4.9.2025 -- NLS -- Trump, Little, and Idaho’s Rightward Roar

On this episode with Neal and Julie, the conversation dives into a wide range of political and cultural topics, beginning with how various news outlets frame stories differently and how those differences shape public perception—particularly around issues like tariffs and trade. Neal shares strong opinions on Donald Trump’s tariff strategies, defending them as painful in the short term but potentially transformative for America’s long-term economic strength.

They also discuss the fractured state of the Democratic Party, pointing to how party leadership allegedly propped up President Biden despite visible signs of decline. Julie notes the media’s role in shaping narratives and recalls awkward debate moments that may have contributed to public skepticism.

The duo then shifts to a cultural critique of Disney’s new Snow White film. They express frustration with the studio’s direction, especially regarding Rachel Zegler’s public comments and the shift away from hiring actors with dwarfism in favor of CGI. Julie and Neal criticize what they see as preachy messaging in modern films and lament the decline of genuine entertainment value.

In a more serious local segment, they address a tragic police incident in Pocatello. Neal reflects on the video footage, urges broader thinking, and emphasizes the need for major policy changes within the police department. He and Julie agree that the official press conference missed an opportunity to better address public concern and transparency.

From international trade policy to pop culture and local law enforcement accountability, Neal and Julie cover it all with their usual blend of candor, curiosity, and critique.

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Transcript

Good morning. It's Wednesday and it's great to have you along. All right. I have to tell you a few months ago, what is the, I don't know, eight, ten months ago, something like that. We within the sand Hill media complex moved studios. We were in a bit of a smaller studio, still very functional, but we moved to a larger studio that has more room.

And that's the about the time we started studio four covers. And, you know what else we did? We installed multiple, multiple television screens, LED TVs, and in fact, mounted on the wall, we have TVs on three of the four walls. And the one wall that doesn't has two sizable windows looking to the outside, but I'm facing a screen.

We have three on the side, and there's one behind me that was recently, installed. But the point the reason why I'm telling you all of this is that we have 3 or 4 different news channels up all the time, and it's fascinating to watch the headlines, the lower third messages that come across and the different ways that CNN, ABC or NBC or Fox News puts the information forward.

And right now, with all of the tariffs and tariff talk that's happening, I I'm not people do not look to me. They're like, you know what? I need some, economic advice. Let's go to Neil. He's a I so I'm I'm not trying to portray myself as an economics expert, nor would I dare present myself as a tariff expert.

There are plenty of those, though. On social media, plenty of tariff experts on on social media that I reference all the time. And, I, you know, it would be great if people said, hey, can you give me some, suggestions for a tariff expert? And I just went, went online and, you know, Bob from Wenatchee, who hates Trump?

He's a great he's a great tariff expert. And and just sort of rattle off, these people. I will say this because I feel inclined to tell you this. Everything's going to be okay. It's it's all going to be a we're we're in a transition period. Yes. The markets are down. They're actually up a little bit right now.

We're all in the green. The Dow the Nasdaq, the S&P. They're all up very slightly right now. And it's volatile. Yes it's true. But can anybody else see what I'm seeing. Not today or tomorrow or maybe even next week. But in the months ahead baked in to our relationship. And I asked Senator Crapo about this last hour. But it seems that for the past few decades, baked into our trade relationships was a starting point.

And that starting point is, well, whatever we come up with, America's got to take it in the shorts. We have to be the ones to have higher tariffs on our goods than we inflict on other countries. And I ask Senator Crapo, why is that? Why it would seem to me that common sense and also in the spirit of the Golden Rule, why can we not apply the Golden Rule to our trade policy in America?

It's not that hard. Well, you want a tariff us at 20%, we'll tariff you at 20%. Fair's fair. Handshakes. We're still friends. Let's go get a beer. Know that I drink beer? But you know what I'm saying? That would seem like, reciprocal tariff would not harm our relationship. Well, I don't know how people think anymore. And maybe it's not.

They're substituting feeling for thinking now, but in the long term. Let's go back to the moment during the inauguration when Trump said the golden age of America, that we will return and create the golden age of America. Look, I there's conspiracy theories there. We could speculate all day long. I see the I see the eerie you two whatever, all of that.

I'm telling you, it's my belief. Mine only only speak for myself. But I know I'm not alone in saying that. I genuinely believe Donald Trump just loves this country. He loves America, and he stands up for America. And he has watched what's happened on so many fronts, whether it's trade or our geopolitical strategy, our participation in NATO, where whatever it is, he just wants America to thrive.

And he knows there's probably short term pain for us to get to that more balanced relationship that we have with other countries. But I will make it. In fact, I will make this prediction and then I will put a reminder in my phone to check the prediction in, say six months may happen sooner than that. I believe that what Donald Trump is doing right now, despite the short term pain we're experiencing, is going to lead to one of the strongest and lasting superpower economies that the world has ever seen.

Now, when I say that the left shudders, America should not be a superpower. There should not be an imbalance of power. We hegemony is Satanism like that. That's I think that's kind of how they react to a lot of it. And I'm like, no, we don't. We spread goodness around the world. Not in everything. I'm not I'm not naive.

But when we encourage other nations to implement democracy and freedom, and we are a light to the world where the shining city on a hill, I think the light has dimmed a bit, but it can return to to brilliance. And I think Donald Trump is going to to get there now, having said that, Donald Trump is very, very, authentic.

Okay. We'll just say that here's a little clip. It's a little crass, but it's genuine. The biggest the biggest transaction ever made. This is bigger than any deal you guys. Some of you work for companies. Your companies are peanuts. I don't care how big they are. Compare this the largest transaction in the history of our country. And don't let some of these politicians go around check it off, because I'm telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass.

They are. They are dying to make it here. Please, please, I make it you. I'll do anything. I'll do anything, sir. And then I'll see some rebel Republican. You know, some guy that wants to grandstand, say, I think that Congress should take over negotiations. Let me tell you, you don't negotiate like I negotiate, okay? You don't negotiate like a nigger.

And the thing is, he's right. He's right. He also announced this. We're going to tariff our pharmaceuticals. And once we do that, they're going to come rushing back into our country because we're the big market. The advantage we have over everybody is that we're the big market. So we're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceutical sales.

And when you and when they hear that they will leave China, they will leave other places because they have to sell most of their product is sold here. Okay. You have that and then this on tariffs as well. But the shrill voices that you're hearing this week about tariffs are the same scoundrel and frauds you never thought twice about when the United States lost 90,000 factories and plants.

Think of that 90,000. How do you do 90? If you had a map, a big map the size of that wall, and you had a pin for each factory, you wouldn't have enough room. You think of it 90,000 factories since NAFTA. Okay, really. And I mean, there's there's more audio I could play for you. You get the idea.

Donald Trump doesn't care. And that has been the best approach for him. Now we are seeing some Republicans that are getting a little bit skittish over this. But I would ask you this question, don't we teach our children short term pain for long term gain? I think that's probably already trademarked. But it rhymes and sounds good. We we go through short term pain so that we can have a long term gain.

It's why you go to school and you get a diploma. It's why you get a degree. It's why you, work hard. It's why you exercise. I mean, I can go, it's why you save money. It's why you go through these, You go. We want our children and hopefully ourselves to say, I'll go through some some short term pain so that I can have a long term gain.

And it's almost as though that idea has been completely tossed out the window by the left, by the media, by some in the Republican Party. Yeah, it hurts for a minute, but if we rebalance trade, it sets our economy up to be a I mean, esteeming that as an even I, I can't even think of the, imagery of what it turns into.

I am so it's already working. I just saw a graphic on, Fox that talked about all the countries that are already engaged in negotiations, wanting to negotiate. They know that these tariffs are not going to be good for their country. The same tariffs they've been applying to us, by the way, they're not going to be good for their country.

So they want to negotiate so that trade can happen and their economies can be okay. It's it's already working. You have a couple of holdouts which you kind of expect. China's a holdout. Canada is trying to put forward retaliatory tariffs. And that's fine. They get they have the right to do that. That's okay. But if I am going to bet on a negotiating horse, that horse's name is Donald Trump.

And in the end, I think it's going to be shown that, that he'll win out also. And maybe I mentioned this yesterday, there's weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth when the stock market falls because of what Donald Trump is doing, there will be no reciprocal gratitude celebration credit given when, not if, but when the stock market rebounds over the next few months.

And I promise you it will, it will happen. At least that's my strong belief that the stock market always comes back. And we're going to like I said, I'll I'll end this segment the way I started. We're going to we're going to be okay. All right. It's 820 on Newstalk 1079. We have some great audio to share with you.

Also, no new big developments in the tragic shooting of the teenage autistic young man in Pocatello from over the weekend. There is a candlelight vigil planned for this upcoming weekend. And, the story has gone national. You have ABC news covering it, the New York Post, other outlets have as well. And, we can continue to talk about that.

If you'd like. But from our vantage point, no new big developments there. We'll also open up the phone lines and take your calls. It's all coming up on Newstalk 1079.

All right. 825 on Newstalk 107, I, Neil Larson along with Julie Mason and it's Wednesday. If you'd like to reach us on the program. (208) 542-1079 Julie I saw a story on Fox about George Stephanopoulos, and I know this will come as a shock, but I'm not a big fan of George Stephanopoulos. Brace yourself. Okay. Good thing you gave that disclaimer, because I'm not sure everyone knew.

I mean, I didn't want people to drive off the road, as I, you know, shared that. So I needed to prep you for it. But reportedly, he said that his post-debate interview with Joe Biden was, quote, heartbreaking up close. Chris Whipple has a new book out. It's called Uncharted How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the odds in the Wildest Campaign in history.

Great title, by the way, which was released on Tuesday, recounted behind the scenes conflicts between members of the Democrat Party and the Biden administration over whether, Biden needed to step out of the race after his disastrous debate with then candidate Trump on June 27th. To staunch the bleeding, the Democrats beginning to publicly call for replacing Biden on the ticket.

Whipple wrote about how the white House accepted an interview with This Week, the the Host to Stephanopoulos on July 5th to reassure the public about the president's candidacy. Whipple described Biden as horse and semi coherent throughout the interview and said Stephanopoulos was equally disappointed. Whipple wrote. Stephanopoulos questioned the president gently, like a grandson. Afterward. When I asked the ABC anchor by email for his impressions, he replied, heartbreaking.

Up close. So I thought about this tonight. I don't know precisely what George Stephanopoulos coverage of Biden was after that. After that point in time, but it feels to me like not disclosing that as a journalist, I think it's okay to give your impressions. You can say, this is he appeared to be compromised without being overtly opinionated about it.

Like, that's what we want to hear from journalists, where they're not trying to sway you one way or the other, but they're giving you an objective observation. And I you know, there was a video not long after, some man on the street asked Stephanopoulos about the interview with Biden. And his answer was, I don't I don't think he can serve another four years.

And then ABC news had to put out a statement tempering that, saying, well, he was talking about his own opinion and not representing ABC news in that because they, a journalistic organization, probably doesn't want to weigh in on that. You know, the fitness of a candidate, whatever. Although I don't know if that went both ways. But anyway, it was just frustrating because it was obvious to everyone.

I feel like them calling this a cover up is just an inaccurate term. It was gaslighting. It was just lying about something we all saw in broad daylight. Okay, I want to point out two things about this. First off, George Stephanopoulos is not new on the scene. There has to be, I would say, at least a dozen times that he's interacted with Joe Biden.

That was publicly recorded, probably more. But I'm just throwing a number out there somewhere around a dozen times that you could reflect on. And George Stephanopoulos could have said when I interviewed him in April of 2022 versus the debate, it was a diminished man in front of me. That's it. Yeah. That's all you have to say. He has past interactions with Joe Biden that he could have used as a comparison to what he was seeing.

Now, the second part of this, when asked in the email how he felt, he said heartbreaking. Up close. I didn't catch this the first time you and I talked about this off air, but that kind of is like a little light bulb went off when you said it the second time, which was, does he infer that everybody else who wasn't up close couldn't see it?

Like, does he infer that he's actually covering it up? But I know nobody else could tell. But up close it's pretty heartbreaking. I think it's very possible. Maybe he he was just acknowledging that he sat five feet from him and had a perspective the rest of us didn't, that it was even worse than we thought. Possibly. Maybe.

I don't possibly. If I'm going to give George Stephanopoulos the benefit of the doubt, which he probably doesn't deserve. Yeah, I just kind of just stood out because I'm thinking. You don't think it was heartbreaking for people who have loved this man who watched it on TV? Because I bet it was. Yeah, I bet it was. And there was even a portion of you and I that felt just kind of sad.

Well, you know, when the debate happened, you know what my reaction was? My reaction was that was a terrible performance by Biden, but was it was on par with what I had been observing for years. And when there were moments, sometimes during a split screen when Trump was talking and he was debating and Joe Biden's mouth was half open, his eyes were vacant and he was slowly scanning the audience or the room, whatever he was just I mean, you remember that look, and I remember watching that, I don't know, what.

Were we here together? Were we covering that debate that night? I believe we did. I believe we watched it together. So I remember seeing that going, he's our president. He's standing there with his mouth agape and he doesn't even know what Donald Trump saying. It's not registering. And you can tell it's not registering. But that's what we had become accustomed to.

Remember Donald Trump even said that. I don't think he knows what he's talking about. But let me answer this. Yes. And so like I, I, I watch it and I feel like if you want to know why the Democrat Party is in such disarray, or at least one of the big reasons, the fact that they looked the other way for almost four years, they couldn't the last, what, five, four months?

They decided they panicked. They realized they can't get that guy across the finish line. So they had to pull the nuclear lever to try something else. That, that and that didn't work. But it was such a betrayal. It was such an extended complex of lies that they had to perpetrate on the American people to keep Joe Biden propped up, like Weekend at Bernie's, to keep him going as the president of the United States.

And then out of the other side of their mouth, they lied to the American people and said, everything's fine. This is the best Joe Biden ever. I and and you had the all the cabinet issuing statements that I promise you if we dove into that ChatGPT wrote most of those and and you probably had white House advisors telling cabinet members, here's the statement that's going to be attributed to you.

And chat they had I write it because I read those and I'm like this is in the voice of ChatGPT. Yeah. Do you remember that like remember that. It clearly was, it was all in unison and it was a flat out blatant lie and everybody could see it. And yet here you have the Democrats were not able to figure out now.

And it's been what how long ago was November? Five months ago. They're not able to figure out now which way is up or down. And they're still they're still in complete chaos to the and I think they're going to be for a while. America has no interest in revisiting allowing those people to have power ever again. No, I they've got a lot of rebranding to do, including I bet they wish there was a transfer portal.

I bet they wish there was some place that they could go to to to get some talent. Yeah. It is going to be a long time for them. Donald Trump made fun of Jasmine Crockett in his speech, but that you've pulled all those clips from he and basically what he said is if this is the best they've got, keep going.

Yeah. You know, and that's mirrors what you and I have said. They do not have a bench. They lied to you. The mainstream media lied to you. And even if they won't, even if the American public that maybe potentially voted for Kamala won't admit it, they know it. They know they do know it, they do know it, and they know that they they sacrifice an awful lot on the altar of winning in 2020.

Yeah. And trying to win in 2024. This is a perfect opportunity to play Senator John Kennedy. Another great one liner. Listen, what do you think of the new leadership, Jasmine, AOC and Bernie, I consider Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez to be the leader of the Democratic Party. She's entitled to her opinion. I'm entitled to man. As I've said about him before, I think she's the reason there are directions on a shampoo bar.

And I plan for this evening. You turn that out. We got her. Our plan for dealing with her is operate call operation. Let her speak. Yes, and he's spot on. Let the whack jobs just do what they're going to do. Because as long as they are, America sticks with Trump, and America sticks with the American people. Yeah. Did you see the hot water that AOC got into over the last couple of days?

Somebody filmed her flying first class to one of the oligarchy rallies. Oh, okay. So here she is going to a rally about you, the horrible couple, rich people. I didn't see that headline acting like an oligarch. And she's flying first class, isn't it? Rich? Yeah, yeah. Remember when she went to the Met Gala? Yeah, I remember all that.

Like it? It's just these people are so clueless as to what instant clowns and what hypocrisy they project. Yeah, but Kennedy's right. Keep running her. It's fine. Yeah. Operation run her works for the Republicans. So go ahead. You know what? I would love it. Republicans probably won't do this, but it would be funny if they just referred to her as the Democrat leader.

Democrat leader Ocasio-Cortez. Just keep putting it out there. Oh, can you imagine how that would? Great. Schumer oh yeah, it would be a perfect troll. Yes, it would, but I think we ought to do it. I like Kennedy's idea. He considers her the leader of the Democrat Party, which she kind of is. Yeah. Not unless it gets the headlines.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, she's one of the leading voices. But you know what? I do think when you look at the fracture inside the Democrat Party and let's face it, it was the Schumer's and the Pelosi's in sort of that established mainstream Democrat cabal that kept Joe Biden propped up for so long because they wanted the power. They needed the power.

And I think the Aoki's in the Jasmine Crockett's and to some degree, the Bernie Sanders is out there. They're saying, look how bad you guys screwed this up. We're going to be we're going to be the face of the Democrat Party. And I'm like, go for it. Yeah, yeah, we'll make the posters. Let us help. Yes, we got some CEOs that can blow up balloons and bake cookies for you.

Yes. Yeah, I had to go there I love it. We'll be back. It's 837 on Newstalk 1079.

It's 843 on Newstalk 1079. Neil Larsen, along with Julie Mason and you. If you'd like to join us, we'd love to hear from you this morning. (208) 542-1079 that's the Stones Automotive Group call and text line. And this is the fabulous Caroline Leavitt. There's been some public sparring between Elon Musk and the president's trade adviser, Peter Navarro, on some of these tariffs.

Musk actually referred to Nevada as being, quote, dumber than a sack of bricks. Are you at all or is the administration, the president, all concerned that this is maybe impacting the public's understand of these tariffs? It might be messing with the message on it. You know, look, these are obviously two individuals who have very different views on trade and on tariffs.

Boys will be boys and we will let their public sparring continue. And you guys should all be very grateful that we have the most transparent administration in history. And I think it also speaks to the president's, willingness to hear from all sides that he has people at the highest levels of this government, in this white House, who have very diverse opinions on very diverse issues.

But the president takes all opinions in mind, and then he makes the best decision based on the best interests of the American public DNA. Okay. Great answer. Yeah, I thought it was a great answer. I'm I love that she went ahead and wasn't even scared to use the phrase boys will be boys. That probably would have gotten her in trouble four years ago.

We live in a different culture now, and I think it's important that we that we recognize that it's different now. Yeah. Stop hiding in the shadows. As conservatives, you. It is okay to use a phrase like boys will be boys when you're referencing that, they're going to get in a little bit of a schoolyard fight because that's what boys do.

Yeah, and and you don't need to be scared of the gendered language. Yeah. No, I, I liked that. I also just liked leaning into the controversy and just saying, yeah, it's happening. We have arguments, we disagree. We're and we hash things out. But I think the unspoken message to the American people is that they're really working through this.

And also, does it also not, undermine this narrative that Trump only puts yes, men around him that will do exactly. Acting in lockstep and in unison. You can't have it both ways. Yeah, I absolutely think you're right about that. Then that's what she references when she says the most transparent administration ever is that they're not hiding these little tussles.

Yeah. Behind the scenes they're going, look, Trump's not controlling what either one of these men say. Yeah. And they're having their public little tussle. Boys will be boys. They'll solve it. And we're going to carry forward. Oh, you know, we have this really simplified view of it's like a it's a faulty logic to say when two people disagree, one's right and one's wrong.

That's not when you have something as complex as trade. They're both right on some things, and they're probably both wrong on some things too. And then the passion and the emotion gets involved. And Trump wants Trump wants these to be hashed out so that he has multiple options. When he finally decides how he's going to move forward, it I don't have a problem with it.

I really don't I don't have a problem either. And I think there are a lot of varying ideas about tariffs. We interviewed Senator Crapo earlier today. He's a little nervous, especially about the pharmaceutical, the potential pharmaceutical tariff. If you were to listen to Ben Shapiro right now, he is absolutely against everything that Trump is doing. As far as tariffs go, he has a different financial strategy than than Trump.

You have you have other pundits who are 100% behind Kevin O'Leary, 100% behind what Trump is doing, many others Art Laffer, Art Laffer from the Reagan years. He's he's in favor of it. So it is a complicated issue. Multi-layered. Yes. And it would be erroneous to believe that everything Trump is going to do with this tariff war is going to work out.

Searchingly true. Yes. It's not going to. But if you have a 7030 or an 8020 out of this, that's a pretty great win for America. Yeah, we'll take it. We just can't keep taking it in the shorts. And I think that that's Trump's point in all of this is we're we're done. We're done with that. With that approach, one of the squishy Republicans on trade and tariffs is Don bacon.

He's a Republican out of Nebraska, and he's the guy leading the bipartisan bill that will block Trump from instituting tariffs and try to retake that power for Congress. He told reporters earlier yesterday that he didn't like, quote, the thought of waging a trade war with the entire world in the Senate. A bipartisan group led by Rand Paul and Ron Widen is also introducing a resolution to repeal Trump's global tariffs.

Chuck Grassley and Maria Cantwell have already introduced a bipartisan bill that would require the president to notify Congress about any new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition, and require Congress to approve new tariffs within 60 days or allow them to expire. Trump chewed out the Republicans over the proposed bill, and he said, I just saw it today. A couple of your congressmen, Trump said before launching into an impression of a lawmaker.

Sir, I think we should get involved in the negotiation of the tariffs. Oh, that's what I need. I need some guy telling me how to negotiate. Trump said that should Congress take over tariff negotiations, China would be the happiest people in the world. They wouldn't be paying 104%, Trump said of China. I'd say they'd be paying. No percent would be paying them 104%.

Trump said that even the talk around Capitol Hill about limiting his tariff powers hurts your negotiation, adding, and then the fake news wants to build it up and it has no chance anyway. We have to remain united. As I defend workers from unfair trade, I'll say this I think even though I haven't seen the actual polling, but I feel like the American people are similar to this as they are with immigration.

They're given Trump some time to negotiate. They know this is a transition period. This isn't going to be the permanent policy of the United States. We're just trying to balance things out. I would also add to what Trump is saying about Congress is that if you gave them the complete power and he stepped out of it three years from now, 2028, we still wouldn't have anything done.

That is absolutely true. I do. We want it to fix and fix now. Then let Trump do it. Yeah. And you know what? Trump has the bully pulpit. I think he's using it well. And I think he has every right to push back against Congress. And they're exerting the rights that they have. And this is one branch of government against, against the other.

I'm okay with it. I'm okay too. I actually don't fault Congress for pushing on this. I disagree with them, but it's their it's their prerogative. It's 850 on Newstalk 107. I will come back after this. All right. 855 on Newstalk 1079, Neil Larson, along with Julie Mason, both of us, the enthusiastic, users of the four step lawn program at from Town and Country Gardens.

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That's true. Yes. Often times the expert is right there. So don't think that you're going to need to go and wait forever to get if you have questions. Yeah. And if there isn't someone there, if you there happens to be some time when there's not someone there. There's plenty of people throughout the store. It's a very well staffed.

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And also that's where you sign up for the newsletter. So my garden geek.com town and Country Garden south of Idaho Falls, across from the malt plant on the Yellowstone Highway. Well done. Did I do it correctly? Oh, I'm sure it's wrong. I'm sure. All right. And, we'll come back. Our two coming up on Newstalk 1079. Julie, for some reason I have no idea of the topic, although I have a couple of ideas, but I think we should do a flash poll.

I'm in. Okay. All right. We'll have something for you in the next hour.

Welcome back. It's 907 on Newstalk 1079. Try not to rush the phones here, all right? We only have six lines, but I'd like for you all to call in and tell me what you thought of the new Snow White movie. Working on it. When you get a call. You don't know that, Julie. We might have. Okay? We might have secretly woke Disney fans that wanted to see, whatever this monstrosity was like, I it's bad.

Like, it is one of the worst. This has to be a pivot point for Disney. I would think. You would think they lost so much money on this film. Yeah. The like I don't think we can trust anything that they're doing. Because they've, they've had hints of this. This is just the biggest but they've had hints of this up to this point.

And they kept doing it. Yeah, true. They did. But I don't you feel the leadership now is I mean the, the son of the producer called out Rachel Zegler and said my dad had to fly across the country to bring you back in line because you are saying garbage. You're denigrating the original Snow White story, and those are the people that would love to come see a good remake of it.

But you're, you've subtracted everything good about the original Snow White story and replaced Eden. Say this. This is my yeah, my addendum. But basically she made it far, far worse. I think Disney wanted to trick people into going to see it. But she she gave the spoiler away in in a sense. Right. Yeah. It would be like, a main actor going out and giving away the, you know, the surprise in the film.

And in this case, Disney wanted the surprise to be that she doesn't fall in love. She doesn't get the princess kiss or whatever. And they wanted it to be a surprise that they subtracted everything that made the first Snow White compelling from this version of Snow White. Yeah, it it is so interesting that that had to be removed.

Yet we have plenty of people who feminists who rally around only fans, then plenty of people who. Yes, I, I know, but, a curse that will be broken by a peck on the lips is too, too far. That you're too much. You're right. You can be a teacher. And it's feminist empowerment to show up. And on the weekends you let everybody see everything.

But you clutch your pearls when a prince kisses a princess. Yeah that was that work. All right, let's go to the phones. 285421079. Caller, welcome to the show. How are you? Oh, great. My, you are on. Go ahead. Well, I think my, 12 year old grandson did Snow White the best. He said, if he was on a plane, he'd still walk out.

That's, Yeah. That's good. He's got a future you keep. You keep inspiring this young man. He's got a future. It was very funny. Yeah. That's great. Thank you for the call. But, Yes, absolutely. He, let me ask you this. I wouldn't I don't think I would ever buy a ticket because I don't I wouldn't want to support that kind of garbage.

But if you could watch it for free as a political social experiment to see how badly they botched it, would you watch it? I actually have an answer for this, because wicked is now available for free through Peacock. And I have that. Okay. Yeah, yeah, I haven't watched it. So I think that no, it carries over for me that I'm just not going to give in even when it's for free.

So I think and I don't know how this works, but if you watch it on Peacock, the fact that you've streamed it would mean revenue probably for them. I want to watch it in a way where they don't get any, they get nothing like I will sneak in to the movie and watch it and not buy it.

I mean that's dishonest. I'm not going to sneak into the movie and watch it, but I'm saying I don't want a single dime going to that. I don't want to. I don't want to add to their bottom line, but I wouldn't be going there for entertainment purposes. I'd be going there to be informed and to sort of watch the downfall and destruction of what was once a great American institution.

I fear you'd walk out and go, I can't get that 2.5 hours back. I fear that that's how you'd feel at the end of it. Yeah. Yeah, that. Yeah, I might, I might, you know what I might do? And I don't want anybody to take this out of context because I really don't watch animated films. But when there is a political, like a heavy political angle like this, it does piqued my interest.

If I find what be my fooling. If I found the DVD at the Di in three years, I might buy the DVD knowing they're not getting the revenue. Yeah, I dropped $0.50 on it and I just for social commentary. I might do that, but I don't know. No way would I give them the revenue. Okay, catch me up.

Can you still buy a DVD? Like if I went on Amazon? Could I get a DVD of the movie in three months or whatever of that movie? I don't know, but I think they still do DVDs. Okay, like you, it's the last time you bought a DVD. Some years. Yeah, it's been years since I now my kids may have a kids movie or something, like I have kids that are kind of old school, like my daughter Anna, I, I was teaching a Sunday school lesson recently, and I needed some CDs for part of an object lesson.

I won't go into it, but I'm like, I don't have any seat. Like I don't have a CD collection. I, I ditched that a long time ago. But my daughter Anna has a stack of CDs and it's like Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift and you know, things that a 16 year old girl would like. And so I did take, take that.

So there is kind of this, this, demand for old school media, but and if you go to like a big box store like Walmart, they do have those bins where you can buy DVDs for like four bucks, movies that were big 15 or 20 years ago, you know, like a Steven Seagal movie or something. Like you go if you go, you know, you can still get DVDs.

There are 32 installments of like, Rocky. And what's that racing movie where the guy died with Vin Diesel. They. Oh, fast Furious. Aren't there like 32 versions of that? And you probably. Yes, probably. So yeah, there's probably a Fast and Furious 97 or, you know. Yeah, that that would be like I think, sometimes I'm curious how many people in our audience still have a VHS player.

I don't do you? I think my son does. Okay, yeah, I think he does. And, cassette players do you have a cassette player? No, no, I might have one. I'm. Yes, I do have one. I do have one because I, I, bought a second hand stereo for my garage sale. It just listen to the radio in the garage.

It it's like a stack of. Yeah, yeah, there might even be a record player on the top of it. I yeah, I don't, I don't even remember, but I did it mostly for the radio. It also has an auxiliary input. So I got it for that reason. And it does have a, dual side cassette. Yeah. So I go out there and I will record.

I'll hit record right when a song starts that I want to tape and make a mix tape. Do you ever make mix tape? I did, I actually did what you're talking about. I did we all did. Right? Yeah. Like, if you're a Gen Xer. Yeah, I could listen to the radio and, like, there's this brand new song out by Brian Adams or Roxette or Bon Jovi or.

Yeah, whatever. And like, you'd listen and you'd be like, okay, I'm ready to hit record just in case the song plays and then. And then you're furious at the DJ that he does the talk up. Yeah. To when the song starts and he's talking over the intro. I have always had that in me. Like with those radio people.

Just shut up.

I said with massive irony.

All right, let's go to the phones. 208542 117 hi, caller. How are you today? Good. Is that me? It's you. Yeah. We we put your. Yeah, we put you right on. Go ahead. Oh, cool. Well, I was just going to say it's funny you guys were having that conversation because over the weekend I stayed at an Airbnb that had a a modern record player.

You know, you could buy it on Amazon. And I got my wife and I talking about, well, can you still buy records like full blown. Yeah. Big black, 33 rpm, 45 rpm records. And you can think of, of songs that have just came out. And so we were just kind of blown away that there's still, there's still that like, you guys are talking about a kind of a demand for physical media, to have your songs and stuff on.

But, I was just going back to the whole Snow White thing, like, I agree with you guys. It's like, man, you even get that time back of your life because it's like, well, if I'm gonna diss on something or if I'm going to dislike it, I want to be informed and not just hop on the bandwagon of like, well, everyone's saying this, so it's got to be terrible.

And but at the same time I'm like, well, I don't want to spend two hours of my life really figuring that out. Like, I think I can get enough from the clips on Instagram and screenshots and all that stuff. But yeah, it doesn't look like it's I don't think I'll ever watch it. Yeah, not a bad decision.

I think that's probably how you can dabble in it enough is there's plenty of, if you go to X or whatever and you searched a movie, you're going to get enough, outtakes from the movie. Yeah, that. You know what's going on. Yeah, yeah. Oh. All right. Definitely not worth the time. Thank. Thank you for the call.

Hey, do you remember I just had a memory come back that I haven't thought about in a very long time. I remember when you'd by. Well, growing up, it was cassettes. But even before CDs came, came out and were widely available. I remember that excitement that you would have when you'd tear the cellophane off the cassette, you'd crack it open, and then all the lyrics were printed on the the label.

Oh yeah. And it's like accordion label. Yes. And like you'd hit fast forward to get to the song you wanted. It would take minutes to get to the song that you wanted, and some boomboxes actually had silence detection in it so you could get hit. Fast forward and then it would stop. And you knew you had advanced one song, and then you could do the.

But it would take forever to try to get to the exact 2 or 3 songs on an album that you really wanted to hear. Yeah, yeah, kids nowadays just don't even understand the rewinding of a VHS tape. Like you'd be so mad at your sibling or whomever. Yeah, that didn't rewind the VHS tape, and now you had to rewind it to get to the beginning of the show.

I have a sibling I haven't talked to in 14 year, 40 years because I have to go back further than never before I go, oh, we're that old, we are old. (208) 542-1079 hi caller welcome. Hey, I saw the Snow White movie and I didn't think it was bad. Really? Yeah. I didn't see hardly anything political in it. The only difference, that I really noticed was that the prince was not a prince.

He was a rogue. And he did wake her with a kiss. So I'm not sure what all the hubbub is about. Wait, what's a rogue like? You know, like the guy in tangled? You know, he's. He lives in the woods and he's the little bit, you know, Hum. Solo. He's a rogue. Oh, gotcha. Oh, okay. So.

But not a prince, like, he's he's not connected to society in, in a regular way, I guess. But he's kind of like, he's he's fighting in the name of the king because the queen has taken over and made everything junk, you know? Okay. Gotcha. But you didn't feel like it was overtly political. No, I mean, like anything that really super related to today's politics, I felt like, they did make her a little bit stronger of a character.

They they did character development all around. And I thought it was a really cute film that, that maybe took. It didn't go way, way off into the woods from the original. But it did develop the, the themes and the plots and the characters more. Okay. Okay. So with that being said, is it just Rachel Ziegler who made this into something it wasn't?

That's my that's my guess. I mean, I did see one of her comments, months ago, and I just have ignored her ever since. And, and I went seeing it for getting that she was even in it. And I was like, yeah, this is cute. I like it. Okay. Okay. All right. So maybe, maybe her comments were more controversial than the movie itself?

I think so, yeah, that's my guess. Okay. All right. Well, thank you for the call. The only thing that really confuses me about that is Rachel's comments were all about how that was an unsolicited kiss. He did not get permission. And so that was why it was so important to change the movie. Oh, because she's asleep. She's in a spell.

And so she doesn't give consent. Oh, okay. To a kiss. And so Rachel was saying that. But if this now misfit dude, this rogue comes in and kisses her without consent, why is that any different? It's just a different kind of man. Well, maybe rogues can get away with it, but if you're from the upper class, then it's.

It's it's an expression of the patriarchy and the hierarchy and the privilege and. Yeah, see, I can speak the lingo. You can. Let's go back to the phones. Hi, caller. How are you? Let me. Yes. Go ahead. Okay. I have been following this Snow White thing ever since its inception. And I got to tell you, it was not just what Rachel Zegler did, it was her comments about, so she made a she made a post on social media saying that, you know, if you disagree with her, you can unfollow her, which normally would be, you know, good for her because, you know, she's kind of, closing the door on those kind of haters

or whatever. But the way that she said it, it was super entitled and it was super ignorant. And it's basically that's kind of what brought down the movie to start. But there's a whole bunch of other things, like, for example, the dwarves, they were going to hire dwarves, but instead they went with CGI. Alternative. And what happened with that is like, so they were going to hire these dwarves to play as dwarves or, you know, midgets or whatever you want to call them.

I don't know what the term is nowadays. Little people, I think, is what they call people. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Little people. Anyways, so they, they were going to hire these people, these actors to play those roles. But then the actors, they, they were canceled because, they, they wanted to go a different direction. So they went with the CGI version.

Well, the actors were like, well, what are the roles are we supposed to play? Like, you know, we're we are little people and it's what what else are we supposed to do? And so Disney went with that direction. And long story short, there was just a myriad of things that was, you know, just plaguing this, this, this movie.

And then the fact that you have, you know, let's gal Godot. Yeah, she's the evil witch, and she's wishing to be better than Lord Farquaad. Yeah, like that was. And that's what they are. That's what they compared, Rachel Zegler to with the art part. And and you can find memes out there where it compares the two, and, you know, nothing against the previous caller, but if, yeah, if she really liked the movie, she's kind of in the in the minority because it got hammered.

Yeah. And the Rotten Tomatoes and every other, every other industry. So there's if you look it up, there's, there's a ton of stuff. And Rachel Zegler, I doubt that we'll ever see her on a big screen again. Honestly because her so she had three other movies that she came out in during the time that she was doing this.

No way. They all bombed. Oh, wow. This was kind of the final nail in the coffin. So she ruined her own brand. She's the Colin Kaepernick of Hollywood. Yeah, yeah, oh yeah yeah. And the fact that they. So they had a $300 million budget for this movie and that that was just a movie. And Disney is not coming out with all the numbers.

Because they had to do a ton of reshoots because they cut a bunch of content from the movie with Rachel Zegler, because they wanted to keep her as much out of the movie as they possibly could from her rants on social media. Yeah. And then she's pro-Palestine and just and gal ghetto is is Israeli. She actually been served in the Israeli army?

Yeah. And it's just this man. I could go on and on and on, and I don't want to take up any more time, but you guys can do your research and it's it's a good popcorn. Okay. Watch the actual movie. But, what do the research. Just the whole drama. Yeah. All right, well, thank you for the call.

You know, it's interesting. It's not the first movie to have failed. Just if simply on the concept that the the actors themselves didn't get along. Yeah. And that spilled over. And you could sense it in the movie and you could see it in the promotional material and everything. Right. And so that was just one aspect of this, because there has been an ongoing fight between Gal Gadot and, and Rachel Zegler.

And so there's that. I, I don't know, somebody mentioned that the way that they got around the guy kissing the girl is they added a new song, which people are pretty divided on that when there's new music added to all the old films. But they added a new song, and then in that song, that's how she's granting permission, that somebody can come take the spell from her.

Oh, I see, so she's inviting then? Yes. Oh, okay. All right, let's go. Back to the phones. Caller. Go ahead. How are you today? Fantastic. Thank you. It isn't somebody. It's you. It's you. Yeah. Go ahead. Okay. I went home with my wife trying to be unbiased. She she's not heard any of the, negative.

Negative stuff about the show until pretty much today. I it wasn't a bad show. It obviously didn't have the magic of the original. But I think part of that is that they're trying to take, something that was applicable to the time, the times, the original one was, made during the depression. And basically to say, pull yourself up by your bootstraps, you're having a hard time.

You'll get through this and don't let it affect your character. And I did not see that this Snow White had, nearly the characters of the original did. The other thing they were talking about was dwarves being animated CGI. It wasn't bad, but I think that live, if you're a live action, use live. Yeah. Characters apparently, the probably the most famous little an actor, Peter Dinklage was a portion of that he, he complained about, being typecast.

Okay, so so that was part of the reason that, they put in the unrated, dwarves, but, they actually were going to have dwarves, from what I understand. They were just going to have a group of people. Oh, yeah. And, so but they, they had to go back to the drawing board multiple times as part of the reason of the the cost of the film was so exorbitant.

It's because they had to keep going back to back and back. So it sounds like the the whole process was kind of clunky and complicated. So we we've got to get to a break. Thank you. For the call. We'll take a quick break. We'll come back and continue after this. On Newstalk 179. Okay. I'll be right back.

Okay. Water. Yeah. I think something else that happened in this, there's the Disney movie. As I did some searching during the break, during the phone calls, was that it's never a really good thing in general for a movie to take forever to get from production to screen. When it takes five years or six years. And it looks like this took about four years.

That typically doesn't bode well for a movie. And, you know, like a turnaround to a typical turnaround time is closer to two years. So the longer it takes and you're you've got that buildup and that time for people to see errors in the movie or whatever. It typically doesn't benefit the movie now, one that it did that didn't suffer any problems with the big delays was the Top Gun movie got delayed multiple times, but that thing was a smashing success.

So that what I'm saying is not always a like a rule of thumb, but you can watch and when the longer it takes it, it's not always a great sign that the movie is doing okay. You would hope that it could get there a little bit quicker. Yeah, Clyde, I don't know. I don't know what makes a movie good these days.

I just referenced the second Top Gun and it was I like every, like, massive audience score. Everyone loved it. That kind of a thing. I think that people don't like to be preached to. I think that's got to be in there somewhere. And, when you get just preached to or things out of that, you're like, that didn't even need to be in there.

But they added it for political reasons. I think that automatically harms the movie. What else is going on? You guys? We did get a text, Neal. Somebody asking for an update on the Pocatello shooting. I don't know if you want to do that or not. Completely. Up to you. Is there anything new to report? Is there?

I don't think so. Yeah. We can mention it though. I think people are Spud Kings one last night. Good for them. Yeah. Remember that cruise ship video I sent you. It's finally hit east Idaho News, where the 40ft waves are hitting the cruise ship. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that was a while ago. Yeah, I probably sent that to you five, six days ago.

Yeah, something like that.

It. 934 on Newstalk 10792085421079. If you'd like to join us. We did have a person texting in listener asking about any updates on the shooting in Pocatello. Everything that we've scanned this morning is that he's still in critical condition and fighting for his life. Of course, his leg was amputated, and he's been through multiple surgeries. We also know that there is a candlelight vigil scheduled for Saturday evening, outside portion of medical center for him.

But I don't think we've heard anything new from the police department, from the joint task force investigating. Haven't heard anything from the mayor. So right now, there's not really anything new. Substantially since yesterday that we've heard. It did hit national news. So ABC carried a, like a video package on it last night in their nightly news was in the news reads this morning.

New York Post has a pretty vibrant crime arm of their publication. It did hit there. So that means it will probably filter to other national news media at that point. So yeah, Pocatello is on the map for this, you know, and it's it's really I thought about this a lot yesterday actually, because I've seen the video now probably a dozen times.

And the fact that it went national. David Muir of ABC news had it highlighted last night on the news. And, I keep wanting to have the broadest perspective on this that I can't not, you know, I mean, obviously this is an outcome I don't think anybody wanted. I don't I don't think police were showing up that day saying, let's shoot somebody.

And I, I, I believe that, you know, when you look at it and you think, okay, what did they know? Let's try as best as possible to get into the mind frame that those officers were in. The 911 call thought they had a drunk person, had a weapon, but they didn't know he was 17. That we know of because the the 911 called the caller didn't know.

We just found that out after the fact. Didn't know that, that they were autistic. And in fact, there were some kind of, physical limitations with this young man. The caller thought that it was someone who was drunk, which would be a very natural response in watching this. And so the cops show up. They they think there's someone with a knife, a very volatile person.

Now, having said that, I want to be very careful because you might think I am now siding with police officers and I'm not. I think what they did was way too much because as they pulled up and as they were getting out of the car, the guy was laying this kid, 17 year old, he was he was just lying down in the on the lawn.

There was no reason in that moment for them to run up guns drawn and to start yelling. If anything, the approaches assess the situation, and if nobody is under any kind of immediate threat, I'm not sure you need to draw your gun so you have him ready, you know, maybe have your hand on it. But one officer could have walked up and said, hey, what what's going on here?

But what's happening? And and de-escalation could have happened. The tasers probably should have been ready. The beanbag gun should have been ready, like all of those things. And I think it was just this sort of overreaction that that they had. But I, I and again, I don't, I don't want to create an excuse in my mind for those officers, but I hope that we can look at it broadly and maybe it, it lowers the temperature on this just, just a little bit terrible, terrible outcome that never should have happened.

And we'll see what the outcome of the investigation reveals. My hunch, though, is you're going to have these independent officers and investigators come in and look at this and say, you need dramatic policy changes in the Pocatello Police Department, because this is not an outcome that should have happened. There was no imminent threat whatsoever. The moment those cops arrived.

I would guess that that's going to be the outcome to, I hope that there's some reflection on the training that the officers received. I, I have tried to not be critical of what the officers have did in this situation simply because we are operating without knowledge of what training they have received. Yeah. And and do they typically roll up on to a situation where there's a drunk person and, and you get four guns drawn on one person?

I don't know, I will be critical of something that's post, incident that has had plenty of time to be reflected on, which is I do not think the news conference was a good look. I think it should have been a united front. I think there should have been some representation from the city of, of Pocatello that was not there.

You put the chief out there all by himself? Yeah, just him solo in a room. I think that that appeared cold to people. I think that there was ways they could have done community outreach. This family is Hispanic. I don't know what origin of, you know, what country or why. Maybe they're raised here. I have no idea.

Yeah, but they are Hispanic. Did you do any outreach to the Hispanic community? That would have been a great time to talk about that. In the press conference, there was lots of ways to show kindness and love to the community in that press conference that I think they felt to hit those notes. Yeah. And you had plenty of time to think about that.

That wasn't an emergency situation. Yeah, yeah, that's true. And I yeah, yeah. And I agree with you usually like when something like this happens and they hold a press conference in a very high profile event, there's at least 4 or 5 people there. They don't necessarily all speak. But usually you have the mayor there. You have the the police and the law enforcement there.

You have maybe a city council member would have been a good thing to have there. Maybe, you know, just have you have to be very careful what you say because there's pending litigation, there's a pending investigation. So I understand wanting to be very cautious about the words that you use in a setting like that. But I agree with you.

I think the optics could have been better just. Yeah, just better. And I'm not I'm not assigning that. They meant for it to be cold. Yeah. I'm just looking at it, observing, going. I don't know if that was the best look. Yeah. I just don't know if that's the best. Look there, there was a lot of ways to reach out, and there was things that aren't part of the investigation that they could have referenced, like, maybe, they've they've contacted therapy sources to provide for the family and for the person who made the 911 call that that would have been there's no fireworks there.

When you talk about that, you're just talking about ways that you're trying to heal the community after a very difficult situation. Yeah. And you know, kind of put those efforts forward that we need to give this family the support that they. Yeah, that they need. All right. We're going to take a break. It's 942. We'll be back on Newstalk 107.

All right. You know you can you could sort of distance yourself from the actual investigation. I almost almost be agnostic about that and say, look, our community is struggling right now. This family's struggling right now. And and we need to come together and help them and pray for them and provide for their immediate needs, whether it's hotel rooms for visiting families like you mentioned or whatever the case, like, like there are things that are just everybody could get on on board with, yeah.

I just feel like that was a missed opportunity. And you're not under a time crunch. In fact, you probably didn't do it quick enough. Yeah, the news conference was a little too delayed, in my opinion, because it it happened Saturday afternoon and it was Monday. Yeah, Monday almost evening. By the time it was almost 48 hours. By the time they did the news conference.

Yeah. That felt like it's a weekend. Monday morning probably would have been an an okay time to to do it. But I here's you know I always but I don't know what I think of this. Remember when the University of Idaho murders happened. And the messaging that came from the Moscow police was everybody's safe. It's fine. We don't think there's a threat out there.

Oh, yeah. Did you catch the person? Well, no. Like it. And I, I sort of try to extend some grace in those situations. This is not something that anybody's experienced at especially in small towns like Pocatello, Idaho Falls or Moscow, whatever. So part of me is like, okay, you and I can think through this because we don't have this firestorm of criticism that's unfolding on social media now, national media, but I do think they probably should have said, okay, my brain is overwhelmed right now.

Can you give me some advice on how we should probably handle this, to at least bring some calm to the to the situation? And, you know, I think they could have done done more. I think they could have found cities who have experienced this before. Yeah. And, and duplicated what they've done. Yeah. This wasn't a new phenomenon here.

No, no. And, I, I can't even tell you the amount of news conferences I've watched for my crime podcast. I've never seen one with an empty room like that. Not one. That is the first time I have ever seen that. So there was actually a different angle. There were people in the room. Why didn't they? I don't know, and I don't know who those people were.

But the shot they had had a whole bunch of empty chairs and the police chief standing alone. And I thought that that's not that's not good. It just feels very clinical or empty or something. Yeah. No. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, there, there was a different angle where. And I don't know if it was the Idaho State Journal like a still shot.

This is interesting. Michael is saying they sent an email at 4:01 p.m. that gave them a 30 minute notice about the press conference. Oh, wow. That is a pretty big region. 30 minutes is nothing. Yeah. No, that's there's no travel time included in there. There's nothing. Did they just not want to give a whole bunch of lead time because they knew that would give protesters a time to organize for media to says, I mean, I'm not saying that's right, but I'm wondering if that was by design that they didn't.

Yeah, I don't know. I, I I'll give them this. Grace. There's never going to be a 100% win here. Yeah. There's a kid in critical condition. There's never going to be a 100% win here. But when already the community is so riled up, they're already there. Yeah. In terms of the outrage, you just should have reached out more.

Yeah. You just shut off one thing I thought, because we have talked about how, you know, people are demanding the names of the officers in, there were four there. We don't know if all four of them shot took shots. We don't know who did what and when. So that requires the investigation? Yes. So that's why I, I understand because, you know, there may have been an officer that said, I'm not shooting this is this is not a moment to shoot.

But yet if they're named is one of the four officers before we have that information in that investigation, they're going to get slandered on social media. They're going to get probably death threats. They're going to have all sorts of things. So I can understand why they're holding off on naming the officers until we get more info about what happened.

I think that that would have been a great thing to say, though. Yes. Yeah, I that's the reason in the press control conference, you could have said, I know that there is an interest in knowing who the officers were and what we if they've been put on paid leave and things like that. Here's the reason we're not reviewing that or not releasing that yet.

There was four officers. We need to determine who shot and who didn't. And there's too much investigation behind each officer. And until we get to that place, we are not going to release names. I actually think that would have helped the public. That would have allowed the I think that message alone would have made the public go, okay, I get that, I get that, and it wouldn't look so much like they're protecting.

Yeah, bad, bad cops or, you know, whatever the narrative is out there, just say we we want to preserve the investigation, we want to preserve due process, and we want to make sure that we understand the action of each one of these officers before we name them and put them out publicly. I think that would have worked.

Well, you know, to say that I really do, if I was going to, like, make a prediction here, I'm going to tell you their biggest thing. They're biggest thing in this investigation to overcome is the fact that there was a barrier barrier between them and that that young man. Yeah, that is not something that you can't not access.

Like. Yeah. You knew it was there. Yeah. They didn't know he was a 17 year old boy. He looks like a man. Yeah. They didn't know if he was drunk, if he was high, if he was autistic, if he was having a mental episode they didn't know. Yeah. You knew there was a fence. Yeah. That was very well.

And I don't, Yeah. It's just so, Yeah. There's no in. There is no in. Here's a question. Here's a hypothetical. If I was in the same situation but not a cop. And I'm walking by and I'm seeing like this little family altercation or whatever, and that individual stands up and starts coming at me and he's got a knife in his hand.

But there's a fence between us and I, and I'm carrying. If I pulled out my gun and shot that person, would I, would I be protected? Would the law protect me? Would our self-defense laws protect me? In that instance, I don't know that they would, especially if I show up and start yelling at that person, sort of instigating the action.

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Okay. Did it work? Oh, yeah. It got the crispy, the dark and cooked it on the outside. It I mean, I do like the grill because you get a little more flavor and the smoke and stuff. And so it wasn't quite that but texture wise. Same thing. It got that outer cooked browned crisp edge on it. Fantastic. Awesome.

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Well, there's a phrase called getting screwed. Taking it in the shorts is what I like. That's my phrase of the day.

Like we're talking about Trump's tax credits expiring. I see a headline from Idaho Capital Sun Idaho child tax credit set to expire. Yeah. Why do these lawmakers want to get a, political bonus by passing a tax credit with an expiration date? That's at least far enough away that people aren't jaded when it gets passed. But basically what it is, is it's it's a tax increase that they don't have to take the fall for because they can say, well, the tax credit expired.

Yeah. Well, and how often do we have the reverse of getting rid of a tax. It's hardly ever what state just passed. It was Arkansas with, what's her name, former press secretary, governor. Sanders. Yeah. Yeah, I can't remember. It was Arkansas or not, but a state. Just their legislature just passed, no income tax.

Or maybe it was no sales tax. That's what. There's no sales tax in the state on anything or on just food? No, I think it was everything. I can't remember which state was. I will look it up. We don't get those kind of bonuses. Hardly, ever look at how excruciating it's been to try and get our legislature to cut the grocery tax when most other states don't tax groceries.

Yeah, yeah, when we divided a party over that. Oh, yeah. We did gang tax. Yeah. That's when I said yesterday. Can we just be normal? That's one of the things we weren't normal about. Yeah okay. Here's a here's a headline. This should be a good flagpole blood test. Can detect 90% of Alzheimer's cases. Would you take that blood test if you knew you were going to get Alzheimer's?

Maybe, like, ten years in advance? Would you want to take it? Probably because there's lots of things you can do to stave it off. Maybe. That's probably true. That's probably true. Okay. I'll ask a similar question. If I had an envelope and inside that envelope written on a piece of paper was the day you were going to die, would you open that?

Absolutely. You would really, It would change my retirement plans. Okay. If you're only going to live to be 62, and in your mind, you're thinking you can make it to your mid 80s, that's 20 years of lifestyle that you have to adjust for. Yeah, right. Interesting. So it comes down to money then for you. Yeah. Your lifestyle changes if you don't work as long you don't.

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Is it still has big towers? Yeah, yeah. Anyway, I don't does Budweiser all night. I don't think they do anymore. Is it is it still Anheuser-Busch though? I don't know, I mean, I don't know, I don't I'm not looking that I don't know. I'm always looking at towns. Sure. There's a farmer that can answer this question for us.

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