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[02:51] Kim Monson: And we look at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom.
[02:55] Kim Monson: If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it.
[02:59] Kim Monson: And my friends, it's never compassionate to take other people's rights, their property, their freedom, livelihood, opportunity, or lives via force.
[03:07] Kim Monson: And force comes in a bunch of different packages.
[03:09] Kim Monson: It could be a weapon, policy, unpredictable and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, government-induced inflation, the World Economic Forum, Davos Globalist Elites Agenda, or the new 87,000 IRS agents authorized in the Democrats' Income Reduction Act.
[03:29] Kim Monson: And we are seeing, I mean, as I go through the packet, I see all of this force, and it's clouded in different ways.
[03:36] Kim Monson: For example, Patty has in here a couple of different things regarding economic development.
[03:43] Kim Monson: And basically what it is is interested parties and bureaucrats and politicians, they then decide winners and losers.
[03:56] Kim Monson: First one, this is from the Denver Gazette.
[03:58] Kim Monson: Colorado approves$ 13 million in tax incentives for three companies anticipating job growth.
[04:04] Kim Monson: instead of PBIs deciding that some companies get tax incentives.
[04:12] Kim Monson: And if these companies are saying, gosh, we can grow our business and we can hire more employees if we don't have to pay as much in taxes, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out, hey, instead of picking winners and losers, why don't you just lower taxes and rules and regulations across the board so that all businesses are paying less in taxes and I think you would really get the economy going, Steve.
[04:37] Kim Monson: Does that not seem like it makes sense?
[04:39] Producer Steve: What's the saying?
[04:40] Producer Steve: A rising tide lifts all boats.
[04:44] Producer Steve: And in our recent history, do we remember somebody who came in and dropped taxes, said that for every regulation that you were going to bring in, you had to drop two?
[04:54] Producer Steve: And the results of that, do you remember?
[04:56] Producer Steve: Do you remember that?
[05:00] Kim Monson: And so what happens is the pie gets bigger and bigger.
[05:03] Kim Monson: And as the pie gets bigger and bigger, there's more people paying taxes.
[05:08] Kim Monson: And in lowering taxes, you actually increase tax revenue.
[05:12] Kim Monson: And then another example here, this is from the Colorado Sun.
[05:16] Kim Monson: Colorado Springs is offering new and expanding businesses$ 5,000 per employee they hire.
[05:22] Kim Monson: Once again, what about these other businesses that have been paying their taxes and have been slowly growing?
[05:29] Kim Monson: And, of course, with all of this, there comes all this red tape as well.
[05:34] Kim Monson: And bureaucrats and politicians and interested parties, they all get so cozy.
[05:40] Kim Monson: And so instead of these kinds of things occurring, and this is actually kind of a backdoor force, Steve, because everybody else is still paying their taxes, but they're forcibly taking that money from them, which then they have to make up over here because they're giving away freebies.
[05:59] Kim Monson: And of course we see that speaking of freebies, what about the whole education thing?
[06:05] Kim Monson: But you can see how PBIs and they all get so cozy and it's not good for the economy.
[06:11] Kim Monson: And they do it all under the guise of economic development and it's picking winners and losers.
[06:17] Producer Steve: And unfortunately, there's this population, what do you call it?
[06:24] Producer Steve: Oh, the electorate who just doesn't seem to see it happening.
[06:30] Producer Steve: And are we the frog?
[06:31] Producer Steve: What do they say?
[06:32] Producer Steve: Put the frog in just tepid water and turn up the heat, and slowly but surely he'll cook himself.
[06:38] Producer Steve: And we're doing it.
[06:43] Kim Monson: And that's why it's taken me a while to connect the dots, because when I was on city council and seeing these deals come in regarding economic development, I'm like, well, wait, wait a minute.
[06:54] Kim Monson: If it's good for this company to have lower taxes or not have to go through as much of a permitting process, whatever it is, it's like, wait a minute.
[07:04] Kim Monson: If it's good for them, it's good for everybody.
[07:06] Kim Monson: So government is not to be picking winners and losers.
[07:13] Kim Monson: And so we have gotten off the rails.
[07:15] Kim Monson: That's why it's important that we understand the Constitution.
[07:22] Kim Monson: You know what they should actually put.
[07:24] Kim Monson: Take those up to you and take them up to u.
[07:27] Kim Monson: We can have them sit through all of these fabulous classes.
[07:30] Kim Monson: That are events that they have, and I think it could change our state.
[07:34] Kim Monson: Steve, I'm just picturing them coming home from grand lake and changing their party, and it wouldn't be from uh, republican to democrat like what kevin priola did.
[07:46] Kim Monson: So Let's get to our quote for the day.
[07:52] Kim Monson: And he was an Italian Catholic friar, founder of the Franciscans, one of the most venerated figures in Christianity.
[07:58] Kim Monson: In 1223, he arranged for the first Christmas live nativity scene.
[08:03] Kim Monson: And Pope Gregory IX canonized him on July 16 of 1228.
[08:10] Kim Monson: Francis of Assisi was born in 1181 or 1182, died in 1226.
[08:17] Kim Monson: And Steve, you know, I think sometimes we look at what is going on out there, and it's daunting.
[08:26] Kim Monson: He said, start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible.
[08:31] Kim Monson: And suddenly, you are doing the impossible.
[08:34] Kim Monson: And those are words from, you know, back in the 1100s, 1200s.
[08:41] Producer Steve: Well, it inspired me because potentially there's something coming up down the road that right now seems impossible.
[08:48] Producer Steve: When I looked at his words, I'm like, well, okay, you just take a little bit at a time and before you know it, the end goal could possibly be achieved.
[08:58] Producer Steve: But right now it just seems insurmountable.
[09:01] Kim Monson: It does, but start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
[09:09] Kim Monson: Let's see, I wanted to, oh boy, we've got a jam-packed show planned for you today.
[09:16] Kim Monson: We'll be talking with Derek Shuler with Ascent Classical Academy in the second segment.
[09:19] Kim Monson: And then in this particular hour, Daniel Turner with Power of the Future.
[09:24] Kim Monson: I have to talk to him about the Income Reduction Act.
[09:27] Kim Monson: And also this thing that California said they're going to no longer sell gas-powered cars, I think, after 2035.
[09:37] Kim Monson: And apparently Virginia is connected to that.
[09:39] Kim Monson: And Colorado has agreed to follow a lot of the stuff that California's done.
[09:48] Kim Monson: But I think, hmm, let's go to, first of all, from Campfire, Colorado.
[09:54] Kim Monson: It said, a private email from Wayne Williams contradicts his public statements on the Griswold ad.
[09:59] Kim Monson: We're talking about former Secretary of State Wayne Williams doing this ad with Secretary of State Jenna Griswold.
[10:08] Kim Monson: saying that Colorado's elections are safe and secure or something along that line.
[10:14] Producer Steve: I was hoping you would do this one, so please proceed.
[10:18] Kim Monson: And it says, in a recent interview with a member of the Gazette's editorial board, Wayne Williams was asked to explain his appearance in a bizarre ad with Democrat Secretary of State Jenna Griswold backed by$ 1.
[10:35] Kim Monson: To explain away his participation, Williams focused on the fact that the request from Griswold to appear in the ad came during primary season, and he said he had no idea Griswold would spend$ 1 million on the ad after her primary.
[10:46] Kim Monson: I was thinking it might be something like a Facebook video during the primary.
[10:50] Kim Monson: I don't know that I was misled, Williams told the Gazette editorial board.
[10:53] Kim Monson: I may not have been fully informed, but I did not ask what they might spend on this.
[10:58] Kim Monson: Bernie and I spent nothing, so I wasn't visualizing anything like this when I agreed to it.
[11:03] Kim Monson: And in a separate interview with KRDO News, Williams told Spencer Socher, my preference would have been that this would have run much earlier in the cycle.
[11:11] Kim Monson: You know, I mean, if you're going to put your face on something like that, I think you should probably have all the details.
[11:19] Kim Monson: I think what has happened, Steve, is they did not anticipate the amount of pushback of people saying, what are you doing?
[11:28] Kim Monson: On one hand, the state GOP is trying to paint Jenna Griswold as, I mean, She is the Democrat secretary of state and just trying to paint her as, you know, she must be defeated, which would be a great idea.
[11:43] Kim Monson: However, the Republican candidate for secretary of state, Pam Anderson, I think she's on temporary leave, but sits on the board of the Center for Tech and Civic Life, and that's a far left Obama group of people except for Pam Anderson.
[12:00] Kim Monson: And they got the lion's share of the Zuckerberg money that very possibly looks like it affected the election in some of these battleground states.
[12:13] Kim Monson: And it's almost like you can't make this stuff up, Steve.
[12:17] Producer Steve: I look at it and it's like your first reaction is to hold your nose because this kind of stuff, like you said, you can't make this up.
[12:26] Producer Steve: Somebody somewhere is is generating a script.
[12:30] Producer Steve: Uh, here that is just.
[12:31] Producer Steve: I mean I I give them high marks for the absurdity level of their script, but uh, it just doesn't.
[12:39] Producer Steve: And and wayne willie, wayne williams, I don't know he's coming up looking pretty.
[12:43] Producer Steve: I mean egg on your face or what you know.
[12:46] Producer Steve: I don't want to say anything too negative here, but I mean he just looks like he's a total goof and doesn't doesn't get what was what was perpetrated on right, right at him, right.
[12:57] Kim Monson: And uh, so I think that the dot to connect here is when those two are there saying that our elections are safe and secure.
[13:04] Kim Monson: Um, I'm wondering if there's any there there, because they haven't done anything to clean up our voter rolls.
[13:12] Kim Monson: We're papering the state with these mail-in ballots, and um, there can be about harvesting legally of up to 10 ballots.
[13:20] Kim Monson: We have not been able to get any hand recounts to look inside the machines of what's happening with the tabulating machines.
[13:28] Kim Monson: There's all kinds of questions out there.
[13:33] Kim Monson: 1 million to say that our elections are safe and secure, and to that point, they're betting on the uninformed voter.
[13:42] Kim Monson: And the other thing, Steve, If we didn't paper the state with paper ballots or with mail-in ballots, if people had to do a little work to actually vote, and that would mean they might have to plan to take some time off, or they might have to actually request a mail-in ballot instead of just automatically getting one when they get getting registered when they get their driver's license.
[14:06] Kim Monson: if people had to work to actually vote.
[14:09] Kim Monson: And that would go a long way to making sure that we have informed voters, not influenced voters.
[14:17] Kim Monson: Informed voters versus influenced voters.
[14:20] Producer Steve: I do.
[14:21] Producer Steve: And I was just sitting here thinking as you're talking, just that step alone, you need to request a mail-in ballot if you want one, would be a giant step in the right direction.
[14:32] Kim Monson: Because it's so difficult if you're dead to request one.
[14:36] Producer Steve: One last thing, though.
[14:38] Producer Steve: Apparently, Heidi Ganahl had formally registered a complaint about the fact that they spent all that money on producing that commercial.
[14:50] Producer Steve: What's going to happen there besides nothing?
[14:54] Kim Monson: Well, probably, you know, we're seeing a lot of run out the clock kind of stuff.
[14:57] Kim Monson: So I don't know for sure what's going to happen with that.
[15:00] Kim Monson: But if we're a betting woman, I'm going to bet that they're probably going to try to run out the clock on that.
[15:06] Kim Monson: We're going to be talking with Derek Shuler, with Ascent Classical Academies regarding this mill levy override proposal down here in Douglas County for Douglas County Schools.
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[17:44] Kim Monson: We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom.
[17:51] Kim Monson: If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it.
[17:54] Kim Monson: On the line with me is Derek Shuler, and he is with Ascent Classical Academies.
[17:59] Kim Monson: and we're going to talk about this potential mill levy override here in Douglas County.
[18:11] Kim Monson: It's a$ 450 million bond, it looks like.
[18:27] Derec Shuler: Claude's Academies, which is a state-authorized charter public school in Douglas County.
[18:33] Derec Shuler: And frankly, the issues or the concerns that we have on behalf of our school aren't even on the merits of the bond or MLO or the mill levy override in this case.
[18:44] Derec Shuler: But the Douglas County School District, under the current reform-minded board, has been working and drafting language all summer on a tax increase for Douglas County taxpayers.
[18:57] Derec Shuler: And that language was adopted about a little over a week ago, and it's going to be on the ballot this November.
[19:07] Kim Monson: And it is a$ 60 million mill levy override and a$ 450 million bond measure.
[19:20] Derec Shuler: And it's interesting, our concern and part of that, as I mentioned, our school and there are other schools in Douglas County that are public schools educating Douglas County kids who are the children of Douglas County residents and taxpayers and voters.
[19:37] Derec Shuler: And we're doing this work in Douglas County.
[19:39] Derec Shuler: But we don't fall under the Douglas County School District.
[19:42] Derec Shuler: So these tax increases will be on all of Douglas County.
[19:47] Derec Shuler: Unfortunately, the school district under the current reform-minded board decided to not allow or not to include children who are attending state-authorized schools in this tax increase, which we just find extremely unfortunate.
[20:03] Derec Shuler: And for us, that aspect of the ballot initiatives comes down to really a philosophical issue of should money follow the student?
[20:12] Derec Shuler: You know, Kim and we believe that we should be funding students, not systems.
[20:18] Derec Shuler: And we're just really disappointed that we made that case to the Douglas County School District and the superintendent- that they don't agree with that very basic philosophical view that we would expect out of reform minded school people in our country.
[20:38] Kim Monson: Well, I also find it very interesting that you refer to it as a reform school board.
[20:47] Kim Monson: And so many people worked so diligently to elect for, and I'm going to give air quotes, conservative board members to the board because of the concern of how far to the radical left the Douglas County School Board had become.
[21:07] Kim Monson: And, of course, then that trickles down through the superintendent and just curriculum and all of that.
[21:16] Kim Monson: So I find it, first of all, crazy that you have, again, air quotes, conservatives that are floating a tax increase when we are in a recession right now.
[21:34] Kim Monson: And when we talk about the World Economic Forum said by 2030, you will own nothing.
[21:39] Kim Monson: One of the ways they will do that is by taxing people out of their homes.
[21:45] Kim Monson: And so we've seen a high increase in assessed valuation.
[21:49] Kim Monson: Isn't that an automatic tax increase for all of these special districts and school districts, Derek?
[21:58] Derec Shuler: So the mill override is a commitment on how much of your property will be taxed.
[22:06] Derec Shuler: So in this case, it's$ 60 million, and that's on the mill levy override.
[22:11] Derec Shuler: What happens is property values in Douglas County continue increasing.
[22:16] Derec Shuler: They're not collecting more money necessarily as the tax base increases.
[22:21] Derec Shuler: So that's how the mill levy overrides work.
[22:24] Derec Shuler: The bonds are a little different, and it has to do with the total valuation.
[22:29] Derec Shuler: But again, you don't see that mill levy taxing going up every year.
[22:37] Derec Shuler: But what's also interesting, when you look in Douglas County in the past several years, Douglas County enrollment has gone down by thousands of kids.
[22:45] Derec Shuler: So with the previous mill levy overrides, they're already receiving more money per child, which is the curious thing for us is we're looking at funding all public school kids in the county that by adding 2,000 more kids, you're only reducing Douglas County's middle-event by$ 29 per child out of$ 930.
[23:08] Kim Monson: Okay, because, yes, I think enrollment was down 4,000, I think, a couple of years ago.
[23:17] Kim Monson: So I guess net-net in even adding in, were you part of the other mill levy override, or is this the first time that the question's been asked and Ascent could take part in this?
[23:30] Derec Shuler: So Ascent used to be authorized by the school district, and we were actually invited to leave the school district or asked to leave the school district in 2019.
[23:41] Derec Shuler: So at that point, we were already receiving a share of that 2018 mill levy.
[23:45] Derec Shuler: But when we left the district, the previous board, interestingly enough, agreed to give us the 2018 mill levy override for five years to help stabilize.
[23:58] Derec Shuler: And part of looking at funding all kids and not systems, is that support for our Douglas County Public School runs out next year.
[24:06] Derec Shuler: We've also asked the county to let's fund all public school children in Douglas County, which about 2,000 kids who are attending public schools are Douglas County Public School.
[24:15] Derec Shuler: So again, we've asked to continue that and to have our children also receive the benefit of this new proposed increase if that passes also.
[24:26] Kim Monson: I am actually, I am very surprised that this superintendent and this school board would not take steps to have money follow the child.
[24:40] Kim Monson: because that's really been, and again, I'm going to put air quotes in conservative circles, that has really been where people have advocated for moving towards in school choice and money following the children.
[24:55] Kim Monson: So this is pretty surprising to me.
[24:57] Kim Monson: So the$ 60 billion mill levy override, is that every year?
[25:02] Derec Shuler: That will be attached every year on the Douglas County taxpayers.
[25:07] Derec Shuler: And, Kim, you mentioned that money-following kid being a basic tenet of school reform.
[25:13] Derec Shuler: The entire state of Arizona just recently went, the entire state now has money-following the child.
[25:20] Derec Shuler: So we look at Douglas County really having a national reputation as a conservative school board.
[25:26] Derec Shuler: We can't even get it done in Douglas County, Colorado.
[25:30] Derec Shuler: And if we can't get these basic reform things done in Colorado, where are we going to get it done?
[25:35] Derec Shuler: And I know from our perspective, we worked with the district, addressed every concern they had.
[25:41] Derec Shuler: And it really came down to this interesting idea.
[25:44] Derec Shuler: There's no accountability funding charter schools or state authorized charter schools, which is, interestingly enough, the argument we hear gets school choice in general.
[25:54] Derec Shuler: And this is coming from Douglas County now.
[26:02] Kim Monson: You didn't happen to hit the mute button, did you?
[26:14] Kim Monson: So you said that one of the reasons they said there was no accountability.
[26:19] Kim Monson: But, Derek, when we talk about accountability, is it accountability to the school board or the superintendent, or is it accountability to parents?
[26:29] Kim Monson: Because parents can figure out if a school, a charter school, is not doing a great job, but their parents are going to move their kids someplace else.
[26:38] Kim Monson: So I find that kind of interesting that they say there's no accountability because there is accountability to the actual parents and the students.
[26:50] Derec Shuler: This is beyond just the parent accountability piece.
[26:53] Derec Shuler: The latest we've heard out of the Douglas County School District is it's accountability to the taxpayer for where their funds are going to be spent in the event this tax increase were to happen.
[27:04] Derec Shuler: So, again, we've actually have come to the table with a serious proposal on addressing accountability.
[27:13] Derec Shuler: The state charter school authorizer has agreed to act as an agent to make sure the money is spent as Douglas County School District and the voters of Douglas County intend.
[27:23] Derec Shuler: And again, this is something that the school district is talking about this issue.
[27:29] Derec Shuler: They're not acknowledging that we have a solution on the accountability front.
[27:33] Derec Shuler: So again, we have thousands of children who are Douglas County residents who are being excluded from this.
[27:40] Derec Shuler: Every issue or every objection or concern we've had, we've addressed.
[27:44] Derec Shuler: And the district ended up adopting language that excludes thousands of Douglas County public school children.
[27:51] Derec Shuler: And so we're concerned for our parents and our kids.
[27:55] Derec Shuler: And the issues the district has on raising costs are the same ones we, frankly, have as well.
[28:00] Derec Shuler: But as you know, Kim, charter schools are scrappy.
[28:03] Derec Shuler: We do more with less, and we were just hoping it wouldn't be a whole lot less.
[28:10] Kim Monson: The other thing is I think most people would really like to reward great teachers with more money.
[28:19] Kim Monson: I do think that although I tell you across the spectrum, people are having to tighten their belts up because of this inflation.
[28:25] Kim Monson: And it's not just the taxes at the school district.
[28:28] Kim Monson: Then there's the taxes that are paid to the park and rec district.
[28:34] Kim Monson: And people are really getting hurt.
[28:39] Kim Monson: We need to be electing people that actually believe in lower taxes and also building the economy up so that more people are thriving and prospering.
[28:45] Kim Monson: But I know that's a different question.
[28:47] Kim Monson: You may not know this, but from a curriculum standpoint, and I guess I probably need to do some work on that, but typically we've seen that many times these school districts are very administrative heavy.
[29:01] Kim Monson: So people that are making very good salaries, great pensions, but they're not in the school classroom teaching kids.
[29:09] Kim Monson: And then we've got this whole diversity, equity, what is it, D-E-I, inclusion.
[29:17] Kim Monson: You don't happen to know whether or not we have staff members that are being hired just for that in Douglas County.
[29:25] Kim Monson: Derek, I may have to do some research on that.
[29:27] Derec Shuler: Yeah, I don't know where Douglas County's been coming on that.
[29:31] Derec Shuler: I know there's definitely a huge push across the country to really be diverting from the academic mission and the formation mission of children and really getting into some of these extraneous issues.
[29:45] Derec Shuler: So dollars aren't necessarily going into classrooms.
[29:48] Derec Shuler: They're not necessarily going into educating, providing the best education for kids.
[29:55] Derec Shuler: I believe the current board has been trying to address some of those issues from a higher, more intentional perspective on what's the best for kids.
[30:06] Derec Shuler: I have heard that, well, Douglas County's official position is a lot of these things aren't happening in classrooms.
[30:14] Derec Shuler: We've heard from plenty of parents that they are.
[30:17] Derec Shuler: So it's either a concern that it's happening and parents don't know about it, or frankly, the administration isn't knowing about it.
[30:25] Kim Monson: Yeah, I actually had an experience.
[30:29] Kim Monson: This was all pre-COVID that a parent reached out to me regarding a mandatory school assembly at one of the Douglas County high schools.
[30:36] Kim Monson: and wanted to bring it to my attention.
[30:38] Kim Monson: So I went down and actually met with the, now I can't remember who all it was, but, you know, with the leadership in the school, and they said that they were trying to address things, but I think what it was was a mandatory assembly regarding, I want to think it was maybe Pride Week, now I can't remember, but anyway, they asked that they were working on it, and then I not talk about it on the radio.
[31:08] Kim Monson: But that was pre, the curriculum was creeping in on this back then.
[31:16] Kim Monson: What's the final thoughts you'd like to leave with our listeners today?
[31:19] Kim Monson: This is Derek Shuler with Ascent Classical Academies.
[31:22] Derec Shuler: Yeah, and again, Kim, I appreciate the time to be here.
[31:25] Derec Shuler: Unfortunately, the Douglas County Mill and Bond language has already been adopted.
[31:32] Derec Shuler: the language is set that it's more about funding systems than kids is our position.
[31:37] Derec Shuler: And we just want taxpayers to be aware that we need to be pushing our school boards and our school leaders to make sure money follows the child.
[31:46] Derec Shuler: And we should be funding students, not systems.
[31:51] Derec Shuler: And I invite parents to learn more about the thousands of kids who are being excluded out of the upcoming tax increase proposals because of control, because of adult issues, frankly.
[32:02] Derec Shuler: And I appreciate the time to talk about what's going on in Douglas County.
[32:06] Kim Monson: Well, it looks like the opportunity has been missed by them, but what a great opportunity they would have had to actually walk their talk regarding all of these conversations about money following the kids.
[32:19] Kim Monson: So Derek Shuler with Ascent Classical Academies, thank you so much, and let's stay in touch.
[32:25] Kim Monson: And before we go to break, I also want to just re-mention U.
[32:29] Kim Monson: Constitution Week up in Grand Lake.
[32:32] Kim Monson: Constitution Week in the country, and this is their 11th year, if you can believe it.
[32:38] Kim Monson: And Grand Lake is just, it's a little touch of heaven, and so highly recommend, and it's gorgeous in September.
[32:43] Kim Monson: So it will be September 12th through September 18th.
[32:46] Kim Monson: I have the great honor to emcee the main event on Constitution Day, September 17th.
[32:53] Kim Monson: Constitution, let's see, it's Grand Lake U.
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[33:05] Kim Monson: We'll talk with Daniel Turner about the Income Reduction Act.
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[35:55] Kim Monson: We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom.
[36:02] Kim Monson: You shouldn't have to force people to do it.
[36:04] Kim Monson: I'm thrilled to have on the line with me Daniel Turner.
[36:06] Kim Monson: He is the founder of Power the Future.
[36:09] Kim Monson: And, my friends, we are realizing that a reliable, efficient, affordable, and abundant energy from hydrocarbons, fossil fuels, oil and gas development, It has powered this fabulous modern life that we have, where we just have all kinds of great conveniences that we can then thrive and prosper.
[36:34] Kim Monson: And the Income Reduction Act is, I mean, there's so much in there.
[36:40] Kim Monson: I wanted to talk with Daniel about that.
[36:41] Kim Monson: He just recently had published a blog, Frenemies, Not Even Alaska's Eco Left, cheering Biden's green new tax.
[36:49] Kim Monson: Daniel Turner, welcome to the show.
[36:56] Kim Monson: And, I mean, you've got your finger on the pulse on what's happening in Washington.
[37:01] Kim Monson: And we were all disappointed when Manchin signed on this.
[37:05] Kim Monson: But we have to remember there's all these other senators that voted to approve this Income Reduction Act.
[37:11] Kim Monson: And both Colorado senators did that.
[37:16] Kim Monson: What do you want people to know about this green new tax plan?
[37:24] Daniel Turner: However you want to phrase it right, this piece of legislation really is terrible, right off the bat.
[37:31] Daniel Turner: I think the most important thing people need to understand this is really just the green new deal with with more attractive name.
[37:44] Daniel Turner: And I think I was on your show four years ago when this first was proposed by Congresswoman AOC.
[37:55] Daniel Turner: It's got billions of dollars for all these green programs.
[37:59] Daniel Turner: No one wanted to put their fingerprints on a Green New Deal.
[38:03] Daniel Turner: So they didn't try to call the build back better.
[38:07] Daniel Turner: Well, what's the most pressing thing for every American family right now is the cost of goods and services and food and gas.
[38:17] Daniel Turner: So they took the Green New Deal, they called it the Inflation Reduction Act, and they passed it through Congress.
[38:25] Daniel Turner: Or if they didn't fall for it, they played along.
[38:30] Daniel Turner: Everyone pretended this is the Inflation Reduction Act, when really all it is is it's the same green legislation that no one wants, but they are shoving through America, shoving down America's throats.
[38:42] Daniel Turner: And as you just said in your intro, which I love it, if this was such a wonderful idea, we wouldn't have to force it upon people and we wouldn't have to lie about its name, right?
[38:51] Daniel Turner: If this was such good legislation, call it what it is and be proud.
[38:54] Daniel Turner: So clearly they're trying to hide from the American people what they're doing.
[38:58] Kim Monson: Well, and Manchin supposedly made this deal, but then it looks like over in the House, they said, there's no way that we're going to vote to appropriate what had been promised to him.
[39:16] Kim Monson: What's your thoughts about Manchin?
[39:23] Daniel Turner: One, I'm wondering if he is realizing he's 77 years old.
[39:29] Daniel Turner: He's tired of, even though it's only been two years, he's tired of being the focus of everyone's attention.
[39:35] Daniel Turner: significant pieces of legislation, some very important nominations have all hinged on his 50th vote.
[39:47] Daniel Turner: You know, I doubt he's going to run again for reelection in two years because he is 77 and he barely won reelection last time to Patrick Morrissey, the attorney general.
[40:09] Daniel Turner: I don't know if he was promised something in this legislation.
[40:13] Daniel Turner: He mentioned how there's a promise to open up America to oil and gas exploration, but legislation can't do that.
[40:23] Daniel Turner: That is a role of the Department of Interior, the Bureau of Land Management, something the great state of Colorado has to deal with and fight with very, very often.
[40:32] Daniel Turner: And the executive branch controls that decision.
[40:36] Daniel Turner: So even if they said, OK, look, vote for this and we'll open up oil and gas exploration, there's no evidence or there's no mechanism to actually do that.
[40:48] Daniel Turner: I was very disappointed he caved on something so important.
[40:54] Kim Monson: But I'm also disappointed that there were all of these other Democrat senators that voted for it.
[41:02] Kim Monson: And we in Colorado really do need to question that.
[41:05] Kim Monson: Before we go to break, let's talk just a little bit about this blog that you have written.
[41:09] Kim Monson: And you called it Frenemies, which I found that so interesting.
[41:13] Kim Monson: And you said not even Alaska's eco-left is cheering this Green New Tax deal by Biden.
[41:22] Daniel Turner: Yeah, you know, Alaska is one of the first places where Power to the Future was founded.
[41:29] Daniel Turner: And Alaska, you know, they are a little tired of being governed by these huge federal agencies that are 4,500 miles away and that don't necessarily know the state, have no presence in the state.
[41:45] Daniel Turner: A lot of Alaska's prosperity depends upon huge cooperation with the federal government.
[41:52] Daniel Turner: And a lot of this proposal just builds these, it just pours money onto all of these federal agencies.
[42:04] Daniel Turner: It just makes it harder for Alaskans to be Alaskans, for Alaskans to build their economy.
[42:11] Daniel Turner: Heck, even Alaska's two senators and Senator Murkowski isn't always the most reliable senator on the right.
[42:18] Daniel Turner: Even she voted very strongly against this, as did Senator Sullivan, because they realized that spending this$ 396 billion on quote-unquote climate change was not going to benefit the state, was not going to bring prosperity or jobs to the state, was really just going to be good for Washington, D.
[42:37] Daniel Turner: So Alaska really is not thrilled with this legislation, nor should they be.
[42:41] Kim Monson: Okay, and one other thing before we go to break.
[42:44] Kim Monson: What about the 87,000 IRS agents that's being authorized in this piece of legislation?
[42:48] Kim Monson: What's your thoughts on that, Daniel Turner?
[42:52] Daniel Turner: The funny thing is that the, and I shouldn't even say funny because it's not laughing matter, but if we don't laugh, sometimes Kim will go crazy.
[43:02] Daniel Turner: But the White House press secretary, she did comment how they will only focus on the, those making more than$ 400,000 a year, they will not target anyone below that threshold.
[43:14] Daniel Turner: And we know that's a lie because more than 99 point, I think it's 2%of Americans, make less than$ 400, 000a year.
[43:23] Daniel Turner: So 87, 000new agents are not going to focus on 0.
[43:29] Daniel Turner: They may not focus necessarily on individuals, but they're clearly going to focus on small businesses.
[43:35] Daniel Turner: And I think they're going to focus a lot, quite frankly, on a lot of the currency apps that we use, a lot of them that young people use.
[43:53] Daniel Turner: Andpeople use it for, heck, I have a lot of, I shouldn't tell the IRS this, I have a lot of money in my Venmo because I use it with my siblings.
[44:08] Daniel Turner: And it's just easier than sending cash or a check in the mail.
[44:13] Daniel Turner: The IRS is going to be looking at all of those accounts.
[44:15] Daniel Turner: They're going to look at all of those ways that we deal in currency, and they're going to tax it, because that's what 87, 000 agentsare going to do.
[44:26] Kim Monson: And so instead of, if you make a bigger pie, if from an economic standpoint, if you lower taxes and rules and regulations across the board, more people then start businesses.
[44:43] Kim Monson: And that seems to be where we need to go on that.
[44:46] Kim Monson: But Daniel Turner, I want to go to break.
[44:48] Kim Monson: When we come back, I want to ask you about California and banning gas- powered cars.
[44:56] Kim Monson: He is the founder of Power of the Future.
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[45:09] Kim Monson: And my friends, we are certainly in a battle right now.
[45:12] Kim Monson: But we need to remember the stories of others who have been willing to put their lives on the line, who have given their lives for our freedom.
[45:23] Kim Monson: And the USMC Memorial Foundation, it's just a great place to do that.
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[45:34] Kim Monson: We'llbe right back with Daniel Turner.
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[47:36] Kim Monson: We have this vision in the Declaration of Independence.
[47:41] Kim Monson: And then, of course, on September 17th, 1787, the U.
[47:47] Kim Monson: Constitutionwas written and approved.
[47:54] Kim Monson: And we just want to invite you up to Grand Lake for their U.
[47:58] Kim Monson: It is September 12th through September 18th.
[48:02] Kim Monson: And Grand Lake is just such a little slice of heaven.
[48:06] Kim Monson: And you can get more information about the speakers, the events at GrandLakeUSConstitutionWeek.
[48:13] Kim Monson: Ihave the great honor to emcee the main event on September 17th.
[48:21] Kim Monson: On the line with me is Daniel Turner.
[48:25] Kim Monson: And Daniel, there was California Air Resources Board issued a rule and held a final hearing just recently requiring that all new cars sold after 2035 be electric.
[48:36] Kim Monson: Now, we're talking about force here.
[48:38] Kim Monson: They're trying to take away consumers' choice here because of ideology.
[48:42] Kim Monson: But it says, according to the same plan, 35% of carssold in the state should be fossil fuel- free as soonas 2026.
[48:49] Kim Monson: And apparently, Virginia will follow California due to a 2021 law signed by former Governor Ralph Northam that tied Virginia to the Golden State's emission regulations.
[48:59] Kim Monson: And I think Colorado's attached to them as well.
[49:03] Kim Monson: What's your comments on this, Daniel Turner?
[49:06] Daniel Turner: It's a wonderful example of exactly how you intro the show to say if this is a great idea, then you shouldn't have to force people.
[49:15] Daniel Turner: So there's a lot of problems I have with this on economic levels, on market levels, et cetera.
[49:22] Daniel Turner: We can talk about the drawbacks of electric vehicles, et cetera.
[49:26] Daniel Turner: But right off the bat, my biggest problem is this.
[49:29] Daniel Turner: We've never advanced as a society or as a people or as a nation by banning perfectly good things, perfectly good products.
[49:47] Daniel Turner: And for a governor to come forward or a municipality and say, well, now it's illegal because of our ideology, that's never going to help us advance as a people.
[50:01] Daniel Turner: What it does is it just creates, say, a place of coercion, and it introduces black markets, it introduces loopholes.
[50:11] Daniel Turner: If electric vehicles were great, the marketplace would welcome them, and they would begin to dominate people's choices over time.
[50:23] Daniel Turner: It's not happening fast enough for the environmental left, so they're going to get rid of its competition.
[50:32] Daniel Turner: I have a problem with the huge bonuses they get, right?$ 8,500 in the Inflation Reduction Act.
[50:40] Daniel Turner: Funny enough, Ford, right after that, announced that they were raising the price of their electric vehicles by the same amount.
[50:52] Daniel Turner: Ford also announced they're laying off around 20,000 employees.
[50:58] Daniel Turner: I have a lot of problems with those parts of it.
[51:00] Daniel Turner: But electric vehicles are not the same as the combustion engine.
[51:10] Daniel Turner: Anyone who has a phone, just stick it in the freezer right now and come back in an hour and a half and see what the battery's doing right.
[51:18] Daniel Turner: Electric batteries don't survive well in the extreme cold.
[51:26] Daniel Turner: They're about 300 miles before they need to charge.
[51:31] Daniel Turner: So you can't even drive the length of the state without having to stop and charge it for hours on end.
[51:38] Daniel Turner: Probably the biggest drawback I have with electric vehicles is that they can be remotely turned off technologically.
[51:48] Daniel Turner: Tesla has been known to lock people out of their account, either on a glitch of something wrong with the app, et cetera.
[51:55] Daniel Turner: They've also done that to punish people who are violating their terms of services.
[52:00] Daniel Turner: And so you think you have this$ 80,000 piece of metal with four wheels in your driveway until you try to use it.
[52:08] Daniel Turner: And then Tesla says, nope, sorry, Kim, you violated our terms.
[52:11] Daniel Turner: And until you rectify it, we're not allowing you into your vehicle.
[52:20] Daniel Turner: So we're taking away people's area of mobility, and we're also limiting their freedom because criteria has to be met to use an electric vehicle, and it can be turned off.
[52:33] Daniel Turner: And I can't stop you from getting in your car and just driving.
[52:36] Daniel Turner: It's the foundation of rock and roll songs and literature and American culture.
[52:42] Daniel Turner: It's the great American road trip and jumping in the car and escaping, you can't do that in an electric vehicle.
[52:47] Daniel Turner: And I think if the American people knew all of the limitations and the problems, we haven't even talked about price, we haven't talked about rare earth elements, we haven't talked about China.
[52:56] Daniel Turner: If they just knew those things, they would have some serious hangups with giving up their combustion engine anytime soon.
[53:06] Kim Monson: Okay, I'm going to put my tin hat on here, Daniel Turner.
[53:10] Kim Monson: But it's a dot, I'm connecting a dot here.
[53:17] Kim Monson: The global elites, they look at the rest of us as minions.
[53:22] Kim Monson: And when we saw the whole reaction to COVID, we saw that PBIs, I call them politicians, bureaucrats, and interested parties came out and had edicts about which businesses were essential and which weren't.
[53:35] Kim Monson: So let's think about these same people saying, you know, say climate change, whatever, that your trip is not essential.
[53:44] Kim Monson: Taking away your freedom of mobility, they could turn your car off, and you might want to, whatever it is, you might want to go see your grandma or whatever, and they're like, oh, I can't do that.
[53:52] Kim Monson: I mean, it seems kind of crazy, crazyville to talk about this, but I could see this happening.
[53:58] Daniel Turner: Absolutely, and I do think that's the direction that we're headed, and that is the direction more authoritarian countries like China are already in.
[54:08] Daniel Turner: And the people who talk very excitedly about self-driving cars or pre-programmed cars, what is preventing you from getting to the state of saying, well, I have to punch in the destination for the car to work?
[54:18] Daniel Turner: And they say, well, you know what, Kim, I think you've traveled enough this week.
[54:21] Daniel Turner: Or I don't think you're allowed to go to a neighboring state to see a relative.
[54:26] Daniel Turner: Or maybe you have something on social media that I find offensive, and we're going to limit your mobility until you remove that post.
[54:36] Daniel Turner: So I don't think that's a crazy thought at all.
[54:39] Daniel Turner: I think that's absolutely the direction that authoritarians are headed in, and they're headed in that way with a lot of enthusiasm, because controlling people and controlling their movement is essential for an authoritarian state.
[54:54] Daniel Turner: Right now, you get in your car and you can go hundreds and hundreds of miles on one, fill up and you can pay for cash and you can fill up again and you can disappear.
[55:10] Daniel Turner: And like I said, it's in rock and roll songs and it's in literature and it is very much the last hundred years of American culture.
[55:17] Daniel Turner: It's not the same if you have to get an electric vehicle where it can be shut off remotely, or you can maybe or maybe not find electricity.
[55:29] Daniel Turner: What's going to happen in California when they have those devastating wildfires, which they have regularly because of their terrible forest management program, or their lack thereof, what's going to happen when you have to evacuate thousands and thousands of people if the car isn't fully charged?
[55:58] Daniel Turner: Help push back at every single level and don't let that take place in Colorado.
[56:03] Kim Monson: Daniel Turner, we'll have you on again very soon.
[56:12] Kim Monson: Francis of Assisi said, Lord, help me to live this day quietly, easily.
[56:14] Kim Monson: To lean upon thy great strength, trustfully, restfully, to wait for the unfolding of thy will, patiently and serenely to meet others peacefully, joyously, to face tomorrow confidently and courageously.
[56:26] Kim Monson: So, my friends today, be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals and, like superman, stand for truth, justice and the american way.
[56:37] Kim Monson: God bless you and god bless america.
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[57:51] Producer Steve: Producer steve billy crystal would say marvelous monday, and while I am better than I was last hour, I'm still not sure how marvelous it is.
[57:59] Kim Monson: Well, you'll be into terrific Tuesday before we even know it.
[58:04] Kim Monson: So, but it is a marvelous, it's a marvelous Monday.
[58:07] Kim Monson: These days, these late summer days are so gorgeous.
[58:11] Kim Monson: And these mornings are so, just the way the sun hits the leaves, it's just so beautiful.
[58:16] Kim Monson: And so we, we must be, I mean, we talk about all these challenges that we have, but there's so much to be grateful for.
[58:23] Kim Monson: And there's so much to, to, to fight for.
[58:25] Kim Monson: This great American way of life for middle-class America is under assault.
[58:33] Kim Monson: When we talked with Daniel Turner in the last hour regarding California banning the combustion engine, where we can go where we want to, when we want to, the Americans have this love of mobility of the road, and this push towards electric vehicles will control us.
[58:52] Kim Monson: And inherently, I kind of knew that.
[58:53] Kim Monson: But man, he really solidified that.
[58:57] Producer Steve: And again, people are.
[59:00] Producer Steve: You know, you talk about the great awakening and I said: what did I say last week?
[59:05] Producer Steve: It was so original.
[59:06] Producer Steve: I pat myself on the back.
[59:07] Producer Steve: The great reset versus the great awakening.
[59:11] Producer Steve: I said, man, people are coming more aware of a lot of different things.
[59:18] Producer Steve: And you know, in that last segment or portion, you know, We talked about EVs and they're just not going to be able to hold up much longer.
[59:24] Producer Steve: As more and more people become aware of what their deficiencies really are, it's like, okay, I think this industry could be in for dark days.
[59:33] Kim Monson: Well, it will be because what I think people will be doing then is they will be extending driving the car that they have.
[59:41] Kim Monson: They might have traded it in for a new combustion engine vehicle, and they'll continue to drive their older vehicles.
[59:51] Kim Monson: Well, we'll have Lauren Fix on here very soon again to talk with her about that.
[59:55] Kim Monson: But it's an assault on our freedom of mobility, and they're trying to wrap it up in a bow, and you've seen the ads on television trying to wrap a bow around this thing that is really stinky.
[60:08] Kim Monson: And we talk about it, and Daniel, he noted it.
[60:13] Kim Monson: If it's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it, and so, anyway, I wasn't going to go there because we already did, but let me get into our quote for the day, because I find such hope in this, and this is from St.
[60:29] Kim Monson: He was an Italian Catholic friar, founder of the Franciscans and one of the most venerated figures in Christianity, And in 1223, he arranged for the first Christmas live nativity scene.
[60:41] Kim Monson: Pope Gregory IX canonized him in 1228.
[60:47] Kim Monson: Francis of Assisi was born in 1181 or 1182.
[60:52] Kim Monson: He said, start by doing what's necessary, then do what's possible, and suddenly you're doing the impossible.
[60:59] Kim Monson: So I think, when we look at this election integrity thing, when we look at all of these different issues, start by doing what's necessary.
[61:07] Kim Monson: So, steve, it's necessary that you are behind the board on monday, early, early, and then you do what's possible, and then you know the next thing.
[61:17] Kim Monson: You know we're doing the impossible.
[61:21] Producer Steve: Okay, I guess I never really thought of this particular thing here in this studio as being impossible.
[61:27] Producer Steve: But uh, I don't know.
[61:29] Producer Steve: There's some days.
[61:29] Producer Steve: We pull off miracles.
[61:30] Producer Steve: I'll tell you that.
[61:31] Kim Monson: Well, what we are doing, though, is the impossible, and that is is is bringing forth truth and clarity to these issues, when there's such a movement to try to create chaos and confusion.
[61:43] Kim Monson: And so, by by showing up, by having things organized, then then we get to the point where we're doing things that are impossible.
[61:54] Kim Monson: Um, let's move over here to matt dark with roots medical.
[61:56] Kim Monson: They're a great sponsor of the show, and, uh, they understand the important, uh, importance of medical freedom.
[62:02] Kim Monson: We were talking about freedom of mobility, the freedom to go where you want to, when you want to, but there's also the freedom to make decisions about your own health care.
[62:11] Kim Monson: And so we'll talk with Matt here, and then we'll be talking with Leslie Mnookian with Health Freedom Defense Fund in the second and third segment here.
[62:21] Kim Monson: And they have just filed suit against Disney regarding an employee of Disney that I think she lost her job because of the mandate there.
[62:31] Kim Monson: But we realize that freedom mobility with your vehicle where you can go where you want to when you want to, but freedom to make your own health decisions are so important.
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[62:51] Kim Monson: So, Matt Dark, welcome to the show.
[62:54] Matt Dark: It is wonderful to be with you.
[62:55] Matt Dark: A wonderful Monday morning here.
[62:57] Matt Dark: I feel like we're getting into the fall, but it's a good time to be alive and working on some new what's next, I guess, here for this phase into the fall.
[63:09] Matt Dark: Well, so what I was just going over a little bit this weekend is the real pandemic that goes on in this country, which is obesity and how that accelerated through the pandemic.
[63:22] Matt Dark: You know, there's been all this talk about getting the vaccinated, the young, the five to 11, the six months and up vaccinated.
[63:28] Matt Dark: But what you saw concurrently happening during the lockdown, during COVID's peak is obesity in that same age group, five to 11 year olds skyrocketed.
[63:39] Matt Dark: It went up during the lockdown.
[63:41] Matt Dark: Yeah, it went up more than any other age group out there during the lockdown.
[63:46] Matt Dark: And so childhood obesity, they're putting a number as high as 45 percent of American children somewhat in some category of obese.
[63:56] Matt Dark: To me, that is the real crisis.
[63:59] Matt Dark: And so we're issuing a plan of action for the listener, for the community, for the for the people at large that say, you know what?
[64:08] Matt Dark: I think I might feel better eating a more whole food diet, more exercise, carrying less weight, all these things.
[64:14] Matt Dark: Folks, I just went through this.
[64:15] Matt Dark: I had to clean up some dieting and some eating habits over the last, say, month.
[64:21] Matt Dark: And I can tell you I am receiving the benefit of that right now.
[64:24] Matt Dark: But it had a lot to do with carbs and time of day of eating and things like this.
[64:29] Matt Dark: But this is the simple and easy challenge we're issuing, Kim, is that everybody go in their pantry this week at some point, their refrigerator, and they pick a day of the week that says, I'm not having any processed foods this day of the week.
[64:42] Matt Dark: It's only going to be whole foods.
[64:43] Matt Dark: It's going to be freshly cooked.
[64:44] Matt Dark: It's going to be fresh vegetables, fresh food, nothing coming out of a package, nothing that requires a long ingredient list to make that available to you to eat.
[64:53] Matt Dark: You're just going to set that aside for that day, and then maybe it increases to two days a week.
[64:57] Matt Dark: And the goal is you're consuming essentially all whole foods every day of the week.
[65:03] Matt Dark: The weight disappears, the energy, the vitality comes back, your longevity, your vitality.
[65:09] Matt Dark: And it just is so highly correlated with eliminating processed foods and better health.
[65:15] Matt Dark: It's one of those things that just happens like the sun rising.
[65:20] Matt Dark: So that's what we would be excited about, to really get into starting a new season here in the fall.
[65:30] Matt Dark: And you might get addicted to it and do it every day of the week.
[65:32] Matt Dark: That's what we're thinking about right now at Reached Medical, Kim.
[65:36] Kim Monson: Well, I will take that challenge on.
[65:38] Kim Monson: And one other thing when you mentioned that five to eleven year olds, obesity went up within that age group during COVID.
[65:48] Kim Monson: The other thing is, I remember going down to the park, to the playground, and it was cordoned off with yellow tape.
[65:57] Kim Monson: It's like: well, no wonder, these kids, you know I mean to close our parks and the kids could not play sports and they're playing.
[66:06] Kim Monson: And finally, when they started to play sports, they had to wear a man.
[66:10] Kim Monson: So it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out if you, if you shut down the parks, that that's going to contribute to that as well.
[66:23] Matt Dark: And we also increased food delivery.
[66:34] Matt Dark: Uber Eats, these kind of mechanisms.
[66:35] Matt Dark: Now McDonald's soared and thrived through the pandemic.
[66:40] Matt Dark: opened, in fact, while many churches were forced to close.
[66:44] Matt Dark: Fauci get out there and say, folks, parents, this is the time you want to keep your kids active, keep their vitamin and nutrition level.
[66:51] Matt Dark: You never heard any of that lifestyle, prepare your body.
[66:55] Matt Dark: And what we're saying is, is get out of that funk.
[66:57] Matt Dark: You don't want to let your five to 11 year old grow into an obese adult at 30, at 40, at 50.
[67:03] Matt Dark: And the cycle starts over and over.
[67:09] Matt Dark: They make it so it tastes so good.
[67:11] Matt Dark: They make it so pretty with food dyes and addictive qualities to it.
[67:15] Matt Dark: But this is a moment you say, you know what?
[67:26] Matt Dark: Because also all the stuff we need, it's right there growing in the earth.
[67:30] Kim Monson: Well, that's why Roots Medical is getting to the root of your health And so I love that so much So again, what is your website, Matt Dark?
[67:41] Matt Dark: Let me give you Roots Medical Again, that's RootsMedical.
[67:46] Matt Dark: net You can always go to Colorado Healthcare Providers for Freedom.
[67:49] Matt Dark: com There's great resources, connections, a directory Reach out anytime We are on Instagram So catch us anywhere we are We're always promoting this kind of lifestyle but if you need more resources, just get connected with the practice.
[68:02] Kim Monson: Okay, and again, that's Roots, R-O-O-T-S, RootsMedical.
[68:12] Kim Monson: Okay, and that's Matt Dark with Roots Medical.
[68:14] Kim Monson: So we're going to go to break, and when we come back, we'll be talking with Leslie Manukian.
[68:19] Kim Monson: She's the founder of Health Freedom Defense Fund, And they were actually the group that sued and won to not have to wear masks on airplanes.
[68:30] Kim Monson: And now they've got another lawsuit regarding Disney, and we want to hear about that.
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[69:55] Kim Monson: We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom.
[70:00] Kim Monson: If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it.
[70:03] Kim Monson: And thrilled to have on the line with me, Leslie Mnookian.
[70:09] Kim Monson: I guess virtually we've not met in person yet, but through the whole COVID thing, and she had started the uh health freedom defense fund and uh they've done some amazing work.
[70:23] Kim Monson: I'm just thrilled to have you on on the show again.
[70:29] Kim Monson: Um first of all, uh, the health freedom defense fund filed suit to um against uh the mask mandates on airplanes and you won that lawsuit.
[70:43] Kim Monson: So where's the status on that right now?
[70:52] Leslie Manookian: What's really interesting is that the government didn't seek any kind of expedited process for reviewing our win, for reviewing the win, for, you know, looking at what the judge ruled.
[71:07] Leslie Manookian: nothing like that, didn't even assert that there was an emergency.
[71:11] Leslie Manookian: I mean, if there were an emergency, you would have thought that they would have been pushing as fast as they could in order to review that.
[71:23] Leslie Manookian: And so DOJ is appealing, but it took them quite a while to appeal.
[71:29] Leslie Manookian: And it's a very interesting situation, given that if you think that you're in the middle of a major health problem or a health crisis, then CDC would be acting as though there were an emergency, and that's not been the case.
[71:45] Leslie Manookian: But we filed what's called an answer brief to their initial filing on August 1st, and we're just waiting to hear back when we're going to have oral arguments.
[71:57] Leslie Manookian: So we submitted, I think, an incredibly well-reasoned and well-documented brief in reply to DOJ's appeal.
[72:12] Kim Monson: So for the layperson like me, you're saying that the Department of Justice is appealing the decision regarding forced mask wearing on airplanes, which would mean that they think that we should still be forced to wear masks on airplanes?
[72:26] Kim Monson: Am I connecting that dot correctly?
[72:31] Leslie Manookian: Well, you are connecting the dot correctly, but I think that you're also exposing what the real issue is, which is one of politics and power.
[72:41] Leslie Manookian: I mean, CDC, you know, has said that injected and uninjected people shouldn't be treated any differently, that whether, you know, they've basically relaxed everything.
[72:52] Leslie Manookian: And yet they're still in court trying to defend their power to mask the entire populace.
[73:05] Leslie Manookian: And so what most Americans probably don't realize is that we kind of have a fourth branch of government.
[73:15] Leslie Manookian: The administrative state is all these federal agencies that actually sit underneath the executive.
[73:23] Leslie Manookian: And what the problem is that it's not supposed to be a branch of government, right?
[73:28] Leslie Manookian: By the Constitution, we have three branches of government, the presidency, which is the executive, the judicial system, which is all the courts, and the legislative, which is Congress.
[73:38] Leslie Manookian: But what's happened over the recent decades, you know, maybe the last 100 years or so, 75 years, is that the administrative branch, all these federal agencies have just exploded in not only scope, but power.
[73:53] Leslie Manookian: And so what's happening is that for the first time ever in the history of our country, the CDC has claimed power that no one ever envisioned or granted it, that certainly Congress didn't envision or grant it.
[74:04] Leslie Manookian: And so what's happening is that these people are unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, but it makes it much easier for the president to act as more of a king or emperor or queen or empress by just dictating what these federal agencies should do.
[74:24] Leslie Manookian: And then they dutifully comply and they tell all of Americans what to do.
[74:32] Leslie Manookian: It's really the executive power that they're trying to defend, which they implement through this administrative state.
[74:39] Leslie Manookian: And we've had what many observers call administrative creep for decades, which is that the power is creeping, right?
[74:49] Leslie Manookian: It starts out very, very small, and now it's crept to the point where they're claiming the power and authority to tell every person that gets on an airplane or on a bus or anything like that, that got CARES Act funds that they have to mask.
[75:02] Leslie Manookian: But if you drive across state borders, you know, from New Jersey into New York, they don't have any power there.
[75:13] Leslie Manookian: It's purely about their power, and that's why they are fighting.
[75:21] Kim Monson: But the positive thing is that the mask has come off on all, literally the mask has come off on what they're doing.
[75:31] Kim Monson: And can I say one other thing, Kim, on this?
[75:40] Leslie Manookian: Most Americans say that, you know, they're over COVID, they're over masks and all these measures.
[75:43] Leslie Manookian: And even if they win, I think it will be very, very difficult for them to reimplement something.
[75:52] Leslie Manookian: And we've had 22 attorneys general, so state attorneys general, come in on our behalf.
[76:00] Leslie Manookian: We've had, I can't remember if it's somewhere between 13 and 15 members of Congress.
[76:04] Leslie Manookian: They've all come in on our behalf by submitting what are called amicus briefs, a friend of the court brief, basically explaining why this is government overreach, why it's not constitutional, and why the appellate court should uphold the lower U.
[76:23] Leslie Manookian: It's never a bad thing when you have 22 attorneys general from the states coming in on your side, right?
[76:30] Kim Monson: And that's why these elections are so important, my friends, is that we need to continue to elect conservatives, people that believe in our Constitution, and we need to elect even more attorneys generals like that.
[76:43] Kim Monson: So let's talk about your latest suit.
[76:47] Kim Monson: And it says Health Freedom Defense Fund is helping a Disney worker sue for mandate discrimination.
[76:55] Leslie Manookian: So this Disney worker, she works for 20th Century Fox, was sold to Disney.
[77:15] Leslie Manookian: and they are responsible for doing all the work for, I think it's called American Dad and Family Guy.
[77:21] Leslie Manookian: I don't watch these shows, so I always forget what the names are, but apparently they're very popular shows.
[77:27] Leslie Manookian: And they, in April of this year, mandated that employees get the shot.
[77:36] Leslie Manookian: Now, that's a really critical time because we already knew by August of last year, CDC actually revealed that the shots don't prevent transmission or infection.
[77:49] Leslie Manookian: Well, if they don't prevent transmission or infection, what in the world is the public health purpose?
[78:01] Leslie Manookian: Even though I still think no matter what, even if there's a public health purpose, I think that the primacy of the individual is unassailable.
[78:06] Leslie Manookian: unquestionable and must always exist, even in the middle of a huge threat.
[78:16] Leslie Manookian: But the point is, we already knew that these shots didn't confer immunity, didn't stop transmission or infection.
[78:23] Leslie Manookian: And therefore, what in the world was Disney thinking by 20th TV animation actually implementing this policy in April of 2022, when we knew in August of 2021, that they didn't do what they were purported to do these shots, right?
[78:41] Leslie Manookian: And then on top of that, the Supreme Court of the United States has actually invalidated the government mandate for large employers, saying that the workplace risk to government, that the workplace risk was not something that government or employers have power over, and that you can't get unvaccinated after work.
[79:00] Leslie Manookian: So they said, you know, they struck that OSHA mandate down.
[79:04] Leslie Manookian: And then on top of that, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is a federal agency, said that companies must, must, must, must, must acknowledge religious objections to vaccination policies and that employers can't judge the sincerity of these religious beliefs or limit religious objections to organized religions.
[79:32] Leslie Manookian: And we know very clearly from the science that the shots do not actually, that they wane over time, that they are inferior to natural immunity.
[79:40] Leslie Manookian: And so what in the world is the justification for now, at the 11th hour, forcing 20th TV animation employees, even receptionists who work remotely, which is what Pamela Petroff does, the plaintiff in the case, to get the first couple jabs.
[80:05] Leslie Manookian: And so we filed suit because they are violating not only what the Supreme Court has ruled, what the EEOC has ruled, has guided, but also California privacy laws, California Fair Employment and Housing Act laws and things.
[80:20] Leslie Manookian: I mean, she's being discriminated against, harassed, and she was not given other work opportunities, and she is being terminated on September 6th.
[80:36] Leslie Manookian: And, I mean, let's get into what her supervisor has done, because the harassment and the hostile work environment that they have created is really something to behold.
[80:48] Kim Monson: I'm talking with Leslie Manuki, and she is the founder of Health Freedom Defense Fund.
[80:52] Kim Monson: We're talking about this Disney employee that is going to lose her job because she does not want to get the jab.
[80:59] Kim Monson: And we'll talk about this kind of this workplace harassment that has been going on.
[81:05] Kim Monson: Before we do that, though, I'm so excited to talk about Grand Lake U.
[81:10] Kim Monson: It will be September 12th through the 18th in Grand Lake, Colorado, which is really a little spot of heaven.
[81:18] Kim Monson: And I will have the great honor to emcee the main event on September 17th.
[81:27] Kim Monson: And you can see all of the events, all the different speakers that they have.
[81:31] Kim Monson: In fact, Helen Raleigh, who was on the show last week, She's immigrated from China, writes for The Federalist, Wall Street Journal.
[81:37] Kim Monson: She's going to be one of the speakers.
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[81:43] Kim Monson: We'll be right back with Leslie Mnookian.
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[85:18] Kim Monson: We search for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through the lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom.
[85:23] Kim Monson: If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it.
[85:27] Kim Monson: And before we get back to Leslie Mnookin, and she's going to stay on through our call-in time.
[85:32] Kim Monson: And last time she was on, you all had great questions.
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[85:42] Kim Monson: Constitution Week, which is coming up in Grand Lake, Colorado, at September 12th through September 18th.
[85:48] Kim Monson: And the main event is on September 17th, which is Constitution Day.
[85:53] Kim Monson: And I have the great honor to emcee that.
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[86:02] Kim Monson: and you can see all the events and speakers that they have planned throughout the week.
[86:08] Kim Monson: Leslie Manuki, and first of all, I'm so excited you're going to stay on through the call-in periods because people can give you a call-in and ask you questions.
[86:16] Kim Monson: But I have read what has happened to Ms.
[86:22] Kim Monson: Petroff regarding the harassment at work.
[86:28] Leslie Manookian: Oh, it is just, I can't believe the hatred and the vitriol.
[86:38] Leslie Manookian: It's really interesting because this person, her boss, holds herself up as being somebody who is fighting, you know, righteously to prevent discrimination and support those who are underprivileged.
[86:53] Leslie Manookian: underprivileged, and yet she is, you know, harassing her employee in really very despicable ways.
[87:01] Leslie Manookian: But basically, let me just say that it's not just the federal government, but also California law prevents, prohibits violations of privacy.
[87:12] Leslie Manookian: So Disney shouldn't even be asking about their private medical information and never has before.
[87:24] Leslie Manookian: They're not allowed to judge the sincerity of your religious beliefs.
[87:30] Leslie Manookian: Disney forced Pamela Petroff to go and be interviewed by an HR person.
[87:37] Leslie Manookian: And then after that, she actually went to her supervisor, which is a woman named Cara Vallow.
[87:42] Leslie Manookian: And what's interesting is that the very day that Pamela went to, or the very day that she received her termination, after actually speaking with Caravallo at some point, who's her supervisor, Caravallo posted on Instagram, just sitting here having my coffee, trying to figure out how mandating evangelical Protestantism as the one true American way fits in with personal freedom.
[88:12] Leslie Manookian: I mean, she literally posted that the very day that Pamela Petroff received her termination notice.
[88:20] Leslie Manookian: There are dozens and dozens of examples of her doing stuff.
[88:23] Leslie Manookian: If you haven't done yet, done it yet, one more time, there's no longer a place for any Republicans or sympathizers in a halfway competent or decent society.
[88:33] Leslie Manookian: Republicans are fascist filth who will take away your rights at will.
[88:43] Leslie Manookian: They're coming after your gay marriage and your mixed race marriage.
[88:58] Leslie Manookian: She even said: oh my effing god, get the effing vaccine already.
[89:06] Leslie Manookian: She says that basically unfriend them, don't talk to them, don't hire them.
[89:11] Leslie Manookian: And but what's worse is that what happened was at the workplace.
[89:16] Leslie Manookian: She created an environment where she told Miss Petroff that she was no longer allowed to display the American flag on flyers.
[89:25] Leslie Manookian: So Miss Petroff would send around flyers to kind of motivate the staff and she'd put a flag on them or something like that.
[89:35] Leslie Manookian: She was told she was no longer allowed to do that because it might offend people.
[89:47] Leslie Manookian: So she's, you know, in the public forum, she's putting out these things.
[89:51] Leslie Manookian: And in the workplace, she's being told not to speak with other staff, not to speak with other supervisors.
[89:59] Leslie Manookian: because basically after she was told by HR that they would not accommodate her religious and medical exemption, she then went to her supervisor, Cara Vallow, and after that she was told not to speak to anybody else.
[90:12] Kim Monson: Okay, so Leslie, let me think about this.
[90:15] Kim Monson: Cara Vallow, she is saying all this stuff on her personal social media, and so I'm thinking freedom of speech.
[90:25] Kim Monson: I mean, I do believe people should have freedom of speech.
[90:29] Kim Monson: And so I think she, I mean, I think it's terrible.
[90:35] Kim Monson: But I think she should have freedom of speech to personally say what she's going to say.
[90:41] Kim Monson: But what you're talking about is this has actually come over into the workplace, correct?
[90:50] Leslie Manookian: So what happened was, first of all, if you file a religious exemption, they have to accept it.
[91:00] Leslie Manookian: So they gave her the runaround for months and months, telling her that you're going to be fired in June, June 13th, and only if you don't get the original COVID shot.
[91:09] Leslie Manookian: Well, if this is about health and well-being, then why isn't she supposed to get all up to date and get the booster as well?
[91:23] Leslie Manookian: It's not about public health, aside from the fact that we already knew that the shots don't do what they're purported to do.
[91:31] Leslie Manookian: But first of all, they cannot discriminate on the basis of religious beliefs.
[91:44] Leslie Manookian: and her religious exemption does not prevent her from doing her job, which is answering the phone.
[91:51] Leslie Manookian: And yet, instead of accommodating that, saying, okay, we grant you a religious exemption and we are going to allow you to come in, she said she would test, she said she would mask, she said she would do anything that was necessary.
[92:05] Leslie Manookian: They denied all of those availabilities and they basically gave her the runaround.
[92:14] Leslie Manookian: So they basically shut all the doors, but also would tell her: you know when she's sending around a flyer, oh, you can't display the american flag anymore.
[92:25] Leslie Manookian: Basically as soon as they found out that she was a unvaccinated conservative christian, the whole work environment changed.
[92:36] Leslie Manookian: That's what happened, and that's the problem is that they started harassing her.
[92:40] Leslie Manookian: They didn't continue on the way that it had been before, which was very peaceful in a job that she liked.
[92:50] Leslie Manookian: Kara Vallow, as appalling as it is, as horrendous as it is, she has every right to say what she wants to on social media.
[92:58] Leslie Manookian: But the fact that these comments came out on the days, often that there was some kind of a communication between her and Ms.
[93:09] Leslie Manookian: Petroff or the day that Petroff was terminated is, I think, a bit telling.
[93:16] Kim Monson: And boy, I tell you what, she sure seems like she's a tolerant person, huh?
[93:34] Leslie Manookian: But she's a supervisor, and she shouldn't be telling people that they're not allowed to display the American flag or to put it on a flyer or not supporting her in pursuing a religious exemption or invading her privacy or denying her transfer to another, you know, any kind of alternate employment and also terminating her.
[94:03] Leslie Manookian: They wouldn't even let her come into the workplace in order to retrieve her belongings for a while.
[94:09] Leslie Manookian: So this is not appropriate behavior, and it is not reflective of someone who is what I would call a fair employer or a fair supervisor.
[94:24] Kim Monson: So where are you at on this whole thing, Leslie?
[94:30] Leslie Manookian: And I don't know if the we've sued Cara Vallow in her capacity as a Disney supervisor.
[94:39] Leslie Manookian: We've sued the Disney television company and sued Disney, you know, corporate, because of course this all sits underneath Disney corporate.
[94:51] Leslie Manookian: You know we we filed on Wednesday of last week, so I don't know if they've been served or not.
[94:56] Leslie Manookian: And once they are served, if it hasn't happened yet, then we wait for a response.
[95:02] Leslie Manookian: My guess is Disney will want to, you know, I don't want to speculate, but most of these corporations don't want the negative publicity.
[95:11] Leslie Manookian: And Disney has had a fair amount of negative publicity in the last couple of years.
[95:23] Kim Monson: OK, before we go to break, Leslie Mnookian, pre- COVID,did you and you worked on Wall Street and very high powered job.
[95:30] Kim Monson: Did you did you ever dream pre- COVIDthat you would be doing this?
[95:39] Leslie Manookian: The reason I say yes is because I was on Wall Street and while I was on Wall Street, I started to learn about vaccine issues, the whole vaccine debate.
[95:47] Leslie Manookian: And once I started learning about the vaccine debate, I started drilling down on how we'd gotten to a place where vaccines were being mandated for children and all the different laws that were being put in place over many, many years.
[95:59] Leslie Manookian: And I was staggered that they had basically been paving the way for COVID for more than a couple of decades.
[96:06] Leslie Manookian: So I didn't think I would be starting Health Freedom Defense Funds.
[96:10] Leslie Manookian: I'd always wanted to have some kind of a nonprofit, but I didn't have that vision yet until the spring of 2020.
[96:16] Leslie Manookian: But I did expect for a long time that there was going to be some kind of attack on our rights and freedoms under the pretext of a public health crisis.
[96:36] Kim Monson: Because of this work that you're doing is amazing.
[96:39] Kim Monson: everybody that's happy that they're not having to wear a mask on an airplane, they should probably contribute to Health Freedom Defense Fund because that is you and your team that did that.
[96:51] Leslie Manookian: Every employer in America needs to respect the rights of being an American citizen, whether someone's jabbed or not, whether they believe, you know, have a religious belief or not, they need to respect individuals.
[97:08] Leslie Manookian: Petroff is because she was a receptionist who doesn't have the capacity to fight back.
[97:13] Leslie Manookian: But we hope that by suing Disney, we will send a message to every other corporation in America that this is not acceptable.
[97:22] Leslie Manookian: It is illegal, immoral, unethical, and will not be tolerated.
[97:26] Leslie Manookian: And if you are going to pursue these policies, we will hold you accountable and make you pay.
[97:50] Leslie Manookian: And if we can push back against Disney, we can protect every American.
[97:54] Leslie Manookian: org,you can support Health Freedom Defense Fund in general.
[98:06] Leslie Manookian: There's actually a link to support her specific case if you want to do that.
[98:09] Leslie Manookian: But either way, you are supporting Health Freedom Defense Fund, and we're financing this.
[98:21] Leslie Manookian: Our legal team is representing her, and we can't do that if you don't support us.
[98:27] Leslie Manookian: So please, you know, we thank you all for all of the support that you do give, and we ask for more support for this because we can't do this unless we do get people's support.
[98:37] Kim Monson: I'm just so excited about what you're doing.
[98:42] Kim Monson: And before we do that, though, another great nonprofit is the USMC Memorial Foundation.
[98:47] Kim Monson: They are raising money for the Marine Memorial.
[98:50] Kim Monson: They're going to remodel it out at 6th and Colfax.
[98:52] Kim Monson: and my friends talking with Leslie, I mean, what a what a warrior for for our American rights, our American dream but we also, it's great to honor and know the stories of those that have given their lives or been willing to give their lives for us and the USMC Memorial Foundation is a great place to do that.
[99:19] Kim Monson: Great opportunity for you there, out there, to talk to Leslie Mnookian.
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[101:03] Kim Monson: And we want to hear from you, 303-477-5600, 303-477-5600.
[101:08] Kim Monson: I have Leslie Mnookian on the line.
[101:10] Kim Monson: Leslie, and really recommend that people go and help you at healthfreedomdefense.
[101:19] Kim Monson: I saw this headline, which took my breath away, at HealthFreedomDefense.
[101:28] Kim Monson: Alarming excess death among Europe's youth in 2022, January through August.
[101:44] Leslie Manookian: We are hearing from life insurers and disability insurers all over the world that there have been huge increases in both deaths and disabilities.
[101:56] Leslie Manookian: In the UK, you're seeing where they keep better track of this data, 1,000 excess deaths every week recently.
[102:04] Leslie Manookian: And the group that seems to be the most hard affected by all of this is the kind of people in the prime of their life.
[102:14] Leslie Manookian: If you look at those 18 to 64, There are some life insurers who said there has been a 40%increase in the number of deaths they are seeing which is what is called a 12 Sigma event, something that would randomly happen one in every 2 billion years.
[102:29] Leslie Manookian: There are other insurers who said there has been a tripling of the payout that they are seeing for deaths in this population, 18 to 64.
[102:43] Leslie Manookian: The recent research that we are seeing is that the number of deaths in the population we're seeing is that we're seeing fertility issues, menstrual irregularities, effects on semen and sperm motility and numbers from the shots.
[102:56] Leslie Manookian: We're seeing, you know, increased heart issues, neurological complications.
[103:01] Leslie Manookian: I mean, it is staggering and terrifying what is happening.
[103:07] Leslie Manookian: And we know that these shots were approved despite this, there being evidence of some of this in the clinical trial data.
[103:17] Leslie Manookian: There's a 44% miscarriagerate in the clinical trial data that Pfizer released.
[103:26] Leslie Manookian: FDA tried to prevent it from being released, and the court issued an order dictating that it must be released to the public.
[103:33] Leslie Manookian: And in there, it was revealed that pregnant women on the trial, 44% of themmiscarried.
[103:40] Leslie Manookian: But if you look at a broader trend, they actually didn't report everybody.
[103:54] Kim Monson: And we're seeing this, what do they call it, sad, sudden adult death syndrome, which this is probably what this is describing, correct?
[104:05] Leslie Manookian: Well, so, you know, we all know, we've all probably heard of something called sudden infant death syndrome.
[104:10] Leslie Manookian: There is ample research connecting childhood vaccinations to sudden infant death syndrome.
[104:18] Leslie Manookian: And now they have created a new syndrome, which is sudden adult death syndrome.
[104:27] Leslie Manookian: And they're saying that they just don't know what in the world could possibly be causing all these problems, with all of these healthy athletes dropping dead on the soccer pitch after a mountain bike race.
[104:41] Leslie Manookian: You know, this is what's happening to all of these people.
[104:47] Leslie Manookian: There have been hundreds of doctors in Canada, young, healthy doctors who died, many often after running a marathon or being in the middle of a triathlon and things like this.
[104:56] Leslie Manookian: And so we are seeing this on a global basis in the most heavily vaccinated countries, that there are a range of dangers from these shots that have been undocumented or unacknowledged by CDC and FDA in this country, but are starting to be acknowledged in other countries.
[105:18] Leslie Manookian: What is going to happen in coming months and years is anybody's guess.
[105:24] Kim Monson: We've got Mark in Black Forest on the line.
[105:28] Kim Monson: Mark in Black Forest, what's on your radar?
[105:30] Mark from Black Forest: I come from the defense industry, and so my experience was pretty limited, but I do have friends in various defense companies, and they're all telling me their experience coincides with mine, and that is these companies, the HR departments in these companies are all kind of like Disney's.
[105:56] Mark from Black Forest: It seems like it's pervasive, and I was wondering if Leslie kind of has the same experience or more insight to a wide range of industries and their human resource departments.
[106:11] Mark from Black Forest: Thanks, Mark and Black Forest.
[106:16] Kim Monson: Leslie, what's your comment on that?
[106:24] Leslie Manookian: This is pervasive across the country, and it's not just in the corporate world.
[106:30] Leslie Manookian: We have received just despairing messages from desperate hospital workers saying that they're being forced to wear a yellow star on their name tag in order to mark the fact that they haven't gotten the shot.
[106:48] Leslie Manookian: We are hearing from people who work in corporations all across the country.
[106:54] Leslie Manookian: And just so you know, Mark, and all the other listeners know, we will be filing several other lawsuits against name brand companies over the next couple of weeks for these exact same infringements of our rights.
[107:06] Leslie Manookian: It seems that they're all singing from the same hymn sheet.
[107:11] Leslie Manookian: And so you've got to ask yourself, like, how has this happened?
[107:14] Leslie Manookian: And it seems to me that not only is it happening in the corporate world, but it's happening in the world of schools as well.
[107:23] Leslie Manookian: Well, it seems that they're all being essentially bribed through funds that they've received from the CARES Act and from the, what's the most recent one?
[107:34] Leslie Manookian: The CARES Act was the federal legislation, you know, bailout last year.
[107:47] Leslie Manookian: But Basically, what they're doing is they're giving billions and billions and billions of dollars to employers, to hospitals, to schools.
[107:56] Leslie Manookian: But there are strings attached, which is that they have to implement these policies.
[108:15] Leslie Manookian: we have shifted over into an authoritarian type of a model and a marriage between the state and the corporations, which is what Mussolini defined as fascism.
[108:31] Leslie Manookian: We know for a fact that the federal government was telling the social media companies and big tech companies and coordinating with them, telling them to censor People like me and others, and doctors and other journalists who were speaking out about what was going on and trying to correct the record and saying that the science was not accurate, saying that lockdowns weren't the appropriate way to handle this.
[108:55] Leslie Manookian: There was collusion between the federal government and these giant corporations.
[109:07] Kim Monson: Leslie Mnookin, we're out of time, but thank you so much.
[109:13] Kim Monson: What's that website where people can contribute healthfreedomdefense?
[109:15] Leslie Manookian: Org is the where iswhere you can go to help us, and I just urge people to stay engaged, because that is the only way that we are going to stop this further erosion of our country.
[109:35] Kim Monson: The quote for the end of the show is from uh St.
[109:37] Kim Monson: He said, Lord, help me to live this day quietly and easily, to lean upon thy strength trustfully and restfully, to wait for the unfolding of thy will patiently and serenely, to meet others peacefully and joyously, to face tomorrow confidently and courageously.
[109:52] Kim Monson: So my friends, today be grateful, read great books, think good thoughts, listen to beautiful music, communicate and listen well, live honestly and authentically, strive for high ideals, and like Superman, stand for truth, justice, and the American way.
[110:05] Kim Monson: God bless you and God bless America.
[110:06] Kim Monson: I don't want no one to cry, but tell them if I don't survive, I was born free.
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