Welcome to the Kim Monson Show podcast. Kim Monson is your host. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is based on the Marxist Ideology to divide people into groups, and demonize one group over another. Ret. Army Major General Joe Arbuckle addresses ridding our military of DEI policies. Brad Beck discusses his most recent essay Character, Curiosity, and Communication Lead to Connection. Owner of Radiant Painting and Lighting Karen Gordey explains that painting your cabinets can update the look of your kitchen or bath. RE/MAX realtor Karen Levine shares tips on selling your home. ————————————————————————————– The Kim Monson Show airs
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It’s the Kim Monson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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I find that it takes work to get your brain around these ideas, and it takes work to engage in these conversations.
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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With what is happening down at the Statehouse, I used to think that it was above my pay grade to read the legislation, and it’s not.
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Today’s current opinions and ideas.
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I see big danger in as much as we will be giving an unelected bureaucrat the power to make rules about what we inject into our bodies.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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indeed let’s have a conversation and welcome to the Kim Monson show thank you so much for joining us you each are treasured you’re valued you have purpose today strive for excellence take care of your heart your soul your mind and your body my friends we were made for this moment in history thank you to the team that’s producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Theresa, Amanda and all the people here at Crawford broadcasting happy Thursday producer Joe happy Thursday Kim, and in studio with me is my good friend, and that is Brad Beck. He is a co-founder of Liberty Toastmasters, great author here at the Kim Monson Show, great guest host as well as a co-host. So it’s great to have you here.
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Well, it’s always great to be here in studio with you. And isn’t it great to be in Colorado and be alive in this beautiful state?
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It is. My dad would always say, this is the day the Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be glad. And I think we need to look at each day like that, Brad.
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Exactly. Anytime I open my eyes and I can see, it’s a good day.
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And get up and move around. It’s a good thing. There’s a lot going on. Brad, I really do feel that Colorado is at the tip of the spear, though, from a public policy standpoint. We’ve got so much work to do here.
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We really do. And there’s a lot of activity going on that it’s interesting. It starts in one town and migrates to a next town and to the next town. And it’s almost like it’s planned. There’s a feeling that you see something happening in Lafayette and then it happens in Centennial and then it happens in Boulder and then it happens, you know, they move it around. And it’s hard to keep up with it, really, unless you’re paying attention.
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It really is. And… I’ve been thinking a lot about it. There’s something very serious that’s going on. And it is these rewrites of these comprehensive plans of these different communities, of the different counties. It’s coming in and making changes on zoning, land use codes. And the zoning changes are really changing the fabric of our single-family neighborhoods. And single-family homeownership has been a great way for people to create wealth. And it seems like it’s by design.
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Well, if you watch what’s happening in certain cities, New York and Minneapolis, their candidates for mayor for the mayor are saying what they’re going to do. And I believe them. They want not just socialism. They want communism. I mean, it’s just the first step. And I would say even most people know that we’re halfway there, if not more, on that path simply by all the laws, the regulations, the intrusion into our freedoms. So, you know, people need to take action, pay attention. And by taking action, I mean get involved, go to action. your local town commissions, boards. Kathleen Chandler over at the Independence Institute is always training people on how to be better at going and learning these things. And it takes citizens. It has nothing to do with the government. If we’re looking for leaders, we better look in the mirror.
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And these boards and commissions, I’ve thought a lot about I’m going to have Montrose Commissioner Sean Pond on because this is good to be active in that. But I realized when I was on city council that… Many times the people that are on these boards and commissions are handpicked by the electeds or by staff, and then they’re given power to make decisions about our communities, and they’re not elected. I really think we should start to get rid of these boards and commissions.
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In an ideal world, that’d be great. Unfortunately, the plan, as I see it, and as it has unfolded, originally it was all for and about citizens getting involved in their local government. But over time, I think you’re exactly right. They’ve made a game to where they feel like they can put people in spots, and this is a training ground for them to go into higher office. And you see it over and over and over again, especially when you ask somebody. And if you’re new to this, if you get an opportunity to go to a school board member and just ask the question naively to any of the members, how do you get started? What’s important to you? What’s your philosophy in coming to this position? And just build a relationship with them over time. What you’ll find out is usually there’s an agenda behind something. And what I have found is over time, people are put in those positions through somebody else or they have a, like I said, an agenda, some kind of background in political activism.
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This is very true. And in fact, I went to the budget meeting of my town. I was the only citizen that was there. And again, this is by design. I think it was an all-day meeting, workday. And people can’t take the time to go do that. And I was, I guess, let me think. There was, maybe there was one other citizen there. But anyway, he was either running for city council, was on city council. I think he was on a border commission. And he said, yeah, my understanding is that this is the training ground, so then to run for city council. And so there’s this whole method out there right now. And the problem is, is these people are not elected. They’re not accountable. It’s a big web that we have going on right now, Brad.
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Well, and one of the ways that we can intercede and stop that web from attaching to certain entities like our local governments is to go or watch them on TV, as I do. And when you see something that you disagree with, show up and speak your mind. And tell the local officials why you think, or representatives I should say, why you think that’s a bad idea. And make them prove… Outside of saying, well, this is what the planning commission says, or this is what the water board says. Act like a curious little two-year-old and say, why? Why are you doing it? Why is it important? Who’s behind this? Where’s the money coming from? Always follow the money.
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Follow the money. That way you will find a lot of things going on. Let’s jump over here to our word of the day. And I selected this word because it is in the essay that we are going to publish this weekend that you have written. And it’s titled Character, Curiosity, and Communication Lead to Connection. But the word is serendipity. And it could be an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident or good fortune or luck. And it’s spelled S-E-R-E-N-D-I-P-I-T-Y. And I’ve put word of the day on our agenda because that’s something that happens at Liberty Toastmasters every time we meet.
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Well, life is a serendipity. It’s a journey. Actually, that word comes from, I believe, the ancient Sanskrit for the island of Ceylon, which is a story about a hapless journey of an individual who’s going along trying to find meaning in his life. And so there’s a correlation between the island of Ceylon and serendipity.
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I did not know that.
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I didn’t either.
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We always learn something on the Kim Monson Show. Our quote of the day is from George Patton, and he was born in 1885. He died in 1945. He was a general in the United States Army. He commanded the 7th Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II and then the 3rd Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy. In June of 1944, he said, good tactics can save even the worst strategy. Bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. And I thought that was good advice for the day.
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He always led from the front.
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That he did. And in interviewing so many World War II veterans, what I learned is he was moving the Third Army so quickly through Western Europe that the logistics supplies, they were having a hard time keeping up with him. But he did not ask of his troops anything that he would not do himself.
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He was a leader.
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He was a leader. Absolutely. That is for sure. And I get to work with a lot of great people. And one of those great people is on the line right now. And that is Karen Gorday. She is an entrepreneur and she is owner of Radiant Painting and Lighting, which is a sponsor of the show. Karen, welcome. Good morning, Kim. Thank you. Glad to be here. It’s good to have you. And I wanted to ask about painting cabinets, whether or not it might be your kitchen cabinets or the cabinets in your bathroom. It can certainly freshen things up, yes?
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absolutely it’s a more cost-effective solution than replacing your cabinets and so painting them is absolutely doable we have an entire cabinet painting process it is labor-intensive and it’s not cheap but it’s cheaper than replacing all of your cabinets and so At a high level, our process is to make sure we clean and degloss all of the cabinets. And deglossing is taking that shine off of that, off of those cabinets, and then priming them, again, then more sanding, and then painting them. So when I say cost, so for your viewers, for example, my kitchen is probably a middle-sized kitchen. It’s not small. It’s not large. But I have 25 doors, eight drawers, and basically 13 frames for my kitchen cabinets. I got a price about nine months ago just to see what it would cost to replace those cabinets. And I was told upwards of $40,000 to paint them. Yes, that’s what I said. So to paint them… You know, it’s probably somewhere between four and seven. And that’s why I said it’s a much better option. I couldn’t believe the price of cabinets. And that was like a like for like. So the exact manufacturer of my cabinets, but like a different wood sheen, for example. So, yes, it is a much more cost-effective. If you want to give your kitchen a… Upgrade and a new look, I would highly suggest doing cabinet painting.
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Okay. How can people reach you, Karen, if they’d like to get a bid to have their cabinets repainted?
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Absolutely. They can reach us at our website, which is www.paintwithradiant.com, or give us a call at 720-940-3887.
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Okay, now, Karen, changing gears just a little bit, you have another website, and you’re going to be very busy between now and November, correct?
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That is correct. I have another website, which is karen4lakewood.com, and Karen 4, the 4 is spelled out, not the number, and I’m running for Lakewood City Council in Ward 5. Okay.
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And why did you decide, Brad and I were just talking about local government. Karen, this is so important that we have people running for and winning these races that understand the proper role of government. So tell our listeners why you think it’s important, why you stepped forward, because this is a big deal.
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It is a huge deal. And I’ve talked to you previously about the zoning, and that was one part of it. But I was going back and forth. And then I discovered something, and that kind of just pushed me over the edge. So last year, the Lakewood City Council left the mill levy the same, but they put an initiative out to the ballot. So Jeffco and Lakewood both sent it to the voters to be able to keep the Tabor Fund.
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And that’s our money, or that’s the money of the people of Lakewood.
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That’s the taxpayer’s money. Yes, that is correct. So Jeffco and Lakewood voters voted to allow the city and county to keep the excess Tabor money. Right around the time it was sent to the voters, there was a special issues committee formed with the city clerk. The person that formed the special issue committee was the wife of the current, or at the time, the planning commissioner’s chair. So his wife formed a special issue committee. Several people, most of the city council, gave money to that special interest committee, and they ran ads to convince the voters to let Lakewood keep the Tabor money. That was very, to me, very disingenuous. The 2024 financial plan finally came out earlier this week. I was at a zoning meeting. It was a roundtable held by three city councilors. And they were explaining we have an affordability crisis, et cetera. And in a moment of, I can’t even say it, serendipity.
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I pulled up to see if the 2024 comprehensive financial report was out because it should have been out in December. And lo and behold, it was finally on the website and I started scrolling while they’re talking. Kim, what I found out, and they made me wait 45 minutes to respond to the affordability crisis. And I get it because I’m running and they know I’m running. last year in 2024 there was a 16.4 million excess in tabor funds that was up about 2 million from 2023 so that’s the taxpayers money and in the actual tabor fund that has 49.2 million dollars and i explained to them some if you this affordability crisis is self-inflicted if you would lower the mill levy. That, in turn, lowers the property tax because you’re overtaxing the entire city. And for last year, it was $16.4 million.
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Right.
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They did not like that.
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Wow. Good digging on that, Karen Gorday.
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Thank you. It was just the fact that they wanted to run ads against the people once they… said we’re going to send it to the voters. And that to me is just very dishonest.
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Okay, and just I want to connect that dot one more time. So it was the head of the planning commission’s wife that ran the campaign to encourage the people of Lakewood to give up their Tabor refunds. And what that is, is that’s the excess money that government has collected above a very generous formula of population plus inflation. So it’s above that. And so they ran a campaign to talk people into giving that up, which they did. But then you’re saying that counselors also put money into that campaign as well, right?
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That is correct. That is 100% correct. And I haven’t printed it off in case they would remove the campaign finance report. I haven’t printed it off. But that’s exactly what happened. Wow.
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Nothing to see here. Just move along.
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They don’t want you to find it.
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And the other thing is, though, you said it took a long time for this report to come out as well, right?
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That is correct. So the report is due in December of every year. It basically shows… you know, where the grant money came from, where the money was spent, et cetera. I submitted a public records request May, June, looking for it, and they told me it was undergoing an audit, and when it was finally available, it would be posted. And it’s finally posted.
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Okay. Hold on, I wanted to just, I was just trying to do a quick search. I’ll do that when I come back. Actually, Karen, why don’t you stay with us? Because I want to, during the break, I want to see if I can find something from Open the Books. I’m talking with Karen Gorday. She’s going to stay on the line. Brad Beck is in studio. These are important discussions, and they happen because of our sponsors. And the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team is another great sponsor of the show. And they want you to feel safe and well-served. They will answer your call or text immediately. 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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Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com, and sign up for our weekly email newsletter. In studio with me is Brad Beck, and we’ve been talking about local government, and Karen Gorday is on the line. She’s an entrepreneur and owner of Radiant Painting and Lighting. Karen Gorday is also running for city council in Lakewood, and I just did a quick search, Karen Gorday. On Open the Books, which this is, and we’re going to have an Open the Books guest on next Thursday. But, Karen, do you have any idea what the city manager for the city of Lakewood is making?
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Unfortunately, I do, Kim.
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Okay, well, I’ve got it right here, 2024. This is not including benefits or anything. Salary is $397,000, Karen. Okay.
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Yes, that is correct. And then you add the benefits in, and it’s more like $465,000.
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Yeah. And I just thought that was important to bring that out to light here, Karen. What’s your final thought? And again, what’s that website? What’s both your websites?
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Both websites, so www.paintwithradiant.com and www.karen4, spelled out, lakewood.com. My final thoughts, once I uncovered the special interest committee, that kind of just threw me over the edge, and I was like, I have to get involved because that was just very dishonest. You say one thing on the bench, and then you’re doing another thing, and… It pushed me over the edge. And so now I’m running all in. Okay.
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And it’s a win. Okay. Karen Gorday, thank you so much. And this is really important. So have a great day. Keep up the great work. Best of luck.
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Thank you, Kim. Appreciate it. Thank you.
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Boy, Brad. We’re at a time. Local is so important. One of our listeners has said they’re thinking globally and acting locally. So we talk about all this debt that we’re concerned about at the federal level, $37 trillion. It is a lot, and it is a problem. But we are also going to see on this ballot in November many tax questions and issues. The city of Denver is asking for almost a billion dollars. They’re saying that it’s without increasing taxes, but what is happening is many of the bonds that they had are being paid off. So now they want to continue to have that debt out there and extend those bonds, but they say that it’s not without increasing debt. Well, if you pay your house off… and then your house payment goes away, but then you somehow then get another house payment, that is increasing your debt, yes?
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Well, I think we have to start with mom and dad sitting around the kitchen table trying to make ends meet, trying to pay their bills. The middle class is being squeezed like a pimple. Bad analogy, sorry, but it’s a visual that we’ve all encountered. And when you’re trying to Pay your mortgage, pay your groceries, which have continued to go up. I don’t care what anybody says. Gasoline, yeah, has kind of mediated a little bit, but it goes up and down. You start to pay your insurance and your taxes. You know, it’s getting tougher and tougher for that middle, lower income person. And giving them subsidies is not the answer. No, it is not. The answer is stop spending money. At the capital and local city councils, at the county level, at all levels of government, we don’t need $3 million in the city of Denver to pay for an anti-meat campaign when they can’t even make ends meet in the state. And they’re having a special session coming up August 21, I think, to address the problem of bad management of our finances at the state level. It’s unconscionable. And so moms and dads who are sitting around trying to figure out what they need to do to feed their kids, to help them in school, help them figure out what they’re going to do for their next meal, we’ve got to consider that. And the people who are in power, our representatives, do not think about them. I’m sorry, they don’t. They just spend and spend and spend. And until the citizens get up and show up… write letters to the editor, and start talking to the neighbors, we’re not going to change things.
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Well, and the time to do it is now. It’s not next year. It is now because we are at a time where if we don’t get this thing back under control, it’s going to be very, very difficult. So Karen is stepping forward to run for city council. We’ve got another friend. I don’t know if she’s announced yet, but I think she is going to be running for city council soon. And if you are considering doing this, now is the time. Paperwork is due right around now if you’re thinking about running for these elections that will be in November. So don’t mess around. Check it out. That’s for sure.
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And figure out what your main idea is, what you’re wanting to do to change things to protect the rights of other citizens in your community. I mean… Government is always trying to fix a problem that doesn’t exist or they’re trying to fix a problem that they created. Why not just start protecting the rights we already have? We don’t need more laws. We don’t need more regulations. We don’t need more oversight on the citizens. We need more oversight on those who are in elected office right now.
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Well, and the proper role of government is it’s representing the people and keeping government limited. And I’ve quoted Andrew Napolitano several times. I was looking for some quotes about I think it was I was looking for Supreme Court justices. And anyway, this came up and he said this. He said, of all the presidents, Jefferson is the only one that got it right. So many presidents think that they are supposed to keep Americans safe. And certainly protecting our borders, all that, that is important. But he said, but Jefferson understood that the actual duty of the president is to keep us free. And I thought, wow, that is pretty amazing. But that’s correct. And people that are free have a real responsibility. And you talk about that all the time, Bradbeck.
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Well, and you always say freedom versus force, force versus freedom. And government, by its very nature, is force. It has a monopoly on force. And that can be used for good, but often it is misused. And once people are in power and have power, it’s hard for them to relinquish it. That’s the beautiful thing about George Washington. He relinquished it and set the precedent. Unfortunately, you had people like FDR who continued moving on as the third time and fourth time. We have to understand that it is an honor to serve. And then once you serve, you should go on as being a citizen. This government was not set up for perpetual representation. Somebody like a Joe Biden who never worked a day in his life because he was a representative so-called of the people, but he really wasn’t. He lived on the teat of the American people. Yeah, he did.
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Yeah. And we’ve got to say no. And so all of these new debt questions, I think we say no to. We need to get all of these different entities, whether or not it’s the school district, the fire district, the municipality, the state. We’ve got to get them back within reasonable spending. Our firefighters. The however, though, is I am seeing different fire stations that are being torn down and new ones are being built. And it looks like a lot of money is going into those. And I look at that and I think, I think my taxes are too high.
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Well, you keep thinking about what is the principle that you’re using to expand government. If we can go back to the principles, that will clarify a lot of what’s happening now. And they don’t. It’s on emotion. It’s about their values. But it’s not on a principle. And on principle, you’re on bedrock. So what are principles? Those things that are… everlasting. The principles of human equality, of natural rights, of limited government, of consent of the governed, all those ideas are principles that you can build an argument on. And they’re not about the feelings of people because they need something. You know, the famous Marx quote, people who are wanting to have their needs filled rather than
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um what actually needs to happen which is not to steal the money out of other people’s pocket right and using government to do so so we’re going to continue this discussion we’re going to talk about your essay that will be coming out this weekend as well these are important discussions and for everything residential real estate reach out to karen levine
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Yeah, absolutely. And I was thinking, okay, what do I want to leave them once I’m gone? And, you know, I’m still vibrant and working and busy. But yet, you know, it’s those things that you start thinking about as you get to a certain age. And one of the things I started doing, I haven’t been doing it for years, is reading stories and trying to get examples of why. what that legacy is. There’s an old story in ancient Mesopotamia of a king, Gilgamesh, who was looking for eternal life. What he found was that legacy is about helping and leaving things behind that others can use in the future that he didn’t realize that you were planting those seeds. And one of the things that I think is first and foremost, and we’re talking about elected representatives, is character. If their character is not firm, if they don’t understand those things that are foundational, then we’re going to be in a situation we’re in today. If you look around and you start deciding what are the characters of people who you trust, they’re virtues, right? There’s things like prudence and temperance and justice and having the ideas of the American founding of a good citizen. And if they don’t have good morals and good virtues, I would say that’s foundational. That’s first. That’s what I look for. Not necessarily what people say, but what they do and how they do it and how they make the people around them feel. And that’s often done by people who are curious. People are curious about their surroundings, about their environment. I’ve always been curious. I mean, I go down rabbit holes sometimes. My wife says, it’s dinner time. It’s amazing that the amount of information that’s out there, not just scrolling on reels on social media, but looking for information. And it’s amazing what’s out there. I mean, the history of mankind is both good and bad, and you can learn a lot from both of them. But I think if you have a good character and starting off as a base, and then if you’re curious about the world, and then you learn how to communicate what you’ve found, you learn how to connect with people. And connection is not about talking. Communication is not about talking. It’s about listening, asking good questions. And then digging deeper and asking a further question and another question to where you get information that probably you wouldn’t get just on the surface. How did you learn about that? Who told you those things? Why is that important to you? All questions that lead to deeper meaning. And I think people are looking for meaning. And you look around the world now and The way that religion has started to make a comeback in so many areas, that’s a good thing because otherwise they fill that void with things that are going on in places like New York where there is such a void and they’re attracted to things like socialism and communism. And we have to push back with better ideas, bigger ideas. And the American founding is one of the most beautiful ideas. For the first time in human history, a group of men came together and recognized the equal universal natural rights of all men. It didn’t matter where you came from. But nobody’s more human than anybody else. That’s where the idea of equality came around. And so I think we need to start explaining this to people because it’s not taught in school. And Reagan was right. Freedom is not taught. It’s not in the blood. You have to keep teaching it. You keep learning things about the American founding, about why a group of people came and saw a vision. that nobody saw before. And it had to do with respecting people’s rights, respecting the opportunities for advancement. So you have to communicate these ideas. And the connection, it’s kind of like a Venn diagram, bringing it all together. And in the essay, I talk about, especially towards the end, the four C’s of understanding and fostering a path that individuals can really use as a guide. And character is a foundation. Curiosity is a doorway. Communication is a structure. And connection is the confluence of all these elements that covers and crowns this journey for a meaningful experience. And if you look at it like that, you start to see the connection of all three of those ideas. And I’m interested in ideas, whether they’re mine or somebody else’s. And so I played around with this idea of character and connection. And connection and curiosity and communication. I think it’s important to think about bigger picture ideas. And then if somebody is wanting to run for office, at least you have a background. It’s not I feel this. Rather, it’s I think this. And these are the reasons why. And so that’s why I wrote the essay as I did.
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Well, it is really important. And talking about legacy, talking about meaning in life. Gosh, who was the quote? It’s along the line of there are two important days in someone’s life, when they are born and when they figure out why they’re here, what they need to do, the meaning in life. And I think people are really searching for something. We see people search for religion. And I think that there’s been those that have worshipped at the altar of environmentalism, transgenderism, because people are looking for something, I think, to believe in, don’t you?
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Well, Joseph Campbell, the great mythologist, said, What he wrote in The Power of Myth and many other of his books is I think people are looking for the experience of being alive. I think that’s why people jump out of planes and climb 14ers and do all the things here in Colorado that they do. I think they’re looking for those experiences that have meaning in their life. And there’s a quote I put in here by the philosopher Ayn Rand. That says the man who does not value himself cannot value anything or anyone. So we have to value ourselves first. We have to take care of ourselves first. That doesn’t mean negate anybody. It means you have to eat right. You have to exercise. You have to feed your head with good things. You have to be positive. You have to look at the world as an opportunity, not as a burden. And I think using your faculties, the mind is the source of all wealth, plain and simple. If you can’t think about something first and then you create it, production precedes consumption. It’s a classic economic idea. And yet today we’re spending and we’re using all the resources for things before we even pay for those things or plan for those things. Yeah. Ultimately, that’s why we have a problem with government. They just want to take other people’s money and have programs and tell you how to live your life where you know better how to live your life. Moms and dads know how to live their lives for their family. They plan out how to best provide. And when you leave it to somebody else, you’re going to get what you get, which is a total mess.
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So when we come back, I want to talk more about socialism because I don’t think socialism values the individual. And so let’s talk about that. And Jenny, one of our listeners, has said you can vote yourself into socialism, but it’s pretty difficult to get back out of it. And that’s where we’re at right now. We’re seeing a socialist slash communist running for mayor in the biggest city in the United States. We wonder how we got here. So we’re going to talk about that. I did want to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it’s reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power. From oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate, to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. And all that is under attack from a public policy standpoint. And also media, a whole bunch of different places. That’s why I recommend that you check out A Climate Conversation.com, which is the documentary. It is a project of Walt Johnson. But you can watch it for free at ClimateConversation.com. These discussions happen because of our sponsors. For everything mortgages, reach out to Lorne Levy.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Thanks for joining us. And in studio with me is Brad Beck. He is the co-founder of Liberty Toastmasters. And let’s get some information out there about Liberty Toastmasters.
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Well, I’d love to. We meet in two locations. We have one in Denver that meets the first and third Saturday of the month down at the Independence Institute on the north entrance. You come in and we start at 10 and we and at 12. And then Liberty Toastmasters North, which meets up in Longmont. And that’s the second and fourth Saturday of the month. We have a meeting this Saturday, again, from 10 to 12. And it’s a lot of fun. You can go on the website, go to toastmasters.org, find the locations. And we founded these two clubs, Kim, on the idea of taking the traditional structure of a Toastmasters club and and blending it with the timeless principles, and those timeless principles of protecting the individual rights, the proper role of a limited government, and how to be an active and engaged citizen, all based on the American founding. And so people get practice and build, just like they go to a gym. They get that muscle built up. So we usually have three to four prepared speeches, people working out of their manuals, It’s a program called Pathways. It’s online. And then they can practice communication by participating in our table topics where somebody asks a question and then you have to give an answer in one to two minutes. You can default and say that’s a great question, often like you do on Thursdays once a month with my Toastmaster cohorts. Or you can deflect and say, that’s a great question. I have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m going to talk about the weather and my dog. But as long as you get up and speak for one to two minutes and have a good argument, then you might win. And then we do evaluations. That’s the goal. That’s where people really learn what communication is all about. And it’s from the perspective of your peers who will look at you and say, you know, you did this well and this well. And maybe consider a way to change what you did in the middle because it didn’t really connect. Or this is what you did in your body. And, of course, you couldn’t see the body language. So maybe you would move around the room with purpose. Things of this nature that you get the feedback to become a better communicator.
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Well, and communication is so important and the curiosity of ideas. We don’t agree on how to get to many things, but it’s always great conversations. It’s great presentations. The evaluation component is so important. And this was your and some other of your colleagues’ brainchild how long ago?
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Well, we started in 2009 in Denver, so it’s been 16 years, and it’s still going strong. And we have helped thousands of people find their voice. It’s a peer-run organization. There’s a small fee to be a member. And once you’re a member, you come as often as you like. But the more you practice, the better you get at it. And you talked about curiosity. There’s a great line by Plutarch who said, the mind is not a vessel to be filled. but are fired to be kindled. And we fire the people’s curiosity about how to get better at talking to their coworkers, their friends, their family, and if they run for public office, even more because you want to tell a story or have an idea that connects with your audience. And a lot of it is body language, a lot of it is eye contact, but it’s also the words you say and how you say them.
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Mm-hmm. All of that is so important. And so, again, we’d recommend people check it out. And you can go to the Toastmasters international website and put in Liberty Toastmasters, and then the clubs will come up. And so that’s a great way to find us as well. Let’s go back over here to some of the things that we were talking about. Before we do that, though, I would recommend that you check out the Center for American Values. Drew Dix has started a new podcast. He’s a co-founder, Medal of Honor recipient. And he’s got this new podcast series that is out. And this is absolutely just so timely right now. And his latest one, they come out on Wednesdays, is Democratic Republic or Socialist Republic.
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I love listening to him. He’s got a great voice, great interview technique. And I’ve started to go back and listen to the older ones, which it’s a relatively new podcast. But he’s brilliant. He is brilliant. Yeah, and he’s got a lot of wisdom from living a big life.
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Really. And so with curiosity, I think it’s important to find these different trusted sources and let them percolate to the top in your life so that it can give you real perspective because there’s so much that’s coming at us. And I think sometimes that’s by design as well. So we have to find trusted voices. And you can text me 720-605-0647. But I wanted to mention socialism because, What has happened is America was founded on this idea of the individual. And Jay Davidson says the sanctity of the individual. But these rights from God of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, that we’re all created equal. Socialism looks at people as part of a group. And two things happen. You lose your identity then in that group. But they also can use one group to pit against the other. And if you only identify that person over there as a member of a group and not see them for their humanity of who they are, then you get to a point where you can have people attack other people just because they don’t recognize them as individuals, as human beings, but as members of a group. And we’re headed in a very dangerous direction right now with this whole groupthink.
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Well, you look at the most successful countries, especially in the West, and they’re all based on the individual first to protect the rights of that individual. Whether you look at a country, a small country like Israel, where it was founded in 1948, It’s been around a lot longer, but as a state, a modern state, the people that gathered there started in what’s called kibbutz, which is a gathering and a communal society where people might own personal things, but they came together to do agriculture, to produce things in factories. And it was a communal environment. And over time, they realized if they really wanted to grow as a people, that capitalism really was the answer. It wasn’t this collectivism. And you look at a place like Tel Aviv today, and it is one of the most forward-looking countries cities in the world. And there’s a lot of high tech, there’s a lot of industry. And I think people start to see there it is right incarnate. You look at South Korea, very poor country, until they embraced capitalism, Japan after the war. And Dr. Deming going there and talking about this continuous improvement idea. And they just shot up and it became a prosperous, society. When people embrace this idea of trading value for value, of rule of law, that people can own property, both physical and intellectual property, that it’s the source of their mind, things just take off because people are left freely. And when we’re left freely to produce, then we’re able to really thrive. And human flourishing is what it’s all about. That’s the idea of human happiness in our Declaration of Independence. You have to be self-restrained also. You have to know that you only do and take what is yours. You don’t take from others. And so you have to be restrained. You have to have self-assertiveness when you see a wrong to fix it. You have to be self-reliant. Don’t rely on other people. Rely on yourself. And then you have to have civic knowledge. And these are all the basis for a good citizen.
SPEAKER 08 :
And America was founded – well, when the Pilgrims came over, my understanding is they were doing things from a communal standpoint, and they almost starved. Right. And when I think Bradford realized that maybe we should let people keep more of the fruits of their labor, farm their own little plot – Well, guess what? Things changed immediately because people were able to keep most of the fruits of their labor.
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Well, Frederick Douglass, and I put this in my essay, he said, quote, liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That of all the rights is the dread of tyrants. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. So when you violate rights, whether it’s listening or producing rights, Or creating wealth. And when you start taking that away from people, that’s when you start to have problems. That’s the source of communism. And Mondavi in New York, as an example, thinks he can do it better. They didn’t do it right before, but we’re going to do it better. There’s going to be a sucking sound out of New York. where financial and other industries are going to leave, and how are they going to pay for things? Well, they’ll go back to the federal government. And, you know, you get what you want, and when people don’t want freedom, they’re going to experience something that they’ve never experienced before. And Colorado’s on that track as well. Unless we stand up and say, no, enough, stay in your lane, stop taking from this organization thoughtful public that is working their butts off to create wealth for themselves, not for the government.
SPEAKER 08 :
Very important point, Brad Beck. Thank you so much. And again, the essay is Character, Curiosity, and Communication Lead to Connection by Brad Beck. Roll that out this weekend. The quote for the show is George Patton. He said, Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men. I thought that connected well with your piece. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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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 and 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. It is Thursday, Producer Joe. Happy Thursday, Ken. Happy Thursday. And Brad Beck, my good friend and co-founder of Liberty Toastmasters, is able to stay for the second hour.
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I’m looking forward to it. It’s always fun.
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And we’ll talk with Major General Army Joe Arbuckle here in just a little bit about what is happening with our military DEI efforts. It is crazy how the tentacles of socialism has really gotten into so many of our different institutions, Brad.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, hopefully there is a major change happening with the leadership now in place. But some of these things go into the crevices, and they’re hard to get out once they’re in. And so you see what the Department of Defense is trying to do to make it a fighting force, not a DEI supplicant of the ideology of the left. And so hopefully that can over time be changed.
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Yes, but it’s been very embedded, and it’s not only in the military, but in our education system. And many times they just change the name. Right. And so we have to be very vigilant. Our word of the day, I pulled this because you used this in your essay that we’re going to roll out this weekend, Character, Curiosity, and Communication Lead to Connection. by brad beck the word is serendipity and it is spelled s-e-r-e-n-d-i-p-i-t-y and it could be an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident good fortune or luck and i think that karen gorday would say it was serendipity that she actually was able to uncover some of the connect the dots on some of the things that she did regarding uh the city of lakewood and uh encouraging the people of Lakewood to then vote to give up their money to the city. But it wasn’t just Lakewood. Rappahoe County did it. Jefferson County did it. We many times have done this without even knowing it when we are approving a bond question for a school or for a rec district. And so if you ever see… Let’s see… The Roman numeral 10 in something, that means that they’re probably going after your, in a ballot question, they’re going after your Tabor refunds.
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They’re always going after your Tabor refund. And more importantly, you talk about serendipity. You know, if you’re curious in life. And you want to find out what’s over that hill or what’s around that corner or what’s in that other person’s mind. When you’re curious, you start to find out things. And you build deeper connections, but you also have deeper understanding. And I think that’s where the idea that I came up with with this curiosity and having good character, but it also has to do with being on that journey of life, of being curious.
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Yeah. Well, and you called in and wished him a happy birthday on his 97th birthday. And that is Colonel Bill Rutledge, retired in the United States Air Force. But his curiosity of life, of places, of people is amazing. And he will call and he’ll say, Kim, I’m reading a book on Typhoid Mary. I think we should do a show on Typhoid Mary because people don’t know the history on so many things. And the fact that he is so curious but that we have figured out a way for him to share that with all of our listeners has really been serendipitous.
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That is. And there is a fire in his mind that just proves it’s not about age. If you have the character as he does and if you are curious about our world, And you’re able to share it. I mean, that’s a gift. And we have a gift in him. We really do. Yes. We do.
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I’m going to get over here to our quote of the day from George Patton. He was born in 1885. He died in 1945 from injuries from a Jeep rollover. And, you know, it was right there during World War II. Anyway, he said this, though. He said, good tactics can save even the worst strategy, but bad tactics will destroy even the best strategy. And that’s George Patton. And actually, that is very serendipitous that our guest, Karen Levine, is on the line. She is a REMAX realtor because I think that goes to real estate transactions, making sure that you have good tactics as you’re going through that strategy. Karen Levine, how do you like that segue over to you? Welcome. Hi.
SPEAKER 10 :
Very well done, Kim. And yes, in preparing to buy real estate or preparing to sell real estate, we want to implore good tactics. And then our results should be better than they would be with bad tactics.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, definitely. And I wanted to ask you, any tips on if people are selling their home right now? Because I’m seeing more for sale signs out there. So how can people use the tactic to have their property maybe rise above others as buyers are looking at different properties to purchase?
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Well, sellers are now seeing a marketplace where there is competition, and they have not experienced that in about a decade to a decade and a half. We haven’t seen a buyer’s market in 15 years. And so with that said, sellers need to have better tactics. in approaching and coming on the market. And some of the things that I have utilized over my career is, first of all, preparing that home for sale. And we do that through a variety of strategies, one being what I refer to as a walk and talk. And I bring in a professional stager who walks the property and helps you get your home prepared Not only for buyers walking in so that it presents well, but also for the photos, because we’ll find in today’s market, buyers go to the Internet first, kind of scope out what their options are, get a feel for the market, get a feel for what their money will buy them, and then they will contact a realtor first. to start seeing those homes in person. So those photos are super important. Once we’re on the market, because we’ve been talking about affordability or the lack thereof, how do we make it more attractive and more affordable? And a lot of sellers are utilizing what we refer to as seller concessions and offering those concessions, which is an amount of money, to buy down the interest rate. And you can do a variety of things. You can buy the rate down permanently, but more likely… The better sort of bang for your buck is buying that rate down, doing what’s called a 2-1 buy down. So you buy that rate down 2% for year one and 1% for year two. And that’s something that only the seller can buy for the buyer. The buyer cannot do that for themselves. So we’re looking at doing those type of things as well. And I think it’s difficult for sellers, but their mindset is still in the marketplace of multiple offers, selling over the weekend, I can get what I want for my home, pricing strategy, and we have to be much more sensitive about our pricing strategy. And looking at a market that has downward pressure and getting under that downward pressure and being more aggressive in our initial pricing. So those are a couple of ways. to address the challenges but also the opportunities of the real estate market.
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Well, and how can people reach you if they want to buy a home, sell a home, or look at a new build?
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Well, if you’re interested in purchasing real estate or selling real estate, call me at 303-877-7516. And that’s Karen Levine at 303-877-7516.
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Good morning, Kim. It’s always a pleasure to be able to speak with you. Thank you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, it’s good to have you. And I was going to give your actual title on STARS, and I did not write that down. But you’re one of the founders of STARS, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
Actually, I came on about a year after they were founded. I am the vice chairman of the board of directors of STARS, and a good friend of mine is a guy that got me involved. He is one of the founders, and that’s retired Lieutenant General Rod Bishop. He’s an Air Force officer.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and tell us, why was STARS founded?
SPEAKER 05 :
Rod Bishop and some other academy graduates live right here in the Colorado Springs area, close to where the academy is. And they saw a news article in the Gazette about the football coaches at the academy engaging with the football team in some chants about supporting Black Lives Matter. This was right after the George Floyd incident. And the more they watched that and the more they dug into it, the more they got concerned about what was going on at their alma mater, the academy. And so Rod Bishop and others contacted the superintendent, who’s the guy in charge of the academy, a three-star. It’s always a three-star. And said, hey, this is wrong. This is political. You can’t be doing that at the academy. And the superintendent did not respond for several months. And That got these guys energized because that reinforced their concern about something’s wrong here. And so that was a genesis of STARS. About three, four, about five, I guess about five academy graduates all retired from the Air Force, got together, and they formed STARS, and General Bishop was the leader. So that’s the background.
SPEAKER 08 :
How did this happen? So that would mean that it was really DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion. And what we’ve learned now is that that is prevalent throughout our military. Donald Trump said he wants to eradicate that out of our military. And I wanted to get an update. How’s that coming along?
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, okay. Yes, we did talk about that when I was with you previously, Kim. And It’s moving along, I guess, is a short answer to your question, but it’s going to take a long time. And the problem is summarized by me saying it’s physical versus mental. And what I mean by that is it’s very easy to expunge DEI out of the military from a physical standpoint. And I’m pretty sure that’s just about been totally accomplished by that. I mean, President Trump issued his executive order saying you’ve got to remove All the vestiges of DEI, things like close down the DEI offices, and they were throughout the military. Get rid of the people who were the sponsoring DEIs. Get rid of all the post, official posts you have on your bulletin boards in your libraries. Any place that DEI might be physically present to include throughout social media, get rid of that. That’s pretty easy to do. But the hard part’s the mental part. And by that, I mean that our military has been pushed into political correctness since at least 2008, you know, going back to the Obama timeframe. And that political correctness mentality has slowly seeped in, including DEI. And let’s face it, DEI is purely a political policy. So those that have been grown up in the military for the last 15, 20 years, have been experiencing that, and that has gotten into the thinking, too much of the thinking, particularly at the Air Force Academy, not the Air Force Academy, all the academies. And so there’s work going on now to expunge that and say, hey, look, this DEI stuff is wrong. It should have never happened. That’s what President Trump has said. That’s what Secretary of Defense Pete Hagseth has said in his memos. And so it’s a process of working through and expunging and flushing out this political culture, including DEI. That will take some time, but it’s happening in progress. I believe it’s being made.
SPEAKER 08 :
All this is happening regarding our military at a time when there is so much happening in our world. And to have military readiness is really important. And being ready from a military standpoint is also a great deterrent for bad actors.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, exactly right. Having deterrence is dependent upon the adversary, potential adversaries, realizing that we have a strong military and we can inflict more pain on them because of that than they’re willing to accept, that’s the bottom line of deterrence. Now, along with that goes the will to use that deterrent factor, which is the political side residing with the president. And as we know, President Trump is extremely strong. He has the will to do the right thing, so that’s not a problem. And he has committed, as you know, on the campaign trail and even after to rebuilding our military, which will take a lot of time and money because things like our industrial base, as you probably know, has been allowed to deteriorate over the past 30 to 40 years because it simply hasn’t been funded properly. And so there’s a lot of money going into that. The force size needs to be increased, and there’s some of that happening right now. Readiness has to do also with training and getting back to the basics, the basics of war fighting training. And to your point, DEI was a total distraction away from that because the basis of DEI is Marxism. We talked about that before because it divides people into groups, in this case with DEI, it’s based upon things like skin color, sex, gender orientation and other kinds of identity factors like that. And that divides people into those kinds of categories and causes a lot of friction. And that’s exactly the opposite of what our military is all about, has been all about, which is unity and teamwork. And that was a major problem with DEI was it was so divisive. And so that’s a big factor in readiness. Now, with that division comes some distrust within the ranks because, you know, troops will look at each other and say, well, they’re telling us that we need to look at each other based upon skin color and gender and so forth instead of all being in one uniform. That causes a little bit of distrust within the ranks, and with that comes concerns about readiness and preparedness, and it also lowers standards, by the way. DEI, the middle term, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Equity really means common outcomes. In order to achieve equity according to DEI, you have to lower the standards to get common outcomes, such as on a physical fitness test. Well, anytime you lower standards, you’re automatically going to lower performance because the standards are down. And when performance is lowered, then readiness is lowered. So I’ve connected a bunch of dots right there to try and answer your question.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I think that that is so important that we connect these dots. And I think Americans have been taking our liberty for granted, General Arbuckle. And we have this liberty because there are people that have put on the uniform, been willing to give their lives or given their lives for our liberty, which is the responsible exercise of freedom. And I think that we Americans are a little spoiled. What do you think, Brad?
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, you know, if I was in the general’s shoes, I would be hopeful that we have a commander-in-chief who understands that, and I appreciate their support with STARS and what they’re doing. My curiosity, General, is how do we, if you had one thing that you could do to make a difference, what would that thing be, and how would you communicate it to the public?
SPEAKER 05 :
Brad, are you talking about making a difference with readiness or what?
SPEAKER 21 :
Yes, yes, in readiness, yes.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, if I had one thing to do, I would strongly reinforce what President Trump has been saying about eradicating DEI from our military. And I would instill within the Department of Defense A committee, a task force, something like that, that would ensure his presidential orders are being properly followed throughout the ranks. In other words, a group that would actually get out there and check throughout the entire department fence to ensure DEI is being eradicated. And with that, automatically, then readiness is going to increase.
SPEAKER 21 :
So the idea of e pluribus unum, unity from many one, really makes a difference rather than all these different initiatives that we had in the previous administration.
SPEAKER 05 :
Correct, yeah. Yeah, exactly. In fact, e pluribus unum is in one of our STARS briefing slides that we use all the time because, again, DEI, if I had to describe DEI with one word, it would be divisive. no matter if in the military or in the private sector, it’s divisive. And that’s the exact opposite, as I said earlier, about what our military is about, which is unity, teamwork. There’s an old battle motto in the military, one team, one fight. And what that really means is there’s about three components that identify, and that is the team, no matter what the size, has one mission and one purpose, and that’s what they focus on. The other part of it is… It’s all about the team. It’s not about an identity group. It’s not about what sex I am, what color I am, or whatever else. It’s about focusing on that team. And it’s about total trust and confidence in each other because of that teamwork. So absolutely right. It’s all about unity.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and it’s biblical. It’s in the Bible. But also, Lincoln said this as well, a house divided cannot stand. And so trying to divide people, to divide our country together, Ultimately, we will fail if we do not come together and unify. And what can we unify around? Well, this great idea that is the vision of our declaration that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. So that’s going to be a great segue to what we’re going to talk about when we come back with Major General Joe Arbuckle and some of the work that is occurring at STARS. And so we’ll do that when we come back. These discussions happen because of our sponsors. And I’m so pleased to have the Second Syndicate as a sponsor. They’re doing such great work to protect our Second Amendment rights.
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SPEAKER 08 :
And welcome back. I’d like to say thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show because it is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. That means to be warm in the winter and cool in the summer. And all these things that help human flourishing seems like it’s under attack, Brad Beck, and that’s why the work of Major General Joe Arbuckle and STARS is so important.
SPEAKER 21 :
I look forward to hearing what he has to say and how STARS is doing their America Creed presentation.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. So, General Arbuckle, you texted this over, and you said that STARS is doing an American Creed presentation. So tell us about this. What is it exactly?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, yeah, thanks, Kim. We’re excited about this. One of the big things we do in STARS is education programs. educating the public about what’s going on, because as you indicated, I think the vast majority don’t realize what DEI is all about. And so we’ve developed this briefing. It’s called The American Creed Threatened by Radical Indoctrination. Pardon me. And we presented it in multiple places in California, and it’s been in Nevada, South Carolina, and here in Colorado. Next week, Colonel Ron Scott, the president and CEO of STARS, and I are going to present it a couple times. It’ll be up in, let’s see, Woodland Park and then at Scott Bottoms Church. Pastor Bottoms is running for governor. We’ll be presenting it next Wednesday at his church. Now, if people want to see it, and I highly encourage, get on our website. It’s starrs.us and you’ll find a briefing there. And what we do is trace the sources of our American creed, which are our founding documents, obviously, Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights. And we talk about that being our fundamental roots. And we define, SARS does, the American creed as being words we’ve all memorized in school. All Americans are created equal and endowed by their creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That’s sort of our creed. And then we go on to define that further, and we really dive deep into DEI, CRT, and how that all ties into Marxism. There’s a real deep dive into that, and when people look at this briefing, they will come out understanding what it’s all about. And one of the points we bring out also is that when you come back to the oath that all of us are military officers and list to take, to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. We have a slide there that points out that we are at war right now, and people don’t realize that. It’s not a shooting war, but nevertheless, it’s just as deadly. And we break it into the foreign war, which is primarily with China, because they have declared unrestricted warfare on us, actually in a book. in 1999 where they outlined their battle plan and they’re doing exactly what they said they would do. And then on the domestic side, the war, of course, is the cultural war that’s raging throughout our country and was brought into our military through this DEI. And we show the evidence of that. If you want just one example that we’re at a cultural war, just look at who’s running for governor of New York City right now and will probably win.
SPEAKER 08 :
Mayor of New York City.
SPEAKER 05 :
Mayor of New York City. I’m sorry. Yeah, yeah. I said go. Yeah, thanks for correcting that. So there’s a great indicator right now that’s happening before our eyes about this domestic war that’s raging. And I’ll point out one other thing toward the end of the briefing. We have a slide there that goes back to – the 45 communist goals that were written to the congressional record in 1963. And these goals are quite striking. And the Communist Party has identified those goals early on, has been marching toward executing those. And examples are getting religion out of our schools, challenging religion, taking over control of our school operations, the unions that are involved, and so on and so forth. So I highly recommend that if people are interested, just do a web search for the 45 communist goals written to the congressional record in 1963, and go down that list of those goals and do your own evaluation of how successful the communists have been in achieving those goals. It’s rather shocking.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, it is really shocking. And when we look at the actions of President Trump, I just pulled this up very quickly here. And one of it said it was to permit free trade between all nations, regardless of communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war. It says grant recognition of Red China, admission of Red China to the U.N., It’s amazing so many things that have happened regarding these 45 things that were read into the congressional record, General Arbuckle.
SPEAKER 05 :
On our slide there, I just pulled up the slide. Among those that we point out are capture political parties, get control of schools and teacher unions, as I said, infiltrate the press and gain control of the media. Think about that one. Eliminate prayer and religious expression in schools. Discredit our Constitution. Call it inadequate. Infiltrate and gain control of unions and big business. As you just said, promote the United Nations and one world government. Use students to riot and form public protests. Infiltrate churches. Discredit the Bible. Discredit the family. Take control of kids, if possible, away from parents. support violence and insurrection, break down standards of morality, and so on and so forth. They identified how to basically destroy our country.
SPEAKER 08 :
And a lot of those things are accomplished. Brad, you look like you are ruminating on this.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, I’m sure you’re familiar with the America’s Creed written in 1917. There was a contest that was held, and one of the descendants of one of the signers of the Declaration, Carter Braxton, had a descendant, William Tyler Page, who wrote this.
SPEAKER 05 :
the america’s creed and i’m wondering how much of that original document you guys focus on or do you all at all um i don’t think we did but i’m going to go back and look at that brad we we just focused mainly on the three three main founding documents i mentioned earlier of course the first was the direct declaration of independence and about 11 years later the constitution followed in about three or four years after that we had the bill of rights inserted within the Constitution.
SPEAKER 21 :
Right, right. Well, it’s interesting because the document that, you know, anybody can look it up, the America’s Creed is talking about all the things that are part of our American founding. And I think it reemphasizes all the things you’re talking about. And it’s important for Americans to understand it, that this country was established on freedom, equality, justice, and humanity as opposed to giving things to people and making sure they’re equitable. And I think people misunderstand equity and equal.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yes, I do. That’s an important point. And you just touched upon socialism. They’re giving things to people. That’s the purpose of socialism is to is to cause people to look to the government to provide everything that they want. And the big difference between socialism and Marxism, which most people don’t understand, is that socialism, as you know, is an economic system. It’s the opposite of free market capitalism, whereas Marxism is a political system. Now, the two go hand in hand because nobody wants to have their possessions taken away from them and given to the government voluntarily. So it takes a heavy-handed, tyrannical form of government like in order to implement successfully socialism. And in every case where that’s happened throughout the world, it leads to the same thing, massive death and destruction.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, I think capitalism needs to be retaken as a moniker that we actually promote as opposed to running away from it. So many people want to just talk about free markets, but capitalism is an important concept. And I think we should be talking positively about it and learning the history of it. Capital meaning going back to cows, meaning the head and when they used to count cows. It was on their cattle. And so the idea of the source of all wealth being your mind, I think, is appropriate to talk about.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, absolutely. Well, capitalism is based upon freedom, freedom to choose how hard you want to work or not work. And in that is the important point that people can profit from the fruits of their own labor within free market capitalism. whereas not with socialism. It’s the opposite. The other end of the extremes.
SPEAKER 08 :
General Arbuckle, we are voting ourselves into socialism, and there was two points I wanted to make. First of all, we’re going to have a lot of different ballot questions this November. This is when many times you see the tax questions. In fact, I had a school board member call yesterday, and she’s going to be on the show tomorrow. She said, now, Kim, when they begin without raising taxes or – that really is a tax increase, isn’t it? And I said, well, many times what they’re doing is extending debt. And the problem is, is we are voting ourselves into socialism. We are voting ourselves into having somebody else take more money out of our pocket. Now, granted, I think we all realize there is a proper role of government, but I think government’s way out of its lane, and we are voting ourselves into having people vote dip into our pockets, which is thievery sometimes, General Arbuckle. When government takes more than it that is necessary for its proper role, that’s not a good idea, General Arbuckle.
SPEAKER 05 :
No, certainly not. And it stifles personal creativity and energy because, again, the intent of socialism is to caused people to be dependent upon the government for everything. In the old days, of course, it was defined as socialism controlling the means of production. Well, now that’s been extended as you’re kind of getting into all social services beyond just means of production. And as Margaret Thatcher, the great iron lady from Great Britain, once said, the problem with socialism is eventually you run out of other people’s money. And that’s exactly right. That harkens back also to a campaign trail, I think it was about 2007. Remember Joe the plumber? Yes. Was talking to Obama and he said, are you really going to do income redistribution? Are you going to take my money and give it to somebody else? Yeah, well, that’s exactly right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, definitely. Okay, General Arbuckle always learned so much. Oh, I wanted to make one other point regarding that being you said that the communist goals were read into the congressional record in 1960, right?
SPEAKER 05 :
It was in 1963. It was by a congressman named Herlong, H-E-R-L-O-N-G.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down because Donald Trump is no longer going to or is taking back the federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting company. And I talked about it on the air. There’s supposed to be a separation between the press and the government. And so the fact that we’ve been funding this all these years, it’s antithetical to freedom. But I just took a quick look, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting was founded in 1967. So this is read into the congressional record, and here you’re having these things you said take over the media. When government is funding the media, the media will do what the government says, and I think that’s an important point to understand, General Arbuckle.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, that’s an excellent point. The media should never be used as a propaganda arm for the government, no matter who’s in charge. That’s the danger. You just put your finger on it, Kim.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. General Arbuckle, thank you for the great work that you’re doing. What’s your final thought that you’d like to leave with our listeners?
SPEAKER 05 :
We’re definitely heading in the right direction in our country. It’s wonderful to see what’s happened in the last six months, which has been really revolutionary, I think, in our country. driven by President Trump and the great team, the great cabinet team that he’s put together. So we’re on the march. We’re going in the right direction. Keep the faith.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay, and keep up doing the great work. Thank you, General Arbuckle.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thanks, Kim. Always a pleasure.
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And welcome back. A couple of things I wanted to mention is the USMC Memorial Foundation will be having their anniversary celebration on August 23rd. You can buy tickets by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. David Bray will be performing. I’ll be there as well. Love to have you join us on that. And then, Brad, you had checked out Drew Dix’s new podcast series, Words from the Silo. And… You would think that we planned this all together. We did not. His podcast that was posted yesterday is Democratic Republic or Socialistic Republic. So I can’t wait to listen to that as well.
SPEAKER 21 :
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SPEAKER 21 :
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SPEAKER 08 :
That’s what I hear.
SPEAKER 21 :
I’m a baseball guy, so I’m always sad towards the end of the year. But our Rockies aren’t doing so good, so, you know, we’ll see what happens.
SPEAKER 08 :
Somebody was telling me the other day that they actually won a game, but it was like 16-12.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah. They beat a record that was just unbelievable. They came back from what looked like a certain defeat, and they created this rally that was just unbelievable, and the next day they tanked again, so…
SPEAKER 08 :
I guess every once in a while you can get it together. We were talking with General Arbuckle about this presentation. You can find it at STARS, and there’s going to be presentations next week. One of them will be at Scott Bottoms Church. Scott Bottoms is a candidate for governor as well as he is a state legislator. And so you can check that out at STARS. That’s S-T-A-R-R-S dot U-S. But you had, and I was not familiar with this, you have a little bit of information about the American creed as well, Brad.
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, back in 1916, 1917, World War I, there was a contest to come up with this idea of the America’s creed. So when you said that, I looked it up real quickly. And if you don’t mind, I’ll read it because it’s short. It says, I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed, a democracy in a republic, a sovereign nation of many sovereign states. a perfect union, one and inseparable, established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrifice their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies. Now, That says it all right there. And I’m surprised that more people have never read that, understand it.
SPEAKER 08 :
I’ve not heard it.
SPEAKER 21 :
And replicate it and talk to people about it. Dennis Prager has the trinity of the American founding. And I believe it’s e purbolus unum, for many, one, the idea of liberty on our coin and in God we trust. And they’ve tried to take away that idea from the American founding. When I say they, the people who believe in socialism, communism, Marxism, all those isms that are against individual rights and freedom. And we need to talk more about why liberty is important to our children, to our grandchildren, to our friends, to our neighbors. Let them come to it by their own volition, but we need to talk about it more. And if we don’t, we’re going to lose it all.
SPEAKER 08 :
And that’s why we do the show, Liberty Toastmasters. You’re out there making presentations on a regular basis. And this came in on the text line. And the first thing is, it says, Rush Limbaugh used to say that words matter. Marketing deceptions, and we were talking about that with Karen Gorday regarding Lakewood and Jefferson County and Rappaport County. Voting to give up the money that’s due them because the government over-collected money. But anyway, it says this. It says, marketing deceptions. So political correctness is actually political corruption. Green energy is not really green. The rainbow colors, the meaning had been corrupted. Affordable housing is actually government housing. And then says, no tax increases. Devil is the father of all lies. Very good point.
SPEAKER 21 :
Yeah, we need to be aware. Just open your eyes and look around and say, how did that happen? I mean, like my town, there is this whole affordable housing initiative. And I look at what they’re building and I know within a very short time it’s going to end up being demolished. A ghetto, for lack of a better term, because the way it’s being built, the closeness of everything, it’s not affordable because they have to follow the same regulations that a regular builder would build. That’s not a function of government helping to build it and taxpayers paying it. They want us, when I say they, again, the usual suspects, elected representatives who want to be under the guise of doing something for the people. They’re forcing us to participate in something we don’t want to. And I think we need to start pushing back by saying, no, stay in your lane. Stop. That’s not the proper role of a limited government. Your job is to protect the rights that we have as citizens and not give us stuff. I don’t want your stuff.
SPEAKER 08 :
The government giveth, the government can taketh away. And a headline that we didn’t talk about, but Illinois is removing 700,000 people from their health care plan. And remember, wasn’t the Affordable Care Act was so that everybody would have health care? Well, the government giveth. The government will take it away. And it is very important to realize the word affordable is actually subsidized government housing. And the word subsidized means the money is taken from one person to give to another. We’ve got about a minute left. It’s always great to have you in studio, Brad Beck. How would you like to wrap this up?
SPEAKER 21 :
Well, George Washington once said, quote, happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind than on the externals of the world, end of quote. So I believe that if you want to have a better world, read a lot, think a lot, talk to people, listen to people, and take action.
SPEAKER 08 :
Definitely. And so that’s why we do the show, to help you get your brain around all these different ideas so that we can engage in this battle of ideas that is raging in our society. in our world. And hold on, it says, we say that our daughters of the, oh, I guess at the American Creed, somebody said that they say that at the Daughters of the American Revolution meetings and events. Good for them. Good for them. Okay, our quote for the end of the show, I went to George Patton, and it actually is very appropriate for what we have been talking about here. And he said this, he said, moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men. And it does take moral courage to stand up and talk about these issues, but it’s so important, Brad Beck.
SPEAKER 21 :
It really is, and I encourage more people to do it, and do it with conviction, and do it with a smile.
SPEAKER 08 :
And a great way to get better at that is to visit Liberty Toastmasters.
SPEAKER 21 :
Come and visit us this Saturday up in Longmont.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. And 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 11 :
Talking about freedom I’m talking about freedom I will fight
SPEAKER 17 :
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