9.11.2024 -- NLS -- Debate Aftermath: Trump vs. Harris, Media Bias, and What's Next?

On this episode, we dive into the aftermath of the highly anticipated debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris, with reactions pouring in from across the political spectrum. We discuss the surprising strength of Kamala Harris' performance, the mixed reviews on Donald Trump's approach, and how media coverage, particularly on 9/11, impacted the perception of the event. We also explore the frustrations many felt about the moderation, with Trump often interrupted by fact checks while Harris seemingly avoided scrutiny. Plus, we talk about the possibility of another debate and the role walk-up music could play in setting the tone for future political events. Tune in for debate analysis, listener reactions, and predictions on what this all means for the upcoming election.

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Welcome to the Priebe. What is this call? Julie? Bonus exclusive content. It's. It's a bribe. Actually, it's a way to get people to listen to the episode of the podcast that's working. So. And we've got some fun with this one today with this exclusive content. Yes, this has been a lot of fun. And let me give the entire credit to Julie here.

She said to me, hey, I think our bonus content today should be choosing walkup music for the two candidates because of course it's debate day. Julie. We had talked about the music list that we were going to play tonight, and I went, well, if both candidates are coming on stage, what is their walkup music? So Neil and I have worked up our versions of Kamala Harris as walkup music and Donald Trump's walkup music.

Okay, Julie, you choose who should we go first? Oh. Let's do Kamala first. Okay. We we did a little brainstorming and poking around and we thought, you know what? This would be good. Walkup music, the platters. Yes, I'm the great pretender. I think this fits. Have been engaged like a clown. Well, I seem to be, but I'm not.

You see, I seem to be. What I'm not. You see. So I think that song was initially kind of a romantic song, but it fits. Her romances have been about her political career, too. Can I say it's really intermingled? Those two? Yeah, she really has. All right. Should we do the second Kamala walk up or the first Trump walk up?

Yeah. Okay. We can do one in the other and then one in the other. So this is our first Trump walk up okay. And it's very very self-evident. Hey hey hey hey. Last time I took my jokes man. Yeah of course this is this is the anthem of toxic masculinity. So much so many. I got to be a macho.

I think. You know, we've been to several Trump rallies. I think this has. This, of course, is the Village People has been played before. Yeah, yeah. That's Trump. We had a lot to choose from of music that had been played before. But let's get to Kamala second. Okay. Lock up music. I will say this, Julie was a little more familiar with this song than I was, but here it is.

Do you hear me? I ain't saying she a gold digger. I'm believe she my son when no one will be my name. Since she a gold digger. I'm beneath you. She mentioned when I wrote, Kanye West, you little Jamie Fox in there, too. Yeah. You can get that little gold digger. You think that fits it? Well, she's taking a gold out of my pockets.

Yeah, well that's true. I wonder if Willie wants to weigh in on this, too. Yeah. All right. Well, no up playlist for Trump would be complete without this one. We're not gonna take any. No, we ain't gonna take any. Oh, we're not gonna take it. You know, I love Twisted Sister, and it's such a good song, so. Okay, so there you have it.

That's great. Yeah, I'm sure you guys had lots of suggestions as well. We had so many to choose from, but these were the the four that we narrowed it down to. All right, walk up music. That was fun. All right. Let's get to the podcast here on the Neil Carson Show. And we.

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And good morning. It is Wednesday. It's seven minutes after 8:00 on Newstalk 1079. It is 911. And the nation, of course, pauses to honor the lives that were lost 23 years ago today. And of course, we also are coming off a big what might be the only singular debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris last night it was an ABC news sponsored debate, but other media outlets could carry it.

And so much we've heard from our listeners quite a bit in the wake of this and a wide array of opinion about, the performance last night of multiple people, the moderators, Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and overall, what is the impact, what is the outcome of the debate from last night? And will this be a permanent needle mover?

I think Kamala Harris actually had a stronger night than most of us expected. The Kamala Harris we've become used to is a word salad. Insecure doesn't want tough questions, and she didn't really get any. She got maybe one that you could say was kind of a tough question, but no follow up, no fact checking, nothing. So I think the the real world takeaway of it is that Kamala probably will get a boost, but I don't think that it will last long.

I think we haven't seen Kamala in days. Up until last night, she had to spend days and days and days preparing for a 90 minute back. She went a little longer than that. It was more like, an hour and 45. But, preparing for that debate, she cannot sustain it day to day. She will go back to her word salad herself.

She'll go back to hiding from reporter interviews, even really friendly ones. She'll go back to the Kamala. We've we've come to know now, we've seen this Kamala before. Back in 2016, when she did a pretty good job of dissecting Joe Biden and his position on segregation effectively, at least in that moment, painted him as a racist. And many people thought Kamala won that debate.

So let's learn from history. Guess who went on to become the president of the United States? The person she beat in the debate. So you may not even agree that Kamala won the debate last night. That's okay. But if you do think that she won the debate last night, and there's a lot of Republicans that say, yeah, she kind of did, it doesn't matter.

What matters is here on out, Donald Trump. Look, we're fine. And we I got a little now, I wouldn't even call it a lecture, but I did get a call earlier this morning from a listener who said, I couldn't disagree with you more on Donald Trump's performance. I don't think it was a disaster last night. I think he did fine.

I think it was adequate. There are things that I think he could have done better and improved upon, but I think he's just fine. So the media portrayal of this, of course, is that Kamala knocked it out of the park and Trump was a disaster and he was mean and he was angry. All right. Ignore it all. It is chaff in the wind.

Donald Trump is fine. And he did fine last night. And he's going to get back on the campaign trail now immediately Kamala Harris, his campaign, said we want another debate. And here's the problem. I don't think if you're going to create a Venn diagram of debate, agree ability, that there's really going to be any overlap. There is no reason for Donald Trump to have another debate, none at all.

If it's going to be moderated the way that it was last night, that he he should just stay away from it because it's a rigged game. You're going in and the house is always going to win and they will. It's it's like going into a casino and you're you're never going to come away a winner in that casino.

No. Here's what I would do if I were Donald Trump. I said, I'll give you one more debate. It'll be moderated by Brett Baer and Martha MacCallum, and we'll do it on Fox News. And any other media outlet that wants to carry it. That's the only way I'm going to have another debate with you, Kamala, and we will have a studio audience and you set the terms.

If she doesn't want to, then she doesn't want to. And and that's fine. But I, I there's sort of reporting out there by the mainstream media that Republicans are now in a panic. I read a piece by Doug Schoen and Doug Jones take on this was, well, Donald Trump still has a chance of winning this. I like what are you talking about?

That last night's debate was not an existential threat to it does not put his campaign at risk. People forget this stuff in 48 hours. And furthermore, because today happens to be 911, the 911 coverage is going to bury a lot of the boost that Kamala Harris would be probably getting otherwise. So that's my take on this. I think it was, I don't know, they used the word spirited way too much.

I will tell you this though. And I had a wonderful time last night. Of course, we held the debate watch party at the snake River Event Center inside Shiloh in, and we had a great crowd. Lots of people came out prior to that. And this is the thing we didn't really talk about. But, we you remember the Bozeman situation?

We organized a bus to the Bozeman rally. We were super excited and everything went swimmingly. And we get to the rally. The bus ride was a lot of fun. And we just just as you can imagine, it was it was kind of a party bus atmosphere. We get to Bozeman, Julie and I go in, we had media credentials, so we're in the media area, lots of empty seats when we got in there.

But as time went on, the seats were filling up and our people outside were getting closer but not close enough and most of our people didn't get in it. It was very, very disappointing and we were disappointed for them. We get done with the rally. We're headed home. And Julian, since that moment in time, Julie and I are like, we can't let this just hang out there an end.

There. So with the help of, snake River Event Center, they have great catering there. We had a VIP dinner for our Bozeman people. Just them, and some of them brought a plus one, but it was exclusively for them. And they were. They are fantastic. And I just want to say a thank you to to them, our Bozeman crew.

Thank you to everyone that came last night for the debate. It is thanks to your ego, though, I will say as people walk through, we are shaking hands and we had a lot of people that just thanked us. They think we're awesome and they think we're great. And in my mind, I'm like, you just don't know. You don't know us well enough that if you think we're as great as you say we are, you just haven't been around this long enough.

Not really. But you were very spectacular. I did ask last night if there happens to be another debate, would you want to do it again? And there was, yes, overwhelming applause. People said we would love to have another debate watch party. I talked to David at the event center last night. I said, all right, so if there is another debate, would you be open to us doing this again?

He's like, absolutely, just just put it down and we are on board and we'll do it again. So let's watch. Let's let's wait and see if they orchestrate another debate. We're going to have another watch party and we'll probably do it in very, very similar fashion. So overall a great night. I do want to get to a couple of clips here, from the debate last night.

Things that I thought Trump did really, really well. And I thought one of his strongest moments he could have and this is the constructive feedback that I would give him. This should have been his whatever. They didn't have opening statements, but it doesn't matter if you're in control, then you make whatever point you want to make during the debate.

And Trump should have made this point from the get go and reiterated it all night. And I think he largely waited till his closing statements to make it. But listen. So he just started by saying she's going to do this, she's going to do that. She's going to do all these wonderful things. Why hasn't she done it? She's been there for three and a half years.

They've had three and a half years to fix the border. They've had three and a half years to create jobs and all the things we talked about. Why hasn't she done it? She should leave right now. Go down to that beautiful white House, go to the Capitol, get everyone together and do the things you want to do. But you haven't done it and you won't do it because you believe in things that the American people don't believe in.

Okay, so great point. He goes on to elaborate on that, somewhat. He could have made this exact point at every policy promise that she put forward last night. He could have reminded the audience, reminded America she's had access to these reins of power for the last three and a half years, and we are no closer to having any of this than we were three and a half years ago.

So what makes you think that she's suddenly going to shift gears on day one? She could be doing this stuff right now. Look. And and he did point this out. I, I don't think Trump really has a fine line to walk when it comes to Joe Biden. Everybody is so over Joe right now that I think Trump's mockery of Joe was was just fine.

But right now you have an incapacitated boss and you are the number two. You have an outsized amount of influence as a vice president, and you could move things forward. You could get things done. You could accomplish a lot for the American people. Yet you haven't. And that's the big question. Why haven't you done the things that you say that you want to do?

She's not going to this is just patting people on. It's placating and it's a ploy for her to get elected. She has no intention whatsoever of doing all these common sense, middle of the road, moderate things that she says, it's not going to happen. I hate their empty promises because if she could. No, if she were, if she was going to, she would have done this already.

So that's just, a lie. But here's, Donald talking about Joe. They have the right to do the president of the United States. You'll get him out of bed. You'll wake him up at 4:00 in the afternoon. You say, come on. Come on down to the office. Let's sign a bill. If he if he signs a bill that the border is closed, all he has to do is say it to the Border Patrol, who are phenomenal.

If they do that, the border is closed. Mr.. Okay. So you have that and you heard David Muir, and this happened on multiple occasions last night when Donald Trump was about to swing and hit a home run, you had David Muir interrupting him, either with some trivial fact check or the time was up and it was being strictly enforced for Donald Trump.

Now, look, I've caught flack. I am the program director for Newstalk 179. Our news provider is ABC news. I have told you before, they were not our first choice. I think they do a stellar job from a technical aspect. They provide an immense amount of support and their delivery is unequaled in the industry I do. That does not stop me, however, from having at times big problems with the way they present, the news.

Now, I'm not going to I'm not going to get off in the weeds on this because people are like, get rid of it. Well, there's a thing called a contract. You can't just get rid of it. And we're not, we're not we're not going to unless our top choice becomes suddenly available. So we're that's I'll just put that out there.

But I will say last night, David Muir specifically his performance was abysmal. It was unethical from a journalistic standpoint. It was beneath what he's capable of doing. I believe it showed cowardice. I don't know if he's the liberal or he's operating at the behest of radical progressives, but I don't think there was a single fact check of multiple falsehoods that tumbled out of Kamala Harris's mouth.

And shame on both him and Linsey Davis for not pressing her one example. Then there are many. One example was when she talked about her position on fracking and her talking point, because there's an initial question and it's usually asked with a rather a feminist politeness. But they want to be journalists. And so they ask the question, you've changed your position on fracking in 2019.

Here's what you said. And then 2020, when you're, running for president, you moderated. Can you explain the disparity? Kamala never answers that question. She never answers the question. Contrasting her 2019 fracking position with her sudden conversion to being okay with fracking in 2020. She always goes to a talking point and said, I have been consistent in 2020, I am open to fracking and I have been that way ever since.

No, we're not talking about that. We're talking about what made you flip. You've been against it in 2019. Address it. And if you have to say 2019 ten times, then you say 2019 ten times. That's the issue that she would not address with Dana Bash in the CNN interview. It's the issue she did not address last night after she was asked that question.

And we had no follow up. I was about to say anemic follow. It wasn't even anemia. It it was cardiac arrest. It there was nothing there it was it was a flatlined effort on the part of the moderators to actually get clarity as to why Kamala Harris keeps flipping on her positions. This was another, I think, missed opportunity last night for Donald Trump.

This issue of taxing unrealized gains will destroy our economy. Even Mark Cuban, who is a Kamala Harris sycophant, has said taxing unrealized capital gains is a horrible idea. They didn't ask about that. Trump should have pressed the issue because I think now it's not the silver bullet. But that's another horribly, terribly, terribly crafted idea in the Kamala Harris campaign.

You never with it. You pin it to her. You don't you don't let her run from it or be silent on it. And nobody brought it up. And I thought, you've got to bring that up because most people realize how unworkable that is. And and what a what a just a terribly bad idea it is. All right. We've got a lot more clips.

We'll open up the phone lines in just a little bit. Of course, it is the 23rd anniversary of 911 and we will be doing some observation of that as well. It's all ahead on this Wednesday on Newstalk 179. Back up to this.

It is 830 on Newstalk 10792085421079. That's the fall River propane call and text line. Neil Larson along with Julie Mason. One thing Julie noticed right off the bat if, well, a few minutes into the debate last night was I don't remember seeing Trump look at her even once. He stared straight ahead into the camera. He faced the moderators.

He didn't even visually acknowledge that she was there even when he addressed her, which was really only an again, a direct address was when he asked her, why don't you answer the question, are you okay with abortion? It's the seventh month, the eighth month and the nine month. He didn't even turn his body directly to her. Yeah, there was a lot of the debate where she was facing him, giving him dirty looks, a lot of facial expressions by Kamala last night.

He didn't do that hardly at all. A couple of shakes of the head. He never looked at her and he just sat there almost a little angry and stone faced. Yeah, but I'm okay. That he was angry. I'm angry. Yeah. I'm upset about what our country looks like. So why should I expect him to go there and laugh and joke and and be all happy and jolly?

Yeah. So none of that bothered me at all with with Trump's performance. You know, she also represents the side. Think of what Donald Trump has been through, the hoaxes that they've perpetrated to try and prevent him from becoming president, the hoaxes they perpetrated to impeach him, the hoaxes that they perpetrated to charge him and use lawfare to try and take him out, the, he's been shot and largely because of leftist rhetoric, if you believe it wasn't an inside job, if you believe it was an inside job, then it's even worse.

Kamala Harris represents that deep state, that establishment, that whole complex that's been trying to destroy him politically. Yeah, he's walking in there. Yeah. So to bounce off of what you just said, I think five times she used the phrase turn the page as if she's this new up and coming fresh on the scene. You have been engaged in this for years.

You tried to you tried to be the presidential nominee. At one point, they had to put you in as vice president because you're black, like you have been in this for more than four years, but you're going to the beat, the drama, turn the page. You are the novel. Yes, you are the reason we're in this bad place.

We're turning the page on what? You're not a fresh page. No, you're. She out. Okay, let me ask you this question because her messaging is we need to turn the page. Great. Whatever doesn't. It's not that compelling to me, but yet the very same people believe that she's the second coming of Barack Obama. So is that turning the page?

How do those two things coexist? Yeah, that's a that's a weird thing. All right. We have a caller, standing by. Caller. Go ahead. Your thoughts. How are you today? Go ahead, caller, you're on. Okay. We got to let him go. All right. They were there. They were there. They nailed on their 82085421079. And, so, yeah, you and I were talking off air and there's, I don't know, tell me if I'm especially irritated by this or this is something that everyone else experiences when I watch Kamala Harris, she has this this look, and she squints her eyes a little bit and she may draw her chin in at one point.

And you pointed this out. She actually kind of grabs her chin with a cup, her index finger and her thumb. And it's this look of, you're such a moron. I can't even believe I have to share this room with you. And, I watch that, and I know it's probably something that she has developed as a power look or a body language effort to make someone else feel uncomfortable.

So she gains advantage in a situation. I don't know what that is. All right, I really don't. But I do think it is, though, is you do that when you compensate for not having substance and not having merit. You, you, you make up for it in other ways. So you've developed this power. Look where you stare people down and you look through them and you try to intimidate them.

And she may think that it helps her. And with some people it might be because some people are easily swayed, like you'd watch Kamala. They. Well, she just shook her head when Donald Trump said something. And they take that as a slam dunk. Fact check of Donald Trump if she mouths the words not true, she just fact check Donald Trump.

And it's absolutely true what she said. You know, like I think the weak minds will fall for that. I watch it. It's irritating as hell if I if I'm being honest with you. And I think it's a very unlikable trait that she has. I think it was unlikable and I don't think it benefited her last night. But I would agree with you.

I think there's probably one on one situations where she gains a lot of control doing that as she as I told you over the commercial break, there was a pundit who talked about how why are we surprised that she behaves this way? She's manipulated men her entire life to get to the position she's in. Yeah. Why is that going to be any different on a debate stage in 2024?

This is a learned behavior over decades. Yeah. That she has gained control with. Now for us, I don't think it's great on a debate stage. You're not near her. You're not getting that, that interpersonal connection. You're seeing her through a can you get a camera? It just comes off as irritating. Yeah, well, it does, and and a very, very unlikable, like, not a person you'd want to be around.

I think for her that was her compensation for the fact she didn't have a microphone to interrupt Trump with. And so she'll sort of try and accomplish the same thing with the viewer by having the power. Look, it's I also think we're we're edgy today. Are you edgy? I'm edgy. I think we're edgy because we want to close this out.

Yeah, I want this 45 days to be done. I want him to destroy her in the polls. I want to get back to where I feel safe about my kids living in a different state. Yeah, I want to get back to that point where I'm not worried. We're on the verge of World War three. I want to get back to that point that I'm confident about the money that I have in the bank and about my retirement.

I want those things as part of my life, and none of them exist. With Kamala in control or with the Biden administration in control. So I'm edgy this morning. Maybe I'm weighing too much of the debate through that edgy lens. Maybe I need to take a breath. Yeah. It was it was a draw at best. Yeah. And we're just going to carry forward and let Trump finish out the next 45 days.

That's how it in the run up to talking about this debate, I cited a number of examples where debates were either turning points or they were needle movers, turning points or fatal blows. I think that when Ronald Reagan debated, Jimmy Carter looked at the camera and said, are you better off than you were four years ago? Fatal blow.

It was a death blow to Jimmy Carter at that moment. Done. I think when Ronald Reagan, had his very funny moment against Walter Mondale and said, I know Mike, my opponent is trying to make age an issue, but I won't make an issue of my opponent's inexperience and and youth, you know, that. Everybody laughed. Even Mondale laughed.

That was the end of Mondale. Like, after that, they're like, yeah, Reagan's the guy. And and America move forward. And in a landslide, they elected Ronald Reagan. So there were those moments, you you had one eight years ago, Donald Trump against Hillary Clinton when he brought up the late term abortion. I think that was a fatal blow last night.

In reflection on that debate, I we might have seen a needle mover a little bit, 1 or 2 percentage points. There was no turning point, and there certainly were no fatal blows last night by either side. So this is a very, very forgettable debate, as most debates end up being, I would say, 80 or 90% of the political debates that we have that are high profile.

They go on to be rather meaningless. Yeah. I would agree with you. I think that that's where they're at. I call Trump the superstar earlier. I believe if he just now hits the campaign trail, goes big, goes hard. That's how you finish this out. She's not going to get back out there and make any kind of headway.

I don't expect her to do any more interviews. She's not going to start holding press conferences all of a sudden. That's not gonna happen. No. And so this is the last inflection point we had the DNC. We had her naming her vice presidential candidate. We had the debate. I don't think there's going to be another debate. This is the last moment for her.

Yeah. From this point forward, she's going to most likely fumble in everything that she does. Let Donald Donald Trump finish this out. Yeah I agree. And if there's anybody worried this morning if you're watching the mainstream media, Kamala Harris had the moment of her life lesson. It's not true. None of it's true. Okay. Julie, we have a, I believe, a repeat caller on the line.

How much time should we give them? Five seconds. Okay, I'll give you a seven seconds. Caller. Go ahead real quick. You guys are great on the radio anyway. Hey. Thank you. You always are. What I radio people did call a, low bar of expectations last night, and I think that kind of sets my my mood is to contrast slightly exceeded what I expected to see from her.

From the word solid. She didn't show any word. Solid like she she did. You know, she didn't really show any thing exceptional. She played the weekly card, the emotion card. The manipulative card. Yeah, well, you know, she didn't really bring anything up. And I had to watch this game twice. The first time I was, I was shocked that she did so well.

Yeah. Real quick call her. Anyway. Anyway, so what happened is I, Oh my goodness. Anyway, I thought that Trump did better than I expected. The second time around, and it is always on a state defensive. And I thought he did rather well despite the fact that it was one against three. So I agree he should go back on the campaign trail.

Yeah. And, just go back to work. That's certainly where his strength is. Thank you for the call. It is 842 quick break for the news. We'll be back.

By the way, I have the Tiger was our leadoff in our walk up music last night. I mean, wasn't walk up music, but we had. We had a playlist, and this was the first one I picked. You have to have this. It's a good one. Did you know I never not met a tiger Aberdeen tiger that I went on to be an Idaho state.

Bengal I. Yeah, sure. You ate a tiger here. I didn't a tiger here at the fair. It's true. Your underwear or tiger striped. They are not.

I'll. I'll do what David Muir didn't last night with Kamala. I'll fact check you on that. I definitely don't have tiger striped, underwear. Okay, let's just move on to like that. Could this conversation could swerve all over the place? So. Okay. I was happy to hear we. If you missed our interview with Senator Crapo, there is a group that is called the Advisory Council on Historic Preservations.

They've been doing consultation work with the Lava Ridge Wind Energy Project under suggestions. And I don't want to say pressure because there's a negative connotation, but they've been urged to withdraw their consultation on this. They have. And Senator Crapo believes that it very well could be a fatal blow to that particular project, which is a very good thing.

Yeah. Both Senator Capel and Senator Ash have been vocal about their dis distaste and how harmful this will be for Idaho. So this is good news. Yeah it is I hope it, it is the end of that. Yeah I keep hearing Senator Risch don't do it right. He did say that I even tried to a pretty I say sound a little bit like Senator is like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

All right, if you want to join us on the program, (208) 542-1079 if you are a repeat caller, we'll give you about one minute. But we'd love to hear from people about what they think about the debate last night. Whether you were at the debate watch party or you were at home throwing your shoe at the TV, whatever you were doing, I almost feel like there is a red, like a blue dress, gold dress effect here with that debate last night, because we got to the end and you were visibly kind of frustrated, like frustrated, what's going on?

And you felt like Trump could have done a much better job. I felt like he missed opportunities. And I felt that during during the whole thing, I was getting more anxious and more anxious. I thought he I thought he had some really good early strong points. But then as time went on, in fact, we were watching Trey Gowdy earlier this morning on Fox and he made a really good point.

He said, look, when you're talking about immigration, you can talk about numbers. You can talk about policy, talk about people, talk about the young people that are dying from fentanyl poisoning. You talk about girls being trafficked. Talk about, you know, the 290,000. Now, it's even more than that of the kids that have gone missing under the Biden administration.

Talk about people and how their policies have hurt people, killed people, harmed people. And Trey Gowdy felt like that was a missed opportunity for for Trump. But again, I go back to we're fine. All right. Trump does what Trump does. And sometimes he absolutely knocks it out of the park in his way. And I'll take that. And and yeah, are there things that I would have liked to have seen last night during the debate?

Yeah, probably. But I think he's going to be okay. Yeah. And I said I'm edgy. I think I'm seeing it through that lens. Give me 24 hours. I might feel different. I just want so badly for this country to repair and to become better. I want it for my grandchildren. I want it for our futures. And I think that's the edginess and the anxiousness that I'm feeling.

You. Yeah, feel the same. Let's go to the, phones. Hi, caller. How are you today? Hello. Good, good. Okay, so I just I wanted to share real quick. We're not a day trading group, and we kind of had a little mini poll this morning. We all watched in, so we had about 1188 people vote in our in our stock trading group.

And as of right now, 80% of them are in favor of Trump and 20% are in favor of Harris. After watching that debate last night, we were kind of chatting about it this morning. And and that's that's what I've seen just from our little mini poll here. So I want to ask you a question. What do you think that poll would have been if you had done it before the debate?

You know, I don't think Kamala is is popular before or afterwards. I mean, she's been through, what, two presidential nominees and has know the zero votes from the states. I mean, yeah, they talked about the smirks that she would make on TV and and many of them said they just had to turn it off. They couldn't even watch it just to see and watch her face and her little eye rolls and smirks.

I mean, they couldn't even sit through the debates or watch her. Okay, same. That's exactly how I, I took it. Can I take you? Can I clarify your your group are where are these nearly 200 day traders out. Are they from all over the country? Are they localized in Iowa or in Utah? So no, that was 1188.

The group has probably around 3000 and day traders is what we do. They stock trading. So it's a it's a very diverse group. Other, you know, all over the country. In fact they can join from other countries if they prefer. But it's, it's very diverse across the country. And 1188 of them have chosen to to vote, you know, Biden or Trump at this point.

We just put the poll up to see, you know what? What's your take on it? What do you think? You know, how's the markets going to react from this? We talk about all this stuff every morning and that's that's the the poll numbers sitting right now. It's open for 11 more hours. But an 8020 on a diverse you know, stock trading group is in my opinion pretty good.

Yeah. Yeah I like to hear that. Yeah that's good I'm glad to hear it. Thank you for the call. We've got a break. We've got one more commercial segment here. We've got a lot of people on hold. We'll try to get to as many as possible. Coming up on Newstalk 1079. And that does it for this first hour or two.

Coming up, more phone calls when we return. Did you have fun? I had a good time. I think it was our best debate ever. I thought it was really good. We had three against one, but I anticipated about that three against one and over a lot of the positions I leave on the table here. Now, we had a lot of, a lot of negative kind of the stuff.

I saw a new show last night. They had 100% positive coverage on ABC, and I had 94% negative kind of trade, 93% negative. I got an extra percent non negative. All right. Welcome back to our 2907 on Newstalk 1079 Neil Larson along with Julie Mason. And we were talking largely this morning about the first, perhaps last and only presidential debate that we've seen.

Julie, do you think we're going to have another debate? Oh, no, not at all. This is it. This is it. I think Trump will go into another arena like this. There's some people today saying he was foolish to accept the terms on this one. And, yet he did an eight eight. I don't think it's going to matter that much in the long run, but I don't see him going for it again, like on NBC.

I don't think he's going to do an NBC debate, and she's definitely not going to agree to a Fox News debate. We had an interesting discussion last night after the debate with some of our listeners. And, you know, a lot of people praised Jake Tapper and Dana Bash for their pretty fair job moderating the Trump Biden debate. But you have to understand the context of that debate.

There was a very active effort to push Joe out of the race. They had no motivation at all to help Joe in that debate whatsoever, because they needed the switcheroo. And so there's a finish line. Yes. And he wasn't the one they're pushing across. They did the right thing, but for the wrong reasons back then. And I promise you, if the moderators last night had been Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, it would have looked very much like David Muir and Linsey Davis.

So that because now it's all in. Now that the switcheroo is complete, they got to get Kamala, pass it. So Fox News did some research. We were just watching this. They counted at least five times that Trump got fact checked. Guess how many? Four. Four. Kamala Harris zero. Not once, not once. Did they fact check her.

And she told some whoppers. She retold the good people on both sides like she, there was another one that she. Right paired with that one bloodbath. The other bloodbath one. If you heard those comments in context, you're like, that's not at all how she presented it last night against it. Not a word whatsoever. Very disappointing in my mind for the industry of journalism, for them to conduct themselves the way they did last night.

And it wasn't just the fact checking that the moderators did. They also did these basically saying, well, you didn't answer my question, so I'm going to ask you it again to Donald Trump. They did that to him several times. It only happened to her a couple of times. And even when it wasn't an actual quote fact check, they put their opinion in there, especially David Muir.

Again, I thought he was far worse than Lindsay, but David Muir, right towards the end, he was, talking about Trump and whether or not he would accept the results for 2024 because he didn't accept the results for 2020. It was this was a large couched question. Yeah, but he used the the concept that Trump said, well, you lost by a whisker.

And Trump said I was being sarcastic. And he goes, well, I guess I'm paraphrasing here. But basically he said, well, I agree, listen to that clip. And I didn't sense any sarcasm. Okay. Oh, I didn't realize you were the arbiter of decisions. I didn't. So now you have to run it through the David Muir sarcasm test. Yeah. Like that how biased David Muir was being.

It's really disappointing. Yeah. He would never said that to Kamala if she said, oh, I was just being sarcastic with that. He would have moved right on, which they did do multiple times throughout the night. Julie, if anything, and this is a larger issue, was last night not the perfect confirmation that Trump Derangement Syndrome is a very real phenomenon.

It's a mental diagnosis. It absolutely is. And lots of journalists have it. And it's sad. It really is set. All right, let's go to the phones. Again, if you are a regular or a repeat caller, we'll ask you to keep your comments very, very brief. But I know you're wanting to get in. Today's show will allow it.

Caller. Go ahead. How are you in that? Me? Yes. It's you. Go ahead. Hello? Hi. Okay, I will I watched the debate and there was disappointing. You missed this debate was supposed to be to hold a little forum and then decide to probably make you choose which candidate will be best for America and turn to me. So many opportunities to do the show.

And then Kamala Harris was lying on the town like like, you know, he needed to be not a specific. For example, when he passed immigration, he could have pointed out about those missing children he grew up on know about the violence in Aurora. He specifically what a lot of criminals are doing that to those people. In regards to, Kamala Harris analyzing the Biden Harris to reduce the price of prescription for seniors.

I mean, this is actually this is not supposed to happen until 2026, but the averages speak like we already did it, just him. So there were so many things that he could help clear. This is less about facts and life. So sadly, Donald Trump didn't do a good job presenting facts. Yeah, that's and you know them very well.

Then we the people that were going to vote for Trump, we already we know that we are going to be just a matter of what people whatever Trump you think, you can definitely say the right things. Yeah that this is what's about helping those misinformed and those undecided to probably understand what is the facts inquiries, the lies. Yeah.

You know, thank you for the call. You you echo the sentiments of a gentleman last night who said that exact thing that Trump said things that really fire his base up, but he didn't do a good job appealing to the people who are undecided, which I thought was an interesting, interesting observation. I'm also wondering if those undecided voters are going to pay more attention to the emotions on the stage versus the words, how deep are they?

Because if you're already undecided, maybe you're just trying to figure out who like, which one do I want that's actually going to do something because our current president president's on vacation. Yeah. And so maybe the emotions meant more to people last night than the actual words. It it may have. And I also think if there are truly undecided people, they saw the inherent unfairness, in the three on one dynamic that we saw last night.

And maybe that helped them. Yeah, that's what I meant by the emotions, because yeah, if you're looking at it like I don't know which one of these people I want, you had to walk away from that going that felt awful. That did not feel good that that those moderators behaved the way they did. Well, because if you want if you're undecided, you probably want a fair debate more than anybody wants a fair debate.

Yeah. And no fact checking on Kamala Harris, but excessive fact checking on Donald Trump, even if he didn't necessarily like what Donald Trump said or it didn't appeal to you, that dynamic is making you think, think a lot about this. So, all right, let's go to our next caller. Again, really quick caller, you've got about a minute.

Go ahead. Hey, you agree? I kind of in the Football League right now. I try to compare, my career you said before, but, Trump was like a quarterback that was missing some open passes and threw. And then they were shocked, shattering that he had like the referees were all come outside, you know what I'm saying? Yeah.

You know, look at it. It's kind of getting rid of it was because my wife and I were talking about it and say, this is three on one, you know, she said that. And I said, well, what did you expect? You know, so, but I don't think it's going to be as, you know, like you said, debates and saying these things are not, yeah, some kind of death knell for Donald Trump as some of the, you know, the mainstream media would have you say.

So that's my $0.02. All right. Thank you for for the call. It's interesting we get to we have multiple screens up Julian. It's it's interesting to watch the headlines right now. This is a CNN headline. Trump traffics in falsehoods and conspiracy theories during the debate okay. So I'm sure they're calling the cat thing out of Ohio, the pet thing out of Ohio, the conspiracy theory.

Okay. If anybody's followed along with that, that is definitely not a conspiracy theory at all. So that's the only one I can think that they could label as that. Yeah. And then falsehoods both of them stretch the truth last night. And I'm a Trump supporter. And I'm going to say that he did stretch the truth last night.

But so did she. That's just politics. Yes. So trafficking in falsehoods that would go for both sides. Well, I just cited a couple of minutes ago a couple of blatant falsehoods that she told yes. Why is CNN stop pretending CNN? Yeah, just stop pretending that you're doing journalism. Yeah. I think they've gone back to the Jeff Zucker model.

Maybe. Or everyone's just dishonest in this world now. Yeah, maybe it's found. That's true. Okay, More calls. We got a lot of people trying to get through today. (208) 542-1079 is the fall River propane call and text line. We go to our next caller. Good morning. Good morning. How are you today? Good, good. What's up okay. Well I don't know.

I watched the debate and kind of going in, you know, because it was on ABC and we just had gone through where he had badly, the previous report of the African American was from ABC as well, but I, I don't know. I mean, Trump did miss some stuff, but she was so arrogant and cocky, sticking her hand up there under her chin and like, you know, like she was prosecuting him.

You know, it just I don't know. Well, maybe is, she hoped, she told us she hoped that we were going to be sad when the debate was over last night, and I'm just thinking. My husband talk to her, and he asked her. She's an elderly woman, and he said, do you own your house? And she goes, yeah.

And so when he tried to talk to her about what, Kamala was trying to do when capital gains tax and it just didn't matter, she said, well, I have the money. And he said, well, do you have the money to pay to? Because we aren't going to be able to afford ours. Interesting. So you, your neighbor actually hoped that you'd be sad after the debate?

Yes. She did. You need to find a new position. I bet you feel so loved in that neighborhood because we help her. You know, she's a widow, and we help her. And. But that's part of the old Democratic Party that won't even, won't even open their mind to the fact that they left building on the. It's okay. I'm not Democrat.

I'm getting a little hung up on this because you help her out. You are compassionate to her, and she hopes you're going to be sad. I think you might be in a toxic relationship with your neighbor. Yeah, they call it crazy all the time to say, okay, so it's one of those, okay, I gotcha. All right, well, thank you for the call.

(208) 542-1078 and so that we could do a little bit of Doctor Phil and, and Neil and Julie Harris. Yes. We could like that's an interesting dynamic that have there. Let's go to the next call. Welcome to the show caller. Good morning. Hi. My wife and I met last night, but we weren't able to master the technology to get into the snake River events either.

Been rejected several times. Passwords, etc.. Nevertheless, we appreciate your show and your takes, and I listened very carefully to what you have to say about what has run before. And one of the things that occurs to me is that there is the, great magician syndrome, which is the minds of many are blinded by the sophistry of the Democrats.

And that's that was evident yesterday. I thought I saw on Fox News, and we've been waiting breathlessly for this that Taylor Swift has finally made a decision on who this she has done her research and she's going for Kamala. Yeah. We saw this. It's possible. And can I also say I have seen nothing about it this morning. Been pretty flat like it I don't it hasn't made big waves.

You all know it. Well. It was a little thing. And this is like the Swifties aren't up yet. She. That's true. Yeah. Good point. Well yeah I'm sorry couldn't get through. We had we had a lot of people make a reservation. We did try to say though if you if you happen to not make a reservation, just show up anyway, we'll we'll find a seat for you.

So I'm sorry you and your wife didn't didn't make it out last night. But if there is another debate, we will likely hold a watch party again. And if you aren't able to get through the registration system, just show up next time. We'll be there. But that's just the problem of being a digital dinosaur. Okay. Gotcha stuff.

All right. Thank you for the call. Appreciate it. (208) 542-1279 next call. Welcome to the show The good morning. You YouTube I didn't hear you. I thought, so I woke up and I had a really, really sad realization. Late last night. Yeah. Starting up the debate last night. Watching it was like watching up, your your football team up against another football team.

And this morning, I realized I really feel like it was a tie, which means I watched an hour and a half soccer, which is the worst thing of all. And, but it it is frustrating because you watch the game and you kind of just think, oh, if I were there, I would have said that. From where is it?

It is very frustrating to watch. But I do. Yeah. I do feel like was this kind of sometimes, when you have something to help and better doesn't do as well somebody you think just isn't going to do as well. Good. A little better. Just just a watch. But again, I think that's very important. That's how we talk to each other and what we decide to focus on.

What do we spend their time on. If we look at that and say what? What are their what should I say? Well, we are there. We have everybody around us that we can talk to. Have anyone from. And one of the things that was very frustrating to watch him do was he went into a lot of rabbit holes.

Okay. You could tell when he got personal, when she said something personal and he he decided, okay, that's personal. I'm going to go after that. When you need that. That's just a distraction. You just start from the back. But two things I wish we would have done now I be look back. Is, before he dropped out of the last election.

She had a 70% approval rating. That's about how much money she was getting. She had stopped because subject matter actually jumped up. I really wish she would have focused more on that, but. Yeah. Come on. Nobody wanted you. Why are you even here? Just saying. I wish they would have focused on Walsh. Yeah, if Biden people.

If Biden was so good, then what? Again? Why are you here was one the Biden your your team your party again thinking about Reagan laughing at the camera. I wish you would have looked at the camera and said, You Democrats, you're the ones that are getting white. You you're the ones that were getting the whites in the first four years and you didn't want her before.

What makes you think you want her now? Yeah, I, I wish they were. Anyway, but thank you guys for, hosting a party. I think, significant, that we actually have this right that we can assemble like we did last night. I think that that in itself is significant. Yeah. Thank you, thank you. We appreciate it.

It was good to chat with you last night and, great comments as always. Yeah. I appreciate everything he said. I actually spoke with him last night. We kind of had this conversation that both of us felt a little empty, because there were moments where we almost wanted to jump in and, and, and help Trump say the thing that needed to be said to respond, to just clarify it a little bit or jump in and silence him when he was going on too long.

But you have to temper that and realize people look at it through a different paradigm than you do. And he's probably right. This was probably at best a draw today. Like it's yeah it's not going to be much more than that. No it's, it's not. And we're going to move forward. It. And I'm being generous with the time here.

I said this earlier this morning in one week nobody's going to be talking about this debate. New things will have happened. Will we will have moved on. That may be the case tomorrow or Friday as well. Like, it's not it's not there's no lasting effect from this. Yeah. All right. We'll be back 926 on this Wednesday on Newstalk 1079.

Okay. So all the Democrats that are saying, oh she had this stellar performance. Yeah. Well she was bound to she wasn't getting fact checked. Somebody may have told hey look you say whatever you want because the moderators will not fact check you. That might have been their plan. All you know what isn't that is good is sending her the questions.

Yeah I think she got the questions I do too. I don't even know how there'd be any other way. But I think that there could have been a little you know, I don't think she would have said they were good people on both sides or the the, the bloodbath. Unless she had already been told David and Lindsay are not going to fact check you.

So you say what you want to say. Trump's not great at fact checking either. Like he he's a little too fragmented and scattered. J.D. Vance would do a very surgical job, and he'd get right to the point. Trump is more ethereal than that. Yeah, but yeah, she gave those three right in a row. The the Charlottesville good people on both sides, the bloodbath and then suckers and losers.

Yeah she did those back to back to back without any fear. Yes. That makes me think she was told they're not going to push back. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. John we are tired of being lied to. We're tired. Yeah. Tired of the Biden administration lying to us. We're tired of the mainstream media lying to us. It's an abusive relationship.

And man, we're ready to be done. Oh, there's so much, so much. All right, I'm gonna I'm gonna screen these calls real quick. I know Scott, what's your first name? Caller. What is your first name? How about that story this morning, you guys? Oh my goodness. So awesome. Made me not want to come to work. Okay, hold on.

D is this d Gustafson okay, I'll just call you'd on the air, but, Yeah. I'm glad you're calling. Hold on one second and we'll take you in the next segment, okay? Hey, caller, what's your first name? Yeah, I just need your first name. Right? Yes, Peter. It did wake me up in the middle of the night. I heard the thunder.

I had the window open in my room, and I heard the thunder, so I knew it was that way. But just is when I say this storm that happened through the night. Remember that Neil and I get up at four. Yeah. It's so it's still middle of the night when we were awake. Oh, okay. All right. We'll just say, okay, standby.

Okay. We got two calls lined up right by the boom. Bada bing or bada bing, bada boom. Yeah. We we're talking about the lightning storm. How awesome it was. Oh, yeah. So cool. I was seeing it driving home last night. It went through most the night. The thunder did wake me up in the middle of the night. I didn't check my clock to see what time it was.

Yeah, but then I referenced that both you and I get up at four, so it's still the middle of the night when we get up. Yeah. Should we play Shibu Zee going back. Sure. Yeah. Here we go. He was on seven.

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Great time as you're headed into the winter to get your freezer filled with get it off the shelf. Okay. We're going to go to the phones where we have d calling in this morning. D how are you? Good morning. And thank you to the two of you for having your watch party last night. It was absolutely so fun.

Well, thank you. We had a great time too. Oh, I didn't want to take up. I it was so many people making comments last night that I thought I'd say by, till this morning, but but I wanted to say last night was yes, they both made mistakes. The acting classes for Camilla actually paid off because her acting was superb.

And I think the one topic that I was very disappointed that Trump didn't bring up was the $35 trillion debt. Yeah, the commitment and how much that would affect each household in the United States if we had to quickly pay up. Yeah. And I think that would have made an impact on people. And if he would have followed it by saying, I am going to try every year for the four years, I mean, to cut that debt, at least in half.

And if you give us another four years after that will wipe it out or something like that. That gives people a look at the future of what can be done with someone who doesn't want to just spend our tax money. Yeah. You know, it's interesting as you're talking, I, I 100% agree with you. I think that's one of the biggest threats economically that we have to our country is this runaway debt.

But what I want to bring in the comments that we've had earlier from, a couple of people. One gentlemen, last night, we had a call earlier this morning that Trump didn't really talk to the the undecideds. And as sad as it is, I think the undecideds are kind of me about the national debt. I it's an issue that I think a lot of people have just become numb to.

And I don't know if that's the talking point that actually really gets people revved up and out to the polls. And, and I, I hate that that's the, the at least in my mind. That's the reality. But I think that's one of those things where neither side talked about it because quite frankly, both parties are super guilty when it comes to running up the debt.

Absolutely. I agree with you. But something needs to be done. And you're right. A it's not a big talking point for people, but I think it should be because I think financially all China has to do is pull in their their loans and we're in trouble. Yeah, yeah. No you're you're not wrong D thank you for the call.

We're glad you're there last night. Thank you guy okay. Bye bye. All right. Bye bye. I know we've got another call. Let me make a follow up real quick. Caller. Before you you go on, which is I sent Neal, about 8:00 this morning, a CNN clip where they show that one of the things that Trump actually won on last night was the economy.

I think he should have hammered it even more than he did. It's the premier issue for every single person voting. Yeah. Even the undecideds who say, oh, I don't really care. They're the ones who you're probably not going to sway with the checkbook anyway. But for all of those others who are going to go out and talk and get their buddy to go to the polls with them, who cares about the economy, too?

I think that was the one he could have hit a home run with instead of just a double or a triple. Yeah. And and so that follows up what she said. I wish she would have talked about the deficit. I wish he would have hit the economy a little bit better. I also felt like those were the times when he was more concise.

Yeah, yeah, I agree. The good news is, if that many people were swayed by him on the economy, I go back to James Carville from the mid 1990s in the Clinton era, where he said, it's the economy, stupid. I still think economy, the economy is probably the single most important issue the people vote on. It probably won't sway the undecided, but what it will get is the person who hasn't voted for the last decade.

Yeah, it will get that person to the polls and that will make a difference. Yeah, yeah. No. Good point. Let's go to rod and rod also traveling this morning. How are you today? I'm good. Well thank you. Good. What's up? I didn't get to watch much of the, the debate last night, but I'd like to make three points.

The first point is, it's interesting when we talk about changes that the the flip flops that Kamala make. It's okay if her answer is, well, it's it's all right because I haven't changed my values. And it's amazing how that's accepted that the overall value is in her case is just to get elected. Right. And so she is true to that.

Yeah. Number two is the media in her always talk about being the last one in the room. And that's what she wanted. And that's what she wanted to the vice president going out with Biden. It's interesting though, when they talk about the failures Afghanistan, the border and other things. And I could go on. But it makes me wonder if she was even in the right room.

Because she's just you yourselves. This is her cell from all those poor decisions that were made under the Biden administration with. The third point is, of all the accomplishments that they talked about, that the Biden administration, as they tout those as great accomplishments, he's, you know, the economics and everything else associated with that. That last night, the things that they wanted to get done couldn't get done because of the influence of Trump.

And so it's interesting that they were able to use that kind of influence, that they were able to get anything done. So it's just amazing. The double standards all the way through that. Those are the three points. Thank you. Thank you rod. Appreciate that. Great points. Yeah. Those are good points. Okay. Let's go to our next caller.

Welcome to the show. Thank you. I think we're all missing the big picture. What I've not heard this morning is what I see. And that's as Donald Trump. He just exposes things around him. That's I think that's his main asset. And by doing this debate, I think everybody should clearly understand, that ABC is, look, you know, there's nothing legitimate about that debate.

We know who ABC Disney has. We know the power that they have. We understand that their goal is use. It is it's to destroy American sovereignty. It's all a part of the global, you know, new world order. So all I'm saying is that I believe that this has been positive. And as time goes by, people will begin to understand, understand that ABC is not legitimate at all.

But. Well, I think they did legitimize themselves last night for sure. And I, I think that, David Muir was had a disgraceful performance. And I've always liked him, and I think maybe that it's a mitt Romney trajectory for me. Like, I've thought David was a pretty good guy, great at presenting. He does the nightly news.

He's got gravitas. I expected more from him. And he was just another Stephanopoulos ask Partizan hack last night, and I wanted more from him. I wanted better, and he just didn't deliver. And it was it kind of kind of just a disappointment for me. Great. Well, I think that's the thing exemplifies my, my point. Yeah. I think I've never seen it cooler as anything but, you know, a fake.

It's all the Hollywood Nancy Pelosi theater. There's nothing real about these people, any of them at all. It's specifically to push the narrative that they want to push. And I think that the debate, you know, this is what's going to come out in the debate, because that's what Trump does. He it's both. He's like nobody else. He's done things that.

Yeah. Yeah. Thank you so much. Well, thank you for the call. Appreciate it. Valid points. And I think you can feel the frustration in his voice. And it matches a lot of what people are feeling today. Just frustration about the debate in general that Trump could have done a little bit more, that the moderators were so horrible that that was a more polished Kamala than we've seen in probably ever.

Yeah. So it makes you believe she received the questions or at least had talking points given to her. Yeah. Or or allowances assured to her. So when you combine all that together and make the mush, you're like, yeah it just yeah, yeah it it did. It felt super icky. All right. One last call before our hour break here.

Caller. Go ahead. Without me, it is you. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thanks for, a great show. Great opportunity last night. Neil and Julie. The popcorn was so delicious. Oh, good. And the water had. The water was fresh, too. So, anyway, I'm probably that individual that you quoted a couple times, regarding the, singing to the choir, but I don't want to talk about that this morning.

I've, I've for some time been frustrated with the newscast on, but the hourly and a half hour newscast on the on the next set of nine because it's, it is slanted and you can hear it and you don't have to be listening to hear it. Many years ago. And I'm an old timer in this community, I, the first time I heard Paul Harvey was on UPI when it was up on the North Highway, and,

This this ABC is not the same as it was when Paul Harvey was the anchor. Yeah. I think that I think that in in our world today, you are one of the, one of the things that we do for treating alcoholism is we, eliminate or we try to target the enablers. And these networks, we, you know, we gripe about CNN, we gripe about now, David, you and ABC, but we're enabling them by listening to them and by participating with them or even airing their propaganda.

And I, I a lot of times when the newscast comes on, you're on your station, I move somewhere else so I can hear the balance. Yeah, I, I would suggest that what Jim Burgoyne and Kent Fransen look at this tradition and throw ABC out the window, because there are other networks that are available that are going to give us the news that is not filtered to that slant, to that leftist slant.

Well, it's I, I, I appreciate your feedback. And I have talked very openly about this and I've said ABC, even when we launched four years ago, four plus years ago, they weren't my first choice. But I I've dealt with ABC for a long time. I've been a program director of news talks for the last 25 of my 30 ish years in radio.

ABC does some things that are unparalleled, and the supplemental programing that they provide, no other network does as much or as good a job as they do. And I understand people are disappointed. I'm disappointed in the way they do that. And I will say this they are Trump deranged, but a lot of the rest of their reporting is super good.

If you have a plane crash or if you have, you know, a national emergency, an outbreak of something there they're reporting is fine and it's great. And so there's a lot more to the news than just the Trump stuff. And believe me, if I could change that on a dime, I would. But when you are in a long term contract with a provider like this, we can't just make a decision with our fingers and and say, we're turning it off and we're not doing it anymore.

That's not that's not how how this works or how it operates. And so and I would also say we have a lot of great programing that counterbalances that. I would hope that you don't tune in to our radio station and expect to hear that everything you hear is in alignment with what, what you believe. Okay. Now we do have communication with ABC.

I'm going to send them, a letter today and say, look, we're we're not real happy with some of this. You there are things that you can do better journalistically. To be fair, you don't have to be all in on Trump. But let let's let's do a better job in these areas. And I, I can encourage that. But no, we're not going to cancel the contract because David Muir had a bad debate last night.

That's that's not how this works. But we're always looking for new opportunity. We're always hoping our first choice might come available at some point. And you know, so we're, that's where we're at with this. And also there's, there's a lot on the back side that people don't understand. Just because you can you can flip it to a, like a channel on the internet and, and watch something doesn't mean those services are provided to radio stations.

And it's a, there's a it's a big beast with an unfortunate part to it. Yes. And so we're, we're trying to manage what we've got going on here. Yeah. Yeah for sure. 947 we got a break. We'll come back. We'll continue after this. On Newstalk 1079. Okay. To change the subject, this person called earlier about our day trading poll, a whole bunch of exclamation points.

We're now up to 1720 votes. Over 80% are for Trump. This is a very diverse trading group from traders across the country. Yeah, and her facial expressions annoyed people to the point they turned it off. So that seems to be the the most relevant comment that's happening is they couldn't stand the way she was looking in this split screen.

Really? Okay, so I wasn't alone. You're not alone on that. I think it's a very it's a big turnoff for men to men, not to men. Truman. Yeah. I think it's a real big turnoff. Yeah. You know what? What I would say to that, I don't think the look would. I mean, it's an off putting look no matter what.

But if she had substance and accomplishment and merit, it wouldn't be as off putting, because there it wouldn't be scratchy. Yeah, right. It wouldn't be. But it's like she has very few tools and none of them have substance to them. They're all superficial. They're all image. They're all optics related. It's literally handing me a really ugly sweater that's also itchy.

Yes. And you're saying no, this will be good for you. You put this on, wear it 24 over seven, and you're like, yeah, it's so itchy. And oh, I don't even look cute in it. And idiom here. There's nothing to counter the itch. Yeah, I'm from it. Yes. Right. Yeah. It's just abrasive. Abrasive. So you know what?

I feel a little validated that we got that feedback and that that was my thought exactly last night. She hasn't deserved to be able to have that. Look I think that's part of. And yeah she has learned to look you know some people can pull it off. She has no substance in her life to earn. Being able to look like that.

Yep. Okay. Dang it. I'm gonna make us a little bit of room here. In here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1234. We're not that much time. Yeah, it lit a lot of commercials today. You know, here's the thing too, about that last caller. Like, I get his frustration. Those are discussions that are way better as private discussions. Yeah. Then to just have that discussion in front of everyone because, yeah, he's coming after us and our decision and our programing.

We're fine. I'll take it all absorbed. That's fine. I'm not sure the audience really wants it or you know, we want to talk about the debate and Trump's chances in the election coming up rather than minutia about our our agreements with a satellite provider. Well, and we've also offered some alternative to that through the 9:00 hour. You don't have to listen to the commercials.

Yeah, right. That's you can tune in on Facebook Live. It's one of the great things that the 42 listeners now 43 are getting right now. Yeah. Is that they don't have a have to listen to the ABC news. Also, this is like people who complain about commercials on my podcast. You have a forward button. That's true. Just click forward 30s and you get past the little commercial I just voiced.

It is same thing is true with radio. You can guarantee if I turn it down for a minute and a half and turn it right back up. Yeah, you don't have to listen to it. Yeah. You're not you're not handcuffed. No you're not, not at all. Yeah. So all right Facebook Live, just to warn you, as soon as we're done, we're done today because we got to pop over to a 911.

We're going to go take some pictures of the memorial that is being unveiled at the 911 memorial. So yeah, it'll be it's got it starts at ten. So we're going to be getting in there pretty late. So yeah, you know I'm excited about that. Day trading group because we can get caught in our own little yeah bubble. Yeah that is a view from somewhere else.

Well is this is maybe a situation where people on the left got so energized because of her performance. They're spiking the football. But the undecideds are like they're not that convinced Maya. Or the, the people who are spiking the football love her facial expressions. Yeah I love the fact that David Miller did that. The wrong people are spiking the football.

Right. They're blind to how off putting that is. Yeah. The 9/11 memorial is being unveiled today in front of the Idaho Falls Fire Department building. That was just built in downtown Idaho Falls. That's where it'll be. So it's got a piece of steel from the actual building. I don't remember which tower they told us, but I don't remember.

Yeah, I don't so yes. Okay. We do have a real quick bridge here. And then.

Not there we go. 953 on Newstalk 1079. It's a post-debate Wednesday, also 911 and, we appreciate all of your feedback, even if it's a little aggressive or rough or in in disagreement. We're good with it. We we recognize that that's part of this job is absorbing those arrows. So we're we're fine with that Julie. All right. So real quick, in Idaho Falls on this this special and sacred day, there is a memorial being unveiled at the new fire department in downtown Idaho Falls.

You can stop by and see that also, tunnel to towers. The mobile exhibit is still available at snake River landing today. So if you if you need a way to teach your kid about 911, that would be a great place to go to. Okay. And I believe that's going to do it for the show today. Have a wonderful Wednesday.

Julie and I back tomorrow. Okay. I timed it so we can take off now. So okay. And this is Alex. She says that she's there and there's a great turnout. Oh good. Well okay guys we'll see you. See you later. Thank you all.