1.8.2025 -- NLS --Facebook Community Notes, School Choice Debate

On this episode with Neal and Julie, the duo delves into a variety of topics, blending current events with candid commentary. They discuss the rebranding of China Peak in Pocatello and the role of media in perpetuating "gotcha" moments, especially in political discourse. Neal critiques the portrayal of Donald Trump by the press, emphasizing their attempts to paint him as evasive while highlighting his unfiltered responses.

The conversation transitions to Elon Musk's influence on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and the implementation of the "Community Notes" feature on Facebook and Instagram. Neal and Julie explore how these tools are reshaping online discourse, shifting from traditional fact-checking to a community-driven model.

The duo also addresses global and domestic politics, touching on controversies surrounding Joe Biden, education reform in Idaho, and public-private school choice debates. They highlight the evolving narrative around societal issues, including the role of influencers and cultural trends in shaping opinions.

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Transcript

If those hostages aren't back, I don't wanna hurt you. Negotiation. If they're not back, by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East. Call it whatever, you snowflake swill toxic masculinity. I'm sure you have other words for it, too. Alpha male. Whatever the case may be, I think it's going to be effective.

And this is a man who reminded us soul yesterday how much he loves America. So much so we're renaming the Gulf of Mexico, and it's going to be called off of America. You know, when he first said that, I kind of blindsided me, like I thought. I never even thought about that. I that never crossed my mind. The only reason we used to change geographical names is because it offended the left.

Like, you know, it's now China Peak in Pocatello as opposed to what it used to be called, which I'm not going to say on my radio show. But if you've lived here more than a few years, you know what I'm talking about. I remember there was an effort to remove words from places that had Native American references and the word squaw.

It was, deemed, I don't know, insensitive. So they'd take that out. So that is sort of my paradigm of why they, they changed the, the names, but I like it. Look, if you can change names for political correctness, you can change the names for other reasons too. So, I'm all in on changing the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Raise my hand. You have my vote. We also had the. You just heard the clip where he he is negotiator is talking to the press, and but the press wants Trump. The press wants Trump to to weigh in on this. Everything's a gotcha. The press is back in the gotcha game, and they, And so he's just saying, no, look, all hell's going to break loose if they don't release those hostages I love it.

This is exactly what we have not had for four years. And exactly what we need. In fact, you can almost say five, because I think Trump was somewhat distracted by the pandemic in year four of his first term. And then there was this exchange, yet again, the press playing gotcha. Yeah, I guess the last time, the last time you were here, you were asked a question about the US possibly launching a preemptive strike on Iran.

You said you wouldn't answer, but who obviously are on the US launching a preemptive strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. So I said, I don't I don't talk about it. It's a military strategy, but it is a legitimate it's looking at well, it's not really because only a stupid person would answer it. Look, it's a military strategy. And I'm not answering your questions on military strategy, okay?

So there's a game that's being played here, and they're going to portray Donald Trump as being evasive that he he is he's not being straight with the American people. What his intentions are for right now, if he were to answer it and say, yeah, we're going to we're going to bomb Tehran in mid-March and we're going to use these weapons and we're going, well, how much info, how much of the strategy?

Mr. reporter, do you want the president, the future president of the United States, to reveal to our enemy like they are? Donald Trump is saying only a stupid person would answer that question. Well, is is there not a certain sense of logic, by extension, that if you ask a question only a stupid person would answer? In a way, it's like saying only a stupid person would ask that question, because only a stupid person would answer that question.

And I'm sure that the Trump's detractors didn't like the the answer or the very apropos non-answer that wasn't the, even the beginning or the end of it. Yesterday, Jim Acosta and Brian Stelter had a a cry when he baby session over Donald Trump yesterday. Brian, we've come a long way from those days when Elon Musk, you know, took over Twitter and said, I'm going to make this a free speech marketplace.

We're going to be completely neutral and so on. That's just completely out the window. But let's talk about some of these, these headlines we've been seeing where you have foreign leaders raising questions about the influence that he has. Yes. And it's because, Musk has been raising attention about sexual abuse of children in the United Kingdom dating back decades.

Some of these stories actually go back about 20 years. Musk has been bringing them up on X over and over again, in some cases acting as if he's just discovered some of these stories. They are horrible stories, but oftentimes it seems like Musk is coming in like a brand new college freshman, brand new to a subject, as if he's found out about it for the first time.

And because his voice is so loud on X, he causes a lot of reactions. That's what these European leaders are reacting to. Musk also is announcing algorithm changes to X. He wants more positive content and less negative content, even as he posts about gangs and about rape and other very negative subjects. It is notable that just as Trump is about to take office, Musk says he wants more pause and more positivity, Jim, and less negativity.

Isn't that interesting? Timing. Very interesting timing. And I have to read this exchange and I want to okay, so Stelter I don't know what he's whining. I don't know if he's arguing, but he's whining about, well, here's Elon Musk and he's talking about rapes that are 20 years old and the okay. And, and and don't you find it interesting that he he's being negative, but he says he wants the platform to be more positive.

Brian, I don't think you're this dumb like I, I really don't I will praise Brian Stelter sort of and say, I don't think you are nearly as dumb as you sounded on in during that. That clip, you can say, I want the platform to take on a more positive tone, and you can do that without censoring people. I used to do this with my kids all the time when they would tell, you know, one of their siblings to shut up.

I'd be like, if we can choose better words, right? You can you blow? How about this one? And I'd give a couple of examples or whatever. I mean, I tried to be a good dad. I mean, I'm still a dad, but most of my kids are now adults. But but I didn't. I didn't punish them, banish them, ground them.

I encourage them to use better words. But yet here's Brian Stelter, who thinks he's got this gotcha, that here's Elon Musk, who said something really negative even though he's trying to make, X more positive. Both both things can exist. There are times when you do have to get, a little gritty with your language. Donald Trump does this all the time.

And, when he in fact, I open the clip, here's Donald Trump using very appropriate but tough language. If those hostages aren't back, I don't wanna hurt you. Negotiation. If they're not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East. Okay? That's not, you know, especially if you're Hamas. I love listening to it, but I think that this makes liberals queasy.

I mean, look, Hamas is a terrorist group, not unlike the terrorists that Joe Biden just released from Guantanamo Bay. For whatever reason, the left has some kind of bizarre and dark sympathy or fondness for terrorists. I don't get it. I don't know if I if I ever will, and maybe they share a common hatred for America. I don't know what it is.

That's one of the mysteries I'm still trying to learn about the left. So you had that. Then you had this crisis session between. I'm not going to play all of this. By the way, Joy Reid and Maggie Hassan went on for several minutes whining about Donald Trump and a lot of his foreign policy. I'm the guy who was worried about Trump attacking Iran.

Trump starting a war with China. I did not have it on my bingo card for war with Denmark and Panama in 2025. From the guy, as you said, who was supposed to be the No More Wars president. I had leftist friends of mine, Muslim friends of mine saying, well, you know, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris for being so hawkish, at least Donald Trump, he'll be anti-war.

He's not even president yet. And he's saying, I can't rule out military action against a fellow NATO member. Denmark, by the way, the national security argument is so absurd, taking Greenland because it's like, oh, well, Russia and the aftermath of Russia's troubles, pal. I thought Putin's not aggressive, okay? He can't even contain his Trump derangement, hatred like I told, you know, they like, and I'm like, slow down one piece at a time.

Let's talk about Greenland. If you watch the press conference yesterday, the question had included both Panama and Greenland. And then the follow up to that was will you rule out any using any military assets, something along those lines, the word invade was was not used and it certainly wasn't used to apply to Greenland. Now you have this issue where we have one of our global enemies, China, in this hemisphere, and they are now operating the Panama Canal in violation of all sorts of agreements in order to protect America's interests.

Donald Trump has said, we're going to reclaim control of the Panama Canal. Now, I'm not in favor of invading. I'm not in favor of a war. I'm not any of that. However, there could very well be a national security issue at stake with the Panama Canal that's separate from Greenland. And if you listen to the whole thing, it was very, very clear that Donald Trump is not going to send the military in and take Greenland.

Its Congress would not authorize it. The American people would not be in favor of it. The international community would condemn it. Trump's not going to militarily take Greenland, but yet you have these liars, these disingenuous people. In fact, there are probably more people working for MSNBC than are watching MSNBC. That will take a really quick clip completely out of context.

And then paint Donald Trump with these broad strokes about what he what he said. They are broken. Donald Trump has destroyed their brain, their intellectual honesty. He has destroyed their ability to be measured. Because I look, I, I this is probably more credit than you my audience would like me to give them. I actually think they're pretty smart people with the exception of Joy Reid.

In this case, Don lemon is borderline, but when you look at Ed at these people, they're educated. They're not stupid. Maggie. Hassan's not stupid. Jim Acosta is not stupid. Brian Stelter is. I mean, he's no genius, but he I wouldn't say that. He's stoop. They're just broken. They are dreading the next four years. They know. They know that for them, this is an uphill climb.

They may not even have jobs. They may not even have a network to go to. And they know that it's who knows? Elon Musk may own MSNBC by this time next year, and they're not working for Elon Musk. That they just they just wouldn't. So it was somewhat fascinating to watch. There we have that also. We have an interesting thing unfolding of the dynamics over school choice.

And I read this earlier and you know, from just a personality standpoint, I like Debbie Critchfield. Like, I think she's pretty smart, and I think she, does hey, so far has done a decent job. She hasn't been on the job for all that long a couple of years now, but, I it's fascinating to watch this because the governor, in his state of the state speech said that he in his budget it would set aside $50 million for private school choice, which would actually be in the form of a tax credit.

Now, he he can send these budget ideas to the legislature. And since he has a veto pen and his signature can be involved in the lawmaking process, either is signing a bill or vetoing a bill, he has those grounds to stand on. But here you have State Superintendent Critchfield, who says she agrees with the governor and and realizes there is a critical mass now of support for public or private school choice, publicly funded and really very reluctantly, she's going on and she said, that basically here are my parameters.

She said it cannot take away funds from public schools. And if I were in the legislature, I would very, very politely remind Superintendent Critchfield, that's not her call. She's not in the the pipeline. The authority here to decide what the the guardrails and the parameters are when it comes to a school choice. Bill. Now, I appreciate it.

I think she's trying to take a bold stand in and staking something out. She doesn't have the power to veto it. In fact, her job is to implement what the legislature delivers to her. So, again, I think she's trying to be as big a part of this as she can. They don't want. This is a, make no mistake, Debbie Critchfield, Governor Little, that none of them want this bill to go through.

But they realize this is an inevitability. And the governor even said, look, I you know, they're, he said, I want some of the things in it, but I can't get them if I'm not part of the discussion. He says there's not a critical mass of agreement on any one thing, and that's been the issue over the last couple of years.

And then the superintendent said the restatement of these expectations was very important. And there are four things they want fairness. They want it to be responsible. They want it to be transparent, and they want accountability. Basically, the now, here's the thing, will will have the same accountability or will it have more accountability? In other words, will private schools who are taking public funds from whatever program gets passed, are they going to make it even harder for them in terms of accountability, transparency, requirements, all of that?

I don't know the answer to that. It, at most should be identical. But I, there was another one prioritizing the families that need it most. And then there's been this discussion in the bill that families earning less than 300% of the federal poverty limit would have first dibs on these refundable credits. So we're starting to get some details of this.

I don't know if this is the version. And by the way, these are, this is a bill that both Wendy Harmon on the House side and Senator Dan Hartog on the other, on the other end of the capital, are putting this forward. And the fact that we have a bill crafted it's already being discussed on day two of the Idaho Legislature.

I'm getting the feeling that this could happen pretty quickly. And maybe maybe that's what they want to have happen. To get this this behind. Because the more time you give the teachers unions and the IEA, they're going to push and lobby and twist arms and try to stop it. So earlier may be better then later in, in this, in this process.

So it's interesting. It's 826 on Newstalk 179. If you'd like to reach us on the Stones Auto Group calling text line (208) 542-1079. We'll be back. All right. 831 on Newstalk 1079, Neal Larson along with Julie Mason. And it's Wednesday. And if you'd like to reach us, the stones Automotive Group. Colin text line (208) 542-1079. It's called it is.

I think it was 11 degrees when I drove and it's 14 now. I my computer says 16. Why don't you warm up your heart over there on that side of the studio a little bit. No way Ice King I will on January 20th.

Oh, Julie. Already a couple of, legislative items being put forward. You had, Barbie Hart with a concurrent resolution essentially recognizing, thanking, praising Boise State University for, well, specifically the volleyball team, the athletic department for standing up for for what's right. The administration. They another embarrassment. That big city coffee thing did not go their way.

Oh I didn't see that. Yeah. They they're on appeal. The judge said no you can't appeal this. So you got to pay it. And now there's this discussion because some of those administrators were named personally. Yeah. Do they have to pay personally or is or are are the taxpayers of Idaho going to be on the hook for them?

And that was my follow up to this. As I say, good because the right thing happened there. I'm I'm going to guess that Idaho taxpayers are going to foot the bill. You know, here's the thing. If we if we're footing the bill, I think that $3 million could have gone into Wendy Harman and her bill. We could add a $53 million private choice instead of 53.

I'm being a twerp, I get it. But, yeah, I, I, I have mixed feelings about about this because I, I think in cases like this, they're not going to have to pay personally for this. I don't think they're going to have to pay personally. And the conversation is, is why do why do government officials especially, it seems, those who are not hired for merit but are hired for D-I reasons, they just get this blank check.

They can they can destroy people or destroy programs or waste money or cause harm. And we, the people who bail all of that harm out is the taxpayers. The the, the unmarried, the person who didn't have the merit to be hired into that position doesn't ever have to do anything, and quite often, usually gets to keep that position.

Yeah, they're not held accountable for their failures. I mean, one example there was we were pretty disappointed in the representative for the FBI, for the New Orleans area. She's kept her job. In fact, there's been zero. We're not going to hear about individual, you know, like warnings that would be put in her file or anything like that.

But from the outside looking in, there seems to be nothing done to her. Yeah, yeah. We've got wildfires in California, inept leadership there. Yeah. Nobody's going to it's going to be federal money that that bails out all of those people who lost their property. Yeah. You're right. It will be even though it's just a handful of people's incompetence that led to all of this, or maybe worse than incompetence.

Yeah. So, yeah, you're you're not wrong. I wonder, because you have the legislature that they and the governor very publicly during his state of the state address praised BSU. Has Marlene Trump said anything publicly in favor of this and thanked the volleyball team and stood by them? I haven't seen it, but that doesn't mean it hasn't happened. We could we could do a search during the break.

Yeah, we had to do a little digging on that because just my hunch about her is that she's on the other side of this. That would just be my my initial yes hunch. Yeah. So, yeah. So it's actually $4 million, not three. Yeah. So is there a deadline of when they have to pay it? It's this is the state of Idaho.

This is the a statesman. So it might be true. The state of Idaho will pay. I love saying that. I don't know what it is. They'll pay millions in damages awarded by a jury after the owner of a now defunct local coffee shop sued two Boise State University administrators and one, according to the lawyer representing the administrators.

In September, a jury of a designated county residents unanimously sided with Big City Coffee owner Sarah Findlay, who we've had as a guest on before, who argued that the administrators violated her First Amendment right to free speech while conspiring to close her campus shop near the university's library in October 2020. What was her sin? Oh, she put up a thin blue line flag, a police supporting flag.

That's why they went after her. So a group of students saw the thin Blue Line flag, as counter to Black Lives Matter and the racial justice movement. Findlay, who was engaged to a former Boise police officer at the time, was vocal about her support of law enforcement and displayed the flag in her downtown shop, which she permanently closed midway through the trial.

The jurors decided that the two administrators, Leslie Webb, that's the former vice president of student affairs who now works at the University of Montana. They can have her, and Alisha stay the then Boise State's vice president for university affairs and now its chief financial and operating officer. Oh, Findlay $4 million in damages, including 3 million for business losses, mental and emotional distress, personal humiliation and lost reputation and a million in punitive damages against Webb.

I'm harkening back to our interview, and, I'm the one who doesn't cry on the show.

What? Sarah brought me to tears that day. Yeah. This is this has changed her entire her life. Yeah. To stand up and fight the big guy. Yeah, has changed her entire life. It's heartbreaking what they did to her. So, yeah, it really is. And you heard. You just heard her brokenness or heartbreak. It was interviewed her.

Yeah. I if you if you could reach through the airwaves and give her a big hug. That's how you felt that day. So here's the answer to our question. Even though the administrators were sued as individuals and Boise State was not a defendant, the state of Idaho and its insurance will have to pay the damages because of a policy that says it will indemnify employees who are held liable for actions that occurred within the scope of their official duties, so they won't have to pay personally.

Okay, you and I are paying it. No comment. Here's my here's my thoughts on that if if President Trump. So Marlene Trump hasn't come out and said anything, then it's even worse because the buck stops with her. Yeah, she should have known what somebody in a high profile position, especially the person who still employed there, the woman who left for Montana, that didn't seem like as high a position.

But the other person that's a major administration role. Yeah. That she was fulfilling. Who's who's keeping these people in check? I don't know, I, I don't know, I really don't like how did they let this happen? I mean, we're not talking about some, you know, bookstore attendant who went rogue here. Yeah. Right. Yeah. And and it was simply displaying a thin blue line flag.

You're standing up for the police. Like, what's wrong with it? Well, she's independent. She wants to put up a darn flag in her coffee shop. Put up a darn flag in your coffee shop. Yeah, right. Yeah, they. I mean, you have an agreement with the university, but you don't forego your First Amendment, right? You get to run your coffee shop still.

All right. It's 840 on Newstalk 179. It's Wednesday. Quick break. We'll be back after this.

847 On Newstalk 107. To say I was jaded Julie was a bit of an understatement. So I get it. We're watching coverage of the fires in southern California. It's the eating fire and it's over 2200 acres in size. Zero contain. This thing is just it's just blazing through right now. So you're on the coast west of LA.

Yeah. Is where you're looking at. They've they've got some severe problems going on. The reservoirs in that area have not been refilled. I have seen rumors because they've been trying to save a certain species of fish. I don't know if that's true, but the reservoirs have not been filled. We know that part is true. Yeah, and which means when, somebody tries to crank open a fire hydrant, there is no water because that's what fuels the fire hydrant.

Okay. Yeah. So when it says zero containment, part of it is because the winds are completely out of control. So the winds were nearly 100mph last night in, in gusting. So that is part of it. But part of it is they don't have what they need to fight the fire. So I've not vetted this, but you sent me a clip.

Is it? All right? Play this. It's okay. Okay. This is Rick Caruso. He's a billionaire real estate developer. And he called into the local Fox affiliate, Fox 11. Listen, my heart goes out, obviously, to the people at their homes. And I'm watching the small businesses around us go up in flames. Well, this is people's livelihoods, so it's devastating.

But what is most concerning to me is our first responders and our firefighters who are trying to battle this. There's no water in the Palisades. There's no water coming out of a fire hydrant. This is an absolute mismanagement by the city, not the firefighters fault, but it's the city. And I'm going to be very honest. We've got a mayor that's out of the country, and we've got a city that's burning and there's no resources to put out fires.

So if you look at your pictures, you don't see the firefighters there because there's nothing they can do. And it looks like we're in a third world country here. And we've got a lot of tough questions that we need to ask the mayor and the city council and our representatives and the county representatives. Why didn't you work to mitigate this?

What was your brush mitigation program? I heard you earlier talking about it's been dry because there hasn't been rain. That's not the biggest problem. There. The brush up in these hills that are controlled by the city and the county, I would argue that they haven't been, handled, mitigated, pruned or removed for probably 30 or 40 years. This was a disaster.

Waiting to happen. And what's predictable is preventable. And who's paying the price. Are all of these people in their homes and their businesses tonight? Now we'll rebuild. But the majority of this community is going to have a tough time rebuilding their lives. Wow. Yeah. So the mayor is there's a new president in Ghana, Africa, who's getting inaugurated. And the LA mayor is there for that Karen Bass yeah, she's not even in I mean, how could you not be there while this is happening in your town?

Look, that's not an important thing to be at. I mean, if we were discussing she had a funeral or she would. Well, yeah, we're. You don't need to be in Africa for that. If she was a the president of the Lousy Mayors Association and she had a big meeting, they were having their winter gala that. Yes. Right. Okay.

So and, you know, I'll wait for further details on this, but the, the they call it the Palisades, which is a familiar word to us here, but they're those are the reservoirs that in part fuel their fire suppression water through the, the fire hydrants. But they utilize that water for some niche environmental purpose. That's what's being circulated on the internet that that though they haven't been filled because, whatever would happen, it would harm those fish.

So they keep them on a lower, like less water. Yeah. Because the fish survive. Because of that, I look, you can't that one. It could be part of that. It could not be part of that. I have no idea. We did send have somebody sent in. You can't control winds, but you can control full fuel loading, which is what that billionaire was talking about.

They never clear the brush. They never take care of areas that they should be cleaning up and getting rid of the dead vegetation. Yeah, because that just becomes a fuel source. Yeah. Oh, man. Yeah. Well, it'll be interesting to see. I mean, obviously this is devastating. And so it seems a little unseemly to immediately think about politics. But there's going to be a big political fallout over this.

Absolutely. Yeah. All right. 853 Newstalk 179. It's the Neal Larson Show. And if you'd like to reach us on the Stones Auto group calling text line (208) 542-1079. If those hostages aren't back, I don't want to hurt your negotiation. If they're not back by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East.

Okay, Julie, do you think Democrats look longingly across the political aisle at Donald Trump and secretly, very, very secretly say to themselves, I wish we had a president with cajones, like, do you think they should? I don't know if they say it that way, but yes, I think they long for a president who just has mental capacity.

I don't know, I'm bilingual. So, you know, that's why I say it like that. I know a little Spanish. You. Know, you know, it's so refreshing. Like, I know other people that are feel good about it. And, you know, that's not even a word, but people know what I'm talking about, right? Yeah. We know the other people, and.

But this is the rational position and the rational approach. This is how you make things happen. It's a beautiful thing. Yeah. Our two it's 859 on Newstalk 1079. Our two coming up right here. All right. Welcome back Neal Larson Julie Mason and you if you'd like to reach us on the Stones Auto group Colin text line (208) 542-1079.

And we have Southern California on fire. So we're watching that. We also have the Idaho Legislative session getting underway. Did I almost sound tired there with that lady? Yes. Yeah, I think well, there's just a lot you have that you have the the inauguration coming up. I'm a little frustrated, Julie, because for a little while, it looked like Joe Biden was going to take the high road, that he was going to be collegial, that he wasn't going to try and and create chaos.

But in retrospect, now I, I think that that was more about he was poking back at Kamala. So he got friendly with Trump for a minute, but now they've got a hold of him. And you okay? Yeah. Well, here's the deal. Is that was he doing that? Was he withholding because of Kamala, or was he was he just waiting?

Was he needing more of a spotlight on him? Was Joe like, oh, we're going to do this, but we're going to do it when we can make a big splash. We're too close to the election. He may be. Yeah, that that could be. Or he was actively resisting his handlers. And now they've outlasted him and they're like we have two weeks left and you're you're going to do this.

You're going to pardon. These are commute the sentences of these death penalty people. You're going to let the terrorists go. And Guantanamo Bay you're gonna you're going to ban, energy exploration in the coastal areas. You're going to ban natural gas stoves. You're going to and I think that, he just didn't win out. And, so now it it is and and you know what?

Trump is responding appropriately like he's recognizing it looks like our little smooth transition honeymoon is over. And so, yeah, I remember the good old days when he got invited to the white House, I yes. And Joe Biden pledged to help it with a smooth transition and, and whatever not, you know, I don't know if the commuting of the death sentences was part of the the stick in Trump's eye, because that's just a fundamental difference in philosophy that we have with the left.

But I think releasing the terrorists and and the environmental moves and stuff, I think that is absolutely, chaos. I especially felt that way with the environmental moves. This was not necessary to do this banning of drilling on the shores. First off, there's not a whole bunch of it going on right now. Yeah. So it's not like he needed to, immediately put a stop to it so that Trump wouldn't gain lots of financial benefit from it.

Yeah, it would take years to implement it. Yeah. It was it was him going. No no no no no no we're not even going to put the brakes in place for energy independence. Yeah, yeah it's true. Trump talked a lot about energy in his press conference yesterday. And he he said we have so much energy under our under our feet under our soil here in, in America.

And we're going to drill baby drill. He actually use those terms drill baby drill. And you know, when he did that and we became energy independent in in the US we saw the gas prices come down. The natural gas prices, all the energy prices started to drop significantly under Trump. And that's one thing I truly do look forward to.

It also creates jobs. Yeah, there. And some of these jobs are very high paying. Yeah, people are willing to live in the middle of the country and, you know, winter tornado season or whatever in order to work these jobs. Yeah. Yep. Yeah for sure. So we have that also, Julie, we got a text about Facebook and Zuckerberg and Meta.

And Mark Zuckerberg is he's watching what's happening. You have X under Elon Musk. And instead of censoring content or they've added what's called community notes which basically is sort of sort of this cell free guy. Like, you can add this community note to give clarification or correction on, on content, but you still allow the content. And a lot of people say this is a much better approach to this because with Facebook, they've had these centralized fact checkers that one media outlet or one entity will come in and, and declare something is either true or not true, which I think we used to be able to trust up until a few years ago because you had

people operating in good faith. But in this era where everything is politicized, the fact checker can't always be trusted and quite often simply can't be. It proactively cannot be trusted. And so the community notes model, I think, is a much, much better approach. Zuckerberg is saying we're not going to censor stuff. We're going to have a community notes approach as opposed to a fact checker approach.

And for me, I look at this, I think this is just Mark Zuckerberg surviving and and keeping Facebook relevant. Are your thoughts? Well, here's the deal. I don't know how it's going to look in comparison to X, but for those who aren't on, the X platform, let me kind of explain how not invasive this is. If you're worried that your Facebook is now going to be full of all of these community notes, and when you see a post, there's just going to be like lying after lying after lying of people commenting and debunking it.

That's not really how it works. That's a little bit more of the TikTok model, actually. Yeah. And so it could be that way. It could look that way. They could, make it look a little bit more like TikTok. But if they do it strictly like X is doing it, X has, like computer generated community notes.

So people submit the community note and then I goes, this is the appropriate like gathers them all said like and says 95% of them are saying this boom. That's the community. Now you get on there. And and so it's a lot of it's AI generated based on upon the community offering up their opinion on it and then figuring out is that legitimate?

Yeah, I don't know about you, but when I am on X, I find community notes amazing. Yeah, I love the feature, and I think that if it functions similar to that on Facebook, it is going to be welcomed with open arms by the users of Facebook. Yeah, this is a scripture, but I think it it has a practical secular application out of the mouths of 2 or 3 witnesses like you have multiple people with eyes on it looking at content, saying, you know, determining whether or not it's true.

And I think that that is a much better approach than giving a singular entity the power to say whether something is true or not. Yes. Yeah. And so, yeah, I and I think, you know, maybe Zuckerberg realizes that that model is sadly it's outdated. It didn't have to be. But the people who had that power abused it and they misused it.

And I remember you had fact checkers during the pandemic that were all in on vaccines and masks and anything Fauci said that was gospel truth, even though there wasn't science to back it up. Even though the definition of the word fact had shifted from truth, reality, verifiable truth and reality to whatever Anthony Fauci says this week. And and that I think ruined the I mean, there were other things certainly more complicated than that, but I think that that is when much of America decided these fact checkers are crap.

They're they're not reliable because they've been wrong to the people whose one job is to be right, we're getting it wrong enough and with enough frequency. And and you, you maybe have one mulligan. If you're going to call yourself a fact checker, that's your one job. And, when when you fail at that repeatedly, you lose your job.

Yeah. I saw some, some chatter last night after, Mark Zuckerberg gave the statement yesterday morning saying that this community notes concept was going to be added to Facebook and Instagram. And I saw people listing things that Trump was doing and how, the MAGA movement has become a hostile takeover. And, so the person that texted in and was talking to us about it, they referenced that, yeah, if you're liberal, you can go that direction.

You can think that this is just another win for Trump and that he's got his thumb on Mark Zuckerberg and that he's completely controlling him. But you could also look at it, if you're objective and go, isn't this just a smart business move for Mark Zuckerberg? Isn't this just the right avenue to go down? If you want your platform platform to continue to be relevant?

Because what has happened with X is it was kind of like economically a dumpster fire the first few months, if not year. Yeah, that Elon Musk owned it. That is completely turned around now. Yeah I credit part of that with Elon Musk coming out and saying no, no, no, no, we're getting rid of all of these people. We're going to clean this platform up.

It is going to be much more of a free speech, type platform where, you control it. It's not controlled by the elite, you know, users control it. And that's what Community Notes offers for me. And much like the person who texts it in, I feel like that's the decision that Mark Zuckerberg made. He wants to continue to be relevant.

He wants his platform, something he everybody loves a little bit more money. Like, come on, it's human nature. Yeah. And of course he's going to try to salvage the money that he has. Yeah. Well yeah I mean he's a businessman. He does want it to be profitable. Yeah. I look at it and, you know, it's interesting because I think we operate under, a bit of a false idea.

Whereas like, we look at companies like Ford and Coca-Cola, McDonald's. And when they have day programs or when they do things that we view as being woke, we make this assumption they want to do it. But sometimes companies do things and they've got to act enthusiastic about it, but they're only doing it for survival. We had a horrific bad situation for a while where and I think it's still kind of in play, but but it's much, much less strong, less influential now where companies funding was jeopardized if they weren't doing these sort of what the global elite wanted them to do.

And the pushback became strong enough. And thanks to guys like Robby Starbuck, Ford Motor Company getting rid of the I make McDonald's is the latest this week Monday. We're getting we're getting rid of DGI. We're we're I feel like they didn't put up any kind of a fight at all. Maybe they wanted to get rid of it.

This is a great excuse. This is a good exit point here. And so what if we look kind of like we've caved to this online influencer guy? We're out of this. We're free from it. We can walk away because we're kind of tired of these cultural Nazis walking through our hallways telling us what pronouns to use and how many different kinds of people we had to hire based on their gender and based on their sexual preference.

And we we didn't want to run a company like that. We wanted to be profitable. We wanted to be based on merit. We wanted we want to thrive and succeed. So I think that maybe they were looking for an exit point. So applying this to Zuckerberg, maybe he played the game that the left wanted him to play because the alternative was going to be much more difficult.

So he did the fact checker thing for a while. And maybe with Trump in Elon Musk changing the model of how social media works, at least on X, and I think for other platforms as well, this might be a welcome change for Zuckerberg, where he feels like, you know what Facebook could become more of what kind of what it used to be and, and a platform people wanted to use and they weren't super darn suspicious of it about what's being fed up to them all the time.

Yeah, yeah, I think it could be a mixture of all of it. I, I would never underestimate the concept that these large businesses do operate a little bit in fear of the government. Hey, you can get audited. You can get, like lots of them get grants and that could those things could be shut off. That water, you know, stream of water or stream of money can be turned off at any time.

Is that by Matt Weaver at the Department of Water Resources. They come in, they put a red tag on everything and the whole thing. Yeah. So I there is you would think that Mark Zuckerberg, Zuckerberg, third richest man in the world I think is where he's at on the scale right now that he has all this control. Well, sometimes he doesn't.

Sometimes he's beholden to a power agency that is making it possible for a portion of his companies to run. Yeah. And yeah, he's probably welcoming the change because it's going to make it a little bit easier for him. And of course, the bottom line is he's got to keep his consumer happy. And like I said, I think community notes is going to keep people happy.

Yeah, I think they are too. And I think I promise you, I mean, because Zuckerberg, his whole business is data and predicting what people are going to do based on what they do online. I'm sure that he studied this and he realized people are gravitating toward a social media platform that has a community notes model, as opposed to some elitist fact checker telling everyone what's true and what's not.

I also hope just this little side part of Julie that I, that it's run a little bit like X because sometimes the community notes are hilarious. Yeah they are, they are so good. So I hope that that adds a little bit to Facebook because I mean raise your hand if you're tired of all the ads that you didn't ask for on Facebook, raise your hand if you're tired of them generating profiles that they think you want to look at.

I don't even know this person. I don't want to look at that. Yeah, so it'll be nice to have kind of the snow globe shook up a little bit. Yeah. And have it be a little bit different on Facebook. One of the things that I didn't listen to, everything that Mark Zuckerberg has said, but doesn't he want Facebook to get a little less political to like he it it has become through the algorithm whatever.

So incredibly divisive there and people know there this algorithm is serving up stuff. Then it's designed to do different things. And people don't like that because they can't look at the algorithm, they can't look at what the formula is. That's putting the the feed in front of them. And I think that, you know, original Facebook, when did I join?

Oh eight, probably maybe out oh 8 or 9. I think it was oh eight when I, when I jumped on Facebook and it was fine. It was cat videos. It's what you had for dinner. It was there wasn't a lot of political content on it. There wasn't a lot that was like racy or sexual. Most people didn't swear a lot on Facebook.

I don't know if they censored it, but that just wasn't the culture of it. Now. You know, it's a it's a free for you do whatever you want and and it's, it's banning stories about hunters laptop. I mean it's not now but it, it certainly was part of that and I, I don't I'm not saying we have to go back to exactly what Facebook originally was, but I hope it moves that direction because that was Facebook was a place you could go to reduce your stress.

And I feel like for the past, probably ten years, Facebook is a place you go and it increases your stress. And the more news, the more politics, the more heavy stuff that they inject into the feed. It's not the reprieve that you signed up for. Yeah. It was supposed to be interacting with friends. Yeah. That's what Facebook was.

And I would say a majority of people still want that to be Facebook. They don't they don't need a carbon copy of the the cesspool that is Twitter or X. Yeah. They and so if Mark Zuckerberg who is a smart man, clearly look at what he's created, I in my opinion if if he looks at X and goes, what are the good things I can take from it and enhance Facebook, I think community notes is one of it.

Secondly, don't be a copy of all of the political talk or the sports talk or you don't have to be that, you know, people have built these databases of friends. Let them interact with their friends. Yeah. I agree, I agree, and and I think I have the same basic philosophy about social media and certainly Facebook that I do largely for the media and the entertainment industry.

Respond, be the supply to our demand. Don't try to change the course of society. Don't try to lead society around by the nose and make them more enlightened. I love art that makes me think. I love things that make me think, but I also love. I don't want to be bullied into it. And I think the entertainment industry has sort of become so much more than their rightful place, which is entertaining us.

You you respond to what we want, but now we're supposed to respond to what they want us to to respond to. We drive the bus and you, you ride. And now I feel like it's almost different. Like we're we're obligated to do what the media and entertainment business is telling us to do. I feel the same way about social media serve up what I want.

Don't serve up what you think I'm supposed to have. Yeah, I don't need you calculating my decisions as much as you want to calculate my decisions. Unfortunately, that's where the money comes from. So. Hey. Yeah, this is really a love hate relationship with. Oh, yes. Some media content. Yeah, it truly is very much so. Very much so. And you know what?

If the algorithm was just about matching advertisers with likely buyers, I'd tolerate it. I'd be irritated by it. I do think, though, historically, and I don't mean Elon Musk, but I think historically most of the social media, once they got big enough, they got captured by the political establishment. And it wasn't part of it was about advertising, because the model needs to work and and they love it to be lucrative.

But there was other layers to it, which is we're going to change society. We are going to elevate the marriage equality overlay. We're going to elevate the I got the vaccine overlay. We are going to paint a picture for the population and create, a world for them that doesn't maybe not right now exist, but it will be self-fulfilling.

And it was I believe that it was social media that turned the the tide on support for gay marriage. Yeah. That's probably, we went for probably two years and that equal sign was on so many of the, the profile pictures. Remember that. Yeah. It became the billboard. It became the place where people were, were expressing their view.

And that was kind of new, right. Yeah. Yeah. Like yeah I could see that that it, it turned the tide. And you know, like we look at it and, and you and I have not carried the banner against gay marriage. You know, I, I have been against it, but I feel like that's an issue that has. But I've never been,

Well, let me just jump to the end here. If people are going to support gay marriage, I want them to support it based on a principled journey that they had internally. But I feel like there's an awful lot of people that are supporting it because of FOMO. Because they think everybody else is supporting it. So therefore I'll memorize 2 or 3 of the talking points that are out there, but I don't want to get left behind.

So I'm going to put the equal sign overlay on my profile picture too. And I, I know a couple of things that people that's not sort of that internal gut level, deep principled journey that people took. It was I don't want to be left out, and this is the direction society's going, and I need to be a part of it.

It's that's it may be the exact same conclusion, but it's a very, very different internal process to get there. Yeah. Well, this whole thing is like one giant carnival that we're attending and the, the, the carnival worker who's barking the loudest is where everyone floods to, even if it's the dumbest ride or the dumbest game at the carnival.

Yeah, like you're just asking people to think deeper about the stuff you invest in. Yeah, not not just go to the loudest microphone. I if even if if people arrive at a diametrically opposite conclusion that I have, I believe there's a principle journey to that and I will respect that. I'll respect that. They took that journey and they've arrived there.

However, if you're doing it for social acceptance reasons or financial reasons or whatever, I have much less respect for that. Yeah, yeah. All right. 931 and, we've got to take a break. (208) 542-1079 we'll be back after this. Hey, guys. It's my camera way behind. I feel like the camera's like shooting behind me. The it keeps slipping is what happens.

This the you know how it hangs off the edge. Whatever's happening when we bump it, it slips a little bit more and a little. Okay? Okay. Do you want me to. Yeah. Do you want to turn it? We're having some issues with Facebook today. It wouldn't recognize there's a stream code I put in every day. That's how it talks to my computer and goes, oh, this is what we're going to do for life.

And is that better? Yes. That's better. That is better. Okay. Let's go. Okay. Julie, our resident dermatologist, took a picture of a mole that I have. It's a dark spot yesterday, and she's like, we're going to watch this. I'm just like, this needs to be put in your files, and we're going to take a picture in about a month and compare the size of those.

We'll take it from the same angle and we'll just look at it, make sure that look, it was all love. I said, you're not dying from skin cancer, so we're going to take care of you. Yeah. So this, process that I just talked about, it goes, I can think of people I'm going to be very vague here because I don't I actually don't even remember their name, but they were a couple that were hard core, libertarian, right wing kind of people.

And they listen to this show. This is years and years ago, long before we came here. And, anyway, I sort of observed how their lives went on social media. I don't even think I'm friends with them. I think they unfriended me. But they became like far left progressive, pro-gun control. Like, I'm like, how do you make that journey?

I'm like, hey, I and what are you like, what do you really believe? Like, what do you really believe? What's what's in what's in that heart of yours? Or is it just I'm just going to keep track of the situation and whatever makes me the most socially comfortable. That's what I am today. I. Well, Is that rude?

No no no no no, because I think there's a lot of independence and power in not really giving a crap what anybody else thinks. Yeah, very much so. And, so I think that people are allowed to believe and do and follow and be whomever they want to be, whether it's a healthy decision or not. Healthy decision, if it harms the community, doesn't harm the community.

You get to do whatever you want to do. But I would hope that people do it because they're being independent, not because they've submitted or yeah, that they care so much about what their neighbor thinks or that they care that some celebrity said to do it. So you do it or but we're so driven by that. I mean, TikTok's entire funding structure right now is about how can we convince people to buy crap off the tick tock, tick tock shop?

Yeah, this is very commercial. So. And is it working? Well, it's working. Yeah. All right.

936 on Newstalk 107 Neal hours long, Julie Mason and let's talk Grand Peaks Primates for just a moment had fajitas the other night. How were they? Dah licious. Good. They were great. But you know what? They've got so many different crockpot meals. Whether it is, the the Swede French dip. That's one of your favorites. I know you like that.

They've got ribs that you just. You heat them up, broil them, and they're ready to eat, and they're fall off the the bone good. Like, they're super good. Great cuts of stay chicken roast. We heard back from people at Christmas time who got, the thick cut bacon and said it was awesome. Yeah. You've got everything you need when it comes to your protein sources there.

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Yes. You can grill in January. Yes you can, you know, dig out a little path to your, your gas grill or whatever. I mean, I will say because I'm, I'm, I've been in January. I haven't grilled in January yet. This year, I probably will. You feel a little more manly when you grill in the winter.

Like, there's just something about you're standing out there with maybe your beanie cap and and there's snow, but you're you're flipping the the dogs and the patties, and I'm like, you absolutely can do that. However, if you don't want to, if you put the brats in your air fryer and let that go for, yeah, seven minutes or so, they are super, super good.

Okay. Noted. Okay. I say, are we just randomly talking right now? Go for it. Yeah. I saw a TikTok video the other day of somebody who created okay, people love their black stone or their Green Egg, you know, that's that big. Yeah. Yeah. Well, this man was like, lots of people are buying black stones. Lots of people are buying green eggs.

Lots of people are buying triggers. So he's a manufacturer. So he went and designed these carts that you put your trigger on or your Green Egg on or your black stone on. Yeah. And he has this massive, thriving arm of his manufacturing business where you buy this cart, you put your trigger on it, and it's super easy to move around, or your Green Egg is super easy to move around.

Smart people are so smart, they see what what is being sold and then they fulfill the need. That's not currently there. See? That's you don't even have to invent something new. You just see what's hot right now. Yep. And take an old idea and and innovate. Yeah. That's smart. There's a there's several things that I in fact I do this probably multiple times a month.

Why didn't I think of. I don't know, maybe maybe you can do it better than the person who thought about it. Maybe the manufacturing skill is better on your side, I don't know, yeah, maybe. Maybe. Yeah, I don't know. So. All right. I'm a I manufacture charm. That's what I manufacture. I need to start selling that on the tick tock shop.

Yeah. There you, there you go. There you go. We actually went long in the first break, and so we've got a break for our news here. But we'll be back right after this and continue on this Wednesday on Newstalk 1079. Okay. Okay. I was going to answer something. What was I, I save that, TikTok to send you.

This guy's channel is so good. You'll love it. It's. I'd love it. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. Yeah. He did a series at the beginning of 2025. I don't know how many days he did, but hottest business ideas that might not be up and running in your area. Yeah, it's your time. This is your call. Do it. What's his name?

You think I looked at the I don't know, let me find out more because I do follow a guy on Facebook and he he does this same thing like, here's a business idea. Try it in your area. It's called the corner office, but corner is spelled Coer. And yeah, I follow that guy on Facebook, so he must put his content on both TikTok and reels.

So I'm, well, the good one still. Yeah. Hit every platform. That's the goal. Yeah. Did he start the cart business or is he just highlighting. He just highlighted it. He he pulled the guy and highlighted what he had done. The point of the video was to explain to people, look and see what's currently selling big. Yeah. And then examine that product or examine that service and go, is there a part of this that's not being fulfilled?

And then just jump on to what's already selling and fulfill the additional thing? Yeah, I saw one during Christmas and apparently for about 1500 bucks you can buy a 40ft tall inflatable Santa Claus. And so he did this. And then he used that to sell like he ordered a bunch. And then resell is like in an upscale neighborhood where, you know, people just had an extra 1500 bucks lying around to buy something like that.

Anyway, made a made a tidy little profit and not a lot of work. Just turn around me. Yeah, he I also saved one from him. And I've heard of people doing this. How much time do I have? I got a couple minutes. Okay. So, I heard of people doing this where they go to this government site.

I don't remember the government site. It's in the video, so I'd have to go look at it. Where, the government turns around and resells things for which cheap. Yeah. And people scoop it up and then sell it in their area for, like, maybe a 20% profit. Yeah, that's a business model that works. So we talked about this probably about a year ago because someone talked to me.

I don't remember who someone talked to me about a job that this man had. All he does is go around and buy used airplane parts, transports them back to the home base in Arizona, and will either rebuild a plane or refurbish it and turn around and resell it, because that's such a niche market. Yeah, he's a millionaire. And you told me this case, not even a like a pilot.

He's not even an aviation expert. He figured it out. Dang. Yeah. Yeah. Another one of the videos that this guy had this corner dude is he's like people are back to appreciating fine artistry. So he highlighted somebody who makes door knockers. Learned how to do it. He sells them for anywhere between 3 to $500. Like a door knocker.

Like this bag that you would put on your door. They're ornate. They're beautiful. That has become his life business okay. Because it's not something you can get at Home Depot, right? Or is each one custom made? No. He does these custom designs, and then he repeats it. Oh, gotcha. Okay. Yeah. This is why Etsy so big. Yeah.

There's stuff on Etsy you can't buy at other places. You know what amazes me about him? The sheer volume of videos that he puts out. I watched, one more. He explained why he does this. Yeah. And he talked about how for years he felt it's why this clicked, because we were having this conversation for years. He cared way too much what people thought of him, and he wanted to do this.

It's so exciting to him. And he finally went I'm just going to start making the videos. If I look stupid I look stupid. And it's his life now. I wonder how much he makes on his eye. So I could do a good guess just off of his TikTok. Yeah. How many views does he have on those TikToks?

Look, he's got 98,000 views on the Traeger. Yeah, Blackstone went alone and he puts out multiple videos a day. He's making bank. Yeah. (208) 542-1079. That's the Stones Auto group calling text line and if you'd like to reach us, you can. And I'd love to hear Julie, our listeners, thoughts on the governor softening his position on education choice.

And now he is said in his state of the state speech. 50 million bucks. That's what I'll set aside. So here's my question okay. This is I want to look over the horizon just a little bit because the governor it one of his legacy pieces was the launch program, which essentially is this. But for post-secondary Ed, it's for college in Idaho, and it gives families more choices about what they want to do.

They do. You remember when that program was so popular it ran out of money, and the governor bragged about it running out of money because it was so popular? Yeah. What happens? You see where you go and tell me what happens if this passes? Let's say it's somewhere around the $50 million mark and it's going to be popular middle, middle class families.

And lower, certainly lower, lower, socioeconomic families are going to jump at this. And the opportunity for them to have their kid educated at a top notch school, they're not going to turn that down. It's going to go through this money very quickly. Now, I remember in the wake of launch, running out of money, the discussion immediately turned to how do we get more money into this program?

I'm hopeful that if the governor gets behind education choice, that he also will have that discussion about that, because it seems to me, and we've pointed this out before, that if you like a program and it runs out of money, you brag about how popular it was. If you don't like a program and it runs out of money, you say, look, it failed.

We've run out of money. It's it's a runaway expenditure. It's too expensive. It's and and so I it'll just be interesting to see how it all turns out. I think there's some interesting unknowns with this and could be why it scares some people. I think the majority of people who are against it are just trying to protect the, the teachers union and the money that gets funneled into education.

So I'm not assigning any purity motives to those people. But I do think there is some interesting questions about what, you know, what interesting obstacles and what interesting opportunities are going to present themselves. So we get something passed this year, and I believe we totally will. It's a little bit different than the launch program, because the universities and the school programs already exist in mass.

And so it was very easy for people to go, I'm already going to school anyways. I'm going to apply for this, this launch scholarship. We are still what I would consider kind of it in a private school drought in Idaho. And so does this open up an interesting obstacle and opportunity for more private schools over the next two years to open up and start to develop, because there's more money available by patrons to come to that private school?

Yeah, I don't think that that's necessarily a bad thing or a good thing. I think it'll be dependent upon how we handle it. I think it's always awesome when you have, competition and a marketplace that is vibrant. And I think that helps the marketplace be vibrant. Yeah. I also think that it's it's a lot harder than people probably think it is.

Yeah. So that's why I say it's both an obstacle and an opportunity. So I, I looked this up really quickly while you were talking. Julie, or let's say let's just go with 50 million. It's nice round number. Last year the K through 12 budget was about $3.3 billion. So this program is about 1/70, maybe a little more than that fraction 1/70 of of this.

And this is what the teachers union is freaking out about and what the Democrats are freaking out about that you take one. Well, you're not even taking it from this budget, but let's say let's say you did for the sake of argument, if you even took it out of the $3.3 billion earmarked for K through 12, it would be one out of every $70.

Yeah. The problem here is, it's not that I know what the problem is. They want the butt in the seat. And if your kid goes to a different school, they don't have the butt in the seat to then get the money from the state. Yes, right. That you're right. So even though this overall budget ain't going away and it's not going to be touched because of the funding formula that's based on attendance, if you're not able to coerce that kid from, you know, staying in your school, you don't get that allocation for that kid.

That's it. Now I'm going to say something and Wendy Harmon may not appreciate me talking about this. I think ultimately we are going to have to get to a point if this is successful and popular and we see great results from it, where if you look at kids from a certain socioeconomic background and they are thriving in a publicly funded private school education, then the state, we would be morons to not move forward and say, how do we expand this program?

Because this has been a great option for these families and it's giving it's giving these families a chance to break that generational cycle that that is so prevalent. And and how do you not and when you have 3.3 billion, the vast majority of of the state's budget going to K through 12, how do you not extend that opportunity to more and more kids if they want it?

I think you'd have to. And I think the needle be there. People will see. Hey, this has been an awesome creation by the state of Idaho. And again, we're not this isn't cutting edge. We are not doing something that hasn't been done in other states. There are multiple states where one of 13 that does not do this. Yeah.

So you have a majority of states who are doing it. If it wasn't working there, they wouldn't keep funding it. That's true. Like that. It's not just going to make a as I was going to make a snarky comment about ranked choice voting. But yeah, like it is just it's mind blowing to me that it's being it's being presented by Democrats and the teachers union that this is a big, evil, horrible thing.

Well, if it was such an evil, horrible thing, it wouldn't thrive in other states. Well, when thrive in other states and they would want to put it on display and see it fail. And it's thriving in Arizona. And Arizona is a purple state. That's true. That's a good point. All right. 954 we'll be back after this. On Newstalk 1078 okay.

Everybody wants to hear Julie sing her version of psycho in my head. Okay, now your point. I like to just do it when I'm okay. Ready? Yeah. There's a psycho in my head. So Larry's because it's. Here's this screamo song by skillet and Julie's singing in this innocent little girl voice. There's a psycho in my head. I do it all the time.

Which she does. She knows how it sounds. It's very funny. What's the cranberry song that I sing to the Combee? It's, Yeah, it's mom. They, Okay. We need to move a spot, I gotta hurry, I gotta hurry, I gotta hurry, I did it. Oh, I better move. Oh, the name Brad Brad on Facebook is asking for that TikTok channel again.

It's called the Corner Office. K o e r and e r. I'm thinking that's probably his last name. K o e r n e r the corner office. Wouldn't be surprised if that's what it's called on Facebook too. Most of these people, they they try to replicate their platforms. My daughter already had a really through it before the podcast.

She had a very thriving Instagram account just because of dancing in college. Yeah. So her her personal Instagram, she had to change the name of it because it just didn't. It didn't match anything that was connected to the podcast because her nickname is Roan. We've called her that for years. Right? And her Instagram was Pater Roan, and nobody was picking up on it from the podcast, so she actually had to change the name on her Instagram account in order to switch it over, because you've got a duplicate this as much as possible across the platforms for people to follow you.

Yeah. So the corner office, that's what you're looking for. All right. Well, I have about 30s when I get back. I feel like this sweater on Facebook, if I moved really fast, might put somebody with a Caesar. Caesar? Caesar salad.

Caesar. You sure? Disorder into a fit.

I love Caesar salad. Yeah, I broke my daughter's brain the other day when I told her it has anchovies in it. Oh, really? Yeah. Yeah. But don't a lot of them put bacon instead? Like. Yeah, there's other stuff. Yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, no authentic, legit Caesar.

Most of the time when I order Caesar salad, like, before a meal, they don't put anchovies in a seizure. Caesar salad.

958 on Newstalk 1078 on this Wednesday. Big thanks to Senator Crapo for joining us this morning. And program vote no tomorrow Dorothy Moon oh yes she 35. That's right. That was what I was thinking I know there's somebody so all right we'll talk with a Idaho state party chair tomorrow at 835. Everyone have a safe Wednesday. See you tomorrow.