6.10.2025 -- NLS -- Trump, Trudeau, Ketchup Chips & Chaos

On this episode with Neal and Julie, Neal shares stories from his road trip through Canada, from ketchup chips to getting stranded in Turtle River. The conversation shifts to cultural perceptions, border experiences, and the occasional Canadian trying to “work the system.” They dive into current events, including Trump’s comments about deploying the military in response to riots in L.A., and media fallout over ABC's Terry Moran, with Julie questioning the credibility of mainstream journalism.

The two also discuss JK Rowling’s viral tweet criticizing Simone Biles and Megan Rapinoe, Trump’s Social Security-style proposal to give $1,000 per newborn, and the symbolic “No Kings” rallies in Idaho, which they humorously note may draw seven people each. They reflect on media double standards, the pandemic-era government overreach, and how Trump is portrayed in contrast.

Neal and Julie also preview their upcoming studio open house and celebrate five years of the show. Despite all the serious topics, there's plenty of humor, sarcasm, and personal insight—classic Neal and Julie.

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Transcript

I go to Alaska for a few days and LA falls apart. I can't leave you people alone for anything. Good morning. Welcome. It's Tuesday, and, when I say it's good to be back. I never said it is a token. I never say it just flippantly and don't mean it. But I will say, I really mean it extra, extra today.

And, it is good to be back. Yesterday I woke up, and you will probably not know where this is. I woke up at a place called DS Lake and, at, Well, no, no, I sort of, it was the days all run together. And so I woke up. I drove for a long time. I slept for a couple hours in Jasper National Park, and I was delayed by the fires.

I would have been home easily Saturday night. Maybe Sunday morning. But the fires got me stalled in the. I think it's I don't know if it's a Yukon or British Columbia, but I got stalled up there and I had to backtrack and that's what put me back. But I had a lot of road time, and I started early Thursday morning and got home last night about 730.

And it was, such a good feeling to cross back over the border. And by the way, had virtually no problems at the border. It was a big question mark because I had heard these horror stories and, every single border encounter that I had, and I had four, two on the way up to Alaska, two on the way back, and every single one of them lasted anywhere from 1 minute to 3 minutes.

I was through, showed them my passport, and I had to have some documentation on the way back because I was not driving my car. I was driving a friend's car and everything was great. Do you have any drugs? No. Do you have any, ammunition or firearms? No. What you buying Canada snacks at a Walmart. And by the way, ketchup chips.

First time. I don't know if you, have ever had ketchup chips and, they're okay. I don't know if they're going to be my go to from now on, but, I didn't I didn't mind the ketchup chips. They were they were. All right. So, I had that. There was one other thing. Oh, yeah.

The the Nestle Arrow chocolate bars are a unique experience, too. So if you get into Canada, try the ketchup chips and the arrow Nestle chocolate bars and you'll have your culinary Canada, experience. But I just wanted to say I'm not going to give you the line by line itinerary. It was a beautiful trip. It was. The scenery is absolutely stunning.

I developed some opinions about how governments handle things as I was driving through two Canadian provinces, one territory. And, it is good to be in the United States of America. It's good to be back home. Yeah. Someone said I just look trustworthy. That's my superpower. I'm really a scam artist, but I try to look, trustworthy.

At any rate, I, would I do it again? Not any time soon. And and and don't get me wrong, it it was great. It was fine, but it was very, very long. And you would drive for hours and hours and, you know, how, let's say, what would be a long drive? What would you consider a long drive?

For me, it starts to be a long drive anywhere beyond, Salt Lake. Like, if I'm driving to Utah, if I have to go to Provo or beyond, that starts to feel like, the long drive to me, the rest pretty manageable. Not not a problem. Imagine driving to south of Provo and back twice. That's what a day of driving through Canada is like.

And then you look on the map and you realize, I've only gone that far. Look at the size of Idaho and then superimpose that multiple times on your way up to Alaska. And then you get an understanding of how vast and large this continent is. And I love it. I love God's green earth and his creation. And I saw some amazing creation on on this trip, but, it was good.

So someone said, why did you drive instead of fly? Because I have a very good friend who I've been friends with for a very long time. He has lived in Alaska for the past five years. He's moving back home, and I always said, hey, if you ever want help moving back, that's a bucket list item for me to, to make that drive.

So, he and I drove up in a pickup truck that he bought here and a box trailer, and we drove up. I stayed, at his home a couple of days outside of Anchorage. And then I drove one of his cars back because he needed to get a car back. And so that's why I drove both, both directions with the back tracking, with a quick trip to Utah for a wedding the couple of days before.

Over the span of two weeks, I exceeded 7000 miles. And I don't say that in any braggadocious way. I say that in case I have a mental break during the show today, it's been a lot of, a lot of road time. And, my ankles are swollen a little bit because of all of all that road time.

But, someone said, very cool. That would be a beautiful drive. And and it truly was so I'm back, though, and the world kind of. I mean, I say it's falling apart. LA is falling apart. You have the protests that are happening and I, I paid here and there kinds of attention to the news cycle. And I kind of wanted the reprieve from the heaviness of the day.

This job gets a little heavy after a while. So I was I was meting out the, amount of information that I was taking in and, again, we're seeing evidence that there's some level of organization behind this. These don't necessarily appear to be just organic protests out of anger because Trump orange man bad, but rather, there there are masks that are being handed out.

You don't have thugs that are ordering masks in cases in boxes, handing them out to people. Okay. That takes some funding and it takes some organization. So we're seeing some of that. So we have that. There's also and you've probably seen this video, you've probably seen the guy throwing the rocks and hitting the oncoming police vehicles. Yeah, that's a crime.

That's a crime for throwing or is. No, it's going to make a joke about the view, but know that that is a crime. They've identified him. I don't know that they've apprehended, him. So, and by the way, Donald Trump deploying the American military to address the, the issue of, of what's happening in LA, and they're acting like this is tyranny.

He's bringing law and order. They've attacked a federal facility, and there's a level of defense of the facility. So you have that, and the Marines are not going to mess around. They they really are. We also had a feud between Riley Gaines and Simone Biles. This one puzzles me a little bit because I and maybe this is career advice, but if you have attained the status as part of your brand, America's sweetheart, keep it.

Don't mess it up. Don't jeopardize that. Because if you are a household name that is gold, that is money in the bank. It is financial security, but it's also reputational security as well. And the quickest way that you can lose the title of America's sweetheart. And I know you're probably thinking that's loaded language. Whatever you sexist gender whatever.

I don't really care what your issue is, but, that's some everybody loved Simone Biles like she I know she had kind of the the mental break a little Olympics or two ago, but she had a lot of sympathy through that. And, I don't believe she just was one of those those, political, not political. Excuse me.

She was one of those celebrities that was generally very well-liked. Why? Why why why would you take that and offer just surrender that reputation option on the altar of transgenderism? What is wrong with people that think like this? So, Simone Biles goes after Riley Gaines, and Riley Gaines doesn't take guff from anyone. She dishes it right back to it has made her a competitor.

And Simone Biles I, I what gets to these people I and I genuinely mean this this is an issue that is an 8020 issue for the American people. 80% of the country ish, 80% of the country does not think that it's okay to put boys on the court and have them play and compete against girls, okay, probably because it's not okay to put boys on the court and have them compete against girls, no matter what you call them, no matter what they think they are, no matter no matter what.

It's not okay to do that, especially in sports where physical prowess is, which is most sports, by the way. Not all, but most. And, yet you have these hangers on, these people that really are truly willing to offer up their reputations and their future at the altar of this issue. How did this cult form, how did this religion get started?

And you, you wonder, how has this broken so many people? So Stephen A Smith, who as we know has some presidential aspirations and has been more vocal on a whole host of issues, he shared his thoughts on the Simone Biles, attack on Riley Gaines. He expressed he largely agreed with Riley Gaines stance that women's sports should be exclusive to females, but he took issue with the comment she made in her response to the legendary Olympian.

Biles very randomly and personally attacked Gaines. And by the by the way, this is, outkick on June 6th when she posted a response on X calling the Outkick host truly sick while claiming she should be uplifting the trans community before telling Gaines she should bully someone your own size, which Biles then wrote would ironically be a male.

Okay, now I don't know quite why she said this. Riley Gaines is five five, which might be slightly above average, slightly taller than average for, adult women, but not much. I don't. If I go to the grocery store and I see a woman who's five five, I don't go, wow, look how tall she is. Now. When they get up to five, 11 or 6ft, then it's like, okay, that's, that's tall, but she's five five.

You wouldn't think that, it was. In response to Gaines pointing out the ridiculousness of a Minnesota high school softball team winning a state championship last week. But they were led by a pitcher who is a biological male. Smith shared his reaction to the back and forth between Gaines and Biles during a segment on Monday's Stephen Smith Show, claiming that Gaines went too far when she brought convicted sex offender Larry Nassar into the discussion, he presented and quoted Gaines posts about Nasser while responding to the situation.

Ryan and Riley put this in a picture next to Simone Biles. All the horrific sexual abuse Simone Biles witnessed and spoke out against caused by one man, yet believes women should be forced to strip naked in front of men to validate the man's feelings. You know how many gold medals you'd have if you're inclusive? Dream came true? Zero.

And then Stephen Smith said, respectfully, Gaines, I was with you until that last quote. Respectfully, that's going a bit too far. Talking about transgender women in sports is one issue. Using a guy like Larry Nassar or one of the most despicable human beings we've ever witnessed on this earth who molested and abused numerous women, numerous gymnasts, including Biles.

To go that low gain, she lost all credibility. Smith failed to mention or present the post that Gaines shared on X, which she clarified her comments and made it clear that Nassar deserves to spend the rest of his miserable life in, prison. So. Okay, so this kind of nonsensical Twitter thing came along with the Larry Nassar whatever.

Maybe not the best analogy, but, I don't think you dismiss every point now that Riley Gaines has made when it comes to, to this issue, it's an 8020 issue. We're winning, by the way, I don't know if you know this, and we need to keep winning. So, I'm I'm noticing the left is kind of getting more organized.

They're trying to relive the summer of 2020, it looks like, when, of course, that was the the year that the streets were burning and you had. Well, we've had several summers like that, in, in recent years. But they're trying to make it happen again. And I would just say this and I really worked hard to not immerse myself in all of the the crazy while I was away last week.

But now that I'm back and I'm getting caught up on what's happening in Los Angeles and the riots are going on again, I am reminded of how dangerous the left is and, how, what they resort to excuse me when they are no longer in power. This is our opportunity as conservatives, and I'll be even political partizan here.

This is our opportunity. As Republicans roll the tape capture the video, and get all the audio that you can right now of Democrats softening their stance, being apologetic for what's happening in LA. We will win and we will continue to win. It's 824. It's good to be back. We'll take a break and come back just minutes away.

On this Tuesday on Newstalk 179.

It's 826 on Newstalk 179 (208) 542-1079 is the El Numero two call if you'd like to reach us, which is Canadian for number. Oh, is it okay. Wait, that might be Spanish. You got the wrong border. I know I do, but either way, do they have, like in Canada? Did they have like Taco Bell's? You had a McDonald's? Clearly because that's where you ate your gravy fries.

Oh yeah. Poutine. Poutine. Not my favorite word. But did were there other fast food restaurants anywhere in these bigger cities like Taco Bell? Oh, yeah. They yeah. In fact, we but there are very many of those cities along the way. You get north of Calgary, Edmonton, you it's you know what it's like if I, if, if I were to if you've never driven that road and you want a comparison that you would be familiar with, it would be like driving through Island Park.

But it's 1500 miles long. That's what it feels like. So just little teeny stores or a little cafe here and, little gas station there. One other thing, little, little tidbits about the Yukon Territory you didn't ask for it. Is Encyclopedia Britannica. The, gas pumps are from, like, 1987. Old school. They're very few of them actually have credit card machines.

Like, you go in and you pay first, and then you go out and pump, which there's plenty of gas along the way. But if you're driving in the middle of the night, your gas availability may be an issue, especially through the Yukon Territory and the upper regions of British Columbia. But just because of that reason, they just haven't updated the gas pumps.

It's and I was a little surprised by that. So Princess pants Julie is envisioning negative degree weather and you having to walk in and pay for gas walk back out and yeah, right, right. I know I did find, in fact the place where I got stranded and I was shocked by this. I thought, there's no way any of these places exist anymore.

It was pump first and then go in and pay for it. They trusted you. Yeah. Yeah, they did, which I thought, that's kind of cool. Yeah. And now I know where to steal gas. If I'm trying to get across, can. Just kidding. But, But no, I like I thought, wow, I, I remember growing up. Oh, yeah. That's what you did.

You just gas was then you went in and paid and that was very, very normal. It. I don't know if there's any places now where you do that. So one time I was with two of my friends and we were putting gas in her mom's car, and I was supposed to be watching the gas gauge fill up. So I knew when to say stop.

Yeah, but me and the other friends started choking around and I didn't watch. Oh no. And then we had to pull together our money to pay for the gas. Because when you got too far, it did too much. Okay, okay. All right. Well that's funny. Yeah. They do drive on the right side of the road in Canada.

Okay, that's that's good. Good. Yeah. So, can I add to your Simone Biles just because. Yeah. I mean, I covered this pretty extensively with Barbie heart yesterday, but, JK Rowling put out a tweet and I'm not going to know it verbatim, but basically what she was saying is Simone Biles and Megan Rapinoe climbed the ladder of success and then kicked that ladder out of the way.

Yeah, and with Simone Biles comments with Rapinoe comments. You don't want any other women to succeed, but you got yours. Yeah. That is a very, very good point. The bulk of their careers, they haven't had to compete against men. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's really yeah. That's an astute point. Kind of makes it even more of a trash point by Simone Biles.

Well a yeah. And I will say this and this is one of the reasons why I like JK Rowling. She's far more powerful than anybody on the right talking about this issue, because she's one of them on a whole host of issues that you and I think you don't find that, but very often. But she has the courage to to be very, very strong in a very stiff wind.

So yeah. It's nice. Yeah. That's true. Like, we where can I ask this question too? And during the monologue, I ask the question, how did this cult get started? Like where where does this religion come from? And how did someone rope Simone Biles into this? Like, she she's in a sport where she would Stan had no chance if she had to compete against men.

Well, okay, I have lots of answers for that. One of the potential answers is what I just said with the J.K. Rowling tweet. Maybe she doesn't want anyone to ever be as good as her. You reached the peak. And then now. Because if transgenders break those records internally, there's an asterisk that says, yeah, but they're transgender. Yeah, that's a dude that that got that 100%.

There's internally and an asterisk even if they won't say it outward. Yeah, right. Even if they outlaw the external asterisk there's always going to be an internal asterisk. Which is a really, really cumbersome word to say. Worse than Pantene poutine I poutine was okay, but poutine would not be part of my routine. I think you didn't get good ones.

I think that's the problem. I got McDonald's for poutine. No, that doesn't work. I yeah, okay, that's the gist of it. No, because they make it with like really crispy. Like it's not always fries. Sometimes they're very crunchy potatoes and I think drenched in gravy. That would make a big difference. You got McDonald's fries that got soggy.

And when did when when did you have poutine? I've never had it, but I, I've watched like things on it like cooking shows and everything. They make it differently than what you get it at McDonald's. Well yeah. That's, that's, that's a it was a version. It was. And it's fine. And yes, it was okay. If there was a, a homemade version of poutine, I'd, I'd give it a shot, but I, I was probably 5 or 6 out of ten.

Yeah. Like and don't get me wrong, there are things on the McDonald's menu that I really do like. Yeah. What's funny is that me and my friends, I'm bringing up all my friends. You're you're you're making me regurgitate memories. But, we had a JB's in town. Oh, yeah. JB's big, and that was the place that was open late.

There wasn't any other place to go get food, and me and my friends would go order a plate of fries and a side of gravy, and we'd dip. Okay, so we were just missing the cheese curds. Yeah. You were two thirds of the way to poutine anyway. Yeah. Which is just poutine. Poutine routine. It was routine.

I need to look up the origin of that word. I don't know, they could have chosen a better word. Yes, they could have I. That's what I'm like. Okay, we're going to invent a food. And the first syllable is going to be poo. Like I'm like maybe work on it a little bit. I've got this fries and gravy and cheese fried me.

All right. Like in gravy fries. Yeah. Like back east when you go to Philly and you get a cheesesteak there, it'll be like, do you want some cheese fries? And which is pretty good. And it it is very descriptive. Now you know what you're getting. Yeah. But okay if I, if you didn't know what, what poutine is.

Yeah. Like if you, if I had it hidden in a box he had no idea what it was. And I said, okay, there's food in here. It's called poutine and you don't know what it is. Will you eat it? It wasn't a marketing genius move. No, it was not. Not at all. Do we have people? Do we have poutine defenders in the Canadians who are like, no.

Yeah, I'm, I am not putting that in my mouth.

That's funny, I would say try it. It's part of the, Canadian experience. So, someone said, one of the local restaurants, Mackenzie River, used to have poutine. So maybe you can find it in select places. Here's what I want to know. Does anybody around here sell ketchup chips? I think so I think you can find them every once in a while.

Oh really? Yes. Okay. Who was telling me Michael Coats I think was the one who said you can get them somewhere. I just don't remember where. Okay. Yeah. You know what I looked for? Because I have a very fond memory from about 20 years ago. Walmart for a short time under their own store brand, sold. They were called Bear Cheese crackers.

You remember this? I got you some. And they were. They were not the same. Sadly. Disappointing. And it was sad because you did pay a chunk of money for those. I thought, well, maybe beer cheese crackers are in Canada because I've seen the Mackenzie brothers. They like their beer there and they like their cheese. That's true. And so.

But no luck. You couldn't find it. So. Yeah. Somebody said Albertsons has had them. Okay. All right. I didn't even know. So I did try them. I, I didn't hate them. They were all right. I'd have them again. We'll be back. It's 837.

All right. 842 on Newstalk 179, Neil Olson and Julie Mason. So, Julie, not that I want to bring attention to these little stupid rallies that are coming. Can I say, like, sure. I just I just said to you, I don't understand. We have very few weekends in Idaho that are stunningly beautiful, like we get. Yeah. And you want to stand on a corner and have people flip you off and hold a sign, I, I don't understand.

Yeah. So they're going to have, protest on President Trump's birthday, and they're they're called no kings. And there will be 14 of them held across Idaho on Saturday, which means if you divide up the number of Democrats, 14, there's going to be about seven people at each at each rally. Yeah, it's the 14th, really, President Trump's birthday, I don't know.

Is it the 14th? Is that the day that. Yeah. June 14th. Isn't that also Flag Day? Yeah. Military parade will be the last day of a weeklong celebration. The U.S. Army's 250th birthday on June 14th, which coincides with the birthday of President Trump. So, okay, I also I think it is Flag Day. Also, can you believe that his parents health care, they had a baby on the birthday of the Army?

How dare they? They they should have been more considerate than that, thinking he may go grow up and be the president of the United States someday. So, I guess the, I guess the point that I would make here. I'm sorry, called your rally stupid. If you're listening and you're doing one of these, and and I will defend your right to have a stupid rally.

Okay? To the end. That was a laugh line, but. Okay, I'm like, I will go right ahead. I'm not jumping in. Yeah. So, when when I look at this, I'm thinking societies that actually have kings don't allow no kings rallies to happen. Yeah. The irony, the fact that you're holding the rally is proof you don't need the rally.

Right. So yeah I don't, I don't know, it's like I guess it's a, I, I don't know I, I don't have a word for it. I, it's an interesting thing that they're doing I think people look at Trump and go, yeah, he's moving forward, but he's not acting like a king. He's just acting like a president of the United States that loves his country.

And my next question to these people is exactly what doesn't outrage you because you have outrage over everything? Yeah. That is that's your personality, a personality of outrage, which by the way, nobody likes. If you look around, the only friends you have are the other ones with personalities of outrage that that's your little group. Nobody else likes you yet.

And there are times to be outraged. Perpetually is not one of those times. You know? It's true. And I, I think they're just frustrated if if I were to look at the behavior of the EPA, our environmental agencies, and a whole host of other the CDC, that a whole host of others and beyond the, on the lookout surveilling for king like behavior.

Most definitely. That happens during Democrat administrations far more than during Republican administrations. Waters of the US is a good example. We saw what happened during the pandemic with the little Fauci and his his, you know, and I'm I'm growing impatient with you when when Biden said that that was way more king like than anything Trump's doing, I'm going to give you a data point that backs up what you're saying, which is while you were gone, there were job growth numbers released, and we had a ton of jobs created in whatever there is a quarter month.

I don't know what they were tracking. However, there's a very important part of that. 98% of them were in the private sector. That means there's no killings happening. Right. There was job job growth numbers under Biden. 1 in 4 jobs were were government jobs. Yeah. Job growth numbers under Trump the most recent one out of 90. Yeah 98%.

Yeah. Right. That means there's not a king in charge because the private sector is flourishing. It's blooming. Yeah. Yeah. That's that's a very good point. That's a very good point. And but you know what? When have these people been rooted in reality? There isn't that I mean, that's my point. I'm saying nobody likes you. That's because you have to hang out with people who aren't rooted in reality.

You have to have this culture of outrage. And that's the only people that can that can back up or help you or validate your feelings because you're not rooted in reality. So it would be fun. I will say I'm probably not going to do it because I'll have better things to do, but it would be fun to show up.

One of these rallies talks all seven of them, and ask them the question, what is a woman speaking of rooted in reality? And I will bet you on issue after issue they are not and they're they would struggle to be able to tell you with definition what things are or aren't they? They sort of live in this ethereal world.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not going to I'm not going. I part of me. And where it, where has 14 locations, 14 locations across Idaho. There. And there is one in Pocatello. Nampa has one. Yeah. So, you know what will even give it free attention here. In Idaho Falls, June 14th, which is what days that Saturday.

The Broadway Bridge, 4 p.m.. Oh, so the regular location. Yeah. Which by the way, again I'm going to say you're, you're exactly right. With only seven people showing up because the Broadway Bridge is not that long. No. And they're not they can spread out. So that's how many people actually show up? Yeah, that's that's true. That's true.

In Pocatello, Caldwell Park at 11. Oh, you know what they're doing? Pocatello is at 11:30 a.m., so they can protest, get in their Prius and then drive title falls and attend the, at ten Broadway, the Broadway Bridge one. Is there one in Rexburg? No, there's not one in Rexburg. Okay, so there's your two chances in eastern Idaho.

Yeah, I kind of want to go. I could you go? I'm not. Yeah, absolutely not getting ready for your trip, but. Yeah. No, I mean, I'm probably not going to, but it would be kind of fun just saying. All right. We'll be back at 850 on Newstalk 1079.

All right. It's 853 on Newstalk 107 and Neil Larson along with Julie Mason. You are all every last one of you are cordially invited. If you're hearing this, consider this your gold. What's that worth? The golden ticket? No gold plated. Not gold plated, but it's the embossed. Yes, gold embossed. Invitation to our open house coming up on Friday.

It was actually day before yesterday that marked the fifth anniversary of the launch of Newstalk 179. Now, part of me feels sort of like I did when we had a five year class, reunion. And the thought was, is it a little early to have a class reunion? And the six of us that were there didn't think so.

Out of the 44, you know, that's not that bad of all. No it wasn't, it wasn't bad. And so you might think well five years isn't that long. However, I thought through because I was thinking about over the last five years of course Julie, you and I left a job. We came over here, launch Newstalk 179.

We've had now two presidential elections. We've had, I think, five legislative sessions that we have been through. We have interviewed countless candidates. We have had the well, the second half, actually, most of the pandemic that we've been through together, we have been through riots, we have been through rallies. We've been through a lot. When you stop and you think about the shared experience that we've had with our audience, it's it's been true five years, which doesn't seem like that terribly long of a time, but there's been a lot packed into that five years.

And so as we were approaching it, I thought, are we going to do anything? And I felt like we we want to mark the occasion. We're not having, you know, three weeks of celebration and parades, but we are going to have an open house and you're all invited to swing by our studios, between 11 and 1. And on Lindsay Boulevard in Idaho Falls, I said 854 Lindsay Boulevard.

And Julie said it better when she said, we're just across the street from Jacobs, so you don't even have to put it in your GPS. No. Yeah. You don't just just drive, show up and, we'll we'll have some light food here and, and refreshments. And we want you to come back and take a little tour of the studio where we work in our newly renovated state of the art studios here at Sand Hill Media.

And if you're willing, no pressure at all. But if you're willing, we'd love to record your greeting. So we have that to playback and to just record and capture the moment. So we'd love for you to join us this Friday. Between 11 and 1. There you go. It's going to be a party. It is going to be a part.

In fact, while Neil and I were talking about, I kept referring to it as a party, and he kept correcting me and going the open house. And I'm like, no, it's a party. Okay, we're having a party. Yeah. Raise his roof. Whatever. Neil will be dancing, right? Okay. You don't want people to come. All right. That was supposed to be a surprise.

Julie the hula. We want the. And we want the audience captive before we say that. So coconut shells and everything. We have to say that it's getting really weird. No.

Anyway, we'll we'll see you this Friday. And then once you're done with that, you get in your car and you go down to town and country gardens, and you get all the things that you need for your lawn and garden. There you go. And everything to adorn both inside and outside your house, because they have such a massive, house plant.

They have two rooms. They have one room called the Jungle Room. It is so cool. Yeah, it really is. Yeah. So don't skip past that if you're going to get some seeds for your garden or fertilizer or, you know, bark or something like that, make sure you, you take a little peek into the jungle room because it's really cool.

They had to kick me out because I was meditating there yesterday. He moved some plants around, sat right there on the table. We're trying to close. Neil, it's time to go. Get out of here. Yeah, no, but you will. You'll love it. They've got everything you need, and it really is. It's not just like a lawn and garden store where you walk in, you smell the fertilizer or whatever.

I mean, they have gardens you can just walk through, and it's just very relaxing. It's kind of an experience. Yeah, really. South Fido Falls, Yellowstone Highway, across from the Budweiser plant. All right. Okay, Julie, we have another hour ahead. We've talked about Simone Biles and the feud with Riley Gaines. We have talked about the riots in LA, and, you also had guests in while I was gone and you had Kevin Cook and, Barbie Hart in yesterday, which, by the way, thanks to them, they came in to pinch hit when it became clear I was not going to be making it back in time.

So they talked about several issues. Actually. They did. We had we went over lots of legislative stuff with both Kevin Cook and Barbie Hart because she made a guest appearance twice. And, there's some exciting things, some, some work on water. That's. Yeah, that's happening. Which needs to, there is they're trying to commission a study to rebuild the, Teton Dam.

Okay. So that's step one because you're going to have people freaking out. So that's good news. Yeah. You know what? I'm all in favor of it. Do it right this time. But I'm all in favor of it. Let's not have it burst right now. Or do coming up. Okay. Welcome back. It's our two. If you'd like to reach us on the program.

(208) 542-1079 it's Neil Larson along with Julie Mason. And I have a little assignment. Julie, I know we talked about this last hour. I would like everyone to put a little reminder in their phone for Friday at 1045. Go see Neil and Julie at the open house, and then lunch hour will be approaching. You'll hop in your car, you'll drive to 854 Lindsay Boulevard, across from Jacobs on Lindsey Boulevard and Idaho Falls.

And, you'll come and hang out with us. You'll grab a few snacks, you'll, chat with our staff here, you'll come back and, very quickly. All right. We'll have about five seconds for each one of you. More than that, it'll be like a meet and greet with Taylor Swift. But you'll come back and we'll take a quick picture, and then you can step back out of the studio, not really know.

Come and hang out with us. Record a greeting. We'd love for you to be a part of our open house. As we mark this week. Five years of Newstalk 179 being in existence. It's ready for kindergarten. I was thinking about the open house, and I'm really proud of us because I was like, okay, what do I need to do to get the studio ready for this?

It's close. It's going to take me about 45 seconds. It's we keep a really clean studio. So congratulations to us. That's true. Like, I, I work really hard to keep you tidy, and it's nice that we can keep. What are you laughing? You have totally reformed me. I'm so grateful to have you in my life. Like it's true.

Yeah. You're right. Well, thank you for recognizing that, I appreciate that. No, but you're right. It's. We do keep a pretty, tidy, tidy studio. We might get rid of the ferret, and it's over in the corner. But, you know. We don't have a ferret. I know, I don't, I don't know, I just thought what would be weird to have in the corner?

A ferret would be weird to have in the corner. It would be. Yeah. Okay. So can I revisit the Terry Moran thing? I wanted to see if there's an update on that. We talked about this while I was traveling, and now even people inside ABC news are saying this was a stupid, stupid thing for him to do. And over the weekend he went on an exposed tirade.

A lot of people are speculating he might have had a little too much to drink or something, and because he spoke in ways that true journalists never would or should and ended up deleting the tweet. But you know, Julia, if you went to Disneyland and you were walking around and you see Mickey Mouse. And Mickey Mouse takes off his helmet or at his head, his mascot head.

Yeah. His mascot head. And you saw that it was a 38 year old dude with a beard, okay. That Mickey Mouse would get fired because he revealed who he was. He's if you're if you work at Disneyland, you. In fact, I remember I was a mascot in high school. I for one year. I bought the tiger, the tiger suit.

And we had this policy during the game. You did not take your you're the tiger head off because you're there mostly for the little kids. You're in character. Yeah, you're in character. And so. Well, Terry Moran took the Mickey Mouse head off like he showed us who he really was with that, which is okay. Now. I put this suit on.

I know I've got the earpiece in when I'm on TV, and I'm. I'm here holding the earpiece in, and I am Joe Journalist here, and I. Well, you gotta you gotta stay in character, Terry. You can't get on X on a Saturday night after you've had three, you know, bottles of Jack and go off on Donald Trump, three bottles a Jack, man, he would be out.

I don't know, I think I might have been subconsciously referencing a Kesha song or something. So the whole thing was a little weird. I would like to offer him a ton of grace. That that was what it had actually happened, is that he had had a little too much to drink, but it's a really well-written tweet. Yeah, he just makes those couple of mistakes in the last sentence, so I'm not sure if it was as much that as I have finally just let my anger about Trump eat me up so much.

Yeah, here I am. And look, I he also goes against, or after Stephen Miller. Stephen Miller is pesky. Stephen Miller is annoying. Guess what? He's doing a great job. That's why he was hired. Yes. So. And I'm. I'm sorry. He's better than you. If Terry Moran, if you go back and we're not going to do this. Every administration has their pit bulls.

You had the in the Clinton orbit. You had James Carville. He was there. Pit bull. And you could, every in fact, I would say every pretty good political organization, even down to the local level, has a pit bull that will go out there and just say the tough things and raise issues that need to be raised, but they let the boss keep their hands clean.

Now, Trump doesn't keep his hands clean. But you know what I'm saying? In this case, Stephen Miller is one of those pit bulls for Trump. And that's just who he is. And why does that get you so ruffled. Yeah. You're not new to the scene. You should have grown some tough skin about all of this. Soft skin is a good word for you.

Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. So I have a little bit of a theory about it. And I didn't, I think I we talked about it a little bit when I was on the road, but Donald Trump told Terry Moran during the interview, they're giving you the big break of a lifetime. You're doing the interview. I picked you because, frankly, I never heard of you.

But that's okay. I picked you, Terry. But you're not being very nice. And I wonder if Trump essentially calling Terry Moran and nobody, like, I've never even heard him. I wonder if that ate at his ego. And it's just been just just simmering there for a while and he got mad. And you combine that with three bottles of Jack.

And that came out and and after you woke up from being passed out, you decided to put an exposed out there, right? Yes. And I, I think that, and now look, we'll say that speculative we don't know this for sure. He might have just gotten mad. He got he might have just broke. Finally, finally snapped. That's a possibility.

But when you have people inside the industry working for your own organization that are now talking to the media, and they are talking to Fox News, and they said you tweeted something, you basically hurt all of us. We don't need this manure. It it sucks. It really sucks. That's what they said. So this is part, I think, of ABC news damage control sending some nameless people out there but still speaking, saying we've got to we've got to distance ourselves from what Terry Moran is saying because the trust that the American public has in the media right now is at a record low, and things like this do not help.

It's not going to help. And it is at a record low. Those are not our words. Those are statistics that are out there. I think it's something like 70% of of both Democrats and Republicans don't trust the media. I'm pretty sure that that was the most recent poll. You you can't be doing stuff like this. No. If I'm just say your restaurant and they grabbed a thousand people at a big box store on a Saturday and said, hey, tell us what you think about this local restaurant.

If seven out of ten people said the restaurant is horrible, yeah, you're out of business. Yeah, right. That's the way they need to be looking at this. And Julie, I would say it, it's even worse than that because journalism is an industry built on trust. It's it exists. And that number should be high because their job is for it to be high, that we trust them to tell us the truth.

And, and they're just failing left and right. Yeah. And as we mentioned, when you and I were talking about it while you were, in Canada, they're running out of people. I know everyone thinks that the journalists are a dime a dozen. There's a lot of people going through college for that. Nothing. That doesn't mean there's a lot of people good at it.

Or I think another possibility is the true journalists aren't welcome anymore in the media. Like, if you show up, you tell the truth about Donald Trump. What you're going to get is that he's not the villain, that they've been crafting the narrative around true journalists. If they're being journalists, actually don't care about narratives. And if you don't care about the narrative, you're probably not welcome in that newsroom.

You're not welcome in that in that organization, because they need to have everybody on board holding up the narrative. That's how you keep your job in an environment like that. To the point where I, I believed this during CNN. There were people who, if these individual journalists were left to their own reporting without fear, without consequence, we probably would have a better journalistic organization.

But they knew what the bosses expected, and for them to keep their nice six figure salaries and to keep them happy, their reporting had to have this anti-Trump strain to it. So it may not be quite as bad as we think, because I think a lot of times it's the leadership in an organization that has expectations about how things get reported.

But once you land a gig like that, you're going to do everything you can to keep it. And it took till Sunday for CNN to come out and say that these, these riots in L.A. were not peaceful. Yeah. I mean, they held the narrative for two days. Yeah. Friday and Saturday they started wavering a little bit. Saturday night, Sunday is when the morning news programs had to go, okay, it's not peaceful.

They're throwing rocks and bricks at these police officers on the overpass, and they're having to hide under the overpass. They're burning cars. They ordered these driverless cars to show up to be burned. Yeah, that was their intent. That is not a peaceful protest. No, but it took them. They had to abandon the agenda at some point. And it's disappointing that they couldn't be actually reporting it on Saturday.

Friday I'll give them Friday. It was still kind of ramping up. They were a little unsure what was going on, but as of Saturday, what it just tell the facts. Be a journalist, don't try to cover, don't say peaceful protests. I mean, what an embarrassing thing to to trot back out there after 2020. Well, it is because that term, mostly peaceful, just became a laughing stock joke like that.

That became the new word for violent. And and remember all the memes were coming. That's what I mean. It's it was embarrassing that they recirculated that in the Middle East. There's a mostly peaceful jihad. You know, like it's a like what. It's a mostly peaceful child molester. Like. Right. Right. There is no peace to burning cars. No, there there isn't.

And the local I can't remember which affiliate it was, if it was ABC, NBC, but in L.A., the local affiliate, they actually had a reporter saying, well, it's kind of like a party atmosphere. They're burning the cars and they're not there. They're enjoying it. What? That's property destruction. That is not a party atmosphere. It's okay if they enjoy their violence.

Yes, I guess I that's weird. It's okay. I beat up a kid, but I liked it. It was. So did you say we were all laughing during it? It was a good time. You know what it reminds me? Really? If, Can you imagine? Let's say I started a news organization and I had headlines like, Hey, a car drove successfully from Pocatello, Idaho Falls.

Hey, another car drove successfully from my Pocatello, Idaho Falls. Hey. Another card. Nobody cares that anything's a mostly peaceful anything. We report the anomalies, so when a car crashes, that's what gets reported. Right? But the journal, the journalists are changing the rules now, where if you show up, they're saying, well, ignore the burning cars, ignore the broken windows, ignore the masked guys throwing rocks at the cops, ignore the looting.

Pay attention to the people over there that are just holding signs. It's a mostly peaceful protest because you do have some people that aren't committing violence. Yeah. So yeah. If you'd like to join us on this mostly peaceful radio show. (208) 542-1079 is the number to call zoom. All right, let's take a break. We can do that. We'll come back and continue after this on this Tuesday.

Hello. Facebook live. It is good to be back from Canada. We're back. Thank you. Friend. During the, the drought. Drought? Yeah. There were there was a time where I thought, okay, I could start Facebook live, and then the computer updated. And you, some of you very hard core listeners might remember the day that everything was like things were firing and I wasn't touching the board like that was that was going on.

I think that was Wednesday. Well, during all of that, we lost a portion of the computer program that tells us how much time we have left in the hour. So I was having to calculate it. What what is that look on your face? Is it. Yeah. I, I don't know what that is. Mine doesn't look like that. Let me, let me refresh.

Oh, I should have. Whoa. Mine does not. Look, we got a problem because I think I'll, Why does yours look like that? Mine. I, I just refreshed now. I just saw you move them. Okay, but did you scroll down on the playlist? Oh, okay. Do you see it now?

Anyway, see, there's. So what happened is our computer system had a massive. Like every computer that is linked to the clocks. All of those systems updated in Tuesday night. Wednesday morning. Which means we've had all of these little hiccups and bugs in the system since then. And, one of them on that day was it was just firing.

Eventually we got back to a normal place, but things still aren't completely normal. One of them being there's no back timing. You don't. I had no idea how much was left in the hour, so I was having to manually do like mathematically in my head and me running Facebook Live and mathematically doing that was not going to happen.

I'm listening, but I'm working. Yeah. Keep moving. And, I didn't I thought it was a light morning, but all these got. Which is weird because I remember how I told you we'd been so full. So Neil and I are together, for these four days, but I leave for Nashville an early, early Sunday morning. I catch a flight out of the ATL, falls airport.

So Neil will be alone the following week, and I'll be with my girlfriends from high school in Nashville. Will be having our own little party, and then we will be back together. I should be back by Friday. Like barring some issue with flights or whatever, I will be back on air on Friday, so the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th Neil will be on his own.

We will do less radio together in the month of June than we will do together. I know. And then I think we've got where it levels out. There might be a weekend day here or there, but. Yeah. Okay. I think we're, We're good. Then. You know, when the next crazy time is going to be? When? Thanksgiving.

Because I I'll share with you guys. It's kind of on the down low. I have another grandchild coming. I won't tell you from. You know who? She's just not announcing it. She's not announcing that she's having a baby. She just wants to keep it to herself. So, one of one of my one of my girls are having another baby, so I will be gone helping for a little bit in November.

So that'll be our next big break. Yeah. Yeah, I knew that. Yeah. What was that? Look, I know. It's me still mind numbed from all the road time. It's another little boy. Apparently my children can't create anything but boys.

Yeah, that'll be fun. No little cousins growing up and almost half way, too. Yeah, because, time is going fast. So our. I have six grandkids, four boys, two girls. And our first three were boys too. So you do wonder if there's, like, a genetic thing, though. Like there's just a predisposition, maybe. Oh, hold on. Here we go, here we go, here we.

927 on Newstalk 1079, it's Neil Larsen along with Julie Mason. And if you'd like to reach us on the program, (208) 542-1079 is the number to call. And we're talking about several issues, whether it's the Terry Moran Trump thing. And, so here's the thing there. You know what's interesting about these lying media narratives? The narrative now is that Trump is calling for Gavin Newsom's arrest, when in reality, all of this started with Gavin Newsom daring Tom Homan to come arrest him.

So it all started with Gavin Newsom. But yet I would bet you if you go to one of the 14 rallies this Saturday, the No Kings rallies, all of them would believe that Donald Trump wants to arrest Gavin Newsom and and call for that. And they would reject the truth that it's actually Gavin Newsom who went on MSNBC and dared Tom Homan to arrest him.

There's an interesting side part of this. And so when I was prepping for the show and I had the Gavin Newsom clip where he gave the interview to MSNBC, and he's over here like he's being such an over actor in it. I did a search to see if Tom Homan had had said, yes, I want to arrest Gavin Newsom.

And I thought I was going to come out of the Fox interview that he had granted. And some of you might have seen the Fox interview. He looked like he was on a camping trip. He had a baseball cap on. It wasn't in there yet. NBC was reporting that he said it and I couldn't find the audio.

Well, I was running out of time prep time. So we went with the story and everything. Since then, NBC has had to retract their story. Okay. Tom Homan never actually said he wanted to arrest Gavin Newsom. It was they they took his words, implied the remark, printed it as if he had said it. And then we got Gavin Newsom saying what he said, an MSNBC interview.

So basically they reverse engineered a narrative because Gavin Newsom dared Tom Homan to arrest him, that Tom Homan was the first to bring up I will arrest you absolutely. Yeah. Which makes sense because I did a search. I even did it through I, I was looking I did a search on X, I'm like where there's audio has got to be here somewhere.

I can never find it. Okay. So there there's, there's no overt call by Donald Trump to arrest Gavin Newsom. Tom Homan never said I want to arrest Gavin Newsom. But Gavin Newsom is taunting them saying come arrest me. My follow up to Gavin Newsom would be well, what crime have you committed that would warrant your arrest?

Yeah. What makes you edgy? So in other words, you get to be a martyr even though you face no risk of being arrested. Yeah. Brian Lovell, come arrest me. I dare you. I don't know what crime I committed, but I dare you to come arrest me. Yeah. All the Canadians are saying you didn't like pointing. That's a crime in Canada to not like poutine.

And stew, if you name it. Something else in my like, (208) 542-1079 let's go to the phones. Hi, caller. How are you today? How are you? First of all, I want to congratulate you two for your radio program and your new digs there at the studio. Thank you, thank you, I think I hope you'll stop by on Friday for the open house.

I will try now. I guess the question I have for you. Are you going to have an all you can drink pot machine? With just two flavors? You know what happened, Mr. Pibb? My answer to that is don't ask, don't tell. That's pretty good. Well, I was going to suggest just two flavors. Doctor Pepper or Mr. Pitt, depending on how you feel.

Okay. Yeah, that's. We wouldn't hate that now. We'd take that for sure. And then just a real quick question for your traveling host there. What was the most unusual thing you found in Canada, and how do you feel that Canadians think of Americans because of the tariffs? Oh, you know what I, I feel like if there was any edge at all, it may have been when we crossed over into, Alberta, the first day that the she was a little short with us, but we had all of our stuff in order and we didn't have any problems at all.

But maybe she's just like that. But maybe she just doesn't like Americans. Yeah, but in terms of running into Canadians and and feeling like there was any kind of animosity, I actually did not sense that, at all. And so which which was good. I didn't know what to expect. As we were traveling, either through going or coming back, and there when I got stranded up in turtle River, there were some people guarding the road, closed gate.

So I thought, well, I am a broadcast professional. I'm not up here to report on the fires, but I'm going to pull that card. So I walked up to the the road guards and I just said I and I was very upfront with them. I said, look, I'm not up here to cover the fires, but I do have broadcast equipment and I am a broadcast professional.

Could you make an exception for media to go through? Because I will cover the fires I've got, you know, I could take pictures. I could do some reports. And he looked at me and he kind of laughed. And he had kind of that thicker British. It wasn't a British accent, but it was a Canadian accent. And he said, oh, absolutely nobody goes through these gates.

And so it wouldn't have mattered if I was the Pope. Like they weren't going to let me through. And so, and so I thought, well, I tried, Julie suggested that I just go anyway, I thought, that's what I need. An American here traveling through. I think I can be the devil on your shoulder every once in a while.

Every once in a while. Yeah, but anyway, no, I didn't, I don't I don't know if there was anything terribly, weird. I yeah, I mean, the reality is, is you didn't have a lot of interaction. Yeah, there wasn't a lot. It was mostly traveling and car time. If if I had gone and stayed and and interacted with the locals, I probably would have more to tell.

And then just one other real quick question and I'll let you go. Do you have to exchange your dollars into Canadian money? No, I, I do have a little story about that. So I needed a shower on the way back, but I was too late in approaching a little town called Dee's Lake, which is this beautiful, beautiful lake in in northern British Columbia.

And I saw a campground and it said, we have Wi-Fi and cabins available. And I thought, okay, I'll, I'll go in there. So I pulled in and mostly I wanted the Wi-Fi because I was smack dab in the middle of a data black hole, like I had not messaged anybody or received a message for hours. And nor would I be because I had a long ways to go so that okay, at least I'll have Wi-Fi here, a place to stay and I'll get a shower.

Well, they didn't actually have a cabin. I haven't even told you this, Julie. They had, like a little teardrop trailer thing, and, I pull up and of course, I have an Alaska plate on my car. And the camp attendant or host, I think he was probably the owner, probably saw my Canada license plate and, his credit card reader suddenly stopped working your Alaska license plate, and it suddenly stopped working.

Yeah. What did I say? Canada. It's okay. Yeah. My Alaska plate and his credit card reader suddenly wouldn't work. He's like, but I could take cash. And I'm like, well, and I had a couple hundred bucks in a wallet and it was 100 bucks to stay for the night. And I'm like, okay, it's worth it. I'll drop 100 bucks, I'll get a shower, I'll have a place to stay.

And, he he said, okay, now Wi-Fi is $5. Like, okay, I'm getting nickel and dimed here, but it's worth five bucks. So it was 105 bucks. And he told me, he said, now I, I can't give you a change in American dollars. I'll have to give you a change in Canadian dollars, which is worth less than the American dollar.

So they will take your American money, but they will not convert it for you. They just keep your money and and because they know they can later convert it and actually make a significant amount on it, like, an American dollar is worth like $1.36 in Canadian. So it's a, it's a chunk. And, he said, I and I can only give you a Canadian change.

Well, as he opened the envelope that had the change in it, there was clearly some American money in there because I only had a ten, and I gave him $110. He could have given me the $5 in American money back. I saw it in there, but he gave me a Canadian $5 bill. So yeah, I think they're they're kind of they work the system, the system that they scam Americans a little bit when they can because it works in their favor.

So I did have that experience. But yeah, that doesn't go ahead. You know what? You two go, you two have a fantastic day. Well, well. Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah. So, I would guess that this is a pretty standard thing in tourist towns. They're they're going to get their little bit wherever they can. And so I'm not that shocked by that.

But they wouldn't he he wasn't willing to exchange your money. Yeah. No I I'm not either. And I think it's I had a similar currency exchange scam happen in Mexico when, I think I paid, like, $11 for a Diet Coke there or something, and I'm like, they're just working the Americans. Yeah. And, they know we have cash on the ready there, and we don't know how many pesos are.

But later I did the math and I'm like, wait, I have way overpaid for this. And it didn't even taste that good. Yeah, I guess Mexican Coke doesn't taste as good. Someone's going to send it and be like, no, that's the best kind. Yeah. Anyway, so yeah, that that happened. I will say though, I in my mind I'm like, it's still a decent deal for a good bad and a shower and Wi-Fi and yeah, so I, I chalked it up to that.

You can't when, you're in the middle of an emergency, you can't really complain. No, that's. Yeah, that's that's true. Now, I do have bedbug bites. I'm just kidding. I don't that I know of, but but yeah, it was it was it was an interesting experience though. Yeah. So the the shower in one of those campers is more like a phone booth.

Yeah. Like both shoulders were touching each side of it. But yeah, it, they did have a it was a shower. It was a shower and it was hot water. So yeah. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. All right. Should we take a break. All right. We'll be back. (208) 542-1079. All right. I got to do a Clayton Homes. Did you have two.

No no no you have five total. So you just need to do them whenever one and the the buy started today okay. I was telling Neil that on my crime podcast I covered a story out of, Canada. In this story, it was, we call him Native Americans here. What do they call them in Canada? They have a different name.

First Nation, first nation. Yes. So it was a female, member of the First Nation. And, she'd been killed, and they knew she had been killed. She wasn't just missing. There had been enough rumor spreading throughout the city that they people had seen the dead body. But the dead body was no longer where it was supposed to be.

They were pretty positive it was in a landfill. There is so much government regulation in Canada. They would not allow the detectives or the forensic specialists to search the landfill because it was going to be too dangerous. So they commissioned a government grant, built a building and then moved piles of garbage into the building for people to sift through, scoop it back up, take it back out, move, pile.

It took a year and a half before they searched the landfill. Wow. Because they had to get the money, build the building, hire the people. They had to have people studying the whole thing. They were government employees who watched every bit of it to prove that it went the way it was supposed to go. Wow. It was. The red tape was phenomenal in Canada.

So, couple of things I stopped, it was in that area, where the missing girl was that Wikipedia link I sent you? And I stopped at a McDonald's and nothing was plastic. They had a, I needed a spoon. It was wooden. The straw was paper. And I had. I know they're terrible. They're terrible. Both of those in your mouth, a wooden spoon.

No. Good. You would. You would have hated it. Yeah, it was the same stuff. It now, it had a curve to it, so it was like a spoon, but it was the same stuff is like the little ice cream. The little cup of ice cream, popsicle stick type. And then they had, I did get a, hot fudge sundae.

It was in a little paper cup. It wasn't in the, like, the plastic stuff that they do. So I think they do have those regulations. At a Walmart in Prince George. I'm going through and I bought a few items. My gift for my sons and son in law is, ketchup, Pringles. So they can try that.

They like that. And, so I had, like, 3 or 4 cans of Pringles and a few other things. They don't have plastic bags. They're they're like, would you like a bag? And I'm like, sure not knowing. And so he, he pulls one of those blue recycling, you know, cloth bags. I'm like, well, I have a tote in the car.

I don't need that. I don't want one other thing. So he said, I'll just carry my stuff out. There was there wasn't so much that I couldn't on my cart anyway, so I just carried it out. So I guess going back to the caller, what was weird is you can tell there are tons of environmental regulations out there.

One other thing that was weird, and I don't know if this is a Canada thing or a British Columbia thing. I was shocked at how many people smoke and I'm talking cigarets, not weed. Every rest area that I would stop at, nearly everyone was smoking when they when they would stop. It's it's huge there. Wow. That is a little crazy.

Yeah I think we're on the cusp of seeing a generation of that come forward. Except it's vaping. There I don't know how those the this generation that's moving into adulthood. So I'm, I'm talking like 15 year olds to 25 year olds. Yeah. Hey, vape nonstop. Yeah. As addictive as cigarets. Yeah. G with the f Jeff says I miss styrofoam cups.

I was thinking about McDonald's the other day. And the styrofoam clamshell that you used to get your like your Big Mac n or whatever. Yeah. And I, when I was a kid, if we went to McDonald's, I always opened it up and put my fries in one side and my hamburger was in the other. It was like your own little plate.

And I thought, that was so cool. Yeah, that's gone okay. Domingo just stretched over there. I cut it out of the corner of my eye. Yeah. I want you to think about the amount of times that you've seen Domingo's bare arms. He never wears a t shirt, and he has a t shirt on today. He always has a button down on.

That's true, that's true. We'll have to ask him about that. Like you feeling a little saucy today? Domingo? Simone Biles. Sorry. Set up on the TV. I was thinking one thing we haven't talked about is this, Trump announced yesterday he's given that thousand dollars. Oh, yeah? Yeah, yeah. To anybody having a kid, we could talk about that.

I don't I don't know what I think about that. I feel a little weird about it. Also, I do know we're we're in a population drought. Yeah. And I'm sure that that's factoring in he's trying to encourage people to have babies. Yeah. I don't think you should have babies to get money, though. Yeah. Well I would you know, I, I will say this though because hey, you do wonder when can they first access that money.

I I'll have to look it up. Let me pull the article or, or an hour. Oh, I'll be right back. I gotta get my. We're going to be very, very, willing to look at the other side. I pulled the CNN article. Now get up. Okay. January 1st, 2025 through December 31st of 2028. So that's the time frame.

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To learn more. Okay Julie, let's talk about this thousand dollar Trump deal that he was talking about okay. So I just looked it up. It's a five year pilot program. Sorry. Go ahead. It's a five year pilot program. It's part of the big beautiful bill. So it's in the House passed budget bill that. So when we talk about this, it's not completely in stone yet because it depends on what the Senate does with it.

Here's the details of the program. The Trump accounts that will that were initially called money account for growth and advancement, which stands for MAGA. Very very cute. And on brand there, the federal government will put $1,000 into individual accounts for babies born between January 1st, 2025 and December 31st, 2028. So if you're having a baby this year or have already had a baby in 2025, it would qualify for this.

To be eligible, the baby must be born in the U.S so it must be a U.S. born citizen and both the parents and the baby have to have Social Security numbers, so they're clearly removing those. We've talked about them. The women who get shipped over here about three weeks before they have a baby, they go into a house somewhere in California with 25 other women.

They birth their babies, and then those babies receive U.S. citizenship, that those babies wouldn't qualify because the mom does not have U.S. citizenship. Okay. So, the family and others may make annual contributions to the account. So the $1,000 that's in there, as long as they don't exceed $5,000 a year. So you could add up to another 4000 each year or 5000 after the initial year, I should say, the money must be invested in a low cost, diversified U.S. stock index fund or equivalent and no withdrawals, but may be made until the child turns 18.

Taxes are deferred on growth until the money is withdrawn. So you you're not taxed those whole 18 years. You can build up this massive savings account. You don't have to withdraw it. When you're 18. You can slowly start making withdrawals, like maybe for a college account or something like that. You will have to pay taxes on the money that you take out.

So here's a question that I have and, well, let me just play the audio of Trump announcing this. Here's how the accounts work for every U.S. citizen born after December 31st, 2024. Before January 1st, 2029, the federal government will make a one time contribution of $1,000 into a tax deferred account that will track the overall stock market.

Okay, so basically what you said, just wanted to hear Trump saying that, I, I part of me there is sort of that libertarian streak in me that, that, not a big fan of the of that. Based on that, however, does it help solve a problem and it it might. Here's my question though. And it's, it's a what if question because we are talking about saving Social Security because we know that long term it's not solvent.

Right. What if we allowed a refundable tax credit for 401 K or other IRA investments. Additionally that would be equivalent to your social security deposit. And then it would be an off ramp from Social Security. Now George W Bush, he floated this, 25 plus years, well, maybe less than 25 years ago, but during his administration and it was just a minor fraction of what you put into Social Security, like maybe 10%.

I don't remember the exact percentage, but it was just a small, tiny piece of the pie of what you put in Social Security. And of course, the left did what they always do, which is lie and not tell the truth about it. But it was this attempt to say, well, maybe we can off ramp the pressure on Social Security by allowing people to invest in different things.

And, and you would have to require that they can't take their money out. That's that would be a requirement here because over long term, the the market outperforms what Social Security can do for you by multiples. If you took all the money that you've put in Social Security and you put it into a modest but, you know, safe 401 K, the returns on that would be far, far greater than what you'll ever get back from Social Security.

And so I think we we have to start looking at maybe some of these private sector options as an off ramp from social Security if we want to achieve the same thing, which is some level of financial help or security when people get into older age. Yeah, I when you're talking about Social Security, it's going to be I mean if the baby is born this year.

Yeah. No that's 65. Yeah. That's too far. Yeah. That's true. That doesn't address this problem doesn't it. Yeah. So I, I actually look at this and think that what Trump is trying to do is to get firmly entrenched Americans to start having more kids. Yeah. I think it's it's a dangling of a carrot. We're going to help you get started.

Add each year to it and your kid's going to have this amazing account when they turn 18. Yeah, I, I mean, it's not perfect. Not even close to being perfect. I, you know, I don't know, I, I don't know if it's and we're not very good at keeping our attention in America. Yeah. And you're asking to solve some problems here that are going to take decades.

Yeah. We're not we're really not built for that right now. We can't even pay attention. I mean, we we destroyed Kavanaugh and forgot all about it days later. And it's decades, even without any political roadblocks. It's dec. Yes, but they're they're slowing it down. All right, I've got to break. It's 955. We'll be back. Oh, sorry. I looked up at the clock and I'm like, oh, we should probably stop talking.

I'm going to move this. Do you have a Timberline later this week? I wouldn't think so. Okay. It's the 10th. Okay. I just want to make sure we didn't need to do one. Are we good or do we need to do one more town? Well, we've done two today. Somewhere throughout this week. We've got to make up two so we don't have to today.

Don't screw everything up. Okay. Someone said, wouldn't you rather have give him the fee than visa getting the fee? No, because, it probably would have been about $25 less if I, if he would have taken a card. Is anybody else getting really weary of using a card in your places? I have this underlying fear all the time that my information is getting stolen.

I try to use cash at less desirable locations. Yeah. So if, if I could have paid with a credit card, it would have only cost me 73 bucks to stay. To stay? On Fox News this morning, they ran. They have a tech dude. He comes on a couple times a week. Yeah. You're not supposed to plug directly into the USB ports and airports.

There's readers in there, and they can access the information on your phone. No. Yeah. So if you if you're going to charge your phone in an airport, you have to use a block a plug. Yeah. Like actual electricity. That's how you can stop them. If you plug directly into the USB ports that are provided, you might have a chance at losing the information on your phone.

They're actually reading it. It's not just powered, like I'm getting wi when I say weary. Oh, I just probably smeared my lipstick everywhere. I'm just nervous that my information is being used all of the time. Lucky me, I have a lot of cash just simply because my clients pay me in cash. So it's easy for me to pay for things in cash.

I know that's not how most people exist. Yeah. All right. To 958. That's going to do it for the show today. We do want to remind you on your calendar Friday 11 to 1. We're holding an open house to mark five years of Newstalk 1079. We launched in June of 2020. We hope we'll see you then and we'll be back tomorrow.

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