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[00:12] Kim Monson: The socialization of transportation, education, energy, housing, and water.
[00:17] Kim Monson: What it means is that government controls it through rules and regulations.
[00:22] Show Cold-Open Announcer: The latest in politics and world affairs.
[00:27] Kim Monson: Under this guise of bipartisanship and nonpartisanship, it's actually tapping down the truth.
[00:33] Show Cold-Open Announcer: Today's current opinions and ideas.
[00:36] Kim Monson: On an equal field in the battle of ideas, mistruths and misconceptions is getting us into a world of hurt.
[00:44] Show Cold-Open Announcer: Is it freedom or is it force?
[00:47] Show Cold-Open Announcer: Let's have a conversation.
[00:51] Kim Monson: And welcome to the Kim Monson Show.
[00:55] Kim Monson: You each are treasured, you're valued, you have purpose.
[00:58] Kim Monson: Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body.
[01:01] Kim Monson: My friends, we were made for this moment in history.
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[01:37] Kim Monson: As you know, we search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom.
[01:44] Kim Monson: If something's a good idea, you should not have to force people to do it.
[01:48] Kim Monson: And it's not compassionate and it's not altruistic to take other people's stuff, whether or not it's their rights, their property, freedom, livelihood, opportunity, childhood, or lives via force.
[01:59] Kim Monson: but it can be policy and unpredictable in excess of taxation, fees, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, legislation, the agenda of the World Economic Forum and the globalist elites and their tools.
[02:11] Kim Monson: You see them at the United Nations, this Colorado State Legislature, this governor, but at county, local, school district, and special district levels.
[02:20] Kim Monson: As on the show, we focus on the issues.
[02:23] Kim Monson: We'll talk about the people pushing those issues.
[02:25] Kim Monson: We work to stay out of the personality issues.
[02:28] Kim Monson: Stuff that can happen in politics and in eighth grade with eighth grade girls.
[02:32] Kim Monson: Our word of the day, let's get over here.
[02:40] Kim Monson: It could be a learned person, a scholar.
[02:44] Kim Monson: Number two, it could be a man of learning, one versed in literature or science, a person eminent for acquirements.
[02:50] Kim Monson: Number three, a person of learning, one who is versed in literature or science.
[02:54] Kim Monson: And I would say last night, Joe, I had the opportunity to, I would see, hear a savant.
[03:03] Kim Monson: And that is Bill Federer was in town.
[03:06] Kim Monson: And you hear him in between the two shows with the American Minute.
[03:11] Kim Monson: He's a regular, typically during our special shows.
[03:16] Kim Monson: He spoke regarding Islam, Muslims, Christianity, Islam.
[03:25] Kim Monson: And so I would say he's a savant on this complete subject.
[03:29] Kim Monson: And we've had him on the show, Joe, a lot, but I still learned even more last night.
[03:35] Producer Joe: Every time we have him on the show, I learn something new, and it could be about a topic that I'm pretty familiar with, and I still learn something new.
[03:42] Kim Monson: Yeah, and Islam, and when Frank Gaffney was on the show, let's see, we had him on, was it Monday?
[03:50] Kim Monson: Sharia is hiding behind being a religion.
[03:57] Kim Monson: But in fact, it is a political system, and ultimately it can become a military system.
[04:05] Kim Monson: And that is what Islam—that's what Muhammad, he began as a religious leader, then he became a political leader, and then military.
[04:16] Kim Monson: So it was really, really interesting.
[04:21] Kim Monson: So on the text line, if you send me a text, it doesn't come in on who, I don't get the identification who it is.
[04:30] Kim Monson: And so if you want me to know who it is, just put your name on there.
[04:34] Kim Monson: But yesterday I was talking about Benjamin Franklin and this quote, and one of our listeners said, I like to get my quotes right.
[04:43] Kim Monson: And this quote is from Benjamin Franklin.
[04:46] Kim Monson: He said, he who would trade liberty for some temporary security deserves neither liberty nor security.
[04:54] Kim Monson: And so those that are trading their freedom for government rights,
[05:01] Kim Monson: Ultimately, what the government giveth, the government can taketh away.
[05:05] Kim Monson: And so instead of trading your security for a little bit, or your liberty for a little bit of security, let's lower taxes across the board.
[05:19] Kim Monson: Let's lower all the stuff that happens in our lives, all the rules, regulations, and let's let people have their liberty to go after their hopes and dreams.
[05:29] Kim Monson: And that's why we do the show is to get our brain around these issues.
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[05:58] Kim Monson: And the question on the table, Carl, is what sets Radiance Power apart from your competitors?
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[06:47] Kim Monson: And talk to me about the quality work that you do.
[06:51] Kim Monson: I had talked with another sponsor, Ben Williams, with Benz Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling.
[06:55] Kim Monson: He said the two of you had worked together on a project and that he was just very impressed with the cleanup, the way that you left the property after your work was done.
[07:07] Carlton Jones: Yeah, with residential, we do try to take extra special care, as we know, usually when we leave the property.
[07:16] Carlton Jones: There is no return visit the project has done, and we want the homeowners to have a sense of the new components being there, but the house just being the way it was.
[07:28] Carlton Jones: Any kind of additional cleanup is usually something that is discussed with the homeowner before leaving, because we do do our diligence to leave it better than when we found it, and we want to have a good image for return clients as well.
[07:45] Kim Monson: This seems to me like this is a no-brainer, but apparently in the industry, it is something that, for example, Radiance Power consciously does, is to clean things up.
[07:59] Kim Monson: You would just think that everybody does that, but apparently that is not the case.
[08:07] Carlton Jones: And I will have some customers along that vein as well, where they go...
[08:14] Carlton Jones: You know, we're more than happy to clean up and sweep or vacuum as we do charge by the hour.
[08:20] Carlton Jones: And the time we do spend cleaning up is inside of that normally hour charge that we have for our service.
[08:29] Carlton Jones: So cleanup is usually only five to ten minutes, so it's not a major aspect of any project.
[08:34] Carlton Jones: But some homeowners are either wanting to do it themselves or just save that little bit of money.
[08:41] Carlton Jones: It's a standard practice that we have, but it is definitely not industry-wide.
[08:46] Kim Monson: Well, good cleanup, reasonable prices, quality work.
[08:51] Kim Monson: How can people reach Radiance Power?
[08:55] Carlton Jones: They can call our main line, and we can discuss their electrical needs and get them on the schedule for a project or a quote, or they can go to our website and fill out the information in the middle form.
[09:13] Kim Monson: And that website is radiancepower.net.
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[12:09] Kim Monson: And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show.
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[12:17] Kim Monson: And the show comes to you because of our great sponsors.
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[12:42] Kim Monson: And I so appreciate Laramie Energy because of this battle of ideas that we are engaged in right now.
[12:51] Kim Monson: And Joe and I were talking on the way in about the importance of the freedom of mobility.
[12:56] Kim Monson: to be able to go where you want to, when you want to.
[13:00] Kim Monson: And it actually opens up opportunities, different employment opportunities, different places where you live.
[13:07] Kim Monson: But the World Economic Forum is bent on getting everyday people out of their cars.
[13:15] Kim Monson: So for example, if I had to take, and they call it sustainable, this is, I just love this, sustainable transportation.
[13:23] Kim Monson: And that would mean if I would need to get to the studio early in the morning and have to take a train or a bus and wait on a platform or a bus stop for that particular piece of transportation.
[13:41] Kim Monson: First of all, at that time of day, it's not safe to be doing that.
[13:46] Kim Monson: And in addition, it takes an enormous amount of time.
[13:50] Kim Monson: But when we look at what's happening in California, Colorado is trying to out California, California.
[13:59] Kim Monson: It says Denver's shift to incentive program rewards you for skipping car trips.
[14:05] Kim Monson: And it goes on to say the city of Denver is encouraging residents to leave their cars behind and opt for more sustainable transportation through a new incentive program that offers rewards for changing commuting habits.
[14:19] Kim Monson: The initiative, called Shift 2, challenges people who live and work in Denver to replace at least two solo driving trips each week with alternative modes of transportation, such as walking, biking, carpooling, or using public transit.
[14:34] Kim Monson: City officials say participants who log those trips online will be entered into monthly drawings for gift cards totaling about $1,000 each month.
[14:43] Kim Monson: The prizes feature local restaurants and businesses.
[14:47] Kim Monson: Since the program is a collaboration between the city's Department of Transportation and Infrastructure, the Office of Climate Action, Sustainability and Resiliency, and the Denver Regional Council of Governments.
[15:00] Kim Monson: participate, residents must first identify two regular trips, such as commuting to work or running errands, and substitute those with non-driving options.
[15:10] Kim Monson: Participants then sign up through the regional commuter platform and track their trips in an online dashboard to qualify for rewards.
[15:18] Kim Monson: Officials say the program is designed not only to provide incentives, but also to encourage long-term behavior changes that can reduce traffic congestion, lower transportation costs, and improve air quality.
[15:31] Kim Monson: It says, with gas prices a challenge for many people right now, this is a great time to consider alternative modes of travel, said Amy Ford, executive director of the Denver Department of Transportation and Infrastructure.
[15:44] Kim Monson: Getting out of your car a couple of times a week can positively affect physical, mental, and environmental health.
[15:51] Kim Monson: City leaders also point to added benefits, including increased physical activity and reduced vehicle emissions.
[15:58] Kim Monson: The shift to program runs through the end of the year.
[16:01] Kim Monson: More information and registration details are available through the regional commuter platform.
[16:09] Kim Monson: Do you think everyday people that's trying to just keep it together?
[16:14] Kim Monson: And remember, government cannot give to someone what they have not first taken from someone else.
[16:20] Kim Monson: And so that means that whoever's getting these rewards, that has to be paid for.
[16:35] Producer Joe: My jobs would be limited to what's around me.
[16:38] Producer Joe: And the only things around me are food places.
[16:43] Producer Joe: I don't get to strive to be technically driven in an area or field that I have a passion or expertise in.
[16:56] Kim Monson: Sustainability and physical and mental and environmental health.
[17:01] Kim Monson: And what we see here, this is what's called the carrot.
[17:05] Kim Monson: But then we continue to see the stick as well.
[17:09] Kim Monson: And if people don't do what these people want us to do, they make it more and more difficult through lots of variety of different ways.
[17:17] Kim Monson: to have our own freedom of mobility.
[17:20] Kim Monson: Because if people have their freedom of mobility, they have freedom.
[17:24] Kim Monson: They can go and go after their hopes and dreams.
[17:27] Kim Monson: But if they have to be constrained to a bus or a bike or walking, then they are constrained in what they can go after.
[17:35] Kim Monson: And I think that's exactly what you've said.
[17:39] Producer Joe: And they do it under the guise of security more than anything, too.
[17:44] Producer Joe: Back to the Benjamin Franklin quote that security or freedom, you can't have both.
[17:52] Kim Monson: And if you give up your freedom for security, ultimately you'll have neither.
[17:57] Kim Monson: And so next thing that we're watching, California, we're watching L.A.
[17:57] Kim Monson: And first of all, it says that this is from the rap says incumbent Karen Bass advances to run off in L.A.
[18:11] Kim Monson: I can't believe anybody would vote for her.
[18:15] Kim Monson: But she is going to advance to the general election, and she likely will face reality star Spencer Pratt as he emerged as one of the two top contenders in the race for L.A.
[18:15] Kim Monson: mayor, with over half of the vote counted.
[18:29] Kim Monson: How is it that they only have half of the vote counted?
[18:32] Kim Monson: If, in fact, they're using tabulating machines, it seems like they should be able to have that calculated the day of the election, Joe.
[18:42] Producer Joe: Whoa, whoa, they need time to change things in the system, though.
[18:45] Kim Monson: You're getting so cynical at your young age.
[18:59] Kim Monson: Reality Star had a 10-point lead on his second-position opponent, Councilmember Nitya Raman, who received 20% of the vote to become L.A.
[19:09] Kim Monson: If none of the candidates receive over 50% of the vote, the top two, regardless of party affiliation, face off in a November 3rd
[19:18] Kim Monson: Bass gave what sounded like a victory speech at her election night event on Tuesday.
[19:23] Kim Monson: She told a crowd that her administration has laid a foundation for the future by moving homeless people indoors, fast-tracking new affordable housing, and strengthening the local economy.
[19:34] Kim Monson: Pratt, who did not allow media into his election night party at his go-to Mexican restaurant Don Antonio's, convened with reporters on the sidewalk after he emerged as one of the leading candidates.
[19:47] Kim Monson: The former reality star boasted his successful mayoral bids, noting the communists already lost.
[19:54] Kim Monson: Despite trailing her competitors by approximately 35,000 votes, Tuesday, Rahman seemed lively at her election party.
[20:02] Kim Monson: Several attendees told The Wrap they are hopeful that the mail-in ballots that are still to be counted, now that's the danger danger, which historically have skewed left, imagine that,
[20:12] Kim Monson: will help the city council member advance to a runoff with Mayor Karen Bass in November.
[20:19] Kim Monson: And in the 2022 mayoral primary, Rick Caruso led Bass from primarily vote center and early mail-in ballots on election night.
[20:28] Kim Monson: of additional vote counting for Bass to overtake Caruso for the top spot, and she went on to win by nine points in the November runoff.
[20:37] Kim Monson: And it says the latest from the UC Berkeley Los Angeles Times predicted a tight race between Bass and Rahman, with former reality star Spencer Pratt closely behind.
[20:53] Kim Monson: Free, fair, honest, and transparent elections are foundational to us being able to reclaim our country.
[21:00] Kim Monson: And if we are having communists that are being elected, we've got a real problem.
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[22:17] Kim Monson: And also, the Center for American Values will be having an event on...
[22:23] Kim Monson: June 23rd with Barney Barnum, who is a Medal of Honor recipient.
[22:28] Kim Monson: It's one of their On Values presentations.
[22:30] Kim Monson: So they have these On Values presentations.
[22:33] Kim Monson: They focus on our Medal of Honor recipients with their portraits of valor of over 160 portraits of our Medal of Honor recipients, and then also great educational programs that are focused on honor, integrity, and patriotism.
[22:47] Kim Monson: So to get more information and RSVP, go to AmericanValuesCenter.org.
[22:57] Kim Monson: And we are in such a time, my friends.
[23:02] Kim Monson: And when I say on the show that we are made for this moment, we clearly are made for this moment.
[23:09] Kim Monson: And we are celebrating our 250th anniversary this year for America.
[23:15] Kim Monson: And we are working to determine if this idea of self-governance
[23:20] Kim Monson: that we the people can actually govern ourselves is really on the line.
[23:26] Kim Monson: Now, communism, socialism and communism, as my friend Yvonne says, what's the difference between socialism and communism?
[23:34] Kim Monson: And communism is the haves and then the have-nots.
[23:39] Kim Monson: And the haves would be basically ruling over all the rest of us.
[23:43] Kim Monson: And the American dream is that everyday people have the rights to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
[23:50] Kim Monson: But that right does not mean that we use government to take from one to give to another.
[23:55] Kim Monson: And that is what is happening with all of these government grants.
[24:00] Kim Monson: If somebody gets a tax incentive or a tax credit...
[24:05] Kim Monson: That because they do a certain behavior or they are in a certain group, if they get special treatment, then we start to skew everything.
[24:15] Kim Monson: And that is exactly what communism is.
[24:18] Kim Monson: It's about putting people into groups and then treating these groups differently.
[24:23] Kim Monson: And that is why we have to continue to push to get rid of tax incentives, to get rid of tax credits, so that we are all on the same level playing field.
[24:36] Kim Monson: And that is why we kick the tires on these important ideas on a regular basis.
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[27:46] Kim Monson: And all of us are so grateful and pleased that Tina Peters has been released from a maximum security prison.
[27:56] Kim Monson: And I am pleased to have on the line with me John Case, who is one of her attorneys.
[28:04] John Case: Great to be with you and your listeners.
[28:07] Kim Monson: I am so grateful, John Case, that Tina Peters is out of this maximum security prison.
[28:17] Kim Monson: And so have you had a chance, first of all, to talk with her?
[28:21] Kim Monson: I know everybody wants to talk with her right now.
[28:27] John Case: I've talked to one of her security teams.
[28:31] John Case: So she's resting and catching up on her diet and sleep.
[28:38] Kim Monson: Well, and I saw she had done an interview with Steve Bannon.
[28:43] Kim Monson: And just to be able to get out and have some food, I think she mentioned something about just a tomato or something like that.
[28:52] Kim Monson: And she said it's hard to lose your liberty.
[28:58] Kim Monson: And it was easy to lose your liberty, but it was very hard as she did that.
[29:03] Kim Monson: And so what can you tell us about what's going on, John?
[29:09] John Case: Well, she's going to be resting up for a period of weeks.
[29:14] John Case: I don't know if it's going to be two weeks or four weeks.
[29:19] John Case: Her activities on parole are not restricted except for out-of-state travel where she needs permission.
[29:27] John Case: But otherwise, she just needs to keep the parole board of where she's living.
[29:38] John Case: Her ability to speak and to associate with people is unrestricted.
[29:47] John Case: She can continue to be a spokesperson for election transparency and prison reform, which is what she intends to do.
[29:57] Kim Monson: Well, so many of us were concerned that the parole board might try to put a muzzle on her because it seems like that's what happened with the judge when he sentenced her to nine years in this maximum security prison.
[30:15] John Case: He said prison is for those folks where we send people who are a danger to all of us, whether it be by the pen or the sword or the word of the mouth.
[30:27] John Case: In other words, you're going to prison because of what you're saying about our voting system.
[30:32] John Case: And on Monday when she was released, Secretary of State Jena Griswold released a very similar statement.
[30:41] John Case: These are Jena Griswold's words.
[30:44] John Case: Quote, the governor's grant of clemency to Tina Peters is an affront to our democracy, the people of Colorado, and election officials across the country.
[30:54] John Case: It sends a dangerous message about accountability for those who would attack elections.
[31:01] John Case: Peter's release will embolden the election denial movement.
[31:05] John Case: Since the grant of clemency, she has continued to spread election falsehoods and conspiracies.
[31:13] John Case: In other words, exactly the same as what the judge said when he sentenced her.
[31:17] John Case: You ought to be locked up because of what you're saying.
[31:20] John Case: And Tina's case has always been about two things.
[31:24] John Case: Election transparency and free speech, and it still is.
[31:30] John Case: The people who put her away are trying to silence her, and they would like to see her die in prison.
[31:38] John Case: She is the only clerk who was successfully prosecuted.
[31:42] John Case: There were three cases across the country.
[31:46] John Case: There was a clerk in Georgia who was charged in the Fulton County case along with President Trump.
[31:52] John Case: That case was dismissed by the court after the Fannie Willis scandal.
[31:57] John Case: And there was a clerk in Michigan named Stephanie Scott who was charged with her lawyer, Stephanie Lambert.
[32:04] John Case: And that case was recently dismissed by the judge.
[32:08] John Case: So Tina is the only one that they were able to successfully prosecute for preserving records of the 2020 election.
[32:17] Kim Monson: It seems to me, John Case, that the Secretary of State, instead of going after Tina Peters, that the Secretary of State should provide proof.
[32:29] Kim Monson: that the things that Tina are talking about, that they're not, to refute that.
[32:37] Kim Monson: It seems like the Secretary of State should be able to provide to us the records to show that there has been no manipulation in our elections.
[32:48] Kim Monson: But that does not seem to be the case, John Case.
[32:52] John Case: No, the Secretary of State has provided no proof that this voting system works.
[33:00] John Case: She just says, take our word for it.
[33:02] John Case: We have experts who looked at it and they say it works.
[33:06] John Case: So you must accept whatever results come out of the computers because we're, we're telling you that's what, that's what, that, that the elections are fair and transparent.
[33:19] John Case: So you ought to believe that, but they will not allow any third party to look at the voting system to examine it or to audit an election.
[33:28] John Case: And it's a mystery to me why Colorado citizens will accept the word of a government official instead of being able to see the truth.
[33:38] John Case: But that's the way we live now.
[33:40] John Case: Instead of having hand counts under public observation, we have machines that decide the outcome of elections and we're all told that we should believe it because the government says that it's so.
[33:53] Kim Monson: Well, and my understanding, John Case, is so the ballots come in, and then I think images are taken of the ballots, and then the images of those ballots then go through a voting machine and then becomes a tabulating machine.
[34:12] Kim Monson: Is that your understanding as well?
[34:17] John Case: So you're not looking at a – when the system counts, it's looking at a scanned image.
[34:22] John Case: And actually, it's not looking at a scanned image.
[34:26] John Case: There is a scanned image, but then that's reduced to digital data.
[34:31] John Case: And so then the digital data is tabulated.
[34:36] Kim Monson: And it seems to me like we should have the opportunity to take that ballot and do an audit to the scanned image and count that and then
[34:49] Kim Monson: make sure that that number matches to what goes to the Secretary of State and is reported.
[34:58] John Case: In fact, that is illegal in Colorado to conduct a hand count.
[35:03] John Case: The Secretary of State got the legislature to outlaw hand counts unless the Secretary of State orders it, which she has never done.
[35:11] John Case: So we're stuck with whatever the machines tell us.
[35:20] John Case: You know, as voters, elections belong to the people in Colorado.
[35:26] John Case: That's part of our Constitution.
[35:29] John Case: And the current system that we have means the government runs the elections and we just are told to accept the results.
[35:40] Kim Monson: What I have seen is that there have been basically pieces of legislation on top of pieces of legislation which continue, I would say, to take more and more control of our elections.
[35:54] Kim Monson: So it's the same like policy procedure.
[35:58] Kim Monson: And if somebody goes against policy and procedure...
[36:02] Kim Monson: then and that's kind of what I think happened with Tina is then that is you're convicted of that.
[36:08] Kim Monson: But the policy and the procedure may be law or rules, but they're not based on the Constitution.
[36:19] Kim Monson: There's a big rub on that, John Case.
[36:24] John Case: Yes, I think that our elections will never be trusted until we go back.
[36:31] John Case: to hand-counting the ballots in the precincts after ballots are cast by voters who present identification before they're allowed to vote.
[36:44] John Case: And when we had that system, which worked for over 200 years, people trusted our elections.
[36:50] John Case: It was impossible to rig an election in a centralized way the way it happened in 2020.
[37:01] John Case: centralized vote counting, such as we have in Colorado, you'll have one voting center tabulating up to 650,000 ballots, such as we have in Denver and the other large population centers, such as El Paso County.
[37:21] John Case: So when you have large centralized vote counting, then you have the possibility of widespread fraud because you only have to
[37:30] John Case: affect one voting center in order to swing an election one way or the other.
[37:36] John Case: Elections are decided by three to five percentage points, typically.
[37:42] John Case: So if you just rig part of the election in a large voting center, you can swing the entire state.
[37:53] Kim Monson: Well, and that is why the Secretary of State should do everything possible to assure us that everything is authentic, that everything is traceable, everything is auditable.
[38:14] Kim Monson: business license with the Secretary of State.
[38:18] Kim Monson: And it's actually gone up 150%, at least from the last time.
[38:30] Kim Monson: Now, granted that that doesn't maybe seem like that much money, but that's a huge increase.
[38:34] Kim Monson: But, John, the other thing that I found so interesting is I had to provide the information for my driver's license in order to get my new business license.
[38:47] Kim Monson: The Secretary of State would require that as an entrepreneur I have to provide my driver's license, but if I want to vote, I don't have to.
[38:56] Kim Monson: I thought that was just kind of interesting, John.
[39:01] John Case: Yes, you have to show proof of identification to get on an airplane.
[39:06] John Case: We have a constitutional right to travel, but we have to show ID to get on an airplane.
[39:12] John Case: Well, we have a constitutional right to vote, but if you ask for voter ID, then they call you a racist or an election denier because you want proof of identity of the voter.
[39:26] John Case: Democrats want no ID voting so that they can cheat.
[39:31] John Case: And that's why we have mail-in ballots.
[39:36] John Case: Now in Colorado, everybody gets a mail-in ballot, and the unvoted ballots are not kept track of carefully.
[39:44] John Case: So anyone can scoop up a pile of unused ballots and vote them the way they want and get those votes counted.
[39:52] Kim Monson: Well, and there are those that say, OK, let's show me the proof on this.
[39:58] Kim Monson: And I think that the proof on this is forthcoming.
[40:02] Kim Monson: But the however is, is when we're talking with people is I think we need to say, do we really even want the possibility?
[40:11] Kim Monson: that there could be this manipulation of our elections.
[40:16] Kim Monson: I've got to think the big, broad middle of Coloradans, and that would not be the radical activist Democrats.
[40:22] Kim Monson: The Democrats of today are not the Democrats of JFK and our grandpa and grandma.
[40:31] Kim Monson: It seems to me like the big, broad middle of Coloradans would say, yes, I want to be assured that our elections are free, fair, honest, and transparent.
[40:40] Kim Monson: And so I think there's something really exciting that is in the works right now, John Case.
[40:48] John Case: We're hoping that the Department of Justice pulls out the evidence, which they now have, of how the 2020 election was rigged.
[40:59] John Case: There's a brand new book out by Seth Keshel called The American War on Election Corruption.
[41:11] John Case: an Army intelligence officer who worked in Afghanistan.
[41:16] John Case: And he has an intellectual gift.
[41:20] John Case: He's able to see simple recurring patterns in complicated data sets.
[41:28] John Case: So he used that to pinpoint Taliban locations and weaponry and predict their tactics.
[41:40] John Case: in Afghanistan, which saved a lot of us army lives.
[41:44] John Case: And then he applied this skill to elections starting as sort of a hobby.
[41:50] John Case: And he successfully predicted Trump's election in 2016.
[41:54] John Case: And he got the electoral vote exactly right.
[41:58] John Case: State by state in 2024, he missed 2020 because he predicted in 2020 that Trump would win.
[42:09] John Case: But he didn't count on the mail-in ballot fraud that occurred in the swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada.
[42:20] John Case: And because of that, his 2020 prediction was wrong.
[42:24] John Case: But when he went back and actually examined what had happened, he discovered that the 2020 election was, in fact, rigged in favor of Joe Biden.
[42:35] John Case: And that if it hadn't been for the rigging, Trump would have won.
[42:39] John Case: Your audience may be interested in reading this new book by Seth Keshel.
[42:47] John Case: And he's going to speak at the Freedom Fest in Castle Rock on June the 26th.
[42:56] John Case: People might want to attend that and hear what he has to say if you don't read the book.
[43:01] Kim Monson: John, we're going to continue the discussion.
[43:04] Kim Monson: He is one of Tina Peter's attorneys.
[43:06] Kim Monson: And praise the Lord that she was released this last Monday.
[43:10] Kim Monson: And John said that she's resting as she should and taking care of herself.
[43:16] Kim Monson: She is truly, truly, truly an American hero.
[43:21] Kim Monson: And watching the interview that she had with Steve Bannon, she seemed strong to me.
[43:29] Kim Monson: Even after all that was going on, she just says it just was pretty remarkable to me.
[43:33] Kim Monson: So we're going to continue the discussion.
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[46:15] Kim Monson: And welcome back to The Kim Monson Show.
[46:21] Kim Monson: And check out the website for the USMC Memorial Foundation.
[46:25] Kim Monson: Paula Sarlls and her team taking care of the memorial and raising the money for the remodel.
[46:31] Kim Monson: It's important to remember and honor those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for our freedom.
[46:37] Kim Monson: He is one of the attorneys for Tina Peters.
[46:41] Kim Monson: And John, as you know, back in December,
[46:47] Kim Monson: It seemed like it was some action regarding the county clerks association of which Matt Crane is the executive director.
[46:58] Kim Monson: He's a former Arapahoe County clerk and recorder, a Republican clerk.
[47:02] Kim Monson: where it seemed like there was a letter that they had sent on behalf of the county clerks to keep Tina Peters in prison for nine years.
[47:12] Kim Monson: And it was at that time I said, we need to do something.
[47:14] Kim Monson: And so many people are doing things.
[47:16] Kim Monson: So I want to give credit to so many people.
[47:19] Kim Monson: But our listeners and our followers and others, we signed a petition, which I delivered down to the
[47:27] Kim Monson: Governor's office on December 22nd, 4,200 people signed that, requesting, putting politics aside, requesting that Governor Polis show mercy, compassion, and release her.
[47:41] Kim Monson: Well, these months later, it has happened.
[47:48] Kim Monson: Because he's getting censored by his party.
[47:55] John Case: Well, I think that your petition had an impact on the governor, the petition that you and your given or your listeners, uh, took in there on December 22nd, I think it had an impact on the governor.
[48:09] John Case: And when the governor, um, commuted Tina sentence, he did it for the right reasons.
[48:17] John Case: He said, look, Tina, Peter's views may be unpopular with a lot of people,
[48:22] John Case: but she's still allowed to believe what she believes.
[48:26] John Case: And, uh, I disagree with her personally, but it's her belief.
[48:31] John Case: And in the United States of America, we have a right to our own beliefs and we have a right to speak those beliefs.
[48:38] John Case: And she was put in prison because of what she said and believed.
[48:45] John Case: And he pointed out to Colorado citizens that it's their right to free speech that is threatened.
[48:51] John Case: When somebody like Tina Peters goes to prison for her speech and her beliefs.
[48:59] John Case: And that was a very, uh, unpopular decision with many people, but it was the right thing to do.
[49:06] John Case: And I agree with governor polis that he, when he said that, you know, history is going to show that he did the right thing because he did.
[49:15] Kim Monson: Well, and there are so many things that I disagree with him on, but I want to say thank you to him for doing this.
[49:23] Kim Monson: I wanted that to be on record, that we really appreciate that.
[49:27] Kim Monson: Because freedom of speech is foundational.
[49:31] Kim Monson: And that is why it is in the First Amendment.
[49:37] Kim Monson: And going back to Tina, gosh, she's been fearless to think about what she has undergone.
[49:45] Kim Monson: She's been in prison, what, over 600 days, and she was in jail before that, right, John?
[49:51] John Case: No, the 600 days includes the six months that she did in county jail.
[50:02] Kim Monson: Now, she did say that she had some regrets.
[50:07] Kim Monson: I think that Paula said that he wanted to see some remorse for what had happened.
[50:13] Kim Monson: So speak to that a little bit, John Case.
[50:17] John Case: Well, Tina does acknowledge she made a mistake in the way that she went about this.
[50:22] John Case: If she ever had a chance to do it over again, which she won't have, but if she did, she would do it differently.
[50:29] John Case: But she would not compromise the truth.
[50:33] John Case: She would just accomplish the same thing.
[50:37] John Case: By the way, people aren't aware of this, but when Tina had a consultant preserve the...
[50:45] John Case: The digital records of the 2020 election that were on the Mesa County system hard drive, that was legal.
[50:53] John Case: The state has always accused her of doing something illegal when she made those copies.
[51:02] John Case: And they didn't charge her with making copies.
[51:06] John Case: But it wasn't one of the charges.
[51:13] John Case: was misrepresenting the identity of the consultant who came in to observe the, uh, secretary of state software modification.
[51:24] John Case: And Tina had a right to have anybody in the room that she wanted.
[51:29] John Case: Uh, as long as that person was supervised by herself or one of her staff.
[51:37] John Case: So she brought in a consultant named Conan Hayes, who was qualified.
[51:43] John Case: And before she engaged Conan Hayes, she asked the County IT department if they would supervise the software modification that was going to be performed by the secretary of state.
[51:56] John Case: And the County IT department said, no, they would not observe that process.
[52:03] John Case: So she was left with the choice of having nobody observe what the secretary of state did to the Mesa County, uh, records.
[52:13] John Case: or having a professional observant and misrepresenting that person's identity.
[52:18] John Case: Because the secretary of state said in an email that only the clerk and two members of her staff would be allowed in the room during the software modification.
[52:31] John Case: And that if, uh, they, if Tina tried to bring in anyone else that they would not perform the software modification, which was required to upgrade the machines.
[52:42] John Case: Well, in truth, the software upgrade erased, it deleted and overwrote all of the records of the 2020 election, which she was required to preserve by federal law.
[52:55] John Case: And she needed a qualified observer in the room to prove that that happened.
[53:01] John Case: And that's why she brought in the consultant.
[53:04] John Case: And to this day, the Secretary of State will not acknowledge
[53:07] John Case: that she deleted and overwrote all of the records of the 2020 election from 62 counties in Colorado.
[53:16] John Case: So if it hadn't been for Tina, those records would be gone forever.
[53:20] John Case: She saved the digital records that were on the hard drive, but the Secretary of State then had the equipment seized, which you also need to conduct an audit, and that's still in the possession of the FBI in Denver.
[53:39] John Case: So if people want to find out more about this, you can go to TinaPeters.us.
[53:44] John Case: That'll have the latest developments in her case, as well as the opportunity to help Tina in her efforts to promote election transparency.
[53:57] Kim Monson: John Case, thanks so much for joining us, and thank you for all that you have done and are doing.
[54:06] Kim Monson: And our quote for the end of the show is Benjamin Franklin.
[54:08] Kim Monson: He said, whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
[54:15] Kim Monson: 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.
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[56:01] Kim Monson: You each are treasured, you're valued, you have purpose.
[56:03] Kim Monson: Today, strive for excellence, take care of your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body.
[56:07] Kim Monson: My friends, we were made for this moment in history.
[56:10] Kim Monson: That's Producer Joe, Luke, Rachel, Zach, Echo, Charlie, Mike, Amanda, and all the people here at Crawford Broadcasting.
[56:20] Kim Monson: And are you encouraged after hearing, talking with John Case, one of Tina Peter's attorneys?
[56:28] Producer Joe: It's definitely a guiding light and a bright light at that.
[56:34] Kim Monson: And thank you to Governor Polis for doing the right thing and commuting her sentence and getting her out of prison.
[56:40] Kim Monson: And she was thrown in prison because of what she might say.
[56:45] Kim Monson: And that is antithetical to the complete American idea.
[56:50] Kim Monson: My dad always said, you know, people may say something that I disagree with.
[57:00] Kim Monson: However, I served for four years in the Air Force so that people had the right to say that.
[57:07] Kim Monson: And when we are seeing the speech being censored,
[57:14] Kim Monson: But the other thing that we see with speech being censored is when we censor it ourselves.
[57:21] Kim Monson: And, Joe, I'm not sure if you saw this.
[57:23] Kim Monson: I heard two different people, I think it was Susan Kochevar that first texted me on this, that something that happened in the U.K.
[57:23] Kim Monson: recently, and a young guy was stabbed with...
[57:38] Kim Monson: a knife, which apparently it was a religious knife.
[57:41] Kim Monson: Now, again, I have not done all the fact-checking on this, but it was, I think somebody said the guy was a Sikh.
[57:50] Kim Monson: So I don't think that's Muslim, is it?
[57:52] Kim Monson: I think that's something different.
[57:54] Kim Monson: But anyway, this young guy is stabbed, and I think also there is the video on it as well, which is very disturbing, which I am not going to watch, but he's stabbed.
[58:06] Kim Monson: the police come and they end up handcuffing him.
[58:17] Kim Monson: And the police officer says, mate, I don't think so.
[58:22] Kim Monson: And my understanding is he bleeds out and he dies 18 years old.
[58:31] Kim Monson: hides the knife, and apparently the police officer didn't believe the guy that had been stabbed.
[58:40] Kim Monson: He said, because I didn't want to be racist.
[58:48] Kim Monson: of censoring speech is this whole thing about if what you say can be dubbed racist or whatever.
[58:55] Kim Monson: And so we've got a real problem on all of this.
[59:06] Kim Monson: And let me get to that, and I may have to do that in the next segment with Trent Loos, because I've got so many different things open here, but it's basically somebody that's very learned, who
[59:21] Kim Monson: you know really is an expert in things and so i would say that uh you know what i'll do this as a segue to our next guest uh Lorne Levy is a savant regarding everything mortgages and savant is spelled s-a-v-a-n-t Lorne Levy welcome to the show all right i guess he's going to be here in just a minute right did i go a little early
[59:51] Kim Monson: Okay, Lorne Levy, I just set you up as you are a savant regarding everything mortgages.
[60:01] Kim Monson: So let's talk a little bit about mortgages.
[60:05] Kim Monson: And you know, over here on the show, we are working and shedding light on all these taxes and rules and regulations and fees and all these things that's making life more expensive for people.
[60:19] Kim Monson: However, still people are being squeezed, but there are some things they can do to try to address that.
[60:28] Lorne Levy: You know, there are things like the one thing we have in Colorado that's really been holding up is our home equity.
[60:33] Lorne Levy: We've still been seeing people while home sales may be a little slower, they're still happening and there's still activity and the market is holding up and values are holding up.
[60:44] Lorne Levy: And so we know people can get things like home equity lines of credit if possible.
[60:50] Lorne Levy: Those have variable rates and those can be a little bit dangerous if rates move around.
[60:55] Lorne Levy: But one thing that we're seeing is people are carrying quite a bit of credit card debt, which happens when you have a situation like this.
[61:01] Lorne Levy: And you know, if you're, if people are out there paying 20 something, 25, 26% on credit cards, um, even though they may have a lower rate on their first mortgage, depending on the amount of debt in this situation, it might make sense to try to consolidate everything into one loan on your home and spread that out a little bit and get some breathing room and help people survive.
[61:23] Lorne Levy: And, uh, you know, sometimes even though you're giving up a lower rate on your first mortgage,
[61:28] Lorne Levy: If you go to a higher rate, but consolidate all the higher rate debt, it makes it way more of a manageable payment and a way less monthly payment.
[61:36] Lorne Levy: And so we've been talking to quite a few people about that type of situation.
[61:39] Lorne Levy: And we'll always just take a look at it and never tell someone to do a loan that doesn't make sense.
[61:46] Lorne Levy: And so it's something to look at for people that's really been helping them out.
[61:51] Kim Monson: Well, and to get into the situation, people, I think, look at it and they say, oh, my gosh, credit card debt.
[62:00] Kim Monson: And the implication might be that out there spending money on going out to dinner or big screen TVs or whatever.
[62:07] Kim Monson: But that's not necessarily the case.
[62:10] Kim Monson: I think some Americans are using their credit cards just because life has gotten expensive, yes?
[62:18] Lorne Levy: And oftentimes it's unexpected items.
[62:20] Lorne Levy: It's not, oh, you know, the Super Bowl is coming up or Christmas and I want to go crazy.
[62:24] Lorne Levy: It's something happened around the home.
[62:31] Lorne Levy: Things like that that could happen to a lot of people.
[62:33] Lorne Levy: You know, something, you know, you need your transportation to get to work and you can't do it because something happened.
[62:39] Lorne Levy: So you have to put it on a credit card.
[62:45] Lorne Levy: We have the highest credit card debt in this country we've ever had.
[62:48] Lorne Levy: And so we're not talking about typically like splurge items.
[62:50] Lorne Levy: We're talking about everyday just shortfalls that people have to cover just to maintain their life.
[62:57] Lorne Levy: And that's where things can get out of hand.
[62:59] Lorne Levy: You can get to where you're making monthly payments on credit cards that are barely paying the interest, not even covering that.
[63:05] Lorne Levy: And if that's the case, that can be a runaway cycle, especially with today's interest rates on credit cards.
[63:10] Lorne Levy: So that's where home equity can really come in and help cover some of that stuff and make it so that the overall payments are significantly lower per month and help people breathe.
[63:20] Kim Monson: So people could get some breathing room there.
[63:23] Kim Monson: And again, I want people to continue to...
[63:28] Kim Monson: Of course, we've talked about that.
[63:29] Kim Monson: We had Mitch Vexler on, on Monday to talk about these exorbitant property taxes.
[63:34] Kim Monson: We've got a lot to do over here on the policy side, which, you know, that's where we're working big time over here on the show, shedding light on this and Colorado union of taxpayers and,
[63:46] Kim Monson: But for everyday individuals, there may be some breathing room.
[63:49] Kim Monson: How can people at least have a consultation with you, Lorne Levy, to kick the tires on this idea?
[63:57] Lorne Levy: The best way is always just call at 303-880-8881.
[64:05] Lorne Levy: And if things make sense, then we can decide to move forward.
[64:08] Lorne Levy: And they may not always make sense.
[64:09] Lorne Levy: But if they do, we will definitely point them in the right direction.
[64:13] Kim Monson: You know, and Lorne Levy, it is so important in our lives to work with people that can be trusted, that strive for excellence.
[64:23] Kim Monson: And so with this seriousness, this serious issue regarding trying to get out from underneath this credit card debt,
[64:30] Kim Monson: That's why working with you is so important because you really do speak to the truth on this and talk straight with people.
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[64:49] Lorne Levy: And, you know, when you work primarily on word of mouth and referrals, you need to take care of people.
[64:53] Lorne Levy: And, you know, so that's always going to be the case for us.
[64:58] Kim Monson: Speaking of America's veteran stories, this Sunday is the day after the anniversary of D-Day, which is in World War II, where D-Day was where the Allies needed to get a toehold on the continent of Europe so that they could free Europe, Western Europe, from war.
[65:21] Kim Monson: And we had interviewed this gentleman several different times.
[65:28] Kim Monson: Maybe his third book is out regarding the heroes of D-Day.
[65:33] Kim Monson: And Joe and I made the executive decision to rebroadcast his first interview, which is absolutely fascinating regarding the real heroes of D-Day.
[65:42] Kim Monson: And so that's going to be on America's Veterans Stories this Sunday.
[65:46] Kim Monson: And I thank you for making that possible.
[65:51] Kim Monson: And again, that's Lorne Levy for Everything Mortgages, 303-880-8881.
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[69:05] Kim Monson: And welcome back to the Kim Monson Show.
[69:08] Kim Monson: That is Kim Monson, M-O-N-S-O-N dot com.
[69:11] Kim Monson: And our quote of the day is from Benjamin Franklin.
[69:14] Kim Monson: And thank you to one of our listeners coming in on the text line yesterday.
[69:18] Kim Monson: I was actually trying to wing it regarding this Benjamin Franklin quote.
[69:23] Kim Monson: And he said this, those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety.
[69:28] Kim Monson: deserve neither liberty nor safety.
[69:31] Kim Monson: And that's Benjamin Franklin, one of our founders.
[69:34] Kim Monson: On the line with me is Trent Loos, sixth generation rancher from Nebraska.
[69:49] Kim Monson: You're going to be coming in, and we're going to see Wendy Volk.
[69:53] Kim Monson: And you and I both will be speaking tomorrow at noon at the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne regarding the Wyoming Wind Rally to save the American Golden Eagles.
[70:05] Trent Loos: Not to mention the property that people have spent their generations on.
[70:12] Trent Loos: You know, keeping it in the family.
[70:15] Trent Loos: but not to diminish the Golden Eagle.
[70:23] Kim Monson: I know a number of you have reached out.
[70:25] Kim Monson: A bunch of my buddies are going to be up there tomorrow, noon at the Wyoming State Capitol.
[70:30] Kim Monson: It actually is a day drive from the metro area, and it's going to be great.
[70:35] Kim Monson: So noon at the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
[70:43] Kim Monson: I have friends, and you will meet some of them.
[70:45] Trent Loos: Well, now I have to try to find some buddies before I get there.
[70:50] Trent Loos: Dave Coates is my buddy at Cheyenne.
[70:52] Trent Loos: I've got to get a hold of Dave and see if he can bring me a jack or bring home a jack.
[71:04] Trent Loos: You can't make a mule if you don't have a jack.
[71:10] Kim Monson: So do you have your trailer with you if you're going to take...
[71:15] Trent Loos: I will not be calling Dave before I leave or I'll end up taking a trailer and then that won't be good.
[71:21] Kim Monson: Well, let's get over to some of these things.
[71:24] Kim Monson: And I know some of this seems very tin hat-ish, but you had brought to my attention the alpha gal syndrome, which I thought that maybe that was the...
[71:37] Kim Monson: And complimenting the alpha male, which meant a really strong woman, that's not the case.
[71:41] Kim Monson: It's something that can be caught, you get it from a tick.
[71:49] Kim Monson: And some people had sent this to me, and now this is from the IB Times in the U.K.,
[71:54] Kim Monson: So this is a little off the mainstream media, but it says woman sparks alarm over sinister tick surge with mystery boxes and helicopter claims rocking the East Coast.
[72:08] Kim Monson: So there are those that are saying that there have been boxes of ticks that have been found in fields.
[72:14] Kim Monson: And then the ticks are carrying this alpha-gal syndrome, which makes it that people can't eat protein like meat or I guess...
[72:29] Trent Loos: It does not affect chickens or chicken eggs.
[72:34] Kim Monson: So what do you hear with your ear to the ground about these boxes?
[72:38] Kim Monson: Is this being made up or is this really true?
[72:41] Trent Loos: Well, now I'm just kind of hurt, to be honest, because last week I brought it up and you just tolerated me.
[72:50] Trent Loos: But somebody brings it up in the UK and all of a sudden, Trent, what do you think about this?
[72:58] Kim Monson: Well, you planted that seed and I did more research, so now I want to talk more about it.
[73:05] Trent Loos: 9,000% increase of reported tick bites to the CDC since January 1st.
[73:13] Trent Loos: And the alpha-gal syndrome is a result of the alpha-gal sugar that the Lone Star tick possesses.
[73:23] Trent Loos: If you're bitten by a Lone Star tick, then you potentially are not going to be able to consume meat from anything that nursed as a baby, a mammalian product.
[73:40] Trent Loos: And I have a friend who had this in southern Indiana.
[73:49] Trent Loos: Typically, they report about four hours that there's a lag.
[73:54] Trent Loos: And four hours later, you will be susceptible if you consume.
[73:57] Trent Loos: And what happens is the tick goes in and messes with your sugars.
[74:02] Trent Loos: It modifies the sugars in your body so that when you consume the mammalian product,
[74:09] Trent Loos: those sugars react, you break out in hives, and my buddy in Indiana was in the hospital 30 days, was on the ventilator twice, and it wasn't just like, hey, I got hives, I got to get over this.
[74:23] Trent Loos: It's a bee sting on steroids if you're allergic.
[74:27] Trent Loos: And so I don't personally know anyone who told me that I've seen these boxes of ticks because everybody around the world is now
[74:38] Trent Loos: talking about these boxes of ticks that are just being a random, I don't know anybody that has found those, but what I do know for a fact is that people who live in big tick country are reporting a massive increase in the amount of ticks.
[74:53] Trent Loos: Like I got an uncle in Illinois that had seven ticks on him when he's mushroom hunting.
[74:57] Trent Loos: I got two Amish boys in Northeast Missouri that I know a friend of called me a friend of them called me a friend of mine and a friend of them called and said, these two boys had 60 ticks on them.
[75:09] Trent Loos: And then, of course, you have the two researchers at West Michigan University in October published a paper in the National Institutes of Health.
[75:17] Trent Loos: You can read it talking about how a great plan to improve the environment and getting people off of meat consumption would be to increase the prevalence of alpha-gal in the Lone Star tick.
[75:29] Trent Loos: They wrote a research paper about doing that, and it's happening.
[75:33] Trent Loos: So there's definitely an increase of ticks.
[75:35] Trent Loos: It's not just east of the Mississippi.
[75:38] Trent Loos: I personally know two people in Nebraska that now have experienced alpha-gal in the last 30 days.
[75:48] Trent Loos: What else do you want to know about that?
[75:53] Trent Loos: So, yeah, I'm glad you brought that up.
[75:55] Trent Loos: Because now that I've been talking about it for coming on three full weeks, you get everybody coming out of the woodwork to call me.
[76:02] Trent Loos: In fact, I had a young lady who works for Change, the petitions, and they contacted me wanting to know if they could start some petition to bring awareness to alpha-gal.
[76:15] Trent Loos: But I've had, I don't know, probably half a dozen, more than a handful of people that say, I had alpha-gal for three years, and finally I went to an acupuncturist, and we fixed it.
[76:27] Trent Loos: I don't know that you cure it, but you fix it.
[76:31] Trent Loos: Other people have told me they've had alpha-gal for five years, and finally they worked their way out of it.
[76:38] Trent Loos: But when you talk to people that are experiencing the symptoms, it is ugly.
[76:44] Trent Loos: And you eliminate meat consumption other than chicken, turkey, anything that did not consume milk as an infant.
[76:52] Trent Loos: You eliminate them from your diet, period.
[76:55] Kim Monson: I have a friend, and we've seen a lot of millennial, particularly women, that are vegans.
[77:08] Kim Monson: And my friend's daughter, because she'd been a vegan for many years, got pretty sick because she was deficient in iron.
[77:19] Kim Monson: And so this movement to try to force us to not eat this dense protein source ultimately affects the health, I think, of the human population.
[77:35] Trent Loos: In fact, probably the most predominant vegetarian, I don't think that
[77:42] Trent Loos: Sinclair Upton Sinclair was a vegan, but he was certainly a vegetarian and he wrote the book, the jungle in 19.
[77:50] Trent Loos: Oh eight, I believe it was 1908 casting a negative light on how meat packing plants in Chicago were working.
[77:58] Trent Loos: And while what he wrote led to some reform and employer responsibility and care of employees.
[78:07] Trent Loos: he really wrote the book to chase people away from meat consumption.
[78:10] Trent Loos: And within five years, his own medical doctor told him that you are dying.
[78:14] Trent Loos: If you do not start consuming meat, as you said, nutrient dense food substances, you're going to die.
[78:23] Trent Loos: And he lived for a period longer because he started eating meat again.
[78:27] Trent Loos: I have interviewed a lot of people through the past 10 years that were vegan at one point in time.
[78:33] Trent Loos: And they're typically female, just like you said,
[78:35] Trent Loos: Young females who are constantly barraged with, they have to maintain the figure of their favorite model or wherever they are, and they're all anorexic in my mind.
[78:46] Trent Loos: But they're nutritionally, they really are messed up.
[78:50] Trent Loos: And iron is the number one thing that affects young girls.
[78:54] Trent Loos: And that is why beef is so vitally important because there is no food substance in
[78:59] Trent Loos: that provides particularly the heme iron, the quick availability and the iron that really works at building the body like beef.
[79:07] Trent Loos: And when you eliminate those food substances from your diet, you're going to struggle with proper nutrition, period.
[79:14] Kim Monson: Gosh, again, I feel like, I know this sounds tin hat-ish, but I'm thinking about our young girls, and again, many of our millennial girls.
[79:24] Kim Monson: These are young girls, these women now, I guess they're now women, have been...
[79:30] Kim Monson: told they don't need a man, that they don't need to eat meat, and our young girls are also being told that they could be a guy.
[79:40] Kim Monson: There's just been an assault upon our young women.
[79:44] Kim Monson: And it just really makes me sad as I really connect all these dots on this, Trent Loos.
[79:52] Trent Loos: Well, this has entered not only the young woman, it's entered the woman.
[79:58] Trent Loos: Because I now have a large number of friends in my circle, particularly in the cattle world.
[80:08] Trent Loos: They don't go to events that I'm at because they don't want to be seen with me, but they talk to me on the phone.
[80:18] Trent Loos: And women are taking this, whatever it is, if it's a drug, if it's a supplement, whatever it is, it is...
[80:28] Trent Loos: And they go from wonderful color and glow to just unhealthy looking.
[80:34] Trent Loos: And I don't understand why they look in the mirror and brag about losing weight.
[80:50] Trent Loos: And I don't understand that at all, Kim.
[80:54] Kim Monson: Well, and I've had some friends that have lost weight with that.
[81:00] Kim Monson: But I also have some friends that have had some really tragic stories regarding that as well.
[81:06] Kim Monson: So we're going to continue the discussion with Trent Loos.
[81:09] Kim Monson: The next thing I've got to ask him about is...
[81:12] Kim Monson: I saw this headline, Google's releasing 32 million mosquitoes in two U.S. states.
[81:18] Kim Monson: I'm thinking, what could go wrong with that?
[81:21] Kim Monson: We'll find out when we talk with Trent Loos when we come back.
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[85:04] Kim Monson: And Trent Loos, this came in on the text line, and it said that there is, check out the YouTube Ken D.
[85:04] Kim Monson: Berry MD to get real truth and facts and perspective versus scare tactics, I guess, on the Alpha Gal.
[85:21] Kim Monson: And then Wendy Volk just texted probably both you and I.
[85:25] Kim Monson: She has a letter to the editor regarding Wyoming deserves the full picture.
[85:31] Kim Monson: She is doing amazing work, and we're going to be up there tomorrow at noon at the Wyoming State Capitol.
[85:38] Kim Monson: I will be speaking regarding the Wyoming Wind Rally, and I'm really looking forward to this, Trent Loos.
[85:52] Kim Monson: Actually, I think I'm going to see you at noon.
[85:59] Kim Monson: And it was a year ago in June that her family received a certified letter that Repsol, which is a Spanish company, would be erecting some very tall,
[86:13] Kim Monson: wind turbines next to their property.
[86:16] Kim Monson: And so she just started to do research.
[86:18] Kim Monson: She just started to pull one string, then another string and another string, and she's connected the dots now.
[86:27] Trent Loos: Isn't it amazing how we start as kids and we start coloring and drawing by connecting the dots.
[86:36] Trent Loos: And it turns out one of the first things we start in the learning process comes valuable throughout the course of life.
[86:42] Trent Loos: If we always connect the dots and find the money source, you're going to know exactly what their plan is.
[86:48] Kim Monson: Well, and the money source on this, and I have so many things open, so I'll just have to do this somewhat from memory.
[86:59] Kim Monson: We have utilities that have been granted imminent domain power to take people's land for industrial wind, industrial solar, industrial transmission projects.
[87:11] Kim Monson: And then when we start to pull the strings and connect the dots, we see that, for example, Xcel Energy, BlackRock has Vanguard.
[87:21] Kim Monson: They have big stock ownerships in the company.
[87:24] Kim Monson: Effigy, when we talked to Virginia Macca in Kansas, there you see BlackRock.
[87:29] Kim Monson: Repsol, which is the company, the Spanish company up in Wyoming regarding this particular company.
[87:38] Kim Monson: project that's when he was looking at black rock has an indirect big ownership there black rock as you have mentioned larry fink who is the head of black rock is also the head of the world economic forum then he then the world economic forum says by 2030 we will own nothing well they say we'll be happy we're not going to be happy about it and people aren't happy about it they're starting to step step forward and push back on it but
[88:02] Kim Monson: But that's why I think the globalist elites, Larry Fink and company, are trying to double down on this big grab at our property and at our liberty.
[88:14] Kim Monson: And that's why what Wendy is doing, Karen Gordey and her team with Lakewood Citizens Alliance, rooted in Littleton, Mike Rawluk, people are stepping forward.
[88:25] Kim Monson: And this is very exciting, Trent Loos.
[88:32] Trent Loos: You just played right into what I was doing yesterday.
[88:35] Trent Loos: Since 2014, there's been a 345,000-volt transmission line planned from Sutherland, Nebraska, up to O'Neill through, I think, seven counties and 260 miles.
[88:55] Trent Loos: There was a lot of things happening in the middle, Kim.
[88:59] Trent Loos: The Public Service Commission yesterday...
[89:02] Trent Loos: actually did hold a public hearing, so to speak, but the public hearing didn't include any of the proposals.
[89:11] Trent Loos: The proposals are like 600 pages long of this permit application from Nebraska Public Power District.
[89:17] Trent Loos: And that's the unique part about Nebraska is 100% of Nebraska is served by public power.
[89:27] Trent Loos: I am a co-op member of Nebraska Public Power.
[89:32] Trent Loos: that we're having, we're attending this public service commission meeting at the state capitol.
[89:37] Trent Loos: They are celebrating the passage of LB 1261, which opens the door for private entities to supply electricity into the state.
[89:47] Trent Loos: When we're having this hearing about whether or not to permit this 260 mile line, they said that they can do this now without a public hearing, so to speak, and that means
[90:00] Trent Loos: they don't have, MPPD doesn't have to present the information because they have 97% compliance of the landowners.
[90:08] Trent Loos: We know that's a bold place to lie.
[90:10] Trent Loos: We can account for 40 miles in this particular path that nobody has signed an easement for and has said, you'll take it in that domain or you won't have it.
[90:22] Trent Loos: But yet they present that they have 97% and we've fought this
[90:27] Trent Loos: And CO2 pipelines have fought this in every program that we've been a part of fighting, is that they come up with this fictitious number that overwhelmingly everybody's doing it.
[90:37] Trent Loos: And what I wanted to get to was something that's very troubling.
[90:45] Trent Loos: The annual budget of Nebraska Public Service Commission is $115 million a year.
[90:52] Trent Loos: That's what is spent for this commission to operate.
[90:55] Trent Loos: Before the vote was taken, one of the commissioners, Eric Candler to be exact, asked the question, if we deny this, what happens?
[91:07] Trent Loos: And the director who was positioning this petition said, and it's almost word for word quote, it will go to appeal and you will lose because the statute of the legislative body will overrule what you decide here today.
[91:24] Trent Loos: So then you have to ask the question, why do we have a public service commission?
[91:29] Trent Loos: Why are we spending $115 million of taxpayer money going through a dog and pony show that if, in fact, they don't just rubber stamp these industry projects, they'll be overwritten?
[91:43] Trent Loos: So we have really opened a can of worms to look at how this pseudo...
[91:51] Trent Loos: And every minute that I'm sitting there, I'm thinking about Elbert County and Iowa, Colorado, and how all this plays out, right?
[91:59] Trent Loos: And so, and here's the other thing that I have to share.
[92:03] Trent Loos: And I got to be honest, until 30 days ago, well, 60 days ago, when the fire started in the greater part of the Sandhills, I like so many people drive through the Sandhills and say, I love the Sandhills.
[92:15] Trent Loos: If you're driving down the road and you see them from your vehicle, you absolutely love them.
[92:19] Trent Loos: Well, it turns out the Sandhills of Nebraska is the second largest natural grasslands left in the world.
[92:28] Trent Loos: It does more carbon sequestration than any place other than the African Serengeti.
[92:37] Trent Loos: And when we talk about pristine, it can be damaged in a heartbeat.
[92:40] Trent Loos: And so I didn't fully grasp that until I walked in the shoes with the folks who take care of the land.
[92:46] Trent Loos: And these individuals, only one, there's one that lives in the Sandhills, Kevin Stocker, he has somewhat of a grasp.
[92:52] Trent Loos: The other four don't really grasp how critical and pristine and vulnerable these Sandhills are.
[93:01] Trent Loos: There are places where you're digging a post hole three foot deep and you will hit water.
[93:07] Trent Loos: And there's no ecological sense behind putting, and to compensate for that, Kim,
[93:14] Trent Loos: What they're talking about doing, to put this up, is getting mats that interlock with one another and driving their 40,000-pound pieces of equipment on these mats so that they don't destroy this habitat and this ecosystem.
[93:30] Trent Loos: And that's a real thing because in 1840, the last year of the Oregon Trail, that's been a while.
[93:44] Trent Loos: And the wagon ruts that my mules and wagon made when we came are still here.
[93:51] Trent Loos: I can take you to places in Nebraska and show you ruts that were made by the Oregon Trail in 1840.
[94:00] Kim Monson: Can you just imagine what they went through?
[94:03] Trent Loos: Well, 42,000 people died, by the way, on the Oregon Trail.
[94:07] Trent Loos: But they want to go through the Sandhills.
[94:13] Trent Loos: And here's the biggest kicker of the day.
[94:17] Trent Loos: The population of Nebraska in rural areas has declined by 7%.
[94:22] Trent Loos: We've had steady growth in Lincoln and Omaha.
[94:25] Trent Loos: But if you look at the growth, there is no underserved part of that part of Nebraska.
[94:30] Trent Loos: Actually, they're putting it there for something that they want to build in the future, which obviously at this day and time would be an AI data center.
[94:39] Trent Loos: But still, the whole message of this story is the regulatory body asked if we deny this, what happens?
[94:48] Trent Loos: But they still part of a representative republic is that right.
[94:53] Kim Monson: And that is what I am seeing is that these hearings and it's an illusion.
[95:00] Kim Monson: It's an illusion of that we the people have a voice where we don't really have a voice.
[95:06] Kim Monson: So what was the vote on this then, even if that was the answer?
[95:22] Kim Monson: You know, speaking of abstain, when I was on city council, there was something that I really wanted to vote no on.
[95:30] Kim Monson: And I said, I think I might abstain.
[95:32] Kim Monson: And the city attorney said, Kim, you need to take a stand one way or another.
[95:37] Kim Monson: And so I always did take the hard vote and vote no when I needed to.
[95:42] Kim Monson: And so abstain, okay, I'm making a statement.
[96:00] Trent Loos: He knew it wasn't going to make a difference.
[96:02] Trent Loos: He's campaigning in a place that he thinks it's going to be beneficial to abstain.
[96:06] Trent Loos: And so he campaigned for what he thought was best for him instead of the project.
[96:12] Kim Monson: Yeah, we've got to have people with heart and with guts that we're electing to office.
[96:16] Kim Monson: We're going to continue the discussion.
[96:17] Kim Monson: I know I teased this thing about Google and these mosquitoes.
[96:20] Kim Monson: So when we come back, we're going to talk about that.
[96:22] Kim Monson: But did want to mention Little Richie's.
[96:24] Kim Monson: They're your local neighborhood spot where you get authentic New York style pizza and pasta.
[96:29] Kim Monson: They've been serving Parker and Golden for over 20 years.
[96:34] Kim Monson: You buy one Calzone, you get everything.
[96:35] Kim Monson: The other half off, you can get, I could get four meals out of that special that day because they are big.
[96:42] Kim Monson: In fact, I was out at the USMC Memorial for the Memorial Day event and stopped into the Golden Little Richies.
[96:52] Kim Monson: She said, I've never had a calzone.
[96:56] Kim Monson: She said, oh, that's enough for Walt and I.
[96:58] Kim Monson: So again, you can get a great special on Saturday for calzones at Little Richies.
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[100:21] Kim Monson: And, of course, they have events on Veterans Day.
[100:23] Kim Monson: They're going to be celebrating their 49th anniversary.
[100:27] Kim Monson: You can do that by going to usmcmemorialfoundation.org, usmcmemorialfoundation.org.
[100:33] Kim Monson: And then the Center for American Values in Pueblo will be hosting one of their On Values presentations on June 23rd.
[100:41] Kim Monson: It will be in the evening featuring Medal of Honor recipient Barney Barnum.
[100:45] Kim Monson: And you can RSVP for that by going to AmericanValueCenter.org.
[100:49] Kim Monson: We're talking with Trent Loos, a sixth-generation rancher from Nebraska.
[100:55] Kim Monson: And I will see you later today as we're arriving in Cheyenne for the noon event tomorrow at the Wyoming State Capitol regarding the Wyoming Wind Rally to save American Golden Eagles.
[101:07] Kim Monson: And we'd love to have people join us, Trent.
[101:16] Kim Monson: Now, getting over here to this headline I saw, it's like, what could go wrong with this?
[101:23] Kim Monson: This is from BGR by Alan Bradley, posted yesterday.
[101:28] Kim Monson: Google is releasing 32 million mosquitoes in two U.S. states.
[101:34] Kim Monson: And this article then is trying to, it starts off, it says, on the surface, it sounds like truly an abominable idea.
[101:46] Kim Monson: Losing millions of blood-sucking insects across California and Florida.
[101:51] Kim Monson: But then it goes on to say that this actually might be good.
[101:55] Kim Monson: Because apparently these would be good mosquitoes.
[101:59] Kim Monson: then I think they must want to try to breed with bad mosquitoes.
[102:03] Kim Monson: And Alphabet is calling it the debug program.
[102:07] Kim Monson: So what's your thoughts on this, Trent Loos?
[102:11] Trent Loos: I'm in the camp of I see no value in this whatsoever.
[102:14] Trent Loos: And I'm going to tie this back to something you were previously talking about, and that is the attack on women.
[102:23] Trent Loos: And you can look at what's going on with male fertility today as well as female.
[102:31] Trent Loos: We had that we've spent millions, nearly a billion dollars to produce a sterile new world fruit fly because of the new world fruit worm that comes from the fruit fly.
[102:46] Trent Loos: And we're going to release, they have been,
[102:48] Trent Loos: releasing these sterile male fruit flies, assuming that females will mate with these and not reproduce.
[102:57] Trent Loos: We still have cattle with New World Screw Worm threatening our border in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico.
[103:05] Kim Monson: Okay, now Trent, you know I try not to be snarky, but I would say that these would be the Tim Walts of fruit flies or mosquitoes.
[103:29] Trent Loos: So anyway, this falls into this whole notion, and I see more of this type of activity where we're going to release something sterile into the environment.
[103:40] Trent Loos: This is not just about the mosquito.
[103:48] Trent Loos: You know what the number one killer of our troops in even World War II was?
[103:56] Trent Loos: What was the vector for getting malaria to the people?
[104:05] Trent Loos: By the way, how did we fix the malaria problem, i.e.
[104:18] Trent Loos: in 1971 because of a book written by an activist, Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, with lies.
[104:25] Trent Loos: DDT did more to preserve humanity than any other chemical, excluding water, because water is a chemical.
[104:42] Kim Monson: First of all, why is Google Alphabet in the business of breeding mosquitoes, right?
[104:53] Trent Loos: I mean, why do two researchers at Western Michigan write a paper in the National Institutes of Health about how it's going to be beneficial to the planet to get people to stop eating meat?
[105:15] Kim Monson: How how could Google get permission to release all of these mosquitoes?
[105:29] Trent Loos: So I don't want permission to do anything.
[105:35] Trent Loos: I don't need a permit or permission to do that.
[105:38] Trent Loos: But you do bring up a great question in a state of the industry, so to speak, that we have to get permission to do everything.
[105:47] Trent Loos: How can a company decide they're going to go do this in California and Florida?
[105:52] Trent Loos: Who granted them the authority to do that?
[105:58] Kim Monson: regarding we should not ask for permission, but we also need to be virtuous citizens.
[106:04] Kim Monson: And I don't think there's anything virtuous about releasing mosquitoes into NY, California and Florida, right?
[106:14] Trent Loos: Florida, I understand because that's such a heavy mosquito laden area.
[106:19] Trent Loos: It's not as mosquito infestated as Florida would be.
[106:24] Trent Loos: And what are they trying to accomplish?
[106:26] Kim Monson: Well, and to that point, my snarky thing about Tim Walz is the wimpiness is not attractive in the human population.
[106:39] Kim Monson: So I don't think wimpiness would be attractive in the mosquito or the whatever, the other thing you were talking about.
[106:47] Kim Monson: I just don't think wimpiness would be attractive in those arenas either.
[106:55] Trent Loos: But what are the mosquitoes doing they're trying to curtail?
[107:06] Trent Loos: But what is the cause of the mosquitoes that we need to reduce the fertility?
[107:14] Trent Loos: Why are we trying to limit mosquito population?
[107:19] Trent Loos: But for every action, there's an equal reaction.
[107:22] Trent Loos: And we're going to release more mosquitoes, even if they're sterile, they don't reproduce, they don't do anything.
[107:27] Trent Loos: What did we accomplish by putting 32 million more mosquitoes in the population?
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[107:36] Trent Loos: So what are we, so I'm back to what are we doing?
[107:39] Kim Monson: How do we know they're sterile also?
[107:41] Kim Monson: And how do we know that they're not carrying something else, right?
[107:44] Trent Loos: How do we know they don't all have West Nile?
[107:46] Trent Loos: How do we know that they're not like the Lone Star tick and, oh,
[107:49] Trent Loos: Oh, we didn't realize that there was a mutation that involved in that virus, and suddenly they're dangerous.
[107:57] Kim Monson: You and I are getting so cynical, I tell you.
[108:03] Trent Loos: I don't know what the definition of cynical is, but our world is laced in reality.
[108:09] Trent Loos: Become laced in reality and show up at the state capitol in Cheyenne tomorrow at 12 o'clock noon Mountain Time.
[108:15] Kim Monson: because Trent Loos and Kim Monson will both be there, along with Wendy Volk and other speakers.
[108:19] Trent Loos: Wendy Volk, that's who you want to see.
[108:22] Kim Monson: That is who you want to see, that's for sure.
[108:24] Kim Monson: Okay, Trent Loos, I will see you later today.
[108:26] Kim Monson: Have a great day, and as always, thank you.
[108:30] Kim Monson: And our quote for the end of the show is Benjamin Franklin.
[108:32] Kim Monson: He said, whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
[108:38] Kim Monson: So today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, if honestly and authentically strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way.
[108:50] Kim Monson: God bless you, and God bless America.
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