Join Kim Monson as she enlightens listeners about the crucial issues surrounding government control in public sectors such as education and housing. This episode dives deep into Senate Bill 135, outlining its threats to Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights, and how various legislative moves could undermine the democratic process. The insightful discussion aims to arm citizens with knowledge, empowering them to take informed action in their communities.
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indeed let’s have a conversation and welcome to the kim Monson show thank you so much for joining us you each are treasured your value do 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 if it’s Wednesday, that means it’s Wings Day. You buy 20 wings, you get an additional 10 for free. That’s for to-go or to-dine-in. And their locations are Loveland, Westminster, and in Aurora. So be sure and partake since it is Wings Day Wednesday at Hooters restaurants. And they are known for their world-famous wings. And Kane has attested that he just loves them. So take advantage of that today. Check out the website. That is KimMonson.com. And we have really revamped and updated the website. It is beautiful. 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And I thank you to all of you who are our sponsors and our partners and who support us because we are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Remember, if something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And it’s not compassionate and it’s not altruistic to take other people’s stuff. It could be their rights, their property, their freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhood, or lives via force and control. And that can be with a weapon policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the World Economic Forum and globalist elites agenda. And their tools are the United Nations, this Colorado state legislature, this Colorado governor. And we see it even playing out to county, local, school districts, special district levels. And we continue to shed light on all of that. We focus on the issues. We’ll mention the people pushing those issues, but we stay out of all of the personality or we try to stay out of all the personality stuff that’s going on out there. I want to say thank you to the Harris family for their goal sponsorship of the show. And let’s see here. Let’s get into the word of the day. This was interesting. I came across this word, the clown. It’s B-E-C-L-O-W-N. And we can probably kind of figure out what that means. But I really recommend that we all, uh, in our, in our freedom library, uh, actual dictionaries and i’ve got a collection of dictionaries because things can change when you’re going online so i really recommend that you have um at least one dictionary hardcover the one that i’ve been using recently is the random house webster’s college dictionary and it’s interesting that the word the clown i could not find it in there so i did have to go to the internet And so the definition on the Internet and the clown is spelled B-E-C-L-O-W-N is to make a fool of another or to make into a clown, to clown around, make a fool of oneself. And then I looked up clown in the hardcover book. Dictionary says it could be a comic performer, especially in a circus, wears an outlandish costume and makeup and pantomimes common situations to exaggerated fashion and also uses juggling and tumbling. Number two, it could be a joker or buffoon, a jester. Number three, it could be a prankster or a practical joker. So beclown does mean to make a fool of another, to clown around or make a fool of oneself. I will tell you, as we really have delved into this Senate Bill 135, it is, I think, trying to beclown the people of Colorado. And that is to make a fool of us because it is basically gutting Tabor, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, which is an amendment to the Colorado Constitution passed by the people of Colorado in 1992. And to get rid of an amendment to the Constitution, you have to, I think, amend the Constitution. But what we have seen is a continual assault upon Tabor, both from Republicans and Democrats. This particular one is Democrats, but the ref CC that Bill Owens got across the Finish line many years ago really took a big bite out of Tabor as well. And then all of these fees, even the fees and taxes have the same effect. It’s money being taken out of your pocket. But if it’s called a fee, then it does not have to. The PBIs do not have to ask us. Because under Tabor, if PBIs want to raise taxes, they have to ask us and we’ll vote on it. If they want to incur debt that we have to pay off, they have to ask us and we vote on it. If they want to keep additional revenue above a very generous formula of population growth and inflation, they have to ask us. So that’s what this is happening here is they are basically asking for all the money. But they’re doing it very, very sneaky, which is clowning the people of Colorado. So we have to be very vigilant on it. And Natalie Minton and Brandon Wark have an excellent podcast video at Free State Colorado regarding Senate Bill 135. It will be heard in committee tomorrow on Thursday. And sign up to testify either in person or online. I’m going to sign up to testify online on this. But they have an excellent explanation of that. And then we did an excellent article that you can find at kimMonson.org. dot com as well and the title of our our article is colorado democrat democrats refer taber cap overhaul to november ballot targeting two billion dollars in taxpayer refunds and we took a position on this from at the colorado union of taxpayers which join us there it’s only 25 a year and you will receive the emails that we send to the legislators and the governor regarding the positions on these pieces of legislation. And as my friend Pam Long has said, cut is your shortcut to know what is going on. And I do want to give a shout out to this group of people, the board of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, that are working diligently. We are all volunteers. Call us crazy, but we think it’s that important. And so when you see these folks, say thank you to Steve Dorman, Greg Golanski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson. Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onasorg, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And we are a strong no on this. This is our statement. It says this bill requires the prime sponsors are Senator Jeff Bridges, Senator Kathy Kipp, Representative Jennifer Bacon, and Representative Megan Lukens. And if any of you know, because I tried to do a search on it and I couldn’t find out, but I’m wondering if Senator Jeff Bridges is the son of Rep Bridges, which was that part of the Gang of Four that worked to take Democrat control, now the radical activist Democrat control of Colorado. So if you know the answer to that, text me at 720-605-0647. But this is a commentary on this. It says this bill requires the secretary of state to place a question on the November 2026 ballot, asking voters to approve the state retaining and spending more revenue for K through 12 public education. So there you’ve got it. It’s for the children. That’s the narrative that they’ve got out there. Specifically, an amount equal to what exceeds the state spending limit. And there is that wealth exceeds the state spending limit and to increase K-12 funding by up to 2% annually for 10 years. And so it appears that there would be a sunset on this. But as you read further into the bill is after 10 years, they just don’t have to use that money for that K-12 education. Okay. So this continues to fund the dismal performance of our schools. Based on 2024 data, the Common Sense Institute noted that over half of Colorado’s third graders are unable to read, write, or perform basic math at grade level. So why would we throw more money at this when we are not getting the results we need? But so we go on to say with that, but if the increased money available is not spent on education, the legislature can spend it any way it wishes. This legislation proposes this vote voter referendum for the purpose of bypassing Tabor, which is Colorado’s taxpayers bill of rights and allowing the state to keep our Tabor refunds from money that the state over collected in taxes from us for. This was not in our commentary, but it is forever. But it’s very sneaky how they weaved that in there. And so and I’d recommend all of you sign up to testify tomorrow and you can find that link easily at Free State Colorado. And let’s see. Next thing, our quote of the day from George Washington. And he was born in 1732. He died in 1799. He was a founding father and the first president of the United States. He was the commander of the Continental Army, led the Patriot forces to victory in the American Revolutionary War. against the British Empire and known as the father of our nation for his role in bringing about American independence. And as I read this, I realized this is what we’re trying to help to do here on the show and with the newsroom now and with the community. Washington said this to John Jay, May 1796. He said, I am sure the masses of citizens in these United States mean well. And I firmly believe they will always act well whenever they obtain a right understanding of matters. And so we’ve let ourselves get dumbed down to be clowned. And we’ve got to do the hard work of understanding what’s going on, talking and engaging with our friends, our family and our colleagues on these important ideas out there. And I wanted to say thank you to the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team, which is a wonderful sponsor of the show. I know many of you are saving money by calling them and it’s different for each and every person, but give them a call. They have lowered their auto insurance rates here in Colorado. So you might be able to save some money there. 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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And this Saturday, something very special is happening with the USMC Memorial Foundation. Paula Sarles is celebrating her 77th birthday. So she has the seven challenge. And she will be out at the USMC Memorial on the Saturday, 8 to 4 p.m. And she will be standing, reading… Names of Heroes encourages all of us to drop by and say the name of some of our heroes in our lives. But the theme is the number seven because it’s her 77th birthday, the 57th anniversary of the memorial, 27th year of veteran advocacy and 17 years since her Tony’s passing. She is a gold star wife. Tony passed on from effects of Agent Orange during the Vietnam War. And so it is important to honor all of these people. And you can do that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org and making a contribution with the numeral seven in it. And let’s get over here to Mike Rolick. He is a citizen activist, watchdog, which has delved into things happening at local government to keep us informed and to make a difference. And he is making a difference. Mike, welcome to the show. Kim, good morning. How are you? I am well. So let’s get into it. We’ve got a lot of things to cover. And the first is Lakewood, the referendum. The ballots will be going out soon. And that website to get information on this is Lakewood Citizens Alliance. And you have to vote yes on it if you want to preserve your quality of life, your neighborhoods, your transparency, all of those things. So you have to vote yes. And that is LakewoodCitizenAlliance.org. What’s your update on this, Mike Rolick?
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Well, Rossin Valley Coalition is now in support of the Lakewood Citizens Alliance. And we were out there twice over the weekend and yesterday getting some door hangers out for Karen and her group. And… Yeah, it went pretty well. If we saw people, we were able to talk to them and kind of explain that yes means repeal the up-zoning and to restore the original zoning as of what it was last year. And people don’t quite understand local stuff all the time because it doesn’t kind of hit our consciousness. We think about larger issues, and it’s tough to delineate where the differences gradients of government are, so to speak, right? So I think it’s really important to remain aware of what’s going on locally as well as obviously state and federal. But yeah, it gets kind of scary because you might not be aware of what’s going on and then all of a sudden you might have a two to three acre property next to you that turns into a multifamily when you thought it was just going to remain as a horse property or some other form of ag. And that’s kind of what’s at stake here. Okay.
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So thank you.
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So April 7th is a really big vote in Lakewood. I know the ballots drop, I think, March 16th.
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Yes. Okay. And we’ll stay on that, informing people. Next thing, you mentioned you wanted to talk about the Golden Public-Private Partnership. What’s going on there?
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Yeah, there is a new one of these Department of Public Administration unused properties over by Fossil Trace South Club along South Golden Road and Johnson Road area. And it’s kind of the same thing where they talk about the affordable housing section, which is allowed under Senate Bill 22-130. So there’s that. But then they also talk about the attainable housing of 80 to 120% AMI and where feasible commercial use is, where they want to try to create a true mixed-use community. But besides those other issues that I think are violations of SB 22-130, you’re not supposed to have attainable or commercial, according to the definition section. this is a very interesting situation as well for two factors. They, they do say that there is going to be site access from one private roadway that traverses a fossil trace golf club and serves the adjacent youth center. So, you know, when you look at these things, we might be upset viscerally at first when you hear about something, but then you really have to drill down and look at the specifics. I am, talking to some folks down on that side of Golden to see how I might be able to help. But the site access becomes a problem. And why? It’s because the International Fire Code, either 2018, 21, or 24, I don’t know exactly what Golden has yet, but for something with more than 200 dwelling units, despite if they have sprinklers, you need two fire access points. And they have to be at a distance that’s half of the longest diagonal. So when you look at this odd shaped piece of property, the way I’m seeing it, it’s gonna be very difficult to make the case that you can have two exits that are protective of that reg, the international fire code. I shouldn’t say it’s a reg, it’s a code. But basically, they want to at this point to be far enough apart that if a wildfire or other emergency was going on, that folks had a chance to get off on one side or the other. So I don’t know if some of these things are really well thought out before the state really starts looking at getting requests for quotes and spending a lot of time and money and resources. There is physical constraints, and that road, it looks like the road has to also go over a bit of a floodplain. A small one, no doubt, but still a floodplain. So now you’ve got a floodplain, and now you want to put an access road not only for the adjacent youth center, which we’ll get to in a second, but for 30 or 40 acres of multifamily facilities. That’s a heavy lift. I had a buddy who was looking at redesigning a floodplain over here. There’s millions of dollars and years to do. And that was just going to be for a small 30-house development. So now you think, okay, I’ve got to get roads that are going to be able to service several hundred, if not a few thousand folks. That’s problematic as well. It’s another physical feature. And then the youth center itself, I don’t know if you ever looked at this, the campus at Lookout Mountain, this serves teens that have problems with the law. And this is back from 2021 for Fox 31. Timeline of incidents. In August 31, 2014, teen overpowers a 65-year-old staffer and escapes. 2019, 15-year-old escapes from Lookout Mountain Youth Services. August, April 15, 2019, death threats target five guards. May 1, 2019, riots break out. Next day, three staff members accused of bringing illicit drugs into the facility for use. facility. May 29th, three guards injured and a breakup at a site, and then on and on and on. There’s interesting, June 25th, search continues for Valentin who escaped, and then Polis actually says there’s need for changes at Lookout Mountain following the most recent escape. And it only goes to 2021. There’s shots fired, there’s folks that are breaking out. And I have to ask, if you’re going to put low-income housing right next to this, is that safe for the new residents?
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Wow, that’s an excellent question.
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Or should the facility like this be isolated by some physical properties? And in fact, in September of 2025, the Division of Youth Services removed all of its youth from lookout mountain detention center amid what advocates say were deteriorating safety conditions, and that was in the Denver Post. So, you know, in the interest of doing good things for folks who need a leg up, I get it. We can have that discussion. Should that be right next door?
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Well, that’s an excellent question. That’s an excellent question.
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Yeah, I think these people are not thinking about the full picture of what’s going on in these parcels of land and why maybe sometimes they haven’t been built on yet.
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Well, and to be putting this multifamily affordable housing on every piece of vacant property out here, I really think it’s an assault upon property rights because we don’t need any more affordable housing or housing. What we need is houses that people can buy themselves. for themselves and how can you make life more affordable for people reduce taxes and fees and rules and regulations that drive up the cost either takes money out of people’s pocket or drives up the cost that’s the way to make housing more affordable and we we’re going to be delving into this issue deeper and deeper as well so let’s get over to the next thing though and that is flock cameras at lowes and home depot So what’s happening there?
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Yeah. Well, I just found out about this. If people have more information, please let us know. But this is interesting. This is from Block Safety’s own website. June 12th of 2025, ongoing retail theft. Suspect caught with help from stores, LPR cameras. They have the pictures of Lowe’s right there. Block LPR cameras help police identify the suspects behind an ongoing theft case at a Lowe’s location. And this is a Quatati Police Department responding to ongoing theft. In progress at a Lowe’s Home Depot store after the call reported something had happened and on and on. And they said, thankfully, the store had block safety LPR cameras that can read license plates as cars enter the parking lot. There is Lowe’s. And then 404 Media did also discuss some records that they got from Johnson County, Texas, that shows that possibly Home Depot, has some cameras as well. It says hundreds of AI-powered automatic license plate reading cameras paid for by Lowe’s and Home Depot and stationed in the Harvard stores. Parking lots are being sent into a mass surveillance system that law enforcement can’t access according to records obtained using a public records request. And that’s right from 404. And they get into it with some more detail. But yes, okay, there could be an argument that says it’s my parking lot. I could put a camera for security. But the question is then, sharing, that data sharing with all forms of police, you know, federal, local, state. And then the other question is, do I have a choice as well? Do I say I like Ace Hardware now more? You know, it really depends. But I think that we have a choice as well. When we start looking at what these different companies are doing, you can shop local and you can say, well, you know, maybe there’s a place that doesn’t have these cameras up.
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Okay. Yeah, so let the free market work that out. And I do feel for these retailers, though, because of what’s happening in our country with all of this retail theft. It certainly is a problem, for sure. But it’s because we’re having a breakdown of really right and wrong. It’s not right to steal stuff. It’s just not right. And… So there’s that bottom line as well. The other thing is, and I know you’re testifying on a regular basis down at the Statehouse, but you testified on an important bill that Representative Scott Bottoms had brought forward.
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Yes, and that was to protect female sports in high school. And unfortunately, it died 8-3 on party lines and Kind of confusing to see why all these bills are dying on party lines. There’s no one that actually sits and talks about the merits of the bill. Truly, it feels like they’re just doing it on party lines. And the problem I have with this is that I look at this from a safety perspective. Obviously, there are differences in testosterone levels. Obviously, there are differences in strength and speed and what have you. And that’s fine. If people want to play intramural and just classic sports, there are less competitive guys out there. I was in high school. I wasn’t very competitive at all. I ended up in music and martial arts because football wasn’t my thing. But there were guys at that time in high school, 16, 17 years old that were already benching 350 to 400 pounds. That’s a lot. That’s a lot of weight. That’s a lot of strength. That’s a lot of speed that people are developing, you know, through their exercise regimens. And it hurts people. And, you know, when we’re looking at having a person who might have identified, who might not have gone through any transition, so to speak, yet, but just identified getting in with females, there is the danger of people getting truly hurt for life. There is no objective standard. There is no strength. on these teams. But when you look at, and this is why I made the point, if you look at the old UFC, Ultimate Fighting Championship, back in the day, they did not have weight categories at all. And within three or four years, they realized we need at least a bifurcated system where they had, I think it was under 170 and above 170 or above 200, sorry, And then he got into five weight categories and on and on. And now it mirrors more like traditional boxing. Wrestling has weight categories. Why? Because they know they have to put like-sized people together. Just an objective standard. And I brought that up, but it fell on deaf ears. And there are three categories in the bill. There’s interclassic and intramural was one category, boys and girls. And it’s not to marginalize anybody. But the fact of the matter is, if someone doesn’t feel like they fit in, there is that co-ed category. And I feel for someone who can’t feel like they can fit in. But they also shouldn’t impose on someone who is a female and wants to play on female sports and doesn’t want to risk bodily injury.
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Absolutely. And this mirrors, though, this is why Protect Kids Colorado getting these ballot questions onto the November ballot is so important. But I do really appreciate Representative Bottoms. He’s actually brought forth legislation that mirrors the Protect Kids Colorado ballot questions, which is really terrific. So as always, it’s great to have you, Mike, and we’ll talk with you next week.
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Sounds good. And just one more thing. We do have an event for Scott Bottoms up here in the zone March 24th up in the unincorporated Jeffco area.
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And how can people get information about that?
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House District 24 and 27 are sponsoring the event. So there’s that. And then I believe we have a flyer as well. And I can get you that flyer if you like.
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Okay. Sounds great. And thanks so much, Mike Rollick. We’ll talk with you next week.
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Thank you. Have a good day.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And check out the website for the Center for American Values. That website is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And Drew Dix, who is a co-founder of the center, will be… Doing a great event. It’s a webinar for students. It’ll be Monday, March 16th at 325 p.m. He’ll be in Tombstone, Arizona, presenting to kids there. And the subject is living valor. And so talk with your children, your grandchildren about signing up for that. And you can do that by going to AmericanValueCenter.org. And pleased to have on the line with me, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler. He is a scientist. He is the founder of IPAC-EDU, which is the… IPAC is the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge. And then he created this fabulous educational… Well, fabulous educational opportunities regarding all these different courses with amazing instructors. So welcome to the show, Dr. James Lyons-Weiler.
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Well, thank you, Kim. Thank you. How are you handling the time change out there?
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I’ve got jet lag. How about you?
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I’m doing just fine. I believe it’s 7.30 Eastern. That’s what my body says, so I’m fine. Actually, I get up very early in the morning anyway, so I’m usually up at about 4 a.m.
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Yeah, I know. I get up very early as well. And so this morning, yeah, it was early. And I’m like, well, in the last week, it was even earlier. But I digress on that. First of all, bring us up to speed. What’s happening over at IPAC-EDU?
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Well, there’s not much happening. The courses for the semester are winding down. We’re going to be gearing up early. for the summer courses, but there’s a new exciting program that will be happening. Watch for it within a week or two. It’s nine modules of Detox America. We’re going to teach people how to speak to seats of power locally. You know, the glyphosate debacle where there seems to be a move towards liability-free pesticides, liability-free herbicides. So what’s on your food, if it gives you cancer, you can’t sue for it. If it causes other health problems, you can’t sue for it. The same thing they did with vaccines. That’s a bit of a nightmare. So my take on it, my immediate reaction was, if they’re going to keep the vaccines toxic and leave dimerisol in and aluminum, we have to clean everything else up. Well, that’s the same argument. If they’re not going to clean up our food, not everybody can eat clean food, then we’re going to have to regulate it locally. We’re going to have to make sure that the toxins in our home are taken care of, the toxins in our schools and on the playgrounds, that the toxicants that we have to interact with in the workplace and make the rest of our lives so clean so that the total toxic burden that we have to deal with is reduced to reduce risks of bad health from other things. Hopefully this won’t happen, but it looks like the Trump administration is very, very supportive of the industry. They’re dancing around with the idea that maybe there should be some liability-free aspects to pesticides and herbicides. This is a grassroots effort, and we’ll be training people not just how to speak to seats of power like your school board and city hall, your state health department, the water company, whoever regulates the degree of toxicants that you’re exposed to in the air and water and food. To whatever degree you can control the ambient exposure and your air quality, it’s time now that we’ve been reminded that if you want to clean town, you have to clean it up yourself. Don’t look to the federal government to do it. So we’re not going to just teach people how to enlist the help of their fellow citizens who are also intoxicated by these environmental toxins. We’re going to teach you how to teach people how to teach people to do that. It’s going to explode. We’re going to have enough trainees trained within seven rounds of training to reach every zip code in the United States.
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And is the information available on that yet?
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Yeah, yeah. If you go to ipac-edu.org and hit the registration page, you’ll see the Detox America program. It’s there right now. We’re soliciting gifts to the program to help support it. Your gift, of course, will be applied towards your registration to attend the first training session. My goal is to train about 80 people and have those 80 people train, you know, five to 10 people of their own and multiply that out. So pretty soon, you know, in a few weeks, we will have people that Detox America program module one will be being taught all over America. It’s very low cost once we release the program. It’s going to be a massive impact on the things that we do locally. The nice thing about it is we’re not writing legislation and promoting specific legislation. We’re saying if you have an idea how to reduce the amount of toxicants that your kid runs into on the playground, or maybe your issue is the water in the school, or the fact that buses are idling diesel gas while the kids come in and go out of school. I put an end to that across Pennsylvania myself. I helped write a bill. It was my brainchild in Pennsylvania. Whatever your issue is, we’re going to teach you how to do it and what the scope of the issues are. You can take a chunk out of the toxicants in our environment. You are massively powerful in the way that you can approach this. You just have to be taught Many people just have to be taught how to engage and participate in your own government. That’s the important thing. In a republic like ours that have democratic processes, your voice matters when you decide it matters.
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Okay, and the information to sign up will be at ipac-edu.org?
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Yes, ma’am.
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Okay, let’s move over to the next thing that I wanted to ask you about. This was a piece that you had recently published, and this was regarding a piece. It’s titled Grossman’s Folly, How a Policy Analyst Mistook a Science Fight for a Political Fairy Tale.
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Yeah, I mean, listen, so we have… discord among different parts of the government. It’s a part and parcel to what happens, right? So within the executive branch, there’s going to be differences of opinion, different agendas, and people have to come to some degree of consensus. So we don’t live in a dictatorship. The fact that Kennedy can, you know, make the decision to go forward on this or that program with certain, you know, freedoms and he’s got the response rights and responsibilities empowered by the U S Senate to do that is a pretty unique position among the cabinet members. You know, he doesn’t have to walk lockstep with the white house. Um, but what people are trying to do is they’re trying to say that there is nothing but discord between Trump and Kennedy, uh, over the question of, uh, in this case, um, vaccine, um, you know, applying appropriate evidentiary standards to vaccines. And really what that means is, you know, this Moderna shot, the latest Moderna shot that they want to bring forward and have approved and ultimately, you know, was approved, but with an eye on, you know, risk management, you know, risk stratification where maybe the vaccine would be preferred for people who are elderly and This was engaged in this fight to try to make a scientific question into a political one. And Steven Grossman on MedPage Today wrote the article, RFK Jr.’ ‘s anti-vaccine stance infiltrated FDA. Trump is reining it in. Well, first of all, the framing of this, that RFK has an anti-vaccine stance is ridiculous. He’s told the public his children are vaccinated. What he’s done and what’s… perpetuating throughout HHS under his leadership is the application of an appropriate evidentiary standard over efficacy, how well a vaccine works and safety, whether it has adverse events. This is all he’s doing. And the other side has gotten away with for decades of dismissing people who held that evidentiary standard that we really need to know the truth about efficacy and vaccination safety, safety vaccines. And by by by labeling them anti-vaccine. It happened to me. I doubt very much that I would be involved in public health as much as I was if I wasn’t so strongly attacked because I was a scientist when I first came out and said, hey, what’s going on with these childhood vaccines? Why are they not tested the way that they should be tested? And so, you know, we have a… a fight going on really over these evidentiary standards. And what the industry wants is they want to be able to do a study and they want to look at the immune reaction and say, we have antibodies because we have antibodies. That means that the vaccine works. But that’s not true. We know this from historical data for the flu vaccine. It fails even though you get antibodies. Moderna and Pfizer COVID vaccine, the vaccine fails even though you have antibodies. We see it over and over and over again. What we really need to do is put a fine-tooth comb on the data by AIDS group and say, how good is this vaccine at preventing transmission, preventing hospitalization, and preventing death? Those are the three points that we need, and those are called points on efficacy. If we don’t have data on efficacy, we really can’t approve the vaccine. That’s the position that Bobby wants the FDA to hold. There was a bit of a staring contest for a while between the FDA and Moderna. The FDA, through Vinay Prasad, was holding Moderna to the proper evidentiary standard. We’re not just going to look at antibodies for people over 65. We actually want real efficacy data. which Moderna had. They just didn’t bring it forward. And so through the staring contest, the FDA said, fine, send us new data on efficacy. And Moderna finally agreed. After telling the whole world and all the other vaccine manufacturers, it’s too difficult to work in the vaccine industry in the United States. We’re probably going to leave the market. I mean, this is, you know, they’re doing the scorched earth policy thing. making it seem like it’s impossible to do business in the United States. And then I wrote this article, you know, rebutting Grossman’s making this a political point and trying to turn a scientific question into a political point. Policy should derive from science, not the other way around.
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Absolutely, Dr. Jack. And again, that’s an important piece. You can find it at Substack at Popular Rationalism. We have these discussions because of our sponsors and for everything regarding mortgages. Talk to Lauren Levy.
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Yeah, well, listen, we all know that medical education needs to be overhauled. There’s many, many forms of medicine that are not taught in major medical institutions. There’s integrative medical care, there’s holistic medical care, and then one of the most important ones to us is nutrition. There’s about 30,000 people that are training in medicine at any given time in medical schools, and 75% of U.S. medical schools have no formal clinical nutrition coursework at all. And yet what you are, what you eat is such a well-known maxim. I personally had an experience where I was trying to get one of my sons to eat his vegetables. And the pediatrician, I thought, okay, well, listen, he’ll listen to the doctor. And so the doctor turns to Ben and says, are you taking your vitamins? And they said, yes, now, you know, he’s a young man now, but this was he was about four or five years old. You take any vitamins? OK, well, you’ll be just fine. And and he undermined my desire to get him to eat, you know, whole nutritious food. And like, OK, you wouldn’t do that if you understood the importance of nutrition and health. And eating a bland diet, it’s not a way to raise a good body, brain, and all the rest. So right now, the Make America Healthy Again campaign, Kennedy has commitments from 53 medical schools across 31 states to mandate at least 40 hours of nutrition education beginning in the fall of 2026. So this is happening. This is not a planned program. This is actually happening. And the focus will transition from treatment-oriented system of medicine to one that really focuses on disease prevention through diet and lifestyle. So this is an advocacy position by Secretary Kennedy. He’s very concerned over the poor dietary practices we have in the United States, as many are, particularly over consumption of ultra-processed foods, cheap junk food, carbs, and cheap junk sugar. These are the three combinations that are really deadly. You can debate about where you get your protein from, whether it’s plant-based or animal-based. It probably doesn’t matter that much. But if you eat you know, mostly protein and some vegetables, or if you eat mostly vegetables and, you know, make sure you have enough protein, but you skip cheap junk carbs and you skip cheap junk syrups and sugars, then you’re going to be better off. Well, this is not a difficult thing to learn for medical students. They can learn this. So they can talk to the parents about diet. They should have specific meetings with parents about food and lifestyle. But I think that the program needs to go further. We need to look at people who are chronically ill, who have metabolic disorder as a focus and say these are priority people where we have to do interventions. We have to look at them and we have to say, what can we do to encourage you to to to eat better and avoid the junk food? And, you know, competency here is very important. So they’ll have to pass an exam or take the courses. But to actually make it part of medical licensing and board certification, that would be the next necessary step to really make it stick. And then when we do randomized clinical trials, whatever population you’re studying, they just take a, you know, an assessment of what you’re doing. They don’t even look into whether you are… eating junk food or eating healthy. And so there’s heterogeneity among randomized clinical trials and sources of variation. So we should study the effects of lifestyle and food changes and updates on those, on the efficacy of drugs and so on. And then how do we incentivize nutritional counseling within primary and pediatric care practices? Will insurance cover these sessions? These are important next steps. that are necessary. And I just published an article on popular rationalism about this morning in time for today’s show. So people can go over to popular rationalism, popular rationalism at substack.com and they can find this new article just published. But there’s a whole list of updates that are needed. And when we understand how essential and important Picking clean food as much as possible, as much as would be allowed in your diet. Avoid food with pesticides and herbicides. Avoid food that has been sprayed with desiccants like glyphosate. And eat organic and grass-fed as much as possible. Organic pastures when it comes to eggs. Do this for yourself. It’s an investment in your health. It’s not just a cost. It’s an investment in you. And this way, the toxicity of food should be part of this training in medical schools as well. The people are getting chemicals. We don’t know how they interact with drugs. We don’t know how they interact with each other. But this is a huge reform. The integration of nutrition and medical education is a major first step towards transforming medical education. And boy, am I happy that Bobby’s in office right now.
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Well, the other thing is, that is great. But each of us as individuals, we have a responsibility to be proactive as we take care of ourselves as well. As always, Dr. Jack, I learned so much. We’ll talk again next month. And I thank you.
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Hey, thank you, Kim.
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This is kind of a soft launch right now. and so you can do all that by going to the website which is kimMonson.com and you can email me at kim at kimMonson.com text line 720-605-0647 thank you to all of you who support us we are an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity as we look at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something’s a good idea you should not have to force people to do it we focus on the issues and Work to stay out of the personality fighting. And remember that socialism is not about free stuff. That’s what’s used to coerce people to vote for socialism. As Maggie Thatcher says, eventually you run out of other people’s money. And then what happens? You have to go to force and control. And that is what we’re seeing. We’re seeing socialism slash communistic policies that are pushed in our nation and here in Colorado with this Colorado state. Many of the things of this Colorado state legislature. And so that goes into our word of the day, which is beclown. It’s B-E-C-L-O-W-N. It could be to make a fool of another or to make into a clown or clown around, make a fool of oneself. I would say that the Colorado State Legislature in proposing this Senate bill. 26-135, state public K-12 education funding is beclowning the people of Colorado because there is some sneaky stuff that is in this. The prime sponsors are Senator Jeff Bridges, Senator Kathy Kipp, Representative Jennifer Bacon, and Representative Megan Lukens. And I’d ask in hour number one if, in fact, Jeff Bridges was the son of… I always thought it was Rhett Bridges, but it’s Rhett Bridges. which is R-U-T-T. And Rhett Bridges, this is Wikipedia, but he was one of the gang of four with Pat Stryker and Jared Polis and Tim Gill that under the encouragement of Al Yates decided to work to take over Colorado. by Democrats, which they did. It’s now Colorado’s being controlled by radical activist Democrats. These Democrats are not the Democrats of your grandpa or your grandma or JFK. This is a radical activist agenda that wants to control every aspect of our lives. But Rutbridges, from Wikipedia, began his career with Chevron, then founded Advanced Geophysical in 1980. He achieved success with the software products of Micromax and Promax, both used for the processing of seismic data for the petroleum industry. In recognition of his business accomplishments, he was awarded the Enterprise Award in 1991 by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists. He’s also the chairman of Quest Capital. And he founded, in 1999, Bighorn Center to give Colorado’s political middle a credible and legitimate voice in the state’s increasingly polarized landscape and, more importantly, to get things done. And of course, that narrative, it’s very polarized down at the Statehouse. And I find it interesting that he started his career and made a lot of his money because of the hydrocarbons industry. And yet we’re seeing policies and his son, Jeff Bridges, is a leader down at the Colorado Statehouse that is really trying to shut down the hydrocarbon industry in Colorado. And so just connect that dot. That’s super interesting. And thank you to our listener to let me know that we could connect that dot But the bill of the day is Senate Bill 26135. Prime sponsors, Jeff Bridges, Senator and Kathy Kipp, and Representative Jennifer Bacon and Representative Megan Lukens. And this is the position that CUT has taken on this. And the bill will be heard tomorrow on Thursday. And you can sign up to testify either online or in person. I’m going to sign up to testify online. At Free State Colorado, Brandon Wark and Natalie Minton have a podcast regarding delving into this Senate Bill 135. And I think the link to sign up is included in that particular podcast to testify. And this is what cut my fellow Colorado Union Taxpayers Board members. This is our statement regarding Senate Bill 26135. This bill requires the Secretary of State to place a question on the November ballot, 2026, asking voters to approve the state retaining and spending more revenue for K-12 public education, specifically an amount equal to what exceeds the state’s spending limit, and to increase K-12 funding by up to 2% annually for 10 years. So that implies a sunset. There is not a sunset on this. What it means is after 10 years, instead of that money, that 2% have to go to education, the state legislature can spend it any way they want. But anything above that 2%, they can spend any way they want. And we continue with this. So this continues to fund the dismal performance of our schools. Based on 2024 data, the Common Sense Institute noted that over half of Colorado’s third graders are unable to read, write, or perform basic math at grade level. But we sure know that they can question whether or not they’re a boy or girl. Now that’s not in the cut thing, but I’m adding that in. But if the increased money available is not spent on education, the legislature can spend it any way it wishes. This legislation proposes this voter referendum for the purpose of bypassing TABOR, which is Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights, to pass those limits and allow the state to keep our TABOR refunds for money that the state has overcollected in taxes from us. And I’ll add this in forever. Also, we have done an excellent piece at the Kim Monson newsroom. Go to Kim Monson dot com. The title of it is Colorado Democrats refer Tabor cap overhaul to November ballot targeting two billion in taxpayer refunds. And that is the bill of the day. Our quote of the day is from George Washington, born in 1732, died in 1799, a founding father, our first president, commander of the Continental Army, and he presided over the Constitutional Convention. He’s known as the father of our nation. And this was a letter to John Jay in May of 1796. Washington said this, I am sure the mass of citizens in these United States mean well, and I firmly believe they will always act well whenever they can obtain a right understanding of matters. This goes directly to this Senate Bill 26135. First of all, and so many of the Democrats have come on as co-sponsors on this bill as well. But the fact that this is very, I would say, deceptive, that is not the relationship we are supposed to have with our elected representatives. There is supposed to be honesty between us in this relationship. That is not the case. And so we need to say no just on that, not only that it would take our Tabor refunds forever. So this is going to be a big thing from now until November. So get your brain around this issue, and we are here to help. And let me make sure I have everything that I wanted to say in this first segment. And these are important discussions. They happen because of our sponsors. 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Thanks, Kim. I’m pretty happy. We got about three inches of snow last night.
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You did? Oh, that’s awesome.
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I did. It is. It’s not blowing. It came wet. We need moisture back.
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We need moisture. We had a beautiful snow last Friday. I think it got about 8 to 10 inches. And, of course, it was gone within a few days. But continue to pray for moisture and acknowledge gratitude when we get it. So, Trent, first thing, I wanted to talk a little bit about Tina Peters. As many people know, she’s a former… Mesa County clerk and recorder. She is in prison in a maximum security prison because and she had not even had a parking ticket or a traffic ticket before this whole ordeal started. So first time offense and she was put into prison with hardened criminals and And we had done a petition right before Christmas to just get out of the politics and ask or really call upon Jared Polis, Governor Jared Polis, to show mercy and compassion and kindness and release her. I was hoping that would happen by Christmas. It hasn’t. But you may know this. There is a former president. state senator here in Colorado that recently was convicted of the same thing that Tina was convicted of, and that was trying to influence a public official. And Tina’s thrown in the slammer for nine years, and they wouldn’t even let her post bond for an appeal. But over here, this Senator Sonia Waukes Lewis is given community service and a $3,000 fine. And the governor had said that he felt that justice was not equal in these two cases. And then he gets all this pressure from both Republicans and Democrats to keep her in the slammer. So then he says, well, Lewis said that she was sorry and Peters has not shown any remorse. Well, then it was just noted by her attorney that she says that she does have remorse. And in fact, I’m going to see her attorney John Case this evening. But I know some people are looking at it as she’s capitulated. And the fact that she said, I’m remorseful, I think Polis needs to get her out of there now, Trent Luce.
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Nothing about this Tina Peter situation since she unveiled the fraud in the voting systems has made sense to me. Not one bit of it. There’s not one logical thing that has taken place.
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So she should be released.
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She should have never been put in prison, but she was. So it’s obviously about something other than what she allegedly did.
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Well, now that she has said that she is remorseful, I think that Polis has no choice but to release her.
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Do you want to bet a little Richie Calzone on that?
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No, I don’t really because… Well, let’s do. Let’s go ahead and make that bet. I know that I’m not making probably the great bet on it, but he should release her immediately. So we’ll make a bet on that, okay?
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, little Richie Scalzo. Okay, let’s move over here to a subject that we have missed talking about last week, and that is the Colorado River. And you’ve written a really excellent piece on this, Trent. So where do you want to begin on this?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, the Colorado River situation is dire, and something came to my mind since I wrote that this morning, actually, in my conversation with J.C. Cole on my rural route program as a civil engineer. But the dire situation is the amount of snowpack. And I don’t think that’s news to anybody. But I want to preface this by saying that right now we are fighting a proposed AI data center somewhere in the Northern Plains daily. There’s a new proposal daily. In fact, it came out last week that in the state of North Dakota, there is a plan to put an AI data center every six miles. And I told somebody, I said, you had to miss, somebody misspoke. You misunderstood that. I’m repeatedly getting told that, and I don’t understand it. And the logic is, well, there’s energy, which there is, but not at the level that these AI data centers take it. And there’s also northern plains temperatures where it’s cooler, because cooling is a major part of this. So that is the background. Colorado River, what is the snowpack? Somewhere around 50%. It is at a very historical low. We know that there’s going to be a tremendous number of people in this region that struggle with water. What got me onto this to begin with, Kim, is that I found a couple people that were starting to write about we have to reduce water use on the Colorado River and cows are the first place that we need to start. So there was a blatant attack on cows. So I looked at it, 70% of the Colorado River water is used for irrigation of food. And that’s what amazes me, Kim, is that we tend to think that if farmers are using it for their own best interest, well, farmers are trying to sustain a living while producing what people need. food to replenish the body and keep people going. And the reason they say that 57% is used for cows is because that’s what’s irrigating alfalfa and some hay land, mostly alfalfa. And for those that don’t know, we’re including Arizona in that because that’s in the Colorado River Basin. There’s a massive dairy herd in the state of Arizona. So a lot of that irrigated alfalfa would be feeding dairy cows in Arizona. And then I looked at in this very arid region of the United States where it is hot. Nobody’s going to tell you that it’s not hot. You have Phoenix and Las Vegas. And lo and behold, the two cities that lead the nation with Dallas being third for AI development. In fact, 40% of the current AI data center computing population takes place in what we will call the Colorado River Basin. So building something that requires a tremendous amount of energy and it requires a tremendous amount of water in a region that has never been a great place for water. Look at the, I mean, in my column, I referenced a 1922 article talking about the dire, that seems to be the word to describe this, the dire water situation on the Colorado River Basin. And now all of that, Kim, leads me up to, you know, there’s this predictive programming that says that the Hoover Dam is going to fail and that there is going to be a massive flood event because there will be a big wall of water that comes. But anybody that understands dams understands that dams are fairly secure unless they dry out. And then they get that wall of water with the saturation level very low. They’re more vulnerable. Colorado River Basin is at 31% lower in total water capacity. So there’s some stars lining up with the moon that don’t look really good. And it all stems from snowpack and what comes into the Colorado River.
SPEAKER 09 :
So we’ve had comments about the manipulation of weather and cloud seeding. it seems like if we really could cloud seed that we would cloud seed our way out of this drought. What’s your thoughts about that?
SPEAKER 06 :
I think that weather manipulation is actually what has prevented the snowpack that we need to be in the Colorado River Basin to begin with. I think that we’re at the hands of weather manipulation.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay, so then the question is, well, who’s manipulating the weather? And it seems like if you were manipulating a drought, that is manipulating suffering upon people.
SPEAKER 08 :
Correct.
SPEAKER 09 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 08 :
Okay. Well, who’s the who?
SPEAKER 06 :
I mean, there’s no big news in that. We have a repeated number of people around the world saying that we have to depopulate Earth at some level. And so many of the steps that we see being taken, particularly that take orders from the World Economic Forum, that they’re very slowly turning the pot of water up so that we, the frog, don’t know it’s boiling.
SPEAKER 09 :
Why do they say that we have to depopulate the earth? Basically, I think that it is animus towards human beings, yes?
SPEAKER 06 :
I believe that the reason for that, and I mean, I have no documentation, but I study this all the time. Why do people say, and it was Jane Goodall that first said that, by the way, who for those that may not know, she’s an animal rights activist, but went into the Congo and did a tremendous amount of research on chimpanzees. And then everybody else kind of started adapting it. I believe the reason they say that is because they know that Earth… is due for a normal weather cycle that will be very extreme. Catherine Austin Fitz, who probably a lot of people know and follow, has talked about the amount of money. I think it’s $27 trillion the U.S. government has spent on building underground military bases because they believe that there is a natural cycle earth event coming soon. That is going to be very catastrophic to mankind. And these people believe that if they can get rid of us, the peasants first, they’ll have a better chance of surviving. That’s what I believe.
SPEAKER 08 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 09 :
Goodness. It sounds kind of crazy until you look at what’s really going on out there, Trent.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 06 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Go ahead.
SPEAKER 06 :
Crazy five years ago that all of a sudden it’s like, Oh, you’re kidding me. That’s happening.
SPEAKER 09 :
I know. I know. So we got to keep shedding light on this. And we’ve got to also realize that human beings are, we want people to be able to thrive and flourish and prosper. And that’s possible. We can be good stewards of our earth and have everyday people thrive and flourish and prosper. And that’s what’s happened with the American idea. And that’s why the American idea is under such attack. And so we’ll continue the discussion with Trent Luce. And all this happens because of our sponsors and climate change. All these different discussions about climate change. And many times it is weather. And the climate does change. That is for sure. But if you need any help with your own personal climate to be warm in the winter or cool in the summer, reach out to Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. And I have that number right here in front of me, and I don’t know what I did with that, but it is on the website as well. And again, that’s Ben’s Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling. Great sponsors of the show.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And the text line is 720-605-0647. Excellent comments and questions coming in on the text line. And I do want to hear from you on all of that. Before we continue the discussion, the other nonprofit that I… Focus on on a regular basis on the show is the Center for American Values located in Pueblo. And they put together great educational programs based on honor, integrity and patriotism for K through 12 kids. And Drew Dix, Middlewater recipient and co-founder of the center, will be presenting on March 16th at 325 p.m. to students in tombstone arizona but yet it’ll be a webinar so talk to your kids your grandkids and sign up for this the subject is living valor and to you can go to americanvaluecenter.org to sign up for that and i would highly recommend that We’re talking with Trent Luce about the Colorado River. And they say that whiskey’s for drinking and water’s for fighting. And we’re getting into some pretty dire straits. And you mentioned this piece that you have written. Where can people find that piece, Trent Luce?
SPEAKER 06 :
On my Substack. Just go to Trent Luce on Substack. You can subscribe, a free subscription, and you can get updates every day.
SPEAKER 09 :
okay, and that’s LOOS, it’s spelled L-O-O-S, you bring up an interesting point regarding these data centers. And We don’t need all these data centers to help us write a paper or finish an email. I do understand that from a military standpoint, there’s probably things that need to be done, but we’re not doing any kind of military stuff at all where we’re putting all these data centers in. You said somebody has a goal of one every six miles. And it’s not to help us to be smarter necessarily. That can help. It can make us more effective. But I think that it’s really about surveillance, ultimately, Trent Luce. And we need to say no to that. But then you mentioned these people that are permitting them. without thinking of the consequences. And this would be our elected representatives and staff. So those politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties, as I affectionately call them, PBIs. So you’ve got your interested parties, your data centers, you’ve got your staff at your city or county, municipality, state that’s pushing it, and then the politicians that are carrying the water, or we’ll say carrying the lack of water for it, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 06 :
Yeah, that’s a great way to say that. I got a text this morning because we’re going to have an AI. By the way, you’ll be able to watch this. I’m going to stream it on my Facebook page, which I’m back on. They let me on last week. I don’t know why, Kim. After four years of being banned, all of a sudden my account went active again. In Madison, South Dakota, which is kind of the heart of where a lot of these are being proposed today, I forgot to mention, in the Colorado Rivershed, there are 24 hyperscale AI data centers, and the hyperscale data centers are typically the size of five football fields and three stories tall. And I’m told that the typical hyperscale data center has zero long-term employees. There’s a technician that oversees an area. And if there’s a problem, AI alerts them that there’s a problem, but they employ zero people in the local community. So the other part of the 24 hyperscale data centers in the Colorado River Basin and 379 smaller ones that currently exist. But I want to read this to you because one of the individuals who is going to be debating me next week in Madison, South Dakota on Tuesday about AI data centers, his business is installing, he’s pro, his business is installing what they call mini-cellulars, which are basically boosters between the main cell towers. They’re very good at speeding up. the speed on our phones to ensure that there are no gaps in between those cell towers. But they’re also needed in order to have surveillance systems, facial recognition, biometric recognition, and light and plate readers.
SPEAKER 02 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is where we’re at. This is what this AI data center thing is about. 100%, you nailed it. You went right there. Controlling people, knowing every single thought that you have before you have it. Not to mention where you’re at, what you’ve got going on, your facial recognition. This is complete control of the entire, not just the United States. Because as you know, every Monday through Friday across the pond, I have somebody from a different country. This AI data center thing is on fire in every country I talk to. So this is not about increasing the bandwidth so that we can have a more successful database search.
SPEAKER 09 :
And so we look at the resources, we look at the surveillance, and this is a real problem. As Jenny, one of our listeners, says is that we are setting ourselves up for this tyranny because we like convenience. And I think she’s got a really good point there, Trent Luth.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 06 :
That is the answer. I mean, that’s the reason that we get in this position is because We love convenience, and the cost of convenience is never evaluated by us individually. Take the credit card. The credit card is the best example. Right. Literally, you should not use a credit card every day, all day. And I go to gas stations. I stand behind people who buy a $2.80 coffee with a credit card. I, for the life of me, do not understand. And when they started rolling out credit cards to make transactions easy, we began giving up liberties and freedom.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yes, we did. And well, let’s go to another comment here on the text line. And this is, says, listening to Trent this morning, why have we not refilled our reservoirs when we have had years of abundant rainfall and snowpack. We would not be in as much of a jam this year if our reservoirs had been replenished when we had an abundance of moisture, which we did within some recent years. We have to ask ourselves why this was not done. Your thoughts on that, Trent?
SPEAKER 06 :
That is the best question ever. And let’s use California as an example, because my first real water war was when I went to California in about 2004. And I’m going to give you more of the story than you probably bargained for. But the Sacramento River runs through California. It’s responsible for a tremendous amount of irrigation to farm and crops. And California continues today, despite all of their attempted getting rid of all food production. They’re still number one in total food production, despite the challenges of government. And they have this little minnow. the Delta Shmelt, which is smaller than you. I mean, you could hold probably one of them or two of them in the pinky of your finger. They’re just very small. And in 2004, people were arguing about they’re giving more water to the Delta Shmelt to protect them and just taking the water from the Sacramento River out to the ocean. Why aren’t we feeding people? And we just thought they’re just stupid. They give more value to a Delta Shmelt than they do to feeding people. And I no longer think that a stupidity is calculated. In 2015, the California voters, by a ballot initiative, voted to take a certain amount of money And enhance and do exactly what your email or text said right there. Build a better reservoir system because California doesn’t have a shortage of water. They have a shortage of water at important times. The water needs to be captured and used in a reservoir. That’s why reservoirs started and worked. That’s why dams were created 100 years ago. Make the water available when needed. California Assembly, the voters voted to build this infrastructure. I think it was a $15 billion project. They never allocated the money to the project, despite the fact, and they spent that money, that the California voters said, we want to enhance our water resource reservoirs. And now you’re talking about the same exact thing here in Colorado. It’s not ignorance, Kim. It’s a blatant attempt at crippling the nation’s food supply. we import $59 billion more in agricultural products than we export. We should be a food exporting nation. Every year, we have the resources. We simply don’t have the will and determination to do it.
SPEAKER 09 :
So let’s connect to one other dot because, as you know, I watch transportation, freedom of mobility is under attack as well. And I really started to watch this issue when I was on city council when the proposal was made for the Southeast Light Rail Extension, which people don’t ride the train. Because they’re dirty and they’re dangerous, but they still run these empty trains up and down the corridor because Obama and the Obama administration had offered new start grants for these light rail programs. And and. And having light rail go to a property for a developer that had been considered a positive. So that’s why they got the southeast light rail extension put in. But I’ve been watching all of these trains. And so this was from Fox 11 Los Angeles last year, February 20th, 2025. At that time… California had spent $15.7 billion on that high-speed rail line, which I don’t think anybody’s probably going to use much. But that is the same amount approximately that the voters said that we’d like to have address water issues. But yet the PBIs in California did not address the issue. Water issues and allocate money, but they spent $15.7 billion and probably even more within the last year on a train that probably nobody’s going to ride. That’s an important dot to connect for people.
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100%.
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Most of what we’ve been told is simply a lie to keep people of a certain frame of mind and they want to control the narrative. And that’s why people who are independent thinkers are typically ridiculed.
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But that’s why you’re doing what you’re doing, and that’s why I’m doing what I am doing.
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SPEAKER 06 :
Mark Twain.
SPEAKER 1 :
Oh, Mark Twain.
SPEAKER 09 :
I was going to say John Wayne, but it’s Mark Twain, huh?
SPEAKER 06 :
No, it’s Mark Twain. I grew up seven miles from where Mark Twain lived and was born. And there are tons of Mark Twain quotes. And this one has to be right up there into what we’re talking about today. If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re misinformed. I remember that.
SPEAKER 09 :
So that’s why people need to check and be informed with people that are searching for truth and clarity on these issues. And I think we’ve got a byline, I think it is, for our new newsroom, and that is serious news for serious people. I think that we may be going with that one.
SPEAKER 06 :
Oh, excellent. So there is going to be a strike of the JBS workers at the Greeley plant next Monday. They’re posing it that the negotiations are stalling and there could possibly be a strike on Monday. And that will, if it happens, Kim, it will remove another 6,000 head of cattle from our daily harvest now just as a recap january tyson shut down a lexington nebraska plant and a thousand head out of an amarillo plant which means there was 6 000 removed from the daily market in january and now we’re posed to look at another 6 000 head and i find this very interesting because There is legitimate movement towards looking at the monopoly of the big four packers. There’s three in particular that are big, but the packers, nobody can argue. There is a monopoly. They have a monopoly. My question is, if we shut down the monopoly, what happens? Where do you go take your live animal to become product that people can consume? I think that’s a real issue. But as the rhetoric in Washington, D.C. really starts to rumble about investigating Packer monopolies, you hear of a shutdown of 6,000 head, and now we’re going to have another 6,000 head out of the market. We don’t know how long. That might last a week. It might last 10 weeks. It might last a year. You never know. What are the ramifications of 12,000 head a day not finding a home in the cattle market? They’re huge. Dancers are huge.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, yeah. Shortages and increased prices probably. But this means that cattle producers have their cattle that cannot be processed. I’d love to see small processors thrive and flourish. But there’s been pressure on them. Remember, what was that piece of legislation? Was it a ballot question that was proposed here in Colorado that would try to shut down meat processors? I can’t remember what the name of that was, but it didn’t go forward at this particular point in time. But I’d like to increase competition on a local level. What’s the possibilities of that?
SPEAKER 06 :
Not very good. And the reason for that is that every one of those, we work with five on a regular basis, small regional meat processors, and they are packed. I mean, there is no capacity left at that level. And as much as I agree with you that I want to restructure, you can’t do this in one or two years. This is a long-term effect because the size of plant that you’re talking about, and there’s tons of them all across Colorado. Colorado’s got a tremendous number of them. They will do, I’m going to pick a random number, a big one. A big one would do 50 head of cattle every other week. Okay? How many of those plants do you have to add to get to just 6,000 head a day? We’re talking about 6,000 head a day. So you’re talking about adding the equivalent of 100 every day to make up for not even 100. 100 wouldn’t do it to make up for 6,000 head a day. So the numbers just don’t add up. And it’s not like there’s an automatic shift that can take place because they’re all full. There are these plants right now, if you were to call them and say, I have a steer, I want to bring it to you to have it processed, they’ll say, okay, we got a slot for you April 7th, 2027. We have allowed that infrastructure to completely erode. And how did we allow it? I got friends that shut down that called me and said, Trent, we can’t take it anymore. This Department of Labor is making it so that we cannot afford to keep employees. It is labor driven. And at every turn, we continue to have people. I got a friend right now that sent me a note that he’s ready to start planting season. He relies on H2A workers, which are temporary agricultural workers. The U.S. government is not allowing them to come back into the country yet. Labor is the limiting factor.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. And government is increasing the cost of labor. This is in from one of our listeners. It says government is the biggest impediment to small processors. I think I told you this, but my maternal grandfather was a butcher and they processed meat. And I remember sawdust on the floor. It was a little grocery store. And So I love the individual processors on that. Let’s see. We have another question. How do poor companies have this monopoly? It sounds like maybe they said it sounds like it could be a cartel if they collude to fix prices. So how did it happen?
SPEAKER 06 :
They colluded to fix prices. In fact, within the past year, two of them paid a fine. for the government saying that they colluded to fix prices. And as a result, they changed nothing. They paid the fine and moved on. But it’s not new. I’ve got a friend who was a board member of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. one of the groups that represent cattlemen across this country. He joined the board in 1976. He said he would go to the meetings. And the number one topic at the meetings in 1976, how do we fix this monopoly in the meatpacking business? Even more interesting, Kim, I’ve been a very good student of the history of meatpacking in the United States. And in the 1880s, New York City, you can go to the meatpacking district today in New York City, although they have bars and shops and quaint little villages. But it used to literally be this phenomenal meatpacking district where there was a meatpacker in every building. In fact, in 1880s, there was over 80 different meatpackers in New York City and Manhattan. And you know what their number one complaint was in the 1880s? The big four have too much control. Oh, my gosh. I thought it was so fascinating that the same industry 160 years ago was still talking, I guess it was 140 years ago, still talking about the same very issue that we have today, only we’ve consolidated it so much that we don’t have 80 meatpackers left.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, that’s an important point. Trent, important information because food, water, energy, the people that feed and fuel us, their industries are under attack and we have to ask why. And we did. And so we’ve got to engage in these conversations so that we can… so that we can thrive and prosper and flourish as human beings. So Trent, as always, thank you. We’ll talk next week. And this is a great quote from George Washington to the Marquis de Lafayette, January 1789. He said, nothing but harmony, honesty, industry, and frugality are necessary to make a great and happy people. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you’re not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
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I don’t want no one to cry But tell them if I don’t
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