Dive into the latest episode of The Kim Monson Show as we dissect the pressing issues in politics and world affairs. In this thought-provoking episode, Kim and her guests challenge the notion of special rights and discuss the power of independent journalism in an era dominated by mainstream narratives. Join us as we explore the importance of personal agency over governmental force, and how embracing freedom can rekindle the American spirit of self-governance.
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It’s the Kim Monson Show, analyzing the most important stories.
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That seems to me like government is establishing a religion.
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The latest in politics and world affairs.
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If you give people rights, women’s rights, gay rights, whatever, there can’t be equal rights if there are special rights.
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Today’s current opinions and ideas.
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Surveys show that people still really prefer freedom over government force.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed. Let’s have a conversation. And welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You’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, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Tuesday, Producer Joe. Happy Tuesday, Kim. And fasten your seatbelts. We’ve got another great show planned for you today. Be sure and check out my website. It is new and improved. You will be really impressed with what we have put together. And make sure that you are signed up for our weekly email newsletter. And we are starting a daily news digest. publishing articles with great journalistic integrity. And typically on the news pieces, I will give you my thoughts about that, but we also have our articles as well. 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And that’s after… Thomas Jefferson’s estate, and then Mount Vernon, George Washington’s estate, is the top level at $200 a year. And it’s really great. Many of you are already signing up, and we’re excited about that. Alan Thomas’s class on the Federalist Papers will begin probably mid-April, is what our guess is on that. And so we’d love to have you join us. Let’s see here. You can email me at Kim at KimMonson.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. And I do want to hear from you. And all this happens. We are an independent journalist. And it happens because of all of you and our great sponsors. And I want to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show as well. Because we need these independent voices here. And particularly here in Colorado, I think there’s some exciting things that are happening. And as you know, 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. This state legislature is all about force and control. And that is why we’ve got to really engage in the battle of ideas so that people understand this idea of self-governance and then also elect representatives of we the people. And my friends, it is never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhood, or lives via force. Force can be a weapon, but it can be policy, unpredictable in excess of taxation, fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation. This agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist elites plays out at the United Nations all the way down to local government. And that is really about control of our lives. And on the show, we will focus on the issues. And we’ll talk about the people pushing those issues. But we really work to stay out of all the personality stuff that can happen out there. Because when you get into the personalities… Then you get into emotion and you get into passion. And the founders knew that you don’t make good decisions when you are operating totally on emotion and passion. But that is what the Democrats – and this Democrat Party is not the Democrat Party of JFK or your grandpa or your grandma. And they don’t really have ideas. And so what they foment is hatred, hatred for – the president, hatred for those that don’t agree with them. And so we’ve got to engage in this battle of ideas and reclaim reason and common sense. And so that’s why we do the show. The word of the day is apostate. It’s spelled A-P-O-S-T-A-T-E. It’s one who renounces or abandons one’s religious faith or an object of one’s previous loyalty. And this is from the Random House Webster’s College Dictionary. And I’ve heard, I’ve talked with a number of parents that their children have gone off to college and become apostates regarding their Christian faith. And it’s because we’ve seen a tremendous amount of indoctrination in many of our colleges and universities. So parents, grandparents, please stay active in your children’s lives. Know what’s going on at school. And make sure that you stay connected with these kids when they go to college as well. Our quote of the day, I went to George Orwell. He was born in 1903, died in 1950. His name was Eric Arthur Blair. He was an English novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell. And his work is characterized by prose, lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to all totalitarianism, both communism, fascism, I’ll just say that, and support of really of freedom. And he’s best known for his novel, Animal Farm, which was written in 1945, and 1984, which was written in 1949. And he said this. If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. And that is why freedom of speech is so important, and that’s why it was in the Bill of Rights at the very beginning, is because if we don’t have freedom of speech, we don’t really have anything. And so let’s see. I did want to get back over here, make sure that I know where we are on the Web site since we redid everything. And to sign up, go to Kim Monson dot com. And then you’ll see up at the top newsletter and just click on that. And even if you do get the weekly newsletter, please sign up if you’d like to get the daily digest. And again, these are really important articles that we are reading. Publishing there. Let’s see. Our bill of the day is House Bill 1126. And this is requirements for firearms dealers. And this particular bill is going to make it very difficult for firearms dealers to put some of them out of business. And this is a direct infringement upon our Second Amendment rights because if government is putting in place – regulations, penalties, those kinds of things, will ultimately put firearms dealers out of business, then that infringes upon our right to be able to keep and bear firearms. And so we’ve taken a position on this particular bill in Cut Engaged. And we’ve selected four bills for this week where you can weigh in on what… What we have – gosh, there’s so many things going on here. So you can weigh in and have your voices heard, and you will be able to just very quickly, within 30 seconds to a minute, you will be able to have your email sent to the prime sponsors as well as, if you choose, your senator and your representative. And what we would suggest this is – here we go. It’s House Bill 26-1126. And just go to CUT, our website, which is coloradotaxpayer.org, and then click on this. These are in – we post them each week. And this is what we have to say about this. It says, Our legislature is so immersed in control and tax theology that they seem to feel compelled to expand on controls and taxes already regulated by the federal government and the state. Interestingly, the fiscal note states that there has been zero convictions or sentences for this offense. This leads one to conclude that the gun shops have been trying to comply with these rules and that the legislature only wants to run gun shops out of business. This bill imposes more expensive requirements for intrusion detection and prevention, plus a horrendous $100,000 penalty for violation of rules. There doesn’t ever seem to be enough control to suit this legislature, particularly with respect to the Second Amendment. And then you can go over and just put your name and your email and just hit next and just go through that process and make your voices heard. I would highly recommend that you do that today. The prime sponsors on this are Representative Emily Sirota, Representative Stephen Woodrow, and Senator Kathy Kipp. And it is so important that we be engaged. But it is also important that we remember and honor those that have given their lives, have been willing to give their lives before us to get us to this point. And that is why the work of the USMC Memorial Foundation is so important. We’ve got the president on the line right now. That is Paula Sarles. Paula, welcome to the show. Well, good morning. It’s nice to be with you. Well, it’s good to have you, and we are in March. So two things are really focused, being focused on at the USMC Memorial Foundation. One, this is your birthday challenge. Your birthday is this month. You turn 77 years young, I will say, knowing your personality. And you’re doing something very special.
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Yes, we are, and… It’s all on our website at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. But it’s my 77th birthday, my 57th wedding anniversary. It’s 17 years since my dear Tony passed. and so there’s a seven theme here and we’re asking uh the public to their challenge is to donate something ending in the number seven and what i’ll be doing is standing at the memorial all day reading names of the fallen and telling stories about the people that i know or that we have a record of and uh We’re inviting the public to come out and say the name of your hero and tell a sentence or two about what their service was or something important to you. And to make a donation out there, and it’ll be fun. We’ll have cupcakes for my birthday and some other fun things.
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And it’ll be from 8 to 4. 8 to 4. Okay, there’s two ribbons at the top of the website at usmcmemorialfoundation.org. One is Rain or Shine, the President’s Birthday Challenge, The Power of Seven, Give Now. The other is the golf tournament, which is in May, which is right around the corner as well.
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Right. May 14th at the Ridge at Castle Pines. And we have early bird registration right now for golfers that just love the beautiful course it’s really fantastic and we have a good time so you save $50 per player by registering early and we invite everyone to come out and register and then if you want to sponsor buy a whole you know sponsor a whole or something that would be great too okay and that tournament is going to be at the ridge isn’t it in Castle Pines
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It’s just spectacular. Okay. Well, that is great. You’re busy over at the USMC Memorial Foundation. That website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And Paula, keep up the great work. We’ll talk with you next week. Okay, thanks. And we have all these discussions because of all of you. We are certainly an independent journalist and broadcaster, and it happens because of you and also our sponsors. And I think you might be able to save some money if you give the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team a call. I know that they have lowered their auto rates for both existing customers and new customers here in Colorado. And so you might save money there. If you bundle everything together, you might even save more money. The only way to find out is to give them a call. That number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And also check out the website for the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo, Colorado, on the beautiful Riverwalk. And they do great work in education programs for our kids. The foundation of those programs is Honor, Integrity, and Patriotism. And they also weave all this together with their portraits of valor of over 160 Medal of Honor recipients, which is the collection is there at the Center for American Values. And then also the founders. Drew Dix and Brad Padula have started a podcast. They finished up season one, and that is at their website. That’s AmericanValueCenter.org. And they’ll be starting season two here very quickly. And so be sure and check that out. On the line with me is former state senator Kevin Lundberg. And we’ve got a lot to talk about. Kevin, welcome to the show.
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Well, thank you, Kim. As always, it’s great being with you, even if we’ve got a lot of ugly stuff to talk about on the show, because, of course, the legislature is in full swing right now. And like they’ve done for several years, they’ve got a lot of bad ideas that they’re passing, pushing through, I should say. And there’s some really good bills out there. Unfortunately, they’re dying on party line votes almost all the time.
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Well, and these elections are so important. Let’s jump in here on one regarding CUT, Colorado’s Union of Taxpayers. Go to our website, coloradotaxpayer.org. CUT Engaged is there. Also, join us. It’s only $25 a year, and that way you will get our… weekly bill positions on bills that we have taken positions on regarding how we think it affects the taxpayer, TABOR, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, property rights, parental choice and education. And first one, normally you and I, well, Cut and you all normally agree on everything. How this works with Cut is I select bills on Friday afternoon and go through the list of all the bills that are scheduled for hearing for the next week. Then I go through with our criteria. I select bills. I put it out to the team. And then they go in and analyze bills for, against, or do not rate. And there’s a bill that I might have been supportive of, but I always want to honor the team. And we came out as a no on this. And this is an election bill by Linda Zamora Wilson. So set this up for us.
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Well, this bill is fairly straightforward. It simply allows the individual voter… to opt out of the all-mail ballot system, meaning you contact your, well, I say your county clerk, even though all voter registration is now managed by the Secretary of State. It’s a big, complicated system where they interact with another interstate system called ERIC, which manages our voter registration system. Okay, that’s a little too much information because all this bill says is if you don’t want the county to send you a ballot in the mail, you can opt out of it and you can go vote in person without that one coming through the mail and landing in your mailbox. I supported that. As a matter of fact, I ran a bill very similar to that. back when I was in the Senate, because in 2013, when they created the all-mail-balance system, this meant that anybody who had a voter registration automatically received a ballot. And I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to change their mind on that all at once. But I thought, well, maybe we can just start to chip away at this by allowing the individual citizen to say, no, I’d rather vote in person. And don’t send me a ballot. I’ll go vote on my own like a responsible voter used to do all the time and I think should do in the future, too. So that’s the first step towards that. I’m a little curious as to why CUT opposed that, because it’s also a very cost-saving measure. If just even a small percentage of the voters said, no, don’t send me a ballot in the mail. We have four-plus million names and addresses on the voter registration list that get a ballot sent to them. And I word that carefully because I’m not convinced they’re all legitimate voters. I think the system is really… Games are played as to who’s on that list and who isn’t. But for me personally, I’d like to be off the list and not have a ballot sent to me. And I believe that there are probably hundreds of thousands of people in Colorado that would say the same thing. And if a couple hundred thousand people do say, no, take me off the list, well, that’s a whole lot of mail and printing of ballots that isn’t going to happen. So I think it’s a cost-saving measure as well as it’s a good strategic move back to a legitimate in-person voting system that we ought to have in Colorado. So tell me why Trout doesn’t like that idea.
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No. Okay, well, this is the statement that we put together. It says, The bill increases fees on businesses to cover costs of implementation of the mailing opt out, which is not likely to be widely used. A more effective way to decrease mailing costs and increase election integrity would be to return to having in person voting with an option for voters to request a mail ballot as needed. I think the sticky point for the board, and again, it was not unanimous, but it was a majority that came out as a no on this. And I think it’s probably that increasing fees on businesses was the sticky point on that.
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Let me explain that. And I haven’t done specific research on this bill as to how they came up with that. But I do know how the election system works with the Secretary of State. And that is… that the Secretary of State is not funded through general revenues. Rather, it’s funded through revenues from business registrations, because they make money on that. And that actually funds the rest of the Secretary of State’s operations, or at least most of them. And my guess, and so when they prepare a fiscal note for a bill, what happens is the The economists in the state legislative staff, they simply contact whatever department it is and say, so what’s it going to cost for us to do this? Now, if the department doesn’t like the idea, then they pile on a cost. They say, oh, this will be really expensive to do this, this, and the other. If they love the idea, they say, oh, I think we can handle this within existing resources.
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Interesting. That’s an inside baseball that I didn’t realize.
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Yeah, you’ve got to be very careful on these fiscal notes. And legitimately, the economists have to find out information somewhere, and the department that has to deal with it is obviously the one to turn to. But it’s a game they play all the time. They like the bill. It doesn’t cost anything. They don’t like the bill. then it’s going to be tremendously expensive um as a well and and here’s another thing it it will here because here’s what they’d have to do they would have to go in and and change their computer system not not not in a big way they just have to add a little field that says no you know or they opted out And then when it’s processed, then that doesn’t go on to the list of ballots to be printed and mailed out. They simply remain on the voter registration active list. And then when you go into vote in your county, you know, and here’s another thing. They already have to, at the county level, they have to maintain these vote centers. And they’re very much underutilized. You talk to an election judge who might handle some of these things, especially in their early voting system. They’ll go in, they’ll spend a day and maybe five people will walk in and vote. And there will be a whole team of people there waiting for them to process that vote. Wow. The existing resources are there. The only cost it’ll be is when that voter goes in to vote, they’ll have to create a ballot for them, which they’re already set up to do. It’s just that they don’t create too many because they have already mailed out millions of these things. So, yeah, you might want to go back. Now, I’m going to grant the fact that I often don’t have enough information to properly process all of my good bill and bad bill lists. I try to cover it, but sometimes I just misread. You don’t miss one. I think I’m pretty accurate on whether it’s a good bill or a bad bill, because I only pick the ones that I’m pretty confident in. But this one I picked as a good bill, largely because I already tried it myself, and the ruling party back then killed it. So anyway, that’s my analysis, and hopefully it kind of helps in the future on analyzing these things, too.
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Well, I appreciate it. And what we’re based on here at the Kim Monson Show is having conversations about this. So we certainly will talk about this at our next board meeting with our board members on that. Because I… Get your thinking on that. And these fiscal notes, well, Kevin, let’s go to break. And when we come back, I’ve got some more questions on these fiscal notes because I’ll be looking at these bills and they’ll say that there is no cost at all. And sometimes it doesn’t make sense to me. But then there are bills that… are putting in regulations that I know will have tremendous costs for everyday people. So let’s talk about that. You’ve got a couple other bills you wanted to make sure that we hit that people are aware of. And so we will do that when we come back. These discussions happen because of our sponsors. And of course, if you are buying or selling a home, you want to have Karen Levine 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. And we’re talking with Kevin Lumberg, former state senator. And Kevin, we were talking about Senator Linda Zamora Wilson’s bill, Senate Bill 26106. And one of our listeners, I would have loved to have gone, but the workload was just pretty extensive yesterday, to Dr. Douglas Frank, who was one of our featured guests yesterday. The scientist in numbers is his specialty, and he gave a presentation at the Lone Tree Library last night. regarding elections and one of our listeners attended said that dr frank said that ballots cost at least ten dollars each to mail out gosh when you think about all these mail-in or mail-out ballots that are flying all over the state uh it’s a tremendous savings if we would go back to in-person um And I was just trying to find out how many ballots were sent out in the 2024 election in Colorado. And I’m not getting that data quickly. But that’s pretty significant.
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Well, the number I have is about four and a half million registrations are on the list right now. And I actually know that because Protect Kids Colorado bought that list. It’s publicly available. and so that we could cross-reference it with with those people who had signed our petitions and try to determine some of the you know the accuracy of things uh so four and a half million times ten is uh 45 million dollars now there are other expenses with uh elections so i’m not going to make this really simple the big argument they made for the mail-in ballots is it will cost less because they don’t have to man all the in-person things and with that they switched over to the voter vote centers rather than precinct voting and and oh man this goes back to the health america vote act at the federal level where they added so many extra hoops to jump through that it was becoming a very expensive process to conduct elections any direction but let’s go back to now we’re stuck with in-person voting and early voting that has to be maintained and the voter reg and the all-male ballots so yeah i i don’t know if douglas is absolutely correct um even though i have a high respect for him i think 10 bucks might be a little bit high and he deals with its national level too he’s he’s an incredible guy smart he’s his specialty is actually physics And he is a very well-respected physicist. But then when he got involved with the election issues, he’s dug deep. And I have a deep respect for him.
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Well, regardless, if you really think about it, there’s the postage, there’s the printing. It’s expensive, for sure.
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Oh, yeah. Yeah, I’m sure it’s several dollars per. I mean, I think I sent you an email and I made a very conservative estimate of, well, it’s only $2 per. uh well it’s still a lot of money that would be saved um but let’s get back to the fiscal notes stuff because i think that’s that’s a very important thing and i’d love to go back to douglas frank’s discussion maybe in another day because he is on to a lot of very uh significant issues that that we need to deal with but but your your basic question at first was so how are these physical fiscal notes put together These are analyses that are done of every bill, and it’s done by the staff economists down in the Capitol, and they’re nonpartisan, and they are pretty good. They’re pretty diligent in what they do, but they can only work with the numbers they’re given. And as I say, if it has to do with costs for a bill, they have to go to the departments that are going to be spending the money. And there’s where it gets poisoned a bit. So you have to bear that in mind and ask yourself, okay, do we think this department is giving us the straight scoop or not? Now, here’s another thing they do. They only judge it on a static basis. They don’t really put in what would be called dynamic modeling. In other words, if this bill goes into place, will this increase or decrease the activity that will occur? Therefore, will it cost more or less money? Very slow to go down that because that’s a complex system that the economists just haven’t gotten into. So they just ask the question, what will this cost? Now, I highly value fiscal notes. I think they’re actually the first document I go to if I really want to dig down deep into a bill, because it contains a pretty good description of the bill, better than the bill summary itself, because they do ask a few questions first from those who are involved. And then it gives you a bit of a fiscal snapshot, and if it’s a straightforward issue of, How much will this raise fees or something? Well, you can usually judge pretty accurately from that. But you ask these subjective questions of a department, and then you’re on pretty shaky ground as to whether you’re going to get an accurate number or not.
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So we need to use some real common sense regarding these bills as well. The other thing, though, is I will look at these bills and look at regulations on what this ultimately will do to the costs of living for Coloradans. And, of course, I don’t have a… I haven’t done a fiscal analysis on it, but there’s a lot of these things that it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that if these regulations go in place to, for example, to make it more expensive or to try to get rid of natural gas, water heaters, furnaces, that the cost to… everyday people is significant. And so on one hand, many of these legislators say, oh, we’re so concerned about affordability in Colorado. And the next thing you know is they are passing legislation that will make everyday life more expensive for everyday Coloradans.
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Yeah, let me use a broad brush here and say that By my experience, most legislators couldn’t care less what it costs the people of Colorado. What they care about is their pet projects. And I say that because I went down to the well in the House and the Senate dozens of times and said, but look at what this is going to cost your constituents. And it just flew right over their head. I have a, and I’m going to sound rather harsh here as well, but the problem we have is most legislators just can’t add. I mean, they can’t put all the numbers together and really compute this. They look at a form, you know, like a fiscal note or like the talking sheets that the lobbyists just handed them, and they’ll say, well, this is what it says, so this is what it costs or doesn’t cost. They just don’t sit down and process it very adequately themselves. And the fiscal notes rarely cover what it costs the citizens. Again, where they get their information, they get it from the department that interfaces with this. Occasionally, there’d be one, like maybe I remember looking at a fiscal note many years ago on a change in the medical insurance policies. In other words, another mandate on medical insurance. And it said something like, this will cost the average family of four $1,500 a year. know for this one more mandate on their medical insurance and i’d go down and argue that at the well and nobody cared even though i can guarantee the next time the you know the premium rates came out everybody in their district care because it was another 1500 higher for that year you know well
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Okay, so before we go to break, I want to move over to one of the bills that you had brought to my attention, and that is this Senate Bill 26-119. And I can see… I can see this progression. So 2013 mail-in voting is passed here in Colorado. We now have mail-in ballots flying all over the state. And we all know that that’s significant expense. And so instead of moving to more secure elections in person with paper ballots, the camel’s nose under the tent is this Senate Bill 119 authorizing local electronic ballot return. This is, I think, putting elections at a whole new level of potential for fraud.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, my. Yeah. And and I would call this bill a little bit of a sleeper. You know, you said something about the camel’s nose under the tent because it actually amends the local government election code to allow Colorado municipal elections and special districts to use electronic ballot returns in elections. And what is that? What that means is, is instead of you getting a ballot, You can just go online and vote a ballot. Now, we already have that system in Colorado for what are called UOCAVA voters, which are military and overseas voters that are registered in Colorado. So the process they can go through, and this is through a federal system, that they can go online and vote online. And then that electronic record is transmitted to the county, who then has the job to literally transcribe that to a paper ballot. And then that ballot is voted on their behalf. Now, I’m going to make another bold statement. That system is completely corrupted. I have no confidence whatsoever in the accuracy of UOCAVA voters or votes. Not the voters. I think the voters are probably voting the way they think they’re voting, but their data doesn’t get transmitted to the counties. Here’s the reason I say that is I have solid evidence of it being just completely bizarre results from Douglas County from the 2020 election. And I actually had a few conversations with Douglas Frank on this very specific issue. He’s concerned about it as well, even though that’s not his real focus right now. But UOCAVA voting is electronic mail balloting voting. And now this Senate Bill 119 says, well, let’s do it for municipal elections and special elections, which are kind of odd elections that get very low voter participation. And let me add the final thing, probably if we want to go to break about that time, and that is the reason it’s corrupted, or a big reason, is they do it through third-party vendors. And that’s just a A bizarre mess. Now, the bill says that the electronic transmission system, I’m reading from the bill’s summary, must provide for secure identification and authentication, transmit encrypted information over a secure network, protect the privacy, anonymity, and integrity of each elector’s ballot, protect against abuse, and provide any additional security or other measures identified as necessary in the rules of the Secretary of State. Okay, great. That sounds like, well, it’s very secure. Well, the problem is with UOCAVA, it’s not. And I don’t see any effort to change or fix that process. So this is a next dangerous step that goes above and beyond the mail-in ballot. Because once they authorize it for these elections, then the next logical step is, well, why are we mailing out ballots in the first place? Let’s just let everybody vote online.
SPEAKER 17 :
That is exactly right, Kevin Lundberg. And Colorado seems to be at the tip of the spear for all of this stuff that they’re trying to pass. And so it’s important that we shed light on it. These elections are so important. I wanted to mention a couple of things. As you know, we’ve got great sponsors. And Jody Henze with Mint Financial Strategies is having a great event this Friday for women. It’s Women and Wealth. And it’s this Friday, March 6th at 5 p.m. at the Lone Tree Hub in Lone Tree, Colorado. And food and drinks will be provided. They’ve got creative activity. You’re going to design a tea towel. And then the presentation regarding investments is reading the tea leaves, making retirement more predictable through planning. If you’re interested in attending, you can email Jody at mintfs.com. That’s Jody at mintfs.com. And then we will be talking with John Bozen with Bozen Law in the next hour.
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SPEAKER 17 :
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 I wanted to mention Little Richie’s, which is located in Parker and Golden. And in fact, in Golden, it’s right across the street from the USMC Memorial Foundation. And I’m going to be out and about tonight. I think I’ll probably grab one of their great calzones for dinner. And I think it’s the best calzone I’ve ever had. So check out Little Richie’s. They are your neighborhood spot. And they actually on Tuesdays are for families. It says kids eat free after 4 p.m. with the purchase of an adult entree. So they can handle dinner and the dishes this evening. And that’s Little Richie’s in Parker and in Golden. We’re talking with former state senator Kevin Lundberg regarding legislation down at the statehouse. And this is House Bill 26-1289, modification of certain tax expenditures. This looks like this is a pretty… Naughty one. There’s a lot going on in this particular bill. So what should people know?
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, it’s a 70-page bill with 39 sections. That means 39 separate categories that it’s dealing with. And the whole category, they lump it in and call it modification of certain tax expenditures. But that’s not what the bill does. the bill raises taxes and creates new taxes and probably a lot of other things I I’ll tell you when I was going through the you know every every week I try to uh I don’t try I do look at all the the bills that have been introduced the last week this was introduced and I came across this one and I thought man 70 pages oh boy And I almost passed over thinking, well, it’s just, you know, a little micromanaging here and there, blah, blah, blah. And I thought, no, I can’t trust these folks. I better scan through this thing. And I get down to Section 17. And Section 17 removes the exemption of sales tax on precious metals, on sales, you know, gold, silver, bullion, things like that. which has been the policy in the state of Colorado for several decades now. If you want to invest in gold or silver or platinum or any other precious metal, that is not a taxable, a sales tax event. And that’s appropriate because it’s kind of like going down to the bank and investing in a CD or buying a stock or something like that. It’s And if you buy it at $100 and sell it like gold is right now at $5,400 per ounce, you have a capital gain. You will pay an income tax on the profit you make on that, even as you do with interest from your CV or a profit from a stock sale or something. Anyway, what they want to do is say, no, no, no, we are going to charge you a sales tax for the privilege of buying this commodity, this really, I’d call it a currency today. And I called a friend of mine who is a dealer in gold and silver, and his answer was pretty simple. He said, they do this, and that industry goes out of the state. Because you said the real trend, because some states do charge sales tax, but he said they’re getting out of it. The real trend is, you know, to recognize what Colorado did decades ago to say, no, no, we think people ought to be able to invest in gold and silver just like they can invest in stocks and bonds or put their money in the bank. But no, no, no, they’re going to fold in this little, this new tax. Now, here’s the other catch. The Taxpayer Bill of Rights says you put in a new tax or you increase the revenue from enhancing taxes and you have to ask for a vote of the people for that to occur. This doesn’t do that. This tries to just ignore Tabor. And they’ll claim, oh, well, a court case has said that we can remove tax exemptions like this without any consequence. Well, that’s a violation of Tabor, too. And the court who decided that was playing the same dangerous, unconstitutional game that the legislature is doing right now. So, yeah, House Bill 1289 has a poison piece in it. And the other 38 sections may be just as bad. I hope Cut looks at this one real carefully and digs deep because it’s an ugly one. And it’s one of two bills out there that are trying to play these games. But this one had that specific point on gold and silver that is just such a blatant, blatant example of their abuse of the system there in the legislature. This has to go away, and at least they better strip this part out.
SPEAKER 17 :
So on this, I’m trying to find this. Do you know, did they stick the safety clause on this?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, they did. Aha.
SPEAKER 17 :
Aha. Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
We actually… I say that. I’m doing that from memory, but that’s my memory. I’ll look at it real quick.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I’m going to try to look at that really quick as well. We did a piece, a journalistic piece on the safety clause, which is getting a lot of… of looks on it at our newsroom, and I would recommend that people check that out. And I think that I just got a text message from one of our fellow board members says, hey, I think that we should probably take another look at the Senate Bill 106. So we will do that. Let me just very quickly, bills with safety clause.
SPEAKER 08 :
This has a safety clause, by the way. It’s there. Actually, it’s Section 40, of course, the final one. Yeah. It’s a safety clause. No surprise. I’m aware of some discussions with the Senate sponsor on this bill, and he insisted we’re doing this because we’re trying to raise all the money we possibly can. And so you bet they’ll put a safety clause because that means it goes into effect immediately.
SPEAKER 17 :
So when they talk about affordability for everyday Coloradans, but they’re trying to wring every last cent out of us, that’s not very affordable at all, Kevin Lundberg. And this is scheduled, it looks like, for hearing for next Monday. So the team will be looking at that this afternoon. weekend for sure and be taking a position on it because we look at things that are scheduled for hearing one of the things that can happen is sometimes they can get sneaky they did i i can’t remember which bill it was it might have been the vaccine bill they introduced it earlier in this session on a monday so it got past us on that because and then they heard um heard it on Thursday. And so every once in a while, they do some things really sneaky, and we’re trying to stay on top of that. But with the enormous amount of bills out there, it’s difficult. Yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Oh, yeah. Well, be grateful that we have a bicameral system because at least it’s got another house to go through where you can take a second bite at the apple.
SPEAKER 04 :
Exactly.
SPEAKER 08 :
And let me clarify one thing. For Section 17 that strips or that puts a tax on gold and silver sales, that goes into effect the 1st of January of next year. Right. at least they’re allowing that industry to recognize that they’ve got 10 months to get out of the state.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. Well, Kevin, we’re out of time, but we’ll do this again next week. I appreciate that. And you can find Kevin Lundberg at KevinLundberg.com. We’ll talk next week.
SPEAKER 08 :
Thank you. Goodbye now.
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That seems to me like government is establishing a religion. If you give people rights, women’s rights, gay rights, whatever, there can’t be equal rights if there are special rights. Surveys show that people still really prefer freedom over government force.
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SPEAKER 06 :
Good morning, Kim.
SPEAKER 17 :
It is great to have you, and we’ve not talked about Big Pharma in a while. And so give us an update on Big Pharma and what’s going on there.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, you forgot the bad before the big. As you know, Kim, I’ve been doing big, bad, big. bad big pharma litigation since the early 2000s, starting with the Fen-Phen diet-drug combination and just continuing all the way to the present with, right now, the GLP-1 drugs that are out there that folks are just using to lose weight, thinking or not thinking or not doing their research, and those are causing a lot of problems. I’m getting a call a day on average with somebody reporting gastroparesis or I lost my gallbladder or worse. And we’re starting to see right now more calls from folks that have had a problem with their vision. And there are two right now mass tort claims cases going on involving the GLP-1 drugs and And I’ve talked with so many folks about just pharmaceuticals in general, the industry, the system, the way things work. Doctors get bonuses. Doctors get trips for prescribing this stuff. And I have a problem with a good part of the medical industry that doesn’t do their own research, the doctors. But, you know, it’s all about money. And big pharma does that. analysis can we sell enough of this to make it worthwhile before the bad stuff comes out about what this drug does to a good number of people and it’s the same pattern i’ve seen since i really started doing this kind of litigation and i encourage people do things the old-fashioned way and if you don’t need something do your research and if you can unless it’s truly a life-saving matter take a pass. Because almost inevitably every one of these drugs, they get out on the market and then the pharmaceutical industry and watchdogs and doctors, then they figure out after the fact what this stuff is doing to people. Potentially in addition to what it’s supposed to do to help. And oftentimes that’s not even the case. It’s just something that’s out there. Minimal benefit, but it makes Big Pharma massive bucks.
SPEAKER 17 :
So, Jason, I’ve had conversations with Pam Long regarding children’s well-baby visits. And what I’ve learned is that many times this is an appointment for vaccines. And then I talked with someone that just recently got their physical. They’re on Medicare. And they went through… All this testing for different things. And it looks to me like those physicals might be really an opportunity to push pharmaceuticals. And I think, what do you think about that?
SPEAKER 06 :
I’m not sure I understand that. what physicals you’re talking about.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. So for Medicare, people are supposed to get a physical once a year. And then with that, you know, go through and get all the different tests, you know, bone density and all those things. And I’m concerned that maybe that this is really more to, to push pharmaceuticals than about health. And maybe I’m just getting too cynical.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I don’t think you’re getting too cynical. I understand what you’re, you’re asking right now. I, I just tell folks, question everything. You know, with the COVID debacle, call it what you will, I call it the plandemic, a lot of people lost faith in the medical industry. They lost a lot of credibility by just going with the endorsement of big pharma, and unfortunately our government, that this was something that needed to be done. More and more is coming out all the time now, as you may be aware, with regard to vaccines and how they are contributing or have contributed, and we’re going to see much more information on this in the future, to autism in babies and children. So I think we as consumers, we as the public, have to really step back. And I hate saying this, you know, because, you know, medicine is… as a whole, I believe good. And but this is one area where doctors, you know, didn’t do what they should have done when they should have done it. And now we’re seeing other areas, not just vaccines. Um, so we’ve got to really open our eyes and take a hard look before we take something that is prescribed to us. It’s got to be absolutely necessary, in my opinion, life threatening for my family and my friends and others I care about. They call me on this stuff. I mean, we take a deep dive if it’s something that I don’t have any information on. And is it really necessary? And so many times it’s not.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, John, do you remember now, I’m just going down memory lane on COVID, that they were giving COVID shots down at, now I can’t, whatever it is now, the Pepsi Center, whatever it was, and to go in and watch either like the Nuggets or the Avalanche. And I was looking at that. I’m like, this is just crazy what’s going on. But do you remember how crazy that was back then?
SPEAKER 06 :
I more than remember it. I was getting in a lot of trouble those days for voicing my opinion in some circles too loudly. But I was getting calls from doctors that were getting threatened to have their license yanked. It was a really scary time, Kim, because we saw our government forcing something on people that had not been proven It was completely experimental. When reports started coming out about problems, those report over the line, I’m not going to promote something that appears to be completely experimental and that we are now starting to, you know, this is back then, starting to get reports of bad stuff happening to people. And the lid has still not been taken off. Most people still don’t understand that… It did nothing for us.
SPEAKER 17 :
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SPEAKER 06 :
303-999-9999. Time is of the essence. The center folks give us a call. We can get them on the right path. Okay. I talk to people all the time that wait. I talked to a very nice person kind of late last night who just waited until things were an absolute disaster before she reached out. Folks don’t do that. Put a call in right away. Have a conversation so that we can… At a bare minimum, give you the basic advice to get on the right path and not make mistakes that all too commonly people make because they don’t have the information they need on the front desk.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, that number is 303-999-9999 for John Bozen and Bozen Law. John, we’ll talk with you next week.
SPEAKER 06 :
Thank you, Kim. Have a great rest of your show.
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SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, I was telling you it brought back some memories driving over here this morning. I’m glad your show’s a little later now so it wasn’t quite so early in the morning as it used to be.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, you were with me. We still are on at 6, but that was when we were on 6 to 8, and then we added in this second hour. And I thought that let’s put you in this second hour because now that you’re retired, that you might not be catching the 6 a.m. show.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, that’s true. Retired-ish, I suppose. Retired-ish, okay. So what are you up to? Well, I’ve kind of gone back to something I used to do back in the early 2000s, which was wheel and deal and collectible first and limited edition books and got kind of too busy with, let’s call it the real job. And the kids and all that. So I kind of went dormant on it for, geez, 10, maybe 15 years. And I’ve had a little more time lately. And I’ve kind of started putting my toe back in the water there. And have come in contact with a lot of the people that I used to talk to back then. And it’s nice to know that they weren’t pushing up daisies yet. That’s it.
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s nice to know. And that’s how we got to this. Our guest is Tom. Is it Monteleone, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
Tom Monteleone, yes.
SPEAKER 17 :
And Tom has published more than 100 short stories in numerous magazines and anthologies, and they’ve been nominated for many awards. They’ve appeared in lots of best-of-the-year compilations. His notorious column of opinion and entertainment, The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association, currently appears in Cemetery Dance magazine. He is the editor of nine anthologies, including the highly acclaimed Borderlands series edited with his wife, Elizabeth, and now his daughter, Olivia. I love that name. of which Borderlands 5 and Borderlands 6 won Bram Stoker Awards. He’s been an instructor at the Borderlands Press Writers Boot Camp since its inception 19 years ago and witnessed more than 80 graduates of the program see their books published. It’s pretty incredible.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, Tom’s been around for an awfully long time and he’s put out some great editions, great books. As a publisher, he’s put out some just beautiful, fantastic work, which I have quite a few of those editions myself.
SPEAKER 17 :
And the story is that the woke component in his industry is trying to cancel him, right?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, it’s funny. You’re mentioning our loss of free speech just a little bit earlier, and this fits right into it. Unfortunately, it’s not a unique story. It’s happened to a whole heck of a lot of people, but it’s probably a unique story for your show, Kim, going off into the realm of publishing of horror and sci-fi type books and publications, which is what Tom does. We can head off into the wacky, weird, and wild today.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. Well, Tom Montaloni is on the line. Tom, welcome to the show. Thank you.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, how you doing, Kim? Nice to be here.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, it’s good to have you, and horror books are not my cup of tea, Tom, but I know that Jason gets these collectibles, and you were one of the founders of the Horror Writers Association, right?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I was there for the founding moments. We started it back in the late 80s, early 90s. Originally, it was called uh… howell h o w l uh… for horror and occult writers league and everybody thought that was a dumb name so that today they changed into of our writers association and it said it’s not unusual in genre publishing most little you know genre bad areas of of writing and publishing had their own writers organizations there’s a romance writers the mystery writers the thriller writers And there was the Science Fiction Writers Association. And then we founded the Horror Writers after Stephen King reinvented the genre in the earlier 70s. It became a popular genre. And I had started out writing science fiction years ago when dinosaurs roamed the earth. But I always liked horror and dark fantasy better. So I kind of drifted into that, into the 80s and 90s. And, you know, I became a big frog in a small pond. Right, Jason?
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, the pond certainly got much bigger with your help, Tom. But if you want to call yourself a big frog, we won’t argue with you.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, it’s just that, you know, I’ve been around for a while. And, you know, I had a modicum amount of success. I mean, it was a livelihood. I’ve only had one grown-up people’s job in my life, and that was back when I first got out of college. Ever since then, I’ve lived by my wits. We started the Borderlands Press to promote and to highlight signed limited editions by collectible writers, like the people that you knew. I mean, we’ve done everybody. We’ve done Stephen King. We’ve done Paul Wilson, Dean Kuntz. David Murrell, the guy that invented Rambo. You know, we’ve been around, and we tried to do it right.
SPEAKER 17 :
So explain to us what has happened recently regarding you and Borderlands Press.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, about three years ago, no, about two and a half years ago, I had won the HWA. They give out a Lifetime Achievement Award each year. And they awarded it to me about four or five years ago. And other people like Ray Bradbury, Robert Block, Stephen King, David Moran, a lot of people have won the award. Afterwards, they asked me to nominate somebody for the upcoming award that particular year. I had noticed that the organization, over the last three or four years, had started to tilt way left. And it was, every month the newsletters would come out, the emails, and there would always be this proclamation that they were, HWA was supporting Black Lives Matter, climate change, Pride Month. This went on and on, you know, the usual litany of progressive causes. And I thought, why are you doing this? You didn’t poll the membership. I’m sure half the membership agrees with your pronunciamentos, and the other half doesn’t. So that was starting to irritate me. And then I noticed that the last several Lifetime Achievement Award winners were people that were kind of head scratchers. Not because they didn’t have talent, but the award was supposed to go out to an individual who had contributed significantly to the genre and some in some fashion and uh… here they gave it to a woman who is uh… all she has done is written poetry united here does not very well known then they gave it to this guy that claimed that he was a native american this guy uh… al going back who has since jason i don’t know if you know that this week the tribal council for uh… fraud A council for tribal fraud, against tribal fraud. They outed this guy, and he’s not a Native American. He is a German-American, and his family’s all from Europe. Do you know about this guy, Al Goingbeck?
SPEAKER 11 :
I don’t know about him, but it sounds like he would be a very good next candidate for a Democratic governor or maybe even a president in 2028. They’ll probably put him right up.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, well, he got exposed, and he got a Lifetime Achievement Award basically for writing while Indian, you know. And then they gave it to a woman named Carol. Oh, God, I can’t remember her last name. She was an academic who had written a couple series of articles, and then she published a book where she codified the term final girl. Which, and Kim, I’m sure you’re not a fan of these slasher films. I’m not either. But there’s a whole subgenre of horror films where there’s always one girl that ends up escaping and coming out on top of the guy that’s coming to chop her up. And this woman’s academic treatise terms her the final girl. She got a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Horror Writers Association. She doesn’t even write horror. She’s an academic. So they really went out of their way to… broaden the scope of who was deserving of a Lifetime Award.
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay. Hey, Tom, let’s leave that as a cliffhanger. We’re going to go to break. We’re talking with Tom Montalioni with Borderlands Press, also with the Horror Writers Association, and good friend and former sponsor, you, your family, your kids, everybody, Jason McBride. It’s so great to have you here.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, it’s very nice to be back and to have a fun guest to talk to as well.
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SPEAKER 17 :
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. In studio with me is my friend Jason McBride. And for many years, before you moved kind of retirement to something else, you were a great sponsor of the show. So we’ve… You know, you really become friends having these important discussions on the air, Jason.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, absolutely. I’ve always remembered and never forgotten about you. And that’s why I say it’s kind of neat to be back talking about a whole different subject. So thanks for having me on and, you know, being willing when I approached you about what…
SPEAKER 17 :
what the woke crowd’s trying to do to tom to have him come on the show and be able to tell his story i think it’s very important well and tom monteleone founder of borderlands press with his wife his daughter’s with him there as well and he had received a lifetime achievement award from the horror writers association and had realized that that some of the people that were awarded this award afterwards was maybe not quite as deserving as one might think they should be. Am I saying that correctly, Tom Montiglione?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, absolutely. And so they asked me to nominate someone for the upcoming award. And so I sent them a letter to the newsletter and the website saying, saying, you know, despite you guys kind of leaning into the DEI territory, I’m forced to nominate an old, smart, white guy, right? And I went on to nominate this editor of a magazine called Whisper Stewart Schiff, who basically kept the genre on life support until Stephen King came along. You know, he had a little magazine, and he was the only guy publishing horror in the country, really. And he never got the recognition, and I said, you know, I think this guy deserves, you know, the recognition. Well, they didn’t publish my, they wouldn’t publish my letter. It didn’t show up in the newsletter. It didn’t show up on their website nowhere. And I, so I sent a note to the guy, and he says, no, we found it offensive. You know, the guy that was the editor at the time. So I said, well, screw it. I’ll just put it on my own Facebook page. Because I had 5,000 friends on Facebook, you know, that followed me, that read my stuff, that was the, customers of borderlands press whatever and uh… i got i got attacked as soon as i published a letter that the the vitriol that poured all out of the face book people was incredible and it was usually pretty much the way the country is a half the people were supporting my sick contention and didn’t see anything wrong with me being snide about you know nominating an old white guy uh… Because, you know, they’re persona non grata now. You know, if you’re a white guy, it’s not really good for the progressives anymore. But anyway, the other half viciously attacked me. And I was stunned by it, really. So later on, a podcaster called me and asked me if I’d go on the air. And I had, I’ll be honest, I was upset about the way they had treated me. all day long and i finally gave up i said i stopped going you know how facebook can be you can get back and forth and you can get into these uh urination matches that just go on and on and i finally said i’ve had enough um menace podcaster called me i got on the air with him i’d had a couple of cocktails it was late it was a late night broadcast and you know i i was Loose lips sink ships, right, Kim?
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s what they say.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I said some things that were kind of dumb. And one of the things that I brought up, I had been at the… Actually, it was actually in Denver. Every year, the HWA has a convention called StokerCon where they give out the awards. And that particular year, it was in Denver, and… they’d given an award for volunteer of the year you know one of the people there’s a member and she was a young black woman and she was heat instead of just big bad going up there and accepting the award and saying thank you very much and all that started talking about her blog which is called stoker so white and it’s basically you know uh… us read about how the organization is mostly made up a white people great writers and you know that’s not a good thing basically that’s essentially what what her blog was about they really came down on me for that and within like a week I whatever public whatever distributors and do you book dealers and he was at a standing order about 175 copies of everything we did he called me up and says we’re canceling our standing order we don’t want your books anymore My e-book publisher, who had published over 100 titles from Borderlands Press over the years in e-books, I had lots of my writers and editors were getting e-book royalties every month. All of my books, I had like 35 titles of my own, all e-book. My e-book publisher calls me and says, we’re canceling you. We don’t like what you said. You’re a racist. You’re a transphobe. You’re this. Oh, that was one of the other things that I had said that night. I said, look, I’m tired of this nonsense. Men cannot get pregnant. And I’m not going to use the they, them pronouns. I’ll call you anything you want, Z, Zim, whatever. But it’s not going to be they, them. Because you’re a single person. And I’m not going to be bullied into this nonsense. Well, they hated me for all of that stuff, you know. So I lost my e-book publisher contract. my literary agent he stopped he he wouldn’t answer my phone or anything he stopped sending me royalties um practically half of our customer base at borderlands press by the way if anybody wants to go there and see the website it’s borderlandspress.com um i we lost half our business like almost overnight and you know i’m a pretty tough guy and I just did it yeah I dealt with it with kind of a a practice stoicism I guess I should say you know I said well you know they went on the Daily Beast they had me up they wrote me up on there as a transphobe as a you know a racist uh hackers were going to my Wikipedia page and writing in all sorts of nasty stuff about me it was Tim it was pretty incredible you know um Just because I had an opinion different from the woke stoppo. It was unbelievable.
SPEAKER 17 :
I’ve never heard that before. What’s that? I’ve never heard that term woke stoppo before.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I made it up, I guess.
SPEAKER 17 :
I guess you probably did.
SPEAKER 04 :
okay it’s been it’s been really difficult and then but i you know i let it go i i the press has been struggling along i mean it was it was part of our livelihood and it’s really taken a torpedo in the engine room but you know we’re still around we’ve been there since 1989 and you know it’s been a small presses in the genre publishing come and go but we we we held out we stuck it out because we published pretty much all the big guys right jason right
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, you have published many of the big guys, and I would say, again, you do very, very nice work, and your editions are very highly sought after. But you’re right, a lot of the small ones have come and gone, and Borderlands has stuck around.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, I see our stuff on eBay all the time, and the prices stun me, how much some of the stuff is going for. But… Anyway, so one of my editors, a really great writer and just all-around good person, Nick Saltos, he’s edited some books for us. He got really upset about all that was going on, and he started this crowdfunding website a couple of weeks ago called Give, Send, Go. I’d never heard of it. I guess it’s like GoFundMe. And he wanted to save Borderlands Press. And I was of two minds about it. I really, I was like, I don’t want to, because I’m not a whiner, Kim. I don’t come on and say, hey, look, you know, oh, poor, poor me, you know, the mob tried to destroy me. I just push on. You know, I’ve been an independent writer all my life. I’m a pretty tough guy, even though I’m kicking and screaming into my 80s the next month. Happy birthday. Right. Yeah. No, but I, you know, thank God I’ve been blessed with good genes. I’m really healthy. I don’t take any prescriptions. You know, I get up and write every day. So, you know, it’s going to take a lot to put me down. You hear me?
SPEAKER 17 :
Okay, Tom Montalioni, I want to continue the discussion. And Jason McBride reached out regarding this story. He said, this is just not fair that this guy is being canceled. And because… Of what he said. And so we’ll talk about freedom of speech when we come back. These are important discussions. A couple of things that I wanted to mention is the USMC Memorial Foundation. We had Paula Sarles on. She is the president in our number one. There’s two things happening here in March. is her birthday challenge, and it’s her 77th birthday, and there’s all kinds of different things in her life with the number seven. So go to the website, USMC Memorial Foundation, and support her birthday challenge. And that website is USMCMemorialFoundation.org, USMCMemorialFoundation.org. And for everything regarding mortgages and mortgage rates, I think you’re down a little bit right now. Reach out to Lauren Levy.
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SPEAKER 17 :
And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. Also check out the website for the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo and co-founded by Medal of Honor recipient Drew Dix and Emmy Award winning documentary maker Brad Padula focused on these foundational principles of honor, integrity and patriotism. Check out all that they’re doing at AmericanValueCenter.org. In studio with me is Jason McBride, and for many years was a sponsor of the show. And we reconnected, well, really over this story, I would say. And it’s good to have you here.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah, well, thank you, Tom. It’s all your fault that Kim’s listeners have to hear me again.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, it’s a pleasure to be here. Jason, you’ve been a great customer for years, and I really appreciate your support, really. But by the way, oh, I forgot to tell you, Kim, if people want to read the whole story at their leisure, they can go to that Give, Send, Go website. website and there’s a you know the mr salt has put a whole thing down there where you can just read it um also i have a sub stack i don’t do you do sub stack kim uh yeah i do i i don’t do it i read it for i follow a number of people on it oh yeah i have a sub stack column that i put out uh you know intermittently so if people want to try check that out they can they can find me there My name is Italian. It means mountain lion. Monte is mountain. Leone is lion. So they ought to be able to find me.
SPEAKER 17 :
Oh, I like that. I got a lot of questions. And Jason and I were talking during the break. Freedom of speech is so important. And I guess if people don’t want to do business with somebody, that is their prerogative, right, in a free society. However, what we’ve seen, and Jason said this during the break, he said… If I disagree with somebody, I disagree with somebody. But the left, the radical left, if they disagree, they want to destroy you. And that’s a big difference, Tom Montalioni, too. It makes me question freedom of speech a bit to just try to destroy people. So what’s your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, it’s really funny because, you know, over the years, most of my friends were writers, and about half of them were liberal and half of them were conservatives. And I get along with all of them. I published all of them. I didn’t care what their beliefs were. You know, if they had written a good story, I published it. I did an anthology series called Borderlands, and we’ve published seven volumes so far, about 24 stories each time. and you know i bought stories from all these people that a lot of them were radicals a lot of them were liberals i don’t care what their their beliefs were but i gotta even got a tax for that because of the one of the last in volumes that came out a guy writes in the face book and says yeah there’s too many white guys in here they’re all americans and you only have to enter only three of them are women yeah they feel like i was supposed to be in count my stories i’m supposed to publish stories that are only uh… you know balanced by by every pre-ethnicity, race. This is all nonsense. And I spoke out against that. I got excoriated for that as well. But yeah, I had plenty of friends that were very much in the left side of the aisle, and I didn’t care. It’s okay. I don’t want to cancel anybody. Have your own opinion. But if you can write me a good story, I’ll buy it.
SPEAKER 17 :
See, that’s the thing about this radical activist DEI is it’s no longer about merit, being the best that we can be, writing a good story. It has now come to whatever your descriptor is, and it’s taking us on a race to the bottom or a race to mediocrity if people don’t have to Be the best they can be. Do the best that they can be, which is really, I think, what’s made America so unique is because everyday people striving for excellence can create businesses and wealth, which you’ve done with your wife and your daughter at Borderlands Press, to create something. And mediocrity doesn’t really exist. I guess you create or you destroy, right? There’s life, there’s death.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s a very astute way of looking at it. Yeah, you’re either going to be a creator or a destroyer. And the left, they’re very intolerant of any idea that doesn’t fit their particular worldview. And it’s a shame. I’ve lost a lot of friends because of this whole situation. A lot of people don’t talk to me anymore. And, you know, they know who I am. They’ve always known who I am. I’ve never tried to hide it. Jason, did you read my, when I used to do, oh, Cemetery Dance canceled me too, so my column’s not there anymore. Did you read my Mafia columns, Jason?
SPEAKER 11 :
Yes, I did. You used to read those, and you had a whole edition that came out that I think had all your columns in it. The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association was put into a book.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I have 50 columns in there. It’s a 500-page book of crazy opinions and humor and everything else. Yeah. You know, I’ve always been very outspoken. This is never a secret. But all of a sudden, people started to hate me for it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, now, when did that book come out, Tom? What year did that come out?
SPEAKER 04 :
That was probably 17, 18 years ago.
SPEAKER 11 :
And you didn’t get in any trouble for expressing your opinions back at the time, did you?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, no, no. It was a totally different climate. I mean, you know, I was known for being outspoken, and it was okay. But, you know, there’s been a change in the climate lately. You know, you can’t say things that they don’t like anymore.
SPEAKER 11 :
Now, you’re right. Back then, being outspoken and a little bit edgy and not afraid to say what you thought was actually looked at as a positive. It would bring eyes to you and you would be rewarded for it. But Kim’s right and you’re right. These days, you know, if you’re anything other than tepid vanilla pudding, you get in trouble for it.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and the left, they control a lot of the culture. I mean, they have academia. They’ve got Hollywood. They’ve got entertainment. They have the news cycle. It’s amazing that the country is still conservative when you think about how pervasive the control of cultural thought has evolved, where all the monoliths of society… are mostly lefties. It’s incredible when you think about it. I mean, that’s why they hate talk radio, Kim, because that’s one of the bastions of the other side. They tried to destroy that.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, Tom Montalioni, you are an Indy, an independent. I am an Indy as well. I’m an independent. I purchased my airtime so that nobody tells me which guests I have to have and what I have to say. And I will give a quick little plug. We just started our Kim Monson Community. We rolled that out this month. Last weekend, after three years of planning and working, and we have started our own newsroom, Tom, which I think you’re going to be excited about. We just started this with good journalistic integrity. When I was a kid, Tom, I wanted to be a journalist. I read the book about Nellie Bly, and I always wanted to be a journalist. And here, all these years later… I did different things, and I’m starting my eighth year of solo broadcasting as well. But this is a big, big time, and I have a feeling that we will probably have a news story on this probably published within three hours. It’s going to be my guest, Tom.
SPEAKER 11 :
That’d be great. Well, and maybe you’ve found someone else that could be a writer for your newsroom, someone with a little bit of experience here on the line.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I hope I can get this story out to some of the larger outfits. I’d love to hear what Matt Walsh has to say about what happened to me, or somebody like Michael Knowles. I sat on my hands for too long, and I’m sick of it. I don’t know how much longer I got on the planet, but I’d like to at least… I don’t think I could get any money out of HWA because they don’t have any. But I’d like to get an apology. I’d like to get, you know, something. I’d like to go after them. The story needs to go out.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, and I was talking about George Washington a lot last month because it was his birthday month. And he says if freedom of speech is taken away, then basically it’s like – it says that we will be going to – like sheep to slaughter. And I can’t quite remember that. But freedom of speech is so important. And if the government will censor us, that’s terrible. But what has happened with the left is that they are trying to get us to self-censor. And so if we self-censor, then we don’t have to have the government do it for us because we’re doing it ourselves.
SPEAKER 04 :
And so we’ve got to show true. Oh, my God. That’s that’s so insightful. And that’s what’s happening. A lot of people are afraid to say what they think. That’s why that’s why they hate Trump, because he’s like the Howard Stern of politics. He says what everybody’s thinking. It’s afraid to say.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes, and instead of engaging in the battle of ideas, then they engage in hate and trying to destroy people. We’ve got just a few seconds left. Jason McBride, it’s great to have you.
SPEAKER 11 :
Thanks for having me, and thanks for having Tom, too.
SPEAKER 17 :
And Tom Montalioni, thank you so much for sharing your story. How can people support you? Buy one of these books? Where can they find that?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, they can go to borderlandspress.com. I’ve got books on there. Or they can go read the whole story at gibbsandgo.com slash Thomas F. Monteleone. I’m there. And they can find my sub stack. You know, they’ll get a good idea of who I am from reading those things. Okay. I really appreciate the time, Kim.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, Tom Montalbione, thank you for sharing your story. I think you’ll enjoy this quote that we have for the end of the show. It’s George Orwell. He said, In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. 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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