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One is to go through this caucus assembly process, and they have to get… Let’s see, a certain amount, a certain percentage of the vote to be able to move on to the ballot. But this is one way to get onto the ballot. The other way is to petition on, which that really can become a rich man’s game because they have to pay petitioners. Well, volunteers will also help, but ultimately, most of the time, they’ve had to rely on paid petition gatherers, signature gatherers as well. And so there’s that way to get on the ballot. And then there is a hybrid between the two, but it’s important to show up. And again, that is cologop.org. So be sure and show up for that. Next thing I wanted to mention is, well, let’s go to our word of the day, which is edifice. It could be a building, spelled E-D-I-F-I-C-E. It could be a building, especially one of large size or imposing appearance, or number two, any large complex system or organization. And I would say that that is our government at the local county and state level. And I think it’s complex because PBIs, politicians and bureaucrats and interested parties Really, I’m seeing, not everywhere, but across the board, that our voices are being tapped down or quieted totally, and that is not the way it’s supposed to be in representative government. And so I would say that this edifice of government is quite complex. And we’ve got to reclaim our great American idea. We’ve got to reclaim the Colorado that we love. And that’s why I’d love to have you join us with our Kim Monson community in doing so. Our quote of the day, because we’ll be talking with Mike Rolick a lot about surveillance, and there’s more and more surveillance happening, particularly here in Colorado. And Edward Snowden was born in 1983. He’s a former National Security Agency intelligence contractor and whistleblower. He leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance programs. And this obviously is why I’m so concerned about all of these data centers, because I think that it’s creating a very complex edifice that is really surveilling everyday people. I know that there’s benefits, and as we talked with Bob Boswell, he said that basically there needs to be bumpers on He didn’t say that exactly, but there needs to be regulations on it. I’m just really concerned about how we’re going to get to that. And I’m concerned about these data centers. So anyway, this is what Edward Snowden said. He said, a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves. and unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And there’s a problem because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be. And I saw a headline the other day that many of the big tech giants do not let their children be on devices but for a very limited amount of time. And in this day and age, I’m on my device all the time because of what we do here at the Kim Monson Show. But I think that we really need to limit the amount of time that kids are on screens. And I think many of the tech giants, Peter Thiel apparently limits his kids to a small amount of time on screens. However, I recently was at an elementary school, and every day the kids, and this is an elementary school, have iPad time. I’m very uncomfortable with that. And we’ve got to understand that a lot of this data collection going into these data centers is data that’s on our kids. And so we really, really need to be addressing this. And so we’ll continue to do that at the Kim Monson Show. um with that all of this time on screens i found this is a very interesting bill of the day and you can make your voices heard on this by going to cut engaged which is at the website for colorado union of taxpayers it’s coloradotaxpayer.org We choose up to five bills this week, four bills that you can make your voices heard. It’ll take you a total of probably two minutes, and that’s if you’re slow, to make your voice heard to the prime sponsors, as well as your state representative and your state senator. The people that make this happen is this all-volunteer board I work with. And when you see them, say thank you to Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And one of the bills is House Bill 26-1211, Regulation of Broadband Services. Prime sponsors are Representative Tammy Story and Representative Javier Mabre. And it says this bill grants the Public Utilities Commission… There’s that unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy. The authority, there’s that great force word, to regulate, or that’s the power word, to regulate, that’s the force word, broadband services and voice over internet protocol on the grounds that this will regulate quality, safety, and reliability of service. cut unanimously opposes this bill the free market is already incentivized to solve problems such as outages and quality broadband and the voip are not utilities they are information services and should not be regulated by the puc this would be extremely expensive for the taxpayer for the next two years And to what advantage to consumers? None. So we are a strong no on that, and you can make your voice heard. 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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 do check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation. It is March and on March 14th, Paula Searles, the president, will be celebrating her 77th birthday. And she’s got a great event. She’ll be out at the Memorial Rain or Shine on the 14th, standing for seven hours and reading the names of heroes. And you can support her by contributing some form of a $7, $7.77, $777. And you can do that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. That’s usmcmemorialfoundation.org. and we talk about surveillance on a regular basis and privacy was so important to our founding fathers that’s why we have the fourth amendment but it is under attack because we are giving it away in the name of convenience as jenny one of our listeners regularly reminds me mike rollick there’s all kinds of surveillance going on welcome to the show OK, do we have Mike?
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Oh, yeah. Hi. Sorry about that.
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OK. OK. Mike, welcome. And we talk about surveillance a lot. So what there’s several pieces of legislation to talk about. But let’s start with Arvada. There’s something going on that you’re concerned about.
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Yes, absolutely. Last night there was a vote to vote. To change the rules around parks. And staff tried to explain it as just a general rewrite and rules cleanup and what have you. But high on the list is they’re going to have to put a pump station in on certain parkland, according to them. And that would include either West Nevada Dog Park area or Bird’s Nest Disc Golf Park. And that’s from the city’s own website, the South Park. The south area of the Bird Net Disc Golf Park or the east loop or the east area of the Urbana Dog Park were named. And at first it was, no, nothing’s going to happen. You’re not going to close your park to all of a sudden. Yeah, there’s actually something on the city website saying portions could be closed today. But beyond that, the director then could assume a whole new set of powers. And again, they were trying to say, this is already in the code. But the red lines of director power are two full pages. Now, despite everything else about the park, I want to focus on something. The trespass users. Section, and I brought this up to no avail, they voted it through, but it literally says this, understanding that owners and managers of property have the right to limit, restrict, or prohibit access to that property under Section 624504.5 of this code, which is the Nevada City Code. which is talking about peace officers. But the director may, for good cause, limit, restrict, revoke, or otherwise prohibit the access to or use of any recreational resource by any user, this is the kicker, reasonably deemed by the director to be in violation of any applicable city or state law. So a director now has the ability to find you in violation of a state law.
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so the director is the director of the is that the bureaucrat that’s hired by we the people the city the people of arvada the director of their parks is that this that we’re talking about and and there was significant discussion um by city council and the city manager about how good their staff is and that may be but the next person you have given
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authority to anybody, whoever takes that position from here on out, to find any person listening right now in violation of a state law. And they can then issue you a six-month prohibition from entering Nevada parkland by mail. Or have you served? They can send it to your last known physical address. And it says the director may, for good cause, which is interesting, trespass any person from a recreational resource. And then it says remains in effect for no more than six months. How do they tell you? The director shall notice any person whose access to recreational resources is limited, restricted, revoked, or prohibited by sending a letter by first-class U.S. mail or electronic mail to the person’s last name. known physical or electronic address. So now there’s a precedent that you can get an email that says you are banned for six months from public property. No hearing. No hearing. Now, if you want the hearing, you’re already guilty. The first hearing you get is an appeal, not an actual hearing. Appeal of the director’s action. A person who has been trespassed from the recreational resource may appeal the director’s action By filing with the Nevada Municipal Court within 14 days of the director’s notice a written request for review of the director’s action on a form prescribed by the court. Good luck figuring out the right form. We all know about forms and certain things that people have tried to do, and it’s the wrong form or a staple’s in the wrong place, along with a statement or other evidence explaining why there was not good cause for the director’s action. So you already have to go in there, and on your appeal, you’re asking for the appeal, and you have to show evidence that you’re not guilty.
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Boy, this seems unconstitutional all the way around.
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Wow. You’re absolutely right. So Section 23 of the Colorado Constitution says the right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate in criminal cases, but a jury in civil cases in all courts or in criminal cases in courts not of record may consist of less than 12 persons as may be prescribed by law. But I don’t see anything that says that Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Well, I mean, as before yesterday, I should say that the trespass would have been that a police officer would have to show up to the park or what have you, have you removed, give you a 14 day notice of no trespass. That 14 day notice would then have you go to court for a judge to hear the validity of that specific notice and then determine if it’s going to remain up to one year. That’s the normal due process.
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What’s the problem that they are purportedly trying to solve here?
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We don’t know, frankly. Because of the dog park situation, everyone was there basically to talk about the dog park or the disc golf park. And I was the only person to talk about trespass. It’s the most striking thing in this whole package besides just the general loss of land and how they’re talking about the land actually belongs to the water fund, but not to the park system. But it all says our city of Nevada on the tax map. And people had found dedications of this as a specific park back to 2003. So they read that out to the city council. It’s a very convoluted history of who owns the park as far as what entity in the city. But that was the major crux of last night. But frighteningly, the director now has power to restrict your liberty, which is also a 14th Amendment issue, right? Because there was a due process clause there, and then it was modeled, in a sense, in the Colorado Constitution by also having a due process clause. And that due process clause says, no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. And that’s Section 25 of the Colorado Constitution. So… if i now i have a question about surveillance as i’m at a park and you have an alpr style camera maybe a dog park cam and you decide that my dog did something funny or you saw my dog use the dog restroom but you didn’t see me clean it up but i did clean it up and i get an email saying for six months i’m guilty and six months i can’t come back to that park So mixing it in with surveillance is a good question of how will the director be able to do this? Is it just based on hearsay? Does he or she have to be out at the park to see these things? Or are we entering a new world of dog park camps? They have trail camps. So where are we going? And that’s the brave, scary new world, I think, in this whole situation, where now you’re saying you can get your citation, basically. I know it’s a… It’s a no trespass or, you know, order. But you can get that via an email. What if the email goes to spam and you get on this land and all of a sudden now you’re guilty of violating a no trespass order that you didn’t even know existed? That’s the other part about the police showing up. And the third part about the police showing up is they can determine if a bigger crime is being committed. They have the ability to understand things like reasonable suspicion and probable cause. They’re sworn law enforcement officers. That’s what they do. The director, I contend he has no power to find me in violation of a state law. That’s not his training, nor is it my training.
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Yeah. And these electeds that are abdicating these this power and to an unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat who is being paid by the citizens, his there he or she there. their salaries are being paid by the citizens and when i say at the beginning of the show that we are seeing the agenda of the world economic forum and globalist elites play out at local government this is exactly what i’m talking about because this is clearly unconstitutional and these elected representatives who are on the city council in arvada
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are they don’t they either don’t understand the constitution they need to read it but they are not representing we the people whatsoever in what you’re describing to me mike rollick um several of the council are personal friends of mine um but when it comes to business like this the business of freedom we definitely have our professional disagreements and I am shocked at this, that they did not understand the issue at hand here. They put in this new definition of good cause. Good cause is a definition you can find over all of these different legal terms. legal uh law dictionaries and what have you but good cause and now in ervada means good cause means the reason is supported by credible evidence to take a certain action okay that makes sense in the context of decision making about whether to summarily remove or or trespass a person from a recreational resource under this chapter this is the kicker again good cause means that a director recreation official or a peace officer. So we have two non-sworn LEOs here, right? A director or a recreational official. What does that mean? Just a…
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What does that mean?
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Yeah, the credible evidence that demonstrates a violation by an occupant or user of a city or state law policy procedure rule regulation code of conduct or that demonstrates an occupant or user has engaged in contact conduct that substantially interferes with the enjoyment of the resource by others. or with the efficient operation of the resource. So you can be trespassed for six months if they think that you interfere with the efficient operation of the resource. I don’t even know what that definition is. But Cornell Law School says good cause is legally sufficient reason for a ruling or other action by a judge.
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So, Mike, what was the vote on this?
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What was the vote on this? Five to zero. Because it was in a package. It was 30 pages or so that got voted on all at once. And we had a slight removal of something about the park lands, the specific park lands where the pump station might go, but everything else. Setting of fees, closing of resources, for value preservation. So now the city would have the power to close a park for overuse. We were talking about different equestrian interests and what have you. Could it be closed for overuse? Could it be closed for value preservation? Could they say, we’re going to put parking fees up, user fees? All that got voted through last night. Be careful in your city. Please watch the authority given to what I like to call the fourth branch of government. You don’t elect the staff. There’s nothing wrong with the staff as far as I’m sure they’re good humans. But when they start doing this, they don’t realize the power that they’re stripping away from elected representative government.
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You’re spot on. And Mike, we’re out of time. We’ve got so much more to talk about there. I just very quickly mentioned these two bills that you had said that you wanted to hit quickly.
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Yes, 1037 last week was a pretty amazing set of testimony. The groundbreaking discussions on the Fourth Amendment, the people that were speaking were very in favor of not sharing data from cell phones and other electronic records to law enforcement. And the folks that were generally in favor are law enforcement. I support law enforcement. I just don’t understand why there’s this push to have all of our data and all of our records given over all the time and it’s like you’re going to live in a fishbowl of course it creates less crime until there’s a situation like i’ve i had friends from tehran and and at a certain point when the government gets so powerful and they shut your internet off or they shut your phones off because you decided to talk about a park or something or some other issue and and That’s the issue that we’re running towards. If everybody’s under such control, you know, that’s a problem.
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And the sponsors on this, this is bipartisan, Representative Jennifer Bacon, Representative Kindergraf, and Senator Lisa Cutter. And then quickly, the other one, too, Mike Rollick.
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That was the… the alpr bill 070 banned government access historical location information uh that is going on to uh let’s see senate committee on judiciary referred to uh appropriations so that’s where it’s going to go next is appropriations but again uh striking to see people discussing why we can’t be watching everybody and storing their alpr data the automatic license plate reader data tracking movements And then it was basically DA saying, well, we need this because it solves crimes. I get it solves crimes. until there’s a bigger issue afoot. We’re going to be living in a fishbowl. The problem with that bill is, they went from four days to 30 days. Basically, 30 days is the default that companies, I know Flock Safety specifically, they’ve read the contracts, they store it for 30 days. They went right to where Flock’s business model is. That’s a disappointment, though. But it’s a good first bite at the apple.
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Okay, and again, bipartisan, Senator Judy Amabile, Senator Linda Zamora Wilson. Amabile’s a Democrat. Wilson is a Republican. Then two Democrat representatives, Yara Zoke and Kenny Nugent. And Mike, we’re out of time, but thank you. This is such important information, and I appreciate it. We’ll talk with you next week.
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Thank you, Kim. Have a good day. Bye-bye.
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And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That’s kimmonson.com. Join our community. We just rolled this all out this last weekend. We’ve started a newsroom writing with great journalistic integrity articles about many of the things that we talk about on the show. So you can join us by going to kimmonson.com. And then also check out the website for the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo, co-founded by Medal of Honor recipient Drew Dix and award-winning documentary maker, Brad Padula, and they have created a podcast, Words from the Silo. Their first season is at the website, AmericanValueCenter.org, and they are preparing for their second season. And I am pleased to have on the line with me Jillian Bailo. She is running for Congress in Wyoming. Wyoming is one of the… least populated states in the nation. So they have one congressional seat and they have two senators and Jillian Bailo is running for Congress. So Jillian, welcome to the show.
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Thank you, Kim. And thank you so much. I’ve been listening to your program this morning and other mornings and bringing those local issues to the forefront is where it matters. So thank you so much for having me on.
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Well, it is a delight. And you’re running for Congress in Wyoming. And first thing, tell us just a little bit about you.
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Yeah, well, first of all, you summarized what I’m running for perfectly. Wyoming has one lone seat in the U.S. House. And so, as such, I am campaigning now and covering all 93,000 square miles of Wyoming in my campaign. Luckily, I’ve spent my life in Wyoming. I’m a fifth-generation Wyomingite. And I’ve lived in small towns, large towns. In fact, I taught for eight years in Hewlett, Wyoming. Population, a couple 300, including ranches. And now I live in Cheyenne. I served as Wyoming’s elected state superintendent of public instruction for seven years. And then spent a couple years in the Youngkin administration overseeing Virginia education. Every day in Virginia was a battle, both in education in a blue state and also because I wanted to come home. I’ve been home for almost two years in Wyoming, and now I’m running for Congress.
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And your specialty, when we were preparing our text back and forth, you said is education and energy. And those are two of the major issues that I think people care about around the kitchen table. So going to Congress, how would you take your expertise in those areas, and what would you hope to do in Congress?
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let’s let’s start with with energy and um and at the beginning or book ending that is affordability for people in wyoming colorado and across the nation and i know that might seem disconnected but when we have a robust and innovative energy industry which starts in wyoming by the way and powers the nation in the world we’re a secure nation and we’re a prosperous nation That gives Americans and Wyomingites the buying power that they need to not only afford the essentials, but also to think long term about affordability, buying a home, saving for the future, making something out of those new Trump accounts that our kids across America are going to. To get starting very, very soon. And in terms of energy, again, the root, the core of that is in Wyoming. I grew up in Gillette, Wyoming, northeast Wyoming. And that’s really the energy hub of the nation and the world. Our core resources, coal industry, our coal industry. Our gas, our oil, that’s all centered in Gillette and in Wyoming. But we also have other resources in Wyoming. We have uranium. We have trona. We have bentonite. We have nuclear energy. And we are on the cusp of really unleashing science. some innovation in terms of energy and becoming truly, truly energy independent as a nation. And again, the hub of that is right here in Wyoming. So as the congresswoman from Wyoming, I’ll need to work really, really closely with the energy industry, which is super, super diverse. As well as the Wyoming delegation, as well as the governor and the Wyoming legislature to make sure that we have investors into the energy industry who are responsible and innovative and also that that in Wyoming, we unleash opportunities for investors and companies to set up shop, to get going, and to really, really build our energy infrastructure that keeps us safe, secure, and gives every American buying power.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, Jillian, as your neighbor to the south here in Colorado, what we’ve seen on a state level is rules and regulations and legislation to really tap down, to really ultimately… I think put our oil, natural gas producers out of business, shut down our coal-fired plants, which will make energy and power more and more expensive for everyday people. And when I see this movement to shut down our coal-fired plants, and then I see trains from, I imagine, the Powder River Basin in Wyoming with coal headed down to the Gulf Coast, which I think we’re probably shipping it someplace else, I’m thinking this is crazy. And so in many ways, I feel like Colorado’s lost our minds down here.
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, how about no comment on that last on that last bit? But you’re absolutely right. How about if I say that in Wyoming, we’ve done just the opposite. President Trump has been a pro energy and a pro pro coal president from the very beginning. And Congress has has responded. The one big, beautiful bill act passed. really released or loosened some of those permitting rules, some of the regulations and some things that really tightened the coal industry and hampered the rest of the energy industry. And in Wyoming, we’ve squeezed every ounce of freedom that we have. And I’ll give you one example. In the past, you know, the Biden administration, day one, hamstringed the energy industry through executive order. But some of that was in law as well. The one big beautiful bill, and again, this is just one example, made it so that when energy companies, and I’m overgeneralizing here, but when energy companies are seeking their permits in the past, Climate considerations have always hindered us from moving forward. Now, climate does not have to be factored into a permitting decision in many, many of the energy and permitting transactions that happen. In Colorado, climate is still considered. In Wyoming, we’ve tossed that. And not because climate is not an important consideration, but it certainly shouldn’t hinder a responsible and energy or excuse me, a responsible and innovative energy project from moving forward again in a responsible way that considers that. But let’s leave that up to the market and up to the state, not up to the federal bureaucracy.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. And what is your website, Jillian, before we go to break and then we’ll come back and talk about education?
SPEAKER 13 :
Well, thanks so much. I’m a grassroots going corner to corner across the state and door to door meeting people that I’ll be accountable to in Washington, D.C. And I’d be honored if you visited my site at Jillian, J-I-L-L-I-A-N, B-A-L-O-W-N. 4FORWyoming.com. So JillianBalo4Wyoming.com.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, and we will be right back and talk with Jillian Balo regarding education, which is something she spent a lot of time in. These discussions happen because of our sponsors. We’ll talk with him in the next hour regarding mortgage rates. and what all of the stuff that’s happening with Iran is doing to interest rates and mortgage rates, and that is Lorne Levy.
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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 I know each and every one of our sponsors personally. They all strive for excellence. And Jody Henze and her team at Mint Financial Strategies is having a great event. It’s Women and Wealth. and it is this Friday, March 6th, 5 p.m. at the Lone Tree Hub in Lone Tree, Colorado. Food and drinks will be provided, and they always do some kind of a fun activity, and they’re going to be making stenciling hand-painting tea towels, and that is connected to the educational component, and that is reading the tea leaves. And so that’s five o’clock this Friday. And to RSVP, send Jody an email. That is Jody, J-O-D-Y at Mint, M-I-N-T-F-S dot com. We’re talking with Jillian Bailo. She is running for Congress in Wyoming. And we talked about energy in the last segment. Education is really something that people are concerned about. Public education, what’s been happening in our schools, our kids, are they learning how to read and write? So how would you address all this, Jillian?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, you know, this is so exciting. What a great time for education. President Trump, again, has been so friendly for public education. And first and foremost, and you and I had the opportunity to meet in person last week and talk a little bit about this, but the most important teacher and decision maker in a child’s life is the parent. President Trump has been dedicated to returning and Secretary McMahon have been dedicated to returning the authority of education to families, specifically parents, as well as communities and states. I’m happy to say that in my real life job right now, I’ve been part of that work in supporting states. as they take on more authority. But I think one of the most substantial shifts that we’ve seen in this administration has been that under the Biden administration, the priorities really centered around discriminatory priorities, basically DEI and radical ideology. And President Trump and Secretary McMahon have turned it back to academic excellence, teaching children to read, expanding school choice, closing the Federal Department of Education so that it just functions for what it needs to, and making sure that children learn American history accurately and truthfully and have an opportunity to question versus be indoctrinated. What we need to do now in Congress is make sure that some of that great work is codified. Some of it already has been in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The Trump accounts aren’t going away. Those help ensure a bright future for children. But one of my jobs in Congress will be to make sure that we continue to protect the important relationship between children and a parent and put that above all else. And also make sure that our schools, whether that’s a home school, a micro school, a charter school, a public school, really, really offer students a diverse opportunity to learn and be prepared for a prosperous future.
SPEAKER 12 :
So Jillian, I talked a little bit about it in the first hour. I’d seen this headline that many of the tech giants are really limiting their children’s time on screens. But I know that in many schools across the country, iPads are provided, computers are provided. And of course, I’m on my screen all the time because of what I do. I don’t watch much TV, but I’m on my phone or computer consistently. But I’m concerned about, for example, I heard that just in an elementary school, after recess, they had iPad time. I’m concerned about that. What’s your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 13 :
Yeah, boy, I haven’t heard that before, that there’s iPad time after lunch. In fact, I have seen the opposite happen across the nation where states and individual school districts are really limiting that use to learning only. I think we need to be careful, you know, after after COVID. and maybe even a little bit before, we’ve sort of had a no holds barred or we were afraid or whatever to limit cell phone use and tech use. And there has to be a fine balance and that has to be done in conjunction with parents and with just responsible use of both AI and technology. The bottom line is that our kids are facing a future where they have to learn not just to consume electronics and technology, but to utilize technology to help solve problems and help enhance the jobs that they’ll do and that exist in the future. So some degree of responsible youth, responsible teaching has to be considered in education, but I don’t believe that we’ve found the balance yet. I think Congress has helped set a framework for that work to happen in states and communities, but that’s not Congress’s job to legislate. students will only have one hour a day or what have you you know whatever the fine balance is that really has to be done at the local level so i’m a yes and person on that very very complex issue the responsibility first lies with the parents to make sure that their voice is heard in terms of i don’t want my kid to have ipad time after recess there are other ways to calm kids after they’ve been running around on the playground and we’ve been doing that effectively for years and years and years we don’t need screens i am also a parent who knows that my child will use ai will use technology how are you using that in the classroom to enhance my child’s learning not take the place of learning
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, and that’s really important. Another question on an international level with what’s going on in Iran. What’s your thoughts about that, Jillian?
SPEAKER 13 :
Oh, wow, that’s big. You know, we have been in a predicament for as long as I can remember, you know, in terms of our situation with Iran. And I hate to weigh in with kind of a hot take or a yes and, but here’s what I’ll say. I think our president has been a disruptor in chief from the very get go and has had great results. Iran and the strikes on Iran are no exception. He gave ample notice and opportunities for diplomatic assistance. For diplomatic relations to happen, for diplomatic solutions to take place. The bottom line is Iran cannot have nuclear weapons, period. End of story. And President Trump has been clear about that from the very beginning. God bless our troops. We are all praying for our troops. We are praying for peace. We are praying for a diplomatic solution. And we are praying that Iran does the right thing and gives up their ability to develop or or hold nuclear weapons, not just now, but in perpetuity forever.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, Jillian Bailo, thank you to you and your family for stepping forward to run for Congress in Wyoming. It is a real commitment to do that, and thank you. How can people get more information? Again, what is that website?
SPEAKER 13 :
Kim, again, thank you so much for having me on, and I am running a… A lean and mean campaign, and I would appreciate if everyone visited my website at JillianBaloForWyoming.com. And, of course, people from Colorado can make a donation, right? I would so appreciate $5, $25, $100. And please know that I’ve got Americans, mostly Wyomingites, but we appreciate you all in Colorado. I’ve got Americans on my mind every day. I’m accountable to you.
SPEAKER 12 :
And JillianBaloForWyoming.com is the website. Jillian, thank you, and I wish you all kinds of good luck. so much for having me on. Thank you for your important programming. And thank you, Jillian. Our quote for the end of the show is Edward Snowden. He said, ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren’t just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures. 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. We’ll be right back with 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. 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. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Wednesday, Producer Joe. Happy Wednesday, Kim. And so much information out there. So fasten your seatbelts. It is a Trent Luce Wednesday and we’ve got a lot to talk about. One of the things is that apparently Jared Polis’s partner. this is my understanding, is behind or supportive of a, and I have this in air quotes, citizen petition that is going to be presented to the Colorado Parks and Wildlife today to outlaw and commercial fur to pass a commercial fur ban for the state of Colorado. Now, I’m trying to get more details on it. One of my colleagues had sent this over. Apparently, they’re going to peel out, though, that it would be okay to use beaver for cowboy hats, because for the Denver fur ban, that was one of the things that people were concerned about with the National Western is cowboy hats. So again, it doesn’t make any sense. If, in fact, these people believed in a fur ban, then you don’t peel out some industry that can get special treatment. So what this is, is this is the camel’s nose under the tent, ultimately, I think, to… um get to a complete fur ban of course it’s difficult i’m just reading the tea leaves as jody hensley would say for for their event this coming uh friday at lone tree um the lone tree hub but i’m going to talk with trent luce a bit more about this but you can make your voices heard and i’ll try to get more information about exactly what to do but that meeting starts today and i know that there’s going to be a number of people that will be showing up at that So as you know, we look at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. And regarding this potential commercial fur ban, the decision would be made by bureaucrats that are appointed by the governor, and the governor’s partner is the one that’s behind trying to get this through. You can see that this is not the way it’s supposed to work with representative self-governance. and that’s why we do the show is because uh it’s important to bring these issues forward and you may say hey i don’t wear a cowboy hat i don’t i don’t want to wear a fur i don’t have a fur so why does it matter why it matters is this that if bureaucrats and special interests can shut down somebody else’s business they could shut down your business too And so that is why we’ve got to talk about all of these important issues. Let me get over here, though. The word of the day is edifice. It’s E-D-I-F-I-C-E. It could be a building, especially one of large or imposing appearance. Or number two, any large complex system or organization. which I would say this edifice of the fourth branch of government, which is the unelected, unaccountable bureaucracy and the decisions that they make. And talking with Mike Rolick in our number one regarding Arvada, the electeds on a 5-0 vote in a huge package that was presented to them, voted to give an unelected, unaccountable bureaucrat the power to accuse you of trespassing on public land and sending you that information via email. This is not the way this is supposed to work. So this is a huge edifice of bureaucracy, and we’ve got to get this turned around. We also talked on a regular basis with Mike about surveillance, so I chose this quote from Edward Snowden. He was born in 1983, he’s a former National Security Agency intelligence contractor and whistleblower who leaked classified documents revealing the existence of global surveillance systems. and programs, and he said this, a child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They’ll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that’s a problem because privacy matters. Privacy is what allows us to determine who we are and who we want to be. And I thought that was just a powerful quote. Our bill of the day is House Bill 26-1211. It is a regulation of broadband services. Prime sponsors are Democrats, Representative Tammy Story and Representative Javier Mabre. And CUT, the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, is a unanimous no on this. And do join us, coloradotaxpayer.org. That way you’ll get the email that goes out each week. regarding different pieces of legislation. It’s the email that goes to legislators and the governor. This is what we said. This is our analysis. This bill grants the Public Utilities Commission the authority to regulate. So there’s several things. Public Utilities Commission, unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats that are appointed by the governor, the authority, there’s your power word, to regulate, there’s your force word, so broadband services and voice over internet protocol on the grounds that this will regulate quality, safety, and reliability of service. You get government involved in something and then the opposite happens. So cut unanimously oppose this bill. The free market is already incentivized to solve problems such as outages and quality. Broadband and voice over internet protocol are not utilities. They’re information services and should not be regulated by the PUC. This would be extremely expensive for the taxpayer for the next two years and to what advantage to consumers. none, and we should not be giving government this power. And I know people say, well, these are really good people that have all this power to regulate. It may be, but as Mike said, what about the next person? And that’s why the founders put in place the Fourth Amendment, and that is the right to privacy. And one of the ways that we keep our right to privacy is to keep government out of regulating our broadband services. So this is very important issues. And we have these discussions because of all of your support, because of our sponsors. And we’ve got Lorne Levy on the line right now. He is a specialist in the mortgage arena. And with what’s happened over the weekend with Iran, it’s made the markets jittery, I would say. So Lorne Levy, welcome to the show. Hey, good morning, Kim. So what’s going on with the markets and the mortgage interest rates with what’s happened over the weekend with Iran?
SPEAKER 03 :
So it’s actually similar to the stock market itself, where, you know, like I used yesterday as an example. Yesterday in the morning, the Dow Jones was down 1,200. It closed only down 400 and got down to being only down about 200, which is quite a wild ride throughout one day. And we saw that again on Monday, I believe, or Friday. I can’t remember which one it was, but it was down like 700. And then it only closed down like 100. But it makes for a wild ride throughout the day. And the same thing was happening with the 10-year U.S. Treasury, which… before the Iran attack have been creeping lower and rates were moving lower, which was awesome. We got down to about 393 on the 10-year. And then with everything that happened and the uncertainty is what we always talk about in the markets, you know, it’s back. It got a high of about 410 yesterday before settling back in, in like the lower fours of like 403. And then now it’s back at like 406. So you can just see all this bouncing around. It’s kind of interesting to watch. But it makes it a little tough when you’re talking to someone who might want to be buying a home and you’re trying to give them an interest rate and all of a sudden it’s like, well, this morning it was this and this afternoon it’s this. It’s tough to tie it down and tie it down on monthly payment, you know, when things are moving around quite like this that fast. So it’s just been an interesting time.
SPEAKER 12 :
So Lauren, we talk about pre-qualifying on a regular basis. So let’s say somebody’s been out there with Karen Levine and they found the house that they want. They’re pre-qualified. When that hit 3.93, were you able to act fast enough to get that or what does your day look like on that, Lauren?
SPEAKER 03 :
So that’s a great question. And that’s why, you know, you and I have had these talks throughout the years where it’s great. You want to be pre-qualified. You want to have the conversations ahead of time. Even on refinancing, you want to know like what your target is to where you’re happy, where you think it might be worthwhile so that we can act. Because if we have everyone’s information, you know, in order to lock in a rate, we typically need an address. But sometimes we can get away with what’s called a to-be-determined address. But we need social security numbers, dates of birth, employment, things like that. so that we can lock in the rate when we see it. So that’s what requires the advanced work. Because to get it locked, it only takes just a couple minutes. And yes, we can do that. But if we haven’t even had the conversation and we’re trying to track someone down at work or waiting for a callback, things can move, especially in a very news-driven time where headlines are flashing across on all different fronts, whether it be the Iran thing or unemployment data or, you know, soon today we have this Institute of Supply Management data point coming out. These are market movers in markets. When things like that happen, if you’re not prepared in advance, then it makes it a little harder to secure the rate that you want.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. So this is intriguing to me that if you were trying to lock in something to be determined, how long then would that rate be locked in for somebody?
SPEAKER 03 :
Great question. And so it’s not forever. The way interest rates work on locking is you can lock for 30, 60, up to 90 days for no fee. But if you go beyond that, the lender’s charged up to a point just for the right to lock in the rate. Now, that point becomes refundable and goes towards the closing cost. But if you don’t ever find a house or you choose to go to a different lender or something, then that’s not refundable. So once you get beyond 90 days, it gets costly. But you can do it on a TBD basis up to 90 days for no fee. So that’s something that got instituted as a new program a few years back, which has been helpful. And the other thing that we do a lot, you mentioned the prequalification when rates are moving. When we work with people to prequalify them, I always try to do it at a little bit higher of an interest rate than the going rate of the day to protect people because I don’t like surprises. I don’t want someone out with Karen thinking they’re pre-approved to an $800,000 house and then rates move and they’re actually pre-approved to $750,000 now because they might have fallen in love with a house at $800,000. So I’d rather… choose a higher interest rate than we have today so that they’re protected, knowing if rates do move higher, they can still qualify, hoping that they get in at the lower rate that’s really out there so that they don’t have to have that disappointment.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, well, years ago I was in the investment business, and I know that when things are jittery and volatile, that it can be concerning, kind of put a knot in your stomach, but it can also mean that there’s opportunity. So if people are out there and thinking, gosh, I would love to have a lower mortgage rate. It doesn’t cost anything for them to give you a call, and they might be able to, with all that’s going on, save themselves some money. What’s that number for people to start that conversation, Lorne Levy?
SPEAKER 03 :
The number, as always, is 303-880-8881.
SPEAKER 12 :
And again, Lorne Levy, and there could be some real opportunity with what’s happening right now on your own personal finances regarding your mortgage. So give them a call, 303-880-8881. Lorne, we’ll talk with you next week. Have a wonderful day.
SPEAKER 03 :
You as well. Thanks, Jim.
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and welcome back to the kim monson show be sure and check out our website that is kimmonsonmonson.com and check out little ritchie’s and ritchie’s is spelled r-i-c-c-i apostrophe s they have locations in parker and in golden and they’re a local neighborhood spot you can get authentic new york style pizza and pasta they have wonderful calzones i was out in the parker area yesterday and picked one up and actually you can get at least two meals out of one calzone and so if you never tried them saturday’s the day to do that because you buy one calzone you can get the second calzone half off and that’s at little ritchie’s in parker and in golden and it is wednesday so that means it is a trent loose wednesday trent loose has been for 25 years, Trent Luce, shedding light on the people and the feed and fuel list and the issues that they’re facing. Is it 25 years, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 06 :
This is the 26th, you’re correct.
SPEAKER 12 :
The 26th year.
SPEAKER 06 :
Who came up with the name Calzone?
SPEAKER 12 :
I don’t know. Should I try to look that up quickly?
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah. Well, we need to know how that name came about because it’s kind of a cool name. I don’t really know what a calzone is, but I like the name.
SPEAKER 12 :
Have you ever had one?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t know. What is it?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, it’s pasta, or excuse me, it’s like bread that has been filled with whatever filling you want, like cheese, onions, sausage, and then you eat it with great Italian sauce. Okay, here we go. The name calzone comes from the Italian word for trouser, reflecting its folded shape that resembles a pant leg. It originated in the 18th century Naples as a portable food option designed to be easily carried and eaten on the go.
SPEAKER 06 :
See, I’m glad I asked, but I still don’t know how that description you came up with is tied to a trouser and how trousers, one pant leg looks like a calzone. Is that the point?
SPEAKER 12 :
I think it’s when a trouser is folded. Back in the old days when people folded their trousers instead of hanging them up. That is my guess. But also you can see how you can… Well, on Calzone, you actually can see how you could actually, because it’s folded and all the stuff’s on the inside, that that could be something that people could take when they travel, so it would be easy and portable. Now, what was your question?
SPEAKER 06 :
So it’s a precursor to a sandwich.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I would say so.
SPEAKER 06 :
Runza, have you had a Runza?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, what’s that?
SPEAKER 06 :
Have you had a B-Rock?
SPEAKER 12 :
Yes.
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So Runza is Nebraska’s version of a B-Rock. You take cabbage, usually it’s a hamburger, and then you can get mushrooms. There’s a different variety. This is a Nebraska-based family, Nebraska-based store chain that they specialize in Runzas. And I can’t believe you’ve not had a Runza from Nebraska.
SPEAKER 12 :
I have not. How do you spell it?
SPEAKER 06 :
R-U-N-Z-A.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, that’s what I thought.
SPEAKER 06 :
And so it’s stuffed, and then it has that, I guess you call it a pastry. It’s not really a pastry. It’s probably the same breading kind of a wrap that you have with the calzone, which is shaped like trousers, I just learned. Folded trousers. Folded trousers.
SPEAKER 12 :
Mm hmm. Yeah. OK. I think that they’re probably close. And Runza, I see www.runza.com. So check that out. I’ll have to check that out. I haven’t been through Nebraska for a while, so I’ll have to check that out. But let’s get over here. Trent Luce, this came to my attention yesterday about a commercial fur ban that is being proposed by, and I’ll put this in air quotes, citizen petition. It’s allegedly that Jared Polis’ partner, who is… I hate to use the word animal rights, but I guess a real animal rights activist, that this petition is being presented to an unelected, unaccountable, appointed board, which probably many of the members have been appointed by Jared Polis. I do need to source that and make sure. But that is Colorado Parks and Wildlife, to create a commercial fur ban here in Colorado. And of course, there was the big… ballot question in Denver, I guess, was it last year? And talked about the National Western and that many products at the National Western are from animals. So beavers are used for good cowboy hats. And of course, deerskin can be used for different jackets and things. So what’s your thoughts on this? This just came to my attention yesterday. And apparently the meeting begins today.
SPEAKER 06 :
Do you ever think about how hypocritical this is? Because the people that promote such endeavors as this, replacing natural, renewable fibers… with petroleum products are also the same people who want to move us to the organic side of the equation and eliminate fossil fuels from our life, which fossil fuels don’t exist. Well, they do. Coal is a fossil fuel, but not oil. But the hypocrisy of this whole story. Because if you do not make clothing from animals, which are completely renewable, they’re natural, they’re God’s gift to be a part of life, and then we harvest them and they provide warmth and protection for us. If you don’t use the animal, you have no choice but to use a petroleum product. So you choose petroleum over something that is grown in Colorado? Yes.
SPEAKER 12 :
But they’re also trying to shut down the petroleum industry. Correct.
SPEAKER 06 :
So what are you going to do?
SPEAKER 12 :
What are we going to wear? Right?
SPEAKER 06 :
A calzone. We’re going to wear a calzone.
SPEAKER 12 :
because it looks like a pant trouser. So this meeting begins today, and I know that a number of people are going to be there. I got this information from, well, there’s Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management, and this is some of the things they said. They said, furbearer populations in Colorado are healthy and abundant. There’s no scientific evidence supporting claims of population decline or risk. The North American model of wildlife conservation allows regulated commercial use of wildlife. Nearly 60% of Denver voters rejected a fur ban, and 1.7 Coloradans opposed a statewide hunting ban. And wildlife policy should be written by experts, not activists and bureaucrats. But this is how it can go with those that have these radical agendas. They have figured out a way to use a citizen petition, which I haven’t seen the petition yet. I’d like to see the wording on it. But then to go to unelected bureaucrats to basically shut down a business. And if they can shut down… And I mentioned earlier in the show, I said, you may say, hey, I don’t wear a cowboy hat. I don’t want a fur. I don’t have a fur. What does it matter to me? How it matters is when you start to have government and bureaucrats…
SPEAKER 06 :
uh shutting down one business then someday they may be coming for your business as well at trent and that’s why this is so dangerous yeah and it doesn’t stop people think about some you know a mink or something of that nature a fur is any leather product that comes from an animal and that’s why even though the ballot initiative And Denver did not target the National Western itself. It targeted animal pelts, which obviously is a driving force. Because like most hats, you know, my hat’s a beaver. And beavers are a vital part of our history, our ecology. And here’s the one thing that people struggle in understanding. By harvesting them, you’re promoting a better health. You don’t kill them to extinction. That’s ridiculous. Nobody wants that. But Kelly and I lived on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota for five years. And that reservation is one of the top five worst prairie dog populations per capita anywhere in the United States. I can’t speak to the word, in the United States. And so I got to learn and study prairie dog towns, habitats, and populations. And the data clearly says that if you go into a prairie dog town… And we’ve had plenty of prairie dog issues on the front range, you know, where people would suck them up in vacuums and then take them and relocate them and turn them loose. And I think that’s ridiculous. But aside from my point, if you kill 75% of the prairie dogs in a given town this year, the population will come back the next year and be exactly what it was the prior year. Because you’re actually helping to minimize the impact of disease, to minimize the impact of reproductive failures, and what causes reproductive failures in animal stress? Well, the lack of a habitat and food substance for an animal, is going to contribute to stress, which automatically all living things shut down the reproduction as a means of self-preservation. So by harvesting fur-bearing animals, and trappers and hunters are the best at this, they’re promoting a healthier, vibrant population of those species. And I think that’s the biggest disconnect that we have in living things today.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, there’s stuff coming in on the text line that we want to talk about on this. And I’ll just say this. Before you even mention prairie dogs, one of our listeners, Mark, said, can we make hats out of prairie dog fur? So I’m going to leave that as our cliffhanger. Trent Luce, and we have these important discussions because of our sponsors. And if you need help with your personal climate to be warm in the winter or cool in the summer, talk to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling.
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SPEAKER 12 :
and welcome back to the kim monson show be sure and check out the website for the usmc memorial foundation and uh contribute to the president’s uh challenge birthday challenge paul sorrell’s turn 77 she’s the president and she will be out at the memorial on the 14th and i will be standing for seven hours and there’s all kinds of a seven theme in all of this you can find all that information by going to USMC Memorial Foundation and contribute to the great work that they’re doing to remember and honor those that have given their lives, have been willing to give their lives for our freedom. That website, again, is USMCMemorialFoundation.org. And Trent Luce, we have been talking about this proposed commercial fur ban by citizen petition. I have that in air quotes. It’s going to be presented to the bureaucratic Colorado Parks and Wildlife to pass a commercial for a ban here in Colorado. And we had a listener that asked about, apparently beaver is what is used in the best product for cowboy hats. But the question on the table was could we use prairie dog fur for that?
SPEAKER 06 :
Prairie dogs typically have the bubonic plague. They can get it and pose a risk. But do you know how many prairie dogs it would take to make a hat? It takes like seven beavers to make one cowboy hat.
SPEAKER 12 :
Really? Yeah. And it’s probably, yeah, the furs are different. But it’s really, I think, a funny idea.
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, Lewis and Clark didn’t get it wrong.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, all those years ago. So any other thoughts then about this? And this is beginning today. And the Colorado Parks and Wildlife is meeting up at the Doubletree, I think it is, in the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel in Westminster. And that is beginning today. So people need to make their voices heard.
SPEAKER 06 :
So, yeah, I do have another thought about that. You know, the last time that Governor Polis’ husband had an idea, it backfired on him, and that was six years ago, the meet-out day, which you came up in conversation with a friend of mine last week on a broadcast, Jason Santomaso, and he gave you full credit for what they did at their Sterling Livestock, and not only that, but now this March 21st, at the Logan County Fairgrounds in Sterling, Colorado, will be the sixth meet-in day hosted by Sterling Livestock Commission Company. And, you know, I was in Colorado all day on that very first meet-in day. And I got to tell you, it was one of the best endeavors that I’ve been a part of because you had somebody that decided they were going to try to prove you could have a day without meat. And the folks of Colorado, not just people who produce meat products, everybody who wanted choice of food items participated in some way, shape, or form. There were so many little churches and community buildings that just had their own meet and date. And Jason and his family hosted that one with 2,000 people the first year. They continue that, and they now gather funds and give to local needy people, one of which you helped him secure food. And so I challenge all of Colorado to turn this into the same success story that Meat End Day has become.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Well, and this came in from Jenny. She said this is the best website to check out for this. It’s SaveTheHuntColorado.com. SaveTheHuntColorado.com. And that’s Coloradans for Responsible Wildlife Management. And you can get all kinds of information there on that site. So let’s move over to the state legislature. And there’s several, there’s all kinds of bills going through. We have so much going on. But the first one, let’s see, and I had this was, it was, okay, Trent, I had, I’ve got too many bills here in front of me, is a bill regarding limiting the use of rodenticide. And I’ll get that bill number here in just a second. But what is your thoughts about this?
SPEAKER 06 :
For what purpose? So that we have more mice and rodents to contaminate our food and different systems? You know, what’s ironic about this is that now I know of two different people in the last three weeks that have had their USDA license removed. One was for dog breeding in Texas. Another one was for country cured hams in Virginia. And the reason that they had their license removed is not inside of the kennel, not inside of the facility where the country hams was produced. The USDA inspector found a couple of mouse droppings. They immediately removed their license. I want to tell you what, you go looking around in this room, I’m sitting in, I guarantee I can find a couple of mouse droppings. So we’re going to make it. more restrictive to use something to control rodents? What is the point of this?
SPEAKER 12 :
So there have been those that have said that using a poison for rodents that then sometimes like wildlife can eat those rodents and it’s killed them. So that’s one of the things that I’ve heard. What would you say to that?
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t know any data that supports that. I’d love to see it.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay. Have you ever heard that before?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I actually haven’t. But I do know that we’re careful where we put any poison for mice in any of the barns or anything to make sure that our dogs don’t eat it. But why does government feel like they have to be big brother in every single situation? Can we not rely on the people and intelligence to manage these things accordingly?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, let’s really think about this. If you cannot control rodents, such as mice or rats, and I’m just remembering that Denver, this was several months ago, was one of the top rat capitals in the country. And this beautiful city, Trent, that I’ve loved, it breaks my heart. They, I would say… what’s happening at the legislature, this governor, the Denver mayor, they are destroying this beautiful city and this beautiful state with these decisions. But if rodents are left unchecked, they proliferate and they would totally destroy. For example, I’m thinking like grain bins. So our food sources is the dot that I connect on that. Yes?
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, 100%. I agree completely. But it’s not going to not have an effect with city populations either. In what way? Well, these rodents can harbor disease, and we are so ignorant on history. And if you just take, let’s just pick a random place like Goodland, Kansas. It is so easy to go find historical perspectives of when those first settlers came, they built their log cabin, and we romance these log cabins, and we have people go up in the mountains and go to their cabin.
SPEAKER 12 :
Actually, in Goodland, it was a sod house because there wasn’t much wood.
SPEAKER 06 :
Or railroad ties.
SPEAKER 12 :
Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
And they daily had rodents and snakes and different challenges in those homes. We’ve come to eliminate them so much, to control them, not eliminate them. We’ve come to control the challenge with those that we take all of that stuff for granted. That didn’t just happen. It took people organizing and doing things to enable a family to protect themselves.
SPEAKER 12 :
Speaking of that, I can’t remember if I have shared this story with you or not, but my grandmother grew up in a two-room sod house on the plains of western Kansas. One of the stories about the family is that in that sod house, one time a snake fell through the roof into the baby’s crib. And we can’t even imagine something like that happening in America these days. But they had those daily challenges, and you don’t want rodents and snakes in where you live. And so this particular bill… is going to affect our food sources, it’s going to affect, I mean, there’s something about mice and mouse droppings that’s just disgusting to me. And so this will limit our opportunity to manage that population and ultimately affect our food sources. I just don’t understand what is happening with this legislation here in Colorado. And your final thought on that, we’ll go to break, and then I want to take on this pesticide thing as well.
SPEAKER 06 :
Why was this snake in the roof?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, because it was a sod house.
SPEAKER 06 :
Because that’s where the mice were that it feeds on.
SPEAKER 12 :
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SPEAKER 12 :
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 reach out to Jody Henze at Mint Financial Strategies. You have to be a girl. She’s having her Women and Wealth event, which is this Friday at the Lone Tree Hub. It starts at 5 p.m. And they’re going to have a great little fun activity, making tea towels to talk about the tea leaves, reading the tea leaves books. regarding retirement. And you can do your RSVP by going to JODY, that’s J-O-D-Y, at mentfs.com. And that is mentfs.com. And then also check out the podcast of Drew Dix and Brad Padula at the Center for American Values, Words from the Silo. And that website is americanvaluecenter.org. We’re talking with Trent Luce. He is a sixth-generation rancher from Nebraska. And we were talking about Senate Bill 26062, which is here at the Colorado State Legislature, rodenticide use restrictions. The sponsors on this are all Democrats, Senator Lisa Cutter, Senator Kathy Kipp, and Representative Elizabeth Velasco. And Trent, during the break, Producer Joe said, remember that it was rodents that were the cause of the black… plague centuries ago and so why would we try to increase rodents in our society but I thought that was a good point yeah I’d really like to know the motivation behind the sponsors of this and have them explain that to me Well, we should probably have a conversation about that. But let’s get over here to the next bill that I wanted to ask you about. And this is it’s pesticide. Hold on here. Pesticide product disposable. And I’m having trouble with my. Here we go, there we go. Pesticide disposal and container recycling. Pesticides, people are concerned about pesticides in our food source. The prime sponsors on this, again, are all Democrats, Representative Tish Amaro, Representative Karen McCormick, Senator Kathy Kipp, Senator Dylan Roberts. You’re a rancher, what’s your thoughts about this particular bill?
SPEAKER 06 :
These people who sponsored this bill without, I did not read the bill, but they consume, they willingly consume pesticide every single day as they gather trying to put limits on pesticides.
SPEAKER 12 :
And I have a feeling I know which one you’re going to say. You’re going to say that’s coffee, right?
SPEAKER 06 :
Caffeine. Caffeine? Caffeine is a pesticide that protects the plant, whether it be a tea plant, coffee plant, that protects the plants from insects. So this over-modulated fear of pesticides is just not real. It should not be happening. It’s no different than what we’re talking about with rodent control. I mean, I’m sitting here drinking pesticide as we have this discussion.
SPEAKER 12 :
So the question is, though, and with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., we are being told that our food is killing us because of pesticides, herbicides, that this is causing cancer. What do you say to that, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 06 :
He just signed off on expansive glyphosate last week.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I know people have been really concerned about that. So is that political? What would you say to that?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think it’s 100% political. You know, we’ve had this discussion before. It continues to surface. We’ve been using glyphosate on crop protection since 1974. If you had some severe issue caused by glyphosate, wouldn’t it surface before now? I think that we have to continue to look at remedies for control of weeds and pesticides and crop production. But I’m here to tell you that unless you had a grandfather like mine who walks through what it was like to raise corn, because they didn’t really raise soybeans for a crop until the mid-60s, early 70s, We raise corn and till that soil so much. And then while the crop is produced, you go in and cultivate it one way and you cultivate it the other way. And you eliminate half of the corn that you planted simply to maintain control of the weeds. Everybody who’s talking about glyphosate is so dangerous does not fully understand the challenge a farmer has to continue to produce food to feed the world.
SPEAKER 12 :
And that has been my concern, is that if we don’t use these products, that then we will not have enough food to feed the world. But yet there’s a whole… narrative out there that these things are causing cancer they’re making us so unhealthy we do talk about that on a regular basis Trent that our society and Robert F. Kennedy has said this as well that we have health challenges and he wants to do Maha to make America healthy again so I’m struggling with these narratives on all of this
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, we do have health challenges, and the health challenge includes the curling exercise of taking food from the plate to their mouth. It’s really no more difficult than that. I do not believe that all of these foods are poisons. I believe that processed foods should be limited in consumption. But you make that choice. We’re trying to enable government to make every choice for every one of our lifestyle decisions, and that’s not going to play out well for anybody.
SPEAKER 12 :
Not at all.
SPEAKER 06 :
And one of my grandfathers… I’m sorry, I’ll get back to your grandfather. But there’s one other aspect of this that never gets discussed. And I actually hate talking about the benefits of glyphosate because there are companies, histories here that I don’t like involved in it. But I think about the farmer and I think about the consumer. When I was a kid, I would help my dad… pour lasso, which was the chemical that I remember using, into the sprayer, and we’d go out and spray. And we’d spray to control weeds, and we’d spray to control insects. And it does not take much research. Anybody can go look this up. In 2026, farmers will use about one-sixth of the chemical applied to crop production that we used in 1976. And that is because we have minimized our tillage. Glyphosate, the best part of glyphosate, is it allows people to till the soil less. Every time you till the soil, you release moisture, you release carbon, you release all these other things that we want to keep in terms of organic matter into the soil. Glyphosate, from the standpoint of reducing tillage, reducing the overall amount of total chemical use, has been absolutely an incredible accomplishment. Now, there’s technology that I see coming where they want to use lasers to control weeds. It’s not going to do much for the insects that we have to deal with, corn borer and things like that. But that, at this moment, looks like it’s going to be monopolized by one equipment manufacturer. So I’m not happy with that either. At this moment, there is not a more affordable, more economically and ecologically beneficial crop protection than glyphosate.
SPEAKER 12 :
And so we have to get to this balance. So this gets us back to then this particular bill and would very possibly limit the farmer’s use of pesticides is ultimately what I think is probably going to happen. What do you think?
SPEAKER 06 :
That at the end of the day is what always happens. Limit the choice of people to decide what is best for their situation, which at the end of the day, all consumers pay the price for that, which is why in 2025, we imported $59 billion more in agricultural products. than we exported do you think the people in mexico pay the same attention to withdrawal rates that the proper application of crop application of the chemicals that they apply to crops we don’t even think about what happened to this food substance in another country before it came into the united states because what happens when this passes in colorado you require more imported food Look, China couldn’t even send in baby food here without contaminating babies, let alone the dogs. Melamine. Have we forgotten about melamine?
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow. Oh, gosh. Okay, Trent, we’ve got a minute left. Lots coming in here. Jenny said this is what happens in affluent societies. They have nothing better to do with their time than to engineer problems. I think there’s a lot of truth in that. We’ve got a minute left. We want to wrap this up. Next week we’ll talk about the Colorado River. Final thought.
SPEAKER 06 :
I don’t think the Colorado River issue is going to go away, but we do have a whole segment to talk about on that. Jenny, I agree completely. Government is about engineering problems, but you left out the last part. And then they pretend to be the solution, which ultimately just creates more problems.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s absolutely true. And so, Trent, as always, thank you. And we, oh, I know, I was going to say, my grandfather said, the best exercise that you can do to lose weight is to push yourself away from the table.
SPEAKER 06 :
And I actually believe we should eat a lot of calories, but you need to burn more calories than you consume. And that’s what we’ve lost sight of.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, that’s true. So, hey, Trent Luce, have a great week, as always. Robust discussions, greatly appreciate it. Our quote for the end of the show is from Edward Snowden. He said, ultimately, if people lose their willingness to recognize that there are times in our history when legality becomes distinct from morality, we aren’t just ceding control of our rights to the government, but our futures. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
SPEAKER 07 :
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