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[01:10] Producer Steve: Yeah, I can't even say bah humbug to Monday.
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[01:32] Kim Monson: And Patty Kurgan, who does the research for us here, has done another very important op-ed regarding this, this leap.
[01:43] Kim Monson: This is something that's very possibly going to be on the ballot this November.
[01:47] Kim Monson: It's a Learning Enrichment and academic progress program.
[01:51] Kim Monson: And it sounds good when you first look at it.
[01:54] Kim Monson: But actually, Patty has been doing some sleuthing, if you will.
[01:59] Kim Monson: And she names two names in this particular op ed, two men who stand to benefit significantly financially, if this passes.
[02:12] Kim Monson: And of course, they say it's raising marijuana taxes for the children.
[02:15] Kim Monson: But if you really take a look at it, What she has deduced by going back and doing research is that this one gentleman, Tony Lewis, actually wants to create a parallel education system to the public education system that we currently have.
[02:33] Kim Monson: I would submit to you we've spent lots and lots of money.
[02:37] Kim Monson: In fact, I think we had about$ 8 billion for education in Colorado this last year.
[02:44] Kim Monson: and I think what needs to happen is we need to start to teach reading, writing, arithmetic, science, history, critical thinking during those valuable school hours when our kids are in school and focus our teachers resources on that instead of what is happening now with many class classroom time is going to CRT this critical race theory or its cousins it could be no place for hate You know, when your school board says, oh, we're not teaching critical race theory, ask them, are they teaching something that is critical race theory, but just has a different name.
[03:20] Kim Monson: And critical race theory teaches kids that there are oppressed and oppressors, so victims and victimizers, instead of this idea that in America, all of us are created equal by God with these rights from God of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
[03:38] Kim Monson: and in America, if America was such a bad country, then why was it, I think I saw 188,000 people were trying to get across the southern border.
[03:48] Kim Monson: Never seen people try to flock into a country that is an oppressive country, Steve.
[03:53] Producer Steve: Well, I think either it's at the southern border or if there's going to be another flotilla coming from Cuba, but you name it, you know, wherever they're coming from, they're coming here and you have to ask yourself why.
[04:05] Kim Monson: Yeah, and they're not going from Cuba to Venezuela.
[04:09] Kim Monson: And they're not going, they're not at the Venezuelan border trying to get in.
[04:13] Producer Steve: Okay, simple logistics here.
[04:18] Producer Steve: It's only 90 miles as opposed to how many miles to Venezuela.
[04:21] Producer Steve: But you know, it's not the geography we're talking about.
[04:24] Producer Steve: Right?
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[04:30] Kim Monson: You want to take a look at this, this op ed that Patty did.
[04:33] Kim Monson: She actually names names and she has been just diligent, painstakingly diligent with the details on this.
[04:40] Producer Steve: Before you move beyond that, the name of the program, the LEAP stands for again?
[04:45] Kim Monson: Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program.
[04:50] Producer Steve: Like you say, it sounds so good.
[04:52] Producer Steve: And we've entered into this era of making sure you put some kind of sugar coating on something like that.
[04:59] Producer Steve: And yet when you're peeling back the layers of an onion to see that, well, it's really not that good.
[05:05] Kim Monson: Well, and one of the gentlemen whose name she mentioned, well, just going over to there, there's two ways to get something on the ballot.
[05:16] Kim Monson: One is that the legislature can refer it to the ballot.
[05:20] Kim Monson: The other is through a citizen's initiative.
[05:22] Kim Monson: And that is when you're going to the grocery store and you're signing a petition that could get that on the ballot, But then the petitions have to go to the Secretary of State.
[05:32] Kim Monson: They have to confirm that there's enough valid signatures on there.
[05:38] Kim Monson: Are they checking ID on those petitions?
[05:42] Producer Steve: Yeah, you do.
[05:43] Producer Steve: But we discussed it Friday when Patty was here.
[05:47] Producer Steve: It looks like this could end up on the ballot.
[05:50] Producer Steve: And then I'm thinking ahead to October or so as we approach November.
[05:56] Producer Steve: and the...
[06:00] Producer Steve: Yeah, the ads that are going to come in.
[06:03] Producer Steve: And again, especially when you say it's for the children, they will really pull the heartstrings here.
[06:09] Kim Monson: That's why we need to get out ahead of this.
[06:16] Kim Monson: And if you've not read Patty's previous op-ed and my op-ed on 10 Reasons to Decline to Sign, do that and then read this new one.
[06:25] Kim Monson: and then also make sure that you read the initiative.
[06:28] Kim Monson: It's 14 pages long, but you can do it so that you understand what is in it.
[06:33] Kim Monson: If we've missed something, let us know because we are really looking at this.
[06:38] Kim Monson: And then the other thing is, is go to the endorsement page.
[06:45] Kim Monson: And you will see some people's names on there who you really, really respect because I think the same thing has happened.
[06:52] Kim Monson: And I talked to somebody just the other day, and this person said, well, Kim, what you're telling me is not what I was told.
[07:01] Kim Monson: She was not told that this actually creates an unelectable, unaccountable authority that will make all the decisions.
[07:11] Kim Monson: And this authority doesn't have to answer to us, the voters, doesn't have to answer to the legislature, and doesn't have to answer to the Department of Education.
[07:24] Kim Monson: And if you see any names on there who you really like and respect, call them.
[07:30] Kim Monson: Do your research and then call them and ask them to get their names off of that endorsement page.
[07:40] Kim Monson: But we've got to step into this, Steve.
[07:42] Producer Steve: I'm sorry.
[07:43] Producer Steve: Let's be specific about that website.
[07:44] Producer Steve: Because sometimes people use the word for or to.
[07:47] Producer Steve: and then when they do the website, it's either the number two or the word two, yada, yada.
[07:53] Kim Monson: Yeah, this is the number two, I think.
[07:55] Kim Monson: Excuse me, the number four, I think.
[07:59] Producer Steve: I'm furiously going through the options and it won't come up.
[08:01] Producer Steve: So I'm thinking I'm already messing it up.
[08:04] Producer Steve: com or.
[08:05] Producer Steve: org?
[08:07] Kim Monson: So I'm going to do that very quickly.
[08:08] Kim Monson: And while I'm doing that, yeah, it's leap4co.
[08:14] Producer Steve: Okay, there you go.
[08:16] Kim Monson: And then you see the endorsement page.
[08:22] Kim Monson: And if you see somebody there who you really respect, call them and say, please get your name off of there.
[08:27] Kim Monson: And you'll notice when you go down to the endorsements groups, these are groups that probably stand to receive money from this.
[08:38] Kim Monson: And one of them even, we were looking at it, they had a quote from Angela Davis with the raised communist fists.
[08:45] Kim Monson: And I'm not sure that we really need to be funding that, Steve.
[08:48] Producer Steve: Yes, that's good optics, yes.
[08:55] Kim Monson: You can email me at kim at kimMonson.
[08:57] Kim Monson: And I really thank each and every one of you for supporting us, because we are an independent voice and we're searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues through this lens of freedom versus force, force versus freedom.
[09:09] Kim Monson: If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do it.
[09:13] Kim Monson: It's never compassionate to take other people's rights, their property, their freedom or their livelihood via force.
[09:18] Kim Monson: That's whether with a weapon, policy, unpredictable, and excessive taxation, fear, coercion, or the latest silent thief, government-induced inflation.
[09:27] Kim Monson: And ultimately, socialism comes down to force.
[09:32] Kim Monson: The free stuff is just to get people to vote for it.
[09:35] Kim Monson: Of course, there's more free stuff coming.
[09:37] Producer Steve: And once this free stuff starts arriving there's this this thing for families are getting for children it's um this this administration doesn't really care about children but i'm concerned that they're going to spin this into oblivion steve well it's one of the things you awaken to me when we first started working together it's like does anybody is there a person out there who really truly knows in a a specific tax year, how much of their money earned went back to government at any level of state, federal, local, gas tax, you name it.
[10:20] Producer Steve: Do you really know?
[10:24] Kim Monson: We really do need to research that out.
[10:25] Kim Monson: I wanted to mention one other thing, going back to LEAP, is there is a big fundraiser being held tomorrow night by Republican power brokers in Cherry Hills to raise money for LEAP.
[10:39] Kim Monson: I would highly recommend that you do your research before you write a check to that.
[10:45] Kim Monson: I think that's really important as well.
[10:48] Kim Monson: Oh, I haven't even mentioned what our show looks like today.
[10:51] Kim Monson: First of all, in the second segment, we're going to be talking with Reggie Carr.
[10:55] Kim Monson: He was the founder of I'm a Trumpster.
[10:58] Kim Monson: And we're going to find out what's happening with his act too, what he is going to be doing now.
[11:03] Kim Monson: You're not going to want to miss that.
[11:05] Kim Monson: And then in the third and fourth segment, Josh Phillip, investigative reporter with the Epoch Times and the host of Crossroads, has a documentary out that is just going to take your breath away.
[11:18] Kim Monson: And let's see, I've got to get the exact title for you on that.
[11:25] Kim Monson: Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan Coronavirus, the first documentary to investigate the origins and the cover-up of the pandemic.
[11:34] Kim Monson: That is going to be a fascinating conversation that you will not want to miss either.
[11:38] Kim Monson: Our quote for today is from Aristotle, the Greek philosopher and polymath during the classical period in ancient Greece.
[11:47] Kim Monson: He was the founder of the Lyceum, the peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition.
[12:03] Kim Monson: He said, find the good, seek the unity, ignore the divisions among us.
[12:10] Producer Steve: I got one thing to say.
[12:12] Producer Steve: I wish Aristotle could have met Barack Obama, the great divider.
[12:18] Kim Monson: The great divider, that's for sure.
[12:21] Kim Monson: Every generation obviously has had that.
[12:23] Kim Monson: Because why else would he have said that, right?
[12:25] Producer Steve: Okay, you got me there.
[12:35] Kim Monson: Before we go to break, Ashley, let's go to break.
[12:37] Kim Monson: And when we come back, we'll talk with Reggie Carr.
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[14:38] Kim Monson: On the line with me is my friend Reggie Carr.
[14:42] Kim Monson: He is the founder of I'm a Trumpster.
[14:45] Kim Monson: He's been in the black entertainment business for many, many years.
[14:49] Kim Monson: And he is looking, stepping into the future now.
[15:01] Kim Monson: Johnny's gone back to Atlanta, so you're a solo act.
[15:04] Kim Monson: And you're not giving up, are you, Reggie?
[15:08] Reggie Carr: I'm bombarded every day with people going to I'm a Trumpster website from all over the world.
[15:16] Reggie Carr: So, yeah, they're all interested in what I'm doing.
[15:21] Kim Monson: Well, and you're changing things just a little bit.
[15:25] Kim Monson: And tell us a little bit how you came up with IMA and then IMA Trumpster, and what you're going to be doing here in the future.
[15:33] Reggie Carr: Well, originally, you know, Trump was talking about intellectual properties, and that resonated big time with me.
[15:44] Reggie Carr: But, you know, this is not a dictatorship where, you know, the president can be in office for 20 years.
[15:52] Reggie Carr: So when I did IMA, when I did IMA Trumpster, that's great, but it's really IMA this, IMA that.
[16:01] Reggie Carr: And now it's, you know, we're going to promote the narrative IMA united.
[16:06] Kim Monson: Well, and a house divided against itself cannot stand.
[16:10] Kim Monson: And, Reggie, what we've seen with the division, and just if people don't know you, You've been in the black entertainment business for many, many years.
[16:22] Kim Monson: In fact, you had written a song that was regarding the Denver Broncos when they won the Super Bowl that was number one in this area.
[16:30] Kim Monson: And so you're a very talented musician, producer, all of that.
[16:36] Kim Monson: And so to back up just a little bit.
[16:40] Kim Monson: bit on the intellectual property rights, you would send product over to China to be manufactured, pay them handsomely to do that.
[16:50] Kim Monson: And they were ripping you off, right?
[16:54] Reggie Carr: But now you see, Trump brought that to light.
[16:57] Reggie Carr: It's just not me, it's other companies and other products.
[17:01] Reggie Carr: And what happened to me was real simple.
[17:04] Reggie Carr: We sent, we paid them a lot of money, they're supposed to manufacture it, send it back.
[17:09] Reggie Carr: But they also was sending stuff out the back door.
[17:12] Reggie Carr: And so we had another, uh big studio session with a artist from europe and he already knew about the song he we never played, or anything or anybody like that.
[17:26] Reggie Carr: He said, man, you better check this out, this is like number one on the dance charts and he, I said no way and he started singing it.
[17:32] Reggie Carr: So we knew right then and there that this was 100%the truth.
[17:36] Reggie Carr: So that's a big problem, and I give Trump all the credit for bringing that to light.
[17:44] Kim Monson: And because no other president has done that, no other administration, nobody in Congress had really talked about that.
[17:51] Kim Monson: And Trump, I think he'd watched this for years and years and years.
[17:55] Kim Monson: And I think that's why he ran for the presidency, is because he's tired of the American people getting ripped off by really the world.
[18:06] Kim Monson: The stuff that he did regarding having the other members of NATO pay their own way, it was really remarkable.
[18:13] Kim Monson: Reggie, what's your thoughts on what's happening now with the Harris- Biden-Obama-Riceadministration?
[18:28] Reggie Carr: We know, uh, trump won, but he lost, but he won.
[18:32] Reggie Carr: The country is, uh, very divided and, uh, it's definitely worse off.
[18:40] Reggie Carr: They say trump was going to be the wartime president, but now we have russia and china, and you know, threatening us and you know getting ready to invade, and you know it's all kind of crazy stuff.
[18:53] Reggie Carr: You have to, you know, be peace through strength.
[18:59] Reggie Carr: But what do we do about uniting the American people?
[19:05] Reggie Carr: So remember, we had talked about, hey, we need to do that through music.
[19:09] Reggie Carr: Because you think about it, when you like your favorite song or when you listen to nobody wonders if they're Democrat, Republican, liberal, whatever, you just like a song and my thing you know the news is so interested in me they call all the time and you know kim how many how many national shows has this been like four five yes uh and uh so i i'm i have they're actually becoming some friends and i have home numbers cell numbers some um producers and some big producers with these networks and you know it's hard for me to trust them but it's it's getting there, but the bottom line is when you and I spoke, we said, hey, let's do this music thing.
[19:50] Reggie Carr: I want to bring in people from different political affiliations.
[19:54] Reggie Carr: So on this project, we're going to have liberals, independents, Democrats, Republicans, and we're going to put this project together and try to unite the country, and that's the best thing.
[20:07] Reggie Carr: They wonder, like, why do you love Trump so much?
[20:11] Reggie Carr: I just respect him and I give him the credit.
[20:16] Reggie Carr: It's what he did to awake me, what he did to awake the country.
[20:22] Reggie Carr: And so that's his, you got to give him props for that period.
[20:30] Reggie Carr: You can't grow the party unless you get to the youth and you reach the other people that haven't voted or don't want to vote, or just have no idea.
[20:41] Reggie Carr: And, you know, how many times have you been with me on these escapades where you sit down there and the news is interviewing me, and you interviewed just now we were in the studio and Fox 31 was there.
[20:53] Reggie Carr: You talked to people that didn't even vote, some that were Democrats, some that were liberals, and they were all together.
[21:01] Kim Monson: And so what you're putting together is a music project of I'm a Uniter.
[21:07] Kim Monson: And Reggie, this really does resonate because Joe Biden used the words that he was going to unite the country, and that resonated with people.
[21:18] Kim Monson: People don't want to be looking at their neighbor with trepidation.
[21:25] Kim Monson: And so this is going to be a music project.
[21:31] Kim Monson: Do they still call them albums, or how does that work in the industry now, Reggie?
[21:38] Reggie Carr: But it's going to be an event, a project with several songs written and produced and performed by different political affiliations, different people so they can get that.
[21:54] Reggie Carr: It's going to be so fun, Kim, and they're really excited.
[21:57] Reggie Carr: And already, see, you can't have a conversation when you're arguing.
[22:03] Reggie Carr: So when you get people of all affiliations involved, it's more harmony.
[22:08] Reggie Carr: And then you can sit down and deliver your message from there.
[22:12] Reggie Carr: So we know our goal is to grow the conservative the party.
[22:17] Reggie Carr: But first of all, everybody there, they told you they are the human race.
[22:24] Reggie Carr: They love the country and they want to unite the country.
[22:29] Reggie Carr: So we're 100 percent on all those issues right there.
[22:35] Reggie Carr: But at least we're having a conversation that's not violent.
[22:42] Reggie Carr: And the things that we do agree upon, we're going to get stuff done and unite the people.
[22:47] Reggie Carr: And what we don't agree upon, meet somewhere in the middle and still unite the people.
[22:52] Kim Monson: But the focus really, Reggie, is to move towards this conservative message.
[22:58] Kim Monson: In conserve, you know, for so many years, the word conservative has been taught as a bad word, somebody that's judging you, somebody that doesn't like you.
[23:12] Kim Monson: But your experience has been different than that, right, Reggie?
[23:18] Reggie Carr: Every Trump rally that I've been to, VIP, the people that knew me, and the people that didn't, all I received was love.
[23:27] Reggie Carr: We sat down, have a conversation, and it's usually about God and country, you know, and then guns, you know, hunting and all other kind of stuff.
[23:37] Reggie Carr: It was, I never experienced any ill feelings or any type of racism or discrimination from the conservative party.
[23:46] Reggie Carr: And I go out and I tell that to people, I don't believe the facade, those narratives are false.
[23:54] Reggie Carr: And so people that don't understand that you have to get to them, you have to reach them because knowledge is power.
[24:01] Reggie Carr: And so information is being blocked, you know, from reaching people.
[24:07] Reggie Carr: So you've got to go out and get to them face- to-face,and that's the key.
[24:11] Reggie Carr: And we can bypass the media through music as well, because you can do radio, you can do shows, you can do all kinds of stuff to, you know, your own podcast to reach the public.
[24:26] Kim Monson: And you're going to be focusing, Reggie, on youth and the ethnic communities.
[24:33] Kim Monson: and I'll guarantee that I think that this is very effective.
[24:35] Kim Monson: I can't tell you how many times I might be at a stoplight and I hear very loud music from the car next to me, and it is some white teenager playing black music.
[24:52] Kim Monson: Conceptually, it's a little difficult, I would say, for kind of not as artistic people as you are.
[25:01] Kim Monson: It's kind of difficult to get your brain around it, but you are going to bypass all of the stuff that has been affecting our kids and the ethnic communities in a negative way and use your talent to affect it in a positive way.
[25:16] Kim Monson: And once again, Reggie, it comes down to, I think the grassroots helping you.
[25:21] Kim Monson: We're trying to get you in front of Trump because we're looking at funding.
[25:28] Kim Monson: And so first of all, people can help you by, you've put a super PAC together to make this all happen, right, Reggie?
[25:37] Reggie Carr: Yes, it's called IMA, I- M-A,super PAC, S- U-P-E-R-P-A-C.
[25:46] Reggie Carr: Yes, we have a federal super PAC where we can do big things.
[25:52] Reggie Carr: And I want to take a second to thank the grassroots anyway, because, you know, Kim, I paid for all of this stuff myself.
[25:58] Reggie Carr: And then the only people that came in were the grassroots people.
[26:03] Reggie Carr: And they came in with you and you guys made that happen to wrap the bus and all kinds of stuff.
[26:10] Reggie Carr: Somehow we've got to get to the elite establishment here.
[26:16] Reggie Carr: I think they're on a different page, and that'll be a conversation for another day.
[26:22] Reggie Carr: But they're not really about the message.
[26:26] Reggie Carr: I have their phone numbers, their cell numbers.
[26:30] Reggie Carr: And I just don't get why they won't get on board on a lot of things, a lot of things going on that we can turn this state back from blue to red.
[26:45] Kim Monson: And there is a difference between, there's a lot going on in the Republican Party right now.
[26:52] Kim Monson: There are those that say they stand for these principles of limited government and individual freedom.
[26:58] Kim Monson: But when push comes to shove, that has not been the case.
[27:02] Kim Monson: And I mentioned in the first segment about this big fundraiser that's going to be over in Cherry Hills tomorrow night for this LEAP, this learning enrichment and academic progress program.
[27:14] Kim Monson: And the presenting sponsors there are$ 10, 000a pop.
[27:25] Kim Monson: You come in during the last election cycle to black entertainers that have spent their own money to buy a bus and we could not get a dime from the this kind of that establishment.
[27:39] Kim Monson: And I think- and I want to let a lot of people know that we didn't quite understand this, that it wasn't that I don't think that some of these establishment people would have wanted to support you.
[27:49] Kim Monson: There was a wall that was put up between you and them.
[27:52] Kim Monson: And I think it's important to understand that.
[27:56] Kim Monson: So I talked to one of the power brokers and I said, can you help us?
[28:02] Kim Monson: And I'm like, gosh, okay, we're going to have to do this grassroots.
[28:05] Kim Monson: And as you say, thank you to you grassroots, because what you did is you stepped forward and you helped and that got the bus wrapped.
[28:15] Kim Monson: And if you can help on that, that would be a really good thing because we are not giving up on this country, Reggie.
[28:24] Reggie Carr: And Kim, the grassroots is very important.
[28:26] Reggie Carr: But I have a couple of these establishment people that want me to talk to them and call them.
[28:33] Reggie Carr: But, you know, I don't do nothing without running past you first.
[28:41] Reggie Carr: I mean, I know you're doing what you're doing, but, you know, people say for me to run, I want you to run.
[28:48] Kim Monson: I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, Reggie.
[28:53] Kim Monson: And before we go to break, you have started this project already.
[28:58] Kim Monson: And in fact, I got to go down, and that's where you said we were interviewed by Fox 31.
[29:05] Kim Monson: I wasn't expecting to be on television, and we're not sure if it has broadcast yet.
[29:17] Kim Monson: But I could tell each and every one of them care deeply about their families, their livelihoods, what's going on with this country.
[29:24] Kim Monson: So again, Reggie Carr, how can people help you?
[29:30] Reggie Carr: That's I- M-ASuper PAC, S- U-P-E-R-P-A-C.
[29:41] Kim Monson: And it's not tax deductible, so I think it's a contribution.
[29:47] Kim Monson: But that way you can say what you need to say.
[29:48] Kim Monson: Reggie, what's your final thought you want to leave with our listeners today?
[29:51] Reggie Carr: My final thought is everybody come together.
[30:00] Reggie Carr: And we have to leave the world better when we leave than when we came in.
[30:07] Reggie Carr: And I think that's very possible with love.
[30:09] Reggie Carr: I don't think that you can kill hate with hate.
[30:17] Reggie Carr: And just go ahead and support your country and support Americans.
[30:26] Kim Monson: Keep us in the loop on what's going on.
[30:32] Kim Monson: When we come back, we'll be talking with Josh Phillip regarding this new documentary that he has done, the Tracking Down the Origin of the Wuhan coronavirus, the first documentary to investigate the origins and the cover- upof the pandemic.
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[31:56] Kim Monson: And thank you also for your support of what we do, getting our independent voice out there as we're searching for truth and clarity by looking at these issues as freedom versus force, force versus freedom.
[32:07] Kim Monson: If something's a good idea, we should not have to force people to do that.
[32:10] Kim Monson: Socialism ultimately comes down to force.
[32:15] Kim Monson: The free stuff is just the carrot to get you to support it.
[32:18] Kim Monson: And so we're just, I think, in a remarkable time in our country right now because there's all kinds of free stuff that's being sent out.
[32:27] Kim Monson: It's being taken from other people.
[32:28] Kim Monson: It's being taken from our children and our grandchildren who they don't even have a voice in.
[32:36] Kim Monson: And they're the ones that are really going to have to face the consequences of that.
[32:39] Kim Monson: While we're working to get Josh on the line here, a couple of things.
[32:43] Kim Monson: On this LEAP, this leadership, excuse me, this Learning Enrichment and Academic Progress Program, it is an increase in marijuana taxes for the children.
[32:57] Kim Monson: Somebody had challenged me a bit on my 10 reasons to decline to sign the initiative to get it on the ballot.
[33:05] Kim Monson: I said that the higher and higher taxes on marijuana will ultimately, I think, increase the black market.
[33:14] Kim Monson: And increasing the black market increases the crime in our communities.
[33:20] Kim Monson: And we're seeing kind of a, it's a double-edged sword here with the Soros bought and paid for district attorneys that Soros has been focused on many of these DA races.
[33:33] Kim Monson: And they no longer really work to enforce the law.
[33:37] Kim Monson: And we're seeing it in California where there's DAs that will not enforce the law.
[33:46] Kim Monson: I've heard that even in our metro communities here that you're seeing kind of a grab and run in many of the stores.
[33:54] Kim Monson: In fact, I think one of the big stores is closing early on a regular basis in some of these communities because apparently these robberies, I guess, or burglary.
[34:10] Kim Monson: It's just going in and grabbing things and running out the store.
[34:13] Kim Monson: And many of these criminals know that they're not really going to have to be held accountable for those crimes.
[34:21] Kim Monson: And so anyway, the question on the table has been that typically if you tax something more, you will have less of it.
[34:29] Kim Monson: And you think about it, that's true.
[34:32] Kim Monson: If you tax marijuana more, or if you tax legal retail marijuana more, you will have less people buying legal retail marijuana.
[34:43] Kim Monson: But when you have a cheaper alternative in the black market, marijuana buyers are economic actors, and many of them will probably buy that on the black market.
[34:55] Kim Monson: And so there was a piece from the Tax Foundation that said, new tax in town.
[35:04] Kim Monson: It says that, no, this is from the Center Square.
[35:06] Kim Monson: It says, marijuana sales see slump as prices increase.
[35:09] Kim Monson: This is the marijuana sales in Colorado slumped lower in May, even though 2021 is still shaping up to be a record-breaking year, according to data from the state's revenue department.
[35:20] Kim Monson: Recreational and medical marijuana sales topped$ 194 million in May, nearly 6%month- over-monthdecline, Department of Revenue data shows.
[35:30] Kim Monson: And so I think that it's just connecting a dot.
[35:34] Kim Monson: The more you tax something, you will get less of it.
[35:38] Kim Monson: But one of the reasons might be is because there is an alternative place to make those purchases.
[35:44] Kim Monson: Another thing you may know this, that this is from the Tax Foundation, that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, and Senator Cory Booker, and they're all Democrats, released their discussion draft, the Cannabis Administration and Opportunity Act for Federal Descheduling of Marijuana.
[36:06] Kim Monson: While federal descheduling impacts all states, it does not deschedule marijuana in states which choose to keep their own ban.
[36:13] Kim Monson: Nevertheless, descheduling would have a profound effect on the marijuana businesses operating in states which have already legalized use, either medically or recreationally, by normalizing income tax treatment, opening access to capital, and permitting interstate commerce and cannabis.
[36:28] Kim Monson: The bill includes an excise tax with a rate of 10% inthe first year, growing to 25% in thefifth year.
[36:37] Kim Monson: And this would be on the federal level.
[36:39] Kim Monson: My understanding is currently there is a 15% tax on retailmarijuana and products in Colorado now.
[36:48] Kim Monson: And once again, I think all this put together, I think that that is going to increase the black market and increase the potential for crime in our neighborhoods.
[36:59] Kim Monson: Steve, I wanted to just talk a little bit about the Texas Democrats that went to Washington, D.
[37:08] Kim Monson: They all goton a chartered plane without masks, and they're staying at hotels.
[37:16] Kim Monson: They met with Kamala Harris, and then four of them tested positive for the coronavirus.
[37:21] Kim Monson: You know, you can't make this stuff up.
[37:27] Producer Steve: The most creative fiction writer probably couldn't make stuff up like this.
[37:32] Producer Steve: And now, obviously, Harris is all in a tizzy because I guess she made a very much unscheduled trip to Walter Reed.
[37:40] Producer Steve: I thought she was vaccinated.
[37:42] Producer Steve: Well, for whatever reason, I mean, she made a real let's drop everything and get over to Walter Reed Army Medical Center to be tested, I guess.
[37:51] Producer Steve: But let's just say that this goes, you know, the natural progression here is saying how ridiculous is it that these Texas Democrats really had no business going to Washington in the first place for the timing that they left the state of Texas.
[38:07] Producer Steve: And now Harris can look back at them and say: you know, if you clowns would have stayed home, I wouldn't have this problem now, or at least I wouldn't have this fear.
[38:17] Producer Steve: So I don't know.
[38:18] Producer Steve: It's.
[38:18] Producer Steve: It's rather comical to me.
[38:21] Kim Monson: Well, do you not wonder, as possibly it's for theatrics?
[38:25] Kim Monson: You know they want to get people all whacked out again for the next variant, because I and I can't figure out why she would go over to Walter Reed.
[38:33] Kim Monson: But they're going to have a real problem here with the optics on this, because I think people are starting to say: no, wait a minute, you're forcing us to get a vaccination.
[38:40] Kim Monson: And actually somebody challenged me, they're not forcing you.
[38:46] Kim Monson: And coercing is another word for force.
[38:51] Producer Steve: This very much could be theatrics all the way around, not only them going to Washington from their home state and then forcing this situation, but all for the again, the optics, the theatrics of it all.
[39:06] Producer Steve: You pair that up with what came out of the white house last week in terms of their now war, declaring war on, maybe basically, social media, or at least asking social media to come to the table to help them weed out misinformation on vaccinations, as the vaccination rate seems to be tapering off a little bit.
[39:27] Producer Steve: They're blaming it on, well, there's so much misinformation out there.
[39:32] Producer Steve: That's the reason people are stopping, you know, or seeking vaccination.
[39:35] Producer Steve: And I'm looking at this piece here, the, what is he?
[39:39] Producer Steve: Oh, the Surgeon General, Dr.
[39:41] Producer Steve: Vivek Murthy.
[39:42] Producer Steve: You know, basically, I haven't read all his words yet, but Dinesh D'Souza is coming out saying this has got to be totalitarianism at its finest.
[39:52] Kim Monson: Well, and definitely I'm trying to find the headline here that the Biden administration is going to be looking at people's text messages regarding comments about the vaccination.
[40:06] Kim Monson: The administration is looking at our text messages.
[40:12] Kim Monson: What about, isn't it the third amendment that we're supposed to be safe in our papers and our effects and everything?
[40:22] Producer Steve: Two weeks or so, maybe more three weeks, when the colorado department of health and environment said that they were going to be sending out notices, you know, to people encouraging that them to get vaccinated well, right away, if you got anything going on between years at all.
[40:39] Producer Steve: This suggests a database.
[40:41] Producer Steve: So I and I have received the phone, call, the text and then a special fancy flyer in the mail addressed to me.
[40:50] Producer Steve: They're doing it.
[40:51] Producer Steve: Okay, so let's just think about this, Steve.
[40:53] Kim Monson: So remember the HIPAA laws where you have, you'd go in and you'd have to sign who could actually get information about your medical history.
[41:02] Kim Monson: And I even remember going into a healthcare provider and you know how you sign in.
[41:08] Kim Monson: At the office they had all the previous names covered up because all this was supposed to be so secret about your medical history.
[41:15] Kim Monson: And now you get a flyer in the mail that encourages you to get vaccinated.
[41:20] Kim Monson: So that means that every postal worker that touched that knows that anybody that got that flyer hasn't gotten vaccinated, whatever happened to HIPAA on that.
[41:32] Kim Monson: I mean, it's crazy bill out there, Steve.
[41:35] Producer Steve: Well, I'm not sure if he was the originator of the phrase, but Rahm Emanuel, Obama's first chief of staff, never let a good crisis go to waste.
[41:46] Producer Steve: But the counter to that is some very smart people said, do not let them declare an emergency just so they can break the laws because they will never stop declaring emergencies.
[41:57] Producer Steve: Well, but you know what?
[42:03] Kim Monson: I think that the American people are waking up to what is going on.
[42:08] Kim Monson: And so the theatrics on this whole thing with Kamala Harris, I mean, let's think about it.
[42:12] Kim Monson: They're trying to push the Delta variant and scare people again.
[42:15] Kim Monson: And she meets with these lawmakers and supposedly maybe they tested positive, maybe it's the Delta variant.
[42:25] Kim Monson: And so they're going to have to try to figure out how to scare people.
[42:30] Kim Monson: If all of these people get through this without an episode, if Kamala Harris gets through this without an episode, I mean, she's already been vaccinated.
[42:40] Kim Monson: I mean, I think they're creating a problem for themselves on the optics, Steve.
[42:45] Producer Steve: Well, the old saying says, when your enemy is digging a hole, hand him a shovel.
[42:49] Producer Steve: And these guys are digging furiously.
[42:51] Producer Steve: Let's stay out of the way.
[42:53] Kim Monson: But actually, Republicans, particularly here in Colorado, can figure out a way to lose.
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[44:44] Kim Monson: If something's a good idea, you shouldn't have to force people to do this.
[44:48] Kim Monson: I want to connect another dot or just talk with you about how how much work we are doing on connecting the dots, on the players, on this, uh, this leap which.
[44:58] Kim Monson: And again, go to our website and check out Patty Kurgan's most recent op- ed, the Learning, Enrichmentand Academic Progress Program.
[45:04] Kim Monson: It is ostensibly a new marijuana tax on retail marijuana for the children.
[45:11] Kim Monson: But one of the first things you look at it, it sets up an authority that will handle all this, that will be in charge of all the money, that will be in charge of selecting the vendors and selecting the menu that parents supposedly can choose from.
[45:35] Kim Monson: It's unaccountable to the people, us, the voters.
[45:36] Kim Monson: It's unaccountable to the legislature.
[45:38] Kim Monson: It's unaccountable to the Department of Education.
[45:41] Kim Monson: And they'll have all this money to push forward their agenda.
[45:44] Kim Monson: And one of the things they say that they're going to do is improve reading, writing, arithmetic, Those kinds of things.
[45:51] Kim Monson: And the question is, why are we not focusing on that during the school day where we're spending big, big bucks?
[45:56] Kim Monson: But when you look at it, it's actually going to be camp and music lessons and soccer.
[46:04] Kim Monson: And I'm not sure that that's the proper role of government to be funding that kind of stuff, Steve.
[46:09] Producer Steve: Well, you guys did a pretty good job with this on Friday, but not to be repetitive, and you just kind of alluded to it.
[46:18] Producer Steve: So many given hours in a day and a week for classroom time and we keep seeing competing things coming to the table to compete for that time again.
[46:29] Producer Steve: The lgbtq agenda, uh, what else?
[46:32] Producer Steve: Critical race theory, crt, yes, and I guess that's how you learn your abcs.
[46:37] Kim Monson: Now, how about let's really just learn our abcs.
[46:41] Producer Steve: I think the the old- fashioned way was probablygood enough, But where I'm going with this is saying the whole agenda here.
[46:50] Producer Steve: The whole assumption, the base assumption, is that too many kids are falling behind.
[46:56] Producer Steve: Falling behind in what?
[46:58] Producer Steve: Well, the basics, the fundamentals.
[47:01] Producer Steve: Well, you're giving away time that used to be slated for the fundamentals, and now you're pointing a finger and saying, well, they're falling behind.
[47:09] Producer Steve: Are you really creating a problem that really did not exist or should not exist in the first place?
[47:14] Kim Monson: And so the answer then, and again, there's well- meaning people that havetheir names on this, on the endorsement page.
[47:22] Kim Monson: There's well- meaning people that maybe attending that big fundraiser tomorrow night.
[47:25] Kim Monson: And understand what you really are putting your name on.
[47:29] Kim Monson: Understand what you're really writing a check to.
[47:32] Kim Monson: And I've not officially connected this dot yet.
[47:36] Kim Monson: But there was an op- ed in the GreeleyTribune by a retired teacher, and I actually called her because I wanted to talk with her.
[47:52] Kim Monson: And the teachers' union right now is against LEAP as well, because I think that they also thought that this might lead to vouchers and school choice.
[48:00] Kim Monson: And that's why some good people have their name on it because that's what they've been told.
[48:05] Kim Monson: But I think the teachers union will be against this for a different reason, and that is that this leap would create a parallel public education system to the public education system.
[48:21] Kim Monson: And then this authority will select certain vendors and they might hire certain teachers outside the school day to do tutoring or whatever.
[48:30] Kim Monson: So that select group of teachers will make more money.
[48:36] Kim Monson: But anyway, in her piece, she named names.
[48:43] Kim Monson: And that's the Greeley Tribune regarding LEAP.
[48:45] Kim Monson: And she named names at the bottom of her piece.
[48:48] Kim Monson: and we've not been able to connect all the dots on those names.
[48:55] Kim Monson: And I called her and then talked to another kind of person that helped her on that op- ed and now Ican't get her to call me back, which is unfortunate.
[49:05] Kim Monson: But we connected the dots and one of those names on there was Kent Theory.
[49:11] Kim Monson: And Kent Theory, you know him, he was the head of Davida, which is the kidney dialysis company.
[49:20] Kim Monson: And, interestingly, the Denver Business Journal reported just recently that a federal grand jury in Denver has indicted Denver- based kidney care giantDaVita and former CEO for conspiring with competing employers not to solicit certain employees.
[49:34] Kim Monson: The charges stem from an ongoing investigation by the U.
[49:39] Kim Monson: Department of JusticeAntitrust Division looking into employee allocation agreements in the healthcare industry.
[49:45] Kim Monson: DeVita's alleged co- conspirator Surgical Care AffiliatesLLC and its related entity known as SCA were charged in January.
[49:51] Kim Monson: Both DeVita and a spokesman for theory denied the allegations and statements sent to DeVita.
[50:01] Kim Monson: The indictment alleges that Davida and Theory both participated in two separate conspiracies to suppress competition for the services of certain employees, according to a release from the DOJ.
[50:12] Kim Monson: And I find that we do believe in due process and certainly want this to go through the process to find out the truth on this.
[50:24] Kim Monson: But I thought it was important to let you know that he's been indicted on that and he, from our understanding from this Greeley Tribune piece, is also a supporter of the learning, enrichment and academic progress program.
[50:40] Kim Monson: And you just kind of have to ask if somebody is going to suppress opportunity over here for certain employees.
[50:49] Kim Monson: I think that they really are caring about kids?
[50:54] Producer Steve: Well, I didn't tear into that particular article with that level of uh integrity that you did.
[51:02] Producer Steve: So I guess I really can't comment.
[51:04] Producer Steve: I know devito was there.
[51:07] Producer Steve: There was nasty things.
[51:09] Producer Steve: They or the vultures were were circling uh that that company for a long time now.
[51:14] Producer Steve: So it's kind of interesting to see, uh, where it's going, I know.
[51:19] Kim Monson: So let's see, let's run through just a few of the other headlines here.
[51:23] Kim Monson: This is from the Epoch Times and it says parents sue D.
[51:26] Kim Monson: over allowing kids to be vaccinated without parents' consent.
[51:32] Kim Monson: It says, four parents have filed a lawsuit against the District of Columbia on Monday, alleging the district's recently enacted law deprives parents' constitutional rights and endangers children's safety by allowing minors as young as 11 years old to get vaccinated without their parents' consent or knowledge.
[51:51] Kim Monson: The Children's Health Defense and Parental Rights Foundation represented the four parents in the lawsuit, which was filed in federal district court in the District of Columbia.
[52:00] Kim Monson: The law is reckless, unconstitutional, and needlessly endangers children's lives by stripping away parental protection and the protection of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, CHD President and General Counsel Mary Holland said.
[52:16] Kim Monson: And referring to Washington's minor consent for vaccinations amendment act of 2020, and it became effective in March of the year, says the law allows children 11 years of age and older to take any vaccines included, including COVID-19 vaccines, and they're not vaccines.
[52:33] Kim Monson: That's the thing is, it's not been approved by the FDA.
[52:35] Kim Monson: It's still an experimental drug without parents consider knowledge if the vaccine has been recommended by the advisory committee on immunization practices and the child is capable of meeting the informed consent standard.
[52:48] Kim Monson: Boy, Steve, I tell you what, this is stripping away parental rights at the age of 11.
[52:55] Producer Steve: Don't you feel sorry for these parents?
[52:56] Producer Steve: Because in the beehive, or the hornet's nest, or the cesspool that Washington is at the federal level, let alone, you know, what's going on in local DC politics?
[53:08] Producer Steve: Do they even stand a chance of being heard?
[53:10] Kim Monson: Well, but again, I go to this, this is an experimental drug.
[53:18] Kim Monson: It hasn't gone through the time trials.
[53:21] Kim Monson: And kids this age have not been at risk of, I mean, significant death.
[53:29] Kim Monson: I mean, the percentage is so, so, so, so small.
[53:32] Kim Monson: But we're starting to see that there are potential concerns about some of these vaccines.
[53:38] Kim Monson: And the fact that you would have adults, not even informed parents, about this and actually vaccinate these kids, this is very, very terrifying.
[53:49] Kim Monson: This is not how it's supposed to happen in the United States of America.
[53:52] Producer Steve: Well, let's be, I guess, fair.
[53:57] Producer Steve: We've noted many times that the FDA has not approved any one of the manufacturers of the vaccine yet.
[54:01] Producer Steve: And on one hand, you want to say, are they missing in action?
[54:06] Producer Steve: Where are they?
[54:06] Producer Steve: But yet, I think we had a story last week where they particularly flagged Johnson& Johnson with, you know, what was the issue?
[54:15] Producer Steve: So they're out there.
[54:16] Producer Steve: But what's going on in terms of their, you know, not validating and or, you know, putting their stamp of approval on this?
[54:24] Producer Steve: Right.
[54:27] Kim Monson: I sound like Rush Limbaugh with all these papers here.
[54:30] Kim Monson: I just wanted to reiterate, if we could get to that, and that is the Biden administration, that they want to monitor our text messages.
[54:40] Kim Monson: I just can't, I can't even believe that we could, we're living in the United States of America.
[54:44] Producer Steve: Well, I get maybe took you down the wrong path there.
[54:47] Producer Steve: They certainly, my point in all that blathering was the fact that there is a database out there, and they can very easily get to your, you know, know exactly where in the system you live with your phone number, and look at your text.
[55:01] Producer Steve: I know.
[55:04] Kim Monson: And that is why that Constitution of ours is so important.
[55:08] Kim Monson: You take a look at the Third Amendment, and we are supposed to be safe and secure in our papers and our effects and our homes.
[55:17] Kim Monson: And this is a direct affront on that.
[55:21] Kim Monson: And we've had discussions about Facebook and them shutting things down.
[55:26] Kim Monson: And I'm starting to kind of think, I know that they're a private company, but yet do we not own our own Facebook account?
[55:33] Kim Monson: Maybe that's the way we go at that, Steve.
[55:35] Kim Monson: It is our Facebook account, and they can't shut us down.
[55:42] Kim Monson: That's going to be really interesting.
[55:45] Kim Monson: We're going to keep looking at all of these things.
[55:48] Kim Monson: And our quote for today is from Aristotle.
[55:49] Kim Monson: And again, we realize that there's probably nothing new that we are going through, because we as human beings have gone through it before.
[55:57] Kim Monson: And he says: be a free, be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth.
[56:03] Kim Monson: Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
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