1.3.2024 -- NLS -- Snow, Speakership, and Conspiracies

On this episode with Neal and Julie, the discussion weaves through politics, culture, and personal reflections. Neal shares his morning musings about snowless sidewalks and dives into the evolving dynamics of Republican leadership, forecasting Mike Johnson's rise as Speaker of the House. Julie weighs in with her off-air prediction, emphasizing the GOP’s current prioritization of unity over ideological purity.

The conversation takes unexpected turns—from dissecting conspiracy theories to speculating about odd incidents involving charred IDs and Fort Bragg mysteries. Neal and Julie also reflect on modern media trends, including Netflix’s hidden genre codes and changing dress standards in journalism.

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Transcript

Hello. East Idaho. Much of which is more glazed than a Krispy Kreme donut. Welcome. Yeah. I'm gonna. I'm going to be sore for a day or two. I walk out of the front door this morning thinking without looking terribly close at the sidewalk, that, oh, we got no snow. I went to bed. The sidewalks were dry. No, the freezing fog left a little glaze over everything, and I did.

The whole body went horizontal in midair, and then boom. And a big thud and an ouch. And then, handful of ibuprofen and acetaminophen, a couple of minutes later. So I would just encourage caution it. There are definitely some slick spots, especially in the upper valley you get north of about Blackfoot or Shelly and you've got the glaze and it'll affect roads and the outside walking and the whole the whole shebang.

How are you today? It's Friday. I want to welcome you to the show. We have a pretty robust news cycle. Mike Johnson, the speaker of the House, is facing another vote. I feel like Thomas Massie is the lone man right now, and his effort to find a new speaker is going to be, well, it's going to be jousting at windmills.

And I think that you had Jim Jordan, who earlier this morning said, I'm supporting Mike Johnson. I encourage others to do so as well. And I think if there's anybody that has a tremendous amount of respect from that conservative, more conservative wing of the Republican House contingent, it's Jim Jordan. And that's probably going to seal the deal for Mike Johnson, at least temporarily and for a while.

And I do believe that Republicans are elevating unity and continuity above ideological purity, which I think right now is probably the best chess move. Let's get Trump inaugurated. Let's get him in the white House. Let's get the the Congress rolling and let's see what happens and give Mike Johnson a trial run because he could be great. There is sometimes you have people who are good leaders in good times, and they tend to be sometimes bad leaders in bad times.

If Mike Johnson, it's going to be a good time in Washington. We're going to have a Republican majority in the Senate, albeit slim. We'll have a Republican majority in the House, albeit slim, but but nonetheless, Republican majorities in Congress, in the white House. And it should be a wider path for some good things to happen. Let's just see how he does, and I'm okay with that.

If if anything, you look at it as a as a trial run. So we have that. We'll watch for it. I think Julie mentioned to me off air, she's like, I'm going to predict that Mike Johnson is going to get the speakership back today. I think that's absolutely true. Well, we live right now, especially in an environment given the events of the last couple of days where we don't really need more complexity.

And I think that we have lots of weird going on. And I will tell you that quite often when I look at the array of mental choices, choices that can be made, the conspiracy door is usually shut but not locked. I try to explore all the Occam's Razor non conspiratorial options before I go there. Some people have welded shut their conspiracy door, not just locked it, not just shut it, but they have welded it shut and refused to consider anything that might have a tinge of conspiratorial, you know, sent to it, which I think that's foolish, that that's just as irresponsible as the people who believe every conspiracy theory.

So the weirdness you probably maybe saw this clip. I don't know how closely you watch the news cycle. We go to New Orleans, we go to the home of the suspect there. Totally forget his super long name, which we try not to say anyway, because we don't want to bring notoriety to these people. But you had a journalist just gingerly walking around the house inside the New Orleans terrorist's home.

You can see that it's been clearly destroyed. The door at least, from the FBI raid yesterday. But if we walk through the home, we see some signs of what he was up to. He had this work area here. Lots of different chemicals played around. Okay, I'm not going to go through this. This is 2.5 minutes long.

But imagine a young female journalist walking around showing different things. Oh, there's some chemicals over here. Oh, there's some, manifesto. Oh, I hate America. Manifesto right here ain't me. So the internet sleuths are watching this and screen grabbing different scenes and frames. And on one that I saw, there was a little basket inside one of those shadow box things, and it still had a HomeGoods tag on it.

At least they said that's what it was. So I don't I don't know if that's true or not, but there was this sense, well, first of all, and I don't even need to explain the weird about this to you, the FBI. How often does the FBI just invite the press into a crime scene? That's weird. The reporter, she never identifies herself.

I'm sure you could find out. Probably was on her social media channel. She's wearing yoga pants, which I thought. Okay, I know in the news media, the dress standards are a little more relaxed than they used to be, like it used to be. It was a jacket and a tie and a white shirt. Now you see, all the time they wear like a sport jacket with a collared shirt, but no tie, like they've, they've relaxed it up.

This reporter looked like she was headed to the gym soon. Like she's wearing yoga pants, which, whatever. I guess if that's what that outlet wants, that's fine. But that seemed a little overly casual for, a working journalist and and reporter, but again, whatever. All right. I'm not I'm not going to judge. Just seemed a little off and out of place.

But do you remember back right after the FBI raided Mar-A-Lago and it wasn't too long within a couple of days, and it might have been hours. I just know it was quick. They had documents that were stitched. Well, I say staged, but they were beautifully arranged and they had pictures that they then sent out to the media. It's it's like they want to get a certain narrative out there.

And so it just felt absolutely staged. You have the weirdness in Las Vegas. The Cybertruck driver, we find out. And this was from the Las Vegas PD. This guy was shot in the head, presumably self-inflicted, before the bomb was detonated. Now, further complicating this identification of this individual, we also discovered through the coroner's office that the individual had sustained a gunshot wound to the head prior to the detonation of the vehicle.

One of the handguns was found at his feet inside of the vehicle. Obviously in how we're trying to identify him. And I'm feeling comfortable to give you this information is a tremendous amount of substantial evidence to include. He rented the Toro vehicle. There are two tattoos, one of which was on the stomach and one of which is on the arm.

Okay, so this police, he sounds a little nervous, but he, you would be. You're on national TV. It's the the story of the day. And so I'd, you know, no judgment there at all. But he goes on to talk about how this man's body was charred beyond recognition, but his military I.D., which kind of looks like a passport was intact.

It was charred around the edges, but you could definitely see the picture and the info inside, which a lot of people are like, wait a minute. If it was such an inferno inside that truck that the body was charred beyond recognition, how did the military ID survive? So again, I go to my Occam's Razor. Let's let's open the non conspiratorial doors before we open the conspiratorial doors.

Maybe it was in the glove compartment around here. We call it a jockey box, but maybe it was in the glove compartment. And and Elon Musk made the glove compartments in a Tesla truck. Fireproof. I think this easily could be. Then there was the weirdness of, well, you could look at it a number of ways. If the bomb detonates before the gunshot wound, you're too dead to shoot yourself.

But if you're shoot yourself, then you're two dead to detonate the bomb. So how was it that the man shot himself, and then the bomb detonated again? Occam's razor. Non conspiratorial door would be that the the the bomb had a timer on it. Maybe a 22nd timer or a 32nd timer. He starts the timer. Bombs going to go off in 30s.

And in the interim he shoots himself that easily could have happened. So I would just encourage before you go down the conspiratorial rabbit hole, consider all of the other, options. However, don't lock the conspiratorial door because there there's there are just things that make you go, about all of this. The fact that these attacks were hours apart, the fact that both of these men were at Fort Bragg, which is known as sort of a place where people can get radicalized.

I don't know what it is about Fort Bragg, but we had a story of a terrorist years ago that had spent some time at Fort Bragg. Might be time to look at that. If if you're Pete Hegseth and the defense secretary, what in the world is going on at Fort Bragg? Probably should be a priority question. And then much closer to home.

And I say this not insinuating there's a connection, but I don't you have to consider whether or not there is. Payette, Idaho police halted a train for hours after footprints in the snow led officers to an explosive device on a train car on New Year's Day. The Payette Police Department said it received a report regarding a suspicious subject who was seen attempting to light something on fire near parked railroad car in the 600 block of North eighth Street in Payette.

Officers arrived at the scene just before 6 p.m.. They found fresh footprints leading to a train car that had a suspected, detonated improvised explosive device, aka an IED. Payette Police Chief Gary Marshall told the Idaho Statesman that the explosive was a pipe bomb style device made out of polyvinyl chloride plastic. It was found on a step connected to the outside of the train car.

Further footprints led to a camp trailer park near a residence in the 600 block, according to police, officers apprehended Brant Sherry, aged 40, of Payette, after a short foot pursuit. Law enforcement arrived at the scene to help handle the explosive, including the Nampa Police Department and one FBI agent. The Nampa Bomb Squad utilized their specialized robot to remove the IED from the train.

Car later detonated the device to render it safe, police said. They notified Union Pacific Railroad, which put all trains scheduled to travel through the site on standby for five hours. Sherry was initially booked in the Payette County Jail. Then they obtained a warrant to search the trailer where he was staying. They found items similar to the device found on the train car.

They also found controlled substances and drug paraphernalia, paraphernalia. He was later charged with felony possession of a destructive device, felony possession of a controlled substance, and misdemeanor for drug paraphernalia, and resisting arrest. And according to Sheriff, he was just trying to make a loud explosion or a loud boom, Marshall said. He said he did not have any intentions of damaging property or harming anyone else's B.S. meter going off.

I mean, I remember as a kid, it was kind of fun to fill up balloons with acetylene and then toss it into the burning barrel and run for your life because it made quite a boom. But you weren't damaging anything because you didn't attach it to something. This man attached the device to a train car. If you just want to hear it, boom.

You go out in the middle of the field and you set it off. Okay, this story does not fly at all. So does anybody else have sort of the first obvious question that I have. Did this guy serve in the Army? I mean, he's 40. He's about the same age as the other as the Las Vegas suspect, as the New Orleans suspect.

I think they were 40 and 37. And this guy's 40. And and specifically, I don't know if he did serve in the Army or not. I hopefully will be finding out the background information on someone like this. And again, it's very possible that there's zero connection whatsoever. But you have to ask, given the, the proximity in time to New Orleans and Las Vegas, you'd be foolish to not say, okay, is is there a potential connection?

To this? Ever seen a military manok? So, Yes, sir. I went to a tab where an automatic commercial started, so my bad. Which is. Okay, we've got to actually take a break. Here, coming up in just a few minutes. We have a studio for cover for you, sister. Golden hair being performed by, Jared Samson.

We'll do that minutes away on this Friday morning on Newstalk 179. And if you'd like to reach us the text line 208542 179.

It's 828. On Newstalk 179, Neal Larson along with Julie Mason on a Friday and, the number to text us is (208) 542-1279. Just minutes away, we're going to have Jared Sampson on for a studio four cover. Julie sister Golden hair. I America I when you first told me this I'm like I have never heard of that in my life.

And then you played the song for me and I'm like, everybody knows this song. It's going to be awesome. I've heard him warming up. He's going, okay, he's good, he's good. You know, there's a song by the Goo Goo Dolls called Iris. There's a word that never appears in the song Jenna thought is Iris. But it's called Iris.

It's called Iris. But okay, we're never appears in the sun. I'd have to look at the lyrics for Sister Golden Hair, but I don't know that it does. It appear in the song? I have no idea. Yeah, I don't know. Oh, I have to. I will ask him. Yeah, we'll ask him. So, yeah, we have that coming up also.

Julie let's talk about steak. Steak or ribs or brats or whatever. Whatever protein you feel like shoveling in. Grand peaks primates can help you out. How do you order your steak. I'm medium rare guy. Like I like it pink. Little bloody in the middle but not cold. Not mooing. Not mooing. No. How about you? Medium possibly medium rare.

I'm right in there too. I don't want it incredibly pink though. So yeah, I clarify what it means in that restaurant. Yeah, if it's medium rare. Yeah. And sometimes it's a mood thing. Like sometimes I'll just go, yeah, give me a medium and yeah, even medium still often a little bit pink a little pink. Here's the good thing is we do Grand Peaks Prime Eats.

You just cook it however you want. You're not relying on somebody else. Cook it the way you like it. I'm going be tasty. Jeep Prime meats.com. That is their web address. You can check out their packages and their specials. And I know a lot of people. Juliette's January 1st part of January. So people are on a health kick.

And protein is such an important part of your your diet. I highly recommend filling up your freezer and your fridge with the the Great Cuts meat the Grand Peaks offers, especially if you're spending time in the gym. Make that time worth it. Get some protein in your body. Absolutely. All right, quick break eight 31 hour time when we come back.

Studio for covers. Jarrett Sampson joining us with the Little America sister Golden hair just ahead. And we're back at 836 on Newstalk 179, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason and Julie. We have a studio for cover this morning. Jarrett Samson's joining us. Yeah. Good morning Jared. We've had you with us before in a previous lifetime, but we're so glad to have you back here.

How are you been doing? Well, it's good to be here. Great, great. All right, tell us about music. What's it mean to you in life? Kind of everything. It's always been my my rock and and stress relief and fun. And it's how I've made friends. It's it's been a big part of my life. Yeah, well, that's that's great.

And, remind us what you played the last time you had a few years ago? I did Space Oddity by David Bowie. Okay. That's right, I remember that. I remember that, and we're we're super excited to have you back. I do want to let our listeners know that Jareth has both a YouTube as well as a SoundCloud account.

So just look up Jareth, Jarett Samson s amp. So n so so tell us what you're going to play for us today. I'm going to be playing Sister Golden Hair by America. Okay. All right. I want to give a quick shout out to Fe halfway. I'm sure she's excited. All right, Jareth, go ahead. All right.

Well, I tried to make it Sunday, but I got so damn depressed that I set my sights on Monday and I got myself undressed. I ain't ready for the altar, but I do agree. There's time. And a woman sure can be a friend of mine. Well, I keep on thinking about you, sister. Golden hair surprise. And I just can't live without you.

Can't you see it in my eyes? I've been one poor correspondent. And I've been to too hard to find. But it doesn't mean you ain't been on my mind. Will you meet me in the middle? Will you meet me in the air? Would you love me just a little. Just enough to show you care. Well I tried to forget I don't mind say.

And I just can't make it.

Will I keep on thinking bout you, sister? Golden hair. Surprise. And I just can't live without you. Can't you see it in my eyes I've been one poor chorus mountain. And I've been too hard to find. But it doesn't mean you ain't been on my mind.

Will you meet me in the middle? Will you meet me in the air? Would you love me just a little. Just enough to show you care. Well, I tried to fake it. I don't mind saying I just can't make it.

Will you meet me in the middle? Will you meet me in the air? Would you love me just a little. Just enough to show you care. Well, I tried to fake it. I don't mind saying. I just can't make it.

Jareth. Samson. Fantastic. Hey, thanks for having me. Beautiful job this morning. It's 841. This is studio four covers on Newstalk 179. Hey, Facebook. How are you? Jareth was awesome. In fact, cupy down the hall. Stole himself. Yeah. It's Friday. You ready for the weekend? I'm ready for the weekend. Even though we just had a holiday. Like, I feel like I'm ready for the weekend, so.

844 Jared Samson's so good. Really good and grateful he's coming in. In fact, our sister stations here at Sand Hill are now snagging our artists because they like it so much. We're totally on board. We're so on board. Just move Jareth over to CuPy 99. So, Jeff Roper so yeah, at any rate, welcome back to 085421079. It's Friday morning, Neal Larson Julie Mason.

And by the way, can I just say I last night the ICU Bengal men's basketball team, they on the road. They're in Flagstaff playing northern Arizona. And so of course, being the avid Bengal fan that I am set down, I had some beef jerky as watching that. What I was watching, look, I've had enough crap over the last couple of days trying to clean it up.

I trying to lower the carb, carb load, you know? Anyway, so I'm watching and it's a frustrating first half. Bengals are just kind of stumbling and struggling. They get down by 19 points. And I almost turned it off because I there's other things I could have I could do. And I'm like okay I'll just watch a little bit of the second half.

They started to claw back in and for the first time in the game, Bengals lead with less than a minute to go. They scored to take the lead with like 48 seconds left or something like that. And they ended up winning by five. Cheese. Their opponents are kicking themselves to be in command of the game like that until the last minute.

Well, there's, it's an interesting history. They were talking about the the record between the Bangles and New, which we've never looked at in a U. Like, I like a new, but they've been, you know, a good opponent. There's not a lot of hard feelings there. This last night. The win I think was the eighth consecutive time we've beat them on their court.

Wow. Yeah. So Bengals have their number. Yeah. There's just something about it where on that particular road trip we play really really well. And you know halfway through the game I'm thinking well that streak may be coming to an end. But no they got it. They got it. Turn around Dylan darling himself. He's our our point guard. He outscored the entire team new in the closing minutes.

Like he scored 20 points in the last 13 minutes or something. Wow. Yeah great game for him. It was a good way to start out conference play. What a name. Yeah. Dylan darling. Yeah that's too good. So in fact we've got a lot of great I guess it if you're gonna find a silver lining with the transfer portal, we've got some amazingly good players that have come in.

Yeah. Good issue. That may not see a lot of playing time for a huge school. I think Dylan Darling transferred out of, like, Washington or Washington State anyway. And, getting tons of playing time here. So good for him. Obviously making the most of it as well. Yeah, yeah, it's a fun, fun win. And, they're playing Northern Colorado, I think Saturday night.

Okay. On the afternoon. Afternoon. Actually on the road. On the road. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's a road swing for them. So anyway, hashtag go Bengals. And, that was fun. I saw a close out in 2025 or excuse me in 2024 as you know 2025 approach. Yeah. And Elon Musk retweeted it. And it's that hashtags are old and we should no longer be using them.

I saw that, but we're 5152. We feel like hashtags are the new up and coming thing. Julie, there is. That's right. They're not giving the Ohio toilet. They're not muddy Ohio that yeah stuff. So true that true that. Hey, I've been drinking more water since you, gave me this mug for Christmas. I'm glad it's working. It is.

It's working. You needed it so good it makes me choke and pee. But, you know, it's the way it goes. I me putting a Sasquatch. There's a couple of Sasquatch stickers on your new mug. Yeah, and then I bought you a Sasquatch shirt. Yeah. Did it push you over the edge? Is Sasquatch 100% real now? Yeah.

You think so? No.

No. Although, let me let me apply the same standard that I used in my my monologue. I haven't locked the door on there possibly being a Sasquatch or a Bigfoot. Okay. How do how far open is the door? Like, like they're just a limited slide. Daylight coming through here is like a little more. I wouldn't say it's open.

I would say it's unlocked. Like I might peak in once in a while I, I my problem is you put on your tinfoil hat first and then you can get. Oh I just I don't know if a I can't believe we haven't found a specimen yet. Know, like you. This is not like some little tiny snail that lives under a rock in Siberia.

Like like that might be really, really hard to find. These are large creatures that are, like, eight, nine feet tall. Supposedly, you'd think you'd find one. Yeah. They're stealthy, though. Oh, okay. Where are you at? Since it's Friday, we can talk about conspiracies. Do you believe that Sasquatch is a real thing? No. I have the door. I don't close the door completely.

You close it and reopen it. My door's open. But a sasquatch isn't fit through the door. Yeah, I mean, I will, I, I will say I've interviewed, Doctor Meldrum. Is he still at I issue? I don't know if you know, if he's still teaching there. Anyway, he he's like a leading national expert on, you know, theory. Yes.

Sasquatch. I 100% admire his work and his effort. I, I think a scientific courage means you're willing to ask the questions and do the exploration when your peers may be ridiculing you for it. Yeah. And if you look back in the history of science, you got a lot of people who we now hail as heroes because they were willing to ask those questions.

So I when when I say I don't think it's real, it does not come with any kind of ridicule for those who are in a genuine search to find out of it. Yes. Yeah. That fair. That's totally fair. Totally fair. Yeah. And you know what? If we do find one, then, I'm not going to be 100% surprised.

You could be right there. Could be like this underground something or other. They live in caves most of the time. Whatever, I don't know. More flashbacks to your monologue. I think everything's theater anyway. So if we did find traces of Sasquatch, I'd probably then be saying on this radio show. Yeah, but is it a guy dressed up in an in a costume, like.

Yeah, I would probably be questioning that. Yeah, but I would too. Skepticism. That's the name of the game in 2025. Yeah. Skepticism. Sometimes I get sucked into weird conspiracy. Oh, there's a movie you should watch I usually like. I'll go to Netflix and look at all the movies that I've wanted to see on Netflix, at least. What they offer up.

I've already seen. So I happen to be on Disney+ the other night. Don't send the text. Yes, we pay for Disney Plus. Back off. I have a 16 year old daughter. She likes it so, but you can access Hulu on that. So I'm on Hulu. I actually texted you about this movie. It's it's if you're looking for a good thriller that's PG 13, not loaded with a bunch of, you know, language and sex.

And there might be a little language in it, but, it's called Amber alert. It was really good. Okay. Really good. Yeah, it's on Hulu, though. It's a Hulu production. It's Hulu. Okay. Yeah. Amber alert, Amber alert. All right. Do you know who Hayden Panettiere is? Yeah, she's in it. Yeah, she was in the cheerleader movie that my girls loved.

Yeah. She's preggo. She's like a middle aged woman now. Yes. Yeah, but she she was pretty good in it, so. Okay. Yeah. I can't remember the name of that cheerleader movie she was in. Bring it on. I think that's what it's called then. Yeah, yeah, that wasn't my genre. Well, you are watching Disney Plus. Okay. Do I need to explain?

You know, he went on a Lizzie McGuire bender. No, I did not. Okay, I don't know why I tell you anything at any time.

Buffing his toenails, watching Lizzie McGuire. Did you know I'm just going to move right past this? Did you know that if you go to Netflix, if you know the right numerical codes to put in, there's all sorts of genres that will pop up with movies that I think the only way you can really find them is through putting in the numerical code.

So the next Netflix vault is deep. Yes. And the way they've built it actually stretches back to when they sent out DVDs. Remember that you do your queue and they'd send you 2 or 3 and then you'd when you were done, you sent it back. It the numbering system stretches back to that, but they kind of just kept it for their streaming.

So if you want to watch like sci fi thrillers or if you want to watch, you know, foreign films or quirky independent stuff, or a decade night films from the 1960s. Yeah. And they've got all of these. If you if you just search secret Netflix movie codes, tons of sites have comprehensive lists of these things, and you can go through and when you go to search for a movie, just put that number in and then it gives you this menu of movies in that genre, okay.

However, there's one. They don't have PG 13 movies that are like sci fi thriller like like they won't let you search for a certain, I, I typically will avoid and a lot of the TV-Ma stuff. And, you know, I'd sell whatever. Anyway, they don't have a code for that. They need one, but they don't have one.

Well, they don't think that that's important. What? They want you to watch the film. That's their whole point. They don't want you to narrow it down like that, filtering out the film. So you're filtering out the filth? Yeah. Okay. Filtering out the if you're Mike Tyson, the three.

Julie. Oh. Can you make Mike Tyson speech impediment jokes. Yes. Yeah, I think you can. I think I can. It's it's true. Yeah. But you were worried earlier when I mentioned the whole cankles thing, like, you're like, you should bring it back up, okay? Julie was worried about it. An hour and a half ago. Bring it back.

I don't know the rules anymore. Like, you can mock a speech impediment, but don't talk about cankles. Like what? What are the rules? I need the rules. Tell me the rules. Oh, well, I probably won't follow them all, but, you know, I'd like to know what they are, at least. Absolutely. No, you're not going to follow the rules.

Yeah, that's a given. You're, You're probably right. So, someone said not watching Disney. Not watching Hulu. Okay. Yeah, I, you know, I will say I don't have the energy to, like, I haven't been inside target for quite a while. I bet it's been this late summer. The last time I went into target. Okay. So I feel like if I do, any kind of a boycott, it's probably a subconscious.

I just don't want to go there anymore. But it's not like a strict I will never, kind of thing. The place where I got kicked out of during Covid because I didn't have a mask. Yeah, they were so rude to me. I've never named it on air, and I'm not going to. Yeah, I've only been back once.

You did go back, though. I ate on the patio. Okay. Because I, I do remember when that happened, you were like, I'm not going to go back again. It was, it was years that I ate on the patio. Summer of 2024 okay. Gotcha. Yeah. But I bet even now you're like I still don't really want to go there like you might if your kids really want to go or if it's a business lunch or something.

But yeah, but to to actively choose. It's very, very, very low. Yeah. I'm, I'm kind of the same way. And when Ann is not at home Disney Plus is gone. But until then I'll watch some good movies. Me and Lizzie.

We start this hour with a terrible story. This is a terrible story, Julie. By the way welcome back. It is our two. If you'd like to reach us, the call and text line is (208)542-1079. So Texas teenagers in big trouble facing a felony animal cruelty charge after a rival competitor's show goat was poisoned. So this is high drama.

Investigators said in an affidavit that Aubrey Lane Vanlandingham, age 17, of Cedar Park, was seen on surveillance video forcibly squirting a substance later identified as a pesticide, multiple times into the mouth of the goat at the Vista Ridge High School barn, the report said. Vanlandingham then contacted the family of the animal's owner, saying it wasn't acting right. The goat was taken to an animal hospital for symptoms that included coughing, shaking and diarrhea.

It died the next day. The veterinarian who did the necropsy on the animals said the the smell of pesticide permeated the room after its stomach was opened. The teen first denied causing the death, but later admitted to investigators that she poisoned the animal, claiming its caretaker, quote was a cheater and she doesn't like cheaters. Okay, so investigators got a search warrant for Vanlandingham phone and discovered searches for if goats inject bleach, do they die?

Another search? How much bleach kills a goat? And then the search. How to clear search history. Okay, do you know how much this copies the crime stories that I write so much like. Clear your phone. Don't leave it. Don't give them. Any. Give them a trail. He'll get how to get away with crime. Yeah. The UK's Daily Mail interviewed the mother of the 15 year old owner of Willie the deceased goat, Willie.

She's saying it's because of cheating, but from what we've deciphered, she was just really jealous. The anonymous mom told the news outlet, because her learning Ingham's goat was going to lose to Willie. Apparently. But this is what mom said. You can't even cheat when it comes to showing goats. It makes no sense. So that's where the jealousy really kind of falls into place.

They were not friends and my daughter's a lot younger, so they didn't really interact at all. So that's what's even more bizarre. She said the incident was very traumatic for her daughter. Well, yeah. Her could've died. Yeah. Would Willie died? She said we were there when he passed away. My daughter was actually holding him. The mom said she doesn't believe Vanlandingham has any remorse for her alleged actions.

We hope that she has to serve jail time and she get some kind of mental help. We want justice served. We don't want a slap on the wrist. We want to make sure that she's punished. She needs to take ownership for what she's done. Look at how far this girl has fallen. Vanlandingham is a senior. She's a cheerleader, and she's president of the school's Future Farmers of America chapter.

I'm guessing she's not in. I think killing a goat probably disqualifies you from leading up the FFA. Well, the Daily Mail is saying she's been banned from the school, so I don't think she can be president of the club anymore. Yeah, I don't I don't either, I, I doubt yeah. She was arrested. She can go to prison for two years for this.

It's a penalty of up to two years. She was released on $5,000 bond and is due back in court on January 15th. Anyway, I saw this story. I thought, this story is so terrible. I have to show Julius. That's crazy. Like feeding the goat pesticide. So it. That's terrible to is it? You're like, if you're the president of the future farmers, don't you care about animals?

Well, you would think you you yeah, you you do. I mean, we do end up butchering and eating them to slaughter. You're not raising them to be killed by pesticide and not not cruelty either. You know, like this. This inflicted misery on 24 hours of pain on Willie. Yes. Yeah. So, yeah, I think she needs to rethink her life choices.

Okay, so she might have some jail time. Yeah. So if you go back to the main page here, there's a picture of what looks to be, a very nice goat. Or. Excuse me, a very nice girl, with the goat. But I don't know if that's the perpetrator or if that's the victim, so. Yeah. Okay. You okay?

Okay. Should we take a break? Sure. Okay, sure. Let's take a break. We'll be right back after this on Newstalk 179. Okay. We're so it all got confusing because Jareth went and sang on Cupid 99. So he's going to come and sing one of his originals. Do you want to go back quick? Well, Jared's here. We could,

Jareth, how how long is this song? Four minutes. Okay, let's. If you could hang out for about ten. Do you have a little time? Okay. Hang out for a little while. When we take our news break. We have a lot more time during that. And and we'll we'll if you'll come back here, like, just right before 930, then we'll we'll put you right on and we'll have enough time to do it, so.

Okay. Sounds good. Thanks, Jareth. Thanks. Sure. Sorry about the confusion with all of going on a spiel and everything. Yeah. Just fine. Yeah. What's the fun over there? Good. Yeah. Ropers. Great. Good. Okay. Plus, this will give us a chance to actually plug it on. So. Well, Jared was like, hey, like, I don't know what. All right, Julie, really quick.

Do you think Payette was connected to all this? Oh, I think you have to look at everything. I feel like everything was manufactured, and. Yeah, we got to know what happened there. It's true. 916 on Newstalk 10792085421279. If you'd like to join us on the on the program. And so Julie, we have something kind of exciting for our Facebook Live audience, Jareth Sampson, who performed last hour for our studio for cover, is actually going to perform an original on Facebook Live, coming up in about 15 minutes.

Yeah. So you can join us there. Just text the word live to (208) 542-1079. That'll give you a link for our live broadcast. And, yeah, yeah. We're excited. He does a whole bunch of original work. He has. It's on his SoundCloud. And, did he say you try YouTube, YouTube and SoundCloud, YouTube and SoundCloud. So yeah, it'll be fun.

So there is a waffle shop owner in San Francisco. Okay. They recently this is the liberal brain, Julie. They recently increased the minimum wage. So minimum wage comes out to like almost $21 an hour. She had to shut her coffee or her waffle shop down, but she still supports the minimum wage. Yeah. Listen to this. No, listen. Just listen.

Just listen. Hard to post, but bebop will be closing this year. Our last being open will be December 31st and will have a New Year's Eve party here to. Are welcome. Yeah. We just never got back after the pandemic. Not really. And, the cost are going up, and, I totally support the minimum wage increase.

I think everybody should make more money, but $32,000 a year is more, and then we'll be able to swing. And honestly, you know, it's hard. It's hard. Okay, so she kind of goes on and she's going to change it into some event center or whatever, but it's the Bebop Waffle shop. What is it like to live in a state of contradiction all the time, where, you know, you live in an environment where you have to be for the minimum wage, but it's destroying your business.

So you, like, help me understand this. I support the minimum wage, but it's destroying my livelihood. Well, at this point I would question her passion because I would hope that she had a passion for making waffles and owning a restaurant and and serving all of that. And if you did have that passion, this would not be the way you would be reacting to closing down the shop.

Right? I mean, she clearly lacks some sort of emotional connection to what she spends her time doing. Well, yeah, there there is that. But just the lack of logic. Yeah. Like she doesn't care about what she's doing. So. Sure, government can ruin it. No big deal. Well, this is what I don't get. She says I support being people or people, making more money.

But she has to fire them like it, right? The policy is good. The destruction just happens. My business is destroyed. These people have lost their jobs. I'm sorry, but the policy's good. So let me float. An idea that I just thought about. It probably wouldn't work. And I know that you even have squishy Republicans that would get in the way of what if states set a minimum wage, but they could work for less money if they wanted to say, you found a really great employer, and yeah, you would rather be at that place, let's say you absolutely love working at the Bebop Waffle Shop.

Okay. And your choices? Well, I can keep working for 16, 15, 16 bucks an hour or I lose my job. I love the waffle shop. I love the people there. I love the regulars, the flexibility. It's great. And I love the culture there. And I am more than willing to keep working for 15 bucks an hour at the Bebop Waffle Shop if they raise it to 20 and if I insist on being, making 20, because that's the minimum wage.

I don't have a job anymore. So should government allow employees to work for less than minimum wage, which then it's not a minimum wage. But you does that make sense? Like government screws everything up. They screw everything up. I mean, this is never going to fly because they would they would say that we're we're actually protecting people. We're protecting people.

Well, you now have an unemployed staff. Yeah. So I'm not sure you quite understand what protecting means, but an unemployed staff and a business destroyed. But I'm all for paying people this minimum wage. Oh, you're not. You can't survive in it. How can you be for that? Well, I would have to guess that prior to shutting down this, this office or this waffle shop, she was probably paying her employees more than minimum wage to begin with.

Yes. So the minimum wage then got raised for all restaurant workers. By the way, there's some restaurants that don't have to do it. Yeah. Buddies of Gavin Newsom's were, considered exempt from this law, by the way. So their businesses are worth saving, but not the bebop waffle shop, because you're not Gavin's buddy. Gavin carves out exceptions. Yes.

Yeah. So, like, she was probably already paying them above minimum wage. Stop messing with it. Capitalism was working. Yeah. I wholeheartedly agree. Agree. They ruin every and. And how many different businesses have we seen? I think it was a a bookshop in Seattle a few years back, and they just said we don't we don't sell enough books to justify things.

And I think it was 15 bucks an hour, maybe 18 or 20 or something. But they said we we don't have enough foot traffic in business to justify paying even one employee this amount. This business cannot exist if this if this is what you do and people are upset because they're when they're when they're used bookstores. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. I mean they do they ruin everything. Seattle also did that thing. Remind me how it went? In the in the one county there was a tax on, like, sugary substances. Yeah. So people started going to a different county to buy stuff. I think they wanted Bellevue or something. Yeah. And it started hurting the businesses, but they they were taxing to help the businesses.

Right. Look, but here's the thing you have to remember about the left, Julie. They do not want to be judged on the outcome. They only want to be judged on their intentions. The virtue. Yes. So they actually don't care that the Bebop waffle shop is out of business. Yeah. The outcome doesn't matter. Or that people lost their jobs because our intention was to get people paid more money.

We were there, we were lost and we. Yeah, we're we're sorry it didn't work out. But that's not part of the equation of a my virtue. Right. Well, actually, they're not even just they're not sorry. They just look at people and go, well, we fix the issue now. It's your problem. Yes. That's the way they view it.

We did the right thing. Yeah. Now it's your problem. If you don't have a job. If. If you can't figure out how to sell waffles. When your labor costs are through the roof that's your problem. Yeah. Because we were good. We were good governing body. We took care of the, the lowly. We took care of them. Well they're unemployed now.

No no no no no no no no we took care of them. Is there a you pick red barn angle to.

Maybe. Maybe not. Or did we explore all that? I do not think City of Idaho Falls is unique in, having having, specified difficulties with certain business owners. Did I say that today? Yeah, I get it. Yeah, I think that's adequately stated. Yes. It was this San Francisco. Oakland. Where was this? Oh, San Francisco. Yeah. I don't think San Francisco is, is, an especially,

Yeah. Fair and equitable. Yeah. Governing body. Well, yeah, that's that's a good point. And one of the things like I look at this and this was our take, in case you weren't listening to our earlier segment about this and now very widely reported story. Yeah. Eight had it. East Idaho News has it. Newspapers have got it. And there's a feud between Raleigh Walker and the city.

Raleigh owns the you pick Red barn. And that is just a big family tradition. And I, I read this story and my my basic initial take is both sides probably could have done better. You know, and maybe getting things done into in whatever, whatever. Okay. They could have done better. However, whenever I see a government that is not helping people stay in business, that government is out of line.

They should be they should be reducing the friction for people to make a living. Yeah. It feels like there should have been a workable solution here I agree. Yeah. And I think both sides could have done a little better at getting to that workable solution. But the the I don't know if I want to call it a tragedy because that's a really loaded word.

But yeah, the the sadness that comes out of this story is currently you pick is not going to be open. And there doesn't seem to be a reason why like it should have been fixed. Right. It should have been fixed. They've got a few months I hope I hope they'll be planting pumpkins again this spring and can find a way to operate and, and because, you know what?

Because that's the big push, right? Because they're right now they can't plant. Yeah, they can sell, but they would have to bring in the pumpkins from somewhere else. Yeah. And so they're going to have to plant in just a few months. So they, they got to fix this. Yeah. But what does that do to their business model. If they have to go out and buy the pumpkins.

Probably not worth it to them. Yeah. It's probably not the I mean they have land there and it's been something that that's worked well. So yeah I don't I don't know I look at it and I'm thinking there's got to be a way forward here. You would hope. Yeah. Yeah. So all right. 927 on Newstalk 1079, it's Neal Larson along with Julie Mason.

And that will break here in just a couple of minutes. As we get ready for Jareth Sampson, who's actually hung out for a while. The he's been here. He he gave us a great performance at 835. That was live. And then he hopped on over to a sister station, performed there. Now he's going to give us a performance of an original.

Yeah, yeah, it'll, I'm looking forward to that. Yeah, yeah. Text the word live to (208) 542-1079. Okay, I'm looking this. They're getting ready. Ready to vote on the speaker in Congress. Your prediction. And I join you in this that Mike Johnson's probably going to win the speakership today without himself, without a lot of drama. I believe I believe that's how it's going to go down.

I in fact, I think it's only going to be one vote, because when I gave you that prediction, you asked me in one vote. Yeah, I think it's only going to be one vote. Well, I think the likely opponents would be people like Marjorie Taylor Greene, maybe Nancy Mace, maybe, you know, kind of that that club gates and wing of the Republican Party, they're not saying anything.

And I think they would be. And they'd be joining Massie if there was going to be enough opposition. But Marjorie Taylor Greene doesn't miss an opportunity to have her name printed somewhere. So I think she would be saying something if she was going to vote. Yes. No. Yeah, I, I would agree with that. All right. It's 929 on Newstalk 1078, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason.

And we're going to we're going to break here again. If you'd like to join us for the special original performance, Jared Samson will, perform on Facebook live song he wrote. And, that's coming up here very, very shortly. But, we're going to give all the rest of you some news, and we'll be back minutes away on this Friday on Newstalk 179.

Okay. Welcome back to the studio, Jareth. Hello. You're on Facebook Live right now. Hello. And tell us what you're going to sing the song you wrote, right? Yeah, yeah. Okay. This song's called ballad of the fool. Ballad of the fool. It's my, it's my. And it's simple. Yes, that's. That's right. Yes. We I do find it interesting you want to sing it on our radio show, so.

That's great. It's perfect. So. All right, Jared, we got just a few minutes, so go ahead. All right.

The legend of the fool is one that's often told.

Is ancient as time. Some things never grow old.

I just completely blanked my answer song.

First we find our fool alone, blind to humankind.

Just floating through the roses. No, not but his own mind.

When in silence on Earth, the sentence is found. He rushes in right up the wall to fall and break his crown. King of fools resides in every last man. Something in the eyes will take him from a thinking land. And he'll fight to his last breath. If he thinks that he can.

The King of Fools resides in every last man.

She says her name is something and is. I say that it's true.

No. King's heart is fast as he stares into the blue, hairless, golden summer star, and I smile twice as bright. The king tells himself that he's finally got it right.

Then two weeks. Two days. A monster he owns. In a word.

A king and his new love. So high above the world.

But as the seventh week began, the curtain call was heard. And all the world turned to watches. The king lost his song. Songbird. King of fools resides in every last man. Something in her eyes will take him from a sinking land. And he'll fight to his last breath. When he thinks that he can.

The King of fools resides. And every last man.

And in a breath of jasmine we find our king alone.

The only thing remaining is a fool. Without a throne. And weeks to months a drink and smoke will somehow leave him clean. And. All the world turn the watches he stares into the green. King of fools. Resides in every last man. Something in the eyes. He'll take him from a sinking land. And he'll fight to his last breath.

If he thinks that he can. The King of fools resides in every last man. King of fools resides in every last man. King of fools resides in every last man.

That was great. That was great. And what? Yeah, he was talking about a man. I think it's about me. So. Yeah, that's the idea. Perfect. So. Well, Jared, that lives on Facebook Live, so that's great. And you know what I will I will have a good copy of it. I could pull it and send it to you too.

So that would be great. Yeah. Awesome. Good job Jared. Thank you guys. Thank you. See you. Have a good one.

935 on Newstalk 107 night. Well that was fun. Julie. Yeah. If you didn't listen to that, you missed out. That was a great original. Yeah it was. Yeah. Ballad of the fool. It was a song about me, and he didn't even really know me when he wrote it, but it turned out so appropriate. Julie thought it was about her, but, he distinctly was talking about a man.

Yeah. So I said the fool in every last man. Yeah, it was good. Anyway, if you didn't catch it, it will be on Facebook Live and you can watch it later today. Yeah. So anyway, it was fun. What were we talking about? Oh, you pick Red barn. Oh, yeah. I think we've kind of flesh that I think we have to I am I will say this one thing we haven't said about it.

I am surprised at the strong, strong feelings that so many people have. Yeah. About that. The comments are abundant and a little rapid. They well they are they they really are. Yeah. Like we had an issue the other day about social. Oh the guy the the cattle truck driver. Oh yeah. Who let the cattle out. It's amazing. I you know what?

Social media adds 30 IQ points to people's self perceptions. Have you noticed that they become exponentially early if it's an issue they're passionate about, become livestock experts. They're now health department experts when it comes to pizza. Their animal expert, pumpkin experts. They're every every kind of expert. Why do what? Am I, like treading on thin ice here? Like, well, I just it is really, really true.

It it really is. Well, it's my same complaint that everybody who reads a news story about, an unfortunate vehicle death. Somebody who dies in an auto accident becomes a seatbelt expert as well. Oh, yeah. Those are always fun. Yeah. That's a those are nice to you. You have a family grieving. Someone's just died. Thank goodness for the people to show up and say.

Should have wore their seatbelt. Yeah. So helpful in the moment. Yeah. Or they usually say like should award their seatbelt. Should have what stuff. You don't want to talk about spelling on social media to shut up with an off. Shut up. You should of should have word their seatbelt.

All one word seatbelt should of word their seatbelt. Okay. All right. Have you ever watched Yellowstone snippets? I have never sat from beginning to end. Ever. Yeah, but I can tell you kind of what it's about. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Apparently there's a spinoff. It's. Aren't there two other might be. What's there's like a prequel series. Yeah. Yeah. And now is there one that's happening after Yellowstone.

Right. It's called the Madison. Yeah. And Michelle Pfeiffer's in it. Oh, I didn't know Michelle Pfeiffer was still around. You know what's throwing me on that? I thought she had kind of some botched plastic surgery. Does she look like Michelle Pfeiffer? Still, there's a picture here. If it's recent. She looks great. She looks like Michelle Pfeiffer. Okay, I might be confusing that.

Yeah. Me. Well, she's 66 now. She'll lead the hit flagship series spinoff show, The Madison, which she will also executive produce. This is according to variety. Pfeiffer confirmed the casting news in a post she shared on her Instagram in August. And she said, this cat's out of the bag. Excited for this hashtag? See? She's using the hashtag Z.

Yeah, hashtag Madison, she captioned her post. So yeah, all right. I would have to predict that. You probably don't need to watch Yellowstone to know what's going on. You can probably watch Madison independently. They'll get you. Get you caught up. Yes, I would guess that's true. Julie, I don't feel like we adequately discussed the Liz Cheney Award. Okay, what is the actual award?

What did she win? Please hold. Hi. It's weird because it's a it's contradictory to what Liz Cheney actually is. I read the title and I went that doesn't match. Well, yeah. See the Presidential Citizens Medal, it's the second highest civilian award. Okay. And she and Bennie Thompson both received for their work on January 6th. Work? Yeah, yeah, for their creation.

Yeah. Their imagination, their innovation. Can we just call innovation? Sure. Cheney, who represented Wyoming three terms before losing her seat to a Republican challenger in 2022, was one of president elect Donald Trump's fiercest critics in Congress. She is among lawmakers tied to the Jan six investigation, when whom Trump has said should be jailed. Her name has been frequently floated as a candidate for a preemptive pardon from Biden.

I saw a meme because there's a there's a picture of it was video, actually, but a still shot of, Biden shaking Liz Cheney's hand with one hand and then handing her the award with the other. Yeah. And Liz Cheney is shaking and accepting the award. Well, the meme has superimposed the Fox News screenshot of them calling the race in Wyoming and how bad she lost it to her opponent.

So that is on the award. Like here, I handed you a defeat in your home state. Yeah, yeah, I like that. Photoshop is great. It is. So here's the audio of her getting the award. Listen to the sustained applause. Elizabeth Al Cheney for putting the American people over party.

It's just a ploy. You talk over there. That's what it was that putting the American people over party. Wow. Yeah, that doesn't even match. That's not what she did. She hid evidence. She backstabbed people, I lied, I'm deliberately playing this applause. It went on for 40s. And that might just be where I faded it out. Like it could have gone on more.

I'm like.

So Liz Cheney, how is she going to be remembered in history? I think she's going to be a disgraceful figure. I would say yes to that. I think that you can't. Okay. If you're going to be a traitor and turn on the people who elected you to serve, which is what she did, and then them tell you so emphatically they do not want you back.

I don't know how you consider anything that you did a success. Yeah. I mean, clearly Biden thinks it's a success because he gave her an award. But in the general public, there's no way to rule that a success. Yeah, you're right, I don't I don't know how you could, counted as a success. Yeah. Someone said, no, I can tell you.

And this person texting in knows what I'm talking about, but I'm not going to say what the rumor is because people will hear the snippet and go, this happened. No, it didn't happen. Dick Cheney is still alive. Oh, okay.

At. I'm not going to say what the rumor is, but I will tell you, Dick Cheney is still alive. I don't know this rumor. I hadn't heard it until I just read the text. I think somebody had a dream, actually. Okay, because I had not heard anything about this. Yeah, I don't know this, but we were talking about botched plastic surgery.

You know what it was Jimmy Carter that died. I bet you it was just, oh, that would make sense. That my former high profile. Yeah. Okay. That would make sense. Yeah. We were talking about botched plastic surgery. Do you remember Cat lady, the woman who divorced her husband and became a billionaire. And then she had all of the plastic surgery done, and she looks like a cat.

Yes. She died a couple of days ago. I did see that. I did see that she was a real lady. Yeah. She, she was out of money too. She had blown all of the billions that she got in that divorce. How much of it was on. You know, I have no idea. Nip and tuck like probably a lot probably a lot.

What she looked like at her death was very unfortunate was there was a time she kind of looked like a cat, and now it has morphed much further than that. Did she want to look like a cat or did people it was it just such a disturbing case of dysmorphia? She thought she looked good, but she actually looked like a cat.

You know what? I can't answer that because I've never watched an interview with her. I don't know, I just know pictures of her, so I don't know. Yeah. Unfortunate. All of it. It. Yeah, it really is. It's unfortunate that, that a surgeon did that. Yeah. Or multiple. There was probably multiple surgeons let's be honest. So it's unfortunate that the medical practice was used that way.

It's unfortunate that she blew all of that money instead of doing something really awesome and life altering. I mean, I guess she did do something life altering with it. Yeah. It's unfortunate that you have to seek fame somehow, I don't know. So I have a question and an I don't I want to ask this correctly because we do see some of these cosmetic surgery extremes, right?

Kenny Rogers yeah that's a good example. But but I'm talking about the cat like it's clear. If you're in that part of medicine where you're doing those kinds of surgeries, I could argue the ethical thing to do is don't do that. This person has some kind of dysmorphia. Don't keep adding to that. Or I could argue we live in America and people are free to make choices.

And if they want this surgery and you can give it and it doesn't kill them, then you should give the surgery because it's a libertarian ideal. What's the what's the ethically right thing to do in this case? Because if I'm a surgeon, I don't think that I can contribute to their dysmorphia. I don't think I could do it, I don't think I could either, and I would hope that you would make decisions that didn't permanently disfigure people.

That's what I would hope for. I, you know, when it's elective surgery. So I guess you can say yes to it because when we talk about mutilating children. Yeah. The the problem, there's the children. Yeah. We've already legally said they can't consent. Yes. Yeah. So then when you go to mutilating adults for sex change surgeries, I have to go.

They can do that if they want to do that to their body. Where I have an ethical problem with it is when insurance pays for it. Yeah. Or if you're in prison and taxpayer dollars pay for it. Yeah. That's. But as as an adult, it kind of becomes contractual between the surgeon and the adult. You know, it's unfortunate.

It it is. And I'm sure these surgeons make massive amounts. Oh, I can't even imagine. Can't even imagine the amount of money that's made. Could you do it if you were a surgeon? I don't think I could. I'd be like, can we just take out your appendix? Yeah. I mean, if you need it. I just don't think that I could perform the surgery.

That just. Right? Yeah. Just for somebody. You remember the the the lady that over tanned a few years ago? Oh, yeah. Like she looked like a charred piece of pizza, like I don't if I'm the tanning booth owner, I'm like, I'm sorry. I can't let you get into this tanning bed. Here's what. Okay, let me give you, like, something that's not life altering like that.

Okay. Here's where I go with that. There is plenty of commerce out there. You don't need to sell tans to a person like that. Yeah, if you do lip injections, you don't need to turn people into balloon lips, right? There's plenty of paying customers out there, so it's okay to say no. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. That's that's true.

Someone said doctors take an oath to do no harm. But how do you define harm? Because I'm going to tell you there's going to be a doctor that says, no, that adult needs that sex change surgery for their mental health. You're. That's how we ended up paying for a judge decided that in Idaho Adrian mouth. Yeah. That case.

Yeah. So it it was all based around mental health and taxpayers paid for the surgery for it. Like, you can argue either way. What what harm means. And so I, you know, if I could argue and I don't agree with this because I just said things that contradicted this, but I could say if you live in America and you're a lucid adult and you want a surgery, you're harming them.

If you deny them that surgery, it's not going to kill them. Yeah, it so do I. So I, I guess it all comes down to that that word harm can be a very subjective concept. Yeah. Like okay we're getting real deep here. But my son, who is in the psych field and is becoming, a nurse practitioner in the psych field, they're currently having lots of conversations in his schooling about that.

You potentially will get sued and a judge will rule against you if you do not provide certain help for psychological harm, complete like complications. I can't even say the word disorders anymore because someone's going to get mad. So. Right. Psychological complications. So, I, I they're not put in a very great place either, right? I mean, what if there are probably some states that if you're a doctor and you refuse to perform an abortion, you're probably in violation?

Probably. But what if your conscience says the word harm? Let's go back to that word. Yeah, killing in a baby born baby is absolutely harm. So you're the if you're the doctor your patient is both the mom and the baby. Are we going to have to go to this this place that the oath is no longer all inclusive.

You know, how we talk about that society is going to divide and we're going to have two sets of commerce, two sets of, you know, stores that you shop at two sets of banks because one bank is going to deny Julie and Neal from having an account there because their their policies don't match up with our moral values.

Right? Yeah. Do we go that way with health care eventually two separate kinds of health care. Maybe two definitions of harm, two it yeah, it feels like it's going to go in that direction. Yeah. Make that so Pelosi first National Bank is not I'm not a charter member. I do not have the gold card AOC. Q is that like is that.

You need three C's AOC, CQ that's right. No credit union would just be one. Yeah, yeah.

953 on Newstalk 1079 let's break. We'll be right back after this.

Anyway, I didn't miss when somebody passed away. Typically you try not to. We don't want to do that tie dad jokes in tune. Did you watch any of the Sugar Bowl? I did while it was working out. I had a plane. Yeah. Who won? Georgia? Georgia lost. Georgia lost. Notre Dame, right. What's the other one? Yep. So we're down to the four, are we?

I think so, okay. Yeah. All I know is the teams that had the rest, like the the rest time. Yeah. Didn't fare very well. Oh, it was nearly a month of not playing. That's a lot of time. That's a long time. Yeah. Apparently there were chants of USA at the Sugar Bowl yesterday. Like, very patriotic. I guess the the whole opening was really awesome.

The flag on the field, Star Spangled Banner, the chants of USA NPN cut away and didn't play any of it. Oh, because you know, ESPN taking something. We all love sports and destroying it. That should be there. That should be their new tagline. Yeah, I will be so glad Julie. And we've made great gains in recent weeks when DIY is fully in the rearview mirror.

It's time. I feel like we're there's always going to be some element of it. Used to be political correctness or whatever, so you're always going to have some version of it. But the whole institutionalization of it, where every corporation has to have a Dei department and every university has to have DEA like, I think that's going to go away.

It all needs to go away. I, I feel like we've had enough moments recently, so continually watching Karine Jean-Pierre do her thing. Yeah. Ketanji Brown Jackson to her thing, the female FBI agent at New Orleans doing her thing, like all of it is. So you can tell they probably didn't deserve the job. Yeah, we have enough examples of that now that I think people, they can't deny it like they used to.

Yeah, yeah, I think so I mean Kamala oh she couldn't even get you the win there. Yeah I mean there's examples aplenty of elevating D-I candidates to well it's the Peter principle to elevate them to their their position of incompetence. Although DC is elevating them beyond their, their level of incompetence. Yeah. Like they're two and three and four levels above what they're capable.

They're ladder climbing. Yeah. Yeah. 957 on Newstalk 107 nine, Neal Larson along with Julie Mason. And we have like a minute and 20s left. Julie, what would you share with East Idaho in a minute? And 20s. I don't I got nothing not to put you on the spot. I would say in very ad fashion, be careful when you're out and about today, because everything's there's more glaze than a Krispy Kreme factory out there this morning.

My back can attest to that. Yes. I would say enjoy some sports this weekend. I think we're supposed to get an inch of snow tomorrow. Okay, so be prepared for that. More more snow on the way on top of the glaze. That's going to be fun. Yeah, that'll that'll be a little rough. And, In.

Enjoy the weekend. Okay. I feel like I'm eager for the weekend, even though I've had we had a little break in the middle holidays. Yeah. It wasn't a, it wasn't that relaxed of a day low. Let's be honest that you're right. Yeah. You're going to take down your tree. Maybe. We'll see. I don't know that my wife usually makes that determined call.

So usually I just show up and it's gone like like oh okay we'll see. Let's see on Monday.