2.4.2025 -- NLS -- Tariffs, Trump, and TikTok Takeover

On this episode with Neal and Julie, Neal reflects on past predictions regarding tariffs and the economy, emphasizing that recent developments align with what he expected. They discuss the impact of Donald Trump's trade policies, particularly with Canada, Mexico, and China, and the political reactions to them. The conversation shifts to public education, media subsidies in Idaho, and school choice, highlighting ongoing debates over government spending and parental rights in education.

Neal and Julie also touch on immigration protests, the fentanyl crisis, and China's role in drug trafficking, questioning the effectiveness of current policies. They analyze political maneuvering in Washington, Trump's leadership style, and the media's treatment of his administration. The episode wraps up with a discussion on government involvement in media, concerns over state control of platforms like TikTok, and broader cultural shifts. Throughout, Neal’s signature sarcasm and candid takes fuel the discussion, making for a thought-provoking and lively episode.

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Transcript

You know, I might. I might need to dig back into the archives of the show from maybe three weeks ago ish. And I remember I opened the show utterly. I don't know if I was shocked or impressed. Either way, I was surprised at the number of tariff experts that we have in our midst and that pop up on social media.

Now, of course, it was the thickest layer of sarcasm. Normally my sarcasm is like, you know, just a thin layer of Nutella. No, this was peanut butter. Like the really thick, thick peanut butter. And, I laid it on pretty. And I remember during that monologue I talked about Donald Trump and the tariffs and everybody predicting the economic disaster that was coming to the United States of America because Donald Trump said the tea word it.

How do you everybody everybody was getting all wiggy. And I said, just you wait. Just wait. Calm your shorts here just for a minute. Calm the crap down. Here's what Trump's doing. He's putting tariffs on the table. And yes, he's threatening to use them. And if Donald Trumps anything, he is a great negotiator and he can read his opponents very, very well.

He's been doing it his entire adult life and so he brought up the T word and everybody wigged out. They lost their their their crap and became tariff experts. So they they were PhDs in tariffs. And yeah, that's a word. Look it up. I mean, I don't know if it's a word, but it is now. And so, I mean, normally I don't come to this microphone with the I told you so mentality, but I feel like I need to come to this microphone with a little bit of the I told just so mentality today.

What happened over the last 36 hours is exactly what I said would happen, that Donald Trump will go through, he will impose tariffs and he will say, this is what we want. And if you want the tariffs to be lifted, this is what we want out of you. And he's not going to use the tariffs long term most likely.

But he will get some immediate concessions. Well guess who we have as partners in stopping the deadly flow of fentanyl into our country Mexico and Canada. And they're putting forward, I think, the amount of resources that Canada is putting forward is something like $1.3 billion to boost their their border surveillance. And if we continue to have fentanyl flowing into the United States, there will be hell to pay, so to speak.

So now, here's the thing. I think in a rational world, I would have the, the, the people, the, the, you know, the people with the PhDs in tariff ology, they would call me up and say, you know what, Neal? You were right. I was so wrong about this. I should listen to you more often. Man, was I wrong.

Okay, now I'm sort of making up the transcript of how this phone call would go. Kind of like how Adam Schiff did during Russia, Russia, Russia, but whatever, it's not going to happen. And I know it's not going to happen. Maybe they'll stop trolling us in the in the text for a day or two. But I just want to say kudos to Donald Trump.

What we are, we're I don't know if we fully grasp what we are witnessing happening in America right now. Now, if you listen to, Ilhan Omar, she believes that this is the beginning of a dictatorship, that what can I just say? When a dictator comes in, he usually gives his government more power. He doesn't typically start shutting down agencies.

I'm just saying. But, you know, Ilhan Omar thinks that Donald Trump is installing himself as, as a dictator in, in America. That's not happening. He is going in and I believe he is genuinely giving Elon Musk authority to go through and identify areas of inefficiency, areas of expenditure that don't really align with making America better and stronger and more prosperous and getting rid of it.

Why would we have it? Can I just ask that question? Here's a nice little list. We've played this this morning earlier, and this is Caroline Leavitt, the the president's spokesperson, and she outlines the garbage that you as an American taxpayer, have been paying for through USAID, $1.5 million to advance de and Serbia's workplaces, 70,000 for a production of a DEA musical in Ireland.

Did you know that you've been funding a DEA musical in Ireland? Were you aware of that? And I programs in Serbia? I had no idea. 47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia. Did you know you paid for that to transgender? Opera? I didn't even know they had transgender opera. I thought opera was opera, but apparently there's now transgender opera.

Here we go. Well, now I'm trans. Is Pavarotti like I could do is that's not transgender. That's just trans singer. But here's another one, 32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru. You're even paying for transgender comic books in Peru. But yet we need to keep this agency open. You know, there's an interesting dynamic that's happening here in Idaho with education.

Of course, there is increased talk and political pressure. And you're probably wondering why did where is this going? Just stay with me. I'll tie it all together. But there's increased pressure on public education because parents, you're like, I want a choice. I need something different. If this isn't working out for my kid and they don't feel, for whatever reason, like K through 12 is serving their child well when it comes to education.

So they want other options. And that's why the these bills, the left calls them voucher laws. They could be a tax credit or an education savings account, whatever the case may be, that can be used for alternatives, even private alternatives, there's a reason why there's an exodus and there's a reason why there's a lot of pressure to create an alternative.

It's because we're becoming dissatisfied with the status quo. They introduce garbage ideologies to our kids. Now, I don't know how much it's happening in Idaho. It's happening to some degree. We have examples of it. I don't think it's widespread yet, but I say we nip it in the bud before it becomes a widespread problem. Now, how does this apply to USAID?

Well, they've lost their core mission. Everything that we do in terms of foreign aid should be to advance the interests of the United States of America, strategically or economically. It should enhance our safety. Now, someone who may be no doubt they've inherited their discomfort from the media. If they don't like the idea of Trump shutting down USAID. In fact, they're probably people this morning who are outraged.

I tell you that Donald Trump is shutting down USAID, who didn't even know what USAID was 12 hours ago, and certainly not 24 hours ago. I bet you you would find scads of these people online who are livid that Donald Trump is shutting down an agency they didn't even know exists 24 hours ago. I bet you would find them.

Or maybe if you ask them, what is USAID do, they'd be like, oh, they may have heard about it, but their knowledge would be limited to, oh, I don't know. So but I would ask those people, the the livid people, the angry people, the two minutes of hate people. What does transgender comic books in Peru or a transgender opera in Colombia, or a transgender musical in in Ireland do to advance the interests of the United States of America?

And then I would sit back and I would probably have some popcorn and I would listen to them try to answer what all of these are doing to help the interests and the advancement of the United States of America. And of course, they could not answer. There would be no answer. They'd probably manufacture some kind of word salad, but there would be no cogent reaction to how this actually helps the United States of America.

And I will tell you, and this probably is a good, a good analogy here would be the endless amounts of aid that we have sent to Ukraine. What does that do for the United States? Genuinely, what is it now that there the stretch there would be? Well, it prevents World War three, and bringing in other countries and ultimately the United States having to go to war.

Okay. But there may be other ways to avoid it rather than sending endless amounts of cash to Ukraine, if that is the only option, indeed, the only option, then, you yeah, maybe you would look at it, but there are other more creative ways. Look at what? Look at what Donald Trump has done in terms of, our alignment with Canada and Mexico in literally hours.

This takes average politicians months and even years to accomplish. Donald Trump did it in ours. And that's part of the reason why they hate him. The status quo benefits these people. And I promise you, there are plenty of Republicans who are in Washington who will state their support for Donald Trump when the microphones are on, when the cameras are rolling, but are privately very, very uncomfortable with his pace because they don't know what an uncertain future looks like and means for them now.

They don't have a lot of tools to to oppose him. He has the support of the American people. He has, the he has the mandate. He has the bully pulpit, and they know there's not much they can do right now. Don't think they're not working behind the scenes to try to to leverage a slowdown of the the freight train that is Donald Trump.

It's a beautiful thing. A couple of notes from the Idaho legislative session. I have long felt and I know I'm not alone, that government should not be in the business of subsidizing media, and certainly not unnecessary media, or I should say, media unnecessarily for years. And this stretches back probably more than 100 years. So I'd have to look at the origins of this.

But do you remember the the pages of legal notices and public notices that are printed in the newspaper that was legally required that governments had to put those in, because that was the way you reached the people. And 100 years ago, it really was the only way to reach the people. And so millions upon millions have been spent over the decades by government paying for legal notices in newspaper.

Well, a couple of years ago, a thing called the internet came around and it's really I don't know if they've heard about this yet or not. Like it's a, it's a, it's an, it's an up and coming thing. But you can actually take information that you would print in a newspaper, and you actually can type it onto a computer and hit a button.

It's actually instantly available to the entire world. You may not have heard about it yet. This is so new. This is so it's it's barely been around for 30 years. It's brand new. Well, guess what? We keep paying for? We keep paying to put notices in 125 year old technology. This is like, no, I was going to say this is like running mS-DOS or windows 95.

It's worse than that. This is like using an abacus to make change at the grocery store. There is no need whatsoever for governments to continue sending money to newspapers. It's a subsidy. That's what it is. All the availability and capability is in place to do this instantly, to do it transparently and to do it at near-zero cost. And there was actually a bill.

Other states have been doing this. We are not on the leading edge of this discussion. In fact, we are so far behind it. It's crazy. But, there has been and I want to I want to get the, the bill right here. That's a bill that would create a government managed public notice website. The bill has stalled 9 to 6 in the House State Affairs Committee.

It's House Bill 33, sponsored by Jeff Ehlers. He pitched that bill as a way to modernize public notices. So year one, it would cost $570,000 in one time development costs. Okay. Even that like I, I am not a, I'm not an I.T. guy, but I've done enough web work to know you can snag a domain for 12 bucks a year.

You can for free install word. Well, and then hosting might cost you a couple of bucks a month, and then you can download WordPress for free. They're probably templates that would be just fine for this. This posting. I don't know what the $570,000 cost would be. I'm even skeptical of that. But it's far less than the million plus that we keep shovel into newspapers around the state for these noted.

Look, I know I'm making them mad. I know this is probably hard to hear. And then they say it would cost about $300,000 a year for ongoing operation costs. Why you need the website and one person to go copy paste, copy paste like I. I don't know why it costs so much money to run a legal notice website.

Anyway. Whatever. Several newspaper representatives testified against the bill, noting that the public notices are already available online, through a website by the newspaper Association of Idaho, representatives for the Association of Idaho Cities, the Idaho Association of Counties, the Idaho School Boards Association, and Ada County Commissioners testified in support of the bill. So excuse me. It's a website.

The website is by the Newspaper Association of Idaho. The other groups testified. Now, the committee's vote to hold the bill in committee came after some lawmakers expressed concern about allowing the state government to manage publishing public known they do already up until the point they send the text to the newspaper and write a check. They're already managing it.

I so the guy against it that the Idaho Capitol Sun quoted is Representative Joe Alfieri of Coeur d'Alene. He said the reason that we have requirements that we publish in newspapers is to make sure that certain notices are brought before the public so that the public may act on those. What? No kidding. You still haven't addressed the issue, Alfieri he said, if we're going to turn that over to the state, we are at risk of having that information kept from the public when it doesn't serve the best interests of this.

Couldn't they keep it from the public because it is. They just don't send the script or the check. You can still keep it from the public like the he hasn't even answered the issue. So you click on Representatives Alfieri bio. Guess what? He he's done a number of things. He opened a retail computer store in New York City 45 years ago.

He was a typography director for a large ad agency. He's a print media guy and then started a boutique ad agency in California. All right, this does this not make you wonder, is he looking out for his constituents and taxpayer money? Or is he looking out for the industry from which he has emerged? Inquiring minds would like to know, and I think I already know the answer.

It's so past time. All right, quick break. We'll come back on Newstalk 179. The RFK junior vote about to be held. Senator Crapo speaking. He's Secretary of Health and Human Services. Is there a second, second. Oh, there's a second. The clerk will call the roll. Mr. Grassley hi, Mr. Grassley, I Mr. Cornyn, Mr. cornyn hi, Mr. thune. Mr. thune hi, Mr..

Scott. Scott. Hi, Mr.. Cassidy. Mr.. Cassidy hi, Mr. lankford. Mr. lankford I'm Mr. daines. Mr.. Daines hi. Mr. young is too young. I'm too bahasa surprised I'm Mr. Johnson Mr.. Johnson I Mr.. Tell us Mr.. Tell us hi Mrs. Blackburn this is Blackburn I'm Mr.. Marshall it's marshall I'm Mr.. Wide no Mr. Ryan miss cantwell no one no Mr. bennet Mr. bennet no Mr. Warner, Mr. Warner, no.

Mr.. White house. Mr.. White house. No. Miss. Has an assassin, miss Cortez masto, miss Cortez masto. No. Miss Warren is Warren. No. Mr.. Sanders, Mr. Sanders. No. Miss Smith is Smith. No. Mr. Lujan, no. Saloon. No. Mr. Warnock, no. Mr. Warnock, no. Mr. Welch, Mr. Welch, no. Mr. chairman. All right. Chairman votes aye. Okay. He passes all the Republicans voted I all the Democrats voted nay.

This means RFK his nomination is going to go to the full Senate. Good news. Big greenlight. It's 828. We'll be back. I.

All right. It's 832 on Newstalk 178. Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason. RFK Jr. Gets the green light. I can't even begin to tell you. Julie, sadly, this is radio. You could not see the grumpy grimaces on the faces of the Democrats is they voted no on RFK Jr because guess what? He's about to interrupt their political cash cow with all these pharmaceutical companies.

They. Yeah. And it sure sounds like the Senate is going to approve him. That threat. The Republicans are going to vote for him. Yeah, which means you have a majority. He's going to get through. He's going to get this position. Yeah, yeah. It's great. I don't know what Republicans are going to vote against him. Now you might get the murkowski Collins and the one other trifecta, but it'll still that might bring it down to 50.

So I think we're we're going to be okay. I'd imagine he's going to get through Tulsi Gabbard at noon our time. They're going to do exactly the same with thing with her. Yeah. Try to move her through committee. We'll see that one. That one's a little more questionable. We'll have to be one. Yeah, yeah. What are they worried about with her?

That she is compromised? That she might be a foreign asset? Yeah, they think she. Which doesn't make any sense because we allowed foreign assets in their own chamber in the Senate. Oh, yeah. Dianne Feinstein, chauffeur. Eric Swalwell, bed partner. Yes. Think this has been happening. So the Democrats, if you have a problem with it, why didn't you have a problem with it years ago?

Yeah. Why is Tulsi now your issue. What's your name? Bang bang bang bang bang bang. Is that what it was? I can't remember, it was thinking, but in the in another film realm, her name might have been Bang Bang. I don't, so I can't remember. I can't remember what her name was. It's her pseudo name and her other in her other pursuits.

I think I got it all right. Gotcha. We could stop right there. Because any, any point past this is dangerous. So very PG up. Tell me. I know you did. You did. Yeah. You you did so but you're you're not wrong. I mean, the left gets to dance with all the nefarious foreign influences they want, and everything's just on the up and up.

But Tulsi is somehow a Russian asset or something. I don't even know what they're saying. Waltz is like. Like Sister City. It was hidden in China all the time. And you wanted us to have him be the vice president. Yeah, that's true, but you're upset with Tulsi Gabbard, right? Didn't Bernie go on his honeymoon to Moscow? Yes. Not Idaho.

Both called. Yes.

Okay. By the way, I, I failed to say something really snarky earlier that I want to say now. Okay, in talking about this newspaper subsidy situation that we have in Idaho, that money, that million plus that we spend every year on newspaper public notices really needs to go to the school choice bill and make it go from 50 to 51 million.

Well, did you guys just hear that? I think that was Wendy Horman going, whoa, right. And every IEA member having a heart attack, it's just a joke. Calm down. I'm not suggesting that only half of it should go to Wendy's. Only half? Yeah. (208) 542-1079. It's a Tuesday. And if you'd like to reach us on the, Stones Automotive Group, call in text line 208542127.

I'm not even on call. Thank thing I know the bang bang threw us off. Doesn't bang bang always throw us off? Okay, we do need to break for the night. Keep it PG. Okay. All right. We're going to take a break and we'll be back after the news on Newstalk 107A.

842 On Newstalk 178 Julie, we should find someone who has a PhD in tariffs and then ask them, did you hear my monologue? I did, yeah, portion of it. I was on the phone for a little bit because. Because they were so spot on with, how, you know, Mexican and Canadian tariffs are going to ruin our economy.

Yeah, yeah, we were all going to suffer. I want to hear how these now Chinese tariffs are different. Yeah. We're going to suffer. Tell us you PhD in tariffs. How this one's going to be. You know what though. Here's the thing. I think I was a little wrong because I thought Canada and Mexico would hold out at least for a few days.

They caved in hours. Yeah. Hours. Yeah. They don't want to do this. No. They don't. Okay. Can I just bring up something about the tariffs that I'm super excited about? Yeah. This immigration conversation with the protests that happened locally in East Idaho over the weekend, the big one in, LA, like there was a couple other around the United States.

There was a smaller one in Texas in those protests. We never talk about fentanyl, you know, and the stemming the flow of fentanyl across the borders. That conversation has now come up with the two leaders, both Sheinbaum and Trudeau, and them caving to the tariff threats and us making temporary agreements that needs to be part of this discussion.

The fentanyl needs to be as much as part of the discussion as the people who are coming across the border. I would agree with that. And that gets missed in the whole quote unquote compassion conversation, which is so ironic because people die every day from fentanyl. Yeah, there's also China is a massive supplier of the ingredients to create the fentanyl that comes into the United.

Absolutely. So China's a part of this too. And I think that's why we've seen Canada, Mexico and China be the first targets of these tariffs. Because Trump knows these countries being so lax about it. And in China's case, I think they've been actively producing the fentanyl ingredients. It has killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. And this if you want to save lives this is low hanging fruit.

You stem the fentanyl problem. You're going to save a lot of lives in an America. Yes. Yeah. Hey it needs to be part of the conversation because it's part of the problem. Yeah. And it's the it's the part of the conversation that people who want to make this about separation of families, they don't want you talking about that because guess what?

Fentanyl does separates families. Yeah, I def yeah. Yeah I'm really grateful for that. Yeah I, I am too. And you know China is saying that they're going to have retaliatory tariffs. I feel like they may last a few days. They seem a little more stubborn and resilient then. Then Mexico and Canada. But I think you give this a week or two.

China will have come to the table with some alternative because they want our dollars, they want our business. And even if it's a, you know, a concession that has to do stop supplying the fentanyl ingredients, to the cartels in Mexico. Right. Did you see the story that the drug cartels in Mexico are now threatening to kill our border agents?

Yes. Yeah, that was out there. I will tell you, and I maybe Trump already has addressed this, but if I were the president of the United States, I would say you do that and it's an act of war. We will send our military assets into the interior of Mexico and we will kill you. Yeah, that's what I would say.

I, I believe that that won't happen. And here's why. It the threat of what is possible is so not just, auditory by what Trump says, but visuals. Yeah. When Pete Hegseth released the videos of him at the border yesterday, it was in Texas and New Mexico. There is military everywhere. Yeah, I don't think Mexico will push this button.

No, I don't either. But what about the drug cartels? Like that's what that's what I mean. I think that there's enough coordination between the government and the cartels. Yeah, I think we like to fake believe that the government is good in Mexico, and they have nothing to do with all of this illegal activity that goes on in the cartels.

They're their little bed buddies, the cartels, the real government. Yes. So the two we're going to have a conversation. And I don't think the cartels are going to act on this. It's sort of like the pharmaceutical companies in America. They're the real government. Yes. Sorry. It's cynical day here. Yeah, yeah. It's okay. You need to take a turn.

I take it too off. That's that's. It's your turn. It's my day to be cynical. Yeah. I get to wear the cynical costume today. I turn all right. 847 (208) 542-1079. That's the Stones Automotive Group calling text line. If you'd like to join us on the on the program today. So, Julie, right now, which piece of legislation excites you the most?

They passed a big tax cut bill in the House yesterday. Even torn Achilles voted for it. Like I was shocked. There were only six legislators that voted against it. This thing was overwhelmingly passed. I like legislation that actually makes a difference to Idahoans. Yeah, there's a lot of legislation that goes through that is, you know, maybe targets a special interest group.

Oh, like the one you were talking about in your monologue. Yeah. You know, that got stopped because this, this little group of, of media outlets needs to have their government subsidy. So that doesn't affect you or me, other than increasing the amount of taxes that goes to private industry. I don't love that. But there are other pieces of legislation that are more broad and affect more people in a a much more impactful and noticeable way, I should say.

Yeah. Tax cuts. That's one of them. Yeah. I'm gonna I'm going to appreciate that all of the time. School choice that affects multiple opportunities for families. It's not just the select few. I know the Democrats like to dial it down to that. That's not true. It affects a lot of people. And there's the ripple effect that I believe public education will have to start upping their game a little bit.

Yeah. Yeah. So that affects everyone. Anyone participating in public education including my property tax dollars. Yeah. So I, I appreciate that kind of legislation. So those are two pieces I'm very excited for. I am excited for that tax cut I am I am excited for school choice I, I think yeah you know what. Those are the issues that impact your household and your family life.

Being able to choose schools again, everyone memorize a question when when you have lefties talking about school choice and calling it vouchers. And it's going to take money away from public schools. Ask a very simple question. And I have gone to the effort to rehearse this question. I look in the mirror and I'm like, I'm going to I'm going to rehearse this question.

You're Stuart, what was his name to it? Stuart Smiley from yes, Saturday Night Live. And instead of saying I'm good enough, I'm smart enough. And doggone it, people like me. The question is, why do you want to prevent lower income kids from getting a private education? Good question. It's that simple. Yeah. And Democrats can't answer. They can't answer that.

They can't answer that. And, you know, if we have the resources as a state to get our kids educated, and you have a lot of people that are just married to this k-through-12 model, those resources can be used with parents making choices. Why would you want to prevent lower income children from getting a top quality education? It's a great question.

Ask okay. Memorize it. I may have a quiz on it later. Okay. All right. I'm memorizing it. I'm okay. I got it in my head. It's that simple. Why would you prevent lower socioeconomic children from having a better choice for education? Yeah. Boom. That's that's the money question right there. It's 851. We'll be back after this.

All right. To 854 on Newstalk 179, it's Neal Larsen, along with Julie Mason. Chuck Schumer 2018. Look, I think the president's doing the right thing. China has been taking advantage of us for two, two decades. They're stealing our intellectual property, which means stealing our good paying jobs. And I frankly am closer on this issue, not on many, but on this issue with President Trump than I was with President Bush or Obama, because they did nothing to tell China off.

Now, China, of course, will respond, but if they know we're strong and we're not going to back off, they will back off. They have far more to lose than we do. They have a $300 billion trade surplus with us. So I'm looking out number one for jobs. You know, if General Electric moves jobs to China, they're not unhappy.

But my New York workers in Schenectady are unhappy. And so you can't let the international business companies who don't give a hoot about where their factories are, govern this. You have to do what's good for the American worker. Okay? Don't give a hoot a hoot. And, this is, Chuck Schumer, 2025. Let's just take Super Bowl Sunday, okay?

It's going to affect beer. Okay? Most of it Corona here comes from Mexico. It's going to affect your block because what is guacamole made of? Avocados. Both from Mexico okay. Chuck. Which chuck are you. Don't give a hoot. But let me hold up a beer now and say, oh, we're not going to make it through the beer shortage, right?

Will the real Chuck Schumer please stand up? Please stand up. Like, which one are you? Like I it all depends on how much fear we're trying to sow among the American public. That's the Chuck that shows up. Well, I also think that for Chuck, it political context is everything. So he's looking out for the the General Electric workers in Schenectady.

Right. So therefore he's going to side with Trump on, on that front. But the default position is everything Trump does is bad unless what he's doing is a direct benefit to his constituents. Right. And then he'll cave on that on that particular issue. Yeah. But don't ask for intellectual consistency. No, no. He's not going to provide it. And they're just I feel like at this point Democrats are just scrambling to somehow make Trump look bad.

The problem with with all of this currently is the speed at which Trump is unveiling all of these things. That doesn't make any sense to people, because they haven't been able to hammer it away at them three and four and five days in a row. Yeah. We're humans. When you only ingest news on the surface level, which is a lot of America.

Yeah. You, you you don't even know what's going on because there's so much chaos. Yeah. And it's not working for the Democrats. They don't know what to do. So he's searching for something like beer, beer, beer matters to that beer. I'll talk about that. Guess what? It didn't even hit. They didn't even hear to see the clip. No, because so many other things happened in between all of that time.

I would bet you, Chuck Schumer thought that, you know what? If I hold up this can of beer and this avocado, it's going to go viral. No, I didn't didn't do a thing for you. Well, because because the news cycle itself, it, you know, moving way too quickly. Yeah. Made obsolete his whole, his whole point so. Well.

And I like this I remember back this is totally different. Donald Trump's the frequency of his actions are creating the same dynamic. It used to be. Bill Clinton would lie. You know, what he would do to get the last lie he told out of the headlines. Tell another lie. Constant scandal, tape 58 on Newstalk 179, hour two coming up on this Tuesday morning.

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All right, Julie, you figure that out and I'll talk for a minute. You got it. I can talk and do same time. We're good. Nine. Oh, so you are the queen of multitasking. I got it, I will say that. All right. If you'd like to reach us, the number is the Stones Auto Group. Call and text line (208) 542-1079.

Julie, something to watch for? You and I talked about this last week, and we are giving away, well, a night stay at either destinations in or Black Swan in. We're going to give it away a week from Friday on Valentine's. So it's, you know, gifted. Yeah. No, it's not to be used that night, but it's to be used at a later date.

But it would be a great gift for Valentine's. We might give it away on Thursday. So they have it in hand in time for Valentine's. And when they're sitting there at Costco, they can just hand it over and say, we're going to destinations in. Yeah, not a cost. You missed it. Yes. Not at Costco. It's a joke. I'm making fun of myself.

But here's what we're going to do. This will be on social media, but we want you. You know how you take your hands and you make the heart. And you put it on your heart. Yeah. Like you put your two hands together and it makes a heart. Yeah. So we want selfies of you doing that.

And then we will post those to social media and hopefully we'll have many to choose from and we'll choose one to win the night. Stay. So send us your heart selfies to 28542127. You could even do, a picture with you and your loved one, and you're doing one side of the heart. Other person's doing the other side of the heart with their hand.

That counts too. Yeah, that's a that's a really good point. Yeah. So. Okay, now you can stage it. You have a little time. This is not a race here, so. But, we would love for you to text it in and watch, for us on Facebook, too. We'll put it on social media so that you can see exactly how to do it.

Neal and I even took a picture of us doing it. Yeah, you'll have an example of how to do it. Yeah. Know. It'll be it'll be fun. So. All right. And we let Larry and the whole crew so good. Destination and Black Swan, if you've never been 1 to 1 of their themed rooms, you're missing out. You're going to love it.

It's great. Super fun. All right. (208) 542-1079 that he stones out of group call and text line. So David Hogg, there's another wave of David Hogg stories. The DNC just, elevated him to the vice chair. He's 24 years old, and they're thinking as well, he's young, and that means young people are going to now vote for us again, because they lost a lot of young people to Donald Trump in the last election.

They did. And they don't want to accept the fact that they lost a lot of young people. And I don't know why they think David Hogg is their solution to this. I don't either, if that makes no sense. He he's not relative. He has a checkered past. Yeah. You and I on the break, we're talking about how that checkered past is starting to creep back up.

Yeah. And, make it not look so good for him. I, I think I use the phrase yesterday that he stands on the dead bodies of his classmates to get this notoriety. Yeah, that's pretty accurate. Well, it really is. And they've. And I remember this happening in the weeks after that shooting Florida. Right. And he wasn't anywhere near where the shooting was.

It wasn't like he was ducking and bullets were flying over his head. He was somewhere else on the campus. Yes. And never encountered the immediate, shooting area. But you know who else did this? Who? AOC. Yeah. Oh. That's right. When they did. Yeah. Oh, no. The January 6th, she claimed her life was in danger. Things she thought she was going to get raped.

She wasn't even at the Capitol. She was over in one of the congressional offices, right? Yes. Like the Longworth Building or CBS two. Those two could be cousins together. They're acting exactly the same way. And then the whole thing of her showing up on the border in the white pants and her face is buried in her hands, and.

Oh, I'm sorry. No, it was all fake. All of it. These people are just fake. So, David hugs old posts. They've gone viral in 2022, so not that old. This was years after parkland. He rallied around several left wing positions, including legalizing all drugs support. Listen to this. Supporting a 100% tax after your first billion dollars. So you make $1 billion.

Then after that, they just take everything. Why would you make a second billion? Why would you even you want to? Do you just want to drive the richest people out of this country? Go right ahead, David. Do you know how many people are employed after the first billion? Wow, wow. He said, how radical, you ask? I don't think anybody should have over $1 billion in assets.

There should be a 100% tax after your first billion. He posted on tax in April 2022. I think we need to do what Australia did in regards to guns. We need universal health care, free college for all, legalize all drugs. And then months later, he said he would prefer to own a Porsche, then have kids claiming it's better for the environment.

He said like me, I'm never planning on having kids. I would much rather own a Porsche and have a Portuguese water dog and a goldendoodle. Long term, it's cheaper, better for the environment, and we'll never tell you that it hates you or ask you to pay for college. Now, I would agree his kids would probably tell him that they hate him.

But I am perfectly. If I'm in agreement. I don't think David Hogg should be reproducing. Let's not have him procreate. Yeah, I think that's probably a good decision for all of us. Yeah. To be honest with you. You know, he's awful in love with, Australia there. Yeah, you could go there. Can I explain to you what happens with the immigration process in Australia?

Go ahead. You go. You can visit for it's something like a month, a month and a half, you know, after that you have to apply to stay longer. They only give you that about every three months. And in order to stay in their country, you have to prove that you're working and you're paying for yourself. You have to pay for your applications, and you have to pay fees because you're taking part in Australia and you can't belong to any of their social programs.

That is so bigoted. That is so racist. Yeah, I'd love to hear what David thinks about their immigration policy. If he thinks Australia's so awesome, go ahead and immigrate there, David, and see how difficult it is in comparison to America. I think people are dying in boats trying to get to Australia. They're not because they have to pay.

They'll have to pay their own way. Yes. Another tweet about David Hogg. I'm not sure how electing David Hogg as the DNC vice chair is going to help Democrats solve their male voter problem. Just saying. He's not the most masculine guy in the world. What did we decide he is? He's not Sigma. He's beta. Yeah. Yes, he's a very much a Sigma is not the guy that wants to run the room, but the guy that's super cool.

David doesn't get to be that alphas. The guy running the room. The guy is super cool. Beta is the weak link. Yes, that's David, that is David Hogg. Apparently in 2021, he wanted to abolish Ice and defund the police, not the US Postal Service.

Maybe you have the US Postal Service protect us and deliver it. I know, just thinking now. So now my mailman is going to stop the rapist and the murderers. In their little teeny white trucks.

If I'm shaking over that, Steve Guest said DNC Vice Chair David Hogg has some legitimately insane views that are wildly out of step with the American people. Good to see that the Democrat Party has learned absolutely nothing. It is so true, Julie. Like I thought, okay, we this this right might actually be the beginning of the golden age of America.

I Donald Trump that may not turn out to be an exaggeration if the left continues to just collapse in on itself by electing people like David Hogg and making themselves even more unlikable by pulling in people like David Hogg and the other DNC guy that rambled on and on and on about electing a gender balance. And now we have to elect a non-binary person.

Keep doing it because you are paving the way. You are widening the road for Donald Trump's influence to last for decades in America. Go right ahead because we've got people on our bench. We've got Ron DeSantis, we've got JD Vance. We have we have plenty of other people up and coming that can take the place. So go ahead, keep driving away your voters.

Did you see that Vivek Ramaswamy is polling way ahead of the challenger in Ohio for the governor's race, but I'm not surprised by that. I know the mainstream media has wanted to just villainize this guy. I don't think that's anything that's going on in his home state. I don't think they view him that way at all. I think they view him as kind of a hero and I've talked about this, that we didn't here in Idaho.

We didn't really understand why Pennsylvania chose Fetterman. And as he served as a senator, we started to figure out, oh, we can see why. He's a little he's a little entertaining. He's a little, I don't know. He's just relatable to them. Yeah. We're not going to know that in Idaho. We're not there. I think the same thing is happening with Vick.

The mainstream media wanted to make him this bad guy. I don't think that's the way people who know him in his state look at him. See, I agree with you because and if you're from Ohio or if there are people listening in Ohio via the stream, I'll just apologize in advance. But I'm going to say what I'm going to say.

Mike DeWine is a weirdo. Like, he's just strange. And maybe they're okay with annoying. Maybe they're like, you know what? Outside of Ohio, we understand how this might seem annoying, but in Ohio, we get it. It's like vague. Yeah, I'm just like to whine is such a dweeb. I mean, he's he's just. So maybe Ohio is just okay with oddballs being there.

Maybe. Also maybe they look at Vick in, they're like, he is not even close to as dweeb as DeWine. So that's he said, yeah, breath of fresh air. Even if he does talk really fast. Yeah, yeah. That's true. Maybe they're just going young, energetic, moving at a fast, fast pace. There was some Democratic governor I didn't recognize trying to resist on the deportation stuff.

Right. I can't decide who's caving first. Canada and Mexico or Democrat governors. They're all calling each other. Are you kidding? Are you going to tweet it out right now? Because, okay, I'll wait 45 minutes and then I'll tweeted out, okay, we just got the order. Start the stopwatch. We're going to see how long I can go before I gave him.

It's like a planking competition. And they're they're falling left and right. Right. That's true. Yeah. Yeah that's that's funny. That's you know, isn't it fun to talk about these things Julie. Like, oh, we feel so good. We have lived through and I've had a few moments like this since the, the election and certainly since the inauguration. It is just such a breath of fresh air to not have a dementia ridden president.

Yeah, well, you felt hopeless and not led. Yeah, that's a really empty place to be. And we were there for four straight years. Well, I look back and I believe that America is, well, the safest. It's been in the last four plus years. I, I, I, I, I cringe to think about how vulnerable we could have been under Joe Biden as, as the president.

Like it. It's it's scary because they we have some bad players in this world that could have taken advantage of that. Yeah, absolutely. And probably did in certain ways. But yeah, not with warfare. Can I talk foreign for a minute? Yeah. I had a thought earlier today where, we often feel that the mainstream media, especially under the Biden administration, was control pulled by memos being sent out by the Biden administration.

People say somebody from the white House saying, hey, you guys need to talk about this. And it went to the four main outlets and then it then it went to the affiliates. And that's all they would talk about. Have you heard anything about Ukraine over the last 4 or 5 days? No. Now that you mention it, nothing.

So your point not to steal it, I want your thoughts. This whole Ukraine narrative was not organically coming from the media. I totally believe that's true. I think if we watch over the last two weeks as Trump has been in office, the there isn't an administration providing the talking points to the mainstream media. Therefore we're not hearing about Ukraine.

So let's go back for a moment to Zuckerberg's interview with Joe Rogan. There was one detail that should be shocking to everyone that Biden administration officials were literally screaming at Facebook executives about putting certain narratives out there. That should be shocking to everybody. Disturbing, unsettling. That the government would be that involved in what messaging was being propagated out to the American people.

Yeah I'm sorry. Go ahead. No that's what I was I just think all of it's disturbing. I think that it, it's disturbing to think that we lived under that regime for four years. Yeah. And now it's actually the workers in the government going in front of cameras and saying the things instead of this very secretive administration sending out the talking points to the mainstream media and having them be their frontline soldiers.

Yeah. Yeah. Right, right. And now, okay, while we're at this, Julie, you and I had an off mike conversation this morning. President Trump signed an order about creating a sovereign fund, which is basically a government fund, but it can invest in real estate. It can invest in commodities or whatever, almost like a corporation, an investment firm, which I think you have to be careful with that, especially when, you know, governments involved and they can pick winners and losers.

But I think Trump wants that because it'll give him some tools. And then not long after that, there was speculation that this sovereign fund created, if it's well funded, that it could buy tick tock and a lot of alarm bells went off because I don't want the government, even when it's led by people I like and agree with, to have state owned media and to have access, we we need media that's independent and I will argue for this all the way through the Trump presidency.

I do not think it's smart for the government to own TikTok now, if they need to do it to get out of Chinese hands. But the stipulation is it has to be purchased by an independent American company within three months. Yes. Create a time window and have a trustee in place. So you don't have elected officials saying, here's how the algorithm should work.

Here's the message you got to put out. I might be okay with that, but I do not want a I don't want a Pravda. I don't want a permanent situation in the United States where government owns the media. Because you know what? Maybe you'd love what Trump would put on TikTok. But we're not always going to have a Republican president and a Republican majority.

And we know what the left will do when they have their hooks in social media. This is a bad deal. Also, we altered an entire election with the way that people ingested their information. Had we not had the capability that was provided by Elon Musk, I believe there would be less votes for Donald Trump in 2024. Yeah, the ability for for just independent creators to go out there and speak at people like really big channels, Rogan Tucker, like those ones mattered.

But so do the individual channels to. Yes. We don't want that controlled. No, no, it's it's got to be independent. 925 on Newstalk one and seven nine we would love to hear from you on this Tuesday. And these stones automotive group calling text line is (208) 542-1079. We'll be back after this. Also, if you'd like to join us on Facebook Live, Julie and I will be doing an interpretive dance.

Dirt, won't we? Isn't that on the agenda? Sure. I'm. I'm down. Okay. All right. You don't want to miss it. So text live to 28542127. I will be back.

Did you see that? It failed. Over. Do you have a, an error message hotkey? No. Get it started. Main playback was interrupted because the connection to radio server has been lost. We're now on our backup server. On my machine? Oh, yeah. Mine's normal. Yeah. Okay. Underneath where it says the time, and then it says active it.

What does that say? No. Studio slash RSA one is that. Yeah, it should be SB one. Okay. All right I know it doesn't make sense the labeling, but Rs A1 is our backup. Our SB one is our primary. So I also Facebook's frozen. So I don't know why that didn't work okay. So it's not a bandwidth issue.

I don't know. It. I don't know, so Facebook Live, now that you're here, Facebook was being wonky. It was providing me a key that didn't match up with what that makes. No sense to them. So they provide me a whole long list of letters. It's called a key. I input that into my computer and then that says, oh, this goes to this Facebook page.

And that's how you guys get Facebook Live. The key wasn't being recognized, so I had to reset it. I think I did it four times and finally got it. So that's why we were late. That's weird. Yeah. It was just being very, I don't know, temperamental. And when I say it's frozen, I know you guys see it.

It's what I look at. Neal and I are frozen, and I'm giving Neal this look on my page. You must have said something that I was like, what? No, that's just the look you always give me. It's not frozen. And you're being really angry at me, right? And this right in the frozen run, you've got your bottom jaw jutted out, seeing that's not me at all.

I'm a gentle, lovable. They want our interpretive dance. What are we dancing to? No. Head, shoulders, knees and toes. Knees and toes. Knees and toes. Head, shoulders. I'm waves on the ocean in September. So why September? I don't know. June. It looks the same. Yep. I woke up, I had a little tickle in my throat last night. I woke up with a full chest thingamajig in my chest today.

The thing on the trigger. Yeah, that was a regular word in my mom's vocabulary. I know I'm. What are you doing? I am deliberately using the old words. Old speak from Orwell. I'm using old speak. I'm.

And so my grandson has quite the personality. He told me on the phone. Like on the phone last night. He looks at me, he goes, that's the last straw.

I love that the two and a half year old. That's the last straw. Yeah.

Okay. I can't keep up with the Blake Lively Justin Baldoni, apparently. Oh, no. This is several days old. He left a voice memo for her that he said there is so much communication between these two, is there? Okay. Hold on.

To Matt, to my friends who are upset, I would say with respect, you know, call somebody who cares. You better get used to this. It's USA, A.D.D. day. It's going to be Department of Education tomorrow.

I love it when Republicans are on offense. We should be like this all the time. Yes, we absolutely should own it. And it's been a long time, Julie. I mean, I think, Trump did a lot of great things in his first term, but I think he was kind of limited. I think all the Republican establishment in Washington, and I don't mean establishment in the in the pejorative way, I just mean more and more Republicans are inheriting Donald Trump's attitude.

And that is evident in, in Senator Kennedy's sentiments. Right. There's a get used to it. We're going to get rid of USAID. They've they don't serve the American taxpayer anymore. They serve leftist ideology. They're gone. Department of education. Guess what? Same thing. They just serve leftist ideology. They're gone. And they're not they're not serving their initial purpose anymore.

And quite frankly, the Department of Education is not a constitutional entity. I want to be a humble society. I do not want to be controlled. And the last four years of apology that was expected of every American citizen go through it all. We had to apologize that I didn't take the vaccine like there was an expectation that I, I, suspend my desires for everybody else's with the vaccine.

I'm not going to apologize for that. I'm not going to apologize for being white. I'm not going to apologize for being educated. I'm not going to apologize because I physically take care of myself and try very hard to have a fulfilled life. I'm not going to apologize for being a patriot. I'm not going to apologize for being conservative.

I'm not going to apologize for wanting lower taxes. I could just keep saying all of the things that the left expects me to apologize for. I'm supposed to apologize because I'm heterosexual. That's always bothered a lot of people. It is so stupid, and I'm grateful we don't have to be on an apology tour anymore. Yeah, I know I do.

You sense, like there's some hangers on, like they want to go back to cancel culture. They want to go back to Wokeism. They want to go back to DC. And they're going through these withdrawal pains right now that they don't own the culture. And what I find fascinating is that this transformation has happened over just a few short months.

It it didn't we thought the walk out of this forest from hell was going to take as long as it took to get into the force. No, the culture can spin very quickly when you stop propagandizing people with a steady, algorithm driven drumbeat of messaging through Facebook and Twitter and all the rest. When you stop, when you stop brainwashing them, they actually start moving back toward common sense pretty quickly.

And so I look at it and I think, and maybe it gives me hope, maybe this is, a bit of optimism here that I've, I've hey, you could call it complained about all of the FOMO driven social change that we've seen since Facebook came along back in oh seven. No. Eight, right? In that era. At first it was very benign, but then they went political and we saw marijuana legalization sweep through the country.

We saw, quote unquote, marriage equality and gay marriage sweep through the country. They were attempting to do it with the transgender ideology. They were. And and so many people's worldviews were raided quickly and rapidly transformed away from a reality based view of life. I think if we can wean people off of the brainwashing, many of them will go, what in the world was I thinking?

Why did I ever put those preferred pronouns on my LinkedIn profile? Why did I ever think that I was a good idea, or that it was a good idea to show porn to kids in libraries, or that it was a good idea to have boys get on the basketball court with girls? Yeah, I hope we get to that place.

I definitely feel like the the tide has turned, the tide has shifted that people feel much like, Senator Kennedy, that they're allowed to say that I care about my kids. I care about what you show my kids. And just because you choose to show your kids filth doesn't mean my kids have to comply, or nor do I have to comply.

I care about what goes in my body. And just because you chose to put an experimental shot into your body doesn't mean I have to put one in. I care about my religious values. And just because you've abandoned God doesn't mean I have to abandon God. Yeah, that's the expectation by the left. And people are fed up. Oh, they are fed up there.

And it's high time that we're fed up for a while. Julie and I had a fight yesterday. I was out working in my garage for a bit and this transgender ideology, like we there has been so much the last 2 to 3 years. And I think, you know, kudos to Matt Walsh for his What is a woman documentary.

I think that sort of was kind of the apex revealing the absurdity of, of all of this. And I thought the left, not so much gender, but they're trans in lots of things. Trans ING could be another word for gaslighting. They're transitioning that, well, you can either be good at your job or you can be a black lesbian.

We'll take either one. They're interchangeable right. Absolutely. That's not true. So when you're the press secretary but yeah good at your job is good at your job. Merit is merit. You can't substitute demographic traits for merit. You can have both. And I love it when we genuinely break glass ceilings that are demographic with merit. But you can't substitute merit with demographic check boxes.

But you, you think about all the things that the left trans is they, they trans a baby with the word tissue. They trans the word murder with it's a procedure. It's health care. They're trans. Everything. To try and make you think that things are something that they're not. So that you're in this constant state of uncertainty and delusion, and you're only going to trust the loudest voices in that situation.

For the longest time they were the loudest voices. It's not true anymore. Or that you're supposed to trust the ones with the most emotion. Right. We've talked it so much about how it is a very small portion of the country that believes in this things, but they're so loud. Yeah. So loud. People are tired of that. Stop this if you want.

The left wants to equate or trans that if I cry and I, I go to my social media and I show how horrible everything is, people will believe me. Guess what? You can only cry wolf so many times. Yeah, I sent you a video the other day. It wouldn't play well for radio, so I it was mostly just for Neal to see, but it was a guy on a tractor who all of a sudden was feeling emotion and he was like, wait, wait, wait, I gotta, I gotta put up my phone.

I've got a video. Does my hair look right? Okay, start the video. And then all of a sudden his emotion starts again. Yeah. Why are we so gullible? It's a very good point. Like, if you're that distraught, the last thing you're thinking about is turning on the camera on your phone and going live on Facebook. And yeah, it's a good point.

It's all in is it's all in our it is all an act. So much of it is all in act. Yeah. Okay. 939 (208) 542-1079 that's the stones out of group call in text line and, we're going to break. We'd love to hear from you. Lots of text this morning, but we want to hear your voices, too. So call in and, share what's on your mind today.

Okay. Who said thanks for this? Oh, Larry Fisher did. Yeah. Oh, you can pull it as close as you want. I can see it. It's bright enough. I don't want to have a seizure to joke. Babe, I'm on air. All right, all right, honey, it's 940.

I mean, I I'm done at ten. 20 is every other day. No. And all the Facebook Live can potentially hear what you're saying. So.

She doesn't care. Mom. She just wants to talk to her mom. All right, I'll call you when I'm done. Love you. You should ask me why. She also said my shirt was cute.

That's funny. Oh.

Somebody on text wants us to explain how you and I met. Well, that's very simple. 16.5 years ago, I moved from Pocatello, dated my neighborhood to Idaho Falls, bought a house in the same neighborhood where Julie lived. And we went to church together. And let's count the houses between us so we'd have to cross the street. Okay.

One, two, three, four. Across the street? Yes, across the street. So there's really only four houses between us. Between us. But you're sort of two streets over, too, so. Yeah. Anyway, so, neighborhood in the same ward. And about seven and a half years ago, Carlo is my co-host first, but she moved on. Her life changed a little bit.

Kids had grown, and she wanted to spend more time, with them. And, so she, she. I don't want to say she quit. That's that's very unceremonious. But she moved on, which is fine. She will. She was making a life choice to make it a little bit easier for her to go see her kids. Yeah.

So I had an opening, and, we we posted the job, and I found out that Julie was kind of interested in it. She had had some newspaper writing experience and, had never been on the radio before. And I knew Julie and we had several applications. Nobody was really what we were looking for, but I thought it was kind of late to the game and applying.

Yeah, you kind of were, but then, so I'm like, well, we'll, we'll try this out. We haven't looked back. It's been good. Yeah, yeah, it's been awesome. I'm sure there were weeks when she thought, what in the world was I thinking? But there's been heavy, hard days. Yeah, yeah. I don't think you can cover politics and not have heavy heart.

It's true. Yeah. But there's been plenty of great days, too. Yeah. Which is life. Yeah. It's ups and downs. That's life. Yep. It's interesting to watch the seeding in the legislature. How is it decided? I don't know it. Is it. Yeah. It doesn't go in order. Yeah I don't know. Can you choose I don't know I know that the, the offices are kind of done by seniority.

Because there's better places to be in the capital than other places, especially on the House side, because there's so many members. So I wonder if it's choosing by tenure, like if you've been there the longest, you get to choose on the House floor or the Senate floor. I don't know, I and I'm sure it's like when you're seated in class in grade school, like the teacher's like, oh, those two can't sit together.

Like they'll they'll fight or they'll talk too much or or whatever. I sent my son a meme the other day that said one person is saying to the other person, oh my gosh, you're so funny. And the other person says thanks. My desk was always in the hall. Yeah, yeah. Like I said it to my son and he's like, they never put me in the hall.

They put me at the back of the class, and sometimes they turn the desk around. Yeah. Yeah, it didn't matter. Seniority in elementary school, you just got put where you were least disruptive. Did you talk a lot with your neighbors? No. I was a really good kid. I was a really good student. I did not talk a lot that I remember with my neighbors, but I remember I would make jokes at, like, I was class clown.

So. All right, hold on. Here we go.

It's 946 on Newstalk 179. It's The Neal Larsen Show. If you'd like to reach us. The Stones Auto group calling text line is (208) 542-1079. And let's go right to the phones. Hi, caller, how are you today? And by the way, the word Costco is banned, during the show for this one, I'm bringing it up. You're the one that brought it.

I was going to tell you it's in fifth grade. My desk is right in front of the teacher's desk. Okay. You were that kid. Kept you close so she could smack your desk if she needed to. Yeah, well, my desk back then. They smack you? Yes, they did. And so there was a mirror sitting there. And that's where I learned to wiggle my ears.

I didn't learn a darn thing, but I learned how to work on my ear. A good life skill, I guess. I guess. What's on your mind today? Well, I'll tell you, I, I, agree with everything you guys have been talking about. It's about time that we stood up for ourselves as individuals, for people that think that they need to have a voice for everyone.

And everyone deserves a voice individually. So that's my only big thing. I just it is so nice to see what's going on. And I'm afraid that, there's going to be a lot more attempts on, president. And it scares me. But yeah, I mean, he's, I hope effected because there's a lot of people that just cannot stand him.

I know I, I, there's a lot that I don't like about him, but I've always thought that they don't need a politician or in the country, they need a businessman. Yeah. It's big business, that's all. So let me ask you a question. Because I know I said that word was banned. No, you go on about little.

It's about Trump. And you said there are things you don't like about him. And you know what I've said that from from day one. But I will say this. Yeah, those elements of Donald Trump have been far less prevalent this time around than they were during his first term. Like, I, I mean, he did he did drop a profanity the other day after the, after the plane crash and and ripped into the FAA.

But but day to day, I don't think the mean tweets are as mean anymore. They seem a little more directed and productive. I feel like he's grown in in the job and he's giving. There are far fewer unforced errors by Donald Trump now than there, I think was in the first term. And I think that's what scares the left the most.

Yeah, is that he doesn't have these things that they can just pounce on, you know, and they're trying to make like mountains out of molehills. And some of the things that he's saying I'm this like going, give me a frickin break, man. Yeah. Anyway, that's what I thought. All right. My desk to you guys. Have a great day.

All right. You as well. Thank you for the call. 208542 179 on the stones out of group calling text line. Yeah. Hey, I would I just learned this lesson here as we're talking, Be courageous. I am a lot more brave with the things that I say now versus four years ago. Even five years ago, six years ago.

Eight I think the trauma apex, the point of the most trauma was through Covid. And as we descended out of Covid, people were like, all the conspiracy theories are coming true. They were lying to you that this was one big, one big manufactured concept by our government, including since we've been talking about USAID all morning. Yeah, there was funding for the Wuhan lab, USAID.

So it is one big like USAID might just be one small portion of it, but it was the government out to harm you. That's what it was about. And we are coming down off of that with the, with the off ramp with Trump going, we're not going to do it anymore. We're not going to let the government harm us anymore.

We're over that. Well, I, I mean, I feel like and this is so much bigger than USAID and I so much of the federal government has become like this, where we've lost the vision that U.S taxpayer dollars, when they go to the government, are to benefit the U.S taxpayer. That's how it should be. You should get what you're paying for, but instead they've taken that massive, massive amount of of money and they use it for their own pet projects to try to engineer society and to carry out their own ideology.

In some cases, it's just flat out corruption. They're enriching themselves by it. They're they're building family wealth. Joe Biden, excuse me? Because they have access to that kind of money. They can direct it so that they get a windfall and that all that has to stop. It's got to stop. It's the Chuck a rama buffet. You go in, you pay a flat fee at the beginning.

Whatever they they administer you to you in taxes for the year, you pay it. You walk back into the restaurant part thinking you're going to get a buffet for what you just paid, and your politicians and your foreign countries are over there eating off of the really great buffet, and they give you a bowl of Frosted Flakes. Yeah, that's what's been happening for the last four years.

Yeah, yeah. No, I, I, I 100% agree. Can I throw you a leftfield story. Yeah. We can switch. Waffle House is now charging a 50 cent per egg surcharge. Did you see this story? I saw the headline. Yeah. So, they're adding a 50 cent charge per egg because of the nationwide rise in cost of eggs.

According to signs posted at its restaurant. An aggressive strain of avian flu is hurting supply, causing prices to rise with no relief in sight. The continuing egg shortage caused by HpaI or bird flu has caused a dramatic increase in egg prices. And so yeah, if you want, extra eggs, it's $0.50 an egg. Somebody said to me the other day, it was one of my clients.

Why is the bird flu only affecting chickens? Why aren't we seeing bird style plates? I don't well, I don't know if it's killing them as much as it's. Well, I don't know. That's a good question. I, I just feel like the chicken industry has been the most affected industry. Yeah. Why aren't we seeing if this is transferred from animal to animal?

Why aren't why aren't we seeing it in other industries? And why aren't we seeing it in just nature? Yeah, I don't know the answer to that question. I think maybe the answer might be if you've ever been to a chicken farm, they pack them in there. So in close quarters I would expect it to be higher. Yes. And we totally expect the nature birds are, you know, dispersed enough that transmission doesn't happen the same way.

It's kind of like Covid. It spread really fast in big cities when it was hot and people were inside with air conditioning. Well, the density of people, you know, dog taking the subway together. So but still, I think we should be seeing it somewhere else. I agree that it should be in higher numbers. Absolutely. Yeah. In the chicken industry, why aren't we seeing it in other places?

Well, I there's also a chance that they're not waiting for the chickens to die. They're actually instead of waiting for it to go through their flock, they're, they're killing it so it doesn't keep spreading to other places. So the shortage may be caused by the proactive efforts to kill not just the sick chickens, but the potentially sick chickens, too.

Maybe I don't, I question everything. I know this point. Absolutely everything makes me know we have trust issues. We do. Yeah. So okay, we'll be back after this. On Newstalk 12789 is a wait and see. Somebody was saying, who was I talking to about this, that the price of chicken should drop a ton because they can still sell the chicken.

Oh yeah. So if you still got the chicken. Yeah. So the high egg prices. Yes. But chicken prices should be really low because they're if if you're killing the chickens to stem the bird flu, you can still sell the chicken, right. The meat. So we'll see like what's your theory. Like what do you think is well I just feel like I'm going to say this very softly, but I feel like the ag industry is easily manipulated.

The most glaring example of that is the concept where they built the food pyramid that was absolutely designed not for your health, but for the enrichment of certain portions of the ag industry. And so if that can be manipulated at that level, is there a chance this is being manipulated for some reason? Yeah, possibly. I don't know, maybe it's completely honest.

Maybe. You know what. That's I'm going to look that up. The deeper economics of why the egg prices are so like it might be completely legit. I just think we should ask. Yeah. Okay. Okay. That's a little too much. Like, I can't see Julie right now.

They put a, a light indicator on her phone so that we know when someone's calling in. Up till now, Neal was just catching it when it would show up on the screen. The light indicator is very bright. Yes, it is very bright. Okay, so we're going to have about one minute and we do have a caller on the line.

So we'll we'll get the one call in here. We.

All right. Coming up on 958 Caller you've got about 30s. So we'll let you have the last word today. Go ahead. You. Me it's you. Yeah. Okay. God forbid I say the term Costco, but how come? I'll come. I'll come check in itself isn't going up in price. It's only the eggs. I think the answer's kind of complicated.

They they have to kill chickens. I still think they can sell the meat, though. I don't think they can, but they're not as many producing hens. Anyway, like I said, I'm doing a deep dive on this because I want some answers to, to all of this. But I do think we are going to see a change in price of, chicken chickens been very affordable the last couple of years.

Really. So. All right, everyone, have a wonderful Tuesday. Julie and I back tomorrow on Newstalk 179.