12.16.2024 -- NLS -- MAGA, Media Missteps, and Boo Box Blues

On this episode with Neal and Julie, the discussion dives into the seismic political shift brought by Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. Neal and Julie explore how Trump’s influence has redefined the Republican Party, questioning whether a post-Trump GOP is even possible. They reflect on Mitt Romney's unexpected acknowledgment of Trump's generational impact and debate how Democrats might respond to reclaim political influence after recent losses.

The conversation shifts to cultural trends, like the evolution of Halloween traditions, with trunk-or-treating and "boo boxes" replacing traditional trick-or-treating. They also highlight charitable giving during the holiday season, emphasizing the transformative power of helping others, such as through the Miracle Box initiative.

The episode wraps with commentary on media accountability, including George Stephanopoulos’s recent missteps, and speculation about Donald Trump’s potential policy priorities if reelected. Light-hearted moments include musings on daylight savings and personal anecdotes, showcasing the duo's blend of politics, culture, and humor.

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Transcript

Welcome on this Monday. It's 807. And how are you? East Idaho? Just a little over a week to go before Christmas. And I hope you're feeling the Christmas spirit. And if you'd like to reach me on the, program. The number to call is (208) 542-1079. And, we'll actually open up the phone lines a little bit later, but it's interesting.

I want you to hear something right out of the get go. This is Mitt Romney speaking about Trump. Do you still think there's going to be a post-Trump Republican Party, or is MAGA now the Republican Party? Oh, MAGA is the Republican Party, and Donald Trump is the Republican Party today. And if you were to ask me who the nominee will be in 2028, I think it'll be JD Vance.

All right. He's smart, well-spoken, part of the MAGA movement. You said something pretty harsh about him a few months ago, though. You could not have less respect for somebody than JD long ago. I like to rehash history, and we've worked in the Senate since then. But but I you know that that is what the Republican Party is.

And will the party need to change? Look, the Republican Party has become the party of the working class, middle class voter. And you've got to give Donald Trump credit for having done that. Taking that away from the Democrats. Okay. Did you ever think that Mitt Romney would say that about Donald Trump, that he would give him credit for the the the seismic political shift that happened?

Now, I will say, no, I did not anticipate that, but especially that last part where credit was given, where it's due, that the influence of Donald Trump, the MAGA movement has been seismic, generational and game changing for the time being. In fact, right now, I don't know that the Democrats even have a plan. They certainly have ambition and they have desires, but I don't know that they have a plan to to try and reclaim the political power, the influence, all the things that they have lost in this last, election.

They are in complete disarray and I don't really see them getting their legs underneath them at this point. So you have that, happening. You also have, Van Jones. We played this clip last hour. He's giving Donald Trump credit, as he should, in his words, for being smarter than everyone else gets up. So everybody keeps I mean, the problem is you have a framework in your mind that how can Donald Trump how can Donald Trump, how can Donald Trump?

Guys, can we cut it out? Donald Trump is not an idiot. Donald Trump, let me just be very clear that Donald Trump is smarter than me. You and I are critics. You know what we know because he has the white House, the Senate, the House, totally agree, or the popular vote. He has a massive media ecosystem bigger than the mainstream built around him and for him and religiously, religious fervor and a political movement around him.

And he is best buddy is the richest person in the history of the world, and the most relevant Kennedy is with him. He this dude is is a phenomenal he is the most powerful human on earth. And in our lifetime. And we're still saying, well, how is this God? We look like idiots to order. He's totally right. You know, this is the thing that I kind of fear is that they now understand that they're catching on.

And perhaps the first step to defeating an opponent is to acknowledge their strength. And Donald Trump has outsmarted them. The entire Democrat Party and many inside the Republican Party. I will say, and don't get me wrong, I'm a big Trump supporter. But at the end of his first term, January 6th happened. They're doing the impeachment there. I thought that this was probably our one and done with Donald Trump, that this was this is going to be the the chapter of Donald Trump.

I never imagined, in fact, I that that sort of got cemented into my mind that Donald Trump was done and we sort of had these little whispers. Could he ever run again? I don't think he could, but and I would tell myself this, and I still believe it, but I think I was telling myself as sort of a, a salve on my on my not heartbroken but disappointed soul that, well, at least he accomplished more in one term than most presidents accomplish in two.

Which, like I said, that that's true, but I think it was not about acknowledging something that was true as much as it was trying to create something in my own mind to be okay with him only having one term when certainly at that point I felt it was very likely that he deserved to, and that he that 2020 was just 2020.

So but here we are. We flash forward four years and here Donald Trump is on the precipice of becoming the president again, even though many of us probably had it cemented in our minds that he's he's probably done. And and we had to find a way to, to be okay with that. But he turned the tables in the question leading up to Van Jones answer, the interviewer made the point that Donald Trump turned the mainstream into the fringe and the fringe into the mainstream.

He flipped it. He he it's like a hypnotist, like, snap the fingers and actually, I, I would take issue with the way that was characterized, though I don't think Donald Trump himself did it beyond Donald Trump, just simply pointing out what is evident to our under gaslit eyes and ears. He just returned us to common sense. Is it common sense to control your border?

Yes, yes it is. That doesn't require brilliance to acknowledge that if you're going to have a country that is in many ways defined by a border that is controlled, happens all over the world, that it's okay for America to have a border that is controlled by Donald Trump. And even though this is not really his central issue, this idea, this gender garbage, there's there's better words for it.

But those words could get us in trouble with the FCC if I were to say them. Not to mention maybe my mom if she's listening. But this idea that men can be women and women can be men is a delusion. And everything that extends from it, that men can get on the court with women and play against them if they simply think they're women.

Well, now you got to have hormones and surgery. I know that that's that's sort of a, sort of a continuation of the ridiculous this, that's that's kind of carving out an excuse to allow men to play against women. And people are sick of it. They're tired of it. They're they're tired of, if we're going to have a climate agreement, for instance, that America has to bear the economic brunt of everyone else's climate sins, which is basically the essence of things like the climate, the Paris accord.

And and Donald Trump said, set aside what you might think about CO2 for a moment. Even if CO2 is warming the planet and we've got catastrophe coming. This is an unfair to America deal, and we're not going to do it. I mean, that's common sense. It is common sense to look out for yourself. Now, that doesn't mean you're greedy at every turn.

That doesn't mean you have to own and control absolutely everything but self-interest is a very important part of a country's survival. And Donald Trump is simply recognizing that there is absolutely nothing wrong with being America first. Now you have some and and some people call him neo cons. Other people call him rhinos. Whatever you a column, they believe they have equated America first with isolationism.

They may be correlated in a way, but they they're certainly not the same thing. And I'm not an isolationist. Do I think we need to roll back some of the things that we do overseas? Yeah, I think we do. I think most people probably do. That doesn't mean we don't play in the world or, you know, compete or, or, have have extensive foreign policy.

It just means your policy really needs to look out for your own country. It there needs to be American interests at the heart of every single foreign policy. And in the same way that you can't be compassionate with other people's money, you really can't be compassionate on the world stage with taxpayer dollars that are either being paid directly or indebted to a future generation.

And Donald Trump recognizes that. So this is why I think that, in in some ways, in unexpected way, the last month and 11 days have been so incredibly refreshing, even in unexpected ways, to unexpected people, the the upper middle class lefties out there. I promise you are privately excited about their 401 K's again under a Donald Trump president.

I promise you there is no doubt. Or they may not say it. They may not even want to admit it to themselves. But they too are feeling in certain parts of their. It's probably cognitive dissonance. They probably still hate Trump and Orange Man bad and all that crap, but they're probably going okay. I am kind of excited about my 401 K.

I'm excited about the economy. I'm excited about business opportunities. I'm excited about, you know, wow, how maybe we'll have, some, some common sense. In fact, I'm seeing the headline right now. Donald Trump wants to get rid of daylight savings. You know that to me, getting rid of daylight saving, two things. Can I just say, sorry, I'm. I'm off on a bit of a tangent here.

We'll take a break soon. That has been such low hanging fruit for any president out there to to finally resolve the whole daylight savings thing. Saving, daylight saving time. Do that. And the other one is, and I don't know, why we have not done that. Just make Halloween the last Friday or the last Saturday of October and be done with it.

Halloween on a Tuesday night is stupid and boring and ridiculous. Some days need to be on the calendar date other day. Like you know what we have Thanksgiving every it's it's actually I read about this here's a little dumb tidbit. Thanksgiving is not always the last Thursday in November. It's the fourth Thursday. It used to be the last, but some previous presidents said, hey, you know what?

If we just make it, excuse me, the fourth Thursday in November, then that's extra time for Christmas shopping. If there happens to be a fifth and so it was a commerce reason to make that shift from some previous presidency, which I'm fine with, I don't care. But it's it, it's it's based on the day of the week because that seems to, to work.

Okay. And I, I would say if we, if I were to hold a vote right now and said make Halloween the last either Friday or Saturday, we can debate over that in, in, October. I would bet you 80% of the folks out there would say, that's a good idea. Let's do it. Because it's just better for kids and trick or treating and parties, and it just fits better.

But I, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a day which does not have any deep religious significance for anyone that it needs to be. Nobody's married to to, October 31st. I didn't anticipate making this point today. But you know what? While we're at it with daylight saving time, let's fix Halloween, too. And let's take a break.

Right now it's 821 on Newstalk 1079A little bit later this hour, I believe we are expecting Mark Radford from Colby off Road. Joining us with, by the way, his checkbook. Julie and I, we were at problems on Friday at the Miracle Box. Had a great hour there. And, we will, we'll have that for you later this hour on Newstalk 179.

All right. 826 on Newstalk 170, Neal Larson, Julie Mason on this Monday morning. And, we had another idea come in, Julie, about, reconfiguring the entire calendar. So it does mathematically work out if you did 13 months and each one of them had 28 days. Yeah. So for seven day weeks, do you is it does it work out perfectly?

I don't know, like I think it comes really close. Like you might still have a leap year. Oh yeah. One day. Yeah, yeah. But here's the problem. People were born on March 31st and September 30th, and. So. Yeah. What do you get rid of those days? Yeah, those are kind of orphans, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, but I was born on the 15th.

You're born on the 17th. Tech with like, all those other people. We're in the window. Oh. That's good. Am I am I alone on my Halloween? Thought about making it the last either Friday or Saturday of October? Are people married to to, October 31st? I don't know if they're married to that, but I think that people have transitioned the way that they celebrate Halloween.

And so I'm not even sure that that that what you and I did. Yeah, at age nine, ten and 11, going around and trick or treating on the 31st, I'm not sure that exists much anymore. Yeah, we'll do parties. People do trunk or treats, people do church activities people. And there's community events here in East Idaho. There's booth at the zoo.

There's so you I think people have transitioned the way that they celebrate and they help their kids celebrate on those days. And the 31st might just be kind of going away as the night that you go trick or treating. Okay. Yeah, it's probably true. That's it. It. Well, you live in a cul de sac, so you've you got very little this year.

Six I think. Yeah, we probably still had what did I tell you. 30 to 40, something like that. We had a few dozen anyway. But it was on a Tuesday, Wednesday night this year. Yeah. Middle of the week. So someone said you are very alone on Halloween. Someone just said, I'm with Neal. So you guys duke it out?

Yeah, I think you're right though. I think people have have just sort of migrated to having their chilly feet and trunk or treat and, and whatever right around Halloween as opposed to the day itself being a big. Yes. Yeah. I, I've also heard I don't have kids in this age group. So I've also heard from people though that Halloween or excuse me, October is kind of become the nightmare month and pardon the pun, but it is one constant party though.

Yeah, all time because you do have a trunk or treat and then you do have boo at the zoo, and then you do have the Harvest fest on Saturday, and then you do go apple picking and then you like. Well, yeah. You know, what is a new Fiona? I'm in fact, I've been meaning to talk about this on the show with you is that you're going to I don't know, you might roll your eyes at my take on this, but apparently a new tradition.

And I blame social media for this. My daughter Anna, who's 16, she's like, dad, are you going to get me a boo box? And I'm like, what's a boo box? Apparently it's a thing now. It's like an Easter basket, but it's for Halloween. Where are you put together? I'm like, I'm not kidding you a boo box. I mean, you go to parties, we send little kids out to go door to door to get bags full of candy.

And now on top of that, you want, like, an Easter like little box that has even more candy. And I'm like, no, I'm not doing a boo box. These parents who just make it so hard on themselves. I know it's weird. I was I'm a little surprised you hadn't heard of the booth. I have not heard of the boo box.

Yeah, yeah, my poor children. They had very non. I didn't even do real time Easter baskets. I did like the girls got an Easter dress and something sweet, like a pair of earrings or a cute necklace. I didn't do these huge baskets that were there when they woke up on Sunday morning. See, that's how I do remember Easter being about 10% of what Christmas was.

But we did get a little basket with the fake grass in the bottom and some, you know, chocolate eggs and. Yeah, what? Whatever. But well, not only that, we do Easter egg rolls with candy in the middle. I'm not. We're old and grumpy. We are old and grumpy. You're right. We are old and grumpy. But did you ever do elf on a shelf?

No, I wasn't kind of. That's a bad. I was a working mom. You think I'm going to make a mess that now needs to be cleaned up? I know, it's weird. It's the dumbest thing ever I would have. I'm not going to purposely mess up my kitchen. Yeah, I need that. It's almost like, you know what? I'm borderline diabetic.

Let's add kidney failure to, like, why would you add more misery to your life and bring in this elf that just makes messes. I love that people enjoy it. I love that they do it. It wasn't for me. Yeah. Someone said, these are alternatives to trick or treating, but people seem to think they have to do all.

That's the thing is, my daughter, this was additive. This was not in place of. And, so yeah, I don't know. She didn't get a boo box. I you or CPS comment Neal Larson. All right. I know I'm a very neglectful parent because I. Yeah. Now, yeah. If if we did, I'm like, you know what? If you're not going trick or treating and you had to work during your party this year or something, and you know, you can't do a lot of Halloween stuff, I'd probably do, I'd probably do a boo box in that situation, but not on top of everything else.

I can't believe I haven't heard a boo box. I yeah, okay, I don't know. You know what else I never understood growing up and I don't know why. Nine days before Christmas for spending so much time on Halloween. But one final point. Why the dentists wanted kids to turn their candy in. I'm like, that's the worst thing for your business model ever?

You should be telling those kids, you know what? Eat your candy. Don't brush before you go to bed. Just let that caramel stick there in between your teeth, and then they cash in. I think that doesn't make any sense. Why don't you be like the lawyers in the Bible? Would you make more business for yourself? I know, right?

Exactly. It doesn't make any sense. Do you remember? I don't remember what year it was, but there was about a five year stretch there where the local IRS would allow you to bring your candy in to get it X-rayed, because there was a scare out there that people were putting razor blades and needles in candy and in apples.

And, I don't think they actually ever found a single instance of it, but it was like this service that was addressing people's fears. Yeah, I was the mom who tried to con my kids into not going trick or treating. I was like, hey, let's just go to the store and get the treats you want. Yeah. And I just won't go.

Right. That's. Yes. You know what? Can I make a confession? Hopefully my kids aren't listening ahead. Like if we went on a long trip, like, a lot of times it was DC kids weren't with us. I would get the souvenirs. When I flew back in and back to Salt Lake, we'd go to Walmart and get the t shirt or whatever, a mug with some candy in it.

Boom. Like, is that terrible? No. Okay. It is. It is like we shattered so many of their childhood dreams. Yeah. It began with Christmas back to nine days before Christmas. We shattered all of their dreams with that holiday. Yeah, that's when they became older. That's true. When you finally told the truth. Yeah. That's. Yeah that's a good point.

Although I will say in my defense we didn't do that every time. It was just like I, I don't know. But we forgot we didn't make it to the souvenir shop in DC or whatever. So all right we'll be back after this. It's 841 now on Newstalk 1079, Neal Larson along with Julie Mason and Julie. We're excited to have our friend Mark Radford from Colby off road in the studio with us this morning.

Mark. Good morning. How are you? Fabulous. Well, we always love it when you pop into the studio in December. It's always a good it means good things are about to happen. Yes. Well, I know today is a good Monday because I was listening to a Joe Biden speech in my truck on the way here. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah.

You were saying, come on, man, come on man. He likes this. He does. He does like to say that. Well, let's kind of recap Friday because we did the Miracle box. For one hour, Julie and I picked one hour problems 11 to noon on Friday, invited all of our listeners to come and help out. And you were generous enough to, add a match.

So anything people gave you were going to match that? There was also an existing matching donor in Inter West Mortgage. And so our understanding is that whatever we raised it essentially was going to triple. Well, in the one hour Julie and I were there, our listeners showed up strong. We raised $2,100 in the course of just one hour.

No, actually more than that. Well, we we raised 20, 100, 20, $100 on the machine. Yes. But then we had people that were just handing us cash. So another $250 in cash. So we're at 2350 for that one hour from our generous listeners. Yeah. And Mark's here today to talk about the match. Yeah, yeah. I think the biggest Christmas miracle that I seen over the at problems that day was I actually seen a Democrat come in and make a purchase on the thing.

And I knew they Democrat and I was like, that's a Christmas miracle.

That night anyway. But yeah. Yeah. So my plan is to, match it, but I think I'm going to do a little bit better. I think what I'm going to do is write this check out for 7000 bucks. Oh my goodness. So that way, that way more families can be, helped and assisted, you know, I mean, I know there's a lot of needs out there.

And we've had a good year this year with our businesses. And I think that's that's appropriate. Oh wow. Mark, that is so generous. So generous at this time of year. It's my my pleasure I love I love doing this. I love, you know, I don't need any publicity. I'm out here, announcing this, on the radio to get my, publicity or anything else like that.

I just want listeners, your listeners, to know that when you do contribute to people and you contribute to causes like this, it makes a huge difference in other people's lives. And I think that that's is the society we always should be trying to lift each other up. We should always try to create win win situations, you know, help those in need, help those that, that don't have food, don't, you know, and I've always had this thought in my mind is, how can we how can we really say we love Jesus and we've never seen his face, we've never even met the guy.

But when you see somebody that needs help and you turn your back on him and walk away, what does that say? Yeah, well, Mark, we have been with you in previous years. One year we just went to Walmart. We looked for people who looked like maybe they needed a little bit of help and so along with you walk up, we'd say, hey, we want to take care of your order today.

And the one thing I want to point out is I recognized how much you enjoy being able to do that. Yeah. And to know that you've you know, a lot of times people would even they'd get teary, they'd cry because, you know, things are tight. And and to have someone swipe the, their own card and it, it makes it so they don't have that 200 or $300.

Leaving their bank account is a huge relief for them. So you're right, it does mean a lot to people. Yeah. I remember, that that particular event that we did, I had just come out of open heart surgery maybe two weeks prior. And so I was I was sore, I couldn't hardly walk. I mean, I was pretty laid up, but I remember going there and I remember this, this older couple, they had about 20 bags of cat food in their in their, cart, and they were feeding all the stray cats and, they were telling us about that.

And I just like that they're, they're, they're helping the kitty cats. And, you know, we're helping them pay for it, you know, and. Yeah, and then there's a lot of other families that we told them to go back and fill their carts up, and they went back and fill them up and come back. And, you know, they these were families that had 1 or 2 things and that's all they could afford.

They went and filled their carts up and we bought it for them. And it was awesome. The one thing that I like about the Miracle Box, too, is they have identified where the true need is. They have a very good process of identifying the families, the people that that need this. And so these dollars are 100% of it will go to help those families in need.

And it truly will will bring relief. Yeah. And I would tell all your listeners out there, just from my experience and helping other people, if they will go over to the miracle box and make a donation, I can promise them it'll change their life. It will always change their life for the better, you know? And I don't necessarily think we should give to, to change our own lives.

I think we should give because it's always the right thing to do. But in that process, you will change your heart and your mind. Yeah. And, I always feel like, there's a lot of reciprocity out there as well, and I. I feel like the more you give, the more you're going to receive back. Yeah. I taught my kids.

You get what you give always, you know, even in your, like, your family union unit. That was the start of it. You know, you go to your sibling, it'll come back to you like that kind of thing. But this is community. This is world, this is humankind. You get what you give. Yep, yep. And and really, I don't need anything back in return.

I'm just happy I have the means and the opportunity and the motivation to help out. Help other people. Yeah, that's what that's what makes the Christmases different in my in my world is being able to help people. And I love that. It's my favorite. Well, Mark Radford from Colby off Road. Thank you. So so generous writing a check today for $7,000.

Yeah. Thank you. That's big. Yeah. And if you're Democrat out there, go, go make a donation. Don't let Neal and Julie show stop. You. Thank you. Mark, we really appreciate it. It's 847. Newstalk 179. And, we'll be back after this miracle.

It's 852 on Newstalk 170. Neal Larson along with Julie Mason. If you're just tuning in, you missed a great segment. Mark Radford from Colby off road stopped by. And when we ventured to do the Miracle Box on Friday, he said, I'll match whatever people donate. And, we raised in total about an just under $2,500 in that one hour.

Julie. He more than matched it. In fact, he almost double matched it with a check for $7,000. Yes. And it's such a good cause. You guys don't let the charity end here. We're so grateful for Mark Crawford and Colby Off Road for donating so much. We're thankful for the listeners who showed up on Friday and donated gold. Gold?

I mean, it's a win win, right? Go. No problem. So yeah, great place to go shop. And then in the at the Hammond location, the Miracle Box is located right there between the two doors. Yeah. So go in the store right there between the two doors and very easy. Tap the screen, choose your choice. Swipe your card. It is.

It is done in about 15 seconds. Yeah. We had one gentleman, Julie, who came and I think he had received something like, like a $100 cash card or gift card or something like from a boss or something. He used the whole thing at the Miracle Box. He's like, you know what? I've got $100 on this gift card, and I'm just going to use it all on that.

So he's so great. Swipe bought 2 or 3 things. It was great. I think his name was Edwin. Yes. And that's right. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah I mean it was awesome. And I was going to say I wanted it to be able to let Mark talk. So I didn't interrupt the interview, but, I was going to say the joy in the people who came through.

It was such a fun hour. It was on Friday. People just. You feel so good when you're giving. Yeah. There's so much joy, you know, it really is. And and a lot of times, you know, you think, how can I give to bring in that Christmas spirit and the spirit of giving in that warmth? This is a perfect way to do that.

And it's so easy. It literally takes about 10 or 15 seconds. Right? You'll spend more time looking over your options to trying to decide which thing you're going to pick. Yeah, yeah yeah. So good morning. That's that's that's a good way to start day. Start on day. Yeah. Yeah. I almost feel guilty that I was griping in the 6 a.m. hour.

There is a round we fry year round. It's good. I'm all right. I'm here. So. All right. Well, it is 855 (208) 542-1079. If you'd like to reach us on the program, this morning and the the drone controversy, nothing happened over the weekend to bring the concern level down. No, no, in fact, I think the temperature rose a little bit.

And there's additional locations that drones have been spotted. Okay, I got a message from one of our listeners that said some people are now saying they may have seen them in like Nampa Meridian area. Oh, I don't know if it's true. I didn't see the video myself, but apparently there's some chatter online. But you know what I will say?

I was driving between Pocatello and Idaho Falls over the weekend, and I saw a plane in the sky. And like my thought was, is that a drone? Like I'm looking closer? No, it's just a plane. But I, I think we're much more likely to think something's a drone now that we have this, this news story bounced around. So we I'm not saying it's not a drone, but I'm just saying it's understandable if you're getting reports like that because people are leaning that way.

Now, I think that if you spend a decent amount of time watching whatever light you see in the in the sky, especially at night, you can see the, the pattern that these drones are flying. So, yeah, they've talked a lot about how they hover. They don't move for a minute. You stay there and then there's some sort of a, like a square pattern that these drones over in new Jersey are making.

So they're not flying like a plane. They're creating square patterns in the sky. Okay. And then they'll they'll hover again or move. And then a square pattern again. Is that, is that a clue. Like the fact that they're moving in a square? I would I have no idea. I, I feel like if I were in an escape room, that would be significant.

Like, I'm supposed to know that fact they're going in a square mean something? I have no idea. Maybe they're playing chess, but in midair, maybe. I feel like they're mapping out a grid or something. Maybe. So now some kind. But, my my daughter doesn't want to be scared, so she's choosing to believe that, new Jersey is going to have the most epic New Year's Eve celebration, and they're actually just practicing for that New Year's Eve celebration.

Good be go with that. I'm. It makes her feel way better. It could be anything. It really could be anything. So, Yeah. Have you heard the stories, though, that someone who's got, like, a hobby, consumer level drone will go up and kind of chase it to try and see it and their batteries die? Yeah, that disables the hobby drone.

Yeah, I that's weird. That is weird. Yeah, yeah. We also referenced in the 6:00 hour, the video that I sent you, which is a man who lives in Nebraska who builds the his company is he manufactures these kind of drones. Yeah, not the hobby drones, the higher level drones. And he answered a ton of questions. One being having a mothership offshore is probably not even possible.

Yeah, the drones don't have enough battery life to fly out that far and come back in. Yeah, at least not the drones we're familiar with. Yeah, yeah. All right. It's 858. That's going to do it for this hour. We'll be back after the news on Newstalk 179. 907 on Newstalk 1079. If Julie were one of the seven dwarves should be sneezy this morning, I think I got it out of me.

I think we're good now. Two we're back and if you'd like to join us. (208) 542-1079 and, okay. Julie Trump keeps winning. I bet he's so sick of winning. He I don't think that man gets sick of winning. He himself said was like, we're going to be. So we're going to win so much. You're going to be sick of winning.

So I guess, my question is, well, it's not even a question. George Stephanopoulos deleted his X account over the weekend, said nothing about the ABC news settlement. For $15 million, plus another million for Trump's attorneys. As attorney's fees. And Stephanopoulos didn't say a word about it. That and maybe ABC news just said we're moving on.

Don't say anything on air about this. And, they did release a statement, and that money will be used to fund a museum of some sort. Okay, that Trump, you know, will designate and I think we need a museum of libel, slander and defamation and call it the LSD Museum. I had this thought over the weekend. I'm like, if you're Trump, dyslexic, missionaries are going to show up, though.

That's true. That's. Isn't it funny that the three letters LD are in the word dyslexic? I think that's anyway, Trump continues the trolling. I think it would be great if that's the museum. He he, you could actually put a museum together. That is the libel, slander and defamation. Sure you could. There's plenty of times that the mainstream media has done that you can have the Stephanopoulos wing of the libel, slander and Defamation Museum, but we can't have the same construction workers that worked for Kamala build it because the money won't be enough.

15 million will not be enough. Yeah. Now, if we've got Trump's construction people, it will be enough. That's true. He could do it for a million and a half, have leftovers. For those who aren't like, I don't have a really strong memory of what happened here. This was an interview that Stephanopoulos conducted with Nancy Mace. Yeah. And, yeah, I don't know.

It was more than a dozen times he repeated the lie in the interview 10 or 12 times. Yeah, that he did, where he said that Trump was, said found liable for rape. Liable for rape. That's just not accurate. That's not the the what he was found liable for. Nancy Mace pointed that out. She also talked about how Eugene Carroll had mocked the settlement.

She couldn't remember anything. She made fun of the allegations and she said how disrespectful it was, because Nancy Mace has always been very open about the fact that she was sexually assaulted in her early 20s. Yeah. And so and she's she talks about it all the time. She's a strong advocate for women coming forward. And she thought it was a disgrace that Jean Carroll would mock other women who had experienced sexual assault.

And man, it wasn't just a double down. It wasn't a triple down. Like I said, it was about a dozen times that Stephanopoulos continued to just just batter away at Nancy Mace. Yeah, it wasn't a good look. And now he's got to pay money for it. Well, yeah. And, the the first thought I had was, how do you not fired George Stephanopoulos after this?

I mean, as a journalist, you actually, as a journalist, do you have a pretty wide latitude of operation without fear of a libel, slander, defamation issue? Unless you're going after, kind of a more unknown person. But if it's a public figure, you can. You can say what's on your mind, and, you. In fact, I think Trump would like to change that law because there have been so many things said about him.

But however, I think the fact that George Stephanopoulos doubled down, as you said, about a dozen times in that interview, that's what pushed this into that realm of being a possible actionable suit against ABC news. If he had just said it off hand and it was, you know, well, he's found liable for rape, he was actually found liable for sexual abuse.

Which is a different standard and threshold. If he had mentioned it once it probably would not have been an issue. But the fact that he repeated that over and over and over again, that's what really ABC news probably said. Yeah, they may actually have a case against us because that is a false accusation. That's not what he was found liable for.

He also I, I watched the whole entire clip again last night to refresh my memory about what Nancy Mace had said during that. I believe it was only once, maybe twice, he reaffirmed or affirmed that it was a civil suit and not a criminal suit. Nancy Mace kept saying it. This was a civil case. This was a civil case.

And the standards are different. When he was making the accusation against Trump, he wasn't verifying that it was a civil and a criminal case. And that for me gets into sticky territory, too, because we even have had listeners just shred us, our, you know, our trolls on text that we don't understand that he he's a rapist. No, that is not what he was charged with nor found guilty.

Right. And if you can't keep it clear, don't talk about it. And that's my opinion was George Stephanopoulos. If you can't make this clear as a journalist, don't talk about it. Yeah, yeah. In and that that's true. Do you think that this, potentially could be the at least harm George Stephanopoulos position at ABC news? You know, I don't know, I'm kind of jaded when it comes to George Stephanopoulos.

Anyways, I think he's done his time. Yeah. Even without this, I think it's probably time for Stephanopoulos to move on. Yeah. And maybe, you know, somebody who agrees more with his his interview tactics and his political stance would feel differently. This isn't the first time he's stepped in it. Yeah. And his hatred for Trump is just dripping. You know, here's here's kind of how I view it.

If I can be armchair director of ABC news for just a moment, I think the people that can harm you most are not your opinionated people. We expect them to be opinionated, but it's the people that are in your journalism wing that say they're journalists, try to operate as journalists, but they kind of become partizan hacks, like repeating this false accusation a dozen times.

That's what can bring you the most harm as an organization. I believe that when David Mirror kind of did the same thing during the debate against against Donald Trump, where there was this ongoing fact checking of Trump, nothing like that with Kamala Harris. It looks unfair and it looks very partizan because it is. And so I think you that's where I think your real liability is, is in your journalists acting as hacks.

Like I look at, for instance, Jake Tapper, we have a clip with Jake Tapper on. I would say overall, Jake Tapper does an okay job. However, he's had these moments that are almost embarrassing, almost embarrassing for him. But I don't think they were as fatal as Stephanopoulos repeating a defamatory lie over and over again. Yeah, I just and that's what I mean by it's really time for George Stephanopoulos to move on for me.

You're not operating in in good faith in the position that you've been hired for and just move on. I don't well, he shut down his accounts. They can't start a Twitter or an X. Yeah, that's true too. Interviewing, options. So maybe a podcast that maybe already does a podcast. I don't know, but it's probably time for you to not be in this role.

Yeah. Yeah. It's it it's it's so true. But that's a big 15 million's a big chunk. Did I hear correctly I thought I heard on the as I was driving into work that ABC news is requiring him to pay a portion of it. Oh I don't know. I did not hear that. I think I heard that on the news coming in.

They're going to dock it from a salary. Yeah. There's some sort of he's got to he's got to be responsible for a portion of it. It's not a very big portion, but a portion of it. Yeah, I don't know. I'll look I'll look into that though. I mean that's that's horrible if that's true because he's probably thinking I can say whatever I want to because the higher ups are allowing me to do this.

You know, I don't know if I liked the statement that ABC news gave because they didn't admit that they were wrong. They didn't say it was false, and we lied. And I'm sure they they're having to pay $15 million so they can say, yeah, they don't have to give that false apology. Yes. And because that is a very big black mark.

Says you've Stephanopoulos said to Nancy Mace, and this is where it where it got dicey. You've endorsed Donald Trump for president judges in two separate juries have found him liable for rape and for defaming the victim of that rape. So as and again, he repeated that. As a result, ABC news agreed in the settlement tissue statements of regret.

Okay, not not correction or not, we were wrong or not. We said something false. It was regret. ABC news and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Representative Nancy Mace on ABC's This Week, March 10th, 2024. Stephanopoulos was adamant he would not back down from his comments, even going so far as to tell late night host Stephen Colbert he would not be, quote, cowed out of doing my job because of a threat.

When did it become your job to lie, George? That's just it. So if the little portion that you read that really got him in trouble, he said two juries and he didn't clarify that it was a civil case. Yeah. Well, that leaves people believing he is has been convicted of rape. Yes. You have misled people. Yes. If you had stated clearly what he had been charged with and it had been in a civil court, you wouldn't be in this position.

Yeah. You made your own bed. Yeah. You didn't do your job. Yeah. I agree with you. It might be time for George to move on to. And I don't know if there's a greener pasture, but a different path, just a different. If you want to be this hatred filled of Trump, then just find a different platform. You know what I hope and and I will be very upfront about this from time to time.

We'll get, complaint from a listener because, yes, ABC news is is left leaning. They seem to have gone kind of the way that the mainstream media has gone. They they don't care for Trump much. And so when, when things when Trump is in the news more often, we'll see an elevation of complaints. And we've already gone through this before where, you know, we have a long term contract with ABC news.

It was our best option when we launched early. And I will tell you largely other than that, we love the service ABC news provides their their technical services are great. They're wall to wall coverage during big events is amazing. Their, on air support is really good. Like we have we have access to actualities very soon after they actually happen.

So there I love all of that. That's the one thing I wish we could change about them is they they are Trump deranged in certain contexts. Yeah, I'll leave it at that. However, I sense they are softening some in the same way a lot of the media is. They've seen what's happened to MSNBC and CNN, who put all their eggs in the Trump hatred basket.

They are. Whether or not they'll even survive is now a question mark. And I have, it's not massive, but I have sense that they have softened their posture in tone toward Donald Trump. Yeah. I sent you an X over the weekend, and it was a graph showing the decrease in MSNBC cease and CNN audiences. And the person who retweeted the graph said, cable news is dying.

Well, maybe you should go back to middle school and high school and learn how to read graphs again, because Fox News is also on that graph. And they're exploding. Yeah, their numbers have gotten better. So you didn't read the graph the right way. What is dying is the business model of CNN and MSNBC. Yes. If they will read.

Well, I don't know if you can pull MSNBC out of the toilet, but if CNN will re vamp, if they will realign and go, what? What made us so good 30 years ago, they can get back on track. And I think ABC could learn a lesson from that. Realign. Yeah. Do a good hard hitting news report. Both sides.

My goodness. Trump gave you plenty of things to complain about. But so did Biden. Yeah. And you just chose not to even talk about Biden because you couldn't give Trump the win. Figure it out. Do across the board news talk about both sides. You can survive. But they've got to make some changes or else they are going to die.

Yeah. Yeah they are. And I, I genuinely believe most people, not all, but most people, they can handle the negative stories about Trump, what they don't like are these over-the-top delusional, words that have such loaded, loaded language to it that the bias is is undeniable. That's the problem. There's another guy that, ABC news should probably get out of there, out from under their umbrella.

And that's Jonathan Karl. That guy hates Trump. It's so clear he hates Trump. And it's probably time for him and George Stephanopoulos to go be, you know, retired whatever and go do something else. There. Those, those are two figures that you can almost see the anger when when they talk about Trump. Let me give you an example of word choice that these mainstream media outlets have chosen.

So let's talk about Daniel Penny for just a second. He his name was back in the news this weekend. He went to the Army Navy game with he was JD Vance. His guess they were in the box with Trump. It was an incredibly patriotic atmosphere. It was awesome. Yeah. Okay. Well, a whole bunch of media outlets ran headlines about Daniel Penny and they chose to explain to the who Daniel Penny was as the man accused of murder.

Yeah, well, no, he was just acquitted. You are all your reporting old news because it helps you feel better. Yes. That there's a man accused of murder standing right directly next to JD Vance at the Army. Navy game. Well, that is that is not appropriate because you are only giving half the story. Yeah. And the most relevant part of the story is what happened most recently, which was he was acquitted in his case by a New York City jury, by the way.

So yeah. Can they, can they write a headline saying man accused of murder? Absolutely. Yes they can. Is it is it honest and is it what we expect? No. What outlet was that. Oh, there was more than one, but I believe it was the New York Times that ran it. The, the one that got the most play on it.

Yeah. Which is completely unfortunate. It is sad. It's sad because they keep making these, these mistakes that are leading to their own demise. You know what America wants. They want common sense. They want media outlets that don't have this overt hatred for our country and our traditions. Right, right. And I don't know how you need something more than if you just watch even a couple of the clips from the Army-Navy game.

People want to be patriotic. You know, we have been told for four years it's evil to be patriotic. People have a gut emotion within them because they're Americans. To be patriotic, we have got to let that out. We've got to quit hiding that. Like we we went through a time where we were supposed to be ashamed that we are patriotic.

Don't do that anymore. Yeah. We also, I think I agree with you. I think most people love their country. They want to be patriotic and not feel any kind of shame for being patriotic. But we let the left commandeer the megaphone. Yeah. And like a very small, tiny, completely unrepresentative segment of our society controls the megaphone. Not as much anymore, though.

That's that's what's going away. It is going away. And and I think it's because common, decent people are now commandeering the megaphone back or at least saying, okay, we'll share 5050, you know, whatever. But I think that, we're, we're feeling that pendulum swing back and, you know, it is it is fascinating to watch the left lose power because it's, it's, you know, when you went to the grocery store, Julie, I don't know if your kids ever threw a tantrum, but I'm sure you've seen other children throw tantrums in the grocery.

No, no, no, I left a whole cart of groceries one day, and I said, I can't pay for these. I've got to take care of a child. And the the little lady, it was at Fred Meyer, and she's like, I got you. I'll put them back. Okay? And I marched a kid right out of Fred Meyer. Right. So and as a parent, you've either been through it or we've all watched it.

And that's what the left does when they they feel entitled to something. And when you're a three year old, it's that box of animal crackers or that stuffed animal. And to the left, they look at their meltdown over losing Twitter to Elon Musk. Okay, they they had a conniption over that. Certainly they are demoralized after the Trump victory.

But it's fascinating to watch how they behave because it's not just your traditional, healthy, understandable human disappoint. I meant that I didn't get my way. Their own identity is rooted in having that political power like it's their religion. It is to them what religion is to many, many other people that it speaks to who they are and what their purposes and and when that is taken from them, even when it's taken because of their own sense of entitlement and stupidity, they they lose it.

And it's it's a farce. I mean, there's part of me that wants to be compassionate, but there's another just curious learning part of me that finds it fast and waiting to watch. Yes, the lucky Lou, right? You're like, I got to see how this unfolds. I got to see this trainwreck complete. Yeah. You you really. You really do.

However, I think something is going to happen, and I would say this has been in place for three weeks to a month now. It took a it took a couple weeks after the election. There is this general sense that Donald Trump is not what they were telling he us. He was all along. Have you heard a clip lately saying he's the next Hitler or he's a fascist, or yes, he's that this is the last election will ever.

Nobody's saying that now. Nobody's issuing that warning. Now, you might have some really fringy corners saying that's because we know he's going to have the power now, and it will harm us to warn people about that. We'll get caught up in his retribution crusade. I don't think that's going to happen. And I think when Donald Trump talks about putting Liz Cheney in jail, what he's talking about is if they've committed crimes, if they destroyed evidence, for instance.

Okay, can we pause there for just a moment? Because I feel like the Mandela Effect is in place here. Okay. Where I distinctly remember mainstream news stories from a few months ago that the that the transcripts, the videotapes, all the evidence that they collected on that committee from January 6th have gone missing, that they don't exist anymore.

But now you have Bennie Thompson, Liz Cheney saying that's totally false. We didn't destroy anything, did you? Do you remember those stories? Yes. I didn't realize that that's what Liz Cheney or and Bennie Thompson were saying. They're saying that evidence is still there. Well, they're saying they didn't destroy it. So I don't know what. And maybe it's not a mandela effect thing.

They're just saying what they're telling you is they didn't destroy it. What they're not telling you is we had somebody else do it. Yeah. You know, we had the intern. Let's hear from Penn State. Yes. And the natural follow up. If you're a journalist and you're talking to Liz Cheney, is, then where is it? Yeah. How can we see it?

If you didn't destroy it, then how can how I mean, maybe they found some legal way to get rid of that, that evidence. But. Well, even the step before that is if you had the evidence, why didn't you show it in your January 6th theater production? Yes. Yeah. Yeah, it's. Well, they gathered an abundance of evidence and then they cherry picked.

Yeah. The only the stuff that would benefit their, their narrative. So the context we won't ever get to see because it's gone now apparently. But but is it because they're saying we didn't destroy it. We didn't get rid of it. Then provide it. But they can't do that either. All that's probably coming up, because over the last few days, there's been a report that now it's understood there were at least at least 26 FBI agents amongst the people who went into the Capitol.

And they were encouraging it like they were in a role. They were performing. And, I don't know if that makes you unsettled. It makes me unsettled. And I also want to say, then why wasn't that talked about during the January 6th hearings? Well, yes. I mean, we know why, we know why. But that means they were lying to us.

They were well, they were lying. Lying by omission. Yeah. And when and that and I'm still puzzled. You have multiple instances of reps calling on people to go into the Capitol. But we've got to do this. They still haven't touched the guy. Right now. They say he's not an FBI asset. He's not there's well, then why aren't you prosecuting him?

Yeah. I mean, you have put their their grandmas. Yes. You've put people in jail for months or years for far less than what Ray Epps did. You have hard core evidence on apps calling for people to go into the Capitol, and yet he's not being. I think they did slap him with something. When? A few months ago, when the narrative got a little intense, but it was just a minor thing that never, never threatened any kind of jail time.

No, no, no, we have grandma's in jail for nine months. 15 months like that was their sentences. Yeah, yeah. I hope that is among the first things that Donald Trump does is that that should be a day, one or a day to act. But let him out. Just just sign pardons, let them out and, let him go on with their lives because there's a lot that's been taken from them.

How many of them are going to be let out? They don't have jobs anymore, right? They don't. They've lost family members. Well, they've been in or they've they've lost their savings paying for attorneys. And yeah, I don't I don't there's going to be a lot of stories that are going to be told in, in the wake of this.

All right. It's 932 Newstalk 1079. We've got a break away, but we'll come back if you'd like to reach us on this Monday morning. The number is (208) 542-1079. Yeah okay. So my goodness so many of you are on this morning. Thank you for being here. Hold on one second. Okay I gotta make a note for somebody asked if we're paying for Nancy Pelosi's hip.

I. I'm just going to tell you. Yes, it was done at a Air Force base. Was an army base or an air force base. It was done at a military base. And. Yeah, yeah, America's absolutely paying for Nancy Pelosi's new hip. Yeah, I wonder how severe it is, because at that age, like Julie and I were talking, that can be.

Yeah. Usually the beginning of a whole cascade of health problems. Yeah. Maybe she should be more sensible at 84 and not wear heels. Maybe. Or maybe just retire and put your feet up, eat some fancy ice cream from a $40,000 fridge and watch football. I saw something the other day and I want to. I'll tell you guys this story, but please don't judge me for telling you this story.

I just didn't understand what was going on. So I'm waiting to go into some place, but I'm sitting in my car just waiting because my time, my appointment time hasn't come yet and a man pulls up in a van, gets out, walks to the back of his van, opens the tailgate, unloads a jazzy chair, unfolds the jazzy chair, gets in the jazzy chair and closes it.

So I was I was so confused with his mobile. Why does he need this? Yeah, and it wasn't like he was going in someplace where he was going to walk around a ton. Yeah, like that would actually make sense to me if he was going into Costco or something. Because maybe too many steps are too much for a hip or whatever.

Yeah, he was going into a very small office, so I was super confused about what was going on. Maybe out of habit, he just does it. When I had my hip replacement, I could walk short distances, but I remember I did get in the motorized carts a couple of times at like, Walmart, which, like I said, that would make sense to me.

But he was going in a very small place. Yeah. So it's not like, yeah, I don't know. That's a good question. Yeah. It was weird. Was, was it icy at that point? Was it this was this was Thursday. Oh, okay. So that was before the weather. Yeah. Wait, was the office he was going into the disability office needing to get disability benefits?

No, it wasn't a disability office, but it would be an office that would probably take into account that he is disabled. It wasn't a government office, but it was a different kind of office that might be looking at that. I didn't even think about that. Yeah, I'm wondering, I'm Encyclopedia Brown and Julie is Nancy Drew, and we're figuring out a mystery.

Welcome back. (208) 542-1079. Did you read any of those books when you were a kid, Nancy Drew? Oh, yes. Yeah, absolutely. I loved the Encyclopedia Brown series. Yeah. Do they still make those? Oh, I don't know. But when my kids, my girls were young, they read Nancy Drew, too. So I know that there was plenty of those available back then.

But yeah, they're 25 and 28 now, so. Okay, that was a minute ago. Yeah. Yeah. (208) 542-1079. If you'd like to join us on the program, you mentioned Daniel Penny, Julie this is Stephanie Ruhle on MSNBC. Listen to this for just a moment, because there's something else I really want us to cover, because there has been huge reaction in the last week.

Right? We saw Daniel Penny, his acquittal. And at the same time and a very, very, very different situation. But, Luigi Mangione, the man who's now accused of the murder of the United Care CEO, two very different situations. But in both situations there's a person dead. And reactions that we are seeing are hugely celebratory in some circles.

Right. J.D. Vance is, is taking Daniel Penny to the Army-Navy football game tomorrow. And what we've seen in the last few years, right. We see the media divide us. We see that, you know, sex sells, but anger and hate sells even more. How concerned should we be, though, that the American people, groups of the American people are celebrating violence like violence.

That's the solution. That's that's what everyone should be doing these days. How concerned are you that this is where we are in this celebrate? Okay. This was the dumbest comparison I have ever heard. In one instance you had Luigi Manny Mangione crying, aiding the situation, just proactively shooting a man in the back and killing him. Daniel Penny was simply responding to his surroundings and neutralizing a threat that this this man was violent.

He was threatening other people and he was protecting them. So it's it's not even a comparable situation. She cherry picked two details. Somebody died and people are cheering and she even herself prior prior to making the comparison, had to say two very different situations. These are two obviously two very differences. Then don't make the comparison. If you have to say that twice before you make the comparison, it's probably not a good comparison to make.

Stephanie. Well, even if you could make the comparison, they're still not close enough because Daniel Penny went to the Army Navy game. There aren't Reddit pages celebrating the fact that he went to the Army. She's saying that that's celebratory, that he went to a football game. Well, what? Is he not supposed to live a life anymore? Is he not supposed to do anything?

This, the other Luigi Mangan is. He's got people dressing up like him. There's full blown Reddit pages. We've had a copycat. A girl tried to do something. It was in the South. I don't remember what state. I'm surprised we've only had one copycat. The. You had health insurance companies coming out and saying they've had to beef up their security.

They're very, very, very different. Yeah. It's not even a comparison. You can't even put the two together. But she's got to make she's got to make this guy still look bad in some way. Yeah, yeah. By the way, the Louis, Luigi Mangione case. Yeah. That was not even his insurance carrier for his back surgery that time. Everybody was making that possible.

He had been denied care or it hadn't gone well. And he had had difficulties with United Health Care with covering his surgery or whatever. That's not even his insurance company. Right? Yeah, I right, he just wanted to go after. Yeah. Someone. Yeah. Yeah. But that comparison is almost like, you know, Picasso was an artist and Hitler was an artist.

I mean, they're two totally different artists, but I just want to point out they were both artists. Oh, people did this with Trump being man of the year. Oh. Did they? Yeah. Because Hitler was a tie man of the year at one point. And they included that in the headline. Oh, by the way, Kamala and Joe shared the same title a few years earlier.

Then do I have to retract my earlier statement that people aren't making Hitler references about Donald Trump like, I just don't think it's as rampant. Yeah. Probably not. All right. (208) 542-1079 went a little long in the first segment. So we're going to break away. Will have, our news and be back just ahead again if you'd like to reach us.

(208) 542-1079 okay. Somebody said the guy might have had a heart issue, and so even a little bit walking does it to him. That's possible. I didn't I didn't see any breathing issues like I didn't I don't think I saw, an oxygen tank. Yeah. But, he could have had a heart issue. That's that is one potential.

And that's why he needed the jazzy chair. Yeah. Did you enjoy driving the jazzy chairs around Walmart? Yeah, it was fun. Did you run over any little kid? No. Thought about it? Yeah. Park your cart right in the middle so nobody can get around. Yeah, yeah. Get grandkids over. Last night, it was fun. They're rambunctious as they should be.

That's appropriate. They're. They're so fun. I had a moment. I was sitting in church, and, our youngest, of course, is 16. And she's very good kid, but I there's a family up ahead of us, and kids are being a little, little bit disruptive. And dad was I could see dad getting frustrated and, and, this is not a castigation of him because where, you know, 15 years ago, I was that dad, but I thought savor this time.

That you have the littles sitting next in church and because as frustrating as it gets, it's such a flash that goes by. And when it's gone, it's gone in. And I just what I wouldn't give to be an irritated dad in sacrament meeting again because I got three little kids, you know, every once in, I'll call my son and I'll be like, who's today going?

And he goes, you know, he'll be like, big deep sign. I go, what? And he goes, oh, Asher's just being a terrorist. Yeah. And I have said to him before I do anything to go back to when you were a terrorist. Yes. Yeah.

Okay, guess what I did over the weekend. I watched a movie. You did, I did what did you watch? I was on the couch, searching ex. And my husband started a movie, and I was kind of peripherally paying attention. And then I finally put the phone down and really paid attention. I wasn't expecting to sit through it.

But it's got Jason Bateman in it, PG 13. It's called Carry On. Okay. And it's about a TSA agent and a bunch of bad guys. Okay, I this is what I would say about the movie. It is completely unrealistic. So don't walk into it expecting it to follow rules, right. However, if you'll suspend that, it's a good movie, I think you would really, really, really like it.

Yeah. So carry on. Jason Bateman. You know, it had to be decent enough for me to actually put my phone down and pay attention, and then stick through it. Yeah, yeah. Should I not click carry on ending explained. Yeah. Don't click that. Okay. How long has it been out I don't know I know nothing about the movie I don't know okay.

Netflix's best new movie. So it's new, I just know I, I, I thought it was good enough to put my phone down. So I have not been a fan of Jason Bateman. I'll watch it, but I, I think he's such a great actor. But his his everyday life makes you not appreciate him as much. Well, he's kind of got this elite liberal shtick to like, but I think he's a good actor.

I don't I wouldn't take I felt like he did a good job in the show to. So his sister Justine has been very vocal. Yeah. I follow her on ex. Yeah, yeah. So they're very different. Yeah, they they are. I'm not sure they're eating Thanksgiving together. Yeah. Maybe not. Oh, Jerry, he's asking if he had a handicapped sign.

I was parked, so all I could see was the rear of his car. So I don't know if there was any, like. Like Neal has a handicap decal that hangs from his rearview mirror because he takes his mom, places. All right. 947 on Newstalk 179, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason and, Julie, I think I played this earlier this morning and it comes as such a big, big relief.

We've run a we run a campaign of basically scandal free. It's hard to do in American politics these days. And all this time I thought there was some scandals in Biden's campaign, but it was scandal free. Just wanted you to know it. Maybe in his mind, he really thinks that scandal free. I had that exact thought he actually might be genuine in saying this.

Yeah. Based on his his memory, it it was scandal free. Well, and I think it's weird to use the, the word campaign. He might be remembering one of his campaigns from decades ago. Yeah. And calling that scandal free. We don't know what that mind is doing. So it's interesting because my mom is struggling with her, her memory. And once in a while I'll ask my mom, mom, what year do you think it is just to see where her her mind is at?

She doesn't get it right. She doesn't, she doesn't, she doesn't know. And in that moment when I heard that clip, I had that exact same thought, which, if you are a reporter, you would get trashed if you tried this with Joe Biden. But if you said, Mr. President, what year do you think it is? Can you imagine? Yeah, yeah.

And he said it's 1988 because that's the campaign he's remembering. Yeah, that's the campaign. I mean, I don't know, I don't remember. He did run for presidency, the presidency back in the late 80s. But I don't I don't remember which which campaign it was. I think it probably was 88. But that would be very telling. No reporter would ever do that though, because if he got it wrong, it would look like cruelty.

Yeah, but if I were in a more intimate, one on one situation with Joe Biden and I could just have a free range, and I was free to see where his mind was at, I would ask him, what year do you think that it is right now? Yeah. And just see just see where he's just see where he's at.

I just thought campaign was such a bizarre word to choose because he didn't just complete a campaign, it wasn't his race. So I'm not sure which campaign he's talking about. And is he just using the wrong word? Did he mean administration? I all of it was so weird. You know, the clip was weird. It was inaccurate, right? Yeah.

Speaking of that side of the aisle, this is a Kamala Harris aide, I believe, on CNN. Listen, the likelihood is of Harris running for governor. What she's been saying to people over the last couple of weeks, donors, other supporters that she's been talking with is you haven't seen the last of me. I'm not going quietly into the night.

Advisers, people close to her are debating about what that means. They do not want her final official act ever to be essentially certifying Donald Trump's win over her, especially four years after January 6th. And so they look at this governor's race in California in 2026, and it seems to them like a layup, essentially, that she would probably clear the field or mostly clear the field, and she would get to be governor of California.

It's pretty good job, right? It's good enough. Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jerry Brown, and but if she does that, that means that she couldn't turn around and run for president in 2028, right? She'd need to essentially declare right away. And that is what it really comes down to, because there are people close to her who say she didn't get a fair shot this this year.

It wasn't it wasn't up to what she could have done. And look how well she performed. Anyway, she should get to go again in 2028. And then there are ones who say, look at with where things are with the Democratic Party. It she would not have a clear field or a cleared field, rather in the Democratic primary and could lose the nomination and to come off of 2024 into that would be really terrible.

Okay. So they're basically saying the quiet part out loud here, which is, yeah, she's eyeing 2028. Might my feeling is she if she is eyeing 2028, she is the only person in this on this planet that thinks that's a good idea. Yeah. I also want written statements by the people who think she, quote, didn't get a fair shot this time around.

She has so much gifted to her she didn't have to earn a single vote. Are you kidding me? Yeah. I want to know who these people are. I want it written down with names. So I can review their past and current jobs and everything. Because I don't know how you can say she didn't get a fair shot. Yeah, like that's bold.

That is really bold. That's bold, that's crazy. But is there, like, a little evil part of you that hopes she does run? Oh, sure. Go ahead. You don't even have. There's no chance there. You don't have a chance. No, I in fact, she her first time around 2016 before she spent all of her political before we were at the.

Everything she does is annoying face of Kamala Harris. She didn't even win her own state. She got out. I think she had 2% support when she got out of the race in 2020, not 2016, but 2020. And then, of course, she was later chosen to be the vice president, but she got elevated. And then when things weren't working out with Joe, this last summer, she got elevated, like, everything's been kind of gifted to her.

And, and not to make. I'm not making this point, but but I want to make the point by proxy through the feminist movement here. Gifted to her by men. Yeah. Men have elevated her. Okay? She has not been this empowered, you know, woman who rose on by her own merits. She's been gifted a tremendous amount of political accomplishment in her life, and I don't I think people are done.

I think that at this point they're like, you know what? We need to close the chapter on Kamala Harris. If I was sitting in that round table, I would have said to him it wasn't a fair shot for her. I think we can clearly define that. The Democrat Party didn't remove Joe sooner because they knew Kamala couldn't win.

Yeah, yeah. Agreed. All right. 954 on Newstalk 109. All right. Had let that call go because we're not going out of time. Did that hour fly by? Yeah, that was fast. Yeah. Here we go. Trump taking questions at Mar-A-Lago. Speaking off the cuff. No calling on everybody. No man. We're not going to have it. Because Fox News is in a break right now.

Yeah. For those of you on Facebook Live, we only can bring in the audio from one of our TVs, and it's the one facing me right there. So we can see Trump talking. And we do have the closed captioning on on that TV, but we can't pull in that TV's audio. We're not really we could wired up, but it's a bit of a little bit of a hassle.

I'd have to go to a different layer too. Yeah. So. Okay. So that's one thing we haven't talked about at all. I think he talked about it on there, which is we have because the there's been a lot there was some good news clips that I sent you last night. We haven't talked at all about the government putting the border wall up on a government building site and starting the pieces of the border wall at $5.

I mean, they would have bid higher than that. But once the story broke, they took them off the bidding site. You know what I thought? I thought through that story because I saw it on Friday. You know, it would be great if if Trump's empire bought up all those and then sold them back to the federal government for a big profit for a much higher amount.

We did surgery on Neal. Yeah. Earlier today. Stop picking it. I Denise. It was just it hold I did we did surgery. We did surgery. I got a sliver out of his finger right there. See that I can't see. Yeah. He wasn't, a manchild about it either. He was very brave, even though I was picking at his skin.

Yeah, I'm with a not very sharp pin. I open it up. I almost died, but.

I don't know where I got the sliver. We've been moving a lot of furniture and stuff lately, but somewhere. Yeah. Where? I have noticed at the last, like, Friday, Saturday night, I noticed it. Yeah, it's been in there for a second because once we opened it up at the. It wasn't friendly on the inside. I didn't mean to do that.

You're a picker, but it's. People are pickers. It's what it is. All right. I take an aspirin every night. Like when baby aspirin takes a minute to stop bleeding. Doctor's orders. Keep my blood thin. All right? Oh, we didn't do what? Okay, that is going to do it for the show on this Monday. Thank you all for listening, Julian.

I'll be back tomorrow. See you then.