11.15.2024 -- NLS -- [BONUS CONTENT: Mitt’s Farewell Anthem] STUDIO 4 COVER: Morgan Celner, Gaetz Gambits, and Trump’s Next Moves

On this episode with Neal and Julie dive into a variety of topics, blending sharp political analysis with their signature humor and wit. They tease a brand-new parody centered around Mitt Romney’s farewell, but you’ll have to download the podcast to hear the full version. The discussion ranges from Matt Gaetz’s potential as a disruptor in government to the broader implications of Trump’s potential presidency and the strategies behind GOP appointments.

They also explore how Democrats’ strategies have evolved post-midterms and the public’s shifting perceptions of key political figures like Liz Cheney and Kamala Harris. Julie brings a unique perspective on how time and distance offer clarity in assessing recent elections. Meanwhile, Neal touches on the challenges of governance under Biden and Harris, emphasizing the historical significance of Trump’s impact.

For a lighter moment, the pair chat about everything from Mike Tyson to Diet Mountain Dew-fueled antics, balancing thoughtful commentary with relatable humor. Plus, they preview an “Open Phone Friday” segment, giving listeners a chance to weigh in.

Transcript

Now exclusive bonus content on The Neal Larson Show podcast.

It's a Friday edition of the podcast. It's been a while since we've done a parody. Julie. And this one's a super good one. And since our very, very good friend Mitt Romney's political career is in the last tiny little phases of a sunset, we thought we'd make a farewell anthem to Mitt Romney. It's a good one. Enjoy it.

Here it is.

Oh, let's hear it. The press is golden, boy, you. You stood wishing in their hearts. You did, do you, boy? From Utah speech to Washington's games. You trace the glory while scorning our names. Oh, miss you so full of virtue. But when we needed courage. Where on earth were you? With the skies open. You swayed in the breeze.

You love Maverick. Till it no longer pleases.

You stood up the pulpit. So righteous, so proud. And tell me now. And sat there too long. But when Trump came calling with jobs in his hand.

You balked and succumbed to the swamps. Quicksand. Oh, miss, you're so full of virtue. You left us with the vultures and. Hey, they liked you. You. Your friends on the phone came calling for tomorrow's was all the headlines. And praise you about ten. Oh.

Oh, hero. You claim. But for whose praise? Not the folks in your heart. Made with promises all made with you. For sharing your heart the least. You dance with the left but ignored. Mainstream. So. Well, Mitt Romney, you're leaving the show. You you're standing ovation. That's a big no.

Your legacy, set in a wobbly chair, builds on virtue signals. Media play a big Ole Miss. It's so full of virtue and a legacy of speeches. No one will turn to you as you fade into history. Please don't despair. The Lincoln Project waiting. They say is your a chair?

All right. We hope you enjoyed that. Time now for the podcast.

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We'll preserve for our children. This the last, best hope of man on earth. Or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. We will keep in mind and remember that you and I have the ability and the dignity and the right. The right. To make our own decisions and determine our own destiny.

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Happy Friday and good morning, East Idaho. Snow is coming. That's what we understand over the next. Oh, 36 hours or so. So far, it's a fairly pleasant morning across Idaho, but starting this afternoon we're going to we're going to see a change of rain for a little while. That could turn into some snow and slush and maybe some some travel concerns as we see 1 to 3in accumulate.

At any rate, we have a great show planned for you today. Coming up in a half an hour, we are going to have Morgan Sellner in and he, along with a drummer, are going to perform a little CR for studio four covers this week. I think you're gonna love it. I've heard him perform before he opened, I think, for BTO a while back, and he's very, very gifted.

So, we look forward to that. We also have a brand new parody I've been wanting for whatever reason, and I don't know, this might seem a little petty of me to do a mitt Romney farewell parody, and so I'm only going to tease you with it, and the only way you're going to hear the entire thing is if you download today's podcast later today.

But here's a little bit of it.

I really like this action. Oh, let's hear it. The press is golden. Boy, you you stood watching in your hearts. You better. You toy. From Utah's peaks to Washington's gains. You trace the glory. While scorning our names.

On this you're so full of virtue. But when we needed courage. Where on earth were you? Okay, that's how you get. Like I said, if you want to hear the whole thing, you can download and listen to our podcast. And we usually make that available hour or two after the show is over. So 11 to Noonish is around that time.

So now let's talk about the big stuff. We have Donald Trump continuing to put names forward. We already knew RFK Jr was going to be something we just didn't quite know. Sure. What a lot of speculation it was. The FDA looks like it's, health and Human Services still related. And we're I'm thrilled about it. I think he's going to serve an important role there and bring a perspective that we have not seen at this level of the federal government, maybe ever.

And if we have, it's been a long, long time. So that's happening. A name being floated for FBI director is Kash Patel, brilliant guy and a guy who has served in the intelligence community before, and he is certainly a Trump loyalist. So we're seeing this happen, the Matt Gates dumpster fire continue news. We have meltdowns happening left and right.

This is Adam Kinzinger who how did well, I let me just play the clip. So it just got word it's Matt Gaetz for Attorney General, Tulsi Gabbard for DNI. Tulsi loves Russia I know you voted for it, but this is a problem, shouldn't it? You better stop some of this faith leaders, faith leaders, you voted for this. Some of you.

Okay. So there apparently has been a memo circulated about Tulsi Gabbard that here's the new narrative that she is in Putin's pocket in bed with Russia. She loves Russia. They want to pair Tulsi Gabbard with Russia. Now, the only thing you have to do in certain circles to get that accusation is express skepticism about the incessant gravy train that had we been sending to Ukraine, that's all you got to do if you do not bow down and worship at the feet of Vladimir Zelensky, then you are in bed with Russia.

You love Putin, you're in in his pocket. So here is Elizabeth Warren, and I don't remember which cable show Pocahontas was on, but here's what she had to say. I disagree with Marco Rubio on, and I haven't decided yet about voting for him, but he is qualified. He has experience. We may have differences that would cause me to say, I don't think that he should be secretary of state, and we'll go through that.

We'll listen to the hearings. I want to hear very carefully from him. But what we're talking about with people like Matt Gaetz is very different from what we're talking about with people like Marco Rubio, and we just have to keep that in mind. But do you understand with Matt Gates and you've already made this point, he's not the only one out there who is unqualified and who raises whole questions like Tulsi Gabbard does.

You really want her to have all of the secrets of the United States and our defense intelligence agencies, when she has so clearly done in Putin's pocket? That just has to be a hard no. Oh, okay. So does anyone else notice that the sentiment expressed by Pocahontas is eerily similar to the sentiment expressed by Adam Kinzinger?

There's a memo. It's gone out. It's probably on the same letterhead that went out saying, Donald Trump's a fascist. So that we're all going to say that you understand, we're all going to say Trump's a fascist for the next several weeks, indeterminate until we defeat him in the election. Now, nobody's calling him a fascist. And why would that be if he really were a fascist?

Because he's not a fascist. Okay, that they say it because they're hoping, oh, we are, but nobody listens to them anymore and they don't realize it. They haven't absorbed this yet, that this hair on fire, personal destruction narratives are no longer effective. When we hear people saying this garbage, we turn the channel. That's it. We live in such a, a strange, dysfunctional and broken age that we now don't absorb somebody seeing something a different way and letting it be, oh, they see something a different way.

It's now somebody sees something a different way. Then they're a racist. They're a Vladimir Putin pawn, they're a fascist, they're Hitler, and nobody wants to hear it anymore. And the problem with it probably displayed best by the children's story of The Boy Who Cried wolf, is that at some point we might get a leader that really has fascist tendencies, or you might have someone who is a corrupt foreign agent, and nobody's going to be listening when it really is happening, I promise you, without any reservation whatsoever, lest there be anyone listening that might think, oh, Tulsi might be in bed with Russia.

She is a patriotic American who loves this country, who happens to think that maybe we shouldn't be sending endless amounts of cash and resources to Vladimir Zelensky. We can have a disagreement over how the war should end. Should. We'd love a peace agreement. I think that it's at this point, probably unrealistic to think that Ukraine will be able to have all the land they had prior to the war, starting a couple of years ago.

That's probably not going to happen. If they want to end the war, they're probably going to have to concede some of that territory. And that's the sad reality of war and conflict in the world today. But you have to cut your losses at some point. And I think Trump's going to come in and and find a way to broker an end to this.

So we'll see how that all turns out. I'm not I'm honestly I will say this. I'm not all that attuned in to that particular issue. And I'll tell you why. There is cynicism in my heart surrounding any international war, especially when we're sending American funds to keep it going, that we have war profiteers. We have people who are getting filthy rich off of the war industry, and we know we've been warned about this for the better part of a century to beware of the military industrial complex.

We we've we heard that a long time ago that we don't really always fight wars for patriotic reasons. Politicians initiate wars for economic reasons. And that's also a sad reality of living in in a broken world. But I don't want to go down that road because we still have a lot to get to. John Thune is the brand new Senate leader, well, soon to be majority leader.

He's the Republican leader, and this is what he had to say on the floor of the Senate yesterday after his victory, taking action via reconciliation to preserve the tax relief, Republicans delivered for Americans during the Trump first Trump administration. It's also time to check the bureaucratic machine here in Washington, D.C.. A key element to making America prosperous again is taking a hatchet to the regulatory apparatus choking our economy, starting with the 1000 Biden-Harris regulations that have already cost Americans nearly $2 trillion.

And, of course, a major focus of both the Trump administration and the Republican Congress will be restoring American strength to promote peace at home and abroad. That includes restoring American energy dominance for the sake of both economic growth and our national security. Mr. president, yesterday my colleagues chose me to lead Republicans here in the Senate during the hundred and 19th Congress.

I'm honored by the trust they placed in me, and I will work every day here in the Senate to serve my colleagues and to advance President Trump's agenda. Okay. The words are spot on. I have no problem with the sentiments expressed. I will begin to be a believer when the actions match the words, and I think that's probably an expectation all of us should have here.

If someone goes up to that podium and I will tell you, and I, I don't have evolving feelings on this at all. I very much believe in the separation of powers, and I don't think that it was Trump's call to make of who is the majority leader at the same time, because from a structural, functional standpoint, if Trump had not been on the ballot on November 5th and it was just an election for everyone else in voting, there's a good chance that the Republicans would not have the majority.

So Trump absolutely gets to claim a lion's share of the credit that John Thune can even be the majority. The soon to be majority leader. Again, I don't believe that's a blank check for Trump. I don't think that gives him carte blanche power to call the shots in the Senate. But I would say the Senate will be foolish if they do not incorporate President Trump's wishes in a very big way.

So you have that. Meanwhile, I think there might be a little intrigue brewing. John Cornyn was another name that was up for Majority Leader. John Cornyn came up short. And I will tell you why. John Cornyn is a swamp guy. He's been around there for a long time. And there I'm sure there's a correlation. If we could put quantifiable parameters about what a swamp creature is, you could probably come up with a formula, a mathematical formula, and one of the biggest predictors for politicians who become swamp creatures would be how long have they been there?

Big time. Absolutely huge. Now, it's not the only factor because I think we have some lawmakers that have been there a while that never became swamp creatures. But I know I'm hearing people out there going to name them. Who are they? But here's John Cornyn. He's in the hallway. He's being asked about Matt Gates as attorney general. Listen to this.

How critical is it to have access to what the House Ethics Committee has found in their investigation? I think there should not be any limitation on the Senate Judiciary Committee's investigation, including, whatever the House ethics committees generally see, once again, absolutely. Okay. So you have Cornyn. You've already got, is it Maria Cantwell? Yeah. Maria Cantwell, you have Lisa murkowski.

They've all said they're they're not big fans of Matt Gates. Where can I get I can I can get that. However, when he says, show us the results of the report in the House, the rules are saying that can't happen, that the House cannot officially release that report to be used. Matt Gates is no longer a member of the House, and the rules that they have are that the investigation ceases.

I will say the results of the investigation may be more damaging unreleased than they are released. It might be Matt Gates's wishes that they release it, because I don't think there's going to be much in there beyond what we already know. However, the rules are the rules, and for John Cornyn to stand there and want the House to break the rules is an indirect but more than subtle poke in Donald Trump.

SOT he is pushing back and the I think it's John Cornyn saying, okay, you're not going to give me majority leader. I'm the one that deserves it because they all think they deserve it. I'm the one that deserves it. And so I will make this harder for his pick to go through. That's my read on John Cornyn. It could be wrong, but I feel like if I wanted evidence that John Cornyn was not a swamp creature, this clip I just played, you would not be it at all.

So you had that happening. Meanwhile, John Barrasso, who's also in leader, she's like the fourth guy in the Senate. He was on network TV and he's all in supporting Matt Gaetz. Listen to this. 24 hours has been the nomination of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general. Well, he get confirmed, but he'll certainly have a fair hearing and people will have a chance to vote.

What I want to do, and I was specifically with this, and you would expect the president to make bold decisions and appointments. Look what happened to the president. Over the last four years, we have seen the Justice Department and this administration weaponized, politicized. They've dragged President Trump through the court repeatedly. You know, nobody should be above the law, but nobody should be the target of the law.

And what we've had is President Trump being the target of the law. So when he talks about draining the swamp, it's not just all of Washington specific, the Department of Justice. So this is no surprise that the president has made a bold announcement and decision there. But everyone that he has nominated so far better than the people that are in there right now.

Okay. So I think that this is a great approach by Barrasso in normal times. In traditional times, I don't think Matt Gates would either be put forward as an AG nominee, nor would he be approved as an AG nominee. So they've got to make the case, and they easily can because it's all true. The DOJ is corrupt, it is compromised, it's been weaponized.

And you need a personality like Matt Gates to dig and get to the bottom of things in order to clean things up. I think that's probably the best argument to get reluctant Republican senators to give the green light to Matt Gates. Got to take a break. It's 826 and coming up in about ten minutes. Morgan Zellner is our studio for cover this morning.

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This is six six, six. Some folks up on me to wave the flag. Oh I knew yeah. When the band plays hail to the Chiefs. They put the king in it. You know, this. It ain't me. It ain't me. I ain't no citizen. You, me, me. It ain't me. I ain't no fortunate one. Yeah. Good, good. Maybe pull the mic a little closer to your mouth.

There. This isn't too loud. We're good here. No, no, that's sounds fine. So I'm going to move it to get out of the way, but I'll put it back up. Okay.

And welcome back. At 837 on Newstalk 179, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason and Julie. We are so excited for our cover session today. Yeah, it's going to be awesome. These are friends of mine along with wicked talented musicians. We're joined by Morgan Sellner on the guitar and vocals and his brother Logan Sumner on the drums. Good morning gentlemen.

Hello. Great to have you with us. And, we're super excited. I know you've been performing for quite a while. So for our listeners who may not know your background, introduce yourselves to us. Well, we are right now. We're just going by Morgan Sellner. So my first name and our last name. So that's cool. We have a Facebook and Instagram page is just called Morgan Sellner Music.

If you guys are interested in following us. We also have TikTok and all that and all. So, I guess a little backstory in the band is we've had a million people in this band, and somehow it just wound up with, us two at the very end. So, Logan actually started playing drums recently within the last couple years.

A couple of years. Okay, so last couple of years. So. Yeah. Yeah. So Logan's. Logan's a little bit new to the drums, but, I think he's just as good as every drum player that I've had so far. You guys were rehearsing during the commercial break. Sounded great. So we're. Thank you for it. You recently opened for for BTO at Mountain Center.

Yeah. Is that pretty cool? That was super cool. I was, one of the biggest audiences we had. Yeah. And that was our first show as a two piece. We used to have a bass player. We don't anymore. And so, we basically just, recorded a bass backing track, and we have, you know, that playing behind us, and we just to man that sucker.

And it went super well. Yeah. And I was like, wow, man. It really only does take two to tango does it. Yeah. So it was awesome. And yeah it was really good. Well Marv, our engineer who helped set up our studio for this today. Yeah, we told him, he's like, I think that's who open for BTO. We're like, yeah, that's him.

He super enamored with you guys. So sweet. So it's great. So it's really nice on the phone. So. Yeah. Talk to him. Well our I know our audience is going to love what you have for us today. You've chosen CCR, Fortunate son. Yup. Yup. Tell us about your I mean, you chose that for a reason. Well, first of all, that song just kicks, but it makes you feel.

Gives you a little bit of just pride. I don't know if it's the words or the sound. Whatever it is, it just feels like America. Yeah. Yeah. And we love that. So that's actually a cover we play usually. And so we kind of broke it down for this. So this is a different rendition. Yeah. But but we are recording that one.

That one will be part of our release actually we'll have an electric version of that. Oh, listen to it though. Okay. Well, I know our audience is eager, so we're going to let you guys carried away Morgan Sellner. I don't. Thank you. All right. If you surf, it's one, two, three, four, six.

Six. Six. Six. Three. Success! This is 66. This is some folks up on me to wave a flag. You mean, what do you. When the band plays hail to the chief. Put the cannon at. You know it ain't me. It ain't me. I ain't no a song to be. It ain't me. It ain't me. I ain't no fortune.

It was this some folks, your mom. Silver spoon. It helps your don't daughter help themselves. No. The taxman knocks down the door. It's the house. Looks like a rummage sale. Now you. It ain't me, it ain't me. I ain't no millionaire song. It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no bitching. It was.

This this.

This is me. This is some folks inherit star spangled eyes. Ooh. Then they say it down the wall on them. When you ask them this. How much should we give? This is the only answer, you know. Mom. Oh, now it ain't me. This. It ain't me. I ain't no military, son. It ain't me, it ain't me. I ain't no fortune.

It was you. It ain't me, it ain't me I, I ain't no fugitive. Want one more now. It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortune. Get up.

You you you.

You, Morgan seller. Fantastic. Both you. Logan. Great job. We've been getting a great comments. Julie. In the in the text and well deserved. Good job gentlemen. Appreciate very much everybody. Thank you. I do want to let you know if you're searching for Morgan Sellner online, it's Kelly Air, so. Thank you. Yeah. So weird. Weird spelling. Gentlemen. Great job.

Thank you today. Thank you very much. You all right? We'll be back on Newstalk 179. 848 on Newstalk 1078. Super fun to have those guys in this morning. Julie. Very talented. I if you loved the steel guitar work, if you loved his guitar work, that was just the t. T is a bit of what that young man can do.

Yeah, his guitar work is really what sets him apart. It is amazing. So if you're down for that, go to one of their concerts. It's pretty awesome. And by the way, if you want to watch it after the show, we actually start our Facebook Live early on Fridays so we can capture our studio for cover. And so you can watch some of that.

Yeah. Yep. So they'll be on there if you want to see what they look like. And that guitar is beautiful by the way. It is gorgeous guitar a good looking guitar. Yeah. Anyway, lots of fun okay, Julie. Politics. Sure. Let's do it. That's what they pay us for. Yeah, I guess so. And, someone is asking, Where's Liz Cheney?

She's been nowhere to be found for the last week. I can't imagine how how, that was just one more. You know, it was death by a thousand cuts for Kamala. Yeah, that was one more cut. Those are a little deeper. Some than some others. But one more cut to have Liz Cheney be part of her campaign. Couldn't have helped her at all.

So at 6:04 a.m., November 6th, the day after the election, she tweeted this out or xed this out and said our nation's democratic system functioned last night and we have a new president elect. All Americans are bound, whether we like the outcome or not, to accept the results of our elections. We now have a special responsibility as citizens of the greatest nation on earth, to do everything we can to support and defend our Constitution, preserve the rule of law, and ensure that our institutions hold over these coming.

For years, citizens across this country are courts, members of the press, and those serving in our federal, state and local governments must now be the guardrails of democracy. That's what she said. Passive aggressive much. Passive aggressive. Much. And I would just I would look right at her and go, you were everything but democracy for your last little bit.

You Washington. So sit down. She was the bigger threat to democracy. I mean, it's crazy. So but ever since that ex that she sent out right after the election. Nowhere. Not a media interview, not another tweet, nothing. Well, maybe she falls just on a bigger scale, but maybe she falls in the Carolina's Hiram Erickson camp. You go all in and and leverage your personal capital like that.

That's true. That's a rough pill to swallow afterwards. And you get completely rejected at the at the polls, which she did. And you know, I look back she had to have known this. Remember those final days when she was going on the stage tour with Kamala. I think she did multiple stops with Kamala. I think she thought it she was going to be the one to put her over the top like Beyoncé probably thought.

She's going to be the one to put her over the top like Oprah thought that, like, and so many of them. And of course, Kamala was just not a good candidate. And America didn't want Kamala and Donald Trump won in historic fashion. I think that is just obliterating to your ego. Yeah, yeah, probably I well, what do you have left?

I think that's why it's obliterating. Right? You get you you blow it up if it's obliterated. Yeah. What do you have left after that? I, you know, I don't know, I because I think if you've been that high profile in the media and you have been treated by the media like you're something special for three years now, you start to inhale that, then you start to believe that and you start to think, everyone truly does love me.

And the only people who don't are some backwoods hicks in in a few rural counties in the middle of America somewhere. And it turns out, no, the mass of America didn't want what Liz Cheney and people like her were selling, and they rejected it. Okay, but I don't have a lot of like, empathy or sympathy for this woman at all because you're backwoods rural counties are Wyoming.

Yeah. That's your hometown. They told you to get out of politics. Yeah. So then you just reenter it with Kamala and think that you're going to have a reemergence. This is I mean, when you say obliterated, this is really the second atomic bomb. Yeah. To her career. Well, and I also think that if if you're Liz Cheney, you know how sometimes, Julie, people have to continue to live in delusion because the reality would be too painful for them?

We know the January 6th hearings were a sham. We know Trump didn't have any opportunity whatsoever to present exculpatory evidence. He didn't get to have his attorneys there. Republicans wanted to put Jim Jordan as the ranking member on that committee to counter what Benny Johnson was doing. And Nancy Pelosi said, no, we're not going to do that.

They had to rig it. They they had to rig that committee in order to, to get what they were trying to get out of it, which was, case to America that Donald Trump tried to overturn 2020 and cannot be the president. And they didn't make the case. They tried to turn it into a TV production. America rejected it.

They even brought in an, a TV producer to make it feel like it's, it's a reality TV show. It didn't work. So all of these things. But in the meantime, Liz Cheney is treated like she's a true patriot, like she's something special. And she believed it all along. And now, not only was she rejected by Wyoming, her own state, she's now been rejected by America as well.

I can't imagine what that does to somebody like Liz Cheney. It's got to be devastating. I'm sitting here thinking I'm like you know, trying to evaluate the last four years, which is a lot easier than when you're in the middle of it, when you can remove yourself by several months, you can see things a little bit better.

And as you're talking, I'm thinking about January 6th. And what did it get the Democrats? I really don't think it got them anything. If we look at the midterms in 2022. Yeah, the big shift that created the very soft pink wave, not the red way, not the red wave was really Roe v Wade. That was the reason. It had nothing to do with January 6th.

They tried to turn that into something huge. And we were still kind of trying to evaluate the landscape and did it did it move the needle? Did it help them? Did it not? I think now, two years removed from the midterms and now following the general election, election, we know for certain January 6th did nothing for you Democrats.

It didn't help you at all. I think it may have been even worse than unhelpful. I think it worked against them very well. Could have, because they have since destroyed all the evidence, all the transcripts, all the videos of the interviews that they did because they know if Republicans are now in charge, that there would be a deep dive into how the January 6th committee conducted their business.

They don't want anybody seeing that. And so it was a rigged game. It was always rigged. It was always designed to produce the outcome it produced. It was not a fair hearing. It was not an ethical process. It it was a sham. And I think they they didn't want that to happen. And America, I think they keyed into that pretty fast.

I think the first couple of hearings had okay ratings, and after that everybody just tuned out. They realized that the deck was stacked. They weren't they weren't going to get any truth. It wasn't what they wanted. And now I, you know, looking again several months removed from the midterms, now having, about a week and a half out of the election, you can look at things and go, what does the Democrat Party have?

That's a winning platform. It's abortion. That's it. And that is so ugly. And I, And I'm not arguing with you. I don't even know if that's that winning of a program, because I think the people that vote on that issue are probably gonna vote for Democrats anyway. Yeah. No, I don't think you're going to gain an additional group of people, but that's the one thing that they do cling to.

Yes. It's so gross. Yeah. Yeah, it really is. What what's your flagship? Yeah. As a party. What's your flagship? Killing babies. Right. Your flagship. It it use that issue. Julie used to be when we had a moral nation, those who believed in that abortion should be legal thought of it as kind of a shameful last resort. Like if if the situation is so dire, that should be available to women and, and teenage girls and whatever, it's now completely morphed into something else, something that is viewed as empowerment.

That if you're a woman who's gotten an abortion, that you've grown, you're a better you're a more empowered woman. Somehow it has just just been so black. It's turned into something so ugly. I, I think we should say evil. I know that's the word ugly. I think it's actually evil. Yeah, it is evil. It really is. We've we've ventured into that area, which is, I think another reason why the left is losing most of America is if they are pro-choice, they're probably still in that early, earlier version of pro-choice, where if we have to, it could be a last resort for women who are in a terrible situation.

Yes. So the whole shout your abortion crowd is a very small one. They're loud and they're vocal, but they're they're a small group. Let's keep it small. Yeah. Great. All right. That's going to do it for this hour. We'll come back. Hour two coming up. We will open up the phone lines wide. Looking forward to hearing from you as we end the workweek today.

It's all ahead, Wizard. I know I'd walk around with my magic wand and freak people out with it. Yeah. That's it. Okay, do we talk about Jake Paul and Mike Tyson again? I don't know, it's a Friday. We can do whatever we want. Yeah. That's true. Maybe we let them drive the bus. Do you think they have lots to say?

Probably. Probably. I wish you guys could have seen Morgan and, Morgan's cute wife. Logan's cute sister in law. She's a family friend of ours. She is adorable. And every student who ends up having Mrs. Sandler as a teacher out at Iron Elementary is a very, very lucky kid. Yeah. She's just. I don't know if they come kinder than her.

Yeah. Seem very nice. Are we on 907? Oh, yeah. Here we go. I would have noticed. All right. We're talking to Facebook Live. Julie just said, are we on like. Yeah, I think we are. Welcome back. It's our two. If you'd like to join us on the program. (208) 542-1079 and guess what? You know, we're going to do Julie, what we're going to try to have as pure an open phone Friday as possible during this hour on the show today, because it is Friday.

We've had so much going on. So let's just set the table here. We have, of course, all the stuff with Trump's picks for his cabinet and high level administrative positions. We have Jake Paul and Mike Tyson fighting tonight. And and if you just want to catch that fight there's a whole bunch of fights before it. But if you want to catch the main event that starts at 630 local time or six, I thought you said it's 8 or 830.

I'll find it, I'll find it I don't know. Yeah. It's on Netflix around 8:00. No. So 6:00, 6 p.m.. Yeah. Netflix 6 p.m.. And for whatever reason, I'm gravitating toward wanting Mike Tyson to win it. If I'm if I'm picking a side here. Okay, I just, you know, like, I don't know if it's I like a comeback story.

I don't I don't know what you're wanting out of this. I just I'm good either way. Yeah. Like entertain me. That's all I need. Yeah, yeah, that's that's true. And hopefully it will be, entertaining. If it's a legit fight, if they haven't staged it and scripted it, all it's going to be is Mike Tyson just has to lay one good hit on Jake Paul and it'll be done.

Yeah probably. I think he's just that strong I what I rewatch the slap so I rewatched the last night. They were weighing in and Paul stepped up on the stage. Apparently he somehow his foot was on top of Mike Tyson's foot, I don't know. So when he got up there, Mike Tyson slapped him. I rewatched it to see was that faked?

Is this a little WWE? I don't think so. You think it was a slap? Full on slap? Okay, now I got to look it up. Yeah, I think it was. It was a full on slap. Yeah. Okay, so we have that and we'll get to the phones here momentarily. And let's put this in again 208542127 in the fall River propane call and text line.

We also have this lawsuit going forward against the Mountain West Conference over allowing San Jose State to have a man play against other teams, women teams. So yeah, that is an issue, obviously, and good for good for these athletes. I think it takes a lot of courage to stand up and do this. Okay. So I have a question for you.

Were they were these two athletes from Boise, part of the original 11 athletes and one coach, or is it now 13 athletes and one coach? Oh, I don't know the answer to that question. Okay, I'll have to look that up because I would love to see more athletes join it. So that's my hope, is that now it's at 13 and we're going to see even more athletes go, I'm in.

I'll be part of this. Well, it the two athletes at Boise State that are part of it that are being named most recently are two sisters, the band Kirk Sisters. They're from Montana and both playing for, for Boise State. So I but I don't know if that's in addition to some of the other. Okay. So, but these are, these are the little steps that have to happen.

Yeah. This is how we're going to read this from the NCAA. You know what? And one of the reasons why I do like this is that we are now on offense. And we need to we need to get used to being on offense. I'm not a big fan of lawsuits. It's never been my favorite thing. But civil lawsuits drive the bus in certain situations.

Remember the P Diddy situation that was all about civil lawsuits before the FBI got involved? Yeah, I think it got so big. We were he was like around a dozen civil lawsuits when the FBI finally jumped in. Yeah. Okay. So that was when we saw this situation in Arizona with the young man who finally died from the kids who were they called themselves the Gilbert Goonies, and they were going around and beating people up.

It was like a bunch of rich kids, of doing gang activity that was just getting swept under the rug. Until that dad filed that that suit. Yeah. Nobody really did anything. Yeah. That's true. Sometimes you've got to have it. And I think this in this case, this is the way to play offense. Yeah. Yeah I, I agree with that.

Also let's bring this because we talked about this this morning. I love seeing school districts get proactive implementing common sense steps. Fruitland is looking at. They're still taking comments from parents and patrons at allowing their teachers to be armed, concealed carry and extensively trained, but allowing teachers to have, a weapon, in, in class and during school hours.

I am 100% in favor of this. Again, another version of of playing offense. Yeah. Getting out there and going, we're going to we're going to actively protect our kids. Let's get the community. We're going to listen to parents. Let's figure this out. Yeah. Yes. So in fact, I told Julie this morning if I lived anywhere near Fruitland, if that's the policy they put in place, I would transfer my kid to Fruitland because of it.

So yeah, I think a lot of parents are like that. You, we did get a text. I hope that Mike Tyson beats that smug twerp of all. I added this word, but I don't quite want to say that a Jake Paul like a rented mule and enable him to have great parking spaces for the rest of the rest of his life.

Jake Paul embodies the worst in the YouTuber, IG, TikTok influencers, so yeah. Okay. All right, well, That's great. Yeah. Do you think? Yeah. Okay. All right. Now I'm really interested in this. Like you're really gonna watch? I am going to watch you someplace to be during that time frame. So I don't know if I'm gonna be able to watch it.

Yeah, I'll text you. Okay. I'll let you know how it goes. So. Yeah, that's funny. Okay. All right. So far, have we had one wanting Jake Paul to win this? Yeah. Somebody said they think Mike Tyson's a horrible human being in hopes that he gets beat up, or that it was more brutal than what they way they said it.

But it was something along those lines. And I don't really know anything about Mike Tyson's personal life. Maybe he is a horrible I don't know, I you know, he was like back when he was either married to or dating Robin Givens. Like he smacked her around like, yeah, he's had earlier versions of himself that have been pretty nice.

So off years, lousy people. But he went to prison for a while. I think he became a muslim, and he sort of toned down his nasty behavior quite a bit. I do remember, remember on the flight a few years back, somebody kept taunting him and finally he just got up and he just started wailing on the guy. Now he was being very gentle by Mike Tyson standards, but he just kept punching the dude in the face.

And and most people watch that video and they're like, yeah, that guy totally deserved it. If you're if you're going to provoke Mike Tyson, then he got about about the right measure of what was coming around to find out. Yeah. Yeah. And I think, I think Tyson has reformed and kind of kept his nose clean for, for a few years.

So maybe an early version of Mike Tyson is, is a lousy person. But I, I think he's grown a lot. Yeah. So that's what I would say. Okay. So we have that, let's see. Oh, an Idaho Ty Theo Walt, who we've interviewed multiple times, he worked for Raul Labrador. He worked in the previous Trump administration. He is, I think, on the short list for staff secretary for Trump, which is going to be a, a good position for that.

So Theo has a good personality to be around Trump, a really good one. We've we've gotten enough glimpse. He's he's been in studio twice or is it three times. Yes. I can't remember this 2 or 3. So we've had some one on one besides, you know, scheduling and everything through Theo. Yeah. And, he is quiet. He waits like he's he's a person who waits and knows when he is supposed to speak.

Yeah. That's going to play very well around Trump. Yeah. And, plus he's super intelligent. Yeah. Kid smart. I call him a kid who's married, has kids. So it's he's not a kid kid, but younger than us. And I think he's got a bright future. Yeah. Yeah, I do too. And, super talented, very good guys. So, you know what my take is on this, Julio, can I can I share my little crystal ball analysis here?

He's very conservative. Like he fits very well in the Trump orbit. He worked at a high level for Raul Labrador in the attorney general's office. If Theobald is hired to serve in this capacity, and there's rampant special ation that Raul Labrador will run for governor, I think we'll see a Trump endorsement of Labrador. He was at the party Mar-A-Lago last night.

So if we if we see that and it's not an incumbent if we don't have Brad Little running and even if we do, but let's say we don't, that race will be over. Trump will pick Idaho's next governor if Brad Little's not running. And and so I wouldn't you agree. I think that's pretty good. You know pretty good crystal ball figuring it out I think so yeah.

So oddly enough this hire if it happens could have a very real impact on the future of Idaho politics. So yeah, exciting for Thiel. It's awesome. Yeah it is. It'll it'll be good. We also have Sylvester Stallone showing up at Mar-A-Lago last night comparing Trump to George Washington. What do you think of that? Like, it's all good.

I thought Joe Biden was the new George Washington. We got to figure out who the new George Washington is, because now we have Biden versus Trump in this contest. Yeah, I, I would have expected Biden to be at Mar-A-Lago to. That's funny. Wouldn't that be funny if Biden and and Doctor Jill showed up? Yeah, that'd be great. So okay, let's take a break.

We would love for you to call in today. It's Friday. Open lines. And if you have something you have not heard us talk about, something you think is undercovered. Unless it's funding to Ukraine, we will take your calls. 20854210790. Were we not on for that? No, I was just yeah. No. We're on. I forgot that Julie was going somewhere that just minutes ago she told me she was going somewhere.

So I said, that's the first time this has happened in our relationship. Yeah, it's a regular occurrence, quite, quite frankly. So, Yeah. So, Catherine just texted me. I need to go up and give her a report. Really? These are your friends. You can say what you're doing. We walked across the street in the 7:00 hour because Neal was being princess pants about a soda.

And we have diet soda in the fridge. He just doesn't like the kind of diet soda we have in the fridge. So we walked across the street and he got himself a Diet Mountain Dew. So hence the conversation he's going to have right now, because he's drank probably about 30oz of Diet Mountain Dew in the last hour and a half.

Okay, you Upper Valley people, let's have a conversation. I drove highway 20 last night. Part of my church calling is up there at the college. I had a thing to be, for my church calling last night. I never drive that road. I never drive that highway. At that time of night, I left Idaho Falls at about 610.

I was supposed to be there at seven. I pulled up with three minutes to spare. That highway is packed. At that time of night, I I'm. Unless you drive it. I don't think you realize the influx of population and how much that has increased the traffic on that road. It was insane. And I also felt like it's a little bit later at 615, I would have thought maybe a little bit earlier would have been worse, but it was bad.

So if you if there's anybody from the upper Valley that drives that on a regular basis, I'm really sorry. That's a lot, Jeannie. I have almost completely cut diet soda out of my life. It happens. I will have a diet soda if I go out to dinner. That's about it. I'm hoping that I'm extending the life of my kidneys by doing that.

I told them what you were really doing.

You did? That's okay. You tell them you drank 30oz of Diet Mountain Dew. Yeah, I and yeah, it's either, Okay. And I noticed something too, because I looked at Facebook Live. I have, like, paint on my shirt. There's white on it. I was going to try to, like, get it off while I, we were doing. Yeah, I don't know.

And I looked at it, I went that's not coming off. I think it's paint. I don't know how I got paint on it, but if I had seen it this morning when I got dressed in the dark, I probably wouldn't want it thrown it in my, you know, here we go. 923 Newstalk 1079 Neal Larson along with Julie Mason and just hiccups and nobody heard it or just stifled it.

Something like that. So, we have not heard back yet about whether or not our troll wants us to block that or not, so it's entirely up to them. And I'm still not sure he's okay, so. Well, yeah, we'll just watch it there. Someone said, open line Friday. Question. Will Trump do anything about all those new IRS agents Biden was supposed to hire?

I think he will. I okay, if you guys want to have some fun and if you're on ex Ellen and Vivek have started their DDoS account. So the department of what's the G stand for? Government efficiency. Efficiency? Yes. So their Doge account is up and running and it you guys it's a troll account. All they're doing is pushing buttons all over the place.

They'll grab a government report and say all this much money was wasted doing this. Do you guys want us to get rid of this government agency or this? Like they're just trolling and it's multiple tweets a day. So if you're on an account to start following, it's just doge dog so you can get it there. And it's like a cartoon picture of a dog.

And then you can see that it's Elon. Yeah. And Vivek, so to answer the question, why doesn't he sic the Doge department on them, on the IRS agents? I think that's a perfect thing for them to analyze. Yeah, I, I think it is too I think it's well, did you see the job posting to where they said we don't, we don't want people that just have a few ideas.

We're actually looking for people who do this for a living. I don't know if they said highly paid, but they wanted serious cost cutter type people to send them their CV to to. So they're staffing this agency or bureau or departments. I guess it's a department that doesn't even exist yet. Yeah. It's great. It is great.

Well and what I love is they are aiming to get all of this done by July 4th of 2026. That will be America's 250th birthday. And I think that's a I think that's fantastic. I think it's amazing. It's so good in there. Few of the, X's or the tweets that they've put out. They've talked about a they have listed inefficiency in the government that they've already recognized.

It's well into billions and billions and billions of dollars. And that little voice in the back of my head just started talking to me when I read that tweet, which was an all you Democrats complained about $8 billion for the wall. Yeah, knock it off, knock it off. Any complaints? Obviously, about the money. We're not about the money.

Yep. That was just they're just liars. Just liars in so many ways over the last four years. That being just one of them, it's sort of like sometimes we have the dwindling number of Democrats in Idaho that will do the same thing, where if Republicans are about to pass a law that the Democrats don't like, they suddenly worry about how much money government spending.

That's my pearls. Yeah. This voucher program is going to cost this much. Is that the wisest use of taxpayer? Oh, stop it. I don't want to say shut up, but stop it. But all Zielinski has to do is show up and flirt a little bit, and they pull out the checkbook and are like, oh, how much money do you want get?

Oh, yeah, let me write that out. Let me double it. Okay. You cannot be a fair weather. Sunshine. Government cost cutter. All right. Doesn't work either. Have to be worried about it all the time or. Yeah, stop preaching at me. Yeah. So, Yeah, we all. I mean, we have the same thing. They stand up for the Constitution if they think it serves them.

Yeah, yeah. You're right. Two. Oh, I'm surprised nobody's calling in I. What? We've had a couple people want us to talk about roundabouts and I'm like, no, no, I don't want roundabouts. And they said, what about roundabouts in Ukraine? No. 208 did you see that one. Yeah. Somebody said, well you talk about roundabouts in Ukraine. No, I won't.

The one on the east end of Kiev is just ridiculous. It's too little. Those people don't know how to knit. 12085421079 if you'd like to join us on the pro, I'm. I'm shocked we aren't having people call in wanting to trash talk about the the Mike Tyson Jake Paul fight. Yeah, I don't know. People are being quiet today.

Look, this is the this is the show we've needed for a while. Yeah. You just get to just verbally throw up, do your thing. I did play, like the first 45 seconds of the Mitt Romney parody. I might do that again. Okay. All right, let's go. Yeah. You just in the meantime. So. Oh, what were you going to say?

Oh, okay. 2854210. That was a repeat. Yeah. Yeah. That was my voice that went over but taller. Go ahead. How are you today doing fantastic. Hey, you guys have been wondering what to do with the last, 45 seconds or so of your show. I say that that's going to be your parody minute. And that's when you play all of these beautiful parodies.

You come up with. You mean the the roundabouts in Ukraine that that bit. No, no no, no. Your songs. Yeah. He wants to play all of your songs. Oh, yeah. Gotcha. Okay. Yeah. And then also, on a more serious note, I think it was probably, Trump not winning the, the, previous election as, as crappy as it was for the country.

We've learned a lot. He's forced their hand into making very poor decisions. Yeah. And stripping her hand of what they would do. And that's just allowed him to see the depth of the swamp. Get the gauge out, and has enabled them to, find out who's willing to do what's necessary. Yeah. So his loss, I think his actually set him up for more success than that.

3 to 1. The second one back to back. Then he wouldn't have known who to put in those positions, or he would have maybe had some holdovers that would have just continued to muddy the waters. Yeah. That's my my stance on that. I no, I think that's a good take. All right. I think he's totally accurate there.

This is why the Trump this is why the picks are happening the way they are. He's getting out of the the who do you think I should put in this position concept. He's running the show all on Intel in this time. Well I, I would agree with that. And I think he's also sending a message. We are absolutely about getting to the bottom of this now.

And if I were a bureaucrat in Washington, DC, and here's what I think happens in Washington, DC. You have good people, normal people. They take a job in DC because it pays well and there's job security there. But over time, you just morph into this entitled person who thinks that the federal government will come crashing down if you don't have your job, that you work in ten hours a week from home.

Yeah, okay. And Trump and Elon, Vache and all the others are saying we are going to change, we're going to transform. We are going to absolutely revolutionize government back to what it's supposed to be. And I love to see this determination and then playing offense. We'll talk about that again too. So hey, there's really simple ways to to just analyze the way the speed at which the government works.

Right? Yeah. Find a government job and then find a private industry job in construction and see how much faster the private industry gets built. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. If you're anywhere in East Idaho and you've watched a maverick go up recently. Yeah. From start to finish, it's like five and a half weeks. I saw one go up in seven minutes the other day.

I drove past and it was an empty lot, and I came back, stopped, and I got a pair of shoes because I needed new shoes. When I drove back, the Maverick was up and going. It was crazy. Government would have taken seven years. Well, can we just ask the people who built the Mavericks to do the Pancari bridge?

Please be okay. I saw some chatter about that online the other day, and they were talking about, well, when it when it's reopened, traffic is going to flow smoothly. We're going to have hover cars by then and we're not going to need it this morning. I drive that every morning in the dark. Yeah. This morning I drove it and they all of a sudden decided to open up a different lane but close all the others.

I was ill prepared when I came up because all summer long I've had to use the one solo lane. You know how they have Olympic Committees that will announce that the Olympics in 2032 will be in Salt Lake City, or 2030, whatever. I think we need a Pan Bridge Committee that can tell us 17 years in the future, we will have the grand opening of the Pancari Bridge, the grand reopening.

We'll have, like local dancers put on a, you know, a gala. Yes it will. It will be great. One of the high school bands is playing for yes. And Brad Little's great grandson will be the governor, and he'll be there. It's going to be great. Can't tell or jaded or anything. We've had multiple moments that could be promos to that we do.

Hey, let's go back to the phones. Hi caller, how are you today? Hey, I'm doing great. How are you guys? We're doing pretty well. I was really asking Julie how she was. Okay, I'm. I'm doing good. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, you know, with is this government efficiency? I really would like to see, things, you know, things that are, like grants and stuff that are good, you know, not just the waste.

I want to see things, ideas that people have that should be studied. Like, let's just say, what? Divorce, children or other things like that. Because it's not asking for government waste. It's asking for efficiency. And I'd like to see some positive ideas come out, come out of this. And, you know, to actually help our country and, you know, there's a lot of things wrong with our country that we just turned a blind eye to.

And, you know, because it doesn't it doesn't if it doesn't affect us, we don't see it. So I'd like to see some things that are, you know, promoted rather than, you know, demoted. Yeah. Anyway, that's my god. On the, on the government officials you think. And I am really excited. But I'm kind of apprehensive because some of these things, that not just government efficiency, but just all throughout government, you know, they, they look, and then, you know, they just use the same old recipes and it tastes the same.

So almost like Taco Bell, you know, you all the ingredients is the same, but they roll the tortilla different. We call it a different name. Yeah. So anyway, those are just that's just my ideas on it. Anyway, you guys have a great weekend. Thank you. You and I, we know you just mean you want Julia to have a great weekend.

But anyway, I appreciate the call. Oh, we hung up already. Darn it. I think it's fair that he has a little reservation about just continuing down the the wrong path. That's okay. It's. I would say, though, if we were going to have an extended conversation about finding something positive, the problem with that is getting people to agree on what's positive.

Yeah. Because you have this all these bureaucrats in D.C. that think it's positive to have 45 monkeys living in South Carolina and, and one hundreds and thousands of dollars going in grants for them to just see how monkeys live. Yeah, like they think that's a positive thing. And there's probably people listening that go, yeah, that is a really positive thing.

So you got to I don't think that's a big waste of money. Yeah. So it's hard to agree on what's positive. I want to go back to something he said. And I say this with gentle, gentle effect. When he talked about, well, government should be studying really important things like the family and all of that. I would probably say that's not really a role of the government.

That's a role of science and universities and social sociologists. I don't think we should have government agencies that are taxing people and spending money to do that kind of research. It is for the public good, but there is a there is a private sector or at least a non-governmental way to do that. And I think government should be as small as we can make it, but still serves the public good, which is roads and defense and, and those things.

But, you know, I mean, I know colleges and universities get government grants, but but and maybe that's where the role is. I don't think I really want government agencies to do it. And the problem is when you have these agencies that have political power, those studies that quote unquote research inevitably gets politicized because they they produce it in a way that will create an outcome they're seeking.

I saw this just happen. Just I think it was yesterday when I was on ex a new study came out and it was, talking about the positive effects of, of EVs. So electric vehicles, whatever. And it had a spin to it. I don't really care because I don't think I think that that's a bunch of who I is just yet.

They've made up a whole bunch of stuff about EVs. They're convenient, they're nice. They're not for everyone. That's the bottom line about EVs. Yeah, okay. Well, somebody did a deep dive and figured out where the money came from to fund this study. Yeah. Was from Rivian. That's an EV car maker okay. Yeah. Not surprised by that at all.

Yeah not at all. And we need to do stuff in a way that is not compromised. We just need good science and good research. Well, and then Neal and I spent, the we were on, the commercial break. Yeah. At the beginning of the morning, and we were talking about a podcast that I listened to. It was two hours long tourism, 14 minutes or something like that.

It was like sitting in a college class. You know, if you don't think this information is already available, you're not going to the right podcasts. Yeah, that's true. It's out there. Private industry is supplying the information for you. It was an incredibly interesting podcast. No opinion based, nothing. They were talking about how the right brain and left brain function, those are those are things that you can learn about and then implement into your life.

We've just got to be the kind of people that go out and find it. Yeah, because it's there. Yeah. Yes. Absolutely. I think we have a lot of redundancy in the government that we don't need. Okay, one more call before our break. And, caller, you're on, the program this morning. How are you? Good morning, Neal and Julie, it's hoa.

Adam, how are you? Hey, Adam. Good. Good to hear from you. How are things I got? I got to tell you a quick story. Might. I'll be quick. I was walking past my daughter's bathroom this morning, and I heard something going on in there, and I'm like, what the heck is happening? And she was listening to Neal and Julie as she was getting ready for the morning.

So she's sitting right here with me in my truck as we're driving, getting ready to go to Boise. Go, Rigby Trojans as they play off tonight. But she wanted to say hi to Neal and Julie. Okay, I know Leo and Julie. Hello and dad, I just want to say right now you need to double her allowance, whatever it is, and she gets to pick the restaurant you eat at today.

Same. Okay, she gets the restaurant. Did you hear that? Up top. Golf. Oh, crap. Oh. Oh, she's going big. I let this girl take the top golf. I like this girl. Good job. I notice how he just leapfrogged over the allowance. Discussion. Went right for the, well, top golf suspended date. She went back. It's true. Top Tom's golf will be much cheaper than, raising her allowance, I'm sure.

So we'll make it okay. All right. One or the other. Right. Well, so for all you do, we're excited for, for Trump. Seems like how she felt about Trump. She's like, I love Trump. And I said, tell me and Julie, okay, well, thank you Trump. All right Paisley thank you very much you guys. Thank you Adam. All right.

We're going to take a break. 941 on this Friday. We'll be back. The phone lines are jam packed. We'll take more of your calls when we return on Newstalk 109. How about Adam raising him? Right, I know him go. I know, look at him go. That's super cool if you guys want the podcast I was listening to last night.

Super interesting. I'll give a little bit of a warning about the first 5 to 7 minutes is deep textbook, and then they shift into how it affects everybody's lives. So it's get past that first 5 to 7 minutes and it's really awesome. It's the most recent Huberman Lab podcast. So Andrew Hume Irvin, he's from Stanford. And it first off super popular podcast.

And he's a neuroscientist. And he brings on lots of neuroscientists and and experts in fields and it was all about how the right brain develops in utero. So that's how I started the conversation with Neal this morning. Was that it when I was listening to the podcast, it Abortion disgusted me even more because they were talking about how they've learned that babies in the third trimester, their right side of their brain starts to develop and connect to the mother's right side of the brain.

It's like it's fascinating. So to act like these babies don't feel brain or don't or don't feel pain or don't have emotion if they're connecting to their mommies right side of the brain, they are totally filling all of it. Yeah, it's frustrating to me that we act like that. That's not murder, I don't know. Yeah. Anyway, there's a whole bunch more to it than that.

They talk about, how we, function in our everyday relationships. Super interesting. Okay, here's an interesting story. Actress Eva Longoria says she has moved out of dystopian America after Trump's election win. Okay, bye bye. This is like Don lemon. And what's your face? Joy read leaving X okay. It's not an airport. You don't have to announce your departure.

Our room for us. That's fine. We don't have a problem with it. Apparently. Megan Rapinoe went on a an interview. Let's listen to this, okay? I don't know if there's any swear words in this, but we'll pre listen. If not, we can play it on air. And she's saying that she's overwhelmed by Trump's win. Oh this is things an hour long.

I'm not going to get it. I can barely listen to Megan Rapinoe for 22 seconds. I know it's going to be like if this clip is too long, I'm not listening. And it's an hour and two minutes. So she said, no, here's the here's the script. I feel overwhelmed by the reality that is going to be a Trump presidency, which we have seen before.

So I don't feel like I'm saying anything new. But the reality where like, anything crazy could happen any day, she explained what crazy happened before. I think that is really overwhelming. I'm sorry that overwhelmed you, that you had low gas prices. Oh. Poor baby. Yeah. Okay. And then she just went on. It goes on and on and on.

And so, you know what? I think we should have a new policy in America. We whenever they make the I don't want to call it a claim or a threat or a promise depends on how you look at it. Declaration, whatever. If they say they're leaving the country, let's have an official government form that they must abide by to to test their true intent, a contract.

And it's a deportation form. Yeah, that if you're serious about this, we'll make this happen. And if you're going to say I'm moving to Canada or I'm leaving America, present the form to them and see what they do, it's kind of like what I did to our listener. If you're serious about this, we will block you. If you want communication to be cut off.

We never initiate the communication. The the troll always does. If they're serious, then they'll let us block them. Yep, that's Skype with us, not let us. We could anyway, but they'll they'll direct us to block them. Yeah. Have we heard back yet from trolling? So should I, This is so stupid. Like, it's so stupid, but I could up the, up the pressure on it and say, unless we hear otherwise, we will block, you know, leave him alone.

Can you imagine how much he's stewing? Oh, yeah. Can you even imagine? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's do Grand Peaks right here. I'm gonna have something from Grand Peaks this weekend. I got to go through the freezer and see what jumps out at. Everybody wants a little quiet riot in their ear on a Friday. Right as it should be.

I bet you nearly everybody's just banging their head right now, singing with the I love you sign or the devil horns. Whatever, whatever. Whichever one it is. The thumb is tucked, right? Yes. Yeah. And some of them both hands and they're like, okay, I can steer with my knee. I'll do this with both hands. What was that? Oh, no.

Julie looks like she's joined them. Yeah. Peace sign on one side. Some occult thing there. All right. (208) 542-1079. We are going to go right to our next caller. You're on the program this morning. Caller how are you? Good. I want to thank you guys for all you did over the election season to just, help people be informed.

And, it was just so successful. So thank you very much for that. Thank you. I, I wanted to ask a little bit more with regarding Matt Gates. If we are really going to accomplish what the goal is for Trump, you know, when he comes in and says, we gotta clean this up, it's going to get really, really ugly.

And I can't imagine anything worse than that going into that den of vipers in the DOJ. And so I'm wondering what you think about this call of Matt Gay. He's a guy that could do it. I it's going to take that type of a guy to go in and clean it up. And so do you think that Trump you know, he clearly would have had to anticipate the pushback.

Do you think he's already got it planned out to where he can get him passed? I you know, I, I think so I think you have senators saying certain things right now. If anything, what will happen? The Department of Justice will. There's always an acting attorney general if the attorney general gets fired. So there's these interim people that they can.

And Trump might just say, I'll wait until you guys recess, and then I'll put him in and we'll just have an acting AG for a while. And I think that will probably happen. And that might be the middle ground. Some of these senators like murkowski and who's the other one? Collins. John Courtney used to be up to ten GOP senators who said no, at least privately to this.

Yeah. And so they might say, I can't vote for Matt Gates, but I won't stop a recess appointment. And that might be the way Trump gets Matt Gates into this. But I agree with you. I think Matt Gates is kind of a microcosm of Donald Trump, which is you need someone with an absolutely thick skin that will go in and be fearless and do things that a week ago seemed crazy and unconscionable, not illegal, but just untraditional.

And I think that that's Matt Gates. You need you need a disrupter in the Department of Justice right now. And I think Matt Gates fits that bill. Yeah. So on this recess appointment, would you explain how that actually works and how long could that person stay in place? So here's my understanding of it and I'll give the really quick version.

It's in the Constitution that the president can make recess appointments without Senate approval. However, they only last until the end of the current congressional session. So the most any recess appointment could ever last would be two years. And and when the next one comes up, if the president wants that person to continue, then they would have to go through the traditional Senate approval process.

Okay. Well, okay. Given that that would clearly be the way that he would want to do that. Yes. And that would give him the two years to put enough other things in place that, you know, if he couldn't be confirmed that, it would have set everything in motion for cleanup time. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. That's true. It's a window of time.

So Matt Gates would get close to two years depending on when he could. And it kind of depends on when the new Senate would take a recess, which, you know, maybe they I don't know when they do it. It could be August, maybe it's an Easter recess or something like that. So I was listening to a report this morning that Trump can actually call a recess for, for some specific purpose.

I know I would have to do a digger like a deeper dive on that. I that would have to dig a little bit. But that's the weird thing about this is that it would be a way to get Matt Gates in that's not frequently used. So yeah, I, I think instead, if I was to guess, I would say they'll do the threat of a recess appointment.

There will be a lot of pressure on these GOP senators. Yeah. And then they they quietly agree. Okay. Well we'll get him in there by 51 or something like that. And then they go ahead and do the hearing and it actually rolls forward the way it's supposed to. Yeah, I think the recess appointment will be used as a threat.

Right. So where he, resigned from the House immediately. I mean, all this I just have to think that all of this has been well thought through, and the plan is in place to make all these different things happen. And so I just I was thrilled when I heard that. I know he rubs a lot of people wrong, but no one no one grinds these people, you know, grinds the truth out of them like he does.

Yeah. So unless unless there was someone else, do you have any other names that you think could, accomplish what he could? Oh, possibly Jim Jordan, but we need him in the house. So I think, I, I think gates is probably the guy to do it. I can't really think of anybody else who could be as effective unless Trey Gowdy wants to come back to Washington.

Okay. He he's definitely the top guy. I would I wouldn't be surprised to see him involved in some way. Yeah, that one surprised me there. I'd love it would be great. Yeah. Yeah for sure. Well, thanks. Thank you for all you do. Thank you for the call. A couple of things about that. Trey wasn't happy with the Matt Gaetz pick.

Oh really? He wasn't like yeah Trey Gowdy doesn't think it's awesome. The other thing they have already named the who they want as the assistant attorney general. So next in line behind Matt Gates. It's a New York lawyer apparently. Total pitbull. Okay. Man. Yeah. And, the report that I was watching on it was saying he will be amazing as a backup.

Is he the guy that Trump is picking for the DNI? The the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York? I don't know, I'm thinking it might be. It might be sent to him. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. We'll have to look and see. But I didn't hear that he was maybe an AG back up. So, you know what?

Here's the thing. Maybe he gets Matt Gaetz in because the net guy behind him is even scarier. Maybe. Who knows? I don't know. All right. Okay, we have got a caller, but I've got to take a break. Really quick here. We'll come back. Wrap up segment. We'll take the call either on air really fast or on Facebook Live.

So stick with us. Okay. Let's take this call really fast. Hey, caller, you're on with Neal and Julie, but you're not on the air. You're just on Facebook Live right now. We are not going to have a lot of time when we come back. In fact, we aren't going to have any time. But we'd love to take your call anyway.

Oh, they hung up. Oh, man, oh, man. They were on hold for a minute to me on. Yeah. Sometimes I watch the news in the morning and I'm only partly awake still. Yeah. Okay, so I go home yesterday afternoon and I am just tired. I'm exhausted. So I'm like, okay, I'll take a 20 minute net, three hours later, I wake up.

I texted him like, I don't know, we hadn't talked for probably two hours, shot him a text. He didn't answer. I'm like, okay. I went and walked four and a half miles came back. He still hadn't answered. I'm like, is he okay? I shoot him another text, like a half hour goes by and at this point I'm like, he's dead.

Okay, what is going on? Yeah. Anyway, I wake up and then I'm like, okay, my sleep is all screwed up and do all the dinner and evening stuff and everything, and, I'm like, okay, I'll take a melatonin, see if I can get back on track. So at about nine, nine, 930, I take, I usually take half a melatonin one I don't respond well to, but I took half one.

I started reading a book that I'm in the middle of in about 2020. Five minutes later, I'm like, I'm groggy. And I went to bed and had a good night's sleep last night, so must have needed it. I must have, yeah. Is the guy's name Jay Clayton? Does that sound familiar? No, I don't think that was it.

Is that who he's nominating for the Southern District? Yeah, yeah, I don't think that was that. He nominated former SEC Chairman Jay Clayton to be U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. And, says Jay is a highly respected business leader, council and public servant. Received engineering law degrees from University of Pennsylvania. Anyway, goes off. But anyway, he's kind of known as a pit bull kind of guy, too.

So, you know, something interesting G with the left, Jeff. He says, I'm I'm the only one that can hear everyone in Washington singing is clean up time. It's cleanup time for the, They did a wide shot of the Capitol. Aaron. Excuse me, of the white House when Trump was visiting Joe Biden and a whole bunch of Biden staffers came out of their office and watched the photo ops session and everything.

I think that speaks volumes. Yeah, these people are there's it might be a little bit of hatred, but I think there's reverence and respect for what Trump has done. The fact that he's come back, I think so, too. And they know this is history that's going to be remembered a very long time. And you know what? If you've had to work under Joe Biden, dementia, Biden and the nastiness that is Kamala Harris, maybe you're like, this is coming to an end and that's going to be okay.

It's fine. That part you may not like Trump, but that part of it is probably going to be nice for them. Yeah. All right everyone, have a wonderful weekend Julie and I back here tomorrow or Monday.