taken back, but I think ultimately it is a not-so-subtle way to attack the American idea, to attack America. But this is a really interesting piece that you wrote.
SPEAKER 04 : 52:05
Yeah, I happened to be invited to a Methodist church in Denver and went as a favor to somebody. And the pastor opened her sermon with her pronouns, which kind of annoy me. tell if you’re male or female. I don’t need pronouns. And then acknowledge that they’re on stolen land. And I thought, gee, if you’re on stolen land, why don’t you give it back? If I was acknowledging that the watch on my wrist is stolen from my neighbor, I should be giving it back, not bragging about it. And then the following week, the Obama Presidential Library was… opened, and I believe it was Valerie Jarrett who was giving remarks, and I happened to see a clip of it, not because of her speech, but because of the Lance acknowledgement. She acknowledged that the Obama Library is on stolen land. So why not give it back? Is Obama a thief, a colonizer? If it’s stolen, give it back. And then I thought more, well, who do you give it back to? I mean, hundreds of years ago, was there any such thing as custody? Yes, there were Indian tribes all over the Midwest and the mountain region, and tribes moved. They took land from each other. There were wars. Where is the chain of custody of who this property belonged to? And going back further, buffalo and other animals roamed the plains before humans were there in any consequence, and maybe we should give it back to the animals. But it’s just, its talk is cheap. You can acknowledge anything. It’s stolen land, and my attitude is give it back and figure out who to give it back to and how to do it.
SPEAKER 05 : 54:00
But nobody’s doing that.
SPEAKER 04 : 54:01
Nobody’s offering to give it back. It’s like, oh, I’m not going to give it back. So it’s… Just virtue signaling and hypocrisy. And as you said, it’s bashing America and the ideals of America that we are an illegitimate country. We were founded on slavery and stolen land, and it’s doing everything to denigrate America. In favor of what? What’s better? You want to go to… southern Spain and live there these days or want to go to the Netherlands or London. I mean, if it’s so great, then go there if this is such a rotten country. But it really gets tiresome to hear the constant drumbeat of bashing America. America’s not perfect, but no country is. And we’ve self-corrected along the way. And it’s the most desirable place to live because that’s why people keep trying to get here. If it was so terrible, we wouldn’t have a… We wouldn’t have illegal immigrants. I don’t think there are a ton of illegal immigrants in Uganda or Mali or four countries in Africa, for example.
SPEAKER 20 : 55:10
Well, and… What this is, this is a part of this that’s been going on for many, many years, and that is the consistent nipping at the heels of the American idea. And so that’s what these land acknowledgments are. The other thing is, as you said, that this pastor opened with pronouns. And as I’ve gone through the Declaration of Independence, it acknowledges nature’s law, natural law. And natural law is man and woman. And so this whole pronoun thing is also, I would say, an attack upon natural law. We’ve got about a minute left. Your comment on that, wrapping this up, Dr. June Depp.
SPEAKER 04 : 55:54
Yeah, it’s all silly. This business of pronouns and the whole transgender movement and forcing it. If people want what they want to do in their private lives, fine, but forcing it on children and forcing everybody to accept it, it’s It’s ridiculous, and it’s really becoming comical. And my next piece I’m working on is the premises that Jackie Joyner-Kersey set a world record for women’s 100-meter dash 40 years ago. And the record’s still not broken, but high school kids’ males routinely run faster than that. And it kind of… I have other examples of that, and it kind of throws the wrench in the works of men competing in women’s sports. And it’s silly, it’s magical thinking, and we have more important issues in America to be thinking about than nonsense like that.
SPEAKER 20 : 56:51
Right, and it’s taking our eyes off the ball, the important things that we need to do to conserve and preserve this great American idea, which Weiser alludes to on his website, but is actually attacking. But it takes our eye off the ball on what we need to do to conserve and preserve the great American idea. Dr. Jundep, we’ll talk with you next month. Thank you so much, and have a great day.
SPEAKER 04 : 57:15
Thanks, Kim. Bye.
SPEAKER 20 : 57:17
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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 our number two of the Kim Monson show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today’s 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, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And Joe, it is August. So this month is an anniversary for you with the Kim Monson Show, yes?
SPEAKER 17 : 59:46
Yes, ma’am. It’ll be three years, August 6th.
SPEAKER 20 : 59:50
August 6th. So it’s hard to believe, but we’ve done a lot of shows together, my friend.
SPEAKER 17 : 59:57
We have. We have indeed. But they’ve all been very informational and fun.
SPEAKER 20 : 60:03
is there any one show that just steps that you just totally remember? I know we do so many shows with, they’re all just great guests. Is there any one show that just immediately comes to mind and sorry to put you on the spot on this, but it comes to mind that, that you thought was just, you know, really touched you.
SPEAKER 17 : 60:27
There was an American veteran stories. He was, uh, um, I guess newer veteran, if you would, from I don’t exactly remember when, but Desert Storm, I think. And he does AI data centers now. And so we got to talk to him about that. And it was a really interesting conversation. But hearing some of his story and whatnot was really cool.
SPEAKER 1 : 60:58
Okay.
SPEAKER 20 : 60:58
Well, thank you for your hard work over these last three years. You know, I greatly appreciate you. So thank you, Joe.
SPEAKER 17 : 61:05
It’s my pleasure, Kim. Like I said, it’s been fun.
SPEAKER 20 : 61:09
And check out our website, KimMonson.com and make sure you’re signed up for our weekly emails that go out on Sunday to highlight everything that we’re doing and all of our new articles and check all those out or our essays from our writers and join our community. And text me, the text seems to be the best way right now to reach me, 720-605-0647. And I thank all of you who support us as 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 did want to say thank you to the Harris family for their diamond sponsorship of the show. Greatly appreciate them. And let’s get over here to our word of the day as recompense. It’s R-E-C-O-M-P-E-N-S-E as a verb. It could be to, let’s see. Oh, goodness, I don’t like that when they do that. As a transitive verb, let’s use it that way. As the verb, they said recompense or recompensing. Well, duh. Let’s go to a transitive verb. It’s to give something to by way of compensation as for service rendered or damage incurred or to return in kind. Or as a noun, it could be an equivalent or return to something done, suffered or given. uh, compensation. And I chose it because I was, uh, doing some reading, um, really interesting book. Now I, uh, I was by, I think Andrew Murray, and he was talking about Christ’s recompense, uh, recompensation for our sins. And so that’s why I chose the word recompense. Cause I thought it would be. An interesting and easy one to use today as you’re impressing your friends and your family with your vocabulary. Our quote of the day is from Winston Churchill. He was a British statesman, military officer, and writer. He was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and 1951 to 1955. So during World War II, and he said this, he said, Never give in, never give in. Never, never, never, never in nothing great or small, large or petty, never get in except to convictions of honor and good sense. And that is Winston Churchill. And I’m pleased to have on the line with me Jody Henze with Mint Financial Strategies. I highly recommend and endorse them. And speaking of Winston Churchill, he was Prime Minister of Britain, but Maggie Thatcher was also Prime Minister of Britain. And she said you cannot have political freedom if you don’t have economic freedom. And that’s why your own individual economic freedom is so important. So, Jody Henze, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 18 : 63:53
Thanks, Kim. Glad to be here. And congratulations to Joe on his milestone.
SPEAKER 20 : 63:59
It is a milestone. Three years, it seems in some ways like it was just yesterday. But Jody, I wanted to talk with you about market volatility, because with what’s going on in our world and the news headlines on a short-term basis, there can be a lot of volatility in the market. So how do you address that with your clients?
SPEAKER 18 : 64:25
Yeah, I mean, market volatility is the price we pay as investors for long-term growth. It’s just part of the normal process of investing. And it’s part of the risk and reward trade-off that we take. But, you know, it can be scary. It’s funny that as investors, we have this bias. about we feel negative volatility twice as much as we feel positive volatility. And so far this year has not disappointed. We’ve had market swings as far as positive 10% in the S&P and as far as negative 10% in the S&P. So that’s been a 20% rollercoaster ride and we’re only halfway through the year. So this is something I deal with daily, certainly talking investors off the fence when they get a little bit nervous. And the best thing that I can tell people is, A, you have to start with a plan and a strategy. Because if you don’t have that blueprint or plan, then you tend to make unwise or emotional decisions when it comes to your investment. And that plan just helps you stay much more disciplined and and allows you to ride out that volatility.
SPEAKER 20 : 65:37
And I think with what is going on in our world, volatility in the market, it is just a given. It’s just, that is, it’s a fact, right?
SPEAKER 18 : 65:50
It is. I mean, most years, in fact, there’s very few that you can go back and look and say, you know, the market has had very little volatility. I mean, a 10 to 20 percent swing is pretty much a given every year. This year is no different. Of course, you know, the issues that are causing it, we can say, are a little bit different, like the situation in Iran. or we’ve got the midterm election coming up. We also have this September curse, which I always talk about a little bit at this time of the year. But all of those things, whether they’re new things or things that we’ve dealt in the past, volatility is just something normal that we have to deal with. Again, that’s the reward or the risk that we take for that long-term reward that we get as investors. Thank you.
SPEAKER 20 : 66:38
And so that’s why having that plan is important. And the other beautiful thing about you, Peyton, and Mint Financial Strategies is that you tailor people’s plans. You sit down with them. You put the plan together. Yeah. then revisit it on a regular basis to just kind of check and see, you know, where to allocate assets to achieve those particular goals. Again, with the risk assessment that people feel comfortable with. How can people reach you, Joda Hinzee, for that complimentary appointment?
SPEAKER 18 : 67:13
Yeah, I mean, same thing. Text is really easy. 303-285-3080. That goes straight to my cell phone. And I’m very responsive that way. You can also leave a voicemail on that line. You can look at our website, which is mintfs.com. But yeah, I mean, it’s really easy to get in touch with us. And we always start with a financial plan. Every single one of our clients has a customized strategy designed for them. which allows them to exercise that discipline that we’re talking about during market volatility.
SPEAKER 20 : 67:47
So great. Again, that number is 303-285-3080. Jody, we’ll talk with you in a couple of weeks. We’ll talk with Peyton next week. Have a great day. You too, Kim. Thank you. Bye-bye. And for everything regarding your insurance, talk to the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. They might be able to save you some money if you bundle things together. They have actually recently reduced auto insurance rates. And so you won’t know if you can save money, some money, unless you give them a call. That number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Wanted to mention Little Richie’s. They’re your local neighborhood spot where you can get authentic New York style pizza and pasta. They’re locally owned. They’ve been in business serving Parker and Golden for over 20 years. And Monday is pizza night. You buy one pizza, you get the second pizza for half off. And then also at Little Richie’s and Parker, they’re pouring half price bottles of wine. And so be sure and let them do the cooking this evening. And we’ve got something very special for you. Our next guest, Jane Dedecker, is a sculptor. And her work is just absolutely spectacular. And I love this. This was on her website. I had it right here in front of me just a moment ago. Oh, here it is. It says, Dedecker’s sculptures stop life in mid-sentence, somewhere between inhaling and exhaling, and gives it form. Jane Dedecker, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 03 : 71:31
Oh, thank you, Kim. Good morning, everyone.
SPEAKER 20 : 71:35
And Jane, I had the great honor with one of our great listeners, Michael, to visit your studio where these creations are created, I would say. It took my breath away, Jane. Your talent is amazing. And your sculptures, there’s one of a mother and a child, and it’s just spectacular. So tell us your story.
SPEAKER 03 : 72:06
Oh, my gosh. I have been, I think, an artist my whole life. My mom said I won a contest, an all-grade school contest, before I could even write my name on a drawing that I did. So I’ve been drawing since I was tiny. And my mom just instilled in us. She was an art student herself to end up… running my parents’ farm or her, um, her parents’ farm and, um, didn’t really get to finish her art degree at the Chicago Art Institute. So she just really instilled in all of us, 10 kids creativity and just kind of living an artful life. So I just feel really fortunate that, you know, my mom just really instilled in us a love for creating.
SPEAKER 20 : 73:00
Well, and you feature women quite often in your work. Tell us why.
SPEAKER 03 : 73:07
You know, I have always, my focus has always been like family and specifically mother and children. As I, you know, as I’ve grown and I have seen actually the need, and I think we all are seeing the need that more women need to be represented in public sculpture, especially, I think, you know, the accomplishments of women and what we’ve done. In addition to, you know, of course, great things. I mean, I’m a humanist, and I just believe in, like, positive affirmations of life, but I just feel like we just need to… women need to be more represented in public art.
SPEAKER 20 : 73:55
Well, and so you’re part of a very big thing regarding women in public art, and this is this Women’s Suffrage National Monument in Washington, D.C. So talk a little bit about that.
SPEAKER 03 : 74:11
You know, I was a finalist to do a sculpture for Central Park. Um, I didn’t get the commission that was like right before, um, the 19th amendment centennial, um, in 2020, um, passed 1920. Um, so I didn’t get the commission, but my submittal was so different from the woman who won, which I love her piece. Um, that, um, when I came home from the trip, um, you know, this really needs to be in D.C. As a young girl, my aunts lived and my cousins lived outside of Washington. And we would go visit her and she would take us to all the monuments. And I just love them. You know, it just makes me so proud to be an American when I see the Lincoln Memorial and all those memorials. And I thought, you know, there’s nothing for women in D.C. And it was my younger, one of my older sons said, you know, mom, sculptures belong, or statues belong in Central Park, but monuments belong in D.C. So we embarked on this journey on getting a bill passed to place women’s… you know, memorial in Washington, D.C. So it’s an ongoing process. We started in 2017. I can’t believe that that long ago, but our first bill was passed by a bipartisan, bicameral Colorado sponsorship from all the senators and… House of Representatives, and the bill was passed and signed into law by President Trump in 2020. It allowed us to be sort of on the fringes of Washington, D.C. So we now have a new board, and the piece, we had another bill passed, it was called the Location Act, that now allows the Women’s Monument to be near Constitution Gardens in… in between the Vietnam Memorial and the World War II Memorial, a women’s suffrage monument. So, you know, we were very instrumental in helping getting that bill passed. Now, I don’t know. They’ll go through an open call to choose an artist, but I will have some kind of hand in the piece as it moves forward.
SPEAKER 20 : 76:49
Okay. And because of this, you were selected as a Colorado Woman of the Year, correct? Yes, I know. And that was quite fun. Well, and tell us a little bit more about that.
SPEAKER 03 : 77:08
I was chosen by USA Today to be Colorado Woman of the Year. It was their inaugural sort of year for their program. And now there’s been some great other Colorado women that have, you know, have been chosen. I think it’s been running three years now. And it was just a real honor. And it was just for instilling and instigating the women’s monument.
SPEAKER 20 : 77:38
And your work, as I visited the studio, it is really a family endeavor to make all this happen.
SPEAKER 03 : 77:52
Yes. Myself, two sons. My husband create the work now. It used to be my brother and sister before my brother got West Nile and was no longer able to help me. So it’s always been kind of in the family. I started apprenticing with the sculpture when I was just 19 and learned the ins and outs of making sculptures. welding and chasing and so i’ve done that whole process you know myself since i was you know a young girl and so i i can’t believe it’s been that long but um so now um my family they take it on and i i mostly do the sculpting but i really am happy in the metal shop
SPEAKER 20 : 78:46
So for people that don’t understand sculpting, explain the process because as I was at your studio, I’d never seen anything like it. And I think God made people that are creators and that he made people like me that do not have that talent, but I’m there to appreciate the beauty of what you’re doing. And so it’s a really interesting process. to create a sculpture?
SPEAKER 03 : 79:18
You know, when people see how much work it is to make a sculpture and how many hands touch it and how many artisans create it, they really get a better appreciation of why it costs what it does. Because sometimes you see like, oh my gosh, look at the price of that sculpture. But it’s… First, you know, I sculpt in clay and sometimes some pieces take nearly a year in the studio to create in clay. And then, but I work on a few things at one time that might, but we make a rubber mold on top of the clay. And then there’s a plaster mother mold that goes over the top of that rubber. So the rubber kind of holds the detail of the clay and then the plaster holds the form. And then I remove the molds and then reuse the clay. It’s an oil-based clay, so I come throw it in some barrels, and I have about maybe 4,000 or 5,000 pounds of clay in my studio that I reuse. So the molds then are really what’s, I guess, what’s precious. So out of those molds, we paint a wax in. And… slosh it around, and it’s maybe about three-eighths of an inch thick, and that’s what we send to the foundries. So for every casting, I need a wax duplicate out of those molds. So I have storage units full of those molds that will create my reproductions. So we take those waxes to a foundry. There’s quite a few in… Well, there’s about three foundries in our Loveland area. And we… They pour it in… they dip it into a ceramic flurry, like you would like a ceramic cup. And they build layers and layers of the ceramic around this wax. And they eventually will, when the shell is strong enough, they call it a ceramic shell, they put it in a kiln and it’s fired. And during the firing process, then the wax melts out. And so you have an empty cavity where that wax was. You pour in the molten bronze. And when it’s cool, we break away the ceramic. They use jackhammers to take off the ceramic shell. And then since the sculptures are cast in pieces, we weld all those back together. A life-size figure may be 15 to 20 panels of… of bronze that we have to weld back together. And so once that’s welded and chased and it looks as beautiful as I intended it, we patine it. So this is like a multi-step process. It goes from being a clay to a mold, to a wax, to a ceramic shell, and then to bronze. So it goes through five transformations. Wow. And so many artisans as well, too. Chasers and the foundry. And so just a lot of hands will touch it.
SPEAKER 20 : 82:29
And how long would you say, and it’s probably different per sculpture, but how would you say, or how long does it take from you envisioning something in your mind to the fruition where the sculpture is complete?
SPEAKER 03 : 82:45
Sometimes like bigger projects, like, You know, like say I’m working on a piece now for a family. I’m just sketching some drawings right now. It’ll probably be maybe two and a half years, sometimes three years before it comes to fruition. So it just may take a while. There’s little labors of love. It’s very fun. I feel so fortunate that, you know, I do some things that I what I call work on spec pieces I would like to do or just want to do. But then I also get to work with entities, families or cities or municipalities to create work that they want to, you know, they need for their community to help identify their, you know, their needs. And I just love that collaboration. I’m still so fortunate that I am able to do that for people.
SPEAKER 20 : 83:39
It’s good to be their hands. Well, it is beautiful. And we’re going to continue the discussion because the 42nd Sculpture in the Park show and sale is August 7th through the 9th in Loveland. And so we want to talk with Jane D. Decker about that. But if people would like to reach you, Jane, what’s the best way that they can do that?
SPEAKER 03 : 84:02
I think probably email at ddeckerstudio at msn.com. Okay, that’s the best way.
SPEAKER 20 : 84:09
And that’s D-E-D-E-C-K-E-R studio at, you said, MSN.com? Yes. Okay. So we will be back and continue the discussion regarding Loveland and the sculpture in the park event that is coming up. We have these discussions because of our sponsors. And if you’re having any challenges in this hot weather with your own personal climate being cool, reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling.
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SPEAKER 20 : 87:03
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SPEAKER 03 : 88:35
Well, it’s our big annual show and it is just so beautiful. It just lifts my spirit every time I see it. You see so many different people’s creations and their look at life, and it’s just really beautiful. It really will lift your spirits. It just really makes you believe in humanity, and it’s really fantastic. All sculpture, but different kinds, glass, ceramic, bronze. It’s really become quite a variety of different genres, different types of sculpture, and it’s just really fun. I recommend all ages come.
SPEAKER 20 : 89:32
Okay. And that website for that is sculptureinthepark.org. Is Loveland, Colorado unique in an event like this, or are there other events like this throughout the country?
SPEAKER 03 : 89:45
Well, I think we’re pretty… I know… I think we’ve started a lot of the events that happen across the country and more people are seeing how, how sculpture can grace their communities. And so I think, but Loveland was the first with the foundries here and so many sculptors having to live in proximity to the foundries just makes their life a lot easier when you’re living close to your foundry. But so we’ve created some, you know, creative synergy. with the amount of sculptors living here and so that sort of snowballed into having this annual show and now there’s just a lot of different types of work instead of just mostly just kind of bronze community but now it’s really grown to all different types of sculpture and it’s just fantastic there’s color and whimsy and spiritual things and It’s just all kinds of work. So it’s really fantastic.
SPEAKER 20 : 90:52
So, and for the show, now, are these pieces that are brought in for this show and sale? So I guess that would mean that people can buy some of these pieces as well. Are they there permanently? Are they brought in just for the show? Does it change year to year? How does that work?
SPEAKER 03 : 91:10
Well, the proceeds for the show go directly to helping, you know, maintain the park. They buy a few sculptures every year. So every year the park will go by a few more sculptures that are permanent for the collection. I couldn’t even guess how many pieces they have now. I just couldn’t even guess over 50 maybe. So they bring on a few each year and just different types of work. So there’s a permanent park that you can come down and see anytime. of the, you know, any time of the year. And I would, so on another quiet day, if you want to come to Loveland and visit the sculpture park, it’s just fantastic. But the show is pieces that are for sale. The artist is able to bring nine pieces or 15 if it’s, they’re one of a kind. And so they’re all, all the pieces are at the show are for sale. And yeah, you have to take home a piece of the park.
SPEAKER 20 : 92:13
It’s really fun. So you will have pieces at the show and sale, yes?
SPEAKER 03 : 92:19
Yes. Yep. I have all new pieces. Very excited. I’ve been working diligently. We still have a little bit more to do.
SPEAKER 20 : 92:28
It’ll be a busy week. And that’s why I really appreciate you coming on, because I figured this probably is a very busy week. How many of your pieces will be there for sale, Jane D. Decker?
SPEAKER 03 : 92:38
Nine. Nine.
SPEAKER 20 : 92:39
Okay. And tell us just a little bit about those pieces.
SPEAKER 03 : 92:44
Well, I have some… Doing some kind of glass and glass fusing and bronze sort of combinations. A lot of color for me this year. I really wanted to delve into some color. So I have some fused glass and bronze kind of combinations and then also some dancers. I have like four new… ballet kind of pieces, which is kind of fun for me and different. So I’m really anxious to show my new work. I always get nervous. I hope everybody likes them.
SPEAKER 20 : 93:26
Oh, they are beautiful. Let’s talk about a piece that was in the studio when I was there. And that is Josephine Baker. So tell us about that piece. And it’s all about that.
SPEAKER 03 : 93:42
Oh, I had the opportunity to work with a girl here that I have known, and she lives outside of Paris. And… We just found a niche where Josephine Baker had her home that really had never acknowledged the fact that Josephine was a big part of their community. So we suggested that maybe they place a piece of Josephine Baker in this beautiful parkway. And they said yes, and so we’ve been raising the money and working with historical societies there and some different folks to sort of Josephine’s family to place the sculpture of Josephine Baker, a place where she lived and loved outside of Paris. It’s a little village outside of Paris that she kind of found recluse from her day-to-day, you know, to… she worked tirelessly. She was a dancer and, um, more like vaudeville sort of, um, dancing and singing. And, uh, so she found comfort in this countryside. And so this piece is really beautiful. Uh, Josephine sitting on a park bench with her Chiquita or her cheetah named Chiquita. So, um, it’s just, um, I love it. It’s like the cheetah adds this little mystique and sort of protection for her. And really beautiful. And so we were ready to place this piece, I think, in November. And we were kind of hoping that maybe we could do a transatlantic tribute for Josephine Baker. She was born in St. Louis to a… poor family and living in sort of like the, would be the Harlem of St. Louis, which was eventually burned. And she saw her, her home and the homes of all of her, you know, friends and burned. And she left St. Louis pretty young and moved to Paris to become a star. But we are placing another place sculpture of Josephine Baker at the History Museum in St. Louis. So we’re going to do a transatlantic tribute for Josephine Baker. So we’re really excited about that.
SPEAKER 20 : 96:22
Okay. And she was born in 1906 and she died in 1975. And as you mentioned, she was a French dancer, singer, actress, but she was also a spy for the French resistance in World War II, which I think a lot of people don’t know that. Okay.
SPEAKER 03 : 96:37
No, and she got her pilot’s license fairly early. She kind of flew for, like, our version of the Red Cross. She started a hospital in that little town of Louis-Visnay where the sculpture’s going for veterans. I mean, she was just really a philanthropist and just unafraid. I mean, you know, so courageous. She had a saying that she’s like, you know, I could dance for kings and queens across the world, but, you know, I couldn’t get a cup of coffee in New York. So she could infiltrate, you know, places. I think she for Chagall and Castro and I mean, she could go into their homes and she was a spy. She helped the French resistance. Yeah. Um, so they, she’s actually, um, honored in the, um, pantheon. There are not many women or African American women are even, um, uh, there. Um, so she’s honored there. And we’re placing the piece on the anniversary. What anniversary? The fifth anniversary of her pantheonization, something like that. Yeah. So. Wow.
SPEAKER 20 : 97:50
Wow. I have to tell you that it is such a treat to, first of all, meet you and to see your beautiful work. And with all that’s going on in our world today, to step back and appreciate beauty is something that we need to do. And so this opportunity this weekend in Loveland, I would highly recommend that people… check out the Loveland sculpture in the park and the sale on that, but also to check out your amazing work as well at ddeckerstudio.com as well. And Jane, I really appreciate, I know this is a busy week as you are doing all of this for this, but I appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedule to just share this. uplifting story with us to appreciate this amazing talent and amazing beauty that you create on a regular basis. And so I thank you so much.
SPEAKER 03 : 98:48
Oh, thank you, Kim. And thank you for everything that you do.
SPEAKER 20 : 98:51
Well, it is my honor, but again, to appreciate beauty is just a real treat. So, Jane, thank you. Good luck. And again, that sculpture in the park in Loveland is this weekend, so be sure and check that out. Jane, we will talk again. All right. All right. See you soon, Kim. Take care. And we get to do all of this because of our sponsors. And one of those great sponsors is John Bozen and Bozen Law.
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SPEAKER 10 : 101:16
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SPEAKER 20 : 101:55
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. I did want to mention the USMC Memorial Foundation. They will be having their 49th anniversary celebration later on this month. It’s important to support the memorial as they remember and honor those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our freedom. And also wanted to mention the Center for American Values located in Pueblo, focusing on these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism through their educational programs, their Portraits of Valor. And that website is AmericanValueCenter.org. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. And let’s see, I want to make sure I’ve done all the things that I wanted to do. And I think that’s it. I do want to hear from you. And if you want to call in 303-477-5600, 303-477-5600. But we are in such a time right now in our country. And we continue to address these issues that really affect our quality of life. And I’m going to be going through Phil Weiser’s website, which the messaging is saying to us the things that we want to hear. But the implementation takes away our freedom, our property through taxation and fees and rules and regulations. So they say what people want to hear and people are busy. I think people care about our communities, but people are busy. And so we’ve got to continue to bring truth and clarity to all of these particular issues. This is a headline that I wanted to connect. This is from AFP says it says U.S. plans steep water cuts for the Southwest amid the Colorado River crisis. Of course, we are in a drought. And it says the federal government unveiled a plan for future management of the Colorado River with significant water reductions ahead for several western states in response to record-breaking droughts worsened, of course, this is, it says, by climate change. I… Climate change moves into the man-made climate change, which then is being used to try to restrict, I think, human flourishing. I will mention that our movie, our documentary, A Climate Conversation 2, will be released soon and really addresses this whole net zero thing. But anyway, it says under this roadmap, the lower basin states of Arizona, California, Nevada could face collective cuts of up to 3 million acre feet of water annually through 2036. Then it goes on to say that it says this represents 20% of the amount these three states are technically entitled to. Sarah Porter, an expert in the field at Arizona State University, told AFP. Put another way, the cuts are roughly equivalent to the amount of water consumed by 9 million households in a year. The actual extent of reductions will depend on the river’s reserve levels and other hydrological conditions. The plan is set to take an effect in October for two years before being reassessed. I have to question why then would we consider to put data centers in these particular states, in particular Arizona? When faced with these water reductions for everyday people, I just can’t connect the dot on how there is water available, though, for data centers. So even here in the metro area, I happened to just drive by it on last Thursday, this new data center in Parker. And as these data centers are appearing, we’re going to have discussions on this a bit more tomorrow with, I think you’ll find a very interesting guest, is… Where were the electeds and where were the bureaucrats to address the electrical costs, the electrical needs, the water needs for these big data centers? And that it would be okay to approve them when over here on the other side, where everyday people are being asked to reduce and conserve as the price of their water and their electricity is going up. And so this is quite interesting, what’s going to happen downriver from the Colorado River. And again, I think PBI should be looking at real solutions. California has a whole bunch of water on its western seaboard. Why not figure out ways to desalinate that water to provide for the needs of those in California so that then there’s less water that’s being needed to go downriver? So we are at a very difficult situation. That is for sure. The other things that I had highlighted is the safe communities. The shooting up in Twin Falls, Idaho at the In-N-Out Burger is heartbreaking. Young 24-year-old. was the perpetrator, alleged perpetrator in this. But again, it’s important to note that lives were saved because a good guy with a firearm stopped a bad guy with a firearm. And so instead of trying to restrict law-abiding citizens from being able to keep and bear firearms so that we can protect ourselves, our families, and our communities, Instead of trying to restrict that, as we’re seeing with this Colorado state legislature, we should be standing up for those rights. So let’s connect this dot then back to Attorney General Bill Weiser. If you go to his website, things that he says, they sound good. But if you look at the actions, this assault upon our right to keep and bear firearms, which is in our Constitution, in our Bill of Rights. We have to ask, where is he? Where was he? As this legislation is being pushed forward and signed by the governor. When Weiser says that he wants to stand up against overreaching government, I’m paraphrasing. Where is he on our Second Amendment rights here in Colorado? He’s missing in action. And so we need to understand, you need to understand what this election is about. I did see a headline that just came in during the show that someone nationally has put Colorado in the Democrat, solidly in the Democrat. side of the aisle for the election. We must, we must be engaged in this election. And there are many good people that are stepping forward to run for office. And any candidate that reaches out to me, whether or not they are Republican, Republican, independent Democrat, I will give them time on the show because I think it’s important that we understand and know these candidates and what they stand for. So Phil Weiser is saying one thing as he is running for governor, but he’s doing quite another. And look no further than not standing up for our right to keep and bear firearms. And where was he during COVID? to stand up for businesses that were being closed or shut down? Where was he when people were just trying to kick the tires on? Where’s the truth on this whole thing, such as Brian Jundep? Where was he at that particular point in time standing up to an overreaching government? And so we must, yes, we must stand for individual freedom. We must protect our republic. But when somebody says one thing and it’s doing another, we need to shed light on that as well. So this election is very, very important. And we must have free, fair, honest and transparent elections. And I do support the president. in his executive order to basically not use mail-in ballots, because I think there’s a lot of potential funny stuff that can happen with that. And we must be demanding free, fair, honest, and transparent elections as well. And I don’t see that Phil Weiser has done that whatsoever here in Colorado. And so we will continue every day to shed light on these issues that we face. And I so appreciate each and every one of you. So our quote for the end of the show is from Winston Churchill. He said this, It is not enough that we do our best. Sometimes we must do what is required. So today, my friends, 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 06 : 111:54
Riding high to the mountains, climbing, twisting, turning further from my home. Young like a new moon, rising fierce to the rain, enlightening, wandering out into this great home. I don’t want no one to cry. But tell them if I don’t survive.
SPEAKER 14 : 112:43
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