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On this episode with Neal and Julie, they dive into a whirlwind of topics spanning politics, cultural trends, and a dash of local flavor. They discuss Idaho's open meeting laws surrounding University of Idaho's purchase of the University of Pheonix. They talk about the dynamics surrounding Donald Trump's cabinet picks, potential Senate votes, and the media's contrasting approach to Republican versus Democratic administrations. Neal shares thoughts on loyalty in politics, particularly the scrutiny surrounding endorsements and alliances. Julie weighs in on the challenges of Obamacare's effect on health insurance, with both hosts exploring its long-term impact on the middle class and private sector workers.

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Transcript

And good morning. It's 807 on Newstalk 1079. Welcome to Friday. If you'd like to reach us, you can always send us a text to (208) 542-1079. A lot happening today. I want to usually we obviously we, tackle some big national issues. However, a great outcome for, Attorney General Raul Labrador yesterday and quite frankly, a great outcome for, the, I mean, I'm trying to find this story here, a great outcome for the state of Idaho in the, in the ruling from the Idaho Supreme Court, basically siding with the attorney general, that the meeting between the state Board of Education and the University of Phoenix violated Idaho's open meeting laws.

And it creates a big, big problem is already kind of on the rocks. There were lots of problems with it, and they essentially invalidated the meeting. And now it feels like the governor and maybe the state board is trying to keep hope alive in this particular situation. But I'm thinking, don't you really have to kind of go back to the drawing board?

I would think you would. But, one phrase that I really liked, one of the Supreme Court justices used was there's there was not a preference for sunshine. And the reason we have open meetings laws in Idaho is because we want to have a preference for sunshine to be as transparent as possible. But you have different bureaucrats, different elected leaders, different people with different philosophies, philosophies where you have some who honor the spirit of sunshine laws, trying to create as much sunshine and transparency as possible.

But then you have another approach which is as little as is legally required. And that's when you get in the danger zone. In my opinion. So kudos to the attorney general and kudos to the the Idaho Supreme Court. I didn't know how this was going to turn out because I think there's sort of an anti Labrador sentiment among some circles.

And I'm not always all that hopeful. So the point is it must have truly, obviously undeniably been a violation of the open meetings laws. So, that such a weird deal we all remember that when that happened, they're like, oh yeah, there's going to happen now. University of Phoenix getting purchased by U of I. How did that happen so quickly.

So we have that. We also had lots of fireworks on Capitol Hill yesterday. This is from a house hearing. Ronald Ro or Rao is the acting director of the Secret Service. And he showed up at the 911 anniversary event that had Trump. It had Biden and Kamala Harris other maybe. I don't remember who was all there, but you had some high level VIPs there and there he was sort of standing in the midst of all of them.

And there's this concern that he was just sort of wanting to take the job permanently. He's only the acting director right now, which is not as prestigious or as secure as being the director, obviously. So you have representative Pat Fallon asking some questions about, were you there? Did you have a gun? Did you have radio? Were you actively working?

Like, what were you doing at, exactly at that event? Because it didn't really look like you were doing security and it went from 0 to 100 within just a couple of seconds. So let me play this for people that have died on nine over 11. Well, I need to play the the earlier stuff because the questioning of this guy was met with I was at nine, 11 and it's a somber day and special agent in charge of the detail.

Were you the special agent in charge of the detail that day? Actually, let me address this. Could you please staff leave? Oh, no. Thank you. So actually, Congressman, what you're not seeing is the sac of the detail of out of the pictures view. And that is the day where we remember the more than 3000 people that have died on nine over 11.

I actually responded to ground zero. I was there going through the ashes at the World Trade Center. I was there at Fresh Kills. I'm not asking you to kind of go and to see what you just did. I didn't show up to show respect. Not for our Secret Service to die. I don't know what you're trying to be.

You got invoked 911 for political purposes. Oh, God. Not. I'm invoking this war. So you are under. I would like to ask him a quick please. You are telling me. Don't tell me. Under elected member of Congress. And I'm asking you a serious question, and you are a public servant who has served this nation, and you won't even question on our day on our country's deficit.

Me will come back. Okay, so, I, yeah, it's spun out of control very, very quickly. But I kind of understand Pat Fallon's frustration here. You have one thing. And the example that I used to. Julie, I asked Julie if, you know, she had asked me a question. And the question was, did you eat the last cookie?

And so she said, did you eat the last cookie? And my reaction to that was, my father passed away two years ago. Like, there's sort of this distraction to create this unassailable point that you can't defend against, but you're not actually answering the question, like, I appreciate whatever you did to help the country on 9/11. That's wonderful. The service that you've given is great, but that is not a reason to not answer these questions about how the Secret Service is functioning, how it's working, and how it's operating.

And if you have an acting Secret Service director who's actually there to kind of schmooze and pave the way for him to take the permanent job, he probably shouldn't have the permanent job. And I think that's the point that Pat Fallon is trying to make here is that, look, we've had two legitimate assassination attempts against Donald Trump since this summer.

You grease in the skids for your future career is not something you should be doing. We want to make sure that our elected leaders are protected and that they are safe, and that we protect our republic and this guy, whoever he is already. I would say no to him taking the job because he needs to answer those questions of what he was doing, what his role was, and what was the level of security on that day.

So turn now they scream, that's not we're only halfway through the screaming. And so it it continued for work service. Mr. Fallon, you're not perfect protective. Are you an expert because you want to be visible. Because you are listening for the respect for a full member of this agency. You were just out of line 5 or 7, vice president, out of this life.

Because you are. But you okay, so they keep screaming for a moment. Finally, the time's up. They've got to go to the Democrat side. And I have to tell you, that was hilarious. Listen to this. This guy did, sir. And you are out of line. Chairman. Mr. chairman, Mr. chairman. Yes, sir. Please. All right. And we we're back fully.

We are back in order. Thank you, Mr. Moskowitz. You are now recognized for five minutes. Okay. So, Moskowitz, he pauses and he kind of looks around the room and lets it hang there for a second, and then he goes, okay, like, where do we go from here? And very funny ending, though. The room started to actually chuckle and laugh after that because everybody needed a little tension there.

But yeah, yeah. The, the, tempers ran high on that. You also had Pete Hegseth, which I'm, I'm watching this. And any time you see a firestorm happening in, in Washington and it's aimed on one person, sometimes they deserve it, sometimes they don't. But there's always a question of will they survive it? Or are they going to walk through the fire and make it out unscathed and we saw that Matt Gates didn't make it.

All right. Now, not that's not a slight on him. It was just the process. Maybe Trump wanted to go a different direction and Matt Gates was willing to go through it, but he didn't make it. So they went to Pam Bondi. That's probably going to be a fairly uncontroversial confirmation, but you have Pete Hegseth, and the tone and tenor around Pete Hegseth has been, well, gaining steam and gaining intensity.

And I started to wonder, is he going to make it? Will he will he get through this? And if you had asked me a couple of days ago, I probably would have said, I don't think he's going to make it. I think there's usually the if you look at the track record of when things get this intense, they don't make it through.

However, I'm starting to change how I view this. I think he's going to be a fine defense secretary. In fact, if he makes it through this process, he'll probably be better than he would have been had he not gone through it. Because these kinds of things make you tough. You've got to have very, very thick skin. He addressed the media yesterday and he said all the right things in handling a situation like this.

I'm proud of what I fought for. I'm not going to back down from them one bit. I will answer all of these senators questions, but this will not be a process tried in the media. I don't answer to anyone in this group, none of you. Not to that camera at all. I answer to President Trump, who received 76 million votes on behalf and a mandate for change.

I answer to the 50, the 100 senators who are part of this process and those in the committee, and answer to my Lord and Savior and my wife and my family, I'm proud to be here. As long as Donald Trump wants me in this fight, I'm going to be standing right here in this fight, fighting to bring our Pentagon back to what it needs to be.

What have you written? Okay. And then they try to pepper him with questions, but this is the way you handle it. We've learned in the age of cancel culture. And in that you never, ever, under any circumstances, apologize and let them win. And Pete Hegseth stood there, looked right at Adams and said, I do not answer to you.

You can have your opinions, you can say whatever you want. I don't answer to you. I'm president at this point. I'm President Trump's nominee. I'm his pick. And you're not part of the decision making chain. You can what say what you will, but you have no official part. I loved it, I thought that's that's exactly what you do.

And I think after a while the for a minute the press will amp up their, their hostility. But when they realize when you have someone like that, you got a spine of steel and thick skin and they push back and say, I don't answer to you. After a while there, they realize, he doesn't answer to them. And, and they go in, they try to find some other victim that they can shred.

And that's how this this game works. And so he's doing the right things. We'll see. Again, I feel a lot more confident that he's got a good shot at this. I think it's going to be very, very difficult for, any Republican senator to vote against him. And not just because the, you know, there will be an overwhelming backlash, but I think that it's it's going to be tough simply because you you look at the roll, especially with cabinet picks, the press seems when it's a Republican president, they seem to want to treat it like, well, look, the Republican president elect can put forward some ideas, but this is the Senate's decision to make.

That's not really how it's designed to be. This is the president's choice. And the Senate is expected to confirm the president's choice. And unless there is something so glaring, so outrageous, so wrong with a nominee, it's really advise and consent. Okay? They can give advise, but it's not a proven disapprove. It's advise and consent. So it's got to be pretty over-the-top for any Republican to say no.

And I think it's morphed. And it depending on the circumstances. I think some people view it as well. This is now the Senate's opportunity to stop Donald Trump. Now, they can they could vote against it. But I think they're deviating from the the spirit of their role in this process. If they do that there there should be only overwhelming reasons to say no to this.

And you start with, yes, you start with approval. And then if there's an overwhelming reason to say no, then you can talk about it. But I think the Democrats want to start at no. And then put the burden on the Republicans and on Trump to prove that these nominees are so qualified that they that they go through. That's really not how it's supposed to work, even though that's the way it's being pitched.

To to you. All right. It's 821 on Newstalk 1079. I want one more clip here before I cut you loose. And this is going to come as a great deal of disappointment to some people. But Mike Johnson is basically telling, and I hope he holds to this. He doesn't always hold to things sometimes. Mike Johnson, likes to cave a little bit.

But he is saying, look, we're we're not going to attach Ukraine funding to the CR. Donald Trump, the the latest results from the American people are that they want Donald Trump to determine the policy in the future of America. That's who we're going to defer to their developments by the hour in Ukraine. I think as we predicted and as I said to all of you two weeks before the election, if Donald Trump is elected, it will change that.

The dynamic of the Russia war on Ukraine. And we're seeing that happen. So it is not the place of Joe Biden to make that decision. Now we have a newly elected president, and we're going to wait and take the new commander in chief's direction on all of that. So I don't expect any Ukraine funding to come on. All right.

I like that take. I hope he holds to it. It's 823 on Newstalk 179. We'll be back just ahead. Also, we're about ten minutes away from our studio for cover. The McMurphy brothers this morning.

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Some old friends of ours, the McMurphy brothers, are here. We've got Kenny and Danny. Thanks for joining us, gentlemen. Thanks for having us. Yeah, we're very excited. I know it's been a few years, but we've had you in studio before performing, and I guess. Tell us a little bit about yourselves. I know you guys, perform quite a bit.

You've been around quite a while, so a lot of our audience is probably already familiar. But for those who aren't. Tell us a little bit about yourselves. Well, it's, between my brother Danny and, we, when we go out and play, we play, like, a lot of traditional Irish music, classic rock. And, our favorite thing to do is we love writing songs.

And, well, I can write a song, but when Danny's involved, it elevates it to another level. Gotcha. So there's a synergy there. They just. For sure. Yeah. So it's a brother thing. That's good. Well, you're going to perform a little Elton John for us. Yeah. That's good. Tell us about why you chose this song. So Yellow Brick Road has always been one of my favorite songs.

And, this one in particular, when I, when I saw the movie about Elton John's life and the relationship that he had with, Bernie Taupin, the, his lyricist, it was interesting. I never pictured the song being written from Bernie's point of view, that he was talking about Elton John. When are you going to come down? When are you going to land?

Yeah, I should have stayed on the farm. And so when I heard it, it just gave the song a different perspective. Okay. And, just love it, you know, just me and Danny, we get along probably like, 15% of the time. But the fact that, you know, you work together and it's, it's, that relationship that you have that actually puts feeling and emotion in something in the music.

And I think that's what was happening between, Elton John and Bernie Taupin during that time. Okay. So this is part of a your set that you do. Yeah. This is we we throw this in there. Yeah. That's that's great. Well, fun. Tell us about you know you're obviously performing a lot out in the community. Can people find out more about you and how would you have them do that.

Yeah. So we have we have, music on all the different streams from Apple Music to Spotify, to iTunes. And so you can find our, music out there and, we really, love what we did last time. Just it kind of was, our fingerprints on the music. And, when we did, a little, EP called three and, we did that a couple of years ago, and we're working in the studio right now to get some more music out by the beginning of the year.

Okay. And tell us a little bit about that, that process, because I know you guys love music. You love making music and you're doing a cover today, but you do a lot of original stuff too. We do. Yeah, that's what we really that's kind of our passion in our heart as we love, the, the writing, music and stuff is, yeah, kind of what brings life to, I think, the both of us.

So once you drop that music this early this next year, how can people find that? Because they're going to want to if they haven't heard you perform today, they're going to be like, I got to make a note of that. Yeah. And so, when we when you get it released, it'll be released on all the music platforms out there from YouTube to Spotify to iTunes, camel music and stuff.

So just search McMurphy brothers. McMurphy brothers. We. Yeah, we're on Facebook. Okay. We have a web page and stuff like that. And so. All right, you guys ready to play? I think so, all right. Ready. Dan Kenny and Danny Murphy see how young 30 in the morning does? I know vocal chords would be great. All right. Here we go.

When are you gonna come down? When are you gonna land? I should have stayed on the farm. Should have listened to my old man. You know you can't hold me forever. I didn't sign up for you. Nah. Present for your friends. Too old is boys. Too young to be singing the blues. So goodbye yellow brick road.

Where the dogs of society have. You can't let me in your band house I'm going back to my club. Back to the howling old island. The words hang on about town. You know I finally decided. My future lies beyond the yellow brick road. Oh. So what do you think you'll do that? I'll bet I'll shoot down the pay.

It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics, set you on your feet again, and maybe you'll get a replacement. There's many like me to be found. Mongrels who ain't got a penny. Sniff and talk to a bitch like you on the grind. So goodbye, yellow brick road. Where the dogs of society now can't let me in your penthouse I'm going back to my brown.

Back to the howling old howling words I'm a horny back town. Oh, you know I've finally decided. My future lies beyond the yellow brick road. Oh, whoa! Kenny and Danny McMurphy. The McMurphy brothers. Wonderful job. Thank you. Sir, I was getting messages on my phone while you were singing. Oh, so I sent here. We. Sure. Thank you for having us out.

So thank you for coming in. It's 843 now on Newstalk 179 live local, stimulating talk for East Idaho, the Neal Larson Show on Newstalk 179. Hello, this is Rick Stewart from Newstalk 107.9 with my good friend Mitch Loveland from stones Kia. Mitch, what is going down at Stone's Kia right now? I hear the year end deals are amazing with our seasons of new tradition.

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I thought that version was way better than Elton John's version. And great job. And they love your style. So yeah, we were talking about them after they exited the studio because, you know, that's what we're going to do. Yeah. And I the it's just so smooth. It seems effortless when you listen to them. And that's one of my favorite things about the big Murphy brothers.

They're totally comfortable. Like there was no just smooth nervousness at all. So yeah. Good job. Yeah we appreciate it. And by the way, if you missed it or you want to see it later, it's always available on our Facebook Live which we then archived. So you can go back to our Facebook and and watch it. So yeah yeah.

And our apologies that we said it was the Beatles earlier this. We just weren't thinking it's the yellow that got me. It was 6:00. Got us. Cut us some slack. That's true. It was early. Our brains weren't quite up yet. All that caffeine hadn't kicked in to Neal yet. Not. Not yet? No. Not yet. So, Julie. Okay, we have to talk about this because I'm.

I'm a little bit confused here. The. I hate transitioning into politics, by the way, after that, but we have to. Yeah. The host of call Her Daddy was on with the New York Times, and I just part of the story in the controversy around Kamala Harris was they dropped 100 grand to build a set for one single episode, an interview with the Call Her Daddy podcast.

And I'm still unclear. Listen, there's a little bit of controversy about that podcast because you do you know that this now was in DC. This interview happened in DC. Yeah, in a hotel? Yeah. Not in a hotel. It was like a random house. Was like random house. But apparently you can tell me they spent money. The Harris campaign spent, like, $100,000.

I didn't know about this. It's to build the studio. Yeah, not true. To make it look like it was the studio that you used in LA. My studio that is gorgeous in Los Angeles. Doesn't even cost six figures. So I don't know how cardboard walls could cost six figures, but. But do you think they did that? I mean, you saw solutely not with love to them.

Oh my God, it was gorgeous. But like it wasn't that nice. Oh it wasn't like gorgeous marble like. No, that was not six figures. Okay. She just threw them under the bus and we talked about this. Somebody said maybe 5 or 6 grand at the most for that set. But the Kamala Harris campaign reported a $100,000 expenditure on that.

Who got the money? Where'd the money go? I have no idea. And is this how all of it worked that they, there was extra money padded into everything to somehow pay off a group of people or whatever. I, I, I mean with that, even without this interview, everyone who knows anything about a construction said there's no way that set cost $100,000.

Yeah. No way. And now she's saying absolutely it was cardboard walls. It was in a random house in like, there's no way it cost that. Where'd the money go, Kamala? You we just keep asking about this. Is the DNC going to be investigated? Okay. Well you have I think the either former current finance guy for the DNC says we need to do an audit.

Good as it should. Maybe that's a little CYA on his part, but I think because I remember seeing that going, first of all, why would you drop a 100 grand on that? But number two, everybody said there's no way that cost 100 grand. You could have picked up everything that was in that studio at HomeGoods for under $5,000.

Yeah, and it big lots for under 1000.

Yeah, maybe, maybe maybe the chairs for sure. Yeah, I got you. But no like it's I and I and I hope but you're right though this might just be one thing out of a thousand different transactions that were similar where they just padded it and it was a way for them to funnel money to their friends. Yeah. I mean, we talked yesterday about usher and how he went on The View and said, no, I, I'm a I'm a performer.

I do not, you know, endorse. Then a week later he's on the campaign trail with Kamala Harris. Okay. Was there some kind of a deal made there? Hey, we'll pay off this debt for you or we'll take care of this for you if you come and endorse like. Or was it? We have video of you and you better get out.

Like all of those things need to be looked into. Yeah. And here's one of the frustrating things for me. There's been a word that's been used repeatedly over the last two weeks by the mainstream media. They're calling the people that Trump is choosing for his positions loyalists, as if that's dirty. Yeah, Kamala Harris was paying people off for endorsements, and that somehow that's not as dirty to the mainstream media as somebody who's just loyal and believes in the leadership practices of Donald Trump.

That's a really good, you know, what the media's take would be on this, Julie, as you as you said that I'm thinking through this. They would say, Trump, you're getting for free what other people have to pay for it, right? Yeah. Okay. That's corruption and that's dirty, right? You get support from celebrities for free. Wow. Wait, I should advise the DNC.

Well, I've teased all the time that I was going to give. If I ever gave a Ted talk, it would be the lack of loyalty and logic. Yeah, we don't even have those characteristics anymore in America. No. So I joke all the time, if I was going to give a Ted talk, that's what it would be about. And look, the mainstream media is making fun of the concept that people are loyal.

Yeah, right. That's true. It's lacking. The mainstream media is making it. They're turning it villainous. Well, and, you know what? That we have enough time. Let's play the Olivia Troye, clip here. She's a mike pence guy, an anti Trumper. She said some nasty things about Kash Patel, and now Kash Patel says you better apologize or I'm suing you.

So that's kind of the backstory here. But listen to she uses that word loyalist listen to kind of the spitting disdain that she has. My question is, I have not done anything wrong. I know that, and I know that many of us who have just spoken the truth, all we're doing is speaking the truth. But in today's environment, in terms of what's to come under the Trump administration, I think that's something that we're all thinking about and wondering what's to come.

And I think I am a prime example of what's to come when I've already gotten a threatening letter by someone like Kash Patel, who we know is a loyalist and a henchman for Donald Trump. She paired it with henchman loyalist Anna Henchman. Yeah, you're right about that. They've taken that word and we've heard it enough. We've seen it on the lower third on, on anti-Trump networks there.

That's now an epithet to be a loyalist. Yeah. It's the new racist, the new bigot. You're a loyalist. Like it equates to fascist. Yeah. Racist. Yep. You're a loyalist Yeah. I'm going to look it up. Yeah, yeah. I mean, for me, the purity of that is that if I'm loyal or I'm a loyalist, maybe there's a negative connotation that the person can do whatever they want to, and you're still going to be loyal to them.

I would rather have people be loyal than cheating and back stabbing all of the time. Yeah. The meaning of loyalist is one who is or remains loyal, especially to a political cause, party, government or sovereign. Oh, how horrible can you imagine in realty? What a horrible, horrible attribute. There's dishonesty, there's corruption, and now loyalty. Wait, how dare they?

Eight deadly sins. Yes, it's the eighth deadliest sin. Yeah, like that right there. That's the name we marked out. Seven. Let's add loyalist is number eight. Greed, lust, envy, loyalty.

How dare they? I need to go to my bishop and confess something. I've been. What is it? I've been loyal, Bishop. Well, how many times have you been loyal? Daily? Twice in the last month. It was really bad. The first time I was very. I was way too loyal.

I have indulged in loyalty, Bishop. Okay. I'm not going to heaven. I'm, I'm really bad. And you know what? I think we should ask our audience. How many times have you been loyal in the last week? And don't let the mainstream media get Ahold of it, because, yeah, they'll out you. Yeah, yeah. My mom caught me being loyal one time.

And then she told my dad. Right. It's terrible.

Okay, we probably, you know, we should take a break here for this.

Coming up, we should have a flash, but we. Surely we're not going to have that flash ball. But, we we could have a flash poll in the next hour. Pete Hegseth. What'd you think of his reply? I think it's great. He deserves to defend himself. Yeah, he is. I think he may survive this, actually, Julie, I think what it was.

Republican senators know they need to vote for Trump's picks. They know what life is going to be like if they don't. But they didn't want to have to face it. So they were hoping that the media would defeat him as a nominee before they had to be faced with the vote. That's my take on it. Yeah. All right.

It's 858 on Newstalk 107 nine hour two coming up, this is.

All right. 907 on Newstalk 179, our two underway and I want to give out to you the fall River propane call and text line (208) 542-1079. And, Julie, I'm trying to be more fickle in my life, but because loyalty is just a bad habit, and I've been working hard at being more fickle. So anyway, I don't know about you where you're at on the loyalty fickle scale, but, yeah.

You know, I don't know if it's really fickle, but I try at least once a day to stab somebody in the back. It's, you know, it makes the day a little bit better. So that's my goal. You know, drink 80oz of water, get in my exercise, stab somebody in the back. It's, you know, part of a healthy lifestyle.

You do that. Are you eating kale while you stab somebody in the back? You can't ask me. I actually like kill. Okay. No, you do not. You know you don't. I like a kale salad, I really do. I'm sorry. We're just never going to agree on food. I don't I don't think we can work together anymore.

The famous, clip. Well, now, famous for me anyway, Senator John Kennedy. Kale. Tastes like I'd rather be fat. Did we ever play that clip? Oh, yeah, I think I think you're on vacation. I think you were. Anyway, he was on with Hannity or somebody, and he said, well, kale tastes like I'd rather be fat. And.

He was making fun of the left and how they carry around Ziploc bags with kale in it. And, you really like kale. You dip it in hummus. It's not like I have it every week, but if there was a kale salad, I would get it. I would be great with that as my side. And no, I don't dip it in hummus and and look, we we're about split in our audience by half.

The audience likes hummus, and about the half does it. I was shocked yesterday because we were having this discussion about food. And Marv, of all people, was in the studio, and I told him about John Kennedy, said, rather be fat joke. And then I told him, I said, yeah, Julian, I have this ongoing feud about hummus. And Marv, let me ask you, what do you think?

He, I think he likes it. He's like, oh, I love hummus. Yeah. He's like, you have to season it. You have to have the right. Oh, I love garlic all like it. It just tons of garlic in the hummus. Oh. So good. Well, to make it palatable, you do have to put that in there. So yes, you're right.

Well, by the way, meat is better seasoned than it. Pasta is better seasoned. And. Yeah. All right. It's an answer. It's okay. It's not a deal killer in terms of a relationship. I can be your friend, okay. Even if you like hummus. So it is a it is a ding against you. But it's okay. There's still more upside.

So the McMurphy brothers, I was talking to them during your monologue and they said, well, we decided to start singing again because we're back on speaking terms or something. Like, they were just joking. Yeah. And, I said, oh, you've been in good company, Neal. And I can relate. I said, when Neal starts mouthing off, I just throw my pen across the desk at him and he goes, oh, I hope you do that a lot.

Let's see. I what is it? Somebody tell me, because I draw ridicule from people who don't ridicule people. Oh, yeah. Is it just my personality like they I think they just share in the one they want to see the conflict. Yeah, I think that's what it is. That's good. No, I love they like the conflict. They're they're great.

Okay. So far we have a hummus hater and a kale hater. Okay. They said I hate kale so much. I've never been able to bring myself to try it. They don't. Even though it tastes like, hummus is right at home inside a dirty diaper. Speaking of killing hummus. Gosh, you people, you can't read that one. I can't read that one.

But you can make something taste great if you put enough ranch on it, okay? And I don't I don't use ranch. So there we go. See me in this person. We're not gonna we're not going to vibe. Can I make a confession? I put ranch on weird stuff. Like, like, oh, I maybe this isn't weird. I don't like.

I think in some crowds, it's not weird. In other crowds, it'd be like, you're doing what? Like, I will put a little bit of ranch dressing on a turkey sandwich, like, instead of. That's weird. That's not weird. That's not where. Especially if you don't put the mayonnaise on it. Yeah, I don't, that's why. Yeah. If if I'm like, you know what?

It's the same thing. It's white and creamy and savory and I'm just going to put it on there.

What are you laughing was like, I gotta have something white and creamy. I'm out of ranch. I'm out of mayo. Sour cream. Here we go. Look, I never put sour horseradish. Here we go. Yeah. Someone says they love hummus, and they have kale every day in their green smoothie. Okay, okay. Three strikes and you're out. Okay. Hummus and kale and a smoothie.

A green smoothie, no less. Do you drink it while you're sitting in your Subaru? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I also drink a green drink. And you think that's disgusting? Yeah. Call it hippie juice. It does smell like dirt. The green drink that I do drink does smell like. Okay, see, now we're making progress. At least you're honest about that.

That one. I'd rather have dirt on the Clintons than eat kale.

I know off you, so I would be careful with that one. Yeah. That's true. Okay, let's get down to business here. (208) 542-1079 we'd love to hear from you. Today doesn't have to be about kale or hummus or green smoothies or Subarus, but, we love our callers to chime in on what's happening in the news. We have some really interesting stuff, Julie.

In California, they are raising the minimum wage for fast food workers to 20 bucks. And guess what happens? Thousands of fast food workers have been fired, laid off, let go because the business model doesn't support it. Yeah, they either close the restaurants or the restaurants. Figured out how to work with less employees. And and so you're you they've lost thousands of jobs for these people.

How'd that work out for you? How? I their policies are just insanity that they. And then they can do mental gymnastics to convince the people that it was actually good. Yeah, but. Well, it's true. And, you know, it's weird because you have Gavin Newsom, who sometimes Gavin Newsom can be rational. And I think it's more not that he's rational, but he's able to read the room and sort of pull off looking rational.

But certainly he is smart enough to know there are some business models that simply don't pencil out if you force the cost of labor to be so high, it pushes the the price of your product beyond what people are going to want to pay. And you just can't be in business that way. Yeah. But I think the mental gymnastics that they do with that is that they're like oh no no no nobody wants to do these jobs anyways.

But if we raise it then people will want to work the jobs as if the jobs are magically always going to be there. That's the that's the the little piece of the puzzle that they miss. Yeah. They just operate under the assumption the jobs will always be there. The restaurants will won't close. They do the same thing with the laws that they changed in San Francisco, where you could go in and still up to $900 of product from a place like Walgreens and walk out, and they're not allowed to call the cops on you.

Okay, well what happens? You're just naturally assuming that Walgreens is always going to be in existence. It's not. They closed multiple CVS and Walgreens in that area, because your laws made it impossible for the business model to work. Yeah, there's no reason why any store would stay open if that's if that's the law. It's weird. It's almost like and I remember this discussion while we were debating Obamacare before it was passed into law, and I think it was Rand Paul who made the point very, very well that you cannot force people to provide medical care.

So if if your premise is health care is a right. Okay. Somebody might say that I don't know who would say that, but they'd say health care's a right just like that. And we're not all millionaires and billionaires with mittens on their hands, right? That's true. Mittens on their hand sit in the cold mountain. So you say that if that's a right, then you have to force people to provide the health care.

Yeah, and you can't conscript doctors. You can't conscript people into providing this service that they say now the state has to provide for people. So how does how does that work? And that that is and the way it was articulated was much better than what I just said. But that was the basic point. And so when you when you look at that and I completely forgot how this ties into the overall point here, but I promise you, there was a point.

It did. It'll come back to me. It will come back to me. Take a swig of your drink. Should I tell them my my issue about the Reddit feed and the CEO executive? Oh, yeah. Go ahead. Yeah, yeah. So I was I was doing some research last night. I ran across the daily, Daily Beast article about a Reddit feed.

And if you ever want to enter the most brutal realms of the internet, do a deep dive into Reddit about some subject people do not hold back. And this Reddit feed was horrific about the health care CEO that was killed murdered in New York City a couple of days ago. Basically, it was person after person making a post about how, health care doesn't work for them and they're making fun of did you get pre authorize before you were murdered or just.

Yeah, snarky comments, snarky comments about the man making $10 million a year, snarky comments about how health care is horrible, all of it. And I had a I had a reaction to that going, okay, I know we're we're in a really negative place as a culture, and that's part of this. We're just negative in general as a culture.

But if Obamacare, if the Affordable Care Act is so darn good, this Reddit feed could not be this robust because what it says is it's not working. Insurance rates aren't working. You are celebrating the fact that a CEO got murdered because you hate how you hate medical insurance. Yeah, okay. Now that's not all inclusive. There's many, many other problems included in there.

But I don't like the fact that if you talk to anybody on the left, they consistently celebrate this concept that the Affordable Health Care Act saved health care in America. No it didn't. It made it far worse. It it made it way worse for a good chunk of the population. Yes. Yeah. And, well, you bring up a good point.

You know, my basic analogy for socialism, which is it at first appears to work because, you have a lot of people pulling the cart and a small handful of people in the cart, but over time, people get tired of pulling the cart when they can just get in. And right. And they don't have to put forward effort.

It's easier to ride. So over time, you transfer people from being the producers, the people pulling the cart to being takers and the people in the cart. It it happens time and time and time again. Well, the the premiums are super high now for people who are out trying to make a living and work hard. They have to pay way more because you have more people who are riding in the cart, and there's an increasing number of people that are going to be riding in the cart.

Look, in Idaho Medicaid expansion, remember all the promises that were given out. Yeah. And how it's going to save taxpayers money. It's going to save counties from having indigent funds. It's going to do all these wonderful things. There were no downsides at all. And there were wiser voices out there saying, no, these costs are going to skyrocket, but especially once you get into this by a few years and you're going to have more people signing up than what's in the gap.

Because what happens when you fill the gap? You have people making it just a little bit too much money. They go to their boss and they'll say, I need you to pay me a little less, so then I can fall into Medicaid eligible or cut my hours. Yes. Or whatever. Whatever it is, however you get there, you need to pay me a little less.

And so it attracted more people to it. We knew it was going to happen. They told us it wouldn't happen. Well now what is one of the biggest challenges that the Idaho Legislature has, figuring out how to continue to pay for the Medicaid that got expanded back in 2018? Yeah, I think that was the year. Yeah, it was 2018.

And now it's it's the runaway costs. It's the same thing with Obamacare when you incentivize dependents, then the the costs and the prices get higher for the people pulling the cart, the producers, they're going to have to pay more because it's more there's more people in the cart and it's more expensive. And who's who's going to be saddled with paying that.

Well insurance premiums are part of it costs it at hospitals. Go up like there's a whole bunch of other things that, that that get altered to make that adjustment for Obamacare. But one of them is the people who, work very, very hard, especially independent business owners, small business owners, man, they take the biggest hit because there's an expectation that they provide insurance for their employees, but they're a small business and that insurance is private insurance.

And those private insurance rates are astronomical. Yeah, yeah they are. Thank you, Barack Obama. Let's go to the phones. 208542127 and good morning, Carla, how are you? Hi. The average private sector full time worker needs to pay about $15,000 per year to pay for other people's Medicaid and Medicare. That's how the numbers shake out. And so I call those people the forgotten man and the forgotten woman.

I my practice. This is Doctor Jim Philippi. I'm here for the forgotten man and the forgotten woman that gets up every day and goes to work to pay and is taxed to pay for other people's Medicare and Medicaid. And there's not enough left to pay to buy their own health insurance. The average individual premium per year now is $7,500, and for a family is 24,000.

So there is not enough left after being taxed that much. Yeah, by their own health insurance. So they need affordable solutions for their own needs. I'm here for the forgotten man. Yeah. And for those who aren't familiar with your business model you don't even deal with insurance. It's just private pay. But because you don't have that overhead you don't have some of the exorbitant prices that some of the other providers can can charge.

Right. Vastly less, probably a third of what they charge. That's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Well thank you for sharing that. And he's not wrong. There's plenty of times as we have shopped insurance that I have felt like the forgotten woman. Yeah. At least the insurance premiums that we paid when we had two daughters at home that were in child birthing years.

So if you have a 17 year old and an a 19 year old on your insurance wish. Yeah, the the rates for private insurance for those kids are I mean it was just and when he says 24,000 a year I was actually paying more for that when I had two daughters on insurance when there was four of us.

Nuts. Yeah. More than $24,000 a year. Yeah. That's crazy. Just crazy. All right. (208) 542-1079. If you'd like to join us on the program. And, it is Friday. So, you're not only allowed, you're encouraged to, bring up a new topic, something maybe we haven't discussed. Thus far today. Back after this. Okay, see, this is something Lisa just brought up.

An interesting thing that happened with Obamacare, which is it tied the hands of small businesses. So she said it didn't work out well for their business. It became complicated. We preferred to give our employees a yearly cash bonus to get their own insurance, and they their employees liked that. But once Obamacare was put into place, you can't do that anymore.

You don't, you don't. You'll be breaking the law if you do that. Yeah. What what was the number of employees that you once you had that many you had to provide insurance for them. I don't, I don't remember. Yeah. I don't remember I feel like my husband has provided insurance for his employees since the very onset of Obamacare.

Yeah. And I, I might be remembering that wrong but I think so. Well it I'm a little surprised as expensive as it is that this hasn't become a bit of a bigger political issue, but it really wasn't talked about in a way. I think it can't become a there's no fix. We're so entrenched in it, so deep into Obamacare, it is going to take decades and small changes to get yourself back up and out.

It's not something you can just cut the legs out from underneath. Right? I know it's part of the fabric. Yeah. So I think that that's why they never talk about it. Because it's going to be these little teeny baby movements where we have t shirts to give away. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. I think we might only have one.

So you hummus people. Sorry. So Travis, his name is Travis right. Yes. Travis. Okay. We're going to go back on here. Sorry we had to step away to get a picture with Travis. So we'll explain it here in a second.

It's coming up on 930 on Newstalk 1079. Julie that was fun. So we had a contest leading up to the election for our listeners. They had to guess how many electoral votes they thought Trump would get. We had dozens and dozens coming. Maybe a couple hundred. I don't even remember what the total count was. We had five.

And if you guessed it accurately and you had to guess exactly the number this year, 312, we had five people guessed 312. They won a t shirt that said I guess the red and blue or something like that. And Travis, one of our faithful listeners, stopped in to grab his, winning t shirt. So we had to run out and take a picture with him.

So. Yeah. Travis. Yeah, yeah. One of our hand folded guess 312 correctly is awesome. And a cute t shirt. Yeah, really? It's a baseball t loved it. Yeah, yeah, it was good. So, anyway, we've already given out, I think 2 or 3. Now we've got a couple more that we're trying to. I wanted all five of them in, but incidentally, it's hard to coordinate everybody.

It's very hard. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Would and Fridays are usually better days. But we even struggle to get people in. Like they have to take time off work to come sing for us or whatever. So it's true. Yeah. Travis is self-employed, so yeah, he talked to the boss and it was all good. Yeah, good. I we, I don't know if you got phone calls, but we do have a couple of open line questions on the text.

I want to do them. Sure. Go first. One open line Friday question. Do you think Biden will throw out a bunch of blanket pardons for his friends? If he does, what are the implications to the left? I think he will. I think Fauci's probably going to get one. I think Schiff will get one. I mean, he lied.

Schiff just lied. And they want to keep him in that Senate seat. Yes they do. So, yeah, I, I think there was one other one, because Cheney was the other name floated maybe, what crime do they think she committed? Destruction of evidence. Because in the way, January 6th. Yeah, the January 6th, stuff like that. Yeah.

He could and I mean, he he absolutely said he wasn't going to do that for Hunter. Although here's the thing. And I think you have to understand, he will not simply do it because he likes them and they're on his team. He will only do it if it will enrich the Biden crime family. That's the only way he's going to.

He's going to do that because he knows this is a massive blow to his legacy to to do this. So I think it depends on what what they can pony up. Yeah. What what is the money payoff going to be. Yeah. Yeah. And I have my own open Line Friday question. Okay. All right. And I just want your hot take on this.

This United Health Care CEO was murdered two days ago. Yeah, we know he arrived from Georgia. We know the bus he rode on. We know the hostel. He stayed out. We know he stayed with two men. We know he got coffee at Starbucks slightly before, shooting the guy we know. They think they've narrowed down where he purchased the gun from.

Okay, all those things. After two days, why don't we know more about the man who shot Donald Trump? That's a really good point, I. Okay, I was not expecting that. I thought we were going to talk more about the health care CEO shooting. Well, didn't they go in and clean out all the evidence from that house? Did you see it?

It's just one more factor for me that makes the whole assassination more fishy. I think that we would be naive and foolish to not keep all the potential options on the table. All right? And now, that doesn't mean I believe every conspiracy theory. And I go down every rabbit hole. However, there was one story that appeared for about two days in the wake of Butler, Pennsylvania, and it was the Heritage Foundation that examined cell phone data.

They found someone who has a cell phone, who frequents the FBI in Washington, DC was making visits to. I don't even remember the kid's name. Probably wouldn't say it if I did, but went to that home and his home multiple times. This kid also was working out at a gym where a bunch of FBI agents were known to work out, and shooting at a range, yes, where some government officials were shooting guns.

Yes. Right. Exactly. So you you put all of that together. We we don't know what happened, but we know that there's enough there that we need to keep asking questions. And so if we don't know anything, we also know that kid had a couple of different highly encrypted secret overseas bank accounts. I know 20 year olds that come from a lower socioeconomic status, and they're on the margins of society, don't have overseas bank accounts.

So there's all sorts of weird about this. The fact that he was able to get up on that roof that close to Donald Trump is also very, very, very sketchy. So again, you start to see these things and you're like, yeah, we we need to find out more about this. So I don't I don't have a good answer, but I think I know the flavor of the answer.

Yeah. It's just frustrating to me. I mean, if we can take some blurry CCTV footage and figure out who's the gun this guy fired and then start to track where that gun could have legally been sold and that correlate to a small list of people. And you did all that, that within 48 hours. And we know nothing about the guns that the gunman used to try to assassinate a potential president and a former president.

Yeah. You're hiding. Yeah, yeah, you're hiding. Now, again, I want to keep all options on the table. It might just be so embarrassing for the Secret Service. They just don't want any evidence out. Yeah, maybe the FBI doesn't want it out. Not that they were complicit. It was just such a bad security failure. They don't want that info going out.

So it could be that. But I'm not. I won't label why they're hiding. Yeah, they're just hiding. Yeah. It's the same thing that I, that I have consistently felt about the Covid virus. Yeah. I won't label who the bad guys were who released it. It is 100% sure it was manufactured and purposely released. Yes. Yeah. I don't know who did it, but it happened.

Let's go to the phones. 208542 179 good morning caller. How are you? Hey. Good morning. Doing great. Julie. The reason they can't figure out what happened on the assassination attempt is because new York City is doing the investigation on the CEO, and the government's doing the investigation on the other part. Great point. Yeah. The government can't do anything right.

Yeah. Oh, I hate you. So that being a little facetious, but I have to say that, you know, that New York is doing a super job. Yeah. Yeah. No. Thank you. Yeah, maybe, maybe we should have New York to do the investigation for Butler. Yeah. Because they seem to be able to come up with answers. So they seem to be able to work the databases and figure things out and.

Okay, can we talk a little more and let's do let's we don't have to go all the way down the rabbit hole, but let's let's linger around the entry of the rabbit hole moment, because I'm seeing the conspiracy theories about this guy. There are now much clearer images of his face. And if you do a site, if you select the images that you want to do a side by side, many people are saying it's not the same guy.

And if you look at the code he's wearing, many people say that's a different coat. So I don't know exactly how to to respond to that. And how do we know it's the it's the suspect in both cases. Yeah. Like I you know so I think we are so conditioned to everything being a conspiracy that maybe we're jumping at it a little too quickly here because you and I said, okay.

When it first came out, we saw the first grainy images and we thought, okay, he's got a backpack. He probably has a different coat inside the backpack so he can change his appearance. He gets, you know, in the trees somewhere at Central Park and he can change out whatever. But then when we see images where the coat's different, we go, look, look to coach different, you know, like, you know what I'm saying?

So totally, totally. And could he have had two coats? Of course he could have. And and when he was out and about, could he have had one coat on the backpack is not thin. It's clearly stuffed with things. So could there have been another coat in there? Yes. I think it's also important. The and I'm so guilty of doing this and you just did it, which is we automatically assume the picture that is released is a suspect.

Yeah. And it might be just a person of interest. Yeah. And unless the cops have said they're the same people, did we just jump to the conclusion or did your point? You have to be super, super careful and you can't trust reporting on it. You have to read molt. This is why when I do my podcast, it's not just one news source, it is multiple news sources trying to dig in and see who has the correct information.

Bongino talked about this and he said, I have the Bongino rule, which is when you have a sort of a big story like this happening, I say hardly nothing about it for at least 24 to 72 hours, because almost invariably, in our really fast paced news cycle, they get things wrong and they got things wrong about the bike they did called it a city bike, and he didn't have to use a credit card.

It was just an everyday bike. There was no yeah, purchasing of miles on the bike. So we think that's true. Yeah. You know, so we'll we'll see. Let's go back to the phones. Caller. Welcome to the show. Thanks. I was thinking about the guy who assassinated Trump and the cover up. And I'm sure it's probably just that those that are covering it up are probably just suffering from loyalty issues and probably should confess to their bishop.

Yeah, that might be true. That darn loyalty. It's tainting everyone, right? It's hard to shake loyalty sometimes. It's true. Thank you for the. I'm assuming that's all I have to say. Yeah. So. All right, we do have to break for the news. (208) 542-1079 it's a Friday, and we'd love to hear from you on the fall River propane call and text line back after the news.

Bup bup bup bup. We're going to have a post show, but it's going to be a little short today. Julie's got to get stuff. Got to get on the road to get out of town. Yeah. Got to get on the road. Yeah. Okay. Oh, they're playing the thing. Hold on, hold on. Fact for you. Are they expired because you want to be visible.

Because you weren't just waiting for the board to Paris for a fallen member of this agency. You were just out of line vice president, out of this life. A lot of testosterone right there. If they had been standing next to each other instead of seated at the table and seated at his, his committee chair place, they would have been like poking each other's chest with their fingers.

Oh, yeah, it might have escalated into fisticuffs. That's a word I want to look up the origin of fisticuffs. How did that let me look at that. Uphold. Hold fisticuffs. Fisticuffs is a word that means combat with the fists. It originated in the 17th century from the combination of fist and cuff, meaning a blow with the hand.

The form of the word may have been influenced by handiwork or by a Swedish word, kaffir, meaning to thrust or push. Fisticuffs can also be used as a verb, which is a back formation of the plural noun. I'm going to. Yeah, okay. It's one of those old words. We had a moment playing, Trivial Pursuit, over Thanksgiving, that something happened that we referenced to my mom.

Yeah, my son said something. Grandma's. And he would have known that or whatever. And so we started doing grandma Sandy phrases. Yeah, because she couldn't call her TV remote or remote. It was the clicker. And the clicker. It was the clicker. I love that. That's great. And then everything was what you call it, it. She couldn't remember something.

It was what you would call it. And then she'd look at you like, you know, no, I don't know what you're referencing.

That's funny. I knew someone once that would say something, and then it was in every sentence. But it it was at least a couple of times a minute. If they were talking that they would end a phrase with and all that good stuff. You heard that before? Yes. And all that good stuff. Yeah. You got you you got a point where you could, predict it, go to the store and all that good stuff and all that good stuff.

Yeah. My mom also had one that for some reason, sounds like it should be a bad phrase, I don't know. But if she couldn't remember somebody's name, she would call them. What a jigger. What she. Jigger? Yeah, I think I'd be careful with that one today. What? Your jigger. Oh that what phrase sounds dirty but isn't I'll tell you one hump day I hate that.

Oh I hate that. Yeah. Well everybody hates the word moist when you're talking about cake or turkey or. That's true. I can't say that word anymore. Yeah that's that's true. Is it because everything's been sexualized. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well I still have never looked it up, but somebody got all when we worked in a previous position at a different place.

I said snowball effect one day. And do you remember we got the big tech saying Julie really needs to watch what phrases she uses and blew, and I'm like, what? I never heard that in a dirty context, ever. Okay, I, I didn't need to look it up because I don't need to add that crap to my phone or like, yeah, well yeah, that's.

Well, and you don't want to ruin the term either. Like it's so I don't even know why it's bad if, if you do that, you're gonna have a dwindling number of words. You can use. I'm sure it comes to the great disappointment of some that Mike Johnson has said. They're not attaching Ukraine funding to the CRM. Oh, they're developments by the hour in Ukraine.

I think as we predicted and as I said to all of you weeks before the election, if Donald Trump is elected, it will change that. The dynamic of the Russia war on Ukraine. And we're seeing that happen. So it is not the place of Joe Biden to make that decision. Now we have a newly elected president, and we're going to wait and take the new commander in chief's direction on all of that.

So I don't expect any Ukraine funding to come out okay. I don't expect any. That doesn't. He's the speaker of the House. If he doesn't want any, there won't be any. Yeah. So I, I kind of feels like he's leaving a little bit of wiggle room in there. I like Mike Johnson. Sometimes he delivers, sometimes he does it.

Now here's what I would say has been a good sign. Mike Johnson has been in Donald Trump's orbit quite a bit. Yeah. He was there on stage with him at his victory speech. He's been with him at a couple of events that, Donald Trump has attended. So they're clearly working with each other. I just hope that, heaven forbid, Mike Johnson submit to the sense of being the sin of being loyal to loyalists.

So we'll just have to see. Yeah. Yeah, we will. You want more political intrigue and drama? Julie, we talked a little bit about this before, but, there are. I'll use the term loyalists again. Kari Lake loyalists that want her to move to Iowa and run against Joni Ernst. Okay, so I didn't know anything about this.

She's originally from Iowa. Did she grow up there? Let's see, I don't. Do you heard that? Yeah. Oh, maybe. Yeah, I'd have to look that up. I didn't I didn't know that, but I have seen these stories. Yeah. Says she was born and raised in Iowa. Okay. So she has a there's a there's a sense she wouldn't be a total carpetbagger if she went back.

You know, spent a few years. But, go back. But here's my question. I was fairly conservative, but I don't know if they're the Kari Lake brand of conservative, I. I feel like they're kind of center right. But I, I, I'm not sure Kari Lake the right fit for the constituency in Iowa. I like her, but I just don't know if it would work.

You know, Kari Lake is so interesting because she suffers from something that's kind of not identifiable. And I feel like this happens to women more than men. When they serve in politics. But she has not walked that that very narrow line that we talk about. And she's moved into the irritating realm for people. Yeah. She doesn't irritate me.

She doesn't irritate you. And I get her. But there are this group of Republicans that that she's just committed the unpardonable sin. And I don't understand it, but that's where she is with them. I you know what? I would put Ted Cruz in the same category. Yes, I think yes. I think politically he's always a little bit vulnerable, quite honestly, because he's not all that likable.

I there's just something off I love what he stands for. I love what he says, but he irritates people, even conservatives. And so, you know, you got to you have to look at electability. Although, you know what? Maybe that's overblown because they were saying that race was winnable in Texas, that Ted Cruz is in trouble. And it was like a 13 point yellow out.

Yeah. For for Cruz, I don't know. It's interesting. And maybe you know I'll side with Kari Lake here. Maybe if she thinks she gets out of a corrupt state because Arizona's not clean enough, their their system very well. So maybe if she thinks she gets out of a corrupt state, then she actually wins. Like Ted Cruz wins. You know what?

That's a really good point because I, I feel like you say the word rigged. People go off the rails, you say the words stolen, people go off the rails. There are problems in Arizona. There's sketchy ness. Certain voting machines stop working at really intriguing times in Arizona. And it takes forever in Arizona. But in Iowa I was I think pretty solid.

And and what they're saying is Kari Lake's really good at winning primaries. If she wins the primary in Iowa, a Democrat won't be able to beat her. So I don't know. I like the idea. I, I don't I you know, Joni Ernst is sort of like John Cornyn to me, just sort of me. So when would this is this JD Vance, his seat.

Was he Iowa or Ohio. Ohio. He was Ohio. Yeah he was Ohio. So when it oh this would be Joni Ernst seat. And we decided she was up in 2026. Yeah that's what it is. Grassley's the other Iowa senator and he's he's an institution. Nope. I don't even know if Jesus could beat Chuck Grassley in Iowa. I mean, that seat is so, you know, Jesus who really suffers from being loyal to.

So that's not going to work out very well for him. That's that's true. That's true. But Grassley's Grassley is a good guy. Although Grassley's old. He at some point maybe. Well yeah but so's Pelosi and she's coming back for another two years. Oh my land. What is this geriatric flavor of Congress? Seriously I don't know. They got it.

They got it going on. They need like the office of extra. Depends now at the at the Capitol building maybe that. So those will go in and cut some some government programs and then they can at institute. Depends on every bathroom instead of tampons in every bathroom. Yes. That's good. All right back we're going to wrap it up after this on Newstalk 179.

Enough time. If somebody wanted to sneak in a phone call or 22085421079. Lisa, I agree with you. She Craig mentioned something about Pete Buttigieg and Lisa responded with he has no shoulders. There's something weird when a man doesn't have shoulders. They're just supposed to have shoulders. Is Adam Schiff the same way? Yes, yes. And Pete Buttigieg is the same way.

You got to have something there to be manly. Oh, I had to look what's going on I know, crazy. It kind of freaked me out for a second, replacing some lights just outside our window. And the eastern Idaho homebuilders are suing the city of Idaho Falls. Oh, I did see a story about that over impact fees. Is that ordinance implementing impact fees?

What do you think about that? I don't know, I would this is one of those things that you've got to do a deep dive to see exactly like what's happening in other cities and that are the size of Idaho Falls. And how do they adjust and where does the money go? And this is not you can't pick the good guy or the bad guy.

Here they are. So this is there's a lot that goes into these things. Well, for me this is a very tough issue because you you know, we're very independent. We believe in property rights. And so developers will come in. It's kind of like the fight over that Square mile property out there in Am. And somewhere they want to put in like 3000 homes or something.

Well, that has to be done correctly or you're going to have massive problems with traffic with services, sewer, water, water, all of that. You have to do that, right. Or else you have you have a mess. I mean, look at em. And we talked about curlew yesterday. I would bet if you had had better planning going into that, we wouldn't have had this problem if you had made a better artery through that, that big block in neighborhoods that you wouldn't, you know, back when they were developing those neighborhoods, then you would have had that know it.

And so again, I'm not advocating for impact fees, but I'm just saying cities can get left with developers just throwing up neighborhoods left and right. Yes. And and their problems down the road long after the developers have cashed in and left. Left, you know. Well, I feel that way. I feel like the the kind of the linchpin for the difficulty of of Ammon was who and I have no idea who was running Amman at this time.

How did they approve target going and the place it went in. It. Why would you do that? Yeah, yeah. That's a it has caused so many issues to get out of there. And yeah, I feel like given the situation where they were at the the current solution is workable. Yeah I think I would say that too. I would give them kudos for finding a workable solution.

Yeah. But they shouldn't have had to. Yes it would agree. This could have been something that could have been avoided and the arteries could have been built during that time. Yeah. Okay. We're going to end on Duran Duran okay. And Facebook Live won't hear it because we can't or we get banned. Yeah. So sorry guys. It's hungry like the wolf.

I watched the beginning of one of our Facebook lives a few weeks ago. Yeah. And you can hear both of us breathing in our microphones because it's so quiet. Oh, really? Like getting everything ready. And it's like.

Okay, hold on. It's all right. To 957 on Newstalk 179, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason. And the final stretch here just the last minute or so, Julie is headed off to a big concert tonight in Utah. Yeah. Going to go watch Zach Bryant at the Delta Center. Can I just say I'm so grateful they switched it back to the Delta Center.

Because I don't have to break the habit that I had tried so hard to break. I don't think I ever really fully stopped calling of the Delta Center. So, we called it the Mini dome the other day. We were talking to somebody in here. Who I kidding? Was it John? Yeah. Mini dome. Yeah. Altering announced the IQ dome.

So, And me, I'm painting and installing carpet. Well, somebody else is installing the carpet. Yeah. And I assume tomorrow night, though. Okay, that's good night. We'll have something fun to do. Now, everyone have a safe weekend. And, looks like the weather's going to be okay. I think so, yeah, yeah. And, we'll be back here on Monday.

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