11.6.2024 -- NLS -- "A New Era: Trump’s Triumphant Return and the Redefining of America"

On this episode with Neal and Julie, they dive into the monumental news that Donald Trump has become the 47th President of the United States. Neal shares how surreal it felt watching the results roll in, surrounded by like-minded individuals as Trump secured victory. The election night was filled with moments of gratitude and intense emotion, and Neal admits he was moved by the experience.

They discuss the significance of Trump’s coalition, including support from figures like Tulsi Gabbard, RFK Jr., and Vivek Ramaswamy, which reflects a unique alliance across the political spectrum. Neal and Julie also touch on the success of various ballot initiatives, notably those enforcing citizenship requirements for voting. Arizona’s unique choices regarding election rules and the movement in Alaska to repeal ranked-choice voting also feature in their discussion.

The two express cautious optimism about what lies ahead, with Julie noting that the defeat of ranked-choice voting prevents lawmakers from spending time undoing it later. Both hosts appreciate their listeners’ role in getting the word out on issues like Proposition One, and they celebrate the integrity shown by voters in making informed decisions. Reflecting on a range of perspectives, they consider the reshaping of the political landscape and the future for both parties as Trump prepares to take office.

Transcript

You want to show us the wing of my protein bar, though? You're good, you're good. And we're going to get to the phone calls here in just a moment. We had a lot of people that, stayed on hold through the through the break. But if you're just tuning in, maybe you went to bed at 830 last night and you haven't heard, but Donald Trump is the 47th president.

And not only is he going to end up winning the electoral vote. He's going to win the popular vote as well. That's huge. That is so huge. Prop one down in flames. I haven't looked at the latest latest numbers, but let me do a little refresh here. It's going to be a 69, 31 or a 7030 defeat for proposition one, in Idaho.

And that that makes me so incredibly happy. Great. It's wonderful. The constitutional amendment passed by nearly similar margin, 6535 at this point with a lot of counties reporting. And so, that that constitutional amendment is going to take hold. That basically says only, non-citizens cannot vote in Idaho. You have to be a citizen to vote.

That seem to be pretty popular across the United States. I was looking at some other ballot initiatives that were in existence, and there were several based about along the lines of citizenship is required to vote or, you know, whatever the various wording, they all seem to have passed. Yeah. Yeah. They did. All right. Let's go to the phones.

(208) 542-1079. Caller how are you today? Well, this is R.T.. I have to, sell a battery. Observation. And then a dire warning here. The first cell of victory observation is. I did not know that Kamala Harris was prophetic. She foretold this. And, this morning, we find that America has been unburdened by what has been. Yes, we've we've received similar sentiments from some of our our listeners.

So true. All right. The second, the second celebratory observation is the Jets are lining up at LAX this morning, ready to take the Hollywood crowd out of the country. Oh, good picture of it here. Now, if we could. Only if that could only be true. Yeah. You. Well, yeah, they they never do. They always say and they never act.

Okay. The third point is a little more serious. So this is one that I've been worried about even before the results of the election came back. Is, Trump is still a marked man. We've got to be ever vigilant. They can assassinate him. Yeah. And many of the dreams and even more increased. I think we need to be vigilant in and pray in his behalf.

I did read an article yesterday. Well, it was actually today at about, like 1230 in the middle of the night, but it had been linked on to, X and they had already sent an additional Secret Service agents to Mar-A-Lago yesterday evening. Good. Yes, I feel better or I feel better already. That's great. Yes. All right. Thank you.

Thank you for the call. I appreciate it, and I appreciate your, upbeat, positive tone. I just noticed something, Julie. In Arizona, about 60% of the vote is in Kari Lakes within less than three points. Oh, she close that gap? Yeah, it's like 50 point something to 47 point something like. Okay. She's, she's within two and a half to three points now.

All right. It'll be interesting to see how that turns out. Yeah, I, I just have to say I'm so disappointed in Arizona. You got to get better, Arizona. Come on. You got to do better. If Florida can count their votes as quickly as they did, this is a failure with your secretary of state. I think Arizona said, let's be weird with daylight savings time and voting counting.

Yeah. All right. Let's go to the phones. Hi, caller. How are you? I'm doing great. How are you guys? Hey, good. It's a good morning. All I got to say is, with the downing of prop one and with Ted Cruz's big win in Texas, I am more than happy to drink the cheers of the Soros family.

Yeah. And, I'm grateful again for all your guys's hard work. And I'm glad that, freedom has another chance. So that's all I got. And, you guys have a wonderful morning. Thank you. And thanks for waiting. Who's on hold for quite a while. That's great that he held on. We've received tons of texts thanking us for holding the watch party last night.

It was as much fun for us as it was for you. So for all those people texting in, we had a blast. And we're so grateful you were with us. Yeah. Yeah. It was. It was such a great night last night in in so many ways. Yeah. Let's go to our next caller. Welcome to the show caller.

How are you? Good. How are you guys? Good. That's why I'm calling. I want to say thank you for that event last night. That was amazing. What a what a what a turnout. It was great to be around people like that. You have great supporters in this community. And another thing I want to say is, you know, I woke up this morning real optimistic, but so grateful.

And I want to say this, I'm not a religious man. I don't belong to any church. But I do believe in Jesus. Our victory speech should be a man's. Amen. Julie mentioned it a minute ago that God ain't done with America yet. Yeah, so our victory speech should be Amen. Amen. Jesus Christ is king and God is good.

And shame on those people. When, when when the people in the rally for Kamala said, Christ is king, she said, oh, you're in the wrong rally. When JD Vance heard it, he stopped what he was saying. He says, you're right, Christ is king or whatever. He said, I'm. Yeah. Are you, if I may say, you know, you got that about right.

Yeah, yeah. Our victory speech should be Amen. Amen. God is not done with America. And Christ is king. Christ is king. Hallelujah. Yeah. Well, thank you guys for last night to be about. Thank you. Thank you for calling in and coming last night. We had hundreds of people that that came through. And at any given time, we probably had a couple hundred people in in that in the conference center at that, snake River Event Center.

But they were coming and going, you know, they're catching a few minutes of it. There was a lot of great food. Again, big thanks to the Bonneville County GOP. And we appreciate that. David and the group down at snake River Event Center, they were great and very accommodating, and it made our broadcast and our work a lot easier as well.

But really, most of all, thanks to the massive amount of listeners that that came and just just enjoyed in the moment last night. It really was one of those moments that you're going to remember for a long time, watching those results come in, you're in, you're in a group of, a big room with like minded people and and watching Trump just slowly gain ground over the the minutes in the hours of last night is just kind of an unforgettable experience.

The applause that erupted, you know, as each little state started to go to Trump as it was announced that, North Carolina and North Carolina went to Trump. And then it was announced that Georgia went to Trump, and then eventually Pennsylvania. And that was fairly late in the evening. And we still had people in the room. Yes. Yeah.

And these are it was just so fun. Really thankful for our listeners. We say it all the time. You guys are the best. We're very grateful for you. Yeah, we really are. And and you made it. And I will tell you right now, I'm not going to give out specific numbers. Right now. Our streaming numbers are the highest I have ever seen.

The, the I mean, tons of people are tuning in this morning and I think they're tuning in, not just because of our charm and wit. Julie. You mean they might be excited that they're not going to be gaslit anymore? Is that true? Is that what you're thinking? You know what I will tell you. And this is always been my effort to be a place of sanity for people.

And sometimes that's hard, because in a political environment, there's so much opportunity for deception. I, you know, I'm super thrilled. I in fact, I there were moments last night I was I don't want to say this because I'll sound like a gamma male, but I was on the verge of tears as we saw the results just pouring in it from the get go.

There was never a moment where proposition one looked like it might be 5050 it every result. And I'm going to do precinct by precinct. I'm not sure it won a single precinct. I looked at different counties last night specifically and east Idaho counties. Some counties voted 80% against prop one. A lot of counties voted 75% against prop one.

Good job. I mean, that is that is just a testament to how great people are here. But but when you look around the state, even in the blue districts, it failed 55, 56%. So I don't know if there's a single county and maybe not even a single precinct where proposition one won a majority. Yeah, that and again, this was a collective effort.

There wasn't this dark out of state money helping fight this. Yeah. It was. You were up against the the Goliath. Yes. In in this fight and it took all of us. It took the lawmakers. It took you. It took the many, many hours. We talked about it on the radio. It took the listener sharing it. It actually took you getting out and voting.

Yeah. And taking people to the polls and people who hadn't voted. We we spoke with someone last night who had never even voted, and they were there at the watch party. Yeah, it was great. That is exactly what needed to happen. And we don't let off. Now. We keep this momentum going forward. Yeah. Agreed. All right. Let's go to our next caller.

Welcome to the show, Julie. Hello. Hi. First of all, I'd like to thank you all for what you do. Yes, definitely. Sensible minds in a crazy world. Also want to make a statement. You know, I haven't seen a woman get beat that bad since the woke Olympics, but the boxer. Yeah, yeah. And, do more things.

Don't forget daddy's home, and he is really upset now, so. Yeah. Who? Have a wonderful day. Thank you. Thank you for the call. A couple of those comments, I'm like, where is this going? I mean, because we don't know what our commercial load is doing or anything right now. I'm going to take the moment because we haven't talked about anything else.

I think it was Sunday night. Maybe, that boxer, a physical report like his, And I'm going to call him a his his physical assessment by I believe it was a French doctor was released. Okay. He's a male there. Yes. There. Right. There have been calls that those medals be taken away from him. Yeah. Because it was presented as something different to the Olympic Committee.

And now that this, physical assessment of this man was leaked and it confirms that he's a male, it someone needs to act. The DNA is there, the testosterone levels are there, the anatomy is there. Yeah. I hope they do. I hope they take the vote. But here's the problem. The match is altered the trajectory of the subsequent deaths.

I mean it's unfair. No matter what happened we should have never traveled that road ever ever. Okay. Let's go to the next caller. Welcome to the show caller I mean, it's you. Yeah. Go ahead. Awesome. All right. I just want to say that I'm really, really thankful for you guys for, like, spreading information about prop one. I spread that information far and wide.

I live up here in Kootenai County, and I used to live down in Rexburg, and that's kind of how I discovered you guys. But yeah, thank you guys for that. Thank you. And then you guys, do you guys want to hear my conspiracy theory that's completely based only on no facts and just what I'm feeling. We're always up for that.

All right, well, I tell a bunch of different people that and everyone always gives me, a wide eye. But my theory was Trump would win by a significant margin, that he'd win by almost a landslide, which he did. And then his sentencing date would come and he would get prison. And then in prison, Biden would declare martial law because no president can be felon or prisoner or anything else.

Non Trump will get killed in prison. I have I don't wish this on him. In fact, I would be incredibly distraught. It did happen. And then I'm over here on January 20th. Wall 25th amendment Joseph. Biden. I that's an interesting, theory. I, I don't think that's going to happen, though, because the electoral votes either.

Yeah, but no, I don't either. And when we've heard, we've heard things like this, this 25th amendment strategy, I, I highly doubt I mean, the sentencing may happen, but the outrage that would ensue afterwards if, if they tried to put him in jail, I don't I don't I just don't see it. You've also got JD Vance who's now been elected as well.

So that comes into play in all of that. Yeah. The, the first inclination. So let's get everybody caught up on this. Kamala didn't even show her face last night. Okay. There was two things that happened. Kamala and Tim was weren't together. Yeah. That's bizarre. It is weird. It's super weird. Okay, that makes me think that they knew something was coming down.

So those two weren't together. Biden is two miles away from Kamala and they weren't together. He stayed at the white House. Yes. Yeah. So there was already weird inclinations happening before results even started landing at about 4:00 yesterday for Idaho. Okay, with all of that being said, Kamala did not go out, did not greet any of her people.

She basically hid and said she'll talk sometime today. It's supposed to be expected this afternoon. Yeah, I don't know if she's holding to that or not. We have heard reports this morning. She's going to be very, conciliatory in her concession, like she's going to be like, this was the this is, Donald Trump's election. Like she's she understands how bad she got beat.

Now we are thinking, well, he won the swing states. Wasn't it close? No, it was not close the way it was with Biden and Trump in 2020. He was winning these swing states by three points and four points. There were swing states in 2020 that were down to several thousand votes. And that's it. Yeah, that's how close the swing states were.

So this is why this is such a strong wind. Oh strong win. Because it wasn't just oh I barely squeaked by. Yeah. He actually won the state. There was no chance for shenanigans. Yes. So right now, Real Clear Politics has him at 280 electoral votes. What is it, two, 538. That's the total number of electoral votes.

So he has a right now, ten more than he needs, but we still have quite a few, to count. There's 306 now. 506. So we have 32 electoral votes left. He could get to 312. If he wins out the rest, he 312 is still possible. I don't know if it'll it'll quite get there, but it it may get above 300.

Julie. It could. Yeah. All right. Let's go to our next caller. Welcome to the show caller. Hey. Hi. Thanks for everything. Yeah, I look at you guys every morning. I appreciate what you guys do. Thank you. My wife and I were just talking, what kind of what his next steps might be. And, of course, the FBI has been kind of on his.

But, I was just curious what you guys thoughts. What he might do to help perform that. To make it perform better? Yeah, I don't know. Julie. What do you think? What his next steps are going to be. That's what you're hoping with Trump and how this can even get better than what it feels like today? Well, in regards to the FBI, because, like, we knew they were kind of on his tail a lot and.

Okay. And stuff like that. So I didn't know if he was going to try to fix it or I don't know how much he'll clean. I yeah, I don't know how much he'll clean house, but I think it's really important to understand who stood on the stage with him last night and who he's already put in place in.

He's already said, you're going to be working as this and you're going to be working. Is that he has Tulsi Gabbard in his corner. He has RFK Jr in his corner. He has Vivek Ramaswamy in his corner. He has Elon Musk in his corner. He has already started to build a coalition of people who were not the deep swamp.

They are not the the people that are going to undercut him and lie and tell stories that was his. That was one of the missteps in his first, presidency is he trusted these people once he surrounded himself with them, would be working towards the same goals as him, that he's not going to make that mistake again. So that's step one, I believe.

Step two is he deeply cleans out the FBI. I would anticipate that that happens. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you for the call. I, I think he has to well, I think there are well, really three things that have to happen. He's got a he's got a he's got to clear out the deep state. I don't know what that requires, but we cannot have this shadow governance going on.

I think James Comey is a great example, going back a few years of the kind of rot and toxicity that that can bring. That's got to be, I think even Donald Trump underestimated the depth of the deep state. So that's a priority. I also think shoring up our election system, even though he won and he it's clear that he won, there are still problems in these swing states with voter rolls.

There's there's problems with what they allow, with ballots coming in later. Those things have to get fixed. America has got to be confident that the votes are being counted accurately, nearly precisely, accurately. We shouldn't have to feel like, well, we've got to win with big enough margins to outpace the fraud that that's not a healthy place to be.

We should just be able to live in a country where everybody who's, eligible gets to vote, and then the votes are counted accurately, and we live with the results. And sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. That's that's how it ought to be. We shouldn't have this sort of anxiety that we have every election cycle. And then the third thing, mass deportation.

We Donald Trump is going to have to deploy massive amounts of federal resources to track down the millions of illegals that have flooded across our border over the last three and a half to four years. And, and send them back home and, and they can go back to Venezuela. They go back to Guatemala, they go back to Mexico.

They go back to wherever, their country of origin is. And and we have to guard our border more vigilantly than we ever have. And because if we leave that dynamic in place, they I can't remember who, talked about. It was JD Vance with Rogan kind of going after Reagan because of the amnesty. That is absolutely what flipped California, blue.

We can't let that happen to other places around the country. Now, is the left going to throw a fit? Yes. Is the media going to have a cow over this absolute. And don't worry about that. Just no, that's the sign that you're on the right track. And and you have to stop their efforts to, to change the political landscape of America.

I do know that he committed to two things last night in his acceptance speech. I was a little rummy while I was watching it. It was late, but he did commit to those deportations he talked about. He said he will fix immigration. There is no there's no stopping him now on that. And then the second thing he committed to was revitalizing the economy, that this would he would not make it just like it was when he served the first time, but even better than when he served the first time.

And I think in order to do those things, he is going to have to clear out some things. Okay. It looks like Casey may be out in Pennsylvania. Okay, that seat was up. That Senate seat was in place. So 97% of the vote is in. His opponent is up by close to a point. Great. So, okay, let's take more calls here.

(208) 542-1279 caller welcome to the show. How are you today? Hi, guys. How are you? This is a glorious day. Now, my comment here is the aliens are coming to Earth, people have landed on the moon and I'm still pushing, pushing through the pole, pushing through the door that says pole. But I want to know the question. How did after the shellacking that come in last night, how did Biden ever get 81 million votes?

You and you and a lot of people are asking that question. We had this conversation off air this morning. Bobbsey. Yeah, yeah, that's not Bob. Oh, it's not Bob. No it's not. Oh, I just called I just gave you one of the best compliments ever. You're right. I totally thought this was Bob's e. Yeah. No. Do I need to change my name over to Bob's the so I can get on the air more?

No, but you just your day just got even better because someone mistook you for that. Yeah. Oh, okay. I know Bob's the two, so anyway. Yes. Okay. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you for the call. (208) 542-1079. Julie, I'm getting cautiously optimistic that Alaska is going to repeal ranked choice voting. I sure hope so. All right, let's go back to the phones.

Caller. You're on the program. How are you today? Yeah, good. I was watching the poll results kind of middle of the night there. And you know wife the nine year old walks in and he starts watching. He says, what's the difference? The blue and the red there. I start explaining to him, Republican do crazy. Oh well, well Trump's going to win.

Then he says there's more red on the flag than there's blue color. Your wife is there. Yeah. Anyway, he walked off left and Trump won. It was just too easy. Is that okay. All right. Like now for babes. Let's not make it too complicated. Yeah. All right, all right, let's go to our next caller. Good morning. How are you today?

Hey. Great. Good morning, you guys. Morning. Yeah, it is a good day. Hey, I just wanted to comment that, now I think they're going to appoint Hillary or not. Hillary. Excuse me. Kamala, as the president and Biden will step down so she could be the first woman president. You know, I we keep hearing this. I don't think that's going to happen.

I think right now the Democrats are licking their wounds and they they know they've got some fences to mend with the American public. And the more maneuvering, the more shenanigans they pull. I think that becomes problematic. Now, I don't when when you look at the 25th amendment, you have to get the the cabinet on board to do that.

And I think even though they are Biden's cabinet, I think they have level heads. I also think people loyal to Biden are not interested at all in doing any favors for Kamala Harris right now. I don't think they're going to give her that window of time to be the president of of the United States. And so I understand the theory, and I like the theory.

I just I think we need to kind of relax just a little bit around this. I don't believe that's going to happen. I really don't, because I don't think I hope not anyway. Yeah. It's just been kind of a interesting way of looking at it is they might end up thinking, but I appreciate you guys. Thank you. Well thank you, I but I think it speaks to how untrusting we are.

Like we're waiting for the next shenanigan to be pulled. We've been abused. Absolutely. And so that's why the caller reacts that way. You just expect more abuse. For me, in your explanation to the caller, that would have been exactly. My major point is there is no working bee right now between Biden and Kamala. They could they literally could go this next month and a half and never speak again.

I agree with that. I agree it's doable. They can the the country can keep functioning. There's that much hatred. I don't know if you guys all saw it, but Jill Biden voted yesterday. She wore a red pantsuit. That is a big fashion. No, no. Yeah, for her too. And she had her head held high and mad. Was she stolen out of that polling place for me, that was a middle finger to the entire Harris administration going, I'll show you what you did to us.

And kind of I mean, obviously Red has deep political meaning. It could mean communism, but it also in America, it means you're you're rooting for the Republicans. And I think as much as they hate Donald Trump, they got stabbed in the back. They if you're Biden now, they should have done it halfway through his presidency.

But Biden held on. He didn't want to go. But then it was so ugly they tried to put a friendly face on it. But, Julie, I think you're exactly right. The fact that that, Kamala and Walls were not together last night is super weird. So weird. It's weird that the sitting president was not, at least for an hour or so.

We know he goes to bed early, but. But at least to make a showing or to make an appearance for the optics of it that wasn't there. I think there is now deep division. There's a lot of finger pointing, there's a lot of blaming going on. I would agree these people are not friends with each other. No, no.

All right. Next caller, you're on the Neal Larson Show. Good morning. This morning. Yeah, I think you're right, Neal. There's so much weirdness going on in that campaign. It was it was just kind of odd. But, it's funny how you know, 24 hours later, some of the talking points I would have had yesterday almost seem just it's like, well, I it's not a thing anymore.

So but I will say, so yesterday I brought my daughter and it's her first time, for a first election. She turned 18 last month, and that was like her thing she wanted the most is just to vote in this election. And, I realized as we got her registered and she sat down kind of how possibly, you know, confusing, intimidating, but just, that might be for a first time voter, as you're looking at the, the wording, you know, that that first thing on the ballot with the, American citizenship and the Idaho Constitution to be in voting, then proposition one.

And, I think, you know, I it's I'm kind of looking over her at her and she's looking at me like, yeah, what do I say? I just read it and, you know. Yeah, I thought I tripped her on. No, on prop one, I was. Anyway, my point is, I guess I'm very relieved to see that, Julia was right yesterday.

Like, I have faith in my Idaho voters that, you know, I'd rather know the election results right away than prop one, because I think prop one will, you know. Yeah, it we did good. I did good on that. Yeah it did. And I think today's a day to love this country and to be proud of the voters. I don't think the voters always get it right, but they got it right yesterday.

They did. And I've been scrolling through Julie, the kind of the statewide results here. I've never seen so many Republicans in contested races winning 80 plus percent and some of them close to 90. That's the it's obviously the Trump down ballot effect here. It was just a good day for Republicans and for for conservatives across Idaho and across this country.

Yes, there's many things to be celebrating. Of course, the obvious is that that Trump is going to be in the white House for the next four years. There's so many other things to be celebrating. Let's just name a few. We took back control of the Senate and not just by one seat. Yeah, we took back control of the Senate.

It could be 53. It could be 54. We're going to have to see what the numbers are. Yeah. What does that mean? That means that there is a lot of power. There can't be somebody like a mitt Romney screwing things up as much. Now, would it be better if we had 60, 65? Absolutely. But we're going to take the winds when we get them.

And that's fantastic. And it's a six year seat. Yeah. That's awesome. Yes, there's potential that we're going to win the house or keep the house. It's going to be very, very close. We're probably not going to know for a minute, but it's going to be very, very close. So there's potential there. We now have the ability for potentially Trump to switch out at least one, maybe two of the Supreme Court justices.

Hey, you're taking some of the older conservative justices and replacing them with justices that are maybe 50 years old. Yeah, a 53 years old. Yes. It's huge. I can't even tell you how important that is to our country. Yeah, there it is. There's a lot of wins that happened yesterday. I remember in 2020 when Donald Trump lost, I thought, you know what?

He here's the silver lining. It's not a silver lining but but I think we can put it into perspective. I think Donald Trump accomplished more in one term than most presidents do in term in in two terms. He also got three Supreme Court justices. That's very rare, especially in a four year term that you will get to name three, three justices.

That usually takes eight years for you to accomplish that. We have another four years with Trump. We know Clarence Thomas is going to retire. We're probably not going to gain much ground there because we'll just put another conservative replacing a conservative. I don't think we're going to see Elena Kagan or Sonia Sotomayor, and certainly not Ketanji Brown Jackson retiring anytime soon.

But but you know what? We got a pretty solid 63. On the Supreme Court. If we can just hold it, that's a win. In, in my opinion. So, yeah, I think there's just a lot to be grateful for and, and reasons to be optimistic. I don't it doesn't fix everything. We still have some significant cultural issues and cultural problems to go through.

But I, I find and I don't really want to make this a negative. And we joked last night about I and I forgot to take my Nerf football because I was going to spike the football as we saw favorable results come in. And I don't really mean this in the spirit of spiking the football here, but I do think that we can take great comfort and solace.

Oh, okay. Okay, we're back online. Great comfort and solace in what was repudiated yesterday. I think this sort of messaging trend that we saw of grown adults advocating for the death of their own grandchildren, pre-born, was horrific. And I think most of Americans are like, why would you advocate for that? You can be pro-choice, but those are your grandchildren that you're you're cheerleading for them to to allow your children to, to kill them before they're born.

I mean, it's just a message that most Americans go, what are you even saying? What are you saying? And that was rejected. I think the whole transgender, effort on the part of the left was repudiated to some degree yesterday. Yes. A, okay. I'm just going to repeat what JD Vance said in his interview with Joe Rogan.

He said, you know what, the normal gays, that's his words, not mine. The normal gays even they want Trump. They you're going to see it. And he he wasn't wrong about that that that this this idea of having this this I don't this group of people that is okay with harming kids and a group of people that's okay with just not having respect for the divine gifts that we've been given.

And I'm not going to break it down any further than that. If you're a religious person, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah. Those are the people that wanted the negativity in America. They're the ones crying today, the people who want a good life. Where I saw I saw somebody post on, on Facebook today that how sad they were that it mattered more to people to have cheap eggs and bread and not support the LGBTQ community.

There couldn't be a bigger lie than that. In what way have I not supported the LGBTQ community? Well? And and and the foolishness of saying it's either this or that, right? It's not. You can both exist. Yeah, they can both exist. And I think that that's what you saw yesterday is that people are tired of being given these choices, and they're going it doesn't have to be that way.

Yeah, we can have a booming economy and we can all do our sex lives differently and be happy. Yeah. Okay. Well, I guess I don't want to get off into the weeds of a cultural issue. What more is expected then? Live your life. I don't know what what what more is needed or expected. Like I don't want to get in the way of anybody there making their choices.

They can live the way they want to. I'm making my choices. I get to live the way that I want to. I don't know what this expectation is that we celebrate. No, you. You provide freedom and you provide. I won't get in your way. You don't get in my way that that's how it ought to be. Celebrate in your way.

Don't demand others celebrate with you. Yeah. So frustrating. All right. (208) 542-1079. We had some false hope. It's not so. Yeah. It was, it was so, so fun last night again. Julie, we spent you know, I thought, okay, we'll go tell at least 10:00, maybe we'll spill into the 11:00 hour. That last hour flew by.

It was we were happy to continue broadcasting. And for me, you know when you broadcast there's a lot of moving parts and, but it was almost effortless last night it was set up and it went well. We even took some phone calls at one point. And it was, it was just overall just a great night. It was a great night.

And a big thank you to all those who helped with it. I think we we thanked a whole bunch of people earlier. We did fail to thank our crew here. We we had some wonderful coworkers who helped us pull that off. I did think David and and Heather laughed. Okay, good. But our engineers, Marv and Shane were amazing.

Like they did a great job. Yeah, it was awesome. And and, it's wonderful to be surrounded by people like that. Yeah. All right. (208) 542-1079 let's go to our next phone call. Good morning. Caller. Good morning. Hi. Hi. How are you guys? Oh, we're doing okay. Good. Thank you. Good. Hi. Good spirits anyway. For sure. I wanted to thank you guys for working tirelessly on getting a no on prop one out there.

I think you guys did an excellent job. Hands down. I tried to catch up to you guys, but I drive a truck for a living and it's tough. But I just want to thank you guys very much for getting that out there. Have a good day. Well thank you. Such good people. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let's read a few texts here.

Okay. I have an extended family. Make this comment. I hope you guys bring it up and unpack it. As you can imagine, I'm just upset and I'm. I'm guessing the family was not happy last night. It's constant amazement of how stupid the American people are. I would also add how openly evil we have become. Immoral. Robinson, who ran for the North Carolina governorship, is a prime example, a truly degenerate human being who ran a horrendous campaign yet got 40% of the vote.

They're ignorant of even recent history. They believe Trump had a great economy, forgetting that he inherited the 75 months of economic growth from the Obama. Okay, I'm not going to read through the rest of this. This is just sour grapes on their part. You lost an election. You had a terrible candidate who took over for an even worse president and candidate.

So, I mean, I don't just take the L don't sit there and whine and complain about the other side. Okay? Okay. Let's not have any emotion about this. Let's actually talk about that. This is a valuable lesson for America to learn. Yeah. People want to choose their candidate. Yeah. The Democrat did not allow them to do that this election cycle.

And look at how it turned out. Yeah. America. America should totally learn from that. That we value our right to vote. We value our right to choice. We value independence. And when it's just foisted upon you, who the candidate's going to be, it doesn't work out so well for that party. No, no, no it doesn't. All right. All right.

Let's read a couple of more. We've got in Texas a great job, you guys. Thanks so much. This one says I have to thank you both for helping to educate the citizens of Idaho and saving our conservative state. Neal, don't sell yourself short on the impact your video had in regard to shining a light on the quote.

Lies by omission that were being pushed by the dark left money. I shared your video with numerous people here in the Treasure Valley. And then there's a side note here. He says, I moved here one and a half years ago to be closer to my grandchildren after spending 50 years in Idaho Falls. Then he goes on to say, all of which thanked me for helping them to understand the misleading information on ranked choice voting.

I had a FaceTime call with my family the night before the election to pray together as a family for our country, and I believe God heard our prayers. A sincere thank you to you and Julie for all you do. Sincerely, John. Wow. Thank you John. I appreciate that. And and I can't tell you how, I guess gratifying and humbling it is that people first watched the documentary, shared the documentary, and the number of reports that I've gotten back that it it converted people like they saw it and they realized those guys have been lying to me.

Yes. And I didn't hear the whole story. So thank you. It feels like. And I certainly, you know, my my documentary did not make a 30 point a difference. You know, I think it would have failed even without it. But I was happy to be a part of the effort and and to pull my share of the weight in, in informing the public of what exactly was going on.

So thank you. And it's nice to hear those things. Right. Another thing I'd like to point out about the defeat of ranked choice voting last night. It's something that a lot of people won't think about, but it is a glorious concept that our lawmakers do not have to waste their time on repealing ranked choice voting. This next upcoming session, they can focus on bigger and better things than that.

The voters spoke. Now the lawmakers can just forget about it and go on taking care of Idaho, balancing the budget, making sure that we're being fiscally responsible, taking care of our children, all of those things that we hope that they do. They can pay attention to those things instead of ranked choice voting. Well, and I agree with you.

And I think if there is a silver lining to prop one, I think it was actually a galvanizing force for Republicans who may not have agreed otherwise because you had people who they have strong disagreements on what it means to be a Republican or to be a conservative. They found common ground on this. I mean, you had it wasn't ubiquitous.

You did have a Republican here and there that they either. Well, I'm not sure which way I'm going to go. But for the most part, it was overwhelmingly obvious to most Republicans. This is a blatant attempt to destroy the Republican Party in Idaho. That's all it was. And it was. It was couched in lies. It was couched in deceit.

And the voters saw through it. And that's great. That's awesome. Tell the troops this worked. Yeah, yeah, it did work. And that's that's how it should be. Yeah. Let me see who this one's from. Somebody that was on the show last week. Yeah. Sorry. I'm trying to read. No. Get, I'll read one here from, this we just heard.

The texts are just flying in. Someone said the most egregious gaslighting was when the Biden administration kept saying that the economy was doing great and inflation was down while we were all literally watching prices skyrocket. I think people decided that if this was Harris's version of doing great, they didn't want it. That's a very good point. I want to, like, say a second to that, because we had a weekend where all of the jobs numbers were transitioned down.

They lied about that. Their administration all summer long lied about the job numbers to make it seem like the Biden-Harris administration was actually doing good. They're not. It was horrific. It was horrific. Do you know what grew in the last quarter? Government jobs. That was the only sector that grew. The only one. You tell me. That's what you want.

Yeah. No, voters did not want that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Let's see. Lots of great. Someone said please read the troll texts. I need to hear those left. We haven't gotten any to nothing. They're quiet. Nothing. They are crying in their keynote this morning. Oh, you know how we took our call yesterday from the man who insists that we give endless amounts of money to Ukraine?

Yeah, that'll probably trigger him. Me? Just saying that. Anyway, that was also part of Donald Trump's can, victory speech last night, was that it is time for that war to end. Yeah. And I don't know why that makes our our one, text or so upset, but that's exactly what needs to happen. Yeah. That war needs to end.

There needs to be a push out of Putin and Ukraine needs to go about their business and start taking care of themselves. Yeah. Instead of having Americans take care of Ukraine. Yeah. Can I make a prediction about Ukraine? I think over the next two months we are going to see a slow. Well, it'll be a gradual de-escalation in the region or a major escalation.

But we'll see. But they know if Donald Trump is the president of the United States, there is a new sheriff in town and they can't continue to do this. He is not going to put his signature on this endless aid that keeps going to Ukraine. He's not going to stand for Putin to continue doing what Putin does. And I, I think we're going to see a serious shift in, in the Ukraine.

I mean, they're not going to keep going. It's not going to be the status quo. So yeah, we're not going gonna have another year of of throwing them millions and billions of dollars every few weeks. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. One more thing. Should I just keep talking? Yeah. Actually doing a Joe Rogan podcast. We have not taken a commercial break.

No, it's been like an hour. Over an hour now. We're just riffing here, and we'll continue to do. It might feel like stream of consciousness going on here, but it kind of is. So one thing I wanted to talk about was that we interviewed multiple lawmakers last night who showed up upon our invitation, and we loved having them at at the party.

So, when we interviewed them, there was probably three quarters of the lawmakers that mentioned the fight is now about water. We defeated prop one. We are not done in Idaho. We need to protect Idaho farmers and that is the next step. So be prepared for that. We will start lining up interviews, about water. And we're going to talk a lot about water because that needs to be fixed in Idaho.

We cannot experience another spring time like we did this year. Green. Absolutely. All right. Okay. Well, I don't know. What. Did we just go off air? Yeah. I don't think we're getting out here. So we're we're just gonna have to standby. We got nothing to go to. Maybe some people can hear us. So let's just keep talking.

Keep talking? Yeah. And, if you're listening to us on air, then, Yeah, we're we're here. He says we are on. Okay, good. Okay. Well, Shane, if you can hear us. Oh, we're getting texts now that say they can hear us. They can't hear us. Okay. We can't hear ourselves in our headphones, which is weird.

So we'll keep talking. That's fine. Well, we'll keep going, and that's fine. But I can't take any phone calls because we can't hear them, so. Oh, we're just going to have to maybe give some, results or read some more texts. Okay, perfect. Well, everyone's telling us they can hear us, so. Okay, well, that's good that you guys are listening.

Thank you. Can I we have a record. I think I know what the new listener cap is right now, because we've hit it, and it's a very even number. Will you text in and tell us where you're listening from? It was super fun last night. We had a lot of people listening from out of state from all over.

It was it was great. We took a phone call from West Virginia last night. Yeah, somebody called in from West Virginia that was listening to our broadcast. Yeah, it was pretty amazing. I'm going to read this text. It says, I don't know if you talked about this yet, but one interesting fact last night with the returns was Trump was winning the popular vote also along with the Electoral College.

This is a big talking point that Trump takes away from the Democrats. If he wins both the Electoral College and the popular vote that takes away. Oh, they repeated a big talking point for the next four years of getting rid of the Electoral College. If you remember, this is what Hillary Clinton ran on and still talks about to this day, how she won the popular vote but still lost the election.

So this is a big deal with Trump. Okay, I agree more. And he does look like he's going to win it. We're not getting indications that that's decreasing that much with these remaining results that are coming in. Yeah. Yeah I, I don't think so. I also think, you know, a lot of times we talk about Trump winning the presidency.

We think only in terms of the presidency. But I do remember back when Barack Obama was the president and he was very unpopular. Like he was pretty radical, very radical and very left. He was responsible for this massive change over in legislative seats across the nation. There were thousands and thousands of legislative seats that flipped from Democrat to Republican.

I'm not suggesting the same thing's going to happen with Trump, but what I am suggesting is look at all the lawmakers that won with high 70, low 80% wins. I mean, that's a massive mandate to go to to Boise with. I believe that prop one was doomed to fail whether Trump was on the ballot or not. I mean, that was a massive margin, but I think it would have been a fair bit closer if Trump hadn't been on the ballot.

And so yeah I agree. And so there, there are these reverberating effects that that happen when you have a powerful name on the ticket at the top. It just drives a lot in fact to the point where when you look in Pocatello and you see Dustin Manwaring, he's the incumbent, defeating Mary Shea overwhelmingly. When you look at Tanya Burgoyne beating Nate Roberts fairly convincingly.

I don't know if there was a way Nate Roberts could have won that race at this point like that. Mary, excuse me, Tanya Burgoyne inherited, and I don't want to take anything away from her win. I'm sure she worked hard and and was very vigorous, but it it's like this windfall that you get that's unearned as a candidate, when you have someone like Trump at the top of the ticket.

And what's odd is we have some Republicans who don't like Trump won't tell us they're going to vote for Trump or not, meaning they're not going to vote for Trump. There are benefiting massively from having Trump on the ticket. Yeah, yeah. Well, and they'll probably accept that benefit. Yes. And they'll probably own it in two years and say, do you see what I did last time around?

You want me again? Yeah. And isn't that just true? Like, we've it's going to be a good four years. We need to keep pushing. We need to keep going. We've got a deep, deep bench. We have some amazing people that are on board with the Republican Party. I hope to see some reform. I hope to see some cracking down.

I would love to see the FBI have to release the information on PD. I would love to see the FBI have to release the information on Jeffrey Epstein. I know that's kind of selfish as far as true crime, Julie, but it's important to me. We need to clean that part of our culture up. We're due for it. Yes.

I also I want to just kind of mention when you feel like our culture is so just. Yeah. And gross. Please understand, those celebrities did not win this time around. They did not win. Those filthy entertainers came to Kamala's rallies and it didn't benefit her at all. Not at all. Pay attention to the good parts of life and just keep going, because that culture is going to always be out there.

Don't give it what it deserves or what it's asking for. No. Give it what it deserves, which is to be ignored and put down. Yeah. No, I wholeheartedly agree. And I love that because I think everyone felt like I remember when Republicans were having almost a conniption fit, Julie, that Taylor Swift remembered the the speculation back in the spring when they thought Taylor Swift might endorse a Joe Biden.

And we had a lot of conservatives that were like, oh, no, that's unfair. She can't endorse here. I'm like, it's fine if she endorses, because I don't think that's the way people decide on these things. So. Okay, I think we're going to be taking a break here. At 858 on Newstalk 179, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason, will be back for another hour here.

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And welcome back for our two. It's 907 back up to 100% here in Neal Larsen Julie Mason and you. If you'd like to join us on this historic day, this big day, this day that we are proud to be conservatives and Americans and Republicans, then we want to hear from you. And you know what can we also have if you're on the left, if today is a day of mourning, I think that we can be of service to you as well.

And if you want to call in and cry or tears, Julie and I will be a soft shoulder for you to cry on. Okay? I don't think they're going to do it. I don't think they're going to do it either. I, I don't know how soft my shoulder is going to be. I let them I don't know how soft it's going to be.

Okay. So I'm Georgetown University has actually prepared a room for their students. A cry room, it cry room. It has milk and cookies and soft play. That's inside. The students can show up today to have a safe place to be. Yeah. Okay. I mean, that is the heart of. It's actually in Virginia, isn't it? Or is it in D.C.?

Right on the edge of. Yeah, it's it's right there suburb. Yeah. I mean, it's not surprising with, you know, it's demographics and location and everything, but that's what's happening at Georgetown University. Oh, that's that's great. Okay. So, I will say, and Julie, you've been watching the text closer than I have. Our trolls have been dead silent today.

Oh, I've done a ton of re responding to people. I have not seen anything from our trolls today. Yeah, okay. Someone said Luke maybe put out a news release. Sounds like they're not giving up on prop one. Okay, bring it on. I guess 69.5% is not enough of a defeat right now. Okay, you know, that's called denial.

It's done. It's finished. Yep. Yeah, it is you. You might be able to come forward with a true open primaries initiative, but I don't think people are going to trust Luke. Mayville, Todd. Achilles, reclaim Idaho. It's got to be a different group. That does it. Yeah. Because they are persona, not this is a humiliating loss for them.

And if if he really did, I got to find this press release. If he really did say that, that to me is sort of a a psychological phenomenon on display called denial. Well, you know, Luke and I were such good friends. He's done such a great job of communicating with me. I'm sure it's on my inbox and I just haven't seen it probably.

So maybe. Yeah. You got to check that. Someone said don't poke the bear, Neal. Why not? Good. Yeah, yeah. Has that ever stopped Neal before? I want to read this one because it's a it's a nice text. I wanted to go to your watch party last night, but I worked at one of the polling places. I was amazed at some of the old and infirm people that showed up and would wait, usually over an hour, to vote.

I was also amazed that the number of first time voters that we registered, some of them who were quite old, we had one man show up to vote who appeared to be in the mid in his mid 50s, whose wife said it was the first time in his life he had ever voted. Really, that was the call we put out there to get those people I was saying in the last decade, but to get those people out who hadn't voted in the last ten years, if they're 55 years old, fine.

If they haven't voted in the last 30 years, get them out to vote. Yes. And this is this shouldn't stop here. This should happen every election cycle. Yeah. I'm trying to find the results, in Alaska on ranked choice voting here. Oh, okay. Nick. Nick Begich right now. Nick Begich, with 71% of the vote in Begich, has a five percentage point lead at 50%.

If he holds that, it's over. Wow. They don't do another round. Everyone pray. That would be great. That would be an amazing victory for Alaska. Also, because we because you had the left saying, oh no, Mary Pell taller, she's a legitimate winner and all. I mean, it's sort of repudiates that and, maybe should be the, the one hit wonder.

And I will also say right now, again, this is with 69% of the vote cast. The repeal effort of ranked choice voting in Alaska holds about a, well, nearly 5000 vote margin, 51 to 49% for the repeal. So that's that's a good trend as well, Julie. The winds just I'm getting tired of winning.

No, we're not okay. I'm not kidding. I remember when Donald Trump said you'll be tired of winning. We'll win so much. You'll be tired of winning. It's it's just overall been been great. I just keep my eye out. Right now they're saying on Fox, the House Republicans are up to 198. Democrats are up to 177.

And we flipped three. So okay, great. CNN is running a headline that says Kamala will give her concession speech at 4 p.m. eastern today. So that'll be 2 p.m. Idaho time. Okay. Also, we haven't talked about this yet this morning, in the reporting that I was listening to this morning, she had yet to contact the Trump campaign to not a phone call, not nothing like this.

So she's that's who she is. That's who she is. And in that, in, in, Kiran, it says Harris to speak at 4 p.m. eastern will call Trump to concede so that makes me believe she still hasn't done it. Yeah. It's it's 11:00 the night she's earning. Yes. This that phone call should have happened about 10 or 12 hours ago.

Yes, it should have. Wow. You know what again? Do you need, these little pieces of evidence that she was never ready to be the president of the United States? Yeah. When you can't accept loss, you're not ready to go. When someone was theorizing the reason she didn't make the phone call in the middle of the night last night, that she was already so inebriated that she couldn't make the phone call I was trying to find, I was going to say sloshed.

Yeah. They she needed to maybe sober up a little bit before that phone call was actually made. Yeah. All right. Okay. Well, Julie, I'm I'm. I'm feeling like this Kari Lake race might be something to watch. Yes. Yeah. So if you're wondering how we we got a hold of those Senate seats last night. One of the big ones was the race in Ohio.

We had talked about that yesterday, that that race was in play. The next one was the race in Pennsylvania. Have they called that from McCormick yet? I don't know if they've called it yet. Let me let me find out. Okay. So we had Ohio in play. We had, Pennsylvania in play with McCormick. We we solidified Ohio last night.

Of course, we talked about West Virginia was a given that Republican was up by like 30 points in that race. I mean, that was one of the first ones they called. So that race we we flipped a seat there. We flipped Ohio. If McCormick wins in Pennsylvania, that will be a flip. And if she he wins in Montana, which he should.

Everything is looking like that is going to happen. That's a flip there as well. Okay. All the outlets are already calling it for she he he's got it. I mean, he's got a nine point margin, 90% of the votes in. He's got it. If it's grown, yeah. It. Yeah. Well, it's 53.3 to 44.9. So it's eight and a half something like.

Yeah. Pennsylvania. Let's look at this race. McCormick is leading by less than a percentage point 49.1 over Casey, 48.3, but 96% of the vote has been cast. So that's good. Yeah. That's a that's a great. We could be at 53, in the Senate in Arizona. Now, again, I, I don't think lake's going to pull this out 62% of the vote cast.

Gallego is at 50.4%, Kari Lake at 47.6. So it's less than three percentage points. Man, I don't know what else is coming in and where it where it's coming from. Well, and if it's Maricopa County that's not completely counted. Yeah. That's not going to play well for her. There's far more red counties in in Arizona than that massive county of Maricopa.

Okay. If we look at oh wow, we have a razor thin race in Michigan between Slotkin and Rogers, 48.5 to 48.4 97% of the vote. Wow. That could tip. In Nevada, we have a 47.3 to 47.2 race between Brown and Rosen, 8,088% of the vote there probably won't know that race for two weeks lead. Yes. You know okay.

In Wisconsin, it looks like Baldwin has a one point lead against Hardy. Is that how you say that? With 99% of the vote, I think she's probably going to end up winning that race, but so close. So close. All right. (208) 542-1079. If you'd like to join us on this post selection Wednesday. Hey, yeah. To our listeners, thank you so much for all.

I bet we oh, well, first off, we're we're in the hundreds of texts this morning that have come in, but many, several have have given us just appreciation and thanks for the work that we've done. I, I humbly accept that. But I want you to know, we feel like this is what we should have done. Yes. We don't feel like we went above and beyond.

And I the documentary that Neal produced, it took many hours from his life, but I know he felt like it was. It was something that he was called to do. So when you give those thanks, we we greatly appreciate it. But we feel like that was our part that we were supposed to do. And we asked you guys to do things too.

And you held up your end of the bargain as well. You did. I can't tell you how many times I recall asking our listeners to. The most important thing you can do is not tell people how to vote on prop one. Just tell them about prop one. Give them the whole story. Yeah. And then when they arrive, they can arrive at their own decision.

The whole story was the enemy of the proponents. When you when you stop and think about how ridiculous that is, their own proposition was their worst enemy. Yeah. It's just people had to know about it. Yeah. It just had to be uncovered. Yeah. All right, let's go to the phones. 208542 179. And by the way, ditto to everything Julie said in gratitude to our, our listeners.

Hey, caller. Go ahead. Good morning. Hi. I want to say thank you to two great Americans, to Julie and to Neal, our gorilla alligator, serial killer guy. You guys are great Americans, so thank you for that. I have a couple of questions for you. So I wanted to know, how does, Washington, D.C. get three electoral votes? Okay.

Well, population wise, they've got, what, probably one and a half, 2 million people, I don't know. So it's just population. But it's not a state. Well, it's going to be, you know, it is gonna be. That's true. Good add on there. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Next thing, next thing I want to say is Merry Christmas to all of the adult.

This is awesome. And then, I just have two more things on my list. So Trump got about the same amount of votes, but, Kamala got 20 million less than Joe Biden. Or it does 20 million votes go or were they manufactured to begin with? Is that is that the the question you're leaving hanging? Exactly, exactly.

Because, all of a sudden they lost 20 million votes. And the final thing that I would like to say is that I believe that we are now done with Obama and the Clinton. Yeah, I hope you're right. I hope you're so right. I you know what? I had the same thought last night. This really does, in my mind, mark the end of a of an era.

I think the Democrat Party is going to have to retool, regroup and reconsider what what they want to be about moving into the future. But I think the Obama as puppet master era is is diminished dramatically. He'll still be a former president, respected and treated like a rock star. But I think his actual influence on the body politic is going to be much less moving forward.

Yeah. Oh, and you know, I can't wait for, Kamala speech tour. She's she's got to keep making money somehow. And I know you guys are great. You did an awesome job. Thank you for everything. Well, thank you. Thank you to you as well. Thank you, miss. Great. Yeah. Except for the Kamala speech tour. That made me a little nauseous.

Let's go to the next caller. Good morning. How are you? Good morning. May I just say something directly to Julie? Sure. Okay. Julie Mason is living proof that Mark Cuban is an idiot. He is. Mark you. Ma'am, you are smart, you're strong. And this comes from my heart. You are absolutely beautiful. I mean, you are living proof that Trump supporting women are awesome.

Well thank you. I really, really appreciate that. And there's plenty of Julie's out there. And Mark Cuban's just overlooking them. He's an idiot. He's a he's an idiot. All right. And Julie, you're awesome. You're awesome. And keep it up. Thank you. All right. Thank you. We're going to take a break. It's 922 now on Newstalk 179. We'll be back after this.

You think things get out of hand on the air? Yeah. Maybe a real crazy happens on the Facebook post show as Julie every weekday on Facebook Live. Easter. Okay, I'm going to we're still not quite. It's not all the way there. Yeah. Somebody got into the cocoa log and so I got to go talk to them. Okay I'm going to check our app while you're doing that because we're getting some text saying that's weird.

I want to share with you guys the, the wonderful communication I had with my adult children. And I don't talk politics with them very often. I, I try to not infuse everybody in my day to day life with politics. Yeah, I even though I do it as much and Neal and I talk about it incessantly, it's not what everybody wants to do.

So I try to really like, you know, hold back even with my even with my kids, like I try to hold back. So, I had wonderful conversations with all of my children last night. I had two my two daughters individually, not knowing that either had sent it, sent me texts last night saying, is this really going to be okay?

They're 27 and 24, and they could feel the abuse that they had suffered four years ago. I think that that that's an understanding of this young vote that Trump was able to pull in because there are young people who went, nah, that wasn't right. What happened in 2020 was not right. And my girls, without even talking about it, responded to me that way.

And so I think a lot of young kids did exactly the same thing to close it. They just need know we're having some difficulties here.

Look, let me explain it to them. We have a thing that looks like a a digital clock. It tells us everything that's coming next. And on, on that digital clock, Neal can fire things and make stuff happen and move things around and blah, blah, blah. For most of the morning we've had zero control with that. And it goes black and it goes away and it.

Yeah. Yes. Which means we have no control about what's happening other than what's coming out of our voices or what out of our mouths. Yeah. So when you just saw them freak out on camera, that is why. Because we're in our fear of being this way. Yeah. It's been quite a morning.

Yeah. Let's see. Someone said, well, we're all jubilant today. The Deep State plays the long game, so we all need to stay engaged. Watch our legislators in 2025. It will be interesting to see who's chosen for Senate leadership. So question I have it's not going to be Mitch McConnell, by the way. No, I know I so I don't know who's going to step up in the Senate.

I have no idea. You know what? Trump will decide this. You think so? He'll anoint somebody I but maybe not publicly. Okay. That's working. Okay. I don't know why that person is freaking out. I don't I don't think publicly he will. But I think behind the scenes he'll say, this is the majority leader. Good. And, and I think that he'll call those shots something we haven't mentioned today.

Mike Johnson was on the stage with him at Mar a Lago last night. Okay. And he credited Mike Johnson with doing an amazing job as the speaker. Okay. So if we keep the house, that's probably not changing. Yeah. Oh, here we go. Let.

It's 926 on Newstalk 179. Neal Larson and Julie Mason and all of you. And if you'd like to reach us on the fall River propane Collin text line that number (208) 542-1079. And just enjoying the jubilance of the day. And there is this tendency, Julie, and I don't know if it's sort of this mild PTSD or if it's just, this constant need for vigilance.

But we do we do get texts. And I totally understand this, that the deep State has the long game in mind, which going back, this is why I said this has to be a top priority for Donald Trump to really scoop out the deep state from our, our nation's agencies, specifically FBI, CIA, DOJ, IRS, those. That's what needs to to happen.

And now that's hard because I don't know if you can always detect who those people are. And some of them are protected by federal statute that they can't be fired, but it is a it is a deep problem. And if anybody can drain that swamp and fix that problem, it'll be Donald Trump. I agree, and it's going to be a different time around.

What does he have to lose? Yeah, right. That's a good point there. This is an unfettered Trump but also a more disciplined Trump. So I think he'll be more surgical about it. Yeah. And that will be great if that's how he approaches all of this. Yeah. Being very surgical, removing people, encouraging people to take the place like that would be a wonderful way for his presidency to carry forward.

Agreed. Let's go to the phones. (208) 542-1079 hi, caller. How are you? Good morning guys. Right. Excuse me there darn frog in my throat. Just wanted to I just wanted to join the celebration. This morning. I watched the sun come up on a cloudless, clear blue sky down here in Pocatello. And what a glorious morning. Absolutely loved it.

There's there's two groups of people that I would like to send a bit of a shout on. The thank you to specifically regarding the success with defeating this prop one. Looking at the numbers, the margin of defeat of prop one is bigger than the margin of victory for Trump in Idaho. So that means people who didn't vote for Trump voted against prop one mathematically.

So that means US 274,000 independents who they claim are, you know, denied the right to vote in Idaho. A percentage of us 274,000 independents had to vote no on prop one. And there had to be a significant number of Democrats who, even though they may have voted for Harris, it looks like they must have voted no on prop one.

So thank you to them for the integrity of getting informed and voting right. And to us, 274,000 independents who they proclaimed they represent, looks like a whole bunch of us sort through their crap too. So salutes to both of those groups. Ditto. Amen to them. And and additionally, Neal, I just wanted to let you know that I dug out my Nerf football and I spiked on behalf.

Yeah. So perfect covered there, too. Okay. All right. Appreciate you guys. Thanks for everything you've done. And, great job Idaho and great job, America. Okay. Agreed. Spike in an extra 2 or 3 times for proxy spiking. We'll take it. All right, let's go back to the phones. Hey, caller, how are you today? I'm doing good.

How are you guys? Good. Good. Doing well. Okay, so I have to apologize for calling in more than once this week. It's probably my third time calling in. Will allow it. It's a weird week, so. Yeah, but my comment that I wanted to say was, I mean, yeah, it looks like we won, but we can't forget Biden is still the president up until January 1st.

Yeah. And many times in the past, especially when Trump was president and Biden had so called one the, the Democrats were kind of scared that Trump would declare martial law and not relinquish the presidency peacefully. And obviously he didn't do that. But a lot of times, I think the the left rejects what they are going to do and try to accuse the right of doing it.

And so, yeah. What are your thoughts on the chances of them still, you know, not relinquishing the presidency? I, I and yeah, I, we had a, conspiracy theory last hour. Someone called in and and said, well, you know, this idea of making Kamala the president. So she's actually the 47th and the first female president. I really don't think the Democrats have it in them to pull these kinds of shenanigans.

I think they're demoralized. I think they're pointing fingers. I think there's sort of a basic recognition that the American people didn't want what they were selling this time around. And, and I, I feel like even though we're always worried because they're always pulling shenanigans, I don't think they're going to take some bold step, like declaring martial law before Trump gets in.

I think that actually just speaks more to the level of distrust we have of them than the actual likelihood that they would do something like that. Yeah. Okay, good. One more comment that I wanted to make was, how they. Oh, sorry. No, it's okay. You think about it. I'm going to I'm going to just add on to what Neal said.

I think in order to do something like getting people together and having martial law and all of that, they'd have to be a more united front than they are right now. They're not a united front at all. I think there is deep division between Kamala and Joe. I would expect them to not even speak the remainder of Joe's presidency.

And then I think that they're there's a slight possibility that Obama purposely tanked Kamala's presidency. He was the one encouraging her to bring on Tim Walz. That was a huge misstep. So it makes me question what was was at play there. I don't think any of them are friends. We might be misreading that. I don't know, but I think they'd have to be a United front to have something like what you're talking about happen.

Yeah, I would agree. Yeah. And then I just remembered my other thoughts. So the amount of votes that came out this election, I think are more than has ever been in an election. And I feel like this is the nail in the coffin about the conspiracy theory of, the amount of cheating that happened last election, because never in the history of the United States has a man run for president.

One ran again, lost, ran again, and then won again. So I think that's just telling everybody. I think they wanted Trump last time, but there was so many shenanigans going on that yeah. Yeah. Well I do believe they cheated. Thank you for the call. We appreciate it. I think that the sentiment that we received via text that follows what that caller was saying is the popular vote is kind of explaining that, that they feel like the popular vote that has happened this time around is showing the shenanigans that must have occurred in 2020.

So when he says put an end to it, what he means is it proves it. Yes. Yeah. So, Yeah. But and and there will be a lot of slicing and dicing in the coming days. Back to the phones. Hey, caller. Good morning. How are you guys this morning? Well, I know how you are. Yeah, it's a good day.

It's a good day. Good day. Hey, I've got three quick points of my first. Well, in my comments, I'd love to hear your input on. My first one is. I know they haven't called Michigan yet. Is that correct? For president. Hold on one second. And I can tell you where we're at with Michigan. It's leaning red.

And but it's not called yet. Trump is up by a point and a half with 98% count counted. So here's here's my question on Michigan. And I was trying to remember back. And I did a quick Google search. But I don't think Michigan has been red for like 20 years. Is that right or not 20 like 40 years like it was like 1988 when when Bush that Bush won it.

That could be I don't know. How did it did it go for Hillary in 2016? I think so. Okay. That could be. Yeah. Well my my point, my my comment is I look at this and I think the last time that a Republican that big or that has stayed or, I'm sorry, a Democratic blue state that has stayed blue for so many years flipped like the last time that happened.

If there's been as long as California has been blue. And so if if Michigan really goes red, which I they had looking good. And I hope that it goes that way with very few votes coming in and precincts reporting. Doesn't that prove to America that things are moving in the right direction? I would hope. Oh, very much so.

Yeah, I would agree with that. Yes. Okay. So that's good. Now my other question on that is if he only has like 49 point whatever percent, is the presidential election different. Like you don't have to get to 50%, right? No, no. Okay. My okay. So then the next comment I have is I bought a whole bunch of those vote no on prop one signs that I had left over.

I would like to mail them to Luke Neville. Do you have an app that I can get him? Like we could write him a love letter that says, thank you for lying to everybody because that made it easier to pass. Yeah, I'm sure Reclaim Idaho's address is publicly available. More power to you. I'm going to send I. And I will cover all the.

I'm sending every vote no on prop one. Sign that I can gather. And I'm going to just ship them all to them and say, here you go. That'd be great. And then my next, my my final comment that I just love to hear it. I'll listen to it off there. When Trump lost in 2020 and President Biden came out, do you remember when they did this whole office of the president elect?

That was just a bunch of baloney. What the what do you see happening in the next in the upcoming month or 2 or 2, a couple of months before he gets inaugurated again? In Trump kind of taking over control without being obnoxious, like the Democrat Party was with Biden's office of the president elect. And I'll listen to that off air.

Yeah, I don't know. Julie. Your thoughts? Well, here's what I'm thinking about. This is Trump already knows what's happening. And so I don't think he's going to be weird like that. In fact, he's already been assembling people into positions. He was paying them out of his own pocket. And so that I think that that transfer of those people in that positions is going to be pretty smooth.

And, he has connections already. He he's not going to need to put on this facade for Americans because he knows what he's doing. Melania in her book talked about her. Trump said last night her book is the number one bestseller right now. I didn't know that he said that in his victory speech. Oh, good. Anyways, in her book, she mentions that Trump's first time around, they did not let them even go tour the white House until just a few days before Trump took office.

She didn't even know what she was going to do with Barron. She didn't know what it was going to be like. Like, how am I going to set up a household? Nothing like that. She revealed all of that in the book. Yeah, they they've learned their lessons about DC. I bet Trump's got all of his stuff already in order, and he's not going to.

He doesn't need to prove to America what he's going to do. He's just going to start doing it. Yeah, I think so too. I think you're already seeing companies and corporations responding to what they know will be less regulation. Stock markets reacted favorably to the news last night. I think you're going to see other nations that are going to start to strategically change.

So in a way, Trump already has presidential power because it's an anticipation of it. Really quick here, I did a quick ChatGPT search. Donald Trump won narrowly in Michigan against Hillary Clinton in 2016. So but prior to that, you have to go back to 1988, George H.W. Bush. And according to the New York Times election map, it's looking pretty good.

He's going to take Michigan. That's that's great night for a quick break. We'll come back more calls when we return. Okay. Yeah. It's going to go to Trump. How many how many electoral votes are in Michigan? I can tell you 15 electoral votes, 98.3% has been counted. And the current, like numbers are Trump with 49.8, Kamala with 48.2.

So it's more than 1%. Okay. Yeah I, I yeah I would totally expect that to go that direction. Donald Trump is right now leading in Arizona with 60% of the vote counted, 52 to 47. Okay. And Nevada is 5146. Donald Trump and there's quite a bit counted. 84% is counted in Nevada. Okay. I didn't expect it to be that high.

And then I know Alaska is not counted yet, but he's winning that. And he like there's no he's those three electoral votes he already has. So so the three states left at play are Michigan, Nevada and Arizona. Yeah. Okay. We're at 42 out of 44 counties counted in Idaho. We might get to 900,000 votes total. Wow. In this in the Gem State.

That's that is big. In a couple of weeks, we'll touch base with with Phil McGrane again. Yeah. Talk about these numbers. Also talk about he can be open about the repeal or the defeat of ranked choice voting at that point. Yeah. I think that'll be interesting. Also, I probably three times this morning already. I have praised Florida for how quickly they counted their votes.

Idaho did a great job as well. Yeah a very fantastic job. Now we're not the size of of Florida which is why I'm praising Florida. Because if Florida can do it. Oh my gosh. Get your act together Arizona. Yeah. Hey you have no excuse. I if you don't know what you're doing, get a hold of the secretary of State in Florida and go help me.

How do they not do? How do they not look at Florida and and go, okay, you guys do it in a few hours. We're taking days. Clearly, it's better to do it in a few hours. So what can we change? What can we make better? I mean, it it it just fuels distrust for them to take this long to have their votes counted.

It does. And I'm going to totally veer off here. But they they're comparable. We interviewed Wendy Horman last night about vouchers. She is going to take that up again. Yeah. She talked about how they have learned from Oklahoma's mistakes and their pattering pattern patterning. Yeah. The the the tax credit system for school choice in Idaho after Oklahoma but refining it.

That's exactly what we should have been doing the whole time. Yeah. And that's exactly what Arizona needs to be doing. You don't need to make some new rules for yourself. Get a hold of Florida. They're going to tell you what's good. Yeah. Like, it's that simple. It's a known science. Yes. It's easy. Yeah. If they can do it, you can do it.

You know, I mean, I'm not in favor all the time of the federal government dangling grants to states. But if I were Trump and hopefully a Republican controlled Congress offer millions of dollars to states that do it like Florida does. Yeah. Because I, you know, and maybe some would say no because they want to keep cheating. But I, I think you'd help solve a lot of the problem.

Yeah. Yeah. How are you holding up me. Yeah. Good. I'm all right. I'm kind of tired. It's catching up to me. So, You. I'm actually more awake now than I was at the beginning of the show. I think I got about two hours sleep, roughly. It's. It's going to catch up. Oh, it's going to.

Man, I don't get to nap today, so. Yeah, it is going to be an early bedtime tonight. Yeah. So my task today will be, last night when we cleaned up, we didn't actually clean up. We just put all the crap in a couple of totes. So in my job, after we get off the air is to sort all that back, put it back in its right place, and and, then then I got a little flexibility.

I can head home and sleep a little in. Yeah, you need it. So I'm sorry you don't have an app. So it's okay. Like I said, I'm feeling pretty good right now. Yeah. You know what's making me happy? The sun is shining out there. Even though it's cold. It is. It's beautiful out there. Yep. For sure. All right.

20s. Hold up. All right. We've got phone calls, and we want to get to these phone calls very quickly. We're going to ask you to keep your thoughts, concise. We want to get as many in, people in as, possible. And, let's go to the phones. Hi, caller. How are you today? I'm good. How are you?

We're doing really well today. Well, you should, because you guys are. You're on the honor roll here now for what you've done to help Idaho and the nation. And I just got up, woke up this morning and heard the good news. And what a great day to be an American. Yeah, and you think about all the things that sacrifice has gone in to make this country as great as it is.

And I'm just heartening that we're back on track again. I want to thank you personally for what you did to defeat prop one. I'm just a little bit angry at people like Butch Otter. I don't know what he was thinking, other than he must be a paid, consultant. Now for the other side. But, man, he should be ashamed of himself.

He knows better. And a lot of people that they had on their website that were endorsing. I understood some of them, but some I just don't. I just, Anyway, thanks for what you've done, and it's just a great day to be an American. Thank you. Thank you. Amen. I heard a little emotion in his voice.

Yeah. Yeah. We we appreciate your kind words and. Yeah. You know, and we talked about this in the closing days. It's, it's interesting because whenever you have someone who's a household name like Butch Otter who I mean he was in Idaho politics stretching way back to maybe even the 1970s. And, you know, lieutenant governor for a long time, governor, Congressman, I mean, he's been around a long time.

It's odd that he himself was silent in these final phases of of prop one. He didn't voice any commercials for him. He didn't go to any public events for them. I don't even know if he was at the launch of the petition drive. And I don't know why he took his previously good name and attached it to this effort.

It's the weirdest thing. Someday I'd like to figure that out. What's the. What's the saying? Throwing your pearls in the before the swine. Yeah. Yeah. Let's make him like that's kind of what he did right. Yeah. Why gain anything from that. No it didn't benefit you. You you're not in a better standing. And with Idahoans, you're. I doubt you're financially better.

In fact, they probably demanded a donation from you. Probably. What did you gain? Yeah. It just is such a weird thing. In in the sunset of your relevance in Idaho that you would you would attach to this. I mean, it's really I don't know, it's pretty sad in, in my opinion. I think we've come to expect it from Jim Jones.

And probably Bruce Nukem. But Butch Otter was, that was a weird one. And I thought maybe it, maybe it was ego, maybe it was like, I'm the name that can push this thing over the top. And it obviously was not that. Not even close. Yeah. Next caller, welcome to the show. Congratulations on prop one.

It went wonderfully. The fight was worth it. The motto for our family now is we feel so unburdened by what has been. I love that. It's so great. Great day. All right. Thank you for the call. (208) 542-1278. Lots of people are feeling that today. They are. We're seeing that a lot in our text. Hi, caller. You're up next.

Hey, I just wanted to put my $0.02 in on prop one, and I hope I hope for the tally and, comes through and lets those people know that us Idahoans are not as dumb as they think we are. And, really, I hope that show it shows to them that it should be a long time before they try to play any of those shenanigans in our state.

Again. Yeah. Yeah, we're finally on to them now. Yeah. It's true. Yeah. Thank you. I was actually quite, you know, surprised to see the margin because I, like others were worried about it. Yeah. But I'm I'm glad it turned out the way it did. And I think a lot of that is because, because of YouTube. So thank you for that effort, too.

Well, Thank you. We will take your thanks. I think it was a very broad based group effort around the state. And, a lot of, a lot of people had their hands in, in successfully defeating this. But but you do look at it. And and, Julie, one thing that we could talk about another day would be at how you can create a facade of support.

I don't know that prop one ever had majority support. If you could do accurate polling and we had heard these rumblings that there was some internal polling that was done, that I'm sure they were seeing numbers kind of like this because they're like it's not it's not going to pass. I'm I'm wondering if, if it ever had any kind of majority support in Idaho.

Well, okay, let's let's go back and read the last few months. It didn't matter how many how many times I asked, I couldn't get Luke Marvell or Todd Achilles on the show. Yeah. Maybe they knew they may have. How much trouble this was in. Maybe they knew clear back then and they weren't going to. They were willingly, willingly going to sacrifice Hyrum Erickson's political capital.

Yeah, but they weren't going to sacrifice their own knowing that this was going to go down in flames. That's probably true, because they are the ones that are entrenched in this leftist flow of money that comes into the state. If this fails, that gravy train keeps going. I mean, Soros turns the spigot on and it just keeps going.

He just knows over time you're going to have some losses and wins. And he's playing the long game. And and so and I think that that's how it would be interesting to see how they are financially benefiting from this because I'm not fully sure how Luke Mayville makes a living. I know Todd Achilles is a Boise State professor.

He's now, lawmaker. But but that's peanuts because I think Achilles is pretty well off. But, I so I don't know. I don't know, but that would be interesting to know. But you are right. This this has got to be incredibly humiliating for Hiram Erickson today. It and unfortunate because he did the bidding over and over and over again and his very own district was one of the biggest to defeat it, one of the highest amounts Madison County.

I mean, it was 70% statewide. Madison County was 80% opposed to it. Yeah. All right. We'll take a break. 952 back after this. I still haven't seen the specific precinct numbers out of Madison County, but I want to see how his precinct, per his exact precinct, did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. We have two minutes. When we come back, let's do Grand Peaks.

Or did we do one yesterday? No, let's do we. We did a dead one. Yeah. Wasn't really. I made a joke, is all I did. So I think this. We got a text saying I came home to find my no. On prop one and Barbie heart signs gone, but my Trump Vance signs still prominently waving in the breeze.

I know Barb went out and picked up all of her signs last night. Yeah, she might have just grabbed that no on prop one because she was being kind and throwing it away for you. That's potential. I'll answer that person. But if you're on Facebook Live and you text that in, that's the question. That's the answer I would give you.

And if you're on Facebook Live and you had a Barbie heart sign in your yard, she might have come and picked it up. Yeah, yeah. It's her thing she does. She's superstitious. She's a sports girl. Yeah, she is very superstitious. She spends election day exactly the same way every year. She does the same thing. She goes and has lunch with her friend.

She goes out on the desert and, And then no matter how tired she is, she goes and picks up her signs that night. So she does. She probably wears the same socks for her.

Good for her. Did you? Yesterday was such a crazy day. Did you ever, watch the video that I sent you of the reaction of the Eagles like players on the sideline when that guy did the reverse hurdle? No, I did. You've got to go back and look at our tape speed. It's amazing to see these pro athletes in complete disbelief that their teammate just did that.

It's a fun video to watch. Yeah, those two moves were incredible. So amazing was awesome. Yeah. If you haven't if you have no idea what I'm talking about, you're on Facebook Live. Look up Reverse hurdle. Philadelphia Eagles, it'll pull up. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, I have a question for you because they're already comparing the popular vote numbers, but we don't have all the popular vote numbers in yet, so we don't know what that final tally.

Yes. I think we're up to 71 million for Trump. Yeah. He could exceed what Biden did in in four years ago. So yeah, we just got to wait for all the numbers to to roll in. Oh, I did. Julie, when you got home last night, did you have multiple moments where you're like, Holy crap, Trump won, Yeah, yeah.

I was having him earlier on in the evening, but we were so busy. This is why I couldn't calm my brain down to go to sleep. I was having them early on, and just going. It's just different this time. It's different. Yeah. Felt okay. Yeah. But. And it was a good it was a good different.

Somebody pointed out that these are this army of poll watchers staying late making sure that late arrivals of ballots did not happen. I think that made a difference. Now we're going to have to do this from forever from here on out, every presidential election, Republicans are going to have to have poll watchers there the whole time. Late into the night.

I saw call after call on X that when you go vote, have your phone out, have your phone out. Be prepared to video. Be prepared. We just trusted the process. In 2020. And the reality is don't trust anymore. And they the more evidence that's out there, if they're shenanigans, the better off we are. Yeah. Okay. All right, let's do the endorsement.

And then we'll we've got like, three phone calls, so we'll take those off air. So. Okay. Okay. All right. If you're waiting on hold, please stay on hold. We will get to you, shortly. But first, we want to talk about Grand Peaks primates to celebrate with steak. Steak is always a good point of celebration. What a great idea.

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We will take these phone calls off air during the post show. Julie. So many people to thank. Yesterday. Our broadcast, our party. Everything went so fantastically well last night I failed to thank our engineers last night during the broadcast, but Marv helped us get set up at the venue. Shane back here at the station, he he's relatively new here with us at sandhill.

Did a stellar job getting everything configured and ready to roll. I want to thank them, Heather and David and just our our management here all very, very supportive. And of course our listeners as well. So many people. So I echo everything Neal said. We have great people around us. Have a wonderful Wednesday, Julie and I. We will be back tomorrow bright and early.

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