In this episode of The Kim Munson Show, we delve into the complex world of politics and education in Colorado. Kim Monson discusses the pressing issues surrounding freedom versus force, and how these dynamics play out in local and state governments. Special attention is given to the policies of the Colorado state legislature and governor, examining the impact on individual freedoms and taxpayer rights.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed, let’s have a conversation. Welcome to the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You each are treasured, you’re valued, you have purpose. Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. And thank you to the team. That’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Friday, Producer Joe.
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Happy Friday, Kim.
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Happy Friday, and we’ve got another great show planned for you, so fasten your seatbelts. Let’s get right into it. First of all, I wanted to say thank you to the Harris family for their gold sponsorship of the show. We are an independent voice on an independent station. 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 force people to do it. And it’s not 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 be a weapon policy, unpredictable in excess of taxation, fear of compliance, fear, coercion, government induced inflation. The agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites has played out at the United Nations, but we’re seeing that trickle all the way down to local government. And that’s why we really need to be paying attention on what’s going on. But this Colorado state legislature and this Colorado governor, I know this governor tries to paint himself as a libertarian. But when you look at the policies, when you look at the legislation that’s passed, what is the power that’s given to bureaucracies, which are unelected and unaccountable people that are instituting rules and regulations, you can see that actually policies are in line with the radical activists left. And I always want to make this point. This Democrat Party is not the Democrat Party of your grandpa and your grandma or JFK. It has been taken over by radical activists. And that’s why when we’re talking with people, I really don’t like to talk about Republican versus Democrat. I want to talk more about these ideas. And we want to be electing candidates that believe in this, believe in the American idea. which Jefferson had in the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal. And Calvin Coolidge, our president, said that if all men are created equal, then that is final. That is the North Star that we want to get to, is that we are treated equally and partially under the law. that each individual has these rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. And that means owning property, that means the opportunity to own property. It also means that government should be small and within a proper role, not only at the federal level, but at the local levels as well, and that the individual should be in a position where they can pursue their happiness, go after their hopes and dreams. And that is really what makes America so unique. And so that’s where we need to come down on agreement. And one of our listeners, I’ve got to see if I found this on the text line. I meant to have that there, and I did not. But basically, I’ll try to find that. We want to talk about unity, right? But the unity has to come together in this idea that all men are created equal. If you don’t believe that all men are created equal, that’s a foundational principle that we will have a very difficult time unifying around if you don’t believe that. And so that’s why we need to have conversations to continue to talk about these foundational principles. And I think the big, broad middle of America will come together on this. Those that, I think there are those, the radical activists that have taken over the Democrat Party, as we can see, really are more about destruction and chaos. When you look at what’s happening in Portland right now, the ICE facility is under siege. And And you have to say why. And so we need to be engaging in these conversations with our friends and our family to come to unify around this idea of America. If somebody wants to destroy America, it’s going to be pretty difficult to come to any kind of unification with them. But I think that that is a small percentage, very loud, but we need to continue to address that. Our word of the day, let me get over here to this, and I’m reading Jonathan Turley’s book, The Indispensable Right, Freedom of Speech in an Age of Rage. And as he said, there’s been ages of rage before, but we do need to continue to engage in conversations about all this. And the other thing is, in this postmodernism and relativism, There are those that have come to believe that ideas are totally equal in the battle of ideas, and they’re not. There are some ideas that are bad ideas, and there are some ideas that are very good ideas. And I think that we need to have an understanding of that as well. And I think after the Charlie Kirk assassination incident, People are realizing that there is a difference in ideas and that there is evil. And so I’m very encouraged with the conversations that are going on. But I pulled this word from Jonathan Turley’s book. and it’s eskuchen, or eskuchen, and it’s E-S-C-U-T-C-H-E-O-N, and it’s a shield or shield-shaped emblem bearing a coat of arms, an ornamental or protective plate as for a keyhole, or the plate on the stern of a ship inscribed with the ship’s name. And so that is your challenge to use the word in a sentence today. Today is Friday. And that means that we are pulling our quote from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. And yesterday we had Drew Dixon, who is one of the co-founders of the center. And Just really informative about what the Center for American Values is working on doing through their educational programs, their On Values presentations, and the great work that they are doing. And I’d really recommend that you have the Medal of Honor quote book. uh on your library in your library at home and it’s a really a great christmas or hanukkah gift as well but this is a quote from sergeant from jose rodella united states army medal of honor he was born in 1937. And this is his citation. Sergeant First Class Jose Rodela distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty while serving as the company commander, Detachment B-36 Company A, 5th Special Forces Group Airborne, 1st Special Forces during combat operations against an armed enemy in Phuoc Long Province, Republic of Vietnam, on September 1, 1969. That afternoon, Sergeant First Class Rodella’s battalion came under an intense barrage of mortar, rocket, and machine gun fire. Ignoring the withering enemy fire, Sergeant First Class Rodella immediately began placing his men into defensive positions to prevent the enemy from overrunning the entire battalion. repeatedly exposing himself to enemy fire. Sergeant First Class Rodella moved from position to position, providing suppressing fire and assisting wounded, and was himself wounded in the back and head by a B-40 rocket while recovering a wounded comrade. Alone, Sergeant First Class Rodella assaulted and knocked out the B-40 rocket position before successfully returning to the battalion’s perimeter. Sergeant First Class Rodella’s extraordinary heroism and selflessness above and beyond the call of duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.” And this is what he said, service doesn’t come without sacrifice, but both are worth the freedom gained. And that is Jose Rodela, United States Army Medal of Honor recipient. And again, check out the Center for American Values. It is located in Pueblo on the Riverwalk. And take time to go down and visit the center. And just it’s a very reverent place with the over 160 Medal of Honor recipients portraits there with their quotes. And so highly recommend that you check that out and to support them as well. Another sponsor of the show that I highlight regularly is Hooters Restaurants. How I got to know them is a very important story about freedom and free markets and capitalism, and you can find that story at my website. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster, and on Parker Road in Aurora. Great specials Monday through Friday for lunch and for happy hour. In particular, I love the fish and chips, and they’re delicious. Nachos. There we go. Their nachos are super delicious as well. I think probably the big news right now in Colorado politics is all of the candidates that have announced that they are running for governor. And there is going to be a forum that is on the 18th of October. And it is doors open at five o’clock. The forum is from six to eight p.m. And I’m going to be moderating that. And it will have almost all of the governor candidates that will be running for governor on the GOP side. And so check that out. And I will try to get more information for you. And we’ll put that in the newsletter as we get closer to that as well. That’s why you want to make sure that you are signed up for our newsletter that goes out on Sundays. We normally only send one email each. a week unless there’s something just very special that we need to let you know. But do check that out at my website and get signed up for that. And I think that we’ll go ahead. We’ve got some candidates for Douglas County School Board. that are running and i can’t believe that ballots are going to go out next week i will be working on the voters guide this week so hopefully that’ll be very helpful there’s only two questions on the state ballot and that’s um propositions ll and propositions mm which ostensibly are healthy meals for school children which that sounds great but as you know we really delve into what it’s really all about and we will give you the information on that We have all these discussions because of our sponsors. And for everything regarding your insurance needs, reach out to the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance Team. They know that there are unknowns that can keep you up at night, and they can help you with life insurance and health insurance needs to replace lost income. So give them a call at 303-795-8855 for a complimentary appointment. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan Insurance Team is there.
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the klz website the klz app and alexa play klz shows can also be found at kimmonson.com spotify and itunes indeed it is friday and welcome back to the kim monson show be sure and check out our website that is kim monson mon son.com and sign up for our weekly email newsletter there while you’re at that that comes out on sundays election 20 the 2025 election is right around the corner And there’s a lot of questions regarding raising taxes, extending taxes, but also there’s some very important races for school board and city council. And pleased to have on the line with me two candidates for Douglas County School Board here in Colorado. That is Matt Smith and Keaton Gamble. Matt Smith, welcome to the show.
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Hi, Kim. Thanks for having us. Really appreciate it.
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Absolutely. And Keaton Gamble, welcome as well.
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I can’t thank you. Sorry, I won’t go under the weather today.
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Oh, well, thank you for making this happen. So we’ll go to you first, Matt. Tell us a little bit about yourself.
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Okay, perfect. Yeah, you know, pretty simple. I’m a dad, son of Castle Rock here in eighth grade. And quick background about me. I’m a military veteran, two times Navy and then Corps. Colorado Army National Guard. I also served as a deputy sheriff, and now I work in IT leading a global consulting practice and also volunteer for the Douglas County Search and Rescue Team.
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Okay. And Keaton, tell us a little bit about yourself.
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I grew up in Elizabeth, Colorado. I have three kids in the district. I have a daughter in kindergarten, a second grader, and a boy in eighth grade.
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And what kind of business are you in?
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I’m a senior supply chain manager at a tissue bank. So we donate to human tissue and make life-saving grafts.
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Okay. And it’s busy at your house with the kids in that age group, and that’s also kids bring home germs that adults are not used to. So I’m sorry that you’re under the weather, Keaton. So we’ll go to Matt. There are four of you that are running as a slate, correct?
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Yep, absolutely.
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So tell us just a little bit about that and what you think are the main issues that the Douglas County School District is facing.
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Okay, perfect. There’s 4 of us running. We’re all conservative parents running together with either kids currently in the district or kids recently in the district and our top 3 priorities are focusing on academic excellence right now. Douglas county is doing so well. Number 1 in the metro area. 92% graduation rate. Students are happy, teachers are happy, and things are going really well. And that is all thanks to conservative leadership, and we want to keep it that way. So we want to keep that momentum moving forward and make sure that we stay laser-focused on academics and achievement. Next, we want to be proactive here in Douglas County and make sure that we are protecting girls’ sports and their spaces, so keeping biological boys out of girls’ sports, their locker rooms and bathrooms, things that we’re seeing all over the country and here in Douglas County. We want to be very proactive about that and protecting our girls. And then third, we want to continue strengthening parental rights. We want to make sure parents know what’s going on in the classroom. Things are very easy to navigate for them and that they have the ability to opt their children into things and just know what’s going on in the classroom. That’s our top three priorities. And of course, there’s other things that we’re focused on, such as the financial well-being of the county, making sure that we’re being very studious with tax dollars and not raising tax dollars and things of that nature. So that’s really our top four there for you, Kim.
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Okay. And who are the four that is on this slate? And Keaton, since you’re a little under the weather, Matt, I’ll go to you.
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Okay, yeah. So you have Keaton Gamble, DeeDee Kramer, me, Matt Smith, and then Steve Bale. So Gamble, Kramer, Smith, and Bale.
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Okay, and what would you say, Keaton, what would you say that really sets you apart from your opponents in this election, Keaton?
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I would say it’s our transparency. We have been forthright about everything we believe in and stand for, and we are not hiding behind anything when it comes to forums about what we will stand for. For instance, on the collective bargaining agreement that the other slate has discussed with the Columbus County Federation, which is a part of the American Federation of Teachers. Which is the union.
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yeah the union they sidestepped the union that they are uh received a large donation from well and i think that that’s what we have seen keaton in our education system in our country is that the teachers unions have um have had um people that have gotten on the school boards that have had the union interest in mind in instead of the parents and the students. And we’re now seeing the results of that in many school districts where maybe only 30% of the kids are proficient in reading, writing, and arithmetic. And that is unacceptable. But you mentioned, I think that Douglas County is among the tops, at least in the metro area, for results. Correct, Matt Smith?
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Yep, yep, you got it. And, you know, to further tack on to your point that you just made, there’s actually a study out of California that looked at just that. They looked at, you know, specifically union members being part of a board, and they found that there’s no outcomes for students. It only ends up benefiting staff. And so I think that’s an important point, a differentiator for sure for us.
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Okay. And so, Keaton, you mentioned that the Teachers Union has put money into your opponents’ campaigns. Money is also important. Can people give to your slate, or how does that work if people want to support you? And the other thing, my friends, this is the time to contribute to candidates. You may say, oh, I’m going to wait until we get to election time, but now is the time that candidates need money. so that they can get yard signs out and continue to get the message out. So now is the critical time, Keaton Gamble. How can people give to you?
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Thank you very much. CommonSenseDCSD.com. Our slate is called Common Sense because that’s what we stand for, and DCSD is in DouglasCountySchoolDistrict.com. There’s a link for each candidate. If you do donate, if you can, if you could split it between the four of us, that helps with how we can spend it.
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Right. Matt Smith, can people vote for all four of you? Is it by district? What does that look like exactly?
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Yeah, I’m glad you brought this up because this is a common point of misunderstanding. Districts do not matter in this election. This is an unaffiliated election, and we are all running at large. So no matter where you live in Douglas County, you get to vote for four. So, you know, don’t even worry about districts. It doesn’t matter which district you’re in. Just vote for four on the ballot, and we hope that you’re voting for Gamble, Kramer, Smith, and Bale.
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Okay, and then the money component is you have to give to each of the four candidates because each of you, even though you’re running as a slate, you each have your own campaigns, correct, Keaton?
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Yes, and we have to spend equally to use the slate advertising that has all of our names on it. For convenience sake, if that’s too much hassle, it’s fine to just donate to one of us.
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Okay, but ideally it would be helpful if people are able to split that. Absolutely. What do you foresee? Well, I think another thing, you mentioned something about opting in. And that is a really important thing because parents are busy. They may miss an email on something that might say, hey, we’ve got this survey or whatever, and you need to opt out of it. And some of these surveys are asking questions that they have no business asking, or they may be having leading questions in them. And so the opting in, you mentioned that, that’s a pretty big deal. So tell us just a little bit about that, Matt Smith.
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Yeah, that’s a huge deal. And you really hit the nail on the head. I mean, opting out requires parents to have a ton of information, to read the small print, to pay attention to every single email that’s going on. And, you know, again, reading that small print at the bottom and saying, hey, if It’s not something you agree with. You can opt out. We want to take a different approach of opting in. That’s going to require us to be educating parents and so they understand what’s going on. But parents have the right to make sure their children are exposed to the things that align with their faith, their beliefs, and their values. And so that’s what we’re here to support and make sure that the school is supportive of that as well.
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Okay, and that is a really important policy issue that I think a lot of people don’t realize. Keaton, the other thing that I love that you mentioned, you and Matt mentioned, is transparency. For parents to know what curriculum is happening at school, what their kids are seeing, I personally like the idea of of disconnecting from a lot of the technology and getting back to paper and pencils. I know that’s really old-fashioned, Keaton, but I kind of like that idea. What do you think about that?
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I do like it as well, but as far as transparency, I think the most efficient thing is like online portals where teachers can see the curriculum, what the kids are learning every day.
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Yeah, or parents can see the curriculum. I think you said teachers. Yeah. Okay. So, Keaton, I’ll go to you first. Your final thought that you’d like to leave with our listeners today. And thank you for being under the weather, but yet making this happen. I really do appreciate it.
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No, I’m sorry. My priority is keeping parents as the first partner in their children’s education and creating that culture in Douglas County School District where the teachers and staff always see the parents as their main partner in the children’s education.
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Okay, and Matt Smith, and thank you for stepping forward. And thank you to your family as well because it is a real commitment to be a candidate and run for office. So thank you. And Matt Smith, your final thought.
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Yeah, so I think the big thing I’m seeing as I’m out there talking to tons and tons of voters is just people do not realize that there’s an election and how important this is. It doesn’t matter if you have kids in the district or not. The district is still responsible for about 50% of your property taxes here, and it has a big impact on your home value. So whether you have kids or not, please vote in this election. It is so important. And we want to continue the good things that are happening under conservative leadership. And we’re the only candidates that are going to stand up for protecting girls and keeping boys out of girls’ sports, their bathrooms, and their locker rooms. This November 4th, please vote Gamble, Kramer, Smith, and Vail.
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Okay, again, that’s Gamble, Kramer, Smith, Vail. That website is commonsensedcsd, so common sense for Douglas County School District. So commonsensedcsd.com. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us, and I wish you all kinds of good luck.
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Thank you, Kim. Really appreciate it. Thank you.
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Absolutely. And my friends, any candidate that reaches out to us, we will put them on the air because we want you to have a conversation to know more about them. And I do thank Matt Smith and Keaton Gamble for joining us. And that slate is Gamble, Kramer, Smith, and Vail. And we get to have all these discussions because of our sponsors. If you’re going to buy a home, sell a home, or are looking at a new build, you want to talk to Karen Levine.
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Indeed, it is Friday, so welcome back to the Kim Bunsen Show. And so pleased to have on the line with me great sponsors of the show, founders of the Second Syndicate, and that is Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins. And the Second Amendment is in the Bill of Rights to protect all of our other rights. And the Second Syndicate is working to bring all these voices together. You would think that we’re human beings, and what happens sometimes is we… kind of lose our focus on what is so, so important. And so Alicia and Teddy have put the Second Syndicate together to bring these voices together. And they are down at the Capitol, which Colorado is trying to take away our Second Amendment rights piece by piece. And they have been at the Capitol, and they’re going to ramp that up even more so. Alicia Garcia, welcome to the show. Good morning, Kim. It’s always a pleasure. Great to have you. And Teddy Collins, and you are the owner of Spartan Defense, which is in Colorado Springs. And you seem to be one of the media go-to guys regarding the Second Amendment because you’re all over the place, Teddy Collins.
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I am out there for sure. You know, I get calls to do these kind of things anytime there’s something gun related. So more than happy to do it and more than happy to fight for the Second Amendment. And we’re going to have to here in Colorado coming up this upcoming legislative session. So absolutely. Thank you for having me, Kim.
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Absolutely. Teddy, I know I shouldn’t ask this question, but how can they do anything more than that Senate Bill 25003 and then all of this other legislation? I don’t even want to ask the question, but what else can they do? What are you concerned about?
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It’s always death by a thousand cuts, and they’re always looking to restrict more and more. So the rumors at this point are is we’ve heard about a suppressor bill that would potentially ban suppressors across the state of Colorado at the state level. And we’ve also heard about a potential armory bill, a bill that would essentially limit the amount of firearms an individual could own, purchase, et cetera, here in the state of Colorado.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, my gosh. Well, now we’ve talked about suppressors because, Alicia, there was something at the federal level that they did, but you were concerned about that. And I thought we kind of had that worked out. So what’s going on with this potential suppressor bill, Alicia?
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The way the Colorado looks at suppressors, they have them classified as dangerous and illegal weapons. which means that in order to obtain them here in the state of Colorado, you have to acquire what they call some form of permit. The way they’re looking at it right now is the tax stamp is your permit. So when you go to purchase a suppressor, you have to pay a $200 tax stamp, $100 transfer fee and all these things and go through a little bit more of an in-depth background check for that suppressor. I should know because, you know, I’ve bought suppressors in the past and it’s quite tedious for me. It’s not maybe for other people, but I think for some reason, because I’m such a two-way loud mouth, that they’re like, we don’t want to approve her or let her have these things. But the way that they define them here in Colorado makes it very restrictive. So with the Big Beautiful Bill we discussed not too long ago, they went ahead and included some language from the Hearing Suppression Act that But we wanted more language in that bill because we want to make sure that it would apply to Colorado and other states. All they necessarily did was just take away the tax stamp. You still have to do the background check, all the rest of the stuff, the fingerprinting. All they did was say, you know, you just don’t have to pay $200.
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Okay. Well, Teddy, this really is, all of this is an infringement on our right to keep and bear firearms. Can something be done at the national level just to come in and override all of these onerous bills that we’re having in California, here in Colorado? Is there a strategy that could help us on that?
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The strategy would be getting a bill in place that would provide federal preemption, in which case federal law would supersede state law, and the laws could not be stricter in the states than at the federal level. That’s something that’s been discussed. It’s something that Republicans have discussed in the past. The issue is getting a bill like that through the Senate right now.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, but we have the Senate, so why couldn’t we do that?
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Because we need 60 votes in the Senate to bypass a filibuster. without using something called the nuclear option, which has been done in the past, made famous by Obama during the Affordable Care Act, the Obama Care Act.
SPEAKER 11 :
Oh, that’s right. Because that only passed by just over 50, right?
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Correct, yes. They used a parliamentarian procedure to basically suspend the normal rules in the Senate and bypass the 60-vote threshold usually required to overcome a filibuster.
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So that’s why elections matter so much. Alicia, you and Teddy founded the Second Syndicate. And tell us about how people can support you. Are you going to be doing membership newsletters? What’s that going to look like as people, you know, what do they get the bang for their buck for helping support you?
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Well, thank you for asking that. So one of the things that we’re doing is fundraising for Faster Colorado program right now. So we believe in Faster Colorado as another entity here in the States. and state of Colorado that supports the right to keep and bear arms. If people out there aren’t familiar with FASTER, what it is is a program that allows staffers in schools in Colorado right now to be armed. While the tuition for that is very costly, and as educators we all realize that Money is not the commodity for those people. So we at the Second Syndicate said, you know, we’re not going to wait for our government to get involved or for these politicians to actually care about protecting our children. We’re going to support these educators. So these people are volunteering to be armed, whether they’re the lunch lady or the custodian or the teacher in Colorado schools. So we said, well, let’s help them by providing equipment, providing the tuition, et cetera, that they need to complete the FASTER program. So that way these educators can protect our kids and we can have more armed educators in our schools here in Colorado. So if they can go to our website, they can go to thesecondsyndicate.com. They could donate generally to us just to make sure that we are having the presence at the Capitol that we need, that we’re able to continue hosting events, to continue educating. For example, I spoke at the Independence Institute. yesterday night. So we were able to educate those people and have more of a grassroots effort. But we also want to be able to arm the educators so they can go to our Give, Send, Go to, I think it’s Operation Education, and they can donate there. And when they donate to us, they also get entered into a giveaway that we have that is for a Springfield that’s custom engraved by the Damage Factory. That’s a 1911 that’s really, really stellar. So there’s some incentive there to want to support our movement.
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Well, and Laura Karna, I was traveling, and Brad Beck was guest hosting for me earlier in the week, and he had Laura Karna on with Faster, and so certainly that’s a great program to support. But when supporting you and what you’re doing with Faster is, as you mentioned, money is something that’s important to these educators. And so it’s not only just signing them up for the course, but you’re going to really outfit them, I guess, would be what I would say. Is that right, Alicia?
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Absolutely. And that’s one of the beautiful things about the Second Syndicate, because, you know, my co-founder is Spartan Defense, and we have some great connections in the Second Amendment industry. I’m an educator. I shoot a defensive pistol. I can teach defensive pistol. We have a lot of people in this industry that want to be solution oriented. And I think it’s important that we say, Hey, you know what? Let’s do what we can, and we can make a difference. We truly can. And that’s one of the things that I love about this organization and why Teddy Rossi and I put this together is that we’re willing to work with other fellow 2A organizations to come together and say, okay, you know, one of us is better than – or, you know, two of us is better than one, and five of us is better than three, and see what we can do to say, you know, we have a common interest here. Let’s bind together and let’s put our interests in the same bucket and let’s help each other be successful.
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Well, and when we send our children, our teachers, our staff to school, we expect them to come home. And the fact that our schools, we just saw this shooting up in Evergreen, Teddy. It’s unbelievable to me. And it doesn’t make sense to me that there would be people that would be against having good guys or gals have a gun. And I was thinking a teacher, so many teachers basically put their lives down for their students. If a bad guy is in school with a gun, And there’s nobody there that has a firearm that could take the bad guy out. I mean, just throwing a wastebasket or something at a bad guy isn’t going to do it. I think that having staff that’s trained and armed is so important. And I think the bad guy also, they choose soft targets, not hard targets. Right, Teddy? Yes.
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I mean, absolutely. And that’s exactly what we saw in Evergreen. The resource officer was on medical leave when this occurred. And everybody knew that because they’d been on medical leave for quite some time. So they did not have an armed resource officer at that school. But I just want to be clear about this program. It goes even further than resource officers. We are talking about armed teachers or staff members, individuals that go through extensive amounts of training, including medical training and other background checks. and recertifications that they have to go through in order to do this. This is armed deterrence in an unknown way. What I mean by that is that no one knows who those are carrying. Think of it as a school version of an air marshal on a plane. It’s the same exact concept, and it’s, in my opinion, one of the only ways that we can truly protect children in schools is to have that armed resistance, that ability to fight back. We should not… We should not have a pen of unarmed sheep and then allow the gates to be open for wolves to come in. We have to protect our children.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, absolutely. And a bad guy is going to, if you have your resource officers, of course, you said the resource officer was not there at Evergreen, but that is one of the first things, probably targets that a bad guy is going to try to neutralize would be the resource officer. So hardening the target where the bad guy would not know who might be carrying a firearm. I think that’s such an important strategy, Teddy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. I mean, it works in every aspect of life. Again, after after 9-11, we had air marshals. We haven’t had incidents like that since. So there’s it works. We need the same thing for our children. We need to make sure our schools are hard target and our children are protected so that they can be nurtured and learned and raised how they should be without fear.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, absolutely. So what is it? We’re going to go to break here. But what is the Web site for the second syndicate, Alicia?
SPEAKER 09 :
It is thesecondsyndicate.com, the2ndsyndicate.com.
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Okay, and you can go there and you can contribute and support the great work that they’re doing. And so the work regarding FASTER and helping outfit basically this staff so that they have the things that they need, and then also the fight that they have in the battle of ideas down at the state legislature is so important, and you can support them by going to the 2ndsyndicate.com. We’re going to continue the discussion with Teddy Collins and Alicia Garcia. And we have these discussions because of our sponsors. And for Everything Mortgages, you’ll want to talk to Lauren Levy.
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SPEAKER 09 :
Well, thank you for saying that. So I do have a concealed carry class and an educational class that I teach at least every Sunday. So if you would like to get your concealed handgun permit, if you want to get a renewal, if you want to learn about de-escalation, situational awareness, if you… want to get better with your pistol or you want to understand the mechanics of firearms better, if you want to learn how to custom fit a gun to yourself, you know, drill, things of that nature in order to become a better shooter, let me know. I have a classroom in Thornton, Colorado. I also have a classroom in Southeast Florida. Denver, as well as I’m always in Colorado Springs with my wonderful partners, Spartan defense. So I am able to educate you on all of those things. The name of the company is concealed carry classes of Denver.com. You can go to concealed carry class, Denver.com and book your class with me. Go ahead and choose your Thornton classroom and I will be your teacher.
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And we have that linked on our website with sponsors. And so you can easily go to that if you’re driving and you’re saying, oh, I can’t write that down. Then also, Teddy, Spartan Defense, tell us about that as well. And again, that link is on our website, kimmonson.com as well.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, absolutely. So our website is SpartanDefense.com. We are a locally owned and operated gun store, one of the largest in the state down in the Colorado Springs area. We specialize in 2011s race guns, attack, we’ll call it black rifle to use the correct term, things of that nature. And we do custom work, Cerakote, gunsmithing, you name it, we do it. So come on down to Spartan Defense if you ever need anything. Regardless of whether it’s us or somebody else, support your local gun store, especially your local involved gun store in the 2A fight here in Colorado. They are getting hit hard by these regulations from the state, and they are actually fighting back for your rights. Those that are involved, support them. Send your business there. Shop local.
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Well, and you mentioning all of the stuff that’s happening down at the Capitol. Alicia, when I went down to testify this last legislative session, I thought it was ironic that I had to go through a metal detector, and that it’s the Colorado State Patrol that protects the Capitol. And I thought it was just so ironic that there at the Capitol, they had officers with firearms that were protecting the Capitol, And the legislators there that are putting through legislation that’s trying to take away our rights to protect ourselves against bad guys, but yet they have somebody with a firearm protecting them. I just found that so ironic.
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I do, too. And the sad part is I like to remind everybody that the government is not anti-gun. They love guns because they hide behind them all the time. They’re protected by them all the time. They just do not want us to have them. And these people are making laws based on equipment that they have no experience with. So they’re judging us by us being able to exercise the same protections that they’re allotted. So one of the things I love to ask these people is I say, you know what, I’ll give up my guns, but you lead by example. You are the leaders, right? We elected you. You’re elected officials. Lead by example. Why don’t you make yourselves vulnerable? Why don’t you make your job vulnerable? Why don’t you make your lifestyle vulnerable? And none of them have ever taken me up on it. So it’s one of those what’s good for the goose is not good for the gander type of mentality. And we need to get away from that because humanizing gun culture is exactly what we’re focused on here at the Second Syndicate. We used to be able to have that culture. And, you know, we see the change in society and the way that they view these tools. And one lesson that I love to teach my students is we don’t use the word weapon. We use the word tool. We need to change the way we are speaking about, you know, our tools of defense and the resources that we have because we are literally having to change the mindset of our youth of what these tools mean instead of them being something to be fearful of or to, you know, be leery of. This is something they should embrace. They should respect. It’s a way of life. And it’s something that has guaranteed our safety and freedoms since the inception of America. So, indeed, you’re embracing a true American piece of history by welcoming the Second Amendment into your lives.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and Teddy, I grew up in western Kansas. I remember that there would be pickups that would have a firearm in, you know, right behind, you know, in a holder, right? Obviously, I’m not real experienced on all that, but right there in the back window of their pickup. And we never had school shootings at that time. I can’t figure out what’s happened in our culture, Teddy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, we’ve seen this, especially in recent weeks with Charlie Kirk and things that have occurred, is we’re no longer a society of discourse. We can no longer have conversations that we need to have. Instead, people turn to violence, unfortunately. You’re absolutely right. Back when that was… was the case, we didn’t have these incidents. And I think it’s because people knew there were consequences for actions. And now it feels like we are a society free of consequences.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and many of the guys would have their firearm in their pickup so that they could go out and hunt after school, which… Absolutely, very normal. It made a lot of sense. Okay, Alicia Garcia, we’re just about out of time, but again, Spartan Defense is linked on my website, and also Alicia’s Concealed Carry business is linked on the website. But tell us again, what’s the time frame? How does this work when people contribute for the Faster program? that you’re outfitting educators and staff to protect our children, and they have an opportunity to possibly win this firearm. So tell us just a little bit about that.
SPEAKER 09 :
So we are going to do the drawing for the firearm the day after Thanksgiving. So they still have time to go ahead and donate to the second syndicate. Every five bucks that goes to the Operation Arm the Educators is an entry into that giveaway. So go donate, you know, 20 bucks, go donate, you know, 20,000. Hey, you know, every life matters. And this is a beautiful way for us to say, we’re making this a priority. They should too. And I love that, that as a community, we’re able to say, we’re taking initiative. We’re being solution oriented because we actually care more involved in our And I would really, really implore everybody to be involved in their communities to make sure that we’re doing what’s necessary in order to guarantee that our children have a safe and prosperous future.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and you’re doing great work, and I really appreciate your partnership on this as well, because, Teddy, as we need to continue to have these conversations. So, Teddy Collins, thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. Thank you for having me on today, Kim.
SPEAKER 11 :
And Elisa Garcia, again, thank you as well. You are doing amazing work.
SPEAKER 09 :
Thank you, Kim. We really appreciate you as well. Thank you so much. And I also want to say shout out to my brother today. It is his 50th birthday, and I love my brother more than anyone. So happy birthday, brother.
SPEAKER 11 :
Happy birthday. And again, that website is the2ndsyndicate.com. We’ll talk next week. Have a great day.
SPEAKER 07 :
Absolutely. You too, Kim. Thank you.
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Is it freedom or is it force? Let’s have a conversation.
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Indeed. Let’s have a conversation. And welcome to our number two of the Kim Monson Show. Thank you so much for joining us. You’re each treasured. You’re valued. You have purpose. Today, strive for excellence. Take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body. My friends, we were made for this moment in history. Thank you to the team. And that’s Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Teresa, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. It is Friday. Producer Joe. Happy Friday, Kim. And just a great show, such important information that we bring forth. And we get to talk with amazing guests, people that are really deep thinkers. And I so appreciate talking with Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins in our number one. uh regarding the second syndicate the second amendment is in the bill of rights to protect all of these other rights against bad actors and the founders knew exactly what they were doing with that so it would support the work of the second syndicate and right now they are doing this uh fundraiser to outfit educators and send them to the faster program and your name will be put into a drawing for every $5 that you contribute. So be sure and check that out. As you know, we look at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And Pam Long recently, when she was on the show and she did an excellent essay, you can find that at my website as well, But she’s talking about theft. And we talk about it really on a regular basis, theft of opportunity, theft of people’s pursuit of happiness, theft via taxation. And apparently this government shutdown is… is that the Democrats want to roll back the health care section. And this is from CPR in the one big, beautiful bill. And Republicans have pointed out that means undoing the alien Medicaid eligibility and expansion F map for emergency Medicaid. And so that seems to be the hill right now, one of the hills that the Democrats are wanting to die on right now on the big, beautiful bill, or excuse me, on the government shutdown. But to give… free health care to people that have come here illegally, the money has to be taken from someone else. So it’s either taken via taxation and fees or via debt that we and our children and grandchildren have to pay off. So this is really an important issue, and we need to continue to shed light on that. One other thing I mentioned that in Portland, the ICE facility is under siege. And Jenny said this, the Marxists thrive on fear and chaos. They know what they are doing and they like crises to further their agenda. That is what is happening in Portland right now. So a couple of things I wanted to get to are word of the day. And the word of the day is, hold on, here is eskuchon. And it’s E-S-C-U-T-C-H-E-O-N. It could be a shield or shield-shaped emblem bearing a coat of arms, an ornamental or protective plate, as for a keyhole, or the plate on the stern of a ship inscribed with the ship’s name. And I found the word, I’m reading Jonathan Turley’s book, The Indispensable Right, Free Speech in an Age of Rage. And this is the sentence that he had used. He said she insisted that for the fair name of America, that this terrible blot on our national escutcheon be wiped away. And again, that’s spelled E-S-C-U-T-C-H-E-O-N. Our quote of the day comes from the Medal of Honor quote book from the Center for American Values. And you can check that out and order that by going to AmericanValuesCenter.org. That’s AmericanValuesCenter.org. And this is from Jose Rodella, United States Army. Medal of Honor recipient born in 1937. It was actions that he took September 1969 in Vietnam. But he said the service doesn’t come without sacrifice, but both are worth the freedom that is gained. And again, that is Jose Redella. And I highly recommend that you check out the Center for American Values, which is located in Pueblo on the beautiful Riverwalk. We talked with Drew Dix yesterday, Medal of Honor recipient. and co-founder of the center. They’re doing amazing work. And all this happens as we are an independent voice on an independent station, wanting to have conversations about the things that are occurring out there. And we’re able to do that because of our sponsors. And the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team has been in business for over 50 years, helping clients and taking care of his family. Roger’s amazing. In fact, he’s going to be a featured guest on Monday. You will not want to miss that. But for everything regarding your insurance, reach out to the Roger Mangan State Farm Insurance team. Like a good neighbor, they’re right there for you.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com. And do you love Italian food? Because I do. And Little Richie’s, which is located in Parker and Golden, is your go-to place for great Italian. They have wonderful lunch specials. And I, in particular, love their calzone. So be sure and check that out. That’s Little Richie’s in Parker and in Golden. And we’ve got a great treat planned for you right now. We have on the line with us Jay Davidson, he is a fan favorite. He is the founder and CEO of First American State Bank, which is a community bank located right here in Greenwood Village. Jay Davidson, welcome to the show.
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Well, Kim, it’s an honor and a pleasure to be here with you.
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Well, it’s great to have you, and we appreciate your partnership. We’re an independent voice on an independent station. And as you know, we are looking for truth and clarity by kicking the tires on these ideas. Is it freedom or is it force? And if something’s a good idea, Jay, you shouldn’t have to use force to implement it. And I think that you know that as well. But before we get into the… First American State Bank just celebrated a big anniversary.
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Yeah, we’re 30 years old. We started in 1995, July 5th, 1995. So we’re in our 30th year of living and working and thriving in the community. And that’s what banks like ours do. We live in our communities and help the mom and pop and Main Street folks, both business and retail or consumer businesses. And, you know, kicking and screaming, we’re getting into the high-technology age. Thankfully, I’ve got some young people that understand it, because I sure don’t. But they get it, and now we’ve got all these fancy doodads on our iPhones that we can do our entire banking experience on an iPhone.
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It’s remarkable, and in some ways I think it’s kind of scary, but it’s very, very convenient. And you touched on something, which is something we work on at the Kim Monson Show as well, and that is relationships. I really think that individuals are hungry for relationships, and that is one of the things that First American State Bank really prides itself on, is relationships with your clients.
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Yeah, that’s so true, Kim. That’s the one differentiating factor that a community bank or a small business can provide that the big boys absolutely cannot. They give a lot of lip service to personal relationships, but we all know the reality of it. We do know our customers, and they do know us, and it’s very important to our well-being as a bank and to their well-being as a business or an individual.
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So if people wanted more information about First American State Bank, how can they get that, Jay Davidson?
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Get your little fingers working on that keyboard. They say I don’t have to do the WWW, but it’s FASBank, F-A-S-Bank.com.
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It would be a good place to start. FAS stands for First American State Bank. Okay, great. Yes, ma’am. Jay, you are a student of the Austrian School of Economics. For somebody that may be listening for the first time, what is that exactly?
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The Austrian School of Economics was started in the 1800s, mid to late 1800s, codified by a gentleman named von Mises, V-O-N-M-I-S-E-S. And his main student and a fellow that took over the institute later was a guy named F.A. Hayek, H-A-Y-E-K. And Hayek was the fellow that wrote The Road to Serfdom, which you may or not have heard of, but it was a seminal work. And then the most recent individual that we probably all know is Milton Friedman. He was a student of Hayek’s. And the difference and the thing that I like about the Austrian School of Economics is that it preaches the value of capitalism. And I believe in capitalism. and it preaches the requirement for the individual to have the right in animal right to ownership of property and so when the the other side of this the house the keynesians or the big government guys get going, they want more government. And I say, well, more government means less individuals. And I’m not in favor of that. I don’t think the government’s a solution to all the problems or many of the problems at all. And government takes. It doesn’t make. We make. We individuals create earnings and profits and build capital based on that. The government doesn’t do it. And I don’t expect the government to do it. But they have their hands in everything. And we’ll talk more about that later, Kim. I know that’s a topic you want to go into.
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Well, let’s say, yeah, we will get to that. But first question I wanted to pose to you is what do you think about this government shutdown?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I think it should be just our mindset should be this is just the beginning. And You raise a really interesting point. I’ve been listening to TV for and news and I never do it and I should never do it. But, you know, it’s been I like to be tortured. So I’ll listen to Kyle Clark or these other morons on the TV set. And they do a wonderful job for the left because the whole segment is always about. the poor government worker and honestly i get it i feel sorry for him you know that maybe they shouldn’t have made that choice to go work for the government but the point is that nobody’s talking and the republicans are not talking about the counterbalance the real issue here that trump and that team are attempting to address and trump you know he’s not the the enlightened savior that all republicans think he is but he’s a lot better than anything we’ve had in a long time so what he’s doing at least is attempting to reduce the scope and the involvement of the federal government in our lives and one of the ways that you do it in fact the best way the most powerful way that you do that is that you stop the government from spending Your money. We citizens stop the government from spending our money because the government takes it doesn’t make. And so the part of the problem with the Republican Party, I think, is that we’re we’re not committed to the whole concept of a smaller government, limited government. And, you know, we’re Republicans are much better than Democrats. Democrats are off the rails. But, you know, Trump does his big, beautiful bill. Well, there’s four trillion additional dollars in spending over and above our revenue. So we’re going to debt to the tune of four trillion dollars, even under the president’s budget. Well, that’s that’s not where we need to go. We cannot afford debt.
SPEAKER 11 :
to continue and I better stop now because I’m on a roll well I totally agree we have got one of the first way one of the ways to to have your teenager uh not be doing while driving is to take away the keys of the car and so one of the things we need to do is to take away the keys to the car which is uh money for spending or or the fact that they could incur debt For this spending, we’ve got to stop that. Jay, we talk about this on the federal level on a regular basis. But as we are coming into election season here, I’ll be working on my voter’s guide. And there’s not that much on the state ballot. It’s going to be two questions, Propositions LL and Propositions MM. And it is and I am going to put this in air quotes. It’s for the children. Healthy school meals for all children. Well, it’s all children that the school is involved in the federal lunch program. So already there’s money going into this. But it’s it’s that’s going to be on the ballot. We’re going to be a hard no. And recommending a hard no on it because it’s another bureaucracy. And it’s on the back of Proposition FF that was approved by the Colorado voters in 2022, which was a healthy school meal program to the tune of over $100 million. Well, now they want another $100 million. And they say that they’re just going to tax the people that make $300,000 or more. What happens is it’s an insatiable appetite for our money. And you may think that you’re voting for, again, air quotes, rich people to pay this. Well, what’s going to happen is you’ll see that trickle down to everybody will have to pay more. And so we are a hard no on both of those.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, very good point. I look forward to your election or voting analysis every year. It’s very helpful. So thank you for that. But I do totally agree with you. And the way that they do it is the way that we saw the Democrats at the federal level do it. They’re smart. I mean, they’re not stupid people. They’re very bright. But I think they’re a little their intent is wrong. They start with a person. And I can’t deny that a poor woman, whether she’s, you know, immigrant or American, I don’t care. She’s got little children. You know, I naturally want to help her. And so they go from that point to the giant leap that nobody thinks about. Well, we’ll just create another government program. Really, folks? Well, what does that entail? And when is a government program ever, one, stop growing and two, done what it was supposed to do? We’re still in the war on poverty. We’re still in the war on drugs. These entities are trillions of dollars in size and continue to grow. Where’s the end point? Where’s the success point? In business, we have the ultimate success point or failure point that we can’t transgress, and that’s bankruptcy and failure. But the government doesn’t have that because they have the power to print money. And whenever you hear about printing money, think about going into debt. It’s the same thing. And it’s a complex process, but believe me, when the Fed Reserve prints some money, the Treasury Department issues bonds, Treasury bonds, notes, and bills, and we citizens pay it back out of our taxes. And our taxes go up to pay that debt. and if you don’t think i’m right in this situation remember that in 2008 the federal reserve printed 9 trillion united states dollars over and above that needed to run the economy efficiently that 9 trillion became 9 trillion in debt federal debt and the cost of that debt to us we taxpayers is now reaching one trillion additional dollars in interest every year. They’re not only not reducing the supply of money and therefore the debt that was created to support that supply of money, they’re increasing the debt by continuing spending and by the accrual or capitalization of the interest that is due but we’re not able to pay.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and Jay, so that’s one component, but there is that other double whammy that you’ve talked about, and that is as the government, federal government, prints money, increases the supply of money, that devalues the dollar. So not only are we on the hook for the spending and debt, but the money in our pocket is worthless, and that’s that silent thief of government-induced inflation. So it’s a double whammy upon the American people.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, you nailed it. That is absolutely correct. They put us into debt. We taxpayers have to pay it off. Then they devalue the value of the dollar that we have in our pocket. So we have to pay more of our dollars to buy the same commodity. That’s inflation, which is caused by dollar devaluation. And that’s caused by excessive supply of money in the economy, which leads to debt. Like you said, Kim, it’s a negative feedback loop, a self-destructive cycle that will honestly eventually bankrupt our country if we don’t stop it now. The good news is we can stop it.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and this government shutdown is a step in that direction. So I’m glad about that. We’re going to go to break. I’m talking with founder and CEO of First American State Bank. Another great sponsor of the show is the Second Syndicate. And Alicia Garcia and Teddy Collins are putting the Second Syndicate together to bring these voices that want to protect our Second Amendment so that they can take action down at the Statehouse. Because every year we see our Second Amendment rights. There’s a little cut here, a little cut there. So be sure and reach out to them. They can give you some great information and support them.
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SPEAKER 11 :
And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And check out the website for the U.S. MC Memorial Foundation. It’s a nonprofit I dearly love. The official Marine Memorial is here in Colorado at 6th and Colfax. Paula Sarles, who’s the president of the foundation and her team, continue to raise money to take care of the Memorial and raise money for the remodel. And so check out what they’re doing at USMC Memorial Foundation and be sure and support them. On the line with me is a great sponsor of the show, and that is Jay Davidson with First American State Bank. He is the founder and CEO. And Jay, we’ve been talking about government spending and the federal level. But Denver is out of control. It’s become dirty and dangerous and dysfunctional and spending all kinds of money. And I mentioned the voters guide in the first hour. We will be taking a stand on the nine hundred and fifty million dollar bond that is being proposed for Denverites to have to pay. And they have a bond that’s getting paid off. And so Mike Johnston and company, the mayor and the city council, have this proposal for the people of Denver for $950 million that they’ll have to pay off. But the language on it is they’re saying without increasing tax rates, well, if the bond pays off as it’s supposed to, it’s like paying your car off, then that expense goes away. They want to extend that. that continued tax, and I would recommend a no on that. That’s a long introduction, Jay Davidson, but this vibrant, and they’re calling it Vibrant Denver, and I’m a strong no on that as well, Jay Davidson.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, I agree with you on principle, most definitely. In fact, I would say that the situation in Denver is a microcosm of the situation at the federal level, at the national level. It’s the same thing. The solution is the same thing, the one that we’ve been talking about. Mayor Johnson is a dyed-in-the-wool progressive Democrat who has not ever really had to work. He’s a trust fund baby. And so he doesn’t understand what it takes to build a business and grow a business. And he doesn’t really understand or care about what’s called capitalism. And what capitalism is, is the right of the individual to own property. That’s really the bottom line. It’s why it’s one of the three available rights that Thomas Jefferson wrote about in the original Declaration of Independence. It was life, liberty, and the ownership of property, not the pursuit of happiness that Franklin talked him into. So the point here is that, like the pavilion was on the news last night down in Denver, and the city wants to buy, create a whole district and buy this property. This storefront, retail storefront in downtown Denver that’s run down, just like the rest of Denver is. And the whole concept that Johnson always defaults to, that all the Democrats default to, and a lot of the Republicans, unfortunately, default to, is, well, there’s a problem. Let’s find a government solution for it. Well, here, we’ll have the city buy it. Now, the city is $250 billion worth. uh underwater on their income they have too much debt already not 250 billion right 200 or is it billion i think it’s a b oh my god you know better than i would i don’t know it’s an amazing number for a little city and just mind-boggling i maybe i’m wrong somebody maybe the audience could pipe in and correct us yeah but anyway it’s a big number the city of denver is bankrupt They can’t service the debt that they’ve already taken on. Debt equals spending. Spending equals debt. They exist together. And now Johnson is saying, well, we’ll create this special district thing, and we’ll spend $37 million to buy the pavilion, and then we’ll create this bureaucratic institution. caucus that will run it, and we’re going to revitalize it. The city and county of Denver is going to revitalize the pavilions just like they’re doing on the 16th Street Mall. And I’m thinking, wow, you guys never learn. You just keep going deeper and deeper into debt. When the real solution to this entire thing is, number one, honesty with the American people. Did I tell you that the citizens that I talked to, whether Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian, doesn’t matter. We all feel the same thing, and that is that our government has gotten out of control across the board. From a puny little city like Denver all the way up to the national level, it’s gotten out of control. And we don’t see I don’t see the Republicans stepping up against it. I know I see some attempts and like Doge was brilliant. I was blown away by that. But is Doge still actively trying to reduce government spending? I don’t think so. And the Democrats are not the progressive left, I should say, not the Democrats. And most Democrats probably agree more with me than not on this, and you.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and Jay, that’s an important distinction, and that is this Democrat Party is not the Democrat Party of your grandpa and your grandma. or jfk it’s a totally different thing and so i agree that big broad middle of america which is your moderate democrats and libertarians and affiliates conservatives republicans i think really we all feel many of the same things but that radical activist group that’s in control of the democrat party is a real problem yeah it’s a very good point and very true
SPEAKER 04 :
So what I’m trying to say then is that the same problem that we experience in Denver is the same problem and mindset that we experience at the national level. It all leads to one thing, and that is the destruction of private enterprise, destruction of capital, destruction of the individual. And honestly, the radical left… I think they’re doing a great job of attaining those goals. Those are their goals. Those are their goals. They’re okay with that. And the sooner we realize that it’s not, oh, they don’t understand economics. No, they understand economics perfectly. And their objective is to destroy your right to ownership of property. That’s the underlying objective. That is the one tenet that is prevalent in all socialist, communist, fascist states. All totalitarian states have that one goal in place because when the individual can no longer control his own property, that individual is subjected and subjugated to this great power that exists somewhere in the ether.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and with Denver, it’s public policy that has gotten Denver to where it is. It’s dangerous and it’s dirty and it’s dysfunctional. One of the things, and we’ve talked about that, and that is the spending growth, which you correlated that with the suppression of private business. If government grows, then private business contracts. That’s just the way it works. And the individual contracts. Right. But in addition, we’re starting to have net migration out of Colorado. Colorado used to be a place that people wanted to come to. I’ve talked with people that used to come to Colorado from out of state for concerts, for a little vacation, and they say, I’m not going to touch Colorado. What’s going on in Colorado? And so we’re seeing a net migration out of Colorado. It’s because of public policy, Jay.
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s exactly right. It’s because of… Public policy getting too powerful. How long have we had a Democrat governor? I mean, Bill Owens was out, what, 20 years ago? Yeah, it’s been a while. How long have we had a completely Democratic-controlled House and Senate? I mean, decades, basically. and how long has it been since the republican party has stood up on a base on a principle of individual freedom and the right to ownership of property i i don’t i don’t remember i mean a few few guys like armstrong and owens and a few people uh spoke up about it but they’re in the minority in the republican party so where’s the opposition folks Why are we letting these Republicans get away with, oh, gee, I’m so sorry that we’re shutting down the government. That’s just terrible. Instead, they should be saying, well, yeah, good. That’s what we need to do. And it’s unfortunate that the individuals have to suffer, but they chose to work for the government. And we cannot afford to continue the kind of spending and the debt that we’re taking on to fund the government programs that, oh, by the way, when you look at them, don’t work anyway. Anyway, I get frustrated here.
SPEAKER 11 :
Yeah. And I, like you, on a micro level, I’m concerned about people when they lose their jobs. However, Joe Biden didn’t give a flying rip about all of the workers that lost their jobs when he closed down the Keystone Pipeline the very first day of his administration. So… On a micro level, I am very concerned about each and every family. I really am. However, the idea that government grows and grows and grows, what that means is that the everyday individual and their paychecks contract, and that contracts on how they can thrive and prosper. So government, there is a proper role of government, but those that are… In excess of that, have them come into the private market and become creative and innovative and put together new businesses. And that’s what made America, America.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, you’re exactly right, Kim. The government only takes. It doesn’t create. Think about it. The government cannot create and is not made to create profits. And yet corporations and private enterprise and private individuals who start their own businesses, they’re optimized to make profits. And why is that good? Because that means if I’m making a profit in my business, I’m providing a service to my customer that they willingly and without coercion decide to buy. And at the same time that I’m creating this product that is desirable to my customer, I’m creating jobs for individuals who want to work and providing for their families. So we get a great benefit from a capitalistic system, even though we’re denigrated all the time as greedy and so on and so forth. Well, I submit to you that every human being is and should be greedy. Because you need to protect yourself. I call capitalism enlightened self-interest, not extreme self-interest. And if you think that a government bureaucrat is not self-interested, you’re deluding yourself. They are as self-interested as the rest of us. So I don’t make any apologies for wanting to make money. But that isn’t my motivating factor for making money in a bank or in a business. The motivating factor is my inalienable right to own that property that I have earned and your individual right to own that property that you have earned. And no government should be able to take it away. And yet it’s being taken away from us in taxation and in debt management. Every day of our lives is the biggest Ponzi scheme, the most egregious, immoral act that one could think of. And we’re skipping down the road to hell, happily singing our little song. I’m just frustrated that people don’t wake up to these facts.
SPEAKER 11 :
Well, and that is why, and I think we’re at a unique time in history in our country, say that we’re in our third founding. I’m encouraged. I’m starting to see people go to do the tough work to go through these different proposals and ordinances and stepping forward. And we’re in a very exciting time. It’s a dangerous time also regarding liberty and tyranny. But I say on the show, we were made for this moment. Jay, we were made for this moment. Jay Davidson, your final thought.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I appreciate all that you do, Kim. I mean, I’m just amazed at all the things that you get done. You’re like the Energizer Bunny. You just never stop. So thank you for that. I’m very honored to be able to come on your show and talk to your friends and your audience and everyone. Folks, we can prevail. It’s not like we win, they lose. No, we all win. But we’re going to do it based on a principle, and that principle, I believe, is the sanctity of the individual, the right of the individual to life, liberty, and ownership of property. And anything that we do should be directed to preventing the alienation of those rights. So when you ask for more government or more government spending, I think you should say no. I don’t need the government. I don’t want the government involved in my life. I’ll take care of myself. And whenever you have a problem, don’t just say, well, let’s create another government bureaucracy. Let the government solve it. Well, they can’t, people. Look at the facts. It doesn’t work. So what do we do? It’s not easy, but not all problems are solvable. And most people have to solve their own problems. There’s the reality of it. Instead of getting a handout from the government, they need to go get their tails moving and get the work done.
SPEAKER 11 :
And there’s such a dignity in that work as well. Amen. Really appreciate it. Jay Davidson, we will talk again next month. Thank you so much. And again, that is Jay Davidson with First American State Bank. And be sure and check that out. And another great sponsor of the show is Ben’s Plumbing, Heating and Cooling.
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SPEAKER 08 :
Well, a lot of things. And good morning and thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything that you have done to expose what is happening to our freedoms. And our little banker friend, you know, he’s quite eloquent. That he is. He laid it out very beautifully. And I wasn’t going to do this, but I want to cover a couple of things. One, yesterday I finally got to watch a second hour that Trent Luce does with Bryson Miller from the auction people up in Brush, Colorado. And Bryson is a dad, younger than me, and everybody’s younger than me, but the bottom line is he did not know when he started out what was going on in the schools in terms of gender therapy, gender counseling, you know, the entire social transitioning of a child before you get into the chemical and the physical. And You know, for someone who had learned it so late in the game, he was incredibly elegant. And he really got involved because he is on the school board. And all these people running for school board, my first notice to them is they need to look at what is happening from the first counseling event from K through 12 on up. to all the other curricula and agenda that the schools are promoting with taxpayer dollars. And I want to give you one little tiny example here. I’m going to read this because I don’t want to blow it. We all know about when we would go to protests like the drag shows where they were bringing kids in. And I did that, you know, till I had my medical operation and all this. They would come at you with their little umbrellas and intimidate you, even cuss at you. And I would just stand there and, you know, okay, come on, get you some. Let’s go, you know. But this is a thing of intimidation like Marxism. Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals. Do you remember what the rules were? Blame, shame, mock, isolate, quote, make fun of, you know, and destroy that human mental strength. Well, um, they not only go to everything to supposedly protect children that they were ferrying into these drag shows. And we weren’t saying, don’t have your drag show. What we were saying was don’t bring children in and have them perform for you. Well, do you remember this? Um, The groups are using nonprofit status, not just Parasol Patrol, all the different LGB, et cetera, groups are using a lot of nonprofits, okay? So today, money is funneled through these groups. There’s a former co-chair of the Parasol people, I believe it was Mr. Powell, mentioned earlier known as Tiara Latrice Kelly. Do you remember that bill? Was it 1039 to name change?
SPEAKER 11 :
I don’t remember which one that was, yeah.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah, is a convicted felon and sex trade activist who stages child drag performance in burlesque houses and churches. Well, these activists, let me keep going. So there’s another one, Miss Shirley Delta Blow on an Adams County school teacher who does drag, you know, story times, organizes child…
SPEAKER 11 :
And I think, Gammy, the bottom line is what you’re saying is that there is this, before you get to the pharmaceutical transitioning or the surgical transitioning, these kids, these are people in positions of influence that are influencing these kids at a young age, and a lot of parents have not realized that. Am I getting that correct? Is that really the thing that you want to focus on?
SPEAKER 08 :
I am wanting to say the taxpayer is literally paying for child drag shows or story hours or a myriad of services for affirming gender or affirming LGBTQ binders for women, you know, to pre-transition them and everything that’s happening in this culture. Culture is – this is Adams County. We’re talking Boulder, Broomfield, Arvada, and Denver Center of Performing Arts even had programs, all taxpayer dollars, to promote this. So what I’m trying to say is it’s bigger than just the group with the umbrellas or this group or that group. This has been entrenched into the taxpayer dollar, and we, the people –
SPEAKER 11 :
Absolutely. And to that point, and you can go back to Woodrow Wilson, when we ended up putting in the income tax. And once that happened, so this has been over 100 years, then they said, well, gosh, there should be entities that are helping people. For example, many times it was churches that were had hospitals, orphanages, different entities like that, well, they shouldn’t be taxed. So then what happens is right off the bat, you start to treat different entities differently. And that’s why I say the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal, that means across the board, we should all be treated equally regarding taxation, under the law. And so they started this nonprofit status. Well, then that grew and that grew and that grew. And to Gammy’s point, we’ve gotten to a point where they became non-governmental organizations OK, but then we got into all of this grant writing. And as Jenny always says, they’re addicted to OPM, other people’s money. And this whole nonprofit status, we’ve seen it as as Gamia said, it’s been used against us. And it’s not only in this whole gender ideology, but you could see that regarding trying to shut down the oil and gas business. And so with Trump in office to try to unravel over 100 years of getting us to this point. This is a very big deal. And I think also to Gammy’s point, though, people stepping up and running for school board, running for city council. We have been kind of fat and happy living on the fumes of freedom, not paying attention. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we’ve had this assault upon our children. And so when we had these Douglas County School Board members on in the first hour, if you missed that, you can hear that this afternoon in the one to two hour. They mentioned transparency. And I think that this is also something that GAMI focuses on on a regular basis is we need to know. Parents need to know what is happening in the schools. We and gosh, this was when I first started to broadcast. I had some parents from the Cherry Creek School District that somehow the parent had gotten into the child’s, the student’s portal and So the portal thought it was the student and it took the mom to a couple of clicks to pornographic sites. And this was via the portal for the student. And so we have not realized that this has been going on. And to Gabby’s point, we need to understand that many of these NGOs have been really, with our tax dollars, has been promoting this agenda. So her point is so well taken. And that’s why we’ve got to stop all these government grants. We’ve got to stop special treatment. Tax incentives, tax credits. We’ve got to stop all of that. And I think Trump is serious about this. And so it’s not only in the transgender ideology, keeping boys out of girl spaces. It’s in the energy sector, the food sector, the transportation sector, all across America. So many all across the things that affect our lives. So I do appreciate Gammy. She is so well informed and she cares deeply about our children. And I really do appreciate that. Our quote for the end of the show came in via the text line. And it’s from E.B. White. He was born in 1899. He died in 1985. It’s an American story. a writer, contributor to the New Yorker magazine. And this is from the sources, the points of my compass in 1960. And he said this, he said, liberty is never out of bounds or off limits. It spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men. So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way. My friends, you are not alone. God bless you, and God bless America.
SPEAKER 12 :
like a new moon rising fierce through the rain and lightning wandering out into this great unknown and I don’t want no one to cry but tell them if I
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