12.18.2024 -- NLS -- Pardons, Pocahontas, and Playing Politics: A Dive into Justice, Elon, and the NCAA

On this episode with Neal and Julie, the conversation delves into a whirlwind of current events, political controversies, and cultural moments. They discuss the apparent contradictions in how justice and accountability are applied to political figures, touching on Liz Cheney's situation, Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony, and broader implications of politically motivated legal maneuvers.

The duo humorously critiques Senator Elizabeth Warren’s ongoing feuds, particularly with Elon Musk, highlighting her grievances over his wealth and influence while referencing her own controversial claims of Native American ancestry. They also explore Elon Musk’s dynamic role as the owner of several companies, including X (formerly Twitter), Tesla, and SpaceX, debating his influence on the political and media landscapes.

The episode doesn’t shy away from the contentious topic of biological men competing in women’s sports, with Neal and Julie dissecting the NCAA president’s testimony and the surrounding legal and ethical debates. They stress the importance of standing up for women athletes and challenge what they see as the misuse of federal rulings in these cases.

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Transcript

Hello, East Idaho, it's 807 on Newstalk 1079. I'm Neal Larsen. Welcome to the program. On this Wednesday we have a lot happening. Liz Cheney may be in some hot water which someone tell me what I. Well, fill me in. Send me a text. I'd love to hear from you this morning. Send me a text on why now we are.

We have a month and two days left before Donald Trump, takes. Takes, command of the executive branch. And why now, are Republicans threatening criminal indictments of Liz Cheney when Joe Biden still has the pen that can pardon her? I do not get this. And look, I get I get convicting Liz Cheney. I get going after Liz Cheney six months ago or eight months ago.

I understand doing it a month and a few days from now. I don't understand why they're deciding, you know, gosh, the last last month here of Biden's presidency, when he's handing out pardons like candy, let's threaten to criminally indict Liz Cheney. It feels very swampy. I will say that. And, do I think Liz Cheney should be investigated for witness tampering?

Absolutely. I think it's so obvious with the Cassidy Hutchinson situation where they switched lawyers from a legit lawyer to a political hack activist lawyer, and then suddenly Cassidy Hutchinson changes her to heard her story, and she's talking about Trump trying to attack the driver of the beast. You remember all of that? And people are that, and they're like, that doesn't make any sense.

That does not make any sense. That Trump himself would try to commandeer whatever vehicle is in, in the motorcade so that he can go to where he wants to go. I mean, it just was, almost a blatant lie, and I'm not sure anybody ever actually believed it. But Liz Cheney appeared to have gotten her to say it, or somebody did.

And, we also know that Liz Cheney had direct communication with Cassidy Hutchinson. And, now their calls for a criminal indictment. This is a big favor to Liz Cheney. It's a huge favor to Liz Cheney. She's probably thrilled. That is Loudermilk that's doing this, that, Representative Loudermilk is is putting this criminal indictment forward because now there is a basis upon which Joe Biden can pardon her.

And I think it's kind of ridiculous. I know they're saying, look, you well, you, you know, you if you pardon someone, that means they are guilty. So it's a way of getting a guilty verdict even though they don't have to do jail time, which she's probably not going to do anyway. No, I don't I don't know if I, if I buy any of that.

So you have that you also have, Elizabeth Warren who, she's kind of mad. Pocahontas is angry, and, Pocahontas is angry that Elon Musk and Donald Trump are good friends, because Elon, of course, is the richest man in the world, by the way, I saw that his net worth maybe somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 billion.

That's nuts. That is that is absolute craziness. Anyway, he's friends with Donald Trump and Elizabeth Warren doesn't like that. And, yeah, she wants there to be. I don't know what she wants. I think she wants to gripe. I think that's very clear. But she's calling for some level of accountability, and I, I look at this and I think, wait a minute, here's Elizabeth Warren, who, like her way to the top, lied about who she was.

No doubt she was professionally favored because she identified as falsely identified as Native American. And by the way, you know, it's interesting. Any time the the media makes a reference to, a claim that Donald Trump has made about 2020, you know, how they call it. Well, it's a false claim or it's a debunked claim. Julie sent me a tweet that had a screenshot of a media story, and it was was one of the big lefties, like New York Times or something.

And they they didn't put any kind of an adjective adjacent to the word claim that she was a Native American when it clearly was a false claim. They don't say it's debunked. They don't say it's false. They don't. They don't. They just say it was a claim and I just thought, man, the double standard. And we say it over and over and over again for good reason.

You cannot distrust and dislike and have disdain for the media enough, however much you dislike them. It's not enough here. Here's, Pocahontas and, she's on TV whining about Ellen. So think about it this way. Here is this man, richest man in the world, who has multiple companies. So he's got Tesla, the electric car maker. He's got X, he's got Neuralink, he's got, space-x and a handful of other companies.

Those companies are directly involved with the United States government. Millions, millions and millions of dollars worth of government contracts, millions of, touch points where there are rules that will affect those companies, like a $7,500 rebate for electric cars, investigations that are currently ongoing into the practices of each of those companies. And in some cases, into Mr. Musk himself.

And here he is whispering into the ear of Donald Trump. So what is he whispering? Is he whispering here a ways to help the American people, or is he thinking through ways to make those companies richer, to back off the regulators or to and any investigations into his work? This is conflicts of interest at a level that we have never before seen in this country.

And it is critically important, first of all, that we call it out, and second, that we start to push back and say, no, the American public has a right to know who's giving this kind of advice to Donald Trump, someone who's helping the American people or just helping himself. Oh, okay. I have to make a confession. Confession?

She drives me batty to the point. I probably need to go see the same therapist she has. Like, if I listen to her for too long, then I become mentally unstable. As as much as she sounds. In fact, the beginning of the clip, it irritates me when she's rattling off all the companies. Elon Musk don't. You don't need to do that.

Everyone knows Elon Musk owns a bunch of companies you don't need to say, and SpaceX and Tesla. And it's like, stop it. I don't know when I try to sound like Elizabeth Warren. Why do I end up sounding like Katharine Hepburn? I gotta work on that one. So The Washington Post wrote a piece. Carolyn Leavitt, a spokeswoman for Trump's transition, did not address Musk's ethics commitments.

In her response to the letter, she instead addressed Warren with a derogatory nickname that Trump has used to describe Warren because of her claims to having some Native American ancestry. This is exactly what I'm talking about. So it was Washington Post. Every time they talk about Trump's assessment of 2020, it's a false claim. It's a debunked claim he lied or whatever.

These are just claims to having some Native American ancestry when they've long been falsified and debunked and all of that. Everyone can clearly see that Elizabeth Warren lied about it. But there they don't say lies. They say, well, her claims it's the word claim is sort of a neutral word, but you already know she lied. You all these claims already have been debunked.

They're already known to be false. But you don't add that modifier to it. You just leave it in the neutral state. So the casual reader may not know. Anyway, they go on. They repeat the statement by Trump, which they think paints Trump in a negative light, when in reality most of America says that's why I like Trump. President Trump has assembled the most impressive and qualified team of innovators, entrepreneurs and geniuses to advise and staff our government, Levitt said in a statement.

Pocahontas can play political games and send toothless letters, but the Trump Vance transition will continue to be held to the highest ethical and legal standards possible, a standard unfamiliar to a career politician whose societal impact is 1/1024 of Elon Musk's, which, of course, is a not so subtle reference to the fact that if Elizabeth Warren has any Native American ancestry, it's 1/1024 hilarious trolling by Team Trump.

The Washington Post thinks it's a hit piece on Trump, and in reality, what they don't understand is that America loves Trump. Let me repeat that. America loves Trump. Pregnant pause. Let that hang in the air for just a moment, because it triggers a handful of people who still wring their hands and they worry about a future under Donald Trump and World War three and Hitler and oh, I'm so weird.

Okay, America loves Trump. I'll just I'll just leave it there. So you have that, one last clip before we break away on the drones here. You had, no. Wasn't Herridge. Who was it? One of the reporters asked a very, very basic question, which was a good this is a good journalist question because when you hear John Kirby and where when you hear these paid government spokespeople talking about the drones, they reiterate, well, there's hobby drones and their server here.

Well, if they're hobby drones, why do you need a classified briefing to talk to congressmen about hobby drones? Just, why does it have to be a classified briefing if these are just hobbyist drones? They're not military drones. Why is it a classified briefing on the Capitol Hill? I don't I'd have to refer you to Congress on that.

Again, you know, sharing as much information is as we can here. I don't have the briefing in front of me, so I can't tell you specifically, you know, what aspects are classified or not. I can assure you, though, that, again, we are sharing as much information as we can, based on what we know.

Okay. Yeah, these are hobbyist drones. Then why is it classified? Oh, you'd have to talk to Congress about that. I don't think Congress is the classifying aid. Like they're not the the entity that's classifying the info, and they're talking to the Pentagon. Press secretary. So I'm sure that you, you know, hop on over to Congress and you say, why did you need to have a classified briefing for hobby drones?

They would say, well, we'll have to refer you to the Pentagon for that. I promise you. That's how it, how it would work out. Last thing here. Of course, Christmas is coming. We are a week away. Congress is busy. They're trying to get the spending package done, and it's another behemoth. I guess it's 1400 pages. And we're going to have lots of surprises.

Because no member of Congress in the busy run up to Christmas is going to neither have nor take the time to read through the massively big thing. So that's how crap gets snuck into this stuff. And I'm here to make a prediction right now. Roll the tape. And if you if you don't believe me, I'll chatter my channel, my inner Scarborough.

There will be some Ukraine funding that will be inserted into this spending package. Why am I more certain of this than ever? Despite. And why is that important? Because a few days ago, you had speaker Mike Johnson assuring us, in his southern dulcet tones that, we there won't be, any Ukraine funding. We don't we won't be putting that in here.

We're going to honor the incoming president. We're going to do that. Why do I not believe you? I like you, I just don't believe you. Mike Johnson, here's, Chip Roy. Here's what he had to say. I'm going to swamp. Right. 1400 pages. Still haven't seen the text multiple subject matters. Important health care legislation in the context of extenders piled on the back of a three month CR with about 110 billion unpaid for 25 billion of health care policy, half of which is fake pay for being sold.

That is paid for because they're gimmicks and shuffling around the decks. Things like E15, which we didn't even have a full debate on. This is not the way to do business. Right? Okay, so lots and lots and lots and lots and it's all just a big, big pork package that is going to be passed probably in the dark of night in the busyness of the Christmas season.

And, it'll be one last gasp of business as usual under Biden, because politicians and I say that party agnostic here, politicians are swamp is going to swamp, as Chip Roy said. Then at the end, I think his most profound assessment here came here. We got to do mandatory spending reform, bend the curve. But we just voted on a $200 billion, shift of dollars and Social Security.

That's going to shorten the time when Social Security expires or goes bankrupt. We're just fundamentally unserious about spending. And as long as you got a blank check, you can't shrink government. If you can't shrink government, you can't live free. Boom, I love that. If then if you have a blank check, you can't shrink government. And if you can't shrink government, then you can't live free.

Solid logic 823 we'll be back after this on Newstalk 179. All right. 828 on Newstalk 179. I have, but never opened the phone lines now. (208) 542-1079 that's the fall River propane. Colin Text Line if you'd like to join us on the program this morning. Hi, Julie. Hi, Neal. Is it quiet up there? Very. It's Christmas people there.

This. It's like people just start to slowly fade. Yeah. And by the time you get to Christmas Eve, there's no one around anymore. Yeah, I know, see, I still love my country through the Christmas season, I don't disengage. You're still showing up? Yes. Yeah. Just kidding. I want people to be offended by that logic and call it. It's a ploy.

You're baiting them. I am baiting them. I'm trolling them. I'm. You can love your country and Jesus at the same time. You know, to love one more than the other. But yes, you can do it at the same time. (208) 542-1079 if you'd like to join us on the program this morning, you were saying maybe speaker Mike Johnson is was on Fox this morning.

Yeah, we've seen some clips on on X while you were doing your monologue, but now I'm wondering if they were a little late because I'm not I'm not having them, like, pop anywhere else. So maybe it was some people bringing up old times, old interviews. Okay, so let's talk about this car for just a moment. We had the clip with Chip Roy talking about how big of a monstrosity this thing is.

Is this Congress's last window of opportunity to get their hands in the cookie jar? So that's what they're doing. Like they know Trump and Doge and, you know, the this kind of horrific spending is probably not going to be possible. In, in the future because, well, Republicans will have the majority. Rand Paul has already said he's going to block this thing, as a senator.

And so we'll see what happens. But, yeah, well, we we've done this before, right? What's the big deal if it shuts down over the Christmas holiday? Really? Nothing. Really. Nothing. Yeah. Nothing really happened. I know government employees would disagree with that, but really nothing to you or me or they keep the critical stuff running. Yes. So I don't love this.

You know, you're being you're being hung over a a large body of water and being threatened to be dropped. And you can't swim. That's how it is when they go to sign off on these cars. I did see on X while you were in your monologue that there apparently is a portion of this nearly 1500 pages that addresses vaccines, mask mandates, and, they were complaining that it gives the government entirely too much leeway when it comes to that stuff.

Oh, so it's not it's not people friendly. It's government friendly. Yes. Okay. You got to. No this this nonsense has to stop. It does have to stop. It's gotta stop. That's not, that's not good. Yeah. You know what. I bet the Democrats are out there in D.C. saying we're just given Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy more work to do.

They should be grateful for us. Yeah you're probably right about that. You're probably right. Okay. Elizabeth Warren, do you like to work on my Elizabeth Warren impression? Because I tried it in my monologue and I feel like I sound more like Katherine Harris. It does sound a little Katherine Hepburn. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So a little bit. I'll keep.

I'll keep working on it because I get lots of requests I can. You sound like Elizabeth Warren for me. I do not want to be around while you're practicing this. I don't even want to be around while I'm practicing for it. But I sort of feel duty bound. You know what really irritated me? I should I play it back?

Yeah, well, it's fine. Yeah. Go ahead. Okay. I won't play the whole thing. So think about it this way. Here is this man, richest man in the world who has multiple companies. So he's he. She should have stopped there. Absolutely. Everybody knows he has multiple companies and then move on to whatever your point was. No, she has to stop.

Let me put on display for you how smart I am. I'm going to rattle off the companies that Elon Musk owns that everybody knows Elon Musk owns Tesla, the electric car maker. He's got X, he's got Neuralink. He's got, space X and a hamster. Okay. It's like that right off the bat. I'm irritated by that. Yeah, well, even worse, she's not just rattling off the companies.

She's telling you what Tesla is, but it's an electric car company. That too. That's another layer of irritation. Oh, is that what Tesla is? I had no idea. I didn't even know that. Yeah, so that's not even a left right thing. That's just a personality thing. Yeah. So Disney helped start PayPal too. She probably should have thrown party shell thrown that.

It at the risk of offending people and realizing I'm much closer to this demographic than I'm comfortable with being almost 52. Is this an old person thing? Not an Elizabeth Warren thing? Like, oh, so like, you know, as as, as people age, they're stuck in their mindset and not realizing that other things are happening around the world.

Maybe she truly feels like it. People that are her age, she has to explain to them what Tesla is. She has to explain to them what companies Elon Musk owns. Yeah, well, I, I don't know. I mean, I feel like if you're going to have a discussion and you're going to be watching the news on a regular basis, you need to come armed with the knowledge, because how deep, how deep do you go?

Tesla, which is spelled T SLA and has its roots in the inventor from the 1800s, Nikola Tesla. Yeah. Who was an Italian who you know, like, how deep do you go in explaining this stuff? I think everybody you just need to know who Elon Musk is without having that peripheral background. Oh, I think I think you're exactly right.

And I still think she's annoying for doing this. I'm just trying to understand that maybe she's been there too long and this is the way she talks to people. Well, Julie, there are people we will not name them so as not to hurt their feelings, but they always show up in this lecture mode. Look, I'm the only one in the room with the PhD.

So let me tell you. Yeah. Let me explain to you. Let me be the explainer. Let me and they explain sort of these concepts that nearly everyone understands anyway. But they treat you like a kindergartner and they've got to give you the background on this and that. Okay. Stop treating everybody like they have an IQ of 80 and that they don't know anything.

Right? Right. Or just maybe retire. I mean, it can be very condescending, which means you talk down to someone and I'm so grateful you did the hand to me, too. That's not the point. Ha! They did that. That's not the point. Paul. Hand.

That's not the point. Neal should have been on Facebook Live. Yeah I don't am I alone in my irritation? Like I don't own it. I'm just like, okay, get to your point. She was overwhelmingly reelected, though. I you know, I don't understand the people in her state. I don't get it, really. I am 100% convinced Democrats love being talked down to by their leaders.

They love being treated like children. Maybe that's it, because, yeah, they seem to like her back there. Yeah. Yeah, they really do. All right. (208) 542-1079. If you'd like to join us on the program this morning and, somebody second it, they said she's explaining it to Democrats and their dance. Yeah. Maybe. You know what? Maybe she's in an in an environment that people just don't get things.

So she has to do this kind of explaining, yeah. All right. Boy, we've had a bunch of people texting in, Let's see. Okay. Someone said, as always, Neal, we're being screwed by the unit party. Deep state cooks. We the people. My Bleep. They just laugh at us, y'all. We need heads to roll, Neal. Someone else someone.

This is a quote in case my mom's listening. Just shoot the damn drones down.

Okay. I get I get that because that's where I was with our drone conversation yesterday. Yeah, I'm really tired of trying to figure it out because guess what? It's not my it's not my stinking job. You know what? We employ people to do this. You know what? We should start, Julie. We should start a go fund me. That will pay for replacement drones and legal bills of the people courageous enough to shoot some of these drones down so we can figure out what the.

Because the people we pay with taxpayer dollars aren't figuring it out. Yeah. No kidding. Shoot it down and let's figure it out. I get that, I get that person. Yeah, I've had it. Let's go to the phones. Hi, caller. How are you today? Doing? Well, to quote one of my favorite callers, my, being, you've cut out.

What kind of connection do you have? I'm, I'm just on my phone. Okay. Say what you just said because you cut out. I love to say it again. To quote one of my favorite callers. Yeah. Hero. Eat more beef. Yeah. Oh, there you go. Yes, Mike. Okay. But, no, you know, as far as you were saying earlier to take a, you know, a break from our beloved nations to celebrate the holidays, they go hand in hand for me.

But that just, the shenanigans and the silliness that's going on with the, you know, the Alvin Bragg and New York and all that crap. This drives me up a wall. Yeah. So anyways, well. Thank you. Yeah, I think, you're you're certainly not alone in that. However, I think the Alvin Bragg's of the world, they're losing their clout, they're losing their influence, and they're not quite yet in the rearview mirror.

But I if things are not looking good for them in the future, we do react slowly to this. But this is one of the great things about Elon Musk owning X and one of the reasons which, by the way, is one of his companies along with Tesla. Yeah, I an electric car company and space X and yes thank you.

Thank you. Any more Julie you want to add to the list? Anyway, it's great that he owns X because we're finding out information on X that we're not finding out other places. The mainstream media isn't reporting on it. So the album brags of the world can't hide as much. Yeah. And we did get a text from somebody saying they have found out a majority of their information, including the clip that you played off of TikTok.

And it makes them nervous that the government is trying to shut down TikTok because maybe it actually is more of an information source like X than a threat from China. Yeah, because maybe our true threats are within our own borders. Very. That that's a very good observation. Yeah. That TikTok, which of course is a Chinese social media company that will now be owned by the company that owns lemonade.

Yes.

Which is a TikTok wannabe out of the way. Well, yes, you have to say it in an under medicated, anxiety ridden, okay tone. Like you guys, you need to go see your therapist in a couple hours, so. All right. 841 (208) 542-1079 we'll break away for the news and be back after this. Hey, yo. 847 on Newstalk 1079.

You want to join us on the fall River propane Kotlin text line at numbers (208) 542-1079. So we had a little bit of music that, But can I tell this story? Shouldn't it know? You can tell. I'm so a big, understand, a little bit of audio came through in unintentionally. And of course, Elizabeth Warren has been in the news cycle today.

I was trying to find some Cherokee tribal music to play underneath Elizabeth Warren for the sound clips. And I didn't turn the the PC channel down, and some of it came through. So there and then we thought better of playing Cherokee tribal music while Elizabeth Warren is talking, because she's already. Yeah. Like it's she's already commandeered them. And then we are going to go and commandeer it like it's one of those things where it's funny in concept.

I don't know how it would be an execution right? In other words, Julie stopped me from doing it. She was just trying to save some jobs here. People. Do you want us coming back in 2025? Well, I'm doing my best. Okay, let's go to the phones. 208542 117 Caller how are you today? I'm fine. How are you guys?

Doing well, doing well. What's on your mind? I wanted to touch base with you guys. Were talking about those empty government buildings. Yeah. They cannot get rid of a government building unless it goes through, like, 22 other agencies that all decline it and say they can't use it. That's why they. It's just bureaucracy is so bad to get rid of a government building.

And there's something like, I heard like 50,000 across the country that are empty. Yeah. Well that that let's dovetail that with the story we were talking about. 90% of federal employees are working remotely. They're working from home. So that what you just said makes absolute sense. Oh, isn't that terrible? It's terrible. And instead of having we instead of having to go through those agencies, why don't they say you have 180 days to claim use of this building with a plan to use it, or else it goes up from like they don't need to jump through 22 hoops.

They just need to say, this building has been vacant. There's no any sort of plans to to to put people back in it. So if you're an agency and you need it, then claim it. But you've got to have a legitimate plan and occupy it. Yeah, something like that would have made more sense. But they always find the least sense solution.

Hopefully Ram, Swamy and Musk with their new agency will be able to tackle stuff like that. And, you know, maybe do some logical, sensible stuff like you're talking about. Yes, I that is the hope. That is the hope for sure. All right. Hey have a great day and Merry Christmas. Thank you. Well thank you and Merry Christmas to you as well.

Here's where I go with it. When we have this discussion about people not actually working 40 hour weeks and, and bilking the government, and then we've got these empty buildings, whether we own them, whether the government owns them or they're leased or whatever. Can you imagine how vibrant our businesses could be and how vibrant our military could be if we actually spent our tax dollars correctly?

Yeah. Can you imagine having money back in your pocket instead of paying the amount of taxes that you pay? Yeah, we wouldn't be putting this these concepts out there that a fast food worker has to make $20 an hour in California just to pay rent, because you'd actually have more money back and the country would be running better.

That's where I go. I just get frustrated that it's just wasted, wasted dollars. I know that are not only that, a lot of the lot of these positions are being paid for with deficit spending money we don't even have. So our grandchildren, Julie, yet are going to pay for today's federal employees who are doing nothing. Yep. And most of those people, I won't say all because I think there's some good.

But most of those people feel like they somehow deserve it. They've earned it. Yeah, I know, I know, it's weird. It's weird. I guess it's not weird when you when you think about. You couldn't get away with this for too long. In the private sector, the only place you might be able to do it is if you had a mega huge company that had 200,000 employees, and you found a little niche where you could get away with being unproductive, you might be able to get away with it there.

But in in the private sector where you have people and there's the profit motive is, you know, you've got to you got to break even, you got to be profitable. This kind of thing doesn't happen. And you just simply don't have that influence in the federal government. They're spending other people's money. Yeah. Well and I think it's a learned behavior.

Right. So you get hired on as an employee in the federal government. You last for a couple of years. It's pretty hard to then get rid of you. Like it's kind of like tenure on a college campus. Yeah. So you're in there. You're a federal employee. They train you into thinking you deserve something. Like you've earned this.

You do you see how awesome I am. I'm a government worker and there's probably government workers right now who are deeply offended at what I'm saying. I'm not saying this is a blanket statement, but I'm saying if there are people working from home and we know for certain they're not giving 40 hours a week, these are the people I'm talking about.

Yeah, yeah, you know what? At the very least, get your butts back to work, back to the office. At least show up. I'm in. No. I'm sure. Go play solitaire at a government building as easily as you can. Play solitaire at home. You can Candy crush, right? Yeah. It would be interesting to see exactly how much work these people produce.

All right. It's 853 on Newstalk 179, and, we'll be back after this final segment this hour, just ahead in the next hour. Mike Johnson was on Fox and Friends this morning. We'll tell you what he said about the monstrous spending bill. Elon Musk has already weighed in on it as well. And I've got a quote we'll open with the next hour.

The quote that Mike Johnson had. Julie and I want to get your hot take on it. So we'll do all of that minutes away after the news on this Wednesday on Newstalk 179 and good morning. It's 907 on Newstalk 1079, Neal Larson, Julie Mason and you here. If you'd like to reach us, the conduit for us to communicate is also known as the fall River propane calling text line (208) 542-1079.

Which fall River propane, of course, is a propane company which Elon Musk does not own. Thanks. So that they have fall River, which is a river that runs through parts of Fremont County and near beautiful. By the way, it is. Yeah, very, very much so. Anyway, so, Yeah. What what are we going to. Oh, I know the Mike Johnson.

Yeah. Mike Johnson quote here he was on Fox and Friends and this is what he, he in in on acts. Elon Musk said this bill should not pass. Ever seen a bigger piece of pork? He asked in another post when sharing a photo of the first page of the measure, sitting atop a towering stack of papers.

Presumably the rest of the more than 1500 page document, speaker Mike Johnson addressed Musk's disapproval on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning. He said he had spoken to both Musk and Ramaswamy in a text, and they said, this is not directed at you, Mr. Speaker, but we don't like the spending bill. I said back to them, guess what, fellas?

I don't either. We got to get this done because here's the key by doing this, we're clearing the decks and we're setting up for Trump to come in roaring back with the America First agenda. So this is just a stopgap to get us to mid-March. And then Trump spending priorities can be taken up by Congress at that point okay.

So this is the the tweet that I saw during your monologue. Here's my concern with what he's saying is, is this is that just an excuse to let anything fly, that we are going to get this done, no matter what's in these nearly 1500 pages, we're going to get this done. And you guys are just going to have to swallow this bitter pill, and we'll make it better.

Yeah, well, I don't have a lot of faith that it's going to get better. I don't either, because you're going to have slimmer margins in the House in the future. They're the ones that originate spending bills. Now they have some more options now because Republicans will control the Senate and Donald Trump will be in the white House.

So there's more. They they can do, however, wouldn't it? Let's let's look at Speaker Johnson's logic here. We just need to get to March 15th or, you know, give President Trump enough time to get set up and move in in the white House. That's a what, about a month and a half? And which I think is plenty of time.

I'm I'm fine with the March 15th thing, but why not just pass a much simpler bill saying we will continue the current rate of spending, but we aren't going to add any new programs. We're not going to give out any pork. There's not going to be any special grants for any no increases at all. Nothing, nothing that could be construed as additional pork.

And that's what I would that's what I would possibly consider saying yes to. But I promise you, in these hundreds and hundreds of pages, you are going to find these earmarks that members of Congress have put in. That's going to be completely unnecessary to get us to March 15th. Well, this is why it is 1500 pages, because they can bury it.

Yeah. No one's reading that. No. And they're supposed to be voting today. Yeah. Who have the time to read it? No one. No. You couldn't even ask I to summarize it because there's that many individual pieces. Yeah. Yeah. You. Yes. You're you're right about that. So I don't know. Again I don't know I'm getting caught up on this because I'm certain there's going to be money for Ukraine in there.

I promise you there will be. Well yeah I know why you're caught up on it. Because we're, we're we've been over abused. Yeah. There was a a a need to help Ukraine. There wasn't a need to continue to pad the pockets of Americans by funneling it through Ukraine. Yes. That's the issue. Yeah. Yeah. Andy Biggs said pay attention to the members of Congress who have been all in for Doge for media attention, but will vote for the short term omnibus.

They are the swamp. He said that in a tweet. Tom Cole of Oklahoma made arguments in favor of approving the proposal, which according to the to a press release, contains billions for disaster relief. While a continuing resolution is not ideal, this strategy ensures President Trump has a voice in shaping the final fiscal year 25 bills.

Importantly, it averts a costly government shutdown that would only serve to handcuff the start of his new administration, Cole noted, according to the press release. At the same time, we cannot ignore the devastation caused by natural disasters across the nation. This bill provides crucial relief for Americans recovering from these disasters, including those in my home state of Oklahoma.

Okay, I got to stop here. Why can't you just pass that as a standalone? Yeah, if we need crucial. That's the word he used. If there's crucial relief needed for these people, it should have. This should have happened weeks ago, right? A bill get it through to Senate like I it's frustrating to me because all this is, is excuses.

Excuses that well understand American people. There has to be increases in there. No there doesn't, it doesn't. And I would also like him to be a little bit more in-depth. In what way is it going to handcuff Trump if we have to if we don't do the CR, the government shuts down. Yeah. In what way? What you guys are actually and have to work I, I, I get yeah.

You know what we're we're so bad Julie and we meaning Republicans at these government shut down showdowns. We just need to hold strong and and say Democrats refuse to pass this funding. And and just yell it. We're still so afraid of the media. We're so afraid of what the Democrats are going to say against us. And we just need to say, here's the bill.

Do you want to fund the government or not? Because here's how we're going to fund it. No pork, nothing extra. It's just continuing what we're doing. I this is super annoying to me because I feel like I'm talking to a teenager with the government here who had a senior project do, which requires you to spend hours and hours including, like boots on the ground, hours to do these senior projects in East Idaho in these school districts.

And your child comes to you at 1059 on the day before the projects do. They're supposed to be presenting it the next morning, and they're like, I haven't done anything yet, so I'm just going to throw this together. You know, when the CR was going to need to be passed, what were you doing weeks ago? Yeah. Why didn't you put something out then?

Give people plenty of time to read it. You know why? Because they don't want to do that work. They don't want to dissect it. They just want the stuff passed. Well, and I'll I will also say that it's easier to sneak in some shenanigans. Absolutely. During an emergency like this, with a looming government shutdown than it is when there's less tension.

Yep. Absolutely. It's just bad behavior. That's all we're doing is we continue to reward bad behavior. Yeah, yeah. It's true. Okay. Julie, I was going to ask you about some. Oh, I know what it was. You sent me the X, and this is the X. About, what's her face? Elizabeth Warren and they it's a screenshot of a Washington Post piece.

And in the Washington Post piece, it says this. Carolyn Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the transition, did not address Musk's ethics commitments. In her response to the letter, she instead addressed Warren with a derogatory nickname that Trump has used to describe Warren because of her claims to having some Native American ancestry. Maybe you heard my monologue. Why is it simply her claims to having some Native American ancestry when if Donald Trump says anything about the 2020 election, it's false claims.

It's debunked claims. It's, you know, it's clearly false that she's she's not a Native American. And why aren't those false claims? Why aren't those debunked claims? Because you got to cover for her. That's the whole the the left gets to live by a certain set of rules that are not granted to people on the right. Okay. But the media is terrible.

I don't know who wrote this Washington Post piece, but when you're afraid to call false claims, false claims or debunked claims, debunked claims for Elizabeth Warren, but you throw those words out like parade of the candy when it comes to Donald Trump and what he said about 2020, you're you're not you can't possibly be a respected journalist at that point.

No, but they're not. And we had these brief instances of hope that that may be the Washington Post was going to shift a little bit. I, we feel like the LA times has shifted a little bit. Maybe it's just going to be very slow as they clean up and it's going to get slightly better. Or maybe it was just all, hey, we'll give them a little bit and not endorse Kamala Harris, and then they'll leave us alone and they'll stop really, you know, focusing on the words that we use.

Yeah. Gives himself space to go back to being very biased, despicable selves. So anyway, that ate at me a little bit this morning. Okay. The can that's fine. You know, like people got mad at Trump for saying the media is the enemy of the people. He hasn't said that in a while, though. Now he's suing a bunch of them.

But his words are a little different now. And, and a but when going back to those days when Trump used those words enemy of the people, was he wrong? He wasn't wrong. And I think it was really understandable why he kept using those words because he was backed into a corner. I think he feels like he has a little more breathing room now.

Yeah, X is operating differently. People like Tucker Carlson have stepped out and are doing their own thing. You're you're seeing, MSNBC be destroyed like there is for him, I think more oxygen available. So he's not going to go to that phrase. I can't imagine what it was like for him for a few of those years. Everything was stacked against you.

He did a completely manufactured Russian collusion hoax. They they've placed you at the center of and mainstream media is talking about it literally. And I don't love that word. But this is true this time around. Literal. Only 24 seven on their news channels about a made up claim. And there wasn't another place where it was being framed correctly that had the audience that social media had, that CNN had that MSNBC had.

Even Fox was kind of backpedaling a little bit and really soft rolling it. Yeah, because they needed to keep their audience. Right? Yeah. They were playing the game. It had a feel for Trump, like he had no oxygen left in the room. Yeah, I'm sure it did. I'm sure it was for him. Let's go to the phones.

Caller go ahead. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas to you. Thanks. Hey, just listening to all this, you know, heavy stuff that we have on politics. And I think, you know, with Trump coming in, we were really hoping for real hope and change this time that we can quit having these kids and stuff like that, that, just furthers a bureaucracy and and big government and the distrust.

Yeah. So, on the bright side, though, I did want to let your listeners know we're having a, kind of a get together this Saturday night. We've kind of formed a group called East Idaho Patriots and and a couple sister organizations, like, up here in Fremont County, we have Fremont County Patriots, but, we're we actually have a live jazz band that's coming.

And it's, at Skidmore Construction, building at 3920 East Sunnyside. And we're just going to go and, usually we have a, somebody speaking on, something relevant that's going on, but, this time we're just going to enjoy each other's company. We'll have maybe a raffle or something, but bringing a dish to share, it's on Facebook on East Idaho Patriots.

But just wanted to let your listeners know that there's kind of a fun political event going on that's kind of casual one. And if they want to RSVP, it's, I and f r m inform Capital Idaho. So it's in form Idaho with the capitals 24@gmail.com. So okay, now we we need to do something fun once in a while.

That kind of lightens it up. They, they also have like a website with information on stuff. So I mean if people are interested they can contact me on, on Carrie hicks.com. But you know, we we need some kind of fun things going on at Christmas and, and it'll, it'll be a fun event. So just wanted to let your listeners know about that okay.

Sounds like a good time Carrie. Thank you. We appreciate appreciate you calling and letting our listeners know. Thank you. All right. And again, Merry Christmas to you and Julie. And likewise, Carrie. Always good to hear from you. 921 now on Newstalk 179 Quick Break. We'll be back after this. Oh, I gotta hear all that is. Heck yeah.

Why am I yawning? Somebody said it was static on wasn't, but that was 1079. So in the middle of that you said like paraded a candy. Oh, really? Okay, ma'am, I don't feel like I'm asleep. I didn't catch it rightly. It took me about three seconds, and then I went, wait. Paraded a candy. Are you sure?

I said that positive. Yeah. Oh my word. Yeah. I, I'm rubbing off on him like paraded a candy. I'm trying not to sneeze. Glad today I'm doing pretty good not sneezing. Should I inform them of my weird thing that I'm doing every morning? Sure. So I get up like normal shower, do all my thing, get ready, and then I record news at home.

And as soon as I start talking that much, my nose starts to run. But it's not mucus. It is. Why? It's like water. Yeah. So then I get, you know, like I wipe it, everything's good. I finish the news, all's fine, get to work. And then as soon as we step in the studio and we start talking again, it just starts raining again.

And I've had a little bit of sneezing with it, but there, it's not mucus, it's just water. So Neal looked it up for me. And it's the internet is mentioning that I might be allergic to something, that it's an allergy of some sort because it doesn't have infection or anything in it. It happens both at home and here.

Yeah. So it is weird. I don't know, it could it, could it be like your perfume. Could it be something like. It could. But I don't always put my perfume on before I go down on record. That varies depending upon where I'm at in my getting ready process. So I don't think it's the perfume. I thought about this.

I'm wondering if it's the I use one very specific, body wash and, and it's a, it's a body wash that actually is designed to soften the skin. So if you're like, let's say wet when you sit down, like the scent of that might get in your, your sinuses. But if you're up moving around and you're doing things, it's it's just going to go off.

Does that make sense. Yes maybe. And I don't I women do different things. Like some women get ready in a robe and then get dressed. I get dressed and then get ready. I get dressed and then do my makeup in my hair. So it's not like I don't think it's laundry detergent or anything. Like that, because I've already had my clothes on for a half hour to 40 minutes before I go record nails, maybe try a different body wash to see.

Maybe I sure love that body wash though that would be hard for me to give up. Yeah, I've been sneezing. You have to assist a lot. Yeah, maybe. Gary says thoughts of nail may cause an allergy. You know, allergic to you. I'm allergic to the news cycle because that's when I start. My nose starts running at home is when I'm recording news.

You know, my house is dry right now because it's Idaho. And winter, so maybe I do need a humidifier. Oh, no. Is there a new word salad? Kamala story. There it is. I didn't you know what I didn't think it was that word salad. I think that's weird. That Fox News put that as the headline. I actually felt like she was acting like she's 16 in the clip.

Is she drunk again? I don't know if she's drunk, but it's weird. We're back. All right. 927 on Newstalk 1079I know people tuned in going, man, I hope Neal and Julie play a Kamala Harris clip. So oh, and we will deliver. And we know you haven't formally requested it, but we know you want it. So here it is.

Good morning.

You remember the context in which you exist? Yeah, I did that.

Okay. This is the face of an obstacle. Do we throw up our hands, or do we roll up our sleeves? And as we approach.

What is it she's doing? I don't know, so, yeah. You asked me if she was drunk or not, and I'm. I'm not sure. Possibly. There's something on board. She's over the top, happy. Like. Yeah. You can't see that. She's got this joker grin on her face during the whole clip. She looks drunk to me. I'm just going to say it out loud.

She looks drunk to me. Hey, for me, she it's like she's 15 or 16 and she's trying to be cool in front of her friends. Yeah, I don't, I don't know, I don't know. It's weird. Well, she's saying the same things over and over at all. These speeches, like, this is a rehearsed thing, and she's got these phrases that she uses over and over again.

Same hand movements. She's, yes. And she does that where the point where she said in the context of something and said, yeah, I did that. Hahaha. Like she knows she's word society. It just is weird. Yeah. She thinks it's something cute about her but I do. Yeah I don't know either. Which if you're 20 that's okay.

If you're 60 it's not I will, I will just continue to say as we play these clips bullet dodged with oh my, yes we should be. So forever grateful that this is not our next four years. Yeah. That if yes, can you imagine if we were gearing up, getting ready for for her to take the oath and become the president for four years?

Here's the difference between her and Biden on the foreign stage. Biden is weak. Yeah, no doubt Biden is weak and he presents as weak. But behind the scenes, Biden is running all of these. I'm just going to call them what they are money laundering schemes. I don't even think she's smart enough to do that. Yeah. So she's weak and unintelligent.

Yeah. At least Biden had this framework in place with people helping him that that kind of held the foreign entities to certain standards because he's getting money from them. Yeah. And he has dirt on them. I don't think she's that smart. No, I don't either. So we would be weak and unintelligent. We can dumb. Yeah. If you can only have one.

I don't want either. But would you ever rather have strength or intelligence. I don't want either because there's deceit right now. That's stupid. Strong and stupid. Her. Yeah. Yeah. We condemn. Okay. So Julie, apparently Scott Jennings told a CNN commentator not to touch him during a tense exchange. They were talking about Trump and grocery prices.

Let's listen to this first. The second thing is just from a very, very 50,000ft view, one of the things we know is Scott was actually 50% correct, and that Democrats did not do a good job in telling our story. We did not do a good job of addressing the pain that Americans felt. We we said the thing. One of the mistakes we made throughout Biden's campaign was saying, or, excuse me, Biden's presidency was saying that inflation was transitory, like those things were not accurate because there are people who were out there feeling the pain of the price of eggs, filling the pain of the price of waiting.

Like my dad at Piggly Wiggly, those things were real. What Scott was not accurate about, which kind of happens around the table sometimes, though. You know you want to be. Don't touch me know. All right, I'm gonna put your hands out a table. All right? But one of the. Okay. He's visibly irritated because it's like this power move.

The is basically saying you're stupid and you're wrong, but let's laugh about it and that'll make it all better. And Scott Jennings is having none of it. So did he put his hand on his back? Yeah. Put his hand on his shoulder and then on his back and Scott Jennings like, don't touch me. Like, don't. You're Sean's company.

You're insulting me, You don't you don't get to, like, make it all friendly and put your hand on my back. Right. You're insulting me to my face. Yeah, I can get why he's frustrated with that. Because he's actually being really insulting to him at the table right there. You know, we do this around the table sometimes, and you're dishonest.

But let me be your friend and put my hand on your back. Yeah, it'll make it all okay. Yeah. I can sit here and call you a dishonest person, but if I put my hand on your back, we're still buddies. Yeah, people like that drive me nuts. Yeah, but Elon Musk doesn't. And he owns Tesla and SpaceX and I think the response to this guy is where's your where's your courage, buddy?

Because Scott Jennings comes to this table all the time. One on 4 or 1 on five. Yeah. He is the lone man who has provided sound clip after sound clip making you guys look stupid. Yeah, because and not really making you look stupid. Just using your words to reveal to everybody how you're having to do mental gymnastics to support this administration and to support Kamala.

Yeah. So are you brave enough to come to a table where you're the lone guy? Would you be able to do it? Because I bet you can't. Well, you know, you look back over time and I think of Elizabeth. Hasselbeck when she was on The View, she was one against four. She sat there in the middle and I liked her like she was actually a solid conservative stood up for true conservative principles.

And she exited gracefully like she didn't leave the way Meghan McCain left, which was months of feuding with Joy Baker. She left, but I guarantee you, if you got her to just speak off the record and truth serum room, all that she would tell you, oh, is so toxic. Like it. I got to a point where I realized it didn't make sense for me to keep showing up every day at that because you weren't making any ground.

You weren't. You weren't winning, and you were designed to be the the lone voice. You were designed to look like you're in the middle, in the minority. Maybe that's one of the reasons. And I just didn't realize it. But I wanted Scott Jennings to move on from CNN once Trump won, I mean, I was kind of lobbying for him to be the press secretary and maybe there's a little bit of what you're explaining or a little bit of a you're better than this.

Yeah. You're better than hanging with these people. Yeah. You're it's a almost a pearl before swine kind of thing. However, like I look at Scott Jennings and you'd think, well, he belongs on Fox because he's speaking truth. He's solid conservative. I don't think it's stick out on Fox. I think it'd just be another commentator on Fox. He wouldn't have made his name.

The reason why he's such a shining star is because he is a pearl in the midst of a herd of swine. That's what he is. And so I maybe, maybe staying on CNN is the best thing he could do because he is such a contrast. And that gives him tons of headlines. Yeah. That is his brand. Yeah.

Yeah. So just don't touch him. Don't touch me though. You can touch me. Not while you're insulting me to my face. Yeah. All right. 935 on Newstalk one. You know what? Here's the thing. Let's wait for this. The man who was insulting him to his face is black. How long before this turns into a racial good thing? I promise you right now, already there are people on X or in the comments saying, is it because he's a black man that you don't want him to touch you?

Like know that if you watch the clip, you wouldn't want anybody touching you? That's insulting you in to your face. Was this prime time last night? Is that when this happened? I think so, yeah. Yeah, yeah, it could happen. It's not even 24 hours old, so. Yes. Yeah. Okay. We're going to break for the news. We'll come back if you'd like to join us on this.

I feel like it's a relaxed, even though there's lots of stuff going on. People are shifting into Christmas mode. Maybe we'll do something Christmasy. We'll see. We'll be back after this. On Newstalk 107 nine. That was kind of weird. Something strange happened. Those clips that, we have played this morning of Kennedy and, Holly going after the president of the NCAA.

Yeah, that president of the NCAA. If you had asked I to generate what that man would look like, that's exactly what I would generate. Yes, that's true. He looks exactly like you would expect somebody running the sports. Yeah. You folks at the NCAA don't do anything except sit there, watch, cash your checks and suck on your teeth. Look, it's.

I like him. That's funny, that's funny. Okay, you know what I could do? We don't have a DVR on this TV. You know how we have a running feed, and I can hit the grabber and get the last x number of seconds of the show? I could create the same process for Fox, so it's a constant thing.

So if they have a a montage of clips like they just did, you could grab it, I could grab that. Okay, that'd be awesome. That would be good. When does the now feature time out on wide orbit? Because if I don't click it and like an hour or so goes by, it stops populating. Oh, I don't know.

I'm not sure what the look ahead is on. You just have to scroll and I just keep clicking now and it will update. Okay. Yeah. Oh. We're stretching. It's contagious. Spencer, if you're on happy happy birthday. Yes. Spencer. Happy birthday. I don't know how old you are, but happy birthday. In the words of my grandson. Happy birthday, old man.

Is that what he says? Look, did he hear that his other grandpa is, about ten years older? Okay. And so his other grandpa calls himself old man. Like, he refers to himself as the old man. And so now, whenever it's a boy's birthday, it's happy birthday, old man. Oh, man, Liz Cheney said like it's a dirty word.

Liz Cheney it kind of I think I know what the they think they've narrowed it down to the name for the baby coming in February. Oh, and, they're going to call him Ford for short, but his great grandpa on Sidney's side is Raeford. Like that? Was his full name Rayford. Like. Okay, so it's a nod to that.

Okay. My name will be Ford, but the actual name will be Ford. I think the actual name will be Ford. Middle name, I don't know. I don't know if they've picked one yet. Still thinking on it, Yeah. Asher's middle name is my dad, so. Asher. Dennis. So I don't. They wanted to do something to represent her side with this boy, but the first name will represent that, so maybe they'll just pick it.

Middle name that goes good with Ford. I don't know, it should be F-150. That'd be cool. Duly. Yeah. Yeah. Tara's pickup. Yeah. Expedition mustang. There you go. Mustang. Sally Ford. Mustang. Okay. Transgender women who are biological female. Boom. Done. Why don't you go go to Amazon and buy a spine online and take a stand? Nine 942 on Newstalk 179, only Senator John Kennedy can say things the way he does.

Yeah, he's so good. And he's, of course, grilling Charlie Baker, who is the president of the NCAA, who, basically is taking about the softest, squishy assed, least courageous, mushy approach to the transgender in sports issue in the NCAA. So I'm glad to see some fire beaten being put on him. If he can't bring clarity, then maybe step down.

I felt like, I had a reminder of East Idaho in this testimony that he gave. So this is going to be weird, but follow me here. Remember when there was some uproar in the city of Idaho Falls about the homeless population? And, the leaders of the city of Idaho Falls kept referencing a court case.

Yes. That we have an innate right to sleep, which means we should allow homeless people to sleep wherever they want to. Yeah. And that was the battle back and forth. Yeah. Okay. And when that was going on, you and I were like, but that court case wasn't relative to anything that was happening in, in the city of Idaho Falls.

Yeah. It doesn't it's not ruling on what you're doing or anything. You're just reference referencing it almost out of fear that you have to obey what I think it was the ninth district. What the ninth district was saying about that. You don't it's not relative to what's going on here. I feel like the NCAA president was doing exactly the same thing.

He kept referencing these court cases, but both Josh Hawley and Senator Kennedy were like, no, there is federal law and it's title nine. Yeah. Why are you why are you deferring to these court cases? Well, yeah. And those court cases did not definitively say that you had to let men compete against women. Absolutely not. And it was sort of this, you know what?

I you know, how I viewed it. And you're right. It is similar to the homeless thing, that happened a couple of summers ago. I think the original court case is actually out of Spokane. Like, okay, somebody challenged in behalf of the homeless people that they can squat on public property, and the court kind of ruled in their favor.

And so it was viewed by some that if we do anything different than we're going to be caught up in a lawsuit in the legal battle and all of that. And, but there was other case law that seemed to indicate, no, you you can you can say you you can't be in this park from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. like that.

That's perfectly legal to say that you can't sleep there. You can't camp there. And, so I think there was enough public pressure that it was impacting businesses in downtown. It was impacting people's safety and the quality of life. Yes. You had people who didn't want to go to the greenbelt anymore because you were getting these the homeless, little homeless groups that were that were popping up.

And then I think there was enough public pressure that they decided, okay, we better do something about this. And so they did. I I'm hoping this is enough pressure for this guy that that the heat from the common sense side will be hotter than the heat he's getting from the woke side, which is, you know what, if you're really enlightened, you got to let men beat the living hell out of women on the court.

Like that's what you got to do because that's enlightened. Yeah, I and I felt like in his testimony, all he was doing was hiding behind these. I think he cited four court cases. I don't remember a directly, but he was saying, well, there have been cases and and both Kennedy and Holley were like, so be a man step up.

Which is why Kennedy told him to go to Amazon and buy a spine. Yeah, a step up and and and do what's right by these women athletes because you are the direct connection to the women athletes, not the court cases. Yeah, yeah. Don't let some federal ruling run NCAA policy. And and it's not even a clear ruling. Here's Josh Hawley.

This is, well, a nice grilling. In fact, it was such a nice grilling. I'd used Jeep Prime Meat sport. Okay, here's that, Mr. Baker, if I could just start with you. I confess I didn't understand your answer to Senator Kennedy's question about the safety of women and the sports of the NCAA overseas. Did you say the federal law requires the NCAA to permit biological men to play in women's sports?

No, I said there have been five cases in federal court in the past 18 months. Okay, because I federal judges sided with the reason the NCAA couldn't take a position on this fact. You have taken a position on it. You're affirmatively permitting biological men and women sports. But you said to him it's because of federal law. There's no federal law that requires it, right?

The relevant federal laws, title nine, is it not? You're if guidance on this issue from title nine or guidance with respect to discrimination, I don't know where it is all that is law. The title nine. Several judges have ruled on a USC section 1681. By the way. Let's just dispense with that. Cannot. No federal court has ordered the NCAA to include biological men and women's sports right.

Just not a single case that is ordered the NCAA to do so. Correct. That's pretty much what they decided in the Senate. Oh, don't say pretty much. This isn't who we're talking about the law here. Yes. And, you know, have you actively dissembled to Senator Kennedy just a second ago? It's not true that the NCAA has been ordered by any court.

Number one, it's not true that federal law requires you to include biological males. In fact, title nine explicitly says no person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be denied the benefits of any educational program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. You are in court at this moment arguing the title nine doesn't apply to the NCAA, which is astounding to me given the amount of money federal money the NCAA gets.

Okay, yeah. I felt like Josh Hawley laid that out very plainly, that you're hiding behind these court cases. There is no definitive ruling. Yeah, that is saying you have to do this. And like I said, the direct connection to the young women and are playing in these sports. Is this man getting grilled? Yeah. Your job is to take care of those young women and the male athletes too.

But on the male teams, yes, male. On the male teams, the women on the women's teams, you are the direct connection, not these federal lawsuits. Why are you hiding? And then Kennedy followed it up with this because he doesn't have a spine. So do we need to? Look, this madness has come about because they've severed the definition, the they've severed the definitions of gender and sex.

So women doesn't necessarily mean female to them. In my mind, it does. In your mind it does. That's what part of being a woman is, is you're a biological female. Part of being a man is your biological male. But do we need to in reaction to them? And a lot of people would say, no, we don't. We don't adjust our language for them.

But what if instead of calling it men's basketball or women's basketball, we call it male basketball and female basketball? Sure. Because they've taken over the world. I mean, we have a Supreme Court justice who can't even identify what a woman is. I know she can't. So, yeah, they have commandeered that word. So go ahead and switch it if that makes you feel more comfortable as the NCAA president to call them male sports and female sports.

Yeah, go for it. I mean, I find it absurd that we would have to shift the language from women's basketball to female basketball. But if they're the ones that are going to do all of this redefinition and we have to keep reminding them the whole basis of sports is a physical competition. They've put gender in the psychological realm.

Sex is the physical realm which therefore it means we define the sports based on sex not on gender. Right. So if the quick fix is okay it's now male basketball and female basketball or whatever the sport, then that's maybe the direction we go. And then then that takes the discrimination out of it because it's no longer gender discrimination.

Okay. You can be a woman but you can't play in there sex. Right, right. You can't you. That's the hard line. That's the defining black white. There's no gray in-between line there. I was it yesterday we played or maybe the day before, before we played the, the or read the statistics for the 100 meter dash.

Did we do that here or did I am I know it was yesterday I believe. Yes. Yeah. There are high school kids who run faster than the women's record holder in the 100 meter dash. Yeah, how dare this president of the NCAA say it's debatable of whether men are better than women in these individual competitions? High school people are beating the best the way the world record holder.

Yeah, for the women's 100 meter. They're not. It's not debatable. Yeah. It's settled. Men are physically superior to women. End of story. I don't understand why this man would sit here and say, well, it's debatable. No it's not. Yeah, it's it's not, it's not. And this is the hill we die on. Yeah. All right, quick break, last, segment here, it was actually Ted Cruz yesterday.

Or was it Ted Cruz yesterday? Yeah, that's what it was. Yeah. He was grilling, the NCAA had about the title nine thing, so. Well, we don't have time to play it on the show, but I'll play it during Facebook Live here. If you want to join us, you can text lived to 085421 and seven nine. Back up to this.

Okay. Yeah, it was Ted Cruz, but, that's my question. Gender. Why do you leave women, women of great value? I mean, Senator, I'll tell you, Mr. Robinson, please answer the question I'm asking you. Absolutely. Why do women's sports exist? I think that there are so many positive benefits to sports. But why have a soccer category for women if you if there's no difference between women and men?

Why? To have women's sports. I'm saying that there's a difference between sex and gender, and that the NCAA has rules in place, which they have for the last decade. And I would like to end earlier an article from Duke, Duke Law called comparing athletic performances for the best elite women to Boys and Men, and it goes through examining in 2017 the top records for women in the world in various track and field events.

So, for example, in the 100 meter, the top record for women in the world was 10.71 seconds. Now, that record for the number one woman in the world in 2017 was in the year 2017, broken by 124 boys under 18. In that same year, the record for the number one competing woman in 100 yard, 100 meter dash in the world was broken by a total of 2474 men.

Wow. It's not debatable. It's not debate. It's. It's over. Yeah. It's not debatable. Yes. And and by the way, the 100 meter dash is not a sport where if a man is running against a woman, you're physically endangering. Yeah. The woman, you know, for me, it gets far more severe when we have physical competition where they're touching each other.

Volleyball players, basketball players? Yes. Boxing, water polo, boxing like. Yeah. When you're physically going up against them. We are putting these girls lives in danger. Yeah we really are. It's it's not debatable that that was a really irritating part of that NCAA. I felt like he was a coward anyways because he was hiding behind the laws and whatever.

And I explain that, but the whole debatable thing was just flat out irritating. So this was a different person. This is a woman that Ted Cruz is grilling and I don't know what her title was, but connection or whatever. Yeah, yeah. You know what I like? Remember how careful we felt like we had to talk about this issue for a couple of years.

There. Oh yeah. And then you're tiptoeing and we were tiptoeing. Now we don't care. Yeah. This is unfair. You're you're forcing girls to play against boys and girls. Women against men. And. Well done, Representative Eckhardt. Well done. Yeah. And I do think this issue is ripe for a Supreme Court ruling, a definitive Supreme Court ruling. What you're looking at.

Remember I said I got an email saying I was supposed to do some ads? Yeah. It just dawned on me that maybe. Yeah, for what? Endorsement? Oh, yeah, that was in V creative. Nope. I was supposed to be doing that once today. Oh, we have, two minutes. You want to know it's the 19th, 20th, 27th, 30th, 31st.

I'm okay, I'm okay. Okay, okay. We got 10s. Here we go. A couple minutes left. Rish! Tomorrow. Okay.

Okay. 957 on Newstalk 1079, Neal Larson and Julie Mason. We had listeners. They were very appreciative of the Duran Duran bumper music. So I might get a little hungry like The Wolf and play that later to gave him a little bit of a hit as like, you're their drug dealer. I know, I remember getting this album.

It was one that I got for like eight for one penny. Oh, yeah. Remember that? Yeah. And I remember this. I think the album was REO and it was the record, the big record. And I remember listening to Hungry Like the Wolf and, Wild Boys. Where was the record player in your house? So it was one of those big, long old fashion consoles.

Yes. And it had a radio in it, and there was a record player. I would get a little frustrated because my mom would put a doily on the top of it with some kind of flower thing, and I had to move it every time I wanted to listen to my records. Oh my gosh, that was our childhood send us, I know.

Did I just take everybody back to 1984? Yeah. It's 958 and that's going to do it for this show today. Julie and I will stick around for a while for a Facebook post show. Join us on that. By texting live to (208) 542-1079. We'll see you all tomorrow.