2.10.2025 -- NLS -- Super Bowl, Trump’s Pace & Cultural Shifts

 On this episode with Neal and Julie, they dive into the cultural and political undertones of the Super Bowl, from Jalen Hurts’ perseverance to the shifting tone of commercials and halftime performances. Neal shares his observations on the NFL’s attempt to appeal to a broad audience while possibly alienating its core fan base. The discussion also touches on the evolving political landscape, including Trump’s fast-paced return to leadership, the impact of past intelligence agency actions, and the debate over eliminating the penny. Plus, a conversation about Idaho’s education policies, scouting rebrands, and the future of workplace expectations. Tune in for a lively mix of sports, politics, and cultural commentary! 

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Hello, East Idaho and welcome. It's 807 on Newstalk 1079, and I did not expect that Super Bowl outcome. I'm not sure anybody did, but, and I will say I went into it rooting for the Philadelphia Eagles. So I was happy with the turnout. But and I say this with an immense amount of respect for the Kansas City Chiefs, what they've built, what they've accomplished.

I like Andy Reid, I like Patrick Mahomes. Me on Travis Kelce. But they're they are great organization. And so it's not like I have this dripping hatred similar to how I have excuse me a dripping hatred for I don't know Weber State. Someone like that, but I so I sort of felt bad for them.

But I was thrilled for my Eagles in some great stories about Jalen Hurts and, and, Nick Sirianni, the coach and I, I also was watching very closely, all of the little cultural details of what was happening around the Super Bowl. It was fascinating. And in some ways, I think the Super Bowl, which the NFL has worked very hard to try and attract a very large swath of America, which I don't know if that's a wise approach or not, because when you try to please everybody, you end up pleasing nobody.

And I think that they, they strayed for a while in their strategy and they were attracting people and attracting elements that were very counterproductive. Colin Kaepernick being the the prime pristine example here of what not to do. They've recovered from that. America loves football. They love the NFL again mostly. And it's because the NFL decided to stay top it with the DEA and woke nonsense.

I remember there were a few years there and I think all of you can identify with me. I couldn't stand to watch the Super Bowl because every commercial was some luxury message. It was, Karen Finger being wagged at you about how you're not doing enough to stop racism and you're not doing enough to stop sexism. And even, and it just got to the point where it wasn't even fun anymore.

I mean, I do it for the food, but it wasn't fun from, presentation standpoint. There was a little bit of it because there's always going to be a little bit of it, but there just wasn't much of that yesterday. And I sat there and I thought, how refreshing is it to be able to watch Super Bowl commercials and not have them make you feel guilty for something?

It's so refreshing. And I remember the anomaly used to be we would just be happy when one commercial during the Super Bowl didn't have woke garbage in it. Do you realize how much progress has been made in a very short amount of time? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm sure that there was a pharmaceutical ad that had to have racial balance or whatever.

That's you're always going to have that. There's an ambient level of of wokeism and political correctness out there, but that ambient level seems to be pretty low right now, and America feels like it's getting back to common sense again. And I think even people who were parroting the Wokeism message are kind of happy to be back to to normal and to back back to common sense once again.

Now there was an interesting contrast. I, I watched most nearly all of the Super Bowl. At one point they panned to Taylor Swift.

I would say just listening to that. That's about 70% booing and maybe 30% cheering maybe. And I think I'm being a little generous with the cheering. This was during the opening portion, before the kickoff. And they put Donald Trump up on the big jumbo screen. Listen to this as fine for the ramparts we watched. There is no detectable booing whatsoever.

It was thunderous support and cheering for Donald Trump. These are average Americans, tens of thousands of them in one arena. And this was the reception that our president got. Now I will say Taylor Swift is complicated because we've kind of been Taylor Swift it out. And the league got roundly mocked last year because Taylor was showing up at a bunch of the Chiefs games, and they were panning to her because they thought, oh, that's a big draw.

We're going to bring in lots of new people to the NFL. And you were offending your base because every third play you were showing a shot of Taylor up in the, you know, VIP box, and people got sick of it. Like, I came here to watch football, not Travis Kelsey's girlfriend. Every third play. It's also complicated. There is an added layer here because Taylor Swift was very pro.

Kamala Harris, and we are fresh off of those wounds from last year where we are not in scar mode. We're still in wound healing mode, we're still changing bandages and putting on Neosporin. I mean, that's that's where we're at. It's getting better, but we're still it's still very fresh for an awful lot of people. And we all know Kamala Harris was an abject disaster of a vice president of a candidate and, quite frankly, of a person.

And so if you put even some of your eggs in the Kamala Harris basket, you may as well have put all of them. America didn't want her. And I think even people that voted for her because they reflexively vote Democrat now in retrospect, go, man, I'm glad my vote didn't win out in November. So that was a, an interesting cultural contrast that I saw during yesterday's super Bowl.

There was also this where they interviewed Jalen Hurts at the end, said, After Super Bowl 57, you sat in the locker room and he thought to yourself, I'll be back. He got back and now you're a champion. How does that feel?

You know God, God is good as is. He is greater than all the highs and the lows. And I think personally myself, I just been able to use every experience and learn from it. Okay. The first thing out of his mouth is praising God. Later, he was up on the stage with Terry Bradshaw. Also after the game, winning they and accepting the Lombardi Trophy.

And he said the exact same thing. God is good. Yeah. And the highs and the lows. Couldn't be here without my teammates. Okay. Then you had Nick Sirianni and they interviewed him right after the game. Nick. Super Bowl champions. What is the moment mean? Man. God's blessed thoughts very much. He gave us all the talents to be able to get here.

So first and foremost, thanks to him, not only did they mention God, it was the first thing out of their mouths. And then again later in the interview, about 30 or 40s. Thank God, thank you. Jesus, isn't this sort of you know, the Andy Reid angle on this had the Chiefs one the same sort of sentiment would have come from Andy Reid.

You might remember Boise State's historic season this last year. Their coach, and by extension, players are overtly religious and unafraid to express that in public. It was not that long ago, my dear audience, that you probably remember. You could get canceled for this, that the online hyenas would come after you if you dared mention God or Jesus in your comments.

They were coming after you. Well, it's a different world now and it has changed dramatically. And we have seen the the I wouldn't say the eradication of DEA is complete, but the dismantling of it is, well underway. And I don't believe anybody actually really wants to go back to it other than that far left, fringy bunch of control freaks.

That is a teeny tiny slice of America. We go to CBS news. This was over the weekend. Listen to this reporting. This is typically liberal CBS news. Our CBS poll finds that a majority of Americans, 53%, approve of the job he's doing. That's a better approval number than he ever reached during his first term in the white House.

Joining us with more is our executive director of elections and Surveys, Anthony Salvant. So good to see you, Anthony. What's driving this? I will keep it simple, Margaret. He is doing, in the eyes of the public what he said he would do in the campaign. There's political value in that. In fact, 70% of people say he's doing what he promised.

That's whether they approve of him or not. Now, there's another part of this that continues over from the campaign. There were words that he was described as being tough, being energetic, and he still is today in big majority numbers. So as people take a look in these first few weeks, there's been a lot of activity. They're getting that general sense of governance.

And that's being reflected in these early numbers. So that's perception. What about the actual policies? Well let's start with the ones that are popular. And again these echo a lot of what we saw on the campaign, the idea of deporting those in the country illegally continues to be popular. We saw that in the campaign sending troops to the US-Mexico border again, majority in favor.

We'd seen that in the campaign for his supporters in particular, the focus on ending DUI is popular. We had seen in the campaign, a lot of them thought those processes had gone too far. All right. This clip didn't even get to one of the biggest connections that the left is having right now, which is eliminating government inefficiency because that's where the left lives exists and and finds their sustenance.

It is to create excessive government because excessive government is excessive control. And that's what they love and that's what they need. Donald Trump is methodically eliminating that. Did you think if I were to go back, if we could all get into one big time machine together and go back six months ago and if I if you had known what was going to happen in the first opening weeks, we're not even a month into Donald Trump.

We're three weeks in today's three weeks since he was inaugurated. And look at everything that has happened and the pace at which it's happening and the delivery of promises that is happening under Donald Trump. Of course, you're going to have people throwing a tantrum. Their political survival depends on Donald Trump not delivering on his his promises. It's it's a fascinating phenomenon.

And I don't like that the left is in such pain right now. I don't like pain, however it does. There is a very, very strong correlation between the left being in pain and America thriving. I wouldn't say it's absolute, but I will say the angrier the left is, the better off America is doing. And we are seeing that the it is actually very fun, not because they're in pain, but because I know it's good things for America.

It truly feels like a sunrise now in the United States. And I think that there were multiple aspects and elements of this Super Bowl yesterday, where that was an evident phenomenon that we saw. We saw America being America again. So it's 822. It's good to have you along at the commercials. I will say the commercials are not what they used to be.

They were fine. There were some clever ones. The rocket commercial was good. I thought the Duracell commercial, where Tom Brady shut down that one was clever. But but, I think that the the commercial, the Super Bowl commercial phenomenon hasn't been around a lot of talk about the halftime show, too. I will talk about that. But I want Julian here on that because my perspective changed on it.

I'm not a fan of hip hop, but you might actually have a different perspective when you look a little deeper and understand exactly what was happening and what message was being sent on that stage. We'll talk about it coming up. It's 823.

As we think about the future, we must, as a as a society, as a country, invest in adaptation and resilience. And we have to understand these extreme weather occurrences are extreme, but they are increasingly less rare. Suddenly solid. And we say, good morning. How are these extreme? But also increasingly less like, I don't even know where she was going.

She doesn't either. She she was in California. And of course she is she back living in California now because she's clearly she lost her residence in DC. That's true. Was she looking for root causes of the LA fires? Is that what she was talking about? Maybe she thinks she's. The fires are now until someone calls her. The fires are.

And then says, weren't you responsible? And then she's not. The fires are anymore. She's. The fires are until she fails at it. And then it's a liability to be called fires are. And then she'll gaslight you and say I was never. The fires are exactly. Even though she has a coffee mug that says fires are on it, that she holds all the time.

Right. Black Sharpie over seeking root causes of the L.A. Fires. That's what it was. Welcome back to 085421079. That's the Stones Automotive Group call and text line. It's a Monday morning. The Philadelphia Eagles are the world champions in football. And it was never even close to you. I know you were. You were tied up for the first part of it.

You were in church. But I, like I watched it like that. Okay. It's going to be a good game. It's going to be a back and forth. And I hope Philadelphia squeaks it out. No. Every drive that first half and really into the third quarter, they were shutting down Patrick Mahomes in the Chiefs. They couldn't figure out how to how to move the ball against them.

Yeah I had it playing on the phone while driving home from Rexburg. Yeah sorry. Idaho State Police if you had to catch part of the Super Bowl. Yeah. I was the very first reaction I had was that defensive, line is dominating the Chiefs. Patrick Mahomes had no time that front four they weren't even blitzing Kansas City.

It's just that front four was so dominant. Yes yeah yeah it was that was my first reaction. Second reaction I felt like Patrick Mahomes because of the pressure, was making some weird decisions. Yeah. Typically a little better under pressure than that. There was a couple of turnovers on my very first part of watching. I couldn't have been.

I wanted Philly, so of course I was happy about that. Yeah, but I was more shocked by the performance of the Chiefs. I didn't expect that. Yeah, I did too. I need to it. Does it reach a point? Is this why a three peat is so difficult? Because that third time you go in, there's so many expectations. The pressure must be intense and it just you know in Philadelphia they're hungrier, you know, for the for the trophy.

And they're so I don't know it's just weird dynamics to watch. I think Kansas City obviously is a better team than what we saw yesterday. So it's sad that they they weren't able to kind of put everything together. But part of that is how well Philadelphia played too. And maybe they came in so prepared, which is another reason that I think a three peat is hard because that's that's a bigger stake.

You want to not get that team off. You don't want to give them a three peat. I didn't have little smokies. Oh, you didn't know the store had run out? Oh, shoot. I went out like Saturday evening to to grab a few things because there were few things we didn't have. And so I end it, I ended up buying a kielbasa and slicing it up and putting it into the barbecue.

It was fine. It wasn't quite the same. Didn't have the same pop as the Little Smokies have. Do you want to hear what a princess pants I am? Yeah. Now that I don't have children in the home, I don't have to pay as much attention to the grocery bill. Yeah, plus feeding far less, you know, just not buying that much food.

Pulled into the WinCo parking lot. Saw how busy the WinCo parking lot was pulled out of the WinCo parking lot. Yeah, and went to a different grocery store. That is a princess pants. But you've earned the right to be a princess pants, as I, I I'm not doing this. I'm not doing this with my Saturday afternoon. Sorry. Fighting against it.

Yeah. That's why I go to Walmart on a Saturday night. Risking there being. No no little smokies. But yeah. Yeah, it was, it was all right. We had some different dips and stuff and I made, I made homemade queso. Yeah, yeah. Cream, butter, pepper jack cheese and medium cheddar cheese. Yeah it was pretty good. It was pretty good.

Good. I ruined it a little bit because they put some rotel tomatoes in it, so it wasn't as thick as I wanted it. A little bit of what? I drained them, but it was still kind of still too watery. Yeah, sometimes those cheeses can make it grainy, too. I think that that's a real key to queso is making it smooth.

Yeah, yeah. And it was, I think after a while because I kept it, kept it warm on the stove top. It did get a little grainy but it was it was fine. Yeah, it's totally fine. Anyway. Good day yesterday. Good, good. So, Donald Trump just rolling Juliet out. I it is there. Can I I don't know how to ask this question.

Is Donald Trump going to have to keep this pace for all four years of his presidency, or does he just need to spend about 3 or 4 months at this pace, clean up the massive mess left by Joe Biden, and then he'll settle into a more manageable and and more of a from a time management standpoint, it'll it'll dial back a little bit.

I don't I don't know the answer to that. My fear is he can't keep up this pace. Not that he physically can't. My fear is that he'll run out of things to alter. I know that there's probably people laughing right now because the government's so broken there. It's going to be a long list of things that need altered.

Yeah, but imagine doing this pace for four years. I do believe you'd run out of things that would need to be altered. Yeah. On your recommendation, I watched the 2021 documentary about JFK. Yes. Okay, now keep in mind the documentary is made by Oliver Stone. Yeah. Who fully believes that the JFK assassination is a complete conspiracy. Yeah, right.

Okay, so with that premise, I did have a couple of takeaways from a very interesting, by the way. Highly recommend. It's on Paramount Plus. Yeah. I watched it too, by the way. Oh. You did. Yeah. Okay. Good. So here, here's my fear. How many more attempts on Trump's life is there going to be in the next four years?

That has been on my mind a lot. A watching, watching the pace at which Kennedy was moving much, much slower in the things that he did. Yeah, going against the people in his party, they were frustrated with him. I don't think any of that is tainted by Oliver Stone. I think he's just telling history the way it is.

Yeah. If you believe that Kennedy was taken out by more than just a lone gunman, those same forces are alive and well. Yeah. Searching after Donald Trump. They are. But I also believe that Donald Trump probably is aware of this. And his top priority is to dismantle any structure that would and disallow them access to the resources in power they would need to accomplish that.

Yeah, yeah, I hope so. I mean, I'm circling around the question you asked me is, can he keep this up for four years? I don't think it's just the fact that he would run out of of, things to change and to, shock the America media with. I also fear that he's got to be super protective of his life and those around him.

It's not just him. I mean, he's got to be protective of his family, of JD Vance and, I mean, I think he's a clear threat. I think that, Ron DeSantis is a clear threat. Both of those men need to be very, very careful about the things that they do. Can we? I mean, it's been around for four years.

Can we do the spoiler on the documentary from Oliver Stone? Oh, yeah, I think so. Basically, the premises, it was very likely the CIA and our intelligence community. Absolutely. That took him out. It's almost like be prepared to have the the like the really exciting parts of the JFK assassination in the first half of the documentary. Yeah. Then there's this automatic switch to why did it play out this way?

And that's when you get deep into the CIA. Putting Dulles on the Warren Commission, in retrospect, was a terrible mistake. Yeah. So I asked ChatGPT, speaking of this, this was a prompt that I, that I gave to ChatGPT based on the information, you have assumed that Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill John F Kennedy. Of all the alternative assassination theories, which would you say is the most likely and ChatGPT responded, if we assume that Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill JFK, the most likely alternative theory involves a conspiracy with elements of the CIA, organized crime, and possibly rogue government operatives.

Among the various theories, one of the most plausible scenarios is that JFK was assassinated by a coalition of intelligence and military industrial figures who viewed him as a threat to their interests. So here's my question because I thought about that. We're probably weeks away from having all those files disclosed publicly. You wonder how much is going to be destroyed.

And before we get to that point. But that's very hard to do. The way we archive stuff, it's very, very difficult to me. Much more difficult now. Yes. You need to understand that there was plenty of documents destroyed right around. Yes. The death of, JFK within 4 or 5 years, we had documents that got ruined. Well, part of that, that documentary, the Oliver Stone documentary, when they talked about the chain of custody of the magic bullet.

Yeah, that was fascinating. So fast. It was basically an impossible chain of custody. So they were they were going back and doctoring the record on what happened to the evidence in, in the JFK thing, which the only reason you would ever do that is you were involved in it, that it sure seems that way. You're covering your own tracks.

Sure seems that way. So if if that's the case, and here's the question of how it's relevant today, because that was 62 years ago, 61.5, if it turns out that it was the CIA that was behind assassinating an American president, that's the end of that agency. Yeah, they it goes away. They have to dismantle it and they know it.

And that's probably why they have worked so hard to keep the information from coming to light and and having those records from coming to light, because we can't ever have that. You can never have an agency. Obviously, that is assassinating the the will of the people essentially. Yeah. And so yeah, it and I do think that it would spell the end of the CIA and much of the intelligence community, to the extent the FBI was involved and all the rest, it it it would be a reset button on our entire intelligence apparatus if we find out they were Senator sitting on that committee, the the Warren Commission aide, there were just so many things that

were flawed there. One of my other takeaways from that documentary is that we frequently talk about binders on the shelf, meaning that there are ready set plans. They pull the binder off the shelf, they enact the plan to make a possible change. Politically. I, with all of my soul, believe that Covid 19 was a binder. Yeah, it was enacted by bad players.

I'm not saying they were within our government solely. I think there were a few within our government. I think there was probably some within the the Chinese government. I don't know what other governments, but there were bad actors that put a binder into play. We learn in that documentary there were binders in existence while Kennedy was president, binders of wars that potentially could have been started, fake plane crashes that could have happened, that would have pushed people over the edge to change their stance with Cuba.

These are these concepts of these binders. They've been going on for decades. Yeah. Well, yeah, I would agree because I think there is, a shadow structure that's got a very they're filled with powerful people and they have a very consequential agenda. And if the facade of our democracy and republic counters that, then there's yeah, there's a conflict.

So yeah. Yeah. Highly recommend. Tell me the name of it again. Do you remember through the looking at glass, through the looking glass JFK through the looking glass. Paramount plus it pulled right up for me. All I typed in was JFK and it was right there. 2021 I'm surprised it didn't get more play because it's I mean, it doesn't it's not the smoking gun, but it's a lot of evidence that makes you really think Oliver Stone did a good job with this.

It makes me want to go back and watch Oliver Stone's, feature film JFK. Yeah, with Kevin Costner. Yeah. RFK Jr was interviewed in it, which I thought was interesting. Yeah, it was interesting. So yeah. Yeah. All right. It's 842 Newstalk 1079. We're going to take a break and, have a little bit of news here on this Monday morning.

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851 on Newstalk 1079. It's Monday Morning (208) 542-1079. That is the number to call or text. And we're finding more and more of our listeners have migrated over to text. Julie. Yeah, they're liking it. And we need to do like, first time caller or, or haven't called in the last six months or never. And, and, have another one of those I love hearing people new voices and and new perspectives.

So did you feel the same way? Part of the. You know, cause you probably watched about half the Super Bowl, half that much of the wokeism is gone, like I didn't I? I'm sure there was a little bit of it. Every pharmaceutical company has some of it. But did you feel like a lot of the political correctness that we have just been blasted in the face with the last few years, it just wasn't there during the Super Bowl yesterday?

Yeah, I felt like that in multiple facets of the Super Bowl. So I feel like the NFL is shifting back away from that. I felt like the commercials were shifting back away from that. There was more mention of God. I felt like, the Super Bowl performance wasn't so in your face with, like a yeah, said with all love.

But this infusion of Dei into the performance and sexual matters into the performance that was lessened quite a bit, that felt like patriotism was available at the Super Bowl this time around. I think we've missed that for a few years. Just all in all, it feels a shift back to what we expect from the Super Bowl. Yeah, yeah.

True. Someone just texted in that they still had the black national anthem. Yes, that did happen. You know what the problem is? It's not the song. It's the fact they call it the black national anthem. That's what's so divisive about it. It's weird. It is weird. It's also weird because they place it so it's inconspicuous, which means they don't really want to do it, but they're doing it anyways just to keep people happy.

Yeah, that doesn't feel genuine in any way. Yeah, no it doesn't, but. Okay. Julie, I want you. What do we have here? We probably not enough time, so maybe just tease it right now. My initial take on the the halftime show, the Kendrick Lamar, Kendrick Lamar, he has two first names. So I have to remember which are Kendrick.

Yeah. So Kendrick Lamar, he, I'm just not a fan of hip hop. It's just not my not my thing. The words don't in my mind, they don't compute translate. So I just don't I don't pay that much attention to it. You're saying it was actually a really pro-American message and a unifying message that he he was putting forward?

I had no idea it was. I'll talk really fast because we've got about a minute. I had no idea it was. I thought it was a boring, halftime. Just not my thing. I texted my family. My kids knew they would know. They set me straight and said, let's explain, Kendrick Lamar. This was a big middle finger to Drake, who he's had a beef with forever.

In his song, he calls Drake a pedophile. The little A around his neck stands for a minor that somehow a connection to Drake. Okay, so he was trolling him that way. The stage was a two fold stage. It was a street representing his days as a gang member. But then if you looked at it from the other side, it was actually a game controller.

There's some kind of beef between Drake over him, over games. And then you had Samuel L Jackson dressed as, Uncle Sam. Yeah. And the colors were an infusion of even though I came from gang violence, I am American, and we're we're unifying as Americans. Okay, probably more to say on this, but we're out of time for this hour.

We'll be back 854.

And be,

All right. Eight 59 hour till the Nielsen show coming up.

907 on Newstalk. 1079, it's Neal Larsen and Julie Mason, and we're happy to have you along with us as we get another workweek underway. Earlier this morning, we interviewed Representative Rod Furness, and we'll have that up on the website midday today, probably noonish something like that. And we actually now have a special section just for our legislative interviews.

And it's populating quite rapidly because Julie, Julie schedules us and tomorrow we have Senator Dave Lent 730. And then on Thursday we'll have Senator Kevin Cook. Also during this week, we have Senator Crapo, Senator Risch. Yeah. And then on Friday, we're going to have Finlay Webster performing for studio four covers. Very excited about all that.

Yeah, it's a double whammy on Friday with studio four covers because it's President's Day on Monday, we're going to have her sing her beautiful rendition of the national anthem. Plus, it's Valentine's Day, so she's going to sing a love song for us as well. Yeah. So we'll get a double dose of, Findlay. So that'll be that'll be good.

Okay. Julie, there is a developing. This is a bombshell. Okay. If it turns out to be true. Yeah. And and we want to say that with that huge caveat if it turns out to be true, but there is a federal whistleblower filing a criminal complaint, or at least they did last week. Here's the allegation that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who was involved in the assassination attempt on President Donald Trump.

It also alleges that Chris Wray conspired with the Biden administration to hide the reports. And right now, the Butler County DA's office is investigating the allegations and so far, there have been no arrests or official charges against Shapiro, at least that have been confirmed by official sources. So, again, this is early, but it appears that this criminal complaint has been filed.

And, Julie, there's a true crime story that you've been following for a while out of Pennsylvania, where Josh Shapiro has been directly involved and he's dirty. Like when you when you look at this, it's a it's well, tell the story. It's it's insane. I'll try to make it very short. It was a couple of decades ago. Super bad, snowstorm in Pennsylvania.

A woman by the name of Ellen Greenberg came home early from work. They released. She's a schoolteacher, and they released school. So she gets home early from work. She shares a kind of a luxury, a little bit better apartment with her fiancé. She proceeds to begin cutting up fruit, making a fruit salad for dinner. Fiancée leaves and works out, when fiancée comes back, he says he can't get in, that it's locked from the inside.

He eventually there's way more to this portion of it, but he says he breaks down the door. He finds her, slumped down in the corner of the kitchen cabinets. She has a knife plunged into her chest. When they do the autopsy, they find 20 stab wounds, including a stab wound directly to the base of her skull.

So imagine holding a knife and doing that to yourself. Yeah. Pulling it back out and then administering the fatal blow to your chest. Yeah. Right away. They think it's a homicide. However, all of a sudden, within hours, the crime scene is cleared. They don't take prints from the the knife in her chest. A judge, a judge in the area who is, I believe, an uncle to the fiancé that finds Ellen.

Yeah. Comes in and confiscates everything out of the. The judge does the judge. Judge enters the crime scene, takes the computers, takes the phones, takes everything. So none of that is entered into evidence. The knife is not fingerprinted. The autopsy is done. Initially ruled a homicide. Days later changed to a suicide. Now, where does Josh Shapiro come in on all of this?

Josh Shapiro was the attorney general at that time. There is a lot of strong Jewish connections here. The wealthiest of wealthy in this area all know each other. A lot of them are Jewish, including Ellen's fiancé, who has the uncle, the to judge. All of the suits that are filed by Allen's family are dismissed. And the attorney General's office does not.

Attorneys General office does not take this suit seriously for years. It maintains the place of being a suicide, with the cover up going to the highest of offices in Pennsylvania and just the basic facts of the case. Everyone could look at that and say, clearly, this is not suicide. Clearly you don't have that many stab wounds, and the location of the stab wounds doesn't happen in suicide.

So, okay, you're cutting up fruit salad and then you're just like, oh, I guess I'll end it all right now. Yeah. Like there were blueberries in the strainer in the sink. Yeah. And you, you just decide to end it. Yeah. So there's no connection. Okay. This, this criminal complaint that you began talking about, it was filed by a police employee who believes that they have proof that they can show that this happened.

My question is, if it's filed by the police employee and it's a Pennsylvania State Police employee, is that the appropriate chain of custody? Do you file first with the Butler County Da? Well, okay. The tweets says it's a federal whistleblower. So but it's with the state the Pennsylvania state, it says, and a former Pennsylvania state police employee. So maybe there's two okay.

Federal employee and a Pennsylvania state Police employee. Or maybe they with the way it's written, it's either that person both worked for the feds and for the state police, or there's two different people don't know which one it is. And then but my question is, why does it go to the Butler County DA's office? Why are they the ones investigating this?

Or why isn't it some somebody higher up? And maybe we don't want somebody higher up? I don't know, but that's my weirdness in the story is why does the investigation originate in Butler County? Yeah, in the DA's office. Well, I mean, this is a bombshell allegation. To the point, if they if it's proven, obviously Josh Shapiro should go to prison for the rest of his life.

Absolutely. If he's connected with covering it up. And then what about the Biden administration not not taking the the complaint seriously? Well, yeah, there's that that too. I mean, you might have Biden administration people that could face big time. You know, I have you know, there would probably be no reason to bring Biden himself into the loop on this.

They probably didn't tell him. Yeah. Plausible deniability, whatever. But, if there were high level Biden administration officials in this, if any of this is true, this is going to be a story that is is going to be the story of the decade, the half century. Which is weird because last year we were talking about the dismantling of the CIA, if we can ever prove that they were involved in the JFK assassination, so you'd get rid of the CIA if, Wray is implicated in this and you can prove that he was part of the potential assassination attempt on President Trump, you got to break down the FBI to its lowest levels to.

Yeah, you really do. Have there been any documentaries produced yet, about the assassination attempt on Trump? I know it's only been a few months. I haven't seen one. Okay. I mean, I, I would say that thinking there's possibly something out there just not a really big, big one. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, we'll keep an eye on this story again.

It's it's early. It's it's before any of the big media has picked it up. The the complaint was filed just Friday so. Yeah. And, and obviously before any big media reports this they're going to be doing some I mean I would hope. Yeah. So all right. 208542 179 if you'd like to join us on the program this morning and, well, we should mention, if you have not sent in your couples selfie, your love selfie, and then that's all you have to do is send us a text to (208) 542-1279, attach your love selfie and it could be you standing.

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That's good. You're like, Neal, get on with it. Come on. They're so hung up on love. They don't know what to do now. Love selfie. So Penny's maybe not going away, but Trump has directed the Treasury to stop minting new pennies. It takes over $0.02 to make $0.01. Okay. I am the outlier here. I still pay for a lot of things in cash.

Yeah, mostly because I have a lot of people give me cash in my business that I do, so they just pay me in cash, which is sweet of them. So I use cash a lot. Let's say I'm like, pick a place. Let's say I'm at Papa Kelsey's in Idaho Falls and I pull out cash to pay.

Yeah. First off, the young people that work nowadays don't know how to count that cash, right. They don't they don't work in that currency. Yeah. Second off, they kind of stare at you like cash. Are you kidding? Really? So if that's the case, then I'm the only one still using cash. Or there's only a handful of us. Get rid of the pennies.

Yeah, I don't care if pennies go away. And, I don't, you know, everyone is cynical and says, well, they'll just round up to the nearest $0.05 rather than round down. No, capitalism is competitive. And so I think it it could benefit as much as it as it hurts us. But I would agree with you. Pennies are kind of more trouble than they're worth.

Okay. Is that wrong of me to say that's okay to say it? That's okay. I'm. And I'm okay if everything from me here, although you can't really get rid of them because we have a 6% sales tax. So if you pay for something and it's a dollar, you owe a dollar six. Yeah. How are we going to do that if they always round up or down?

I guess they charge $0.99 and make it a dollar five. Maybe that's how maybe that's what they'll do. I don't know, I it would be interesting to have someone speculate if we don't create any more pennies, but we leave the system exactly like it is. How long before we're in a, difficult place of needing more pennies? And if that's the case, I should get a $20 bonus for taking that jar of pennies into my bank and dumping it.

Right? You know what? Maybe that's what they'll do. They'll decommission the pit. Like, they'll they'll be like, okay, we're going to stop printing pennies. You can still use them. We're just not going to make them anymore. And when there gets to be a shortage, that's when it becomes troublesome. That's when the government says our basic unit will be in five cent increments.

It'll be the nickel. And then you, if you have pennies, bring them in and and will refund you as many nickels as it takes to to make up for it. We all know everybody has a coin jar at home. Every mine is a it's a bowl that sits by the the back door that the keys and stuff get thrown in.

Coins get thrown in there too. Yeah. So if everyone will empty out their coin. Yeah, we can make this float for longer. That's true. That, you know, that's a good point. So we just have some kind of a bonus if you take it to the bank. You know, it's funny because they talked about, during the Obama years, they talked about this.

They talked about this during the Biden years of how much capital was sidelined because it wasn't favorable to be using your money under Obama and Biden, because they were taxing the crap out of everything. Right now, I think pennies are sidelined, like there's a lot of dormant pennies out there. And if the Treasury just says, we're not going to print pennies anymore, a lot of those big, huge jars are going to get emptied and they'll start using them.

So you're right, you're right. We have way too many pennies and I'm okay with this. I think we can bridge the gap for long enough, but it's going to be fine. And everyone will get used to like businesses. That'll give them plenty of time to change their their structure so that it all what they what they sell ends in a 5% or whatever, or maybe states or whatever.

We'll start implementing different, you know, wouldn't it be great if in in Idaho we could drop it back down to five. Yeah. Instead of six. Yeah. Well that's that'd be pretty awesome. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I wonder I wonder how that works though, because don't you need at the basic unit something that represents the basic unit of value I it does that become the nickel?

I don't know, but then the nickel becomes the one. Yeah. Right now the penny is the one. But doesn't the nickel have to become the one. So if something is a dollar, it's not 100 pennies, it's 20 nickels. Okay. I mean, I'm a little confused how this is going to roll out. Okay. Let's let's carry this even further.

What if we did. What if you just got rid of the other stuff? What if you got rid of nickels and kept printing pennies? And if you if you had to make cash, that's a whole lot of pennies out there. And then we're not. We're not minting. That would be the exact word. Minting. Yeah. Nickels save some money that way.

But why wouldn't you? Mint nickel? The point is just to save some money. That's not that's that's the whole reason he brought it up is because it costs more to print. But if you need a basic one, you can always count from there. Maybe you save money by getting rid of the nickels, and we don't mint those anymore.

But I think nickels are worth $0.05. Yeah, sure. I'm just saying save money somehow. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, because the penny can always make up the nickel. Yeah. Five pennies can be. Five pennies can always make up one nickel. Yeah, but that costs over $0.10 to make. But now you're not minting, at least for the nickels ever again. Yeah.

And you move them out of circulation. I don't know what the answer is. It's maybe this is the secret move to the cashless society. Because people. What am I going to do then? I can't figure it out anymore. Right? Yeah, I don't I don't know, I don't know, I don't know. 2.5421079. If you'd like to join us on the, program, that could be a flagpole.

Get rid of the penny or not. Sure, I think that I think I don't think we'd run into a problem as quickly as we think we'd run into a problem, but I don't either. I'm also not an expert in this field, so maybe I'm speaking out of turn. Yeah, yeah. No, I think you're right. And I don't think Trump's effort is to get rid of the use of pennies.

I think he just knows. Why do we keep printing pennies when people have jars and jars of them sitting in their basement or in their attics somewhere? And it costs double to to do it, so. Right. Yeah. All right. Let's go to the phones. (208) 542-1279. Hey caller, how are you doing? Well happy Monday. Thank you as well.

Thank you. Yeah. And congratulations to your Philadelphia Eagles. Oh thank you. It was fun. Real quick every time I hear the updates from the weekend, from Trump's, cabinet, I can't help but think of the president of, Argentina. And during his, his bid for presidency, he's talking about getting rid of all these programs. And he kept shouting muffuletta, I swear, as he's crossed things off the whiteboard.

Well, not we don't all know Spanish, so you're going to have to translate that for me. He's just he's basically cutting programs with his Sharpie. What? What does that mean? Yeah. What do we know what that word means? Basically just gone. Gone. Okay, okay. So means gone. Okay. Got it. Yeah. Mark, leave. And Gavin, Rob and Joe will usually pull, him up every now and then.

Run that clip. Oh, gotcha, I see it. Okay, well, I think he's enjoying himself for certain. I think Trump's having a good time. I don't think this has been, taxing on him. So, you know, we were just talking about pennies. I think that this has actually infused energy into him to do these things. Oh, yeah. Well, and, you know, you look at Argentina, president Argentina is now number three in oil production in South America.

You know, they've they've shifted. Yeah, yeah. And I think we're, you know, in a weird way, following suit in, in the sense of, you know, as the freedoms are made more available. Yeah. I'm, you know, it'll be just following trace of that, that freedom model. So. Yep. Anyways, happy Monday. And again, thank you guys for what you do.

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Okay. Hello, Facebook. Facebook. Everybody can hear. Okay. On Facebook. Are they saying no one no one has complain. Good. We had we'd do a little work around this morning. And by we, we mean Neal. Well, he was the one that was under the table working with everything under there. Bonked his head on the counter as he came back up like, yeah, yeah.

So Neal Neal fixed it all. Yeah. Julie got a new computer. How is it keeping up? Is it better? Facebook's running. I can see everything. And you haven't had any hiccups? Nope. Good. So happy. So happy. That's good news. Yeah. Julie was running everything on an i5, which is probably at 12 or 13 year old machine. Like it's.

It went back a minute. Yeah. Decent machine for some real basic stuff, but yeah, I'm asking too much of it. There was times it was topping out at 100% usage on the C, CPU, so yeah, we fix that. Okay, so hit that and hold and do that. All right. We're going to get rid of these essays. And we have calls for two calls waiting.

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Come on. Freedom. About empowering parents. About. Yeah. Ask her. Okay. Very weird. Very weird. Okay. Would you guys all eat for the Super Bowl party yesterday? Go ahead. Put it in the list. Okay, here we go.

930 on Newstalk 107. And you want to join us? The number is (208) 542-1079. So, Julie, you sent me this clip. This is former. Was it representative Julie Yamamoto? Yeah. Because she was the education chair of the Idaho Education, the House Education Committee. And she spoke at a Democrat press conference. Against parental choice. Listen, between the students, the parents and the school to come up with a plan that works.

And I'm just here to tell you. Did I see? I have a line with every teacher. Some of them have been called me blessed and others call me names. I will not repeat here. But here's the deal. The biggest complaint I got is that I was child centered. All that, she was child centered. So. So I want to just.

I try really hard not to be snarky, because I just don't think that's who we need to be. So this remark is just meant to not sound snarky, and I just think it's probably going to anyway. But to have 28 brave people in the House of Representatives who have read their Constitution and understand what it says about what is the proper role of government in regards to educating our you.

I thank God for them. It is not easy to stand up against all of those voices who are telling you, you need to wear the team jersey. You need to. You don't care about individual kids. You need to please this person or that person. No, the problem was she was she was wearing the team jersey. I feel like I'm being so gaslit when I listen to this.

I agree. She was wearing the the jersey. She just wasn't playing for the team. Wear the jersey which she is now. She's speaking at a Democrat press conference. Now she's wearing her true jersey. So I mean we, we really dodged a bullet beating her last year and getting somebody new in, and, there is no way.

Is there any way that Wendy Harman's bill would have passed if Julie Yamamoto was still in there? Oh. Absolutely not. No way. Absolutely not. And my issue here is, is that her team, quote unquote team is the Democrats slash teachers union. Yeah, that's the team. And that's the jersey she's wearing. And they do like to lie and say that they're child focused.

All you have to do is look at the legislation that they are supportive of. It's never child focused ever. Yeah. So that's what I mean by I feel like I'm being gaslit by the things she's saying. Sure. Your little Democrat buddies might have had you on the back and said, oh my gosh, you're so child focused. I don't I think you might have heard that.

I don't think you heard that from people who were upset with what you were not allowing to have happened in the House of Representatives. So my thought about this, because we interviewed Rod Furness about this this summer. It was very civil interview, but we were on opposite sides on this. He voted against Wendy Harman's bill and against parental choice in education.

And I mean true parental choice. They're all going to say, oh no, we're for parental choice. Choose from the menu of public schools, of government schools. That's that's the choice they want to give you. So that's not really a choice. But, I you know what? I think the easiest way to describe this, Julie, is they're not afraid that this is going to fail.

They're afraid this is going to work. That that you'll get this advanced tax credit, which gives you, a chunk of money to use to educate your child. And you can use it for private education. You can use it for homeschool. You can use it for a lot of different things, to educate your kid. And they're worried that will do.

You know what else can I just pause for? Just a moment? And I know I should have brought this up while we were talking to Rod Furness, but I actually thought of this after we were chatting with him. He talks about one of the biggest challenges that we have as a state is, is brick and mortar schools getting schools built and sending your kid to a private school helps alleviate some of that.

That that relieves pressure on the state's brick and mortar schools. And I feel like this group not so much, rod. But I don't mean this personally at rod, but I feel like they talk out of both sides of their mouth when they talk about overcrowding. They talk about being able to bond, to build big schools, whatever. But then when you introduce something that would actually mean fewer kids, which helps with overcrowding and the need to build larger schools, they don't want to talk about that either.

They truly do want the best of both worlds. I just feel this is my words simply the way that I feel about it, that public education is a sacred cow that cannot be touched. And there's going to be a complaint about anything that comes forward that threatens that in any way. I feel like, Representative Horman, did change, adapt, move her original bill in order to get something passed to help parents in Idaho.

Yeah, I don't think I'm misrepresenting that at all. And it's not passed yet. It just made it through the House of Representatives, and now it's got an even longer path. But the Senate is very conservative, so it's probably looking good for them. Yeah. Okay. One of the things that's brought up repeatedly is that there's this doesn't serve rural Idaho well.

There's a lot of things that don't exist in rural Idaho yet. We fund it through the state coffers. Yeah, that doesn't stop other things from being funded, even when it doesn't serve rural Idaho. But because Julie Yamamoto mentioned the Constitution, I'm going to add this follow up to that. When you create the potential for a private school to come into a rural area and meet the needs, then a private school will come into their area.

And meet the needs. So just because a private school does not exist there now does not mean in three years after this program has passed and there is a desire, an appetite, an ability for these people who live rurally to ask for a private school. That one will be started. You know, if I could have an addendum to our conversation with rod.

He mentioned there were seven kids in in salmon that are privately educated. If seven kids is enough to have a private school, then lots of rural communities across Idaho will have a private school that will that will crop up. And it maybe they'll rent space from, you know, a local business office or something. You don't have to build a new school in a bill, build a brand new facility.

So and, you know, I know people get all wiggy about the the accountable and accreditation and all of that. They'll make it happen. They will. Because if you have parents who come along and they have, is that a $5,000 or so? If they have $5,000 and you have ten kids, there's 50 grand there to to start a private school.

It's not a lot of money, but you may not have to, you know, have them in school. All you know, there are a lot of ways around this. So, there is a funding source for it. And I agree with you, Charlie. They'll crop up. They will pop up, they will. You build it? They will come. It's a field of dreams.

They'll pick a rural city. When Neal and I were talking about this off air, I named a rural city that has a strong residential community. And I said, there's not a gym that exists in this rural city. I think it I think it's ripe for a gym so that people don't have to drive 20 minutes to go workout, 25 minutes to go workout.

I think as soon as somebody has enough money and the foresight to do it, it's going to happen and it will thrive. Why is that any different with a private school? Yeah, the model is exactly the same. The people are there, the kids are there. It's just rural and there hasn't been one yet. But when a funding mechanism model all of a sudden is available, that makes it possible for the private school to to crop up.

Yeah. Yeah. Agreed. And I, I think they know it. I think it's just a really low hanging fruit talking point that if a lot of people just hear in passing they'll be like oh that's a good point. But when you think through it, it, it doesn't really stand up. All right let's break. 939 Newstalk one assimilate a little bit of news and if you'd like to join us.

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Okay. Oh, okay. Robert had pork ribs and barbecue chicken. Yeah. Oh wait that's Stephanie. She was tagging Robert. Stephanie had pork ribs and barbecue chicken. See. What else did we get. Got rolled up. Robert had wings, pulled pork and bean dip. Yum. Craig did something a little bit like you. Not little smokies, but adjusted. He purchased little sausages from Costco.

They weren't smokies but they were still yummy. Great I had nachos. That's what we had for dinner. Okay. And you had what? We were going to do pizza. We ended up not doing it, but we just had some queso dip. We had a little spinach, dip as well. And what else? We had something else.

What was it? Why have I forgotten already? Oh, we had the not the little Smokies, because they were out. But we had this sauce to chop off or whatever, and we had some vegetables, veggies and dip, too. So. Yum, yum. You know, earlier. This is funny. I didn't I didn't interrupt the conversation we were having on air earlier when you said so.

Pennies are going away. Yeah. Do you know what I went to in my brain? What? Jcpenney's. And you said, it's like they're going to close 100 stores. Like what's happening? Oh, that's where my brain went immediately. Even though I did the penny story in my newsfeed this morning, I knew about. But in my mind, the first default is Penney's, the department store.

Store? Yeah. That's funny. Yeah it's funny. Oh.

Yeah I feel like Super Bowl commercials have gone from a minus down to C minus. Yeah. They're not as fun. My favorite commercial was the Harrison Ford one for Jeep. Yeah. Mostly because at the end he says, and my last name is. He didn't say it out loud. Yeah. There's beautiful scenery in that. I'm a Jeep owner.

Yeah. Yeah, that one worked for me. I did like the rocket commercial. I thought that was pretty good. There was one that wasn't listed on any of the, you know, the best ten commercials or any of those list that I saw. And it's telling Neal about it this morning that I just thought it was cute and goofy, and it was the toilet paper company that sent everybody on a potty break with the, like, cartoon characters.

Yeah. I just thought it was cute. It was clever. Yeah. Yeah. The bingo. What's he doing? He slams that door. Yeah. Yeah. Even when he's not mad. Yeah, he's not mad at all. He just slams that door to get it shut. So there's an interesting story right now with the radio stations owned by George Soros. Apparently they are tipping people off where Ice raids are happening.

And now the new FCC commissioner is investigating them because they're getting the tips from somewhere. Yeah, they could lose their license over this, And the there's belief in the underground world anyway that the tips are coming from the FBI, because those memos are being ice is sharing the memos with the FBI. So the memos are either the tips are going to the Soros funded radio stations.

Yes. Or source owned. I should say radio stations. Yeah. Via either the FBI or Ice, one or the other. Yeah. I think they should pull the plug on the radio. That makes the radio station worthless. If the FCC withdraws your license. And if that's what source is going to use them for. Pull the plug. Yeah. You know it's interesting I'll play this Stephen Miller clip coming up.

Oh yeah. Yes. How standards that are uncontroversial in the private sector. Why are they. If you worked for Adobe or IBM or name a big Coca-Cola and they said, okay, you're going to need to come to the office for work, you'd be like, okay, even if you thought I could work from home, you'd go, or else you're going to get fired.

That's the expectation of the company. Well, the new CEO of America is Donald Trump. And he said, you need to come to the office. Why is there such a conniption over this? I don't know, let's pick a local company. If Melaleuca said no, everybody's got to come to work. People enjoy working for Maluku. They'll come. Yeah. Or if Melaleuca said we're going to audit our books.

Yeah I know. I know.

Well of course if people refused to go back to the office, they're going to be laid off. I mean, why would federal taxpayers be subsidizing Netflix watching at home for so-called federal workers? In other words, how can you call yourself a federal worker if you never show up at the office? We have these giant, cavernous office buildings in Washington, D.C., carved out of marble, stone and granite in a Greek classical style.

Some most gorgeous buildings on Earth. The taxpayers fund it. They pay for the upkeep. They provide electricity to, and no one's showing up. And what are they doing at home watching their favorite streaming shows? It's crazy. Of course, they have to get back into the office because they work for everyone. Watching me today and watching them today. Okay, so I was just telling Julie we were talking off air about this, that this is an uncontroversial expectation in the private sector.

If you worked for Melaleuca or you worked for Adobe or Coca-Cola and they said, we this is a job, we find we're more productive in the office. We expect you to be in the office. Guess what you do? You go to the office, you don't complain and you go and there's no injustice or anything. But for some reason, when it's the federal government, these people are losing their crap over an expectation that they actually show up to the workplace to do their work.

Yeah, I this is the one that Stephen Miller was talking about, but I will tack on the other one to this, which is the left is freaking out about the auditing function of DOJ's. Well, if this was a private company and they brought in a separate firm to audit their books to make sure that there wasn't embezzlement, that they there wasn't waste, that there wasn't a an ability to maybe make a product for cheaper or to potentially charge more for a product, whatever.

In the private sector, that would be perfectly fine. Yeah. But when we do it to government books, all of a sudden it's an invasion of everyone's privacy. No it's not. Well, it's my money, Julie. Not only would it be fine and it would be good, just good fiscal practice for the company to do that. The IRS would do that anyway if they thought there was a problem with your books.

So now when Donald Trump comes in and wants to do what the IRS is doing to the private sector, all of a sudden they're having a freakout over this. How dare you. We're just auditing where the money is going. Why is that a problem? And they're so frustrated about these four young kids who are helping produce these auditing tactics.

They're using A.I. to audit all of these, these, different budgets. And somehow we should be nervous about that. Okay. Really? Because you're saying a ten year old can decide if they're a boy or a girl, but we can't let somebody run AI and figure out how to audit a spreadsheet or. Right, right. And the reverse of that is true also that we've got Nancy Pelosi hobbling around D.C. with a walker.

We had, Feinstein barely able to put together a sentence. You've got Mitch McConnell freezing in front of a microphone, but they're fine. Don't worry about that. They've got all the capabilities to run the government yet for young, vibrant kids. Shouldn't be involved in anything. Yeah, yeah. No it look Julie they don't know what they believe. They just want power.

That's their only belief is they, they can't stand losing losing the power. So anyway if you want to comment on that send us a text. 20854 217. Also, little bit of backlash and I correct me if I'm wrong. Is this a mandela effect going on? I thought the Boy Scouts changed their name a few years ago, but there's a new story out where it's called Scouting America.

Okay. And I don't know if they've just made it official or not. Have you seen this story yet? I have not seen this story. Okay. So, it's it says they've officially changed their name after sparking a backlash. This is Newsweek, and there's a bunch of stories like this. And it says the group formerly known as Boy Scouts of America officially changed its name on Saturday to Scouting America after the youth outdoor activities organization, and received backlash for announcing the switch up last year.

Scouting America helps youth prepare for life through camping outdoor. However, there's a dark side to the organization's past, as over 80,000. Okay, that's not part of the story, but Scouting America wasn't the first name change that the organization has gone through. When the group announced that they were allowing teen girls into the organization in 2018, they said they'd changed their name to Scouts BSA.

In May 2024, the group said they would change its name to Scouting America in a push for inclusivity, which sparked fierce backlash on social media, with an online petition floating around that urged the organization to reconsider the decision and respect the heritage that has made us who we are today. Nevertheless, the organization moved ahead with its planned name change, becoming Scouting America on Saturday, which was also the organization's 115th birthday.

Okay, I don't have a firm belief this was a mandela effect, but we reported on this heavily. We even interviewed people from the local, Grand Teton Council back in 2018 when this was going on. Why wait? Why do we not remember Scouts BSA? I thought they took the be completely out of it. I can't remember. They've been through all these iterations, which once you've decided you're going to worship at that altar, you don't know who you are anymore.

And so you have to keep changing your identity in your name. And, so, yeah, I mean, I don't feel I don't know strongly. I can't say no. There's no way, but I, I don't remember it being scouts BSA because if the be still there that stands for boy right. Yeah. But is it like KFC. Where you can't say Kentucky anymore because that's a violation of a trademark.

So they they reduced it down to KFC because they've the Commonwealth of Kentucky will sue them if they use that name. So maybe it's maybe it's kind of like that. Just ignore what the B stands for. It's just PSA. I don't know. All I know is that okay so it's Scouting America. You wonder what the enrollment is today versus what it was ten years ago.

I would I would ask that. I also don't understand why the uproar over Scouting of America, why do people have a problem with, Scouts Scouting America, Scouting America? I don't think they're upset with that name. It's just another iteration of Wokeism. Like they're cleansing. That it's a frustration. It's what they're abandoning, that they're upset over the word.

Okay. The new name that they have is not the controversial thing. It's. It's the fact they're abandoning the old look that ship sunk years. I, I agree with you. I think I feel like this outrage, there might be another little spasm of it, but I feel like we've kind of gone through this. Yeah. That's that. Ships at the bottom of the ocean.

Yeah. It's like. Right. I mean, it's all it's all done, right? Yeah, yeah. All right. 953 on Newstalk 1079 let's break for the last time. We'll come up and, we'll come back and we'll wrap it up on Newstalk 179. You.

Okay. I'm going to ask ChatGPT what the enrollment is in scouting. See if we get something accurate. Yeah. Maybe you can ask 2017 and 2024 or even 2023. I don't know if 2024 numbers will be all the way in yet.

I don't know if I like this prompt, but we'll see what it spits out here. I have to answer while you're. Oh, is it still spitting it out? Yeah, I'm an answer, Pat. Paddling down really fast, he said, why don't you just hire accountants? Because that 21 year old kid and that 22 year old kid is very every bit as smart as the 29 year old accountant that would be hired.

They're operating the same. That's not a that's not a clapback. Damn, they're the same. Like, these are kids that are highly intelligent. Let them do it. Plus, they have the ability to work 20 hours a day, unlike a lot of, like, a 30 year old count that's got two kids at home isn't going to give a 20 hour day like these kids are.

Yeah. Okay, so, yeah, we're getting a decent, idea here in 2015, which that was right before. I think all the real troubles began. About 2.3 million was the size of the BSA in 2019. Four years later, membership had dropped to about 1.9 million. Okay. That's pretty. Yeah. That's rough. Yeah, that is rough. And then in 2020, they had a significant drop.

Numbers fell to around 1.2 million. So 1.9 to 1.2, they lost 700,000. Was that the exodus of the church? Yes. Okay. Influenced by factors such as Covid 19 and organizational challenges, I think buried in that term is the exodus of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. In 2021 to 23, membership stabilized between 1 million and 1.1 million.

In 24, they saw a sliding increase with, just over a million, like 1.042 million. In 25. They added about 15,000 new scouts, joining. So. Okay, so at least it's not dying. It's it's stable. Stable? Yeah. Okay. They're significantly smaller than they were before. And I still believe there's a place for this to really influence a young man's life.

Yeah. I don't know how many girls are actually involved in it. I bet there's not very many. That would be an interesting thing to to look up as well. Yeah, yeah, I bet there's not very many girls involved. Well, and, you know, you know, y'all know how much I love the fair. And we were at the fair this last year, and we're we're sitting there.

I think we had gotten, like, one tiger here. Well, after a couple of minutes, Clark Farmer comes out and he's carrying another tiger. He's like, you need more than one. And we're like, okay. And it was we were just not that hungry. But he brought us another one and we had a good chat. I love Clark yeah, he's great.

Yeah. So I really feel bad because there are a lot of really good people in scouting. And there it's just, oh, been so challenged in recent years. I don't think you'll ever find someone with a more pure heart about wanting to help you than Clark Farm. No, you're not wrong about not wrong at all. Okay, do let's do Grand Peaks for me.

Okay. That's.

All right. 957 on Newstalk 107 nine. Last minute and a half here. We want to talk about Grand Peaks Prime Meats. It would be interesting to know how slammed they were for the Super Bowl, because you got to have lots of good protein for the soup, some ribs and a why does it have to be just for the Super Bowl though?

I know all the time. Celebrate this weekend and have ribs for sure. Make your own Super Bowl party that has the bowl is holding the chips. Yeah, another bowl holding queso. Some ribs on the side. Hey, this works Friday night I went through the freezer, I found fajitas and, heated those up. I for heated those up, and, I still have a little bit in some Tupperware in the fridge.

That's what I'm going to have for dinner tonight. Oh. Good idea. Yeah. Super good. Grand peaks primates go online. GP primates.com. Look around at all of their packages and specials, see what they, have to offer. I know you're going to find lots of things that you're going to want to put in your freezer in the coming months.

You'll love it. We love it. Yes. And you're not just going to get great cuts of meat, you're going to get new friends to do that. Great. All right, everyone, have a wonderful, wonderful Monday. Julian, I am back tomorrow with Senator Lennon joining us. Yes. 7:30 a.m.. All right. We'll see you then.