10.10.2024 -- NLS -- Ranked Choice Voting Debate, Aurora Mystique, and Little Caesars Adventures

On this episode of the Neal Larson Show, Neal and Julie cover a wide range of topics, starting with the excitement of tracking the aurora borealis and using the Aurora app to capture the stunning lights. Neal shares his love for the "geek mystique" of aurora hunting, while Julie jumps in with comments on the growing interest.

The main focus shifts to Idaho's Proposition 1 and the heated debate over ranked choice voting. Both Neal and Julie argue that ranked choice voting forces people to support candidates they don’t really like, comparing it to being forced to split donations across charities. They express concerns about the confusion it could bring to Idaho’s elections, noting how voters could lose power over their choices. They also discuss the deeper issues within Idaho politics, including frustrations over weak candidates and Democratic Party challenges in the state.

Throughout the episode, Neal and Julie discuss the presence of "Vote No on Prop 1" signs popping up around Idaho, adding a bit of humor about organizing sign distribution in a drive-through style. The episode also features some light-hearted moments, including Neal’s funny story about a late-night visit to Little Caesars Pizza.

The episode mixes political analysis with humor, making for an engaging conversation as Neal and Julie break down key issues and local happenings.

Transcript

It's 807 on Newstalk 179, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason. It's a Thursday. And Julie, we had a great opportunity yesterday. We went over to Senator Jim Rich's office, here in East Idaho, and he took a few minutes, recognized Barbie Hart for her really important work and protecting title nine, protecting Women and girls in sports. But we had the opportunity to an exclusive sit down with the senator yesterday.

I liked the interview. I thought it was good. I thought it was great. It's it's always fun to be in person. We get to interview Senator ish quite regularly, but it was fun to be in person. And, you know, he's just a real dude. Yeah. He made a joke about how his wife. Oh, before we even started the interview, that his wife keeps him in check and has for, I think he said 56 years.

Yeah. You know, and and he's just a real guy who has who has developed a real, knowledge about the the committees he works on. I have zero, like hesitation saying that he's a foreign policy expert. He is. Yeah. He is. He's developed that over this time. Whether or not you you love everything he does or not.

His knowledge is is great in certain areas. So in this interview, we asked him about perhaps a law similar to Barbie Hearts on the federal level. We talked to him about the election nationally and also in Montana. We asked him about prop one as well. So without further delay, we bring you our interview with Senator Risch yesterday.

Don't just want to go to a Def Leppard concert tonight. I know, wouldn't that be nice? Although tonight, my friend Aurora may be putting on a better concert as you just looked up. You were so excited about it. This is one of those points that Julie not bad, but slightly mocks and ridicules me. Just a little. Okay, but is it earned?

Are you geeky with this? Probably isn't. Yeah. I'm not. I'm not complaining like I. It's part of my, you know, my geek. Your geek charm. Yeah. I just created my geek mystique. That's what it is. It's my geek mystique. Sure, I like comets. I like aurora borealis. I do a little coding on the side. I have a geek mystique going on.

If I ever have a podcast, I'm going to call it the Geek Mystique. I will take that every day over white dudes for Harris. So you be you go ahead and be your geek mystique all day long. You never know what's in there, though. I'm just kidding. There's nothing white dude for Harris inside my geek mystique. I'll tell you that.

Okay, so, no, I so I, you know, me, I check the KP index. Yes. It's cute. It's good. At least once every 3 or 4 weeks. Oh, no, 3 or 4 hours. Okay, maybe I misspoke. But I do check it probably once a day. Yes. And we had a little flare up last week. And in fact, you probably saw some of the pictures.

People cut the aurora. Some really beautiful ones, actually. Yeah. There were there were some I had gone to bed because I think the nice ones were kind of late midnight ish. Anyway, so I was a little bummed that I missed it, but I and it didn't look like there was anything really coming in the next couple of weeks.

However, yesterday afternoon I, I opened up my Aurora app and it was Holy crap, we were seeing eight forecasted, for tonight and for tomorrow night as well. And so here here's what I would tell you, because I, I've done this before where I see the numbers high, I'll actually post them for my friends on Facebook, because I want to share a little bit of the geek mystique.

And they, then like a couple hours later, they drop the forecast and then I'm like, oh, no, they've rearranged their lives to go out on the desert tonight to to look for it. So I do need to give this disclaimer. Disclaimer these numbers are always subject to change. So I even checked the cloud forecast for 9 p.m. tonight, about 45% coverage, which I like it when it's like 15% or less, but it's still fine if you've got some northern sky to look at.

We could have a pretty spectacular show tonight. So yeah, and and maybe tomorrow night to go experience your geek mystique with Neal Larson. Yeah. There there you go. There you go. You know, we had a Trump bus. Yeah, we could have an Aurora borealis bus from 20 minutes out to the desert and back. Very good chance that it could turn out like it did in Bozeman.

That's the problem is, you know, may not actually happen. May not but anyway, kind of kind of fun, back earlier in the spring when, when all of that was going on here, it felt like it was a once in a century, once in a lifetime opportunity at these latitudes to see the aurora borealis. But I'm telling you right now, the the forecast for tonight and tomorrow night is on par with what we saw that was so spectacular earlier this year.

Right. So every time you start talking about this, people always say what app did you use? Like we get a text, so why don't you just go ahead and tell everybody now what app you use to follow this forecast? It's called okay, write this down Aurora. Why are they making it so hard? I don't know why they do that, but, yeah, just Aurora and it's got it's got a nice little square pretty you'll you'll recognize it's kind of got a purple.

Well, how would you like the northern Lights? Yeah, yeah, it's Aurora across. It's very simple. Has got multiple tabs. One is the forecast. Another one actually has a map. You can click on it and it will show you sort of the current footprint of the aurora, your chances of seeing it in your location. It also has pictures in a different tab that people have submitted.

So there's some beautiful Aurora pictures I have submitted three I've been rejected. I feel like I'm a sophomore trying to go to the prom anyway. They've never that dampened the geek mystique just a tad. Yeah, kind of. It's kind of a bummer, but. But it's okay. You just to spray some spray on it and, you know, it'll be able to get better against you.

Yeah. That's true. Maybe I'll spray some spray on my aurora pictures and they'll be like, okay, we'll we'll put you on. We will let you be on our app. We'll put you on the app. And there is some, I would say, fairly non-intrusive advertising on the app too, but it's pretty, it's pretty, pretty snazzy little apps. Okay. There you go.

Aurora. Aurora. So, okay. What I had another thing that I wanted to to. Oh, let's talk about Thunder Ridge. Okay. That turns out it was an out of state Snapchat hoax that led to concerns about a gun threat at Thunder Ridge High School yesterday. So I've actually covered on my crime podcast this concept before. It has happened a lot on the East Coast, where not necessarily via Snapchat, but, numbers, you know, how you get like scam numbers.

Yeah. And they say your local area code, but they're actually rerouted through that local area code and they're not from the region. Yeah. Okay. That has happened before that a call will come in like say it came in into an Idaho high school. It would have a 208 area code. It's actually not from somebody in Idaho might possibly foreign.

Yeah. But they're they're putting out a bomb threat. There's been other times that this has happened across the nation. We're just now feeling it locally. Yeah. I do want to give kudos. I think the response is pretty good. I've talked to people who were there and they had multiple deputies there. But, I think it's I think it's a mistake to cancel school if, if all it is, is sort of an online picture that's getting shared.

Because if you cancel school for just that, that happens. What, you're incentivizing it. So I think they handled it just about right. I want to give kudos to Dina 93. I think it was a good balance between student learning and the mission of education, as well as student safety, too. Yeah. I think the only thing that I saw from maybe some people complaining online was they just wish the email had come a little quicker.

That was all like as far as the response at the school and everything. They were very pleased with how all of that went down. Yeah, yeah. Which they have to I you got to give them time. They've got to put it all together and everything. So yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it is. So one of the challenges we have in this world of technology that we have.

Yeah. And even if, if you wanted it early or whatever, I think the, the big takeaway is nothing harmful happened. Yes. That's the big takeaway. And we should be so grateful for that. Grateful for the administration and grateful for Bonneville County Sheriff's Department, grateful that people were doing their jobs. Yes, they were turned out okay. All right. We're going to take this break here.

It's 836. Time for our news at the bottom. If you'd like to reach us on the fall River propane, call and text line 208542127. If for some reason I feel drawn to Def Leppard today, what is at all Def Leppard day like that's live, got plenty of hits. Let me let me see if we've got enough in the library without having to repeat.

Okay. Oh, look at it. We'll be back. Okay. Little Van Halen pinch hitting for Def Leppard here. Joe, this is what happens when we go to commercial break and Neal and I start talking about socialism. Immediately. We get all fired up and then we forget we're supposed to be looking for Def Leppard. I know, and we talk about other stuff.

Can I give my theorem here? Yeah. Do it. Okay, so we've talked about Reclaim Idaho and so far they've been a three act play over the last eight years or so. Act one was Medicaid expansion. And I have tried to inform as many people as possible their tactic, because it's a very now identifiable and predictable tactic. They take a socialist idea and then they wrap it up in an unassailable virtue.

And act one was Medicaid expansion, the which is just socialized medicine. It's the expansion of of the socialized health care system in America, which you can argue for and against it. That's fine. I don't want to just completely dismiss it, but they pitched it to you as this is the compassionate thing to do, which, of course, that's a message that would resonate with Idahoans, many of whom are religious, many of whom are conservative.

Many of them are very charitable and very generous and so that message of compassion made them go, yes, we need to expand Medicaid. I remember people getting livid with us when we deprived them of their feeling of virtue by telling them redistributing somebody else's wealth for a political agenda is not compassion. So but back to the basic template.

You take a socialist idea, you wrap it in an unassailable virtue, and then you sell it with sound bites. Act two. The socialist idea was increase the corporate tax rate and increase the tax rate on wealthier Idahoans. That was the social. That's clearly a socialist idea, no doubt about it. And it's a it's a wealth redistribution scheme. So what was the pretty packaging on that money for education.

But their real aim was actually to rewrite Idaho's tax code. Yes. So don't you want teachers to earn more money. The heroes of our time don't. That's what they were selling. Yes. So here we are. Act three and the socialist idea within it. And this is where I had to run this by Julie because I had I've had this thought over the last day or two.

Ranked choice voting is essentially a requirement that you redistribute some of your vote to candidates you may not like. It is vote redistribution. We usually talk about wealth redistribution. In this case, it is the redistribution of your vote where if you want to use the full power and influence of your vote, you have to allocate it to candidates you may not like, because remember, they're not going to count your ballot.

What if you don't fill in all of the spots? Yes they will the first round in subsequent rounds, which most likely will always happen. Yeah, your ballot now becomes not it becomes exhausted. That's the technical term because you didn't fill in all of the spots. Yes. Now a more defensible I still wouldn't be for it, but a more defensible version of ranked choice voting would be.

I want my preferred candidate to be my first, second, third, and fourth choice. Indeed. Roll their eyes and say that, well, that's ridiculous, because that defeats the whole purpose. Because everybody's just going to choose that. Yeah, but if I want to allocate the entire thrust of my vote to one candidate, I have that right. You can't force me to carve it up like a piece of pie and have to give some to other candidates.

That's like, if I wanted to donate to Hurricane Milton relief, and I choose some obscure charity, and the government comes in and goes, oh, okay, we love that you're giving $100, but only $25 of it can go to that obscure charity. You need to divide a $25 donation to for to, like Red cross. And then we also need to do a $25 donation to.

They are telling you what you can do with your resources and in this case, your resource is your vote. Yes. That's right. Number one, in my mind I'm like, how is that even constitutional? Because it's one man, one vote. But now they're forcing you to allocate a portion of your vote or forgo a portion of your vote, but you don't have to vote down the ballot, but you have to forgo the power of your vote.

Then your vote becomes exhausted quicker. Yes. Yeah, but it's wrapped up in a pretty package. It is. And the pretty package, of course, in this case is open primaries. We're going to make Idaho the way it used to be, where everybody could vote in in the primary elections. Don't you want veterans to be able to vote? They're currently blocked.

Nonetheless there were yeah that's their wording there. It's not true. But that's on their website that you're blocked and that it's an injustice. So I was thinking, Julie about the the terms that they use, they're forced and they're blocked. Okay. Those are very coercive terms and I know why they use them because they're very emotionally loaded. And even though it's an understandable use of the term, it's an inaccurate use of the term.

And, and they know it, it's, it's a Jedi mind trick to make, make you feel like if somebody is forced or they're blocked, this injustice that you just mentioned is happening. So that's why they can. Right? It's an injustice on their web page. Not really that they're presenting people with choices and in Idaho, the Republican Party is the focus point of of this whole thing.

Nobody cares if the Libertarian Party I found out yesterday I should've known this all along. The Constitution Party and the Libertarian Party, I believe, are both closed. Oh, so it's not just the Republican Party? No, it's not okay. It's not. This is it's all focused on the Republican part. So. And nobody cares that these other ones are closed.

So is it really the principle of thing or is it. But but this you're the Republican Party is simply saying you need to make a choice. You absolutely can vote in our primary, but you have to register. There's no blocking. There's no forcing. It's just here's your choice. It's almost like if you went to your kid and and you said, okay, you can have a hamburger or you can have a hotdog, or you can have a sandwich or a piece of celery and they're they're like, no, I don't know why people feel like a simple choice has to have coercion incorporated into it.

It's there's no coercion here. Right? If I shop at Costco and I don't have a membership, is it an injustice that I can't shop there? No. They're forcing you to get a membership to shop. No, you're right it you can look at it either way. Yeah. It's. No, there. It's a choice. You're not blocked. You're just not blocked.

Chosen not to become a member. I'm not forced. And it's not an injustice. Yeah, it might be annoying to me, but none of those equate being blocked. Forced or it being an injustice. I man, now that I started smiling, you could see me smiling when you said that both the libertarian and the Independent Party are also closed primaries.

Yeah. No constitution. Okay, so both closed. You know what that makes me think is these Democrats are throwing tantrums because they're not talented enough to do anything on their own. No, it's that that is it. And and it gets to the heart of the matter, which I think is why can't the Democrats put up candidates that can win?

Why can't the Democrats create messages that resonate with Idaho? That's their frustration and that's their problem. And in order to solve their problem, they actually want to invade the Republican Party, run their candidates in the Republican Party, call them Republicans. But once they get in power, produce Democrat ideas. That's what's going to happen if prop one gets passed.

They're standing at the doors of Costco shaming you for not redistributing your wealth and paying for their dang membership. Yes, that's what they're doing. They're demanding your your money at the door of Costco so that they can participate. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Think of it. Yeah, that probably is the best analogy is a Costco membership. Yeah I, I can't stand it.

Can't you do anything on your own. Can you not do anything on your own? Democrats in Idaho. No. They they I don't think they can. It's always somebody else's job to help them be successful. It's 852 on Newstalk 179. Quick break. We'll be back.

All right. I, I scramble Julian got hysteria. Good job. This is not a bad choice. No, not not at all. Yeah. It's 857 on Newstalk 10792085421079. If you'd like to join us on the program this morning. Here we are. We are, what, three and a half weeks? Well, a little over three and a half weeks from the election.

The count. I mean, it's getting close. Julie. The final countdown on duh banana. And that's Europe, by the way. I just know this. I have no idea who sings it. Def Leppard should do a cover of that one. They're kind of in the same 80s. Yeah, hair band genre. But, so yeah. Wait, I had an idea for a flash poll.

What? What was what was it? Oh, I know what it was. And maybe we ought to do this tomorrow, because I'd like to promote it a little bit. Have people call in with any questions that they have about prop one. Good idea. And we will tell them what we know. I feel like we know a lot.

I'm sure there are things we don't know. But I'm even welcome. All right. I'm. I'm welcoming people who want to challenge us on this. If they think we're off base and that we're wrong, call it. Well, we'll take your your questions and criticism, too. You heard in the Senator Rish interview that we aired at the top of the 8:00 hour.

He even he talks about how confusing this proposition is, how confusing it will be to implement ranked choice voting. Yeah, we have talked about it so much. I still feel like we learn a little bit new all the time. That's how confusing it is. Yeah, it it really is confusing. All right. It's 858. We'll make it 859. We'll come back hour two of this Neal Larson show on this Thursday coming up.

On occasion, Julie shows me a video I cannot unsee. And earlier this morning she showed me a video of an energetic Tim Walz rally where they were all dancing worse than Elaine on Seinfeld. And I'm not going to be able to unsee that for a for a minute. So thanks for that, Julie. Sure. Appreciate it. Sure. I think we have to appropriately, let people know it might have been energetic.

Doesn't mean it was a well attended rally. It was like a small high school. Yeah, it was it, like, very little in Arizona? It it looked like first middle school to me, but it probably was Arizona. It was Arizona. Okay. Gotcha. With all the love I have for first middle school. So. 208542 179 if you'd like to join us on the is there a fourth middle school?

I don't know what it's called. It might be a junior high. They might know they might blend the high school anyway. So no offense. I just picked the first small town I could think of and added middle school to the end of it could have been been. And Boehner. Yes. Right. Wapello. Okay. Yeah, I okay. You were telling me, Julie, I feel like our show today is reiterating what we talked about off the air.

That's some pretty spicy conversations. Off air in commercial break. Apparently, the Harris campaign is panicking. This has been reported in Axios. Yes, it's it's out there in a news report. And I've seen these reports that their internals are not looking good for her. Like she's not going to do well in the sun Belt. Right. And she has to win Pennsylvania and Michigan if she wants to have a chance to win this thing.

But she's under water in both of those states currently especially with her best performing demographics. Yes. And so her reliable voting base is not reliable anymore in those two states. Yeah. Yeah. Well yeah. And I, in fact, to the point that I believe real clear politics has made Michigan red. And in the map where they don't have toss ups where they're like okay, we're just going to give it to whoever's leading right now, even if it's by a small margin.

And Trump's up to like 296 which is plenty to win. So do you know the most amazing one to me is he's up by seven points in Georgia right now. Yeah. No. All of this being said I do not subscribe to the polls one month in one month before the election. I think you can't give them a lot of validity anymore.

It's just a different landscape. Agreed. But if we are going to talk about them and recognize some positives, he is up seven points in Georgia. Yeah. So amazing. Not window of air. Yeah. Well in a number of these states and I have trouble keeping track of which states have done what in terms of election security. But a lot of states have have taken the dead people off the rolls.

They've taken the move outs off the rolls. And I think the new tactic actually, and we got to be on the watch for this, they are trying to allow overseas ballots to be counted with far less scrutiny and, and rigor than just a regular ballot is on Election day, which that might be the way they sneak in this time.

I mean, we'll see what they try to do. I was having a a fairly in-depth conversation with my daughter about the voting process and she said, so how do they cheat in elections? So I'm giving her various ways that they cheat. One of them, I said, the biggest giveaway by Democrats is if you're suing, if you're the Democrat Party and you're suing the secretary of state in getting any of the states, you're suing a secretary of state to keep the voter rolls Uncleaned you're cheating, you're cheating.

You are cheating. I don't know how that's a that's the biggest. Hell yeah. If you're suing to not clean up the voter rolls, you want them dirty. Yeah. And and the argument they'll make is, well, they might get it wrong. They might take somebody off the voter rolls who's moved out but moved back or whatever. Then you reregister.

Are you. Well yeah. That that right. I agree with you. I agree with you wholeheartedly. But they're going to they're going to risk the danger of having, in some cases, hundreds of thousands of people on the voter rolls that shouldn't be there, in their words, to protect the one, which is like saying, if there's any chance that we might get a wrongful conviction, we shouldn't have a criminal justice system.

We're not going to do murder trials anymore, bar none. None at all. All right, let's go to the phones. Caller, welcome to the show. Good morning. Hi. Hi. Can you hear me? I can hear you. Tis me Bob Zee. Brother Neal and sister Julie. How are you two doing? Good. Bob Zille, great to hear your voice.

How are you? Good to hear from you. Yeah. It's always great talking with you. Two thumbs up, a salute. And kudos to you, too. I received that notice from the Secretary of State about prop one. It sucks. It it. Pardon my crude colloquialism. You keep up your campaign. No, really. It's disgusting. It's it's a way, you know, Republicans have are dominant in this state.

And even putting aside the Republicans, the GOP dominance, personal Democrats, for example, independents, if they know that there's a weak Republican candidate, they'll vote for them. No, it should stay the way it is. Yeah, I totally agree 100%, Bob. You know what bugs me, too? As you know, I'm originally from New York and, you know, in New York, new Jersey, they.

Yeah, they have, you don't have to show idea of a good friend of mine who was a poll worker there in Queens and. And then who was it? Newsome. I think the idiot in California. Did he have legislation signed into law that you're not to show your ID when you go to a polling place, am I correct?

Yeah. About that. Yes. Yes, that is ridiculous. Sorry. That is ridiculous. Shame on California legislature. Newsom that that, you know, that that is, I may be a bit strong, but that's bordering on being evil. Of course, you show an ID when you go into a polling place. Yeah, yeah. No, you're you're not wrong. Yeah. Now, one of the thing I'm a Costco customers just waking up this morning.

Is Costco involved with this? No, wait. Julie just had a great analogy about, about open primaries. Yeah, I was just saying what the way that Democrats are behaving as they're standing outside of Costco and demanding that everybody else pay for their membership so that they can go in and, quote unquote, pretend to be a member of Costco so that they can be part of that membership.

It's the same thing with the Republican Party. You they just, they want it to be completely open, and they want to claim that that's an injustice. Well, it's not an injustice at Costco. They're a private company. If they want to, if they want to operate that way and you have to have a membership to shop there, they can operate that way.

The Republican Party is a private party. If they want to close. They have all the constitutional right to do so. Okay. Well very good. Annette, I happen to be a Costco customer. If they had that required, you were being facetious. Yes, yes, yes. Like I said, I was just waking up. Yeah. If they did, they wouldn't have my business any more of this.

Smart enough. But anyway, nice talking with you to keep up the campaign. What is your prediction? You think the darn thing will be defeated? Hopefully. Prop one. Well, I'm getting mixed reviews. We talked with Senator Risch, yesterday. Aired the interview this morning. He thinks it's going to pass. He cited some polling. I haven't seen it. We haven't seen it, but he cited some polling.

But then I talked to other people. They they don't think it will. They think that ranked choice voting is unpopular enough. And word is getting out though they tried to conceal it. But word's getting out that this is ranked choice voting and and so, Julie and I, I think we're both on the same page. We're leaning towards it, not passing that I think it's going to be a narrow vote.

But if I were to rely on my gut, I think it's going to lose narrowly. You know, we could all learn from Alaska, that's for sure. Yeah. Do you have a read on it, Bob? How do you think it's going to turn out? I'm trying to convince my family split that I'm trying to convince them. Hey, hey, hey, vote against this.

You know, piece of garbage legislation. I'm going to give it an edge. Veasey will predict it'll be like, 55, 45 to kill the legislation. So I think we'll be okay. I could be wrong, but that's my take on it. I don't know if you two agree. Geez, I hope you're right, Bob. Yeah. Good. Hey, always a pleasure to talk with you to keep up the great work.

Take care, my friend. Always good to hear from you. So good to hear from Bob. Yeah. We want Bob and I one an Idaho Press Club award together. We did bonded for life. We did some reporting on the Clear Creek Fire back in the 90s. And anyway, it it got recognized. And, Anyways. Good. Yeah. Good job.

Yeah, yeah. I go way back with Bob. Yep. That's a friend to keep for life. I like it, yeah. For sure. And he's he's kind of a legend. Yes he is. (208) 542-1079 if you'd like to join us on the program this morning. And we do, we should take this opportunity. Julie, you and I, as individuals, I want to be proactive in, in in saying we'll be handing out vote no on ranked choice voting or on prop one.

At the Walmart in Idaho Falls. Yeah. So the one right off the interstate tomorrow from 10 to 11 and 12. Yes. Okay. 11 to noon Utah Avenue. Walmart in Idaho Falls will be on the south end of the parking lot near the garden center. Yeah. You can just find us. Will will be out and about.

I don't I mean, where there's not going to be people standing around handing out signs all over the place, so you should be. Yeah. Like this pretty easily. Yeah. That's true. Come say hi. Even if you already have a sign, we'd love to hear from you. Come say hi. I, optimistic I am seeing a few more vote no signs.

Yeah, there was, last week. I was just feeling a little overwhelmed in the Idaho Falls area that we had way more vote yes than vote no signs. I have seen more. We've we've heard from listeners that they're seeing quite a few in the Rexburg area for Vote No. Yeah. That's a good sign. I appreciate our lawmakers who've done a great job of helping us.

We've had former lawmaker Kari Hanks has supplied multiple signs. Barbie Heart has supplied multiple signs. We were able through a couple of different channels collectively, we've gotten a whole group of signs. We want to be part of that. So come see us tomorrow. 11 to noon Walmart parking lot, Idaho Falls. Okay, you know what I think we should do?

I just had, I think it's a brilliant idea, but it could be stupid because quite often my brilliant ideas end up being stupid. I think we should Facebook live this. Oh, sure. And as people drive up, we'll talk with them and we'll give them asylum and. Yeah. And, and that way, because we don't have 10,000 signs to give out, we have a limited number.

But, that way I don't want people driving needlessly miles and miles to show up, and they're not be a sign so they can gauge live how many we have left in. And we'll kind of have a read on. I think that's a good idea. Okay. Yeah, not brilliant, but not stupid. It's a good idea. Yeah. Slightly better than mediocre.

It's like Little Caesars Pizza, right. But they're crazy bread though. Yeah. Next level. Gotta love the crazy bread for sure. I like Little Caesars pizza. I'll choose Little Caesars over some of the big chains. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Did I ever have I ever stated, like, on air publicly, my Little Caesars experience. Yes. And strategy. Yeah. I know they're not happy that you've you've shared this strategy.

Should I share it again? I mean, I guess they know that I've brought it up. We're going to get disowned by our Little Caesars friends, so I did I didn't do this deliberately, but I was I can remember I think I was picking my daughter up from work and she was kind of working late and I'm starving. So I'm like, I'll just I'll just pop into Little Caesars and grab, I think they're six bucks now.

Thank you, Joe Biden. They used to be five. They were five forever. The old codger comes along, and now they're 6 or 7 bucks. Whatever. Anyway, so I pop in and I'm like, I just need one pizza. And they're like, do you want more than one? I'm like, no, I just need one pizza. And they're like, no, we do.

You want more than one because it's five minutes to closing time. And he points at the stack of pizzas that are in that and I'm like, okay. And anyway, so he stacked me up with a bunch of pizza. But I don't want people to take advantage of it. It was just like one of those moments where I'm like, sweet.

Yeah. Now, like I said, we're going to lose our friends at little C. I know what you've told me. I should tell the story. Anyway, I don't think that's necessarily their policy. I think I walked in and they're like, are you the Neal Larsen? Would you like extra pizza? You don't think they did that? No, I don't think they did that either.

But in my own mind, that's what happened. All right. The the meal I, I need to put an extra e in it. It's not the it's the Neal Larson's. Yeah. 921 on Newstalk 1079 will be back. Yeah. That's like the football players that announce themselves on Monday Night Football and they say I'm Laquan. From the Ohio State.

You're right. What is that, the Ohio State. Yeah I like it. Although I hear people I don't know if I've heard it much lately. Have you ever heard someone refer to BYU as the BYU? No. Oh, yeah. That's the thing. It might make me like them less. All right. Yeah, I, I have to say, when I hear it, it it is an exertion of Christianity to keep liking that person.

Agreed. Okay, okay, I'm gonna use that phrase, I like you, but it's an exertion of Christianity to like you. I sometimes like it when those football players, you know, instead of saying, maybe they've been around for 4 or 5 years and and they're on a really good team, like the Chiefs. So they get a lot of Monday Night football games.

Yeah. So instead of saying they're university again, they'll say something like from Mick's Barbershop in downtown Philly. Yes. That's funny.

Yeah. So the big killer was the tornadoes. Yeah. In the wake of the hurricane, not the hurricane. The all of it's off land now. All of the big part of it. Yeah, it's it's moved on out to sea. Is there anything we should pull for a vertical? I don't do you want to do the little Caesar story?

We could do it. We still have one in the bank from yesterday. Yeah. Which one was that? I can't remember what it was that we did, but we haven't had Jesse produce it. I think I told him that we had it. Oh. Did you? I think he might have. Yeah, okay. At it, I said, oh, it was evergreen.

I said, you don't have to do it today. But it's in there. So he does know about that one. Yeah. I, we can pull, little Caesar story if you want. Yeah, it's up to you. I don't care if you think it's good. I mean, there's no harm pulling it. We don't have to use it. Yeah, so if it's 924, maybe pull the last eight minutes.

You think, Yeah. Yeah. 488. Yeah. Yeah. That's right, 480. Yeah. It's going to take a hot minute. I've had this running since 6:00. Okay. I swear this troll that that commented on the socialism, they've said they're a Republican and that they're conservative. You can't be. Well isn't it. They're one or the other when they're conveniently arguing a point.

Yeah. Good to hear Amanda. Amanda says hammer has one large vote. No sign. Good to hear, can I? We've talked about this before. I'm not the biggest fan of the California Kate signs. Yeah, they're not my favorite either, because anybody who that is appealing to is already voting against me, I do. I will say this. Barbara iHeart and Wendy Horman have, a collective sign up that says help us protect Idaho.

Vote no on prop one with a picture of a heart and a picture of Horman. I love that, yeah, because what I like about that is if you align politically with these women, that makes you go, oh, they don't want it. I need to kind of look at this. I like the connection point there. Yeah. I feel like the connection point with California Kate is a little tainted.

Yes. Oh, we're back on. Here we go. All right. It's 926 on Newstalk 1079, and, that moment of silence brought to you by Neal's ADHD. We got to talking with our Facebook, audience, and it had a couple of questions. There will be no charge for these signs. So if you come and, you want to grab a sign, you can.

They'll go quickly, though, because I think, they're you can't. Others will have signs. I think they're charging $5 for, like, it's kind of a mixed thing, but this particular stack of signs that we have, there is no charge. Yeah. We're not making any money off. I just want to get them. Get them out there. So. Yeah.

And get them up in a prominent place. Get them somewhere where? Yeah, they can be seen. I drive past a certain house on my way to work, and the sign is up by their front door. Yeah. And I want to, like, stop and go. Can I move that sign out next to the sidewalk so that people can see it?

Just do it. Should I just walk and get it? Yeah, just do it. I mean, what's the worst that could happen? They put it back. Maybe, somebody asked for the location and stuff again. So Friday, 11 to noon, Utah Avenue, Walmart in Idaho Falls on the south end of the parking lot to garner attention. I will be out there dancing like Tim Walz.

Jazz hands, jazz hands, weird kicks. Yeah. We just want you to see where we are. And if you if you get mad at me, I'll tell you. Mind your own business. And you know. And then we'll find somebody to yank around that has maybe some mental challenges so that you can be so much like Tim Walz. What can you lie about?

We can also produce some lies, too. So you can be like Tim Walz as well. Oh, what can't I light? I love all those years you spent working for NBC news. Yeah. Let's make sure we get that out there. Well, the bear I killed in the, you know, Siberia a couple of years ago with my bare hands. And were you on the ground for the Hawaii fires last year?

Like I was smack dab in the middle of those? It was. I put on my blue suit so I didn't get zapped. Yeah. And, Yeah, I was there for that, too. Yeah. And yeah, Tim Walz and I like we well, we were in war together back in Vietnam. See, there's just so much to you. I know so many similarities between Tim.

Yeah, I and I. And if you show up, you get a sign and a story. It's not true. But you ask me to lie a lie. Did I send you the clip of him? Where the. I can't remember which late night talk show host it was, but asked him, you know, about the election night and how you're going to feel.

And yeah, he basically said, I hope I wake up next to I hope I wake up with this Kamala. Yes. Let me find that. I think he said, I hope I wake up with Madam President. I think that's what he said. Yeah. Which the whole thing was weird and awkward. Listen to this. I plan on waking up on November 6th with Madam President and that's the nominee.

This could be. I just want to be. I want to be clear. You won't be waking up together, you know, unless. Unless you guys have gotten closer than we thought. I have a problem about not being specific with my wife. I thank you for that specifically. Right. It was very. You definitely have a problem with not being specific, buddy.

The instant he said it, I'm like, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Someone just called, texted in and back me up on my bear killing. Okay, they're saying you did it, I love it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay. There was another clip I wanted to play that was. That was really good. I don't have it ready because I don't know what it is.

It's probably ready. It's probably there somewhere. Remember which one it is. Yeah, I just I can't remember, but it was another, like, funny clip. Maybe it was the Kamala Jamaican clip. Yeah. We'll play it again because we it's been a minute since we talked about it. Okay. If you have not heard this, apparently Kamala has got a new eye.

She trying these out? No, I just think I think she's got some substance on board in this interview. Okay, here's Kamala here. What? What was this show? Was that a late night show? Yes, the late night show. Okay. Have you no empathy, man cannot afford the the suffering of other people. Have you no sense of purpose? Was this the one that she was drinking the beer?

Yeah. Later she cracks open a miller high life, I think early. I don't even know if I'm saying that. Beer. Right. Please don't. If you can correct me. But understand, I don't. I've never even held a of beer, so I don't know the exact title. Yeah, of of that beer. But yeah, I guess she chose the type of beer.

What was weird is when she cracked open the beer and they began to drink it. Drink it? She acted like it tasted horribly. Even though that's the beer. She choked. They asked her which brand she wanted, and that's the point she wanted. Okay. Why do is she not a I don't care about the beer. Okay? Clearly it's a staged event to make her just look more relatable, right?

Like, that's like everyday middle class. That's what she was supposed to look like. If she's drinking that Miller beer, I don't know. Then don't you like I'm like you the. You know what my experience with beer is? I was at the Eastern Idaho State Fair once with my buddy, and we're walking along. We're in the rides because we had wristbands and all day passes, and there's a can of cougars sitting there, and I.

I thought it was empty. So, you know, me being a stupid teenager, I stomp on it to crush the can. It was probably two thirds full. Beer flies everywhere, and I smelled. And then you smelled like beer the rest of the day. So I've never tasted beer, but I didn't like the smell of it. Yeah, had a whole bunch of beer dumped on me at a Broncos game once.

So yeah, I smelled like beer the rest of the day with that one. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Game was still good. They won beat Raiders. No. Good. Good. Yeah I'm a Seahawks fan so it's always good when the Raiders can beat.

Have you seen the memes about like there's a picture of a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader with two really old ladies and the me and the meme says, here's a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader with two cheerleaders from the last time the Dallas Cowboys won the Super Bowl. It's so brutal. Like, I don't hate the Cowboys, but I have to tell you, I laughed really hard at those memes because they are funny.

There's a picture of a like an old covered wagons crossing the desert, and it looks like a picture from like the 1890s. And they said, this is the last. This is the last parade celebrating the Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl. It.

It's I, I love cowboys I know I feel bad for it because we know people that love the Cowboys. They are they are diehards. And it it they they are the nickelback of NFL teams. Well the problem is, is that they should have been good in multiple years in between the covered wagons. And now I know and they've screwed it all up.

They've had the talent and they've screwed it all up. All the all the money that's been poured into that franchise. Yeah. That's why they become a meme. Yeah.

I mean, I, I do I don't like laughing at other people's expenses, but those memes are funny. 935 quick break. We'll come back and we'll dive into the digital mailbag, also known as our Text Line. When we return. Okay, Christy, I hope you're still listening. Yes, we do have prop one vote no signs we're going to be handing them out.

She said she came in late and couldn't hear. We have. We will be handing them out at Walmart on Utah Avenue in Idaho Falls on Friday. So tomorrow from 11 to 1, the closer you can get there to 11, the better, because we don't have an unlimited supply. Yeah, yeah. But if you follow our Facebook page we will Facebook Live.

So you can see because there's a chance we're done with the signs. We're going to be there for an hour. Yeah, we might hand them all out before that's all done. Yeah. We've dedicated an hour, but yes. Yeah, yeah. Hi Neal and Julie. I'm nervous about prop one passing, but I've seen some action in social media from the Vote No crowd.

That makes me hopeful. I actually took time to write about a Facebook post yesterday that outlines why I'm against against it. What I found frustrating is that this proposition is so confusing that it's hard to articulate it accurately. Right? So terrible. I try hard when take talking politics to be factually accurate, because I think emotional arguments are ineffective and just add fuel to contention, but it's absolutely maddening trying to explain how prop one will work.

I wonder if the confusion of this bill is one reason why the Vote No crowd has been so much slower to respond. I think that's it. I think it's 100%. It's hard to take their sound bites that are so lacking context and respond to it. I'm going to tell them to go to Mountain State's policy.org and and have them because that is a very factual way of breaking it down.

Yeah. Oh, nope. Spell that right. Oh it did Def Leppard cover Men at Work and I missed it. No, I just didn't find another Def Leppard. Gary, ask who will win first the Dallas Cowboys in a Super Bowl or pan carry bridge being done. Oh, there's our flagpole. I was talking to my daughter on the phone as I drove over Penn Carey Bridge the other day, and I said to her, just randomly, like, train of thought, this bridge looks worse than when they started on it two months ago.

It yeah, it looks like a bomb has gone. Yeah. Okay. Who said that? Who? It's on the Facebook feed. Gary, on the Facebook page. Gary, I'm totally stealing that. I just want you to. So prop, Susan, prop one got placed on the ballot via a voter initiative process that we have here in Idaho. So they have to get a certain amount of signatures in a certain amount of counties and submit it to the Secretary of State and if they meet all of those hurdles, then it goes on the November ballot.

They were able to meet all those hurdles. That's part of the deception that's involved in it, because they were basically lying people to get to, lying to people to get the signatures, because the only part they would talk about is the open primaries portion. However, ranked choice voting is married to the open primaries portion in this proposition.

Yep. Did you ever hear from. No. No. Nope. We are I mean, the the charitable thing is. Geez, she must be really sick. Yeah, I and I'm guessing that's what it is. You know, I wonder if we ping bar back and say, hey, when did this happen? Is there any yet? Barb mentioned to me yesterday. She said, did I miss it?

Can you send me the auto audio? And I was like, no, she's sick. She didn't join us. Yeah, well all right, we're back. Newstalk 179, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason. And you, if you'd like to join us, the fall River propane calling text line is (208) 542-1079. And people have heard either they tuned in midway through our announcement or they didn't hear everything.

For whatever reason. You and we'll do it. Let's do a social media post about it today. Julie. Okay, you and I will be at Utah Avenue Walmart tomorrow, 11 to noon. We've got a stack, a limited number, but a stack of vote no on prop one signs. We are going to Facebook Live. The giving away of these signs.

Yeah. And so, if you swing by, there's no charge. You don't even have to get out of your car. In fact, we might prefer that you don't get out of your car because we probably don't have time to to talk with lots of people, like, you know, like we often do at a meet and greet. We want to do a drive up and we'll we'll chat with you for a second.

But the whole point of this is for you to get the sign, and then you go put it in as prominent a location as you can. Yes. Legally of course. Yeah. So yes, you can't just go planted in the Chick-Fil-A drive through area. That doesn't work. But if you're a homeowner, that's a great place to put it. If you own land somewhere that's heavily trafficked, put it there.

Right. I, I'm trying to think, why can't you do that? I'll get taken down pretty darn quick. That's true. It probably will. It probably will I you know, I did forget to share, about the time that, Tim was. And I, we, we caught Saddam Hussein. You did great on that. When I, we don't give you enough credit for that time.

I know, yeah, yeah, I know. So, hey, we have a great idea for a flagpole. I don't think we're going to do it today because you don't have time. But we're going to ask our listeners at some point what will happen. First, the Dallas Cowboys win a Super Bowl, or they'll finish the Pancari bridge construction destruction because it looks like it's been distracted.

Right. Exactly. So which one do you think will happen first? That's a tough one right going excuse me. Neither team is being run real well right now. So.

Okay I made Little Caesars mad. You made the construction people mad. Just making everybody mad today. Like, I've walked past that bridge tons of times this summer as many people are standing around as are working single time. Like, I think people listening are saying, man, you are exactly right about that. So yes, I know none of them personally.

So it's not a personal jab at you. Yeah, I just walk it and drive that bridge a lot. And we love each and every one of you, but we can't stand you collectively. So what you're saying, that's what I heard.

As individuals, you're wonderful. But together. No. I'll even give you the scapegoat that your policies mandate that there's always going to be people watching certain things happening. I just don't think it's super efficient. Yeah. No, I don't think it is either. Someone asked, do you know where I can get a no on prop one sign in Pocatello?

We just talked to somebody about this. I don't remember the email address that she gave me. I don't remember the email address she gave either. I know she this person who called did not have success with her lawmakers meet. Did she call the Bannock County Republican office? Yeah. Yeah, that's what it was. Bandit county GOP candidates.

Yeah. So, yeah, you know what? I because I just searched this during the, final break, I'll, I'll find it will send an email address that you can reach out and. Okay. And get this. You know what? I'm kind of excited. Now people are asking about different locations. We. Okay? We can't really answer all these questions like Teton County.

I would just say, as a generic rule, reach out to your local Republican leaders in your counties and they can at least point in the right direction. And I do know from somebody who Texas, frequently from Teton County that they were getting they were acquiring signs. They didn't have any and that they were acquiring signs. So you've hit them at the right point.

I would send a message today. Tomorrow they might be able to get you one next week. So here's what I would say, because I, I think that demand may outpace supply of these sites. That doesn't mean you're out of luck. The most important thing, honestly, I think you can do even this is even better than putting a sign in your yard, though I strongly advocate for that.

Talk to the people you know. Julie out. I don't know how many times you've had this conversation with me that you've talked to one of your last clients or a friend or or something. I've done the same thing where people are like, well, this prop one thing that's just about letting everyone vote in the primary and, I'll be like, sit down.

We're going to have a discussion. I wouldn't use Neal's tactic. Yeah, that's probably not the best approach, but, but no, you open up a discussion with them and tell them the whole story, and hopefully we've given you enough of that whole story that they know that that this prop one guts our current election system. There's a couple of really unique talking points that are easy to remember.

Here's one. It's going to cost the state of Idaho 25 to $40 million to implement. Yeah, money speaks to people. So I would say absolutely memorize that 125 to $40 million to implement. Another thing that speaks to people is how difficult it will be to implement even if we can allocate those funds, being that there is several counties that can't even run the system with their current voting machines.

Yeah, all of that will have to be changed. Every county will have to do brand new, training on how to do this. So that's another easy one to memorize. And then another easy one is that we will have weeks that will expire without knowing who the winner is. Yeah. It takes a long time to get the final tally on this.

Did you mention the one? Sorry, I was reading a couple of texts that came in about how the candidates will be allowed to. They'll be allowed to lie about who they are politically. I didn't mention that one, like any candidate can affiliate with any party. Totally unsubstantiated. Absolutely. And that's it. That's the again, I'm I'm sounding the call on that.

I think that's the biggest danger in all of this. So that's there that's there. Silver bullet. If you look long term like we know Miranda markowitz, a Democrat. Yeah, we know there any other Democrats in this area that they know. Yeah, yeah, Larry Larocco is a Democrat. Richard Stallings is a Democrat. Like we know that because we have that history of them being a Democrat.

But in the future, you know, what's going to happen when somebody enters the realm of politics, you're just going to say, look, you're you're not going to be able to win. I know you're loyal to the Democrat Party. I know that you donate to them. I know you volunteered for them, I know you. That's the platform you believe in.

If you want to run for office, you're not going to get elected. If you put that behind your name. And the ones that have the R behind their name, they have an advantage over you. So in order to make this give you a chance at all, you just need to say you're a Republican. So at best they're going to make the term Republican meaningless.

But I think more likely is that you're going to have voters voting, thinking they're safe because, oh, here's a Republican. You know what? I'll go with that person. Nathaniel Johnson, Republican. I got a cousin named Nathaniel, and I really like him, so I'm just going to vote for this one. So they're they're going to look at that r and it's going to give them artificial comfort.

Yeah. Inflated value. Yes. Absolutely. And that to me when I read that and when I discovered that aspect of prop one I'm like that's what they want it right there. That is that is the sort of the silver bullet in all of this. And, and some people have responded with that was saying, well, we have some candidates and quite honestly, a couple of lawmakers that are currently serving Idahoans that probably aren't traditional Republicans, but they have an RBI hang their name.

Yes. Can they lie now? They can. But you can't hold them to a standard. You can't verbally ask them the question, are you part of the Republican Party and did you win a primary? Because that doesn't matter anymore. No, no, it won't. And and I think that's a good point. We have we have a number of lawmakers that are technically Republicans.

They're not that loyal to the to the platform. I think they designated themselves as a republic. Well, you're run for the the right to call yourself the Republican in November. That's what it is. So it's very different because at least those people won a primary in a closed primary, and they've earned the right to call themselves a Republican even if they don't believe it.

Right. They won the they won the election. So that's different. This one completely unearned. You can just slap that designation behind your name. And it's it's such a, such a bad deal. It's such a bad deal. I mean it would like, it would be like me walking into Catholic Mass and saying yeah, I'm Catholic, I'm not a Catholic.

I'm not baptized into that church. I haven't I can't tell you what their values are intricately I can tell you a basic concept of Christianity. It's the same kind of concept. I didn't do anything to earn calling myself a Catholic. Yeah, someone texted Julie and said the term Republican already is meaningless. I think I know what they mean.

But I, I would add a layer to that if even if it's meaningless, it's not valueless. Yes. So and we need to we need to maintain the value of what it's called to be a Republican. And if you disagree with me on that, look at the overwhelming success rate of Republicans in elections over the Democrats. Right. Well, I think about it strictly from our job.

Right? Yeah, that's that's probably the best the best area that I'm an expert at. And if I'm interviewing somebody and they have some questionable values that don't rely don't align with my core values, but we have an open primary system, I can't really ask them questions that are holding their feet to the fire because they can say whatever they are.

They didn't win a Republican primary. They didn't. They didn't align, at least in name. And when a primary when, when I have a an issue with Stephanie Mickelson on the House floor arguing that I'm a book burner because I don't want porn in libraries, I can look right at her and say, don't you owe the Republican Party something because you won under that that banner?

Yeah. That is not the value of the Republican Party. We do not want porn in children's hands. Yeah, there it it creates an option for me as a voter and then also in my job to look at her and say, hey, you're not living up to the standards that you, that you feel like you should be able to slap an R behind your name.

Yeah. If we remove all of that, that's just one less, one less bar somebody has to meet. Yeah it is. And it it it just leads to distortion I think in terms of the, of the info, and it is going to be frustrating for, for a lot of people. You know, I find it fascinating because one of the principal proponents of proposition one, of course, is Todd Achilles, who he was appointed to a legislative seat.

He's now running for it. And if you go to, if you go to his campaign page, he has these videos of him on the farm, like visually, if you didn't, if you didn't listen to the audio visually, he looks like an Idaho Republican. He he's a Berkeley guy. He donates to people like Hillary Clinton and Howard Dean and Barack Obama and, I mean, so that.

Right, there is a living example of the kind of dynamic that they're trying to achieve here. Yeah. And if you were in Todd Achilles district, let's say you live on that side of the state and you're actually in the district currently with the current system, you can question your lawmaker and say, how can you call yourself a Republican when you are voting or when you're donating to Democrats?

How can you call yourself a Republican when you're supporting the gutting of the party? Yes. Yeah, it's it's a great question. Once they get the gutting done, what do you what what option do you have as a voter to challenge? Yeah. Candidate. Yeah. What's next after that. That's a really good point. All right. We have to break. It's 954 on Newstalk 1079.

But I was going to go back and look. Well Lisa come on down. We'll get you some signs and you can put it on your property. You're the next contestant on the price. Nathan says the Peterson Building in Pocatello is where you get the vote no on prop one signs. That's what I was going back trying to find.

Okay. And now you can make your own sign. Preferably not in crayon, but.

This is a really great question. Somebody said, where does Van Burton Shaw, Gerald Raymond and Rod Furnace stand on prop one? Those first two, Burton, Shaw and and Raymond have been so silent. Yeah. Why are they quiet on this? So quiet? I had a direct text conversation with Rod Furnace. He, He said he is absolutely voting.

No. He would. No. Where? Van Burton. Sean. Gerald. You know what? I could text him. He might tell me. Oh, I think I could do that. It's weird. I very I mean, so quiet up there. We talked about Brett rambled. Nothing. Silence about this. Yeah.

Yeah, those tornadoes did some damage. Look at that building. Which. Oh, the middle one. Yeah, she panned away. Yeah. That's interesting. This is the CNN feed, but they're using the CBS local affiliate. She's holding a CBS 12 microphone. Oh, interesting. Yeah. I wonder how that works. I don't know how that works. Oh, you know what? I actually had lunch with Todd Koontz couple weeks ago, and we were talking about our viewers audience upset with national news and stuff, and he said they have affiliations with like, ABC, but they also will run CNN reports and stuff.

So I think little crossover. Yeah.

957 on Newstalk 1079 so here's the deal. Once again, we want to reiterate, and I, plan on swinging, but it'll be kind of like a drive through. But you don't get French fries with it. You get a vote no on prop one sign. I can bring a box of toothpicks, though, you know, or, like, disposable forks if you want just at least a portion of a drive through experience, something like that.

But, we'll we're going to put it on Facebook Live. So I love interacting with our listeners in our audience. Plus, if you happen to be a Democrat and you want to get one of our signs and dump it in the dumpster, you're going to be on the video, like, people will identify you. So you don't want to do that.

Yeah, you don't want to do that. So, but 11 to noon tomorrow, Utah Avenue Walmart kind of on the south end out there on the on the end with the garden center. Panda Express like that end of the parking lot. Know I want some chow mein. Orange chicken. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's their that's their signature thing.

Right. Okay, everyone, have a wonderful Thursday. Julie and I will be back tomorrow. And let's do that thing tomorrow. Julie. Where? We'll have an hour where anybody can call in and ask about prop one. Okay, perfect. Do that during the 9:00 hour tomorrow. It's 959. Be safe. Mark Lee, VanCamp and Robbins up next.