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Join Kim Monson as she navigates through today’s pressing issues, from the socialization of essential services to the use of altruism as a tool wielded by those seeking power. We dive deep into how the goodwill and charity of Americans are sometimes used to justify expansive government programs often riddled with fraud. Highlighting the stories that matter, Kim emphasizes the importance of understanding the difference between freedom and force in our modern world.
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We are an independent voice on an independent station, and we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to use force to implement it. And it’s never compassionate nor altruistic to take other people’s stuff, whether or not it’s their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhoods, or lives via force. And force can obviously be a weapon, but it can be unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, fees, taking money out of our pocket, government-induced inflation, taking money out of our pocket, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites. played out at the United Nations, but all the way down to municipal governments for sure. And on the show, we focus on the issues. We’ll mention the people behind those issues, but we really work to stay out of the personality fighting that happens certainly in sport. Well, it’s really in politics. And so let’s get to our word of the day. And the word is altruism. And it’s defined as a concern for the well-being, the life of others, independently of personal benefit or reciprocity. And it sounds like a great word, but what, and Brad Beck has really been one that’s It brought this word forward to me because it says the word altruism was popularized by the French philosopher Auguste Comte, and he lived 1798 to 1857. And he said it derived it from the Italian altrui, which in turn was derived from Latin altere, meaning other people. And what we’ve seen is the word altruism has been used to, I think, really use Americans’ goodwill to get to a point now where a government program is put in place, and then there can be an enormous amount of fraud. So taking our goodwill to try to help others, putting in government programs that then have the possibility of significant fraud. I had a conversation many, many years ago about a tax increase. And the person I was talking to said, well, I don’t mind my taxes being increased to help whatever. And I said, well, I’d actually prefer not to have my taxes increased and that we would help whatever the program was through our own charity. And the person looked at me like I was selfish, that I didn’t want to pay more in taxes and start another government program. And that’s how they have gotten us, I would say, to the point where we got to in Minnesota with the Somali fraud. And so that actually segues into one of the first headlines there. This is from CBS News. It says the Trump administration is halting $10 billion in social service funding in five states, and Colorado is one of those states. And it will freeze. $7 billion for temporary assistance for needy families program, nearly $2.4 billion for the Child Care Development Fund, and roughly $870 million for social service grants that it says largely benefit children. The states affected are Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois, and Colorado. All those states are blue states, and all those states, I think we will find out, have probably quite a bit of fraud in them. And I do know, I saw a friend of mine last night, and we were talking about, and we’ll talk about it with Susan Kochabar as well, because she was referencing a tweet where many of these social service NGOs, such as Lutheran Family Services, received millions and millions of dollars for refugee resettlement. And of course, we again, we are a country that’s built on refugees. But what in the great migration in the 1800s and early 1900s, people came here and they wanted to be American and wanted to learn the language and be American. And what has happened with these refugee resettlement programs over the last 20-plus years, 20, 25 years, is people have come here, and a perfect example is the Somali community in Minnesota, not to become Americans, but to bring their culture here. And so I think the Trump administration is right to find out about where this money has gone because I remember asking the question about these refugees. One of the first things that they would do, and again this was through government grants, government money, was bring refugees in and get them on public assistance. And I was concerned about it at the time and certainly learning about it over all these years. But I said, are we keeping track of how these people are doing when they have come to America? And the answer that came back to me from staff was after a certain period of time, no, we could not keep track of that. And so you can see how the goodwill of Americans has morphed into millions, maybe billions of dollars that have been taken from Americans, young people, families trying to keep it together. And so I think we’re at a really important time in our country. But that word altruism has been used against us, and so I use that as the word of the day. Let’s see. The next thing that I want to get to is our quote of the day. And I went to Dietrich Bonhoeffer because Susan had texted me yesterday, and we’re going to talk about it, when she had looked at this tweet of the fact that Lutheran… immigration was involved in receiving so much of this money. She said Dietrich Bonhoeffer is probably rolling over in his grave on this. Of course, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a Lutheran pastor who ended up being killed by Hitler. shortly before World War II ended. And so this is a quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. And he said this, “‘If I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can’t as a Christian simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver.'” And we are in a situation here as well as Christians is we can’t just stand on the sidelines and watch what’s happened, for example, in Colorado. The fact that we now can abort children up until the time of birth is unconscionable. The idea that we are mutilating our children by cutting off healthy body parts in this name of gender-affirming care or pharmaceutically hurting them. This is not okay. We as Christians cannot stand by and just let this happen. We must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver. And so that is one of the reasons why we do this show is to help you understand what the issues are out there and then take action on it because it is so, so important. Another headline, and this is just the hypocrisy of the radical activist left, which it’s socialism and communism. This is from the New York Post. And it says, the mom of Zoran Mondani, aide who says owning a home fuels white supremacy, has a $1.6 million house in Tennessee. Now, and I’m just going to guess on this scenario, is that this, the daughter who is now Mondani’s new local renter’s rights honcho, She is a professor at a prestigious college and owns a beautiful Nashville home worth $1.6 million. It says Celia Applegate, whose daughter Sia Weaver is the director of Mondami’s Office to Protect Tenants, teaches German studies at Vanderbilt University and owns a pricey classic craftsman home just south of the Main Strip in Nashville, Tennessee. says she bought this with her partner in July of 2012 for $814,000 and it’s now valued around $1.6 million. Says it has three bedrooms, two baths, and it’s 3,400 square feet. And says this revelation comes after Weaver’s post, a slew of inflammatory social media posts came to light, including comments raging against Mondani’s Democrat Socialist of America ally, dubbed a racist home ownership system in the country. And so this is the hypocrisy. And I would venture to say that the Sea Weaver probably went to a prestigious university and was further indoctrinated into, it really is communism now, what we’re seeing in New York City. And yet you see the hypocrisy that her mother owns a very expensive home. I think that if you are going to start with your narrative, again, air quotes of white supremacy, you might want to start right at home there. And so maybe that’s where they should have that conversation. And then another thing is, is there’s some planned power outages, planned power outages in Colorado last month during the wind events. Coloradans are responding to a state survey about it. I don’t think that you really need to do a state survey to say we need to make sure that we have reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant power sources. And of course, those come from naturally occurring hydrocarbons such as oil, natural gas, and coal, which Polis and Company have had a war on that industry for quite some time. 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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 do want to say thank you to the Harris family for their great gold sponsorship of the show as well. On the line with me is Mike Rolick. He is a very informed citizen, also with the Rosslyn Valley Coalition. But we’ve been watching, talking about this surveillance state. and actually how that matches up to our Fourth Amendment, where we should be secure in our persons. And this flock cameras safety system that many municipalities are using as license readers, it looks like it can be getting out of hand. And so Mike Rolick is informing us about it, and he said that there was some good news just recently. So Mike, welcome to the show.
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Kim, good morning. How’s it going?
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I’m doing well. So bring us up to speed. What’s happened in Virginia?
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Okay, so in Virginia, there was a pretty interesting situation. Staunton police chief got an unsolicited email from the CEO of Flock Safety. And I’m going to read some of this email string here. It’s pretty short, and it’s kind of illuminating. The title is, sorry, fact check, no hack. We will never stop fighting for you. It says, hi, Virginia Staunton Police Department team. I’m writing to you directly because I want there to be zero confusion about what’s happening. And in bold, Flock has never been hacked, ever. And I find that right there is very interesting because we went over that Senator Wyden letter. And also, you know, Senator Wyden had referred to Ben Jordan. And Ben Jordan literally has a YouTube video called We Hack Fox Safety Cameras in Under 30 Seconds. And so he’s been providing this information to anyone who would want to look at the vulnerabilities of systems as he found it. and to try to create better policy from there. So that’s an interesting first line. And then it goes, Flock is CJIS compliant. Flock does not share or resell your data, nor have we ever, which to me is interesting because if you look at the transparency portals, Staunton Police Department had about 50 different entities that can all share Staunton Police Department’s data. It also says, Flock adheres to the highest security standards, including ISO 2701. I don’t know if there’s any experts out there when it comes to 2701, but I do have a friend in the cybersecurity world. And when we had talked about 2701 and the reliance on that for Pano AI, He had written about 27701, which is a privacy information management system, which more directly addresses privacy regulations by building on 27001. So I find it interesting that both Pano, not Pano, but the people who are looking at Pano and Flock are talking about just 27001, 27701. talks about fully addressing personal data protection requirements. So that there, I know it’s in the weeds, but people will throw around compliant numbers and what have you, but we really need to get the experts on our side to look at what they actually mean. And he goes on and talks about FERPA and this cybersecurity. However, none of these things actually equal transparency. They might be great protocols, but they don’t mean that you and I could look at our own data coming through. And it says also here Flock is building tools to help you fight the real crime affecting communities across the country. And he says many activists don’t like that. I take particular offense at saying I don’t like them building a tool to fight real crime. And that’s an interesting turn of phrase there, too. I don’t think anyone in this audience wants real crime to persist. But what we want to do is strike that balance with what we perceive to be our Fourth Amendment right violations by using something that might be a little overbearing. So he’s missing the mark there. And then he says here, let’s call this what it is. Flock and the law enforcement agencies we partner with are under coordinated attack. I have emailed Arvada PD. I have used the open record system. And I’m trying to get a meeting with one of the Jeffco County commissioners to sit down and have a nice talk, maybe over coffee, maybe to see their side. I don’t see that as a coordinated attack. The folks that have been talking with a deflock. have a very, very clear procedure of how to meet someone for coffee, take 15 to 20 minutes, thank them for their time, and be professional. So I’m very shocked at this. Then he goes on, the attacks aren’t new. You’ve been dealing with this forever, and we’ve been dealing with this since our founding. The same activist groups who wanted to fund the police. Again, not me at all. Probably no one in this audience. Weaken public safety and normalize lawlessness.
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Now they’re producing YouTube videos with misleading headlines. They’re also trying to turn public record process into a weapon against you and against us. Public records are just what they are, public. We don’t turn them into weapons. What we are saying is, gosh, if you’re trying to do something, we’d like to see one that affects us as the public. That’s a right. Then he goes on, make no mistake, we’re fighting this fight for you, and I hope with you. I remain committed to building world-class technology to keep your communities safe, and in doing so in a transparent, secure, and privacy-centric way. So the transparency right there just doesn’t exist. And this is interesting because I would say this police chief is right on the mark. Yeah. He talks about, at first, the Virginia Code Section 2.25517, which is ALPR. Then he goes on and says, as far as your assertion that we are currently under attack, I do not believe that this is so. Good police chief. I have dedicated the last 41 years of my life to serving the citizens of the city of Staunton as a police officer, the last 22 years as police chief. What we are seeing here is a group of local citizens who are raising concerns that we could be potentially surveilling private citizens, residents, and visitors, and using the data for nefarious purposes. These citizens have been exercising their rights to receive answers from me, my staff, and city officials, to include our elected leaders. In short, it is democracy in action.
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Wow, good for him.
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Yeah. While we have been using Flock ALPR systems for just over a year now, we have found them to be useful in locating missing and unwanted persons, locating and recovering stolen vehicles, and helping develop suspects that were in the vicinity of reported crimes. I trust that we can count on Flock to continue and on and on. But apparently, within a few days after, Staunton puts this out. City to terminate contract with Flock Safety for license plate readers. They say the city of Staunton wants to make it clear that Flock Safety CEO’s narrative does not reflect city values. The Staunton Police Department reported that numerous successes using the technology. Unfortunately, the city does not agree with the assessment as detailed out by the CEO of Flock Safety. The Staunton Police Department remains fully committed to public safety through community-based policing investigative techniques that utilize best practices and other technology solutions. And They here say that they’re canceling their contract on December 19th. It says move forward to cancel the city’s contract with Flock Safety, ending the use of stationary automatic license plate readers that have been installed in the city. Earlier last week, Chief Williams received an unsolicited email from Flock Safety’s CEO that highlighted the safety data collected. The email also indicated that Flock and the law enforcement agencies they partner with are under coordinated attack. And then he goes on to say that that’s not how they feel. Just amazing. But this shows that if you do get in touch with your local elected representatives and police chief, and they do hear those words, and they see this kind of contradictory message from the CEO, and from what I understand, this message might have gone out to more than just Staunton Police Department. This email might have been sent out to more departments than we realized. But we have to get in touch with our local police and say, gosh, you know, is this what we’re looking for? Or is there a better way that doesn’t track us?
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So flock is pretty prevalent throughout the country now with all of these municipalities, yes or no?
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It seems to be that way, and D-Flock has a list of the latest success stories. I think they’re missing Staunton on here, and then the latest one was Charlottesville. But I think there’s 22 cities so far that we understand that have been canceling their contract. I don’t see anything yet in Colorado. Oh, the contract rejected in Denver, but then they doubled down, and they’re using the drones as first responder. So, yeah, which is a flock product as well. Not all drone first responders are flock product. I just want to be clear, but they are using the flock DFR. Yeah, no, it’s pretty interesting. There’s an interesting video where Garrett also goes on with a Forbes reporter, and his quote from this thing, it says, and then, unfortunately, this terroristic – organizations like D flock whose primary motivation is chaos. He literally said this to a reporter and we have the video and just transcribed it. They are closer to Antifa, than they are anything else. And obviously, the reporter at this point, he says, I’m not sure DFLOC would agree with the terrorist label. Now, let me just read from DFLOC’s website how to speak at city council meetings. Before the meeting, check the meeting schedule and agenda online. Sign up for public comment. Prepare a two- to three-minute statement. Bring a copy of your statement. During the meeting, arrive on time or early. State your name and connection to the city. Speak clearly and maintain eye contact. Stay respectful. And thanks city council for their time. And if you want to meet council privately, contact them through via phone or email. Suggest a meeting at a local coffee shop. Request just 15 or 20 minutes and mention that your constituent concerned about ALPR. I don’t think that sounds like Antifa at all. Well, it’s gross mischaracterization in my view.
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So I’m going to have to really ruminate on this, Mike, because when someone comes up with that kind of rhetoric, that is a big red flag to me. And so it’s important that we stay on top of this for sure. And, oh, gosh, there’s so much for each citizen to do right now to – to reclaim our liberties. And we certainly want safe communities, but we also do not want a surveillance state. And so you’re doing a great job on that. What’s your final thought on all this, Mike Rollick?
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Well, my final thought is one of the folks in Jeffco that I met on the DFLOC website, he actually built a new website, if I’m allowed to say it. Oh, sure. It is eyesoftolorado.org. And it’s fighting ALPR surveillance in Colorado. And I’m contributing some stuff to that regarding contracts and policy, just so people understand what the contracts say and what the policy says. And then the group there is trying to get people to go to city council meetings and county commissioner meetings. I obviously always speak professionally, always adhere to the rules of the order of the meetings. And just state your concerns. But that would be a good place that if people wanted to, they can check that out. Final thoughts for sure are, yes, there’s a lot of things. But it seems to me that two or three citizens at a meeting can make a huge difference. And we’re talking about, you know, cities like Urbana, 130,000 or so residents. It just takes two or three people to show up and discuss something during new business. And then it kind of ruminates in their minds as well. Because remember, you know, our city councils are also looking at the news and also probably getting emails, you know, from companies as well. So they’re kind of getting from all sides, but they do need to hear from us.
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Okay. And what is that website one more time?
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EyesOffColorado.org.
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Okay, perfect. Mike Rolick, thank you so much. We’ll talk with you next week. And I appreciate you really keeping us informed regarding our Fourth Amendment, which is so important. I think we’re taking it for granted in the guise of convenience and a variety of things. So thank you, Mike Rolick. I really do appreciate it. And these discussions happen because of our sponsors. And for everything residential real estate, reach out to Karen Levine.
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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 we’re getting into 2026, and it’s important that you think about your financial freedom. And Mint Financial Strategies can help you with that. They do a great job as far as keeping people informed, and they’re going to have a online meeting next Tuesday. And you can get more information about that by going to their website. That is Mint Financial Strategies. So be sure and check that out. And that’s mintfs.com. And on the line with us is Susan Kochevar. She is an entrepreneur and owner of 88 Drive-In Theater. And lots to talk about, Susan. Welcome to the show.
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thank you happy new year everybody i hold on to your seat i think it’s going to be a while going to get crazy.
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And crazy, I think, with so much going on. So first thing I wanted to mention at Wallah Bakery, there is a hearing today to see if they can keep those tiny homes on the property where they have the bakery. And Gammy had left me a message. She had gone through the papers on this in preparation of this. There’s 156 pages just regarding this little bakery. And which I think is just unconscionable, Susan. They should just very easily be able to say, give them a variance or whatever from a zoning standpoint. But the other thing that GAMI found out was that if you wanted to make comments at the hearing this morning at 9 o’clock, you had to sign up 24 hours ahead of time. I think this is another way of shutting down voices. Because a lot of people, how do we know about that hearing? Can’t we just show up and sign in? And I think this is another way that they’re shutting down voices. But I think there is still time to email them. And that email is awatson, A-W-A-T-S-O-N, at jeffco.us. So there’s just all these ways that they’re making it more difficult for citizens to redress our government, which that is in our Constitution that we should be able to do that, Susan.
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It is. Yeah, I think that they are shutting down voices. And the other thing that really bothers me, one of the things we’ve seen with social media is that you can research people. So if they have advance notice of who’s coming – then they maybe look those people up and see who they are. That’s a real possibility. And try to keep them from speaking in other ways. I just think advanced notice like that is really a bad idea.
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Also, even when I was on city council, they asked people to give their name and their address. I don’t think that people should have to give their address in a public meeting, Susan.
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No, I don’t think so either. I don’t think that, you know, they claim it’s, you know, to make sure there are, I guess, people in the city, right, addressing stuff that’s in the city, but it doesn’t matter. You should not have to do that. People show up there to speak. And I remember when I was addressing city council on some issues, we had to do that too in Commerce City, and it’s very uncomfortable because, you know, those things are recorded and people can now watch them streaming. You don’t know who’s watching.
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That’s an excellent point. So let’s move over here to the text message that you sent to me yesterday regarding all these different charities that have been receiving millions of dollars for refugee resettlement. And you said Dietrich Bonhoeffer is probably… turning over in his grave right now because of this. And again, he was a Lutheran pastor who ended up being killed by Hitler shortly before World War II ended because of the stands that Bonhoeffer took. And Bonhoeffer was also Part of, not the physical part, but part of the planning there had been an assassination attempt upon Hitler, and Bonhoeffer was part of that. And I remember back in the 70s and 80s, Bonhoeffer was held up as a real pacifist. But yet the quote that we had for today, he basically said, if I see a train that’s careening out of control, I need to do something about it. And so he did regarding Hitler. And Hitler then was so frustrated with him. They had captured Bonhoeffer, and he’d been in one of their prisoner of war camps. But they didn’t know quite which camp he was in. But Hitler was so adamant on… killing Bonhoeffer before the war ended, that they found him and they did kill him. And then I think he was buried, I think, in a mass grave, if I remember right. There’s a great book by Eric Metaxas on Bonhoeffer, Susan.
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Yes, it’s a very thick book. Yeah, Valkyrie. There’s a movie about it. Tom Cruise was… Was in that movie, I think. And I think there’s I think also Angel Studios did another movie about Bonhoeffer. And Angel Studios does a really good job in their production. So I highly recommend the stuff that they do. But, yeah, you know, you had what I was really thinking about is, you know, here’s Bonhoeffer going through Germany, watching the churches fall down. You know, one after the other, and they’re taking down their holy pictures and putting up pictures of Hitler and just all the stuff that went through there. And it’s eerily similar. And, you know, Bonhoeffer’s talking about grabbing the wheel because what he sees of the car. uh careening out of control because he sees uh what hitler is doing and he’s murdering all these people and he’s wrestling with what should be done about it and so i think his involvement in the assassination of hitler was his attempt to grab the wheel he that’s how he um reconciled that
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Absolutely. And so we can’t stand by while our country is careening out of controlling the text message that you sent over. And, of course, on social media, we always like to make sure that we know the sources on this. This was Wall Street apes, which I think has followed quite a bit. But he said that he was watching that Nick Shirley interview about the Somalians. imported by the Lutheran Church. So he started researching and said there’s been well over $100 million going to NGOs, and that was under the Barack Obama administration. So that’s what we’re basing this on.
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Yeah, so Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services, Church World Services, Episcopal Migration Ministries, Ethiopian Community Development, Hebrew Immigration Aid Society, International Rescue Committee, U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Migration and Refugee Services, World Relief Corporation. And, you know, there isn’t even any indication that these would actually be a true part of any of these churches. It’s just I think if you put that in the title, then they maybe don’t get scrutinized as much as they otherwise would.
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Well, I think what happened was back after, for example, World War II, when, for example, Jews that were coming to America, they had to have a sponsor. Or refugees, Christian refugees that were under attack, they had to have a sponsor. And many times, of course, back in the Great Migration, it might be a family member or a friend. and they would guarantee that these people coming in, that they would get jobs, and so an individual would perhaps guarantee rent, food for a couple of months, and then these people were on their own. They were called sponsors. So then churches… got involved in that, bringing people over. Well, and I think people would sponsor from the churches. Well, then it morphed into, well, why don’t we have a charity that actually does that, which then morphed into these NGOs that morphed into where we are right now. And so it’s a way that I think that our good hearts have been used against us. And these refugees that have been coming in over the last 20 plus years, or so they’ve not been assimilating them into the American idea. And that’s, we’re seeing that front and center then with the Somalis in Minnesota, Susan.
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Yes. And just watching the Somalis and some of the behavior I have seen online, it almost looks to me like they were recruited in their countries and, you know, told, well, you’re going to be taking over the United States and, uh, you know, all this, this is what you’ll do. And all these things will happen. So it just looks to me like there’s been some recruitment and training and, um,
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It’s very concerning. Well, and the problem is, is the American taxpayer. You know, young people that are saying, gosh, I’d like to be able to afford a home. Taxes and fees are taking so much of my income. And what we’re now seeing is that money is being taken away from the American middle class. And it’s been used really, I think, to… attempt to try to attack the United States. And so in a diabolical way, it’s pretty brilliant.
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Yeah, it’s a way of taking over, overthrowing the government. And they got these people in, and they funneled a bunch of money to them. And in return, those people, I think the Somalis then were paying what you would call kickbacks. They were giving money to politicians, back to politicians. There’s some indication that perhaps Mike Johnson was receiving money. some of this money. So that is yet to be proven. So, you know, I’m sure people will be looking into that, which might explain why he’s not done the things that people would like him to do, you know, in the filibuster and codify Trump’s executive orders and then also the other thing that they these people have done is they were i was reading an article today where they suspect they’ve been going when they move into an area the somalis uh they go block by block and collect all of the excuse me ballots uh after these people have been told to vote for whatever candidate and of course we have ilhan omar perhaps that way and so you know how many other people are they you know Voting for like that. Keith Ellison might be another one. He’s the attorney general in Minnesota. And now we’re finding they’ve used that blueprint and, you know, Ohio and Colorado and all these other especially blue states. I’m sure it’s going on to a certain extent in some of the red states. We have a problem and this has to be stopped.
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It has, and there’s been articles out here saying that Ilan Omar’s net worth has increased anywhere between $6 million to $30 million in 2024. Now, it seems like they have to report those filings, so it seems like they should be able to get the right answer on that. but it’s gone up significantly for sure. And so that makes us, you have to question that. We’re going to continue the discussion with Susan Kochavar. She is an entrepreneur and owner of 88 Drive-In Theater. These discussions are so important, and they happen because of our great sponsors like Susan. For Everything Mortgages, you’ll want to talk to Lauren Levy.
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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, you know, the two nonprofits that I highlight on a regular basis are the USMC Memorial Foundation. And I got to know Paula Sarles, the president, because of all the work that we do with America’s Veterans Stories. And the work that she and her team are doing to remember and honor those that have given their lives, have been willing to give their lives, is so important. You can support them and find out what the great plans are for the memorial by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And then also the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo. and they do several things. One of those is highlighting our Medal of Honor recipients with their beautiful portraits of valor, and these are men who took action when the dangerous situation presented itself, and we can take inspiration from all of them because we are at a time where we’re in this ideological battle of ideas, and we have to take action, get our brain around these issues and take action, and we can take a lot of of heart and inspiration from the Center for American Values. So the website for the memorial is usmcmemorialfoundation.org, and the Center for American Values is americanvaluescenter.org. Susan Kochavar is on the line. She’s a great sponsor of the show. She’s an entrepreneur and owner of 88 Drive-In Theater. She’s very well-read and really is up to speed on many of the issues that are occurring out there. So, Susan, I wanted to get your… perspective on this capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife. It’s pretty remarkable as we look at this and that no American lives were lost. It’s amazing to me, Susan Kochavar.
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It is, and it’s being reported that the only lives that were lost were his Cuban security, which is a very And he seems, when you watch him in the videos, he seems, Maduro seems rather relieved and unbothered. And there is quite a bit of speculation that he wanted out of Venezuela. So that could be. Okay. It’s important to go in there and take care of that, I think, because for one thing, that is where the software came from to overthrow elections. And, you know, Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic and the rest of them use that software that is being shown to be useful. corruptible and, you know, flippable. And I think going forward, we’re going to hear a lot more about that. And that, of course, is what Tina Peters was trying to present in her defense. But that information was not allowed at all in her trial. So unfair trial. And my hope is all this works to free her.
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Okay. So, yes, stay tuned. It’s going to be quite a year for sure. Let’s move over to your business, and that is Warner is rejecting Paramount’s bid again. So bring us up to speed on all that.
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Yeah. it’s really tough because I hate to see all of this consolidation, uh, in the movie studios because there’s less product to be able to offer consumers. And it’s just harder for the theaters, you know, just fewer choices and quality goes down, price goes up, you know, when there’s not choice and competition. And, uh, we know that, um, uh, a while back, Disney absorbed, uh, what was that studio? Um, absorb another studio and Fox 20th Century Fox and now we cannot get to any of the uh the product that was in Fox’s uh 20th Century Fox’s library uh Disney keeps that stuff very close to the vest as they keep their own product close to the vest like that so you know unless Disney releases one of their older pictures the theaters can’t pick it up so you can’t just book any of that And I’m afraid that will happen with Warner Brothers at all. I think they have the largest library of old films. So everyone’s very worried about that. And the other issue is if Netflix winds up taking over Warner Brothers, will more of that stuff go to streaming instead of be released in the theaters? Also, they tend to shorten the release windows, which means the theater can only show the movie for two or three weeks before they start streaming it. And when you’re trying to show a movie in a theater and it’s streamed at home, that really cuts into your business. So there’s a lot of concerns there, and it won’t be good for theaters or consumers. There are a group of people who think that people will only want to stay home and watch movies. So, you know, we don’t really need theaters anymore. They, they see it as a huge expense for the studios. And I think that that’s wrong. I think people always want to get out of their house and go to the theater, go, you know, take your dates and work as historically theaters have been fairly inexpensive, although with increasing utility rates and other issues, not so much, but, um, It’s really frustrating.
SPEAKER 18 :
It is really frustrating. And as you’re talking about this, what happens with consolidation, and I even see it when I’m looking for news articles or have been looking for… We’ve thought that the Internet would give us all of these different options. But I think that there certainly is editing on what pops up and the information that comes to us. So the idea that we would have some of these beautiful old movies that we might not really have access to anymore. And then some of this new product that’s come out, and I don’t really have time to watch a lot of movies, but a lot of the new product that I hear about isn’t that great. The quality’s not that great. And in a way, it’s kind of like dumbing down our choices, I think, Susan.
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Yeah, it’s really bad. And, you know, some of the Obama administration… I think it was Susan Rice, wasn’t it? Got on the board of Netflix. And then the Obamas have been producing things for Netflix. And you’ll remember probably that Michelle Obama, when she was campaigning for Barack Obama, said something about erasing our customs and traditions. Well, if you get rid of all those old movies, that’s one way of getting rid of customs and traditions, that sort of history, because those are all contained in those old movies. They’re a lot of fun to watch now. So that is… it’s extremely concerning. I really, uh, hope that Netflix does not wind up taking over Warner brothers and it’ll be at least a year or more before that all gets, uh, worked out because of course the justice department will look into it. And, um, I, I hope that they either wind up remaining under their own, uh, roof or, uh, Paramount or somebody else takes them over in probably the feeling of most of the industry. I know that Cinema United, which used to be National Association of Theater Owners, they changed their name, has come out against the Netflix takeover as well.
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Okay, yes, and that would be a way, if you lock up all those old movies, that that is another way of, as you say, erasing our history. I hadn’t really thought about that, Susan, but that’s really important. We’ve got about a minute left. What’s your final thought you’d like to leave with our listeners?
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Final thought yesterday, Trump was at the Trump-Kennedy Center talking to the House Republicans, telling those folks they better get on board, start codifying his executive orders, because if they don’t get on board and they don’t start passing stuff, they won’t win. And if we lose the midterms, we lose everything. I know a lot of people don’t like a lot of the things that the House Republicans are doing, but if we lose the House… We’re done. Don’t impeach Trump. Nothing will get passed.
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And so I hope they listen to him. Well, right. And we need to keep the House and the Senate. That is for sure. So, Susan Kochavar, always interesting conversations. I greatly appreciate it. We’ll talk with you next month and have a great day. Thanks, you too. And our quote for the end of the show is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He says, not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you’re not alone. God bless you. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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High through the mountains climbing I don’t want no one to cry but tell them if I
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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And I’m just ruminating on something that Susan said, and Gammy texted me regarding, and this was in hour number one, Susan Kochavar is an entrepreneur and owner of 88 Drive-In Theater, and talking about this Paramount Pictures bid to try to buy Warner Brothers, and the consolidation of our… library of movies and GAMI made a really good point that this would have total control of movies and documentaries and then if they locked those down in a way To me, it’s like when during the Biden administration where they were taking down statues, taking down our history so that we couldn’t talk about our history and locking up those movie and documentary libraries. is really of great concern to me because it’s, as Gammy said in this text, it helps rewrite and mask history. And so we really need to pay attention to what is happening out there. And gosh, the quality of some of the television programs which I don’t watch but what I’ve heard is not that great these days and so in a way this would just be dumbing us down and controlling what we’re seeing and so it’s important that we continue to shed light on all this and as we know we look at these issues through this lens we want to search for truth and clarity and look at these through the lens of freedom versus force force versus freedom if something’s a good idea you should not have to force people to do it And centralization, we really need to be pushing back against the centralization of all of this, whether or not it’s surveillance, our movie libraries, just centralization. And our founders knew that. And, of course, centralizing everything is really important. That comes down to communism, where everything is controlled by a central few. And so we are at such a time in history. Text me if you have some comments, 720-605-0647, 720-605-0647. And I did want to re-mention Mint Financial Strategies. Jody Hinze and her team are doing great work over there, and they’re going to be having a Zoom meeting next Tuesday evening at 5 p.m., And you can give them a call, 303-285-3080, if you’d like to get to a point where you can have an invitation to that, because I think it’s going to be really informative looking into 2026. And certainly it’s so important to work with a great professional for your financial freedom and financial strategies is that group. So give them a call, 303-285-3080. And our word of the day is altruism. And it’s being held up to push government programs to help others. And we are seeing that many of these government programs are rife with fraud. But altruism is concern for the well-being, the life of others. And certainly, I think that we… in America or have that concern, but it says independently of personal benefit or reciprocity. And we need to make sure that we are taking care of our own selves and our own local selves, our families, and then our local governments. And it’s not selfish to want to make sure that you are taking care of yourself and your families. And when you do that, then you are doing your part too. Other people don’t have to do that as well. So altruism has been, I think, used to denounce people trying to get ahead, the whole idea of capitalism, of trading value for value. And so that’s why I say at the beginning of the show, it’s not compassionate, it’s not altruistic to take other people’s stuff, their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, or child’s. or their lives via force. And altruism has been used to coerce people, I think, to think that it’s bad to thrive and flourish. And so that’s why I use the word altruism here. And again, when you look at the fact that American taxpayers have been bilked out of their own hard-earned dollars that’s gone to these NGOs that have been… for example, in Minnesota, that are rife with fraud. And Holly texted me. I saw the headline that five states that the Trump administration is shutting off, halting billions of dollars in federal funding for social service programs in five states. Holly said that she thought it was across the board, but for sure in five states. And this is reported. I’ve got this. It’s on the MSN website. Let me see who their reference is. Oh, it’s CBS News. And those states are Minnesota, New York, California, Illinois, and Colorado. And so I love the fact that the Trump administration is taking action. They don’t just say that they’re going to do something. They are doing something now. I know when we talk with Trent, I know he has frustration that they say that they’re going to do something. And I think that in these bureaucracies, I think a lot of stuff is getting slow walked as well. But obviously he is taking action. And Susan said something also interesting about Maduro was his was being guarded by 32 Cubans. And that is the very curious thing. So was he being guarded or was he being a prisoner? I don’t know. But that is an interesting question. And so, again, this capture of Nicolas Maduro and his wife is remarkable by the American military. So our word of the day is altruism, and you should be able to use that in a sentence today. And then our quote of the day is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and he was a Lutheran pastor, and he was killed shortly before World War II ended. by Hitler. And this is Bonhoeffer’s quote. He said, if I sit next to a madman as he drives a car into a group of innocent bystanders, I can’t, as a Christian, simply wait for the catastrophe, then comfort the wounded and bury the dead. I must try to wrestle the steering wheel out of the hands of the driver. And that is what he did with others. He was part of the Valkyrie plot to assassinate Hitler. And of course, Bonhoeffer was then captured by Hitler and then ultimately killed by Hitler. But he says we have a responsibility. If we see something going on, we must take action. And that is so, so important. As you know, two of the nonprofits that I highlight on a regular basis is the USMC Memorial Foundation, which their website is usmcmemorialfoundation.org. It’s a great way to support them and say thank you to those that have given their lives, been willing to give their lives for our freedom. And the Center for American Values, they’re portraits of valor of our Medal of Honor recipients. These are men who took action when they saw danger around them, and we can take such great inspiration from them. And you can only see these portraits of valor. The only other place other than the Center for American Values located in Pueblo is at the Pentagon. And we can’t get into the Pentagon to see them. And so I would highly recommend that you make sure that that is on your bucket list to visit the Center for American Values and that website is AmericanValuesCenter.org. And then another great sponsor that I always mention is the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. And you need to know your insurance coverage. And many times an 800 number can’t give you that. It’s great to have an agent that you can trust. And give them a call, and they’ll go over your insurance coverage so that you know what you have. And they might be able to save you some money if you bundle your insurance coverage together with them. That number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor. The Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team is there.
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It’s January 7th. It just dawned on me.
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It is already January 7th, and you’re going to be out here soon, the National Western, and you’re here for the majority of the National Western, yes?
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Yes, but the reason that I paused when you brought to my realization that it’s January 7th, it was January 7th, 2001, the very first Loose Tails ever aired on the radio.
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2001. So it is 25 years. Well, congratulations.
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25 years today.
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That’s amazing. Congratulations, Trent Luce. Thank you. And you’ve been tireless in this. So let’s talk a little bit about that.
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I’m pretty tired, I think.
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I do. I get that. I get it. So walk us through this. So 25 years ago today, you had your first appearance. From Denver, Colorado. From Denver, Colorado. So walk us through this.
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What happened? Yeah. We were exhibiting bulls at the National Western, as you indicated, that kicks off this week. In fact, I believe today cattle are actually going into the barn, the new facility, which I’m anxious to see. But 25 years ago, Kelly and I had a set of Hereford bulls, actually, that we were partners with Joe Carey from Parmalee, South Dakota, because at that time we were living in South Dakota on the Rosebud Reservation. And I think back, you know, today, I literally do three TV shows and five radio shows every day. Plus, I get the honor of joining you every Wednesday. And I probably spend less time every day than I did that first week generating a five-minute radio show called Loose Tails. Because, you know, I didn’t understand what an MP3 was. Oh, Kim, this is how bad it was. So I had an owner of a radio station in Carrollton, Missouri, that I pitched him this idea of loose tails and talking about where and how food is produced and focusing on the domestic food supply as a means of national security. And Miles Carter was his name. He’s a generational owner of KMZU in Carrollton, Missouri. the tagline for the station is the farm so it’s the perfect place for me to kick off loose tails and i told him what i wanted to accomplish he said that sounds like a good idea we’ll give you a try and mp3s were starting to kind of come about and people were talking about mp3s i’m just a rancher i mean i don’t know anything about any of this and i talked to some radio guys and They said, you just need to get your computer and make some MP3s. I go, okay, whatever that is. But what I did do is I had an old-fashioned tape recorder, and I did an interview with somebody. And then I went to a pay phone, and I put that speaker up to the pay phone and fed it back to the radio station in Missouri. They recorded it, and they played it. And I did that for the first week. And I’ll never forget Miles calling me and saying, Trent, I think your content is really good and people like it. But if you can’t fix the quality, it won’t be on this radio station. So I did a crash course and got a computer and figured out what an MP3 was. And within a week, I was emailing my radio show to different radio stations. And the interesting thing about my timing, Kim, is if you’ll remember, that was just kind of like in the final years of Paul Harvey.
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And so I actually kind of structured this after the rest of the story because Paul Harvey did the news, which was 15 minutes, but then he would do like a short five-minute thing called the rest of the story. And at that time, radio stations all had a It was probably a $2,500 receiver in the station, and the Paul Harvey show was fed out of Chicago with a satellite. And so it was a very spendy deal in order to have a network of stations. I mean, it took a lot of money. But the fact that you could take an MP3, a small audio file, literally email it, This is how crazy this got to be. We were living in South Dakota, and I remember going to KWIR in winter, which still airs Loose Tails today, and talking to Scott Schramm, and I said, I’m emailing my radio show. Emailing? How can you email? And then we just read it. I’m like, no, no. I take an audio file, I attach it to an email, you get it, you download it, and then you can play it. Well, I’ll be darned. So here’s this rancher who had an idea of being a radio guy teaching radio stations how to use MP3s on air. That was quite a time, 25 years ago.
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Boy, thinking back about that, so I remember fax machines. I would look at them. I’m like, how do they do that? How does that work exactly? And I remember also cell phones. I was in Chicago at the airport. on an escalator and I had a new cell phone and it rang and it was somebody that wanted to know if it was their data to do carpool and I said it is because I’m not there, but I thought how does this work and Now we just take it everything for granted but Trent And Ginny always says that all this convenience is going to be our demise. And I think she’s right in a lot of ways because we’ve gotten so used to convenience and we just click the box to let different entities or apps or whatever have our… our data, and everything’s gotten so convenient. But I had Susan Kochevar on it in the first hour. She’s the owner of the 88 Drive-In Theater, and it’s historic. It’s been in the family. And we talked about this Paramount-Warner Brothers merger, and she said something that I hadn’t really thought about, and that is as these movie studios are merging and then they have, those old libraries of movies, they could lock those down. And Gamia texted me in a way that would be locking down our history. And I hadn’t really thought about it. So that’s why consolidation, even though it may be convenient, I think we really want to work towards decentralization. And of course, as you always say, local, we need to be showing up. But I hadn’t thought about that, about our movies and documentaries in that library. And I’m concerned about that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Strange how algorithms work because, and I’m talking about algorithms of people, not computers. This morning, you know, at 630 Central from 637, I do a show, a TV show with somebody from another country every day. And today is Teresa Platt from France. And I thought we would talk about water issues in California because she lived in California and the French farmers are always protesting and throwing manure around Paris, which they’re doing again. because of some new treaty that they’re supposed to be a part of, that they don’t trade deal, that they don’t want to be a part of. And just before we went on the air, Teresa mentioned that she actually was selling photographs. Kim, would you believe we spent an entire 25-minute segment talking about her picture-taking and how she goes to shows? And the reason that it became so intriguing to me is what you just said. We forget that In this world where everything is so digitized, everything is so artificially created, those pictures that you have taken are real. And they’re documenting your own personal history. And I think that 2026 is going to be the year where people are going to recognize, you know, I need to go dig out some of those old photos of our family and my parents and my grandparents and my brother and all these other things. And the landscapes, the photographs of the landscapes that we have. And we talk about MP3s. What about the evolution of a camera? Now everybody’s got a camera. But back in the day, it was a special deal. You had this new camera with the shutter speed and the light of sound and all those other things. And now they just whip the phone out of their pocket and take a picture. And it’s an incredible picture. But it’s not the technology anymore. It’s the genuine capturing of a mark in time of what you just said. You know, I was part of a movie. I made a movie and was in the movie, and it came out of, I think, 2021 maybe. We filmed it in 2019, and then COVID happened. And I learned some things about the real ownership of Hollywood and the amount of Chinese ownership in Hollywood is scaring even the people of Hollywood. It’s at over 80%. Wow.
SPEAKER 19 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 07 :
So anyway, to your point, I agree 100%. But it’s interesting that you were talking about that on the same day that I stumbled into that conversation with Teresa Platt from France. And she had a beautiful picture of some sheep grazing that she took right outside of her house, right there where she lives in rural France.
SPEAKER 18 :
And it is interesting because that wasn’t really what Susan and I had on the agenda that we were going to talk about, but I’d seen the headline regarding that merger, and I thought, oh, Susan’s the perfect person to talk about this. But we need to remember. We need to be able to remember. Right. I mentioned it earlier, but that’s why this great work of these two nonprofits I highlight, the USMC Memorial Foundation and the Center for American Values, is they teach us to remember and to tell these stories. And I’ve said to Drew, and I’ve said this, and I… I must take action on this, but Drew Dix, who’s one of the co-founders of the center, is that if we had every student in Colorado every year take one of those Medal of Honor recipients and study their portraits, their quotes, but also their lives. I think that that would do a lot for us to start to reclaim our education system and start to reclaim Colorado and reclaim our country. And I based that on when I was 2016 when I went on that trip to Normandy with a group with 40-day veterans. We went to schools and the veterans made presentations. And in fact, we went into one gymnasium in France, in Normandy, and there was a huge picture of Thomas Jefferson on the wall of the gymnasium. But these kids knew the stories of our soldiers. Many of them, they would take a soldier that’s buried in one of the cemeteries there, and they would research them and learn about their lives, and they keep those stories alive. And so we’ve got to really go to work on making sure we’re keeping our history alive, because there are those that are trying to make us forget it, I think, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and to me, the moral of your story is when you take Colorado back, we all want it to happen like a silver bullet. It’s not going to be a silver bullet. It’s going to be one hard effort day after another.
SPEAKER 18 :
It is. But I think that this is going to be a very exciting year. And I think that we are working diligently at the Kim Monson Show to reclaim the Colorado that we love. And so we’re going to continue the discussion with Trent Luce. He is a sixth-generation rancher from Nebraska, and this is his 25th anniversary of his inaugural ranch. broadcast, which that is so exciting. And that’s a monumental feat. That is a big deal. So congratulations on that. We have these important discussions because of our sponsors. And the Second Syndicate is doing great work in working to inform us, bring disparate voices together to protect our Second Amendment rights.
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SPEAKER 18 :
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. Trent Luce is on the line. This is his 25th anniversary of his first broadcast, which is really, really exciting. Congratulations on that. Trent, something that we have been watching out here, and I think that you are aware of it, is Efoila Bakery, French Bakery on Lookout Mountain. They have two tiny homes that are right there so that they can get up early and have things baked for their 7 a.m. opening. And today the Board of Adjustments is having a hearing at 9 a.m. to… See if they can make that adjustment so that they can continue to have their business. And if people want to go out there, it starts at 9 a.m. out at the Jefferson County Taj Mahal in Room 1. But you can also send an email to awatson at jeffco.us. And I would recommend that you do that to say that… make the adjustments so that they can stay open. And so that’s a big deal, is this is using zoning to really prevent people from thriving and flourishing as an entrepreneur, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 07 :
That in itself is such an interesting thing. We see zoning work in both ways. And I spend, it seems like half my time, and this is all about land use, half my time promoting that we need zoning to keep different projects out obviously talk about when solar data centers co2 pipelines and then you hear about a family like this that’s trying to you know find a way to provide something that people want and need and zoning is preventing them from doing that and what it comes back to far too often is that the family small business is struggling and When the big corporations come in, throw money around, give money to the fire department, say they’re going to do this for the schools, and boom, they get fast-tracked through. Zoning becomes this tool to control who’s doing what instead of saying, okay, here’s a set of requirements. You meet with me, we can do it. It’s just so conflicting right now.
SPEAKER 18 :
It is really conflicting. And these master plans that these communities are putting together, who says that this land should be used for this and this for that? And if you want to live in a planned community, That’s one thing. But having cities and counties plan everything, that’s a different thing. Next thing, I need to make a clarification. Susan texted me. She said that the movie industry does not want Netflix to buy Warner Brothers movies. But yes, for Warner Brothers to buy Paramount. So I think I got that, Susan, if I didn’t get that right. But Netflix, as she mentioned, is the Obamas are very involved with Netflix. And again, if they had that complete library, they could lock Netflix could lock that down. Next thing, okay, so et voila, we covered that. I was looking at some of the things on your sub stack, and I thought this was interesting. You commented last week about the Nebraska State Fair and that they’ve been surviving on some government money that may be going away. The Nebraska State Fair has been a primo event. So explain to us what’s happening with that.
SPEAKER 07 :
So there’s a tremendous amount of history here, and I love the Nebraska State Fair. In fact, I’m very honored to be the beef kettle announcer for 12 years after it moved from Lincoln, Nebraska, where it was for what must have been 100 years, and 2009 moved to Grand Island, Nebraska, which was a big deal. But what I didn’t really zero in on and what I focused on in that particular situation that you mentioned is is that there was $40 million of taxpayer money that was set aside to make this relocation happen in 2009. And then still today, the Nebraska lottery money, there’s a percentage that goes to the four entities get money from the Nebraska lottery each year. And 40% of the operating budget for the Nebraska State Fair today comes from that lottery money, which is basically they’re lobbying to continue to get the lottery money from the legislative body. And my point was only this. Really, I started digging into it because Minnesota. Minnesota is getting so much attention today with the daycares and the Somalians and the illegal activity that’s occurring. But I know for a fact, as well as you do, that this same type of Minnesota thing is happening. in every state in the nation and something that just come to my mind because there’s mismanagement there’s even been embezzlement which people have been convicted of in the past of nebraska state fair that we need to get fixed there’s no reason the state fair with the sponsorship what they charge for sponsorships what they charge for people to attend that it can’t be self-sustaining we cannot continue to have all of these entities
SPEAKER 18 :
reliant upon government dollars from small business to farms to wind generation to the airline industry we’ve got to wean ourselves off of the taxpayers dime i think this is going to be a real inflection point on this trend as we are seeing the millions and they’re even using the billions of dollars that have been taken from the american people that’s going to this fraud. And they said that they were helping children, school meals for children, which we don’t want our children to go hungry, that’s for sure. And then daycare for kids. And I think that this is going to be a conversation that we’re going to have about the proper role of government, because this money has been taken from our young people, middle-class Americans, families that are trying to keep it together. And I think people are going to say, wait a minute, this is not okay. So I think this is a historical time right now for sure on this.
SPEAKER 07 :
But we must make it happen. It’s not going to just happen. And that’s why I started digging in Nebraska. That’s my home state. I want to know what’s going on. And all of us have to accept that. I mean, the Constitution is given to us, but it’s basically… told to us that if you are not a dutiful citizen, government will run away with this, and we have to be that dutiful citizen to hold them in check.
SPEAKER 18 :
We absolutely do. And the other thing, though, we’re seeing, Trent, out here in Colorado, is they’re making it more difficult for us to be involved. So, for example, GAMI had texted me regarding at WALA’s hearing today, if you wanted to testify or make comments in person, you had to sign up 24 hours ahead of time. I think that that’s a way of shutting down people’s voices. We didn’t How would you know that you needed to sign up 24 hours ahead of time for the Board of Adjustments? I think it’s shutting down people’s voices, and it’s unconstitutional to do so.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I’ll remind you that a year ago next week, I went to the Capitol, and I showed up at 1 o’clock for a joint meeting between the House and the Senate Environmental Committee. And I left at 4.30 because there was no chance I was going to get to speak. And that was clearly the design from the get-go. To minimize, not me personally, but to minimize the amount of input the people who are there who have concerns can share.
SPEAKER 18 :
Right, and that can be done by drawing out the presentations by, for example, when I went out to the Elbert County commissioners meeting on that transmission line by Excel, staff took close to an hour to present the project, then Excel had another hour. Well, the room is filled with farmers and ranchers and families that they need to get back and take care of their kids and their animals. And so they drew that out. So it was two hours before we even got to public comment. The commissioners did make sure that every voice was heard. And I really appreciate that. But to have the public have to sit there for two hours of presentations, it’s a strategy. And I saw that used when I was on city council as well, Trent.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, ironic we’re talking about this as well. It’s just a matter of the algorithms. Unspoken algorithms are hitting us. Today at 1 o’clock, I’ll be attending our own county commission meeting, and it’s not a scheduled meeting. It’s a public hearing. I haven’t checked on this in Colorado, but it’s happening in Nebraska left and right. We have counties who are gathering to and voting to increase commission, not commissioner salaries, to increase employees of the county salaries. And Cherry County was the first one I became aware of. They went up 18%. Hooker County last week, they went up by the same amount. And all of this is a direct result of the Nebraska Association of County Officials, which is the statewide organization representing the counties, has sent out a letter stating that your county is 20% lower than your neighboring counties in wages and salaries for your employees, you need to reevaluate this. Did you hear what I said? I did. How can every county be 20% less than your neighboring county?
SPEAKER 18 :
Right. And entrepreneurs don’t get an automatic 18% bump in their salaries. Boy, that’s super interesting.
SPEAKER 07 :
Entrepreneurs pay for the 18% bump in the salaries. And it just so happens that I spent a considerable amount of time last night. I know what every county makes, every county in the state and what their average employees make. get on a salary. And by the way, it’s higher than the median of the people who live in the county.
SPEAKER 18 :
The people that are paying that. Correct. So quickly before we go to break, what are you going to say today at that meeting?
SPEAKER 07 :
That I should take a turnip and say there is no blood left in this turnip.
SPEAKER 18 :
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SPEAKER 18 :
And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. And on the line with me is Trent Luce. Congratulations, 25 years in broadcasting. That is no small feat, Trent Luce.
SPEAKER 07 :
So there is a U.S. Farm Reports comes out of Washington, D.C. It’s a Farm Journal publication. They had a story about California water today. And the host is Tyne Morgan. And anybody who happens to watch that knows how articulate and how professional she is. And I watched her clip today because I wanted to talk about California water access for agriculture. And… Tyne is such an accomplished reporter, and I remember that I interviewed her when she was in high school.
SPEAKER 18 :
Oh, boy. Makes you feel a little older, doesn’t it?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, wiser. I choose to go with wiser. I’m not afraid of getting old, though. I like the thought of being old and wise and sitting in a rocking chair with kids around you.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, yeah. But right now we’ve got a lot to do, so we’ve got to stay focused on that. Did you want to segue over to California water because that’s important?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I want to segue to what you wanted to talk about because today is fairly significant. Every five years, Health and Human Services and the USDA form a joint committee to evaluate the dietary guidelines, and they are to be announced this year from what they’re calling the Make America Healthy Again movement. And Nina Teicholz, who’s a good friend, and she has unsettled science as her mantra because she wrote the book The Big Fat Surprise. She has got access to what this Health and Human Services report is going to say in terms of dietary guidelines. And while it looks like there are some significant advances and wins for us and human health, At the end of the day, it’s really no better than what was being promoted under the Biden administration. That’s extremely disappointing.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay, because one of our listeners, we’ve talked about meat, beef, pork, and how important and what a great protein source that is. It’s a dense energy food for us. He says, well, Kim, why don’t you talk about the benefits of dairy and eggs? And I thought, okay, that’s a good idea because I think that’s important as well. So That was what I wanted to ask you about. And I love cheese. And, of course, the French eat a lot of cheese. And I love cheese. So talk about cheese and milk and eggs.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, egg is probably the most nutrient-dense, affordable protein you can find. I mean, you just cannot pass up an egg. In fact, I found in the National Institutes of Health before 1900 a published study about how the yolk of an egg when in your gut actually identifies toxins and will neutralize them. That’s how long and why we’ve had eggs for breakfast is it’s the best way to get your metabolism going. All of the data says that the first, I mean, you’ve heard this from your mother, you’ve heard this from everybody, the first meal of the day is the most important meal you have. And that is because your body comes out of a dormant stage during night. You feed it protein and fat. Fat is your friend. When it comes to human health, we’ve demonized fat, and that’s the problem with this new dietary guideline that’s going to be released today, is that while they have changed the protein from 0.8, the minimum, from 0.8 to 1.1 to 1.25, which is a significant, wonderful increase, they did not change that you cannot have more than 10% saturated fat. There is no data that says – in fact, I found a – I didn’t find it. Nina referenced and talks about a 60,000 to 80,000 people worldwide that have been studied on the heart implications and the mortality of increased saturated fat, and there is none. We continue to tell people to limit fat consumption. It really goes back to the conversation you and I had last week. which was how did we make pigs fatter during World War II to get more lard? We fed them skim milk and corn. Corn for the carbohydrates and energy and skim milk for the same thing. Exactly what we are promoting for people to eat today. Less fat, skim milk, whole milk. Whole milk is 4% fat. That’s it. Whole milk is absolutely… will create more satisfied eating. You will have less cravings. All of those food items from the dairy and the egg categories are absolutely that way. They create satiety where you do not have cravings and you consume 18% fewer calories in the course of a day if you start your day with eggs and whole fat milk and you will be much healthier and have fewer side effects. And this dietary guideline misses the mark because it says you need to increase milk, meat, and eggs in your diet, but it doesn’t change the saturated fat, which means if you’re going to increase your protein, then you’re going to have to go to peas, beans, or lentils, which I actually don’t have a problem with them, but you’re missing out on the fat component, which is so important, particularly for brain health.
SPEAKER 18 :
So what is saturated fat?
SPEAKER 07 :
So you have saturated fats and monounsaturated fats. Monounsaturated fats have long been the darling, and everybody tried to say that that’s where your CLAs, your conjugated linoleic acid fats come from, and they’ve long been recognized as good fats. Well, we no longer have good fat, bad fat. Fat is vitally important. There are some wonderful studies, and I could find them for you because they’re kind of interesting. It’s been a while since I dug them up. If you look at some of the Inuits, the Canadian native people who ate whale blubber, that was their diet. Whale meat and whale blubber, which is whale fat. And they’re some of the healthiest people that ever lived. We have demonized fat. from animals dating back to when we started talking about margarine instead of butter. And butter’s on fire. Butter’s on fire. Beef tallow’s on fire. All of these things in the marketplace are really on fire, and the dietary guidelines don’t affect that. My biggest concern and why we care about the dietary guidelines is because the school systems are required to follow those if they’re going to be a part of the USDA program, and they all are, so that they get compensated for feeding kids. And we will continue to keep our kids on a path where they’re not mentally fed nutritionally right. Diet is about feeding the brain, and their brains are not going to be in a position of learning if we continue to starve them for fat.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. So what to do about it?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, they are only going to do this one every five years. But my suggestion, it’s been a long time, my suggestion is that you go to your local school and say you cannot continue to put these kids on this path of starvation and deprivation by not feeding them correctly. And it’s been in place a long time. Now, we’ll give kudos. USDA did make whole milk available. two kids, and we talked about this last week. And they did, when they made that recommendation, say that that 4%, if a kid chooses to drink whole milk, you don’t have to, but if you choose to, that 4% is excluded from the 10%. So from a whole milk standpoint, we got a victory. From across the board, in terms of eggs and meat, we did not. But they’re going to make it look like they did.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
That comes out today.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. And we only have a minute left. I’m trying to think. Is there special interests that are involved in this that’s got to be to affect this right?
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 07 :
If you look at the makeup of this committee, every year somebody does, like a watchdog group will do a conflict of interest committee. And 85% of the people who sit on these boards represent the cereal industry.
SPEAKER 18 :
Interesting. Okay. Well, Trent, we’ve got just a minute left. There’s so much I’m thinking about because of all of you guests today. 25 years in the broadcasting business. What’s your final thought today?
SPEAKER 07 :
Be gentle. Stay firm. It’s worked for me. It’s worked forever. It’ll work for you.
SPEAKER 18 :
Okay. And I think that’s being respectful, but staying on these issues. And that’s what we do here at the Kim Monson Show as well. Trent Luce, I congratulate you. This is just awesome. And we will look forward to talking with you next. Let’s see, next week is going to be the week you’re going to be in studio on Friday, the 16th, right? And then we’re going to Correct. That’s the plan. That’s the plan. So that’ll be next Friday the 16th. You’ll be in studio. And, of course, the National Western kicks off. Have a great day. Congratulations, Trent Luce, and we’ll see you next week.
SPEAKER 07 :
Thank you, Kim.
SPEAKER 18 :
And our quote for the end of the show is from Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He said this, not to speak is to speak, not to act is to act. So my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
SPEAKER 08 :
Through the mountains climbing, twisting, turning further from my home. Young like a new moon rising fierce. Through the rain and lightning. And I don’t want no one to cry. But tell them if I don’t survive.
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