6.11.2025 -- NLS -- Trump Backs Little, Chaos on TikTok

On this episode with Neal and Julie...
They unpack a wild mix of national politics, Idaho endorsements, and cultural commentary with their trademark wit and insight. Trump’s endorsement of Governor Brad Little sparks a lively discussion about the future of Idaho's GOP and the political ripple effects across the state, including the long-anticipated rise of Raul Labrador. They revisit Gavin Newsom’s bizarre “I’m literally on the phone with the president” moment and examine the public’s deepening distrust of major media outlets like ABC. Neal reflects on his recent 7,000-mile road trip and the idea of “manufactured chaos” pushed by the far left, particularly on platforms like TikTok. They critique political virtue signaling—from environmental posturing to classroom politics—and touch on everything from wild hair colors to Elon Musk’s erratic tweets. Along the way, there's plenty of humor, a shoutout to crab cakes and root beer, and a reminder that even lawn care can be political.

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Transcript

Good morning, East Idaho. And welcome on this Wednesday morning. Lots happening in the Trump world. Pending deal with China. Julie was just telling me about that. Also, you know, this issue with these Ice protests around the country right now. The hot spot, of course, is Los Angeles, but they are gearing up for other cities. And, you know, they want to bring a another summer of violence and mayhem to the streets in America, which I, I will tell you, I would say normally I have the travel book and I like to go.

I like to get in the car. I like to get on a plane and go see something new sometimes. But after spending 11 days and right around 7000 miles, in the car, you know where I want to be? Right here. I don't have any desire to go anywhere farther than work. And the grocery store and the the restaurant like that, I I'm I am good at least for a while.

So when I see these big cities that are are they're going to I'm going to say they're going to burn. That's a little bit of an overstatement because I think that Trump's response to this has been spot on. And you might think now he's acting like a king. Now he's he's not he's acting like a president. And with by the way, this is how presidents act when governors fail.

This is not presidents. True presidents act when mayors of big cities fail. And, Trump is basically saying to California right now, if you're not going to do it, I am. If you're not going to be the governor of California, Gavin, I will be if you're not going to be the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen, I will be.

It is Karen. Karen Bass right? Yeah. Then I then I every time I say Karen, that has a little different tone to it. But that Trump is saying these are American cities and American citizens are being impacted by this. And if you're not going to do your job, then I have to do your job for you. And so apparently there's a little, little controversy about a phone call that Gavin says didn't happen.

But Trump has the proof that it did happen. And he's flying to North Carolina. He's going to Fort Bragg to talk to the soldiers there. And there's a phone call log on his phone at 1:23 a.m. on the East coast, 1023 on the West Coast and in in the Gavin Newsom time zone. And they talk for 16 minutes.

Gavin says, I haven't gotten a phone call. I don't have a single voicemail. You know how he talks that which is very politician plastic speak. And the problem is, no, they did talk. And, and he's lying about it and you might think, well, no, Trump's the liar. If you have, if you put two people side by side and one of them is lying, if it's one of them's Donald Trump, then Donald Trump is the liar.

Like, that's how people think. They just they're like, oh, I'm I'm much more prone to believe Gavin Newsom than I am Donald Trump. And I'm thinking, are you, though? Are you? Because we have this exchange you might remember from another disaster that Gavin Newsom mishandled, which was the LA fires last year. You had, Gavin Newsom saying that, he he was on the phone with the president because he was being approached.

A woman came up to him and wanted to press him because he is the governor of California, and her neighborhood's burning down. Listen to this exchange. Governor. You got a second governor. Governor, I live here, governor. That was my daughter's school. Governor, please tell me, what are you going to do? I'm not going to hurt him, I promise.

I'm literally talking to the president right now to specifically answer the question of what we can do for you and your daughter. Can I hear can I hear your call? Because I don't believe it. I'm sorry. There's literally. I've tried five times. I swear I'm walking around to. Why is the president okay?

I for some reason, I love this exchange. It gets funnier every time I hear it or watch it, because he starts out saying literally, I'm I'm literally on the phone with the president right now, and he's talking to this woman. She's obviously kind of frantic because her neighborhood is burning down, her daughter's school is burning down, and and they don't have the reservoirs full.

And they're not they're not seemingly fighting these fires at all. So she's justifiably pressing the governor. He points to his phone. I am literally on the phone with the president right now to talk to him, how we can address you and your daughter's concerns. And then she said, well, then can I listen? I am literally not able to get a phone call out to the president right now like it was an instant 180 flip.

Gavin Newsom as likable as you might think he is and and I do, I'll be honest. He's got the charisma. He's got the what are the the ribs? He's got the charisma. Of a president. And we have to be honest about our political opponents. You may not like him. I don't like him, but he. There's something Clinton esque about him, and he's even handsomer than Clinton.

Like, there is something likable about Gavin Newsom. He just has that, that magic that can connect with people. The problem is he is a terrible, horrible, no good governor, a lousy leader, and his state has struggled and suffered under his leadership. So that might mean you have a better chance of being the Democrat nominee for president. He may be auditioning and winning, because failed leadership seems to be a prerequisite for Democrat presidential nominees.

Tim Walz, Kamala Harris, I mean, I you I could go on Pete Buttigieg you could go on. If you are bad at your job, that might make you more likely to win the nomination of of what you're seeking. So I don't know how Gavin's going to sort this out. Most likely he's just going to ignore it and move on, and it'll filter out of the news cycle and everyone will forget by this time tomorrow afternoon.

I guess this time tomorrow would still be morning. So there is no such thing as this time tomorrow. At exactly this time tomorrow afternoon. It doesn't make sense. So you have that. We also speaking of Trump and a lot connected to Trump today. Donald Trump has endorsed Idahos Governor Brad Little for reelection. So I am going to tell you right now, we're going to call it even though not all the returns have come in.

But, on election night 2026, we are going to call the race for Brad Little here at news. Well, I should say on the Neil Larson Show, I won't say Newstalk 1279, but I can speak for the Neil Larson Show. We're going to call this one early and say that Brad Little has won the governorship of the state of Idaho in November of 2026.

It's over now, you might think, and that might be bothersome, that I'm telling you that because I think a lot of people are hoping that there would be a more conservative alternative to Governor Little. He's done some disappointing things, and I think that they were hoping for, a more conservative candidate. I don't know if he'd be wrong.

I don't think ro Labrador would be running. And, you know, who knows? We'll see what happens. But, I think that this seals the deal and here's, here's the upside, because we've already had people texting in, a little bit moody about the about the endorsement from Trump for Governor Little. There is an upside to this. And the upside is because Republicans will not be spending money trying to win a Republican primary in Idaho.

That money can now go to legislative candidates. Now, it's not all fungible. And what I'm saying is that there's a finite amount of political money that gets spent in a state in an election cycle, and if that money's not being spent on what usually is a very expensive race, the governorship, then those donations will will go to other places and they can be used in, in other ways.

So there there is an upside. And I think Trump can look at it like that. And maybe on the ground they're saying, okay, how do we maximize the political dollars that are spent in Idaho now? The power of the incumbency is very, very strong. And Governor Little was very likely to win, even though he's he's not the conservatives favorite.

He seems to be solid electorally. And when you consider that Democrats have not put up a viable Democrat nominee for the governorship since when would you have to go back? Like, I want to be generous here. I don't want to I don't want to say the last viable governor in Idaho was Cecil Andrus, even though I think he was the last Democrat governor of Idaho, maybe the all the all red guy.

Remember him, Keith? All red? He ran I think he ran a fairly disciplined campaign, but he he lost badly. They all lose badly. I don't think Paulette Jordan was serious in any way, shape or form. And so you have a lot of Democrats that are saying we're voting for little. And honestly, I think that's probably one factor that might make him a little off putting to the more conservative wing of the Republican Party.

So it does give I'll say this. It does give the the, the Brad Little wing of the Republican Party another four years to figure out what they're going to do with the eventual Raul Labrador problem, because I will say it right now, at some point in the future, it may be in a little over four years, it may be an eight years, but I believe Raul Labrador will hold the title of governor at some point.

They want to bequeath the governorship to someone like Scott Bedke, somebody who's a little more moderate and a little more establishment esque. And so this will give them some more time to to try and figure it out. So be it. That's a ways down the road. But we would love your thoughts on this. We already we've had a number of people texting and saying this was a mistake by Trump.

And I would say I you may not like it, but how was it a mistake? And the reason why I say that is because it depends on which lens you're looking through. Is it a philosophical mistake because Brad Little is, not as conservative as you like? You could, I guess, make that argument politically. It's probably a smart move for both of them.

Clearly, it's a it's a, a boon to to Governor Little for his reelection prospects. But when he wins, Donald Trump looks like a kingmaker, even if he was probably going to win anyway. So Trump plays that game and he plays it pretty well. I remember I think there was another situation, years and years ago. And I remember that we had a guy.

What was his name, something Vaughn or Vaughn? Something. Anyway, he was running for, office, and Sarah Palin endorsed him. But this candidate was not the most like Sarah Palin. There was another one. And I don't know if he's Ammon Bundy or I don't. I just don't remember all of the details of that particular race. But people were disappointed that Sarah Palin went with the moderate and sometimes, and this is one of the secrets about politics that, you know, I mean, you're you probably already know it.

But when it comes to endorsements, quite often the endorser will pick the winner as opposed to the candidate most like them, or even their preferred candidate. Because if you start endorsing people who are likely to lose after a while, your endorsement is not worth that much. So it's it's just a political reality thing. But I but I will say we were looking forward to a, a robust and I honestly can I can I have a moment of blatant candor for you?

There was a little bit of, in the announcement because this endorsement by Trump will scare a lot of people away from the race, which means fewer candidates, which means fewer campaigns spending money with radio stations like Newstalk 107 night. So you look at that and you're like, well, I got to adjust our revenue projections now because that race isn't going to be is as hot over the next year and a half.

But but we'll see. Okay. So yeah, we had that. And let's see Terry Moran really quick. Terry Moran. Well how do I, how do I say it here? Terry Moran of ABC news. And now you can say you're fired up. And of course, ABC news did fire Terry Moran. I saw that first thing this morning, and I thought, well, he deserves it.

What a dumb, dumb move on his part. And, I thought maybe they'd put him on probation and they'd suspend him for a while. I mean, look at it this way. And I'll say this very delicately. How bad is it when Toobin over CNN keeps his job and Terry Moran gets fired? Like, that's kind of crazy when you stop and and think about it.

But it was very, journalistic of him to do. And it made the climb for an organization like ABC news even steeper for them to try and get back the trust of the, of the their audience and the American people. And you have these just bozo quote unquote journalists in costume out there making it even harder. And so, yeah, they fired him, which was probably the the smart choice.

So you have that. And also, I did want to, remind you, I genuinely hope that we will see you on Friday, 11 to 1. We're doing an open house. And this past Sunday marked five years to the day that we launched Newstalk 179. It was June 8th back in 2020, as the pandemic was getting underway and Julie and I, we made a big, oh, we made a switch.

We'll just say that we made a switch. And I spent weeks, about six weeks building a, a radio station and, and a format and, product. And it was a very that endeavor was a 16 to 20 hour a day endeavor. But we wanted to get it done and we wanted to get it launched. And on June 8th, five years ago, we launched Newstalk 1079.

And as this date has been approaching because it's a milestone, I've thought about all of the things that we have been through together, like presidential races, like local legislative races and legislative sessions. We've had national tragedies. We've had, local craziness that's gone on. We have interviewed hundreds, if not thousands of guests over that time. And we're very grateful that you make us an important part of your day.

And I worried a little bit about this because it's kind of like, yeah, we're going to throw our own birthday party, and I, I, we don't mean it like that. If anything, it's, we want to thank you and have a chance to connect with you because you've been the big part of our success. The audience is so incredibly important to us.

And the relationship that we have with you. You put up with us saying things that you probably disagree with sometimes, and we, it's it's truly a relationship that I believe is built on trust and common understanding. And it's a it's really kind of a I don't mean to get, wussy here, but it's kind of a beautiful thing.

And we thought, you know what? This is a great opportunity to open up our doors. We're going to have an open house just for a couple of hours to coincide with the lunch hour. 11 to 1 swing in. We're going to have a little stuff to eat. Maybe some cake, maybe some, you know, light refreshments, something. I'm I'm not good at those details, but we will have that for you.

And have you come back to the studio, say hi. If you're willing. We'll have some ideas. Starters that you can record a greeting and we'll snap some pictures and, just a way for us to to connect as we mark this pretty for us. A pretty important milestone. Five years in and, we we you're a big part of our lives, and we hope that we're a part of yours as well.

So we hope that you'll plan on that. It's at 854 Lindsay Boulevard in Idaho Falls. Just if you know where Jacobs is, we're straight across the street from Jacobs. And, come, just come say it. If you can only be here for two minutes, that's fine. If you want to hang out for a few minutes, that's great too.

So we'll see you Friday. Midday right here. May 27th. Our time on Newstalk 179. We'll be back 831 on Newstalk 1079. It's Neil Larsen and Julie Mason on this, Wednesday. And, I, we, Julie, you know what I want to do? Tell me this isn't required. This isn't like you have to do this. So it's not like an official RSVP.

But I would like everyone who's listening, who's planning on coming on Friday to the open house just to text us right now and say, I'm coming. Okay. I would love that. And if you do that, you can have an extra piece of cake. I just show the text when you get here, not monitoring people's cake intake. I'm not either.

They can have as much cake as they like. Yeah, that's well, I know, but what is that phrase? Let them eat cake. Yes. Marie Antoinette, I got him. Yes. Is so, someone said I'm going to try. I'm good. I'm here. I'm hearing Yoda. There is no try. There is only. Do do or do not. There is no try anyway.

No good. We're glad you're going to try. We're glad you're going to try. Yeah. But, somebody gave us an idea. Said years ago when my kids were little, you did a spot where the kids could call in and do the weather, and the kids got to be kid reporters. I thought that was really fun. And all three of my kids just got an opportunity to do it.

I still have those recordings. If you bring your kids to this open house, we'll let them record something on the mic. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's probably not the weather, but probably just talking about Neil and Julie. But yeah, we'll let them record. Yeah. That's that's the. Yeah we're totally good with that. Yeah. Yeah. Someone said I want cake but I probably won't come.

Oh come on okay. Well I'm a little insulted. Like I want to take better cakes. Better than us. Not that bad. But since you two are going to be there, I don't want cake that bad. No. Not really. I think that they, They. Yeah, they're just being. They're just letting us know. Yeah. So we got several who are, planning on coming.

Oh, we have a sets one J inbound Friday. Okay, you guys all watch the parking lot. You know what? Since I want them to come, I am not going to make a joke here. I will refrain from making jokes about horribly bad drivers. We're assuming they're going to make it through the night about. That's true. So Julie just made the joke.

I know we look forward to, you, Yeah. To making it. There's a whole bunch. Somebody just said two of us are coming. Possibly three. And then another. I'll be there and. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Another one coming from Pocatello. There we go. Yeah, that's that's good, that's good. Well, all right, well, order the cake. We'll have it here for you.

Yep. And, Yeah. Bring your appetites and your deep voices. You could let people record or Athena so they could be you or a female that was. Oh, that was so weak. I know it was, but it was, it was on the fly and you didn't, you didn't like build it up in the chest and you didn't clear it enough.

I have to like, clear the, the phlegm and get the throat all roughed up. And then once I do that, then I'm 1 or 2 steps closer to James Earl Jones. But yeah, no, like from here to Alaska, I'm 1 or 2 steps closer to Jones. So we should have Marv Marvelous Marv say, or a female one day.

Yeah, yeah, that's that'd be like, no, that's my word. Stay away from it, Marv. You can pick a different county. It's true. Lewis died. Madison.

Oh, no. No, I got one. Been a while. Two boys. I can't even do it. I love how you're. I guess, or if he knows a city, right? Yeah, yeah, we were bouncing counties and cities. We were all over the place. It's all good. Do you think you can name all 44? Could you even come close?

How? Like of the 44? How many could you get? Maybe 30. Oh, that's more than I could get. Yeah, I think that's more than I. I don't know if I could tie them to the license plate designation though, like. But if I sat here I could go through and get like Bonner County, Banana County, Courtney County, Idaho County, Custer County.

I'm saying I could do a little over half. Okay. You could do 22. Yeah, probably 22 to 25, probably. And then I'm I'm tapped. One of my buddies, I think when he was in fourth grade and had Idaho history memorized all the counties and we did too. I don't remember them. Oh really. Okay. Yeah. Fourth grade here.

I just threw that out. Well it didn't keep any information from that I haven't, I've often been like sometimes things happen in the universe where you're like how did that happen. But we have 44 counties in Idaho. Ten of them start with B. Yeah. Couldn't you spread out there's 26 letters. I know, I mean, give some of the other consonants a chance because there's a lot of BS.

Yeah, there is. Okay. We go to go to this. Let's go to the phones right now. All right caller, welcome to the show. How are you today? Good. How are you guys today? Doing pretty well. What's up? You're talking about the 44 counties in Idaho. We learned the song in the third grade. You name all 44 of them.

Did you remember that song? Still not today. Okay. Do it really fast, force. Hey, to Adams. Bannockburn. About be review, review. Cashier. Clerk. Clearwater. Custer. Fillmore. Franklin. Fremont. Dam. Gooding, Idaho. Just strong. They love the land. I was thinking about it because I know that you have powers. State Park Valley, Washington. Wow. He did it all. 44.

That's really good. Good job. I'm in love your show. Well, thank you, I appreciate that. And, he needs to pull that out at parties. I know that's the exact. That's the exact same lyrics that my friend had to that song. What is that tune? Because I don't know, because it's. We did it in seminary, too.

I wrote for the book Exodus, Leviticus, numbers. And that was first and second books. And Nephi Jacob had them like, that must just be the song. If you want a list of things like your grocery list, eggs and bacon and milk, bread and water and it like, like you could do any list to that tune, right? Some people could do their wives.

Circling back to the Mormon thing, aren't you?

Oh, we're gonna get in big trouble now. We may not make it to the open house. Friday is now in question. That was a fun five years.

Okay. Tool fired like Terry Moran. I've been wanting to talk to you about that. But I didn't realize he was fired. I don't know how I missed that last night. You told me this morning. Yeah, I didn't realize he had been fired. My thoughts. Maybe he had a very large salary, and it wasn't really worth rehabilitating his career.

So maybe there's some behind the scenes stuff. Yeah, they're like, well, well, we'll redistribute this salary and get two people out of one there. That could have had something to do with it, because they did say they were coming to the end of his contract, and they were choosing not to renew it. ABC actually put a statement out, which a lot of times when somebody gets fired, they don't say anything, but they just said we were coming to the end of his contract and we've chosen not to review it.

So. So you're fired. Yeah. Bye bye. And you think Trump did a toast to that? He's got his coke. It's it's cookie drinks right. Yeah I think so. He holds up his coke. You're fired. You're fired Terry Moran I ended your career. Get it right. Well, he kind of. Terry Moran ended his own career, but it was prompted by his hatred of Donald Trump.

Absolutely. So, Trump derangement syndrome claims another one. Yeah. Mental health going down the toilet. Career's going down the toilet. Entire city's going down the toilet. Yeah. So, any time somebody gets fired, it's it's kind of interesting, the public messaging that happens because Fox News Digital, they're talking to some very foul mouthed ABC staffer. Like, in the stories I read, he's dropping F-bombs in, like, I'm just like, okay, you're talking to a major news organization and you're talking like you're telling a dirty joke in the lunchroom.

Like, why clean it up a little bit anyway? So he's just being very blatant about it, but he's like, everybody around here love Terry, who's a good family man. But I'm like, did they, did they really? Cause I think maybe you put a nice face on something, but maybe there's a lot of high fiving going on now, especially if you're the person who's going to benefit from that contract not being renewed.

That's that's true too. Yeah. So. And do you think the the vulgarity was because they didn't think they were going to be quoted directly. Maybe they didn't. Maybe it was kind of, like Project Veritas, similar situation. And they didn't realize what they were saying was going to make it. I didn't get the sense, I mean, usually if something is done undercover like that, they they just say it.

Yeah, but they were just like, no, they talked to an ABC news staffer. Okay. So is that the janitor I like? I want to know who the staffer is. How high level is the staffer? Yeah, that's that's that's true. And I'm sure he was like, I'll only talk to you if you don't put my name out there.

And yeah, my title. So yeah, I mean I won't Bleep and talk to you and like you Bleep and keep my Bleep in and anonymity intact.

Yeah. So I I never really liked Terry Moran all that much. He was for me pretty vanilla and boring for the most part. I felt like there was times when he could have done follow up questions that. But that's every journalist, right? And the ones we remember are the bombastic ones, the ones that say things that are, you know, Rachel Maddow or who's the CNN girl that we don't like.

Now, Caitlyn Collins, Kaitlan Collins. So, you know, maybe he was too vanilla, too bland and just not bold enough. I think we're yearning for somebody to be bold, to ask the tough questions. Both sides. Yeah, right. And we're not getting it anywhere. Yeah I, I would agree with that. And, there's another ABC news guy, Jonathan Karl. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, I like him. Like they're not terrible at their job. But there are far better there's far better talent out there. So I wonder why they have that job. Yeah. Why do they ascend. Like do they have a brother in law or an uncle or a sister or like how did they get plugged in to that. Because there are people who are just better at it.

Maybe they have this insanely good work ethic, but maybe that's why they get hired. They're well, they're good enough to be on the air, but they're going to produce a lot of content for us. And that's why they. Yeah, I don't know, maybe they're really good secret keepers too, because you, you know, a lot when you get to that level and you probably are held to a standard of not that's sharing everything.

You know, that's true. I also think maybe sometimes these TV networks will hire people because they are plain and they're more they can connect with an audience better than some glamor model, you know. Oh, I totally believe that. We have CNN playing on one of the TVs in the studio and their morning team, the two women, I don't know who does their clothes, but it's like they're purposely just a little bit off.

They they're a little bit ill fitting. They're a little bit not matching. They're, they're they're just enough that it makes you go, what's going on there. Yeah that's true. And I think they do it on purpose just to create that little bit of discomfort kind of. Yes. That's weird. It is a weird way to do it. But it's CNN.

Yeah. All right. 844 on Newstalk 179. And oh John Fetterman breaks with the Dems on anti ice protests. Yes. There's a tweet that he's put out where he he's calling his Democrat counterparts stupid for what they're doing. He's not wrong. I'll tell you. Fetterman has exceeded my expectations. It's not what we thought we were getting.

No, no, I like I'm like, okay, you know what I still would have preferred Doctor Oz. However, if you're going to have a Democrat, his speech has gotten better. Like, I think his his functioning has improved like he said it would. But he's he's not afraid to be a maverick and to be a rogue. He's kind of like the Democrats John McCain now.

So yeah. Yeah, a little bit like that. I couldn't stand John McCain. But when it's the other side, it's all right. We'll take a break. It's 845 on Newstalk 179. So yeah, it's like three hours out. Julianne, my drive home from Alaska and stopped today at a little convenience store, gassed up, got, big soda to drink. And then there was, the spicy dill fish crackers.

Bought the bag and all of us in the car ate the whole bag on the way home, we finished. And your four personalities. Okay, there was only me. I did finish the bag on the way home. You needed it. It helped keep me awake, though. Yeah. That's a good thing to do. To go and get a snack so that you had had no sleep.

So you needed to stay awake? Yeah. Still good. You you hadn't had them since we had them in studio. Are they. Were they still yummy. Yeah. Yeah, yeah of course they were different ones. It wasn't the same bag. So they were still.

I think. Well, when you said they're, they still good. Like, do they spoil still like them. Yes I did like sorry. I thought that joke was going to be funnier than it turned out to be. And it just went to crap. So, you know, (208) 542-1079 if you'd like to join us this morning on the program, I thought you were going to talk about Grand Peaks because you said Grand Peaks to me during the commercial break.

And then we went to deal spicy deal crackers. That's that's true. I yeah, let's talk about crab cakes, cause I love, like, he went to Alaska and back and the. And he didn't drop it off anywhere along the way. Oh I did not. I tried to I tried to throw it out the window in the Yukon Territory, but it just chased me back on.

It really did. But our freezer, we we, we cleared it out because it was icing up a little bit because it got left open by, one of the kids or something. Anyway, so, after we took all the food out and put it back in after it was dessert, we're like, we have room. And my first thought when I realized we have room is Grand Peak's Prime Meats.

It's time to fill up that freezer. We're over to. We are open. We need to make a stop. Yeah. So, I'll say an item, then you say an item and I'll say an item. Then you say an item. Steak, fajitas, ribs, bacon. I was going to say bacon. Prime rib, ground beef, crock pot. French dip.

Honey chicken. Sesame chicken. Okay, then that didn't turn out very well either. Okay. We can't play games together. No they can't, we really can't. But they do have a wide array of great things to choose from. If you go to GP primates.com, you can make your selection. Yep. Delivery free in the Idaho Falls area. And if you're outside of the Idaho Falls area, don't bring it to your house.

It's just a small sure surcharge. Yeah. All right, let's take a break at 52 and we'll come back. We'll wrap up this hour, but we have an entire hour ahead of us right here on Newstalk 179.

If you.

And we end up a monarchy, a state machine unable to foresee. All right. 856 on Newstalk 1079 Julie, while we're talking about things we love, let's talk about, Town and Country Gardens because, came back and even though I was gone, the lawns did get mold, which was, which is I was really worried because I thought, okay, I'm going to have to go on my radio show and ask one of our farming listeners if I can borrow their swath for a couple of hours, but but no, it did get mowed, but it's time to put the, step two on, which is a summer lawn, food, fertilizer and other and weed

control stuff. And, looking forward to that. Yep. You also, I know your tomatoes grew jealous about it. Oh. They exploded. I might need a swath there for that, too. Because the. Yeah. So the tomatoes that I got at Town and Country Gardens, literally, I'll use Gavin Newsom's word literally doubled in size. But you know what that word means?

I do, and Gavin doesn't. And I actually mean it. So yeah, it they did. They doubled in size. Super lush, deep green. So awesome. Awesome. Town and country gardens located south of Idaho Falls, across from the malting plant on Yellowstone Highway. Go in there, enjoy your visit and tell them Neil and Julie sent you. Yeah, yell it out.

Don't say it. Like politely and subdued. Bill and Julie said me like, yeah, like you walk in the door and you just you just broadcast it and they'll call the cops. And what will happen is you'll have a bunch of people in there and they'll be like, that's how we heard about it. Do you think in a chorus they'll say it back, at least in the movie that I'm creating in my head, that's how it'll go down.

So yeah, he's got theme music playing in the background and everything. Yeah, like walk up music. It's. Yeah, that's actually a good marketing idea. There we go. Have Rex have someone sit there and his customers come in. You play walk up music for them. Okay. What if they don't like there's people who haven't even thought about their walk up song.

I know you're opening a new world to them, okay? They're going to have to stand there and wait. And the tagline.

And now you can say you're fired up. Good morning. Hour two underway. It's 907 on this Wednesday on Newstalk 1078, Neil Larson. Hello. And Julie Mason and Julie, we saw this story. You might have sent it to me. I sat on the news. Somebody sent us a screenshot about how Microsoft is withdrawing their big developer conference from Seattle because of the open drug use that's happening there.

The crime, all of the hope, the homelessness case, which they and they probably don't, I would imagine they have the same problem. The sidewalks may have the same problem in Seattle that they had in San Francisco. Not the cleanest, not the cleanest known. And this is interesting. I didn't know this, so I didn't send this to you, but, I wouldn't hold a major conference in Seattle.

It's not the friendliest city to get around in. So I. And then if if your people can't go out past 830 at night because it's unsafe to be on the streets, that's not a very fun conference. No, no, it's not. And we're not that many years removed from Chaz. Remember that the what was that called the something something the autonomous zone.

Autonomous zone. Yeah. And it what was the catch something Hill like okay. Capitol Hill was a Capitol I think it is Capitol okay. Yeah. But anyway, yeah. Like, it wouldn't be a very enjoyable place unless they're having rioting in Seattle right now too. So I don't know when the conference is, but it's just not quite as big as the rioting in L.A.

So. Yeah. Yeah. You know, this is a perfect example, Julie, because I, in my, lifelong commitment against progressivism and for conservatism, this is a perfect example of how progress civs destroy things. And that's what they do. They destroy. Seattle is a beautiful city at its best. All right. It's a it's a destination place. The Space Needle Seahawks version of Seattle is a beautiful, beautiful place.

But somehow and I don't know how, liberals are good at taking over the beautiful places in the world. You give them enough time and they take over places like Portland and Seattle and Eugene and, and Sacramento and, I don't know if Sacramento's ever been pretty, but you know what I mean? And then they ruin it. Then they then they invite and cultivate homelessness and crime and drug use.

And it's just it's a weird thing that I can't quite figure out, but it is a learning opportunity or a teaching moment to say, look, the the left destroys. They truly do destroy. In a lot of the destruction. Doesn't make sense. Right. Well, you were doing your monologue. I was scrolling through X and I saw a post that said that, okay, if you want to be big on TikTok, you can go and see what's trending on TikTok.

Then you make a video about a trending topic and you have a better chance of landing. On the for you page is what it's called, which is the algorithm pushes you up. Yeah, if you do trending topics. So right now trending topics on TikTok include women ages, you know, 35 to 60 doing TikToks about how egregious this immigration fight is and how horrible Trump is and everything.

So it's a trending topic right now. Yeah. My thing about the destruction that that these people advocate for is if it was inside your home, you wouldn't want it, but you're sure okay advocating for it so your TikTok channel can be bigger. That's a good point. Yeah. That's true. It doesn't make any sense. It's like these Democrats are spurred on by people in other parts of the country to go ahead and ruin everything good.

You know, going back to a text we received a couple of hours ago, someone said that they had loved ones, I think a, I don't know, somebody related to them, that they get their news from TikTok and it's very far left. So if you have an algorithm that will reward certain trending topics and say, here's how you can get lots and lots of views, that's that's tweaking reality to that's not just organic stuff that absolutely grows on its own, that's saying, hey, if if y'all contribute with this mirage that this is going on, then you'll be probably financially rewarded because we'll elevate your channel.

Yeah. And for the longest time I sat there and thought, we can we can capture back these women. They're salvageable. And four years ago I was saying, okay, if Trump can win back the women vote at this point, I'm like, leave it be, let it go. It's just not that important. You feel like it's a lost cause. I think it is a lost cause, especially.

I don't think it's a lost cause for women about, maybe 28 and below 30 and below, there is that concreted section of women. It's not worth your effort. Especially with the shift that young men are making. You can make up the difference somewhere else. I just don't know if they if they can be saved. Okay, so whenever I talk about women, I try to handle it very delicately.

Okay? I don't know if you know me very well, or sometimes I can say things that may not land all that well. Why do you view them as politically irretrievable? Because I think this has become part of their personality and the way that they feel validation. They haven't developed a life where they can find validation anywhere else.

They've run their men off, or they've chosen the wrong men, one or the other. So they're not getting validation there. I don't think some of these women, their children have grown. And it's a it's a transition to not have your kids in your home anymore. They need validation. They need a project. They need something to do. And hating Trump and causing chaos seems to fulfill that for them.

Okay. So okay, this is an interesting theory because you're you're taking note. I mean, this discussion is taking a broken part of their personal life as an explanation for why they choose a certain political ideology. Yes. I which I feel really strongly about that. I'm sure there's people that disagree, like I'm not disagreeing with you at all.

I think that's a that's a very in my mind, I view it sort of very analytically. Like I look at it like, okay, is this is this policy going to work? Are more people going to have freedom? Are we going to have a good economy? Are we going to is it safe? Yeah. Is is this is this beneficial for the public at large?

And I think your explanation is really good. Meaning they have a completely different paradigm. I'm injured and I'm broken and I'm mad as hell. And here's how I'm going to address it. And I'm going to make Trump the receptacle of all my man hatred. I think it's a little bit of that. And I think it's a little bit of I am an empty vessel because somehow in my life there is emptiness whether I don't have a relationship or my children have moved on or whatever it is.

Yeah. And I'm going to fill that up and I can fill that up with other, other women who will whine and complain with me. Okay, so let me extend it to another topic that we've talked about this in. In a similar way, the environmental movement is a good example. A lot of people who and again, again, this will probably land poorly with some people out there, and I certainly don't mean it in 100% of the cases.

It's not a universal explanation, but I do think you do see a trend where people who don't have a firmly rooted faith system in their life God, religion, some deeply held value. Yes, they gravitate toward environmentalism. And that becomes their religion. And we've talked about all of the similar and in some cases, identical facets of environmentalism and traditional religion.

And one that I've always found fascinating is they believe that the government, when it comes to the climate change battle, specifically that the government is the savior of the world. Yep. And as Christians, we believe Christ is the savior of the world. And you could go through they have doctrines, they have clergy, they have people. They use prophesying.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. The predictions that they have about the downfall is very apocalyptic. They're scratching all the itches. We're scratching. With religion. Yeah. They're just choosing environmentalism to scratch those itches. Yes. And I think part of that is because they get to craft the, the discipline, the, the doctrine, they get to craft it. Whereas Christianity, it extends previous to Christ's life like so, because there was a promise of Christ before Christ came to the earth.

So they didn't they weren't in that part of crafting all of that. And they feel left out environmentalism. They get to craft the discipleship. I when I was on my trip through British Columbia and Alaska, wasn't too bad, but it's Alaska is a fairly red state with a few little weird caveats. Like, we'll we'll talk about Alaska politically sometime because it's a I had some good conversations with my friend about ranked choice voting and Pell Tola and Begich and that that whole thing, like they're pro-choice in Alaska, you can get an abortion in Alaska.

So they're they're they're a red state, but they've got a few areas of their politics that are weird. But but to Canada now, I, I went into a McDonald's. They didn't have a plastic anything like everything that I used to eat. And did I tell this on the air, is it okay? In a stopped at a Walmart in Prince George and you, the, the the the checker, the cashier said, do you want a bag?

And I'm like, yeah, I'll have a bag. And when you live in Idaho Falls or Pocatello, a bag is a bag. It's a it's a plastic bag. You put your crap in it and then you go home and then you line your bathroom wastebasket with it, right? Right. Exactly. And then if you're a good Republican, you just throw it on the roadside when you're going somewhere and.

See, these are the comments that I want people to take out of context and think that I'm worse than I am. But here, you know, anyway, so he he reaches back and it's one of those big recyclable bags, a reusable I'm like, I don't want that. Like I just needed a bag to take my stuff to the car, but I, I have a tote in the car.

I can put all this stuff in, so I'll just carry my crap. Yeah, yeah. But I everywhere you went, it was like you had these little commandments you were supposed to follow. To tie in the religion angle on this, and it would almost be like, I'm not a real big believer in recycling. Okay, I'm. I'll make a confession to our audience here.

They're not going to be surprised by this confession. They will not be surprised by it. But when you look at the actual economics of recycling, we're really not gaining all that much, okay? It makes people feel good that they do it and they feel like they're contributing and that they're they're doing something moral. But when you look at the actual outcome and result of of the recycling industry, much of the profit from that is not ending up helping our environment.

It's helping people feel good, like they're doing something for the entire. Yeah, and I don't like participating, participating in a scam voluntarily. So, that that is an example of I'm committing a sin of omission by not recycling. Right. In their religion. And they're probably clutching their pearls like the church lady. Yes. You don't recycle? Well, I know people who have a recycle bin and a regular trash can, and they have to pull the recycle bin to the curb, even if there's 2 or 3 items in it, because they got to look appropriate to the rest of their neighbors.

That's a religion thing. You're wow. Yes. Yeah, yeah. So wow. It even extends to that point. I've got to look the part okay. But if you put it out there, guess what. The truck that picks up your recycling has to stop, let their truck idle while they get out, and they go get your three plastic bottles. Look, there's not logic.

There's no logic to that. It's no logic. It's cosplay. Yeah. Wow. Okay. That's fashion I never stop, I never even thought about that. Yeah, that's that's the bizarreness. That is the environmental movement. I wonder how big a business it could be. Julie, if you created a consultancy that help people look like environmental lists but secretly don't give a crap about the environ.

Yeah, they just want the social mileage from it. But they know it's probably not going to actually save the planet. Yeah, I guess you could do that. There's lots of ways, like, I think that people who do minimalist landscaping, that's one way that they virtue single signal. They might actually not like it, but they do it because it's important.

I look like I'm taking care of the environment by not using water. Like, yeah, I think there's lots of ways. Is there a way that you could weave nylon to look like hemp? So you look the part like your clothes? I'm showing up with dreads tomorrow. Okay. Just shower. Whatever you do.

Like, but it's so chilly, I, I will I can't take people seriously. I really have a hard time. We saw in the TV yesterday, Rosa DeLauro. And she's got the purple thing I can't I and it's it's a it's a it's a character flaw of mine because I'm sure there probably are serious people that have wild colored hair.

Yeah. I can't take them seriously like I and I get people they color their. I may be talking to one right now who will color her hair every four weeks. Religious. Lea, you're not trying to look like a cartoon, okay? There are people that try to look like a cartoon, but then they want you to take them seriously.

That's the problem I have. You know, what's funny is we saw Rosa DeLauro on the TV yesterday, and we were watching ABC, and you mentioned that you can't take her seriously. And Lola, well, that audio made the rounds last night because she lost her mind yelling at Pete Hegseth. And he just sat there. He was so smart. You just sat there and took it because she looked off her rocker.

Do we have that? Did I think I might have sent it to you? I think it might be in the in the feed. I did super easy to find. I had a distraction. I did not get done with all the audio. Yes. So I think you probably did send it to me, but. Well, maybe I'll try to find that because I look, I love how she lost it.

She's screaming in that hearing, saying it's always fun, like they do the work for you. Yeah. You don't have to even. Yeah, yeah. You don't have to make them look stupid. They do it all on their own. Yeah, it's it's good. All right. 923 on Newstalk 1079. We got to, break here if you'd like to reach us the number to call (208) 542-1079.

Yeah. Oh, I know what happened yesterday. It was a, I had vacation clocks in, and I was trying to put in the real clocks, and we had that hiccup that's, This is interesting. Somebody sent us a, text that says is landscaping. Most environmental landscaping is a fraud. I'm a horticulturist, arborist, and a certified nursery professional.

It's all for show. Oh, really? Yeah. The right way to do it is very much not how it's done. Here I am that on down on a rock. You like a hurricane, Jane? That was really. I.

Do like a rock, Rocky. Like Cara came.

And that's going into the podcast. Is this me? We had Trump on the ropes until Merrick Garland dropped the ball on prosecuting him. He should be in jail. Okay, I agree, Merrick Garland should be in jail. Oh, that's not what I meant. Blah blah blah. What's with the hat? What? I don't I don't know, it's not what I wear.

La la la.

I ate spicy doo packers. La la la. Can we tell him about your shirt? Yesterday? Yeah. Go ahead. I show up and he has this big. Well, it looks like a wet spot. And I'm seeing, like, three inches long and two inches wide on his chest. And I'm like, did he just spill his soda all over himself? But I don't ask him.

We just keep going. We go through the 6:00 hour. The wet spot doesn't go away. And so I realize it's not liquid. He's spilled something on it and it's staying. Well, he he, spilled his, burrito all over it. So we had a candidate campaign shirt that was an extra large in the office. So he went and changed into the candidate campaign shirt, but he couldn't wear it for the whole show, so he had to wash his shirt.

So he comes back and his shirt is, like, wet. Oh, it's off of his body, but it's wet. And he lays it out to dry and it still didn't come out. So did you. Did you put anything on it last night? I took it, I didn't do anything with it, but I did tell Esther about it, so I don't know.

He did put it back on because we, I, he can't wear it. Candidate campaign shirt on air. Like it. That's against the rules. Like that wouldn't be good. Sorry. I'm drinking the, Diet Mountain Dew. That Julie forced me to go get and drink. You did. You need it? Probably.

It's 928 now on Newstalk 1079, Neil Larson along with Julie Mason. And if you'd like to reach us on the program, the number is (208) 542-1079. And we'd love to hear from you today. If you want to talk about, anything that, we've talked about so far today with Trump, maybe the endorsement of Governor Brad Little by the president of the United States.

We have that also, Terry Moran got fired and, the train derailment up in, Saint Anthony area. Yeah. Big deal. Made with China. According to Trump, it's a it's nearly all the way done. America comes out good in this tariff deal, so we'll see. Yeah. The Riley Gaines and Simone Biles controversy is. Well, it went from a category five to now.

Monsoon wins. Tropical storm. Tropical storm. Yeah. It's it's it's died way down. They kind of both apologized. I think Simone Biles probably caved more than Riley Gaines did, as you mentioned. Because when you're more wrong, you have to cave more. You had more ground to make up. Yeah, that's that's true. So that and plus Elon Musk and Donald Trump have kissed and made up.

Elon Musk has put out several tweets since the fight that, made it so that it looked like he was still in Trump's corner. He was supporting certain things. He was he has done a whole bunch of America First tweets, lots of tweets about patriotism. So he hasn't died down. What what, on his love for America and what also hasn't died down is the amount of memes that are still out that are just hilarious about the relationship between the two.

Yeah, it is. And I think there was a recognition pretty quick that they are both so powerful. To have an ongoing feud like this could be very, very destructive to the whole conservative movement. Do you know what? I kind of like? What it also teaches everybody. It's okay to disagree. Oh my goodness. You don't have to be mortal enemies if you don't agree on a topic.

Well, and you know what I appreciate? Elon Musk said he was wrong like he has. He is just overtly said I was wrong. And I'm think he's probably talking specifically about linking Trump to Epstein. Because that was way over the top and in the way I think that was sort of a a little reactive thing that he was doing.

He was so angry. But then I think there there was just kind of this realization, like, there's not going to be anything good that comes out of this for either one of us. So, so I don't think they're going to be best friends, but I think there is some mutual respect there. How long before he shows up at a party at Mar-A-Lago?

Oh, probably pretty soon. I think it's been pretty good, too. I'd say probably within two months. You'll see him in an event. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. And I think two they're probably both in a very similar situation. They both have big egos and they recognize I can't really afford to stay in confrontation with the other one. Right.

Just it's just it's just not advantageous in any realm. Yeah. One thing we haven't talked about, and I just wanted to mention is if if you have a chance, go out there and find the clips of Trump at Fort Bragg last night. Yeah, it doesn't play well for radio. It's. I mean, we could play how excited the troops get, but they love this man.

Yeah. The military is 100% behind Donald Trump. Yeah, they they really are. And I in my mind I was doing this comparison. If you're a soldier, the president is your commander in chief. So there's a level of respect that you give no matter what. However, there are some intangibles. There's body language stuff that you can watch. They love Trump.

They absolutely enthusiastically welcomed him. I do have one clip that I want to play, really fast here. In the spirit of preserving our history, he's changing the names of these bases that the D-I movement had had altered. He's changing them back to their original names for a little breaking news. We are also going to be restoring the names to Fort Pickett, Fort Hood, Fort Gordon, Fort Rucker, Fort Polk, Fort A.P. Hill, and Fort Robert E Lee.

We won a lot of battles out of those forts. It's no time to change. Right. And they they you're right. He did the YMCA dance in front of the goodness. And they were waiting. They were waiting for him to start that dance where he rocks his arms back and forth. And as soon as he did that, the crowd just explodes.

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Oh, Donald Trump an hour ago. Ready for this? Well, I'm open to reconciling with Elon after seeing his latest posts. Elon knows I love him. JD knows this too. I give the best and biggest reconciliations. Everyone knows this.

It's so hilarious. So him. I'm going to reconcile with Elon and it's going to be the best, the biggest and best reconciliation you've ever seen. Okay, some of this is just performative. It's got to be. It has to be. It has to be. I guess what, I'm not going to feel bad about that because you don't think that every politician does this.

I know, yeah. I'm not going to feel I'm not going to like, apologize for Trump. I mean, he just does it in such a memorable. But can you imagine, Julie. Because I know this is really hard to to believe, but once in a while I've done things that required an apology for Julie. But can you imagine if I apologize to you?

And then I said, wasn't that the best apology ever? That was just the best apology. I wouldn't recommend doing that to any woman. Not me. Not your wife, not your daughters. I am going to recommend that to her, to the men in the audience, next time they have to, to reconcile with their wife. Once you're done, ten minutes later.

Say, wasn't that the best apology you've ever heard from me? That's like when the man goes. Just relax. It's all going to be okay. It's. Oh, I hadn't thought about that. You are a genius. I will just relax. Yeah. That's all you had to do all along is just relax. It's not that hard.

That's funny. Oh, maybe I'll say it tomorrow because it's still 936. I was going to tell everybody that Jean Valjean was going to be on. We share, but it doesn't drop till noon, so maybe I'll do it tomorrow. Okay. Yeah. Do you want a really quick teaser today? And then you can talk about it a little more tomorrow?

Sure. Okay. Yeah. No. It's good. Did a lot of laughing on that podcast. John Valjean is a kick in the rear end. Oh, yeah. He's he's fun. I you if you're in a meeting like a staff meeting. You never want to be too far away from Valjean because he's always saying something. Yeah. And it's under his breath.

So you have to be close enough to hear. And he's really good at eye contact too. He'll just he'll do that like, the office thing where he just looks at you like. Yeah. Yes, he does do that. Did you know he I was I asked him a question on the podcast to explain some of his most memorable moments, and he talked about some local high school moments.

He broadcast the two state champions by championships, by Idaho Falls High School. And I think there is 30 something years between them. Oh, wow. And he did both of them because he's been broadcasting for 40 plus years. That's, one of the reasons I Baldini, he is truly passionate about about what he does. Yeah. It's he doesn't like I called him a legend once, and he told me not to say that, but I don't.

Is there another word? There's not another guy. There's not another word. A humble legend. Yeah. Him that. Yeah. He's a humble. It still singing here I am, Rocky. Like a hurricane at falsetto pitch. Here I am. Would you like a hurricane?

Oh, okay. I don't know if it's allergies or what, but I'm a little congested. Probably change in the. Yeah. What's in the air? I did notice a little pollen on my car this morning.

If you're a criminal, you'll be deported. If you plan to enter the US illegally. Your chances of getting caught and sent back just went up. The actions I'm taking are not only lawful. They're the kinds of actions taken by every single Republican president and every single Democratic president for the past half century. Oh, that didn't age well for the Democrats, did it, Julie?

They want to pretend like that doesn't happen under Democrat leadership, that people aren't sent out of the country. Look, doesn't this fuel our belief that the Democrat Party and the media is one big gaslighting narrative? You're supposed to not believe your eyes and ears. You're not supposed to hear that clip from Barack Obama, which his policy is very Trumpian.

It is exactly what Trump's doing. You're here illegally. We're sending you back. You commit crimes here. We're sending you back. And that's exactly what Trump's doing. And now we have riots in the streets across the country. I sent you that clip last night. Did you read any of the comments underneath it? No. Somebody commented that. Yeah, but he provided due process before he sent people away.

Oh stop it. Stop with the lies. He didn't do anything different. You know what's different? There weren't injunctions on what Obama did. Okay, I you know what, I I'm at the point, Julie. This whole due process thing. That whole charade that they drug us through for about 3 to 4 weeks there for a while is ridiculous. The due process is our agencies have the authority to determine if someone is here illegally, and if they are they can send them back.

There is no criminal due process like you have if you're charged with a crime. It's just okay. We've determined that you're not here legally so you're scheduled for deportation. I also so many of these deportations that have happened are men and a few women who are already incarcerated. So we're softening up the jails and the prisons because they're already convicted criminals and they're illegals.

And we're sending them back. You know what? The due process has already happened. Yeah. The right. It's here. You are exactly right. They make crap up. They do. Is that just the the way to to characterize Gavin Newsom? He needed Trump to not call him because he needed to be able to say Trump's not engaging with me. Well, Trump called him.

They had a 16 minute phone conversation. Yeah. The National Guard. Trump brings in the National Guard. They needed to lie and say, that's never this is unprecedented. No it's not. No it isn't. They just make things up when they need something to be true. They make Karine. Jean-Pierre. Oh, those videos that you see of Biden wandering around the stage, and Obama had to help him off.

Those are cheap fakes. Yep. Now you just make it up. Yep. Making it all up. I talking about Gavin Newsom. One thing we haven't mentioned about him this morning that I was thinking about when I was looking at the clips, is that he lies, right? He lied when that woman called or came up while he was on the phone, and he said, I'm literally talking to the president right now.

And he literally wasn't talking to the president. Yeah, because he doesn't know what that word means. Remember Covid when they arrested people on the beaches in California who were walking outside alone and they got arrested? Yet Gavin Newsom ate at the French Laundry restaurant with a whole bunch of people. Yeah, I do remember that. He's just a liar.

Yeah, he is going to manufacture crisis. He's going to manufacture, made up concepts like Trump didn't call whatever works for him. And then behind your back, he's going to do something different. Yeah. And that's. I had forgotten about the French Laundry thing. He's just a liar. I hope he runs for president, because all of this stuff is going to be very entertaining to rehash.

Absolutely. And, go through. So we were talking Julie, Donald Trump and Elon Musk. Trump reacted about an hour ago to Elon Musk's conciliatory tone. So here's what the tweet says. I believe it's real. I'm I'm operating because this is very Trump. So I haven't done a deep dive to see it yet. But it looks it looks legit to me okay.

It says I'm open to reconciling with Elon after seeing his latest posts. Elon knows I love him. JD knows this too. I give the best and biggest reconciliations. Everyone knows this. Okay. Now I do want to suggest to all of the men in our audience you need to use this this tactic when you when you get in trouble with your wife or with your girlfriend and you find a need that you you should apologize.

About ten minutes after the apology. I want you to say, wasn't that just the best apology ever? I it's going to go over so well for you. I give the greatest reconciliations ever. You're lucky to have me, because that was just the best apology in the history of apologies. If there was a museum of apologies, that would have been in it.

If best apology was was needing a evidence of I would be the picture. Yes. If they named bridges and federal buildings after apologies. That apology would be would have its own bridge. Neil Larson gateway. Yes. That's right. All right. 945 no, we don't have to take a break yet. We're on we're on task. Whereas for once, we're on schedule.

Julie, it's the diet Mountain Dew. I told you to go get it. Put everything back in order. Maybe. Maybe involuntary soda has more caffeine than voluntary. So you think, oh, you should have heard it. Once I turn the mics off, Julie screamed at me. You go get some diet. Oh my gosh, knock it off. I did not, you know, we're going to tell him what I really said.

I said, are you going to go use the restroom? Because if you aren't, I'm going to go get you a soda. She did say that. It's true. I apologize. I'm really sorry. It's. That was the best apology. Was that the best apology ever, though? It really was, wasn't it? That was the best. Reconcile ation in the history of reconciliation.

Speaking of soda, yesterday the waiver was signed. And so now, in Idaho, soda and candy will not be able to be purchased with snap benefits. Okay, man, what do you think of this? I actually had a portion of this conversation with Kevin Cook. We talked about this. Yeah. And, did he vote in favor of it?

Yes, I believe in the in this case, he did. Okay. Yeah. A lot of people feel like you can't take the freedoms of people away like that. I feel differently if it's government money. You don't. You don't hang a flag in the classroom. If it's government money and you if it's government money that's purchasing these, these things, then we get to determine what gets purchased.

Let's go back for just a moment. What? Tell me what he said again, trying to say that I said a lot of people. Okay. That okay. Yeah. Well it. Yeah. And that well I did I have heard that usually they're Democrats or Democrats who call themselves Republicans who say things like that. Well, I think people should be able to, to have freedom.

And when you think that I get it like I can understand that. But there's already guardrails on it. You can't take your Snap benefits and go buy a big screen TV. Are you limiting their freedom because they can't buy a big screen TV with EBT cards. No you're not. It's, it's designed for a specific use and this is just tweaking that use a little bit.

So don't care if that person drinks soda. I'm never going to tell somebody they can or can't do that. That's up to you. But if you're going to use government funds, you have regulations that are included with those government funds. You don't. Yeah. If you're using someone else's money, you've already surrendered your freedom. Your your freedom is to go out and earn money.

And then you can go buy your big screen TV or whatever. But the instant you said, okay, I want my neighbors to buy my food, I'm going to turn to that. And I, I don't I don't want to degrade anyone. There are people who, who have needed, food stamps from time to time. So I don't I don't want to to degrade them by saying it like that.

However, there is a principle in all of this, which is that somebody else's money and there are conditions attached to it. So this is not limiting freedom in any way. I, I feel this way about the flag controversy in classrooms. If you want to hang whatever flag you would like to. Yeah. In your workspace, don't do a job that your job is provided by the government.

Yeah, you can go work for a private school, and then you can take it up with your bosses and decide if you can hang whatever flag you want to, you know, in that classroom. Yes. But in a public funded space, there should be limitations on what can be put on the walls. Yeah, it's government money. Yeah. Yeah, I, I agree what what causes that feeling of entitlement to where if you're a teacher, you think these are my walls and I will put on my walls whatever I want to put on my walls?

I think they're told that repeatedly, especially by the the teachers union. I am maybe it's a level of indoctrination that happened since college. I don't know, culture thing. Yeah, yeah. But I really in theory, your paycheck comes from the government, which means they're a form of your boss. Yeah, we have bosses. If you don't want a boss, go out and start your own business and you be the boss.

Yeah. That's true, but until you go out and start your own business and you be the boss, there's someone above you. Yeah. And they get to determine what hangs on the walls. They get to determine what the snap benefits are used for. Because you're not the boss. Right? Then. Yeah. If you want to be the boss of your own money, don't take snap benefits.

Yeah. Yeah. Right, right. Okay, I, I did hear, I think I, I can't remember somebody online had it. They were a conservative, but they had an alternative view of the the sign on the wall. Like at some point the the wrong if you have to babysit your teachers this much, maybe you've hired the wrong people. Does that make sense?

Sure. Like like you want to just hire people that know that, no, that it's not appropriate to put politicized messages on the wall. Now, you might say back, because I have this phantom antagonist, Julie, that sits on my shoulder, and this phantom antagonist is saying that wasn't a political message. It just said, everyone is welcome here. Now, normally I would agree with the those words are not political, but when you have different colored racial hands and rainbow themed, designs on that poster, it absolutely is political.

There's a visual message that's being sent that the text is not conveying. Right. I can take the phrase Make America Great again and put make on one wall like the East wall, America on the south wall, the next word on the next wall, like, and I can claim, let's not politicized because the words are separated. That's true.

Okay. These are these are unrealistic arguments. Do not do that. Yeah. You knew what you were doing. It was a political it was a political sign. And you know that. And we all know that. And you just we want instinctive responsibility. If I was a teacher, I wouldn't put any Donald Trump paraphernalia on my walls. That would be that would be incorrect.

But I will say if the if the liberal teacher down the hall can put up their sign, then if I'm a teacher and I'm teaching spelling, I would say, okay, kids, the first spelling word today is make. The second word is America. Our third word today is great. We're. And then again and then and then the bonus word capitalism.

There we go. That's true. We'll be back after this night. 952 on Newstalk 10790. Can somebody asking if we have a call letter that reaches to the chalice area, do we do one of our stations? Not quite. I will direct them to the app. Yeah. Somebody saying we need to have a Trump train for his birthday.

Maybe the route could go downtown. Yeah, I saw that, we. You know what? If someone will organize the logistics, we will help promote it. I won't be there, though. You'll be in Nashville, right? I won't Saturday, I have to do two podcasts because I have to pre-record a podcast that I would typically be doing while I am in Nashville.

So it's not just a regular workday, which usually consists of about 5 to 6 hours. It's a double workday, so it's a long day. It is a very long day Saturday, but well worth it because I leave bright and early Sunday morning for Nashville. Yeah, you're going to come back with a twang. Not likely. Not probably not, not likely.

But we are thinking about taking, line dancing lessons, so I'll come back and show you line dances. Okay. Yep. I didn't even know that was a thing anymore. I thought that was like, I don't know, 1992 line dancing still happens. All right. Did you ever visit retreats? It was kind of out of your geographical realm. But you never went there?

Never went to retreats. Were you a frequent retreats? Yeah. I mean, not every weekend, but yeah, we would go up to retreats. Wasn't my mom's favorite thing because she was always worried that we were young and there were older college. What was that? I just screwed up. Sorry. I thought I was deleting these and I was playing them.

So people are like the first two seconds of, like four pieces. Okay, we got a focus on.

955 on Newstalk 107I, Neil Larson, along with Proud Re Tricks Dance Academy alum Julie Mason, who, was just talking about, all the, Rick's college dancing. She, half of our listening audience is like, I love free tricks. I never, I never I never went to Rick's. You're kind of geographically too south. I was an ESU kid, so yes, I was.

I was too far south. So we had good times at retrace. It's total FOMO like I had. I had friends that went up to Rick's, and they, you know, they were also proud. RI tricks alum. Yeah. I don't know how we got away with it, but we went in high school, too, and I don't remember if they asked for ID, I don't remember how it all went down, but we would be there with college boys if we like sharing a root beer with college boys.

And then you went and did the electric Slide and you know all that stuff. Sure. Sharing a root beer. Okay. It's electric.

No, I actually don't like root beer. Do you like root beer? On occasion, I don't. I don't dislike it, but I don't I don't drink it a lot either, so I a I yeah, I, I'm okay with it. Okay. I never knew my answer to root beer would be complicated, but it's. I'm okay with root beer if root beer, if he had to list his relationship status with root beer, it would be.

It's complicated. It's complicated. No. Yeah, I like root beer, I will say. Do you like a root beer float? Not really. Really low down on my choice of dessert. Well, sorry. You were unlike all the other tricks I love in that regard.

Stereotyping much? Yeah. You know, and. Sorry. Sermon. Kids drink and root beer. Yeah. But then do you remember that it got a little scandalous when Bach's came out because Bach's had caffeine in it. I do not remember this. Did it really? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I the level of sincerity, I go. No, it did. I absolutely had caffeine.

And you hoped your mom didn't read the label because I grew up in a Diet Pepsi home? Yeah, I could have as much caffeine as I wanted, so it didn't. But I know there were kids who that caffeine was. Well, it was incredibly, incredibly restricted. I grew up, I drank a Coke every single day, probably my sophomore through senior year.

Like, I just Coke was my thing and and my parents weren't caffeine Nazis at all. But yeah, I think for some, you know, there were some if there was caffeine in a, in a soda, like it was, it was a thing, you know, deal. And so there were lots of kids that were hiding some barks under their bed and, you know, hope mom didn't catch them drinking it.

I was gonna say, mom's crying in the living room. Dad storms into the bedroom. Do you not know what you've done to your mother? You're ruining our good family name. All right, everyone, we're going to end the show that way because we're out of time. But we'll be back tomorrow for a new stock. 179 Clay and back up next.