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Indeed, let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You’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, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, Producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And we are truly into 2026. So fasten your seatbelts. 250 years ago at this time, our country was heading towards the Declaration of Independence in July, and a lot was going on and a lot is happening in our country today. as we are looking at headlines today. But check out our website. That is kimmonson.com. Make sure that you’re signed up for our weekly email newsletter that goes out on Sundays. That way you will get first look at our upcoming guests as well as our most recent essays. You can email me at kim at kimmonson.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. And I thank all of you who support us because we are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something’s a good idea you should not have to force people to do it and it’s never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff whether or not it’s their rights property freedom livelihood opportunity their childhoods or their lives via force and force can obviously be a weapon but it can also be policy unpredictable in excess of taxation fees forced um forced fear and coercion, government-induced inflation, this World Economic Forum and their agenda through the globalist elites. So remember, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. On the show, we focus on the issues, and we’ll mention the people in the issues, but we really work to stay out of all the personality stuff that can happen. And so let’s see, let’s get into it. We are changing things around a little bit on my daily outline. And so this is somewhat interesting for me because this is like having teaching an old dog new tricks. And so bear with me on my show organization as we’re working through this. So the first thing, our word of the day is erudite. And it is spelled E-R-U-D-I-T-E. And it’s erudite. It’s having or showing great knowledge or learning. It could be characterized by extensive reading or knowledge, well-instructed and learned. And it could be learned scholarly with emphasis on knowledge gained from books. And I would say so many of our guests certainly are erudite as far as their knowledge in so many different things. So that is our word of the day. And your challenge is to use that in a sentence. And I went to C.S. Lewis for our quote of the day because we’ll be talking with Dr. Brian June Depth as our featured guest. And he’s written a piece recently that Christmas is now the favorite holiday again. And C.S. Lewis, because of The Chronicles of Narnia, and one of the quotes, we were talking with Dr. Sweeting in the Chronicles of Narnia, is that it’s always winter but never Christmas. And, of course, with Aslan basically sacrificing himself for Edmund, and then he is resurrected. It’s a great example, really, of Christ. The Chronicles of Narnia have become associated with Christmas. And so I was going through some of these C.S. Lewis quotes, and this is one that I haven’t seen in a while. C.S. Lewis was born in 1898. He died in 1963. He was a British author, literary scholar, and Anglican lay theologian. And he held academic positions at the Magdalene College in Oxford and Cambridge. He’s best known as the author of the Chronicles of Narnia, but has also written things such as the Screwtape Letters, the Space Trilogy, Christian Apologetics, including Mere Christianity, Miracles, and the Problem of Pain. And he obviously lived during concern about atomic bombs. And I’ve always thought that this was such an interesting quote that he had. He said, the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we’re going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things. Praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts. not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs and you know i think we could probably insert the things uh that our people are so fearful of today as well and so we we are to live our lives uh while we are on this earth when we talk with dr deborah scheffel which, let’s see, we pre-recorded that for January 1st. She said that we are here by divine appointment and we can take a lot of courage from that to go out and do the things that we are supposed to do each and every day. So that is a quote from C.S. Lewis. Over the weekend, some of these headlines that we’re going to hit, several things happened. First of all, there was this daring capture of the Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife. And they are in New York, and I think that they… I’ve thought about this, and this is just… It’s pretty amazing, this military operation, how it occurred. And I don’t think that there was any loss of American life, which is also pretty interesting. I mean, it’s just amazing. It’s not interesting. It’s just amazing. And so they captured him and brought him back to the United States. And he has been indicted in U.S. courts as a narco-terrorist. And so they are now going to go through the legal system. And a couple of things. This is from, let’s see, this is from CNBC. And it unsealed the U.S. indictment against Venezuelan president and his wife. And it says the charges his wife and four other people with narco-terrorism conspiracy and other charges. And that was unsealed Saturday and posted online by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi. And it says for over 25 years, leaders of Venezuela have abused their positions of public trust and corrupted once legitimate institutions to import tons of cocaine into the United States. The indictment in U.S. District Court for Southern District of New York alleges. It says, in addition to the narco-terrorism conspiracy charge, the indictment alleges counts of cocaine importation conspiracy, possession of machine guns and destructive devices, and conspiracy to possess machine guns and destructive devices. And so they are now, a little while ago, they were headed to court. The fact that they… were captured alive, I find so interesting, because I was looking at some of these other things. Apparently, of course, those that hate Trump are accusing him that this that this was uh not legal and uh according to greg jarrett over at fox news that yes this falls under article two uh i had my constitution here in it is constitutional to do that And you think about all of the damage that all of these drugs and the undermining has done to our society. We’re in a different time, obviously, than the founding, but this has been undermining our country. So this is going to be quite interesting to watch as this unfolds. Then, let’s see, the next thing on this is I think people forget that, Joe Biden and the Biden-Harris administration had put a $25 million bounty on Maduro’s head. So quite frankly, they obviously, on that side of the aisle, felt that he was undermining America as well. So it’s something that is very important to remember. And then also remember back in 2011 under the Obama administration that Osama bin Laden was killed by an American operation. And so it’s important that we remember all these things and connect all those dots together. A couple of other things that happened over the weekend is Greg Lopez, former Congressman Greg Lopez, a gubernatorial candidate, changed his affiliation from Republican to unaffiliated. And that puts him into he will not be going through the Republican primary is primarily what’s occurring there. Over 50 percent of Coloradans are registered as unaffiliated. And there’s always this consternation on how to get the unaffiliated vote. And so this is a very interesting move by former Congressman Greg Lopez. And then gubernatorial candidate Mark Baisley, and currently a state senator, has changed his races. He is going to be running for U.S. Senate. And then Montrose Commissioner Sean Pond announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate on the Republican side. And in fact, we will be talking with Commissioner Sean Pond here in just a little bit. any candidate that reaches out to me i will certainly put them on the show i know many of you have reached out and asked to get victor marx on the show and he is he has an invitation i ended up talking with his campaign manager oh this was a number of weeks ago and said certainly any time you would like to get him on the show just reach reach out to me so i want you to know that Each and every candidate, and even on the Democrat side, although I don’t have many takers on that side of the aisle, are welcome to reach out, and I will get them on the show. And all these shows happen. It all comes to you because we have wonderful sponsors. And I’m so pleased to have the Roger Magnet State Farm Insurance team as a sponsor of the show. And we’re getting into hail season. Colorado is one of the top hail capitals of the world. And so let’s talk a little bit about roofs because roofs are one of the things that gets… damaged in a hailstorm. And lots of questions about replacement costs. Can you get insured to replace the whole roof? What does that look like exactly?
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Good question, Kim. And yes, hail season is upon us. I think the latest claim I’ve ever had with hail was in October. The earliest one was April. So it’s a long season. You know, that’s six months on the calendar. And, you know, if you have a rough season, that gets hit by hail and it’s 10 years old, and it’s, let’s say, severe hail, smaller than a golf ball, but severe coming down the right direction with the great velocity it gets coming out of the clouds, it can tear your roof up. So you need a new roof. Before we get to the financial side of that roof, I deplore you, please, do not Accept a knock on the door and talk to a roofer. I’ve had people who have done that. They get far enough into that conversation where they really like this roofer to be. And the worst part is signing a contract with that roofer. Basically, hail chaser, they have a team that goes and knocks on doors and, hey, your neighbor used us. Can I have a conversation with you? Or your neighbor got a new roof. Did you get one? Let me talk. So they’re really very smooth at what they do. And there are a lot of very good legitimate roofers out there. I don’t want to throw them under the bus. But there are some that take advantage of the situation. So first thing you do is call your agent. Say, hey, we had a hailstorm here. Would you please… You know, have someone come out and look at the roof. You’d want a state farm adjuster, for example. The best thing to do is get your agent to recommend a roofer who will go out, not the state farm adjuster. But a roofer, and your agent can give you the name of two or three roofers, that will come out to assess the roof and say, yes, you need a new roof. So you have a trusted roofer. Now you call your agent and set up a claim. If you do it in reverse, you set up a claim with State Farm, and there is no damage. Just because your neighbor got a new roof doesn’t mean you got one. That’s rooferitis, I guess we call it. Everybody thinks rooferitis. but i never got one i deserve one hailstorms are kind of unique that way they can damage a house right next to you and not damage yours be that as it may your state farm adjuster comes out after the claim is filed and he writes it up so now the roofer that you had come out looks at that state farm estimate and says i can do it for that or that state farm estimator missed a few things but the roofer and the estimator work that out you you’re kind of out of the picture now and that’s that’s the ideal thing to do to have a good roofer and a good adjuster look at the differences work it out and write up a final estimate now as far as replacement costs a roof today is probably thirty to fifty thousand dollars to put out of let’s say a 3,000, 2,000 to 3,000 square foot house. That’s a big check, okay? So let’s say it’s a $20,000 loss. State Farm writes you a check, and they give you maybe out of 20,000, they give you 12,000 or 15,000. They’re going to hold back the… until the roof is done so they have some leverage, really, to make sure the quality of the job is such that you accept it. And that’s a little confusing to people because your mortgage company is involved, and the mortgage company is going to have to sign off on that. So there’s a three-way process. commitment going on here between the mortgage company the roofer and your insurance company and you’re in there of course your insurance company represents you but at the same time we have an obligation to the mortgage company to make sure that job has been done because they’re they own as much of that house as you do so as far as depreciation of the roof there are some companies out there writing business that do not give you a hundred percent replacement cost So you need to know what you’re buying on that roof situation. And if you’re getting a quote, be sure you say, do I have full replacement costs? If they say yes, State Farm sells only full replacement cost policies. The only thing they do is hold back until the job is done to make sure the job is done correctly to your satisfaction.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. A couple of things. I wanted to clarify in that conversation with Roger Mangan, I said full replacement cost, but it’s full replacement coverage. So I wanted to clarify that. And coming in on the text line, 720-605-0647. uh this whole thing and gammy said she sees this that uh maduro should be in a military tribunal uh that very well may be i i think there’s a lot more going on with this whole capture of maduro than probably as being reported to us so stay tuned on that Richard wanted to know about C.S. Lewis. I have referred to him as a Christian apologist, and he wanted a clarification. What that means is someone who makes a defense of the Christian faith. That’s what an apologist is, is making a defense of that. And I think that we’ve got Rich Guggenheim on the line. He is the author of Escaping the Rainbow Plantation, and he’s going to be in front of the Supreme Court here soon. Rich Guggenheim, welcome to the show.
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Good morning, Kim. Happy New Year. Thank you.
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Happy New Year. So you are coming into 2026 blazing, I would say. What’s happening here? Because you texted me yesterday and said that you are going to be in front of the Supreme Court. So what’s going on?
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Yes, they’re coming up on the 13th, 14th. And those dates will be back in D.C. Again, there is a number of cases before the high court. that are basically gonna decide the fate of Title IX. And for those that are unfamiliar, Title IX is about protecting sex-based rights for women in higher education and education in general. And that is part of the civil rights laws that were passed back in the 1960s. So we’ll be hearing… Oh, go ahead, Jen.
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How are you connected into this then, Rich?
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Well, so I will be speaking as part of Gays Against Groomers. They invited me to go back and speak. And there’s a number of other people that are going to be speaking there. Riley Gaines is among them. Peyton McNabb. I believe Jen Say is going to be back there as well with XXXY Athletics. And just a whole bunch of other people that are mostly women, but myself included, I was asked to speak. And I thought, well, gosh, I’m not a man. So, you know, this is… really not my lane, is it? And they said, well, you’ve been such a champion for what’s going on to protect girls’ sports in Colorado and speaking out, writing legislation. We would love to have you come and speak and share your perspective. And so I was very humbled by the offer and get to go back and speak out. And I think one of the things that we have to understand is even though I myself may be a man, I’m still a son. I’m still a brother. I’m still an uncle. And my mother did not grow up in an era where she had Title IX protections. And so she lost out on a lot of opportunities that… People like my sister and my niece got to grow up with those protections and see those opportunities come to fruition. And now because of this gender ideology, we’re seeing Title IX under threat. And so I’m going to speak about that because at the end of the day, what we’re talking about is sex-based protections. And biological women, women… have the right to privacy. They have the right to consent. And really, Kim, at the end of the day, this is about bodily autonomy and women being able to just say no and have those basic fundamental human rights that are being stripped away from them under the guise of inclusivity and equality.
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It’s crazy to me. When I was a kid, the idea that you would have a… There were things like a peeping Tom that somebody might be looking into, like a guy might be looking into a girl’s locker room, and that was really creepy. And this is certainly not something that was supported. And so to fast forward to where we are now in our country, that we would let biological men in women’s spaces, restrooms and. locker rooms and in their sports, I think if you would have talked to people 60 years ago, they would have said this is impossible. If you would have talked to people 20 years ago, 10 years ago, I would have said this was impossible. But here we are. So this decision, this is being heard in front of the Supreme Court, correct?
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Correct. And you know, Kim, when we talk about this, what we have to understand is that this is gender ideology. This queer theory that we’re talking about is part of a larger globalist agenda that seeks the destruction of Western civilization. And I know some people are going to say, well, that sounds like tinfoil. But really, Kim, at the end of the day, we’re talking about defending biological reality. We’re talking about what they’re seeking to do is literally destroy families. And the family, as you know, is the bedrock of society. And this, this erodes that. And this puts women into a position where you got a young girl who goes into the locker room where a young girl who goes into the bathroom with her mother. And now all of a sudden there’s a man that appears to be a woman in the locker room and we don’t need to talk or in the bathroom. And then you have to have a conversation that that child is not prepared to have. And this strips that child of their innocence, and it strips them of that freedom to grow up with that intact. And that’s also what it does is it dehumanizes women. And so we really have a moral obligation to stand up and protect this fundamental freedom and liberty of women and children. So –
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Rich Guggenheim, where are all the feminists on this issue, those that used to say that they wanted to let women have equal rights and that were really out there, in air quotes, for women? Where are they, in your opinion?
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I think there are some that are out there. I look at… Kara Dansky is going to be one of the speakers at this. And she is, I would consider, a feminist. A lot of people will call her a TERF. TERF is a term used to refer to trans-exclusionary radical feminists. And so there are a lot of them that are there. And she is going to be speaking there. She was at one point in time worked with the ACLU and was a card-carrying Democrat. And so many of the women that are speaking up on this are women. former or current democrats and i think that’s one of the things that really gets brushed aside by the globalist media when they talk about this they try to make it sound like it’s a far-right agenda but the reality is according to a poll done by the new york times a year ago they said that showed that that of the people they pulled 67 percent of democrats democrat voters by a margin of two to three or two thirds of Democrat voters said, we do not support men identifying as women in women’s spaces and women’s sports and women’s locker rooms. And so this just goes to show how far out of touch the Democrat politicians are with their voters and that they continue to push this globalist anti-human agenda.
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And Colorado is certainly, I think, front and center for this when we take a look at all the legislation that’s occurring. So just wrap this up for us, Rich. Thanks for reaching out to let me know that you’re going to be in front of the Supreme Court. This is a big deal. So how would you like to wrap this up?
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I just want to wrap this up. We have an opportunity right now in Colorado to protect girls sports. As you know, Protect Kids Colorado has several initiatives. They’re trying to get onto the ballot. If you have not signed those petitions to keep girls sports just for girls and also stop the gender mutilating surgeries and then also make it so that it is a felony to participate. buy or sell a child for sex in the state of Colorado. It is currently only a misdemeanor. Go to Protect Kids Colorado and find out where you can sign those petitions to get this issue onto the ballot so the voters can decide that we’re going to protect our children in Colorado.
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Okay, and also you’ve written a book, Escaping the Rainbow Plantation, which people can get at Amazon and other booksellers as well. So, Rich Guggenheim, thank you so much for being a voice, and good luck at the Supreme Court.
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Thank you, Kim. Have a great week.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And sign up for our weekly email newsletter. That way you will get first look at all of our upcoming guests. And pleased to have on the line with me Dr. Brian Joondepth. You can find him at Substack. He’s an author. He is also a doctor. And Dr. Joondepth, welcome to the show.
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Hey, good morning. How are you?
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Well, I’m doing well. It seems like forever since I’ve talked with you. And so Happy New Year, and you’re a world traveler as well. So bring us up to speed with what you have been doing recently.
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Well, travel-wise, the most recent trip was to Christmas markets in Germany and Austria. That was back in December. That was marvelous. The Christmas markets are really amazing. They’re fun. They’re good food and drink and history. You know, you walk through a town in Innsbruck, like Innsbruck, and you see churches that were built 200 years before Columbus discovered America. It’s such history. It’s not like here where something’s 100 years old and you say, wow, that’s old.
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Or I’m thinking, as you mentioned that, I’m thinking about all these different cities that are saying we need to have a new football stadium. And it seems to me like I remember when this one was just built. So it’s different than Europe. But you now have your own substack. Are you still at American Thinker and Rasmussen Reports as well?
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Yes, I put what I publish in American Thinker. Rasmussen I put on my sub stack just to put it there because I don’t have a website or anything like that so it’s sort of people that want to follow my work that way if you just sign up for my sub stack you’ll get it you’ll get the articles as they come out okay so let’s talk about this one and it’s a great segue from you being at the Christmas markets is why Christmas is America’s favorite holiday again Christmas is so back from woke so tell us about that well it It is. There was a Rasmussen Report survey that showed that Christmas is now America’s most important holiday. Fifty-five percent of American adults say it’s America’s top celebration, and about 30 percent say somewhere in between. So I think it’s a resurgence of returning from happy holidays to Merry Christmas. And I give President Trump credit for that, because he’s out wishing Merry Christmas. He’s not saying Happy Holidays. Well, Happy Holidays is really a pablum-sounding nothing. I mean, there are a lot of holidays, and Happy Holidays is… They’re very ineffectual. It’s not the holiday. The holiday is Christmas. It’s called Christmas. It’s celebrated as such. It’s a national holiday. And to wish people Merry Christmas, that’s been the tradition. Even if you don’t celebrate Christmas, it’s still… That is the holiday. That is the name of the holiday. And Trump unabashedly is… wishing Merry Christmas and avoiding the happy holidays. And businesses are following his lead, and I think it’s a welcome reversal from centuries of tradition in the country of celebrating Christmas.
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Well, there’s been such an attack on Christmas. I remember saying Merry Christmas to people, and it was maybe not necessarily politically correct because what had been kind of the political correctness is you’re not recognizing these other holidays when you say Merry Christmas. But yet there’s the goodwill, the good wishes that Merry Christmas entails. But it seems like that was really an assault upon that, Dr. June-Depth.
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Sure, people were offended because you’re wishing Merry Christmas. Yet the people that are offended are celebrating it because most of them are not working. For them, it’s a holiday. And they are enjoying the holiday at home, and yet they’re offended by it. So that doesn’t make much sense. But the other holidays, yeah, sure, there’s Hanukkah and… uh… that’s basically it uh… kwanzaa is a made-up holiday made up in the sixties by some radical activist and it doesn’t have roots that go back two thousand years like christmas does of the birth of jesus causes a fabricated holiday and happy holidays is just sort of uh… anything goes some people celebrate the winter solstice Winter officially begins on December 21st or 22nd, and if you want to celebrate that, fine, but Christmas is the holiday, and to wish people a Merry Christmas is not forcing your religion on anybody. It’s acknowledging the holiday that’s in the National Register. It’s a list of national holidays. Businesses are closed. The mail’s not delivered. It’s because of Christmas, not because of Kwanzaa or the winter solstice or Hanukkah or anything else. It’s not exclusionary, but the holiday is Christmas, and acknowledging that reality is what people do when they wish someone Merry Christmas. And to take offense from that is, I think, absurd.
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Well, interesting, when I was recording the shows for our time on Christmas break, I think it was Bill Federer that said the basis for the word holiday is actually holy day. And I thought, well, isn’t that ironic? Those that are PC that are wanting to use the word happy holidays, in essence, it’s like Christmas. God gets the last laugh on all of this because people are wishing each other happy holy day.
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That’s true. That’s a good point. God always gets the last laugh.
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Yeah. So let’s talk something. You’ve done a little more research on Kwanzaa that I was not aware of, and you said that it was created in 1966. Yes.
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It’s kind of fabricated. It’s… A 60s creation, it’s kind of a cultural movement, this fellow named Malana Karenga. And it’s based on African harvest traditions. And he created this holiday and elevated it, or tried to elevate it, on a national stage. And I think it’s really virtual signaling pandering to African Americans. Very few Americans celebrate Kwanzaa. The number I came up with was about 3%, so it’s not a widespread holiday. I’ve never met anybody that celebrates Kwanzaa. But the politicians love to virtue signal. Kamala Harris was, oh, you know, doing videos and happy Kwanzaa, happy Kwanzaa. I bet in her house they don’t celebrate Kwanzaa. And when her husband’s kids were younger and his family, I’m sure they celebrated Christmas. So it’s kind of a nonsensical holiday that, yeah, sure, you want to celebrate it, that’s fine. There are people that have different ethnicities and come from other countries where New Year’s is celebrated at a different time, and that’s fine. People can keep their own traditions and celebrate it, but as a country… we embrace Christmas. We’re a nation founded on Christian principles, and this is a Christian holiday, and that’s what we celebrate. But Pons is not really a religious holiday. It’s more of a festival. You know, some people probably celebrate Festivus, the holiday from Seinfeld, and to each their own, but that’s You can’t put them all on an equal footing with Christmas and say it’s just another choice. It becomes like the LGBTQ movement where everything is a choice and nothing’s based on reality. It’s all your feelings and what makes your reality. Everybody has their own reality, and that’s not how the world works. There are higher realities than reality. what you think your reality is and your feelings. And Christmas is emblematic of that.
SPEAKER 20 :
And the founder of Kwanzaa, he had a storied past as well, right? He was imprisoned for beating and torturing two women.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yes, in 1971. And in my article, I link to a news story about that. So he’s not a good guy. He’s not a modern-day Jesus by any means. So that’s what people want to celebrate. Well, then have at it. But national leaders kind of promoting that is, I think, irresponsible. Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 20 :
it’s a very interesting piece changing subjects before we go to break. And then I want to talk about another one of your articles that you’ve written, but what do you think about this whole thing that happened this weekend with the capture of Nicholas Maduro and his wife, the dictator in Venezuela?
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s really interesting. It’s, There’s so many ironies there of Democrats calling for his capture and ouster, and the Biden-Harris administration had a $25 million reward for anyone that gave information leading to his capture. And now Kamala Harris is all upset about it and tweeting about it. And, well, why did they have a reward for it? And… Democrats that are, and it’s typically Democrats as well as a handful of Republicans that are all fussing about it now, are on record saying that he’s a narco-terrorist and he needs to be removed and he’s a bad guy and we did it. And now they’re all upset. I mean, Trump could arrest Hitler and Democrats would be upset because it wasn’t done right or it shouldn’t have been done. I mean, the way I view this is this was a law enforcement action backed up by the military. This is not a war. We’re not at war. And it was over in 30 minutes. It wasn’t just the Delta Force going in. DOJ was there and attorneys, and he was arrested and read his rights. high-profile arrest like this of drug cartel members who they’re always backed by the military you’re not going to send a couple of fbi agents down there and knock on his door and and uh… arrest them this is how it’s done in the military back them up but it’s primarily a law enforcement operation he’s been indicted they arrested him and brought him to new york to face justice There’s some interesting aspects, too, that they arrested his wife, and typically when dictators and other thugs are taken out, you know, they leave the wife alone. Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, people like that. So there’s also a theory out there that this was preplanned, and he’s going to be providing testimony about election shenanigans and… money flows and other things, and the arrest, he may not actually spend time in jail. He may be exiled somewhere. But there’s a lot of speculation, and most of what we know is probably false, and I venture that we know about 10% of what’s really going on with all of this.
SPEAKER 20 :
I totally agree with you on that. And those that are denouncing this capture, I think, forget that under the Obama administration, that Osama bin Laden was taken out by Americans. And so I think that’s important to connect that dot for people, Dr. June Depth.
SPEAKER 06 :
Exactly, and that was not a law enforcement action. That was a Navy SEAL team, and literally he was taken out. And what about all these other dictators that did bad things? Whether they were indicted or not, that was strict military action. Trump did this by the book. This was law enforcement there. and backed up by the military to facilitate it. So it’s not wars. All the lefties are crying, oh, we’re in another endless war. Well, it was a 30-minute war, if you want to call it a war. And what’s interesting will be what comes after. You know, Machado, who is the Nobel Peace Prize winner, doesn’t have Trump’s confidence, and the VP doesn’t. So it’s going to be interesting to see how this plays out. And it could go south. This would be a bad country to… uh… turn into libya or iraq or one of those countries following regime change so hopefully uh… and i’m confident uh… trump and his team have a plan they wouldn’t into this blindly this has been in the works for many months
SPEAKER 20 :
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And the two nonprofits as we are moving into 2026 that I continue to love to highlight is the USMC Memorial Foundation because they are remembering and honoring those that have given their lives or have been willing to give their lives for our freedom. And so support them by going to USMCMemorialFoundation.org. And then the Center for American Values in Pueblo has important educational tools for educators and teaching kids K through 12, as well as their Portraits of Valor, which are well over 160 Medal of Honor recipients and their quotes. The only other place that you could see a portrait collection like this is at the Pentagon, and most of us can’t get into the Pentagon. And so this is right here in Colorado, in Pueblo. You can check that out at AmericanValueCenter.org as well. So let’s see. We’re talking with Dr. Brian Joondepth and another one of his pieces that he recently published, this at the end of December, that polling signals trouble for Democrats and opportunity for Republicans. And yet I’ve heard the opposite, that there are those that say that 2026, the midterms are going to be very difficult for Republicans. So what are you seeing on this, Dr. Brian Joondepth?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, the midterms typically are challenging for the party in power. But there are exceptions, and… uh… that’s that’s not a guarantee it’s a trend but the quinnipiac university survey uh… recently done showed that only eighteen percent of voters approved of democrats in congress seventy three percent disapprove and that’s all voters but you know the democrats only forty two percent of democrat voters approved or forty eight percent disapprove so democrat voters are not happy with democrats in congress On the other hand, Republicans have almost 80% approval among Republicans. So Democrats are really, they’re not doing anything. They’re screeching and shouting and calling names and obstructing everything. They are uniformly voting against Trump’s nominees, his agenda as a bloc. All they do is vote no. They’re not doing anything, and voters are tired of it. There’s problems out there, and Republicans love them or hate them. They’re far from perfect, but they’re at least trying to address some of these issues, and the Democrats are doing nothing but standing in the way.
SPEAKER 20 :
Dr. June Depp, do you feel that the Republicans, though, are slow-walking some of Trump’s agenda, which becomes the whole politics as usual in Washington, D.C., because they look at the midterms and they think if they slow-walk this that – that you know some of the things they don’t like won’t happen because there are those in in congress that do not like trump and trump’s agenda because it looks to me like it’s trying to rest a power that has become entrenched with these bureaucracies and also the house and the senate well i i agree uh i wrote an article about a month ago about uh
SPEAKER 06 :
uh… what’s happening in congress and uh… at the time thirteen percent of trump’s executive orders had been codified into law thirteen percent uh… there are lots of unconfirmed u.s attorneys judges ambassadors They’re just languishing. They’re not being confirmed, and they’re not giving Trump his administration. How can he govern? A CEO comes into a company, and they bring their people, and on day one, everybody’s in place, and the company’s running. Here it can take… You know, one, two, three, four years. There will be positions that are unconfirmed at the end of Trump’s term, which is absurd. These should be all confirmed on day one. Advice and consent doesn’t mean endless holdups. You know, a year’s gone by and you have all these unfilled positions. And then Trump is doing recess appointments, and then some judge will find fault with it, like they threw out the indictments for James Comey and Letitia James, because, oh, the U.S. attorney was improperly appointed. Well, if the Senate did its job, there would be a U.S. attorney confirmed, and they could do their job. And it’s just leaving these little loopholes that some judge can nitpick at and keep the Democrats, the criminal Democrats, free. uh… so they they’ve really done a poor poor job with the republicans are at fault too i’m hoping that twenty twenty six a lot of this stuff gets done and ahead of the midterms uh… maybe that’s wishful thinking on my part but uh… Pretty soon people are going to start paying attention. The election is still a long ways away, but come spring and summer, that’s when the campaign really begins, and I’m hoping that Republicans get their act together and pass these things. Trump knows what’s ahead. He knows about the midterms, and he knows the Republicans have slim majorities, and I’m sure he’s well aware of uh… what happens if uh… democrats takeover they’re gonna just file articles of impeachment in the new article every single day and just tie up uh… the last two years of his administration uh… i’m sure he’s aware of it and lastly the elections have to be fixed uh… we have corrupt elections uh… there’s low confidence in the integrity of elections particularly in colorado of of ballot harvesting and uh… You know, more people voting than are registered and more absentee ballots being returned than were sent out. And we’re hearing in Georgia about 300,000 ballots that have no chain of custody and nothing verified. And this is a state that Biden won by 12,000 votes, and Trump questioned it, and they’re impeaching him and trying to arrest him over that. So if this stuff doesn’t get cleaned up, then none of it really matters. Are we really voting, or is this a foregone conclusion? You know, we have elections coming up in Colorado, is it? poor guy conclusion or michael bennett and jared polis switching spots and one gets goes from senate the governor and the other goes the other way and then and and the rest of it is all uh… smoke and mirrors i don’t know but unless we have honest elections and that’s another for a bigger problem but i won’t delve into that today
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, and we are working on that as well because we have those two lawsuits that have been filed, and they’re in legal back and forth on that. So, Dr. Brian Jundep, as always, thank you so much, and we will talk with you next month. And who knows what will happen between now and then, but great to have you.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, there’ll be a lot. A lot will happen, believe me. After Venezuela, I’m sure, you know, Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Iran. also a lot of countries are going to be watching their backs
SPEAKER 20 :
It’s going to be interesting. So again, thank you, Dr. Brian Joondept. Our quote for the end of the show is from C.S. Lewis. He said, this hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny. 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’re not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for our number two.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed. Let’s have a conversation, and welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, 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, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Monday, Producer Joe. Happy Monday, Kim. And we are off to the races. A lot happened this last weekend with the capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife, the dictator of Venezuela, who they are now in New York. They were headed to Venezuela. court. So super interesting on this. And as Dr. Brian Jundep said, and again, there was an article by Greg Jarrett on Fox News that this falls within, the president was in his constitutional boundaries under section, article two, section two. And so I pulled that out. And Took a look at that, and so super interesting on what’s happening there. But certainly this narco-terrorism has been undercutting America. I think, as Dr. Joondup said in our number one, that we only know a small portion of probably what is really occurring with all of that. But certainly amazing, remarkable capture of Nicolas Maduro by our military, and hats off to them. for, I don’t think there was any American loss of life, at least that’s the last report that I saw, which is, again, that is truly remarkable. And as you 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 our word of the day is erudite. And it is spelled, let me get over here to it, it is E-R-U-D-I-T-E. It’s having or showing great knowledge or learning. Number two, it could be characterized by extensive reading or knowledge, well-instructed, learned. Or number three, learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books. And it is spelled again, E-R-U-D-I-T-E. And your challenge is to use that in a sentence today. And because we had started off with Dr. June Depp’s article that Christmas is gotten out of PC prison and people are celebrating Christmas again. I went to C.S. Lewis for our quote of the day, and C.S. Lewis was born in 1898. He died in 1963. He was a British author, literary scholar. He was an Anglican lay theologian. He held academic positions in English literature at Magdalene College, Oxford, and Cambridge. and he’s best known as the author of the Chronicles of Narnia, which is associated with Christmas. So that’s the connection on why we are quoting C.S. Lewis today. But he certainly lived through World War II, and I think he served in World War I. And he’s in England, the bombing of London. So he lived through a lot of things that, God willing, we will not have to go through. But at that time, after the atomic bomb, everybody was so concerned about it. We have things you can insert something else regarding fear. But he said this. He said the first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we’re going to be destroyed by, he said, an atomic bomb, but you can fill in the blanks. Let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things, such as praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts, not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. And I think the other thing, and I think Richard texted me, he said that I refer to C.S. Lewis as a Christian apologist, which what that means, it took me a while to understand what that means, that apologist means in defense of. So as a Christian apologist, he is in defense, making the defense of the Christian faith. And so again, that is C.S. Lewis. And as you know, we are an independent voice. We’re independent because we work with very important sponsors. All of them strive for excellence in their professions. And I’m pleased to have on the line with me Jody Henze with Mint Financial Strategies. Jody, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim, and Happy New Year to you and your listeners. Well, Happy New Year to you as well. And we had pre-recorded for Christmas week with you. So it seems like it’s been a while since I’ve talked with you. So we’re in the new year, 2026, looking forward. What should people know?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, you know, I always tell my clients at the beginning of the year that January and February are a perfect time to just kind of reset and and get organized for the new year. So things like just going back and looking at your budget. A lot of times we overspend during the holidays. I’m just as guilty as everybody else. And just kind of refocusing on what your monthly spend should be. And then along those same lines, every year, The IRS sets new guidelines for contributions to your IRAs, your Roth IRAs, and your 401k type of accounts. So going back after you do your budget to see what, if anything, can I do to increase my contributions to my retirement accounts because you want to do that in January if possible. And then another important thing that I always remind people in January is this is a good time to take a look at your estate plan, your wills, your trust, those types of things, and double-check your beneficiaries. Just make sure that everything is set up the way that you think it should be set up. So I always say January is a perfect time to start looking and just double-checking those things.
SPEAKER 20 :
That is really good advice. And then also preparing for starting to prepare for tax time in April as well, right? Absolutely.
SPEAKER 12 :
So tax documents start coming out at the end of January. I always get lots of calls. I haven’t received my W-2 or my 1099 by January 31st. Remind people that the mail date is January 31st. So you probably won’t start receiving all of those until honestly mid-February, sometimes even to late March.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay, so Jodi, I know you have events for your clients as well. And do you have anything coming up that people should be aware of?
SPEAKER 12 :
We do. In fact, we do two events per year with kind of like a State of the Union kind of market update. We do one at the beginning of the year and one in the mid-year. And so we’ve got our January event coming up. where we will just be kind of doing a recap of 2025. And so I think this is a perfect opportunity for your listeners to come join us for a virtual meeting. We do it Zoom, so you can grab a glass of wine or sit and eat dinner. Just listen in virtually for about 45 minutes. We talk about what the market did in 2025. Did it meet our expectations? And then we’re also going to talk about a couple of key takeaways from the big, beautiful bill and what you need to be prepared for, talking about filing for taxes. I’m going to recap those Trump accounts that we talked about a little bit later in last year. We’re going to discuss a little bit about this possible AI bubble that people keep talking about. And then last, but most importantly, we’re going to do some forecasting for 2026. So that’s coming up next Tuesday, January 13th at five o’clock. And again, that’s virtual. So if anybody wants to join us for those meetings, you can shoot me an email at which is Jody, J-O-D-Y, at MintFS.com, or you can call or text our office line, which is 303-285-3080. Again, 303-285-3080.
SPEAKER 20 :
Boy, Jodi, this is so important to help people that you have the complete package there that you can help people as they really need to get their financials in order. And going it alone is, I don’t think it’s the best idea, Jodi, Hensie.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, I completely agree. You know, I mean, these things are complicated. You need to have a professional side by side to help you do some planning and some strategizing. So we encourage people to reach out. We don’t charge anything for a complimentary review or initial meeting. So it doesn’t charge. It doesn’t cost you anything to come in and get a second opinion.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay, and they can reach out to you. That’s Jody, J-O-D-Y at MintFS.com, so like MintFinancialStrategies.com. And I would highly recommend that you check out this Zoom meeting or this online meeting that will be Tuesday the 13th at 5 p.m., and that sounds great. Jody, thanks so much. We’ll talk to you in a couple of weeks on the show, but we’ll be talking with you on other things in between times. So thanks so much. Thanks to you, too.
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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. And are you craving some real New York-style pizza and pasta? Well, then Little Richie’s in Parker and Golden have you covered. It is authentic New York flavor with Colorado roots. They have daily specials and weekday lunch deals and a happy hour worth planning around. They are your neighborhood favorite, and they’re always serving up something worth stopping for, and that is Little Richie’s in Parker and Golden. Pleased to have on the line with me, Montrose County Commissioner Sean Pond, and he’s got a big announcement that he just announced yesterday. Sean Pond, welcome to the show.
SPEAKER 11 :
Good morning, Kim, and thanks for having me on as always.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, it is good to have you. And you made a big announcement yesterday.
SPEAKER 11 :
I did, yeah. I announced yesterday that I’m going to be running for United States Senate.
SPEAKER 20 :
And I know that you and your wife, your family spent a lot of time to come to this decision. So tell us, you know, walk us through this, Commissioner Pond.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, you bet. The decisions to run for higher office wasn’t something that we took lightly or the decision wasn’t made easy. We understand the cost of public service because we’ve been living in that realm for the last year or so. Being involved in county politics and has given me an insight into politics at not only the state level, but the federal level. I just keep watching. Trying to think of a political way to say this, Kim, and I’m just going to be me. They just won’t leave us alone. They keep coming after us at every angle. They’re always, the government is supposed to be there to serve the American people. And what’s happened is I see that the government’s become a managing tool for the people. And I just had enough. At some point in time when you see the things that I’ve seen and you live in the belly of the beast and you’re subject to it, you just think about the world differently. And it’s time to stand up. It’s time to say no to some of the things I’m seeing happen. I’ve seen how our current political leaders have divided us here in Colorado. And I’m not even talking about party politics. level on this. I’m talking about just Colorado citizens. Our neighbors were divided across party lines, and it starts at the top. There’s two culprits in that, in my opinion. One is our political leaders that we have right now in the state of Colorado, and the second one is the media. The media is biased. So they have been so successful in drawing lines and causing such division, even multiple lines of division within our own parties that the people are tired they’re confused they’re just sick and tired of the government affecting their lives daily so after lots of lots of uh talk and prayer and and figuring out what we needed to do we decided this was the time to try to give the people a voice back here in colorado at the at our nation’s capital someone that’s not afraid to say no I’m not, as you well know. Someone that understands the Constitution is our guiding principle in this country. And someone to talk honestly to the people, to stop causing division, but to listen to all perspectives from all walks of life, both rural and urban, and give Colorado a voice again.
SPEAKER 20 :
Commissioner Pond, you mentioned that people are tired, they’re confused, they’re divided. I think that that ultimately has been the goal of these, I call them PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties. We’re coming in on our 250th birthday for America, and I think that we are at a real inflection point in our history to reclaim the freedom, the liberty for the individual and get government back into its proper role. And one of the first things to do is to say no. And I know that from my experience when I was on city council. And many of these city councils and county commissioner seats, what we’re seeing is not representation, but a rubber stamp for for agendas that may be brought forward by politicians or bureaucrats. And there’s this pressure to have a rubber stamp of unanimous votes on things. That’s not how our country was founded, Commissioner Pond.
SPEAKER 11 :
No, it never has been. And I think that’s part of the divide that I’ve identified in the last year being in this county seat is, there’s a clear divide. When you say politicians, bureaucrats, for some reason, they all gravitate towards the inner cities, the populated areas. And they’re the ones that show up. They’re the ones that, whether they volunteer for commissions like planning commissions or water boards, and they’re the ones that show up and run for city council or chamber of commerce or power boards. And they all have a political ideology that aligns with urban areas. They tend to worship the government. They look at the government as a program, a grant, a funding opportunity. They look at the government as something that takes care of and should run, that it should answer your problems, where a lot of us, most of us that understand the country and the Constitution realize the government is there to protect our God-given rights, not to give us more laws and restrictions on american freedoms so there’s the the divide is is uh not even on political lines it’s it’s uh it’s all it’s on where we live who we are where we come from it’s uh and i i think that i think the goal that i have is to be able to talk and communicate to people in the in the rural urban front range uh rural areas outside the front range obviously the western slope and try to start some kind of a conversation in a dialect and explain the differences and why we think differently and what we can do to bridge that gap and maybe make people understand that we’re not as different as we think. When you boil it all down, we’re all here, we all pay the same prices, we’re all subject to the same overtaxation, the same cost of living, the same unaffordability, the lack of opportunity, the jobs and the people fleeing the state. This is going to be a pivotal moment in 2026 with so many key leadership roles available that people need to open their ears, take the blinders off, don’t listen to all the rhetoric and the noise, but look at what’s really happening and how those leaders, how they vote, what they do and don’t do, how it affects you personally and your family. And when we can bring that to clarity, truth and clarity, when we can shine a light on that, people are going to understand what’s happening who’s pulling the strings who’s telling the truth who’s not that’s that’s the goal to make sure that people understand that they’re in charge i always tell people the citizens have more power than the government wants them to know and if we can show them how to how to utilize that power through voter registration through voter turnout by making sure they get behind and lift up the candidates that they align with. Maybe not 100%, but maybe they just understand the message is clear and they have the interest of the people and not the government and not themselves. That’s how we can make a difference and put Colorado back on a path of prosperity.
SPEAKER 20 :
I agree with that, Commissioner Pond, but many times candidates will not actually say who they are or they may have, for example, they may have an R behind their name. I think people assume that means that they would be interested in protecting our rights. And I’m thinking of this headline that I saw with Representative Jeff Hurd aligning with Senators Hickenlooper and Bennett on the Gunnison Outdoor Recreation Program. The agenda, as I’m starting to see this, is there are those that are behind the rewilding of the West, and that is ultimately that that will prevent human interaction on that land, is what I see. And so I’m concerned about that. So talk to me a little bit about this issue.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, absolutely. So I think that’s, I have to be honest and say that the three names that you just named is probably the biggest motivational reason that I’ve thrown my name in the hat for this election cycle. Because there’s two names. on every piece of landlocked legislation for almost two decades, and that’s taken Luper and Bennett. Without a doubt, they’re behind it. Their idea of protecting public land is to lock it up to keep everybody out of it. Where my idea of public land is it belongs to us, the American people, it should be kept open for multi-use for everybody. And if it’s in danger, then we should make our government agencies manage them correctly to where it’s not. And that’s the other key point is they always lead into these conversations with heartstrings and drama and say, ah, we must protect it. But it’s already protected. It’s not in danger. It’s our land. It’s our resources. And we, the people, are the ones who should be able to control that, not politicians. So unfortunately, Congressman Jeff Hurd has aligned with those two senators on a couple of public land issues lately in the last few months, well, in the first year of his seat. Those two is the Gunnison Outdoor Resource Protection Act, 730,000 acres in the Gunnison Basin across five counties. And most recently, and the most dangerous, is the Dolores National Conservation Area in Montezuma, San Miguel, and Dolores counties. And that’s a 68,000 acre national conservation area that is actually a bill. It came out of Senate Bill 1787, came out of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and is on the Senate’s agenda for review at some point in time. So that one has grew legs and is alive. It’s a real threat. And unfortunately, some of those Politicians or activists or the people we talk about have talked about county commissioners in those counties. We’re talking about some of the environmental activists and NGOs have lent their voice of support for that bill. So it’s a constant battle. And I think people need to understand that for me and for all of us here in rural western Colorado that love the land, whether we just love it to access it or we make a living off of it, If this land was really in danger and needed more protection, we would be the first ones to ask for it. But in this case, the environmental activists, the NGOs, they go to the elected officials and they voice support. For the Dolores National Conservation Area down south, this has been a 15-year process of them hitting… Every time county commissioners changed, it was opposed. They finally found a group. They beat up hard enough. They’ve convinced them that they should be in support of it. And we’re at odds on that. A lot of us are at odds with that. There’s a lot of people running for county commissioner down in Montezuma County. The candidates that have researched it see it for what it truly is, a threat to access, a threat to industry, a threat to people’s livelihoods. And we’re growing a movement down there. So you’re right. Party affiliation doesn’t necessarily define what someone’s going to vote for. And I think when you’re going to go out there to this next election cycle and you’re going to do your candidate search and you’re going to talk to people, if you’re at a public forum, if you’re on a talk show, if you’re on someone’s website, social media, ask them the hard questions and make them answer you. Because In my case, I’m an open book. I’ll answer any question honestly, and every candidate should hold themselves to the same exact standards. And that’s how we prevent having someone who’s elected into a higher office that we think is going to speak for us, the people, that we think is going to vote the way we would want them to, only to find out later that they’re not aligned with us ideology and their principles are different. And all of a sudden we have voter regret. So the key to that is for people to get involved. I’m going to talk about something real fast. Everybody talks about the largest voting block in Colorado being the unaffiliated voter. And don’t quote me on these, but I think it’s 23% Republican in Colorado, 25% Democrat, 50-ish percent unaffiliated. But that’s not really the problem. The problem is the two million non-voters in Colorado, the people that are so sick and tired of the political noise and the chaos and the fighting and the drama that they don’t even show up to have their voices heard. So those are the divisions and the splits we’re talking about. You’ve got the two political classes that don’t agree on much. You’ve got the unaffiliated that are just sick and tired of the noise. And you’ve got the people that are just totally disconnected and refuse to be part of the American process because they don’t understand, they don’t know, or they don’t have the time for all the drama and the noise. That’s the people I’m trying to reach, all of them, collectively across the board, to make sure they understand what’s at stake. Make sure they understand that they’re in charge of this country, the state of Colorado, and the country as a whole. The people are in charge of the government. This is our time in 2026 with so many important seats to put the people back in charge and put the government back in check.
SPEAKER 20 :
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SPEAKER 20 :
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. I’m talking with Montrose County Commissioner Sean Pond. He has announced that he is running for U.S. Senate. And Commissioner Pond, where can people find your campaign information? Do you have your website up and going?
SPEAKER 11 :
We do. www.SeanPond.com.
SPEAKER 20 :
And Sean is spelled S-E-A-N. So that’s SeanPond.com. You have been very active on Facebook and making, I think, very reasoned commentary on a variety of things. And I saw that you had posted something regarding President Trump had vetoed the Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act, which was a bill that is tied to a long-running water pipeline act. intended to deliver clean drinking water to communities in southeast Colorado. And then I saw this headline from KRCC. It says, Trump vetoes bipartisan bill to provide clean water to rural southeastern Colorado, which then makes it look like Trump doesn’t care about people having clean water. But you said it’s a bit more complicated than that. So walk us through your commentary on this.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I’d be happy to. And I think that’s part of the divisions we talk about is the media and the press. That’s part of those divisions, right? So the media comes out and tries to paint the president as making a bad decision, when the truth of the matter is it’s way more complicated than that. I mean, the H.R. 131, people don’t realize that that was originally part of the Kennedy administration in 1962 as part of the frying pan Arkansas project. And that’s how long this thing has sat and mildewed within our own government. And the reason for that is the original plan, original payment plan required for the locals to completely repay that amount. And they couldn’t afford it. They knew it wouldn’t. So it’s never moved forward. And then, again, it came to life about 2009 when I think with President Barack Obama was going to put 35% of federal government to cover the rest. It’s never happened. So when H.R. 131 did come through with bipartisan support conveniently in an election year and ended up on the President’s desk, his decision to veto that was because It didn’t make economic sense, and the president was actually exercising and being fiscally responsible with federal taxpayers’ dollars. I mean, there’s already been hundreds of millions of dollars spent on this project, and now the total estimate is someplace between $1.7 to $3 billion to serve some 50,000 people, which, don’t get me wrong, it’s important, but a Colorado pipeline for Colorado residents… shouldn’t fall completely on the federal government and federal taxpayers’ dollars, right? So if you look at just the economics, if you look at the cost per mile per person, it doesn’t make sense. If you look at the hundreds of millions of dollars that have already been spent and it’s not even there yet, it just doesn’t make sense again. So just because the past spending for the bill. It doesn’t make spending more money and future debt to the citizens of that area make sense. That’s just to get the pipeline supposedly in, but then you’ve got Colorado’s clean water laws would require filtration and treatment facilities. So then you’ve got operations and maintenance and system upgrades, staffing. This would have been a multi-billion dollar financial hardship passed down to Colorado taxpayers and federal taxpayers. So in my opinion, the president made the correct choice of being fiscally responsible with your money. It was the right thing to do.
SPEAKER 20 :
Well, there’s 50,000 people that we want to have clean water. So what would the solution be for this, Commissioner Pond?
SPEAKER 11 :
That’s a really good question. And right now, I think most of those people are trucking water, hauling water. And when you look at the cost, again, the cost per mile for the tax ramifications to those citizens, they’re going to find out right now it’s cheaper to haul water. I know that’s not a solution, but that’s just the truth, right? People don’t like it when their taxes go up either, right? So the solution is going to have to be investigated. There has to be one for those people in that area. I don’t have the answer to that in Montrose County, obviously. But it needs to be investigated. And I think that’s probably part of what the president was saying was to put this back into the halls where decisions are made and challenge them to find a solution that doesn’t burden the taxpayer, especially the federal taxpayer, and find a solution for these individuals. So I think that’s something in progress that we’re going to be looking at and seeing how that comes out of Congress when it comes back.
SPEAKER 20 :
So when I was on city council, and one of the questions that was in front of us was the extension of the southeast light rail extension. And I was new on council, and others were telling me how important this was for economic development for this area. And And should we go – and the Obama administration was offering what was called New Start grants. Well, if I look back, as I really connect the dots on this, this has been this movement to – which has been a real assault upon our freedom of mobility. It’s this movement by globalists that want to get people onto trains and buses and bicycles and and walking instead of the freedom of mobility that comes with our gas-powered vehicles. And so initially I said, well, I guess, yeah, go ahead and ask for those grants. But then as I learned more and more about it, I realized that that was not the proper role of the federal government. to be funding a light rail extension in this community and went back to an understanding that there was a president that had actually vetoed money from the federal government for a road in the Cumberland Gap because he said that that only benefited that region and that region should pay for it. but yet approved funding for lighthouses up and down the eastern seaboard because having ships come in and commerce, that was for the general welfare of everyone. And as we look at this massive spending that’s occurring from Washington, D.C., and just this massive spending, we look at these government grants, or tax incentives, or tax credits that are going to certain industries, or, for example, this whole thing regarding the Somali fraud in Minnesota, this is defrauding the American people. And so we’ve got to get the spending put back in the right place, and also the federal government, the state government, local government, people in the proper role is there as well. So certainly we want clean water for the people of southeast Colorado, but that is not the responsibility of the complete country, nor taking on debt from our children to make that happen. So we’ve got to find that different solution, Sean Ponton.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I agree with everything you just said. At the end of the day, I think that by him vetoing it, they avoided locking taxpayers in insufficient and costly projects. Again, as we talked about, it opens the door to rethinking about water infrastructure, and there’s got to be smarter, more affordable ways. And I think that’s what’s put back on the table, to find a way for the local governments, the local taxpayers in Colorado, in that area that do need the drinking water, to find a workable solution that makes sense without taxing future generations with billions of dollars in debt.
SPEAKER 20 :
Right. And I think that that solution can be found. I really do. As we’re talking about this, connecting a dot in my mind between Senator Bennett and Hickenlooper and Representative Hurd regarding the Gunnison Outdoor Corp. Recreation Protection Act. And that would be 730,000 acres that ultimately be moving away from human interaction on that land. And you alluded to how that would affect those local communities. And it would start to, I think, dry up the economic drivers in those communities. And so I find it somewhat ironic that Politicians over here say they’re concerned, for example, with this big water project. We’re concerned about the people there. But yet over here, tying up that land would basically decimate those communities. And so they say they care in one area so that they can have the spending. But when we look at what could happen to those communities, if that land is tied up and there’s not access to it, it’s all that government is out of its proper role, I think, Sean Pond.
SPEAKER 11 :
Completely agree again, Kim. And I think that’s part of the problem is so many people that don’t live in these areas, they view these Rocky Mountain landscapes as a postcard. They’re just something that they look at and they visit, and they don’t understand the financial impact to the Colorado state economy. It’s more than just tourism, right? Cattle ranchers and ag producers feed Colorado. They feed the country. whether it be oil and gas producers or miners, critical mineral extraction, lithium is a big topic right now. All of those exist in public lands in Colorado, both in the Gunnison Outdoor Resource Protection Act boundaries and uranium and some of those critical minerals down in the Dolores River National Conservation Area Special Management Act. Those resources is what’s being taken away The Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection Act. Those resources that provide opportunity and good-paying jobs right to the taxpayers, to people’s livelihoods, that’s what they threaten. And all of that trickles down to the people in the front range of the urban corridor. But again, they get told that they have to protect this land. What we need to do is to manage it. make sure that it provides opportunity, good-paying jobs, and all of that goes right into – you can go to a high level and say a lot of that goes right into national security. These aren’t small talking points. These are huge talking points that affect every single citizen of Colorado. And when they listen to the media, when they listen to the very well-funded NGOs and environmental activists, who unfortunately have the ear of some of our political leaders – They hear that it needs to be protected. They hear that they’re doing something good. And who doesn’t want to protect Colorado, right? So it’s the message that’s put out, and it’s not necessarily the truth, that this land’s already protected. It’s not in danger. They paint pictures of oil and gas rigs or coal mines or these great big bad evil demons. When really, right here in this country, we can remove these resources, these critical minerals, these fuels, natural gas and oil, more safely, more effectively and cleaner than any place else in the world. So we can use those resources to enrich our citizens, to increase their opportunity here in Colorado. And the wise leader puts that truth out to people to make them understand it’s in their best interest. That’s how we take care of ourselves, not by locking it up and turning us into a big tourist site, depending upon minimum wage jobs and hoping the government bails us out, but by reinforcing independence, freedom, liberty, And the ability for us to think for ourselves as citizens to take care of ourselves. And all of that in Colorado ties directly into public lands, how we manage it, what we do with it. And we need to make sure we’re telling the truth. So the media, the press, again, all funded into our political leaders, they’re not telling the people the truth. And I’ll be the first one to say if there’s something out there that has to do with public lands, if there’s something really in danger that needs protected, I’ll be the very first one to say, yes, it does, because I and so many of the people like me. rely on this country i grew up here in colorado i’m a fifth generation colorado native i understand what public land means to us in the state and it needs to be an open honest conversation without the rhetoric without the misinformation and show people the facts so they can make decisions that they can relate to their lawmakers before we lose this land visit these resources and the opportunity for people to take care of themselves
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay, Commissioner Sean Pond, that’s Montrose County Commissioner Sean Pond. He announced yesterday he’s running for U.S. Senate. Again, what is that website so people can get more information about you?
SPEAKER 11 :
www.SeanPond.com. We’ve also got a YouTube channel out there, our campaign team of staff, which is fantastic, by the way. They’ve got the social media sites up on Facebook, Instagram, X, separate from my personal page, obviously. So we’ve got a great team of people that’s out there. We’ve already got, I think I saw the email this morning, we have volunteers in 31 of the 64 counties overnight. So people are listening. They’re paying attention. They want to be part of the conversation. And we’re going to start something different, Kim. We’re going to show the people that they’re in charge of Colorado.
SPEAKER 20 :
Okay. Thank you, Commissioner Sean Pond. And again, good luck on your candidacy for U.S. Senate.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thank you, Kim. Good to talk to you. Thanks again for having us on.
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