12.12.2024 -- NLS -- Trump on Time, Drones, P Diddy, Divisions

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Neal talks about Donald Trump being nominated "Person of the Year" by Time Magazine and ringing the stock exchange bell this morning. Later Neal and Julie explore growing concerns about America’s political and social divisions, questioning if unity is still attainable or if deeper fractures are inevitable. Turning to education, they discuss private school choice and the potential impacts on public education.

Shifting gears, Neal and Julie delve into mysterious drone sightings over New Jersey. The conversation touches on national security implications, speculation about private industry involvement, and public unease over unknown flying objects. They also discuss how government transparency—or the lack thereof—feeds public curiosity and concern.

As the conversation unfolds, they explore related cultural moments, like LeBron James' comments, the complexities of celebrity influence, and even a lighthearted tangent about white elephant gift exchanges. With humor and insight, Neal and Julie navigate serious and quirky topics, inviting listeners to reflect on the unusual, the important, and everything in between.

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Transcript

Good morning. It's 807. Welcome. It's Thursday and, I'm happy. I'm good. I don't know what it is. A lot of optimism. We have problems. Obviously we have problems. But I'm. I'm feeling something a little unexpected in the wake of the election, November 5th. Actually, a couple of things, but there may be two sides of the same coin.

There's far less of a freak out over the Donald Trump victory than I would have anticipated. And let me ask you this. How many times did you have this conversation with people saying, we're going to have a civil war? Either way, Kamala wins the the right is fed up. They've had it. They're not going to want to be part of the the the United States anymore.

I remember having that conversation. And then the other side of that, of course, was, well, if Trump wins, we're going to have riots. Soros will do his the thing that George Soros does, which is fund unrest and chaos. None of that has happened. None of it. Like I don't there might have been a few little protests and a few little demonstrations here, but the world is not on fire.

And in fact, to take it a step further, this is the the other unexpected thing, people that you would not ever have expected to be optimistic to be giving Trump, a chance here are doing just that. And, are we? And don't get me wrong, this is no kumbaya, sentiment here. I don't think America's coming together and we're all going to get along in support of a bright future here in this sky.

That ain't happening. You're you're you're going to have people on the left who are, just going to do what they do. But I'm just saying we watched, Donald Trump ring the New York Stock Exchange bell this morning. They dovetailed with that, the naming of the time magazine's person of the year. And of course, that person is Donald Trump.

And kudos to him. Very well deserved, very well-deserved. He in fact, in the I would imagine there's very few people out there that would say he shouldn't have been named Time's Person of the year. But here's the deal. And and I thought about how he's he's greeted warmly at the New York Stock Exchange. He's being named time person of the year.

And very much he's become, in my mind, almost overnight, a fairly mainstream figure, having gone from, he's the devil, he's, the insurrectionist. He's impeached. He's a Russia Trump colluding. He's, say, I can't even unpair Russia from the word Trump. That's how effective their programing was, to the point where I think much of America's going, he's going to be our president, and they're not, they're not unhappy about it.

I think even liberals have found themselves to be not nearly as unhappy about Donald Trump becoming president. And that probably makes them very unhappy that Donald Trump is not inciting the fear that they thought that, that he would. So, at any rate, I don't want to spend all day on that. But it was sort of an interesting observation here where we do have a lot, a lot of optimism.

So, I don't know if you saw this story or not, but the Bingham County GOP, which we gave you a bit of an update yesterday. The judge absolutely rejected everything that they had put forward, and there was really no path forward for them, in terms of a legal avenue to continue challenging and suing and litigating against the Idaho state Party.

Well, now, the Bingham GOP has said we're dropping all everything the appeals, the injunction, all of it. And now, from my understanding, they're inviting Dorothy Moon to come and organize them as a county party, which can I just say, that is the right move. Probably kind of tough to make. But ultimately, after a series of big errors, that's the right move to make in order to, to move forward.

I think there's probably going to be a question and this is for Bingham County and their people and precinct officers, and it's going to be their decision to make. But do you reinstall the people that led you through this mess? The last year and a half? Are those the people you still want to have lead you and I, I don't that's I'm not saying yes or no on that.

I'm just saying there was an awful lot of expense, an awful lot of heartbreak and contention that was probably unnecessary. And maybe there's a fresh they're going to turn the page. Maybe there's a fresh start coming. We don't know in in Bingham County. But if you've been following that saga, it just so you know, that one's probably coming to an end very soon.

Well, it sort of has come to an end, but it'll be fully in the rearview mirror in just probably a matter of weeks. So because they want to be represented at the upcoming state meeting. So we have that. We also have, something that let's put this in the optimism bucket. It looks like it's very possible and I might dare say likely, that the Idaho Legislature may produce for us a private education choice bill.

I just need to to pause there for just a moment and enjoy that that reality. So this story was in Idaho Ed news. What's the date on this December 11th? So yesterday, last night, the district 25, that's Pocatello Chubbuck. Their school district leaders voiced their concerns about possible private school choice measures at a Monday meeting with a half dozen area lawmakers.

And according to this piece by, Carly Flandreau of Idaho News, the conversation was fraught at times as politicians shared opposing views and a school leaders objected to private school subsidies. The main points of contention whether a private school choice measure is an inevitability in Idaho, and whether legislators can uphold their constitutional obligation to maintain a, quote, general, uniform and thorough system of public free common schools while also subsidizing private education.

The talks came ahead of a 2025 legislative session, where private school choice will likely become a central issue, and where lawmakers have swung further. Right at the same time, state superintendent Debbie Critchfield has said she is working with Governor Brad Little on a private school choice measure. I'll stop right there. They don't want to have to do this, but they know it's going to happen, so they need to be as involved as they can be to help shape the outcome.

And I don't I don't fault them for that. I mean, he is the governor. She is the state superintendent of public instruction. And if there is nothing productive about sitting in the corner, folding your arms and pouting, that that this thing that you don't want to have happen is happening. So they do need to be involved if they want to have a say in it.

They have been resisting it though, and I and I like them both. We interview them both from time to time and they're they're good people, but I believe that they are fully indoctrinated into this idea that you preserve K through 12. The status quo at all costs. And now they're realizing that's not, that's not a defensible position anymore.

It's not a, it's not a politically feasible decision for them to to take that route. So they've got to play. They they've got to it's reached that point now. They know the landscape somewhat of the Idaho legislative session. And there's not a lot that they can do to stop it. So, what about individual lawmakers? Several quotes in here from different lawmakers.

One of them is Senator Jim Guthrie, and he said the political dynamics have changed drastically, and the discussion is going to happen, and it's going to have a high probability of some degree of success. And whether I like that or whether I don't, that's the reality we're facing now. It's clear from his subsequent quotes in the piece, if the quotes are accurate, that he does not, want it to happen.

Another lawmaker, Dustin Manwaring, said private school choice is a problem that's not going away by saying no. Instead of just opposing a private school choice measure, providing feedback on how to refine it would be more helpful. Trustee Heather Clark shared a number of concerns about a voucher like system, including budgetary impacts and a lack of accountability, but said if private school choice is happening, then maybe it's necessary to create a palatable proposal.

Okay, a couple of things there. Can I just say you are responsible for the accountability piece of your system and you're that you're a trustee in district 25. So absolutely, you should be concerned with the accountability of district 25, the K through 12 public education system there. Now, if there's a private school, there's really no authority there. You're you're armchair quarterbacking what a private school can do.

It's really the legislature's job to be, concerned with accountability issues. And I, you know, in my mind, I look at it and I'm like, yeah, some level of accountability might be necessary. But I think the greatest level of accountability is the choice that parents have to enroll or dis enroll their students, their kids from those those schools that I think is the most effective, accountability.

But that's not to say there's not a role here. I just hope it's, not not too intrusive. Senator James Rector, Democrat of Pocatello, said, quote, it's a mistake to treat this as something you have to compromise on, because once you compromise, you open the door. Even if there are side boards put on, those side boards will be removed in another few years.

So this is the place to take a stand. Well, the problem with that and I you know, kudos to Senator Chuck D who I consider as a, as a friend. You don't have the numbers to take an effective stand. You're you're gonna get defeated on this issue in the coming legislative session. Representative elect Tanya Burgoyne express solidarity with Manwaring.

Representative Rick Cheatham was largely quiet during the conversation, but his previously expressed concern about a lack of choices for rural students. Representative Dan Garner of Clifton, left the meeting early, but has previously said a measure will likely pass and he hopes to tack on some accountability. For their part, school leaders expressed an array of concerns from the impact on rural districts to fraud prevention to statewide budgetary impact, citing Arizona's controversial private school choice implementation.

They also shared the Idaho School Boards Association anti private school choice position, and cited data about the ballooning costs of universal private school choice in Arizona. I mean, all this is valid needs to be discussed, needs to be argued. But let's let's just go back to this basic premise. The basic question that I ask people, should parents have a voice in the allocation designated for their child, where and how their child is educated, even if it involves public or private, schools on their menu of education options?

I would say yes, we need to widen the menu. They would say, well, we already offer school choice. You can go to this government school or that government school or that government school or that government school. See, you have lots of choices among government schools, socialized education. Well, yeah, but what if I want to have a private school on the education menu that's not on our menu?

At least it hasn't. And this essentially just puts more choices on the education menu for parents. And I to me the you know what I think this is why I like this. If I'm going to be completely upfront and honest with you, I'm actually more excited about improvements to public education that will happen than I am about having more kids educated in private schools.

We talked about this the other day where if you're a coach, let's say you're a football coach, and the best way to make your quarterback better is to bring in a very competent and ambitious backup quarterback. And I know nobody likes to feel threatened. Nobody likes to feel like they're going to have to compete for something they've become accustomed to and may feel entitled to, but that is precisely what needs to happen.

If I roll my brain back 20 to 25 years at the beginning of and the early stages of the charter school Advent in Idaho, I remember these exact same anxieties happening. I remember it well. I was doing talk radio back then, and I remember traditional K through 12 was very anti charter school. They thought, no, we need more accountability.

We need to to do this you're going to harm public education. You're going to well guess what happened in public education. Because it it went through it happened. And you had local groups that said we want to start our own approach to education using public dollars. It won't be for profit, but we we want to do that. Massive resistance to it.

Now, what we're finding in this is how, my how the turns table, where you have the public education K through 12 is now teaming up with charter schools to oppose this, this effort and this movement. Now they both feel threatened by it. And I'm like, you know what? Charter schools actually made traditional K through 12 better.

You have more options in terms of online. There was more flexibility in how classes were being taught because you wanted to retain those students. You didn't. You didn't want to see the kids leave and you couldn't once the that's the whole point, right? Customers. And if you're going to look at it from a business model, your your revenue stream, our parents deciding to put their kids in your classrooms, that's how they make their money.

So their first choice is to do it by force, to just make it so difficult for parents to put their kids in something else, charter school, whatever they'll do it through. Coercion. But if you can't do it through coercion, you got to get creative. And by getting creative, you have to adapt to the desires of parents and students.

You've got to get more innovative with how you teach. You saw these online schools all pop up. You've seen so much innovation even in K through 12. They are adapting, though begrudgingly. They don't want another they view as a threat. Or I would just say a competitor. So yeah, they're they're going to they're going to push back on this, but in the very same way that the existence of charter schools has not destroyed public education, private schools funded by public dollars will also not destroy private education.

It will just make them better, because they're going to have to work even harder to keep your kids in their classroom. That's a good thing for all of us parents and for the students. And they may not like it, but they're going to they're going to be okay. And I would say this, if they're not okay, maybe they're in the wrong line of work.

And I don't mean that to be rude, but, I think good teachers are good teachers, and a good teacher will be a good teacher in about any setting. All right. We got to break away. We'll be back after this. It's 826 on Newstalk 179. Interesting stories. What's happening in new Jersey with these drones? Everybody's acting all weird about it.

The State Department has said what they're not. Well, if you know what they're not, don't you know what they are? I would think so. So we'll talk about that coming up. One congressman says there Iranian drones, and they're being launched from a mother ship in the Atlantic. Crazy, right? It's all coming up. It's 831 on Newstalk 1079 dismisses that would have been the word.

Yes. Yeah. Just Jason, I won't say which news outlet, but a news outlet that said Pentagon shuts down Iran mother ship claim amid new Jersey drone mystery. Okay, don't still phrase it that way, especially the Pentagon. Pentagon shoots. Don't say it like that. Yeah. Anyway, okay, this is all very, very weird. Julie. Oh, this whole whatever's happening in new Jersey is crazy.

You've watched the videos, right? Yeah. Sped up videos. Yeah. Okay, you guys, it's not one drone. No, there's multiple multiple all over the sky. So this is Representative Jeff Van Drew, and he was on with Harris Faulkner, but he is out on a media tour making the claim that it's it's Iranian drones. And they're being launched from the Atlantic on an Iranian mothership.

Well, here's the real deal, Harris. You know, I'm also on the transportation committee, on the aviation subcommittee. And I've gotten to know people and from very high sources, very qualified sources, very responsible sources. I'm going to tell you the real deal. Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago that contains these drones. That mothership is off.

I'm going to tell you the deal. It's off the East Coast of the United States of America. They've launched drones, everything that we can see. Or here. And again, these are from high sources. I don't say this lightly. Now, you know, we know there was a probability it could have been the our own government. We know it's not our own government because they would have let us know okay.

So that's Jeff. Andrew, it's weird to say mothership because we usually attribute that to aliens in space. Yeah. Like a is there a mothership in the sea? Like, is that a term? I don't know, but I'm guessing the drones go back there and dock. We're back. Charge! And. Yeah. And then go back out that that's the claim. But then you have the State Department.

This is Sabrina Singh, and she was asked about the Iran mothership theory. Jen. Sabrina, can you tell me what the Pentagon is doing to address this issue of drone sightings over new Jersey? It's near sensitive, installations. The FBI's involved. What is the Pentagon doing? Sure. So at this time, so aware of those drone sightings that have been reported at this time, we have no evidence that these activities are coming from a foreign entity or the work of an adversary.

We're going to continue to monitor what is happening. But, you know, at no point were our installations threatened when this activity was occurring. Can you rule out that these are American drones or, with military drones? These are not U.S. military drones. Again, this is being investigated by local law enforcement. What our initial assessment here is that these are not, drones or activities coming from a foreign entity or adversary.

Representative. Okay. The first question here is if you don't know what they are, how do you know what they're not? Perfect. Perfect way to phrase it. And my at the end of the clip, well, it's just local law enforcement that's looking at it. Why why why aren't other people looking at it? This makes no sense to me, Julie, because the approach is almost agnostic.

Like like we don't really have an opinion on this. Now we're being asked because it's in American airspace. We know that China's done stuff with balloons in previous, in recent years, and to have drones that are hanging over populated areas to not know what it is, but then to to not be all that involved or concerned, why have we shot one of these things down?

And Harris Faulkner in that clip with, Jeff Van Drew says, well, you don't know what's on board the drone. So if you shoot it down, could it be a dirty bomb? Could it, you know, and maybe that's part of the strategy is that we don't want to get close to these things because they may be super radioactive.

If you shoot one down, it may explode. Issues. Yeah. And and so how do you capture one without there being danger to other people? And so I, I don't know the question to that. I would think they could have helicopter drops in that something I don't, I don't know what you would do, what you would do, but I would imagine the military has some way of capturing a drone without having to destroy it on the ground.

Don't you think we have bigger, stronger drones? I would assume we do. Yeah. Send a bigger, stronger drone out there. So there's no life being compromised. Yeah, and, like, scoop up the smaller drone that they say is the size of a car hood. That's what they're saying. That's about the size of the SUV sized. Oh. So they're bigger than okay.

They're decent sized. So yeah, I am way bigger than any hobby drone that we know. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. They're not like those at all. Yeah. Okay. Again, if they're that size, why are you leaving it up to local law enforcement to figure this out? I don't know, that's the thing. And this is not Hank down the street messing around with his drone that he bought at Best Buy.

You have the new Jersey governor. This is what's weird. They have a hearing on this. The new Jersey governor is a no show. He has been quoted in recent days saying, we're not really concerned about this, but he's meeting with the white House to talk about the drones. He knows what's up. What's the white House going to tell them if they're not doing an investigation?

Well, if there's they may not be doing an investigation, but our intelligence probably knows exactly what these things are. But that's what I mean. Like, for her, this spokesperson. Yeah. To act like we don't know anything, but we know it's not dangerous. It's like, that's just hogwash. It is hogwash because these things pose a potential threat. You know, they're large.

We don't know what's on board. You're over a populated area. I look, I've been to new Jersey. I've been to new Jersey to.

I mean, I know it's a state, right? I, I don't want to lose a state, even if it's new Jersey. Okay. I'll leave it at that. But, yeah, like, I, I, I, people are just acting weird about it. Yeah. Like it it doesn't if you don't know what it is, you're not nonchalant. You're like, we're going to find out exactly what these things are.

But that doesn't seem to be the position of the State Department. Now. Now. So I it's all weird. All this. Is everybody acting weird about this? Yep. And I don't think it's getting a ton of play, by the way. I know we're seeing it, but we're news consumers. Yeah, like, we've got four TVs on different news channels.

Like we're news consumers. I think the basic American has no idea that these drones are flying over new Jersey. You don't think so? I don't think so. All right. Let me you know, I think if they have TikTok and they're on that on that corner of TikTok, they might know. Yeah. Let's see. Let me scroll in here.

Very well. It could be right. I it is not certainly above the fold on CNN. And I scroll nothing. Nothing. Look, I'll go to Drudge because I'm on that one drone. There is live updates, new Jersey drone sightings on which on which CNN, on CNN. Okay. And then, down the page a little bit mysterious drone sightings in new Jersey prompts security concerns.

And then it's like, here's what we know. And then I love it when that's a headline. Here's what we know. And then you read the story. We don't know it. We often yes, it's on Drudge third column over almost the bottom story like four stories beneath it. Okay. So it's not like Premier in people's minds. But don't you want to know.

Oh I want to know. Yeah I, I can't see I've heard SUVs but then says some people have described the drones as the size of bicycles or small cars. You know what. When something is, how do you tell a hundred yards away you don't know how big it is. Yeah. Like there's that's hard for a singular sighting.

Now, if you had nerdy buddies and you were triangulating and then you could get pretty good accurate. But I, I mean, you can't just look up and go, oh, yeah. Because quite frankly, the moon only looks like the size of a dime to me. Right. And let me clarify what I said about the average American not knowing. I think they want to know.

I just don't think they're getting the kind of news that allows them to know. Yeah. And so unless for the average person, unless it's come across their social media feed or they've hit that corner of TikTok, I don't know if they know. I think they want to know. Yeah. I think they would be interested in this story.

Instead, they've been focused on the guy who the shot, the CIA, the CEO, and got captured in McDonald's, and that's taken up all their bandwidth. Yeah, I think the average person would want to know this. Yeah, I would agree. You know what, Julie? I'm I'm, I'm skeptical of everything. Is this a psychological operation? Is it are they studying what the public response is to something like this?

And those drones are actually nothing but just drones and what they're really looking at is not the drones, but just the public's response to it. How, accepting are you going to be of flying objects over your house and yet, right. You could learn some things by doing that, but you can't tell people that's what you're doing because then you you need that element of them not knowing what the heck it is to be able to study what the the widespread reaction is.

Yeah, the genuine reaction of it. Yeah. Who? I'm not going to rule anything out. Anything. When he said Iranian mothership and docking of the drones, I didn't. I'm like, mom, could be that I wasn't sitting there going, no way. I was like, well, it could be that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it could be. I wouldn't I wouldn't rule it out.

Says after drones are spotted near the Picatinny Arsenal, a U.S. military research facility in Warton, Andover president elect Donald Trump's golf course in Bedminster. The FAA issued temporary flight restrictions over the property's travel content. Creator Katie Calf, of 29, said she spotted five potential drones the size of bicycles on Saturday, moving in a zigzag pattern. West Milford Mayor Michelle Dale reported 60 drones flying over local reservoirs.

Federal agencies have ruled out any connections of local, state or federal governments to the sightings. Based on everything we know, there is no public safety risks that we are aware of. Is it frustrating to have no answers? Is it frustrating to not have a source for these things? Yes, the governor told the radio station. Okay, so is this is this the Moscow police saying there's no threat to the public, but they don't really know.

Is this the governor going, you know what? We I don't have any reason to be concerned about this. So maybe he doesn't know, but he doesn't want the panic to happen. Yeah, he wants to keep his. Yeah. His constituents settled. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. It's a mystery. It could be anything. Yeah. And as all things they're obviously not being transparent about it.

My final question we have to take a break here is are these drones connected to the booms in Rexburg and Rigby and Bingham County? Yeah. We'll never know. We'll be back after this.

It's 852 on Newstalk 1078. Neal Larson and Julie Mason and Julie, we're going to go right to the phones. Caller thank you for waiting through the break. What's on your mind today? Know you were talking about drones. Just about a week ago. I walked outside and I heard a buzzing. I looked up and there was a drone.

It was a very good sized one, and appeared to be following down the road that I live on. And as I watched it, going and going around, I don't know whether it was power company or cable company or somebody else, but, yeah, it was kind of interesting to watch. Yeah. They're they are fascinating. Then they're everywhere.

Like they are the consumer grade off the shelf. Hobbyist drones are everywhere. Some of them are pretty big too. Right now. This. Yeah, I was going to say I didn't look like a consumer one, but I don't know. It was just there was good size. Yeah. So anyway, I just thought I'd report that and let you know.

Okay. Well, thank you. Thank you for that. It's interesting. The color matches some of the, you know, just we were just floating possible theories of what it could be during the commercial break. It's very possibly a drone or drones that belong to private companies and whatever data they're securing or whatever they're mining or whatever information they're getting, the government doesn't really want you to know, because they don't want you to feel uncomfortable that that information is being mined, because government may be their biggest customers.

Right. Yeah. All right. 853. We'll be back. All right. We're back on Newstalk 107 by Neal Larson and Julie Mason. Color we have about 30s. Go ahead. What's on your mind today? I just want to tell you that, they do know exactly what these are. If they didn't, they would have already captured one. Yeah, yeah.

And. Yes. Yes. I mean, it would be very easy to capture because you could just use, I mean, go the observations and that. Anyway. Yeah. I just want to say that logically speaking, they know exactly what they are. Yeah. You know what? I have the same. I have the same, reaction to that, to that if there was any chance at all that this was, Iranian or one of our enemies, they wouldn't be behaving this way.

Agreed. All right. Our two coming up. Tape 59.

900 oh seven on Newstalk 179. We're back. Hour two. We'd love to hear from you. (208) 542-1079. And we're talking about the drones in new Jersey. What do you think they are? We're talking about, well, education legislation that's likely to pass in the upcoming legislative session. We're talking about Trump being named the time magazine's person of the year.

Used to be man of the year or Woman of the year. Yeah. Person of the year. Yeah. Give it time. The liberals will find something to be offended about calling someone a person. Well, two given time. Yeah, two things on this. If the drones end up being UFOs, maybe it'll have to be human of the year because it can't.

There will be extraterrestrials here, so we'd have to identify one or the other. That's true. We also got a text from somebody that said the term mothership is a bit triggering for me. Could you please use the term birthing person vessel? Thanks in advance. Yeah, yeah, that's going to change the words all over the place. Yes. Okay.

So Julie, I want to play this, but we need to talk about this. It's sort of Hollywood. It's conspiracy theory, but it's very newsworthy too. And that's what's happening with P Diddy. Okay? It did well. Used to be Puff Daddy. Then he went to P Diddy. Yeah. Is that his name now P Diddy I think that's what he goes by.

Or just Diddy which okay I confused some people the last time I said this. But there's you ask a lot of people including those in Hollywood. Diddy stands for did ler. Oh I'm just going to leave that there. Would that be what you'd like with that? That wouldn't be that surprising. So I want to play this clip. This is Colby Covington.

Is he UFC. Is that who he's with? Okay. He listen to this. This is pretty, pretty bold. I'm gonna start this off. You know, since I'm the the man of the hour, the man, the show. I want to ask LeBron, what does he mean by there's no party like a Diddy party? I truly want to know.

And not only that, LeBron, how many Diddy parties have you actually been to? I'm really curious to know. And is that the reason you left social media. Because all the backlash you again for going to so many big daddy parties is just pathetic, man. People think this guy's a role model, wants to defund the police. The most patriot people.

America serving and protecting our country. LeBron, you're an scumbag and I hope you get locked up in the same. So what did he. Wow. Bold. What? Wow. Yes. That is that is very bold. So now apparently Jay-Z is being I don't want to say targeted because he's he's just he's he's now a part of this investigation. And you're thinking he was also involved.

It's starting to look that way. So I think the timeline is super important here. The lawsuit that names Jay-Z was filed clear back in November of last year. Not this year. It's over a year old. Yeah. Yes. And now it's just been clarified that the man that was with P Diddy in that named in that lawsuit is Jay-Z.

Jay-Z. So, it's not like somebody is jumping on a bandwagon here because there has been claims of that. Because there is one particular lawyer in Texas who has filed somewhere over 200, like he has 200 clients who are all part of it. I think there's two different lawsuits that they're part of against P Diddy. So there are people who say there's no way there's been 200 victims.

Those are some people just faking it. Well, okay, if that's what you want to operate under. This was one of the first lawsuits filed, the one that is now identifying that Jay-Z is the man. There's an unidentified woman in the lawsuit. The unidentified man is Jay-Z now and then P Diddy was named as the lead in the lawsuit because it was at his house or whatever.

He was the one sponsoring the event that was going on that night. Oh, okay. How does Beyonce figure into that? So many people believe the other person is Beyonce, but it might not be Beyonce. You have to remember that, Jay-Z has some questionable past with the people that he dated and them not having great lives after they dated him, that he almost ruined them.

Yeah, and this is an ugly, ugly industry and I think we've all wanted to pretend like it's not. And these I think what got the ball rolling was Jeffrey Epstein. And people decided it's we're not going to cover up for it anymore. And now we're seeing it unfold with P Diddy. There's there's this junk going on in Hollywood, not in the music industry, but in the acting industry.

I, I would I would push out there. This junk is going on in the event scheduling industry. You want your event scheduled and you want it highlighted. You're probably having to give some favors for that to happen. Well, and you go I mean, this clearly has happened before you mentioned Epstein. Harvey Weinstein is another good example.

If you wanted to be anybody in Hollywood and you were an attractive female, then, you could accelerate that if you went along with what Harvey Weinstein wanted you to do. That's become quite clear. Yeah. So, let me let me float this conspiracy, write a movie, script, whatever however you want to catch. That was the Epstein saga, the politics version of the P Diddy Harvey Weinstein song.

Oh, I think you could name it that that. Yeah. You you would bring people to these parties. Horrific things would happen at the parties. And then you were threatened. Nobody talks about this or your career is ruined or you're ruined. We you may not be alive if you if you talk, which now again, I think that social media can exaggerate things so I'm really kind of careful with this.

But I've seen these videos of when someone wins a Grammy and it's not. Beyonce and Beyonce had been nominated for that particular award. They look more fearful than excited to win. Because bad things happen to those who beat Beyoncé in to go against her. Yes, they go against her and like I said is it exaggerated. Probably.

But is there some kernel of truth to it. Oh very well could be. Yeah, yeah. What I would, I would change the question around what has given you a belief that there's not some sort of truth there. You're right. There's been too many stories. There's been too much. We all know Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. Yeah, I there's nothing that makes us believe it's not happening.

We just don't know at what level it is happening. Yeah, we I don't you're right. I don't think that we do. You know, it's fascinating. And again, this this dives into the QAnon lore, which is really sketchy. And I'll, I'll state that upfront. But you remember the whole Pizzagate stuff about the pizza shop, and there was a door that went downstairs, and that's where terrible things happened, kids and otherwise.

And I'm certainly not claiming that that happened, but I think people are ridiculous to think that it couldn't, that those kinds of dynamics couldn't happen after what we've seen with Epstein and the things that went on at Epstein Island and elsewhere. P Diddy obviously had victims, and there were an awful lot of people involved with that. So much of the entertainment industry is completely silent about this P Diddy stuff.

Y you have to ask yourself, why are they so quiet about this? And why do so many of these celebrities seem utterly petrified to even talk about this? Okay, so let's talk about the timeline of boldness that happens, because that happens all the time as stuff starts to become more normalized, more people start to engage in it. We have pictures from Jeffrey Epstein's Florida mansion with these girls who are 14 and 15 and 16.

He has their arm, his arm around them. Yeah. Okay. That was, you know, 20 years ago. So why wouldn't we think PD Diddy threw a party in 2014 with young girls there again? Yeah. Do you have no reason not to believe it? Nothing has been provided to say this isn't happening. Yeah. That's true. There's enough evidence that it did.

And, I don't think anybody out there wants to create the turmoil in their life by trying to make a false accusation against super powerful people. So that that doesn't really make sense. You know, I do think that there are things that are concocted against powerful people. But I don't think this doesn't have that, that same sense to it.

This doesn't have the, the, the Christine Blasey Ford element of accusing Brett Kavanaugh, where it's really sketchy and there's a lot of motivation to try to take down Brett Kavanaugh, that those dynamics don't exist in a situation like this. I would have to do a much deeper dive on Jeffrey Epstein, but I believe those girls back several decades ago that, actually got Jeffrey Epstein in trouble in Florida.

I don't think they got any monetary settlement for that. There was, other than to get justice. That was the benefit of that. Yeah. Now, I guess you could claim some of these lawsuits that were filed against Peabody. There could be money grabbers involved in that. But he abused and made his ex-wife or whatever she was. I'm not even sure what their.

If they had an official documents saying they were husband or wife, the one that he beat up in the hotel hall room or hallway. She that woman hasn't spoke in that NDA was so tight with the settlement that she. Scott. She is nowhere to be found. That's how tight that that settlement was. Wow. And why would we think that's the only time that's happened?

Well, that's that's a really good point. Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah. So, do you think we'll ever know that I, I don't think we know the full extent and breadth of what happened with Harvey Weinstein, but we we have a pretty good idea of what was going on. Do you think we'll have kind of the same with PD, that at some point we'll get an idea of whatever kind of network of control using horrific, illicit sex to do it.

Do you think we'll get an idea of of that? I believe we will. If we don't, it means that somebody else with power got a hold of the evidence, and now they're using it to benefit themselves. They're now in control of the situation. Yeah, right. Which could happen it. Well, it could happen. Who was the investigating agency on this?

Is it the FBI? Yeah, it is the FBI that raided his Miami home in his. Okay. I think it's a la is where he lives somewhere in California. So raided both homes. And they're the ones who. So it's federal court that he's in trouble with. And this is why he's staying in prison. He's been denied bail three times.

So does Kash Patel figure into this at some point? Sure. Maybe he gets bold enough to say we're not holding on to this evidence. Yeah, yeah, well it could. I hope he does. So, yeah. All right. It's, 919 on Newstalk 179. If you'd like to join us. (208) 542-1079 and, okay. We'll be back. Actually, no, I'm all locked up.

Oh, shoot. You keep talking for a minute. I'm sorry. And I'll fix this if I can. Sure, I well, look, I'll just read some of the text we got because we've gotten several. Somebody said the political leaders are very nervous, as they should be. That's part of the the deep state that we've got to root out.

So it's great that those political leaders are nervous. I, I am tired of seeing political leaders go to Washington and increase their wealth by millions. And millions and millions of dollars. And we all know there's insider trading going on. So, sure, let's go after it. And, let's see what else. Oh, you're not you're not locked up anymore I fixed it.

Yeah. So okay. And did you have one other thing. Oh, no. This is a this is back to the drones. But we can talk about it in a minute, okay? It's all coming up. 920 on Newstalk 179. Back up to this okay. Hello Facebook. And let's go here and here okay. Glad. That's hilarious. Glade had a dental procedure done yesterday.

Yeah. He said he couldn't get numb so they gave me tons of gas and shots. As I was coming out of it, I accused the dentist and his assistant of making out while they were working on me. The expression on their faces was priceless and hilarious. She is old enough to be his mom. Which is so funny because my kids all had their wisdom teeth out, you know?

And when Peyton had her wisdom teeth out, she woke up from it. And there was no convincing this girl. She had fish in her mouth. She was 100% sure there were goldfish in her mouth. Tears. Monkey, get the fish out. Get the fish out! And I held up a mirror. Had her look in it. See? There were no fish.

She just knew she was certain there were fish in her mouth. That's funny. Also, every child and my husband, when I took him to get his wisdom teeth out, all puked after getting their wisdom teeth out. Oh, really? Lucky for me, none of it was in the car. Two of the two of them were in the driveway and one was in the parking lot of Walmart when I was stopping to get the prescription.

Oh, gotcha. Okay. That's funny. Yeah. Yeah. I usually throw up in the dentist's chair, so only ones did. I haven't had, They loved that. They were so happy that you were there that day. It was so terrible. It was so terrible.

I had it on the screen. Plastic dams on. Yeah, yeah. It was. It's a whole thing. I can't eat that bad. Really bad. But, let's talk about problems tomorrow, okay? I mean, the problem was playing right now, but we can add to it. So all right. How can we were locked up? I don't know, it just, you know, in the application, you just kind of lock up once in a while, okay?

And to kill it in the task manager. Okay. It does. The name on it is not obvious. Like it's something TDK or whatever. And, so it was your computer locked up. It wasn't there. But no, it was the application that was locked up. But they've named it in the task manager. Something something different. Yeah. Okay. So.

24 minutes past now on Newstalk 1079. Indeed. Julie and I will be at barrowlands tomorrow, 11 until noon, and we want you to just come see us. We're going to set up camp there. We'll probably take some pictures. We might do some social media, but we want the whole point of this is for you to come and to charitably donate through the miracle box.

And this thing is really cool. It's really fun. So I stopped in at problems last night just to see, you know, where are we going to put up our stuff and everything. And they've kind of made it a little mini winter wonderland around the Miracle Box. They've done such a great job, and you and I will be there.

We do have a match, a donor, a donation match for that hour. So if you come and you donate to the miracle Box, Mark Radford from Colby off road is going to match your donation, which is so awesome. So, 11 to noon. Amen. Problems. Please come say hi tomorrow. We will say up to a certain amount.

A very generous amount. So very generous amount. Yeah, yeah. I mean, if people donate $40 million, I don't know if Mark's going to be able to match that, but he is going to be very generous in, in matching. So. Yeah. No, I'm but, yeah, we we love it. We love our listeners too. They're so generous. They're very giving.

Yeah, yeah. And we feel Friday is a pretty good day to do this too. Yeah, we think so. It'll be fun. Yeah. Let's. I mean, who doesn't want to hang out and problems and smell the stuff cooking and, I know Julie does not eat chicken strips very often, but that's one place where I will chicken strips, because I do really like the deli there.

They do have a good deli and. Yeah, so it's that easy. Come say hi, donate charity, grab some lunch at the deli and, make a make it lunch. Win win win. And, you can't beat it. Okay. (208) 542-1079 Julie, don't you love it when a Babylon Bee story actually turns out to be true? This one is so good, too.

I remember watching this parody of the Babylon Bee year and a half or two ago. And it's a spelling bee. Listen to this. It's great. Lincoln. Your word is woman. Well, woman, can I have the country of origin, please? I, I don't I don't it probably England or Germany or something. Woman. Can I have the definition, please?

Why don't you ask? Judge one that question. Can I have the definition of women, please? No. Why not? I'm allowed to ask for definitions. Right. The the thing is, a woman is, though, there are the A woman is is is what she's trying to say is that each person gets to define for themselves what a a woman is.

So can you define it? No. Why? I just want to know the definition of woman. And that makes you a hateful little bigot. Lincoln, I don't hate anybody. How about we just use it in a sentence? Abortion is a woman's rights. If a woman makes an accusation, we should believe all women. Joe Biden picked a woman as a running mate.

Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first black woman on the Supreme Court. Hillary Clinton should have been the first woman president. You swimmer Lia Thomas is a woman. I'm a woman. I'm not a woman. Woman. How can you using all the sentences if you don't know the definition? Listen, you intolerant little beggar, just spell the word so we can get a girl up here to win this whole thing.

The definition of woman is woman. Woman a woman. Woman. Are you happy? That doesn't make any sense. It's a simple word. We all know what a woman is. Just a woman. Okay. Woman w o m a n. What's wrong? It's got an accident. Now, for some reason. W o m x n. Now get out of here. Kerry, you're up next.

I shouldn't make that sound. Right, Kenny, your word is micro. Pack a Seppala saurus is. Where does woman. Okay, so that was great. Babylon biscuit. Yeah. They have now accepted the spelling of a woman to be w o o m y n. That is now an acceptable spelling. Yeah. So if you really were in a spelling bee right now, you could spell women that way another time.

When Babylon Bee is actually right. It's not parody. Yeah, it's for real. It is real. It's become real life now, A little bigot, Lincoln. Lincoln, the little hateful, of course. His last name is Lincoln. First Republican president. Right now his last name is his first name. Yeah. Anyway, very. That's good. That's really good. So such a good one.

Babylon Bee is a national treasure. It really can never go away sometimes. And I just go to Babylon Bee to read the headlines and laugh. It's just so good. Okay, I just went to Babylon Bee. They have a headline says drones revealed to be Iranian. After closer inspection. Sometimes they're politically incorrect. There's a drone, but the drone has a turban and a beard, and there's a machete in one hand and a stick of dynamite in the other.

Oh, they're so good. Here's another one. You'll you'll love this one. McDonald's surpasses the FBI in the number of shooters apprehended in 2024.

Okay, are you ready for another one? This might be the most radioactive of all. Okay. Caitlin Clark explains that white privilege feels weirdly like getting beat up by giant black lesbians. How do they say that? I don't know how they get away, but it's so good that. Oh, yeah, if you don't know the Caitlin Clark story, she's the girls basketball phenom.

Yeah. Who played her first season for the Indiana Fever this year and got beat to death. And they they named her the athlete of the year. She gave a very lengthy interview. And in it, she explained that she does have white privilege and that the league should actually be about the black women who exist in it. Yeah.

Yeah. And a lot of conservatives really, really disappointed. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Last one before we take the break, this headline, Babylon by Chinese restaurants authenticity questioned as the cash register is not being run by the owner's nine year old son.

Okay, we'll be back. It's a Thursday on Newstalk 1078. Okay, that's, Good. Good times. Babylon. Be good times. Brett Cooper leaves Daily Wire, causing Andrew Klavan to regain the title of Daily Wire's most attractive host.

I really like Brett Cooper. Yeah, I wonder what happened there. I don't know, she just didn't fit. Was Tomi Lahren with Daily Wire or was she with The blaze? Because this sort of feels like that. It does feel like that. I don't remember Tomi Lahren being there, but she could have been. I think she was the blaze.

Okay. Yeah. Because she had this kind of temporary feud with Glenn Beck for a little bit. I think she was demanding things. And Glenn was like, you're still new here, you know? And, she kind of moved on. I don't feel like Tomi Lahren. I mean, you still see her quite a bit, but I don't feel like she's this massive force.

You want to know the conservative that I just immediately roll my eyes at that I really, really struggle with what Laura Loomer. I really struggle with her. Oh, really? I just feel like she is so clickbaity. And we they provide us everything on a platter. Look at. Look at what Babylon B has to work with. You don't need to be clickbaity.

No, that's that's true, that's true. Here's some more. Photograph emerges of Al Sharpton arriving at the scene where Cain killed Abel in order to cry racism.

Oh, good. Accountant at party realizes too late that that person asking him about his work was just being polite.

In a major blow to democracy, the Supreme Court rules voters can vote for their favorite candidate. You're not black enough. If you don't vote for Biden, you're not black enough. Yeah, here's an old headline, Greatest Hits. But it's relevant right now because it's Christmas. Trump says. I have done more for Christianity than Jesus.

When he was, getting ready to ring the bell, Bell, ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange, he said something. We were playing it over. Er, I don't even remember. It was, but it was unlike we've never seen before or something like that. And I just, I like, please retire that phrase. Please retire that phrase.

The likes of which, the likes of which we've never seen before. Let's see, we have been getting calls. Okay. Do I risk telling them what we did for white elephant gifts in case someone's watching? Yeah. Go ahead. It's fine. They won't know when they pick it up. Yeah, yeah. So I kind of went this direction because I thought of this idea off of Amazon, but it couldn't get here fast enough.

So Amazon sells these chuck chopsticks that light up like lightsabers. And then you can use them to eat your Chinese takeout. And I thought maybe I can find those at box lunch in the mall. So box lunch is like a novelty store in the mall. And box Lunch did have some really fun things. They had these, they had a Spider-Man desk lamp and a Batmobile.

Desk lamp. All right, guys, our social media guys would of lost their minds if I had bought that. But they were 60 bucks, right? So couldn't buy them. Yeah. And they they had some bulls, like, novelty bowls with chopsticks. But I didn't love them. They weren't my favorite. Like, they had a Disney one. And Pokemon and stuff.

So I to I, I risked my, morality and went across the way to Spencer's in the mall.

I educated Neal this morning on What's in Spencer's. He's never been in Spencer's. Never been in there? No. Yeah. Don't let your young teenagers go in there alone. Do you go there often? I think that's only the second time I've been in that store. Gotcha. So I bought bowls with chopsticks, and then I went to, Panda Express and got a $10 gift card.

So they have a Panda Express gift card, a bowl with chopsticks to eat their Panda Express, and then the lady at Panda Express. And I had this really long conversation, so she gave me a whole bunch of fortune cookies to put in late. She was asking me what I was doing, so I was telling her. And yeah, so that's the white elephant gifts, which we have a Panda Express just down the way here.

So I think those gift cards will be intriguing to people. Yeah. For them to go get lunch. Okay. The light saber chopsticks, though, that determines who's going to get these. Yeah, these ones don't light up. I wish they did. These are just regular chopsticks. Oh they are okay, so. And they're themed balls and chopsticks. So one of the bowl bowls are Deadpool, which if you like Marvel comics, you love Deadpool.

Yeah. I, Ryan Reynolds, lots of swearing, lots of swearing. So beware if you watch anything. Deadpool, you know, and then the other bowl looks like, the ramen you buy at the grocery store. The bowl looks like the ramen box. Yeah. So, like those little styrofoam ones where you pop the lid and. Yeah. So it looks like that with chopsticks.

That's. Oh, man. Stretched my arms here. That was the, What's that called, a smear? Yeah. Of you rubbing your. Oh, yeah. Beard on the microphone. It's not a smear. It's a smear. What is that called? I don't know, it's something like that. It's four letters. I just probably have them in the wrong order. Asmr, that's what it is.

It's Asmr. Yeah. Yeah. That noise.

There you go. Someone was messing with us this morning. My mic cover was on nails and nails. My cover was on mine. Super weird. Who comes in and does that? Yeah, there might be just a touch of lipstick on my my cover. Tell the truth. A lot of lipstick. A lot. All right. We're back. (208) 542-1078 on this Thursday, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason and Julie.

It's our company Christmas party today. Yeah, I like these Christmas parties because we actually repurpose our weekly staff meeting and just turn it into a Christmas party that works out to an abbreviated staff meeting and then party after that. We eat, we do white elephant gifts, we, eat some more, and. Yeah, it's fun. Yeah. Although I will say, I feel like our party is a hybrid of a white elephant and regular.

Yeah, like white elephant gifts are usually these really weird novel things that are more jokey than they are useful, which are great. I love. Yeah, those are funny. But a lot of times we do like useful gifts and stuff. So, yeah, things that you actually desire to have. Yeah, yeah. So would you rather have a go first or last?

Because we draw the names in the numbers and all that. Okay. I always assume a role in white elephant exchanges. Yeah, because gifts aren't. I'm just not. Gifts are, like, low on my list. Right? Right. You know, I love experiences. Yeah. So I like to go a little later and maybe rescue somebody and take their gift if they want something better.

Yes. Yeah. And I'll just make up a reason why I'm rescuing them. Because sometimes gifts are really important to people and I don't want them to feel bad. That's true. Yeah. And we're cheap. And that's good too, because I'm. I'm kind of the same way. Someone asked me the other day, you know what? What are you hoping to get for Christmas?

Like, physically? Like nothing like, I don't I don't even think of I want this gadget or that tool or like, I just, I think I used to be like that, but now I like the overall experience of Christmas being with kids. Crank it family. You know, that's to me, that's sort of what I look forward to with Christmas, right?

Yeah. I mean, I do accept gifts. I have. No I do like my gift. I'm giving it this year. I know you always, you always taunt me with it like a few weeks before Christmas. I have it almost all the way put together. There's. There is one more store. I have to visit. It is. It's been an accumulation of things.

That's a themed gift that also has an experience involved in it. So I do have to go to one more store on Saturday. Okay, I'm almost done getting your gift to.

What are you laughing at over there? Everybody's BS meter is pegging right now. Yeah, yeah. I'm curious what our audience thinks these drones are. Oh, I think it would be great to know what they think are. We did just get a question, wanting to know they haven't followed it a lot. They're saying, is it just one neighborhood? I don't believe it is.

I think it's spanning three different cities. Am I remembering this correctly? Is it three different? I think it's three cities. Yeah, yeah. So it's not just a neighborhood. It's. It's definitely more than that. Yes. And you can find the videos and people will speed them up. So you can see all of the drones because yeah, it happens at night.

And once it's sped up, you can see them coming in and out of the, the airspace. If you were to you know what? You know what I would guess today, I don't think it's Iranian drones being launched off a mothership. I actually think it's probably private industry doing some kind of data collection. I, you, you and I talked about this on a on a commercial break.

I think you're if we were looking for the Ockham's razor here, I think that's that's the most likely. And they don't want to reveal what private industry is gathering. What information? Yes. Well, a couple of scenarios. And I could be totally wrong, but like you said, Occam's razor. This these might be industries who deal with really sensitive info or it's highly competitive, so they don't want it publicized out there, which I would then say, don't put really bright lights on your operation and hover above, you know, well populated areas, but whatever, it could be a company that says we are going to provide temporary, short term Wi-Fi to areas afflicted by natural

disasters or, you know, war torn areas, whatever. And they're just testing to see how well their Wi-Fi network system works. That's, allowed with drones because you put a drone up there that can reach a pretty wide net, right? Yes. Okay. So that was one idea. Another one could be some third party private industry that watches traffic patterns and then provides data to local law enforcement.

And you can identify cars that are speeding too quickly. And then ground based cameras could be used to to nab those cars. And you wouldn't want that out there either, because I mean, I get irritated when those traffic cameras take my picture in Utah, and I wouldn't want a drone driven by I watching every car down there to see who the speeders are, the traffic patterns.

Yeah. So I my hunch is it if I were to have to guess, it would be something along those lines. Yeah. I feel like I should address this because I think this is probably the third or fourth time in either the Facebook Live feed or in our text feed that it's been mentioned that why are people shooting them down?

Well, an older gentleman did just get but he went to jail for shooting down a drone. Yeah, he you can't do that. You can't, like, fire a gun in a populated area. Yeah. So you can't go into your backyard and and just shoot at a drone. Yes. Because you don't own the airspace above your property. Yeah. Not that high up.

Yeah. Not that high up. Yeah. Okay, well, let's go to the phones. 28542 179. Hi, caller. How are you today? Yeah. Pretty good. How how are you guys doing today? Doing well, doing well. What's up? My my random thought that came down to the, drones flying around was all those, people that were talking about the, Chinese that had bought up a bunch of farm land and all that sort of thing.

Yeah, yeah. So my guess would be maybe it'd be them launching from a from a barnyard somewhere. Oh, gotcha. Well, that's a good question. Can people see where they're coming from and going to raising from and and dropping to I don't know. Yeah that is a good question. Yeah. Yeah. Good point. There was go ahead and well you know there was that then there was of course the, the spy balloon from months back or almost a year ago.

But you know, they got that clear across the country, you know, no big hubbub. Yeah. Yeah that's true. They did. And that's what's weird to me. We've had a lot of phenomenon in the sky over the last 3 or 4 years. Yeah. Somebody on tech said, what if they're spraying some type of chemical, possibly a drug or a virus?

That's harming people? It could be, I don't know. Yeah. Let's go to the next caller. Welcome to the show. How are you? Welcome to the show. How are you? Good. Thanks. I will tell you if you'll turn your radio down. It you won't get the. We won't get the feedback. Actually. So go ahead. Okay. Could it be Amazon setting up new delivery routes?

Thought about that. Except these drones kind of hang out. Like they don't look like they're going to be there. They're going up there and just sticking around for a while. And I think it's weird that it's at night because if it was something like that, I think they would do that during the day, not during the day. Well that's true.

I was just wondering if they were surveying for new delivery routes, but I guess the only way we'll ever find out is maybe they're going to need to set up a drone hunting season. You know, you hunt for deer, you hunt your bears nest and drones. But instead of going to your fish and game just a license, you go to the FCC.

Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Not not a not a bad idea. Yeah. I mean, I'm not in on the hunting season, but, you know. Yeah. Somebody posed the question. What if you don't use a gun to knock them down? What if you use something else, like a slingshot or something? I mean, they'd have to get close if you were going to do that.

Would you be charged with something illegal if you did that? I don't know. I don't know. I don't think you would be. I think discharging the firearm was the problem with the old guy. But, can you take down a drone? Is there even a law? Have they even addressed that? Because this is so new? Yeah. You know what?

Let's let's put that out into the ether here. If a drone is hovering over your yard and you. You throw up, you know, hit it with a boomerang, or you throw a net up and you pull it down. Can you do that? Because I, you know, that's kind of an invasion of your privacy. If it's. Yeah. I don't know if it's right there.

Maybe. Maybe so I don't know. I mentioned earlier that new Jersey was kind of a great place for this to happen. If it is a private industry that's testing something or mining data or something because they have no drone loss, right? There are other places. There's very strict drone laws in DC. Very, very strict. Yeah. New Jersey doesn't have any.

No, no that's true. And maybe they've got to tighten those up. I will say the people are growing restless with their governor and the way he's handled this. They're not they're not happy about that. We'll be back to 950. Okay. We're going to try something Julie. Is that true. Somebody texted in and said they're starting to make shotgun shells that deploy a net.

Oh that's brilliant. I love. That's amazing. Mission impossible with your own gun. The Chinese that had bought up a bunch of farm land and all. So Neal built this really cool little system. When somebody calls in, he can immediately grab their phone call because you don't own the airspace. Yeah. Not that high up. Yeah, not that high. Okay, well, let's go to the phone 107.

Pretty good. How how are you guys doing today? My my random thought that came down to the, drones flying around was all those, people that were talking about the, Chinese that had bought up a bunch of farm land and all that sort of thing. Yeah. Yeah. My guess would be maybe it'd be them, raising from.

Oh, that that was recorded on there. Yeah. Okay. Except these drones kind of hang out like they don't. Okay. I will tell. Yeah. Anyway I just wanted to test it real quick. So we've got competing text here. Okay. Somebody says it's a federal offense to knock any flying object out of the air. Firearm or not. But then we got a text from somebody else that said your air rights over your property go up to 500ft.

Okay. So those are competing rules. If, if if both. And who knows if the texts are right. Yeah. But if both are right, then they cancel each other out. Yeah. So I mean, again, I don't know what the rules are. Yeah. We are just speculating. Can you thought about that? Except the. Let's go to the next column. Welcome to the show.

How are you? Good. Thanks. I will tell you if you'll turn. You won't get the. We won't get. Could it be Amazon setting up new delivery routes. Okay I'm going to use that one. Good idea Brian. He says train a falcon to take it down. We train dogs to take down criminals. That's a good. The falcon is going to be really small in comparison to these drones, though.

Good question. Sort of thing. Yeah. My my random thought that came down to the, drones flying around. What my, my, doing while doing my my random. Okay, now, there will be a new sweeper in there. Lovely. Well done. Okay, we don't have any endorsements for today, right? Nope. I guess from yesterday's or from today is going to try for tomorrow.

Okay. Do you know how long it took for that to come through? How long? Just now. No, it came through after I started Facebook Live. I had sent that to you probably an hour ago. What? What is the time stamp on yours? 935 and then I had sent it to you. Oh 935 now, we talked about that way earlier than that.

Did we? Yeah.

954 on Newstalk 107 by Neal Larson and, Julie Mason. We've got a lot of texts about these drones. Julie, someone's said, yeah. I live outside of city limits in a rural area. I'm shooting a drone that's hovering over my house, and then we have kind of competing tech. Someone sent in that is, is claiming that your air rights.

So the property that you own, it goes up to 500ft above your property. And then they say after 500ft, the FAA owns that. Okay. But then somebody else sent in a text that said it's a federal offense to knock any flying object out of the air firearm or not. So if I own it, you've come on to my property.

So those two, those two texts are competing and they would cancel each other out. I don't know which one's right. Which one I don't know. Yeah. Yeah I and so where which which law is at play here. Yeah. Good question. So these drones aren't going very low. We should let people know that they're they're kind of higher up in the air.

They're probably up thousand a couple thousand feet maybe. So yeah, I don't know. We'll see. Someone said it's Amazon dropping their mail off. Someone else said that they're starting to make shotgun shells that deploy a net, which would be so crazy to use on your property if something was flying above your property. Yeah. Yeah. What if you had drone wars?

Like, you put your own drone up there and you, even if you were willing to sacrifice your drone, get it up in the propellers and. Yeah, and just wreck that drone. Yeah. I guess the scary thing is, is if that drone falls over your house and it has a chemical agent on board or something, that's a little terrifying.

Well, that's the that is, you don't know what's on that drone or what's encompassed in that drone. That was Harris Faulkner's point. Like, we don't we don't know what kind of stuff is, is in or on these on these drones. So there is kind of a potential danger in taking them. That's make you a little nervous. It's got to be more of a controlled, takedown.

So. Right. Will we know the mystery? Probably not. That's frustrating. I mean, look, there's. They hide whatever they want to hide. We don't know who owned the cocaine like. Yeah, we. It took them several years to even admit that the laptop belonged to a hunter. Like, yeah, they want to keep a secret. They're going to keep it secret.

We we don't even really know about the balloon. We don't know if what they told us that balloon was was actually what it was. That's true. We don't we don't know that. I was sort of waiting for this to, someone said it's the projection for Project Blue Beam so that they can falsify a humongous alien invasion.

I was wondering if someone was going to make a connection between these drones and this alien. Yeah. Weirdness that we've had. Not alien, but UFO, UAP, whatever they call them now. So, yeah. Yeah. Duh. I don't know either, but it's weird. I wouldn't want to live in new Jersey right now. All right, last minute. We just want to give you another reminder.

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