Kim Monson covers a wide-ranging show focused on local control, state overreach, and the policy fights shaping Colorado right now. Karen Gorday joins to discuss the Lakewood special election over zoning and why voters need to understand that a yes vote means rolling back the city’s upzoning push. Kim also highlights Radiant Painting and Lighting’s new fire-retardant exterior coating for wildfire-prone homes along the Front Range.
Ramey Johnson joins the conversation to break down House Bill 26-1254, an audit enforcement measure that died in committee, and to explain why stronger oversight of state agencies matters. The show also spotlights CUT
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I see big danger in as much as we will be giving an unelected bureaucrat the power to make rules about what we inject into our bodies.
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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, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting. Happy Thursday, Producer Joe.
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Happy Thursday, Kim.
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And we’ve got another great show planned for you today, so fasten your seatbelts. Check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. While you’re there, we have revamped everything. It has been three years in the making to add in these next two things regarding what we’re doing from a press standpoint. And we’ve added in the Kim Monson newsroom as well as our community. And in order to get the Daily Digest, which we hope that we’re going to start to publish that this next Monday. It might be the Monday thereafter. But we are publishing amazing articles. journalistic articles as right now so you can check all of those out by going to the the news icon there on the website so check that out but join us and we have started a community as well where we will be able it’s a modern salon where we will converse and connect and contemplate these important ideas so that we can reclaim colorado and reclaim the American idea and this great American class, middle class, where everyday people can thrive and prosper and take care of their families and create wealth for themselves and their families. So lots is going on. So check out the website. And you can email me at kim at kimMonson.com. The text line I want to hear from you is 720-605-0647. And I thank all of you who support us because we are an independent voice. on an independent station searching for truth and clarity as we look at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. Something’s a good idea. You should not have to force people to do it. And it’s not compassionate and it’s not altruistic to take other people’s stuff like their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhood, or lives via force and control. And it could be a weapon. We know that. But it’s policy. It’s things that are more subtle. Unpredictable and excessive taxation. Fees. Fear. Coercion. Government-induced inflation, which is the silent thief. The agenda of the World Economic Forum and globalist elites. Their tools are the United Nations, but we’re seeing this play out all the way down to local government and special districts, school districts as well. And so that is why we do the show, is so that we can understand these issues, become informed on them, and then can take action. Now, I know it can seem overwhelming that there is so much that’s going on out there, and it is. But choose one thing. What’s the thing that you are concerned about? And become involved in that. And if each of us will do that, it will make a difference. And so let’s see. Oh, on the show, we focus on the issues. We’ll mention the people around those issues, but we really try to stay out of name-calling, personality-finding, unless, of course, Caden’s on the show. Then we do have a little bit of name-calling. But other than that, we try to watch that. But he is fervent in his care for our children. We talk about it afterwards. We each have our jobs on what we’re supposed to do and our different styles. But really here, I try to focus on the issues and stay out of the personality stuff. So let’s say thank you to some of our sponsors. I thank the Harris family for their diamond sponsorship of the show. Greatly appreciate them. And also Hooters Restaurants. They have locations in Loveland, Westminster, and in Aurora. And we’re getting ready for March Madness. I got invited to do a basketball bracket. Couldn’t figure out how to get in to do that, and I ran out of time. So I don’t have any bracket. Do you know, Joe, is this all starting this weekend? I don’t know for sure. I’ve got to check all that out.
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I actually really don’t know. I’m trying to stop watching basketball for a while.
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And we’ve been working pretty hard. So we’ll check that out. And, hey, text me. Let me know when March Madness starts. I think it’s this weekend. But just let me know. And so let’s see. Hooters restaurants will be a great place, though, to watch all those games. And, again, specials for lunch and happy hour Monday through Friday. And let’s see here. Our word of the day is omnipresent. And it’s O-M-N-I-P-R-E-S-E-N-T. And it could be present everywhere simultaneously, present in all places at the same time ubiquitous. And it could be the omnipresent God. He is everywhere all the time. And so I went to John Newton for our quote of the day. And John Newton was born in 1725, died in 1807. He was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist. He had previously been a captain of slave ships and an investor in the slave trade. He served as a sailor in the Royal Navy after forced recruitment and was himself enslaved for a time in West Africa. I did not know that. He is noted for being author of the hymns Amazing Grace and Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken. Newton went to sea at a young age and worked on slave ships in the Atlantic slave trade for several years. In 1745, he himself became a slave of Princess Pei, a woman of the Sherbo people in what is now Sierra Leone. He was rescued, returned to sea and the trade, and captained several more slave ships. After retiring from active seafaring, he continued to invest in the slave trade. Some years after experiencing a conversion to Christianity during his rescue, Newton renounced his trade and became a prominent supporter of abolitionism. Now an evangelical, he was ordained as a Church of England cleric and served as parish priest at Olney Buckinghamshire for two decades and wrote hymns. And he was also a good friend of William Wilberforce, who was also, he made it his life’s work. Two things Wilberforce did. He wanted to… get rid of the British slave trade, which it took, I think, 20 years of his life to do that, but also wanted to bring manners back to Britain and the British people. And we could use a little manners here in America as well. I think that just treating each other with some manners and respect could probably… solve a lot of the the issues that we have happening in our country right now but this is the quote from John Newton he said our work is great our time is short the consequences of our labor are infinite and that makes me think that this is an excellent segue into our guest she’s a great sponsor of the show She is an entrepreneur and owner of a radiant painting and lighting, but she and her team, I know they are spending hours regarding this special election in Lakewood. And I really think this is, it’s monumental what they’re doing. And I think the consequences of their labors are infinite. Karen Gorday, I hope you’re not blushing, but I think you and your team are just doing something so important.
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Well, thank you, Kim. And the team is growing every day. Every day we get people saying, how can we help? Can we pass out door hangers? And we have close to 40 people canvassing the city of Lakewood right now trying to get the message out. So it’s a pretty amazing movement going on in Lakewood right now. So the ballots have dropped, yes? Yes. They have not hit mailboxes yet. I would expect, they drop Monday, so I would expect them in mailboxes today or tomorrow. And certainly then over the weekend, people will start turning them in.
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Okay. And this election, the ballots are due April 7th, and the language is one of those goofy ones that in order to roll back this upzoning, which is densification and lack of parking and changing neighborhoods, you have to vote yes, right? Yes. That is correct.
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Yes means no. And that’s why we have 40 people canvassing the city, because every day we’re hearing, oh, I thought I was supposed to vote no.
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Okay, so this is a whole education thing, which is so important. And we’re actually going to have you on tomorrow as a featured guest with another one of your colleagues. So let’s move over to your business. And you’ve got some exciting things happening at Radiant Painting and Lighting.
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We do. And so we’ve partnered with a company that’s coming to Colorado, and it’s not the company that announced on Channel 7 earlier this week. It’s a different company. And they have a fire retardant product that goes on houses, and then you put two coats of Sherwin-Williams Emerald paint on top of that. And it’s a fire retardant because if you look at the wildfire interfaces, codes, urban interface codes, the WUI codes, they recommend a Class A 30-minute burn time on your house. And this is a Class A 30-minute fire retardant. And so this doesn’t mean it’s fireproof, but it’s a wildfire. It comes through. Chances are your house will be destroyed. But if those embers land on your house in the past, that would start the fire on your own house. Because of the fire retardant, those embers will not ignite. And so could be the difference of saving your house or the house being burned completely down. So it’s super exciting. We’re working on our first house. It has a golden address, but I will tell you it’s in a canyon up closer to Boulder and the winds have slowed us down this week. I mean, it took us a whole day to kind of prep the house because of high winds. And yesterday they were going to spray their fire retardant, but the winds were just, it was like a wind tunnel around this house. So I’m super excited to see the finished product and hopefully we’ll be done by Saturday. And if not Saturday, early next week, we’re just at the mercy of the wind.
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Karen, I was thinking about what our conversation would be this morning. And as you know, that’s on my list of things to do to repaint my house this year. I don’t know if I would need the fire retardant. We’ll have to talk about that. But I was thinking people that are saying, I might wait until next year. to paint my house, particularly in these areas in Boulder County, Golden, up in those areas. I would suggest that instead of waiting until next year, that they call you this year and get this done with as dry as everything is. That’s one of the things I’m learning with all of you sponsors is we, instead of… Just hanging around. We need to be proactive in everything that we’re doing. And I would suggest people give you a call and just get an idea how much it would cost.
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Absolutely. A product like this, and to your point, it’s a tinderbox out there right now. I mean, when’s the last time we were 81 degrees in the middle of March? And by Saturday, it’s going to be 90. I know. It’s just unbelievable to me. And… Seeing the winds, you know, firsthand the last couple days up in the canyon, it gave me a better understanding how these wildfires spread so quickly. And it’s so dry everywhere, but especially up there, right? And it’s just, it’s scary how bad those winds get sucked in the canyons and that causes the fires to spread. So, yeah, on something like this, If you’re up in Boulder County in the canyons and golden and you’re in a high fire risk area, it’s something to consider.
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And how can people reach you, Karen Gorday?
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They can go to www.paintwithradiance.com.
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Okay, great. And we will talk with you tomorrow as well. But thank you to you and your team for all that you’re doing. And in the words of John Newton, in fact, the consequences of your labors are infinite because what you are doing, you’re standing for individual freedom. And I really think this is monumental what you all are doing. Well, thank you, Kim. You have a great day. You too. And we have all these great discussions. In fact, I got to have lunch with Roger and Alice Mangan yesterday, and it’s just amazing. They’ve been in business for over 50 years, and the reason is because they strive for excellence, and their whole team strives for excellence as well. And they very possibly could save you some money on your insurance. The way to find out is just give them a call. That number is 303-795-8855. Like a good neighbor, the Roger Mangan team is there.
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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 not to be confused with Radiant Painting and Lighting, I’m so pleased to welcome another new sponsor, and that is Radiant’s Power. And Radiant’s Power specializes in providing expert electrical solutions for your home. Their licensed electricians excel in electrical installations, ensuring your systems are safe and efficient. Radiant Power offers comprehensive panel upgrades to enhance your electrical capacity, reliable generator installations to keep your home powered during outages, and custom lighting installations to illuminate your space beautifully. Colorado-owned Radiant Power offers better pricing for your electrical needs because of less overhead than the big guys. Contact RadiancePower.net for all your electrical needs, delivering quality, safety, and peace of mind with every project. And that is RadiancePower.net. And it is Thursday, and this is the day that I get to talk with some of my fellow Colorado Union of Taxpayer, or CUT, board members. And pleased to have on the line with me, Ramey Johnson. Ramey Johnson, welcome to the show. Thank you, Kim. Good morning. Well, it’s good to have you. And first of all, let’s brag a little bit on our team. And I want to say thank you to this group of people. These are all volunteers. So call us crazy, but we think the work is so important. Well, you know, the Patriots, they were all volunteers too, Ramey. But this group, when you see them, say thank you. To Steve Dorman, Greg Golianski, Russ Haas, Bill Hamill, Rob Knuth, John Nelson, Wendy Warner, Marty Nielsen, Ramey Johnson, Mary Jansen, Dave Evans, Corey Onozori, Paula Beard, and Ray Beard. And join us. It’s $25 a year. We’re gearing up for this big fight to save Tabor as well. But it’s quite the group, Ramey.
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Yes, it is, Kim. You send us bills on Friday, late Friday, after you’ve gone through them. I don’t know how you find the time to go through so many. But you look at them that have, with the eye, if you will, of how they affect cabers, how they affect families, how they affect personal property rights, if they’re increasing larger governments. And then this team will spend really most of their weekend going through these bills and trying to find out what’s really going on with the bill and sending you the ratings that we’ve come up with. And everybody comes from this from a different perspective, different background, different education, different ages. And so it’s really a pretty dynamic group. I’m very proud to be part of it.
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Well, it is a dynamic group, and I’m grateful for each and every one of them. Let’s talk about for our bill of the day. It’s a bill that died in committee, which that tells a lot. It’s House Bill 26-1254, and it’s sponsored by Representative Max Brooks, Representative Larry Don Sucla, and Senator Lisa Frizzell. and they’re all Republicans, but it’s audit enforcement. And this is a, Bill, you send out a newsletter on a regular basis, and you’re going to do commentary on this for your newsletter, correct? Can people get on your newsletter list, Rami Johnson? Yes, they can.
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If you’d like to receive my newsletter… Please write me. It’s Ramey, R-A-M-E-Y-K-Johnson at gmail.com. And I’d love to start sending you my newsletter.
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And your newsletter has great information, but also many times you can see your sense of humor coming through as well, which I love.
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Thank you, Kim. Thank you. This bill, 1254, it is really a shame that it was killed. It was sent to the state civil, military, and veterans affairs committee, which is usually referred to as the killed committee. And the reason why it’s called that is that all of the counselors that are, excuse me, all of the representatives that are on that particular committee are in very safe districts. So they can Vote no, and there’s no repercussions for them. Well, this bill is what they called postponed indefinitely, and that means that it was killed. And it was an audit bill, if you will. It was going to put some teeth into government oversight because we need a way of making departments comply with their audits. The two biggest departments that are really a very big concern, number one is the governor’s office. And two years ago, he had 20 audits. A year ago, he had 20 audits. And this year, six. And he has not responded. And then the second biggest one is health care policy and finance. Their budget is $5.5 billion. Two years ago, they had four audits. A year ago, four. And this year, so far, one. And neither one of them have really responded or complied. It’s a terrible shame that this bill died. And to be honest with you, it makes me a little… call me skeptical, but I’m wondering if the governor’s office had a way of making sure that this one did not make it through. There was another person that was on that bill, and it was a Democrat, which kudos to that person. Basically what this bill would have done, it would have given the legislature enforcement power over state agencies that ignore audit recommendations. And you have to wonder why would they not want that? Why aren’t they complying? What are they hiding? Particularly when you look at the situation in Minnesota with the fraud going on with Medicaid. And unfortunately, Kim, there’s been more concern at the federal level regarding Medicaid fraud And Colorado has come up in about five states that they are actually taking a look at. If the agency failed to demonstrate compliance, the state controller could then restrict 3% of that agency’s general fund appropriations. But I have to say the way it was written, was saying that they wanted the agency first to demonstrate that they had been trying to comply in good faith. So they weren’t just going out after people just to go out after them. They wanted to give them an opportunity first to say, we are gonna try and comply. And then if they didn’t put some teeth into it. So it’s a terrible shame that this one was killed in committee.
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Yes, and that Democrat sponsor or co-sponsor was Representative Jennifer Bacon, which I was actually surprised to see a Democrat put their name on that. But kudos to her for doing that. And, of course, Representative Max Brooks, Representative Larry Don Supla, and Senator Lisa Frisell, hats off to them for bringing this forward. And we are seeing a real uptick in people beginning to use our cut engaged. And this was the suggestion, the idea of Mary Jansen, who’s on the board, where she said, wouldn’t it be great with some of the bills that we take positions on that we think are really important bills that people could have their voices heard, that we could provide an easy way for people to send an email and have their voices heard? And so we at CUT, we invested in CUT Engaged, and it is really, it’s a cool tool because people are busy to sit on Zoom for hours for, you know, to testify online or to go down to the statehouse. It’s a significant time commitment, and not everybody can do that. But you can make your voice heard on these cut engaged bills. And so we let the group, they vote on which ones they think that we should put up. We will put up probably a maximum of five each week. And you go to the coloradotaxpayer.org, click on cut engaged. And it is in chronological order. So the latest bills are there posted. We had five this week. And you basically put in your name, you put in your email address, you hit next, and there will be a little box that’ll say, do you want to make an additional comment? You can say no, yes, or it’ll just affirm our cut position on it. You hit next and you can add in your own senator and legislator if you want to. If you do, then you just hit submit and that’ll go to the prime sponsors of the bill as well as your senator and legislator. So I timed myself, Ramey. And for this week, there were five bills, four minutes and seven seconds. I was able to have my voice heard on five bills and then I was able to go ahead and go about my day.
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You know what? The idea that Mary brought that out is brilliant. And you’ve actually taken it to a really high level. And I’m wondering as you’re speaking, those sponsors of that bill, frankly, I think they would love if people would go in and thank them for what they were trying to do. Oftentimes these bills get killed and Folks feel bad about it. I understand that, especially when they know it’s a good bill. So I would encourage your audience to go in, and it’s House Bill 26-1254. One of the prime sponsors was Bottoms. No, it was Brooks. Brooks, I’m sorry. And go in and thank them. And ask them if they consider doing it again.
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Okay, hold on. Yes, we did do that cut engaged. And so you’ll have to just go through the bills there and find that. We’ve got 31 bills that you can make your voice heard. We’re really going to be pushing. on that House Bill 1001, which is that’s the big upzoning where the state would take control of local zoning, and that’s working its way through. And then Senate Bill 135, which is the bill to refer a… Measure to the Ballot to Gut, Tabor, Colorado’s Taxpayers Bill of Rights. So we have those on there right now, and we will continue to utilize that. Rami Johnson, one other thing we should mention is you understand how all this works because you were a state legislator as well as you served as a city councilwoman in Lakewood. And I know you’re very involved in this special election as well, but you’ve continually stepped forward for the people of Colorado and for your community. And for that, I really appreciate it.
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Thank you, Kim. Thank you.
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Okay. And again, that was Remy Johnson, a CUP board member. And we have these important discussions because of our wonderful sponsors. And if you are thinking about moving up or down or out, give Karen Levine a call.
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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 very pleased to have on the line with me, Steve Gorham. And he is he’s an expert really regarding all these things in energy. And his most recent book is Green Breakdown, The Coming Renewable Energy Failure. Steve Gorham, welcome to the show.
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Hi, Kim. Great to join you again.
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Well, it’s good to have you as well. And, Steve, we had something happen out in Colorado, and I’m looking at your title of your book, Green Breakdown, Becoming Renewable Energy Failure. And then every time I’m out at Denver International Airport, they’re talking about sustainability and renewable jet fuel and things that – don’t always make a lot of sense to me. But yesterday, during spring break, the power went out at DIA. This is a pretty big deal. I immediately go, oh, it’s because of all these terrible policies and unreliable power sources that they continue to try to advertise that they are doing. But maybe that’s not the cause. But boy, my brain sure goes there, Steve Gorham.
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Yeah, I don’t think they quite know the cause yet. I think the power went down, and I think they’re still investigating it. Really awful, a big impact on a lot of travelers, and then also we have a reduced staff for TSA and all the other problems, so that’s kind of a big issue. Yeah, the Denver airport does have a policy to be sustainable. The biggest thing from aviation, of course, is jet fuel. You know, when jets are up there flying, for every… a pound of jet fuel, or we’ll say less every ton of jet fuel that is used, they put out 3.16 tons of carbon dioxide because you’re taking two oxygen atoms from the air, combining it with a carbon atom that’s in the jet fuel, and you’re putting out all this carbon dioxide. So they are big emitters of carbon dioxide. And so they want to go to the thing called sustainable aviation fuel system, which supposedly would reduce CO2 emissions. But, you know, it has to meet all the old specs that are required for jet fuel and the engines. And so when you burn staff, sustainable aviation fuel, you also emit 3.16 pounds of carbon dioxide. So it’s kind of, well, they say, well, we do it in a life cycle, you know, but it still has to go through a refinery and all the rest. So the whole thing is really kind of crazy. But it’s all part of climatism, the fear of man-made warming that has tied up everybody.
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Steve Gorham, so carbon dioxide… is plant food. And so when they say greenhouse gases and they demonize those, you think about a greenhouse, you think that’s a place where plants can thrive and flourish. And I recently heard a little kid that had come back from school in kindergarten, and they were learning about plants and photosynthesis, and they said, what does a plant need? It needs sunlight, it needs water, and it needs air. And I said, well, it actually needs carbon dioxide. And somebody said, well, that’s air. But I thought, are they not teaching that part now in school?
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No, it’s a shame they really aren’t. And Sometimes I ask when I speak to groups, what do cannabis growers know that the federal government doesn’t seem to know? And the answer is that carbon dioxide is plant food. Any marijuana grower worth his or her salt is literally pumping carbon dioxide into the greenhouse to make the crop go bigger and faster. And we all breathe out CO2. We breathe out about 100 times what we breathe in every time we exhale because… We’re burning sugar in our body, and we’re creating carbon dioxide. So every person on Earth exhales about two pounds of carbon dioxide every single day. But it shouldn’t be called a pollutant. The great thing is that it helps plants grow, and it helps our trees grow and everything else.
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It’s part of this big circle of life that the creator has created. Yes. And to demonize that. But what has happened, though, is climate alarmism has become a big business. I’ve always thought like Al Gore, talking about sustainable aviation fuel. I think he should be first. But I don’t see him with any long electrical extension cord flying his jet around the world.
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Well, that’s the case. I mean, and a lot of people have said that. John Kerry has said, well, he needs to fly in private jets because of the important work he does. And, you know, the Old Valley Mansions, former President Barack Obama bought a seashore property. Many others have as well, despite telling everybody about climate change for many, many years. So it’s It’s sort of do as I say, not as I do. It’s unfortunate. But, you know, this is all going to pass away at some point. We’re already seeing it around the world. Many leaders are in disarray about net zero and the fear of man-made warming. And this is all going to be knocked down as we go forward here.
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So let’s talk about the Trump administration, because let me get over here to my notes. And also, I wanted to mention that you are the executive director of the Climate Science Coalition, and you’re an advisor at the Heartland Institute as well. And you’ve written four books on energy, sustainability, climate change, and public policy. These are very important books. And the covers of each of these books is so entertaining, Steve Gorham.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, thanks so much, Kim. Yeah, it’s been fun writing these things. And the books are fun because they’re colored paperbacks. And in addition to the science and economics, they have all these sidebars, which are real headlines from newspapers. And here’s one of them. This was published by physics.org. And it said, quote, feeding cattle seaweed reduces their greenhouse gas emissions 82%. Yeah. So some people think, to heck with grass-fed beef. We’re all going to feed seaweed to our cattle now. But, you know, just another one of the crazy ideas.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, there is a war on cattle, and I have to ask why, because I know that beef is a great protein source, a dense protein source for people to be healthy. And you have to say, why is there this war on cows? So, Steve Gorman, my question on that then is when the big herds of cows of bison or buffalo were migrating back and forth on the high plains and in the west here. Well, they were emitting methane as well, yes?
SPEAKER 17 :
There were 60 million of them or something like that. We do have about a billion cattle on the face of the earth right now. And so They emit, just like people do, when you eat food, you emit methane from the nose end and the tail end, and that’s just part of agriculture. Again, the great news is that we shouldn’t be worried about eating beef because of carbon dioxide emissions. Beef is a great source of protein, as you say. They actually had a law in Australia for a while. They have They have a million camels that are roaming Australia out back. They call them feral camels. And they actually passed a law in 2012 that would offer carbon credits if you went out and shot these wild camels. They actually rescinded that. But just another crazy idea on this idea that we have to control carbon dioxide emissions.
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Good. And of course, then I’m I’m thinking the whole Second Amendment thing. I don’t know where Australia is on the Second Amendment and people having a right to bear firearms. But if you it’s crazy, it is crazy. Having carbon credits, it’s crazy for sure. But let’s talk a little bit about. Actually, you know what I think that we’ll do, Steve Gorham, is let’s go to break a little bit early so I don’t interrupt our next subject. And that’s the Trump administration and the U.S. government getting rid of the, what is it, the endangerment finding. And this is a really big deal. So let’s keep that as our cliffhanger. We’re talking with Steve Gorham. And he is the executive director of the Climate Science Coalition. But I did want to mention the two nonprofits that I talk about regularly on the show because they do such great work. And that is the USMC Memorial Foundation. The official Marine Memorial is right here. In Colorado, it’s in Golden, it’s 6th and Colfax, and the foundation takes care of it. They’re raising money for the remodel. They’ve got a big golf tournament coming up in May, and you can put your foursome together and register by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org. And then also the Center for American Values is located in Pueblo, co-founded by Drew Dix, a Medal of Honor recipient, and Brad Padula, who is an Emmy Award-winning documentary maker. And they said, we need to keep the stories alive of our Medal of Honor recipients and honor them, and also put together educational programs for our kids, K-12, with these foundational principles of honor, integrity, and patriotism. So support them, and you can do that by going to AmericanValuesCenter.org. And the sponsor of the show, who just does great work regarding mortgages, is Lauren Levy.
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SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, it is. It’s a huge deal. So back in 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency under President Obama issued what was called the endangerment finding that said that citizens of the United States were endangered by greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide and others. And this had become the basis for many, many laws, laws on vehicles, laws on power plants, a lot of other things. Well, the Trump administration now has rolled that back. Last month, Lee Zeldin, the new head of the EPA, said basically that in 2009, the EPA overstepped its bounds. The EPA gets its power from the Clean Air Act of 1970 and later versions of But the Clean Air Act didn’t talk about greenhouse gases at all, and it was not Congress’s intent to do that. So they have rolled back the endangerment finding. And by the way, they also said, quote, the EPA said its regulations have not and cannot have any material impact on global climate change concerns. So it’s now the official position of the United States government that carbon dioxide does not cause a dangerous climate change, which is a really big shift, and they’re one of the only nations in the world that would say that now. But this is going to have a huge effect. It removes all kinds of automobile zero emissions vehicle laws, which I think Colorado has something like that, and makes them all invalid. And it’s just going to be a tremendous shift in policy. And by the way, they say it’s going to save Americans over $1.3 trillion in vehicle costs over the next 10 years. So really a big deal.
SPEAKER 07 :
And when we have politicians, well, I call them PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that talk about affordability. That seems to be one of the hot words to use right now in politics. The important thing is for people to start to connect the dot to the way to make your life as more affordable. is to get rid of a lot of these taxes, fees, rules, and regulations so that you have more money in your pocket. So $1.3 trillion over 10 years in people’s pockets is a really big deal, Steve.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, it is. It’s very big. And another thing that has been forced on everybody is electric school buses. Colorado has big programs to try and put in electric school buses. New York and California were mandating that all new buses had to be, as a matter of fact, all buses had to switch over and be electric within a few years. Those are very, very expensive. Those buses are two or three times more expensive. They actually cost more to run than the diesel buses and other versions. So this is just one of the programs. And by the way, the administration also cut funding, federal subsidization of these electric school buses. So It may be that Colorado ends up changing their tune on this, but it’s just one of the many laws that the endangerment finding and other past regulations have put into place to make people make systems unaffordable like these electric school buses.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and we need to connect the dot on this. You said this is two to three times more expensive. Who pays for a school district’s electric buses? It’s the taxpayer. And out here in Colorado, we are having very high property taxes that are increasing that is stripping wealth from people because of these high taxes. So you can see how this policy… Mandating these buses actually, again, is hurting people in their pocket, making life less affordable.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and there’s also this misnomer that wind and solar are cheaper than other energy policies, and we have many states pushing that. Colorado now is the number six state in the nation in terms of wind energy output. But if you look at the top wind states, You’ll find that over the last 17 years, the eight of the 12 wind states have electricity rates that are increasing faster than the national average. Over that period, Colorado’s are up about 50% or the national average is up about 40%. And we have California where electricity prices have gone up 120% over the same period. So the idea that wind and solar are cheaper, despite what is said in the press, doesn’t bear out in the real economics that states are facing.
SPEAKER 07 :
So, Steve, you’re mentioning the press. Is the mainstream media starting to write real news stories about this whole climate thing, or are they still pushing that ideology? What are you seeing there?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, I think a lot of them are still pushing the ideology. We do see, though, there have been some studies that show that the number of mentions of climate change have gone down in the press in the last few months. I think the New York Times just cut almost all of their climate reporters. I mean, we have some things going on, which shows there’s a shift underway. And then also we have world leaders in turmoil on this. We’re stepping back from environmental, social, and governance. A lot of the banks have pulled back from that, the World Economic Forum. Larry Flint, who’s the CEO of BlackRock, said recently that you can’t power data centers on wind and solar. You just need something that’s dispatchable, power that’s dispatchable. So he has made a big turnaround there. So we see many world leaders now that are saying, well, you know, maybe this is just too expensive, net zero and all these other things. So along with the press, there’s a shift underway.
SPEAKER 07 :
And you were ahead of the curve on that. What do you think about these data centers, Steve? My understanding is that they’re energy power hogs and that they’re also water hogs.
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, they are, and it depends on the technology, but these things are on their way. Last year, the big hyperscalers, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, spent $380 billion on data centers, which is more than the gross domestic product of 140 nations individually. This year, they’re going to spend over $700 billion, but these things can use vast amounts of power. By the way, there was just a pledge signed with President Trump. He had the high-tech companies into his office, and they all agreed that this was earlier this month, that they would pay for the cost of data centers for the new power. They called it the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, and all these guys signed this in his office. So these companies should be going out and paying for these power plants that are needed. Build your own power plant for your own data center. And then water also, they’re using techniques, they’re recirculating water, and they’re actually using fluid instead of water to cool the boards and the cabinets and data centers. So I think that we’re going to find ways to do that. But, you know, this is something that’s on the way, and we’re all going to have data centers everywhere because of the AI revolution.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m kicking and screaming on this, Steve, because I’m like, why do they need all this data? And then I’m thinking it’s because they’re surveilling everyday people, and I really think that that’s unconstitutional in a lot of ways, but it is here, yes?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, they should be obeying privacy. I think that’s the case. I don’t know to the extent that is going on, but But we have these big supercomputers now that are accessing trillions of bits of data, you know, everything on the Internet and all over. And then they’re giving answers to people. You know, you can look up something and ask the questions, and it’ll survey the Internet and give you the answer, right or wrong. I think there are both good sides and bad sides to the AI revolution, but it is here. And we’re all going to need to live with it and determine how we can make it work and not give us all kinds of problems.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and that is a tall order for sure. Quickly, we have just a couple of minutes left. And California, how are they reacting going back to Lee Zeldin rolling back the endangerment finding?
SPEAKER 17 :
Well, there’s a big battle going on. President Trump just sued them for one of their vehicle laws, zero emissions law. And they said, this is an illegal law. It’s not the position of the states to do this. This is the purview of the federal government. So they’re fighting in court about that. And we have all these problems with California, of course. They have the highest gasoline prices in the country. They have the second highest electricity rates. and if you try and air condition a home in California in the summer, it can cost you almost $1,000 a month for your electricity, for air conditioning. There are just many, many issues with the state of California. So, you know, Colorado has some issues with trying to be green, but you’re still a big producer of oil and a big producer of gas, and you still use a lot of coal for your power plants, so your electricity rates are the rise is about equal to the national average over a period. But California is really going off the deep end with this, and I think they’re going to have to come back. Citizens aren’t going to stand for it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, in Colorado, though, the state legislature and this governor are trying to – there’s a real attack on our oil and natural gas and coal producers here, and we’ve got to connect that dot. Steve Gorham, your website is stevegorham.com. People can buy your books there?
SPEAKER 17 :
Yes, they can. If they go there and buy one, I’ll send them a signed copy. But they’re also on Amazon and they’re also e-books as well. And thanks, Kim. You’re doing a great job every day.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, thank you, Steve Gorham, and keep up the great work. We’ll talk again with you very soon. And again, that’s Steve Gorham, and that website is steve, S-T-E-V-E-G-O-R-E-H-A-M.com. Steve, we’ll talk soon. And our quote for the end of the show is from John Newton, and he said, By the grace of God, I am what I am. And again, John Newton had been a captain on slave ships, and then he converted to Christianity and worked diligently to get rid of the British slave trade, along with William Wilberforce. And it is amazing what… Few people can do as they start to go to work and put their minds to it. And so my friends today, 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. God bless America. Stay tuned for hour number two.
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And a really interesting first hour with Steve Gorham and Rami Johnson and Karen Gorday. And if you missed that, that will rebroadcast today, 1 to 2 in the afternoon. Or with our new revamped website, we are getting the daily recaps up by 11 o’clock noon, the day of, which is amazing with the… The actual transcript of the show, the actual podcast of the show, it’s amazing. So check out our website. And while you’re there, make sure that you are signed up for our weekly email newsletter. And even if you are signed up for that, you need to take another step, and that is to sign up for our Daily Digest, which will come out Monday through Friday in the afternoon with an important news story. So check that out. You can email me. at kim at kimMonson.com. The text line is 720-605-0647. Thank you to all of you who support us. We’re an independent voice on an independent station searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom. If something’s a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it. And let’s get over here to our word of the day. It’s omnipresent. And it’s O-M-N-I-P-R-E-S-E-N-T. And its definition is present everywhere simultaneously. Number two, present in all places at the same time, ubiquitous. And as we are looking at the challenges, the issues that we face every day, sometimes it can seem daunting. But we have to remember that the divine provider is omnipresent. And again, it’s O-M-N-I-P-R-E-S-E-N-T. A quote of the day is from John Newton, born in 1725, died in 1807. He was an English evangelical and Anglican cleric and a slavery abolitionist. But he had previously been a captain of a slave ship, an investor in slave ships, a slave trade. And he served as a sailor in the Royal Navy after forced recruitment and was himself enslaved for a time in West Africa. And he was enslaved by Princess Pei, a woman of the Sherbo people in what is now Sierra Leone. So I’m wondering if he or his posterity could sue for reparations. What do you think about that? Yeah. I know that’s snarky, isn’t that, Producer Joe? It’s a little snarky. Whoops, I can’t hear you.
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Okay, so anyway, interesting story, but anyway, he got to know William Wilberforce between the two of them, and Wilberforce was a parliamentarian, and it was his life’s work, the two of them, to get rid of the British slave trade, which they did. And so this is the quote from John Newton, and also he wrote Amazing Grace, which is an important Christian hymn. And his quote is this. He said, our work is great. Our time is short. The consequences of our labors are infinite. So what that means is we each have 24 hours in a day, and we really need to make it count. Our bill of the day, which we talked with Ramey Johnson, my fellow Colorado Union Taxpayer Board member, cut board member with, was House Bill 26-1254. Really a good bill. The sponsors on it, Our Republicans’ prime sponsors are Representative Max Brooks, Representative Larry Don Supla, and Senator Lisa Frizzell. And then Democrat Representative Jennifer Bacon came in as a co-sponsor. This died in committee, but it was audit enforcement. It is a reasonable bill. And there are… state agencies that have not fulfilled their audits. And this was just something to try to put some teeth into adhering to these audits. It died in committee. I think that that is very telling. But it is a good bill, House Bill 26-1254, concerning the enforcement of recommendations made by the state auditor. And we’ve got to continue to watch what’s going on. And when we have government entities, politicians, PBIs, politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties that are trying to shut down our voices and are not being transparent, we need to understand that. And we need to work to make a change, to vote them out of office and to rein in these out-of-control bureaucracies. And we have these important discussions because of our sponsors. And it’s Thursday, so we’ve got a Karen Levine Remax Realtor update. She’s our weekly update. Karen Levine, welcome. Well, good morning, Kim. How are we this morning? Well, we are well, and the weather is balmy. So what does that mean for the metro real estate market?
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Well, apparently it’s having a very positive effect on the real estate market as this past weekend was for me personally quite busy and I was able to help some sellers get their homes under contract and buyers. find their homes and it’s been busy. So I guess the weather is helping people understand it’s spring and they should get out and change their address.
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And if they’re going to do that, they should certainly give you a call. And Karen, you’ve been in the business for a long time. You’ve seen all these different things that have happened in the metro real estate market. but I know personally how you are able to help people change their address. You work with them to, to find out what their needs are. I think sometimes people don’t even know what they want and, and it really helps to sit down and have people think about what is it I want is as I changed my address. Exactly.
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And, um, There has been an adage in the marketplace in the real estate space that quote unquote buyers are liars and buyers are not liars. Buyers just don’t know. what their options are and they have a vision of what they want for their first home or their move up home or their move down home, but they don’t know really what the market has to offer them. And that’s where hopefully I can give them some guidance, provide them with some good knowledge, show them choices. And then when they thought, you know, one feature was very, very important, they came to find out that maybe that wasn’t as important when they looked at what the other features that were being offered in the marketplace were. So I think that’s where I help people navigate their home search and narrow it down to finding just the right property that fits their needs. And in that process, I always warn them, bring to their attention, they will make a compromise. It doesn’t matter the price range of which they’re shopping in, but something that they thought they had to have, they may give up for something else.
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Well, and to navigate through all this, this is so important. And then interest rates are, I guess, staying right about where they are. Lorne was on yesterday. The Fed met, and he said normally if the Fed’s going to meet, we have him come on the day after to comment on it. He said, I don’t think anything is going to happen with a change in interest rates with the Fed. And he was right. They kept things the same. They didn’t move interest rates up or down.
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Yes. And I think that just tells us that despite the uncertainty that we hear through our media, our economy is solid and strong and very positive, which is why the Fed’s not going to make any changes. They’re like, hey, things are pretty good. And With that said, the buyers in the marketplace are accepting the fact that the new normal is around that 6%. And if you look at the history of interest rates, that’s pretty typical. That would be quote-unquote normal. So I think we’re making adjustments mentally and in the marketplaces. to hopefully meet the needs of the buyers and sellers.
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Okay. Well, Karen Levine, if somebody wants to change their address, move into a new home, sell a home, move to a different state, how can people reach you so that you can help them? Well, they can reach me by giving me a call at 303-877-7516.
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And that’s Karen Levine, REMAX Alliance, 303-877-7516. Karen, we’ll talk with you next week.
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And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show. Be sure and check out our website. That is KimMonson, M-O-N-S-O-N.com. And many Coloradans are concerned about power brownouts and blackouts. If you have a medical condition, you need reliable power. If you work from home, power disruptions affect your productivity and income. Power disruptions are very inconvenient, and there is a solution, and that is our new sponsor, Radiant Powers. Expert generation installation services ensure your home remains a haven even during power outages. They’re licensed electricians specialized in providing reliable and efficient generator solutions that keep your home running smoothly. So for that peace of mind, knowing that your home is always powered, schedule a consultation and free estimate at radiantpower.net to discuss your specific needs. That’s radiantpower.net. And I’m pleased to have on the line with me Todd Callender. And he was referred to me by a mutual colleague who said he would be an excellent guest for the show. And he’s in an industry that I don’t think about that much because we’re in Colorado and we don’t have many seaports. But he’s working on seaports. I’m going to have him explain it a little bit. But before we get right into it, Todd Callender is with the CotswoldGroup.net. But Todd, my question, you’re based in, is it the Caribbean or the Caribbean? How do we pronounce that?
SPEAKER 01 :
Great question. Caribbean is how we say it. Thank you for having me this morning, Kim. Nice to chat with you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, it’s really fascinating. And the subject is a deep water port in Chili’s. And so we don’t know anything about this, or at least I don’t. So where should we start?
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, well, let’s start with this. I like your comment about Colorado not having any seaports. That’s true. But in the Caribbean, we have many. Our group invested in a giant plot of land in Chile eight years ago called Hacienda Castilla. And the reason we did is because it’s got this great giant peninsula that sticks out into the ocean. and acts as a natural breakwater deep on the lee side, which is a geological anomaly. But more importantly, South America is coming into a bloom in so much that there are a lot of minerals, there’s a lot of food down there, and all of a sudden the formerly despotic governments are turning around. They’re abandoning the communist-style dictatorships that have plagued the continent forever, and now they’re opening up to commerce. So we’re building what will be a megaport and effectively control the trade and commerce in South America because they’re now building a rail that goes from the East Coast to the South Coast to collect goods and services along the way to effectively compete with the Panama Canal. We don’t have to worry about droughts. We don’t have to worry about too much shipping one way or the other. So this is really a phenomenal opportunity for the United States in particular to now have its influence in South America that’s been missing for decades, like three decades. The Chinese are there. Everybody and their brother is there except for America. And now you see huge interest going in, including our project in the Atacama region of Chile.
SPEAKER 07 :
And so I did some of the research that you sent over. China is very interested in this. It seems like the Trump administration, United States should be paying attention. So what’s happening with that, Todd Callender?
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, well, the Chinese are already there, and they have been for a couple of decades. They’ve got their feet on the ground. They’re already in the mining business. Ninety-something percent of copper produced in South America is going to China. So as you look at our world transforming into this digital age, dependent upon minerals like copper, lithium is nearby, silver, all of these minerals are now considered to be high priority, even national security assets, and the Chinese effectively own them all in South America. So our port actually saves 16 days sailing time between South America and Shanghai, for example. Because of the size of the vessels they use, they call them Chinamax vessels, they can move 800% more cargo on these things than they can than any other ships on that side, even the Panama Canal or the east coast of South America. So the Chinese have got a very long-term view. They obviously want our port because now they’ll really control the entire continent if they get it. We’ve obviously been in discussions with them, but we’re also in discussions with a lot of players, including the United States. And our hope is, frankly, President Trump’s hope. The Americas are for the Americans, and it’s really time to collaborate together. The culture is more or less the same from the southernmost point of South America to the northernmost point. We all have an interest in economic growth, and frankly, all boats rise on a high tide. So our hope is to help deliver this back to interests that are a little bit more local.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you’ve probably heard the term, the Dunroam Doctrine, regarding… Yes. So what’s your thoughts about that?
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, I think he’s right. So if you look at… President Trump had a meeting with President Putin in Sochi. It was 2019. And immediately after he came out and he said, hey, I think national security is a function of trade, not war. And while we are in the middle of something with the Iranians, I really… unhappy about it because I think it’s going to spill over. The precept to the Donra doctrine is regional trade. And I think that’s right. We want good economics throughout our two continents, amongst all of our societies together, going in the same direction. China’s already got interest in Africa and other such places. Let them continue on with that. And I think we really have to take our continents back for ourselves. And I think that’s what President Trump is talking about.
SPEAKER 07 :
And what’s that term the Chinese had? It’s the something beltway, isn’t it?
SPEAKER 01 :
Oh, yes. So in 2013, IMF, the global bankers, convinced the Chinese to make a constitutional amendment to create what’s called the Belt and Road Initiative. Effectively, it’s an autonomous belt of transportation that goes around the world. Our port was destined to be the landing pad in South America for the Chinese. And so they would effectively control the flow of goods around the world through the Belt and Road Initiative. And the last leg, which is us, they have not yet completed. And frankly, I don’t want to see them complete that.
SPEAKER 07 :
And this is fascinating. So Todd Callender, tell me, what’s your story? How did you how did this all happen in your life?
SPEAKER 01 :
It’s not just my life. I’m an insurance executive. I run seven different insurance companies across the Caribbean and in the United States. Three of those insurance companies are actually formed and organized operating under the Chiricahua Apache Nation. So indigenous rights are coming into fruition, and we work with the Apache to build the insurance industry with them to help write their laws. This particular company, this insurance company that owns this project in South America, has actually asserted its territorial rights. It’s an indigenous reservation, effectively, 850 square miles in Chile. So this is, believe it or not, a function of my job in the insurance industry. We invest in projects all over the planet, and this just happens to be one of them, a really fun and exciting one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. The geopolitical… dangers we see on this this you’re in a really important position with the chinese and what they’re doing there and and these are pretty high stakes when you think about the minerals and products so this is a pretty high stakes endeavor right now
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah. Yeah. And it’s not just the United States. You can imagine there’s quite a few Middle East nations that are also interested, along with other Far East nations, not including China, because at the end of the day, countries are now understanding they’ve got to diversify their concentration risk. So if you look at the Middle East, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, the Saudi Arabians, they’re wholly dependent upon oil and all of which is getting blown up right now. So they have expressed interest. Hey, you know, we’ve got shipping operations. We have port operations. South America is a place where there’s lots of opportunity to exploit minerals and other things, including food. The vast majority of China’s food is actually grown in the Cordoba district of Argentina. It’s just on the other side of the Andes. Everybody’s rushing to safe havens, and so Chile just had an election, and it went from a very far left president to a very pro-commerce, very economical guy, and former president cast. He just took office last week, and now it’s set to boom, and the point being that nobody’s shooting at each other in South America anymore. All of the countries are coming online, frankly, with a vision of the Don Roe Doctrine. We’re seeing it now online. El Salvador kind of led the way. Then we got Argentina and Chile. Peru is coming on board. Bolivia just got a new president. And all of them see the same vision, which is the Americas for the Americans. And that’s really coming. So I’m really excited about it.
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SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, wow, that’s a great question because a lot of people miss that. So if you look at the Atlantic coast of even North America and South America, it’s shallow. And what that means is that Boats that carry goods have to have a depth. And so the more load they take on, the deeper the boat sinks. It’s called displacement. So by way of example, right now the food supply to Asia goes to the east coast of South America into ports that are in rivers, like Buenos Aires, for example. They go up the river into the city, even though 100,000 metric ton vessel. can get in there, they can only take on 50,000 metric tons of cargo food because the draft is too shallow. It’s effectively 14 meters at maximum, the best they can do. And silt from the river fills it up. So they have to dredge. And dredge costs billions of dollars annually to do this. So it’s extremely expensive. They can’t carry a full load. And then they have to sail all the way around the continent or they have to go through the Panama Canal. It takes time and money. Versus they can go right across the Andes with only a 3% grade. That means it’s shallow enough of a grade that rail can go over it. It’s the same distance by rail to either way. But if they come to our side, we can take a China Max vessel into our port. In fact, three at a time, each of which can carry 400,000 metric tons of food or cargo. So that’s literally an 800% increase with one ship. versus eight of the other ones going the other way around, and it takes another 15 or 16 days. On a good day, sometimes ships will wait 30 days to go through the Panama Canal. So really, it’s speed of transportation and a reduction in cost by 800%. That means food and minerals and other cargo effectively becomes cheaper. So it’s a game changer for South America, and we are the deepest water port. on the continent, and it’s naturally so. It’s 30 meters deep. We can take aircraft carriers, submarines, things of that nature because it’s so deep, and that’s why it’s a geological anomaly.
SPEAKER 07 :
And now these are really naive questions that I’m asking you, but thinking about lowering the cost, what, 800 percent, how are these ships powered? Is it diesel?
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, well, bunker C most of the time. So that’s actually a substrate of diesel. It’s muck. For the most part, that’s the case. But there is now a huge change, not just the shipping industry, but the world itself, where companies are introducing different technology, energy technologies, particularly green hydrogen. And there’s a huge amount of interest in that. in our area, because there’s 850 square miles of basically uninhabited land that we own. These green hydrogen plants, meaning that they’re splitting the water molecule in two to produce hydrogen, and they call it green because they can actually make it with solar power. It happens that Our property, the Atacama region, is the most efficient means of turning sun into electricity, 70% conversion ratio. So now we have companies from Europe, from the Far East, even the United States all saying, hey, we want to make green hydrogen there because the ships are changing to ammonia and green hydrogen to fuel them. So in other words… Oil is being phased out and replaced by more ecologically friendly substances. And then when hydrogen burn it, it produces water.
SPEAKER 07 :
Fascinating. So next question, then. So this clearly this port is very beneficial to China. How strategically I can see how it’s very important for the United States to maybe prevent some of the use of China. How how is this beneficial to the United States, though? And the question is, not just the, I mean, like product. How is that beneficial?
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, a lot of people don’t recognize or understand that a lot of our food also comes from South America. So ConAgra, Archer Downey Midlands, they all are taking food supplies out of Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay. There’s meat, there’s grains. That’s coming to the U.S. markets at the same time it’s actually going to Russia and it’s going to China as well. It’s the most productive area. I think it’s the second most productive area on the planet. So securing the food supply, which is considered to be a national security asset, and the mineral supply in particular because we’ve got rare earth minerals in abundance down there. So there’s a huge competition right now between particularly the United States and China as it relates to securing those supplies because The ones that we have onshore in our country are not largely developed. They’re new finds. But the ones in South America in the Atacama region where we are, these are mature. They already know where the minerals are. They just have to increase production, increase smelting to make it a little bit more efficient in transportation. So everybody knows it’s there. It’s just a function of actually getting it. And right now, unfortunately, the continent is dominated by China. So the U.S. better get moving if they’re going to do something about this.
SPEAKER 07 :
And when you say get moving, what should that look like?
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, sadly, you know, in Chile, our embassy down there didn’t have an ambassador for eight years. No leadership. They just kind of sat there and did not a lot while the Chinese were taking over the country. 64% of the Chilean power supply belongs to the Chinese. their industries are they’re building roads they’re doing engineering projects they took over an ownership interest in rio tinto so they’re exploiting the lithium fine in other words they’ve been there in a mature robust market for a couple of decades while no u.s interest effectively are there so and what i’m trying to say to you is that our government took the approach for the last couple of decades You know, hands off. We’re going to leave South America to South America. And, of course, all voids must be filled. And that void was filled with Chinese investment. So now the United States has got to reverse that if they seek to secure those supply lines, those supplies and supply lines. But the bureaucratic malaise is just astounding to me. They don’t move particularly quickly despite expressing interest. There’s very little movement that I can see.
SPEAKER 07 :
If you’re saying for a couple of decades, that means that this inaction would have been across both sides of the aisle.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yes, that’s right. 100% correct. In fact, there was a lot of initiative in our government to actually cooperate in creating, for example, the North American area. Joe Biden went to Mexico City along with Prime Minister Trudeau and met with Obrador, the president of Mexico, and they agreed to the North American area. The next day, Alejandro Mayorkas, the head of DHS, welded open the border gates. In other words, They were eliminating sovereignty amongst nations while China was increasing its sovereignty. And it appears to me that this malaise in our government was intentional to allow effectively domination by the Chinese globally.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow, this has put us in quite a spot. Another question, you said there’s a lot of food production, a lot of minerals, rare earth minerals. What about hydrocarbons, oil, natural gas? Does that exist in South America?
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, it does exist in South America, particularly in the northern regions. So Venezuela, obviously, and some other areas in that region. But more importantly, the minerals in the Andes, that’s the volcanic kind of stuff that gives rise to these things in terms of concentrations, is full of minerals. But the answer is yeah. It is around there, less so in the southern cone, and I think that’s why a lot of those countries are moving towards the greener energies that will compete head-to-head with hydrocarbon. Look, I’m a big believer in oil. I think it’s been around for a long time. We’ve got it down fairly cheaply generally. As these new technologies come online, it’s going to take a while for them to become mature and robust and tested.
SPEAKER 07 :
And economically viable, probably.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yes, that’s right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. Next thing, the Iran war, the Iranians are saying, or maybe they have, again, I’m in Colorado, so I don’t pay quite as much attention to those shipping lanes, but the Straits of Hormuz, this is a big deal. There’s rhetoric back and forth. They want to close it. Don’t close it. So what’s going on with that?
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, that’s a tough one, insomuch that the Iranians created something called the Asdar some years ago, which is effectively an autonomous torpedo. It sits on the bottom of the ocean, and when it’s activated, it goes after whatever its target is. They’re hard to discern where they are and when they’re going to appear, and that’s effectively put a stalemate in the Straits of Hormuz. The Saudis were shocked. They’re extremely smart. Long ago, they built a pipeline going across this entire desert to the Red Sea. They turned it on, I think, just a few days ago, and they’re moving 7 million barrels a day through that pipeline. So there’s some adjustment happening. I think that what will happen is over time, the Chinese who get the vast majority of their oil through the Straits of Hormuz from Iran, as does India, are going to force the situation whereby it’s going to have to open up again because the Iranians are becoming very unpopular globally with closing the Straits of Hormuz. The economic pressure on them is going to be enormous.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, and I did, I saw a headline that in India, I guess cooking oil is really important, and they’re not getting that, and people are getting cranky about that.
SPEAKER 01 :
Well, in Australia, they now have filling stations closing. Your gas stations are closing all over the place. In fact, Sydney, I think, is out of aviation fuel, so flights will slow down. I mean, the whole world runs on fuel, on oil, effectively. Energy is the dominant factor in any economy. So when they shut that off, 20% of the world’s supply is now shut off. That’s a big deal.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s a very big deal. Next question. You mentioned that people in South America are voting for, I would say, more freedom kind of candidates. Malay in Argentina. What’s what’s like Malay and these these other newly elected attitude towards China?
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, they see the same writing on the wall. They’ve gone through their communist experiments, and they’re rejecting it because all it’s done for the last 20 or 30 years is very left-leaning socialist, frankly communist-style governments with the despots in charge, stealing them blind. The people in these countries have come to suffer this socioeconomic experiment, and they’re rejecting a wholesale. So Argentina is a great example in so much that the inflation rate was in excess of 100% per year when Millet took over. Now it’s down to a trickle. He’s really turned that economy around, and the reason for that is capitalism works. Companies and people invest when they expect there’s a profit to be had, and they don’t invest for no reason. In other words, if you’re not going to get any profit out of it, why would you do that? And that kind of malaise has plagued the continent heretofore, and that is changing around like whiplash, kind of changing around really quickly. And malaise has led the way. It’s done a very good job of getting that economy under control.
SPEAKER 07 :
But meanwhile, back at the ranch, Todd Callender, we are actually voting for communism. Take a look at what’s happened in New York City. What’s your thoughts on that?
SPEAKER 01 :
I think it’s despicable. In my career as a lawyer, I practice international law. I’ve actually lived and worked in two communist countries, so I have seen it and know it firsthand. Early in my legal career, I was undoing the Soviet model economy in Poland, funny enough. So where you see Canada as a good example, like Colorado, they’ve got a 97% effective tax rate. Why would you even go to work? So what’s happening from an economic and socioeconomic point of view is people are falling for the bait, which is they’re going to get either government benefits or government jobs. And when 50 percent or more of the income to the people comes from government sources, you are now effectively in a socialist slash communist environment or economy. And what it does is it takes out the profit motive. People become lethargic. Why are they invested in work if there’s nothing in it for them anymore? So they’re going down the wrong road, and the only thing communism slash socialism does is make everybody equally miserable except for the 0.0001% of the top. Notably, Mondami is a billionaire. Interesting. He doesn’t care.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, now clarification. You said something about Canada, Colorado, 97%. Clarify that.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, so Canada, effectively, for people that own their own businesses, the top rate tax in Canada is 97%. Colorado is moving towards that very same model, as is New York. So if the government’s going to pay away money to people, universal basic income or jobs or Whatever the case is, the government’s got to get its money from somewhere. And so it sucks the life out of people. And Colorado’s progressively started adding more taxation to everything you do. So when you add all the taxes up, they will start edging closer and closer towards that Canadian model, which is a 97% effective tax rate. I just would mention to you, by the way, when I left Poland, the Russians also left behind a 94% tax rate, meaning that The Canadians are now more Soviet than the Soviets were, and I fear Colorado’s headed in that direction.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, we’re working to try to prevent that. I did see a headline that Kathy Hochul, governor of New York, has requested that the millionaires and billionaires that have moved from New York to Florida come back and do their patriotic duty and pay their taxes. Todd Callender, this has been fascinating. Your final thought that you’d like to leave with our listeners, and you are with the Cotswold Group out of the Caribbean.
SPEAKER 01 :
Yeah, that’s right. Thank you very much for having me on. You know, I grew up in Colorado. I love it. I miss the old Colorado, and I’ve been sorely disappointed by how it’s not even liberal. The communism has flowed into the state, Denver in particular. It’s going the wrong way. Coloradans, please wake up. Take your government. Take your state back, or otherwise it’s going to be a disaster. It’s up to you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, we’re working diligently to reclaim the Colorado that we love. So Todd Callender, fascinating. Have a great day. We greatly appreciate it.
SPEAKER 01 :
It’s my pleasure. God bless all.
SPEAKER 07 :
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SPEAKER 04 :
That area is basically the entirety of Douglas County except for the municipalities and Highlands Ranch. So it’s that greater part of the county.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, and tell us a little bit about yourself, Deborah. Devoted wife, devoted mother.
SPEAKER 04 :
I’m just reaching 60 years old, and I’ve been in politics now here in Colorado for almost 10 years. And I’m a strong believer in conservative values. I’ve been a Republican since I was before 18, grew up in a family where there were people on both sides of the political fence. And I wish I could say that I converted my father from pro-labor agnostic to a Catholic and a conservative by the time he died. But I think that was really more about having a conversation.
SPEAKER 07 :
And, well, that’s what we do on a regular basis is having conversations about these important issues. Colorado is in a tough spot, Deborah. And my volunteer gig, I’m president of the Colorado Union of Taxpayers. It’s an all-volunteer group. And we’re watching this legislation. down at the Statehouse. And there’s some good bills. Most of those don’t make it to see the light of day. But it’s almost uncontrollable what’s happening down at the Statehouse, Deborah. My question is, why would you want to put yourself through that?
SPEAKER 04 :
I don’t look at it as putting myself through it, although a good friend of mine did call it extreme public scrutiny. That’s the price we pay, I think, for public service. But it’s in my blood. I’ve had fighters all throughout my ancestry. But I fight battles every day in my day job. And so that part of it doesn’t bother me. I go to the table and I fight. I’ve fought against Polis and CDOT. I’ve fought against… the Boulder Democrats. And I’ve been able to talk and work and win in rooms like Denver Regional Council of Government and CML Policy Board, the Colorado Municipal League. So when I saw that there was a need to address some of the biggest issues like local control and some of our parental rights down at the statehouse, I jumped in. I’m ready for it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay and that was my next question. What do you feel are the most important issues that you would want to work on?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well I think the biggest issue facing Douglas County is the worry about losing local control. You know we’ve seen a lot of objection to whether or not people’s voices are heard, but the real fight, the real concern, the real threat is from the state house. We have bills like 1101 that are threatening to allow the state to decide how to use our land, like, for example, on Anchors Green, and not have any public process whatsoever. So in those circumstances, when that bill passes, we are reliant then on the governor to sign it. And last year, we convinced the governor not to sign it, and it’s back. So it won’t matter. If you have a commissioner that you don’t like, it won’t matter if you get shut down from public comment from them like I have been. It’ll matter worse because nobody will have a say. That means things like wildfire, neighborhood feel, evacuation issues. None of that will be on the table because the state will let a school or a church zone and build whatever they want as long as it’s quote unquote for the public good. So I’ll fight that fight where it matters.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And I think it’s House Bill 261001, which was the very first bill out of the out of the chute down there. So what that means is that is a priority by the Democrats. And Deborah, I always like to make this distinction. The Democrats that are in power here in Colorado at the statehouse. Well, and also in a lot of local government positions as well and county and the governor. This is not the Democrat Party of your grandpa and your grandma. These are radical activists that, as Todd Callender said earlier, is moving us to extreme taxation, which we all agree that I think there’s a necessary, a proper role of government. But this excess taxation and spending is out of control. This is not the Democrat Party of your grandpa and your grandma.
SPEAKER 04 :
And, you know, I may be one of the few people that did talk to grandma and grandpa about those issues. And I have that historical perspective from them. But I can give you a little bit of flavor. Just last night at Denver Regional Council of Government, I spoke up and I made a motion on a couple of support and opposed a couple of bills. I was opposed. Right now, we have the fees from Senate Bill 260 a few years ago that were improper taxation to do things like fix greenhouse gases and things like that. There was a percentage of that that was supposed to go to roads. Now, I’m a bit of a transportation wonk. It was supposed to be split between multimodal transportation and some of it going to roads. And if the best we got was fixing trails and bike lanes on our roads, okay, we’ll take that. So we bite the bullet. We lose that battle. We have all these fees every single time you buy something. Now, because the government has mismanaged that budget so badly, they now want to take that away. So they want to now take those fees and allocate them to bus day. So we’re not even getting our trails and our bike lanes anymore. That’s going to be cut too. Those are the things that we need to fight. We need to read every little piece of that bill and make sure that people understand what the true impact is going to be on us.
SPEAKER 07 :
And while you’re saying this, watching on cut that House Bill 1001, which would circumvent local zoning and planning, and the state could allow, as you say, it could be multifamily housing on school property. But one of the other things was housing authorities. And now I can’t remember. I think we talked about the bill yesterday. Is there is going to be. A bill that would would allow local jurisdictions to put a question before the people, a taper question on creating a sales tax for housing authority. So just it’s like we will then be funding our own demise on all of this stuff. Deborah.
SPEAKER 1 :
You’re right.
SPEAKER 04 :
And when a bill says you have the right to do something, I question why are you putting that in a bill? Because we have that right already. So, for example, the bill that has to do with increasing the number of commissioners, if you read that carefully, we already have that right. Why is the proper role of government to put in paper that you have the right to do this because we say it’s the right thing to do?
SPEAKER 07 :
Or can you just not exercise your rights and let the people choose what they want? That’s a good idea. And that was an interesting bill cut. It was a no on that, but had different conversations. The bill sponsored reached out to us. And I don’t think it got to this point. We felt that I think generally I shouldn’t speak for the board totally. But if if it had gotten to a point where it was five commissioners, where each was elected by district district. That would mean that like people in more conservative Larimer County or Boulder County would have a voice. We kind of like that idea. I don’t think that that happened on the bill. So I get that. We’ve got about, well, yeah, about 30 seconds left. Deborah Mulvey, how can people get more information? What’s your final thought?
SPEAKER 04 :
You can find out more about my efforts to fight law and order, affordability, and transparency on my website, DeborahMulvey.com. I’m running for Statehouse District 39, and you have a choice, and I want to give you that choice. You can find out more by calling me as well. That number’s on my website, and you can click through. The bottom line is, our residents deserve a choice. And in my district, 39 is the biggest example of what can happen when we have five commissioners versus two. So I encourage people to get elected, look at my records, see the things I’ve done. I’ve had strong successes getting the far-range passenger rail to stop imposing its will on Castle Rock. I won on ranked choice voting against Boulder, and I want to continue those fights in the legislature.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, Deborah Mulvey, that’s M-U-L-V-E-Y, V-E-Y, excuse me, M-U-L-V-E-Y. Thank you. Our end of the show quote is from John Newton. He said, by the grace of God, I am what I am. We’ll talk to you tomorrow.
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