12.3.2024 -- NLS -- Aliens, Biden's Pardon, and Foreign Policy

On this episode with Neal and Julie, the discussion covers a range of pressing political and societal topics. They revisit the audience's guesses about Donald Trump's electoral vote count, highlighting the accurate prediction of 312 votes by five participants. The conversation dives into the fallout from Hunter Biden's controversial pardon, with reflections on its impact on the Democratic Party and its leaders, including Joe Biden's past assertions and their implications for public trust.

Julie and Neal explore broader political dynamics, such as the strained state of the Democrat Party, the controversies surrounding Kamala Harris’s campaign spending, and the challenges faced by both parties in navigating internal divisions. They also address the implications of key investigations, like the handling of January 6th events and the alleged deep state influence within U.S. agencies.

The episode touches on global politics, contrasting leadership styles between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, and speculating on the future of U.S. foreign policy, particularly concerning Ukraine. A lighthearted moment emerges when they discuss bizarre predictions, including an alien invasion tied to a hypothetical Joe Rogan interview with Donald Trump, blending humor with commentary on societal speculation.

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Transcript

Hello, East Idaho, and welcome to the program. Today. (208) 542-1079. If you'd like to join us on the program via the fall River propane Kotlin text line, of course, we'll open up the phone lines a little bit later. You can text any time you'd like. And, by the way, you know what? Something kind of fun that has developed.

But of course, leading up to the election prior to November 5th, we were asking our audience to guess how many electoral votes that Donald Trump would get. And of course, we had dozens and dozens might have even numbered in the hundreds. I don't remember how many guesses we got, but, we had we had quite a bunch come in and we had, I believe, five people who guessed correctly, 312 electoral votes.

And part of the deal was, if you guessed it correctly, then you got a free, t shirt. The t shirts have arrived. So in the coming days, I think it might be Friday or beyond. We're going to actually bring our correct guessers our t shirt winners into the studio. Just for a few minutes. Anyway, it's going to be kind of fun.

I we'll let you know know more about it as it, approaches. Okay. We've got to talk about the fallout from the Hunter Biden pardon. Because the left prior to the pardon, the left was already in disarray for multiple reasons, primarily because of Donald Trump's election, because of the disastrous Kamala Harris campaign, the amount of money that she blew through in the course of a few weeks is staggering.

And in retrospect, hindsight's always 2020. In retrospect, a lot of people are beginning to wonder, was this just a money laundering scheme? Was this a way to take, gazillions of dollars and then funnel it to friends? And now there's no way to prove prove that unless you have it documented on tape A, you know, people agreeing to do it.

But I will say it, it looks that way, and it has that appearance. And so they're upset over that. You have Democrats mad at each other over that. They're mad at each other because Kamala didn't do well at all. You have them mad at the Bidens because Joe waited to get out of the race. Now you have people mad at George Clooney and George Clooney's mad at Barack Obama.

Nobody likes anybody else in the Democrat Party right now. And it's a dumpster fire that is entertainment worthy. I'll say that. I'm not really proud of it, but I will tell you, there's a lot of glee and enjoyment happening by those of us who have been frustrated at how persistent, how organized, how, how they're like they were like the everlasting or the everlasting Bunny.

No, the, the Duracell bunny. Just. No, the Energizer bunny. Excuse me. I can't get my bunny straight here. So you you have all of that, and then, of course, someone said, okay, you senile, dementia ridden old man, you can't make this already chaotic party even more chaotic. And he said, get off my lawn and hold my beer.

And he pardons his own kid. After pledging for ever since Hunter Biden's had legal troubles, he was not going to pardon his own kid. He's pardoned his own kid now and now you have the Democrat Party with another layer of chaos, another layer of disarray, and he has turned the entire lot of them into clowns because of his lie or broken promise.

However you want to characterize it, no one is above the law. No one is above the law. Nobody is above the law. No one is above the law. No one is above the law. Nobody is above the law. No one is above the law. No one is above the law. No one is above the law. No one is above the law.

No one is above the law. No one is above the law. Okay, so you have that and I could go on here. You have Adam Schiff. He was on with back when Don lemon had a job. And, this particular job was with CNN. You had Adam Schiff wanting to pass a bill when Donald Trump was the president.

That if Donald Trump were to pardon someone within his own family, all of the investigative records would go straight to the House of Representatives. Listen to this. What it would do is say that in the event the president pardons anyone in an investigation in which the president is a witness, a subject or the target, those investigative files will all be turned over to the Congress.

The Congress ought to know whether the president is using the pardon power to obstruct justice. The American people have a right to know. I think it is clearly constitutional. It doesn't prohibit him from granting a pardon, even a pardon he shouldn't grant. But it does say that we will be able to at least find out whether the president is using this power to shield himself, from liability.

Okay, so that was Adam Schiff. I wonder if Adam would sponsor that bill now that he's going to be in the Senate? I hope so. Let's see if he'll bring that bill forward again. And then yeah. Jen Psaki this is a clip who. Well, it also did not age real well. I can't emphasize enough from knowing him how hard that second half must have been for him to say.

I mean, Joe Biden is a person who answers his phone every time any of his grandchildren call, any time, doesn't matter what's going on. He does the things your grandparents do when they pretend you drop money on the floor just so you have $20 in your pocket and they say did to drop something is deeply in love with his wife.

I mean deeply his family, with all the pain and anguish that surrounded it, is his heart. The Joe Biden's character as a public servant is what drove him to make clear that the law applies to everyone. Its decision not to pardon his son is not an expression of restraint or removal in any way from what his son has gone through and is continuing to go through.

But a principle, because the justice system that convicted is only surviving son is the same justice system he's vowed to protect. And if that doesn't tell you who Joe Biden is, I don't really know what does. Tony either, because he didn't end up doing it. Okay, that's clown number two. And they already kind of made themselves clowns, but Donald Trump cemented them as clowns.

But here's yet another one. This is Dan Goldman. He did an interview with CNN. They played an old clip of Dan Goldman, absolutely emphasizing there was no way that Joe Biden is ever going to pardon his kid. In July of 2023, just after that plea deal fell through. This is what you said. I want to watch. Do you think a pardon for his son would be a mistake?

Yes. And I don't think there's any chance that President Biden is going to do that. Unlike his predecessor, who pardoned all of his friends, and anyone who had any access to him. And I think you see that in this case where he kept on and Merrick Garland kept on a Trump appointed U.S. attorney to investigate the president's son.

If there is not an indication of the independence of the Department of Justice beyond that, I don't know what what we could look for. I mean, what does that feel like watching yourself back then reassuring people that Biden was not going to issue a pardon for his son? Yeah. And I think that if that plea agreement and that plea deal had gone through, there would be no pardon, that was a satisfactory outcome.

Fallen that, let's okay. She had to end or we're going to stop it right there. Clown number three, by the way, Dan Goldman, she had to tell him no, that and she prefaced the question. She prepped him with the info that he said that after the plea deal had fallen through. So even after the plea deal had fallen through, Dan Goldman said there's no way Biden is going to pardon is good.

And by and of course, that didn't happen. Biden did pardon his kid and he's trying to gaslight and make it sound like he's not going to pardon his kid. Unless the plea deal falls through. I you know, it. It's just embarrassing. And it is Democrat after Democrat talking about how what a pinnacle of integrity and honesty Joe Biden is for not pardoning his kid.

And then he turns all of them into clowns. One last, clip actually, to this was a little spat between Whoopi Goldberg and Alyssa Griffin, over the word lying. Alyssa Griffin accurately said Joe Biden lied. That's a thing, because I have I respect it as a parent. I understand why he would do it, but I want to understand why lie about it for so long?

I stopped. I've stopped when calling it a lie. Okay. Why repeatedly say you're not going to when you do in secondarily for the part of this country, half of it that doesn't support Biden doesn't know him personally, doesn't get to have phone calls, and they're just looking at a system that seems like it's only benefits the people who are going to say, president.

Does that say, well, here's what it says. It's the president for all of us to open our eyes because we've elected someone who is in a similar situation, who didn't have a drug problem, who knew what he was doing, who clearly okay then would be swerved into orange man bad. Okay. Nobody cares anymore. What be all right, everybody who is trying to maintain the position you are.

They're losing their ratings. They're losing. They're following their loot. They're losing. But Whoopi doubles down. So last clip I'm going to play here in the, in the monologue is Scott Jennings, who he's great. He really is good. And it's clear that the fellow members of this CNN panel do not like being held to account on this issue.

Listen, you guys can spend all day long trying to spin this, that this is Donald Trump's fault, that this is somehow caused by Donald Trump. Oh, he's appointing the wrong people. Oh, he did it. Oh, this is the worst possible thing a president could possibly do to his party and to the country to sit for a year and say, I will not do this, I will not do this.

The rule of law is sacred. We have to respect the justice system juries. We have to respect juries. We have to respect the guardrails and the norms of our democracy. These people are liars. Inflation is transitory. Afghanistan. It's a success. The border is secure. Robert. Her is a liar. The videos are cheap fakes. Biden has a call. He'll never drop out.

Oh, he'll never pardon Hunter. It's all a lie. It is all a grift. Every American except the most partizan brain rotted. People are going to be outraged by this today. He is going to leave all you think 38, 39% job approval is bad. Just you wait. Just you wait. He's disgraced. Disgraced? Outrageous. You don't need to. But, Scott, you don't need to hurl names.

And today, people like me are brain rotted. Come on. That's a little beyond the pale, even for you, Scott. Listen. Even sure, you don't have to defend this. He's taking office. You don't have to defend it. You don't have to die on this hill. You can say this is wrong because everybody knows it is. What's wrong with it?

Are you fine with the lying? Are you saying it before the election all year and lying to the American people? Are you fine with the lying about it? I don't think he was lying. I think he made a decision after the fact and decided this was the right thing for him. Okay, at that point, you can't see the video and I've got to get to the break here.

But Scott Jennings leans forward, just shaking his head at her, saying, I don't think he was lying. How could someone explain to me how you can say for however long it was a year, a year and a half, I'm not going to do this thing. I'm not going to do this thing. I'm not going to. I won't do it.

I'm not going to. And then you do it. After repeatedly promising you're not going to do it after paying people to repeatedly assure the press and the American people, by extension, that you're not going to do it, and then you do it. How is that not lying? It's clear. It's clear that it's lying. And now the Democrats in their disarray cannot even understand what the definition of lying is anymore.

What? He can't. She took issue with the word when Alicia Farrah Griffin used it. And now you've had this other who knows what her name is. CNN panelist. Oh. Took issue with, with Scott Jennings using that term when it's clear that's about the most accurate term you could come up with. So, yeah, he lied. He broke a promise that he made repeatedly, and that results in a betrayal of trust.

I don't know how, how that's not just simple and straightforward for, for most people. So last point here. Think about the damage and the selfishness that the Biden family what what this has resulted in now, look, part of it is great. I I'll be honest with you. I think the the Democrat Party right now is crippled.

They are unable to really move forward with any messaging, any strategy. They have no idea what to do. And it's multiple reasons. Big reason of course, is Donald Trump beat them yet again. He broke them and they don't know how to move forward. But Joe Biden is adding to their debilitation because he's selfish. Because the Bidens always look out for the Bidens.

They protect themselves. They are insular. They they will always make sure they enrich themselves by utilizing government power and taking advantage of the taxpayer and taking advantage. Very selfish advantage of, these, these constitutional powers that in cases of pardon that power, we all know if we were sitting in a college class today and there was, you know, Presidential Power 101 and we were in a in a political science class.

When you talk about presidential power, I assure you that the pardon was intended to be used to correct injustices, that if someone had a wrongful conviction or if they were, if they've already served an adequate amount of time, or if new information comes forward or whatever. Now, in more recent days, we and we've seen this with both parties.

Presidents have done this where they dole out pardons for as political favors. Okay. In my mind, that's an abuse of it, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat doing it. It's sort of become a fixture of it. This is a new level where the president has pardoned his kid. And, not just the part that he says was the injustice, but everything.

All right. This is, Jonathan Turley said this is really unprecedented with this particular pardon to grant sort of this blanket immunity retroactively for any crimes that may have been committed. Traditionally, pardons are granted for crimes already that have made it through the, the system and someone is in prison or they have a conviction on their record and it's it's forgiven.

This is a whole new, whole new realm. It's 825 on Newstalk 179. We'll be back if you'd like to reach us. (208) 542-1079. All right. We're back at 830 on Newstalk. 107 working out the kinks. Julie, we're getting there. We are getting there. And, if you'd like to reach us, 2085421079I will reiterate our one call per week rule that I will enforce ruthlessly.

It is. He's not lying about that, you guys. I'm not, because it can be a problem. But I love you all. Otherwise.

It's like a loving father. Yes. That's right. You impose the curfew because you love your child. Tough love. Yeah. And you also want to go to bed? That too. So, leadership of the Idaho Senate and key legislative committees is on the line this week. They're going to have an organizational session of the Idaho Legislature at the Capitol in Boise.

So they want to have all their leadership in place. So this is going to be interesting because Chuck Winder not just gone but gone. Yeah. They didn't just oust him from his position. They ousted him from the whole entire Senate. He's gone. Yeah. Yeah. So, they do it behind closed doors apparently. But the decisions will have major ramifications for the upcoming 2025 legislative session.

You can tell the press is worried about this by the way. They report it. Like this is going to happen behind closed doors. Well, yeah, there are some things you want to have behind closed doors. Yeah. So already already happened before will happen again. Yeah. So anyway, what are you looking forward to? You know, I don't know.

We keep getting promised by people who are in the know, people who serve over there that this is a more conservative. Yeah. Especially Senate. So we're going to just have to see what how it all plays out. I hope so, yeah. Well, I, I do too. I mean, I haven't hidden my displeasure with Chuck Whitner. I've had issues.

If you're if you're not going to take up bills and actually hear things that that first off, the residents of Idaho are asking for it. And then second off, the those public servants who are over there are bringing forward to you, and you just get to be king and make the decisions. I mean, I'm not going to look too friendly on that.

Well, no, I, I'm not either. I don't know if I knew this Julie. Apparently, Chuck Winter, along with. Oh, no. Okay. Sorry. Abby Lee of Fruitland resign from the Idaho legislature. Chuck Winter is filling out his term, so. Okay, that's what that's what happened here. So. Okay. Sorry. I was scanning a paragraph here, and I. I thought Chuck Winter resigned, too.

So, anyway, I, this all goes back, Julie, to the Trump effect on the ballot. Oh, I think it I think it absolutely affected Idaho. I think we had the double whammy in Idaho and the the right word shift. I mean, you you have Democrats that how many are there. Not seven nine, eight I was I 46 I was going to say six.

So we have to look it up. I know it's single digits. And they went from like 12 I think it went from 12 to 9. Okay. And you have dyslexia. So you shot six maybe. No. What is dyslexia when I hear it because I heard it so well I don't know, I don't know, but yeah, this will be, this will be, I think, a really pivotal session because I don't know how long we can keep the Democrats under ten.

It's terrible. The bigger threat. Actually, it isn't the Democrats. It's moderate Republicans joining forces with the Democrats. That's the only way the governor got the launch program, for instance. And so that's how they do this. You have centrists. They're almost anti right wing, teaming up with the Democrats to to get some things done. So I think we're going to see more of that.

Typically they, they try to adhere to the Hastert Rule. For some reason. They decided we're going to violate the Hastert Rule, which basically means, nothing can pass unless the majority party agrees to move it forward. Right. They they went against that with the lunch program. I don't you think I mean, maybe I'm viewing this erroneously, but I would believe that it's going to be harder for those Republicans in name only to hide in this situation.

They don't have as many Democrats to cover for them. Yeah. I mean, it's not a significant shift, but it's enough of a shift that that there is going to be some occasions where you couldn't alter your vote to, to make friends with people. Yeah. You're going to it's going to be more revealed what you do.

I, I would agree with that. And I think it will be interesting to see the, the role that the Main Street Caucus will have in this legislative session, because I think it's diminished dramatically. Yes, I think there's enough sketchy ness around that group that a lot of lawmakers are like, I don't really want to be affiliated with this because we don't even know what they stand for.

They don't they don't put out any kind of here's what our policies are. This is the kind of legislation would like to pass. And and so I think that they're going to be somewhat isolated in their, in their influence. And isolated means more spotlight on it, which I think is what needs to happen because they, I believe that when people find out about the Main Street Caucus, they kind of look at it like, what do you need that for?

Yeah, it just kind of leaves you a little energy. Yeah, yeah. It it it leaves you edgy, either edgy or on edge. Uncertain. Did I mix up uncertain and edgy and make a word analogy? George George W Bush used to do that. What's the word that he used to combine that? It just became a meme. It was so good, I don't know.

There, there. This morning though. Yeah. You're on edgy this morning.

All right. Let's go to the phones. Caller, welcome to the show. How are you today? Doing good. How are you guys? We're doing pretty well. Yeah. Hey, well, better than being on edgy, I guess. Now, you. So my my thought is, is Hunter Biden ever going to leave District of Columbia ever again? Considering states can still charge him?

That's a that's a good question. He might stay there. Well, we'll have to see. Maybe maybe he could go to Delaware, where I'm sure the Biden family is well connected enough that nothing would happen to him there, but but, yeah, I don't I don't know, I don't know what the future is for Hunter Biden. Yeah, but I just looked it up.

And, you know, federal pardons don't don't apply to state. Yeah, yeah. That's always some hope. Yeah. Yeah. And you would hope that there would be a courageous enough prosecutor that could, compensate for this injustice that happened. Thank you. Thank you for the call. Let's take a break and, we'll come back. We'll be back after this on this Tuesday on Newstalk 179.

It's 837. And you're turning in to me, Julie Mason, so am I. It's 843 on Newstalk seven. I have always had this bad habit if we eat in the studio, because sometimes we eat during the show. I forever I've taken a big old honking bite like three seconds before we go on the air. I just did it.

And Julie just, stuffed, like three granola bars in her mouth when we started. There might be a bit of an exaggeration. It's a protein bar, but I did take a huge fight. It's. It's true. So, Okay. Julie, does Pete Hegseth get approved? I think it's going to work. I think it's going to happen. It is going to be bumpy.

This is going to be a rough ride. Yeah, and it might take a minute. Yeah. I think that the Republicans are going to work hard at getting some of the others in real quick. Yeah. Pete Hegseth is going to take a minute. Yeah. Okay. Kash Patel, I don't think they've got anything against him that can stop this. So I think that one's going to happen fairly quickly.

I think the interesting portion of this is the firing of Christopher Wray. Yeah, yeah. That's going to be, now the president can fire the FBI director, James Comey. Yeah, he can. And it caused a lot of waves. And I would expect that to happen again. Do you think Chris Wray I mean, I once you say I'm firing him, you fired him because you're going to be the president and he's going to be gone.

So you fired him. But from an official standpoint, do you give Chris Wray the opportunity to simply resign so he doesn't have to? Have I got fired on my resume? Sure. But couldn't he resign? I mean, he could have already indicated that that's how that's going to happen. That's true. They can leave it vacant for 15 days. 20 days.

Have an interim. Yeah. He could be done on January 1st. And maybe that's what he'll do so that it it it isn't on the record that he got fired by Trump. That he actually resigned prior to the Trump administration, which that will not surprise me if that happens. I don't think either way, firing or resigning is a big upside for him.

They're both going to be bad. Yeah. This man has enough connections. He's going to be able to take care of himself. So don't have a pity party for Chris Wray. It's net. There's no there's. That's not even necessary. But I mean, either way is fine. I just don't know if there's, a strong upside with which one ends up happening.

Maybe he garners some sympathy if he's fired. I don't know, maybe. But here's the thing. If if Kash Patel will deliver on what he's saying, he wants to deliver on the last getting fired is the least of Chris Wray's worries, I think. I think there's a deep state inside the FBI and other agencies, especially intelligence agencies, that when you follow, like the Peter Strzok, Andrew McCabe, the rabbit hole, people are going to be livid over that.

And to the extent Chris Wray knew about this operation, that was manufactured against Donald Trump, I saw a clip the other day about it was a congressman, I think, grilling Chris Wray about why on January 6th of 2001, did all of these unmarked vans show up and you had what looked like an organized group of people getting out wearing MAGA hats like they were.

It was it. I think to a lot of people, it's clear that they were some kind of a government asset there to be present that day to accomplish who knows what. But I think what we're going to we're going to have to dig into things like that to figure out what exactly happened on January 6th and to what extent was that event provoked by our own government?

Well, Kash Patel is already on record saying that he wants to release the names or the amount of FBI agents that were on the ground that that's a he's doing that no matter what. Yeah. On January 6th, he is saying who how many were there and how, entrenched were they in changing what happened that day and encouraging people to go into the Capitol in, you know, all of those things.

So he's already on record saying he's going to do that. You also have to remember, Kash Patel has a deep knowledge about the Russia collusion. Russia collusion hoax. Yeah, he already has an in-depth knowledge and has done a ton of investigative work on that before he even takes the position. He's not going to leave that not going. Hello neither.

No, no he won't. Nor should he. I think that's one of the things that we've got to we've got to figure out and see what happened. You know, one of the things that he's also talked about that in this idea intrigues me. You set up an entire new agency that is designed to fulfill the role that the FBI is supposed to be fulfilling.

And you you create it, you hire a good director, you begin to staff it with people, and you slowly only add people you know you can trust. And then you just shutter the FBI at some point that you migrate the people who are working hard and doing a good job and who are loyal to the country, they're not trying to undermine, they're not acting Partizan.

They are there to do the role of the in the mission of the FBI. But, maybe instead of rooting out the deep state, you just create something new and staff it with people you can trust, and then you shutter what was there before. I think that's an option of going that direction. I think there's a lot of things that can happen here.

I also would challenge anyone Republican, Democrat, anyone, to provide me instances where it's been deeply concerning that an organization is reviewed. It should never be deeply concerning. If you're doing your job, there shouldn't be a concern with a review process at all. And so for cash, Patel to go in and and monitor what people are doing in their jobs and deciding, hey, you're not necessary or we can get rid of these 37 employees out of this one office building in DC.

You don't need to be here. If you'd like to go apply for field agent jobs or whatever, we'll consider your application will be a lateral move. We can do that. This portion right here. Not necessary. I'm sure the number is much higher than 37, but I was just pulling and I'm proud of the air dot. The review process on that should only be scary to the people who are being lazy in their jobs, or being deceitful in their jobs.

I would agree with that. But get get the agencies out of the bubble as much as you can. Yes. Yeah. Agreed. Why do you need the ag department in DC? I don't know why that can't exist in in various cities. I don't, I know, I know, break it up quite a few here and a few there. And let's save on some of these office spaces, I will.

I sent you something. She's. It might have been during Thanksgiving, so you might have already mentioned this, but there was information floating around ex that we have government buildings that are 85% vacant. Yes. We talked about this, 85% vacant. And you're still paying heating and maintenance and and cooling costs and taxes. And besides, what are those people doing that are supposed to be filling those, those articles, those office spaces?

I have no idea. And I hope that Vivek and Ellen, our buddies, can go in there and look at every federal position and say, what do you do? What do you spend your time doing to justify your six figure salary? Yeah. And the only people that are scared of that review process are the ones who are bilking the system.

Yeah, the ones who have the government jobs where they show up 20 hours a week and they get paid 40. Yeah, yeah, I like hey, yeah, you're right. I mean, I have to in the private sector, you and I have to justify what we do during the 90 hours a week that we. Okay, we get it. Was that what I was supposed to be putting on my time coming in?

Something like that. What? I have screwed that up. All right, we got a break. It's 852 on Newstalk 179. Back up to this. It's, 857 now. A Newstalk. 1079 final moment here. Jill. You know, it's forgot to mention yesterday that Grand Peak's prime Mates is awesome. Yeah, we were supposed to mention that yesterday. What were we doing?

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All right. 907 welcome back. It's our two. If you'd like to join us on the program. (208) 542-1079 Neal Larson, Julie Mason and Julie. Kind of a crazy day in South Korea. Their president, Yoon Sook yeol, declared an emergency martial law today, accusing the country's opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government government with anti-state activities.

So basically, the Democrat Party in South Korea to safeguard a liberal South Korea from the threats posed by North Korea's communist forces and to eliminate anti-state elements, I hereby declare emergency martial law, Yoon said in a live televised address to the nation. With no regard for the livelihoods of the people, the opposition party is paralyzed. Governance solely for the sake of impeachments, special investigations and shielding their leader from justice.

So, like I said, the Democrat Party shielding their leader from justice, special investigations, impeachments, all those things sound very familiar. South Korea's National Assembly was sealed Tuesday after Yoon's declaration, the country's Yonhap news agency reported. Helicopters were seen landing on the roof of the building in Seoul in live television footage aired by broadcasters. So. Okay, little, little upheaval.

Yeah. Usually you think of South Korea as a fairly stable, you know, they're always under threat of the North, but they themselves have been pretty stable. So we'll see. Is the world stable? I don't even know if there is a stable place, but I don't think we can count America as stable. That is a very, very good question.

I don't I there's European countries in upheaval. All you got to do is watch the protests and, Hey, did you see? Speak. Sorry. My brain's a little all over today. Did you see that? Justin Trudeau is now bending on immigration. He's starting to enforce immigration more. Okay, good. Hey, this is working. The man's not even in office yet.

Oh, I know, I know, he's already had communication with Mexico and with Justin Trudeau. Came to him. Let's just talk about what that looks like. Yeah, it ain't nobody came to see Biden. Yeah, except for Zelensky. And when Zelensky came, he came like we rolled out the red carpet and he demanded money. He's like, where's the where's the checkbook?

Let's write another one. He's come more than once and done that. Yeah Justin Trudeau crawled tomorrow la go. Yeah. It's going to be different. And I don't there is no way like a Democrat can say what's not going to work out right. You don't you don't do that kind of foreign relation. It's not good for you.

Well obviously what we've been doing is not good. So the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting a change. Yes. Yeah. No, it's it's a whole different, whole different ball game coming up. Along those lines, did you see what Trump has been sending out in social media to Hamas. So he pledged yesterday to exact vengeance against Hamas militants who kidnaped Israelis.

And in a social media post he said, quote, there will be all hell to pay in the Middle East. And for those in charge who perpetrated these atrocities against humanity, if all the hostages were not released by his inauguration on January 20th, he said that, quote, those responsible for those responsible will be hit harder than anybody has been hit in American history.

In the post in which he did not go into specifics, the Biden administration said last week that it had negotiated a cease fire deal with France between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. The release of hostages in Gaza are a key condition of the cease fire negotiations. So here's the media. Here's the thing. They want the credit to go to Biden if this happens.

And I think this is Donald Trump's way of stealing the thunder. And I think there's a very good chance and maybe there's multiple incentives now for Hamas to release the hostages. But you know Donald Trump's going to claim 100% of the credit. And I honestly believe he should get a lion's share of the credit, if not all of the credit he should, because things are different since November 5th already.

Yeah. You remember when we were kids and it was Christmas time and your teacher would give you all those strips of construction paper and you would make a chain. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then you would break off one of the links of the chain. And that would be one day closer to Christmas time. Yes. I believe that Netanyahu has a chain right now.

Yeah. That he's created in craft class. Yeah. And so does Linsky. Netanyahu's last link on the chain is a celebration day because Trump will be in office. Zelensky's last link on his chain is a day. Day because Trump will be in office. Yes. Yeah, I would agree, because I think that gravy train is coming to an end in Ukraine, as it should.

Yeah. So yeah, everything I believe will get realigned and Trump, you know, this is what I love about Trump. He doesn't have any statutory power right now as the president elect. He doesn't care. He has power though as president elect. And he's using it to its full capability. And I love that about him. I remember there are actually conspiracy theories about this that when Jimmy Carter lost in 1980, Ronald Reagan won and the Iranians released the hostages before Reagan could take, office, office.

And, so there is some conspiracy theory that Reagan's people had kind of manipulated this into happening to make it look like Reagan got all the credit. But in my mind, I think Occam's Razor is that they knew that Ronald Reagan was absolute, not going to tolerate what the Iranians were doing in the way that Jimmy Carter, much weaker, much more anemic president was taller.

I mean, he was he's very much he very much falls into the appeasement category. I think that's true of Joe Biden as well. Which is why if Hamas releases these hostages prior to January 6th, when you want to look and learn from from history and current events, what is the most likely explanation that the president, who was soft on the border, who was soft in Afghanistan, in fact, it was disastrous there, who's soft on all these issues and very appeasing on on a whole bunch of policies in, in America or Donald Trump who gets elected.

I don't think those things are going to just be coincidences that Donald Trump is the incoming president and Hamas will release these hostages. I believe they will. Yeah. It's not it's not going to be a coincidence. I know that the the mainstream media will do their best to explain it away, and they can continue to lie and gaslight.

That's what it is. But as I just said, it's different today on December. What are we December 3rd than it was a month ago on November 5th. And the man isn't even in office yet. I know he's getting more foreign policy done than the sitting president. So Joe, of course, is in Africa. Wrangle. Also known as the pay no attention to the fact that I pardoned my own son tours that let me run away where no one can reach me tour.

Right? That's true. I don't want to be around when this fallout happens. But again, this is a trip that is going to be forgotten. There won't be much accomplished. And. And by the way, where's Kamala? She's still the vice president. She still has work to do. What she been doing other than making drunk videos, I don't know.

There was video of her and Doug out shopping over the holiday weekend, and she came out and waved at everybody, and then they got in the car and left. So she at least looks better in that than she did in the video. Let's talk about the video, because you and I never got a chance to talk about that.

Yeah, okay. You had to know. You and I show up here, and we've had bad days. Meaning I don't feel well. Well, or you don't feel well or outside influences. Life has gotten the best of you. But you come and you put on a good face, and you do your job the best that you can possibly do your job.

Yeah. Was that really the best that she could possibly do her job? I don't know, I, I don't I hope not, I hope not, and if so, as much as we have said that there was elder abuse at those who pushed Biden out there when he was having a bad dementia day. Yeah. Who didn't care about her enough to say, don't make this video, don't do it.

This can wait. And that video could have waited. Totally could have waited. So, you know the how part of the Biden narrative was he was his dementia only made him effective from about 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.. He had about a six hour window each day. Maybe. Maybe there's a sobriety window with Kamala Harris. Like. And they need to make those videos in the sobriety window.

Like Kamala, we need you to not be drunk from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. you can get plastered outside of that, but you need to be ready to go at 10 a.m.. Is it a six hour window? I don't know if they have six hours of sobriety. I don't know how that whole thing works. It might only be two.

And neither you nor I have ever been drinkers. We have no idea how this works, but I'm just. But I will say, when you watch the video, that was my very first impression. I mean, she wasn't like, staggering drunk, you know, but there was just enough slipperiness to her speech. And there was sort of this lucidity that she gets that she doesn't have normally, like a lot of times I think when she's not drunk, she's actually nervous, especially if she's being interviewed or if she's in a high pressure situation or even a moderate pressure situation.

That's when you get the word salad, and that's when you get her talking about the duality of the unburdened past. And, you know, whatever. I think there's two states, Kamala. There's that. And then there's she's kind of drunk, some state of drunkenness with her. And maybe they thought, okay, we can't have word salad on the call, or have her be nervous on the call or have her, say, unburdened by the past.

Or I grew up in a middle class family, so maybe our best worst option here is get her a little drunk and do this video real quick while it's setting in. Okay, well, then get her some eyedrops and some something. She's female, so enjoy the option of makeup here. So again, this is a realm I don't understand. But you have noticed this very acutely because you work in the esthetic realm.

I feel like she has kind of her her skin like three bags under her eyes, like she just looks tired all the time. Are there serums that you can put on your skin to tighten it, tighten the up and make you look, you know, absolutely ready to go. Didn't need to look like that. Now you're not. If you if you got something on board, you're not going to get rid of the thing where she was doing, where she was leaning forward in her seat and resting on her one elbow and pointing at the camera that for me was as much as her voice with her behaving drunk.

Because you just don't do that if you're the vice president of the United States. Yeah. So it was out. And what's her deal is she always has to be sitting whenever she does a video. Why does she have to sit? Can you not stand. Can you not like. Well, yeah, she does those interviews. She has to sit. Yeah.

When you watch Trump I actually think he's better when he's walking around. Yeah. It's like his like his stand up comedic comes out. Yeah. When when he's walking around, she always prefers to have something in front of her. It's like a line of protection. Yeah, but then she broke that wall of protection and leaned forward on her elbow and was pointing at the camera.

And it just looks so bad in the video. And then you pair that with the fact that she's wearing a drab brown suit. Yeah, no makeup on. She sounds like she has dry mouth. I the whole thing was a train wreck. Can I make a prediction other than an occasional surfacing when when we get to January 21st, we won't see Kamala hardly at all.

She'll write a memoir and go on a little book tour, or she'll do an occasional TV talk show. But she will not be any kind of a force in electoral politics in America. I don't think there's a Democrat out there that wants her anywhere near to having her name on the ballot. Again, you know what's going to be interesting about a year or so after all of this, maybe January ery of next year, February of this of next year, when she does a speaking engagement and we get to see how much she was paid for the speaking engagement.

Yeah, that will be a good gauge to tell you where she's at in politics, because some of these post politicians, the Obamas, Hillary Clinton, they get a huge paycheck when they go and speak, I can't imagine she's going to do the same. Well, I mean, you can look at the Obamas and I mean, they were legitimately elected. Barack Obama legitimately won the nomination for his party, and he legitimately won the presidency.

Now we're going to have birthers, sewer texting and saying he no, he wasn't qualified. Aside from that, he got there based on some level of merit. Hillary Clinton, same thing she got there based on. I mean, she got there. She was the first lady, legitimately. She was the secretary of state legitimately, she legitimately participated in killing 47 people to keep them silent.

You know, like there's some. Okay, that's a joke, all right? Just so much suicide. Yes. Too much suicide. But they they earned in some measure what they got. That's not true of Kamala. Everything everything she's ever gotten has been gifted to her. Yeah. And it's the she's not going to magically all of a sudden have the ability to speak or the ability to do a good interview.

Yeah. That's, that's not going to be present again. So like you said she probably goes away because those are your options after you leave politics you become a regular on a news channel if you're a lower level politician, if you're up and vice president or president, you do speaking engagements, you write a book, you go on a, TV tour.

She's not going to magically become good at those things. No, she's not. And I think that especially given the the amount of money that she's spent and the financial straits that she's left, the Democrat National Committee and I don't think people want her around, I don't think she's going to be viewed sort of in that storied way that we view the Obamas or the Clintons.

I mean, I, I don't view them that way, but they are viewed that way. And for some reason, Democrats think that the Obamas and the Clintons are the bee's knees. I don't think Kamala is going to get that from her fellow Democrats. And in two years or four years, when there's campaigning to be done, they're not going to use her either for that.

Yeah, Kamala is going to be that girlfriend or boyfriend you used to have that turned out to be a hot mess that you were kind of excited about at first, and then and now you don't want anyone to know you dated her. Yeah, yeah. You're like, let's just not talk about that part of my life. That's the part of life that we don't even mention anymore.

And I think they want to forget this chapter and move on. So that's my prediction, which I'm perfectly happy with it. Well, she damages the Democrat Party if she's out and about. So I guess if we want her out and about to damage the party, that would be a thing. But she's not going to bring them any benefits.

So I think that will be another reason we won't see her much. Agreed. All right. If you'd like to join us on the program, (208) 542-1079. Okay. Hey, this is actually working better than I expected today, but we've had a few little hiccups, but it's, it's going really well. What? Our text line is a little, saucy, R-rated.

Really? Oh, that. Yeah. Okay. The knees. There's another one. There's the knees. And then the one that starts with my name. Oh, okay.

Anyway, somebody sent in a text that said, have you heard they're supposed to be an alien versus humans battle in the sky today. That was predicted several years ago, and that this would be the day that aliens would visit the Earth. Wait, I haven't heard about this, but yeah, several years ago, I don't even remember who it was predicted the today was the day that aliens would visit the Earth.

Oh yeah, there's alien wars coming. Okay, but I don't. Where is this? Where is this been? Like, usually we have a countdown when there's an apocalyptic prediction. I saw it on X last night. That's the first that I had seen it. Cliff. Hi. Made the prediction that were Cliff. Cliff was high.

Okay, we have to talk about this, right? Sure. According to his 1997 software creation Web Bot, which analyzes societal and temporal markers to make predictions, an alien war could potentially begin December 3rd in 2009. So he predicted it clear. Back in 2009, the web bot software identified a specific trigger event. The prediction was that 39 days after this event, so what was the trigger event?

UFOs would emerge and engage in a massive battle with other UFOs, marking a transformative moment for humanity. And what was that trigger? If Donald Trump is interviewed by Joe Rogan in 2009, that was the prediction. Well, that interview recently happened. Which means based on this prediction, the countdown leads to tomorrow, December 3rd. We all know that it's very important to approach such predictions with skepticism.

Well, yeah. The web bot has faced criticism for its lack of scientific validation and for not consistently providing accurate forecasts. Okay, so additionally, there's no credible evidence to support the occurrence of an alien war UFO battle on the specified date. Or is there one? Okay, I'm more baffled at the fact that back in 2009, somebody predicted that Donald Trump would be interviewed by Joe Rogan?

Yeah, that seems very interesting to me, too. Like what? What's that about? Okay, now we really have to talk about this. You're googling it. I know, I'm Googling Joe Rogan as he came up because he was doing Fear Factor in the 90s. Okay. He was doing standup comedy until 94. All right. 929 on Newstalk 179, Julia and I are going down the, the rabbit hole.

Apparently there's. Well, I don't want to spark a War of the worlds frenzy here, but there are predictions that an alien invasion may start today. Okay, I'm laughing because I don't want anybody worried about this. Yes, but back in 2009, apparently somebody some computer geek, had a web bot and asked, what if, Well, let me read it.

Okay, I want to get this right. In 2009, the web bot software identified a specific trigger event. The prediction was that 39 days after this event, UFOs would emerge and engage in a massive battle with other UFOs, marking a transformative moment for humanity. And what was that trigger if Donald Trump is interviewed by Joe Rogan? So that's the thing that threw me.

I had an X last night. I had seen that December 3rd was supposed to be the day I didn't know the trigger event. Yeah. So when you said that, I just pulled up Joe Rogan's Wikipedia page because I was trying to remember how his career went, he started the Joe Rogan Experience in December of 2009. Okay, okay. Prior to that, he had done like game shows, stand up comedy.

Of course, there was the super successful Fear Factor. And so he wasn't a he wasn't a, an interviewer. Yeah, that's what's weird, right? Yeah. How did this how did this come about? Why was that the triggering event if if he wasn't a famous interviewer yet who was create of enough to think about this? Like what? Yeah.

It's odd in this guy's name is Cliff. Hi. And, according to his 1997 software creation Web Bot, which analyzes societal and temporal markers to make predictions, an alien war could potentially begin on December 3rd. So, again, I want to make it very clear there's not going to be an alien war today, okay? Because there's no scientific thinking that's put into this.

But it is sort of fascinating that back in 2009, somebody was floating this idea of if Joe Rogan interviewed Donald Trump, what would happen 39 days late? I'm not worried about aliens coming today. You know what I'm worried about with this story? But we live in an alternate timeline because, like the writers of The Simpsons know things that are going to happen.

And then they put them in Simpsons episode. How did this person know that Joe Rogan was going to become an interviewer? Good question. The answer some other all like, is this just The Truman Show we're in? Yeah, I know, I yes, I know it. It's. And haven't we reached this point that you wake up every day and you're kind of in this mode, that nothing would really surprise you like it feels like reality has been is is being bended all the time.

Yep. And, Yeah, it's it is weird. So again, we're not please don't go out and yeah it's not going to be War of the worlds today. It's not going to be Independence Day. That was the other one where this they walked outside and there were spaceships in the sky. I watched a movie over the weekend. I bet.

No, there's there's more to the story. Congratulations. That was a that was a pregnant pause there. That was not the end of the story, because that would have been so proud of that would have been the most watched movie, the most boring story ever. But it is it is weird. It was about this guy, and I can't remember his name.

It'll come out okay. I'm going to turn your mic off while I tell this story. Telling. But he builds his bunker. Okay, okay. And I don't want to get it. Has kind of a twist at the end, but he builds this bunker. His. His wife is Jessica Chastain. And or played by Jessica Chastain. Anyway, he's he's kind of nuts.

Like, he has these psychological problems, but they don't have a lot of money. But he's spending all this money and taking out loans so he can put this bunker underground, because he is sure that the the the apocalypse is coming. Yes. That's something. Are you familiar with this movie? No idea. Anyway, it it was a fascinating movie and for some reason I thought of it.

When we talk about this alien invasion, like you think, am I going crazy to think this might happen because I don't? I always want to know. I think we all have to calibrate for our own mental illness. Right? You're like, am I? Do I have this fear of some future event because I'm a little nuts inside, Or a nuts inside?

Or could this event really happen? Yeah. And it's a rational thought to think this crazy, crazy thing might happen. Yeah. So I don't and I don't know, because, look, Julie, look, the truth is we've had these congressional hearings. Now there is abundant video evidence and photo evidence of UFOs and these craft that we've never seen before can't really identify.

You have some of the deeper sources that are saying that there are what they call biologics. So there's like bodies of aliens that they have that and but they're they're really it's kind of murky how they talk about it. So who knows what's out there. Like I feel like I don't want to be schizophrenic or crazy or be relying on some mental illness to think that this might happen.

So I guess I don't know what I'm saying here. Like, I think we have to be open to the possibility that something like this could happen, but at the same time, make sure we don't think that because we're delusional. Yeah, you have to keep living life. You have to you have to do life despite the potential of an alien invasion on a December 3rd day.

Yes. I mean, it's sun's out. It's a beautiful day for an alien invasion. I would say it's gonna happen. They picked a good day. Yeah. Don't ask the people in upstate New York. They're going to say it's a bad day. So I will also add this. If, in fact, there is a quote unquote alien invasion, there's not going to be.

But if there is an alien invasion, you know what my first reaction would be? This is a false flag. This is the government creating some kind of psychological operation. Yeah, it could be that it could totally be that the government. Okay. Would it be that far reaching that 30 days before Donald Trump is supposed to take office, they make something happen that Donald Trump can't get.

It impedes the chance of Donald Trump taking office. I would have said 7 to 8 years ago, oh, you guys knock it off. What they pulled with Covid, I'm telling you, they were only marginally successful with what they wanted to pull with Covid. Well, I would say if they could pull it off, they would, I don't I don't have any doubt that if they had that stop to pull that, pull that stop.

Yeah. I believe there are groups of people that sit around who knew what was going on with Covid, and they lament that it wasn't more deadly. Yeah. Those are the conversations that are being had. They agreed. All right, let's go to the phones. Caller, welcome to the show. How are you today? Oh, all right. I guess I just wanted to, bring something up here.

Julie, I don't, I just don't get it. Where you get this hatred for Zelensky. I can hear it in your voice. I hope you go back and listen to yourself, because it's just. You totally mischaracterized him. He doesn't come here demanding money. He comes here on the hands and knees, hoping to save his country. But you know I can't.

I'm sorry. There are no hands and knees. There are no hands and knees with this man. He walks in like he owns the place. And I'm touched. I am not the only one that feels this way. Doesn't do the same thing. Yeah, what have we? We actually cut money to Netanyahu over the last three months. We put. We diminished what we said to Netanyahu.

They are not similar. Zelensky. We have it's been endless money. Real has gotten billions of dollars more over the years. And yeah, because the history with Israel is decades and decades long, of course, they've gotten money and they're an ally. Yeah, no, Ukraine's not an ally. You believe that? You know what? You know how it's been so much of an ally.

It's been an ally for the Biden administration ever would. It's been an ally for the Biden administration. That's who Ukraine is an ally for. And Israel doesn't pay spies to spy on us. You know, the Pollard's a different prison now for spy. Oh, we might have traded them back. Okay. Every major superpower spies on every other major superpower.

That's just reality. So don't. Oh, don't act like friends. Spy on friends. Absolutely they do. Yes. They one. You're really not this naive, are you? Of course they do. I'm a hell of a lot more educated about world politics than you two are. Okay, then why do you call our show? Why do you listen? Thanks for listening.

If we're the source of such naivete, why do you listen? Putin refusing to negotiate leads to Trump tripling down with Ukraine and giving them more. What are you guys? You gonna eat some crow or are you going to condemn Trump? Oh, I'll absolutely have criticism for Trump if the checkbook stays open 100%. Gravy train has got to stop.

Do you go ahead and wait? I appreciate you listening. Hold on a second. But I do have to ask you something because you want. Oh yeah, of course he did. Because that's the kind of conversation this guy. Okay, I will say what I was going to say though, when Trump goes in and finds a solution that does not involve these endless amounts of cash flowing to Ukraine, is he going to call up and eat crow?

You know, I highly doubt it. Also, here's my deal. There is no hatred for this man in my voice. There isn't. So that's him projecting whatever he's got going on with his, I don't know if he doesn't like Jewish people. I don't know what his deal is. I'm not going to assign it to him. But there is no hatred in my voice.

It's me looking at the situation and saying, this has not been beneficial for America. Three years of an open checkbook has not been beneficial for the taxpayers of America. Yeah, agreed. And that's what our taxes should do, is to protect the interests of the United States. So I if you know what, if there are people in America that have this fondness for Ukraine, then they can write a check to Vladimir Zelensky.

I'm sure the guy calling has a checkbook. He can write a check to Vladimir Zelensky. Yeah, and go right ahead. Go for it, dad. Nobody's stopping you from doing that. But American taxpayer money should protect America's interests. So, let's go to the next caller. Caller, welcome to the show American. Morning, Neal. How are you, Stanley? Well, I'm all right.

You'll want to turn your radio down. It'll go a lot better if you'll if you'll do that. I'm sorry, I don't to, I promise that. All right. Yeah. That, that goes down and, pretty educated. Yeah. You should have asked me, man. Well, hey, do you want to play up that $36 trillion debt? Sounds like you know a lot about world politics.

Yeah. And, You know, I think, I think the difference you'll see in France is, determined by who's not going to put up any more crap. Yeah. They, any of us, it. Sure. Church. I hope it doesn't lead to. Greater conflict, which we, And, Yeah.

Anyway, I, I haven't called you for a while. You know, I, I listen to, all the stuff that's going, I'm, I'm thinking to myself that, you know, doesn't matter. Like I told you and Neal or, you and Julie before you're all Americans. They just. I mean, you. Yeah. Everybody gets their act together, starts working together for America.

Or we may not have, you know, agreed. Right. And and thank you for the call, I appreciate it. We're gonna let you go. The audio wasn't the greatest there, but, I would agree. I would also say I think we're much closer. Sir, if we can get to January 20th, the country is going to be in much better shape and in a much better position than we've been in for a while.

943 we'll be back after this. On Newstalk 1079. All right. Sure. That man hates my guts. I, I don't understand it because he comes after you. You hate us. You and I are on the same page with this. It is 100% directed at me and I don't. I don't get it. So, Take shelter. Is that the name of the movie you watched?

Yes. Someone sent it in, so they have obviously watched it as well. Yeah. Take shelter, take shelter. Okay. And I watched another movie, too. I watched two movies. Wait wait wait, do it again. See, I watched another movie. I watched another movie.

She's going to make me pause now every time I talk about it. So this movie was actually, Robert De Niro. Okay. Okay. Which you're probably, it's called Everybody's Fine, and I want you to watch it. Everybody's fine. Yeah. Okay. You would like this movie. Okay. You would really like this movie, even though it's De Niro.

He was actually really likable in the movie. What's it about? So he's a widower. He has four adult children. He invites them all for Christmas. None of them show up because they have other things they got to do so without announcing it. No, no, I'm serious. Without announcing it, he goes out of his way to visit each kid, okay, and show up unannounced.

And that's all I'm going to tell you. Am I going to cry? Yes. You even they don't want to watch you fall your eyes out. Not want to watch it? No, I want you to watch it. I really want you to watch it. I hate to cry in movies. Well, just watch it alone. Just. Just when you're alone and you have a couple of hours, you should watch.

My daughter went to wicked, and she really wants me to go to the movies. Despite the fact that I can't stand the two. Women's film. Yeah, like they are going around advertising the film and doing publicity, and I cannot stand them. Yeah. She says you don't notice it because the movie is so good and but she's like, you're going to cry.

You need to take something. She said at the end when. So it ends at defying gravity. So if you have seen wicked, it's not the whole show. It's not the whole Broadway play it. There's going to be a second part. So the first, this first movie ends when, the Green Witch sings Defying Gravity. And she said she was doing the ugly cry during the song.

Like the.

That's awesome. That's, it was somebody's birthday, but now it got buried because of our, Ukraine color. I'm trying to find it now. It's got to be up higher than that. They've probably texted it again, and that's why I can't see it. Yeah, I do want you to watch. Everybody's fine. You don't have to watch the bunker mute movie.

But the thing about that is, the thing that makes me the most sad in life is I'm not by my kids, so that's going to make me. But it there's it there's a reason why the movie's called what it is. I'll just leave it at that. And if you end up crying and hating the movie, you can kick me in the nuts.

But. Just because I know that.

When I'm with you. Oh, right.

But it made me laugh.

Sorry if that offended anybody on Facebook.

You know what? I think there's a niche for everybody is critiquing new movies. What have you critiqued forgotten movies. There's this it's all being done. It's all done on so many YouTube channels. And my son watches them. Yeah. Because I'm like, why haven't I heard about this movie before? And and, because both of those movies, like, Everybody's Fine was made in 2009.

Like, it's it's an old De Niro. So how much time do we have? No, none. We'll talk movies next. All right. Not 49 on Newstalk 1079. And, if you'd like to reach us. (208) 542-1079 is the number to call. Julie, how are you? Good. I'm good. Yeah, I don't there's times that I feel bad because, sometimes people will call up and will defend ourselves or.

Yeah, we'll have a a very robust discussion. And I feel bad for the person because we do this for a living and they don't and some. And that doesn't always end up well for people. Yeah. I don't feel bad for our Ukraine caller, and I'm never going to feel bad for defending my position on that. I look, I, I've expressed my frustration with our senators.

Yeah, with Craig, bro. And Rick about us not having more transparency about where the money is going. So this is not a hidden view that I have. And guess what? It's not a singular view. Well, I have a lot of people that are in my corner. I know what most people are. Yeah. If if we were to go out and pull, 100 people who are news consumers, there's probably a lot of people, they just, you say Ukraine, they'll be like, is that a bird?

Anyway, so they're. Migraines. Migraine. We are. Crane.

Okay, so we had listeners who thought that was a staged call, that we planted that call. Look, the guy hates me. It just is what it is, and it's fine. And I go ahead and hate me, and I'm going to have this conversation, and I'm going to be brutal with you when you call. I also have an issue here when he says, I know a whole heck of a lot more than you do.

Well, okay, I we're not going to, you know, whip out and compare our, our knowledge here. That's not that's not the point of this. I, we consume lots and lots of news every day. We interview our U.S. senators every week and every other week. We follow the news very closely. And so I'm not like, the problem is people make a mistake that if you see it a different way, you're not as educated as I am.

Okay. That's a very, very foolish approach to take. And I have felt all along and here's, here's a scenario that I can see if we're going to talk like grown ups about Ukraine and not get petty about it and, and insult the other side. I think Donald Trump is going to be the president come January. Ukraine's probably going to be a top priority to address that.

I don't think Donald Trump wants to keep sending billions and billions and billions and giving Zelensky the blank check. Okay. I don't think that's going to happen. I do think Trump might allow one more infusion of cash to Ukraine with massive amounts of conditions on the money, and he'll say, this is it, and this is what you need to do with the money if you want to use it.

And in the meantime, this is the leverage I'm applying to Putin. This is the leverage I'm applying to you, Zelensky. It may end up in some kind of, a surrender to sacrifice whatever land or at least part of the land that that Russia has gained Ukraine, what's left of it joins NATO. And that means the gravy train stops.

The threat to that hemisphere stops, and Ukraine may have to give up part of their territory in order for that to happen. All that happens outside the purview of the way to solve this problem is to keep sending money to Ukraine. That's the problem you and I have had. It's not that we've sent money to Ukraine. We're not Nazis.

When it comes. I don't mean that term in the usual sense, but we're not like the police of foreign aid. That way we're not isolationists. Our problem is it just seems like it's an open ended, open checkbook for Ukraine. And that's our problem, is that there's no real sophisticated strategy from the Biden administration to bring an end to this.

And that's what we're going to get with Trump. Let's talk about his phrase that a Zelensky comes on hands and knees begging for money. Okay, I don't have to be a political expert. I watched it happen. He went in to the chamber and Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris held up a Ukraine flag behind him. Yes, that is not hands and knees.

That is not me making anything up. That is not me interpreting anything. I'm telling you factually. That is what happened. He walked into the chamber and on one side of the flag holding it was Nancy Pelosi. On the other side was Kamala Harris. That is not hands and knees. Yeah. Okay. That's just one part of the phone call to tell me that I don't understand world politics.

You're the one that is so clouded by whatever issue you have with Israel. And I'm not going to project on you, whatever that is. But whatever issue you have with Israel, you can't see plain facts. Yes. Yeah. No. Yeah. I would agree with you. He has no entitlement to the US tax dollars. No. None whatsoever. And if that triggers are Ukraine obsessed caller then then so be it.

But and I will say this, it may be of America's interest to bring stability to that part of the country. It might because of fuel prices, or there may be some geopolitical, national security reason why we want to to solve that problem. But the US Treasury and US taxpayer dollars are not charity and they shouldn't be. They should not be an expression solely of compassion.

Okay. There needs to be an American interest attached to the aid that we send out to other countries. Now you can always come up with some creative argument as to how it benefits us, but I mean a real tangible result to it. I think every dollar that goes out should have an expectation of a, of a result or a consequence to it.

Yes, and should be transparent. We should know where that money went. Yes. Agreed. Oh my word. We got a break. Okay, okay. We'll be right back after this. On Newstalk 1078. Okay, I got problems. Hold on. No, not like that. Julie. 56 okay, that leaves us with 41 seconds. Okay. You were telling a story and we had to go back on.

What was I saying about movies? Oh, okay. My grandson is not even two and a half yet, and he does talk really well for his age, but he has the same capability already that my son has. My son can walk out of a movie theater and quote a movie, and it's this weird, I don't know, this idiosyncrasy that he has, and he can quote movies that he hasn't seen for ten years, and he'll pull out a quote from it.

My my grandson is doing it like we're watching Grinch together and he's telling me what's coming next. He's saying the words of what's coming next in the movie. I it's got to be like DNA embedded right? I guess if I, you know, like is in, you got to figure out a way to use this superpower. Yeah. Hold on.

We got to go on. Hold another. All right. It's 958 on Newstalk 1079. Neal Larson along with Julie Mason and Julie. That's it's going to do it for the show today. Tomorrow though, we have Senator Crapo. Is that right? We do. Okay. All right. We'll see you then right around 730. And Senator Risch later this week also.

Yes. All right. On Thursday, back to business. And Mark Lee, VanCamp and Robbins coming up next on Newstalk 179, stimulating talk for East Idaho.