11.22.2024 -- NLS --Idaho’s Charm: Common Sense, Community, and Controversy

On this episode with Neal and Julie, they dive into the political landscape post-election, offering a retrospective on how issues rather than candidates defined this unique cycle. They explore voter reactions to economic and cultural shifts, speculating on future Congressional dynamics under potential Trump leadership. Neal shares his optimism about changes in public perception, particularly on polarizing topics like education and virtue signaling, suggesting that common sense may prevail over time.

The discussion then shifts to Pam Bondi's appointment as a Trump ally, contrasting her methodical approach with the controversial allure of other political figures, like Matt Gaetz. Julie and Neal also reflect on the experiences of newcomers to East Idaho, noting the warmth of the community and its unique lifestyle compared to urban areas. The conversation highlights the adjustments new residents face, emphasizing the region's charm, friendliness, and its appeal to families seeking a better quality of life.

Listeners are invited to share their experiences and thoughts on Idaho's evolving culture, creating a heartwarming dialogue about what makes East Idaho feel like home. Neal and Julie end on a lighthearted note, discussing movies, musicals, and community quirks, bringing their signature blend of insight and humor to the airwaves.

Transcript

Hello, East Idaho, it's Friday. Here's the number if you'd like to reach the program on the fall River propane column text line. Right now. Just a text line. We will open up the phones a little bit later, because it is Friday, and we love to have listeners drive the bus. As is the custom in this industry, the whole talk radio world typically loosens things up on Friday and, invites no doubt pioneered by the great Rush Limbaugh.

So we strive to do that sometimes the news cycle can be so compelling on a Friday. We don't really have the latitude to do that. However, today is different. We are sort of in the in between. We've had a big election. The results, of course, turned out if you are a Republican, very, very, very favorably and we're all excited about that.

But we're in a window until January when, these changes become official, when Republicans will take the majority, hold the Gavels, run the committees, take over the white House, and get rolling and running on restoring common sense and reality based policies to government and our nation. And I'm looking forward to that very, very, very much, looking forward to it.

But is as being in the B in the B in between can be excuse me, a lot of tough syllables there it means we have a lot of weird stories that are going on. And I look at I still I, I my, my retrospective on the election, I think lasts longer than the average people. I'm still digging into election results to see which precincts voted which way on certain issues or candidates.

And so I think I my level of interest is probably unhealthy and, and probably is is more than what's even relevant as far as the public discussion goes. But having said that, do you realize how consequential November 5th will be in the future? How it will be remembered? The true game changer that Donald Trump is for this country?

I remember back when Barack Obama was elected, of course, that was an historic election for a number of reasons. But I remember how he shifted capitals, statehouses, legislative seats across the nation, unintentionally, of course. But to the Republican side, I think we might see rules get defied here if Donald Trump typically, the conventional wisdom is that the party in power in the white House will lose seats in a midterm.

And so if we were to apply that rule for 2026, then we would probably say, well, the House is going Democrat, and it's very likely that could happen in the Senate, too. I don't know that the typical rules of common sense apply here. I think we may be able to give Donald Trump a longer window than two years of having a Republican majority in Congress.

At least that's my hope. And I might be writing on the the waves of optimism that we, all were recipients of. Not all, but many of us on Election Day. So and already have had, people texting in, just seems to be brighter since the election. It really does. And that's what I've loved. It's there's this sense of optimism that we have not enjoyed for quite some time.

I think we got some of it back when Trump was the president, back in 2016. But it's been a fight because the left fights viciously and passionately. But I think we have broken a number of them. And I don't say that with glee because I, I am not a, schadenfreude kind of guy. Like, I don't, I don't enjoy other people's pain.

But what I do enjoy is the reason for their pain. And if you are fully entrenched in wokeism, reality offends you. Truth offends you, common sense offends you. And so I celebrate the reality, the common sense, the truth. All of those things. I am thrilled that those things were honored by the voters on on Election Day. Now, I think you know what I think we have here.

I believe that we have some people that are conditioned to panic and to think that the next four years are going to be miserable because Donald Trump will be the president and the Republicans will have the majority. But I think there's a certain number of those people that's not in significant that will will change their tune when they see the prices come down, when they sort of kind of get off their virtue signaling high horse and realize, yeah, that is a bad idea to put porn in front of kids in libraries.

And yeah, that is unfair to put boys and men on the court and the field to play against women and girls. Like once they sort of roll back the programing and conditioning that they've had for the last several years, they'll go, oh yeah, this is what common sense in real life is supposed to be like, so I do.

I do very much look forward to that. That being said, we do have a lot of news that we want to get to today. We also have a studio for cover coming up. Olivia Sir, who most recently performed as Annie in Annie, is going to perform tomorrow. Tim, I don't want to ruin the song, but she's going to sing that for us.

Coming up here in about 20 minutes. So she'll be our studio for cover today, and we're very excited about that. We have yet another legal notice that had to be written or read. Excuse me, written by lawyers, read by Sunny Hostin on The View. Oh, note I have a legal note. Matt Gates has long denied all allegations and has not been charged with any crime.

Gates previously dismissed allegations that he paid for sex, saying that, quote, someone is trying to categorize my generosity to ex-girlfriends as something more than a tower. Another legal note, headset's lawyer said he paid the woman in 2023 to head off the threat of a baseless lawsuit. He has denied any wrongdoing, just called the show legal notes. From now on.

Or really long music. We'll be right back. Okay, so the view now is living in trepidation.

Okay, maybe I do have a little bit of schadenfreude in me for them. They these are not happy days at The View. Not at all. And the producers and creators of that show. No, that they have a table. Not all of them, but a number of them are loose cannons. That could be a big legal liability. Now, here's what I will say, because I remember way back in college, one of my classes in my earning my media, degree and political science degree was media law.

And I remember during that course we covered slander and libel and all of those things. And I will say it's nearly impossible for a public person to successfully slew Sue for slander, like if you're the president of the United States or if you're a prominent member of Congress, if you are a public, person, a public if what what is the term the law uses anyway?

If you're a person who's well known to the public, it's very, very difficult to win a slander suit. So my idea of what's happening is that Matt Gates and now they included Pete Hegseth on this. And maybe it's the RNC lawyers. I'm not really sure whose attorneys are contacting The View's attorneys and sending over a statement saying, you better read this on the air, or we are going to sue you.

They would probably be unsuccessful at suing The View because it's almost impossible. As I just stated, it's very difficult. So, they but they don't want the headache and they don't want the hassle. But I almost feel like these lawyers are now just toying with the view. And they know that it's more about humiliating Sunny Hostin into having to read these statements, these words that just eat her up, that she has to say that the investigation went nowhere and didn't continue.

That's information typically people public figure. Thank you very much. I appreciate, my listeners help me find my words very well and I appreciate that. So yeah, I think half of this is just them toying with the view. And I would say rightly, putting them into a situation where they have to humiliate themselves and read these things on the air.

And it's it's really quite, quite beautiful in terms of a tactic. Speaking of Matt Gates, you all have heard by now he's no longer under consideration for attorney general. Yesterday, about a half an hour after we were off the air, we're sitting in the middle of our meeting. We started getting these notifications that Matt Gates had withdrawn his own name for consideration for Attorney General.

And within just a few hours, Trump already had the plan B in place, which was literally be Bondi, Pam, Bondi. And she's going to be fantastic. She is likely to be approved. She is far less, shall I say, complex and baggage ridden than Matt Gates's. Here's what Byron York had to say about the Pam Bondi pitch. Senators, you heard our answer regarding excuse me, that was Pam Bondi.

I'll play that one in just a moment. But here is the Byron York clip. Yeah, clearly Trump is in a hurry. And one thing that the gates nomination promised to be was really slow. It was going to drag its way through Senate, through the Senate, if it could ever even succeed, which probably couldn't. So, Pam Bondi, eight years as the attorney generals of the nation's third largest state, as you said, a big Trump supporter close to Trump's daughter, Laura, her appointment will be a big relief to the Senate Republicans who either opposed gates or were on the fence about gates.

They will be happy to support Pam Bondi. Don't know what Democrats are, what objections Democrats will raise, but unless she's committed a double murder or something we don't know about, she's going to get confirmed pretty easily, I think. Okay. And I think that he is exactly right about that. I think Pam Bondi, there's just not much you can bring up to try and disqualify her.

She's been the attorney general of Florida, big state in the country. She's clearly, from a professional standpoint, qualified to do it. She doesn't have the net. I mean, liberals hate her because she's a conservative, but she doesn't sort of have that negative, extraneous baggage that we have seen with with Matt Gates. I would say this is a good move by Trump.

It sort of takes the wind out of the sails of the the left because as we saw there were even Republicans that were not happy with Matt Gates. And in fact, the the list has been leaked, of which senators, we're going to stand in the way of Matt Gates becoming the ag. Some familiar names Mitch McConnell, Lisa murkowski, Susan Collins.

I also saw some lists that had Mark Wayne Mullen on there, which I've always kind of thought Mark Twain Mullen was a decent guy, but apparently he did not want Matt Gates. And then another one who's not even yet a senator, John Curtis, the senator elect from Utah. Of course, it appears. And we were wondering, we actually speculated about this the other day.

How is he going to compare to Romney? And if this is any indication, he's another Romney. But I don't I don't know that for sure. But here he is, spent some of his political capital opposing Trump before he even has the seat, which is kind of weird. Now, John Curtis has served in the House since 2017, so he's familiar with and knows Matt Gates and so whatever.

All right. That's that's that. And, I'll this is my, this is how I'll frame this, because I know a lot of people were super excited to have Matt Gates as the attorney general. Pam Bondi, he's going to be great at it. She probably won't do it with as many fireworks, and it won't be as spectacular. I think the glitz and the sexiness and the entertainment value of watching Matt Gates got the DOJ would have been super fun.

I think she's going to do the same thing, but probably more methodically, more measured and and focused and all in some ways less controversially. Then then Matt Gates will. So I'm good with Pam Bondi. I've been aware of her for a few years as Florida's always in the news and she's always been great. Here's a little sample of her.

This is a bit of a flashback. She actually served as an adviser to Trump as an attorney during one of the weaponized impeachments of him. And here's her on the the House floor arguing in behalf of Trump senators. You heard our answer regarding that yesterday, but it is very interesting that he said he never spoke to his son about overseas dealings.

His son said different things. Joe Biden was the point man for Ukraine investigating at the time. Ukrainians were a corrupt company. Burisma, and so Chayefsky, its owner oligarch who by all media accounts we've discussed was extremely corrupt. Hunter Biden is paid $83,000 a month, a month to sit on that board with no experience in energy, no experience in the Ukraine, doesn't speak the language.

And we clearly know that he had a very fancy job description. Okay, so she's outlining as part of Trump's defense what Biden's history had been with Burisma and Ukraine. And the other than that, I'm sure there was no corruption in Ukraine. But, you know, so how is the media taking this really quick clip before we go to our break?

This is an MSNBC panel, and I think there's a bit of panic. I mean, it's it's not the same as gates, but they know they can't really stop. Pam Bondi there's not a good reason to vote no on her. So listen, Pam Bondi is exactly what I was saying in the last segment that we should all fear because she's competent.

We may not agree with her ideologically, but she actually knows how to do this job. So if anyone on the Democratic side or anyone who cared about liberty or justice was thinking, well, maybe Matt Gates will screw this up and that'll give us some time. Know Pam Bondi knows what she's doing. She knows what she's doing about immigration.

Remember Florida is one of those states that's been very aggressive about migrants and deportation and moving people to different states and everything else like that. Florida has enacted all sorts of rules and laws to, to curtail students and what they can do on campuses and, and finding legal justifications for manipulating education money. She is a dangerous and effective pick, and that's frankly worse than what we would have got with Matt Gates, even with the deplorable moral background that he has.

That's true in a setting on the deplorable background thing. I'm not that's not what I'm agreeing with. But the overall point is that she may be even more dangerous than Matt Gates, because Democrats won't really have a counter argument against her. They'll try and manufacture something, but there won't really be anything substantive for them to go after her on.

And that makes it tougher for them. I think this guy being I'm clearly he's a liberal, but he's an honest one, and he's recognizing in some ways Pam Bondi makes is more problematic that to the left then Matt Gates was. Guys, it's hard to a poser. All right we've got a break. It's 825 on Newstalk 179. We'll come back short segment and in about ten minutes Olivia sir will join us in studio for studio four covers performing from Annie The Musical.

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And they do deliver all through East Idaho as well. So GP primates.com. We'll be back after this. It's well tomorrow Annie for studio four covers today on Newstalk 179. All right. Can you hear me? Okay. Let me. Okay. And I'll give you a sample of the music.

Hear that? Okay. Yeah. Okay. All right. It's 839 on Newstalk 107. I, Neal Larsen, along with Julie Mason and Julie. We love Fridays around here for a very big reason. So recently in East Idaho, the Idaho Falls Youth Art center just completed their production of Annie. And I think Monday night was your last night of Annie, and we wanted to invite Annie and herself.

Her name is Olivia Cyr. Good morning. Good morning. It's good to have you. So tell us a little bit about your singing background. Olivia. I've been singing for quite a while. I've been seeing since preschool, actually, and I've acted for, like, my whole life, too. And, I feel like I've done most of my shows with Fiac and yeah, that's mostly all the shows I've been in.

Tell us some of those shows you've been in. I've been in frozen like four times or is all in one of that time. I've been all, in, and Lion King and I've also done Shrek. It was a couple. It was in the summer, and I was stingy and I've, I think I've done more, but yeah, those are most of it.

So you're practically a veteran now. Yeah. How old are you? I'm 11 years old. So at 11 years old, she's a veteran. Okay. You're going to be singing, tomorrow from Annie, but you're going to perform this again with the Idaho Falls Idaho Falls Youth Arts Center on January 25th. You guys are doing a presentation then? Yes, it's called Rogers Review, and it's it's like or just a bunch of people singing songs.

I've actually never done it, but he invited me to do it this year, so I'm really excited. Now we're going to sing some of the Annie songs. So yeah. Okay. So you've chosen from Annie to sing probably the most well known, which is tomorrow, right? Okay. All right. Are you ready? Yes. All right. Olivia sir singing from Annie today.

The sun will come out tomorrow. Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun. Just thinking about tomorrow. Clears away the cobwebs and the sorrow. Till there's none. When I'm stuck with our day. That's gray and me I'd stick up my chin and grin and say. Hey, The sun will come out tomorrow. So you gotta hang on till tomorrow.

Come what may. Tomorrow, tomorrow I love ya. Tomorrow. You're always a day away.

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And the sun come out tomorrow. So you gotta hang on till tomorrow. Come with me to morrow. Tomorrow I love ya. Tomorrow. You're always a day. Oh, way tomorrow, tomorrow I love ya. Tomorrow. You're always a day. Yeah. Wait. Olivia. Sir. Wait a belted out. Good job this morning. Thank you. All right. If walk. Is that right? Okay.

Good job. Olivia, thank you for coming in. Thank you. All right. It is now 843 on Newstalk 1079.

847 on Newstalk. 1079 so Julie, do you know when Idaho State University plays Idaho and football? Saturday, 4:00 well, relative to today, oh, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow they play the Vandals. Tomorrow, if you're gonna do a bit like that, maybe include me. Be fine. No, I wanted it to be like, you know, authentic and fresh. That was the whole.

It's okay, it's okay. So did. It was bumbling and weird. Yeah, I know it was a little. The execution didn't pan out quite like we did. Hey, I cut left. You threw right, I did. Yes, yes. Hey, lots of deserved praise in the text for Olivia and her performance today. She did awesome. Yeah, yeah. I'm brave. She's.

I would love to explain Olivia's personality. She's just kind of like, yeah, whatever. Let's do this. Like, it didn't really ruffle her at all. Some people come in, they're like, nervous. And she's like, yeah, let's see after she's been in as many productions as she's been in. So anyway, thanks again to Olivia for joining us this morning. We do it well, almost every Friday.

We won't do on this next Friday because it'll be Thanksgiving weekend. So we're going to we're going to skip it. We've got the next two acts line up too. And it looks like a possibility for the third. So December is shaping up just. Yeah, just wonderfully very, excited. So, do you know when we might hear back on the next one?

I do not know when we might hear back tomorrow. Tomorrow? Check your e-mail. I would need to make sure it happens tomorrow. That. Really? I just wanted an excuse to say tomorrow. Okay. The French fry cartel. Least the alleged French fry cartel, might include JR Simplot and Lamb Weston. This is such a weird story, because I don't think it's on anyone's radars until the Idaho Statesman covers this.

But it does have some shocking details to it, which is that the French fry market or frozen potato, I should say, market in it controls over 97% of it is done by four companies. Yeah, 97%. Yeah, that's a lot. There's two Canadian companies and then there's Simplot and Lamb Weston. Wow. Where's Lamb Weston located? I believe they're in Boise too.

They have plants around the state, but they're there in Boise as well. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Yeah yeah, yeah. So, I don't know. I think we think is it French fry cartel? Is it hash brown? Mafia? Is it like, kind of like hash brown? Ma mafia? Kind of. Right. Yeah. I like that one a little bit better.

Yeah, yeah. I don't know the tater tot something. No, that doesn't have punch. That. Doesn't that sound. No no no no. Yes. Hash brown mafia. Hash brown Mafia is what we're gonna go for. Okay? We don't really. We don't want to slander these companies. We're comically talking things. We hope it's comedy, but we're talking about a lawsuit by a grocery chain out of Pennsylvania.

That they're saying, look, it's understandable that the price of French fries and other frozen potato products went up when inflation and everything else went up because your inputs went up, but your input costs have come back down, but your prices have remained high. Are you just sort of riding the wave of public expectation and charging too much?

And the thing about it is that I'm not sure these profits actually trickle down to the potato farmers out there. I'm not sure they're seeing the windfall of the higher prices. I would doubt that. I think that their market price is just going to stay. It's going to go up and down slightly, but I doubt they're seeing an influx at all.

It's going to be the middle people who are heard delivering these frozen products to. They're the ones who are going to end up with the most money. Yeah. Now, I don't eat a lot of carbs these days. But you know what? I used to really like? Like the hash browns you get at McDonald's? The little, you know,

Bigger than a credit card. But yeah, you know, so crispy. Yeah. Like you throw them in like an air fryer or the and you get them really crisp and then you just smear ketchup on them. And my mouth is watering right now as I speak of it, but I but I do remember those used to be dirt cheap.

Like you could buy a big brick of frozen. It almost seem like it was like a couple of bucks and now they're like double or triple that amount. I'm like, why did those get that that much. How did they raise that high. Yeah. I thought you were gonna say, do you know what I like? And I thought you're going to say funeral potatoes, because if I do funeral potatoes, it's with frozen hash browns.

Yes, I do like funeral potatoes, too. But for some reason, those hash browns came to my yummy my mind. So. Okay, let's go to the the phone lines caller. Welcome to the show. How are you today? Really nice. Great. Evaluation of the Pam Bondi situation. I think she'll be fabulous. And, you know, maybe if gates doesn't get a seat back, he becomes her deputy.

Not much the Dems can say about that. Yeah, if he's a federal employee. One request to request one where she would look into the Jim file stuff that went on between a pack in Boise and getting rid of, Cindy Riegel and teeth on County. Yes. I mean, it's just, I don't know, maybe it's criminal. Lastly, please get a responder over here and inject.

And I'm telling you, western Wyoming is just a news talk. Yeah. Feel there's nothing we I you know what? I I'll ask our general manager. I don't know if there are any translators available, into Jackson in that area. You I hope you do listen on the app, though, when you get the chance. Yeah. I don't do apps.

I don't do any of that stuff. Okay. All right. Well, okay. Great day. Thank you. Thank you for the call. I haven't heard this intrigue about the PAC, and, yeah, I didn't know any of that into Teton County. Okay. Yeah, but it's the Great Depression up in Jackson, Wyoming, so. Yeah. Right. That's that's that's true. So,

Yeah, we'll have to look into that. I don't know anything about Cindy Riegel. Yeah, I don't I don't know either. You know what, though? We had, well, admit this to Tonya Burgoyne yesterday. The Trump race and proposition one took up so much oxygen that we I mean, we were aware of some of these other races going on, but this is this was such a unique election cycle, in that issues were more prominent than candidates were other than Trump, you know, but that is sort of an issue.

You know, that was the big national thing anyway. So it, yeah, we but I'd like to learn more about I will tell you just this is a 30,000ft view. I don't know which pac out of Boise targeted her in Teton County, so I can't really speak specifically to that. But I will tell you what I did see in the proposition one fight was embarrassing.

The lying, the amount of just lying, the only word there is for I'm trying to come up with another word. Millions of words in the language is lying that there is not a better word for it. That's all they did. And it's been interesting because Bruce Newcomb is M.I.A. Butch Otter M.I.A. I haven't heard anything from Jim Jones since the election.

Maybe he's written one of his newspaper trippy columns. But he they have not said much. You had that really humble interview or humiliated interview that Luke Melville did with Brian Holmes of Ktvb, sitting on a picnic table in downtown Boise. Yeah, I was thinking about that later. Can I page you for just a second? Yeah. Do you think he insisted upon that being where the interview was conducted to sort of fit his folksy?

Yes. I drive around in an RV, I sit at picnic tables. It could be, I think, that that was planned and staged that way. Yeah, because as an interviewer, that's not the easiest thing to do. Now you've got the wind, noise and cars driving by, and you have the ability to hold interviews in lots of different places and you're sitting at a picnic table.

Was there was there also the sense that we're buddies sitting at this table? I think there was probably a little bit of that as well. Like there should be a bit of a wall of being unbiased if you're an interviewer. You know, a lot of times you're in a, you're in a setting where it's more sterile or whatever.

This one felt like, okay, we're going to be two buddies and go cry in our beer and we'll do a media interview about. And they both had coats on it. Yeah, it's a weird time of year to be out, to be out sitting at a table. Yeah, I don't know. I, I'm probably reading too much into it, but I feel like because it's such a lying operation.

Yes, I agree, everything has suspicion to me. It does to me too. And I think that you're smart, fresh to admit we're kind of jaded. We they they lie. The half truths that they tried to tell. I I'll say this and I don't know if I making a prediction or not, but I won't be surprised if Luke Melville closes up his shop because he became the issue.

Reclaim Idaho became the issue. And now anything they try to do, or that they put their fingerprints on, America's going to go, all right, the Idahoans are just going to go, not interested. It's definitely tainted. It's going to take him a minute to scrub their yeah, yeah. Their image. If they do keep the doors open that I got E coli from that gas station.

Sushi. I'm not going back to that gas station. E coli, is that right? Sure. Okay, sure. Well, I almost said Ebola, but I don't know if you get Ebola for that. But what happened for I knew it started with an E. Why are my eyeballs bleeding? Gas station sushi. It's like, why are my cells turning to mush? Why am I seeping everywhere?

Gas station sushi. All right, that's our one. It's 858. We'd love to hear from you on the fall River propane. Call and text line (208) 542-1079. Back after the news about what our favorite school lunch was like when they went, announced with the school's, lunches, having, what was your favorite one? And I think mine was pizza. Mine was the little rolled up and they were little.

They were maybe like that round enchiladas with the red sauce. Yeah. So put in the comments. What was your favorite school lunch growing up?

907 on a Friday. You know what we ought to do. Julie, I just had a thought. You know what we should do? We should have, because we were talking during the break about having a first time caller our. How about we do this? And, of course, you can always veto me if you feel like it's a bad idea.

You can only call if you've moved to Idaho here in the last five years. And you got to tell us how how well you like it. Okay. So and I mean, five years, I don't know if you consider, five years a newcomer, but maybe, you know, we could we could just, I want to know what what newcomers to Idaho are feeling like.

So I say, give it a shot. Let's see how many we got. I want to call in. Okay. All right, so that's the rule today. If you've lived here longer than five years, too bad. Don't call. We don't want to hear from you. Your opinion doesn't matter anymore. Julie loves it when I present stuff like this. Like, like, deliberately.

These are our friends. And you're talking to them like that. Let's not do that. But you know what? They're good enough friends. They'll take it. And they know I'm kidding. So. But if you have moved here in the last five years, California, Washington, wherever we we don't care. We want to know how you've acclimated to to Idaho and politically, climate wise, culturally, whatever and how you like it so far.

So I don't even love to know, religious wise, how it's worked out for you, because there's a lot of there's a dominant religion in East Idaho. Yes, yes. Well, that's true too. And those those Jewish people are taken over. Yes. Right. 208542 179 is the number, if you'd like to, to join us on the program. And it's a that I five years.

I feel like that's too long to say newcomer but you know what I'm saying. Yeah. So we do want to we do want to hear from you and, very, very, I mean, it's very friendly. I feel like Julie sometimes, especially within Republican circles, there's a little bit of anti outsider ism, like, don't call a fornicate, Idaho.

We've been pleasantly surprised that a lot of these Californians coming in are actually more conservative than the average people here. Yeah, that's that's at least been our experience. Yes. And so I think we probably had to drop that California Kate thing. Yeah. I'm well, here's the thing. We want the Californians. We don't want California ism. Yes. Here in Idaho.

So all right, let's go to the phones. 28542 117. Hi, caller. How are you today? I'm good guys. How are you this morning? Good. Doing well. Excellent, excellent. So I moved here about two and a half years ago for work. From California. I consider myself a political refugee. Yeah. And I absolutely love it here. You couldn't pay me enough to go back.

I could visit family and that's about as far as it goes. Okay. How do they perceive your move to Idaho. Are they all supportive of this. Oh actually my my immediate family was like, we'll see you soon. Okay. I they are they are hopefully coming up here sooner than later. But I managed to I was unmarried at the time and work wasn't working out down there.

So I came up here and it's just been. I have no complaints. I love the weather. I love the people. I love my job, I love everything. Well, good. We're glad you're here. Good. Thank you, thank you. I wanted to make this place a little more red. Not going to lie here. Well, we are. We're very glad you're here.

When you got here, say, in the first six months or so, was there anything that stuck out to you as you didn't expect something to happen? Like what? What was unexpected about your move here? I knew people up here were going to be more friendly and talkative, but not that friendly, intelligent, and I like I find that to be a good thing.

I'm a big extrovert myself. I love a people person. So when you know you just talk to somebody in the grocery store, just strike up a conversation that either gets you weird looks or arrested a mile place. So yeah, okay, well, yeah, we. Well. Thank you. You, you could voice a commercial promoting Idaho. It's great. That's awesome.

We're glad you're positive. So you got my number. Feel free to call me. Okay. All right. Sounds good. Till 85421278 on one of my summer girl trips with my friends from high school. I obviously live here. I have a friend that lives in Boise, I and our friend from Utah, and then a couple of other friends.

Friends were with us and we were hiking, and the Boise friend and me are saying hi to everybody. We pass on the hike from. Right. You know, just making conversation after we had probably talked about maybe a half a dozen to a dozen people, the Utah friend went, what is wrong with you guys? Do you have to talk to everybody?

And we're like, yeah, that's what we do in Idaho. It's kind of weird. I think. I remember years ago I went with a friend, common friend to Washington, D.C., and I remember we had one of the interns from one of the Senate offices who was kind of escorting us around, and we were riding the train underneath the Senate buildings.

And and he just he almost got giddy. And we're, you know, we're like, he's like, I forgot how friendly people are back home. Like, it's nice to have that because you spend some time back east or in a really urban area, and everybody's just kind of in their zone and they don't really engage, and there's not a lot of warmth there.

And of course, you know, there's a couple farm boys. Right. And and he it was just like this really refreshing, unexpected thing for him. And it was like, oh that's good. We are it's a good thing. Yeah. All right. 208542 179. We're friendly to the newcomers. If you're a long timer we don't wanna hear from you today.

You know I don't want to change that about us either. Yeah I don't either. Yeah. You're just ignoring my insults now. I'm hoping they're not hearing them. They're like. They're fine calling it. They know I love them. They know it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. So when I let them call back on Monday. You guys you know he's going to be alone a couple of days next week.

You can take it out on him when I'm not here. That is true. You can let me have it because Julie's heading. By the way, you're headed for Thanksgiving to Arizona. Arizona? Thanksgiving? And I'll be gone on Tuesday and Wednesday. I might pop in and call you on Tuesday, though. I'll be driving, so I have that option.

Yeah, that'd be great. I might take your call. Yeah, but, John, for a minute, and then he'll say, no, you, darling, you've only lived. You've lived in Idaho Falls longer than five years. Not answering that call. Not true. (208) 542-1079 someone said, can I put my five year old on the phone? Well, sure. No problem.

I guess they're kind of newcomers. They are newcomers to to life. And, someone said, as a retired senior widow, I moved here four years ago from California to be closer to my family. I love Idaho living. It's like going from kindergarten to graduating from high school. I'm very conservative and I'm living a quiet, peaceful life that suits me to 80.

Good for so glad you're here. Yes. Yeah. Look, if we don't get a ton of calls from the newcomers, I'll. I'll relax the rules, okay? Because I do love our audience. There we go.

Do you. Do you see how I employ the the mother tactics with Neal? If I just if I give him the look and like he'll reform his ways. Yeah. They don't need to scold. How many times, Julie, have we been out at an event or doing something? And people will come up and, and we have this conversation like it's become this pattern.

People who've moved here recently say three, 4 or 5 years and they are just like that caller saying, I feel like I've arrived where I need to be. I think that in East Idaho we've had some amazing transplants. I don't have complaints at all. And when people mention California Kate, I think they might be filling it a little bit more in, in especially urban Boise.

Yeah, maybe not Mauritanians as much, but downtown area Boise, I think they're probably filling it. They're a little bit more, but on a whole, the people who come up and talk to us, one of my favorite things that they say is I stumbled upon you guys after I'd been here about seven months. And I've listened every day since because they're yearning for a voice.

Yes, because they came from someplace where there was no one representing them. Yeah, yeah it is. And so I have you ever been and I know the answer to this is yes, but you you're in a situation that is so regularly oppressive that you've lost sight of how oppressive it is. And then when you get out of it, you're like, oh my goodness.

I did not realize everything that had been weighing on me. All the things, all the pressures, all the worries, all the threats. And then you you get out of that and you're able to breathe. It's a release. Like it's just this sudden relief. It's like taking your work boots off at the end of a long workday, and you're just like, wow, I didn't even realize how bad it was.

You know, the weird thing my kids do with that when they come back up from, I had a daughter who lived in California. I had a I have two kids living in Arizona. They think the air here is the highest quality oxygen you can ever get, right? There we go. Oh my gosh, I can breathe. It smells so good.

It is clean. It is because they're they're both in metro areas and they the smog. Yeah they're they were used to growing up in a place where the air is actually clean. Yeah. Yeah. That's true. Someone said the downfall, even if they're conservative, they're causing us so much traffic, which is going to happen. Growth is going to bring that upon.

I think I feel like that's a thing that we it's just how it is. But you know what? Even if they weren't moving here, our birth rates were going to cause that anyway. So it's inevitable it might have been happened a little later, but dang Mormons, it's a problem. Come in no matter what. Let's go back to the phones.

Caller, how are you today? Yeah, I'm just calling in about, moving here from somewhere else, and. Yeah, we moved here a few years ago from Southern California. I was transferred here from. My job is the U.P.S. driver. The negative is, as a U.P.S. driver, I got to drive in the snow all the way out to Mackey every day.

Gotcha. Yeah, yeah, that that would get a little tricky. Yeah. The positives are everything. Southern California was just a melting pot of, trouble. And, this sort of the move here, like you say, you can breathe now. It's like, less like having Trump is got, you know, elected official. It's like I can breathe now.

I feel so good. But, the people are awesome here. They're really nice. I can actually do things. Yeah. Out here, like in California. If you wanted to go somewhere, it would take you 45 minutes to go, like 3 or 4 miles. So, Yeah, I would hate that for sure. Well, we're glad you're here, and we're glad you enjoy it.

That's great. And be safe on those roads this winter. Yeah, yes, I will, and thanks for, your show, because I listen to it every day, so. Oh, well. Thank you. We we love hearing that. You take care. (208) 542-1278. I forgot to tell you this. I it was hair day yesterday, so I was in a salon with other women, and somebody was talking to me, and they they knew I was on the radio and they said, yeah, the other morning, I, I had to get up and move my husband's truck.

And I started the truck and all of a sudden talk radio was blaring at me. And I was like, I know that voice. And it was me and you. Nice like that. In fact, I wanted to start an effort to have people secretly change other people's radios to their station. They can't quite figure out how to execute it.

The groundswell. How do we make the groundswell? I feel like I could go to a car dealer and say, I just want to test drive every car on the line, and I wouldn't even drive it. I just go change the radio's preprogramed get out. Go to the next one. Preprogramed. Absolutely. All right, let's go to our next caller.

Hi, caller. How are you? Good. How are you today a good good come on. Your line. I wasn't sure if I was standing here or if it was actually on the line, I wasn't sure. No, you're on. So okay, I'm going to go back a ways. I grew up in Los Angeles County, a little place called Lynwood, and it was a good town.

But it's part of Los Angeles. Of course. Yeah. And then I was sent on a mission. I came up to Montana, spent a year there, and then I ended in Blackfoot, Idaho. I served five months in Blackwood as a missionary. Okay. And, and I finished up and all that came back to Utah. I went to BYU, met my wife, got married, and later on things went south.

And I ended up in Rexburg with a job up there. And then I came down into Blackfoot, where I served my mission, and that was my place of choice, that Blackfoot. I couldn't hardly wait to get back there. Old friends in Blackfoot. So we spent 30 years in Blackfoot raising our family, and I wouldn't have traded for anywhere else.

It was the best place I could have thought to grow up or bring my kids up. And so that's a that's a testament to Southeast Idaho. Yeah. It was, a great experience. And, you know, why would anybody want to grow up in Los Angeles if they had the choice to go to Blackfoot, Idaho? You know?

Yes. Right. Not not in disagreement at all. It's good to hear your voice. Good. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much, Neal. All right. Good topic. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. 285421279. You know what I love about Carl's experience is that he had a taste of several different places. Sometimes you meet people who are born, raised, and I know that I don't want to be anywhere else.

And you can look at them and go, but you don't even know anywhere else. You don't know what it's like. Yeah, but somebody like Carl, who's been all over the place. Yeah. Knows that. Oh, how wonderful it is. La Montana to Rexburg to black. Yeah. Yeah. And that's a that's a good point. I do have a sense and maybe we're just sort of being self-congratulatory here.

But I will say there's almost a sense of people who move here from out of the area. They get here. It starts to feel like home pretty quickly, like that warmth and familiarity and it's a place that's friendly and it's good to raise your family here. The cost of living is reasonable. Still, it's all those things and you're like, yeah, this is home now.

And I like that. Yeah, well, I don't know if you caught this in our meeting yesterday, but we have a man from, California. His name is Shane, and he's been helping us with this, technology transition that we've been doing here. Yeah, that he's wickedly smart. Yeah. Like, so super good. He is going to be here for the week of Thanksgiving.

And one of our coworkers is having him over for Thanksgiving dinner. And I thought, how sweet is that? And then I, in my church service position up at BYU Idaho, we've been asking all the kids to have some place to eat. You have some place to eat. What are you doing for Thanksgiving so that we can make sure that they have some, like people have just scooped them up.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm eating at someone's house. House here. Yeah. So they ate. Everybody's got good people. Yeah, yeah that's great. 924 on Newstalk 179. We'll break away and be back after this. Did you see the text? No. A guy says, I work at a car dealership and I actually set radios to your station. Yes.

Oh. Thank you. We should tell Nina. Thank you. She said I listen to your radio show daily and I've learned so much about Idaho as well as politics from your show. Learned about stand up for Idaho and go to it weekly and have gained even more knowledge about issues in Idaho living. I keep in touch with my Idaho Senators and Representatives.

Loved your help on voting on no on prop one. You and Julie are amazing and I love your show. Yeah, that's very sweet. They're talking about the taste of the water in Idaho compared to other places. I don't mind Utah water. I can drink the Utah water. I my daughter has lived in for one, two, three, four different houses in Utah.

I'm fine with the Utah water. That Arizona water you guys. It is so bad. Oh really? Do they have to treat it so much? My kids all filter their water. It is so gross. And I have like, you know, the, hippie juice that Neal makes fun of me with that is cinnamon. It's pretty strong. It takes away the taste of whatever's in water.

Even sometimes when I make it, mix it with the hot tap water in, Arizona. Yeah. I can still taste the water. It's really, really bad. Yikes. Yeah. Like a. Yeah. Whenever I travel, they stay at a hotel in a bigger like. It's like. Well, I think we do kind of take our water for granted here, because I will say this too.

Like, grew up out of Springfield and Snake River aquifer, we had a great well we had. And people who would come and and stay with us, you know family that they were shocked at how good our water tasted out there. Like it just was it I mean, it wasn't treated with anything. It didn't have any chlorine in it.

It wasn't fluoridated. It was in. So it was just straight out of the ground. And it was just so good. I felt like, at my daughter's California home, that water was better than the Arizona water. Oh, okay. Which is weird, but it was. It is like it. Yeah. Someone else said, Neal, when I'd tell a car now, I will preset all of their radio stations to 117 just for you.

Thank you. That's so awesome. And then put a little dab of superglue on the, on the dial so it can't be moved at all. Okay.

928 on Newstalk 179 okay. So far Julie, we've heard from a car dealership employee who sets all the car radios to Newstalk 117. We now have someone who details cars and they said, now I will preset all of their radio stations to 179 just for you. See, your groundswell is starting. I know this is the beginning of a movement.

If you're at a grocery store, I want you to sneak into every car that's unlocked and change their radios to one of seven. Is that bad advice? Right? Yeah. We're going to have people at church on Sunday going out during their their Sunday meeting and opening car doors, switching into Newstalk 1:07 a.m. like our station will be the zucchini.

You know how people, throw a big pile of zucchini and open cars? Yeah, it will be, just change the station on A78. I love it when people give me zucchini because I don't grow garden, right? Yeah, I don't like I don't like a big pile of it all on the backseat, but I. Yeah, we always take a couple of zucchini either available.

All right, let's go back to the phones. (208) 542-1079. Hi, caller. How are you today? I'm doing very well. Is this the, Julia Neal show? Yeah. Yes, you've reached it, and you get an extra long time to talk to. I just I love you guys. You, play off of each other very well. Oh. Thank you. My wife and I, my wife and I moved here two and a half years ago from the state of Washington.

We did not leave the state of Washington. The state of Washington left us. It just went really crazy. Well, yeah. But we love it here. My wife after, I feel like three months here, she fell in love with the place when we first looked it over. We were looking for a place to live. We got a daughter and Sheridan.

We looked and Sheridan looked in Cheyenne. Probably Cheyenne is, the wind. The average wind speed is 25 miles an hour. Last year, one day, the wind blowing in the people from all over. Well, We love how the wind and the wind blows here, too. Yeah. We love it here. My wife said I wish we moved here years ago.

However, I had a good job and a it wouldn't allow me to live here, but, Yeah. We love it. I love the winters. I mean, even even though they're hard and for most long, I wouldn't live anyplace else. We've lived in Oregon, Washington, Utah. When we went to school. I wouldn't live in Utah again.

I've had enough of that. But, eastern Idaho is one of the people are great. I do, I'm retired and I do DoorDash, and I've got friends all over this town from places I DoorDash. They know me very well. Yeah, cause I'm a, I'm a I'm a chatty Cathy and very friendly. So. Yeah. Well, good. You fit right in.

That's great. Yeah. We love it. Yeah, well, we're not going to leave. We're going to stay here. We're trying to consider we're trying to get our kids to consider moving here from the state of Washington. One is, the associate principal of school middle school in Portland. She's done that for, a year or two. And then our son has a job where he home offices.

So he can he can live anywhere, move him. Yeah. And and we got to convince her. Right. Gotcha. Which is kind of hard. She's got a she's got a plan for herself, and she's doing very well right now. They've got she's a Hispanic and fluent, both English and Spanish. Obviously. And they've got four schools here in town that are Spanish immersion.

I think she would do very well here. But yeah. Yeah. We just we just got to convince them. Well, well good luck you guys. Yeah, yeah. Maybe I can get preset their radios to 179, but I don't know if it would work over there or not. Yeah, well, download the app on their phones so they have it. Oh that's good.

Yeah. I've got the app on my phone, so. Yeah. Do that. That's cool. Well, we're glad you're here. And, and good luck getting your kids here. We appreciate your call today. 208542 107. Let's go to our next caller. Good morning. Morning. How are you? Good, good. So I just moved out of Idaho for a to Florida. To Florida?

Yeah. Okay. And, but I will say we love and Miss Idaho already. We've only been gone for about four months. Okay, it was purely just the weather. The last couple of winters really, took its toll, but, we miss it. Our our taxes here in Idaho are about 600% more than they were, than they were in in Idaho anyhow.

So that's probably the biggest downside to Florida. We noticed. But miss the people. Miss, awesomeness. And I still listen to your station every day. I was yeah, yeah, I was just going to say you took some of Idaho with you. If you're still listening and calling in today, I think that's great. Exactly. I'll always be an Idaho boy just now.

We're in flipflops all the time. Yeah. It'll be. We'll have a little bit of FOMO about that. Yeah, I, I will say there are there are worse states to move to than Florida. Yeah. You can get a good one. Yeah. Exactly. So. Well, thank you for the call. We're glad. We're not happy you miss us, but we're glad you Mrs..

So. Yeah. Let me read a text really quick. This person said I drove truck long haul for 42 years all over the country. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else except southeast Idaho. I have been in 49 of the 50 states and seven Canadian provinces in that truck. Oh, wow. Wow. That's a testament, right? Yep. Next caller, welcome to the show.

Good morning. Good morning. Neal. Julie, it's just me. Yeah, it is. You go ahead. Okay. We've been here. My. I moved, two of my kids and my wife here three years ago, December 31st, during Winchester and Frida. We came from the West coast, Washington. And when people back there ask me, oh, I like Idaho. I tell them I'm going to be buried here.

So that pretty much says it all the people here are beautiful. We live in Rexburg, and, I can't see living anywhere else. Yeah. Well, good. Good. We we're glad you are. The were the winters a little. Did they hit you in the face like living here in Rexburg? No. It was, an adjustment for my wife.

I remember, two years ago in February. She's looking through the blinds. It's still snowing, and, Yeah, she wasn't used to it. I spent, nine years in Alaska and a bunch of years in Colorado, so I was really used to it. We definitely have four seasons here, and they only have one in the Seattle area, but they do have 47 different names for rain.

That's true. And genders. So yeah. Right. Great. Thank you. And my son loves it. We love the weather. We love the outdoors here. And the people are great. There's no fill through the city. And then we live in Rexburg and, you know, homelessness and hard work and good people. Always a smile on their face. We love it here.

Okay. Well thank you. That's great. Okay. See this is the experience we've had. It is everything is just back now. People are probably going to be reluctant to call up and say, I can't stand it here or worse. Yeah, because they're reading the room. But but at the same time, I think overall it's it's been a pretty positive experience for people.

I would say, what is the thing that people complain the most about an East Idaho? I think it's traffic. I really do, because it's just so much different than it was. Yeah, even ten years ago. You mean our homegrown people? Yes. Yes. Yeah. And and if you are from anywhere else, you realize the traffic is really not that bad.

Yeah. It's just worse than it used to be. It's just worse than it used to be. But a it's a really awesome, I should be gratitude filled conversation that I only commute ten minutes every day for work. You know, there's people that commute an hour and a half. So, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's all relative. Yes it is. Someone said eight kids left Idaho for jobs or marriage.

And then in parentheses they put poor parenting. All right, we'll be back. We'll continue after this. If you'd like to join us on the fall River propane calling text line the number (208) 542-1279. Okay. Hi. What, The only thing about living in any in East Idaho, though. The only bad thing about living in East Idaho is my ex-wife and her adulterer.

They won't move somewhere else. Oh, geez. That's harsh. That's hilarious. We're not saying that on the air. I might say that Glade when I said the people complain about the traffic, he thought I was going to say the worst is the one Jay drivers this morning. I actually don't think that when Jay drivers are just mad as they used to be, I feel like as the area's grown, that element has softened a little bit.

Yeah.

What is the yellow one? Yellow county that there? I don't know which county that is. If you look at it, that's power. That's power County okay. Yeah. And what what is the context. Yeah. Why is Power County oh saying okay. It says sanctuary regions states or counties with laws, regulations or policies shielding criminals from. Right. That is not true.

I don't believe that's true. I think we would have probably had a pretty extensive conversation about that if that was true. Yeah. Has it shifted Tiffany. You know oh go ahead. Remember this was the controversy we interviewed Sheriff Hulse about. And it was they're not oh, they're not sanctuary counties or cities. It's not it's not true. Yeah.

Tiffany says one B drivers are usually the bad drivers that she encounters. And then she said, sorry, Pocatello. I really think when these are bad, you would have more experience with that than I would I don't I mean I've lived in one B and eight B and four B, I lived in to be or not to be.

It. There was a question there. No. I, sorry. No, I don't think they're I don't think they're terrible. I don't I mean, yeah, I wouldn't say they're exceptional drivers, but I don't think they're okay. You ready for a good laugh? Yeah. Lisa said she went through a roundabout in Mesquite the other day. There was a stopped car at the roundabout.

It had A1J license plate. No, seriously. Did you get a picture, Lisa? Because that would be gold. Oh, you know what though, I've done like I've been in other parts of the state and you encounter a bad driver and sure enough there's a place like it's, there's a, I don't know what it is but there's a deserved.

My daughter and her husband just recently this year moved to Jefferson County. But they're not they're not getting they're not going to get one day. They're not going to get their license plates. Did you make it? Yeah. Like, what did you miss with yesterday? Some wrapper of yours, package, like, I think your granola bar wrapper, the protein bar.

I haven't eaten that, by the way. I took two bites of sitting over there. She probably finished that. Yeah. Are you all getting excited for Thanksgiving? I'm getting a little excited for things.

Oh, that is a sweet, sweet text that came in. Yeah. Five. Seven. Two five. It's long. Oh, that's the spouse to the right. Yes. Yeah. That's a very she they've had a great experience that makes me happy. I want people to treat others like that. That makes me so happy. Yeah. Oh another person moved here from Illinois in 2020.

And how much they love it, Well, you know, the best move ever made. Even though it was extremely scary, we had never lived anywhere else prior to this. Very scary for us. But once we had gotten here, we wish we'd been here a lot sooner so we could have enjoyed the smaller town atmosphere. It's actually getting too big for me now, so I'm looking for somewhere else in Idaho to move already.

You know what I will say? We are kind of reaching this tipping point in East Idaho where it it's not feeling as rural as it used to and like it's a there's starting to get some big city elements to it.

942 on a Friday on Newstalk 179, Neal Larson, Julie Mason and you can reach us on the fall River propane call and text line (208) 542-1079. Okay, I will relinquish the hold on the call restrictions. Anybody can call. And you know what? I'm even being generous and benevolent today. Even if you've already called this week, you can have a second call today.

It's just it's like I'm. I'm just we're being very, very, irresponsible today. So there you go. (208) 542-1078 we still want to hear from people who've moved here recently, though. We've got some very sweet texts from people who have had wonderful experiences in moving to East Idaho. And that that makes my heart warm because that's how I want us to be with each other.

Yes. Yeah, I yeah, it is it. I think it's just, it's a testament to the way of life that we want to maintain. And you worry because we were just talking during the commercial break about how it feels like this region is at a tipping point where some of the issues that we're starting to face are starting to feel more urban, some of the crimes feel more urban.

We're seeing, I think, more graffiti. We're seeing some you know, we're we're we're seeing traffic issues and congestion that we've never seen before here. So it is changing. I don't I don't I don't think it's reasonable to say we can't let that change. You're going to have more traffic and with more people you're going to have these kinds of crimes and, and and more of it.

But I hope we can maintain the friendliness and the warmth and the welcome ness that we. Yeah, we try to have. So, yes, I hope so too. Yeah. Okay. Go ahead. I was going to say I, but I don't know if I want to ask this question because I feel like we've had such a good positive hour.

So maybe, maybe go your direction. Okay. Gotcha. We have more calls. So okay, let's do that. All right. Let's go to the phones. Hi, caller. How are you today? Hi. I am thinking that what just happened is as significant as the American Revolution in our history. Potentially the. They broke free. The colonists broke free from the iron grip of England, you know, to establish freedom.

And the iron grip of the DC administrative state has actually been much more destructive, more significant on the lives of the people than England has been. But just like the revolution wasn't enough, it didn't establish a country. It only got us free from England. It was the Constitution that then was put was ratified that made the difference. Well, what what this will do is it only has a potential.

It'll achieve that potential only if we follow through and break down that administrative state like Trump has promised to do. And I think that even if he is assassinated at this point, the movement is started as much bigger. He's just the face of the movement now. I think it would continue in his absence if we continue to push for it and fight for it, and it could be as big of a turnaround for this country as the American Revolution was a first time around.

This isn't the second American Revolution. It's an interesting and provocative point that you make here, but I do think it's sort of. And thank you for the call. I appreciate that we have other calls lined up here, but I do want to say, I feel like we were talking about this in a different context with leaving California, where they have high taxes and regulation.

And you you don't realize how oppressive it is until you're out of it. And I think, are we going to see the same dynamic as we dismantle Wokeism and we look back and we think about how afraid we were to post things on social media, or maybe say something at the office or whatever. We had to worry about pronouns.

We had to worry about, gender, any kind of gendered language like it was. It's wrong to say brother and sister. Like, that's the level of policing that these cultural old enforcers were trying to inflict on us. And there's sort of this internal that was bull crap. Yeah, we we never had to live that way. We let them gain enough of a cultural advantage that that they instilled fear in a lot of the population.

And I think like the last caller just said, this can be a revolution. And we need to come out of this saying never. We won't ever go back to that. You will never, at least in our lifetimes, ever have that much control over people's thoughts, over people's language. So you know how we always say that there's a binder?

And we felt like there was potential with Covid that it was a binder that they pulled off the shelf and they implemented in order to change the direction of 2020. Yes. I feel pretty certain that that's exactly what happened. And, one of their miscalculations with that is that when you gained the control you did, which they did gain control.

It was going to go away because you chose a weapon that was going to it was going to diminish itself. Yeah. It wasn't an enduring weapon. Covid 19 couldn't go on indefinitely. Yeah. It had to come to an end. That was probably their biggest misstep in all of it because they did accomplish that. The concept of gaining control of people.

Yeah, they had people fearful. They had people severing family relationships. We've heard of stories of people staying in their homes months at a time and not leaving. I had a daughter on a church mission who wasn't allowed to leave her apartment for 19 weeks. Like that is a massive amount of control that they gained. Yeah. But their big misstep is that Covid 19 was going to sunset.

Yeah. And it did. And people saw what had happened to them. Yeah. And now we're to the place where the phone call is talking. Yes. And and I think we woke up to this but but we woke up to that. But we woke we also woke up to that layer of control that just the culture was trying to put on us.

This, this level of wokeism. And it just, it feels like the dawning of a new age. And I think it can be a good one. I'm not going to say it. It is going to happen. It's only going to happen if we continue, if we hit the gas, like you like to say, and make it happen. Yeah. All right.

Next caller, welcome to the show. Good morning. How are you two doing today? I'm doing pretty well. Great, great. Hey, just wanted to thank you for your program. And I definitely welcome the many new people that we've had, move into our state. They bring a lot of things with them, and there's some things you need to change.

But, please be especially considerate of your former neighbors from Oregon when they come to ask, how do I put gas in my snowblower?

They just don't know how those gas tanks work. Yes. Yeah. You two have a great one. And thank you again. All right. Thank you for the call. (208) 542-1278. Do you want me to read a long text? It's actually really awesome. Okay. Says good morning, Neal and Julie. This may be a little long, but I hope you read it to your audience because I'm too shy to call in.

I moved here two years ago from Seattle, and there are so many reasons why I have developed a deep appreciation for this state, such as people have been so friendly here from asking me if I need help loading my car with groceries to slowing down their car when they see I'm trying to merge into traffic. There are many more examples of this display of kindness everywhere I go that I've fallen in love with the state and the people every chance I get, I tell them, don't ever change, because once you lose your beloved state by the blue, you'll never get it back.

There's a documentary that was done by a news anchor here called by. His name is Eric Johnson and it's titled Seattle is Dying. If people watch that, it's a good example of what could happen if you're not paying attention to the politics of your state. And then she says, Todd Herman, who does a Sunday show on one on 7.9, is the one that inspired me to move here.

He had a talk show in Seattle until he had had enough of the degradation there and moved back to Idaho. Hold on to what you have here, Idahoans. You may not see how blessed and lucky you are until it's gone. Yeah, it's a good point and it takes a little work and mindfulness to go. What do we have right now that we might be taking for granted that we need to safeguard and not take for granted?

It takes that bravery that you guys did, the thing that we begged you to do through prop one, talk to your neighbors. And you guys did that and we're not going to. That would have been a gigantic leap forward into turning Idaho blue. Yes. Oh, it would have. It would have said note it looks like ranked choice voting is going to stay now in Alaska.

Barely. Barely it is. I feel so bad for that state. I do to attitudes. It's it's a real shame. Let's go. Back to the phones. Hi, caller. Welcome to the show. Good morning guys. How are you today doing doing well. How about you? I'll tell you what. So January 4th, my brother in law and I flew out to Washington, DC to go out and enjoy, you know, a party atmosphere on January 6th.

And, I'll tell you what, as we were waiting for the train to arrive, I ran into some people from, western Idaho, and we got into a conversation. And before the train arrived, we had everybody waiting for the train involved in conversation. What that caller earlier stated or talked about, you know, being being open and talking and sharing yourself with other people.

I just didn't see that in Washington, DC. And it was so fun to just talk to people on the train. We got on a bus later on and my brother in law keeps elbowing me. He's like, come on, let's start a conversation. And we got we just made it fun. And it's amazing when you are in your bubble and you're looking at your phone and all of a sudden somebody starts talking to you, maybe you might be annoyed a little bit there initially, but when you look up, there's there's other people around you.

It's it's amazing how much we tend to. Yeah. Oh, just disregard life because we stick our face in the phone. Yeah. So, Love Idaho, love it. Been here a long time. More than five years. Sorry. Oh, no. You're good. I lifted that rule. So you're you're welcome to call. And you're not a rule breaker, at least in that way.

But I do want to share. We are going to have to break here very, very quickly. Oh, he hung up already had the exact same experience. I remember one time I was in DC and I'm waiting at some metro station and I looked down the the plank or, you know, where they're waiting. There were probably 15 or 20 people.

Every single one of them had their head in a phone. They were scrolling, and I thought, what world are we living in? Everybody's a zombie now. And, it it was shocking enough that I'm like, I don't I mean, I do the same thing from time to time, but I don't want that to be the default mode.

Yeah. So all right. We're going to wrap it up. We've got a break here. But we'll come back and a final segment also Facebook Live after the show as well. I hope you'll join us for that. Okay. Our sweater is so cute. The green sweater. So cute. Oh wicked is coming out this weekend. That movie. Oh, yeah.

You're going to go see it. Maybe I this is controversial, so I'm going to about to say something that might annoy the 47 listeners on Facebook, but there's a movie out called heretic. Have you seen the trailer for this? No, it's two Mormon missionaries. Sister missionaries. I've heard about this. Yes. So show up at a house and he lies to them and says his wife is inside baking a blueberry pie, and she's actually not in there.

And then these two girls have to answer their faith questions in order to get back out of the house. I don't like scary movies, so I'm not down to watch heretic, but I so I said to my kids, well I'll stay home with Asher. We'll put him to bed next week and you guys can go to heretic.

And my daughter in law is like, I'm not going to heretic. She's scared too. She doesn't want to see. Yeah, and it's weird because some, members of the church have watched it and they've loved it because it's intriguing. Yeah. And there's so much symbolism, but there's other people that have are members of the church, have watched it and don't like it at all.

Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I yeah, I did see the trailer of that. I just didn't know what the name of it was, but, I'll probably watch it at some point. The two girls who are the sister missionaries? Yeah, they're both members of the church. They're not faithful attenders. They're not. They're not really in the church now.

It's not like they hate the church or anything. Right? But they were born and raised members of the church. I think that's so interesting that they made sure they got people who understood that role that much. Yeah, I think it's got to bring a level of authenticity to it. I would think, yeah, you guys should go see wicked though.

Yeah, I would love to see wicked. Are you going to do it when you're there? Maybe I, I've watched that. I've seen it now three times in productions. I've seen it, on Broadway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's so good. I've never seen it. Jan, my my podcast is Rise and Cry. I'm screaming crime. She's typing Rise and Shine, which is the play on words that I'm doing.

So it's very appropriate that you you did that. But it's rise and the letter N and crime. Speaking of, have we talked about the mother that got arrested for her son walking to town? No. Let's talk about that on Facebook Live. This is so interesting. Okay. Yeah. Oh, Spencer says in the movie theater, they're going to throw you out if you sing along with the wicked songs, okay?

As they should, I think I wouldn't sing along, but that's kind of weird, because this is the culture that's been created in movies. Like you show up dressed like the characters and get all involved. Like, that's kind of been a new thing. Yeah. But yeah, I get it. Yeah. I wouldn't sing along because I would feel bad.

It would feel like I was ruining other people's experience. Yeah. You're right. I mean, I'm a bad singer. And then also, they paid their ticket. They get to view it the way they want to view it. You know what would be fun is if theaters had a sing along showing a specific, specific showing that said, come and sing along, dress up like Glenda, whatever.

Yeah, sort of like what we did with the Collins today. Like. But but no like that. That would be fun. Make it that one. But but I can if you just want to go there to enjoy the movie like I don't you know. Yeah. And that's going to do it for the show and for this week Julie and I are out for the weekend, but we'll be back Monday.

We'll be here. Thanks for joining us.