In this thought-provoking episode, Reggie Rocco leads an engaging discussion on America’s role amidst escalating global tensions. Joined by his super producer Lukey Luke, they delve into the geopolitical intricacies involving China and its assertive stance on Taiwan. The conversation explores the historic absence of large-scale superpower confrontations and questions whether the nation is prepared for such a monumental challenge.
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Woo! 560 KLZ, I'm in your night. Of course, this is Reggie Rocco, and I'm here with Lukey Luke, my super producer. What's up, big dog? Another day, another dollar, Reg. Another day, another dollar.
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Is it getting warmer? A little bit, I'd say, if it wasn't going to rain over the weekend, allegedly. I'll believe it when I see it.
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Yeah, for real, man. I'm ready for some, you know, some heat. And I'm not talking about the heat that China's getting ready to bring back. What do I keep telling these people? Listen to me. I have some deep ties in the Asian community. And it's because of the production and manufacturing arm that we and I developed years ago, being with Lowry Music Group, LaFace Records, and having your own production company and Sony, all this stuff. Everything is made outside of this country. Trust me. That's why I love Trump so much is he's telling you guys the truth. And that's what we're not even going to get into what happened to me in reference to finance, because I mean, I have to I might get a stroke on air. But buddy, have you heard that China is basically is it a threat? They're just saying, like, bring it on, like anything that America has. Anything that they want to do in reference to a battle or conflict with China, they said they are ready. They don't care if it's electrical, if it's, you know, boots on the ground, if it's in the air, in the sea. By see what, man, they just say they ready bring it on because they're going to take Taiwan. Now, my question is. I keep telling you, these people are the most ruthless, genius, racist, but ruthless people there are. America, we don't want that smoke. I've been saying we need to go to war with China like 20 years ago. Not now. I mean, literally, they got people. Can I even call a nine-month-old, a 10-month-old a person? I can't really call it a baby because it's doing somersaults and back flips and jumping up in the air, coming down, landing with splits. I'm like, there's no way. This has to be AI. This has to be a robot something. No, it's not. It's not. This is what they've been training for. You go into their classrooms, the kindergarten, first grade, second, third. We ain't talking about high school, junior high. I'm talking about through the adolescent years. I'm talking about, yo, yo. I don't know. Man, listen to me. What do we do if China is going to... Battle America for Taiwan. Now, we got Trump in here and Trump don't play. We all know this, but we're not ready, dude. We are not ready to battle against China. So how can we just bow out of that one? You have any idea, Luke?
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I don't know, dude. I don't know. I mean, any, because right now we're doing a lot of like proxy war stuff. Like we're helping Ukraine and Ukraine's pushing back against Russia and Russia's doing some stuff. You know, and we got some of our dudes, I think, still prancing around in the Middle East, kind of having a hoot and a holler over there. But I don't think we've seen like a superpower versus a superpower in a long time. It's been a while. You haven't seen an America versus a China, right? Like a crazy military against another crazy military. And I think once things get to that point, it's going to be hard not to escalate. Because let's say we fight China. Let's say. We start bringing out the... f-18s and then they bring out their equivalent of the f-35s and then we bring out our super awesome brand new stealth bombers and they bring out their super awesome brand new stealth bombers and then we bring out it's like you know it just keeps it keeps going it keeps rising it's like at what point what do you do when you get to nukes you know well is there any way that i believe once a conflict starts i think the egos are going to be too big like you're saying to de-escalate so I mean, it's a death sentence no matter what. I mean, even if, like, let's say China bows out, right? China says, all right, never mind. The reputation's crippled. Right. If we bow out, our reputation's crippled. Crippled. Like, once that conflict starts, no one can afford to eject themselves from it, right? It's like a fight to the death, really, I think. Yeah, I agree.
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I mean, the death of a lot of people...
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Yeah, not to the death of anyone in charge, mind you.
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Yeah, yeah. I don't have a bunker, unless I go to your house. No, it's the death of the people on the ground. But, so... We need to deter that. We don't need to get into that, man. We don't need that smoke. Because all they've been doing is preparing for us. Everywhere you turn around, all these conflicts, you never hear about China. They're just laying low. They move. They're like the silent reaper. They just move everywhere. Next thing you know, oh, Afghanistan? What are they doing over there? Oh, they got that military base and equipment. Y'all stupid fools left over there. Wow. Oh, the police. Panama Canal, uh-oh, it's owned by China. What? How do they do this? They're doing this. Then you go like, okay, well, I'm flying over. What's these islands in the middle of the dang ocean? They don't even look real. They're not. They're man-made. China. They've militarized those islands, and they got bases everywhere. Meanwhile, they're doing all this, and we allow them to do this? And then now we want to, after, you know, 20, 15 years of fighting, and only thing we care about is transgender and alphabet people? Are you serious? You know, no, no, we're not. We're not ready for that. So I'm kind of I'm kind of nervous. But Trump, if there's anybody that can do it is Trump. There's no doubt about that. But I think it's some clashes coming up. And then, you know, Trump, he's saying, you know, Gulf of America, Canada, get out of here. Terrorists, terrorists, terrorists everywhere. You know, and it's so much money, so many companies that are coming here now, just like you said, you know, and you got Doge fighting the tax cuts and the American people behind all this. And, you know, we need to put these Democrats, well, we'll talk about it in a second, but they need to be handled. We got so many stuff on the inside that we have to do, you know, to get all these illegal aliens out of here, get them out of here. We're fighting these judges that are completely liberal. I'm like, are you serious? One judge in Washington, D.C., thought he could say turn around and just big pimping. He ain't even talking about, you know, like we'd have to have paperwork, you know what I'm saying, go through a process. He's just on the phone, turning around, bring all those criminals back. Now, you know, Trump and them ain't going to do that. But just the audacity of that to take place lets you know just how much we're battling what we're facing in America. So when getting back to China, man, I seen six year olds cutting hair, being barbers. I'm talking about not with just scissors. I'm talking about with the actual barber tools that they use. Six. It's incredible what they're learning. Mathematics, science, skills, you know, farming, you know, everything they're learning from the infant through, you know, I ain't going to go past fourth grade. It's crazy. What are we doing? We having transgender shows for our kids. We're battling all these hidden agendas that the Department of Education has to manipulate and control our children because that's how you win. You can't teach an old dog new tricks. They done lost that battle, but the battle that they're winning is they have people in position and then they're going after our kids, after our youth. And if they can turn them out, it's a wrap, dude. So I'm just thinking I'm so glad that Trump is in and we're battling this situation. But, you know, Trump has taken on a lot of stuff. You got Russia threatening us. I'm like, come on, Russia. Like, really? Like Ukraine is is holding their own with you. Now, I know you could send heavy bombs that way, nuke city, but you're not going to do that. But with Trump saying he's going to pull out of NATO, and then you got the French, France, are you serious, yo? And other, I almost call them companies because that's what they are, really. Countries talking stuff to Russia. no man no i don't want to be in that smoke either why should we have to get in that smoke they ain't paying their fair share ukraine is ripping us off by not whole people are done sold us out now we got a lot to fix we got a lot to fix before we can you know get into that situation so yeah we're very very strong but in a lot of instances we're weak so let them have that smoke I don't care. Give them back the Statue of Liberty. I don't care what none of that stuff. You know, hey, like, you know, Germany. Come on, man. Hitler. Hitler was a monster, buddy. He was a monster. And they they worked well together. And trust me, if America wasn't in on that. I don't know, Luke, you might be having, you know, speaking German, buddy. Do you know any German?
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Do I know any German?
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Yeah. No. I know. I know something. What is Zeheil? That's German, right? Yeah, I don't think you should say that on the air, though. What does it mean? That's the hail Hitler. That's what it says? Yeah, you can't. So can we put something in front of that and, like, trademark it?
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No, I don't think you can.
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I don't think you'll win that one. That would be a heck of a word, man. I'm giving advice. I shouldn't be doing it because somebody's going to do it. To find out if you can trademark that name, that would be crazy. I ain't going to lie, dude. I'm black, just in case you didn't know. But there's people in our community, celebrities, black celebrities, that tried to trademark the N-word.
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I don't think you can trademark workers.
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They couldn't. They wouldn't let them. They tried to do it, though.
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I believe it.
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Could you imagine the money off of that?
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Get some royalties anytime someone uses it.
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Yes. Every time. You said what? Billionaire in a minute. Billionaire. From our own people, too. We're going to hit the top in literally two days with a trademark set up to pay. We're rich. But I believe with China, man, listen, I respect these people. They hate black people, but I respect them. And that dictatorship is a beast. And if we're not willing to go on the level that they're ready and prepared and used to doing. Like, wasn't it in Japan, it's a different Asians, but kamikaze, what about that word? Can we say that word? I think so, yeah. I think it means dive bomb or suicide something or whatever, right? Right, right. Who's better at suicide bombing?
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the isis them or the the asians the kamikazes and what they prove all that who's better that's a good question that's a good question because the kamikaze pilots you know we're dropping planes it's pretty big right yeah plane pretty big deal however a lot of the dirty bombs in the middle east you know you're strapping them to dogs and kids and swallowing them and all that fun stuff so i think
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the those are more brutal probably but i think the kamikaze pilots are more efficient because they have honor they have honor for their country and they have honor they would rather die by any means necessary than to lose or let a foreign country invade them and take over. So they're going to fight to the end. Now, I'm just thinking, you know, I can hold my own, but I'm nowhere near tough as no military. I mean, like, don't come get me because I'm just not a bullet catcher. But I respect and I will do anything I can to help my country here. But, man, no. But do you think Trump could form a task force of Americans that can do kamikaze stuff and all that? You think it would be a lot of people? You know how many people signed up for that in Japan? I don't think we'd get any people signing up.
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No, you're not going to sign up, Luke? I don't think so, no. Nor do I think we should.
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Probably a bad call all around, I think. There's no way I'm doing it. But when you see somebody that believe in their culture and their cause and their movement like that, and they're smart and they're pilots, they're doing all that, man. Oh, man, we got to have a different mentality to deal with that, right? Yeah. But hey, man, I hear this music. It's lovely music, by the way. We gotta go to break. We'll be right back. It's time to unite.
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You listen to 560 KLZ. I'm Ian Nider. You know how we do it. Blunt in your face. Bold truth. Logic. Courage. And the American way. Led by, of course, Donald J. Trump. Never forget that. Never forget that. Question, Luke. Now, you know Trump is a master negotiator. And he's just doing incredible. But do you think he's serious about... taking over Greenland and the Panama Canal and all this? That's a hard one.
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I think personally, I think he's serious about it because we've gone beyond the point of it being a negotiating tactic because it's already tweaked a lot of people the wrong way. It's like if it was for the purposes of gaining a better deal in negotiation, I think it's a fine-statted strategy to try, but I think by evidence it's failed. It has angered a lot of people. It has made a lot of people very angry and, as a matter of fact, has pushed a lot of people away from the negotiating table. You've got people like Denmark saying, if you keep going on about this, we're done, dude. We're out. Canada's over here saying that... I think Canada had said very specifically that the era of good relationships with the United States is over. It's over. It's done. i think if it was a strategy it's a strategy that failed and it pushed too hard and i think the fact that he's still going on about it means he's probably serious which i really hope he's not because boy oh boy what a disaster that would be you think so i think it would be awful i think it would ruin our relationship with every ally we have okay i'm gonna push back on that one and not because i agree with everything trump does or says mostly i do though um
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Putin, this is what I call respect. Putin is like, yo, he warning everybody that Trump is serious about taking Greenland and says Russia is ready to protect its land in the Arctic. Now, geographically, correct me if I'm wrong. What's Greenland got to do with the Arctic? Are they in the Arctic, or what's up?
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I mean, yeah, the northern, right? The Arctic is north, the Antarctic is south. So Greenland is in the Arctic, which is north.
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Okay, is it that close to Russia, where they feel threatened? Yeah, it's pretty close. I mean, everything up north is pretty close, really. Well, everybody knows Trump's not playing and they're saying, hey, take this serious. Take him serious. That's respect. Now, anything Trump says he's going to do. And, you know, I got to wait because I'm trying to figure out usually be hitting it right on the nose. I'm not sure if this is another negotiating tactic, but I kind of like the idea of taking Greenland. We need to militarize that, and there's minerals and all kind of things that we can do to enrich America. Plus, we can put even more military bases and all kind of stuff on there, and the people can just be part. I don't think you should... Say, take Greenland. I think you'd be better like, hey, I'm really, you know, want to negotiate with the leaders of Greenland because I got a great idea, you know. But he just comes out and says, man, I want it. And I'm flirting with it. And now I'm saying, yeah, we're going to take it. Or, you know, wow, wow. That could cause some major problems. It has to be with military, right? I mean, yeah, that's the only way you take anything. I don't know, man. This is a rough one. But I support it, though. I support whatever you say. I haven't heard anything that's crazy. I know why you're saying it, and I understand strategically. So I'm just wondering if this is just another major negotiation. And all those tariffs, you know, took place. And then I think April 2nd, the rest come in. And he's making so much money for America. The business, everything is so much better with him. But I'm just really afraid of the Ukraine situation and our so-called allies talking all that mess. They're going to write a check that they behinds. Are going to have to cash. I don't want to have American nothing to do with that. I don't see it because Putin knows he can't beat our military. His one thing that he has is them powerful nukes and many ways to distribute them. Not not no conventional war will take place. Like you said, it's going to keep escalating, escalating, escalating. And we're talking with people with big egos, big egos. I'm kind of wondering what North Korea is doing, though, because they they're a little too quiet.
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I don't know if North Korea can do anything. They don't got a whole lot going on over there, you know? Yeah, as far as food. How are you going to wage a war if you can't feed your army? If you can't feed your army, right? I know they got some North Koreans over there helping Russians and stuff like that, but I don't think North Korea is worth paying attention to, really. I think they're too small of a fish. Who would come to our aid?
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If we try and take... Greenland? Anything. If we get in a war with anyone, who is 100% with us? Undeniable.
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Brother, I don't know if we have anyone left. I don't know if we got... We've been burning the UK. We've been burning France. We've been burning... We've been burning everyone we're close with with a lot of these policies recently. I don't think we got... Maybe, strong maybe, you get Israel. But Israel's dealing with a lot of their own stuff on their own borders. They can't really afford to be helping anyone else. We're helping them. They need us. So if we get into something, Israel's already in a tight spot. Maybe you get Japan, but I think if Japan feels that it has to take a side, it's going to pick the winning side. You think they're going to bail out? I think if the only people we got is us and Israel, I think Japan's bailing too. I don't know. I don't see a lot of this going well. Okay, so there's a doom and gloom. There it is. I just think we're burning too many people, Reggie. I don't think it's a good strategy. I think what's currently going on is going to hurt long term.
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okay but those people within their countries love trump they are even supporting trump in every way holding rallies and everything and so i'm if i'm a leader and i'm over in the uk european union and all my people are shouting trump trump trump how does that make them feel i mean i don't know i think they should just get on board and we just get it over sooner sooner or later man the two biggest dogs on the block have to fight That's how it was in my hood, sooner or later. So me, if I could advise President Trump, I'd be like, hey, look, this is a good time to break out all that alien technology that I know we hiding up there somewhere in Area 51. Do we have some other secrets that nobody knows about? china and russia threatening us with trump in office nah that's not good man that is not good um if i'm a gambling man go ahead go ahead what's the odds what's the odds man can america take on russia and china by itself
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By itself? Russia and China, no. I don't think so. I think currently the United States, in terms of military power, is probably matched with China for different reasons, right? I think America has better boots on the ground, right? We got better dudes holding guns. Right, right. But China controls functionally all of our infrastructure, all of our internet, all of our manufacturing. Having boots on the ground and guns in the hands of soldiers is really good up until you can't buy the boots or the guns anymore.
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Right, right. So it's like, oh, hold on, we're in a war. Can we get a shipment, China?
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Yeah, hey, can you send us new computer chips for our Predator drones? Yeah, yeah, can we do that? Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen. So I think we're even there, right? They got us up on the control side of things, and we got them up on the power side of things. Well, all you need to do is add one more point in favor of any one of those people. I think you add some Russia firepower. I'm not saying they're great, right? Russia's kind of...
SPEAKER 14 :
struggling in ukraine but i think it'll i don't know if we can take that 2v1 i'm just hey i i i hear you i'd have to tend to kind of kind of agree with you on that because you know hey you could be the big dog on the block but you could have a whole bunch of little dogs attacking you once and that's a That's a different ballgame, especially if you're by yourself. But I believe the American military is superior. I believe it's all about leadership with what we do and how we do. And that's going to be a big point. The strategy, you know, strategic moves to, you know, make it much better and safer for our military out there. But it might be wars, man, that, you know. That don't even whip people. It just might be drones everywhere. Some robot dogs in the front lines. We must make some robot dogs because we need them.
SPEAKER 15 :
I think we got a few robot dogs floating around. I don't know if they're musks, but I know we got a few.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I do remember in COVID where, you know, I think it was Trump was the China virus. And hey, you keep calling it that you're not we're not going to send you the ingredients you need to make your vaccine right then and there. I said, I hope all you Americans are listening. Do you understand how you have to make things and product in America? I don't want nothing from nowhere else. Electricity? Come on, dude. What's those bombs? Are they called EPDs or EMPs or whatever? EMPs. Now, are they literally able to explode and then take out all of our power grid and electrical communication?
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In the sort of area in which they are activated or detonated, yeah. Yeah, they'll drop every electronic that's not properly insulated or protected. What about commercial planes flying in the air and that hits? Big enough EMP, yeah. You'd take out a commercial airliner. It would just drop? Yeah, yeah. It would take out anything that has electronics. Any car that's built with a computer in it or an electronic starter, gone, dead.
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There's no countermeasures to that?
SPEAKER 15 :
Like I said, you've got to properly insulate it in a Faraday cage or something like that. You can look it up. It's pretty intense. Or EMP insulate stuff, which is prohibitively expensive.
SPEAKER 14 :
Wow. So we need about five years minimum to do what Trump is doing. And it seems like it's been like two years, but it ain't even been three months. Two months. God. Lee, what a leader. Hey, we're going to get back on this subject when we come back. You're listening to I am 60 KLZ. I'm a United. This is KLZ 560 AM your home station.
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Yo, yo, what's up? I'm Ian Knight. It's Reggie Rocco and Lukey Luke. Uh, Luke, uh... Did you just tell me that this bomb, EMP bomb, will take out pacemakers? If it's electronic, it's gone. So all these people with pacemakers in their body, they're done.
SPEAKER 15 :
Anything electronic. You got a processor in your spine for anyone who's had spinal surgery, that's gone. Like I said, vehicles, planes, computers, lights, anything that's not properly protected, specifically against an EMP. though again emps aren't like an all-encompassing worldwide drop everything it detonates usually what you do right if you wanted to maximize the damage of an emp is you detonate it in the air so the sort of circumference of the sphere it makes right and it's or you like you know you detonate a nuke high up in the atmosphere and then the electromagnetic pulse sort of It bounces between the layers of the air as it sort of radiates out in the atmosphere, which is also another way to do it. And it'll take out a big area, just about. Yeah, well... You detonate it over some cities or stuff like that. You know, take out primary infrastructure. Because, you know, if all that goes down, you've got no communications. You can't talk to anyone about anything, about what's going on anywhere else. So it'd be a good opener.
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You know, I made a comment on X... They were talking about Doge and everything that's going great. And, you know, did you agree with what they're doing to take, you know, all this money saving and all this stuff and, you know, corrupt companies and all. I'm like, oh, yeah, this money they're saving. And I made a comment. I said, hey, yeah, definitely. And why don't we take some of that Doge money? and put that towards our homeless and our vets and get give it to them and build them facilities so they can live and be and and also you know be treated and that's that comment just start blowing up man like people just disagree with me so i'm like wow I just made a comment and now it's going crazy. So that's really what I say it all the time is what I truly believe. We got to get our vets off the streets. We got to get our homeless off the streets. Now, you've already showed me what you do for illegal immigrants. So even if it's devious how you're doing it and why you're doing it, you still did it. And so why? That pain we went through, you know, I'm sure every American would be willing to go through whatever pain we have to go through to solve the vets and the homeless crisis, period. And we need to take that money we're saving. Yeah. Yeah. Go ahead and break us off some because we need it. Yeah, definitely. But, you know, go ahead and use that money. A lot of it. And just set that up. I would love to see the end of homelessness. And then, you know, I like the same energy. Don't tell me that you want me to go fight for this country, be a bullet catcher and come back mangled or mentally disturbed or addicted or mentally, you know, just depressed. And we don't do nothing for these people. What kind of what kind of what is that? What kind of deal is that? Like, you know, we should be giving you got stars and basketball, football players and actors and making all this money. And you got people who are fighting for the country, people who put their lives and their livelihood on the line. And then when they get back, we're just like, OK. Nah, man, I can't deal with that. That is crazy. So I'm glad that comment is going, you know, and hopefully it just keeps going and going and going because I really believe we need to take that money and put it over there where it needs to be. And don't get me started on reparations because I'm talking about 400 years of labor. See, that energy has to stay the same. This is why America has a great big economy and a superpower what they are. Because trust me, Luke, if you was working for me 400 years and you and your family's family, family, family, I'd have to pay you nothing, do nothing. You know how much I could come up, right? so hey all that stuff we could have been addressed and been past these points in American history and on to the real but no you know I seen the transgender mice like This is insanity, dude. Like I said, I believe it's satanic and that's just what it is. I don't understand why we concentrate so much on that. I mean, why don't we just take all these people that believe this and do this kind of stuff and just put them on like an island somewhere, Greenland. them over there and and everything will solve itself because within 50 60 years they'll all be dead and extinct and not reproducing and then they live by their whole ideologies and they'll just see how wrong they are because you can't listen to them because it's a mental illness you can't listen to this stuff but so you can't support it you can't Run away from it. You got to squash it, man. You got to kill it. You got to get it out the whole system. So, Trump is saying none of this in the military. Well, I got people, family members in the military. And most of them, except for one, said that they don't want to be in the same bunks and quarters as a transgender man or woman or whatever, that whole situation. They don't want to be having to think about pronouns and all that. Nah, they ain't there for that. They're there to whoop some butt. So... They want it out of the military. So Obama and who else was it? Was it Clinton or Hillary wanted to put this stuff in there, man? Because that's what they really are. That's what they really believe. That's their agenda they want to pass. And so I ain't going to say we. I'm going to say your people, Luke, people that look like you. How did y'all drop the ball, man?
SPEAKER 15 :
Man, just because they look like me, huh? That's kind of racist right there.
SPEAKER 14 :
It's straight racist, and I'm straight saying it. You running the world, man. People that look like you. How did you drop the ball? Like, there's no way common sense would have told you. Like, are you serious? This is crazy. We need to put these people over here. We're not to mistreat them, but we need to give them help, the help they need and all that. But them going around, I mean, you'd be on the subway, you'd be on the bus, you'd be at the mall and people are screaming at the top of their lungs. Rawr! crazy stuff, man. You know, this is crazy, dude.
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Yeah. I think you want to know why I think we dropped the ball? I think because we're kind of in the peak of that cycle of, you know, strong men create good times and then good times create weak men. We're in that sort of arc of the strong men created good times. We had good times, which created weak men. Those weak men are now creating hard times. I think that's the sort of arc we're in. We're that little segment of the loop.
SPEAKER 14 :
and that's i love that quote man it's uh that's uh that's so true so we're in that little that that segment that little dip we're in the weak men create hard times loop okay we got to hurry up and get to the to the next and and and now kind of we're talking about combat and different things with guns so isn't there like a new gun law coming up or something
SPEAKER 15 :
Yeah, yeah. Honestly, if I remember correctly, it passed here in Colorado. So if you want to purchase a firearm or get a concealed carry license, I recommend you do it relatively soon before this new piece of legislation comes into effect, which is going to make it prohibitively expensive and a very long process to try and use your Second Amendment right.
SPEAKER 14 :
Now, I'm sure you remember the, you didn't want me to send it, you looked at it, but I had to send it to you because you just had to get it out. But I sent that video to that white kid. on tiktok and in the first two seconds of that video was like violations you know and the whole video was violations right i mean the most racist video around and they allowed that video to stay on the platform and it's got millions of views and it's like how is this how do i say trump is the man and And we need to, you know, get, you know, transgender and people like that, you know, and with men, they need to get mental help. They need to stay away from our kids. You know, America first. This is all the things I'm saying. I'm not I'm not talking. I'm just talking logic and common sense with love. and they banned me. They have to keep banning me. But you have that video right there that's had millions of views. People are reposting it and remixing it and none of it's being took down. And so when I talked to one of my people in the political forum, I said, you know why that is, is because TikTok is owned by China and China is racist. They don't like black people. He was like, man, you're absolutely right. That's exactly because I can't believe this filth right here is still on the platform and people are making money off of that. Now, what do you think about that, Luke? Why is it still on the platform?
SPEAKER 15 :
I have no idea. I could not tell you. So it's deep, right? Yeah, I mean, my best guess would be that, I mean, it's generating enough controversy, and that controversy generates clicks, and that clicks generate revenue. So you'd keep it up long enough to make it like a big thing. Sort of like an artificial controversy, you know? You keep it up long enough to get people to make money off it.
SPEAKER 14 :
So... I have a platform. I'm a dictatorship. I'm Chinese. I don't like black people, period. That's a fact. And then now we have something that's going viral that's crazy that kind of wins everything. I'm making money and my message is going out. All of that's there. And I'm just going to leave it up. That's what it is. If we buy TikTok, we literally have to do like what Musk did with X. It's ridiculous, man. Like, serious. This is really, really bad. And you know me, I had to laugh, buddy. I had to laugh. I mean, as painful as it is, to me, it was cracking up. It had me in tears because I like racial jokes, you know? But I just like everything with the same energy. So let me put some of those things on there. But these are not conservative platforms where you can be true. This is all hustle. This is all hustle and bustle, buddy. All about follow the money. That's it. They don't care what you do. It's basically, they're like soft-pour porn sites, yo. It's crazy. And so I'm thinking, if we do something, I wonder how long. I've already got like three accounts banned, just so you know. But I just keep opening up different ones. Nothing can stop. Especially, buddy, if we get that budget that we're trying to get to do this, I know you, Luke, because you're very smart. Trump has teamed up with somebody and they're getting ready to do the biggest AI development company building resource ever known to man. Did you hear that? I've not heard about this. No, this is news to me. Yeah, man. Look it up. Trump is no Trump is no joke. Trump is no joke. He knows what's up. So I'm just like, hopefully we can get our party to get on that mode, get on that mode, that information mode where the where the battle is, because a lot of people don't know, especially, you know, my people, you know, you come and say, hey, man, you know, the Democrats, you know, they started the KKK. What? Are you out your dang mind? What kind of Uncle Tom? Wait a minute, wait a minute. Did you know that Uncle Tom was a good guy? You don't want to call me that. You want to call me Sambo. That's what you want to do. They ain't never heard of it, dog. That's my point. So education, knowledge, information has power, and that's where it is. So Trump's in the office because of that, because of people like myself that are – trying to build the minority, the whole minority ticket so we can stay in the power for the conservative Republican. And I think that's what's happening. We need to prosecute. What's her name? Jasmine. I can't believe that she's in jail. I really seriously believe if I sit up here and started threatening a member of Congress, Ted Cruz, the president, telling people I'll go burn down Tesla, burn down this, hit somebody over the head. How long do you think it would be before I would be picked up? Not long. Not long? Not long, Rich. Well, I don't understand why that part right there. We need to go after these people. We need to go after AOC. We need to go after Jasmine. And we have to make examples. I don't want to go from the lower level. Cut off the head of the snake and the body will follow. It will fall. So don't don't do the other way. You just keep chopping off the tail. You know, a lot of that stuff grows back. Like, really? So I just want to see this next. I think the next hundred days is going to tell us a lot. Do you think we'll be you think China will try to take Taiwan in 100 days?
SPEAKER 15 :
I think China's been boasting about it or threatening to do it for so long that it's kind of the boy who cried wolf. I was like, if you're going to do it, just do it. Stop talking about it. I think here's what I think. I think if if America. puts itself in a bad position where China feels it can get away with it, then yes, they will. For example, if America tries to push too many buttons with Canada, or if America tries to take Greenland, then I think that opens the door. Okay.
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And, you know, I've been wanting to go to Thailand, but I've been worried about, you know, as far as the, you know, cleanliness. But it's supposed to be a great, you know, super city. But they just had an earthquake. And it's been a major one. So tune in. Y'all check that out and see what's up. Let me know if you know anything about it. You're listening to 560 KLZ. Reggie Rocco. I'm your nighter. Nighter. Nighter.
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Yeah, you're listening to 560 KLZ with Reggie Rocco, Lukey Luke, I'm your nighter. Man, we got somebody on the phone. We got somebody on the phone. Mary, Mary Ann. This is the little old lady. Hey, how are you?
SPEAKER 08 :
I'm good, thanks. But I spent five days in China in 1997. So I can tell you some stories about China firsthand. And the reason that their children are so gifted, so-called gifted, is because they pick and choose what child they're going to take. They take them away from the family, and they send them to different little towns where they have the proper training and so forth. That's what happens a lot of the time. This is why they're so gifted. Also, the five days I spent there, of course, we could only see what they wanted us to see because they did all the tours and everything. But I can tell you, I never saw one brown or black person there. These Democrats, the radical Democrats, if they think that Trump is racist, then they need to all get sent to China.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 08 :
And see, talk about racist. But these people are so stupid. They don't understand history. I don't even know how to describe them other than stupidity.
SPEAKER 14 :
So you're absolutely right, because I've had a friend for like 10 years, and before that, when that intellectual property thing happened, and it's just been a lot of stuff, and I just started listening, and some of my friends have been telling me and showing me things that I was just like, wow. Are you serious? And a lot of them are over here because they wanted to escape that. But they all say Chinese, China, the most racist, ruthless people, period. And I'm like, this is coming from them. So you've seen this.
SPEAKER 08 :
I've seen it firsthand. I spent five days there with an organization. Five days and five nights. And... So I've seen it firsthand, but we only saw what they wanted us to see. So I'm sure it's much, much worse than what we even saw. And then also, I'm old enough to remember, Greenland, Trump is not just going to take Greenland. That's ridiculous. You don't just take things. But if you all recall your history, Greenland is extremely important now. Because of where it's situated. We used to have bases in Greenland, military bases in Greenland. So that's probably what he's kind of thinking about. Maybe we need to start reverting back to the old times because of the situation, the world situation now.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, that's what Putin's saying. Putin's saying, hey, he takes everything that Trump says, you know, seriously, and if that's what he does, if that's his move, it's too close to Russia, he wants to, you know, he don't want anything. He's going to do something to counteract that.
SPEAKER 08 :
I don't know what that means, but so you're... Well, and you know and I know, I mean, a lot of people don't like Trump because of his mouth, but if anybody can get us out of a mess, it's Trump. He's probably the most, he would go down as the most famous negotiator because, like I said, his mouth sometimes gets him into trouble just like mine does. But he's the only person that has the guts and the ability to get us in and out of things.
SPEAKER 14 :
So, you know, and I have to agree with you 100% in reference to Trump. To me, he's the greatest president ever. I mean, you know, Abraham Lincoln.
SPEAKER 08 :
He's a total master at negotiating.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
He knows how to do it.
SPEAKER 14 :
Very smart, very powerful. It's strong, strong, strong.
SPEAKER 08 :
And he's not going to sell America short. No way. He is for this country, which is what we can't say about the radical, I call it the radical demon party.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes. Have you ever met Trump?
SPEAKER 08 :
No, I haven't. That would be one of my biggest thrills, to meet Trump.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, and at the VIP, the kickoff for Black Voices for Trump, I had the pleasure of meeting him, shaking his hand. That dude is a big dude. He's not little. And he's strong. His hands are powerful, big, powerful hands. He's like 6'4", 5", something like that. That's a big man.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, he's and I to me, I think, sure, he's a billionaire. He's, you know, all this kind of stuff. But money is not where it's always where it's at. Trump, to me, is a real person. He tells it like it is and he's not afraid to.
SPEAKER 14 :
Yes, and I completely agree with that. And his attitude, what he says, it doesn't bother me at all. I just look at it more like a father figure.
SPEAKER 08 :
Like I said, I had written him a letter the first time, and I said, you have the same problem I do. Insert foot. Without thinking. But I told him, I said, the only difference is you're president and I'm not, so you've got to be more careful.
SPEAKER 14 :
So if you could change something in the world right now, you with your history, your knowledge, experience, what would it be? What would it be if you could make that happen?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, right now, I think this country is a mess because of the in-house fighting between Democrats and Republicans. If I could change anything, I would take it back to where in the olden days, I call them the olden days, where we've always had two parties. But they were civil. They weren't like cats and dogs.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
And that's what I would change. This country is sad because of the in-house fighting. Between the two parties.
SPEAKER 14 :
Can we replace the Democratic Party with another party? There's people that always wanted to, you know, there's people always running around trying to make new parties. I think the Democratic Party is dead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I don't know. I think if the decent Democrats, because there are a lot of good Democrats. There are. But they're allowing the demon radical party to run the Democratic Party right now. If they could start having a backbone and saying, uh-uh, uh-uh, no, we're not going to have this.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
I think the Democratic Party might be able to go back to the party that it was years ago. It was a good party.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, I look at it like this. Whoever's whatever party wins, it's the obligation of the American people to sit down and say, OK, you guys won. We're going to go by what you're doing for the next four years. We're going to work together for the people and we're going to push everything we can do. Everything we're supposed to do is supposed to work for our people. And if they're not doing that, the Democrats, since I've been in politics, all they want to do is. is destroy the other side. And that's Trump.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's all they're doing. Yes, you're absolutely correct. But it wasn't always like that. Like I said, that's why I call them the demon party. It's the radical. It's not all the Democrats. It's the radical Democrats that I call the demon party. But that's who's running it now. And the good... The other Democrats, the rest of them, have just allowed them to do it. And they're going right back, right in with them. Wow. I don't know. I think, like I said, our country is doomed unless somehow the Democrats, the radical Democrats are stopped. That's the only thing that's going to keep our country from going down under.
SPEAKER 14 :
Well, thank you for calling in. It's getting that time to where we're going to have to go ahead and count it down. So we're going to count it down. Thank you so much. Yeah, very welcome. Here we go, y'all. Three, two, one, and we out. Yeah. All right, y'all. It's that time. We out of here. But you've been listening to ALC 560 AM. I'm a United Reggie rapper. Yeah, it's fun. We will tackle the issues. We will unite the country every week, every Friday morning from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. It's about love, y'all. Have a wonderful morning and a great day.
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And welcome to the Friday. It is TGIF today on this March 28th. And this is Bill Gunnarsson. You're listening to the Best Stocks Now show with Bill Gunnarsson. And I've got Barry Kite here, our Chartered Financial Analyst. And it's all about tariffs this week, for the most part. 25% on the autos coming in from out of the country. And that's got the market nervous, chewing its fingernails again today. We've got the Dow down 298. 42,000 has been the support level on the Dow. And right now it's at 42,000. So let's hope it holds. The S&P is down 36 right now. It's at 56.56. Those are your lottery numbers for the day, 56.56. NASDAQ is down 180. That's 1%. Tech looks awful. It just looks awful. We've lowered our exposure to tech considerably if you look at our portfolios today. The NASDAQ is down 183 to 17,620. We've got the small caps down two-thirds of a percent. They look awful. The bond market right now is down a little bit. No, actually it's down seven basis points after a hotter than expected PCE report, inflation report. So I guess the bond trader is hoping for maybe three rate cuts this year. So welcome to today's Best Stocks Now show with professional money manager Bill Gunderson, president of Gunderson Capital Management. I'm here with Barry Kite, our chartered financial analyst. And this is newsletter day for me as I do my internal research, which a big part of that today will be, hey, where are those earnings estimates at for this year? 2025. Next year, 2026. And the year after that, 2027. Has there been any dent put into those estimates with all of this tariff fever going around? It's interesting. You haven't seen a lot, have you? No. Is there a vaccine for tariff fever? The market's got tariff fever and it needs to be inoculated and get over it because, you know, it's... It's a tactic being used by Trump to, number one, get countries in line and quit taking advantage of the U.S., which they've been doing for a long, long time. We have huge trade deficits, six major trade zones. with China leading the pack and Mexico, Canada, Taiwan, etc., also with big trade deficits with the U.S. I think the story yesterday, gold 3,108, 3,108. I've never said that before. That's a new all-time high on gold.
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It's the only place to go to hide and still have some upward exposure, right, instead of going to cash.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, and gold doesn't have that exposure to tariff fever. And I would say this, that as I look at my top, there's 386 stocks that are B-plus ranked or better today. About 70 of those are foreign stocks. And I'll be looking at all of those charts. That's been the other safe place to hide is Europe and China, mostly those two. And we do have exposure there, and I will be looking maybe to add exposure there. The worst looking place in the market right now is AI and tech, nuclear, etc., It's just not a good place to have a lot of exposure right now. It had a good run. It's really pure risk-off. Yeah, it's risk-off. And overblown being taken out of the equation. The data center exposure definitely. And I see SoftBank is upping their bet. They want to put a trillion dollars into data centers in the U.S., and while Microsoft is trimming their plans for data centers, and the market is trading like this whole data center fever is a little too hot. It got a fever of 103, and it's been cooling off here recently. So something to take into account. You know, when you look at 800 to 1,000 charts a day, you definitely see where the weakness is, and you see where the strength is in the market. And the strength, the force is definitely not with the data center play here at the current time. Will it come back to that area? Well, it did momentarily there for, what, three or four days, maybe a week, and now it's cooling off again. Meanwhile, it is definitely risk-off. Where can we hide until all of the terror fever passes? Yesterday was another soft day in the market. I don't know where we're at for the week. I think we're about even. Maybe we're slightly down for the week. I'll find that out when I do my charts here a little bit later today for the newsletter. And let's see, we had yesterday the Dow, the NASDAQ was down 95. Yesterday the Dow was down 155. Gold closes at an all-time high, 3,110 actually. Tech had another bad day. Silver cracks $35 per ounce. Silver is breaking out, by the way. You should take a look at silver. Interest rates were continuing to drift higher, and I want to get Barry's take on the PCE index that came out today.
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2.8%.
SPEAKER 03 :
Should we be worried about inflation?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I mean, probably be more worried about the uncertainty of potential inflation, right, around the tariffs. How's that going to shake into all of our pocketbooks in some form or fashion? But yeah, in terms of PCE, it came in a tenth higher at both the monthly and the annual figure. So this number, it's not as much of a surprise a lot of times as a CPI because a lot of these different components you can kind of calculate and then come up with the number even without having the number. So it's usually pretty close to the estimate, and I don't really see – it didn't seem to me that interest rates were moving much. It came in a temp hotter than expected.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, and I think the market kind of liked the news because it might push the Fed Well, I don't know. I mean, rates are down seven basis points today. Yeah. So something moved the bond market. You're down to 4.30. We were at 4.37 yesterday. And I have noticed that the yield curve has been pretty good. The two-year is 32 basis points below the 10-year. So you have had a little bit of a steepening yield curve. The bond market is not pricing in a recession at the current time.
SPEAKER 04 :
But consumer sentiment, you know, just all these sentiment indicators in general, some of that, right, I believe is, in my opinion, is somewhat media-driven. But then, you know, some of it also is real worry out there, right? I mean, you've got consumer sentiment measures. They keep climbing when you look at, you know, inflation expectations, right? And so... uh you know the the worry right of potential inflation who knows maybe that sends people to the store sooner well okay and you get some people start buying stuff now i don't know on the ground report from downtown sarasota from uh someone who knows her shopping my wife
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She was there like 10 minutes before a popular clothing store opened in downtown Sarasota. She said she got in there, and as soon as that door opened, there was a line out the door to come inside for people buying clothes. I don't know which one. Eileen Fisher, something like this. I don't know, you know. I'm just a man. But anyways, there's no problem with consumer sentiment in Sarasota. One hour wait to get into... To Columbia, you know, yes, it's a tourist trap, but they do have a good salad, okay? One hour wait to get in the Mediterranean place across the way. One hour wait to get in Spaghetti Jack's or whatever it is, Spaghetti Joe's, the clam bake place. They're not hurting there in Sarasota. Plenty of action there. I'll be checking out one of Charleston's hotter restaurants here if I can get in tonight, you know. So I'll give you a boots on the ground. I'm not seeing the consumer, you know, I'm not seeing the consumer, you know. Pull back at all. Okay, now, here's the word on the street, all right? You've heard of the Magnificent Seven. Forget about it this year. Forget about it. Isn't that what they say in Philly? Today, this year, it's the Terrific Ten. What are the Terrific Ten? Alibaba, B-A-B-A, Tencent, T-C-E-H-Y, MyToon, M-P-N-G-F, foreign stock, ShowMy, X-I-A-C-F, foreign stock, JD.com, NetEase, Baidu, B-Y-D-D-F, foreign stock, Geely Automotive, G-E-L-Y-F, and S-M-I-C. What do they all have in common? Deep Seek, China, tariff, not worried too much about tariffs over there. So right now, I mean, we already know that the stocks 50 are clobbering the S&P this year. Well, the terrible 10, the terrific 10 also outperforming our magnificent 7. And welcome back here to the second quarter of today's Best Docs Now show. Well, I've got to say this today, Barry, because I won't be able to say it probably anymore this year. The Padres are undefeated. So far this year, unless they rattle off 10 in a row to start the season, I don't know if that will happen. But they did beat the Atlanta Braves last night. And I don't know what it is with the Atlanta Braves. Here we are in Charleston, South Carolina. We're five hours away from Atlanta. I go to watch the Padre game on the MLB network, and I'm blacked out in Charleston, South Carolina. What do they have, a blackout policy over half the United States that you can't watch the Atlanta Braves games? That just seems a little ridiculous to me, but that's the way it is. And so instead I watched a very interesting interview that I'm glad I watched. Brett Baer on Fox News. You might hate him, you might like him. I don't know. But I did watch the Doge Boys. I think it was Elon and maybe seven others. I don't know how anybody can be against... what they're doing if they really know what they're doing i mean brett bearer asked each and every one of them these are very accomplished people the co-founder of airbnb uh... you've got uh... people that have ran businesses all their lives you've got software specialist Our government is 50 years behind, at least, in the technology that they use. They have so much overlap of IT systems that don't talk to each other. It's really pathetic how backwards it is. And, yeah, okay, so we're going to trim some people. I see Amazon's laying off 200 people today in one of their departments. You know, sometimes it has to happen.
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I mean, I feel bad for those 200 people, but they're like one of the largest employers in America.
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I know, yes.
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That made it to the news.
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But each guy was interviewed, and they stated that, you know, the errors are, Or in the billions. Okay, not a few dollars here and there. Billions that they don't know where it went. They can't account for it. And by the time they get through, they're going to have, like they say, we could not pass an audit. None of the departments of the U.S. could pass an audit.
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It needs to be ran. When you're dealing with that much money, it has to be ran by a business at least to be able to trace it and be accountable for where it's going.
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It's sacred money. It's sacred money. It's no different than people giving me money to invest. It's sacred money that has to be safeguarded and handled with care. You know the restrictions in our business, Barry? Oh, yeah, I mean, right. With money laundering and fraud and everything. Right, holding the money. You know, the biggest enemy to Doge, no question about it, is the media. They're the biggest enemy to Doge in trying to say that, you know, they're up to no good, they're going to steal your... No, there's people stealing money. from Social Security. There's people committing fraud constantly in these areas of the market. And I think Elon said it best. You know what he learned from PayPal is the ones that complain the most are the fraudsters. They got their gravy train cut off. So you know what? I have nothing against Doge and what they're doing. What do they call them? A bunch of rich nerds.
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Billionaire nerds.
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Would you rather have a bunch of poor idiots like we have doing it? I mean, it needs to be updated and brought to the year 2025 with the... software that we have that speaks to one another with the accounting systems we have with all the checks and balances that that a that a private company has to adhere to the government should have to adhere to those same checks and balances so Anyways, I'm glad I watched it. It really enlightened me on the whole thing. Now, if you're one that lost your job, you're going to hate them. But companies downsize all the time in the real world. Start the tariff engines. What does Made in America mean? Well, starting on April 2nd, the U.S. will apply a 25% tariff to imported passenger vehicles and light trucks. as well as key automobile parts, powertrain parts and electrical components. It's an announcement that has rattled the car industry. which has spent decades integrating supply chains with Canada and Mexico, as well as elsewhere across the globe. So it's going to put them under a microscope, tracking how much of a car is made in America is a complicated endeavor and can sometimes lead to surprising discoveries. There's many stages of production that cover the thousands of parts that go into a vehicle, including the raw material procurement, melting and castings, parts manufacturing and finishing, and quality control and testing. It's not just the final assembly of the components or installing them into a vehicle is what most people think about when picturing auto manufacturing and production. When factoring all these supply chains and parts, one might find foreign companies like Honda in Alabama and Toyota in Kentucky that make cars which might be more American than some vehicles produced by Ford, General Motors in Stellantis. And then, of course, there's Tesla. The EV maker has notable final assembly activities in California and Texas and might benefit from the new tariffs, though it also sources motor and battery parts, raw materials, and components outside of the U.S. So the newly signed tariff appears to recognize some of these complexities. And while it may make a dent in the closely aligned supply chains with Canada and Mexico, the complex logistics systems won't be totaled. at least initially. So anyways, that's what is going to occur on April the 2nd, which is Tuesday. The European Commission is said to be assessing ways to simplify EU energy policies. In fact, they're watching what we're doing here in the U.S., And they're considering changes to EU energy laws as part of its next package of proposals to cut the regulatory burden. Can you believe this coming from Europe for struggling industries? You know, Europe has just strangling regulatory burdens that really hurt a lot of industries. So maybe there's a movement worldwide to help with some of these issues. strangling regulations. Well, the Panama Canal is still definitely in play here. C.K. Hutchinson, did you see that? They were going to sell the ports because of the pressure coming from Trump. Now they're getting pressure from Premier Xi from China saying, oh, no, no, you're not going to sell those ports. They won't be signing a deal on April 2nd to divest its two ports in the Panama Canal. So anyways, that's an about face. They were going to sell it to BlackRock.
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Well, yeah, and there's like actually 40, I think, because I talked about it earlier in the week, and it was still on track. And then, of course, I saw the news today, but I think it's about 47 ports. Of course, the two big ones are at least the ones that have been in the news are... the ones on both sides of the Panama Canal.
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That's right. Well, when we come back, there's a hot IPO today. Should we buy into it? We've got to talk a little bit more about gold. And how about GameStop raising a billion dollars to buy Bitcoin? That's their new business. We'll be right back.
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Well, the top brass don't like him talking so much. And he won't play what they say to play.
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and welcome back here to the second half of today's best docs now show i'll be working on the newsletter today we'll be
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Updating the key macro outlook, the earnings expectations. That's the hot spot right now. That's what I'm interested in seeing. It's going to be really important. And the charts. And the charts. The charts tell a lot. We had a burgeoning rally, and it seems to have been snuffed out, I would say, by two things. Number one would be Microsoft kind of talking down the data center stuff. So that affects across the board NVIDIA, Palantir, Vistra, Constellation Energy, Oklo, anything related to data centers, the cooling of the data centers just across the board. And probably even bigger than that, but maybe not. Maybe equally as big as the tariff on the autos that are going to hit on Tuesday. And, of course, we do have the end of the quarter on Monday. And the earnings season is about 12 days away. We're in between earnings season, but... The companies are staying in touch and the analysts are making checks, especially right now. They're checking in with companies.
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Next week's going to be a busy week. I mean, we've got, you know, of course, what, you know, Liberation Day, you know, Trump's announcement on April 2nd. Right. What kind of happens, you know, in between, you know, then and now? I think I saw some news here about 30 minutes ago that the EU was going to, you know, was potentially making some concessions and we're going to, you know, present them. So we'll see, you know, we've got an employment report next week. We've got, of course, initial jobless claims always, but we've got a lot of employment info next week. So it'll be interesting to see. It should be a pretty busy week.
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I never saw the jobless claims yesterday. Did you see them?
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Yeah, they came in, I think, 1,000 higher than the previous week. So I think it was around 125. It was basically a non-story because it was so close to the week prior.
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All right.
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Still nothing to see there, right?
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Here's today's hot IPO. I think they picked a bad time of year and bad market to go public. Core Weave. That's a major AI stock. That's probably the biggest IPO that we've had so far this year. This is a hot IPO. The stock goes live Friday morning under the ticker CRWV. The artificial intelligence hyperscaler expects a midpoint of $51 per share, according to a filing last week. With the SEC... Doesn't seem like it's trading quite yet. No, it has not opened yet. So that means there's a lot of jockeying before it opens. They have to measure how much demand there is for it once it goes public, how many people want in at the... Wherever it comes probably, and it will probably come in higher than their pricing that they did. So we'll see. CRWV, I'll add it to the app. NVIDIA is a backer of CoreWeave. Maybe NVIDIA will get a little bit of a bounce here today if CoreWeave opens up big. But it's not a good environment right now for AI. It's not a good environment right now for data center stocks. Gold futures, another record high due to Trump tariff worries. We talked about that. You saw an all-time high on gold yesterday. Bitcoin not really picking up that gold-like move to avoid the tariff war. They're going to gold. They're not really going to Bitcoin. It's hanging out about 86,000 or something like that. I mean, after the Trump election, it went up to 106,000. Now it's down around 86,000. That doesn't stop GameStop. I guess they've given up on all other business plans. They're going to become like a micro-strategy.
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Yeah, it tells you that's what some of that brick-and-mortar retail has come to.
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That's what it's come to. Maybe Kohl's needs to sell all their inventory and buy Bitcoin. But then they don't need all the space that they've got. I mean, why be paying rent? You just need a little office to run a Bitcoin mining firm.
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They need to get into Bitcoin mining. They can put some computers in all the space that they have.
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And GameStop, I think it was down 23% or something like that on that news. It's kind of like surrendering, total surrendering. Tesla not totally unscathed by the Trump tariffs, but their localized manufacturing is the prime reason tariffs could potentially have a lesser impact on the company. None of his cars produced at gigafactories in China and Germany are marketed in the U.S., but they're marked cars right now. Europeans are boycotting Musk for cleaning up the U.S. government. Imagine that. How does that work? He's in there volunteering to make our government more modern and more... more efficient and they're burning his cars and boycotting him for doing that the media is the worst enemy it is i'm telling you so anyways tesla is best off from trump's new trade directives uh deutsche bank downgrading it you know they're also downgrading u.s markets and everything like this because they think what we're doing over here is awful Okay, Amazon expected to expend Prime Day to four-day shopping event this year. Four days of Prime Day. Well, it used to be we had... How do you increase it by... Percentage-wise? Add another day? Yeah, three more days. Well, you know, it used to be... What was Friday called? What's Friday? Oh, Black Friday. Black Friday after Thanksgiving. Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday. Terrible Tuesday. Wicked Wednesday. Terrific Thursday. So anyways... But you know what? Amazon... kind of has been under a little bit of pressure too because it really shouldn't be. But the part of Amazon that does have exposure to the data center is AWS, and that's why you're seeing a sell-off in Amazon right now because in addition to the retail giant, it's off 3.4% today. It's about ready to break its support level. Why? Because of exposure to data center through AWS. And like I say, data center is not a good place to be in the market right now. Inverse data center may be, yes. There is a big data inverse fund out there. It's inverse big data, like I think 3X. It is AIBD. It's an ETF, seeks daily results, double the inverse of the sole active AI and big data index. It's breaking out today. It's up 5.22%. So that means big data... Data Center is down 2.6%, somewhere in that neighborhood today. And AIBD, if you've got a bunch of stocks in that area that you don't want to sell, you can hedge it with AIBD. Or you can just make a bet against Big Data and Data Center by buying AIBD. It's a direction funds product. They do have quite a few, a pretty big portfolio of inverse funds that they offer folks. TMC, the metals company, I've seen this before. They're going to look for rare earth at the bottom of the ocean. They initiated a process with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, otherwise known as NOAA, to apply for exploration licenses and commercial recovery permits under existing U.S. legislation. They want to look for rare earth under the ocean, deep sea, just like they find oil deep sea. There's a lot of more land.
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There's a lot more land underwater than there is above water.
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I don't know how you send miners down there, but 2,000 foot deep under the ocean.
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Get some drones. We'll send some robots. Elon's got some robots, right? But TMC is up 15.3% today, 15.3%.
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On that move, deep sea mining permits. Never mind that they may never, ever find anything. I remember when they were getting permits to go down to wrecks offshore and get the bounty they're in. Well, TMC is looking for rare earth in the deep sea, and it's up 15% on that news. When we come back, we've got a little biotech up 95%, and Lilly fails to win EU backing for their Alzheimer's therapy. We'll be right back. And welcome back here to the final segment of today's Best Docs Now, Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, LXRX. teaming up with Novo Nordisk. It was up 95%. It would have been a good short candidate at that point in time. Now it's up 52%. uh in the trading after uh the texas based texas based biotech i don't remember ever saying that before san diego big biotech capital luke silicon valley big biotech capital back east main or massachusetts big biotech Texas, biotech, okay. It's up 55% right now in agreement with Novo Nordisk to develop an obesity candidate called LX9851. So anyways, there's your biotech of the day. Eli Lilly fails to win EU backing for their Alzheimer's therapy. I wonder if that could be a little anti-Trump backlash there. I don't know. It's approved in the U.S. It's not really much of a blockbuster drug, though, to be honest. It's not a game changer for Eli Lilly. Lilly is flat on the day so far and has not been trading very well. Activist investor Elliott Management has a $1 billion short position against Shell. What have they got against Shell, Barry? The UK-based company. At one time, I think Shell Oil was a US-based company. Ended up over in the UK. Good luck with that, Elliot. They're pretty big. They're a very big activist hedge fund. A $1 billion short position in Shell Oil. Dutch Brothers outlines aggressive store growth and revenue targets. We have a little position in Dutch Brothers in our emerging growth portfolio. Not looking too good today. Down 6.9%. Don't know what's wrong there. But maybe their plans are a little too aggressive. And I know also that they're going to start getting onto retail shelves with the Dutch Brothers brand. That's a crowded shelf though, Barry. All those K-Cups. And, you know, Donut Shop and Dunkin' Donut and Starbucks.
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Now you've got the Nespresso machines, so they're a different kind of cup, right? Not the old K-cup. So, yeah, there's a lot of different... Everybody seems to be in the coffee business. I was listening to somebody on one of the financial channels, and he said, oh, yeah, I learned about labor costs because he happens to own two local coffee shops. And I'm like, does everybody have a coffee shop now?
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Yeah. I mean, we had a vacant corner, and they put up a quick auto tune here on Highway 41 and a coffee shop, a drive-through coffee shop. There, you know, in that little space. Just what we needed was another auto-tune and another coffee shop, drive-thru coffee shop. But God bless them. What can I say? Woof speed. tanking today why okay now this is an interesting story because wolf speed they changed their name i can't remember the name of the stock before it's in north carolina basically uh one of the uh led uh with the uh you know the silicon carbide gallium nitride materials etc and the stock has just tanked over the years it was 142 at one time as led becomes a commodity And Wolfspeed is now $2.85. It's losing 47%. Why? They lost their CHIPS Act funding. Another victim of Doge. They've canceled a lot of grants. Grants. Biden was good at handing out money. I mean, grants here and grants there. Never mind we've already got $2 trillion in debt. Let's just give about a bunch of grants. And they shut down a lot of that stuff. Maybe you're against it. Maybe you're for it. I don't know. But Wolfspeed was caught in the middle and lost their grant. Their grant was taken back away from them. Okay, Milestone Pharmaceuticals says FDA declines to approve their heart disorder therapy. I'll bet there's a lot of people over there having a heart attack today. Because that stock, Mist, M-I-S-T, is down 62% today. Play Misty for me. And here is the one. If you're just determined to buy an auto stock and you want one that's tariff resistant... Barclays is upgrading Ferrari today. R-A-C-E race. One of the most beautiful cars in the world. I was down in Sarasota and there was a couple guys. We're standing in line for one hour. I'm not going to wait an hour. We found one for 15 minutes. Usually the food level goes down. A one-hour wait usually has better food than a 15-minute wait. But that's just the way it goes sometimes. And as we're standing there, I saw two beautiful, classic red Ferraris. I mean, they were in mint condition there in Sarasota. Drive-by and a couple of old-timers kind of driving them and showing off the wheels, you know. Nothing turns ahead like a red Ferrari. Checkpoint upgraded at BMO. You know, Checkpoint is kind of a nice little software company out of Israel. internet security software, hardline services for enterprises and consumers, it's always traded at a pretty reasonable P.E. ratio. It's not a 25-30% grower. It's one that I actually have kind of targeted. By the way, Monday at the end of the day is the start of my new value portfolio. I have funded it personally, my own account, $100,000. That will be the... That will be the model, and every week when I report on the newsletter, the results, it will come right from that $100,000 portfolio that has been funded. It's all in cash, 100%, and start picking off lower volatility value, relative value, relative value. I don't know that I've ever seen a relative value fund. Of course, I've always been a bit of a disruptor, Instead of intrinsic value, I'm going for relative value. Let's say Palantir gets cut in half. Let's say Tesla gets cut in half or down 60%. That qualifies as a relative value. If you're interested in being with me on the ground floor, give us a call at 855-611-BEST. want to get the newsletter the four-week trial gundersoncapital.com if you want a portfolio review a financial plan 855-611-BEST or gundersoncapital.com i officially declare it the weekend okay according to bill gunderson the weekend has begun have fun everybody
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Join Mike Gallagher and Mark Davis in another lively discussion in today's M&M experience. The duo dives into Nancy Wilson's statement about feeling American embarrassment, comparing it to sentiments during the Vietnam War. They also dissect the alleged media bias at NPR and PBS, exploring the nuances of public funding in broadcasting. Through various examples and firsthand accounts, they challenge the rationale behind taxpayer-funded media organizations and the implications of such funding on free speech.
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Mike Gallagher. Every day, Mike visits with Mark Davis. Morning host on 660 AM, The Answer in Dallas. Here's today's Eminem experience.
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Yesterday, heart guitarist Nancy Wilson says, it's more embarrassing to be an American now than during the Vietnam War. Now, this was news to me that it was embarrassing to be an American during the Vietnam War. You could feel however you wanted to feel. Did even the hippies, maybe some did, Say they were. ashamed to be an american they just said we shouldn't be over there you know fighting and dying a half a world away a point that seems to have some logic these days so i i don't know and so my first thought was okay free speech absolutely and i will never be necessarily one of the shut up and sing people everybody can weigh in however they want i did however suggest that maybe people might want to rethink their thoughts about the 14th of june at texas trust cu theater in Grand Prairie, where maybe they will not see you in the form of Anne and Nancy Wilson. They might want to adjust their concert plans accordingly.
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Well, I mean, I'm with you. I think all voices should have a seat at the table, and they do, but I don't want to pay for it. And that takes me to the wild testimony yesterday from the head of NPR and PBS. Wowza. Wowza, wowza, wowza. I mean, some of these folks, your guy there locally, the Brandon Gil. Brandon Gil, just here.
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I'll play this in the next hour. It is two and a half hours of takedown. And it's surgically precise. He doesn't bludgeon her. He's not mean to her. He asks her questions. You know, do you believe X, Y, Z? Oh, I don't really think so. Well, then why did you tweet this in 2020? Brings the receipts. It was awesome.
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I mean, it was point by point where she first she refuted what he was saying. And he says, well, wait a minute. This is what you said when you tweeted this out. Well, I didn't say that. Well, this is what you said when you tweeted this out. It's unbelievable. And look, I know they do good work over there. But when you've got I think they said 87 members of their newsroom and not a single registered Republican.
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Not one show devoted to the conservative viewpoint. They got they got podcasts. They got documentaries. You know, they're a huge empire. And, you know, yeah.
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Well, I mean, look, Representative Fallin went through it all. I mean, they they they branded NPR, branded the Hunter Biden laptop story a waste of time. Let's check this out. Fallin was asking the NPR CEO, how many how many times did you interview Adam Schiff about the Russia collusion hoax? Excellent. She said, I don't know. Fallon had the receipts 25 times, 25. Then he said, how many times did NPR interview Chairman Comer about the Biden impeachment inquiry and the Biden family's illegitimate business dealings? I don't know, she said. Zero, zero times. Zero times. Look, look, there's no question. We don't even have to play this game. We know NPR is a biased organization. We know PBS is a biased organization. I'm not against biased organizations. Some would call you and me biased. They better. Well, we're not doing our job if we're not. However, we don't expect the taxpayers to fund us. We don't have our handout, and we don't expect any portion of what we do funded by taxpayers. So that's the problem. And last night, President Trump, he went off on Truth Social, and he said defund NPR and PBS now. 100%. He clearly saw this testimony, and as I thought he would. I mean, I watched it. I thought, oh, my gosh. This isn't going to go over well with the boss. He saw it, and he said he went through the roof. And he's right. And I would love for your – you've got a lot of – look, Dallas has a great local PBS station, right?
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Isn't it KERA? And by the way, here's the thing. They're still going to be there locally. They're not going anywhere. Let's talk talk shows. Chris Boyd doing Think in the middle of the day. She is awesome. Terry Gross, Fresh Air, one of the best interviews around this American life. One of the best podcasts and things that you can do. Before I found out Rick Steves was a communist. That's an incredible travel show. But here's the thing. People got money. Sheryl Crow's got garage full of Teslas. She used to. They will absolutely be able to survive. I'll send them $30 a year to keep the shows that I like. The system will work.
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Here's what makes me crazy about these guys. There's all this... And like I said, I would love to ask the pointy-headed intellectuals of Dallas-Fort Worth, why should taxpayers fund any portion at all of what they do? See, we're lifelong broadcasters. So we know how this works. I'm a little unique in terms of what I focus on. I'm big on the business side of what I do. I look every morning at a spreadsheet. The first thing I do when I walk out the door, how's my budget? What have I done in March? Am I hitting my numbers? Because I learned a long time ago from one of my earlier bosses and my mentors. Greg Anderson, frankly, who's my dear, dear mentor and friend who's retired and happy with his beautiful wife, Linda. Greg taught me, look, Mike, as a host, you hit your budget, ratings will come and go, but you hit your budget, you'll be fine. And I learned that decades ago, and I'm almost obsessed about it. So I work hard. I started the Mike Gallagher Show nationally as an entrepreneur with my business partner, a great guy out of Pennsylvania, John Dame. We formed Dame Gallagher Networks, and we started this show before it got picked up by Salem. Anyway, I love the business side of things. I know how wrong it is for NPR or PBS to be funded by the taxpayer. That's all this is about, Mark. That's all this comes down to. And I don't think you could make a legitimate argument as to why taxpayers should fund one penny of NPR or PBS.
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But here's a funny – as the artsy-fartsy guy that you are and that I often am, let me give you a little wrinkle. Because the reason – and it's very important that everybody knows that Mike and I would be saying the exact same thing. I hope we would. I trust we would. If NPR were cranking out conservative stuff. Well, I'm saying that about us. I'm saying that about you and me. Of course. There's proof that you're absolutely consistent on this. And that NPR and PBS's liberalism is the second most egregious thing. And it's not even egregious at all. They got free speech. But it shouldn't be taxpayer funded. Now, is there a sliver of room for public funding of like a symphony in a town?
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An opera company in a town. No. I'm going to say yes, and here's why. If there is an argument for a sliver of a penny to something that a community simply would not have. If there's a city where the marketplace just goes, we don't like opera, then they won't have an opera. And no 14-year-old girl or boy will see an opera in their town or a symphony in their town. A symphony. Bologna. Bologna. Bologna. Bologna. Bologna. Bologna.
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We've got too many problems in this country with crime, with infrastructure. We've got issues that are too pressing. Let me finish my point. We've got too many problems and too many people suffering where we're devoting taxpayer money to an opera in a community that might not normally have an opera so a kid can go see an opera.
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Look, please, please, please let me, please let me.
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Please let me finish my point, please. Then get a group of philanthropists and arts-loving people like you and me and put together fundraising and put together efforts that will raise the funds necessary to deliver an opera to a community that might be underserved. The taxpayer funding part is gone. And I'm a guy that loves the arts. I don't want taxpayers. We've got too many pressing things we've got to pay for, Mark. I think country's in bad shape.
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Let's have 10 years of Doge, you know, and get to where we're not wasting as much. And maybe a sliver of a bank and put a symphony in an inner city so a kid can learn how to play the oboe.
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And by the way, in the same subject, look at what's going on with this Snow White thing. My Lord. This thing is getting, to quote Senator John Kennedy, this is less popular than chlamydia. I mean, this movie is tanking. Well, the producer, one of the producers of the film is a guy named Mark Platt. Now, Mark Platt is a big time, and I know about him because he produced Wicked. Boy, wouldn't you like to have that investment? I mean, he produced the Broadway show. He produced the movies. He's a big-time Hollywood producer. He's got a couple of acting kids. Ben Platt, who I've seen in Dear Evan Hansen. He's a talented kid. His brother is a guy named Jonah Platt.
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I think that's another son. It is. It's one of the sons of Mark Platt. Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry.
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I got kind of confusing, but he's one of the sons of this big-time producer. So it's been reported that the producer had to fly to L.A. to scold Rachel Ziegler, who's playing Snow White, and say, pipe down on all your Trump-hating politics. Knock it off. You're going to hurt the movie. So somebody heard about that and wrote directly to Jonah Platt, the producer's son, and said, your dad flew, excuse me, it was from L.A. to New York. Your dad flew to New York City to reprimand a young actress? Any words on this, Jonah? Because that's creepy as hell and uncalled for. People have the right to free speech. No, shame on your father. Now, by the way, part of her free speech is it's been revealed she's been posting F.U. Trump. that she literally says F you until she reposts something from Trump says F you. Well, Jonah Platt responded. The son of the Snow White producer gave a response.
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Everybody, stop what you're doing right now as Mike shares Jonah Platt's response to the notion that the producer dad should not go, quote unquote, scold a young actress. The floor is yours.
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And I quote, quote, you really want to do this? Yeah. My dad, the producer of enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, had to leave his family to fly across the country to reprimand his 20 year old employee. for dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the movie for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract to get paid and do publicity for. This is called adult responsibility and accountability. And her actions clearly hurt the film's box office. Free speech does not mean you're allowed to say whatever you want in your private employment without repercussions. Tens of thousands of people worked on that film, and she hijacked the conversation for her own immature desires at the risk of all the colleagues and crew and blue-collar workers who depend on that movie to be successful. Narcissism, he concludes, is not something to be coddled or encouraged. Thank you, Jonah Platt.
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That's how it's done.
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That's how you do it. Whoa.
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Literally 60 seconds. This is a total fail. I'm going to try it. The Mike Gallagher lightning round. You ready? It almost has to be yes or no. Should Jasmine Crockett censured?
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Maybe. Maybe. I can't do it.
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Keep going. I tell you what, honestly, because I know. I don't know. I mean, she's repulsive. It's an obvious argument for yes, because she deserves it. But in a weird way, it almost aggrandizes her. She'd wear it like a badge of honor. I don't know.
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There's a part of me that just wants her to keep doing it because it just ruins their brand.
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The censure will only energize her further, which is why I'm going to come down with a yes on the censure. I think you helped me with this with Al Green shaking his big old cane at Trump. Of course he deserved to be censured. Well, that was different. I mean, of course it's different.
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Well, he disrupted a proceeding. She's just an obnoxious, nasty lady. I mean, making fun of a guy with a disability? Are you kidding? But do you get censured for that? No. But disrupting an official proceeding? Of course you should.
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There you go. So there's no light here. We can never do the light.
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Clarity.
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Clarity. Clarity takes time.
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Why are you dressed up today? Why are you all dressed up? I'm going upstairs and doing the Stacey Washington show. Ah, good. Stacey on the right.
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Salem News Channel. I can't go slumming in here like I usually do.
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I know. You got the ward. You got the costume on.
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You got the outfit. You and me both.
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We'll break a leg with Stacey. Love you.
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See you tomorrow. Mike Gallagher there for us at 10 when we're done on 660 AM. The answer.
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For full shows live and on demand, it's Salem News Channel. Download the podcast and hear all of Mike and Mark's conversations at MikeOnline.com for the M&M experience.
In a world rife with distractions, Rick Hughes encourages listeners to delve deeper into the biblical blueprint for a godly life. He emphasizes the need to adopt the mind of Christ and engage in the faith rest mechanics that Jesus himself utilized. With wisdom and clarity, Rick illustrates the importance of living self-controlled and uprightly, devoid of worldly enticements. Listen in as Rick discusses the characteristics of a godly person, examines the spiritual battle against the cosmic system, and provides timeless wisdom on the power of invisible impact through devout faith and conviction.
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Welcome to the Flatline with your host, Rick Hughes. For the next 30 minutes, you'll be inspired, motivated, educated, but never manipulated. Now, your host, Rick Hughes.
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Good morning and welcome to the Flotline. I'm your host Rick Hughes and for the next few minutes you have an invitation to join in. Stick around. Listen to me. 30 minutes of motivation, some inspiration, some education and we'll do this without any type of manipulation. We're not trying to con you into doing anything. We're not asking you to join up, fess it up, give it up. Nothing like that. We don't need your money. Well I don't mean that. I mean we're not hustling money is what I'm trying to say. We're not trying to get anybody to contribute. We're just trying to teach the Word of God accurately, hopefully so you can identify and verify God's plan and then orient and adjust to the plan. If it's the first time you've ever heard the FLOT line, FLOT stands for Forward Line of Troops, F-L-O-T, and that's a military acronym which means that inside the Christian's life, he can develop a main line of resistance, a main line of resistance that will stop the outside sources of adversity before they become the inside sources of stress. That's why we always say adversity is inevitable and stress is optional. If you learn the protocol plan of God, you can have the most amazing life, a life full of pleasure and happiness as the Lord Jesus Christ promised it, I give you my joy, he told the disciples. He said happiness belongs to those people who hear my Father's word and keep it, and that's a promise. And you can avoid worry and guilt and fear and anger and bitterness. You don't have to live that way. Those are all indicative of emotional sins in the believer's life. And so there's a new way to live. And that's the living the protocol plan of God, understanding the problem-solving devices, the ten unique problem-solving devices of the flotline that make up the forward line of troops in your soul. If you've never gotten hold of the book on that, we have a book called Christian Problem Solving that is free, no charge ever. Just contact us, and we'll ship you one right out immediately. You can go to our website, rickhughesministries.org, and you can get the book from there if you'd like to have it. This is about the fifth show in the series on practical principles for people with principle, principled people, people that live by principles in their life. And last week we began to talk about pivot membership. Pivot, that's the core group of believers that God uses to sustain a nation, just much like in Gideon's day when God used 300 people. well-qualified soldiers to sustain the Jewish nation. God's always looking for those well-qualified people. And pivot membership, we use the verse from Titus 2, 11 through 13 that says, for the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. And then it goes on to say, as Paul wrote it, it trains us to reject godless ways, to reject worldly desires, and and to live self-controlled, upright, godly lives in this present age as we wait for the happy fulfillment of our hope in the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And so we begin to break this down. If you would like to be one of those people, that God can count on. I'm going to use the term godly person. I don't know if you consider yourself godly. We're going to study it here in a minute. But that's what our Father is looking for, godly people, people who in this nation can sustain the pivot. And that doesn't mean that you... are good with a firearm, that means that you are good with the Word of God, that you are the invisible pivot having a historical impact on the nation. That's what you're supposed to do. And as goes your spiritual life, so goes the history of this nation. And so in this passage, Paul says we must reject godless ways. Reject godless ways. The Greek word, I'll go into the Greek on these so you can see it, is the Greek word asabaya. Asabaya. And it means ways that have no respect for the laws of God. You must reject that. The laws of God are clear. Romans 13, 1 tells you about that. And that's a very interesting passage because it says there is no leader that's there that God hasn't allowed to be there. So if you are mad at the president, last president or this president, you have to be mad with God because God put him there. Romans 13, 1, 2, 3 will tell you that. They didn't put their themselves there, and God could at any time take them out. He allowed them to be there for a reason. And so godless ways are people that don't respect God's laws, like Romans 1, the last few verses of Romans 1 about God. People that don't respect God's laws and establishment concepts of the way life carries on through marriage. And so you have to be aware of that. It's the same word used in Romans 118. It's the passage we're well aware of. It says, those who hold the truth of God in unrighteousness. And then remember, remember what the Bible says, God will not be mocked. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of Americans in the USA today mocking God, trying to attribute things to God that he doesn't approve of, that he doesn't agree with. Some of the most absurd, insane things you could ever believe. And yet you read the news, you see the same things I do. Godless ways, reject them, stay away from them. And then worldly desires is the next passage. We are to reject godless ways and worldly desires. Cosmikos, the desires of the cosmikos, the cosmic system of Satan. We live in the devil's world. It's the cosmic system. And the desires, epithumia, the Greek word epithumia, so we have cosmikos, epithumia. The desires are the craving or the uncontrollable lust of the sin nature. The result of lust in the sin nature, if you don't control it, is it builds up scar tissue and your conscience begins to be seared with a hot iron or you're branded in your conscience, 1 Timothy 4.2. And katoriazo is the Greek word to be seared, much like it means to cauterize or to put a brand on a cow, for example. Bar T.J. And so you hold the little cow down and you press the hot brand in iron. He carries that brand all his life. Sin will brand you. Godless ways will brand you. And it will cause you to carry this scar all your life. You must avoid the worldly desires. And, you know, there are three enemies we have, the world, the flesh, and the devil. And here we're talking about the desires of the world, what the world throws at you. You know, the cosmic system tells you if you want to be happy, win the lottery. Well, that's a joke. I mean, everybody wants to have money, sure, but Winning the lottery won't make you happy. There's too many cases of people that won the lottery that are not happy. And, you know, happiness is not related to people or circumstances. That's not where happiness is found. But that's not what the world tells you. What the world will show you is a mirage, like in the desert. You'll see it. It looks like it's a beautiful, nice, wonderful place, and you'll get there, and you'll be an Operation Boomerang. You'll go, oh, no, this is not what I expected. And so Solomon talks a lot about that. He said, I tried everything under the world, and it brought me no happiness. And then Paul went on to say, on the contrary, we are to live how? Self-controlled, upright, godly lives in this present age. We are to live self-controlled, sophronos is the Greek word, self-controlled, sophronos. That sophronos word means we must learn how to restrain our passions and our desires. Thus we acquire the mind of Christ or we think like he thought. Philippians 2.5, let this mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. That means that we are to be free of intoxicants that rob us of clear thinking. We are not to allow our emotions to overrule us. Emotions are intoxicating and intoxicating. eliminating clear thinking in your life. So we are to stay away from emotional decisions. We are to restrain from letting the sin nature control our life. And this starts with just training your children when they're young at home and teaching them respect for authorities where it starts. Keeping watch over our lives and not sleeping while we're on duty. The Bible says in 1 Thessalonians 5, 6, let us not sleep as others sleep, but watch and be sober. So if we're going to live self-controlled, we must keep control over our life. We can't allow our lives to be sucked into the cosmic system looking for happiness and the details of life. This is you assigning responsibility. You have to take the responsibility yourself. And one of the most damaging thing is to assign responsibility to immature individuals who have no self-control. Those sort of people are dangerous people since they can be enticed to disregard the protocol plan of God and endanger all people that are associated with them. For example, a few traits of no self-control. A few traits of no self-control is 1. A self-centered individual.
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An impatient individual. and five, an explosive individual. So Titus 2.12 said we are to have self-control, live uprightly, and have godly lives. Uprightly is the word dikaios, dikaios. And it means we're to live equitably in a fair and impartial manner, never taking sides, not judging, not predetermining guilt on your part. And I think I went over a lot of this with you last week. I know it's review, but let's move on. Paul, in 1 Thessalonians 2.10, this is what Paul talks about, living equitably and fair and impartial manner. He said in 1 Thessalonians 2.12, You are witnesses in God also how devoutly, justly, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you. I told you I would look up those words, and I did. Devoutly, hosios. It's a descriptive adverb of Paul's lifestyle of holiness. He was not addicted to sin nature control, and his life was devoted to his mission without any distractions. His life was a picture of fidelity and spiritual commitment, and he was not self-righteous. He was set aside by God for a certain job. So you are my witnesses how I lived, Paul said, when we're talking about this concept in Titus 2.12 of being upright, being fair and impartial. Paul said, you're my witnesses of how devoutly I live my life, how justly and blamelessly. Justly as to chaos, I was living up to God's standards. I didn't judge people. The Bible tells us not to do that, not to judge others lest we be judged. And how blamelessly, amentos, how I live my life with no cause for censure is the Greek word. There's no skeletons in Paul's closet. He stood up to the critics of scrutiny in his life. So 2.12 goes on to say that we are to live godly lives. We are to live self-controlled, upright, godly lives, with interjecting what Paul said about himself there I just gave you. Godly lives. You save us. You save us. What does it mean, godly lives? In Psalm 116, verse 15, precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of godly ones. So we get into what we want to cover today. What is a godly person? And do you consider yourself to be a godly person? In 2 Corinthians 7.10, the Bible says, for godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation. I need to take exception with that. Godly sorrow. There's really no such thing as godly sorrow. There is sorrow, the word lupe, or grief or feeling of remorse or guilt or sin. But godly sorrow, using the word God to deal with this, is saying that you must feel sorry for your sins in order to be saved. And that's a question you have to answer. Because your personal sins are not what condemns you to the lake of fire to start with. It wasn't your personal sins. It wasn't that you fornicated. It wasn't that you stole something. It wasn't that you lied. Your personal sins are not what condemn you. It's your position in Adam that condemns you. As the Bible says in 1 Corinthians 15, 22, as in Adam, all die, but in Christ, all are made alive. So God's solution does not require sorrow, godly sorrow. There are two Greek words for feeling sorry or repenting. It's metamelomai or metanoia, or the verb metanoeo. So we have metamelomai, metanoia, metanoeo, all translated in the Bible, repent. Metamelemi is an emotional sorrow. And this is exactly what Judas did when he went out and hung himself. He was sorry that he betrayed the Lord. But he didn't change his mind. He just had emotional sorrow. Peter, on the other hand, who denied the Lord, confessed his sin, rebounded, problem-solving device number one, metanoia is the word, and he got back in fellowship. So a person who is godly is not a person who doesn't commit sins. We all sin because we have a sin nature. You've got one and I've got one. But a godly person is a reproduction of Christ Jesus. He's acquiring the mind of Christ and representing Jesus Christ to all that he walks with, talks with, and spends time with. He reproduces Christ. They see Christ in him. This says the disciples saw the Father and the Son. We see the Son in us. So this is all based on the filling of the Holy Spirit and the motivation of virtue love or personal love for God. If you love me, you will obey me, the Bible says, and my mandates are not hard. So here we are, godly people. What is a godly person? Well, listen to 2 Timothy 1.13. Hold fast, that's positive volition, not negative volition, positive volition. Hold fast the form of sound words or doctrines which you've heard from me. In faith, that's the faithless drill, and in love, that's virtue love, which is in Christ Jesus. So what does that mean? Hold fast the form of sound doctrinal words you've heard from me in faith and in love, which is in Christ Jesus. One, a godly person stands firm and does not drift away from sound doctrine. It's very easy to do in the cosmic system. It's very easy to be recruited away You might not even know you're being recruited. And one of the worst ways that it takes place or happens It's when men of God who are called by God and saved and in the ministry begin to teach something that's not true, something that's deviating from what they've learned. They learned the truth from their mentor, but they came up with a better idea. And since they have friends, friends, they lure their friends to go along with them. And their friends believe in them. Their friends trust them. Their friends don't think they would ever lie to them, their friends have complete confidence in them, and they go with it. And they leave the doctrine they learned originally and go for a changed doctrine. They drifted away from sound doctrine, but they would say, well, no, we've got a better doctrine now. We don't believe that way. We believe this way. We changed our mind. Well, that happens a lot. I've seen it in my lifetime happen a lot, and it's shocking when it happens. It happens with men who have independent churches that do a lot of studying and a lot of teaching. The next thing you know they develop some new concept or some new way of thinking and off they go. So a godly person, point two, understands faith rest mechanics. This is exactly what the Lord Jesus Christ used in Matthew 4, 1 through 4. He quoted scripture when he was tempted by the devil and this is the faith rest drill. And a godly person, point three, is motivated by virtue love. And that's personal love for God. If you love me, you will obey me and my mandates are not grievous, 1 John 5, 3. Personal love for God is the greatest motivational virtue any of us possess. And the Bible says in 1 John, we love him because he, God, first loved us. It's called reciprocal love motivation. When we have that kind of love motivation, then we can love our neighbor as we love ourselves with impersonal love, which is another problem-solving device. So a godly person stands firm, does not drift from sound doctrine. A godly person understands the faith rest mechanics and uses them. A godly person is motivated by virtue love, personal love for God. A godly person, point four, is not a self-righteous legalist who thinks he's impressing God with his lifestyle. Like the man in Luke 18, 9 through 14, who said, I thank you, God, I'm not like this sinner over here. And he went on to produce all of his good works to God. He said, I tithe, and I do this, and I fast, and I do that. And he thought he was earning his way to heaven. And the other one, the illustration the Lord Jesus Christ gave was he just beat on his chest and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner. A godly person knows he's a sinner. He's not self-righteous. He's not a legalist who thinks that he's impressing God because he doesn't smoke or doesn't drink or because he tithes faithfully or because he hasn't missed Sunday school in 23 years. I mean, I'm glad that you do all them things. all those things. But that's not what impresses God. What impresses God is when you assume the character of Christ, when you assume the mindset of Christ, when you stay filled with the Spirit, when you operate under His Word, and when you represent Jesus Christ to your friends, family, and whatever you're in contact with. So a godly person, point five, is not somebody who acts holy. goes around uttering spiritual phrases to everyone, God willing, God bless you, brother, God might. You hear that all the time, and you think, this must really be a godly person. Listen to how he talks. You can't tell what a godly person is. You can look at someone, and I used to think I would run across these people from England, and they spoke like this, and they had the English accent, and I thought, man, these are godly people. They would pray to the master. And I thought, ooh, listen to how they sound. They just sound so holy. You can't tell what a person is by the way he talks, by the way he walks. You can only tell by what he thinks. And that's where the Bible says, as a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. How can you tell what he thinks? As soon as he opens his mouth and begins to talk about the doctrine he believes. Does he believe in faith alone in Christ alone or does he believe in faith plus being baptized or faith plus giving up peanut butter or faith plus not driving your car on Saturday? What's he believe? So one trait of godliness, for sure, is an impact that you have on your family, on your school, and on your nation. The invisible historical impact from you who are the spiritual quiet professional. That's what you have to be, a spiritual quiet professional. That's what God expects out of you. 2 Timothy 3.12, now in fact all who want to live godly lives in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. Uh-oh. There it is. You will be persecuted for what you believe. You will be persecuted for how you live your life. You will be persecuted if you try to stick your nose in everybody else's business and change the way they think. It's not your job to change the way the government runs. Christians are not to get so involved in politics that they begin to condemn the unbeliever. Stay out of that. I know what the unbelievers are doing. I know which way this government is going. I know what this nation is facing. I've been telling you there's a train wreck coming. I can hear the whistle blowing. I can see the progressive ideology of the Democratic Party today and what they want as compared to the conservative ideology of the Republican Party and what they'd like to see. I can see all of that. And you can too. And you can make your own mind up which way you want to go. But like Joshua said, as for me and my house, we're going to stick with the Lord. And we're going to be persecuted. We're going to be slandered. We're going to be maligned. We're going to be called all sorts of weird names and even taken to court and sued because we don't want to associate with some sinful trait or sinful deed. You would not believe what's going on behind the scenes in the Christian world. The attack on ministers is unbelievable in this country and it's only going to get worse. So what should I do about it? Well, 2 Timothy 2, 3 says, take your share of suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. What does that mean? Shut up and show up and fake it till you make it. Just don't worry about it. The Supreme Court of Heaven is open 24 hours a day. and he is perfectly able to handle any complaints, any fair, unjust treatment that we give. Colossians is clear about this, but before we do, let me give you one final warning. The perfunctory believer... The believer who acts or his gestures are carried out with minimum effort, the perfunctory believer, he's never going to reach godly status because he won't put in the time. He's not willing to study. You know, the Bible says, study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. He's not willing to do that. And if he does, he thinks he's smarter than the pastor. And then secondly, the Bible says, grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. That's a mandate. That's not a request. And thirdly, the Bible says, study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. You can't do that if you have minimum effort, if you just put a little bit into it. If you're perfectly content, if your Christian life is, okay, I'm happy I went to church Sunday morning and maybe even Sunday night I gave up a football game to go to church. That doesn't make you godly. You're probably not even close to being godly. A godly person is a person who is faithful to rebound, confess his sin. He's faithful to stay filled with the Spirit. He's faithful to use faithless drill. He's faithful to grow and advance in the Word of God. If his pastor's not teaching it, he will find somebody that's teaching it. I know God is out there, and if you're hungry for truth, you may be listening to me, and you're saying, where can I get truth? Where can I get it? Just write to me. I'll give you the name of a lot of great pastors, and you can call them. You can get their tapes, their DVDs, free of charge, no money ever asked. There are some wonderful pastors teaching the Word of God, but you can't be less than 100% committed and expect to ever be a godly person. You're not godly just because you don't smoke or because you utter godly phrases. You're godly because of what you think. As a man thinketh in his heart, so he is. The real you. That's what godliness is. And that's what God is looking for. He is looking for those of you who are willing to make a historical, invisible impact on this nation. Ones that I call the spiritual quiet professionals. That's what we're looking for. And I know some of you are listening, and you are that sort of individual. You are a spiritual, quiet professional. I hope you'll continue to grow in the grace and the knowledge of your Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I hope you'll... take advantage of the material that we offer, and I hope you'll take advantage of the contacts that we have. So on your own, if you have to, you can sit around with a cup of coffee and a Bible and a notebook and study every day, which is exactly what I do. I hope you're listening. Hope you're paying close attention. The history of this nation depends on your thoughts, your actions and your deeds. Whether or not we survive another 20 years is going to depend on you. As goes your spiritual life, so goes the history of this country. It's too late. It's about gone. You must step up. You must put on the mantle of godliness and be the man or the woman that God can count on. I hope you're listening. Please come back next week, same time, same channel, and let me know if they don't play the show. Let me know immediately. Until next week, this is your host, Rick Hughes, saying thank you for listening to The Flock Line.
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Thank you for listening to The Floodline with your host, Rick Hughes. If you'd like to contact Rick, please write to him at P.O. Box 100, Cropwell, Alabama, 35054, or online at www.rickhughesministries.org.
From Elon Musk's space endeavors to the NPR's encounter with Congress, this episode is packed with crucial discussions. We analyze the impact of billionaires in politics, the prevalence of wokeness in cultural phenomena like the Snow White remake, and the role of social media in shaping public opinion. Tune in for a multifaceted exploration of the week's most significant stories and their implications on our societal fabric.
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Welcome to the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. It's Friday, March 28th. This week, the Trump administration admits a mistake. Rosie O'Donnell denies an election again. And all seven dwarves cannot save Snow White. Let's begin with an important question. Is it time to get both sides of a divided America talking to one another again? I'm seeing some things being posted on social media that say things like, are we really angry at a pro-energy company? Are we really that mad? Is this anger real or not? And I don't know the answer to that. I really wish I knew the answer. I wish I could get my brain around it. A lot of rage. A lot of people screaming. A lot of anger. Here's a leftist post that was on X that caught my eye. She said, all right, I know this is dramatic, but I'm really upset about all the Teslas being torched and vandalized nationwide. This is the worst look for the left. Violent, angry, destructive. And all of this directed at a clean energy company. She wrote, I'm so disappointed. You know, the truth is the Democrats have kind of, they have an identity crisis right now. What are the Democrats? Are they sort of the angry pack of violent, destructive vandals who are laughing and joking about hurting Elon Musk and his company? Are they progressives who believe in open borders? are truly concerned about government efficiency? I don't know. I know that Bill Maher is sort of a truth teller. Look, I think he's an atheist or he's certainly agnostic. My problem with Bill Maher is how He doesn't understand or respect people's faith. He's anti-religion. In fact, I think he made a documentary once called, was it Religiosity, I think? Pretty sure that was the name of it. But look, he is a traditional, I think the way to describe him is a kind of traditional, old school, maybe even blue dog Democrat. He got invited to the White House and he said he's going. And the left is losing its mind. They can't believe Bill Maher has accepted an invitation to sit down with Donald Trump in the White House. But here's what he said on his show this past weekend about the Democrats melting down and the identity crisis that the Democrats face themselves with right now.
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I just saw this really bad news for Democrats. 2030 reapportionment. There's a group called the American Redistricting Project. And in five years, we will be redistricting. California is projected to lose three seats. New York, two. Also going to lose a seat. Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Illinois, all blue states. Who's getting these? Texas, Florida, Idaho and Utah. I mean, this looks like game over, you know, and the reason why people are voting with their feet is. A lot of what your book is about, taxes and regulation. I certainly have been screaming about it forever. I did three years with a sign here that said, how long is it going to take me to get my solar hooked up? Three years talking about it on television in this state. You couldn't do it. This state has almost 400,000 regulations. I just put in a new roof because the fire, I thought, oh, let's get a roof that's not going to burn up. Two inspections. Why are you inspecting my roof? It's my roof. If it falls on me, that's my problem. And we're taxed more than any other state. People are leaving these kind of states for places where they're not, they feel the heavy breath of government on them. It's just, it's not that hard for Democrats to understand this, but they seem to be incapable of doing anything about it.
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The big story from early this week centered on a Defense Department group text that inadvertently included the editor from The Atlantic magazine. The White House has acknowledged that it apparently happened the way it has been reported. But remember something. And Axios yesterday, I told you about their reporting on how the Democrats are in a deep, deep hole. They see the party right now, the top Democrat leaders see the party in a deep abyss. They're in trouble. I mean, they range from this whack job, Jasmine Crockett, confirming that she doesn't want to advance any legislation. She just wants to take down Trump. That's her goal. And apparently they like that. To Chuck Schumer, who's between a rock and a hard place, trying to be somewhat credible in voting for the continuing resolution and then facing the wrath of the Jasmine Crockett's and the AOC's of the world. They're in a mess. They have dismal polling. They're searching for a message. So naturally, they're going to embrace this signal chat controversy with relish. They want a distraction. And unfortunately, for a day or two, they'll have it. And then it's going to blow over. Nothing negative happened. The mission in Yemen was completely unaffected. And Jeffrey Goldberg now from the Atlantic gets to spike the football and say, look at the gang that can't shoot straight. Look at this bunch of, look at these bunch of hacks and bunch of pikers and bunch of amateurs. It's amateur hour. Okay. All right. You got to own it. You got to own the mistake. And move on. Remember what Elon Musk said in the White House? And this to me is one of the most important messages that has emerged. And this is to me why Musk is so valuable in the Trump administration. We all know President Trump's personality. He's never going to acknowledge any mistakes. But the guy that he has tapped to get rid of the fraud, waste, and corruption in the federal government does say it's important to acknowledge mistakes because he said so standing just a few feet from his boss.
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And I should say also we will make mistakes. We won't be perfect, but when we make a mistake, we'll fix it very quickly.
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And he also said it in the Oval Office. He's repeated that on a number of occasions. We're going to make mistakes. When we do, we've got to fix the mistake, the mistakes, and we've got to move on. That's perfect. Don't you welcome that? Don't you think that's a good response? When you move fast, you're going to break some things. And the Trump administration is moving real, real fast. Celebrity and former talk show host Rosie O'Donnell left the United States over President Trump's victory. She popped up, though, on a talk show in Ireland to deny the outcome of the 2024 election. Now, let me give you an example of another show business personality who evidently fled the United States after Trump got elected and now lives in Ireland. Here's Rosie O'Donnell. Apparently, she can't even help herself. Instead of just living out her retirement in Ireland or maybe becoming, you know... a talk show host in Ireland, she's decided she's going to make the rounds and do interviews with political talk shows in Ireland. And maybe she thinks these interviews won't get back to the United States, but they have. And here's what she said. You know, a lot of people did vote for him.
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Yes. Do you accept their right to do that and their opinion of him?
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Well, I respect their right to do that. I question why the first time in American history a president has won every swing state. and is also best friends and his largest donor was a man who owns and runs the Internet. So I would hope that that would be investigated and that we would see whether or not it was an anomaly or something else that happened on election night in America when Kamala Harris was filling up stadiums with people who supported her. And Donald Trump was not able to do that. So it's curious to me. And as an American and a believer in democracy, I would hope that we would be able to look at all of the reasons why this happened.
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OK, there you go. So Rosie's an election denier of 2024. Hillary was an election denier of 2016. Democrats lined up en masse disputing the outcome of Trump's 2016 victory, saying the Russians did it. I saw some clip over the weekend, some prominent Democrat saying that Russia clearly played a role in Trump's election. So they do it, but of course when we do it, destroy people's lives. De-platform them, get them fired, maybe put them in jail. But they do it all day long. You know, there's an inclination to ignore what people like Rosie O'Donnell have to say. But I don't want to ignore what they have to say because she represents views of a lot of people. There are plenty of people that love Rosie. People on the left who appreciate her. They love her, you know, her sharp elbows and her provocative comments. And there you go. There is... Somebody from Hollywood, front and center, claiming that the 2024 election was rigged. Is anybody going to call her out for being an election denier from the left? Highly unlikely. The head of NPR appeared before Congress this week. It did not go well. The CEOs of NPR and PBS... were called to Capitol Hill to try to explain their liberal bias. In case you haven't noticed, there is a 100% confirmable liberal bias from the journalists who work at NPR. Shouldn't shock you. It's no different from the Washington Post or MSNBC, New York Times. We get it. We get it. Mainstream media is dominated by progressives and liberals. Talk radio is dominated by conservatives. You know, we all have our spaces. We all have our little territories. Some territories bigger than others. What shouldn't happen is that taxpayers should fund any of it. You shouldn't fund me, and you shouldn't fund NPR. And when it comes to NPR, the CEO is a woman named Catherine Maher. Catherine Maher had a very, very bad day yesterday. No matter how bad your day is going, be grateful you're not Catherine Maher. Because this is what she encountered when she was questioned by Congressman Brandon Gill from Texas.
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Ms. Maher, I want to start with you. Just generally, would you say you generally agree or disagree with the following statement? The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. I would not say I agree with that. You're not. That's good to hear. It's interesting because a lot of your thinking, as expressed by your public statements, is deeply infused with economic and cultural Marxism. Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?
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I believe that I tweeted that, and as I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade.
SPEAKER 04 :
It has evolved. Why did you tweet that?
SPEAKER 10 :
I don't recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn't be able to say.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy?
SPEAKER 10 :
I don't believe that, sir.
SPEAKER 04 :
You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at the time, apparently, The Case for Reparations. I don't think I've ever read that book, sir. You tweeted about it. You said you took a day off to fully read the case for reparations. You put that on Twitter in January of 2020.
SPEAKER 10 :
I apologize. I don't recall that I did. Okay. I have no doubt that your tweet there is correct, but I don't recall that.
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Okay. Do you believe that white people inherently feel superior to other races? I do not. You don't? You tweeted something to that effect. You said, I grew up feeling superior. Ha, how white of me. Why did you tweet that?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think I was probably reflecting on what it was to be to grow up in an environment where I had lots of advantages.
SPEAKER 04 :
It sounds like you're saying that white people feel superior.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don't believe that anybody feels that way, sir. I was just reflecting on my own experience. Do you think that white people should pay reparations?
SPEAKER 04 :
I have never said that, sir. Yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020. You tweeted, yes, the North, yes, all of us, yes, America, yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt, yes, reparations, yes, on this day.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.
SPEAKER 04 :
What kind of reparations was it a reference to?
SPEAKER 10 :
I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe much to the people who came before us.
SPEAKER 04 :
That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted. Okay. How much reparations have you personally paid?
SPEAKER 10 :
Sir, I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay. It's just for everybody else.
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm not asking anyone.
SPEAKER 04 :
Seems to be what you're suggesting.
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Do you believe that looting is morally wrong? I believe that looting is illegal and I refer to it as counterproductive. I think it should be prosecuted.
SPEAKER 04 :
Do you believe it's morally wrong though? Of course. Of course. Then why did you refer to it as counterproductive? It's a very different, very different way to describe it.
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It is both morally wrong and counterproductive as well as being illegal.
SPEAKER 04 :
You tweeted, it's hard to be mad about protests in reference to the BLM protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression. You didn't condemn the looting. You said that it was counterproductive. NPR also promoted a book called In Defense of Looting. Do you think that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars?
SPEAKER 10 :
I'm unfamiliar with that book, sir, and I don't believe that was at my time at NPR.
SPEAKER 04 :
You tweeted that you read that book.
SPEAKER 10 :
I don't believe that I did read that book, sir.
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I mean, it was brutal. That went on. He just had all the receipts. He went down the list of all the things she has said. When you go on social media and you write in your own words how you feel, well, guess what? That comes back to you. And are you ready for this? This is going to blow your mind. Tracy looked up the board members for the Signal Foundation. I think it's the same signal. Pretty sure it's the same signal. You know who's one of the board members of Signal? This app that has caused all the hullabaloo? That same woman, Catherine Mayer. Spring is here, and my pillow is ready to meet the moment with the Spring Sheet Sale. Got to be careful with the way I say that. The Spring Sheet Sale. Say that three times fast. You know the Giza Dream Sheets that I've been telling you about? These and the percale sheets, holy cow, check out this offer. Just in time for spring, you can get your very own set of Queen Giza Dream bed sheets from MyPillow. You'll save 50% or more. You can get the queen size sheets. Queen-sized Giza Dream or percale bedsheets for as low as $29.98 with the promo code MikeG. That's an extraordinary offer. And when you go to the website, check out the pillows, the slippers, the doggy beds, the loungewear. and more. MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher Special Square. Click on that box, and then with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG, or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Sing along with me. For the best night's sleep in the whole wide world, visit MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. This is the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast. Democrats do not know what to do about their plummeting popularity. Their latest strategy? Complain about the oligarchy. But I hate it when they don't listen to any of the substance of what Trump is doing. And what this administration is doing. And what Elon Musk is doing. I mention Charlie Kirk a lot. I want to play this clip from Charlie Kirk. This is, again, I don't know why, I've just seen a lot of his videos lately. Check out his explanation about what Elon Musk is doing with Doge.
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I'm curious who you think Elon Musk has in his best interest. You. Really? You want to live in a country that has a balanced budget and the U.S. dollar reigns supreme? So let's look at the incentive structure. Why would the world's wealthiest man go do this? I think it's because he is trying to get money for SpaceX, and he has proposed internally bills to get money for his corporation. So, so far, his net worth has gone down like $100 billion. So if his goal is to get wealthy, he's not doing great. Number two, let's talk about SpaceX. Right now, weather permitting and reactor permitting, those astronauts would otherwise die if it wasn't for SpaceX. NASA does not have the ability to rescue our astronauts. So Elon is literally offering a service, pretty miraculous one, might I add, that our own government literally cannot even do. And God bless him for that. But he's asking our government for more money for SpaceX. Well, he's asking for contracts to go do necessary things for the space fight. But understand, the SpaceX example, NASA literally has stranded these poor astronauts right now in orbit. And if it wasn't for Elon, they might remain there forever and die.
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How about that? Why is that such a terrible thing? Bernie Sanders is on the crusade about the oligarchs. That's his big thing. The oligarchy! The oligarchy! We've got to stop the oligarchy! He got all upset because Jonathan Karl asked him about AOC. But somebody posted something on social media that made a lot of sense. Have you ever seen the list of billionaires who donate exclusively to Democrats? I mean, this is true good faith honesty here. Does Bernie Sanders have a solution to this? Or is it all just smoke and mirrors? You want to know the list of billionaires exclusively supporting Democrats? Reid Hoffman, Michael Bloomberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook, Tom Steyer, hedge fund billionaire Bill Gates, J.B. Pritzker, the Hyatt heir, Laureen Powell Jobs, the Apple heir. Mark Cuban, Donald Sussman, a hedge fund billionaire, Stephen Mandel, a hedge fund billionaire. I mean, the list is as long as your arm. Oprah, George Lucas, the movie guy, David Geffen, Warren Buffett. I mean, these are all billionaires, according to this list. who donate exclusively to Democrats. Hey, Bernie, do you have an oligarch problem on your side? Why are you so fixated on Elon? He's one of many billionaires. And according to this list, the vast majority of billionaires on this list are donating to Democrats. Huh. Contradiction much? How much time do you spend on social media? How much is too much? We tried to tackle that topic this week. This is the perils of social media and the Internet. You know, one of my kids says, Dad, get off the Internet. Get off of it. And I understand the inclination to kind of cleanse your palate, get away from it all for a while. Incidentally, just FYI, in case you've seen an essay that was written about Barack Obama many years ago. questioning whether or not he's a secret Muslim and all this nefarious stuff. It was attributed falsely to me. I didn't write it. Somebody posted it on one of my social media accounts years ago. Then somebody else reposted it and claimed I wrote it. And I didn't have anything to do with it. And I never even really looked at the merit of it. I mean, it's all stuff about... stuff about whether Obama did stuff with the Muslim call to prayer and whether he's a secret Muslim and whether he... You know, I don't even know. I don't take credit or criticize something that I've got nothing to do with. I just hate it that the Internet is forever and doesn't go away. And there's something about an essay about Barack Obama that has been falsely... attributed to me. So, Gloria, my answer to you directly is I have no idea whether it's official or unofficial. I have no idea if there's any merit to any of the claims. There's a whole bunch of claims in that email. I kind of doubt it, but what I do know is I didn't write it. I didn't have anything to do with it. It was really funny. Last week, some guy with the big following posts And it got, you know, circulated again. And then people were bashing Mike Gallagher thinking it was the congressman. Well, this guy's a rhino creep from Wisconsin anyway. He can't believe anything he says. So then I had to kind of wade into that dialogue and say, wait a minute. I'm not the former congressman. And, you know, A, I'm not the ex-congressman. And B, I didn't write the stupid thing. Oh, man, oh, man. Eric Hansen, why don't you come over here for a minute? Let me get both you and... I know we're training Alex today, so it might be a little awkward, but can you get a camera over there, swing one over to either you or Christian or somebody? Because I want to ask how you guys navigate social media. I want to know how you... Because knowing Eric, as I do for 25-plus years... you probably have a pretty good life-work. You've always had a pretty healthy life-work balance. Unlike me, where I'm sort of consumed by my work and by my job, and I'm looking at the Internet all the time, I find myself spending hours doing what one of my kids calls doom-scrolling.
SPEAKER 06 :
I do not doom-scroll.
SPEAKER 07 :
But are you on there a lot?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't spend a ton of time on Facebook or Twitter. I'm sorry, X. X. Shows what I know.
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Don't insult Mr. Musk.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know. Mr. Musk is doing a fine job. No, I don't spend a ton of time on social media because it doesn't seem to do me much good. I enjoy it a little bit if I have some time. I spend a lot of time on public transportation. And so if I have a minute, I might scroll through Twitter. I might look at something political. I might not. I might look at something else. I'm a sucker for YouTube, but I watch some of the nerdiest stuff on YouTube that you could possibly imagine. But that's me.
SPEAKER 07 :
But that's the thing. I mean, there's a lot of really great stuff that I find, like the Charlie Kirk videos that are going viral. If I'm not on social media, I wouldn't see it. But then you get into the hole, you go down the rabbit hole of all the ugliness and the viciousness and the vitriol and the acrimony, and you say... maybe I shouldn't be doing this.
SPEAKER 06 :
I will tell you, I have three girls, as you know, and they're of a different generation. I mean, they're all like in their... Well, as of this year, by the end of this year, they'll all be in their 20s.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know, which is... That's another story for another time, but...
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, one story for another time is when I hired you, you only had two daughters. The third one wasn't even born yet.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I had one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, you had one daughter when I hired you. Now you have three. You had one infant daughter. Now you have three grown 20-something-year-old daughters in the time you've been working with the Mike Gallagher.
SPEAKER 06 :
That is very true. Yep. Pretty astounding. They're all grown up. But I'll tell you, a lot of them don't use social media. Really? A number of them. I know they all gave up the... Some of them have Instagram. I know my youngest daughter does not have Instagram. None of them have Facebook. They say Facebook is the thing that you use if you want to contact your parents because nobody uses it. Nobody uses Facebook anymore, really, unless you're over a certain age. And they gave up the Snapchat. Snapchat was big when they were in high school. They all gave up Snapchat. And they used Twitter. Some of them used Twitter. I'm sorry, X for news, which is good and bad, I guess. But they're very conscious, much more conscious, I think, than we are about the potential downside.
SPEAKER 07 :
How toxic it can get.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, and it gets toxic beyond politics, just personally for kids.
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Oh, just ugly stuff and angry. All right, thanks, Eric. I appreciate it. The new live-action version of Disney's Snow White debuted in theaters over the weekend. Well, the audience reaction was most definitely grumpy. We're kind of in a golden era. Whether we don't like the wokeness, well, let's look at what the wokeness did to Snow White. That movie had a $250 million budget. It opened with $43 million in domestic ticket sales, light years below, miles below what they wanted for it. And you got this star, Rachel Zegler. who's going around, and she's obviously a Trump hater, and she's making all these obnoxious comments. I saw one clip. If I've got to stand around in an iconic Disney princess costume for hours on end, I'm going to get paid for every hour that that costume is being streamed online. I thought, oh, that's lovely. That's nice. Like, you didn't make enough money to do the movie?
SPEAKER 08 :
And by the way, in the movies, they do refer to Snow White to the name actually having come from the creamy complexion of her skin.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. That's where it was originally. Not anymore. No, it is now. Oh, no. She was born during a snowstorm. Of course, you can't say skin is white as snow. No, no, no, no. And you can't let the prince rescue her. Oh, no, no, no. That's new.
SPEAKER 08 :
Not with that non-consensual kiss.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, no. And finally, you know what started all this, right? Dwarves. Dwarves.
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That's right. Peter Dinklage, who's an actual little person. Okay. Ricky Gervais, who, again, I disagree with. Stone-cold atheist and also one of the funniest people in the world. said that there's irony in Peter Dinklage complaining about little people being used in a film. Isn't he kind of undercutting the actual work environment for people who have the exact same sort of challenge that he faces? He says, I got to tell you, I watched Peter Dinklage. He was not happy. In fact, I think he was grumpy.
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Oh, ouch. Well, but here's what I do know about Peter Dinklage's outrage and what he said was it's dehumanizing to cast little people as dwarves. That's so silly. That's so wrong. Well, here's what I know. You know what it costs to have animated dwarves in the Snow White movie? You know what those animated figures got? Nothing. You know what seven little people actors would have gotten? A big fat paycheck. Of course. So he put seven people out of work. This is unbelievable to me. This is what wokeness does. It invades. It infects the brain.
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It makes smart people stupid.
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And nice people mean. Look, that's the Mark Davis rule about Trump hatred. I think it could be applied to wokeism. It's true. Wokeism takes smart people, makes them dumb, and nice people, and makes them mean. And makes funny people unfunny. And finally, if you've never visited a Bucky's, it's about time you got to know this American institution. I like Bucky's. And I can't get enough of Bucky's. And so, again, this huge rest. If you don't know what it is, it's this gigantic rest. It's usually on highways, on the side of highways. It's this gigantic... I mean, there are gas pumps for as far as the eye can see. There are... It's got miles of space inside. You walk in, and it's fun, and it's friendly. The guys are grilling up brisket, and in fact, they do these chants when they're making the brisket in a Buc-ee's. They're doing all these chanting and everything. It's the nuttiest thing you've ever seen. And I love it. I once spent, I think, an hour and a half in a Buc-ee's just walking the aisles, buying swag. Oh, yeah, they have swag. The Buc-ee's mascot, which is like a buck-toothed beaver, right, or something. Anyway, along comes this lady. I don't know who she is. She's a beautiful woman, and she does this post on social media in her car describing Buc-ee's. And I had to share it with you. Buc-ee's.
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It's less a gas station and more a theme park for people who think beef jerky is a food group. You don't stop at Buc-ee's. You disembark. The parking lot is larger than most airports with rows of pumps all full, like it's Black Friday for unleaded. It's where you'll find lifted trucks, RVs the size of starter homes, and at least one guy filling up a five-gallon gas can who absolutely should not be operating machinery. Upon stepping inside, it appears as though Walmart had a baby with Bass Pro Shop and then raised it in a Texas roadhouse. And Buc-ee's doesn't sell snacks. They sell impulse control issues. You walk in for water and leave with a brisket sandwich, two pounds of fudge and a bag of beaver nuggets, which are basically diabetes and nugget form. I don't know what's in beaver nuggets, but I'm positive it's illegal in seven states. They taste like caramel, childhood, and a root canal waiting to happen. They're what you eat when you've completely given up on life but still want to enjoy it. And then there's the bathrooms. These aren't just bathrooms. They're cleaner than most hospitals and twice as private. You walk in expecting gas station horror, a broken lock and a crackhead washing their socks in the sink, and instead you're in a day spa for your own sake. The stalls have floor-to-ceiling doors. You could file your taxes in there. You could take a Zoom meeting. Hell, you could die in one of those stalls and the janitor would bless your body before they mopped around it. It's the first bathroom in history where you can shit yourself and still feel respected. And just when you think you're done, you walk out and realize Buc-ee's has merch. Not just a t-shirt or a hat. Buc-ee's has turned their beaver logo into a family crest. They sell pajamas, blankets, pet beds, and onesies for babies. Because nothing says we make bold choices in this family like dressing your infant as a gas station mascot. It's not a pit stop. It's rehab for people addicted to barbecue. You don't just leave Buc-ee's. You emerge slightly fatter, noticeably happier, and absolutely ready to do it all again.
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It's just one line after another, and I can relate to all of it. That wraps up the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast for a Friday, March 28, 2025. Be sure to subscribe to all our podcasts and follow us on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. And if you like the show, be sure to share it with a friend. We'll see you back here next week on the Mike Gallagher Show Week in Review podcast.
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Always a pleasure. Joy, we're seeing now the dismantling of or the attempting to dismantle the Department of Education, which I think will end up happening when it's all said and done. And that's going to return education back to the states and local communities. Talk to us about that and what else might be happening in combination with that.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, well, I think what you're going to see, first of all, John, is that you're going to see kind of a hollowing out of the Department of Education. I mean, it's going to take some congressional action to actually eliminate the department. But before that happens, you're going to be able to see a number of these programs are going to be offloaded from the department to other departments. such as Department of Treasury for some of the loan programs, Department of Labor, Department of Agriculture. And then a chunk of that money is then going to be probably granted in block grants to the states. Senator Mike Rounds of South Dakota has a bill that would block grant a lot of that money. So what that's going to do is it's going to give the decision-making power over those monies to the states and localities as to how to use it, not from Washington, from faraway bureaucrats, deciding where that money should go.
SPEAKER 19 :
Lance, is there an ability like the Fed, which I'm a states guy, I'm a states rights guy, so I always hate when there's some, you know, quote unquote federal overreach, although when you can't get states to do some of what needs to be done in some areas, education is key in what we're talking about. So much like the Federal Highway Fund, the feds can say, if you're going to get this money, you need to do X things to receive this federal highway money. So given the fact that this is going to come from the feds for education, could the feds impose something that says, listen, unless you've got school choice in your state, you're not going to receive these monies? Is that something they could do?
SPEAKER 08 :
I think that is something they can do, John. I mean, you just have to look and see what President Trump has already done with, let's say, the federal monies that are going to a lot of these universities who are violating his executive orders on anti-Semitism. And protecting Jewish students, for example, about $400 million going to Columbia has been withheld because of that. So I think that the federal government can put these strings on with regard to school choice, for example, and ensure that that money, while it may be used by the states, has to take into consideration empowering parents to be able to make the decisions about how to best educate their children.
SPEAKER 19 :
So my idea is not far-fetched. I guess the other question I would have is, I mean, I can't be the only one thinking along these lines. I'm not any smarter than anybody else is, Lance. Is that being discussed anywhere that you know of?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, certainly I know that the president has been very supportive of school choice. I mean, in his last administration, he proposed an education choice program, you know, in the second half of his administration. And so, you know, I'm sure that that is going to be – you know, discussed. I mean, he's held meetings in the White House already on promoting school choice. So I think that's going to be front and center with Linda McMahon's agenda at the Department of Education.
SPEAKER 19 :
And, you know, I know there's a lot of people that are for school choice. They're against it. Even some conservatives are against it because they don't want the government involved in the education aspect of things, period. You know, Lance, I understand all sides and where people come up with their different feelings on. I am a school choice person. I guess you could say, Lance, and whether that be homeschooling, whether you want to go to Catholic school, whether you want to go to monastery, whether you want to go to a Christian school, whatever the case may be. You pick whatever you'd like to do for your child. You've got to check, if you would, a voucher to go do whatever it is that you need to go do for your kid. And the reason why I feel that way, Lance, is I'm also a self-employed individual. I've owned businesses since I was in my early 20s, and I also understand what competition does to create excellence. We don't have that right now.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, no, we don't have that in too many places, unfortunately. What you have is a monopoly by government schools, and even if the schools are essentially failure factories or indoctrination centers, even worse, parents don't have any choice as to where to send their kid because that's the only school or education option for them. But what school choice does is it opens up different avenues for parents, whether it's private school, whether it's homeschooling, or some other type of school option. Parents get that ability to make that decision as to where their kids are going to thrive the best. And that, at the end of the day, is what an education system and education policy is all about, making sure that the kids are doing their best. And what you see in the research is that school choice programs actually provide higher achievement or promote higher achievement among students, And where there is competition, John, and you bring this up, is where there's competition between different education options, including public, private, and homeschooling, that you see the public schools actually improve their performance.
SPEAKER 19 :
They don't have a choice, Lance, and at that point, they're either going to improve or they're going to go out of business, quote-unquote. They won't exist if they don't.
SPEAKER 08 :
That's absolutely right, just as in private industry. That's right. If you don't improve your product, then you're going to go out of business. The same with a competitive market in education. Unless you provide consumers who are parents and their kids with a good education, then you're going to go out of business.
SPEAKER 19 :
The problem that I see with all of this, or the biggest obstacle with this maybe is what I should say, not the problem, but the biggest obstacle is right now I'm sure there's people listening. I'm sure there's some teacher union folks even listening to me at a glance right now that are probably yelling at me at the radio, trying to get to me through their own speakers because they are not going to give in when it comes to some of this stuff. They are dead set on making sure they are top dog and they do not like competition.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, that's right. The unions are going to dig in their heels. But really, I think the unions are on the wrong side of history. You just have to look at the fact that just within the last two or three years, you now have 17 states that have created education savings accounts, which are publicly funded savings accounts that parents can use for expenses such as private school tuition or tutoring or homeschooling options. And so before, you had only a small number of states that offered that type of program. Now you've got 17 and growing. And so I think that the momentum is surely on the side of school choice. And there was a survey that just came out, a national survey, that found that 74% of school parents support education savings accounts. And so only 11% oppose. And I think that, you know, when we talk about 80-20 issues with regard to the president, and issues that he's supporting, that I think that this is one of those that, you know, it's very clear that parents and the American people support school choice.
SPEAKER 19 :
You know what? We've talked many, many times in the past, and you know where I come from on this, and I make myself very clear on this all the time. And because of the test scores and the things that we have going on right now, and the reality is, and of course, as an employer, Lance, I've been watching this happen for years now. I mean, the folks that I get, whether they're coming out of high school or college, for that matter, Lance, unfortunately, they are not smarter today than they were a couple of decades ago. And with the technology advancements and where we are as a world, it should be the opposite.
SPEAKER 08 :
No, that's absolutely right. Unfortunately, we live in this highly competitive world market, and yet our students are not rising to that ability or that level of knowledge that we need from them. And it's not necessarily their fault. It's the fault of the system that is underpreparing them for this modern workplace. And when you have national test scores that show that 7 out of 10 kids are not proficient in reading and mathematics in the 8th grade, then you know that we're in real trouble. And I interviewed a college professor in the Silicon Valley who said that his students are so underprepared they have trouble with algebra. He's teaching calculus. And so he said that Silicon Valley companies don't want his graduates because they are not prepared for the workplace.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, you are. You know what? He's not the only person I've ever talked to along those lines that would reiterate that. So absolutely. And again, this is information, Lance, that I think the more and more people learn, you said it yourself, the more people learn and understand that this is how this potentially could work, the more momentum this brings. And to your point, I think unions are on the wrong side of history. Question is, can we get them to shift gears and come over to the right side? That's the biggest question.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, I think that is a big question. But I do think that what you're seeing now in this country, there's a wholesale shift in the way people are looking at all kinds of different issues, things that we didn't think were going to be possible just a few years ago, for example, under the Biden administration. Now the movement in the country is certainly to a more common sense position. I certainly think that's the way it is in education as well. People have seen how the public education system has failed, especially during COVID-19. And, you know, how it's continued to fail even after COVID and not producing the results that it should be, despite the hundreds of millions, billions of dollars. That's right. Billions of dollars that Washington has sent down to the schools. And so, therefore, people are saying that, hey, we need something better for our kids. And, you know, we need more choices. And I think that's what the Trump administration is going to eventually give to them.
SPEAKER 19 :
Lance, how do folks find you at the Pacific Research Institute?
SPEAKER 08 :
They can find me at pacificresearch.org. That's our website, pacificresearch.org. My latest book is called The Great Classroom Collapse. It's about reading and math in America, and they can find it on Amazon or any online bookseller.
SPEAKER 19 :
Lance, as always, I appreciate it. It's been too long since you've been with us, and I always enjoy having you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thanks so much, John. It's always a great pleasure to talk with you, be able to address your audience.
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. All right, article today in Colorado Sun, and I knew this was going to be an issue because I've been talking about this a little bit, maybe not in quite the detail that I'll get into today, but Colorado lawmakers finalized budget proposal. And this is the article's title. Here's what they cut to close the $1.2 billion gap and what they did. Now, I'm not going to get into all the minutiae of what they cut, what they didn't cut, and so on. What I really wanted to highlight today is, like a lot of things that I have issues with, is who serves on these actual committees. So I took some time this morning and went through each individual. I didn't dig into all of their past, but you can get a pretty good synopsis of what people have done in their life before becoming a politician and so on. And do they have any quote-unquote financial experience, financial wherewithal to actually be serving on the budget committee? In this case, the Colorado Joint Budget Committee. Keyword joint. Now, on this particular committee, there are one, two, three, four Democrats and two Republicans. Not surprising because there's a lot more Democrats there than there are Republicans. Another reason why we need better leadership in the Colorado GOP to have more of us Republicans represented there and so on. But that's we'll talk more about that on Tuesday. There's a big election coming up. Saturday, I haven't talked much about it because, frankly, I'm not too excited about what's going to happen and what the outcome will be. Too many knuckleheads in charge right now. We'll talk more about that between Andy and I on Tuesday, potentially. But let me go through the folks that are on this budget committee. The chair is Jeff Bridges. I don't know Jeff. He's a Democrat. who has zero previous financial experience. Keep in mind, he's the chair with no previous financial experience. Vice chair is Shannon Bird. She's also a Democrat. She has a B.A. in economics and earned a M.S. in finance and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado Denver. But unfortunately, again, as an attorney, has no real-world financial experience. And just as a side note, and I'm sorry, if some of you have MBAs, that's great, and I admire you. It takes a lot to get a master's of business degree, and I understand that. Although I have met far too many of them. that literally financially and business speaking are dumb as rocks. I'm sorry. They could pass it, and they've got that degree, but could they run their own business? Probably not. I'm just saying it as it is. I'm straight up being honest. And again, if you have one, you know what? I appreciate that, and I'm glad that you do, and I'm glad you went through all that. And I've known, again, I've known individuals that have went and gotten these degrees and so on, and I admire them. It's something I don't have. Unfortunately, most of them that get it couldn't run their own business. And I mean that with all sincerity, and I'm not trying to be mean-spirited or anything along those lines, but just because you have an MBA doesn't mean you understand finance. You understand the book side of things, but not the real-world experience of what it takes to actually run a business. So that's the vice chair. Judy Amabile, I don't know if I'm saying that correctly, a Democrat. Now, I'll give Judy credit. She's a Democrat, but I'll still give her credit. She has and does own a business. So there you go. There's one person that actually owns a business that now sits on this committee. We go now to our side of the aisle for this next one. That's Barb Kirkmeyer, and I've met Barb, and I like Barb as an individual. I don't necessarily agree with her on all of her politics and where she stands. She also has only ever done politics and has literally no business experience. Sorry, Barb, but you don't. Unless there's something out there that is not printed that I could not find, you have no business experience whatsoever. whatsoever. Emily Sirota, she is a Democrat. She also has no business experience. She has done nothing but politics and social work. Rick Taggart, he is a Republican, I believe from the Western Slope. He does have business experience, also teaches some business things. So really, out of all of these people listed, all six, we have one Democrat, one Republican that have actual real business experience. And yet, all six of them are deciding where the billions of dollars of budget money is going to go in the state of Colorado. By the way, there's a $1.2 billion shortfall. So you have six people, four of whom have zero financial experience, two of which that do on this six-member budget panel. And it just baffles me. And I get that there's probably other individuals in the background that are helping and some aides and so on. And I understand that these are the figureheads, I guess you could say. But it always baffles me that we don't have committees made up of people with real world experience on how to fix things, budgetarily speaking. There's no Joe from Jersey. There's no John from Golden, myself, I guess, where I'm throwing my – there's none of us, and I could call on a lot of you, by the way, that call in here that have real-world experience, Dan from Blackhawk and others, where you actually understand how money works and budgets and so on. There's none of us there, though. There's two. And again, I don't know either one of those individuals personally, but from what I could read, they've got some business experience and probably understand a little bit about how some of these things work. But it always amazes me that we get these committees assembled, you know, politically speaking, and yet the majority of them have no clue how it works. They might understand the process. They might understand the budgetary process and how those things work and how the paper gets shuffled around. But as far as how to actually cut funding and still make things work at the end of the day, they're clueless. And I'm just being straight up honest. And if some of you know otherwise, and I'm somehow missing something here, by all means, give me a call. 303-477-5600. We have no other guests the rest of this hour. We got another half an hour or so left. And again, I'm always baffled. And I honestly didn't even get into the areas that they feel they need to cut because I'll be straight up honest. Does it matter? I'm being honest. Does it matter? They're going to do everything possible. The left is. They're going to do everything possible to eliminate Tabor, work their way around it, come up with new fees to work their way around it. On and on we go. And in Colorado, there's some big shortfalls when it comes to Medicaid and things like that that the state still has to help fund and so on. And like I continue to say, like the U.S., federal government has Doge. Colorado and, frankly, I think every other state in the union needs its own Doge as well. it would behoove these individuals, these six, to say, you know, guys, let's kind of take a pause here. Before we actually get this next budget out, and I know there's a rush, quote-unquote, to do so, why don't we have somebody come in and give us a quick analysis of what's actually happening internally in a lot of the different departments that we have, you know, the big ones. I'm not going to worry about the small ones, but let's take a look at all these big ones and figure out exactly where this money is going, and are we getting our money's worth? much like Doge is doing at the federal level. 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SPEAKER 19 :
Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush. Soren, you're next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, while you were talking there, it made me think. Doesn't every company in their annual business meeting try to look at how to cut expenses and gain profit?
SPEAKER 19 :
Yep. That's not the way it works in government, though.
SPEAKER 09 :
It seems like to me all the government is, That's right.
SPEAKER 19 :
You're 100% correct, Soren. They have no incentive whatsoever to cut back. None.
SPEAKER 09 :
Why do they want it? At least they could keep it the same. Why do they always want to expand it?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, because that's – if you think about, especially now that we've got Colorado being deep blue, the left's way of handling things, Soren, is you don't know. You and your family, you and your parents and your brothers and sisters and all of your siblings and their families and so on, Soren, they're not smart enough. to know how to handle life in general. So they, big government, has to come along and make sure that they can do what you can do for yourself. I say can do for yourself, not can't, but what you can do for yourself. They want to make sure that they step in because by George Sorin, you guys aren't smart enough to figure it out on your own. So they have to expand and get bigger because you're too stupid to do it on your own. That's their belief.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and then they tax multi-billion dollar companies. That's right. I think everybody can't figure that out. Well, if it's a multi-million dollar company, I think the founder must have known something.
SPEAKER 19 :
You got it. You're right. Absolutely, Soren. You're 100% correct. And the problem is your mentality doesn't work in government because they want to get bigger. You and I want them to get smaller.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. At school, we're taking a class, Survey of Christian Worldview. There's a The guy in there is talking about how our government was never initially founded to be an atheistic government. It works perfectly as a Christian government because that's already put in there that you would think, well, no, we need to not waste.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right. Well, yeah, and if you look at what you're talking about in our Judeo-Christian values and the foundation that we have with God at the top and he's in charge, we don't need government to take his place. Government doesn't need to be there to, quote-unquote, assist anybody. Anyone, government needs to be there, and its proper role is to make sure that we have secure borders, number one, that we have a strong military to, again, protect said borders and make sure that we as a country can stay sovereign. That's their second goal. And frankly, Soren, outside of that, there isn't much of anything else they need to do. That's really about it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes. Oh, it's just really interesting. The guy in that video series, it's called The Truth Project.
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, yeah. I've actually taught it before. Absolutely. Yeah. Del. Del's a great guy.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. It'd be really interesting to talk to him. But he has... So many good points in there. Yeah, our government was never meant to be an atheistic government.
SPEAKER 19 :
Nope, it never was. For everybody listening, by the way, if you can get a chance to go to one of those or get your hands on it, The Truth Project is a fabulous series. If I'm not mistaken, sir, I'm doing this from memory, it's a 12- or 13-week series, and you do about an hour a week or so, and it is well worth every minute of it.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, for sure. We've been doing that in one class in our school. And it is by far probably one of the best classes I'm taking.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yep. There you go. It's absolutely phenomenal. You got it. Yeah, I've taught it. I don't know how many different times. I did it quite a bit back in the day, probably a decade or so ago. I think it's been around that long or so. Well, I mean, it's been around long enough that I think I was doing it on either VHS or DVDs. I can't remember now. I've got it at home. I'll have to pull out what I've got and what it's actually formatted as. It's been that long ago, but now, of course, it's all on. You can just download it now.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, which is also kind of helpful.
SPEAKER 19 :
Exactly. Way better. No, it's awesome. And those of you listening, I believe you can find it on various sources, and in a lot of cases, Soren, they'll take a small donation, and you can have it, watch it, and it's well worth it. And if you can go to a class where you can collaborate with others, well worth doing.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. It's a great series.
SPEAKER 19 :
Absolutely. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's very interesting. It helps you get an understanding of why our government has gotten so big.
SPEAKER 19 :
Mm-hmm. Well, yeah, and Soren, basically, and the premise of not only the Truth Project but others is, you know, the Marxist movement is to replace God. They want to become God in your life, and that's why, back to our point a moment ago, why does government, especially state governments, want to keep expanding? Because at the core is the Marxist movement that knows that the only way they can ever take over for God is to expand.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. My mom told me the other day, well, she read this somewhere, the new term for communism... And Marxism is just woke.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yep. That's right. She's right. Smart lady.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, well, she must be. Her and Dad are both really smart.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and she raised you, so they must be.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I'm probably the least smart of all my brothers.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, then they're really smart, because you are as well, Soren. Don't sell yourself too short. You're fine.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, yeah, but they've all had a lot more experience.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, you will too. Just give it some time. You will too.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yep. It's just kind of interesting. You see that and you're pretty sure, well, government doesn't need to be that size. It should be smaller. And government doesn't need to spend so much money.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right. You're right.
SPEAKER 09 :
So, okay, well, that's about all I had to say.
SPEAKER 19 :
All right, you're it. Soren, I appreciate it very much. And by the way, everything Soren just said, he is 100% correct on, and so is his whole family, but his mom especially. And so thank you, by the way, for raising Soren the way that you guys have. You've done a great job. He's a great kid. We talk a lot outside of the program here, and he is solid. So, Soren, thank you for that. But, you know, government, state, in this case, state of Colorado, They want to continue to expand. It's what they do. It's what they're good at. And what they're now trying to do, and it's even in this particular article, is they're trying to figure out a way around Tabor. How do they get these things done? There's a lot of even road projects. And a lot of you read and have sent me the article about the gondolas that some knucklehead has an idea of putting in Tabor. downtown denver which by the way has to be one of the stupidest ideas i think i've ever read when it comes to getting people from one point to another and reality is yes they're going to do their very best to defray money from actual road bridge maintenance projects I'm not even talking about the expansion of. I'm just talking about maintaining and keeping what we have going on a high level. They're going to struggle to even do that because they're going to put money into some of these other things that I just mentioned a moment ago, mass transit and other things that I've talked about throughout the week. That's what they're going to try to do. So reality is, yeah, the budget in Colorado is in a bad shape. I don't know any other way to say it. They're trying to figure out ways to cut certain things. And as I've said numerous times, and I'll keep saying it, give me that budget. Give me a week of uninterrupted time, just a week, and I'll have it lowered by 20%, easily, 20%. And I'm not saying that in any kind of a boastful, you know, egotistical manner. No, I understand finances. I understand how things work. I also know enough about how how much waste there is in a lot of the government entities that are out there. I'll cut staffing. I'll cut things to make things work. I'll cut programs. You name it. I'll do it. And I'll lower the state's budget by 20 percent. Easy, easy. And for those some of you listening, oh, it's not possible. Actually, it is. Look what Doge is doing on a national basis and how much they're cutting. Look what HHS, what Robert Kennedy Jr. just talked about doing when it comes to HHS, taking it from 20 different arms down to just 13, I believe is what the number actually is. They're going to lay off 10,000 workers. I guarantee you in the state of Colorado, I could do very similar things. And on top of that, go through and look at some of the systems we've got, some of the IT things that are there that are needed and so on. And I can just go down the list and start in. Now, would I do all of that myself, by the way, me personally? No, I wouldn't do it all myself. I know enough people that would volunteer their time. For a seven-day straight period, guys like Jersey Joe even, that I guarantee you, if I said, Joe, here's what we're going to do, he would be out here in a heartbeat. And there's others among you listening where I could gather enough people together where easily 8, 10, 12 of us could get together and easily start taking chunks of that budget, each one, take a chunk of, and pretty soon go through and slash it like no tomorrow and at least get 20% out of it. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that. Why this budget committee can't do that? Well, I already know the answer. You've got four politicians and two business people that are on there, and I guarantee you the majority of the politicians are pushing for things that, frankly, we don't need, while the other two are saying, well, why don't we cut this? Why don't we cut that? Why don't we trim this back? Why don't we trim that back? And yet you've got the other four that are most likely saying, well, we can't do that. My constituents won't like that. My voters won't like this. That's what happens in politics, by the way. I'm not exaggerating. You guys all know that. That's how the system works. They're going to look at that and say, well, you know, that won't work in my area. I can't do that. I won't get reelected. They won't say that out loud, of course. But believe me, behind closed doors, that's exactly what they're saying. And if they're not saying it, they're thinking it. Guaranteed. Well, if I do that, that's really going to hurt my chance for reelection. You know, who cares? Is this about what's best for the citizenry, you know, those that live in Colorado, or is this about you and your political career? And I can tell you what it is. For all of these politicians, it's about their political career. There's a few exceptions to that, and I know some of the folks down at the Statehouse, and they're not all that way, but far too many of them are more worried about getting reelected than they are in making a real difference in their community. And, folks, I mean that sincerely. That's on both sides of the aisle. That's on both sides of the aisle. If this committee was really serious— about getting the budget where it needs to be in Colorado, they would be doing exactly what I just said. Literally, they would be doing exactly what I just said. They're not going to do it. Again, because of what I just said. Getting rid of some of the things that, you know, some of them hold near and dear, they're just not going to do it. You know, one of the things, by the way, that needs to happen right off the bat, and I don't care if Polis ran on this, kill this stupid free, you know, preschool thing that we've got that's just sucking money out, which we don't need. Now, they're not going to do that because that's part of the Marxist movement. Get the kid, get him out of the home, let's indoctrinate him sooner than later, and pretty soon we'll have him in our grasp. That's why there's free preschool, by the way. I'm not wrong. That's why there's free preschool. It's why Polis and his cronies are doing what they're doing. Get the kids sooner than later. It's not to help parents, folks, please. If any of you believe that, you're dumb as a rock. That's not what that program's all about. It's not to help people. It's not because some people just can't afford to go to work if they don't have some place for their kids to go. Baloney. Baloney. I call BS on that. This is a Marxist move to indoctrinate kids at an earlier, younger age. That's what this is all about. And Polis and his cronies would have a hard time convincing me otherwise. Because I know who they are. I know their core. I know what they do. What's that old story? I don't know, Charlie, if you call it a fable or whatever you call it, but there's the story of the woman who sees a spider that's about to get eaten by a snake. And so she decides to go ahead and save the spider. It happens to be a very venomous spider that one bite could kill you. And so she goes ahead and does what she needs to do. She saves the, and you could use all sorts of animals, by the way, but in this case, it's a spider. So to save the spider, she does what she needs to do. She gets it saved. She's now got a hold of it. And once the spider is now free and it's saved and it knows that its life will be spared, it bites the woman. And as the woman now is being infected by the bite, she looks down at the spider and says, I just saved your life. Why did you do that? And the spider's answer is, well, that's what I do. That's what spiders do. In other words, that's at my core. That's why I can tell you that with Polis and this whole free preschool thing, it's not to help families. It's to indoctrinate your kid because that's what Marxists do, folks. That's what's at his core. And yes, indeed, he is a Marxist through and through. He will tell you that he's some libertarian and he believes in libertarian values and this, that, and the other. That is the biggest bunch of BS that you could ever hear. He is a Marxist through and through. He runs the state that way. Why else during COVID would he call all of you selfish bastards because you wouldn't wear your mask? Because he's a nice guy? Because he's a libertarian? Because he believes in freedom? Yeah, no, he doesn't. He is a Marxist through and through. So again, I know I got off track, but this is all having to do with the budgetary end of things. And I'm telling you, there's one way right there to help trim the budget. Get rid of free preschool. Cut it. Done. Out of here. Cut back on some of the government programs that are out there, some of the benefits that we as a state give out. Stop. Cut it. Again, I'm not exaggerating. I could cut that budget by 20% in a matter of seven days with no problem whatsoever, and yet we've got six knuckleheads. I'm sorry. I've got to call even some of our own folk knuckleheads. We've got six knuckleheads that, for some odd reason, can't figure out how to do that. Golden Eagle Financial, speaking of finances, Al Smith is there to help you with your future finances. Give Al a call today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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All right, something that one of you sent me today, which, by the way, I appreciate. You guys send me lots of different articles and things, and I try to – I do read all of them. I don't use all of them on air because sometimes just time doesn't allow that to happen. This one, though, I wanted to squeeze in here before we exited today's program, and that is there's an article out on BankingDive.com. FDIC plans to eradicate focus on reputational risk. So what that means is in the past – up till now, and it really became a big deal under the Biden administration, the banking industry could literally say, you know what, we don't want to do business with you because we feel like you're functionally a big risk in what you do or who you are. So, for example, Donald Trump is the one that's kind of even pushing this through because there was a lot of companies that were doing things with some of his products, let's say, that were being told, you can't have a banking relationship with us because of what you do politically. Now, the banks will come back and say, oh, we never did that. We never refused to do business with somebody because of their political stance. Again, call BS on that. That's not true. Wrong. They were. There were gun manufacturers or gun stores and things along those lines to where because of that, certain financial institutions wouldn't do business with them. Now, again, the banks will come – it's even in this article. The banks will come back and say, well, we never did that. They did. What they did is they basically came up with some other excuse as to why they couldn't do business with said company. But really, at the end of the day, it was because of their quote-unquote reputation score. or their risk on the reputation score, I guess you could say. So their reputation risk is what I really should be saying. Well, evidently, the Feds, the FDIC, Federal Reserve is now getting some heat from probably the White House. And probably Elon Musk and Doge and others basically saying, hey, guys, guess what? You're not doing that anymore. That's not going to be an excuse any longer. You can no longer refuse to do banking with somebody. In other words, you can't debank someone, which is what they call it. You can't debank someone just because you believe that their political risk is too high. And this was happening, by the way, even among other Christian organizations as well. I could go back and go through some of the archives and read some of the things that I've even talked about here on air to where, you know, XYZ Bank wouldn't do business with XYZ organization because of their political views, their beliefs, whatever the case may be. And it has gotten out of hand, and it sounds like that's going to be reined in now. because of our current administration and again elections have consequences this is one of the pluses to that now again in this article even you'll see some of these uh bigwigs from like jp morgan and bank of america basically say that you know we bank everybody the real question was about over regulation frankly this is the bank of america head saying that um Yeah, no, again, I'm calling BS on that because, no, you guys actually, there was news stories even where you decided that you weren't going to do business with this particular gun manufacturer or this gun store or this entity because of whatever. And, yes, it typically came down to how they felt politically speaking or in the case of a gun manufacturer because of what they felt was a risk because of them being a gun manufacturer. And again, to me, this is going to have some long-reaching positive implications because no longer will they be able to, quote-unquote, discriminate against someone because of what they do business-wise that might be related politically or just foundationally, for example, on the gun sides of things. They're no longer going to be able to say that, you know, we can't do business with you because of that. I mean, it has been very discriminatory in the past along those lines. And the left, of course, they're always worried about making sure everything's fair. No, they don't. No, they don't. They're hypocrites. They don't care about things being fair. They care about them being their way, but they could care less about anything being fair. As I always say. whatever they're usually complaining of is the very same thing they're doing. And that happens over and over and over again. So the reality is, you know, they will whine and complain this whole signal thing. They're whining and complaining about some of the folks that are on that team and the text messages that went out and so on. And like Bob Duco says, do I agree with the way that went? No. Should there be some consequences? I think there already has been. Did anything bad happen out of it? No. Should people lose their jobs over it? No. We better make sure it never happens again. What's interesting is how that got leaked, and I think that's actually going to be a bigger story maybe even going into next week as to how the Atlantic journalist actually got added into the string. I think that's a bigger story that we'll talk about maybe next week as more and more of that details, more and more of those details come out. All right. Last but not least. 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Paul, I got 15 seconds. Go, sir.
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Yeah, related to FDIC, what agency would regulate the credit card categorization now tracking the firearm sales and sometimes ammo sales?
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Same. It would be the same. They would do the same thing.
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Okay, I'll have to contact them and tell them to try and scrap that. All right.
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Join us on The Kim Monson Show as we delve into the pressing issues of our time. From early childhood taxing districts to the national and state legislative complexities, we dissect current events with a focus on freedom versus force. This episode features an insightful conversation with Alan Thomas about his new role in the GOP and the state of political malfeasance. Stick around for an inspiring discussion with Drew Dix on the significance of the Medal of Honor and the impactful stories of America's heroes.
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I don't think that we should be passing legislation that is so complicated that people kind of throw up their hands and say, I can't understand that.
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And it's not fair just because you're a big business that you get a break on this and the little guy doesn't.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let's have a conversation.
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Indeed, let's have a conversation. Welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasured, you're valued, you have purpose today. Strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Friday, Producer Joe. I know he's talking to us, but he has to hit a button.
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And it's good to have you behind the boards. I know there was a little traffic out there, so great to have you. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. That comes out on Sundays. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com. Text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force. Force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. Show comes to you 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday. First hour is rebroadcast, 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Second hour, 10 to 11 at night. And you can catch us on all of the KLZ 560 platforms. That's KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, the KLZ app. Apparently, if you say play KLZ, Alexa comes in loud and clear. And then once our podcasts are posted, you can find those on the streaming services such as Spotify and iTunes as well. And pleased to have in studio with me, Alan Thomas. And Alan Thomas is an author here at the Kim Monson Show. He's also the newly elected first vice chair for the Douglas County GOP. So it's great to have you here.
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It's always great being here, Kim. Thanks. Thanks.
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So a lot's going to be happening with the GOP this weekend. So set this up for us. Are you going to be down in Colorado Springs? And what's happening?
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Yeah, so we have the state GOP organizational meeting. So this is where we'll elect the governor. chairman or chairwoman for the Colorado GOP and the secretary and the vice chair. So a lot going on. There's also a lot of multi-district meetings today, tomorrow, such as like a judicial district. So one that kind of spans several counties. They'll have their organizational meetings where they'll elect all their officers as well. So if you can't tell from my voice, I kind of came down with something. I know.
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It's like, are you changing your voice, Alan Thomas?
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Yeah. The last thing I want to do is get all the great Republicans in Colorado sick. So they offer a Zoom option. So that might be what I'll be taking just to avoid spreading. I mean, it's not that bad. It's more I lost my voice yesterday and just a little sniffle. But It's never fun spreading that around.
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Yeah. And there really is something going around big time. So it's that season. But it's great to have you here.
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Always great being here.
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And your piece that we're going to be talking about is you've titled it The Wonderful Political Malfeasance of the Left. And it is super interesting what is happening in our country right now. So we'll get into that. here in just a moment. But as you all know, we look at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it's not compassionate or altruistic to take other people's rights, their property, freedom, livelihoods, opportunities, their childhoods, or their lives via force. And force obviously can be a weapon, but it can be policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation and fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. This agenda by the World Economic Forum, globalist lease agenda, United Nations, this Colorado state legislature, what they're doing is unbelievable down at the statehouse with the behest of the governor. But they use land use codes, zoning regulations, forest fees, conservation easements, national monument designations. That list goes on and on. And, Ellen Thomas, it's not okay.
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It's not. And, you know, we finally get a little bit of a break with the legislature to debate budget now. I think the long bill is finally getting proposed. So that's going to be interesting how they've tried to cut out of our budget. And, you know, as we well know, of course, the Democrats have been pushing this off for years and years. And we have a structural deficit now in Colorado. And from all that I've heard, they haven't addressed that structural deficit yet. through this next long bill, this budgetary bill.
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And they've been trying to address this different ways by taking more and more of our Tabor refunds because what they've done is they've overcollected taxes from us under Tabor, Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights. They're supposed to give it back to us unless we vote and say it's okay. But as I'm watching as president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, they are going through I think gyrations will have to be one of our great words maybe next week of the day. But going through all kinds of gyrations, sometimes with the help of Republicans, which is very frustrating, to keep more of the excess revenue. Somebody said don't say revenue. Excess taxes that they have taken from us, Alan.
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Absolutely. And, you know, it's kind of interesting, too. You know, we saw the Democrats try and say that Republicans were trying to cut Medicaid here in Colorado and actually didn't. Judge said, no, absolutely not. You can't say things like that and had to take those billboards down. So we still see the political games of the fact that Republicans haven't had a majority since this has been an issue. Well before 2020, Republicans have not had a position of power at the state level. And so for Democrats to even attempt to blame this on Republicans is you hope that the voter in Colorado can know and understand that because this is something that has to be owned by the Colorado Democrats 100%.
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Well, and we have to shed light on that. Elections, you're alluding to elections. Elections are super important, and there's new developments regarding elections, regarding our Colorado 2024 election project, the executive order by President Trump. And I hope that we can get into that a little bit later at some point here in the show. Kane is going to join us as well. You're our featured guest in hour one. Kane is our featured guest in hour number two. And... Let's just go ahead and let's get into this, the things that we like to do. First thing is our word of the day. I decided to use the word malfeasance because that was in your title. And it's spelled M-A-L-F-E-A-S-A-N-C-E. And it is a noun. It could be misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official. Or number two, the doing of an act which a person ought not to do, evil conduct or an illegal deed. And with all of the assault upon our Second Amendment rights down at the statehouse, I think it's downright malfeasance, Alan Thomas.
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It absolutely is. And, you know, the title that I kind of chose was The way the left has been politically outmaneuvered by Trump since the very beginning of his presidency, it really should be called malfeasance for what Chuck Schumer and all the leaders in the Democrat Party have done. Trump has outflanked them at every turn. And it's it's a wonderful thing for us to watch that type of malfeasance.
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Yeah, and to see it being addressed, we'll just put it that way. So next thing, Bill of the Day, and thank you, Ben, for Senate Bill 25-183. This is coverage for pregnancy-related services. And this is the complement, if you will—I don't think complement's the right word—to prop— Let's see, 79, I think it was, that was passed by the people of Colorado that basically says that we, as an amendment to the Constitution here in Colorado, that abortion can be done right up until the time the baby is born. And we're going to have insurance pay for it. Medicaid's going to pay for it. So you just mentioned they're saying we want to cut Medicaid. But here in Colorado, they want to take tax dollars to use that to abort babies here in Colorado. One way to make sure that you're not... undercutting Medicaid, if you will, would be to not expand these services to do this. And so anyway, and I need to give you the information. Everybody has the sniffles over here today, so it's one of those things that's going around. But this bill is Senate Bill 25-183, and I want to get the sponsors for you on this as well. Hang with me. I thought I had that right at my fingertips, and I didn't.
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And, you know, Kim, this is an interesting point. When you have a right for something that somebody else has to provide a service for, this is why we talk about rights the way that we do is at what point are you going to force somebody to do something they don't want to do if they have a right for it? And we always talk about health care as kind of the positive example of this, of, you know, if you have a right to an abortion, does that mean it has to be provided to you by taxpayers? Yeah. I can't remember if it was like Jim Jordan or Thomas Massey or maybe even Ted Cruz. One of them said, well, hey, if you have this right and the taxpayers have to pay for it, well, then where's my right to a gun then? Do the taxpayers get to pay for my guns and my right to the Second Amendment? So it's one of those very interesting questions that when you start to say we have a right and it needs to be in the Constitution, when you're not an astute political thinker, and you just start adding willy-nilly to the Constitution, you're going to get bills like this.
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Well, and this is Senate Bill 25-183. The prime sponsors are all Democrats on this. Senator Robert Rodriguez, Senator Lindsay Doherty, Representative Lorena Garcia, and Representative Julie McCluskey. And so that's where we are. And that's Senate Bill 25-183. And we really need to be engaging in this cultural battle for life. We have actually abdicated, I think, a lot. We didn't even realize it regarding this case for life. And what's the opposite of life? It's death. What's the opposite of creation? It's destruction. That's the bottom line of what we're seeing here. So that's Senate Bill 25-183. Ben, thank you for bringing that to our attention. And, again, you can't – and let's just mention this one more time. So there's this movement out there that there's this, quote-unquote, right to abortion. But that does not mean that you – if you choose to have an abortion, that you have a right to have taxpayers to have money taken via force from taxpayers to pay for that. And I think it's really important to understand. One other thing, you compared this to our Second Amendment rights. The Second Amendment, the Bill of Rights, was put in for a specific reason. This is not part of the Bill of Rights regarding this abortion up until the time of birth in Colorado. A lot of people don't realize that that's the case here, but it is. So, Alan, next thing, I wanted to get to our quote of the day. And it just happened that Medal of Honor Day was on Tuesday. And Drew Dix, who is a co-founder of the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo, it is a very special place. You've got to get that on your bucket list to get down there. And they have portraits of valor of many of our Medal of Honor recipients and quotes by each of them. And I am sharing a Medal of Honor quote each Friday. So I'd reached out to Drew and said, hey, Medal of Honor Day was Tuesday. How about let's talk about it on Friday? He said, OK. Then I'm going through the Medal of Honor book, which I quote every Friday. And it's him. It's his quote for the day. So let's get through this, Alan, regarding Drew Dix, his citation. He was born in 1944. This is actions he took January 31 through February 1, 1968. This was a 56-hour battle, if you can believe it. So I'll let you do the first half, and I'll do the second half.
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For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action and at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, Staff Sergeant Dix distinguished himself by exceptional heroism while serving as a unit advisor. Two heavily armed Viet Cong battalions attacked the province capital city of Chau Pha, resulting in the complete breakdown and fragmentation of defenses of the city. Staff Sergeant Dix, with a patrol of Vietnamese soldiers, was recalled to assist in the defense of Chau Pha. Learning that a nurse was trapped in a house near the center of the city, Staff Sergeant Dix organized a relief force, successfully rescued the nurse, and returned her to the safety of the Tactical Operations Center. Being informed of other trapped civilians within the city, Staff Sergeant Dix voluntarily led another force to rescue eight civilian employees located in a building, which was under heavy mortar and small arms fire. Staff Sergeant Dix then returned to the center of the city. Upon approaching a building, he was subjected to intense automatic rifle and machine gun fire from an unknown number of Viet Cong. He personally assaulted the building, killing six Viet Cong and rescuing two Filipinos.
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The following day, Staff Sergeant Dick, still on his own volition, assembled a 20-man force, and though under intense enemy fire, cleared the Viet Cong out of the hotel, theater, and adjacent buildings within the city. During this portion of the attack, the Army of the Republic Vietnam soldiers inspired... Hold on here. I've got to figure out where I put the other half of mine here. Here we go. So, during this portion of the attack, Army of the Republic of Vietnam soldiers, inspired by the heroism and success of Staff Sergeant Dix, rallied and commenced firing upon the Viet Cong. Staff Sergeant Dix captured 20 prisoners, including a high-ranking Viet Cong official. Now, that is a very interesting story that I've heard him tell. He then attacked enemy troops who had entered the residence of the deputy province chief and was successful in rescuing the official's wife and children. Staff Sergeant Dix's personal heroic actions resulted in 14 confirmed Viet Cong killed in action and possibly 25 more. the capture of 20 prisoners, 15 weapons, and the rescue of the 14 United States and free world civilians. The heroism of Staff Sergeant Dix was in the highest tradition and reflects great credit upon the U.S. Army. Cool. Wow. It's quite a story. And this is what I love this quote. And he has this on the bottom of his emails as well. He said, nothing is ever as bad as you think it might be. And that's Drew Dix, co-founder of the Center for American Values. Get it on your bucket list to go visit the center. Support them. And you can get more information by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. This all happens because of our sponsors. I know them all personally. And Roger Mangan has been in business for 48 years, serving his customers, providing for his family, and giving back to his communities. And so for help with your insurance needs, call Roger Mangan at 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and 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 shouldn't have to force people to do it. Drew Dix is on the line with us. He is co-founder of the Center for American Values. Drew Dix, we were talking about you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, good morning, Kim. It's always good to be on your program.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, it's good to have you on as well. And Drew, I've gotten to know you through all of the different things that you do down at the Center for American Values. So let's talk a little bit about the center first, because it is a very special place. And the Portraits of Valor of over 160 Medal of Honor recipients, it's a really reverent place. And people understand that when they walk into the center. It's so important.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, Kim, and it's special to me because I knew every single one of those people when we started photographing them since about 1999. So that's a special place. But it's also special that I can tell their stories to the youth and their parents about the sacrifices made for the country because, you know, If we didn't have people willing to make risks for each other, then what do we have? That's a sure symbol of a country and being united. And the thing that we like to say is that we don't preach war, we don't talk about war, but the examples of those actions that those fellow recipients did on the battlefield, it Bad times are an indication of people coming together and that some good comes out of bad things. And that's why I say there's nothing ever as bad as you think it might be.
SPEAKER 13 :
I love that. I love that quote. And Drew, I take great heart from these stories and the different people that I've met at the center, because in a way, I think we're also we're in an ideological battle. And what I've learned regarding the Medal of Honor, first of all, you don't win it. It is awarded. You are a recipient of it. So it's not a competition. Right. Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's absolutely right. I don't know anybody that could try to, quote, win one and survive. You just don't do it. And in fact, the situations are so unique that it comes so fast and the situation changes so fast that you don't have time to plan that thing. And what's so remarkable is those that were with you are the ones that think you were worthy enough to receive the medal. That's what's making it so special.
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Right, because there has to be witnesses to the action, and you have to be recommended for the medal. And so it's the highest military honor that can be bestowed upon someone here in the military. But I think one of the key things that I've learned regarding the Medal of Honor is it is awarded because when the situation presented itself, these men took action. I think there's one woman that maybe received the Medal of Honor, but it's these men stepped forward and took action when the situation presented itself. And, Drew, I take heart from that as we're in this ideological battle. In fact, the two men that are in studio with me right now, Alan Thomas and Kane, are stepping forward in this ideological battle to protect those around them. And so I take heart from those stories of our Medal of Honor recipients and put it into my everyday life.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, you know, that's exactly right. The Medal of Honor recipients were in a war and we fought. against a visible enemy. But those, there's a lot of warriors out there that didn't carry a gun. In fact, the founders of our nation didn't carry guns, but they were fighters and warriors. And so my hat's off to all those that are doing what they can to keep us, the ship righted in the right direction.
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Well, Andrew, the Center for American Values is nonpartisan and nonpolitical. And the values that it focuses on is honor, integrity, and patriotism. And I was having a conversation with one of our listeners, and she has family members that lean to the left. And so there can be this rift regarding politics. And she said politics can divide so many people. And I thought about it for a little bit, Drew, and I responded back. I said, I don't think it's politics. It's values. And I think that what happens is people... We need to come together on values. I think that there are those on the left that also have these values of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And so what you're doing at the center is focusing on that and not on politics. And I think that we can take inspiration from that, Drew.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I think that's a very good point, and that's exactly the approach we take, is that we believe that all people should strive for honor and integrity and have patriotism for the country that gives them that privilege of living their life the way they choose. And I think the most important thing is that, yes, even those souls that don't quite get it, should strive for honor, integrity, and patriotism, and at least instill in the young people that. And if we all understand that, then I think the politics will be less divisive, less combative.
SPEAKER 13 :
So, Drew Dix, I know you are a true American hero. And whenever I am at these different events with you, I was up in Pinedale, Wyoming, when you had presented to all the kids up there. And it's something to just watch. young people as they they want to understand your story it seems that they're hungry for learning these things about our country and it's just does my heart good to see all these young people that you're interacting with and i think it gives you and me great hope for our country well it does and i think our young people since they're uh
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captive to these devices that we're talking on right now, that when they see us, they really are hungry, as you say. They want to hear it from the real person. And I think that's what we need to strive for is a little more of that and encourage young people to ask questions and go to the source and always think that there's two sides to every what you're hearing. And we tell at the center, and this is something that I always say, is that we don't tell young people what to think. We just tell them how to think and that they can think.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I love that as well. So, Drew Dix, you are starting a podcast, though. Tell us a little bit about the Drew Dix podcast. Sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, we're happy to do that. It's really exciting. We're having fun doing it. The first episode under DrewDixPodcast.com was on Greenland. And what we decided is things that are in the news that are confusing to people or keep you up all night, we're going to talk about it. And I spent 10 years, 10 spring seasons, working off of Greenland on the sea ice on a government – classified government project tracking Russian submarines, Soviet submarines. So I have a little knowledge about that, and I wanted to share it, and it turned out to be a pretty well-received program. So the listeners can look at grudixpodcast.com and see for yourself. And if you like it, let us know.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I'm sure that they will. And your co-founder, Brad Padula, is a media guy. He's a documentary producer. And so the two of you together, just tell us how you decided to start the center, because I think it's a pretty interesting story.
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Well, it is. And so Brad, I got to know Brad about 19... when he filmed Beyond the Metal, because there was four of us living from Pueblo, Colorado, which is the only city that's had four living at the same time. And so Brad got to know us pretty well, and we'd already lost Bill Crawford and Carl Sitter, and Jerry Murphy, the other recipient, was not doing real well, and he was in the... a medical facility in Pueblo, and went to see him. So obviously he wasn't going to make it very much longer, and we sat down and were having a cold beer and talking it over. It was overwhelming, so we were just settling down a little bit. And we decided, you know, his story and other stories are going to be lost if we don't do something. And Brad's father, who had this building he just purchased, was renovating it, We left from having that beer, went right to him, and of course he was walking around this project, supervising dirt work or whatever, and approached him with his idea, and he looked at us and said, well, okay, what floor do you want? And that's where it got started. And on day one, when we opened the doors on the 10th of November, Marine Corps birthday, actually, 2010, it's been the same. And it looks pretty much the same. It was a very, very special place. We had the portraits that were purchased and donated to the center by Brad's father as well. And so when people come in the doors, they're just overwhelmed by the solemnness and the dignity of the place. And it's really special to see young kids lined up from getting off their buses and grousing around like they do, and you think, oh, they're going to come to the door and mess things up. But no, when they walk to the door, they get quiet. They look around. So that's how it got started, and it's been that way ever since.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I highly would recommend that people check out your website, AmericanValueCenter.org, and also your podcast, and that is DrewDixPodcast.com, correct? Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's correct. And the next one will be released next Wednesday. And it was an interesting subject, the readiness to fight and win the next wars. And that turned into a lively discussion. So I encourage all of you to look at that as well.
SPEAKER 13 :
Drew Dix, thank you for what you do. Thank you for caring for our country, for our youth, for all that you and Brad do there at the Center for American Values. And your final thought you'd like to leave with our listeners today.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, thanks for thinking of us on Medal of Honor Day. It's a special day. Most of the recipients were in Arlington National Cemetery laying the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown. And what a lot of people don't realize, there are Medals of Honor awarded to the unknowns from World War I to Korea and Vietnam, actually, and then Vietnam. So it's special. So we're paying tribute to all those that fought, that may have earned the Medal of Honor and just never were able to wear it.
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Drew Dix, thank you for all the great work that you're doing. And we will see you soon. The next On Values presentation will be, I think it's April 16th. And Norma Donlon, who is the widow now of Roger Donlon, who was, wasn't he the first one to receive the Medal of Honor from the Vietnam War?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, Roger was 1964. I knew him well. It was the very first one from Special Forces. Actually, the first one in Vietnam that received him.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, and he just recently passed on, so that'll be a great event. Doesn't cost anything. RSVP by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. Drew Dix, thanks for all that you do.
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And have a good day.
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I forgot you pulled this, Joe. This is going to crack me up at least for the next few Fridays. That is hysterical. So thank you, Joe. Welcome back to the Kim Munchen Show. Thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy. from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams and empowers us to change our own personal climate. In studio with me is Alan Thomas. We're going to be talking about your essay that we'll roll out this weekend, The Wonderful Political Malfeasance of the Left. And Kane, the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado, snuck in here as well.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Thank you for having me again.
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And you're a military guy, former police officer.
SPEAKER 09 :
Former law enforcement.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah.
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Drew Dix, I could tell it was really moving you. Yeah, for sure. And so it's inspiring to hear the stories of the past, these virtuous men who devoted their lives and sacrificed a lot so that we can have these freedoms. Yeah. I'm not sure that we as Americans really understand what's happening to us now, because we may not be at war with the marxicoms, but they're at war with us. I think it's an information war right now. But for the most part, people are still dying. People are being hurt by their policies. And so we need to recognize that and do something to protect our rights and our liberties. And these examples that you provide every day inspires me to just continue to fight and to know there's suffering and sacrifice involved.
SPEAKER 13 :
There is. And even with all that's out there, we are blessed. We are so blessed. And we have this duty to pass on to the next generation what has been passed on to us. And so with that, Alan Thomas. And you've got two little kids. I've got little grandkids. And that's why we're engaging in this battle, because I think about Washington, all the stuff that they put on the line. And I had a conversation just recently, and I've shared this a few times on the air, because this was a mental process for me, is one of my friends said, And there are those on the left that have somewhat celebrated the killing of the UnitedHealthcare executive, indicating there might be some righteousness in it because UnitedHealthcare had denied some insurance claims and people suffered because of that. Or now we see people destroying Teslas, which you are talking about in your article. And so my friend said to me, well, Kim, I said, that's not the way we're supposed to settle things in America. And he said, well, George Washington in the Revolutionary War, they used weapons. And I sat back for a minute. I said, that's true. But they used them because they wanted to get to liberty, and they wanted to get to a point where we wouldn't settle our differences like that. Hence the American idea and the American Constitution. And that's what makes us so unique. And that's why your article, I think, is really important, this wonderful political malfeasance of the left, although... I never underestimate the ability for Republicans to snatch defeat from the from the jaws of victory. So let's talk a little bit about this, because this is a really important piece that you've written.
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And before we do, though, I kind of want to address that point is the founding fathers did not take up arms in revolution except as a very, very last resort. That's what the Declaration of Independence actually is. It's a redress to the king saying, here's what we have asked for time and time and time again. We have tried to solve this through political discourse without the need to turn towards killing each other. But you have refused to give us these things that are necessary for governance of our colonies. And so we are going to send you one last time this declaration of independence and give you the ability to to redress any of these poor behaviors to govern us the way that we should so it's a little unfair it's more than unfair to compare protests and mobs to what Washington did because the founding fathers knew that as soon as they signed that document, they were signing up to either win independence or they were signing their death certificates.
SPEAKER 09 :
And so at what point were, were our founding fathers attacking just general citizens, unarmed citizens?
SPEAKER 08 :
They, they knew that they were attacking members of, the British government. Yes. And they knew that it was an act of revolution. And so to your point, It was something that was done with great gravitas and it was not something that was just out of the blue. And that's something also, that's a good point for Republicans to, to remember as well. I know we bandied about the word revolution for a while and perhaps we need to rise up and it's like, no, this is something that needs to be taken as a very, very last resort because it is so strong and heavy. But, um, to your point about snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, it was kind of funny this, and this article is a little bit more lighthearted than, than some because of that. And, and one of the, one of the hilarious things that happened and the way I introduced the article is, uh, we had that government shutdown that was looming earlier this month. And for all intents and purposes, Republicans were going to be the cause of it, right? Uh, we have the house, we have the Senate, we have the president, uh, Of course, we waited till the 11th hour to start pushing a continuing resolution through. Like for all the narrative was about how Republicans have waited till the last minute. And if government shuts down, it's Trump's fault. It's Republicans fault. And then Chuck Schumer did the absolute. It was shocking. Unthinkable political absurdity of snatching. defeat out of the jaws of victory, he stood up there and said, well, we're going to make sure and shut down the government. We're going to filibuster. We're going to make sure if the government shuts down, it's the Democrats' fault. Or the Republicans' fault. Well, no, but he said that the Democrats were going to shut the government down. He said, we are going to use our filibuster to make sure this continued resolution doesn't come through. So... You know, even though he's got to blame, they, of course, tried to blame Republicans. But everybody watching goes, well, you're the one not voting for it. Right. So he he took the government shutdown onto the Democrats. And it was absolutely shocking that, again, when your opponent is making a grave mistake, you don't step in and save them. And. That's what the Democrats did with this continuing resolution. They absolutely stepped all over themselves and took credit for something that was going to be the Republicans' fault anyway. And it's something that Trump has masterfully done in his first term here. He's He's brought up these very large ideas, yet his implementation of them has started out in a brilliant way to put the Democrats between a rock and a hard place. And it's – the first example I brought up was the electrical vehicles, of course. He's brought on Elon Musk as Doge and gone after the federal government with a – with a blunt instrument to absolutely try and break apart these bureaucracies. And the hilarious part, the irony is there's a Democrat senator who, in protest of Elon Musk, ditched his Tesla for a Chevy Tahoe, a gas guzzling SUV. And you just sit there and you look back and you're like, well, I thought we were doing this for the environment. And yet you're advocating getting rid of electric vehicles. I mean, for how long has the push been for electric vehicles, for electric vehicle infrastructure all across the country? How long have the Democrats been pushing that? And yet the number one electric vehicle maker and distributor by far is Tesla. It's kind of interesting. The top two electric vehicles purchased last year were both Teslas. The Cybertruck came in at number five. The only manufacturer that shows up in the top ten twice is Ford at number three and number six behind Tesla. And so it's hilarious watching the... hypocrisy of the left as they tell us that we need to worry about emissions and climate change and yet they'll go out and now are targeting private citizens and their cars which presumably and this is the hilarious part right presumably a lot of owners of teslas probably fall into a more left-leaning Because they've probably bought these electric vehicles because they think that they're doing it to save the environment, to reduce their emissions, to reduce their carbon footprint on the world. And yet now the left is targeting their own. And there's plenty of right-thinking Tesla owners, of course. But when you look at these things happening in California, you have to presume that many of these Tesla owners are on the left themselves. And it's also ironic that it is now... The left that is painting and brandishing swastikas, not the right. I know. Isn't that crazy? It's something that we're truly beginning to see that what Democrats oppose is not what they say. Yes. They say that they oppose emissions. They say that they're for electric vehicles. They say that they want to oppose capitalism and all these things. And it's like, no, actually what they oppose is Trump. Lockstep anything that they can do, they're going to oppose Trump, even if it means it's going to be detrimental to their ideology and what they have pushed policy-wise for decades. Right.
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Absolutely. You know, the second example is actually pretty hilarious, unfortunately, as well. You know, Trump had brought up deporting, you know, illegal citizens all throughout the campaign. He made a huge push about this. And of course, the left kicking and screaming opposed him. But yet again, Trump. just absolutely outflanked them because as soon as he got in office, what was the number one thing he started doing? He didn't start just mass deportations of everybody that ICE could find that's here illegally. He found the gang members, the violent criminals, the violent illegal aliens that are here in our country. Now, Again, to a logical thinker, that makes the most sense, right? You know, regardless of your political belief about how people can get into the country, it's pretty common sense that, hey, if you get here illegally and then you want to start shooting, hitting, harassing people. beating our citizens, if you want to start going into these impoverished neighborhoods as gang members and through force and intimidation participate in the illicit drug trade, that's pretty top of my list of people that I want to say, yeah, let's boot them out. Like, you know, if you're going to put me and my family in danger, you don't deserve to be here in the country. And in aren't here illegally i have a pretty high regard hey maybe we should lock those those people up so trump goes after these violent criminals and what does the democratic leadership do they somehow want to stop these deportations they want them to turn the plane back full of these gang members and criminals and yet again just show them as absolute charlatans uh you know They say they want safety. They say they fight for the impoverished neighborhood. They say they fight for the little guy. But then when you can actually help these communities by getting rid of violent people, they're like, no, just because we oppose Trump and everything he talks about, make sure those people can't leave the country.
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Well, and the other thing on that, down here at the Statehouse, is while they, Democrats, are standing up for criminals and criminals that are here illegally, they're working to, and there's 22 different bills with the word firearms in them, to take away the right of everyday citizens to be able to protect themselves against these bad actors. So they want to bring the bad actors back, and they want to say, no, you can't protect yourself. Cain, I know you might have something to say. Oh.
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Oh, my gosh. So, Alan, charlatans, I love that word. They're liars. They're pathetic frauds. And they have been since the 50s. I was saying on the break that Malcolm X despised these people in the 60s, 50s. He despised them. This is what the Democrats have done. As you said, these these criminals that are here harming how many rapes are enough? Is one rape okay from these people? I think that's too much. That's one too many. But what they did and what they do is they send out, and it started with the House Negroes. Excuse my French, but they send out their House Negroes to push people to violence. And I'm going to say some names. Raphael Warnack, Anna Presley, Eon. Ihan Omar, Cory Booker, Hakeem Jeffries, Al Wolfman Green, Benny Johnson, James Clyburn, and, of course, Maxine Waters.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay.
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James Brown Wigs Waters. What do they do? They send them out. Do you know that 200 Negroes, 200 black people die every single week? at the hands of other black people. These morons never said one word. It's been going on for decades, and these House Negroes have never stood up and says, we need to stop the violence. A lot of these people that are killed are children. I know. Innocent bystanders, innocent men and women. They are dead. And not one black cockeyed has ever stood up and says, we need to do this. However, these criminals that are raping us, killing us, causing property damage, they step up and go, we need to hit the streets and make sure that these people can continue to rape your women. Listen, they're marxicoms. They hate you, Alan, because you're white. They hate Kim because she's a woman. They use people like me, a proud American Negro, as a weapon to destroy this country.
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And you're not going to let that happen anymore. So let's toss this over to Alan.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and it's this identity politics, right? It's something that's deeply ingrained in their ideology to split us into groups as opposed to. And this is really part of the malfeasance that they've been drawn into is. We're seeing now that they cannot stand on principle. We see that while they say that they want to be here to defend the environment, actually, as soon as they can protest Trump or Elon Musk by association, they're going to get rid of their electric vehicles. They're going to buy these gas guzzling cars as soon as they have the opportunity to say that they want to stand up for impoverished neighborhoods and actually stand up. for their own constituents in their own communities and say, hey, yeah, you know what? Violent gangs, bad idea. Let's get the bad actors out of the community. Instead, what they're going to say is, hey, you need to turn a flight around and bring them back. And then, you know, it's also funny because we're showing that the things that they care about most are money and power. And Elon Musk exposed this brilliantly today. through his investigations into USAID. And this was, again, another just brilliant way of Trump outflanking them and knowing that they would respond to the first battle, not necessarily to the best one, right? They could have easily said, you know what, violent gang members, we want to save that deportation battle for another day, for maybe a sob story.
SPEAKER 15 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 08 :
When we get the mother or the child that Trump is sending back, I mean, not one U.S. citizen is sobbing over a violent gang member, a gangbanger going back to Venezuela. Not one of us is. And it's funny because when you're in a tough economy, the number one place that Americans say we need to cut first is foreign aid. It makes sense. Again, you know, it's like when our economy is tough, what's the number one thing we want our taxpayer dollars going towards? Not other governments, not towards transgender operas in Colombia, not towards DEI in Serbia. And Elon Musk came in and said, here's what's happening in USAID. And The Democratic leadership just has absolutely gone to war to defend all of this money being spent fraudulently and wastefully in the USAID. And so it's nice that we can we can sit back, allow the left to just get outflanked by Trump and show and illustrate how terrible this Democratic leadership truly is.
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And they're supporting an agenda that will take my money and tell me to my face, I'm going to use it to destroy you.
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And that's one of the things that's, gentlemen, we are out of time in hour number one. We're going to come back in hour number two. Our quote for the end of the show is from Thucydides. And he said this, the secret to happiness is freedom and the secret to freedom is courage. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals and like Superman, stand for truth, justice and the American way. My friends, you're not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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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're each treasure, you're valued, you have purpose. Today's drive 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 we were placed in Colorado, which is at the tip of the spear. because this is where the battle is and lots of exciting things that are going on and we're going to talk about some of that let's get right into it though first of all hooters restaurants had lunch over there with kurt gerwich yesterday great fish and chips they have great specials monday through friday for lunch and for happy hour a great place to get together to watch the the games and i know alan thomas that you are a basketball fan how is your bracket
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I have Duke going all the way, so it's still looking pretty good. But that was a good game last night. And then, of course, I was up way too late before you have to get up for a 6 o'clock radio show watching Texas Tech come back 16 down to win it in overtime. Really? So that was a good late game for us last night. But another fun, you know, it's so fun watching these. I mean, you truly have to remember that they're, 18, 19, 20 years old competing at a stage like this and the joy of victory, the heartache of defeat, and just the stories that you hear about these young kids and what they've gone through to get to where they are. It's a fun tournament. It's the best sporting event, in my opinion. Duke is a pretty easy pick, though, right? Yeah. I mean, they've been my favorite since I was little. You know, Coach K and J.J. Redick and all of those good ones. So I've always been a Duke basketball fan. And Cooper Flagg actually should still be in high school. He reclassified in order to play up this year. And he's the best player in the country. And they are a pretty easy pick for winning the whole thing. And they look good last night.
SPEAKER 13 :
OK. Well, and I realize you should not pick your bracket on emotion because I had KU and Houston in the finals. And I know that KU had a terrible record, but I thought maybe they'll rally. And so don't do it, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't really follow a lot of sports, but I do want to say something about Hooters. Renee and I went to Hooters back maybe two or three weeks ago.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, up in northern Colorado.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, in Loveland, I believe. They have a fish taco that is out of this world, and it's massive. And so I got the fish taco. You get three with the order, and then I also got the fish and chips. I've been looking for a good fish and chip place since we got here seven years ago. It is 100% delicious. The service is amazing. Charlie, who was a young lady who helped us, their service is absolutely. I mean, I'm a former restaurateur. I've owned a couple of restaurants. Their service is outstanding. Initially, Hooters, you might feel like, well, that's not a family restaurant. It is. Take your wife, take your kids, and go have some great food.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and the story, I think both of you know it, how I got to know them was when I was on city council. And what had happened was is one of the things that we were supposed to do was to approve liquor licenses. And I think that's a whole other question. And I can't even tell you, having these restaurateurs that come in and ask for their liquor license and to see them being dressed down by city council people and the mayor, saying that we're going to come in and we're going to do sting operations and see if you serve somebody under the age of 18. And I'm thinking, wait a minute. I never really liked all that. But anyway, so Hooters Restaurants is going to – they were taking over a property that had been at TGI Fridays that had gone out of business, so there had been a liquor license there. It was a no-brainer. It was zoned for a restaurant. No-brainer. And it was primarily women on the left. Now, I have a friend who's become a friend and a very faithful Catholic, and she was concerned about the uniforms. But take a look at any of the professional cheerleaders or your high school volleyball team.
SPEAKER 09 :
In fact, Renee and I were talking about that when we were eating. I go, there's no difference in that uniform than what girls wear on the volleyball court. Yeah. Zero difference. I know. And again, their service is just immaculate.
SPEAKER 13 :
But I think, Kane, as I looked back at this, I really felt that this, now as I look back, it was early on assaulting women... Being women. Yes, ma'am. I think that was it. So anyway.
SPEAKER 09 :
All of this has been going on for decades and decades. I think I may have told you in a previous episode that I looked through a yearbook from junior high school. And in the yearbook, it had a black African-American club or something like that. There was no other clubs. And there was only black people in here. This was when I was in eighth grade. This has been happening to us forever, and it's high time we stopped taking it. And just our strongest weapon, Alan, is our voices. You speak loud and often. Tell the truth.
SPEAKER 13 :
So going back to the story, and I've told it a few times on the air, but I'm sitting there, and again, it was standing room only. The mayor apparently had already kind of— said this makes sense so they'd started construction you know in private enterprise time is money and but all of a sudden the mayor who had an r behind his name but did all kinds of radical left stuff because you had to be an r at that time in douglas county to get elected um And it's standing room only, and it's primarily women on the left that say, we don't want this here. And I'm looking at it, and I'm thinking, if you don't want it here, you just don't go there. You don't go there, right? And they can compete in the market if people... don't go there, they'll go out of business. If people do go there, they'll stay in business. And if you don't want to go there, you don't have to. But they wanted to use government to say, you can't come in here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, and that's been the agenda of the left, is I don't like it, and so that means you're not going to like it. And so we're going to control everything, which is taking away from our freedoms and our liberties. At every level, on every platform, everything they do, they attack us and our liberties.
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So I make the motion to approve the liquor license. I look to the mayor and my other colleagues to second the motion. Again, standing room only. All these people have come in and accused them of all kinds of stuff. They have accused them of the stuff that these gang leaders or gang members have been doing that we're deporting. But anyway. Yes. And there was no second. And I said, I would like to address what's going on here. And the mayor would not let me speak and said, OK, at council comments. So I waited till council comments and I started. I said, this is about freedom. And he shut me down and would not let me speak. So at that point in time, the meeting adjourns, and the city councilwoman to the next to me said, Kim, I want to talk with you about this. I said, we'll talk, but not right now. I was so mad about it. I said, this is about freedom. And she says to me, oh, you think you're the queen of freedom. So at that point, the police chief comes up and says, would you like me to walk you to your car? And I said, absolutely not. I can walk to my car just by myself. I was so frustrated. We went home. We issued a press release. And social media blew up because this was a foundational question. And people on the right and people on the left and libertarians, everybody said, what is the proper role of government? Is this the proper rule of government that we can decide that legitimate businesses cannot be in business? And fast forward this, Cain. This was before COVID. This was 2015. A neighbor of mine called, and she said, Kim, as a Christian, how can you be standing up for Hooters? And I said... Let's have coffee. And I explained to her, I said, when government starts to say which businesses are OK and which aren't, we're going down a very dangerous road. What if what if government says they don't like the doctrine of this church over here and they won't let you have that church? Right. And then you fast forward it to COVID and you've got government saying that there are some people that are essential and there are some not. And that's why it was such an important stand.
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Yes, it's freedom.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's freedom. So, Alan, I'll go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I was just going to say one of the one of the more beautiful lines in the very first Federalist paper actually addresses this. And it's a it's a lesson that can be applied to politics, to religion when they say persecute or heresy is rarely persecuted. Not even rarely. Heresy is not cured through persecution. And you have to sit back and you have to say, OK, if I oppose Hooters, is the best way to oppose them through persecution? Or is it through getting to know people, influencing them and changing their hearts and their minds? And that's the point. that the first Federalist paper makes is, hey, you don't want to use the fire and the sword to change people's mind because you're not actually changing their mind. You're intimidating them. You're using the threat of power and force to force their actions. You're not actually changing how they feel, how they think about things. In fact, a lot of times you reinforce their belief. Because they sit back and they say, if you have to use threat and intimidation and power to change my mind, I must be thinking the right thing.
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Well, and you can see that through Tesla and all that. So just to button up the story, and then we'll do our word of the day and all that when we come back. But the city attorney pulled us in a few days later and said, you guys don't have a leg to stand on. Right. And that from the Supreme Court, there is a decision that you can't do this. And so two weeks later, another city council meeting, standing room only, and we know that we must approve this liquor license. And so, again, the whole presentation, everything happens, and the mayor calls for a motion to approve, and they all look to me. to make the motion, but I know that they have to. So I just went, do, do, do, do, do, do. And so somebody else had to make the motion. They looked for a second. They all looked to me. I went, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. And so they seconded it. So it was approved unanimously. So then fast forward. A few months later, and the head of the Colorado Restaurant Association called and she said, Kim, Brian and Tom would like you to be the guest of honor and cut the ribbon. For the new Hooters restaurant. Wow. And I said, well, okay. And so I have this picture of me with the beautiful Hooters girls cutting the ribbon with the owners. And I actually presented the story when I received the Leadership Program of the Rockies 2016 Leader in Action Award. And I said, I'd like at the end of this to put that up on the screen. I said, this is what freedom looks like. Yes. And Tommy Lahren actually talked about it on our national show. So anyway, I get off the city council. I wait. We now are friends regarding.
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And if people have, if you have an issue or concern with the uniforms, pretend that they're cheerleaders. How about that? Because I've seen some cheerleading uniforms that make hooters look like choir girls.
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Okay.
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And so, but here's the thing. The left, conservatives fight for freedom and liberty for everyone. Yes. Mostly for the left because they're not capable or even understand really what's happening to them and our country. So when we fight, even though we have disagreements with them, we have our team. We are all on, you know, 51% of the country is all independent. For freedoms and liberty and the Constitution. And if we don't defend it for them. Right. If we don't defend it for them, we won't have a country. We won't have a Constitution. We won't have it.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You shouldn't have to force people to do it. Alan Thomas, our word of the day goes to your essay, malfeasance. It could be the misconduct. Oh, I have to spell it for Eric. M-A-L-F-E-A-S-A-N-C-E. It could be misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official. Should we just put some names next to that as a definition?
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We've seen a lot of malfeasance from some political leaders on the left, shall we say. Yes, we have. And from... Doge has exposed a lot of malfeasance as well. You see a lot of these bureaucrats using their positions of power to use the taxpayer's dime as a credit card. And it's absolute malfeasance.
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Okay, so the next thing I want to ask you is the doing of an act which a person ought not to do, evil conduct, an illegal deed. I think it's downright malfeasance, NPR. Did you see the head of NPR in the hearings? Was it yesterday? Boy, that was – and somebody sent this. Now, I've not sourced this, but they said that she's either on the board or CEO of Signal, right? which just happened to have that signal chat. I need to source that to make sure. So don't quote me on that out there yet. I try not to do that. But anyway, I found that was super interesting. And speaking of taxpayer time, you know what? I buy my airtime. I pay for it. I tell you what, a few million dollars would go a long way for the Kim Monson show if you took it from everybody and then gave it to me so that I could be on the air. That's what's happening with NPR, Alan Thomas.
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Well, and I thought the one question of, hey, your whole editorial board is 87 Democrats and no Republicans. And You know, of course, this is what they do is when they're in power, there's no hearings about there's no question. And when they're not, it's it's deflect, deflect, deflect. Right. Oh, well, we don't ask what political affiliation they are. And it's like, OK, well, if you're a news network and you have this absolute echo chamber of an editorial board. Maybe something's wrong. It doesn't take looking at the personal registration of all 87 to realize, hey, nobody is advocating a single Republican idea. You know, nobody wants to pitch a Republican story for NPR at all. It's like, OK. You may not have asked their political affiliation, but you knew exactly what you were doing. They're frauds. You knew that you were. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, no. Yeah, you knew that.
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I'm trying to be disciplined, Alan. They are frauds and they're criminals. Why are they taking our money? And again, it goes back to what the strategy is from the Marxicoms. I'm going to take your money. We're going to use it. to destroy you at every single level. And it's high time that we wake up as conservatives, no, as Americans, and understand. If they're doing this to Democrats, guess what they're doing to the left?
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So with Doge, I think everyday people are going, wait a minute. And of course, when you start to get comedians involved... in politics, you know that's when you're winning. So apparently there was a meme out there that said, why are we giving other countries money to hate us? They should be able to hate us for free. NPR, why should we be giving them money? And This is another thing that NPR used to have this reputation of academics, that I listen to NPR, so I am very smart. But quite frankly, it was what we've seen in indoctrination, and they're using taxpayer money to do it. Cut the money off. Speaking of the Colorado budget, I don't know if we said it on the air or in between, but... One of the things that Trump needs to do, Doge and all, is cut the money off. So we're going to see doubling down at the school board, the local, the county, the state, and the national level. And how do we stop it? We cut the grant money off. And I know we're going to talk about that, right?
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Hang on to your hat because these folks at these school boards, these school districts are not going to get the money. And the very next thing they're going to do, because they think we're dumb, they're going to raise our taxes. Those mill levy tax deals that they run.
SPEAKER 13 :
Mill levy overrides.
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Overrides. They're 100%, which is why they're not worried. We went to Thompson School Board the other day over some silliness with my good friend Nancy Rumfeldt. They are not worried because they know they think we're dumb. They think the citizens will just continue to pay so they can push their CRT, the DEI, the transgender stuff, the grooming that they're doing of kids. So let's talk. Let me say this. Say no. Am I yelling? Say no.
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Renee, he's yelling. Say no. So with that, we had Nancy Rumfelt on the show earlier this week, a Thompson School Board member who wore a T-shirt that said Real Women Rock. Her other school board members in Thompson School District wanted to have a conversation about her regarding her ethics in wearing such a shirt. We had her on the morning of this school board meeting. You were there?
SPEAKER 09 :
I actually came home from work, shot over there. I signed up to speak. I was the over 100 people that were in front of me. So I stayed for a little bit, and I went home and watched it on television.
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Okay.
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So it's insane. What they're saying about her is 100 percent lies. She is concerned about every single child in that school district, regardless of their race, creed, color, gender preference. She's concerned about them. She's just simply saying, I have a First Amendment right to say real women rock, just as the transgenders have a First Amendment right to be a man and walk around wearing a dress and lipstick.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, they can do that, but they can't come in. My understanding is in Thompson School District that there are boys with all the parts that can be in the girls' locker rooms. Is that true?
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That is 100% true, and they can play on the same team. And so the issue was a First Amendment right for Nancy, but also these girls are getting hurt. Now, what was surprising is the numbers of teachers in the school districts. that support males playing on girls' teams. That some of them had arguments like, well, that's not true. These women are just as strong as men. And so my challenge to the one lady who worked in the school district, I want to get in the ring with you and show you how this works. Just to be a police officer, we had very slight women.
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I'm thinking maybe a guy might not want to get in the ring with you, Cain.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I'll put on a dress.
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You know, it's Trump's address to Congress. It was funny. I was hosting the show right after that. And one of the takeaways, one of the more fascinating takeaways was all of the transgender issues, the voting public is backing Trump on. I mean, a majority of Maine voters are backing Trump's proposal about Title IX and actually opposing their own Democrat governor who's opposing Trump over this transgender issue. And And the thing that was most interesting about that, they had those placards. Right. Did you see those where they hold up false? And it was so funny because for most everything that he said, they held up their little false placards. But when he said when he addressed it directly and said men are men, women are women, you can't change. It was fascinating because it panned out and not everyone held up their little false placards. It was very fascinating that most of the Democrats didn't hold up that false placard because they know it's now a losing issue for the voters.
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So they didn't want to be photographed.
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They didn't want to be seen with their voters saying, hey, we believe in this transgender issue. And so while we may have a lot of very vocal voices at school board meetings advocating for this lunacy... It's very interesting because most voters agree this issue is ridiculous. It's been fabricated by the left. Everybody knows the truth. I mean, there's there's truth. It's written on all of our hearts. And we know that men are men, women are women, and that it is something mental if you think that you have to be the other. And so it's a losing issue for the left. But it is important to know that it's a losing issue and that while you have a lot of loud voices yelling at school board meetings, That's not the majority of people. The majority of people. know what the truth is. It's just we need that strength and courage to stand up and call it out and say, hey, you're not representing a majority of people.
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So we have to understand where this started. It was the left that hijacked the gay and lesbian community, just like they hijacked the Negro community. They needed the new victim. All victims get holidays. We got... Black History Month? Black History Month, February.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wait, why is it Black History Month and not African American?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, because we're not African American. We're Negroes. We shouldn't have a month. Yeah, okay. We shouldn't have a month. We shouldn't have a day. Who else has a month? The gays and lesbians, or the LGBTQ group. And so what happened is they needed to have the victims. What did they do with the Negro population? We became the most violent people on the planet. Violent from the 60s on. They removed the dads. We become violent. We kill each other. We kill everybody. What is the LGBT group doing today? They are some of the most violent people on the planet. The last three mass shootings have been LGBTQ person. going in and shooting up kids. A lot of them are on these protests. A lot of them are doing the damage to the Teslas. The lady that attacked one of our marchers, I'm sure she... Well, let's talk about that when we come back.
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I've got Alan Thomas in studio and his piece, The Wonderful... Political malfeasance of the left will roll out this weekend in the newsletter, so be sure and be signed up for that. And so Alan Thomas is in studio, a great guest host on a regular basis now on the show. Thank you. And thank you to Keyland as well, because it takes everybody to make all this happen. And Kane, who is the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado. We have these important discussions because of our sponsors. And for everything residential real estate, reach out to Karen Levine and have her on your side of the table.
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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. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Monson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and 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. A couple of things I wanted to mention. First of all, Drew Dix, our Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values, I'd recommend that you have that at home in your Freedom Library. And you can get that by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. And, of course, the center is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. But Drew Dix said this. Again, 56-hour battle. Vietnam War, and he says this, nothing is ever as bad as you think it might be. We've got big challenges here in America, and in studio is Alan Thomas, an author here at the Kim Monson Show, guest host, and his essay will roll out as the wonderful Political Malfeasance of the Left, and Kane, who is the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado. I was having a conversation just recently, and I said that There is nature's law, and in the Declaration, Alan, the founders refer to God four different times, but in different ways. The divine provider, nature's God. And nature's God, and we talk about nature's law on a regular basis. Nature's law, male, female. And this friend of mine said, but Kim, there are... people that men that are born with vaginas i don't know if i can say that on the air but i just did and um and vice versa i said that's an outlier i i said throughout the animal and plant world it's male and female um alan would what would you say to that to
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Well, and it's interesting because when they say nature's God, it's actually hearkening back to Socrates. It's a throwback to the ancient Greeks and how they were able to use logic and thought to arrive at some of these ideas. And that's the beauty of our world. of our founding document is you don't even have to be a Christian to understand the logic of how you arrive at a nature's God. And part of the difficulty that we have is male, female, man, woman. These are such Yeah. And to have the very root of our language even attacked this way, it's difficult because it's like, okay, yes. Well, if I say a deer, if I say there was a deer in the road, you don't have to ask whether it had two heads or not, you know, but there are deer, you know, especially around Chernobyl that, that. grew two heads it's like okay there there may be outliers they may be maybe faint exemptions to the rule but for the most part this rule holds true 99.99 of the time and there is a male there is a female and it's funny you know at the break Producer Joe talked about the scientific method. It's like this is something that's written in our very DNA. I mean, this is something that's so unavoidable that when you do a DNA test of an individual, you can tell whether they're male or female. With both of my kids, we wanted to do the testing to know whether we were going to have boys or girls. It's something that you can test for. Even before you've been born and breathed your first breath of air, we know whether you're male or female. it's such an interesting discussion because it's like, we don't have to defend our position. You know, truth does not have to be coerced. And that's the difficulty of what we're facing is it's like, we're being coerced into thinking that male and female is something that's even debatable. It's not.
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Well, it is become a big debate. And Cain, what would you say to people that say regarding a site outliers, even under the second amendment, people cite out outliers. And so what do you say to that? It's,
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It's insane to me that we're having this conversation trying to determine male and female. The issue is you cannot make me call you, sir, a woman. I'm sorry. I'm never going to do it. And so they're trying to—the reason why all this stuff is taking place in our schools is they're changing the culture. I did a speech down in Parker last year, and I asked the group. I said, hey, at some point, it's going to be accepted, right? that there are women that have penises, okay? And then there are women that don't, that have the female part. They're changing the culture. So I say to one guy in the audience, what kind of wife, what kind of woman do you have? Does she have the penis or a vagina? Can I say that word? They are changing the culture. They're making it acceptable that we're going to accept this whole third or not even a third. They're going to we're going to accept the fact that a woman is no longer a woman.
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Okay. Using these words on the radio, just drilling right down to it, I'm thinking at least where I grew up, we wouldn't say those words in mixed company, if you will. But our children are being taught this, and that's why we have to understand it. Because our kids are being taught this every day. And the other thing is the focus on those words, it makes individuals focus on the carnal stuff instead of the big idea stuff as well. Yeah.
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The big idea stuff is their controlliness. They're harmed. This is damaging children every single day. This is grooming children. There's no way that a second grader should know about transgender anything. That shouldn't even be in the lexicon at all. Maybe not even until high school. But they are. These kids are changing our culture. I said it during the break. If you look at the black culture, they changed the black culture. Prior to the 60s, we were not violent anymore. The crime rates were basically the same as everyone else. They changed the culture.
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But what LBJ did, he said to, at the time, black women, but then it went to all women, hey, government will take care of you and your children as long as you do not have a man in the house. And I've got an anecdotal for you on that, and that is... A woman that I know had been a social worker back in, let's say, the 70s and was doing a house check. First of all, do you really want the government coming in and doing a house check? But if you're taking government money... Yeah, you have. Absolutely. So anyway, the social worker who leaned to the left, pretty self-righteous about it, gets into the house and she's doing her look around the house and she sees a man's feet underneath the bed. Well, it's the dad. And she told him to get out of there.
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Mm hmm.
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That's what happened.
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It was done on purpose. It was done on purpose. If you remove the lion, the jackals will play. And so they've removed the lion from the black culture, and look at what has happened to us. They've removed the lion from the families because men should be, the majority of people at that meeting on Thursday were women. There were a few men that spoke, but most of them were women.
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Well, because the other ones went home and watched it on TV. Some of them.
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You got me. Some of them. No, the men should be stepping up and going, Miss Jones, you ever talk to my son about transgender anything, I'm going to have a problem with you. Not the school board. Not the school district. I'm going to have a personal problem with you, sir, or you, ma'am, for grooming my kid. I told a story to another school district. My cousin, her name is Kim. Kim was being groomed when she was like nine years old. I would think I was 11, 12. And she used to talk about, hey. That long ago? So-and-so, so-and-so is showing me these books. And I'm like, what? And it was like Playboy and Hustler. And she was telling adults, this is happening to me. She got groomed, and then she was molested. Multiple times. By that person? By that person. Oh. So my cousin Kim became... When you expose children to that kind of material, they become hypersexual at a very young age. This is not coming from just a regular guy. I've heard professionals talk about these things. They become hypersexual at a very young age. Kim became a prostitute.
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Yes, Kim died 10 years ago. She's 55 years old. She was a prostitute the entire time. So when you look, I think one of the reasons why I'm so passionate about these books and what they're doing with the grooming thing These kids can't handle it. They're going to be making really, really bad choices, and they're going to be okay with it because the schools are grooming them.
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My father, who passed on a little over a year ago, had always said to me, he said, be careful about what you watch, be careful about what you read, be careful about what you listen to, because particularly when what you see, when those images are... put into your mind. It's imprinting. It's imprinting. So we have, that's why the work you're doing at Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado is so important. We're going to go to break. We have these important discussions because of our sponsors. If you've been injured, reach out to John Bozen with Bozen Law.
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Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That's KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and 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. Thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It's reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And for a great golfing event in mid-May, check out the USMC Memorial Foundation for their second annual golf tournament out at the Ridge Golf Course. There's a limited number of golfers there, so make your reservation early. You can do that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Kane, it's great to have you in studio. You care deeply about golf. about our children. Right now, there's a big battle going on in Elizabeth, Albert County, that the ACLU is demanding. that these pornographic books be put back into the schools. And, again, they know what they're doing. They know what they're doing is if they can get these kids to look at this stuff, they know that they are imprinting that for a lifetime. Alan Thomas, you're a dad, and you're active in this. What's your thoughts on this?
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Well, especially when it comes to books, there's a big difference between curating a book collection for kids, highly influenceable kids, and something being available on the open marketplace. And, you know, it's funny, you see all these school board meetings, these parents coming out and reading a book. And I guess my thoughts on this is if there's a book that's even questionable, if the board member is unable to read the book from the, From the stand, then it should not be in the school. I mean, there's we've known this for centuries. Again, this kind of comes back to the foundational issue that we're trying to fight in this ideological battle. Is this is there absolute truth and can it be known? Or are we going to accept the progressive premise of truth is relative? And that's the difficulty in having these types of conversations is you're coming at it and you're having these arguments with people that think truth is relative. There's my truth. There's your truth. There's. their truth. There's Z Zem Zer truth, right? And, and it's a difficult battle to fight because you're both coming at this from a completely different premise. And the premise is I'm saying that truth is absolute. It is knowable that you cannot change the fabric of reality by saying words and that, and they're coming at it from a completely opposite premise. And that's why it, When we go to how do you have these sorts of discussions, it's like you almost have to say, you know what, we can't even have a discussion about what is male or female until we have a discussion on truth, on is truth knowable and can we discover it? Because until you have that premise discussion, you're both going to be just fighting in absolute circles.
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Well, and I'm checking the text line here. First of all, Susan says, I love the yelling. People should be yelling. Okay. But we're in Lent right now. And I heard a sermon one time regarding Pilate, and he's having this interaction with Christ. And there's the words, he says, what is truth, right? Right. And the pastor said, you could have that question with different inflection. So was Pilate being maybe more of a relativism and says, what is truth? Or was he asking the question, what is truth? And I thought that is so interesting to have that different inflection on that, Alan.
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It is. And you can get different points from different points of view because then Jesus throughout his ministry said, I am the truth. Right. And it's so fascinating as I've been kind of looking into Socrates. This was something that even Socrates was able to, as a non-participant in Judaism or Christianity, was able to logically arrive at the fact that there is a nature's God, that there is a God over nature, that there is this prime mover, that this is unassailable. And yet, if you were to have that discussion with anybody and say that you can logically arrive to the fact that there had to be an initial mover to the universe, that something had to put the universe into motion, because all of our... All of our thermodynamic laws all say everything goes to entropy, that nothing goes towards order. Everything goes more towards chaos and breaking things down than building them up. And you can logically sit here and say there had to be an original prime mover. You know, even if you don't believe in my Bible, we can come to that, that eventual end point. And we can say, hey, if we could come to that end point, then we need to have an end point with truth, too.
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Right. And our God is a God of order. So, okay, Cain, and then we've got Gabby on the line, too.
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Just to backtrack really, really quick. Elizabeth is going to lose. They're going to have to put those books back into the schools. There was case law from 1985, Tattered Cover versus Tooley. where the Supreme Court here said they have a First Amendment right to have those books in the school. It didn't say you had to give them to the kids. It said it had to be in the schools. Elizabeth has a protection where a parent has to approve any pornographic book or any adult content book for their child. So that's something they can sign up for in the very beginning. And if a child checks out a book that's questionable, they have to notify the parent before they issue that book to that child. So the books have the right to be in these schools. Insane, but they have the right. It's a First Amendment right. The other thing is that it's a violation of federal law. So I say, I know what the truth is. I say, you belong in prison if you're giving kids pornography. Federal law, section title 18, United States Code, section 1466A. Look it up. You can do 20 years in prison for giving a child an illustration of a man naked with a child naked. There are – it's one of the pictures in a book called Gender Queer. They're all throughout Colorado. I know.
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You've sent that over, and I can't get that image out of my mind.
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It's insane. And so these are criminal – this criminal behavior by our school district, which is why I say take your children out of the government schools. They are not safe. If you cannot, you have to stand up and protect your kids. You have to scream. You have to yell. You have to say, excuse me, sir, if you give my daughter that book, I'm going to have a personal problem with you.
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Okay, let's get over here. Gammy, let's make it a minute, okay?
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Well, I'm just calling in to say a few things. I wrote on the 003 gun bill again this morning. That was my fifth submission. And I hope that you all will read it because I pretty much told them to go home and get on their knees for the crimes they've committed. But there's a whole lot in there. But that's not why I called. I called because Kane's on there. And, Kane, I'm going to defer with you on one little point. I don't care whether you got a kid in that school or not, whether you pulled yours out or not. Your children will have to deal with the majority of children in that school, which is why every single parent needs to look at the real laws and violations of rights. You can put all the smut in the public library, but in the school library, there should be a firewall of protection. And in a workplace, People would be sued, fired, and personally sued for one millionth of what they are doing to our children. But you need to know this is coming from way up high. Excellent point. Because billions of dollars are involved, and they will not stop until you remove the funding for CELL, CRT, DEI, and show parents that we're not intolerant. We don't blame the trans children. We blame the sick criminals.
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Okay. Thank you, Tammy. She's absolutely... So we've got about a minute. We've got two minutes left. Kane, I'm going to go to you first.
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I just want to acknowledge our team. First of all, we're at TaskForceFreedomNoCo.com. You can go on and take a look at all the pornographic books, all the stuff that we've been doing the last four years. I know it's insane, but also we have amazing team members. Thank you, Mama and Papa. They know who I'm talking about. And I want to promote Devastated, which is a A documentary that was put together by my good friend Stephan Tubbs about the fentanyl crisis here in Colorado. It's not political. It's just telling stories about what has happened here in Colorado. I will make it political. After you watch it, you have to ask yourself, why did our government allow this to happen? Why did they allow people to come in and harm us?
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One more time, that website?
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TaskForceFreedomNoCo.com.
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Alan Thomas, you've got a minute. I always appreciate you being in studio.
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Well, and it's always great being here, Kim. I got a funny anecdotal story, though. I went to a private Christian school some for middle school and part of high school. And it was funny because around then, Harry Potter came out. And the idea that parents had to give their kids permission to check books out wasn't even in question then. We had to get parental permission to check out Harry Potter from a Christian school because it had wizards and magic, right? But this, you know, parents... have the right and the responsibility of educating their kids. And that's something we all need to remember and we all need to realize and put at the forefront when we have these discussions.
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And can I say this real quick? It's called best practices. Every single school has to exercise it. If your child sees a movie that's greater than a G, they have to get permission from the parent. Okay. But they can give them porn.
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Okay. And on that, our quote for the end of the show is from Thucydides. He said, the secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage. 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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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and 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, my friends, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. I am very pleased to have on the line with me two women, one of them I know very well, and that is Lori Gimmelstein. She is the co-founder of the Colorado Parents Advocacy Network, doing amazing work for children and families and parents. And Lori Gimmelstein, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. Thanks so much for the opportunity to join you this morning. Well, most definitely. And then also a mom, Cindy Stein. We're going to hear her story. And Cindy, welcome to the show. Thank you very much. I appreciate you having me. Yes, and a very important story. But Lori, before we get into this, we need to let people know about Colorado Parents Advocacy Network and also this summit that is just right around the corner.
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Thank you. Yes. So for your listeners, on April 6th, we have a very important summit, as you said, coming to Colorado at the Inverness Hilton in Englewood, Colorado. It's the Rocky Mountain Summit on Safeguarding Children from Gender Affirming Treatment. And we are absolutely thrilled. This is the first event in Colorado that has been approved to give physicians continuing medical education, professional development opportunities. And so physicians that are tuning in this morning, please go online this morning, coloradoparents.org and get your tickets to get CME so that you can hear from the experts. We are bringing in the top Of the top people, we have Dr. Miriam Grossman. She is a renowned child psychiatrist, best-selling author of a book called Lost and Transnation. And we have President Trump's deputy counsel, Candace Jackson, joining us. She is deputy counsel with the U.S. Department of Education, civil rights attorney, brilliant. We have Dr. Lior Sapir with the Manhattan Institute. He's a data analyst. And we also have for the first time, Dr. Michelle Stanford. She's a Colorado pediatrician. She'll be speaking in Colorado. She's going to be talking about the harms of gender affirming treatment on minor children. And then that panel is going to be moderated by my very good friend, Dr. Travis Morrell with Colorado Principled Physicians. And then I'll be moderating a panel that is bringing in families. So we have Erin and Chloe Lee. I know your listeners are familiar with Erin's story. And this is the first time her daughter, Chloe, who's now 16, will be speaking out about what happened to her publicly. And then we're also flying in Florida parent January Littlejohn, who many of you remember from President Trump's State of the Union address. She is the mom who he honored. She stood up. She's has beautiful blonde hair, the long hair when she stood up in the beautiful blue dress. She's coming to talk about what happened to her family and how her daughter's school transitioned her behind her family's back. And then we also have pediatric gender clinic whistleblower Jamie Reed on the panel. It's going to be an event nobody wants to miss, April 6th, Inverness Hilton. Get your tickets today, coloradoparents.org.
SPEAKER 06 :
So great work on that, Lori Gimmelstein. And Lori, you reached out to me and you said that there is a story. It was published first at the Daily Wire, but you wanted us to be the first locally to talk about this story. So thank you. And it's the story of Cindy Stein. And Cindy, welcome to the show. So Lori, set this up a little bit. And then Cindy, we want to get over here and hear about this journey that you're on. Sure.
SPEAKER 05 :
Yeah, absolutely. So we have at the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network an incident reporting tool. It's the heart of our advocacy. We help families, help parents, students, teachers when issues arise so that we can help them get the support they need to be successful. And Cindy reached out to us in November. I'm going to let her speak to the story, but just kind of in summary, her daughter was really befriended by a math teacher named Joanne Smotherman at Durango High School when she was a junior. And her daughter has some comorbidities that make her very vulnerable. She's diagnosed with autism, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. And Cindy had been diagnosed last year with cancer and was going through some very aggressive medical treatments. And during that time, Joanne Smotherman befriended her daughter. And at first, I think that there was some gratitude that she had somebody at school to help her. But it has really turned into a nightmare for Cindy and her family. Joanne Smotherman has basically coerced and convinced Cindy's daughter that she is actually a boy. And now her daughter ran away and moved in with Joanne and her transgender husband, Kevin Smotherman, who goes as Vivian Smotherman. And the police, CPS, school district, everyone has failed Cindy. And Cindy's daughter is, the police were unwilling to take Cindy's daughter out of the Smotherman's home at the age of 17. And the body cam footage of the police on scene is available on our X account at CPN Colorado as our handle. People can go on X and just search Colorado Parent Advocacy Network to follow us and to see that body cam footage. But it's so alarming how the system has failed this mom. She has full custodial rights. It was against her will that she be staying with these people. And It's so alarming what's happening in Colorado. So Cynthia is here this morning. It's the first time she's ever been on radio. And I'm just so grateful, Kim, for your support and bringing her on to have this story heard.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, Cindy, thank you for sharing your story because I think most people think this could not happen to me. This is not happening in my school district. This was in Durango. As Laurie Gimmelstein mentioned, Erin Lee was up in Little Wellington. And this whole transgender indoctrination of our children, it's really everywhere. And I really think that these transgender activists target... vulnerable children and I remember when I was in junior high and high school my mom and I were not getting along that well and so for an activist to come in and insert themselves into that because that happens a lot Cindy you're not alone on that but what happened with this is is tragic and here you are going through your own health challenge and then this happens so walk us through this journey Okay. Yeah. Thank you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Again, speak to some of what Lori said. Yes, I was dealing with cancer and treatment. And I really wanted to protect my children from how hard that was for me because it was aggressive. It was aggressive treatment. And I think it was the catalyst for my daughter. And I just wasn't able to help her deal with the idea that mom might not be okay. And I think, again, Joanne Smotherman stepped in, whether it's malicious in the beginning or not, and kind of took her under her wing. Initially, I thought all of the time that Jocelyn was spending with this teacher was innocent. And then I noticed in her junior year that she really started to pull away from the family. And like you said, I never, ever would have thought that in small-town Durango that we could have these kinds of problems.
SPEAKER 06 :
So when did your daughter meet Joanne Smotherman before this? Has this been a progression to get to this point, or did it start in her junior year? What about that, Cindy?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, she actually met her her sophomore year. at Durango High School. And the funny thing is, her sophomore year, she couldn't stand this woman. She was a very openly gay lesbian teacher who had pride flags in her classroom, who spoke openly about her alternative lifestyle. And yeah, Jocelyn did not like her the first year that she had her as a teacher.
SPEAKER 06 :
What is the subject that Joanne Smotherman is ostensibly supposed to be teaching at Durango High School?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I have to mention she's no longer at Durango High School. Her teaching contract was apparently not renewed, but she is a math teacher, and she is currently at the Durango Adult Education Center, which is a nonprofit and does not play by the state of Colorado's rules.
SPEAKER 23 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 03 :
She's tutoring children and teaching outside of the school district.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, so parents beware on that one. So you are going through your own health challenges, and I have a friend that's going through aggressive treatment for cancer right now. I know what that looks like. Just keeping it together is pretty difficult. So you have your kiddos there. Your daughter is vulnerable. That's all I can say about it. So then what happens, Cindy Stein?
SPEAKER 03 :
So through her junior year, she's starting to pull away from the family, and she's starting to want to dress in men's clothes. At first, it started with, like, jackets, and then it turned into pants. And then, you know, I noticed that she's got men's briefs on, boxer shorts, and then she's wanting to shave her head. And, you know, I'm thinking, okay, well... I'm allowing this because I'm thinking maybe she's just experimenting and trying to spread her wings, figure out who she is, which I don't want to stifle. I definitely want her to experiment and have that safe space here in my house. I just didn't realize how far this had gone and how much Joanne Smotherman was apparently whispering in her ear. And I'm guessing she was telling her, my daughter, that all of these problems of being a misfit, of being an outcast, all of those kids who ever told her she was a freak, all of these external problems are because she was born into the wrong body. And that's what I started hearing. And I started hearing the name Onyx. And I refused to call her by this new name. And we had some big clashes. And eventually, when I told my daughter that I was going to take her up to Denver for my purposes to get her away from the Durango influences. That resulted in her kicking out the screen of her window and running away. And she went straight to Joanne Smotherman's house.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. So then when was this, Cindy Stein? This was this past November of 2024. Okay. So the Joanne Smotherman and I don't quite understand trans husband what that is exactly.
SPEAKER 03 :
But anyway, your daughter is there.
SPEAKER 06 :
And so then what happened, Cindy?
SPEAKER 03 :
So for 24 hours, I had no idea where my daughter was. She left everything here, including her phone. And so I couldn't trace her. I couldn't track her. She wasn't communicating with me. She didn't leave a note. I didn't know if she was okay. I didn't know if I was going to get a call from the hospital telling me to come identify my child. I just had no idea. And Joanne Smotherman didn't have the courtesy and the ethical backbone to contact me and say, hey, I've got your kid. And then, you know, let's let the situation cool down and I'll send her home. Nothing. I had no communication. I finally went to her place, my daughter's place of employment the next day. I didn't say anything to her because, but she knew I was there. She saw me. And her response was to go to the manager's office and have the security guard escort her out of the building.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. So we've got just about three and a half minutes left on this, Cindy. So you are on this journey. You've contacted at some point Lori and her team at Colorado Parents Advocacy Network. Also, you contacted the authorities, the police as well. So what happened there?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. So, yes, we had police involvements. We had CPS involvements. I have to say Lori was amazing in helping me navigate and trying to figure out which way to turn next. We went through a pretty intense journey with mental health facilities and gender affirming care in the home or lack of. And ultimately, at the end of the day, my daughter chose to leave the house on December 21st. And Joanne Smotherman's house was never an acceptable place to go, but that's where she went. And I have not been able to get her to come home since. Okay. She ignores my calls and texts, and Joanne Smotherman has not been cooperative in sending her home.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. So, Lori, what do you think next steps are for Cindy?
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, yesterday, Cindy filed a complaint with the La Plata County Deputy Sheriff to investigate the fact that the deputies that were called on scene on January 5th to help Cindy retrieve her daughter because the Smothermans are harboring her. They do not have permission from her mom to house her. And then the police went on scene. They basically mocked Cindy, and we, Cora requested the body cam footage. It's so alarming to watch how callous, how completely disengaged they were when they got to this motherman's house to check, they called it a welfare check on her daughter. and they they went in and they basically it sounds like they excuse me they said words to her daughter you know you're good right you're good that's all i need to hear is that you're good thanks for helping me check the boxes and then when they walked outside one of the deputies said like we're going to have to go speak to them referring to cindy and her two friends that joined her to help retrieve her daughter And the other officer made a joke about it. Yeah, they're going to basically freak out. And they started laughing before they drove down the driveway to go talk with Cindy and inform her that not only were they not going to help her, but there was nothing law enforcement can do. And so we've got a parent. She is a custodial parent. She did not get permission to this person who is harboring her child. And the people that are supposed to help us, the police failed to do so. And they mocked her.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. We have one minute left. Lori, thank you. This has gone quickly. Cindy, next steps. First of all, I'm sure prayers for your family, for your daughter, for you. Your next step.
SPEAKER 03 :
I can, again, only pray that my daughter... sees the situation differently and she sees the harm that the Smothermans have done to her and my family unit with her.
SPEAKER 06 :
And she comes home and has a huge change of heart. Okay. Well, Cindy Stein, thank you for sharing your story with us. Lori Gimbelstein, Colorado Parents Advocacy Network, thank you for all that you do. We certainly will put you in our thoughts and prayers.
SPEAKER 05 :
Thank you so much. Have a wonderful day.
SPEAKER 06 :
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show with Kim Monson. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter there. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity. As we look at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom, something's a good idea. You shouldn't have to force people to do it. And I think somebody that agrees with me on this whole force issue is Jay Davidson. He is the founder and CEO of First American State Bank, which is a community bank located right here in the metro area. Jay Davidson, I think you agree with me on this force issue, yes?
SPEAKER 16 :
I totally and absolutely 100% agree with you.
SPEAKER 06 :
I had a feeling you were going to say that. So that was a little bit of a softball question like, what's your favorite ice cream? But it is actually there are people that really do like force. And what we're seeing is the veil is being pulled off on this, Jay Davidson. And we'll talk about that in just a moment regarding Doge. But before we do that. First American State Bank is a sponsor of the show, which I really greatly appreciate. And I'd always thought First American State Bank just worked with very high net worth individuals, but that's not the case, right?
SPEAKER 16 :
No, not at all. We have a lot of high net worth folks who appreciate community banking, the personal relationship that exists, but not at all. We're a In fact, we're expanding as fast as we possibly can into the millennial and Gen X folks, the younger folks. And my daughter is helping me with that by getting us into these mobile apps. I can say these words. I just don't know a thing about it, but I can say the words. But you can do all your banking online now on your iPhone if you want to, or you can come in. I mean, we're still the same community bank. We're still involved in our community. We'll still consult with you as an individual. And I would recommend that these young business people or young entrepreneurs that are coming up, I know it's easy for you to go to your corner bank and get a commodity product, but Consider the added advantage of the kind of knowledge that we have after all our years in banking and how we might be able to impart some of that knowledge to you as you make your decisions on your investments and lending and borrowing and so forth.
SPEAKER 06 :
Personal relationships are so important, and that's what First American State Bank offers. Jay Davidson, millennials have gotten, I think, a bad rap. But as I am seeing these young people around their 40s, coming into their 40s or a little over, I am seeing a move towards, and I'm going to put this in air quotes, conservatism. And that is that conserving this idea of our declaration that all men are created equal with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. So what that means is creating businesses, being a creator. And I am seeing an amazing amount of creativity from, you and I can both call them young people, but they're approaching middle age. And that's our millennials. And I know you're seeing that as well.
SPEAKER 16 :
Very true. The reason I started pivoting into the millennial business person is the friends I met through my children, who are obviously millennials, have their own children now, my dearly and beautiful beloved wife. grandchildren and so I'm meeting these people I was very impressed with them they come at business differently than I did mine was much more structured and I started in a giant corporation and worked my way through and then I went the entrepreneurial route well these young people are starting the entrepreneurial route right away and they're quite successful quite intelligent but I think I would be careful about the term conservative because it now has a connotation that probably does not appeal to a millennial that much. And I would recommend the term principled, perhaps. And by that, I mean somebody who lives according to a principle. And I think the principle that you and I can agree on, because you're very much a constitutionalist, is the sanctity of the individual, the right of the individual to decide for him or herself in whatever topic is there. Now, the decision obviously has to follow the laws of the land, and we all agree with that, and it also has to follow a moral and ethical code, and that's a personal decision, whether it's a Catholic, a religious, a Jewish, a non-denominational, non-secular decision. I mean, philosophers are also quite principled as are religious leaders, so I like to call it principled, and the principle is the sanctity of the individual.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, I'm going to take that. Thank you for that comment on that. When you mentioned an ethical code, and I remember hearing Dennis Prager many years ago talking about the Ten Commandments. And he said if there was one commandment that was greater than any of the others, that he thought it was thou shalt not steal. And what we have seen with a bigger and bigger government is that we use government policy to, in essence, control. steal, I think, from one person to give to another because government finds it, and I used this word altruistic earlier in the week as our word of the day, and altruistic has been, I think, co-opted to use government to take from one person for the betterment of the other, but the decision maker there is the one that's considered altruistic. So What do you think about Prager's thought about stealing? Because I think it's unprincipled to steal from one to give to another.
SPEAKER 16 :
Absolutely. It is a commandment. You can argue about commandments, but I think it would be unwise to break them. There's a reason that they're there, and stealing is certainly at the top of the list. Stealing can entail money or goods. It can also entail freedom. And if we're if our freedoms are restricted by a arbitrary bureaucratic government decision, our freedoms are being stolen. And when you look at all the regulations that exist and the rules and regulations that exist that were not passed and according to our Constitution, therefore they're not lawful, you become surprised. You become shocked. One of the biggest complaints I hear in banking from young folks, and older obviously, is that getting a permit to build a building, take the risk of building a building, whether it's a condo or an office or mixed use, doesn't matter. The permitting process is horrendous. Well, what happened to our ability? If I'm willing to invest my capital into a project and take all the risk, why is some bureaucrat telling me that I have to put pink toilets in the men's bathroom? It's none of their business. I'll do what I want. And, you know, we've got to think down the terms of if you are an individual. then you, by our Declaration of Independence, have inalienable rights. That means rights that are bestowed on you by a creator, by something greater than man, greater than government, greater than even our Constitution. And that's what Thomas Jefferson was saying, is that you do have inalienable God-given or creation-given rights to life, liberty, and the ownership of property. Well, the ownership of property comes right into the concept of stealing, as you indicated.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and to your point, is with all of these hoops that individuals have to jump through to get this business open, that is, it's stealing an intangible. It's stealing opportunity. And I think it's important that people understand that, Jay.
SPEAKER 16 :
Very good point. Yeah, freedom of action and freedom... of opportunity that devolves therefrom. revolves there from. Yes, very good point.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and the other thing, Jay, is I think all of us learn, we believe that in America, justice is supposed to be blind, right? And we look at the vision of the Declaration that all are created equal. To me, that means that we are all to be treated equally under the law. And so mentioning this opportunity to build a building or whatever, when I was on city council, And now also as the president of this volunteer group, Colorado Union of Taxpayers, which were watching legislation, I've seen different policies and I did see some legislation down at the statehouse that wants to fast track projects that these PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats and interested parties like. So, for example, a green policy. could be fast-tracked through the permit process, whereas just a regular person wanting to build a building, they might have to jump through all these different hoops. That is antithetical to the American idea, Jay Davidson.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, it absolutely is. This is a bureaucrat making a rule for us and stealing our freedom to choose. our inalienable right to make a choice. And it's absolutely unconstitutional. And yet this regulatory bureaucratic creep that has existed since Woodrow Wilson was president over 100 years ago has just gotten worse and worse. And I've got to say that this is not necessarily a Democrat, although they tend to do this more. But I've seen big government Republicans do the same kind of thing. And to me, it's not a Democrat or Republican decision. It's are you for more government or limited government? And by limited government, we mean limited by the Constitution. And if you're in favor of limited government, I'm on your side and you're on my side. That is the issue.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well said. One other thing before we go to break, and that is we were talking about this creep, if you will. And you and I both lived through political correctness where we might not say something because we were concerned that we might offend someone. As I look back at that now. That was an affront upon freedom of speech. But through kind of this cultural pressure, I was self-censoring myself. And it was a journey for me to understand that and another journey to say, certainly I want to be judicious and want to have discernment when I'm speaking. But I had decided once I realized that I was no longer judicious. going to self-censor myself because my concern that somebody else might not like what I'm saying. Your comments on that, Jay Davidson?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, this goes into the whole concept, and forgive me if I go astray here and cut me off if I do, but this is the whole concept of a democracy versus a constitutional republic. And by that I mean a constitutional republic says that we are not ruled by the majority. that we as individuals have certain inalienable rights. Now, there is a democratic process in our government every two, four, and six years that is democratic. One vote, one person, majority makes a decision. But after that one instance on election day, then we revert back to our constitutional republic, which says that you have the right and obligation to make your own way. And so when the majority rules, democracy is the tyranny of the majority over the minority. If there's 50% plus one vote, then that mass of people can make a decision that affects me that I don't like. And that is not the intent of a constitutional republic. That is the intent of a democracy. So when all these people spew out this whole concept of democracy, yes, there is an instant in time every two, four, and six years when there is a democratic activity called a vote, an election day. But after that, we absolutely have to go back to the concept of the Constitutional Republic, which is the sanctity of the individual, the right of the individual to make a decision on his or her own. So I don't know if I've answered your question. I've kind of gone astray here. But I'm trying to get to the point where it is the right of the individual to make individual decisions. It is not the right of the government to infringe on our freedoms.
SPEAKER 06 :
And we are at such an interesting time right now, Jay Davidson. So we're going to go to break. We'll continue the discussion with Jay Davidson. He is the founder and CEO of First American State Bank, a community bank, personal relationships. Those are so important. And another great sponsor of the show is Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and 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. Two things, as you know, I totally support the USMC Memorial Foundation raising money for the remodel of the marine memorial to make that a reality they're going to have their second golf tournament in may and this is kind of early bird there's only going to be a certain number of golfers so great way to support the foundation and to meet some new people and play a great golf course it's the ridge and more information on that go to usmcmemorialfoundation.org And then the other nonprofit that I feature on a regular basis on the show is the Center for American Values, located down in Pueblo. And they're going to have a great On Values presentation, middle part of April, with Norma Donland, who is the widow of Roger Donland. And Roger was the first Medal of Honor recipient from the Vietnam War. And so you can get more information on that by going to AmericanValuesCenter.org. Talking with Jay Davidson, he's the CEO and founder of First American State Bank, a community bank located right here in the metro area, and really personalized service. And so be sure and check that out. What is that website, Jay Davidson?
SPEAKER 16 :
FASbank.com.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, FASBank.com, standing for FirstAmericaStateBank.com. And Jay Davidson, a lot is happening in our world. Wanted to get your thoughts about Elon Musk and Doge. And I find it so interesting that people are protesting in the streets. To me, it seems like they're saying, we want more waste, fraud, and abuse. But what's your thoughts about Doge, the Department of Government Efficiency?
SPEAKER 16 :
Interesting concept to form a government agency to eliminate other government agencies. And I know that Elon works for no pay. But anyway, I was kind of blown away by Trump's first few weeks in office. It's like he had taken the four years when he was sitting out when Biden was president. and planned this to the nth degree, to detail, to an absolute detailed degree, because he was up and running in very short order. He had the people in place, and he had the policies in place, the ideas in place, and he just started implementing right away, characteristic of a really good business person. Now, whether what he's doing is right or wrong, time will tell. I have long railed against the waste and the cost bureaucracy, government agencies, the administrative state, the deep state, the incursion of a bureaucrat into my life and your lives has been horrendous and has gotten worse and worse. Granted, I see more of it than a lot of people because I'm in a highly regulated industry, and we should be regulated. I'm fine with that. But I see arbitrariness in the way that these regulations are implemented. And it's very hard to run a business on an arbitrary basis. So I've been really against that situation forever. And all my friends in oil and gas and medicine and so forth feel the same way. The regulatory agencies have invaded their turf. So the point I'm trying to get at is that Musk is pretty astonishing. I appreciate how methodical he is in going after all this waste, which we knew was there. I just didn't realize the extent of it. It blows my mind. I mean, at first I thought, well, USA must do some good stuff. And, you know, Elon blew it out 100% in the first couple of weeks he was in position. I thought, what is going on here? Then I look at where they were spending their money and how much money they were spending. I mean, millions of dollars for Hamas training on transgenderism. Are these people? I mean, it's the whole mentality of the administrative state of the bureaucrat not to conserve capital because they don't have any capital in the deal. But their job is to spend every dollar they can get. So next year they can get more. Now, this is antithetical to the benefit of the people whose money they are spending. And if you really think about it, we taxpayers are paying for USAID's $100 million to Hamas transgender training. Give me a break.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and I saw or somebody mentioned a meme to me is why are we paying other countries to hate us? If they want to hate us, they can hate us for free.
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Yeah, that's true. A lot of good it's doing now. My friends in the Foreign Service will tell me that it does some good. And I'm saying, okay, fine, then prove it and live according to it. I mean, in a business world, and I know that I can't apply my business ethics to a bureaucrat, but I'm paying for it. You know, I just spent a horrendous amount of money on taxes. And I'm saying, I'm tired of this, people. You keep saying, oh, it's just a little bit here, a little bit there. We'll just tax the rich. And now it's to the point of breaking our backs. And the other point I'd like to make is that when you hear about the news, when Kyle Clark talks about Doge, what Kyle and the whole left-wing machine that's out there is going to talk about is the harm that Elon Musk is doing to an individual. And you know what? I can't argue with him. That poor person, that bureaucrat, is going to have a life-changing event. And I can feel empathy for that person. However, what the Kyle Clarks of this world don't ever talk about is the effect, the net effect, of a government spending more and more and more of our gross domestic product, more of our income. They're And we started the conversation with the word steal. Well, when taxation gets to the point of 50 percent of your income, that is absolute theft. And that's where we are right now at the very high end of the scale with all the state, local, regional and federal taxes. So I'm tired of the stealing.
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Well, and yes, I think that we, the American taxpayers, have been fleeced by all of this. I think the good Lord asked for 10%. I think government all in should be able to operate on 10%. Just think what would happen regarding creativity and innovation if we all had an additional 40%. in in our pocket but jay you bring up an an interesting point i think all of us on a micro level we do we think about the individual that it may be a family they have a house payment uh i i know that i'm concerned about that however And Daniel Turner with Power the Future, and I had a conversation about this, is no Kyle Clark, none of those on the left gave a flying rip about any of those oil and gas workers that lost their jobs on day one with the Biden-Harris administration, where Joe Biden died. stopped the Keystone Pipeline, 8,000 people lost their jobs at that particular point in time, and there was no tears for them whatsoever.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, it's all pretty one-sided, isn't it? It's all directed to a political goal. And the only goal that I can see, that I can understand, is total control. And that's why I differentiate the two camps. One believes in tyranny and control, and they do it through the regulatory or bureaucratic state. And the other believes in freedom. And we believe in a constitution. We believe in limited government. Now, we may be small in number, but the message that we have, that you have, and that you've been bringing forward is the idea that you as an individual have freedom to choose not from a government, not from a law, but from your creator. It's intrinsic in who you are and what you are, but you've got to exercise it. Now, we talk freedom all the time, but the other side of freedom is responsibility. They don't exist one without the other. So what is your responsibility to freedom? You need to know what's going on. That's why you're listening to this radio show and other ones like it and reading what you do read. You're involved. And I'd say... Speak out in your own way. Find your own voice and articulate. You don't have to follow what some bureaucrat tells you to do in Washington. It's not legal in any way, shape, or form. And do your silent revolt. Like you said, I don't need to be politically correct. That's no way to think. That's just brainwashing. Well, let's get some more information out there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, and we need to be engaging, to your point, and that's why we do the show, is for people to get their brains around these issues, find their voices, engage in conversation, and we change the culture on this. We have about three minutes left, Jay Davidson, and I think you and I both, we've had these conversations about this out-of-control government debt, this out-of-control spending. I Not sure that I ever thought we could get this ship turned around. But I think Donald Trump, with his team and with Doge, when Musk says he may find a trillion dollars in savings, my gosh, that's half of the deficit. I think we can get this ship turned around. I'm very encouraged. Your thoughts?
SPEAKER 16 :
Yeah, and we're $36 trillion in debt. And if you add in the unfunded commitment, it's more like $70 trillion. So the number is horrendous, and it's unsustainable, absolutely, totally unsustainable. And you and I won't pay for it. Our grandchildren will pay for it. That's the horrendous thing. That's why we must be involved here to stop this government spending. Because if you think debt, the next thought should be spending. The spending exists. The debt exists because the spending is happening. And why are they spending all this money? They're buying votes from people that don't want to work for a living. And they're using our money to buy votes. That's why they're spending all this money on welfare and entitlements. So, you know, you can talk about the poor guy that's losing his job in the government. Well, what about you losing your job and your money and your grandchildren being crushed by this kind of debt? You've got to balance it out.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. And that is what I have said is where we were headed off a cliff. And I know that it's a little bit pain. Well, it's painful now. But if we don't get this turned around, it's going to be really, really painful. Jay Davidson, as always, it goes way too quickly. What's your final thought you'd like to leave with our listeners?
SPEAKER 16 :
You have you have the inalienable right to freedom of choice to your own decisions. This is gratitude by your creator, whether you call him God or Jehovah or Elohim. I don't care. So you have that right. And I would ask you to exercise it judiciously, but do exercise it.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, absolutely. Jay Davidson, thank you so much. It's always a riveting conversation. Thank you.
SPEAKER 16 :
You're welcome.
SPEAKER 06 :
And that's Jay Davidson, CEO and founder of First America State Bank. That website is FASBank.com. Our quote for the end of the show is James Madison. He said, it is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you. God bless America. And stay tuned for our number two.
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Talking about freedom Talking about freedom I will fight
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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're each 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, Teresa, Amanda, all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Thursday, Producer Joe. Happy Thursday, Kim. Great show planned. Lots in the first hour, and we've got Professor Kurt Gerwitz in studio for the second hour. Great to have you, Professor.
SPEAKER 12 :
One of your fan favorites, I'm sure.
SPEAKER 06 :
Absolutely. We always get a lot of interaction on the text line, which is 720- 720-605-0647. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. And you'll get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. And again, that text line is 720-605-0647. I do want to hear from you. And I am fighting my... Don't you say anything about... Anything on that, Kurt Gerwitz, about AI. I'm getting the finger point already. I may actually have to do that.
SPEAKER 12 :
If you want to be productive, it can help.
SPEAKER 06 :
I do want to be productive. We're talking about my email inbox. And Kurt Gerwitz says I should use AI to help me with that. Yes. So we'll talk about that at some point. Anyway, be sure and, well, first of all, you can hear the show 6 to 8 a.m. Monday through Friday on all KLZ 560 platforms. The first hour is rebroadcast in the afternoon 1 to 2, second hour 10 to 11 at night. Those platforms are KLZ 560 AM, KLZ 100.7 FM, the KLZ website, and the KLZ app. And I thank all of you who support us, all of our great sponsors, and all of you. We are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity. by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it. It should be able to stand on its own merits. And that's why we do this show is because force comes around in a lot of different ways. Now, it used to be, Kurt, in the old days, it was... The bad guys riding into the village and plundering and raping and all those things because they had weapons. But now what we see is that they're using the terms compassionate and altruistic to take your stuff. And that would be your property, your rights, your freedom, livelihoods, opportunities, childhoods. You did listen to the first hour. This...
SPEAKER 12 :
We're shaking that off. We're taking that heavy topic. It's scary. There's a dark cloud over that conversation.
SPEAKER 06 :
There is. This LGBTQ activist teacher in Durango befriends a vulnerable student and encourages the student that is a female, that she is not a female, that she's a boy. I hadn't really thought of it. That probably is... A sign that something is happening if your girl says she wants to wear boxer shorts. I hadn't even thought about that. But this is happening in our little towns here in America. And people think, oh, I live in a little town. It's not going to happen. There's Durango. We broke the story with Erin Lee and her daughter up in little old Wellington, Colorado. And so I know I'm getting off a little bit on my way they take things, but they're taking our children's childhoods and focusing on and hopefully next week we're going to have one of the talk show hosts from one of the other stations reached out and asked me if I would get this particular guest on. So just stay tuned on that regarding what's happening in our schools. But so anyway, force can be obviously a weapon. And, Kurt, I know this is heavy. I have to say this, though. And when I did my testimony down at the statehouse on one of Scott Bottom's bills, which was forcing insurance companies, he wanted to prevent insurance companies from being forced to have to provide malpractice insurance for physicians that are doing trans surgeries and trans pharmaceuticals on kids. And I began with my surgery with when the bad guys used to ride into the village. If they would have lined up our children and cut off the breasts of our adolescent girls and cut off the penises of our boys, we would have said, enough. You're not doing that. That's not good. But we have that happening in America right now, Kurt Gerwitz.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, what came to mind, oh, gosh, was a few things. My mind's already racing around, Kemp. It's a riveting subject.
SPEAKER 06 :
It is.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I don't think we know what childhood is – like what an ideal childhood is supposed to be like. I had a therapist in my past tell me that – and he had a number on it. He said 11 percent of children get out of childhood without trauma. And when someone says that to me, I think, do you mean – this happens a lot when you're in the middle of the – when you're not thinking as international as I – want my students and clients to think. When someone says that, it's like, oh, is that a statistic on planet Earth? Or is that a statistic of Americans? Because the population of America, we're only 4% of the world. So I assume it means Americans, that 11% of Americans get out of childhood without trauma. And I just throw my hands in the air and throw my pencil across the room and I say, well, that should be our metric on society, right next to how do we treat our prisoners, right? That's a famous... The measure of a society or a civilization is how are the prisoners treated. And now I'm thinking, well, no, now we have a percentage on how many children escape childhood without trauma. You and I both have trauma.
SPEAKER 06 :
We talked about it at lunch.
SPEAKER 12 :
Lowercase t, nothing too serious, I hope.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, so we'll talk a little bit more about it. I think life, though, has trauma. It just does, and so we have to learn how to deal with that trauma. So let's get into that more as we're talking about legacies and things in the second and third segment of this. But force can obviously be a weapon, but it can be policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, this agenda by the World Economic Forum, the globalist elites. United Nations, what's happening down here at the Colorado State Legislature with the approval of this Colorado governor. He's no libertarian. Land use codes, zoning regulations, force fees, conservation easements, national monument designations. The list goes on and on and on. And we need to pull that back. On the show, there are several things that we focus on. We have all of these great guests and interesting stories today. But I want to make sure that we are always focusing. First of all, these elections are super important. And at this point in time, I am sending out update letters to all of our funders for our two lawsuits. And there's more to come on these elections. But if we don't have elections, free, fair, honest and transparent elections, we're just spinning our wheels. We can spend all the money that we want. We can get all the great candidates that we want. We can try to get these candidates elected. We can stand against many of these bad issues. And we have had some success, but we must make sure that we have free, fair, honest, and transparent elections. And we need to make sure that we understand the issues and we have good candidates. And I'm committed to work on that. And also we focus on our children, protecting our children, climate change, and particularly with the movie that I was involved in, ClimateConversation.com, which you can watch for free. And then also property rights. And property rights are inherent in the American idea. And if we don't have property rights, we really don't have freedom. And those property rights certainly are tangible. Property rights are intangible. But another person. that stands up for property rights diligently. She's worked at the local, the county, the state, and the national level. And she is a award-winning realtor, great sponsor of the show, great friend. And hopefully she doesn't know I'm talking about her, Kurt Gerwitz. But that's Karen Levine. Karen Levine, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. It seems like a lot to live up to, but that really is you. And you and I have known each other a long time, and you walk your talk. And I really appreciate it.
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Well, thank you. Thank you. And that was quite the segue from all the other conversations you're having, which are many and very valuable. But yes, private property rights and homeownership is the key to building wealth in America. And as you were referring to public policy, what our legislators are doing over time have taken away many of those rights and have made affordability very complicated and difficult. I would say difficult in Colorado and really nationwide, but more so here at home. And that's why the work you're doing and the work I am and the Colorado Association of Realtors is doing is trying to protect those rights.
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Well, and this legislature is in session until May 6th, although what they do – and so many times we think, oh, we could have a sigh of relief that the legislature is finally out of session. But no, no, no. What they've done is they have then implemented – what I call PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties, to go out and continue this onerous stuff that they're doing. And so that's why shining and shedding light on this is so important. But it's, gosh, it's March. Easter's late this year, I think, but we're in the spring selling season. I'm seeing houses, signs around the community saying, So tell us inventory. We talked with Lauren Levy yesterday about mortgages to be pre-qualified. He said that well-priced and well-maintained homes are moving. But there's things that people need to do if they're going to be selling their home, particularly during this selling season.
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Correct. If you're interested in getting your home on the market over these next I would say 30 days to six weeks, maybe 60 days, but that is the height of our selling season in the front range. And the things you need to do is hopefully pick up the phone, give me a call and we can have a consultation and talk about getting your home ready. But what I've experienced over the last couple of weeks is, as Lauren stated, homes that have been prepared and in many cases, I provide what's called a walk and talk consultation with a professional stager who walks in and goes room by room and helps you configure each of those rooms so that it highlights your home in the photographs. And then when people walk in, they know what to expect, but also they see the home. And that's what we want is that we're selling a home. We're not, we're not selling furniture. all the activities and collectibles and those types of things that we have in our home when we're living in our home. But what we're seeing is really good buyer activity, and whether it's sad or good, I think it's good for the marketplace is multiple offers, again, because those good homes, people want to buy them, and they are willing to pay market value or maybe a tad above that to get that home despite interest rates being higher than they were, you know, three to five years ago. So homeownership is still a dream that people are achieving, and that's exciting.
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So, Karen, have you looked at all, and I didn't mention that I would mention this to you, but the Trump proposal about using some public lands to make freedom cities. Now, I talked to Trent Luce yesterday. He said he thought they were going to be smart cities. Of course, I think smart cities are a bad idea, but I do like the idea that of opening up land for single-family homes for property ownership. I think the National Realtors had at least made comments on it. Have you looked into that much at all, or shall we talk about that next week?
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I haven't looked into it at all with regards to what Trump is suggesting, but I do know when I was the National Association of Realtors director, we talked about utilizing public lands to bring more product to the marketplace. And if you have more product, the product should become more affordable. And so we started looking at that as a National Association of Realtors of how can you do that. So it kind of excites me to hear that President Trump is thinking that might be something that would be beneficial. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PERCENTAGE OF LAND IS THAT'S OWNED BY THE GOVERNMENT. IT'S A LOT. IT'S A VERY LARGE PERCENTAGE. AND THE STATE OF COLORADO, OUR PERCENTAGE IS EVEN HIGHER THAN OTHER STATES. SO I THINK THERE MAY BE OPPORTUNITY THERE, BUT WE NEED TO BE WISE IN MAKING THOSE POLICY DECISIONS, RIGHT? AND WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT LONG-TERM EFFECTS IF WE MAKE THOSE DECISIONS BECAUSE WE SEE THAT SOMETIMES Policy that is well-meaning, that is to protect the consumer, to protect the homebuyer, to protect the homeowner, can be harmful down the road. And we've seen that with affordability or lack thereof here in Colorado.
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Oh, correct. And one other question, going back to staging, if you're selling your home, I've heard that it's great to have a candle or something that smells like cookie dough or something like that in your house. Is that true to make it more homey?
SPEAKER 04 :
Actually, it can be detrimental. And I say that because we've become a society of allergies. And what I did learn is that vanilla is very offensive to a lot of people. But the safe scent is a citrus. Citrus is a clean scent, and it can give you a fresh scent in your home. But the cookie idea is really good if they're actual cookies. And for someone who showed... close to a dozen homes last Friday, and we did not really have time to stop for a meal. The house that had the freshly baked chocolate chip cookies certainly warmed my heart and my tummy.
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Aha, okay. Well, that's your nugget of wisdom today from Karen Levine, Remax Realtor. People should reach out to you. It doesn't cost anything. What's that phone number, Karen Levine?
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The phone number is 303- 877-7516.
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welcome back to the kim monson show check out our website that is kim monson m-o-n-s-o-n.com sign up for our weekly email newsletter you can email me at kim kimmonson.com as well thank you to all of you who support us we're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom something's a good idea you shouldn't have to force people to do it we focus on the issues on the show and we'll talk about the people pushing the issues we're trying to stay out of the eighth grade girl fighting And there's a lot of that that happens in politics. But we work on focusing on the issues so you can stay disciplined in your conversations with people. Yeah, I may expound upon that. I'll just leave that hanging out there. But thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. And also Hooters Restaurants is a great sponsor of the show as well. And how I got to know them, it is one of those important stories about freedom and free markets and capitalism and pesky PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that want to control our lives. And Hooters Restaurants has five locations, Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. Great lunch specials. My guest, Professor Kurt Gerwitz, you and I are going to – have lunch at Hooters restaurant a little bit later.
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I'm probably going to have those fish tacos again every time.
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You have the same thing.
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I actually mixed it up. Yeah, you ventured out. I was so proud of you.
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Yeah, I think I'll go back to the great fish and chips, though. I'm kind of hungry for that, so we'll see. But great, great location. And March Madness, we're in the middle of March Madness. What a great place to watch the games with your friends is Hooters Restaurant. So, again, check out their locations. That's Loveland, Aurora, Lone Tree, Westminster, and Colorado Springs. Are you a basketball fan?
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You know what I love about March Madness is the probabilities. Of course you would because you're a professor. I think that math helps so many people.
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So did you do a bracket? Did it help you?
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No. Well, yes and no. The probabilities of your team winning from the beginning are astronomical. And Warren Buffett, he says, like, I'll give you a million dollars if you pick the winning team or something like that. And I saw a good one that you'll like. You know, I love these prediction markets. It's a new thing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Of course you do.
SPEAKER 12 :
I remember you saying that. Well, I lost money. I don't know if I should say this on the air, but here it comes. I gambled, I bet, money that Donald Trump was going to lose the popular vote. It's not ideological. I was just trying to – I thought I saw – group of people who were gambling and it was a 30 they gave it a 30% chance that Trump would win the popular vote okay and so I was like I only put down a couple hundred bucks and this was introduced to me by a bartender who could probably less afford the money to because gambling money is always just entertainment dollars it should be in your budget there and And he was talking about putting thousands on it because he really believed that we hadn't had a Republican win the popular vote in – since Reagan, I think. And so I lost like $100. That's entertainment money. I could afford to lose that. But I – these prediction markets are – you can just – you go up against – other people are just saying what they think is going to happen. And you say what you think is going to happen, and then there's probabilities placed on it based on how much people are gambling on that. And they become prediction markets because they become very – what that does, that free market conversation creates like a probability of what's going to happen in the future. And there's one that says there's a greater – the probability markets say there's an 11% chance, which is higher than any of the single teams in the – March Madness, that alien life will be discovered in, I assume this means bacteria on Mars or the moon. But yeah, so there's a greater chance of alien life being discovered than your team winning the whole bracket.
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
Because the number one team never wins, right?
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Well, sometimes it does. So a couple of things. First of all, you were talking about the probabilities. And typically I try not to be an emotion girl. However, my bracket was emotion. It's like, oh, I know somebody in that state. And so I'll go with that one.
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I always cheer for Marquette or Gonzaga because they're Jesuit schools. And I went to a Jesuit school and I teach at a Jesuit school. Yeah. So it's that emotion.
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And then I chose KU and Houston in the finals. And KU had a terrible record. They were struggling. And I thought, well, maybe. Well, they got, they didn't even make it through the first round. So again, emotion is not the way to make your decisions. That's for sure.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right. For the probability markets, the prediction markets will help you figure out the real odds of the probabilities of what's going to happen.
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Next year. Next year, that's what I'm going to do. So my $10 and my pool is gone. But I just blew right through our word of the day and our quote of the day. And so let's do that. Your challenge will be to use this word of the day in a sentence, Kurt Gerwitz, as well as all of you out there. And it's reciprocity, R-E-C-I-P-R-O-C-I-T-Y. Thank you to Eric for his suggestion on that. And this I always think is a little lame when they use the word in the definition.
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So reciprocity. We were taught in grade school you're not allowed to do that.
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Yeah. A reciprocal condition or relationship. But next, mutual understanding. Or cooperative interchange of favors, privileges, especially the exchange of rights or privileges of trade between nations. Well, I think we see a lot of the cooperative interchange of favors or privileges in politics. And then lastly, a mutual action and reaction. So I think that as I look at PBIs, politicians and bureaucrats and interested parties that are pushing some of this legislation down at the statehouse, I think there must be some reciprocity. And at this point, you all have a to-do thing, and that is to go to Colorado Union of Taxpayers. That's coloradotaxpayers.org. And at this point, I want to say thank you to the team. That's Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onizorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. These are all volunteers. We're taking positions on legislation down at the Statehouse. And as of this today... There are 561 pieces of legislation or resolutions that have been introduced down at the Statehouse. Your volunteer group of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers has taken positions on 216 of those. And we just invested significant funds for us because we're an all-volunteer organization. That's why we'd love to have you join us. It's only $25 a year or $2.08 a month. But we rolled out yesterday cut engaged. And this is a great opportunity. You can go to our website, coloradotaxpayer.org. And at the very top, it says cut engaged. Click on that. We have selected three bills to begin with. Two of them are being heard today. So this is very timely. You will be able to send an email directly to the bill sponsors. And if you want to add in your senator and your legislator, we've got links to make that happen. Super easy. And this is a way for you to easily make your voice heard. And the three bills that we selected... House Bill 1269, building decarbonization measures. This is all in piling on the Green New Deal and the Green New Deal. Do you know what the Green and the Green New Deal is, Kurt Gerwitz?
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Dollars.
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It's dollars. Ding, ding, ding. Next, Senate Bill 25, coal transition grants. And so what happened here in Colorado, they said, we're going to shut down those that that clean burning coal fired plant that's providing reliable and efficient and affordable and abundant energy for people. And those people are going to lose their jobs. You know what? All these people that have been so whacked. about Doge and people losing their jobs there. They haven't given a flying rip about the people working in these coal-fired plants on the western slope that are losing their jobs. So then, to make themselves feel good, they said, we're going to have a transition program. And lots of money's been spent on it. Maybe one person's got a job. And so we are opposing this coal transition grants bill. And you can, too, by just going to coloradotaxpayer.org and let the sponsors know what you think about that. Maybe they might pull it. And then the last one, and this is one that Ramey Johnson talked about last week. I don't think it's scheduled for hearing yet, but I wanted to put that on there. And these are these tap fees for special districts. This is a special deal that legislators, particularly the one that was elected out in the Lakewood area in Jeffco, Rebecca Stewart, is pushing as a special deal for developers for the federal center out there. And so, again, no special treatment. That's what this is. And so you can go to ColoradoTaxpayer.org. Kurt, that's going to be your homework while we're sitting here. And go in and make your voices heard. And, again, we at Colorado Union of Taxpayers have put significant money into this. All of these things happen because of our sponsors. And one of those is Lavaca Meat Company. It's located at the corner of Maine and Nevada. It is a premium beef product, and it's really good for your protein source for your diet, and it tastes really good, too.
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Welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. 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. Professor Kirk Gerwitz is in studio. with me and we're going to talk about legacy. But a perfect thing to talk about regarding legacy is to buy a brick to honor your loved one's military service that will be on one of their pathways of service. And you can do that by going to USMC Memorial Foundation, Mother's Day, Father's Day is right around the corner. Plan early. Get that done. Also, they are going to have their second golf tournament May 15th. And you can get more information about that by going to USMCMemorialFoundation.org as well. Professor Kurt Gerwitz, first of all, tell us what you're up to and your students. Tell us a little bit about, you know, all that you're doing.
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Yes. So this is the season. Twice a year, I teach a class at DU. on the, it's the business certificate program. So it's not a, it's not a typical undergrad class. It's out of their university college. And I teach the business of the financial planning for business. I call it, I shortcut that. I call it startup finance. So I'm teaching startup finance. A hundred percent of my students are immigrants. A hundred percent of my students are, um, So that means – actually, I couldn't say that 100% are ESL, meaning English as a second language. But it's so inspiring to me to talk to immigrants. If you want to love America, talk to an immigrant. Like, they are – Now, are they legal? Yeah. Well, you know, I'm not – I'm not asking that question. I don't care, Kim. If they're here, I'm going to help them. If they're in my – you know, it's like – We're going to go deep real quick here. That happens, doesn't it? Yeah, sorry. But, you know, I was living in the South, and I learned this thing about the difference between Southern racism and Northern racism. Okay, now, we're so far West, I'm not sure how this applies. But in Southern racism, they would say that they hate the race, but they love the individual. And in Northern racism, it's the opposite. You would say that they... They hate the individual.
SPEAKER 06 :
They love the race. Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
They love the race and hate the individual.
SPEAKER 06 :
Never thought about that. Yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
And it's it's interesting because it's like, you know, like I've seen my Yankee friends who would like if a black person moved next door, they they'd leave the neighborhood. Right. We're in the south. That doesn't happen because they coexist. The races coexist. And and my dad was, you know, he he was he he hated the race and loved the individual. But my father was a southern racist.
SPEAKER 06 :
So but you grew up in St. Louis, right?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I grew up eating grits and saying y'all, even though even though St. Louis is kind of Missouri was a slave state. The governor fought for the South. The legislature voted to stay with the union. So it was actually there were more Civil War battles in Missouri than any other state except for Virginia. It was a border state. It was the place where families were divided, where brothers were shooting guns against other brothers. So we're not actually as divided in this country today as we were then. Knock on wood. But we're probably where it feels like a close second place. So my point about this, though, is that like if I'm face to face with a human being, Kim, I don't care if they're documented or undocumented. Now, I care if they're a violent criminal or not.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, but I have to ask this question, is how is it that somebody that could be undocumented or illegal would have the money to be going to college? I don't understand that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, because they work. They actually pay a lot of taxes, too. But this is not supposed to be an argument about immigration. I'm telling you, these immigrants are great. My student immigrants are amazing.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, we'll leave it at that.
SPEAKER 12 :
They are great.
SPEAKER 06 :
They want to learn.
SPEAKER 12 :
Your family has immigrants in it.
SPEAKER 06 :
I know.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. And they are great people and they left you here in America to live your best life possible. They chose America as the best country in the world. They had reasons to move here and they were industrious and entrepreneurial and my students are all of those things. And they're all from crazy all over different countries, right? Like Africa and there's a few from from europe even and um there's even less than less spanish speakers than you might expect and So I'm teaching them how to – I'm teaching them the American dream. And it is so great because I'm teaching them also like a little bit of American business culture, like you have to show up on time. And you can call someone in business in America. You can call some – you call people by their – adults call each other adults by their first name. And you come from these cultures where there's like the hierarchy – is more firm, the social hierarchy is so rigid, and there's not as much social mobility, and that's what makes America great is our social mobility. And economic mobility. That's what I mean, yeah. Yes, that too. And so I'm doing that. So I'm teaching startup finance there. And I'm going to give a presentation at Regis University where I teach the other class. And the innovation challenge will be April 18th. And I'm giving a presentation before that to the – there's four competing businesses. And they get to go before – it's kind of like a – I shouldn't say it's like a shark tank because they don't really have products and they're not pitching for investment. But they are – they're going to convince a panel of judges that they've got the best business idea. So I love a good business competition. Yeah. Yeah. It's really great.
SPEAKER 06 :
Can people, is it open to the public?
SPEAKER 12 :
It is open to the public. April 18th, you'd have to Google Regis Innovation Challenge to go watch these. They have to have a connection to Regis, but they're taking businesses from the community and you can just grab a student to join your team and and compete that way. And a lot of schools have these competitions. In fact, the end of that DU class is a pitch competition that's a graduation. I don't know if that's open to the public or not. I'd have to check. But it's, yeah, so lots of good things going on. And I'm the legacy catalyst speaker. I'm a professional public speaker. And so that's why I wanted to come in and talk to you about legacy. You and I, we've always talked about, well, you dragged me into politics. But I always want to talk about the economy and finance and the transformative power of financial education. And one of the things, the overlap between the two, the biggest overlap between legacy and financial education is kind of like what you leave behind because you can't take it with you. Right, Kim?
SPEAKER 06 :
Never seen a hearse with a U-Haul, right? No.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's a great line. Oh, I'm stealing that line. I'm going to say that on stage.
SPEAKER 06 :
You like that? Okay, you can use that. Thank you. So let's go to break a little bit early on this, Kurt Gerwitz. And we want to hear from you as well, 720-605-0647, to talk a bit about legacy. And we have other email or text messages that are coming in as well that I'd like to try to get to. But I want to make sure we get to this subject on legacy. I think it's super important. And these discussions, we have them because of our – wonderful sponsors if you've been injured you want to make sure that you take prompt action action and you work with great people on this as well it's a difficult time so reach out to john bosin with bosin law for a complimentary appointment if you've been injured
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Welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That's Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice. We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. In studio is Professor Kirk Gerwitz. Hold our thought on legacy. We've got Ron on the line. Not sure what he's going to weigh in on. Ron, what's on your radar?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, Kim, the gentleman that you had speaking as a guest, I strongly disagree because my big brother was African-American, black. He took me in when my family broke up. And no white people wanted to move away when he moved in. And The racist that I've seen is when I went to North Carolina and I tried to go into a bar and they said I couldn't go in because I was white. So I think he's skewed, I guess. Okay.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay. Ron, and thank you because this is your own personal experience. And so, yeah. Do you have any comments on that, Kurt?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I appreciate anybody who calls in and has anything to say. I don't think that I was trying to say anything that would contradict what I just heard.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 12 :
I'm speaking in generalities.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, in generalities. Ron, I thank you for that. Let me just share a story about, I think racism, Ron, is learned. And I've shared this story on the air before. But I had gotten to know a guy, and we were on a board together. And he had played football at, I think, Iowa State. And big guy and black. And he was always talking about his wife. And when I met her... She was like this Irish redheaded, you know, very, you know, fair skinned woman. And and so the two of them together, they got married in the 70s. They both were attending Iowa State. And that was pretty unheard of, Ron, at that time. interracial marriages. So they were really groundbreaking. So Ron, my friend, told me, no, his wife, Mary, told me the story that her little niece had come home from school and had said to her mother, she was probably kindergarten, first grade, that something derogatory about black people. And Mary's sister, the child's mom, said, well, what about uncle ron he's black and she's like he is and she goes well haven't you looked at the family pictures and i thought that was absolutely precious ron that here this little one didn't see color whatsoever and that was where i decided that racism is taught ron yes yeah it's just
SPEAKER 07 :
It's all in being in the military. I just look at people as dark green, light green. So I don't look at race. So that's just me.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, I love that. Ron, thanks for calling in on that. And so let's get over here, Kurt, to you regarding legacy. And I had never really thought of the word legacy. We hear that about legacies of presidents. And a number of years ago, my cousin was in town. We had lunch, and he said something about your legacy. And I've never really thought about legacy. So it was interesting that you brought this up.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, it came to me from my business coach who said, you know, if you were to brand myself as a professional public speaker, what would you most want to just sit around the coffee table with your friends and talk about? And for me, it's long-term thinking. It's that... You know, the thing I do in the transformative power of financial education shows up with the It shows up when I say like do you have a relationship to your future self? And legacy is just what are you going to leave behind? And usually – the name of the game is that long-term thinking beats short-term thinking. So my favorite question and one I will propose to you, Kim, is like what advice would the best version of yourself five years from now give you? Matthew McConaughey gets teased. He was receiving an award one time, and he said, people ask me who my hero is. And he says, my hero is myself in five years. Oh, that's cute. And it sounds comical because it sounds egotistical. It sounds selfish. And, you know, like my hero is myself sounds like a silly thing to say. But there's real wisdom in that because what he meant was he's always challenging himself individually. to be the best version of himself and to have a connection to his future self. And so there's a real power in thinking about the future. Now, it's, you know, the spirituality part of me says, and mental health piece says, when you're thinking about the past, you can get depressed. When you're thinking about the future, you can get anxious. And yet there's also a real utility to putting on that hat and saying, what would Kim Monson... What advice would she, you know, what would she say about this decision? What advice would you give yourself looking back from your future self when you're 90 years old and you're happy and you've lived a good life? What would you say about what you should be doing with your time now?
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Okay. And Gammy, hold on here because we want to give you a minute and a half here in just a minute. Okay. Legacy. First of all, I have in my will where I would want my ashes. to be buried i to me i i like a gravestone i like i like something out there that says this person lived so i i've i've determined where i want that to be it's it's in my happy place and of course my real happy place will be um with christ again on the other side um but um I like that idea versus just my ashes in a jar in the pantry. And I don't want to discount anything with anybody, but that is something part of the legacy. The other legacy is I really go back to our founders, and I find great heart when I look at the Declaration of Independence, when they said that they are pledging their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. Because the legacy that they wanted to live is liberty for our next generations. And that's why I'm doing what I'm doing is when it's all said and done, when my kids, my grandkids look at it, they may disagree with me on things that I do in life, but I want them to know. She left it all on the field. She did everything that she could because she felt this duty, this great American idea that you are teaching your students about, that we are making sure that we pass that on to the next generation. So does that answer your question?
SPEAKER 12 :
I like it. You know, when I thought about your legacy, you put a lot of words out into the universe. And when they're on podcasts, they're being recorded. And people will be able to listen to you. You and I, we can't listen to our great, great grandparents. But your great, great grandchildren will be able to listen to you.
SPEAKER 06 :
That's a very interesting point. So with that, I do want to get over and give Gammy a minute and a half because I know that she has been she's a prolific maybe should be our next word of the day. She's a prolific writer as she is working in public policy. Gammy, you've got a minute and a half. Welcome to the show.
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Good morning. All due respect to everybody. Love you guys. But let me tell you something. I was brought from Germany to America in Norfolk, Virginia. And let me tell you something. You know about the talk in the South when you come from Norfolk, Virginia. And there were a lot of racist attitudes, but I didn't embrace them. I grew up with friends from all cultures because there is only one race, the human race. Everybody gets that wrong. Number two, the Marxists, they could not destroy us on economy because of our robust middle class, so they pounded the racism. And it's bull hockey. Yes, it exists in pockets all over, sure. Planned Parenthood, abortion clinics are more racist. They kill more black babies than anybody. And now as to teaching and the future, hon, we are cutting off weenies and boobs. There'll be no future if we don't wake up and quit the justice warring into colleges and universities, teaching kids to fight. And the trans children are all taken advantage of. They're the innocents. It is such a crime when you talk about what ought to be done. But illegal people should not come before legal citizens. And right now, there are citizens all over America who can't pay their student debt. And there are legal Americans fighting for the country. And we're trying to pay for millions of people that don't belong here. I apologize. I'm not cruel. But this has to stop, and it has to stop from the justice organizations, the communist organizations like the Denver Commies, and the religious groups who are promoting the wrong part of this.
SPEAKER 06 :
Gammy, thank you. And thank you for all of the writing that you're doing as well. I really appreciate it. And Gammy, she puts it all on the line as well. She's leaving a legacy because she cares so much. She did bring up an interesting point. And Kurt, I was going to mention this on a headline. Right now, there is many of the news stories, there's a family story. The parents looks like a lovely family. They've been here for 35 years. Apparently they were recently deported and they're seeing family pictures. You've seen pictures of the couple hugging each other and says family or parents here 35 years deported. I'm saying if you're here for 35 years, why didn't you go to work to make yourself legal? I don't understand that.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's an interesting question. I'm sure they would want to. I'm not sure there's a path for it.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don't know, but it doesn't seem to me like they should be able to jump the line. I have a number of friends that are paying big bucks trying to become citizens, but we didn't want this to be a – we'll do that maybe next time.
SPEAKER 12 :
We'll do immigration next time.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, so we – gosh, we only have a minute left.
SPEAKER 12 :
So legacy, give us your – My favorite question to ask when I get on stage – hand me the mic and I'm going to say – What do you want people to say at your funeral? I actually got a better version of that recently. What do you hope people will say about you at your 80th birthday party? Okay. What's your answer? I'll go while you think. For me, it's like I just want to have lived the fullest life that I could. I helped people feel free from their own inhibitions and anxieties because I was free from mine. And I helped others live their fullest life by doing it myself.
SPEAKER 06 :
Can I keep that as a homework assignment on what I want to have set at my 80th birthday?
SPEAKER 12 :
I'll come back in May or April.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, April is right around the corner. I do currently think 85 is middle age, just so you know.
SPEAKER 12 :
So I'm going to move that 80 to 120.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay, that sounds good. Hey, Kurt Gerwitz, it's always a great discussion. It goes way too quickly.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, we do. You know, we should invite your audience to our lunches.
SPEAKER 06 :
We should. We're going to have to do that. We should just bring the mics. Bring the mics to lunch. That's a great idea. So we've got something really big that I think is going to roll out at the end of April. So stay tuned on that. But our quote for the end of the show is James Madison. And he said this. It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the injustice of the other part. That's why I think that House Bill 1211 is really important for you to weigh in over there on cutting gauge. So my friends today, be grateful. Read great books. Think good thoughts. Listen to beautiful music. Communicate and listen well. Live honestly and authentically. Strive for high ideals and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you and God bless America.
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Talking about freedom Talking about freedom I will fight
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Join Kim Munson as she delves into the intricate dynamics of political malfeasance and legislative actions that push the boundary between force and freedom. In this episode, she is joined by Alan Thomas to discuss the upcoming GOP organizational meeting and its implications on the local and national level. They also passionately explore taxation, legislative overreach, and the crucial need for clarity and truth in policymaking. In the second half, Kim engages in a heartfelt conversation with Medal of Honor recipient Drew Dix, co-founder of the Center for American Values. They discuss the significance of valor, commemorative stories, and the vital lessons that past and present heroes teach us about courage and sacrifice. This conversation serves as an inspiration as we face modern ideological battles within our communities.
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It's always great being here, Kim. Thanks. Thanks.
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So a lot's going to be happening with the GOP this weekend. So set this up for us. Are you going to be down in Colorado Springs? And what's happening?
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Yeah, so we have the state GOP organizational meeting. So this is where we'll elect the governor. chairman or chairwoman for the Colorado GOP and the secretary and the vice chair. So a lot going on. There's also a lot of multi-district meetings today, tomorrow, such as like a judicial district. So one that kind of spans several counties. They'll have their organizational meetings where they'll elect all their officers as well. So if you can't tell from my voice, I kind of came down with something. I know.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's like, are you changing your voice, Alan Thomas?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah. The last thing I want to do is get all the great Republicans in Colorado sick. So they offer a Zoom option. So that might be what I'll be taking just to avoid spreading. I mean, it's not that bad. It's more I lost my voice yesterday and just a little sniffle. But It's never fun spreading that around.
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Yeah. And there really is something going around big time. So it's that season. But it's great to have you here.
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Always great being here.
SPEAKER 13 :
And your piece that we're going to be talking about is you've titled it The Wonderful Political Malfeasance of the Left. And it is super interesting what is happening in our country right now. So we'll get into that. here in just a moment. But as you all know, we look at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it's not compassionate or altruistic to take other people's rights, their property, freedom, livelihoods, opportunities, their childhoods, or their lives via force. And force obviously can be a weapon, but it can be policy and unpredictable and excessive taxation and fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. This agenda by the World Economic Forum, globalist lease agenda, United Nations, this Colorado state legislature, what they're doing is unbelievable down at the statehouse with the behest of the governor. But they use land use codes, zoning regulations, forest fees, conservation easements, national monument designations. That list goes on and on. And, Ellen Thomas, it's not okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
It's not. And, you know, we finally get a little bit of a break with the legislature to debate budget now. I think the long bill is finally getting proposed. So that's going to be interesting how they've tried to cut out of our budget. And, you know, as we well know, of course, the Democrats have been pushing this off for years and years. And we have a structural deficit now in Colorado. And from all that I've heard, they haven't addressed that structural deficit yet. through this next long bill, this budgetary bill.
SPEAKER 13 :
And they've been trying to address this different ways by taking more and more of our Tabor refunds because what they've done is they've overcollected taxes from us under Tabor, Colorado's Taxpayers Bill of Rights. They're supposed to give it back to us unless we vote and say it's okay. But as I'm watching as president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, they are going through I think gyrations will have to be one of our great words maybe next week of the day. But going through all kinds of gyrations, sometimes with the help of Republicans, which is very frustrating, to keep more of the excess revenue. Somebody said don't say revenue. Excess taxes that they have taken from us, Alan.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. And, you know, it's kind of interesting, too. You know, we saw the Democrats try and say that Republicans were trying to cut Medicaid here in Colorado and actually didn't. Judge said, no, absolutely not. You can't say things like that and had to take those billboards down. So we still see the political games of the fact that Republicans haven't had a majority since this has been an issue. Well before 2020, Republicans have not had a position of power at the state level. And so for Democrats to even attempt to blame this on Republicans is you hope that the voter in Colorado can know and understand that because this is something that has to be owned by the Colorado Democrats 100%.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and we have to shed light on that. Elections, you're alluding to elections. Elections are super important, and there's new developments regarding elections, regarding our Colorado 2024 election project, the executive order by President Trump. And I hope that we can get into that a little bit later at some point here in the show. Kane is going to join us as well. You're our featured guest in hour one. Kane is our featured guest in hour number two. And... Let's just go ahead and let's get into this, the things that we like to do. First thing is our word of the day. I decided to use the word malfeasance because that was in your title. And it's spelled M-A-L-F-E-A-S-A-N-C-E. And it is a noun. It could be misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official. Or number two, the doing of an act which a person ought not to do, evil conduct or an illegal deed. And with all of the assault upon our Second Amendment rights down at the statehouse, I think it's downright malfeasance, Alan Thomas.
SPEAKER 08 :
It absolutely is. And, you know, the title that I kind of chose was The way the left has been politically outmaneuvered by Trump since the very beginning of his presidency, it really should be called malfeasance for what Chuck Schumer and all the leaders in the Democrat Party have done. Trump has outflanked them at every turn. And it's it's a wonderful thing for us to watch that type of malfeasance.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, and to see it being addressed, we'll just put it that way. So next thing, Bill of the Day, and thank you, Ben, for Senate Bill 25-183. This is coverage for pregnancy-related services. And this is the complement, if you will—I don't think complement's the right word—to prop— Let's see, 79, I think it was, that was passed by the people of Colorado that basically says that we, as an amendment to the Constitution here in Colorado, that abortion can be done right up until the time the baby is born. And we're going to have insurance pay for it. Medicaid's going to pay for it. So you just mentioned they're saying we want to cut Medicaid. But here in Colorado, they want to take tax dollars to use that to abort babies here in Colorado. One way to make sure that you're not... undercutting Medicaid, if you will, would be to not expand these services to do this. And so anyway, and I need to give you the information. Everybody has the sniffles over here today, so it's one of those things that's going around. But this bill is Senate Bill 25-183, and I want to get the sponsors for you on this as well. Hang with me. I thought I had that right at my fingertips, and I didn't.
SPEAKER 08 :
And, you know, Kim, this is an interesting point. When you have a right for something that somebody else has to provide a service for, this is why we talk about rights the way that we do is at what point are you going to force somebody to do something they don't want to do if they have a right for it? And we always talk about health care as kind of the positive example of this, of, you know, if you have a right to an abortion, does that mean it has to be provided to you by taxpayers? Yeah. I can't remember if it was like Jim Jordan or Thomas Massey or maybe even Ted Cruz. One of them said, well, hey, if you have this right and the taxpayers have to pay for it, well, then where's my right to a gun then? Do the taxpayers get to pay for my guns and my right to the Second Amendment? So it's one of those very interesting questions that when you start to say we have a right and it needs to be in the Constitution, when you're not an astute political thinker, and you just start adding willy-nilly to the Constitution, you're going to get bills like this.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and this is Senate Bill 25-183. The prime sponsors are all Democrats on this. Senator Robert Rodriguez, Senator Lindsay Doherty, Representative Lorena Garcia, and Representative Julie McCluskey. And so that's where we are. And that's Senate Bill 25-183. And we really need to be engaging in this cultural battle for life. We have actually abdicated, I think, a lot. We didn't even realize it regarding this case for life. And what's the opposite of life? It's death. What's the opposite of creation? It's destruction. That's the bottom line of what we're seeing here. So that's Senate Bill 25-183. Ben, thank you for bringing that to our attention. And, again, you can't – and let's just mention this one more time. So there's this movement out there that there's this, quote-unquote, right to abortion. But that does not mean that you – if you choose to have an abortion, that you have a right to have taxpayers to have money taken via force from taxpayers to pay for that. And I think it's really important to understand. One other thing, you compared this to our Second Amendment rights. The Second Amendment, the Bill of Rights, was put in for a specific reason. This is not part of the Bill of Rights regarding this abortion up until the time of birth in Colorado. A lot of people don't realize that that's the case here, but it is. So, Alan, next thing, I wanted to get to our quote of the day. And it just happened that Medal of Honor Day was on Tuesday. And Drew Dix, who is a co-founder of the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo, it is a very special place. You've got to get that on your bucket list to get down there. And they have portraits of valor of many of our Medal of Honor recipients and quotes by each of them. And I am sharing a Medal of Honor quote each Friday. So I'd reached out to Drew and said, hey, Medal of Honor Day was Tuesday. How about let's talk about it on Friday? He said, OK. Then I'm going through the Medal of Honor book, which I quote every Friday. And it's him. It's his quote for the day. So let's get through this, Alan, regarding Drew Dix, his citation. He was born in 1944. This is actions he took January 31 through February 1, 1968. This was a 56-hour battle, if you can believe it. So I'll let you do the first half, and I'll do the second half.
SPEAKER 08 :
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action and at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty, Staff Sergeant Dix distinguished himself by exceptional heroism while serving as a unit advisor. Two heavily armed Viet Cong battalions attacked the province capital city of Chau Pha, resulting in the complete breakdown and fragmentation of defenses of the city. Staff Sergeant Dix, with a patrol of Vietnamese soldiers, was recalled to assist in the defense of Chau Pha. Learning that a nurse was trapped in a house near the center of the city, Staff Sergeant Dix organized a relief force, successfully rescued the nurse, and returned her to the safety of the Tactical Operations Center. Being informed of other trapped civilians within the city, Staff Sergeant Dix voluntarily led another force to rescue eight civilian employees located in a building, which was under heavy mortar and small arms fire. Staff Sergeant Dix then returned to the center of the city. Upon approaching a building, he was subjected to intense automatic rifle and machine gun fire from an unknown number of Viet Cong. He personally assaulted the building, killing six Viet Cong and rescuing two Filipinos.
SPEAKER 13 :
The following day, Staff Sergeant Dick, still on his own volition, assembled a 20-man force, and though under intense enemy fire, cleared the Viet Cong out of the hotel, theater, and adjacent buildings within the city. During this portion of the attack, the Army of the Republic Vietnam soldiers inspired... Hold on here. I've got to figure out where I put the other half of mine here. Here we go. So, during this portion of the attack, Army of the Republic of Vietnam soldiers, inspired by the heroism and success of Staff Sergeant Dix, rallied and commenced firing upon the Viet Cong. Staff Sergeant Dix captured 20 prisoners, including a high-ranking Viet Cong official. Now, that is a very interesting story that I've heard him tell. He then attacked enemy troops who had entered the residence of the deputy province chief and was successful in rescuing the official's wife and children. Staff Sergeant Dix's personal heroic actions resulted in 14 confirmed Viet Cong killed in action and possibly 25 more. the capture of 20 prisoners, 15 weapons, and the rescue of the 14 United States and free world civilians. The heroism of Staff Sergeant Dix was in the highest tradition and reflects great credit upon the U.S. Army. Cool. Wow. It's quite a story. And this is what I love this quote. And he has this on the bottom of his emails as well. He said, nothing is ever as bad as you think it might be. And that's Drew Dix, co-founder of the Center for American Values. Get it on your bucket list to go visit the center. Support them. And you can get more information by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. That's AmericanValueCenter.org. This all happens because of our sponsors. I know them all personally. And Roger Mangan has been in business for 48 years, serving his customers, providing for his family, and giving back to his communities. And so for help with your insurance needs, call Roger Mangan at 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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SPEAKER 13 :
It is Friday. Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and 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 shouldn't have to force people to do it. Drew Dix is on the line with us. He is co-founder of the Center for American Values. Drew Dix, we were talking about you.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, good morning, Kim. It's always good to be on your program.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, it's good to have you on as well. And Drew, I've gotten to know you through all of the different things that you do down at the Center for American Values. So let's talk a little bit about the center first, because it is a very special place. And the Portraits of Valor of over 160 Medal of Honor recipients, it's a really reverent place. And people understand that when they walk into the center. It's so important.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, Kim, and it's special to me because I knew every single one of those people when we started photographing them since about 1999. So that's a special place. But it's also special that I can tell their stories to the youth and their parents about the sacrifices made for the country because, you know, If we didn't have people willing to make risks for each other, then what do we have? That's a sure symbol of a country and being united. And the thing that we like to say is that we don't preach war, we don't talk about war, but the examples of those actions that those fellow recipients did on the battlefield, it Bad times are an indication of people coming together and that some good comes out of bad things. And that's why I say there's nothing ever as bad as you think it might be.
SPEAKER 13 :
I love that. I love that quote. And Drew, I take great heart from these stories and the different people that I've met at the center, because in a way, I think we're also we're in an ideological battle. And what I've learned regarding the Medal of Honor, first of all, you don't win it. It is awarded. You are a recipient of it. So it's not a competition. Right. Right.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's absolutely right. I don't know anybody that could try to, quote, win one and survive. You just don't do it. And in fact, the situations are so unique that it comes so fast and the situation changes so fast that you don't have time to plan that thing. And what's so remarkable is those that were with you are the ones that think you were worthy enough to receive the medal. That's what's making it so special.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right, because there has to be witnesses to the action, and you have to be recommended for the medal. And so it's the highest military honor that can be bestowed upon someone here in the military. But I think one of the key things that I've learned regarding the Medal of Honor is it is awarded because when the situation presented itself, these men took action. I think there's one woman that maybe received the Medal of Honor, but it's these men stepped forward and took action when the situation presented itself. And, Drew, I take heart from that as we're in this ideological battle. In fact, the two men that are in studio with me right now, Alan Thomas and Kane, are stepping forward in this ideological battle to protect those around them. And so I take heart from those stories of our Medal of Honor recipients and put it into my everyday life.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, you know, that's exactly right. The Medal of Honor recipients were in a war and we fought. against a visible enemy. But those, there's a lot of warriors out there that didn't carry a gun. In fact, the founders of our nation didn't carry guns, but they were fighters and warriors. And so my hat's off to all those that are doing what they can to keep us, the ship righted in the right direction.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, Andrew, the Center for American Values is nonpartisan and nonpolitical. And the values that it focuses on is honor, integrity, and patriotism. And I was having a conversation with one of our listeners, and she has family members that lean to the left. And so there can be this rift regarding politics. And she said politics can divide so many people. And I thought about it for a little bit, Drew, and I responded back. I said, I don't think it's politics. It's values. And I think that what happens is people... We need to come together on values. I think that there are those on the left that also have these values of honor, integrity, and patriotism. And so what you're doing at the center is focusing on that and not on politics. And I think that we can take inspiration from that, Drew.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I think that's a very good point, and that's exactly the approach we take, is that we believe that all people should strive for honor and integrity and have patriotism for the country that gives them that privilege of living their life the way they choose. And I think the most important thing is that, yes, even those souls that don't quite get it, should strive for honor, integrity, and patriotism, and at least instill in the young people that. And if we all understand that, then I think the politics will be less divisive, less combative.
SPEAKER 13 :
So, Drew Dix, I know you are a true American hero. And whenever I am at these different events with you, I was up in Pinedale, Wyoming, when you had presented to all the kids up there. And it's something to just watch. young people as they they want to understand your story it seems that they're hungry for learning these things about our country and it's just does my heart good to see all these young people that you're interacting with and i think it gives you and me great hope for our country well it does and i think our young people since they're uh
SPEAKER 03 :
captive to these devices that we're talking on right now, that when they see us, they really are hungry, as you say. They want to hear it from the real person. And I think that's what we need to strive for is a little more of that and encourage young people to ask questions and go to the source and always think that there's two sides to every what you're hearing. And we tell at the center, and this is something that I always say, is that we don't tell young people what to think. We just tell them how to think and that they can think.
SPEAKER 13 :
And I love that as well. So, Drew Dix, you are starting a podcast, though. Tell us a little bit about the Drew Dix podcast. Sure.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, we're happy to do that. It's really exciting. We're having fun doing it. The first episode under DrewDixPodcast.com was on Greenland. And what we decided is things that are in the news that are confusing to people or keep you up all night, we're going to talk about it. And I spent 10 years, 10 spring seasons, working off of Greenland on the sea ice on a government – classified government project tracking Russian submarines, Soviet submarines. So I have a little knowledge about that, and I wanted to share it, and it turned out to be a pretty well-received program. So the listeners can look at grudixpodcast.com and see for yourself. And if you like it, let us know.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I'm sure that they will. And your co-founder, Brad Padula, is a media guy. He's a documentary producer. And so the two of you together, just tell us how you decided to start the center, because I think it's a pretty interesting story.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, it is. And so Brad, I got to know Brad about 19... when he filmed Beyond the Metal, because there was four of us living from Pueblo, Colorado, which is the only city that's had four living at the same time. And so Brad got to know us pretty well, and we'd already lost Bill Crawford and Carl Sitter, and Jerry Murphy, the other recipient, was not doing real well, and he was in the... a medical facility in Pueblo, and went to see him. So obviously he wasn't going to make it very much longer, and we sat down and were having a cold beer and talking it over. It was overwhelming, so we were just settling down a little bit. And we decided, you know, his story and other stories are going to be lost if we don't do something. And Brad's father, who had this building he just purchased, was renovating it, We left from having that beer, went right to him, and of course he was walking around this project, supervising dirt work or whatever, and approached him with his idea, and he looked at us and said, well, okay, what floor do you want? And that's where it got started. And on day one, when we opened the doors on the 10th of November, Marine Corps birthday, actually, 2010, it's been the same. And it looks pretty much the same. It was a very, very special place. We had the portraits that were purchased and donated to the center by Brad's father as well. And so when people come in the doors, they're just overwhelmed by the solemnness and the dignity of the place. And it's really special to see young kids lined up from getting off their buses and grousing around like they do, and you think, oh, they're going to come to the door and mess things up. But no, when they walk to the door, they get quiet. They look around. So that's how it got started, and it's been that way ever since.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, I highly would recommend that people check out your website, AmericanValueCenter.org, and also your podcast, and that is DrewDixPodcast.com, correct? Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
That's correct. And the next one will be released next Wednesday. And it was an interesting subject, the readiness to fight and win the next wars. And that turned into a lively discussion. So I encourage all of you to look at that as well.
SPEAKER 13 :
Drew Dix, thank you for what you do. Thank you for caring for our country, for our youth, for all that you and Brad do there at the Center for American Values. And your final thought you'd like to leave with our listeners today.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, thanks for thinking of us on Medal of Honor Day. It's a special day. Most of the recipients were in Arlington National Cemetery laying the wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown. And what a lot of people don't realize, there are Medals of Honor awarded to the unknowns from World War I to Korea and Vietnam, actually, and then Vietnam. So it's special. So we're paying tribute to all those that fought, that may have earned the Medal of Honor and just never were able to wear it.
SPEAKER 13 :
Drew Dix, thank you for all the great work that you're doing. And we will see you soon. The next On Values presentation will be, I think it's April 16th. And Norma Donlon, who is the widow now of Roger Donlon, who was, wasn't he the first one to receive the Medal of Honor from the Vietnam War?
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes, Roger was 1964. I knew him well. It was the very first one from Special Forces. Actually, the first one in Vietnam that received him.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, and he just recently passed on, so that'll be a great event. Doesn't cost anything. RSVP by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. Drew Dix, thanks for all that you do.
SPEAKER 03 :
And have a good day.
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SPEAKER 13 :
I forgot you pulled this, Joe. This is going to crack me up at least for the next few Fridays. That is hysterical. So thank you, Joe. Welcome back to the Kim Munchen Show. Thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It is reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy. from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives and fuels our hopes and dreams and empowers us to change our own personal climate. In studio with me is Alan Thomas. We're going to be talking about your essay that we'll roll out this weekend, The Wonderful Political Malfeasance of the Left. And Kane, the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado, snuck in here as well.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. Thank you for having me again.
SPEAKER 13 :
And you're a military guy, former police officer.
SPEAKER 09 :
Former law enforcement.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
Drew Dix, I could tell it was really moving you. Yeah, for sure. And so it's inspiring to hear the stories of the past, these virtuous men who devoted their lives and sacrificed a lot so that we can have these freedoms. Yeah. I'm not sure that we as Americans really understand what's happening to us now, because we may not be at war with the marxicoms, but they're at war with us. I think it's an information war right now. But for the most part, people are still dying. People are being hurt by their policies. And so we need to recognize that and do something to protect our rights and our liberties. And these examples that you provide every day inspires me to just continue to fight and to know there's suffering and sacrifice involved.
SPEAKER 13 :
There is. And even with all that's out there, we are blessed. We are so blessed. And we have this duty to pass on to the next generation what has been passed on to us. And so with that, Alan Thomas. And you've got two little kids. I've got little grandkids. And that's why we're engaging in this battle, because I think about Washington, all the stuff that they put on the line. And I had a conversation just recently, and I've shared this a few times on the air, because this was a mental process for me, is one of my friends said, And there are those on the left that have somewhat celebrated the killing of the UnitedHealthcare executive, indicating there might be some righteousness in it because UnitedHealthcare had denied some insurance claims and people suffered because of that. Or now we see people destroying Teslas, which you are talking about in your article. And so my friend said to me, well, Kim, I said, that's not the way we're supposed to settle things in America. And he said, well, George Washington in the Revolutionary War, they used weapons. And I sat back for a minute. I said, that's true. But they used them because they wanted to get to liberty, and they wanted to get to a point where we wouldn't settle our differences like that. Hence the American idea and the American Constitution. And that's what makes us so unique. And that's why your article, I think, is really important, this wonderful political malfeasance of the left, although... I never underestimate the ability for Republicans to snatch defeat from the from the jaws of victory. So let's talk a little bit about this, because this is a really important piece that you've written.
SPEAKER 08 :
And before we do, though, I kind of want to address that point is the founding fathers did not take up arms in revolution except as a very, very last resort. That's what the Declaration of Independence actually is. It's a redress to the king saying, here's what we have asked for time and time and time again. We have tried to solve this through political discourse without the need to turn towards killing each other. But you have refused to give us these things that are necessary for governance of our colonies. And so we are going to send you one last time this declaration of independence and give you the ability to to redress any of these poor behaviors to govern us the way that we should so it's a little unfair it's more than unfair to compare protests and mobs to what Washington did because the founding fathers knew that as soon as they signed that document, they were signing up to either win independence or they were signing their death certificates.
SPEAKER 09 :
And so at what point were, were our founding fathers attacking just general citizens, unarmed citizens?
SPEAKER 08 :
They, they knew that they were attacking members of, the British government. Yes. And they knew that it was an act of revolution. And so to your point, It was something that was done with great gravitas and it was not something that was just out of the blue. And that's something also, that's a good point for Republicans to, to remember as well. I know we bandied about the word revolution for a while and perhaps we need to rise up and it's like, no, this is something that needs to be taken as a very, very last resort because it is so strong and heavy. But, um, to your point about snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory, it was kind of funny this, and this article is a little bit more lighthearted than, than some because of that. And, and one of the, one of the hilarious things that happened and the way I introduced the article is, uh, we had that government shutdown that was looming earlier this month. And for all intents and purposes, Republicans were going to be the cause of it, right? Uh, we have the house, we have the Senate, we have the president, uh, Of course, we waited till the 11th hour to start pushing a continuing resolution through. Like for all the narrative was about how Republicans have waited till the last minute. And if government shuts down, it's Trump's fault. It's Republicans fault. And then Chuck Schumer did the absolute. It was shocking. Unthinkable political absurdity of snatching. defeat out of the jaws of victory, he stood up there and said, well, we're going to make sure and shut down the government. We're going to filibuster. We're going to make sure if the government shuts down, it's the Democrats' fault. Or the Republicans' fault. Well, no, but he said that the Democrats were going to shut the government down. He said, we are going to use our filibuster to make sure this continued resolution doesn't come through. So... You know, even though he's got to blame, they, of course, tried to blame Republicans. But everybody watching goes, well, you're the one not voting for it. Right. So he he took the government shutdown onto the Democrats. And it was absolutely shocking that, again, when your opponent is making a grave mistake, you don't step in and save them. And. That's what the Democrats did with this continuing resolution. They absolutely stepped all over themselves and took credit for something that was going to be the Republicans' fault anyway. And it's something that Trump has masterfully done in his first term here. He's He's brought up these very large ideas, yet his implementation of them has started out in a brilliant way to put the Democrats between a rock and a hard place. And it's – the first example I brought up was the electrical vehicles, of course. He's brought on Elon Musk as Doge and gone after the federal government with a – with a blunt instrument to absolutely try and break apart these bureaucracies. And the hilarious part, the irony is there's a Democrat senator who, in protest of Elon Musk, ditched his Tesla for a Chevy Tahoe, a gas guzzling SUV. And you just sit there and you look back and you're like, well, I thought we were doing this for the environment. And yet you're advocating getting rid of electric vehicles. I mean, for how long has the push been for electric vehicles, for electric vehicle infrastructure all across the country? How long have the Democrats been pushing that? And yet the number one electric vehicle maker and distributor by far is Tesla. It's kind of interesting. The top two electric vehicles purchased last year were both Teslas. The Cybertruck came in at number five. The only manufacturer that shows up in the top ten twice is Ford at number three and number six behind Tesla. And so it's hilarious watching the... hypocrisy of the left as they tell us that we need to worry about emissions and climate change and yet they'll go out and now are targeting private citizens and their cars which presumably and this is the hilarious part right presumably a lot of owners of teslas probably fall into a more left-leaning Because they've probably bought these electric vehicles because they think that they're doing it to save the environment, to reduce their emissions, to reduce their carbon footprint on the world. And yet now the left is targeting their own. And there's plenty of right-thinking Tesla owners, of course. But when you look at these things happening in California, you have to presume that many of these Tesla owners are on the left themselves. And it's also ironic that it is now... The left that is painting and brandishing swastikas, not the right. I know. Isn't that crazy? It's something that we're truly beginning to see that what Democrats oppose is not what they say. Yes. They say that they oppose emissions. They say that they're for electric vehicles. They say that they want to oppose capitalism and all these things. And it's like, no, actually what they oppose is Trump. Lockstep anything that they can do, they're going to oppose Trump, even if it means it's going to be detrimental to their ideology and what they have pushed policy-wise for decades. Right.
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And welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and 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. If you're a golfer and you would like to play the Ridge Golf Course, you've got a great opportunity. You can do that by supporting the U.S. MC Memorial Foundation. in their second annual memorial golf tournament. And it is in mid-May. You can get more information about that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. It should be a really fun time. And be sure and check that out. Alan Thomas, we're talking about your piece, The Wonderful Political Malfeasance of the Left. I know Kane is just chomping at the bit to comment as well. But this is really... It's crazy to watch what is happening with Teslas and Tesla's dealerships. Just a point. You'd mentioned Second Amendment in one of the previous segments. And I've seen headlines that there are Tesla dealerships that are even being shot at with firearms. I'm thinking, how did these people get firearms? Because I thought they didn't want people to have firearms. Yeah. Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely. You know, the second example is actually pretty hilarious, unfortunately, as well. You know, Trump had brought up deporting, you know, illegal citizens all throughout the campaign. He made a huge push about this. And of course, the left kicking and screaming opposed him. But yet again, Trump. just absolutely outflanked them because as soon as he got in office, what was the number one thing he started doing? He didn't start just mass deportations of everybody that ICE could find that's here illegally. He found the gang members, the violent criminals, the violent illegal aliens that are here in our country. Now, Again, to a logical thinker, that makes the most sense, right? You know, regardless of your political belief about how people can get into the country, it's pretty common sense that, hey, if you get here illegally and then you want to start shooting, hitting, harassing people. beating our citizens, if you want to start going into these impoverished neighborhoods as gang members and through force and intimidation participate in the illicit drug trade, that's pretty top of my list of people that I want to say, yeah, let's boot them out. Like, you know, if you're going to put me and my family in danger, you don't deserve to be here in the country. And in aren't here illegally i have a pretty high regard hey maybe we should lock those those people up so trump goes after these violent criminals and what does the democratic leadership do they somehow want to stop these deportations they want them to turn the plane back full of these gang members and criminals and yet again just show them as absolute charlatans uh you know They say they want safety. They say they fight for the impoverished neighborhood. They say they fight for the little guy. But then when you can actually help these communities by getting rid of violent people, they're like, no, just because we oppose Trump and everything he talks about, make sure those people can't leave the country.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and the other thing on that, down here at the Statehouse, is while they, Democrats, are standing up for criminals and criminals that are here illegally, they're working to, and there's 22 different bills with the word firearms in them, to take away the right of everyday citizens to be able to protect themselves against these bad actors. So they want to bring the bad actors back, and they want to say, no, you can't protect yourself. Cain, I know you might have something to say. Oh.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, my gosh. So, Alan, charlatans, I love that word. They're liars. They're pathetic frauds. And they have been since the 50s. I was saying on the break that Malcolm X despised these people in the 60s, 50s. He despised them. This is what the Democrats have done. As you said, these these criminals that are here harming how many rapes are enough? Is one rape okay from these people? I think that's too much. That's one too many. But what they did and what they do is they send out, and it started with the House Negroes. Excuse my French, but they send out their House Negroes to push people to violence. And I'm going to say some names. Raphael Warnack, Anna Presley, Eon. Ihan Omar, Cory Booker, Hakeem Jeffries, Al Wolfman Green, Benny Johnson, James Clyburn, and, of course, Maxine Waters.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
James Brown Wigs Waters. What do they do? They send them out. Do you know that 200 Negroes, 200 black people die every single week? at the hands of other black people. These morons never said one word. It's been going on for decades, and these House Negroes have never stood up and says, we need to stop the violence. A lot of these people that are killed are children. I know. Innocent bystanders, innocent men and women. They are dead. And not one black cockeyed has ever stood up and says, we need to do this. However, these criminals that are raping us, killing us, causing property damage, they step up and go, we need to hit the streets and make sure that these people can continue to rape your women. Listen, they're marxicoms. They hate you, Alan, because you're white. They hate Kim because she's a woman. They use people like me, a proud American Negro, as a weapon to destroy this country.
SPEAKER 13 :
And you're not going to let that happen anymore. So let's toss this over to Alan.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and it's this identity politics, right? It's something that's deeply ingrained in their ideology to split us into groups as opposed to. And this is really part of the malfeasance that they've been drawn into is. We're seeing now that they cannot stand on principle. We see that while they say that they want to be here to defend the environment, actually, as soon as they can protest Trump or Elon Musk by association, they're going to get rid of their electric vehicles. They're going to buy these gas guzzling cars as soon as they have the opportunity to say that they want to stand up for impoverished neighborhoods and actually stand up. for their own constituents in their own communities and say, hey, yeah, you know what? Violent gangs, bad idea. Let's get the bad actors out of the community. Instead, what they're going to say is, hey, you need to turn a flight around and bring them back. And then, you know, it's also funny because we're showing that the things that they care about most are money and power. And Elon Musk exposed this brilliantly today. through his investigations into USAID. And this was, again, another just brilliant way of Trump outflanking them and knowing that they would respond to the first battle, not necessarily to the best one, right? They could have easily said, you know what, violent gang members, we want to save that deportation battle for another day, for maybe a sob story.
SPEAKER 15 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 08 :
When we get the mother or the child that Trump is sending back, I mean, not one U.S. citizen is sobbing over a violent gang member, a gangbanger going back to Venezuela. Not one of us is. And it's funny because when you're in a tough economy, the number one place that Americans say we need to cut first is foreign aid. It makes sense. Again, you know, it's like when our economy is tough, what's the number one thing we want our taxpayer dollars going towards? Not other governments, not towards transgender operas in Colombia, not towards DEI in Serbia. And Elon Musk came in and said, here's what's happening in USAID. And The Democratic leadership just has absolutely gone to war to defend all of this money being spent fraudulently and wastefully in the USAID. And so it's nice that we can we can sit back, allow the left to just get outflanked by Trump and show and illustrate how terrible this Democratic leadership truly is.
SPEAKER 09 :
And they're supporting an agenda that will take my money and tell me to my face, I'm going to use it to destroy you.
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Indeed, let's have a conversation. And welcome to our number two of the Kim Munson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You're each treasure, you're valued, you have purpose. Today's drive 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 we were placed in Colorado, which is at the tip of the spear. because this is where the battle is and lots of exciting things that are going on and we're going to talk about some of that let's get right into it though first of all hooters restaurants had lunch over there with kurt gerwich yesterday great fish and chips they have great specials monday through friday for lunch and for happy hour a great place to get together to watch the the games and i know alan thomas that you are a basketball fan how is your bracket
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I have Duke going all the way, so it's still looking pretty good. But that was a good game last night. And then, of course, I was up way too late before you have to get up for a 6 o'clock radio show watching Texas Tech come back 16 down to win it in overtime. Really? So that was a good late game for us last night. But another fun, you know, it's so fun watching these. I mean, you truly have to remember that they're, 18, 19, 20 years old competing at a stage like this and the joy of victory, the heartache of defeat, and just the stories that you hear about these young kids and what they've gone through to get to where they are. It's a fun tournament. It's the best sporting event, in my opinion. Duke is a pretty easy pick, though, right? Yeah. I mean, they've been my favorite since I was little. You know, Coach K and J.J. Redick and all of those good ones. So I've always been a Duke basketball fan. And Cooper Flagg actually should still be in high school. He reclassified in order to play up this year. And he's the best player in the country. And they are a pretty easy pick for winning the whole thing. And they look good last night.
SPEAKER 13 :
OK. Well, and I realize you should not pick your bracket on emotion because I had KU and Houston in the finals. And I know that KU had a terrible record, but I thought maybe they'll rally. And so don't do it, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
I don't really follow a lot of sports, but I do want to say something about Hooters. Renee and I went to Hooters back maybe two or three weeks ago.
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, up in northern Colorado.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, in Loveland, I believe. They have a fish taco that is out of this world, and it's massive. And so I got the fish taco. You get three with the order, and then I also got the fish and chips. I've been looking for a good fish and chip place since we got here seven years ago. It is 100% delicious. The service is amazing. Charlie, who was a young lady who helped us, their service is absolutely. I mean, I'm a former restaurateur. I've owned a couple of restaurants. Their service is outstanding. Initially, Hooters, you might feel like, well, that's not a family restaurant. It is. Take your wife, take your kids, and go have some great food.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and the story, I think both of you know it, how I got to know them was when I was on city council. And what had happened was is one of the things that we were supposed to do was to approve liquor licenses. And I think that's a whole other question. And I can't even tell you, having these restaurateurs that come in and ask for their liquor license and to see them being dressed down by city council people and the mayor, saying that we're going to come in and we're going to do sting operations and see if you serve somebody under the age of 18. And I'm thinking, wait a minute. I never really liked all that. But anyway, so Hooters Restaurants is going to – they were taking over a property that had been at TGI Fridays that had gone out of business, so there had been a liquor license there. It was a no-brainer. It was zoned for a restaurant. No-brainer. And it was primarily women on the left. Now, I have a friend who's become a friend and a very faithful Catholic, and she was concerned about the uniforms. But take a look at any of the professional cheerleaders or your high school volleyball team.
SPEAKER 09 :
In fact, Renee and I were talking about that when we were eating. I go, there's no difference in that uniform than what girls wear on the volleyball court. Yeah. Zero difference. I know. And again, their service is just immaculate.
SPEAKER 13 :
But I think, Kane, as I looked back at this, I really felt that this, now as I look back, it was early on assaulting women... Being women. Yes, ma'am. I think that was it. So anyway.
SPEAKER 09 :
All of this has been going on for decades and decades. I think I may have told you in a previous episode that I looked through a yearbook from junior high school. And in the yearbook, it had a black African-American club or something like that. There was no other clubs. And there was only black people in here. This was when I was in eighth grade. This has been happening to us forever, and it's high time we stopped taking it. And just our strongest weapon, Alan, is our voices. You speak loud and often. Tell the truth.
SPEAKER 13 :
So going back to the story, and I've told it a few times on the air, but I'm sitting there, and again, it was standing room only. The mayor apparently had already kind of— said this makes sense so they'd started construction you know in private enterprise time is money and but all of a sudden the mayor who had an r behind his name but did all kinds of radical left stuff because you had to be an r at that time in douglas county to get elected um And it's standing room only, and it's primarily women on the left that say, we don't want this here. And I'm looking at it, and I'm thinking, if you don't want it here, you just don't go there. You don't go there, right? And they can compete in the market if people... don't go there, they'll go out of business. If people do go there, they'll stay in business. And if you don't want to go there, you don't have to. But they wanted to use government to say, you can't come in here.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, and that's been the agenda of the left, is I don't like it, and so that means you're not going to like it. And so we're going to control everything, which is taking away from our freedoms and our liberties. At every level, on every platform, everything they do, they attack us and our liberties.
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So I make the motion to approve the liquor license. I look to the mayor and my other colleagues to second the motion. Again, standing room only. All these people have come in and accused them of all kinds of stuff. They have accused them of the stuff that these gang leaders or gang members have been doing that we're deporting. But anyway. Yes. And there was no second. And I said, I would like to address what's going on here. And the mayor would not let me speak and said, OK, at council comments. So I waited till council comments and I started. I said, this is about freedom. And he shut me down and would not let me speak. So at that point in time, the meeting adjourns, and the city councilwoman to the next to me said, Kim, I want to talk with you about this. I said, we'll talk, but not right now. I was so mad about it. I said, this is about freedom. And she says to me, oh, you think you're the queen of freedom. So at that point, the police chief comes up and says, would you like me to walk you to your car? And I said, absolutely not. I can walk to my car just by myself. I was so frustrated. We went home. We issued a press release. And social media blew up because this was a foundational question. And people on the right and people on the left and libertarians, everybody said, what is the proper role of government? Is this the proper rule of government that we can decide that legitimate businesses cannot be in business? And fast forward this, Cain. This was before COVID. This was 2015. A neighbor of mine called, and she said, Kim, as a Christian, how can you be standing up for Hooters? And I said... Let's have coffee. And I explained to her, I said, when government starts to say which businesses are OK and which aren't, we're going down a very dangerous road. What if what if government says they don't like the doctrine of this church over here and they won't let you have that church? Right. And then you fast forward it to COVID and you've got government saying that there are some people that are essential and there are some not. And that's why it was such an important stand.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, it's freedom.
SPEAKER 13 :
It's freedom. So, Alan, I'll go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, I was just going to say one of the one of the more beautiful lines in the very first Federalist paper actually addresses this. And it's a it's a lesson that can be applied to politics, to religion when they say persecute or heresy is rarely persecuted. Not even rarely. Heresy is not cured through persecution. And you have to sit back and you have to say, OK, if I oppose Hooters, is the best way to oppose them through persecution? Or is it through getting to know people, influencing them and changing their hearts and their minds? And that's the point. that the first Federalist paper makes is, hey, you don't want to use the fire and the sword to change people's mind because you're not actually changing their mind. You're intimidating them. You're using the threat of power and force to force their actions. You're not actually changing how they feel, how they think about things. In fact, a lot of times you reinforce their belief. Because they sit back and they say, if you have to use threat and intimidation and power to change my mind, I must be thinking the right thing.
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Well, and you can see that through Tesla and all that. So just to button up the story, and then we'll do our word of the day and all that when we come back. But the city attorney pulled us in a few days later and said, you guys don't have a leg to stand on. Right. And that from the Supreme Court, there is a decision that you can't do this. And so two weeks later, another city council meeting, standing room only, and we know that we must approve this liquor license. And so, again, the whole presentation, everything happens, and the mayor calls for a motion to approve, and they all look to me. to make the motion, but I know that they have to. So I just went, do, do, do, do, do, do. And so somebody else had to make the motion. They looked for a second. They all looked to me. I went, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. And so they seconded it. So it was approved unanimously. So then fast forward. A few months later, and the head of the Colorado Restaurant Association called and she said, Kim, Brian and Tom would like you to be the guest of honor and cut the ribbon. For the new Hooters restaurant. Wow. And I said, well, okay. And so I have this picture of me with the beautiful Hooters girls cutting the ribbon with the owners. And I actually presented the story when I received the Leadership Program of the Rockies 2016 Leader in Action Award. And I said, I'd like at the end of this to put that up on the screen. I said, this is what freedom looks like. Yes. And Tommy Lahren actually talked about it on our national show. So anyway, I get off the city council. I wait. We now are friends regarding.
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And if people have, if you have an issue or concern with the uniforms, pretend that they're cheerleaders. How about that? Because I've seen some cheerleading uniforms that make hooters look like choir girls.
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Okay.
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And so, but here's the thing. The left, conservatives fight for freedom and liberty for everyone. Yes. Mostly for the left because they're not capable or even understand really what's happening to them and our country. So when we fight, even though we have disagreements with them, we have our team. We are all on, you know, 51% of the country is all independent. For freedoms and liberty and the Constitution. And if we don't defend it for them. Right. If we don't defend it for them, we won't have a country. We won't have a Constitution. We won't have it.
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It is Friday. Welcome back to the Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something's a good idea. You shouldn't have to force people to do it. Alan Thomas, our word of the day goes to your essay, malfeasance. It could be the misconduct. Oh, I have to spell it for Eric. M-A-L-F-E-A-S-A-N-C-E. It could be misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official. Should we just put some names next to that as a definition?
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We've seen a lot of malfeasance from some political leaders on the left, shall we say. Yes, we have. And from... Doge has exposed a lot of malfeasance as well. You see a lot of these bureaucrats using their positions of power to use the taxpayer's dime as a credit card. And it's absolute malfeasance.
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Okay, so the next thing I want to ask you is the doing of an act which a person ought not to do, evil conduct, an illegal deed. I think it's downright malfeasance, NPR. Did you see the head of NPR in the hearings? Was it yesterday? Boy, that was – and somebody sent this. Now, I've not sourced this, but they said that she's either on the board or CEO of Signal, right? which just happened to have that signal chat. I need to source that to make sure. So don't quote me on that out there yet. I try not to do that. But anyway, I found that was super interesting. And speaking of taxpayer time, you know what? I buy my airtime. I pay for it. I tell you what, a few million dollars would go a long way for the Kim Munson show if you took it from everybody and then gave it to me so that I could be on the air. That's what's happening with NPR, Alan Thomas.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and I thought the one question of, hey, your whole editorial board is 87 Democrats and no Republicans. And You know, of course, this is what they do is when they're in power, there's no hearings about there's no question. And when they're not, it's it's deflect, deflect, deflect. Right. Oh, well, we don't ask what political affiliation they are. And it's like, OK, well, if you're a news network and you have this absolute echo chamber of an editorial board. Maybe something's wrong. It doesn't take looking at the personal registration of all 87 to realize, hey, nobody is advocating a single Republican idea. You know, nobody wants to pitch a Republican story for NPR at all. It's like, OK. You may not have asked their political affiliation, but you knew exactly what you were doing. They're frauds. You knew that you were. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, no. Yeah, you knew that.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm trying to be disciplined, Alan. They are frauds and they're criminals. Why are they taking our money? And again, it goes back to what the strategy is from the Marxicoms. I'm going to take your money. We're going to use it. to destroy you at every single level. And it's high time that we wake up as conservatives, no, as Americans, and understand. If they're doing this to Democrats, guess what they're doing to the left?
SPEAKER 13 :
So with Doge, I think everyday people are going, wait a minute. And of course, when you start to get comedians involved... in politics, you know that's when you're winning. So apparently there was a meme out there that said, why are we giving other countries money to hate us? They should be able to hate us for free. NPR, why should we be giving them money? And This is another thing that NPR used to have this reputation of academics, that I listen to NPR, so I am very smart. But quite frankly, it was what we've seen in indoctrination, and they're using taxpayer money to do it. Cut the money off. Speaking of the Colorado budget, I don't know if we said it on the air or in between, but... One of the things that Trump needs to do, Doge and all, is cut the money off. So we're going to see doubling down at the school board, the local, the county, the state, and the national level. And how do we stop it? We cut the grant money off. And I know we're going to talk about that, right?
SPEAKER 09 :
Hang on to your hat because these folks at these school boards, these school districts are not going to get the money. And the very next thing they're going to do, because they think we're dumb, they're going to raise our taxes. Those mill levy tax deals that they run.
SPEAKER 13 :
Mill levy overrides.
SPEAKER 09 :
Overrides. They're 100%, which is why they're not worried. We went to Thompson School Board the other day over some silliness with my good friend Nancy Rumfeldt. They are not worried because they know they think we're dumb. They think the citizens will just continue to pay so they can push their CRT, the DEI, the transgender stuff, the grooming that they're doing of kids. So let's talk. Let me say this. Say no. Am I yelling? Say no.
SPEAKER 13 :
Renee, he's yelling. Say no. So with that, we had Nancy Rumfelt on the show earlier this week, a Thompson School Board member who wore a T-shirt that said Real Women Rock. Her other school board members in Thompson School District wanted to have a conversation about her regarding her ethics in wearing such a shirt. We had her on the morning of this school board meeting. You were there?
SPEAKER 09 :
I actually came home from work, shot over there. I signed up to speak. I was the over 100 people that were in front of me. So I stayed for a little bit, and I went home and watched it on television.
SPEAKER 15 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
So it's insane. What they're saying about her is 100 percent lies. She is concerned about every single child in that school district, regardless of their race, creed, color, gender preference. She's concerned about them. She's just simply saying, I have a First Amendment right to say real women rock, just as the transgenders have a First Amendment right to be a man and walk around wearing a dress and lipstick.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, they can do that, but they can't come in. My understanding is in Thompson School District that there are boys with all the parts that can be in the girls' locker rooms. Is that true?
SPEAKER 09 :
That is 100% true, and they can play on the same team. And so the issue was a First Amendment right for Nancy, but also these girls are getting hurt. Now, what was surprising is the numbers of teachers in the school districts. that support males playing on girls' teams. That some of them had arguments like, well, that's not true. These women are just as strong as men. And so my challenge to the one lady who worked in the school district, I want to get in the ring with you and show you how this works. Just to be a police officer, we had very slight women.
SPEAKER 13 :
I'm thinking maybe a guy might not want to get in the ring with you, Cain.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, I'll put on a dress.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know, it's Trump's address to Congress. It was funny. I was hosting the show right after that. And one of the takeaways, one of the more fascinating takeaways was all of the transgender issues, the voting public is backing Trump on. I mean, a majority of Maine voters are backing Trump's proposal about Title IX and actually opposing their own Democrat governor who's opposing Trump over this transgender issue. And And the thing that was most interesting about that, they had those placards. Right. Did you see those where they hold up false? And it was so funny because for most everything that he said, they held up their little false placards. But when he said when he addressed it directly and said men are men, women are women, you can't change. It was fascinating because it panned out and not everyone held up their little false placards. It was very fascinating that most of the Democrats didn't hold up that false placard because they know it's now a losing issue for the voters.
SPEAKER 13 :
So they didn't want to be photographed.
SPEAKER 08 :
They didn't want to be seen with their voters saying, hey, we believe in this transgender issue. And so while we may have a lot of very vocal voices at school board meetings advocating for this lunacy... It's very interesting because most voters agree this issue is ridiculous. It's been fabricated by the left. Everybody knows the truth. I mean, there's there's truth. It's written on all of our hearts. And we know that men are men, women are women, and that it is something mental if you think that you have to be the other. And so it's a losing issue for the left. But it is important to know that it's a losing issue and that while you have a lot of loud voices yelling at school board meetings, That's not the majority of people. The majority of people. know what the truth is. It's just we need that strength and courage to stand up and call it out and say, hey, you're not representing a majority of people.
SPEAKER 09 :
So we have to understand where this started. It was the left that hijacked the gay and lesbian community, just like they hijacked the Negro community. They needed the new victim. All victims get holidays. We got... Black History Month? Black History Month, February.
SPEAKER 13 :
Wait, why is it Black History Month and not African American?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, because we're not African American. We're Negroes. We shouldn't have a month. Yeah, okay. We shouldn't have a month. We shouldn't have a day. Who else has a month? The gays and lesbians, or the LGBTQ group. And so what happened is they needed to have the victims. What did they do with the Negro population? We became the most violent people on the planet. Violent from the 60s on. They removed the dads. We become violent. We kill each other. We kill everybody. What is the LGBT group doing today? They are some of the most violent people on the planet. The last three mass shootings have been LGBTQ person. going in and shooting up kids. A lot of them are on these protests. A lot of them are doing the damage to the Teslas. The lady that attacked one of our marchers, I'm sure she... Well, let's talk about that when we come back.
SPEAKER 13 :
I've got Alan Thomas in studio and his piece, The Wonderful... Political malfeasance of the left will roll out this weekend in the newsletter, so be sure and be signed up for that. And so Alan Thomas is in studio, a great guest host on a regular basis now on the show. Thank you. And thank you to Keyland as well, because it takes everybody to make all this happen. And Kane, who is the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado. We have these important discussions because of our sponsors. And for everything residential real estate, reach out to Karen Levine and have her on your side of the table.
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And welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Munson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at Kim Munson dot com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice and 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. A couple of things I wanted to mention. First of all, Drew Dix, our Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values, I'd recommend that you have that at home in your Freedom Library. And you can get that by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. And, of course, the center is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. But Drew Dix said this. Again, 56-hour battle. Vietnam War, and he says this, nothing is ever as bad as you think it might be. We've got big challenges here in America, and in studio is Alan Thomas, an author here at the Kim Munson Show, guest host, and his essay will roll out as the wonderful Political Malfeasance of the Left, and Kane, who is the founder of Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado. I was having a conversation just recently, and I said that There is nature's law, and in the Declaration, Alan, the founders refer to God four different times, but in different ways. The divine provider, nature's God. And nature's God, and we talk about nature's law on a regular basis. Nature's law, male, female. And this friend of mine said, but Kim, there are... people that men that are born with vaginas i don't know if i can say that on the air but i just did and um and vice versa i said that's an outlier i i said throughout the animal and plant world it's male and female um alan would what would you say to that to
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and it's interesting because when they say nature's God, it's actually hearkening back to Socrates. It's a throwback to the ancient Greeks and how they were able to use logic and thought to arrive at some of these ideas. And that's the beauty of our world. of our founding document is you don't even have to be a Christian to understand the logic of how you arrive at a nature's God. And part of the difficulty that we have is male, female, man, woman. These are such Yeah. And to have the very root of our language even attacked this way, it's difficult because it's like, okay, yes. Well, if I say a deer, if I say there was a deer in the road, you don't have to ask whether it had two heads or not, you know, but there are deer, you know, especially around Chernobyl that, that. grew two heads it's like okay there there may be outliers they may be maybe faint exemptions to the rule but for the most part this rule holds true 99.99 of the time and there is a male there is a female and it's funny you know at the break Producer Joe talked about the scientific method. It's like this is something that's written in our very DNA. I mean, this is something that's so unavoidable that when you do a DNA test of an individual, you can tell whether they're male or female. With both of my kids, we wanted to do the testing to know whether we were going to have boys or girls. It's something that you can test for. Even before you've been born and breathed your first breath of air, we know whether you're male or female. it's such an interesting discussion because it's like, we don't have to defend our position. You know, truth does not have to be coerced. And that's the difficulty of what we're facing is it's like, we're being coerced into thinking that male and female is something that's even debatable. It's not.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, it is become a big debate. And Cain, what would you say to people that say regarding a site outliers, even under the second amendment, people cite out outliers. And so what do you say to that? It's,
SPEAKER 09 :
It's insane to me that we're having this conversation trying to determine male and female. The issue is you cannot make me call you, sir, a woman. I'm sorry. I'm never going to do it. And so they're trying to—the reason why all this stuff is taking place in our schools is they're changing the culture. I did a speech down in Parker last year, and I asked the group. I said, hey, at some point, it's going to be accepted, right? that there are women that have penises, okay? And then there are women that don't, that have the female part. They're changing the culture. So I say to one guy in the audience, what kind of wife, what kind of woman do you have? Does she have the penis or a vagina? Can I say that word? They are changing the culture. They're making it acceptable that we're going to accept this whole third or not even a third. They're going to we're going to accept the fact that a woman is no longer a woman.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay. Using these words on the radio, just drilling right down to it, I'm thinking at least where I grew up, we wouldn't say those words in mixed company, if you will. But our children are being taught this, and that's why we have to understand it. Because our kids are being taught this every day. And the other thing is the focus on those words, it makes individuals focus on the carnal stuff instead of the big idea stuff as well. Yeah.
SPEAKER 09 :
The big idea stuff is their controlliness. They're harmed. This is damaging children every single day. This is grooming children. There's no way that a second grader should know about transgender anything. That shouldn't even be in the lexicon at all. Maybe not even until high school. But they are. These kids are changing our culture. I said it during the break. If you look at the black culture, they changed the black culture. Prior to the 60s, we were not violent anymore. The crime rates were basically the same as everyone else. They changed the culture.
SPEAKER 13 :
But what LBJ did, he said to, at the time, black women, but then it went to all women, hey, government will take care of you and your children as long as you do not have a man in the house. And I've got an anecdotal for you on that, and that is... A woman that I know had been a social worker back in, let's say, the 70s and was doing a house check. First of all, do you really want the government coming in and doing a house check? But if you're taking government money... Yeah, you have. Absolutely. So anyway, the social worker who leaned to the left, pretty self-righteous about it, gets into the house and she's doing her look around the house and she sees a man's feet underneath the bed. Well, it's the dad. And she told him to get out of there.
SPEAKER 09 :
Mm hmm.
SPEAKER 13 :
That's what happened.
SPEAKER 09 :
It was done on purpose. It was done on purpose. If you remove the lion, the jackals will play. And so they've removed the lion from the black culture, and look at what has happened to us. They've removed the lion from the families because men should be, the majority of people at that meeting on Thursday were women. There were a few men that spoke, but most of them were women.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, because the other ones went home and watched it on TV. Some of them.
SPEAKER 09 :
You got me. Some of them. No, the men should be stepping up and going, Miss Jones, you ever talk to my son about transgender anything, I'm going to have a problem with you. Not the school board. Not the school district. I'm going to have a personal problem with you, sir, or you, ma'am, for grooming my kid. I told a story to another school district. My cousin, her name is Kim. Kim was being groomed when she was like nine years old. I would think I was 11, 12. And she used to talk about, hey. That long ago? So-and-so, so-and-so is showing me these books. And I'm like, what? And it was like Playboy and Hustler. And she was telling adults, this is happening to me. She got groomed, and then she was molested. Multiple times. By that person? By that person. Oh. So my cousin Kim became... When you expose children to that kind of material, they become hypersexual at a very young age. This is not coming from just a regular guy. I've heard professionals talk about these things. They become hypersexual at a very young age. Kim became a prostitute.
SPEAKER 15 :
Aww.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, Kim died 10 years ago. She's 55 years old. She was a prostitute the entire time. So when you look, I think one of the reasons why I'm so passionate about these books and what they're doing with the grooming thing These kids can't handle it. They're going to be making really, really bad choices, and they're going to be okay with it because the schools are grooming them.
SPEAKER 13 :
My father, who passed on a little over a year ago, had always said to me, he said, be careful about what you watch, be careful about what you read, be careful about what you listen to, because particularly when what you see, when those images are... put into your mind. It's imprinting. It's imprinting. So we have, that's why the work you're doing at Task Force Freedom Northern Colorado is so important. We're going to go to break. We have these important discussions because of our sponsors. If you've been injured, reach out to John Bozen with Bozen Law.
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Welcome back to The Kim Munson Show. Check out our website. That's KimMunson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. Sign up for our weekly email newsletter. You can email me at Kim at KimMunson.com as well. Thank you to all of you who support us. We're an independent voice, and 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. Thank you to Laramie Energy for their gold sponsorship of the show. It's reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from oil, natural gas, and coal that powers our lives, fuels our hopes and dreams, and empowers us to change our own personal climate. And for a great golfing event in mid-May, check out the USMC Memorial Foundation for their second annual golf tournament out at the Ridge Golf Course. There's a limited number of golfers there, so make your reservation early. You can do that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. Kane, it's great to have you in studio. You care deeply about golf. about our children. Right now, there's a big battle going on in Elizabeth, Albert County, that the ACLU is demanding. that these pornographic books be put back into the schools. And, again, they know what they're doing. They know what they're doing is if they can get these kids to look at this stuff, they know that they are imprinting that for a lifetime. Alan Thomas, you're a dad, and you're active in this. What's your thoughts on this?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, especially when it comes to books, there's a big difference between curating a book collection for kids, highly influenceable kids, and something being available on the open marketplace. And, you know, it's funny, you see all these school board meetings, these parents coming out and reading a book. And I guess my thoughts on this is if there's a book that's even questionable, if the board member is unable to read the book from the, From the stand, then it should not be in the school. I mean, there's we've known this for centuries. Again, this kind of comes back to the foundational issue that we're trying to fight in this ideological battle. Is this is there absolute truth and can it be known? Or are we going to accept the progressive premise of truth is relative? And that's the difficulty in having these types of conversations is you're coming at it and you're having these arguments with people that think truth is relative. There's my truth. There's your truth. There's. their truth. There's Z Zem Zer truth, right? And, and it's a difficult battle to fight because you're both coming at this from a completely different premise. And the premise is I'm saying that truth is absolute. It is knowable that you cannot change the fabric of reality by saying words and that, and they're coming at it from a completely opposite premise. And that's why it, When we go to how do you have these sorts of discussions, it's like you almost have to say, you know what, we can't even have a discussion about what is male or female until we have a discussion on truth, on is truth knowable and can we discover it? Because until you have that premise discussion, you're both going to be just fighting in absolute circles.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, and I'm checking the text line here. First of all, Susan says, I love the yelling. People should be yelling. Okay. But we're in Lent right now. And I heard a sermon one time regarding Pilate, and he's having this interaction with Christ. And there's the words, he says, what is truth, right? Right. And the pastor said, you could have that question with different inflection. So was Pilate being maybe more of a relativism and says, what is truth? Or was he asking the question, what is truth? And I thought that is so interesting to have that different inflection on that, Alan.
SPEAKER 08 :
It is. And you can get different points from different points of view because then Jesus throughout his ministry said, I am the truth. Right. And it's so fascinating as I've been kind of looking into Socrates. This was something that even Socrates was able to, as a non-participant in Judaism or Christianity, was able to logically arrive at the fact that there is a nature's God, that there is a God over nature, that there is this prime mover, that this is unassailable. And yet, if you were to have that discussion with anybody and say that you can logically arrive to the fact that there had to be an initial mover to the universe, that something had to put the universe into motion, because all of our... All of our thermodynamic laws all say everything goes to entropy, that nothing goes towards order. Everything goes more towards chaos and breaking things down than building them up. And you can logically sit here and say there had to be an original prime mover. You know, even if you don't believe in my Bible, we can come to that, that eventual end point. And we can say, hey, if we could come to that end point, then we need to have an end point with truth, too.
SPEAKER 13 :
Right. And our God is a God of order. So, okay, Cain, and then we've got Gabby on the line, too.
SPEAKER 09 :
Just to backtrack really, really quick. Elizabeth is going to lose. They're going to have to put those books back into the schools. There was case law from 1985, Tattered Cover versus Tooley. where the Supreme Court here said they have a First Amendment right to have those books in the school. It didn't say you had to give them to the kids. It said it had to be in the schools. Elizabeth has a protection where a parent has to approve any pornographic book or any adult content book for their child. So that's something they can sign up for in the very beginning. And if a child checks out a book that's questionable, they have to notify the parent before they issue that book to that child. So the books have the right to be in these schools. Insane, but they have the right. It's a First Amendment right. The other thing is that it's a violation of federal law. So I say, I know what the truth is. I say, you belong in prison if you're giving kids pornography. Federal law, section title 18, United States Code, section 1466A. Look it up. You can do 20 years in prison for giving a child an illustration of a man naked with a child naked. There are – it's one of the pictures in a book called Gender Queer. They're all throughout Colorado. I know.
SPEAKER 13 :
You've sent that over, and I can't get that image out of my mind.
SPEAKER 09 :
It's insane. And so these are criminal – this criminal behavior by our school district, which is why I say take your children out of the government schools. They are not safe. If you cannot, you have to stand up and protect your kids. You have to scream. You have to yell. You have to say, excuse me, sir, if you give my daughter that book, I'm going to have a personal problem with you.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay, let's get over here. Gammy, let's make it a minute, okay?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I'm just calling in to say a few things. I wrote on the 003 gun bill again this morning. That was my fifth submission. And I hope that you all will read it because I pretty much told them to go home and get on their knees for the crimes they've committed. But there's a whole lot in there. But that's not why I called. I called because Kane's on there. And, Kane, I'm going to defer with you on one little point. I don't care whether you got a kid in that school or not, whether you pulled yours out or not. Your children will have to deal with the majority of children in that school, which is why every single parent needs to look at the real laws and violations of rights. You can put all the smut in the public library, but in the school library, there should be a firewall of protection. And in a workplace, People would be sued, fired, and personally sued for one millionth of what they are doing to our children. But you need to know this is coming from way up high. Excellent point. Because billions of dollars are involved, and they will not stop until you remove the funding for CELL, CRT, DEI, and show parents that we're not intolerant. We don't blame the trans children. We blame the sick criminals.
SPEAKER 13 :
Okay. Thank you, Tammy. She's absolutely... So we've got about a minute. We've got two minutes left. Kane, I'm going to go to you first.
SPEAKER 09 :
I just want to acknowledge our team. First of all, we're at TaskForceFreedomNoCo.com. You can go on and take a look at all the pornographic books, all the stuff that we've been doing the last four years. I know it's insane, but also we have amazing team members. Thank you, Mama and Papa. They know who I'm talking about. And I want to promote Devastated, which is a A documentary that was put together by my good friend Stephan Tubbs about the fentanyl crisis here in Colorado. It's not political. It's just telling stories about what has happened here in Colorado. I will make it political. After you watch it, you have to ask yourself, why did our government allow this to happen? Why did they allow people to come in and harm us?
SPEAKER 13 :
One more time, that website?
SPEAKER 09 :
TaskForceFreedomNoCo.com.
SPEAKER 13 :
Alan Thomas, you've got a minute. I always appreciate you being in studio.
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, and it's always great being here, Kim. I got a funny anecdotal story, though. I went to a private Christian school some for middle school and part of high school. And it was funny because around then, Harry Potter came out. And the idea that parents had to give their kids permission to check books out wasn't even in question then. We had to get parental permission to check out Harry Potter from a Christian school because it had wizards and magic, right? But this, you know, parents... have the right and the responsibility of educating their kids. And that's something we all need to remember and we all need to realize and put at the forefront when we have these discussions.
SPEAKER 09 :
And can I say this real quick? It's called best practices. Every single school has to exercise it. If your child sees a movie that's greater than a G, they have to get permission from the parent. Okay. But they can give them porn.
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Okay. And on that, our quote for the end of the show is from Thucydides. He said, the secret to happiness is freedom, and the secret to freedom is courage. 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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All right. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us today. Amy Robbins joining us now. She is a spokesperson for Parler, a political commentator as well. Welcome back, Amy. How are you?
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Hey, John, thanks so much for having me on tonight.
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I appreciate it very much. All right, let's talk about Donald Trump, the administration freezing federal family planning grants worth about $120 million.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, let's talk about that because, okay, before we really dive into it, I want to lay some context for people who, John, you and I both know, barely make it past the headlines, right? Okay. So first and foremost, we have to remember that around 75 million people went to the polls last November and voted for a new direction in this country. President Trump campaigned on two very important things. One, reducing wasteful spending within our federal government and getting rid of DEI programs at the federal level. So this move is really in a direct response to that. So this doesn't have anything to do with President Trump going out there and trying to eliminate abortion. That's not what's happening here for the people that that is extremely important to. But what this is what this is doing is the Health and Human Services has a responsibility to take a look at any organization that is receiving federal grants. They have to make sure that they are in compliance with the executive orders that President Trump signed recently, and that being diversity, equity, inclusion. So they're planning on freezing these funds until they have a chance to look and see if any of those funds are being allocated in a way or in a manner that actually goes against that executive order. So, you know, for me, I look at this and I say Planned Parenthood has operated in a way, I think, that... says that they're above the law. For so long, they have been piggybacking off of taxpayer dollars, providing services that more than 50% of the American taxpaying population doesn't want their taxpayer dollars going to in the first place. So I think in a roundabout way, it probably could be considered a win for a lot of people, even though they're using the backdoor tactics of going after DEI. I think people that are pro-life are looking at this as a potential win.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. Now, when you talk about these particular organizations, do you have any you can name out that are receiving these funds?
SPEAKER 12 :
You mean the grants in general?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, who's actually getting the money is my point.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I mean, you have to look at it very broadly. So this isn't just affecting Planned Parenthood. You've got schools that are being threatened right now, like colleges, universities, schools. places that are receiving grants for quote-unquote research projects. I mean, I think the biggest one that comes to mind right now is schools. So schools that are continuing to teach gender ideology, that are continuing to include DEI or critical race theory within their curriculum, like those type of programs are going to be looked at as if they're going to continue receiving federal funding or not.
SPEAKER 17 :
In other words, and that's where I was going with that, is it's not just the big name Planned Parenthood. There's a lot of different organizations that could be receiving our tax dollars is my point.
SPEAKER 12 :
Absolutely. You're exactly right. Like they're they're not. Yeah. And I think that's a lot of people are up in arms because they think, oh, my gosh, you know, President Trump is stopping the funding just for this. No, he's not. They're literally going in and looking at all of these institutions that are receiving these federal grants. He is not playing around when he says that he does not want DEI receiving money at the federal level. And so, yeah, they're taking a look at all the contracts and they're going to... As they should, but really quick, Amy. As they should.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, not to interrupt, but as they should. I mean, realistically, this should have been stuff going on all along. It's gotten so out of hand that now that we're starting to really... How should I say this, Amy? It's like, I guess my picture in my mind would be, this is that runaway stagecoach where all of a sudden the stagecoach operator dropped the reins. They're now down running on the dirt. You watch the movies where he's now climbing on the horses trying to get the reins back. And literally, that's exactly what's happening right now.
SPEAKER 12 :
That's a beautiful picture because you're exactly right. That is what's happening. I was thinking on a more personal level to that. When I got married young, we had to put a budget in place so that our spending habits wouldn't get out of control. So what did we do? We had to look at the things that had to go. Those programs that weren't aligning with our goals. President Trump has a goal. and a mission for this country and it's going to hurt a little bit i remember when i had to get back on track yep get my spending under control it always hurts it always hurts a little bit but at the end of the day when we got a line and we got that spinning under control we got on budget we were able to achieve those goals. And I mean, he obviously has a much larger challenge out for him right now. But this is like, to me, the easiest place to start.
SPEAKER 17 :
But it's always, you know, on the same token, Amy, whether it's the federal government, we're talking trillions, or it's a home budget. I mean, the reality is, and I've explained it numerous times, your point, well taken, that family budget is... Yeah. Yeah. We're thirty six and a half trillion dollars in debt. The reality is it's going to be a little while before we actually feel some of that pain subside. But we got to start someplace.
SPEAKER 12 :
We do. And I mean, if you really look at it, he's got four years. He's got four years to make as impactful decisions. of cuts as he can possibly make. And I think this is a really great place to start because at the same time, every time he makes a cut like this and he blames on their DEI program, it is another way that it's opening people's eyes to what has truly been going on in this country over the last several years.
SPEAKER 17 :
You are exactly right. By the way, good analogy on your side of the fence as well when it comes to just a family budget and how that works. And the reality is if families don't get their budget, and by the way, Amy, some don't. Some families never figure this out. They go through that bankruptcy cycle. you know, every five to whatever years it happens to be, you know, how quickly you can actually go back into it again, which, no offense, that's probably another thing that needs to be revamped and quit doing that. But the reality is some learn, some do really well, some come out of it stronger than they went into it. And unfortunately, Amy, some never learn. And I'm afraid that we've got a political party right now that really doesn't care and they've never learned how this works.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, they haven't, but also if you look at what Doge is uncovering, we're starting to see why they have not been so keen on wanting to rein in their spending because we understand that they're getting a lot of their slush funds They're getting a lot of their special interest programs funded, things that we should never have been spending our taxpayer dollars on in the first place. And it just goes to show how deep this problem really has become and why. And I honestly think it's on both sides, why there are people on the Republican side and the Democrat side that don't want to rein this in because they don't want their pockets, their little piggy banks to get cut off.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yep. Yep. No, Amy, well said. I think you're 100 percent correct. There are people on both sides of the aisle. Spending can be a problem, by the way, on either side. That is not a political thing. Yes, I realize one party, I think, spends way more than the other because their goal is to ruin the country through their Marxist ideology. And spending, by the way, is one of those, although that disease spreads both ways.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, absolutely, because you think about the Republicans having the opportunity to cut the government. Like, they don't have to keep letting us raise the debt ceiling. Every single time there's a budget meeting that comes up, there's a vote on the budget. They don't have to keep allowing everybody to keep increasing their spending, but they do. So I think a lot of them are as much a part of the problem, unfortunately. And until they get a handle on this—so this is why President Trump is having to crack down so hard where he can— And what is within his executive power to do, because he knows he knows the game and he knows that we've never seen even the Republican side when they're in party and power cut back on that budget and not spending themselves.
SPEAKER 17 :
That's right. Amy, how do folks find you and talk about Parler for a moment as well?
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, absolutely. So you guys can go and follow my show. It's called The Amy Robbins Show. All you have to do is go download Play TV. It's a brand new free speech, long video format platform. You can get it in the App Store. You can follow me on Instagram at The Amy Robbins or The Amy Robbins Show and follow along with all the wonderful things that we are doing over at Play TV and at Parler as well.
SPEAKER 17 :
Awesome. Amy, I appreciate it very much. You guys keep doing the great work you're doing. I thank you very much.
SPEAKER 12 :
Thanks for having me on. Have a good one.
SPEAKER 17 :
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right. To dovetail into what we were just talking about with Amy a moment ago on some of the things that, you know, Trump and the administration is trying to do. We talked about that with HHS and the revamping of things under Robert Kennedy Jr. We did that in the first hour with Dr. Kelly. My son just sent me this tweet that went out or this X that went out. UK's PM Starmer opens the door to trade wars with Trump over tariffs. Starmer has suggested that the U.K. could retaliate against any tariffs imposed by Trump. The prime minister said all options are on the table as officials continue intensive talks with the White House in an attempt to avoid the car tariffs of up to $25 billion. Such tariffs would risk crippling the British economy and would mean Rachel Reeves might have to launch a new tax raid in October. In other words... They're screwed. Now, he can be mad all he wants. In fact, all of these countries, I've said it over and over again. I'll keep saying it. All of these countries can be mad. Ask me if I care. I don't care. I don't care. And I've already gotten in trouble for, I guess, being hard on Canada. So I'll have to I don't care down here. I can do whatever I want to. I have to be careful on the podcast because we have all sorts of Canadian listeners. And yes, some of you Canadian listeners I know listen to me here. And, you know, I love y'all. This isn't personal. This isn't because I don't like folks from Germany or the UK or any other place around the world. No, no, no. This is just I love my country. And we've been getting screwed by a lot of you for far too long. And yes, I mean that sincerely. For example, German cars that come into the U.S., they have been tariffed in the past at about 2.5% is all. Yet our cars that go to Germany are tariffed at 10%. So tell me how that's fair. Two and a half to 10 seems like a pretty good spread there to me. Those of you that are mathematicians could do the math and figure out what that is. Why isn't it equal? And I think that's Donald Trump's point. Why isn't it equal? So, you know what, to make them equal, here's what he's going to do. You're 25% now. Until you guys can figure out how to make this equal, and by the way, Germany's already talking about going down to that same two and a half percent to avoid this 25% tariff. Why does it take, though, that threat... of the 25% to get you guys to play ball. And I think that's Donald Trump's point, by the way. What are you guys doing? And I know a lot of people think, well, this is just going to really hurt the American public, and we're all going to pay for it at the end of the day, and tariffs just a tax. Well, is it? And yeah, I get it. I know. I have said numerous times that all costs, all costs, that are bore by a company will eventually get passed down to the end user. I get that. But what happens in this particular case is maybe somebody that would have been shopping for an Audi that's coming from Germany will go and buy something else instead. They'll go buy an American vehicle instead. And a lot of people say, whoa, they're not the same quality. Yeah, BS. Yeah, they are, actually. Sorry, I talk about that on Drive Radio all the time. All those cars that are coming now from all over the world, they don't even make their own cars anymore. No one does. I talk about that constantly on the Saturday show. You can tune in for that if you want a better explanation. But the reality is no one makes their own car. They do what they call an RFP, a request for proposal, from all the different vendors out there that make, for example, a starter or an alternator or a seat. And they get bids, if you would, on, yeah, we can make that part for this. We'll supply that fuel injection for that. We'll do this wiring harness for X. And so all these companies, all of them, all of them, The only exception to this, by the way, is Tesla. Tesla makes the majority of its components here in the U.S. and even does its own stuff. For example, makes its own seats, which no one else does. And I'm not exaggerating in what I just said. If you don't believe me, go verify that. Go check it if you don't believe me. Nobody else building cars makes their own seats. I mean, maybe a Rolls Royce or somebody like that or a Ferrari might actually make their own stuff. But every common car made that most people are looking at buying, no, they don't make their own seats. They don't make their own alternators. They don't make their own wiring harnesses. They don't make their own glass. They don't make their own steering wheel. You get the drift. So people that come out and say, well, yeah, Audi's a much better car. Yeah, BS. No, it's not. No, it's not. Well, it lasts longer. No, it doesn't. Well, it's just a much better made vehicle. No, it isn't. In fact, right now, Germany is really struggling because of the various things I'm talking about right now. They put all of their eggs in one basket called the auto manufacturing basket, and the reality is because it's not doing as well as it once was, they're struggling. Their economy is struggling. If you don't believe me, go look it up. Go read for it yourself. You're, by the way, talking to a car expert. So those of you that might not believe what I'm saying, go check me. Go tell me I'm wrong. I'm not. So, yeah, what I'm going to tell the UK and Germany and others when it comes to these tariffs, especially on cars, you want to play ball, go for it. Have fun. Because here's the other reality. Does somebody really have to buy a new car? No. No. They don't. They can get by with driving what they're driving right now. There's plenty of repair shops and plenty of ability out there for a person to keep driving what they own for a very, very, very long time. And buying a new car, unless you're a fleet or a business or something along those lines, is not a necessity. It's not. Now, one thing that's not been talked about, by the way, in the automotive world, and I'm surprised it hasn't been, I was going to get to this at some point, but I might as well cover it now. One thing I'm surprised hasn't been talked about is the amount of cars that may not be purchased in the future by government entities, especially federal government, because of what Doge is doing. It'll be interesting to see if they actually start paying attention to that and realize that, wait a minute, we may not actually sell the amount of cars down the road that we have in the past because the feds may not be buying as much of them as they once were. Tom, go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
This is Tom. Am I talking to John?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes, it is. Go ahead, Tom.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, well, thank you very much. I had no idea that I was calling on to the radio. That's all right. Go ahead. I've heard you in the past, and I love you, and I trust you, and I've never met you. But anyway, I live in Louisville, Colorado. Okay. And I bought a 93 Chevy pickup truck Silverado 20 years ago from the first owner who owned a parts store.
SPEAKER 17 :
All right.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I have driven it for 20 years, and it's never had – I don't think it's had any problem with emissions tests. Okay. And I love my mechanic, who I've been going to for 10 years, let's say. And they just, there was something wrong with the, it was missing on a few. And they couldn't find out what it was. So my buddy said, we can change the plugs, the wires, the rotor, and the cap. We did that, and it didn't fix it. Then I brought it back to my mechanic, and they ran another test or whatever, and they They said they had an educated guest, which I didn't really like, but they were honest. And they replaced the ignition control module, and it did appear to fix it. Okay. And it's running, like, very good. Okay. And ironically, that was at 3 o'clock yesterday, and I went, I said, okay, thanks. hurry up, I've got to get out of here and go get emissions. I went to the emissions place, and it failed the NOx.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, so too much NOx coming out of it?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. Okay. So then they said, and my mechanic's great, so I'm not even going to tell you who it is, because I'm not putting them down.
SPEAKER 17 :
Sure, sure, sure, understand.
SPEAKER 09 :
No, not a problem. And I had a full tank of gas, not knowing. And they said, no, go in there with a half a tank of gas or less, and tried to put the seafoam in there. So yesterday afternoon, I drove clear to Fort Collins and back, and then this morning, that was after I put the seafoam in, and then this morning, I drove up to Central City and back, and then went right back to Broomfield and did another test, and it failed all the time.
SPEAKER 17 :
all the uh things and so so what are you you in my in my opinion i have to see exactly the sheet that you've gotten if you if you sent me that via email i could help you with this tom directly but my gut feeling is you've got a a catalyst efficiency issue going on if the vehicle is running well it's smooth you don't have an engine miss or anything along those lines what you're telling me And not to say the other technician was wrong, but seafoam will sometimes clean some things up, but with what you're talking about, highly doubtful it will in half a tank of gas or a full tank of gas or a quarter tank of gas isn't going to make any difference on that. I'm guessing you have a catalyst efficiency issue. Okay. Meaning the catalytic converter is not working as well as it should.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 17 :
Nope, I'm losing you, Tom.
SPEAKER 09 :
I'm driving. Okay, there you go. Now you're back.
SPEAKER 17 :
Go ahead. I got you back. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Is this something that you guys work on?
SPEAKER 17 :
No. Personally, I have a fleet operation, and I don't do any work whatsoever individually speaking. I've got shops, though, that are our sponsors and even some that are sponsors of this program during the week that can definitely help you. In Louisville, you've got two close facilities. You can either go over to Broomfield to Accountable Automotive and talk to Mark and the guys over there, or you can run to Boulder and talk to the guys at Legacy Automotive. You're about halfway between the two. You're probably closer to Ridgeline than going to Boulder, actually.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, it doesn't matter to me. And Broomfield is where I was getting the emissions at.
SPEAKER 17 :
And Mark, by the way, is just down the street from the emissions center. He's literally in the same industrial area.
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, well, then that's where I'd like to go.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, go talk to Mark at Accountable Auto. And you can look him up not on this website for this show, but drive-radio.com. Mark is listed there. It's Accountable Automotive.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay. Mark at Accountable Automotive.com.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thank you a million. You bet, Tom. No, thank you. No, appreciate it. Talk to Mark.
SPEAKER 17 :
Tell him I sent you. Okay. All right, man. Appreciate you very much. John and Cheyenne, hang tight. I'll come right back to you as well. Golden Eagle Financial is coming up next. Al Smith would love to help you with your future finances, getting to retirement, staying to retirement, making sure you've got a plan for retirement. Talk to Al today. Go to klzradio.com. Sorry, technical difficulties on our screen. So I'll tell you what, let's do this. We'll come back to Golden Eagle in a moment. John, let's take you next. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 08 :
Hey, John. So you're talking about the difference between American and European, Japanese, you know, whatever cars.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Is there really a difference anymore? I don't think so.
SPEAKER 17 :
And really quick, John, I know that I'm going to get all sorts of hate email on that because some are going to say, oh, I've been driving this vehicle for this many miles and, you know, you're full of crap and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm going to get all of the hate mail on that, John, because people are going to say, well, you know, Toyota's better and this is better and that's better and blah, blah, blah. John, it really comes down to, I believe to this day, it comes down to how well are you taking care of the vehicle? Who's driving the vehicle? Yes, there are some vehicles that are better than others. That's a whole other conversation I could probably get to on a Saturday. But really, John, at the end of the day, no. Go buy what fits you the best and what you like.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, what you need. I mean, there are people who I know a guy. I knew a guy. He bought five Raptors in a row. He traded it in every other year for the newest version.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Just because that's what he wanted to do.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
Good for him. He kept them garaged. And he only drove them in the summertime, so he would trade them in with like 15,000 miles on it. I was like, you're losing money when you do that. Oh, I just want the new one.
SPEAKER 17 :
Evidently, he has enough to spend. It doesn't matter, John.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, he didn't. He got really sick during the Gulf War, and he knew his time was numbered. He has since passed, but he was at the point where he didn't care. He was going to drive the nicest truck he could. But anybody, I mean, look at me and my wife. Both of our trucks are over 150,000 miles. There's nothing wrong with them at all. I would loan my red truck with 236 out to anybody. Say just, you know, here you go. You need to use it, whatever. There's nothing wrong with it because they take care of it. Does it drive the same as it did when it had 5,000 miles on it? No, because it's an older vehicle. But for people that say, well, you can't get 200,000 miles out of a Ram or out of a F-150, you're crazy.
SPEAKER 17 :
All day long you can, actually.
SPEAKER 08 :
All day long. I mean, all you have to do, whether it's a Toyota, whether it's a Lexus. I mean, Toyota Lexus, they're made by the same company, so to speak.
SPEAKER 17 :
They are. No, it is the same company. It is the same.
SPEAKER 08 :
I mean, I always laugh because every now and then I'll see a Lexus that looks almost exactly the same as my 4Runner. And I'm like, that's built on a 4Runner frame.
SPEAKER 17 :
It is.
SPEAKER 08 :
And I'm sure there's one. Because you remember back in the late 70s when the Cutlass, the Monte Carlo, the Grand Prix, and the Regal were. They looked exactly alike except for, you know, basic differences. Correct. But when I was in Germany the last time on vacation, they rented us an Audi. And the thing, yes, the beautiful car, it drove beautiful. Was it worth? I looked up the price of it when we got back. It was not worth what they were asking for it in the U.S.
SPEAKER 11 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
But, you know, there's a great, I can't remember the name of it, but one of the old Tom Clancy books with Jack Ryan, the originals. Okay. He wrote about this exact tariff thing where the U.S. was imposing the tariff equal to what the other countries were doing. And this was like 30 years ago when he wrote that book. And all I look at it from the tariff side is what's fair.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 08 :
Is it fair? You know.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and by the way, I think that's exactly what the current administration is trying to get people to understand is, no, it's not fair. And somebody just texted me and said that that actually, if you really get into it and dig into it, Germany, actually, it's more like 20 percent. There's a 10 plus another 10. I didn't read that. That could very well be. I'm not going to argue that point because it could very well be the case. In fact, it might even be as high as 25 on Germany. you know, on U.S. imports into Germany. Reality, John, is it's not fair. We've been getting screwed all these years and needs fixed.
SPEAKER 08 :
Exactly. And there's a prime example. When I was stationed in Germany and I shipped the car over and they told me pretty much, if you're shipping it over, you're shipping it back. They won't let you sell it over there unless you sell it to another American.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Another military person.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
So, you know, they paid to ship it over and ship it back, so I shipped it back and had a car over there while I was, you know, while I was stationed there. Which, John, driving on an Autobahn with no speed limit is a lot of fun.
SPEAKER 17 :
I can imagine.
SPEAKER 08 :
You know the scary thing, though? I was in a Pontiac Firebird 87. I know it wasn't the greatest car, but I liked it at the time. And I was doing 130 miles an hour. I got past like I was standing still by a Mercedes. Wow. That's how fast those people drive over there.
SPEAKER 11 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 08 :
And so, you know, like I was standing still. And what was funny, you could tell because if you saw a Porsche coming up behind you, you best better get out of his way because he was going. I swear I saw a Porsche probably doing about 160 go by. Wow. And that's, you know, but everybody over there drives fast. More attentive than we do. I'm not saying they're better drivers. I'm saying what they spend to learn to drive, because it cost them about five times what it cost us to go to, like, driver's ed.
SPEAKER 17 :
Right.
SPEAKER 08 :
And what they spend and what they cost. Insurance was expensive, too, over there. But what they spend, those people really paid attention to their driving. I don't know what it's like today, but I don't think they're talking on, you know, got cell phone help for their air.
SPEAKER 17 :
Makes sense. Makes sense.
SPEAKER 08 :
John, man, I appreciate it.
SPEAKER 17 :
Nope, thanks for adding that in. I appreciate that very much. Okay, now we'll give this one more whirl here. Golden Eagle Financial, again, Al Smith, yes, he would love to help you with your future financial plans and retirement and so on. Find him today at klzradio.com.
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All right, we are back. Jeff and Golden, you're next. Go ahead, sir. Hello? Hey, Jeff.
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Hey, a question from you.
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Yeah.
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I've got an 02 Excursion. It's got 326,000 miles on it. Wouldn't trade it for anything. Awesome. 7.3 diesel. I've always been a Toyota guy, and I've actually only bought one new vehicle in my entire life.
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Which proves that you don't have to buy new cars to still have transportation.
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So I'm in a Toyota work truck right now with 150 on it, and... That's that. Second thing, what's your opinion on, I'm a car guy, but I'm not an expert like you. I love driving. I got a 13 911 S and a 17 Cayenne 4.8 twin turbo. What are your opinions on those things?
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Well, the 911, don't get rid of it. It's going to do nothing but continue to increase in value. Unfortunately, the Cayman won't be quite as valuable down the road as the 911 because it's not a 911. There's something about that 911 that just makes those things continue to go up and up and up in value. I saw some at Mekin Auto Auction this past weekend that literally just, it's like you just shake your head at the kind of money that those things continue to bring. So, yeah, if there's any car you're ever going to sell, make sure it's not the 911.
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And I'm sorry, maybe I misspoke. It was a Cayenne. Are you a fan of the big twin-turbo V8s?
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I don't think – well, two sides of that. Am I a fan of having it, driving it, and so on? Absolutely. Is it going to retain its value and do as well as what a 911 will down the road? No, they won't.
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No, they won't. Sure, sure. Thank you so much. All right, Jeff.
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No, great questions, by the way. Appreciate it. And good cars, by the way. Have fun with those, Jeff, and enjoy. And again, going back to just the whole hype that right now is coming out of all sorts of different things. I was watching last night, my son and I were going back and forth on some of what was happening with Toyota stock, which was suspended, trading was, for a while last night because of the big dip that it took. And And by the way, I don't know why. I think because, frankly, sometimes Wall Street and traders are just absolute knuckleheads. I mean, I don't know why they think that that's going. I mean, yes, tariffs are going to have an impact on a lot of different companies. And I'll run through really quick because there is a listing that came out. this morning on what companies make how much of their American sold vehicles, how many of those are actually made in the U.S. In other words, the share of U.S. sold vehicles that are made in the U.S. So Tesla, of course, 100% because they make everything here. Rivian, same thing. They make everything here. Ford, 78% of what they sell is made here. Honda, 64% of what they make is actually sold here. Stellantis, which is... Fiat, Chrysler, Ram, Dodge, you get the drift. 57%, so actually they're below Honda. Subaru, 56% of what they make or what they sell is made here. Nissan is at 53%. GM, which you would think would be upwards of where Ford is, but the company itself is run by a bunch of knuckleheads. I'm sorry. I don't know what to say. And I've been a GM guy most of my life, grew up with them, still have a fondness for them, I guess because it's in my blood. It's what I grew up with. But those knuckleheads, because of what they don't know what to do in running a company, 52%. And yes, that is one of the two American car companies, Ford and GM. Ford, by the way, 78%. GM, 52%. BMW is 48%, which is the same as Toyota, which is 48%. Mercedes, and again, these guys have plants and things here where they're making vehicles here, 43%. Hyundai, 33%. Volkswagen, 21%. They're really going to get killed, by the way, on some of these tariffs and such. Mazda, 19%, and Volvo only 13%. So, yeah, tariffs are going to affect some of these individual companies. And trading, again, with Toyota stock late last night was suspended for a while because, I guess, because of just the fears of what the tariffs are going to do to them and their stock value and so on. And, again, how will some of this stuff get – you know get shaken out as time goes by don't know don't know i do know this when i was reading earlier about what the you know what the you know not only the eu but in this particular case what the uk which i always have to make sure that i specify this because remember the uk is not just england It's all of the greater area. The UK, I believe, don't quote me on this because I'm not an expert on geography in the UK, but I believe, Charlie, the UK is Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, and there's one other country I want to throw into there that all make up the UK. This is the prime minister of the U.K. talking about the trade war itself and acting like he's going to puff his chest out and get all excited, I guess. And I guess he feels like he can put some sort of a dent in what actually comes to the U.S. Yeah, sorry. Sorry. And again, I'm not speaking ill of anybody that lives in that area or is from that area. And if you're from that area, I'm not speaking ill. I'm just saying good luck. Good luck. The United States of America. This is something I think the rest of the world sometimes forgets. And by the way, it's something the left forgets on an ongoing basis. The United States of America, we have close to $30 trillion GDP, gross domestic product. What we consume in the U.S. is roughly $30 trillion. And I'm doing this from memory, so if you want to go look this up and see how close I am, be my guest. The next closest country, of course, is China, and they're in the low 20s. Still not close to where we are. And then from there, it really takes a jump down, and you could even combine a bunch of countries, and it still doesn't equal what the U.S. does. Not exaggerating, by the way. You can go look. This is public information. Any of you that are out there listening, you that are on the right, the left, the middle, whatever, you can go check my numbers. We are so far ahead. of any other country, that when these other countries start running around and acting like they're going to have some sort of a big dent in what we do, you know, Canadians, you know, you guys as well, you think you're going to have some sort of a dent in what we do? I mean, people forget that Canada is a country of 35 million people, roughly. 35 million. We're 350 million-ish. A little low, a little high, whatever. We're right in that area. We're right in about that $350 million. So Canada's 10% of us. That's it.
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10%.
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With, by the way, the lion's share of Canadians living in the area where Canada dips down into the U.S. When I say dips down, I know it's still Canada. But people forget that there's actually more Canadians... that live in that section of land across the upper part of the U.S. If you go look at a map and you look at what I'm talking about, keep in mind that there's only a few big cities in the U.S. that are above that line. Detroit, Seattle, probably Boston. I mean, there's a few larger cities that are above that line, but reality is there's more Canadians living below that area than U.S. citizens. Not in Canada. In other words, Canadian citizens below that geographical line, there's more of them than there is us, than there is U.S. citizens. And that's just because of the way Canada dips down and there's a lot of people living in that Toronto area and so on, above Buffalo, above Michigan and so on. Point being, Canada acts like there's some sort of a world leader when it comes to production and things along those lines. And they act like they can have some sort of a big dent in what we do here in America. And yeah, no offense. It's like a mosquito. I'm sorry to say it that way, but it is. In fact, outside of China, there's not another country that even comes close to consuming and or producing what we do. Not even close. And what Donald Trump is trying to do, I believe, in the White House right now is get us on a more even keel and even get us back on track manufacturing wise and so on. So that there's incentive even for other other countries, other companies that are in other countries to actually build and do things here versus having those things imported like we're currently doing. It's why companies like Hyundai have agreed to, you know, have said, not agree, but have said, we're going to spend $25 billion and invest building cars in the U.S. We want to build a million cars in the U.S. Now, that's forward thinking and they're being very smart in what they're thinking about. We as a country consume more than anyone else. Why would you not want to be here and do that and avoid all the tariffs and shipping costs and on and on and on we go? Why would you not just want to compete here on this level playing field here in America? And what Donald Trump is doing is going to make more of that happen. It's why we see chip companies agreeing to spend billions of dollars here. It's why the UAE, which I talked about yesterday, is going to spend $1.4 trillion. And remember, folks, and I talked about this on the podcast. Some of you may have heard that last night. You'll hear it again Saturday morning if you want to listen then. But the reality is these are not things – this is where the left, by the way, doesn't understand or doesn't want to admit – These are decade-long, or decades, plural, long investments from other countries, other companies in other countries, when they talk about that type of an investment. I mean, if you think, for example, even going on the small side with Hyundai at $25 billion, if you think Hyundai's going to just do that and then another administration comes in in the next three and a half years... four years, whatever it is, if you think that because a new administration comes in in four years, all of a sudden Hyundai is going to pack up and go someplace else, that's not how that works. These companies are building for their own future, and they're going to be here to stay, and it doesn't matter who is in charge at that point in time. They're going to continue to stay here and keep doing business. Same thing with the chip companies, same thing with other car companies that would decide to build here, and so on. So is what Donald Trump doing, is what he is doing, is it going to make a big difference in our overall economy as time goes by? Absolutely. This is a pivotal time for us as Americans. And if we keep at it, we will continue to benefit from these things moving forward. Absolutely. So anyways. We'll see how all this pans out, trust me, as time goes by. Paul Leuenberger, speaking of cars and all of the things involved with that, insurance becomes a big deal for a lot of you listening, for all of us, by the way. Give my good friend Paul a call. He'll walk you through all the insurance end of things. 303-662-0789.
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All right. Not that many of you probably travel to France, but if some of you listening are or you know someone that is or have a family member that is, France has updated its travel advice for U.S. citizens. And what it means is that it is warning travelers that you are now required to declare your gender assignment at birth when completing visa or ESTA applications. The move follows growing international concern over a decree signed by President Trump on January the 20th. Yeah, because Trump said there's two genders, male and female. And in a lot of ID situations, you're going to have to put down what you were assigned at birth, which, in other words, what were you when you were born? Jeez, how hard is this? Are you male or are you female? Were you born with an innie or an outie? How difficult is this, folks? It's not hard. Sorry, this is really easy. You guys on the left want to make this really hard, and it's not. So go back to the way things were. Make it simple once again. Any Audis, it's easy. Move on from there, and off we go. All right, Hour 3 is next. Rush to Reason, Denver's Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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