11.13.2024 -- NLS -- Trump’s Washington Return, Biden’s Handshake, and the Left in Disarray

On this episode with Neal and Julie, they delve into the recent political developments in Washington, focusing on the ripple effects of Donald Trump's return to the nation's capital. They discuss Trump's interactions, including moments of surprise, like warm greetings from the Bidens, sparking speculation about underlying political motives. Neal and Julie also critique media responses and shifts in coverage, emphasizing how conservative voices and platforms are gaining traction while traditional media outlets face declines.

The conversation spans topics like the implications of shifting public sentiments, education reform under Trump, and the impact of celebrity influence in politics. Julie raises poignant questions about how the left is coping with recent losses, while Neal reflects on the possible cultural shift toward conservatism. Their engaging debate explores themes of resilience, strategy, and the evolving political landscape.

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Transcript

Hello. East Idaho. It's good to have you on this Wednesday. And it's a big, big day in Washington, D.C.. President elect Donald Trump. Boy, those words sound nice, don't they? He has arrived in the nation's capital. Soon will drop the elect a couple of months, and he'll just be President Trump once again. Like, fully, full fledged, Donald J.

I still pinch myself as anybody else, sort of in, denial mode. You know what? I was planning on doing a monologue, but we're beholden to the news cycle, and Trump is about to speak in Washington. We're going to carry that. And truly, by the way, if you're listening, Come back. All right, here's Trump. So, you know, we had like, historic kind of numbers, especially for the president, but we won't get into the but the House did very well.

And I think we're responsible for 31 helping you with 31, meaning we could have lost by quite a bit and we ended up I guess you'll be five up by you looking at 5 or 4, 5 or 4. Right? Doesn't matter. We get used to one for a little while. When you can get used to one, you can get used to anything.

So, I just want to thank everybody. You been incredible. We worked with a lot of you to get you in. And you helped me. And you helped me, too. And, my numbers were. So they say the, 129 years is the most, important election in 129 years. That's pretty good. I said, who is 129 years?

What was that? Anyone was who's 129 years ago? I never look because it started as being 100. And then the update to that. But it's a great compliment. We won the majority by 7.1 million. We won, which is great because Republicans aren't supposed to be winning the majority. Marjorie, you know that right? And we won that. And we wanted every, every way all seven swing states by a lot.

Then to Michigan was great. Couldn't be better. I'll tell you, Michigan was great. And, we had a couple of people almost. New Jersey is right. Just a few points. It's got them very worried because they say, well, next time if we go up even a fraction of what we went up, you're going to win New York, you're going to win new Jersey, you're going to win places that were winnable.

California two. I think without one speech, without campaigning at all in California, I think we were we were up. We were lost by nine points. I mean, nine points in California. And it's very doable. It would be really doable if they changed the election process of that. All right. So, there's that. We are going to see what's happening, I guess I expect got back and we'll get it back for you, the president.

All right. It looks like they lost the TV shot there, so we'll duck out as well. But I was, I mean, hopefully they'll get it back soon. I don't it looks like it was pool video because I'm watching other video channels and it looks like it's the same, same shot that they had. So hopefully they'll get it back.

Well, we'll have to see. But I had this realization because I've been a little surprised at how, what's there's a lot of online chaos that has obviously ensued with Trump's election victory, but I've actually been surprised at the lack of, the the lack of sort of backlash. We're not seeing massive protests in the streets. We're not seeing a big, reaction.

But, I, I feel like they're tired anyway. Julie, joining me, they lost the TV, like, all the networks lost the TV feed. Okay, I think Trump's fine because it was just the camera was going off at different angles, and then the audio went out and anyway. So. But I don't know what happened. But, Russia, Trump collusion all over again.

Yes. Yes, that's what it looks like. But Julie, I was just talking and I was going to talk about this a little bit in a monologue. If I had given one. We're not seeing riots in the streets. And obviously you had the lefty pundits that were upset about the election results, but I almost sense maybe there was some relief because everybody knew Kamala was going to be a horrifically bad president.

I think, I think that that could be the reason. One of the reasons for their not being riots in the streets. I will always be a firm believer that these these protests and these riots are organized. I don't think that they're organic when I mean, you hear the phrase pallets of bricks or whatever, one of the big things that you're seeing is that how do you organize and get signs to march through streets and under, you know, 12 hours?

Yeah, with a bunch of people that don't have any money with banners that had to be preprinted. Yeah, that they don't have a 24 hour turnaround. Yes. On it. So yeah. So I think that maybe those who are paying for the organization of these, these protests went, yeah, we're out. We're not we're not going to get us anything right now.

So why would we do it? Good money after bad. Yeah. And I think that's a that's a good point. But I also see is it okay that I, I'm throwing things out here and I don't know what they all mean, but I find the timing very interesting. MSNBC is going up for sale. Comcast is going to sell it.

CNN is about to ax a whole bunch of hundreds of employees. You've never heard of, and probably some top personalities that are household names. Okay, is that weird? You have the LA times owner firing the entire editorial board. What you and I get if I'm writing a movie script, if I'm going to have the big grand conspiracy here.

We know that global elites have been implementing die in large American and global corporations, right? And there's a lot of this influence that comes from a singular source. And there's massive, massive, massive amounts of money involved. Is there now this realignment because their operation failed like their whole goal was to deny Trump the presidency. And they have failed at that goal.

And now they're just selling off the assets. They're just rery. They're they're like, this did not work. And we're not going to continue as we have a completely different version of the Great Reset. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, possibly. Yeah. I, I, I will always say that also these people who are all in 100% on Dei who were celebrating the, the, women, the transgender women showing up at the white House, all of it.

It was just fake. It was all fake. Yeah. They don't care. They don't care about those people. They don't care about any of it. It was, oh, I can make money for a minute off of this. I'm in 100%. And then when it didn't work, they're going to sell out as quick as they are. They they were in to get the money.

It's all about the money. And if you're not making the money, you don't. It's not that you really have a cause. It's not that you really care. Yeah. It was just about making the money. Yeah. And when the money, when the money stream starts to dry up, you switch out. Okay. Jill Biden is speaking at some event at the white House.

Should we? A moment to making community college free for everyone across the country but a few senators, I'm not going to name them. Blocked our way, but that wasn't the end. This movement continues to gain momentum. We must keep fighting for free community college.

As First Lady, I've also focused on strengthening the pathways between classrooms and careers. Nearly. And you probably all know this, but nearly 60% of graduating high school students don't go directly to a four year degree. We know that six out of every ten students, some will start working. Some go, okay, just wanted to get a sense of, okay, so that one's not live right now.

That just happened because it's all that's live right now okay I, I they're Counterprogramming Trump. So they're they're going to speak ahead of the Trump visit. I think they're trying to take a little bit of wind out of Trump's sails a little bit here. Okay. Which is I'm not sure Jill has that I don't know. She does it I mean Trump Trump's the big story.

And he's going to be yeah. Apparently Biden is going to speak to according to the headline. So and and Julie, if you would please refer to her as Doctor Joe Biden, if there's, work on that. I got another two and a half months. Yes, maybe I can perfected. Just out of respect. I'm just saying, you know, no, I yeah, I think they're trying to make it so Trump is not the only name in the news today, but there's nothing they can do.

Here's the deal. You tried to do that before. He's the superstar in every room. Yeah, I get it. There's only one Trump. And maybe this speaks to what we were talking about before you went to Jill Biden's remarks. There's only one Trump. Yeah. So maybe they're just going to endure the next four years. And they they realize you know there are some really strong Republicans coming up.

But they aren't Trump. Yeah that's yes. That's true. Do you think. And I saw this sentiment I think there's two sides to this coin here that there were Trump supporters that were actually glad now. Not then but now that he lost that because now's the time for him to be the president, we needed him to be the president right now.

Oh, I've heard that a lot, actually. And in retrospect, the silver lining to the loss in 2020 is that now we have him for this time in, in history, which I get I understand. Do you do you think the flip side of that is Democrat? Yes. Feel the same way because now they'd be done with Donald Trump. Donald Trump would be ending his presidency right about now had he won in 2020.

Sure. Maybe because I know that you have pundits who say he's the best president of their lifetime. That's trash. They don't believe that. They're just saying that. Yeah, he absolutely was not. He's going to go down as being one of the worst presidents. And and we're going to remember his dementia more than anything. Which is unfortunate because we should be remembering things like the Afghanistan withdrawal and the families that, you know, that suffered horrific loss because of his bad choices.

And we should be remembering the the pain that Americans have felt because of this immigration influx. Those are the things we should actually be remembering. I think in ten years, when you talk about Joe Biden, you're going to be making like people will be making jokes about his dementia. Absolutely. So, yeah, two very unfortunate things there, because you should you never should have put a man through that.

And there was a lot more pain that was caused by him being here. Maybe. But maybe, maybe Democrats wish they hadn't gone through the last three and a half years either, because it didn't get them what they wanted. No, it's been a very lackluster I found it interesting because you have it out of one side of their mouth.

They're talking about, oh, no, the economy is really good under Biden. But the Harris team had to drop the term Biden nomics like even the white House stopped using the term Biden nomics. It just didn't have a good connotation. And when I say Reaganomics, everybody, you feel sunshine, you feel happiness. It's positive when you say Biden makes you think, oh, inflation, malaise, can't take my family out to eat anymore.

Yeah, yeah. Wages not keeping up with prices. You know, so you don't you don't you don't attach those positive things to it the way you do with, with Reaganomics. So, so yeah, I think you're right. I think it will go down and it's a little too early to tell, but I think Biden will be the new gold standard of bad presidencies.

It's been Carter for 40 plus years. It will be Joe Biden, I think, moving into the future. Yeah, I would agree with that. And I also think it is just going to just focus so much on his poor health. I said to Neal during the commercial break a while back this morning, are you prepared for the next four years where they talk about how old Trump is?

I guess it's going to happen. I'll make the call now. Yeah, because guess what? He is old. He's 78. Yeah. And awesome that he's as vibrant as he is at 78. Yeah. But that's going to be they're going to beat that drum for four years straight. And here's what I see with Trump. I do see a little bit of of the signs of aging.

But I don't see any mental decline in him at all. He is not Biden, not even close. No. On the mental capacity? No, not even close. He talks just a just a little bit different. Physically, he still looks very good. He he doesn't look much different than he did eight years ago. So, I mean, he was, what, 70 back then?

So yeah, I mean, that's pretty remarkable. It is remarkable. Hey, I don't know what his secret is because it's like crap. And he sleeps four hours a day, which is everything they're telling us not to do. So I don't know. It's true. Maybe that's his formula. I eat like crap, but I sleep four hours a day. But,

Okay. It's 822 on Newstalk 1079. We're just kind of watching the news cycle unfold. Obviously Trump being in Washington DC is a bit of a spectacle. Not a spectacle in a bad way, but it's obviously the focus of attention in the news today. And, we'll see how this turns out. I agree with you. I don't I don't expect anything too controversial with his meeting with Biden.

It's going to be ceremonial. And I actually think Kamala has helped Biden galvanize with not with Trump, but helping Trump become the president. Yeah. The transition. So we'll be back to 822, which might explain everything. All right. Welcome back. All the pieces are falling together. It's Neal Larson and Julie Mason. It's a Wednesday. And if you'd like to join us (208) 542-1079 Julie, out of all the people that Trump so far has picked for his cabinet and his administration, which one excites you the most?

Which one says, oh, I like that. Oh, I have so many clarifiers here. Yeah. Tom Holland excites me, but I think he is going to be radioactive amongst the media. Yeah. So we need to be prepared for that. Yeah, yeah, it's going to happen. So that for me that's a little bit of a downside. Just that we're going to have to manage that backlash.

Yeah it needs to happen. So we'll manage it. We'll make it work. Yeah. Let's see who else really. I think that Mike Huckabee, working with Israel is going to be fantastic. He'll be good. Zero issue about that. I am excited about pig. Pete Hegseth. I think he's going to do a great job. I think it's interesting to put somebody in there who hasn't been part of the military industrial complex.

He's he wasn't looking for, a push position with one of these, you know, massive contractors who make big money off of war. He's never wanted that. That's not who he is. So I'm kind of excited for him to fulfill that position. So it's going to be a little different. Phil. Yeah, I, I agree with you. I think Elise Stefanik she's going to be good.

I think Lee Zeldin will be great with, with the EPA. Marco Rubio is going to make a fantastic secretary of state. So I was a little surprised at some Republicans who had issues with Marco Rubio fulfilling that position. Why? What is there? I'm not sure. Other than, man, you guys need to bury the hatchet because people do.

If you remember, Trump and JD Vance had a little bit of a past. JD Vance was critical of Trump. Oh yeah, that's true. And look, people can can put their stuff aside and make really great teammates. Yeah I you got it. You got to start working in that realm people. Yeah yeah. No I, I agree with you.

And I I mean overall again and it's not a deal killer for me with, with Kristi Noem it was just sort of, I mean, it's a big job. Homeland security. I hope she does a great job. I just I don't that was the one where I'm like, does the skill set match the job? Does she think as Homeland Security, she's going to carry a rifle with her at all times?

Yeah, I know I don't, hey, there's a lot more jokes you could make there, but, you know, you know, it's funny, you sent me this. Julie. And I actually might have laughed out loud. Remember this moment from the debate in the primary? You're not here tonight because you're afraid of being on the stage and defending your record.

You're ducking these things, and let me tell you what's going to happen. You keep doing that. No one up here is going to call you Donald Trump anymore. We're going to call you Donald Duck. Where's Chris Christie now? Like what? He doesn't have a cabinet position. No, he clearly does not have a cabinet as he stated anything publicly.

I have no idea. I ran across that yesterday on X, somebody had reposted it and said, it's time we resurrect this clip. And I send it straight to Neal just so he could laugh. And I did. You know me well because I'm like, man. So I looked up Chris Christie in the news, and within the last couple of days, he talked about what was the most effective Trump ad, was Kamala Harris's for they them.

Okay. Actually they did internal polling. That was the most effective Trump ad. Yeah. That came out of the campaign that didn't I don't know if Christie's taking credit for that, but it was the pulling out of the campaign that they realized that was their most effective. And he specifically pointed to one particular Trump campaign attack ad which ran with the argument, Kamala is for they them president Trump is for you.

That's so potent. That's powerful. Yeah. Yeah. It was a good ad. Yeah. And I think you're seeing that I think we're seeing the fallout of that. We believe as as people who are like it's it's that side in this side. Right. And we frequently reference that, that everybody on that side believes in this. They that movement. It's not reality.

Yeah. Most of those people do not believe in mutilating bodies. Yeah. They don't even though they want you to think that they support it deep down they don't. Yeah. Yeah. No they they don't they it's it's surface virtue signaling. So one of the so Christie said that, in a panel discussion on ABC news this week with Jonathan Karl, he said that's because most people don't see themselves as they them.

Yet the Democrats have spent more time talking about a trans issue, which, quite frankly, is infinitesimal, he said. And then, of course, Jonathan Karl interrupted him and pointed out that it was, quote, the Republicans who spent more time talking about it. Okay, so, oh, go ahead and just stop that. Jonathan Karl, we had to put up crap with with them inviting trans influencers to the white House multiple times.

Remember the guy with the long fingernails making the phone calls? And then we had Dylan Mulvaney? Is that his last name? I'm so glad I forgot that. Dylan Mulvaney. Yeah. That's it. Yes, yes, we had to go through all of that. And then being connected to Dylan, we had to do those. The various celebrations were loaded with trans people.

Yeah. For each holiday. Yeah. Don't even start Jonathan Karl. It was shoved into our face. Absolutely. The media was shoving it into our face. We weren't elevating this issue. We were responding to it. And the fact that they kept putting boys on the basketball court with girls, they tried to be title nine. Yes they did, yes they did.

And the the left thought they had hit pay dirt with that issue. They are so dumb. Julie. They thought that this was going to be the issue that would knock it out of the park for them. So they inject it in all the media into Hollywood, into the entertainment, in the workplace everywhere. And America said, no, this is absurd.

This is delusion, and it's time to stop it. Yeah, I agree, I don't think I fully feel that the reason that AD was the best performing ad for Trump is that you've got 80% of the country that feels exactly like that. AD yes, the country was more divided 5545 on other issues, but when it comes to trans issues, you have 15 to 20% of the country.

That's all in. I think there were a lot of people, Julie, that voted for Trump, not because they like Trump. They're not they don't consider themselves part of MAGA. They were enticed by the insanity coming to an end. And the last well the last many years but especially the last four. It's just been insanity. It's just been daily gaslighting.

And I think people are tired of it. You're sick of it. So yeah. Okay. So Chris Christie, that's probably all the Chris Christie were going to play this year. Yeah, that's fine because we need to laugh a little bit and let's go. Good. I don't know that he even has a home anymore. I mean, he has a house.

He lives in new Jersey, but I mean, a political. Yeah, a political base. Who's who is Chris Christie's political base now? Yeah. Who does he hang with? Mitt Romney and Spencer Cox like saying he needs to move to Utah? Maybe that's a quick reminder for those who don't listen all four hours. Utah was the one state in the nation that shifted more blue because of course it is.

Yeah. So know who your neighbors are? People. Yeah. They were they still voted for Donald Trump. They did, but only at about a 60% rate. A lot of the red states were at 67, 68. Some some like Wyoming, got above 70. So yeah. Yeah. Fascinating. Okay. Here's Elon Musk. I think this is also a little bit of a flashback clip.

I mean, at the end of the day, you're being taxed. You're being taxed. All government spending is taxation. So whether it's it's direct taxation or all government spending, it's either it becomes inflation or it's it's direct taxation. Your money is being wasted. And the Department of Government Efficiency has got to fix that.

We're going to get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook.

And America's just not not going. It's just going to be great. America is going to reach heights that it has never seen before the future. It's going to be amazing. Amazing, awkward but endearing. He nonetheless. He is awkward. Yeah. He is. Yes, it's fine, but I you know what? That's going to be an interesting process to watch because I think Elon and Vivek are going to be this duo that's going to implement government efficiency.

I doubt they work closely together a lot because they're both incredibly strong personalities. I also don't think this is a full time gig. No I don't, this is when we need you to make a splash. You're going to come in and do this with these two faces. I mean, Trump's brilliant from a marketing standpoint. This is to focus and draw attention.

Yes to an issue. Yep. So when they when they're ready to change something they're going to trot Vivek and Elon out there. It'll happen in the left leaning media. Will their minds will be blown and then will carry forward. And they won't do anything for a few months. Okay. We have so many things to choose from, Julie, which is more exciting?

The end of the Department of Education or Pete Hegseth is Defense secretary. Like you're looking at the bright spots of what you're looking forward to. I think the end of the Department of Education is a super interesting conversation because much like immigration, people are jumping to conclusions that aren't accurate. That's what you're seeing with immigration, is that people are believing that Trump is going to walk through the United States with this military behind him.

And if you're if your skin is any darker than mine, you're out of here. You're gone. Yeah. That's not what's going to happen. That is not how this will play out. But there are people that that truly believe. I think they have bought in that that's how this is going to work. Kate. The Department of Education, exactly the same thing.

Really. What Trump's overall plan is, Kate. The upper echelons cut the bureaucracy, bureaucracy, give it back to the states and let these states control the money. There will be more money given per student that way. And we'll just cut out this over bloated organization that, is really there to make warm bedfellows with the unions. Yeah. It's true.

It's become a political organization. In fact, I kind of view, I mean, they're very different. So this is a little bit of a stretch to make this comparison. But you know how Roe v Wade gets repealed and it just gets pushed back to the states said it's not a federal issue. That's what education is it. We need to push this back to the states.

We don't need a federal agency to oversee education in America. Each state can do that. And states can create coalitions. We can still create standards. And and we don't need a big bloated federal agency to, to do that. And so I, I look forward to its demise. I think actually Trump will likely deliver on this promise. It might it might take a minute.

But I think that we could actually, do away with it. There is budgeting concerns here. This is why it's going to take a minute, because you're going to have to figure out how do we then, you know, put all of this influx of money into these states. They've got to have regulations so that they've got to have things in order so that they don't do stupid things with it.

Yeah. I mean, just go back to Covid 19. We had rules in place. We had government agencies breaking the rules. Yeah. With the money. Yes. We did. Okay. That will happen again with the with the getting rid of the Department of Education. Yeah. So it's okay that it takes a little bit of time. You put those barriers in place and then you implement it.

It will still happen. You just want to lessen that as much as possible. And I can see something happening like like sometimes you have these massive federal departments, right. And whoever oversees it sits in a presidential cabinet. But you could create a lesser office, which I think might be kind of the off ramp where let's say you create the Office of Education Policy.

The federal government has all sorts that might already exist, actually. Like there's so much redundancy in the federal, you might be able to get rid of three fourths of the Department of Education. Yes. And then you reduce it down to an office like just, and largely what they would oversee is just disbursement of these funds to the states.

They don't set curriculum, they don't have a bunch of strings attached. They don't do social engineering. They don't indoctrinate, indoctrinate. It's just an administrative job to logistically handle any money flowing from the federal government to the states. And hopefully we get weaned off of that too. But but whatever. I can see Trump maybe not completely eliminating the role of the federal government, but get big, get rid of the big bloat that is the Department of Education.

Yeah, yeah. And maybe that's the transition and that's why it will take a minute. But that's okay. It can take a minute. Yeah. Yeah that's fine. It's going to be fine. I, I also think that, this is what we're going to hear. This is the low level of intellect that we're going to be dealing with in this discussion.

They are going to morph. Trump's desire to get rid of the Department of Education into Trump wants to get rid of education. Okay, look, you have got to be smarter than the talking points that they're going to push out there. I had a lengthy conversation with a local superintendent about a year and a half ago. Yeah, that conversation with that superintendent was discussing a program that the federal government was looking into, where they would stop teaching your kids how to read because they don't need to read anymore, because a computer can tell them everything.

Oh, wow. Okay. They actually did studies on it to see if it would be beneficial. Don't tell me. I mean, they'll say that Trump wants to get rid of education. Like don't even start because you guys are looking at ideas that are horrific. Yeah, well they are I mean that truly is top down social engineering when you look at it.

Yeah, one of my biggest complaints, and I think we saw this with Common Core and in some of the other changes that we've seen in education is that we were allowing corporations in in a lot of ways, the tech industry and, and some of the Stem careers to determine curriculum so that education would produce the employees they need, which some of that might be okay, but I think it should be a bottoms up approach where corporations create opportunities and people naturally gravitate to to those fields that will make them more money or that they'll find more satisfying, whatever.

But I don't think that we should have corporate America dictating to government what education should be about. They can serve an advisory role. But I think it was more than advisory. It was it was more like, we're going to drive this bus. Yeah. And and I think that's a that's a bad direction to go. Yeah. I'll also I would ask those people who are worried about Trump putting more control of education in the state's hands.

What's so wrong with that don't you. All educators should yearn for education to match the Democrat ethic of the kids that they're teaching. How better for that to happen than it to be. Not on the federal level to be on the state level. Yeah. Well that's a great point. You're you're right. But there are elites who think that you can't leave it up to the individual states that they're not equipped to do it correctly.

So well look at there. You've got just stunningly amazing results happening right now in all of these large cities where kids aren't even proficient in math. So yeah, your way has been amazing. Look how efficient and effective our federal government has been with everything else. All right, we'll take a break. It's 844. Time for the news. Back after this.

It's 850 on Newstalk 179. And, Trump has endorsed Mike Johnson to continue as speaker. Will that quell the Matt Gates's I don't know. There's a lot of rumblings happening right now in Washington that they're going to try to oust Mike Johnson again. I totally expected this from Trump. Remember, Mike Johnson was on the stage with him at his victory speech.

Yeah. And he called him out and said he'd had done such a great job being the speaker. So yeah, not surprising that Trump wants him. Yeah, and I do. We really need to be doing this in the middle of all this. You know what I mean? Let's ride the wave of Republican victory here and not start to create.

Look, I want Rick Scott to be the the majority leader, but I'm not going to throw a tantrum if it ends up being John Cornyn or John Thune. We have we have too much at stake and fight for the person you want. But if it doesn't turn out to be that, don't don't pick up your marbles and go home.

We have a lot of wins left if we'll just keep at it. And a lot of work to do in two years. Yeah, yeah. Immigration really quick. I asked Julie a question, and I have very mixed feelings about this, but, I, they say that, it's going to cost $88 billion in order to deport a million people a year.

Okay, so I don't I don't know what we have, what the numbers of illegals they say it's going to take or how many years, whatever. But they put a price tag on it, $88 billion a year. And the, the group that said it's going to cost that much is the American Immigration Council. Okay. So I don't know what their interest is in this and how they're connected to it.

However, if I'm Trump and I'm wanting to find creative ways to deport at, well, it works and it's, a lower cost incentivize illegals self reporting and self-deport. So basically you would say for the next three months, if you will come forward and self-report, we will pay for your plane ticket home or your boat ride or your train ride, whatever transportation makes sense.

And we'll give you $500 to spend on your way there. Whether you need a hotel or you need a food or whatever it is, and to go back home to where you came from, now you might think, well, why would we keep spending that kind of money for that to do that? And I would say, because it's a whole lot cheaper than sending out agents to try and track these people down who are fleeing from them.

But if you send out the message and Tom Homans the perfect guy to do it, one way or another, you're going back home. You can choose the terms on which you go back home. You can go back home voluntarily, peacefully, and with a plane ticket to whatever city you want. Yes. And we'll fly it wherever you want to go.

But you've got to stay there. And if you want to come back, you got to do it the right way. You got to. You got to file the right way. You got to go through the the process. If you could get a jump start on that process in the course of a few months and maybe send 1 million or 2 back home that way, in my mind, that frees up our resources to go after the the people who are fleeing and running, the criminals, the bad people.

So when you propose that idea during the commercial break, I said, well, half of the process is already in place because they all access the app that was built by the Biden administration. Yeah, to submit their name and everything to come across the border. They already have the app, they're already in the system. So you and the apps got to be government owned.

Yeah. So you take over the app, you add an additional portion to the app that says self-report. Yeah. And you give them a time frame. I said 30 days. You were nice and said three months. You give them a time frame and they self-report in the app and they say, okay, yeah. And you scroll down and you have I will report at this airport or this airport or like you, yeah, you end up with multiple air for or military bases or whatever.

They transport those people onto the planes and they're out of here with gift cards. Yeah. I have the works already done. I know, that's why it's a little enticing to me, but we'll see how Trump does it. Yeah. All right. We're going to break. It's 854. We'll be back there at 859. Hour two coming up. Welcome back at 907 on this Wednesday on Newstalk 1079, Neal Larson, Julie Mason and you.

And if you'd like to reach us. (208) 542-1079 Julie, I feel like it's the calm after the storm. Does it feel like that to you so that our our listener, I can see our listenership, at least online, it's as high as usual, I guess. But I think people are just like. I got to take a breath.

Yeah, I need a minute. I would agree with that anyway. But if you'd like to join us, I feel like I should put out a question, a thought provoking question. What are you most excited about with a second Trump term like I, you know how on Christmas morning you got like 5 or 6 different really nice gifts and you, you jump from one to the other?

Oh, I got a microscope. Oh, I got, you know, Rubik's cube. Oh, I got a peek into Neal's childhood, you know? Anyway, there was never a microscope under my Christmas tree. Well, I was actually just showing Julie some pictures on my phone because I just got, a telescope, a decent telescope, and it had a little attachment that you can attach your phone to and take pictures.

And I took some great pictures last night of Jupiter and it's moons. And I took a picture of our moon, too, but I'm still working it out. These are not pictures that I want to post publicly at all, because I'm trying to figure out how to other settings improve and refine a few things. But anyway, yeah, I still have that excitement of standing out in the backyard with a telescope and it's cold and I'm freezing my giblets off, but I get to look in the telescope and see Jupiter's moons and Saturn's rings and the craters on the moon.

Oh no, no, we brought back the giblets. I did say giblets did nothing. Well, it's cold again. The only time we talk about giblets is when it's cold. So the only time. Why don't we refer to giblets any other time in our lifetime except when it's freezing? I don't know, I freeze your giblets off. Just works. I don't know, it just is a phrase that that works out.

Anyway, so I am excited for the mass deportations. I got to tell you, I. I want our country and our borders to mean something again. And I completely understand that excitement. And I'm good. I'm excited for it, too. I just think it has some some bumpy road ahead. Yeah. And so and I'm okay facing the bumpy road ahead.

Yeah. I'm excited for the changes in the FDA because I think there will be less bumps. Yeah. And more celebration nationwide for those changes. Yes. Yeah I do too I do too. And I think everybody's got different levels of excitement about different things. And I'm excited about the economy to improve. I'm excited for gas prices, although we're starting to see gas prices coming down.

Yeah. I don't know if Biden is pumping more of this strategic reserve into the supply. I don't know what it is, but, but we'll see them, like, naturally come down because of policies, not through artificial means, but I look forward to that. I don't think we're going to see grocery prices come down, but I think they'll stay level for a while and hopefully wages will start to catch up with whatever they're at.

Now. I, I look forward, I hope that Pete Hegseth gets approved. And he does eliminate the wokeism and the wokeness from our military. That's super exciting. I want the military again to be something that our young people really want to be a part of, and they're they're having massive problems with recruitment. Yeah. Do you know what I saw a ton of last night?

After Hegseth had been announced as being the secretary of defense, a lot of people pushed back on the left saying he's not qualified. Elizabeth Warren put out a tweet about how he's a weekend host on Fox. How is he qualified to do this? People were responding with, well, do you not remember that a balloon floated across America and regular people saw it before our defense?

People saw it. Obviously, we're not in the best of situations right now, so how dare you question Pete Hegseth as a as an appointment? That's a very, very good point. That's a very good point. So yeah, we'll see. And I don't, already you've had a couple of Republican senators that I think Bill Cassidy and Lisa murkowski have sort of had veiled insults like Bill Cassidy said, I don't know who that is.

And Lisa murkowski, kind of acted the same way as, as well, like, she wasn't sure about him. And so I, you know, we're seeing the swamp push back a little bit. I think, it's not going to be smooth sailing through through all of this, but we'll we'll see. They just take a little more. Did they I my follow up question if I was a journalist would be, well, did you know the every appointment that Joe Biden made the or that you are a nomination that Joe Biden put forward?

Did you know every single one. Because if that's going to be your clapback, you got to do better. Yeah, because I'm sure you didn't know every single one. Yeah. No, that that's absolutely true too. I'm also looking forward to what's what is his name? Her name Rachel Levine. Levine who's been what is what is the title? Minister of something.

Yeah. I can't over health. Yes. Minister of health, I think is what it is. Yeah. Isn't. Yeah. I think that just the ridiculousness, look at her. I know, I know, it's a dude. Julie. It's an overweight dude. Yeah, he's calling her by himself or her in health care. Yeah. Yeah. Just listen to the words coming out of our mouths.

It's. It's weird what we've been living in. And we were. We were supposed to be like, yay, Rachel! Yeah, yeah, yeah, we broke the expectation. We broke a demographic barrier. Hey, we want to announce something really quick. Tomorrow night at the snake River Event Center. There is an anti or. Well, there's a voucher debate. It's being hosted by the Bonneville County Republican Central Committee.

And Superintendent Scott Wolstenholme from D 93 is going to present the anti voucher side. And Wendy Harman across along with Chris Cargill will present the pro voucher side. That's going to start around 7 p.m.. So if you want to catch the voucher debate, that's at the Shiloh in Snake River Event Center tomorrow night at seven. If you'd like to see how your local precinct runs as well.

They're doing an hour of business before, and the public is welcome to that. Right. They have certain meetings the public. So welcome to uncertain here aren't I think this is the one the public is can come and be part of. So yeah. Yeah that that's yeah. They're going to have a meeting before that. So yeah. Yeah. So look it up on the Bonneville County GOP website.

But 7:00 voucher conversation. Snake River Benson I am. So we're watching the empty podium right now just outside the white House. And, the headlines are that Biden is has told Trump he looks forward to peace, a peaceful transition during their historic meeting. And I don't know if both Trump and Biden are going to come out and speak that kind of weird.

That would be weird if they came out together. What? An optic that would be. What, an optic that. Oh, yeah, you could have cut the tension with a knife yesterday between Biden and Harris. Yeah, especially Jill Biden and Kamala Harris. Oh, yeah. What if they walk out together? That would be crazy. What if the Biden's. And don't get me wrong, he's been a terrible, terrible president.

Nothing is going to change that. But what if the Bidens have decided to give the middle finger to this far left, progressive establishment that has been running them in the white House for the last four years? Maybe they're like, let's get back to something that's good for America. A little more moderation. Yeah, let's bring some unity here so they'll do an uptick with Donald Trump.

Yeah. I mean, keep in mind look at all the things they've called Donald Trump a felon 34 times. Felon. They've impeached him twice. Fascist. He's, he's, collaborated with Russia to overtake the election. I mean, all of those things. And now he and Biden are standing peacefully side by side and declaring a peaceful transition of power to Hitler.

Really, I thought would be crazy if this is how it's going to happen. So see, can we talk about that for just a moment. They don't believe what they say. Oh they didn't believe he's a fascist. They don't. They know he's not Hitler. Yeah. Because their reaction in response right now would be far different than what it is if they truly believe Donald Trump was the next Hitler.

But the problem is they have convinced some very malleable personalities across the country that Donald Trump is the next Hitler. Well, that's the reason to said it stir up passion in a group of people. That was the whole reason to say it. They don't really believe it. Yeah. No they don't. So this will be interesting to, to watch.

Yeah. I don't know what's gonna, what's going to happen. It looks like the microphone. Oh we have the Marines standing at attention at the door. And so I'm guessing that, something important about to happen here. You know, I'm going to start walking like that. Julie. You know, the Marines when they're guarding the tomb of the unknowns.

Like from the waist up, it looks like they're just floating. Yeah. Their legs are walking but they just look like they're I'm just going to start walking like that around the radio station and see if people notice. Okay. You have a very distinct walk already. Are you making fun of my hip replace making fun of your hip replacement.

But it's a very distinct walk. So what you're saying got a lot of work to do. I going to get rid of what you're saying. I have a lot of work to do. I had a hip disorder. When I'm not saying it's a bad thing. You're mocking the disabled. Absolutely not. Okay, I might have just pointing it out that there is a you put you put 100 men in front of me walking.

I'm going to be like, That's Neal, okay? Like, I know, you know, it's weird. One time Reagan had died 20 years ago. Whatever. My buddy and I got in the car, we drove down to Simi Valley for Reagan viewing. And that that was a wild event. But I remember we got to the Reagan Library and there were long, long lines of people, and you would just go in and you would walk around the casket, and then you would walk back out like they didn't let people stop.

They didn't. It wasn't like you'd stop and pay your respects, or it was just you could walk and go around, which I understood. There were handling thousands and thousands of people. But I remember that C-Span was airing this. And so I called my parents and I said, and back then it was VHS, and I said, hey, put a tape in and record the line at Simi Valley because my buddy Jason and I are about to go through.

And I remember getting back and and watching the tape, I don't know what I was looking for, but, watching the tape and I noticed my gait and how much I limped, and I didn't even realize that I limped that that way. It's. I don't even know if you'd call it a limp, because I think people would.

It's it. I think the gait change in your walk is that you can absolutely tell that one of your legs is a little bit longer than the other. Yeah. And so you lean slightly. Yeah. It's not really even a limp. It's just a it is just you're, you're shifted to one side right. Which means I won't be able to play in the NBA.

Now that's, that was the one sole thing stopping you. That's it. That's quite the shame.

So I mean that and I can't jump but you know did you hear that they moved LeBron. Since we're just rambling did you hear that they moved LeBron James Kidd down to the I don't know what league they call what they are. Any league I don't know what it is. Yeah. Bronny now moved down to a different team man.

Yeah. Did they go to LeBron and say LeBron. We we just can't make you we let him play in a couple of games. Now he's got to go down. He can say he was a Laker. Yeah. But he played in the NBA. He's never getting back to the NBA I don't think so. I don't think I'll ever move back up the ranks.

Yeah the excuse that was given. Sorry to cut you off. Guess that was given was he needs time on the floor. And as long as he's with the Lakers he's not going to get time on the floor. So we need to shift him down, give him time on the floor so things can be developed. And then we'll move him back up okay.

But like I've heard experts say he's just not good enough to play to get lots of playing time in the NBA. Yeah. He might make a roster somewhere in no small measure to his dad, whose dad is. But he's never going to be a lead player on any team right now. He's an I very, very doubtful if you're his kid.

Like, do you feel I don't know I don't know how you feel, but I'm like, I didn't get there based on my own merits. I got there because I'm LeBron James kid. Well, look at the Mannings. None of them got placed anywhere because of their last name being Manning, right? They all got their positions because they had enough talent to get their position.

Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. So he wasn't even that great of a college player was he. No. Yeah. Okay. Well all right. Should we take a break. Sure. We're still waiting for the we don't know what's happening with this microphone. Yeah. Also did you know somewhere I was on CNN during the Reagan thing. Oh you made like national coverage.

Yeah. Wow. I had a CNN producer come up to me and he said, hey, can I ask you a couple of questions? And I'm like, sure, why not? The birth of it all. And I know. And so I answered the questions and I told mom, I said, hey, flip over from C-Span to CNN and record that for a couple of hours.

And yeah, I had like an eight second blurb on CNN, too. Wow. If anybody wants my autograph, I'm here. All right, we'll be back. We'll be back after this. On Newstalk 10780, okay. That was back when CNN actually was did regular regular news somewhat respected? I mean, Fox News had been around for 6 or 7 years, but was it oh two when Reagan died?

Ronald Reagan? No. Oh 4th June fifth of oh four. So he died 20 years ago. I bet that was an epic trip. Oh, it was. Well, so my buddy Jason, he was my best friend growing up, and he's the same friend that we were sleeping out on the trampoline one night. And, you know, you're just staying up late and talking till two in the morning.

And he's the friend that I made the deal with him. I'll name my first son, Jason, if you'll name your first son, Neal. We didn't think that our wives might want to have some say in that. At that point in time, we're just like, yeah, well, the fact that you con both of your wives into it, I know.

And so that's why my oldest son is Jason, his oldest son is Neal. Like we we made good on the on the promise. Does his son go by Neal. Yeah. Okay. Well it was Neal Mason and growing up they called him Mason. But he's like no I want to be Neal. So he goes by Neal more now. So okay.

Yeah. Anyway they worked out all the way around. The kids liked it. Yeah yeah Jason likes his name. Yeah yeah. Anyway so so yeah. But one of the deals that we made, I can't remember quite when we made it, but we were, Gosh, we were probably teenagers, and we said, okay, let's make a deal. Whenever Ronald Reagan dies because we both loved Reagan, that we'll drop everything and we'll go to his funeral.

And so and we didn't know what that was going to look like. But he passed away. And I remember hearing the news story. And within an hour or two, I called Jason. He lived in Idaho Falls at the time. I lived in Pocatello. And I don't even think we said hello, I he answered, I said, are we going?

He's like, well, yeah, I guess, I guess we're going. So, we, we got in a car. You know what? One thing I remember about that trip we're driving through Salt Lake middle of the night because we left in the evening, probably 9 or 10. So it was close to midnight. By the time we're going through Salt Lake, we hit a raccoon on I-15 middle of Salt Lake, which is not the only time you've had a raccoon, right?

I know I am the raccoon killer, so Jason didn't have a lot of time off. He was actually working for Senator Risch at that time, if I remember right. So we we drove through the night. We did get a hotel for I can't remember. Maybe it was the following night or something, but we just slept a few hours, and then we had to drive back.

But I remember his car. It got out of alignment because of the raccoon, so, like, pull to one side, but we. Yeah, we we got down there and they had these staging areas where you'd park your car and you'd get on a bus, and then they would bus you to, to Simi Valley and yeah, we, we took in the whole thing.

It was it was an epic trip. It was fun. I think we were back home within about 48 hours, like, but some of those are the fun of it. It it was fun. It was a lot of fun. Yeah. I remember we drove through Malibu. We went and looked at the ocean for about ten minutes, and then we got back in the car and I'm like, dude, we're here.

We got to go see the ocean. Like we're. And you know, we were young enough then that. I mean, now I go to the coast every other year, but, but back then, you know, you're just it wasn't it was a different thing. But yeah, it was fun. 927 on Newstalk 1079 Neal Ocean and Julie Mason and they've got this shot of Donald Trump shaking Joe Biden's hand during the historic meeting at the white House.

And we still see the outdoor, podium shots. So we don't know who's going to speak here. I'm guessing it's Biden. I think it's going to be Biden alone, but man, it would be fun if they went out there together. Yeah. What a truly. Does it ever just hit you? What we've been through the last six months.

Well, I just turned around and looked at the photo to try to gain some some perspective here. First off, Trump has so much bigger than Biden. Biden is not a short man, right? But Trump is just a bigger man. Yeah. So if they stood next to each other at Trump, it's going to look really impressive. Yes. So that's a win if they stand next to each other.

Plus Trump is going to look younger even though they're close in age. Yeah. But I do feel like that handshake in that photo that Trump is being very, you know, like he's doesn't appear to be dominating the picture. Yeah. So there is even though he could some deference. Yeah I think there's some difference happening. Yeah I would agree with that.

He's kind of back a little bit. It appears in the picture too. And these are just the initial shots. I'm sure there's a lot more photos that are coming, but, it it looks like Biden is speaking, and Trump's just listening there. There's a hand clasp there, but, Yeah. Interesting. It's respective or respectful. Yeah.

The way the Biden. Yeah. Like the way that they're interacting with each other. So I have a question for any Democrats who might be listening. Okay. And I want to go back to what we talked about in the initial segment, because all the media, all the Democrats, all the lefties have been saying Donald Trump is Hitler, he's fascist.

And now you have Joe Biden greeting him warmly into the white House. If you're an average Democrat, how are you absorbing this today? Okay, I'm going to reflect on what we've seen with our Democrats that that have texted in. I think they've shut it all off. I think they can't absorb it, which is why you saw many shows on MSNBC in a week span dropped by 40 to 50%.

I think those Democrats are gone. I can't take it. I can't look at it. It was all a bunch of lies. I invested all of this energy. I put, I well, it's kind of what I said about Carol Jones and, Hiram Erickson. You didn't leverage just your political capital. You leveraged personal capital to fight your fight.

And, well, kudos to you. That takes bravery. Yeah, it didn't turn out for you. So how does that look for you today? And I think that a lot of people on the left did exactly the same thing. They leverage personal capital. Yeah. Into this election. They can't handle it now. They've got to back off. Yeah. I think you're right.

I think. Well, I've told this I referenced this a couple of times. We had a listener troll who would text this sometimes a dozen times in a day, in a morning, and we have not heard from him since Tuesday morning of last week. They lost the election. I think there is a checking out that happens. And maybe it's true grief.

It might. It might be real grief that they really had bought in, that Donald Trump was a fascist, that he's, he's going to be a dictator, that, truly, I have heard this from Democrats that if Donald Trump wins, wins this election, which he did, obviously, that it's the last presidential election that will have because Trump will make himself a dictator and prevent anyone else from taking power.

They really believe they believe it. And so maybe they really are just in in mourning this morning. I, you know, I don't know it. It's weird. I have been almost creeped out by the lack of a reaction from the left that traditionally loses their ever loving minds over this. You see some of that on social media, but you see that on social media anyway.

They're always losing their minds over something, and it helps them get clicks. So that's the reason they're reacting that big. That's true too. Yeah. They don't really mean it. Yeah. Because they make money. Yeah. Right. So the more clicks the more money you make. So that's why they're reacting that way. But I truly believe there's regular regular everyday people you know, people who are employed as, as teachers or as they don't have these huge social media channels or they're counselors or they're whatever they are.

Yeah. That and I did I did just pick two professions that typically align with the left. I, I'm not trying to be stereotypical, but those are two professions that typically align with the left. They don't they're not making money off these outrageous posts. And they already leveraged personal capital and possibly personal relationships. Yeah. To fight this election that much, they might be hiding that.

Well, they might be. Can I broaden the discussion just a little bit? When you look at all the celebrities that the Harris campaign paraded out, some of them paid big bucks. We found out Oprah's production company got paid $1 million, Al Sharpton got paid half $1 million. There were rumors that Beyonce got a massive amount of money, possibly ten, 10 million chlorella.

Was that really that or was it the other one that was twerking? Whatever. Well, one of the talkers, one of the female talkers got 5 million. Wow. Wow. Okay. They're just burning money at that point. Can I point out something about over to, I mentioned this to Neal and I, I think it's a valuable lesson for everybody to learn.

You need to pay very close attention to words. TMZ was in Hawaii, followed Oprah as she was going on a her morning walk, and they asked her if she was paid $1 million to do that. It was kind of like a town hall type forum that she showed up at with with Kamala Harris. She said, I did not get paid $1 million.

She can actually take that to court. It was her production company that got $1 million. Be careful with words. Yeah, don't go fighting a fight without doing some research, because I promise you, there's people on the left going, that's a gigantic lie. Oprah said she didn't get the money, so she didn't get the money. Her production money. Her production company got the money.

And for me, it's the same thing. But she could actually use that in a court of law because they can funnel that money somewhere else. And she never actually touches it. Yeah. So don't don't go out and fight these social battles without figuring out what's going on first. Yeah. So yes. And I think that that is a great point.

If you look at the celebrities, I mean, Julia Roberts voiced an ad, George Clooney voiced an ad you had. I mean, all the A-listers were were all hands on deck to try and get Kamala elected. They didn't. America doesn't listen to celebrities, not for politics. You have MSNBC going on the the the the selling block. You have CNN firing.

They're about to fire a bunch of big people there. You have the owner of the LA times who has fired the editorial board. They're you had the Washington Post not endorsing. Yes. Right. They didn't fight between the editorial board. And yeah. Because Bezos. Yeah. Bezos said you were not doing an endorsement. And so when you when you see all of these things happening and you have Donald Trump, part of his campaign in the later stages of his campaign said this is going to be a golden age in America.

And then you for that. And keep in mind, I'm very open to the idea that riding the enthusiasm of the election, I might be cherry picking some details here. I'm open to that. But you have Matt Walsh's documentary, am I racist? That has been the top grossing documentary in a decade. Like it is. It has been amazing what he's done.

Am I a woman was big as well. And you see the rise of conservative media. Look at the ratings that Fox News had compared to the two liberal lefty networks. They were through the roof for their election coverage. They continue to be through the roof. Have we defeated the left? I mean, is this a is this a seminal moment in American politics where, of course, they're going to come back and they're going to they're going to try and reemerge.

But when America rejects far left celebrities and even moderate celebrities, when we see the leftist networks in complete disarray, they're either either selling or they're trimming back. They're rethinking everything that they're doing. You see some of America's leading newspapers not deciding to not endorse, or they're firing their editorial boards. Is this a moment where a lot of liberals have said, I can't keep fighting the fight?

We gave everything. We absolutely had all the lawfare that they threw at Donald Trump. And here he is, never stronger than he is today showing up in Washington. And just huge gains, huge wins electorally. Dem California shifted. Right. New York has shifted. Right. And and I mean, just in a massive historic win, especially given all the resources that were marshaled to try and defeat and prevent him from winning.

Is it a new age in America where being a conservative is no longer fringe? It's no longer extreme that we have now placed ourselves back in the mainstream? Yeah. Look, I, I'm going to support absolutely everything you say, and I'm going to add one more thing to it. I don't believe the people on the left shifted fast enough.

Trump going on Rogan, JD Vance going on, Rogan, Trump going on all of those other I'm sorry. I'm going to say it, Mel based podcasts. Yeah. He knew who he needed to speak to. He knew who was being offended by the Harris campaign and he knew who he needed to go speak to. Actually, Barron's getting credited with all of that, but whatever.

Like there is a shift happening nationwide to the way people consume their media to the way that they form their their information, to the jobs that they're doing. And it it feels like people on the left are still stuck. They didn't move. So when when you're crediting all of this and that, we're defeating and we're going a different direction.

I think part of that is because we're being a little more innovative. Daily wire is innovative. Tucker Carlson is innovative. Yeah. And when you're relying on somebody, a race baiter, to carry your program on MSNBC, you're not moving fast enough. You're getting left behind. Yeah. Well, when you look at the top names of conservative voices, you think Tucker Carlson, you think Ben Shapiro, you think Dan Bongino.

Now Bongino is on the radio. He certainly has a traditional media presence, but the other ones, they're in the new media they're in and their their voices are bigger and more powerful than what we used to think as the power centers, like the like the late night TV shows. Does anybody listen to Steve Colbert? Does he move the needle at all anymore?

Does Jimmy Kimmel move the needle at all anymore? I don't I don't think they do, at least not much, isn't it? Jimmy Kimmel is saying he's leaving. He's done. He's retiring. Oh, please let that be true. I think it might be right. Yeah. He's going to finish out Biden's term and then be done or something like that. I mean, okay, if that's the way that you're going to, you're gonna evolve.

Yeah. Evolve means get rid of yourself, okay. I and do I think the left can catch up here I do I think they can catch up I think I think that this is basically a wide open frontier right now with the way that people consume media. And so, yeah, we need to not rest on it and we need to be aggressive and keep going with this.

Keep, keep educating the young. I just had a conversation with a local leader last night telling her we need in East Idaho. We need to start educating 16 to 20 year olds. Yeah, that's a demographic we haven't hit the we can't rest. There's plenty of work still to be done by Republicans. But I would say in this cycle we did a much better job of staying ahead in in all aspects of it.

The messaging, the platforms. We were ahead in, all of the aspects. Yeah. Yes. We were okay, we're going to take a break. 940 Newstalk 179 still watching the podium. See what happens back after this. Hello, Facebook. How are you? Read the first text. It's an engineering text. 2220. Where's my text line? Right there. And let me refresh.

Okay. Let me text that to Marv. Jeff G with the double left. Jeff, what do you think is coming back with Barron? What? He says, speaking of Barron, something big is coming from Barron Trump. You just mean that that kid has a future. I absolutely believe that kid has a future. Oh, it's going to be the new Kennedy.

I think Barron has a huge future. Now. Yeah. I'm I don't know, maybe I said the left is given up. I don't think they'll ever give up. But I think we now have the edge over them. Look how big it look. How big look how much political power they lost. I it this was I know that they're trying to spin it as something else.

This was horrible for them. Yeah. I'm not going to be able to make that. I'm not going to be able to zoom that in. I don't want to look at that one. I want to look at. Where do you have it? Do you want to send it to me? Oh, I can't, I have to email it to you.

Remember, I'm in the weird Facebook. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'll email it to you. Okay. I shouldn't really refer to our news talk 1079 as the weird Facebook.

But it's not the one that Neal and I have an extremely long messenger feed on. Oh, I was going to look that up. Who did we say it is? Who's leaving? Not Jimmy Kimmel. Oh. I can't think of his name. Colbert. No. Kimmel. Colbert. Well, there's Fallon, Kimmel and Colbert. Kimmel is the one that started crying after Trump won.

This says it's not true, but this outlet is sportskeeda.com, which I don't even know that, outlet. Okay. It's satire. He's not leaving. There's so much of that out there. There's so much. Brad, we don't know how Irish and crap are going to vote where we're not clear now. We are interviewing Senator Risch tomorrow, so we'll be able to ask him.

And that vote is not happening until this afternoon. So probably, like 2:00 Idaho time. 3:00 Idaho time. So I don't know. Well, they're just going to have to wait and see. Okay. All right. 946 and Newstalk 1079 Julie, guess who suddenly likes the filibuster. Tell me, Pramila Jayapal, listen to this, to before this election.

Right. If we had, had control of the trifecta and gotten rid of the filibuster to pass minimum wage, to pass paid sick leave, to pass many of these things that are passing abortion access, that are passing on ballot measures that are so popular, those are going to the state legislatures. Either those are going to the ballot. Then I think we would have built some trust with the American people.

Republicans, don't forget, already got rid of the filibuster, for taxes, the tax scam didn't require 60 votes. And so I think that I don't think it's in opposition at all. I think obviously, would I be, you know, am I championing getting rid of the filibuster now when the Senate has the trifecta? No. But had we had the trifecta, I would have been, because we have to show that government can deliver.

And right now, even with people going to the ballot, they are bypassing their government because they don't feel like government, whether it's at the state level or the federal level, is actually going to get them. The things that they need. Okay, so I want the filibuster on my side, but we should take it away from the Republicans. Yes.

And that's not only the only problem that of that clip. There's so many problems with that clip. Does she even understand the way government works? Right. No, no. They they live in their own reality. You can't. That's the power of the individual vote. She's complaining that, well, people are bypassing their government and and expressing it at the on the ballot.

Yeah, they are. That's how it works. We get to have our own opinion. We get to change things. We're in charge.

You know what he's saying. These people making it to these positions, how it it reminds it reminds me I think it was Brown Jackson. And it was some case over social media. And she felt like she didn't like that. She's like, we feel like this will hamstring the government, that protecting First Amendment rights of individual Americans will hamstring the government.

Bingo. That's the whole point. That's exactly what we want to have happen. The government is supposed to be hamstrung. It's funny, the paradigm that they acquire after they've been in government for a long time, and I think it makes them mad that the Constitution of the United States is is not a government document. It is a people document.

It belongs to the people giving government permission and that they don't like that it, it contradicts and is hostile to their, their sense of the power that they want in, in government. And it's a beautiful thing when they say the quiet part out loud. Yeah. Yeah. Well and that's why you need to dissect words I said about Oprah, dissect the entire clip.

It's fine to be outraged by the concept that, oh it's okay for the filibuster when it benefits the Democrats. It's not okay when it benefits the Republicans. That's the big takeaway. But there's lots of little takeaways in that that she just doesn't even understand how government works. How did she get elected? And I hope her constituents go, yeah, darn right.

I can speak out at the ballot box. And I'm going to and you're not coming around next time? Yes. Yeah. No, it's so true. It's so true. Okay. We are going to take another quick break here. We'll come back. We'll have our wrap up segment after that. We're still waiting for the podium. So the first lady greeted Trump at the white House earlier.

Look, this is hostility toward Harris. It absolutely is. 100%, back after this. So I don't know if you saw the email, but I got corrected. Apparently it's the Army that got to the end. Well, you were referencing how the Marines were good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stephanie, we don't match today, but we do both have on three quarter zips, and I hardly wear a three quarters zip like this.

Because if you haven't noticed, I've fixed my hair about 800 times. It drives me crazy, gets my hair, gets stuck in it. So, it is weird that we both have this on today. Who knows? Yeah, who knows what's going on? Okay. Jill Biden gave Trump handwritten congratulations. Okay. Did you look at the article I sent you? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. You think, 100%. Yeah. I also, I am perfectly fine with Melania protecting her space, creating her boundaries. Y'all treated her like trash. You put Kamala Harris on major magazines, you put Jill Biden on major magazines. Here you have a super bottle, and you won't even. You won't even take a photo of her. I'd stay as far away from you.

All those people in DC as she says she's going to stay. Yeah. You got what you deserved. Yes. Okay, here's a question. They absolutely did that during the first term. Treated all the Trumps just terrible because they wanted to make Trump unelectable for a second term. Are they going to soften a little bit this second term thinking, well, he can't win in third term.

So you know, the threat is no longer lingering out there that there was before that made them behave that way. They'll still hate the Trumps. But maybe and it it it to be honest and to be fair, it does look different. He does not have his family surrounding him like he did the first time. Yeah, he really insulated himself with his family the first time around, and people felt like that was very, oh my gosh, what is the word?

Insular? No. When the boss is nepotism. Yes. Yeah. They felt like it was. It was that and just incestuous and his family has created their own wealth. Yeah. Above and beyond their father. They don't need a position from him. Yeah. And I think that that's what you're going to see a some people want Lara Trump as the press secretary.

Yeah I'm like would she do good. Yeah she'd be great. I don't know if you want to add that difficult layer there. I don't yeah I don't I don't think I would hand written congratulations. Okay. Let me actually I don't have time to ask you this. I'll ask you on the air. Okay.

Just. 954 on Newstalk 179. A couple of housekeeping things here. Julie, I need to apologize and issue a correction. I reference the Marines as guarding the tomb of the Unknown Soldier earlier. It's actually the Army, and I want to thank one of our listeners, Chris, for gently correcting, me on that. So thank you, Chris. A very well-written email, by the way.

Yes. Yeah, yeah it is. That's how you have good conversation. Yeah. That's just it. I mean, he did say this is a little thing, but don't take something away from somebody if you don't understand it. And then he said, by the way, I think you guys, the show was awesome. Please. I like to be anonymous. So I didn't say the last thing.

He didn't say less. There's lots of Chris's out there. Yeah. That's true. Okay, so, there's that. Julie, I have a question for you. Are the Bidens being incredibly nice to the Trumps because they want a pardon for Hunter? Oh, I think it's very possible. I think there could be some sort of exchange here. I just don't know what it looks like.

I, I look, they're wiping the law fair away from Trump. Don't don't listen to the left leaning media. Jack Smith's going away. All of those cases are pretty much done. The judge McCann punted yesterday for later in November to make a ruling. Well, even if he sticks with the ruling in his case, it's going to get thrown out on uphills.

Nothing is happening with this case, and maybe there's some sort of deal being brokered behind the scenes to make everyone look just a little bit better. Yeah, I do believe that there could be something going on here. You know, we'll scratch your back. I'll. We'll do a little bit of trade here. We've got this. So yes, I think I don't know if I look exactly like a pardon, but maybe something I don't know.

Yeah. Something could happen. Yeah. I mean, I do think there's this sense of every Democrat around. Joe Biden stabbed him in the back. He, he owes nobody anything at this point. And maybe it's like this will be my last jab to every last one of you. From Obama to, to Harris to George Clooney to everybody.

We are going to greet the Trumps with open arms, and I. I mean, even if they're doing it for that less than genuine reason, they're doing it so will recognize it. Somebody messaged in and said, what if Biden whispered to Trump, hey buddy, I voted for you. Somewhere along the lines of all of this meeting that they had today, can you even imagine?

Oh, that'd be amazing. Me and Joe voted for you. Yeah, they may have. They may have. They might have. Yeah. Hey, let's talk about Grand Peaks Prime meets here in the last minute. Julie, we love Grand Peaks and Free. We've eaten a lot like we had dogs the other night, but we still have some ribs. I think we still have some of the sweet crockpot meals.

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Okay, I'm seeing headlines that it's down to Thune and Corn. By the way, it's Jeep Ram meets.com, Thune and Cornyn. So it looks like Rick Scott's off the table now. So then the lesser of two evils which most of our listeners would say this is the lesser of two evils. Thune. Yeah, no, I think Cornyn is better than Thune.

You do. Okay. Yeah, I do. What do you I mean, you don't you don't. I've never been impressed by Cornyn, but I think Cornyn voting record is a little more conservative than Thurman's is. So okay, we'll see how it turns out. And we're going to talk with Senator ish tomorrow. We will have a lot to say about that just after 8:00.

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