3.6.2025 – NLS – Keith Morrison, Lori Vallow & Haunted High

 On this episode with Neal and Julie, they dive into a range of topics, from the latest developments in the Lori Vallow case—including Keith Morrison's revealing interview with her—to the ongoing debate surrounding open border policies and their societal impact. They discuss recent political moves, the mask mandate ban as a symbolic stance, and the shifting landscape within the Democratic Party. Neal and Julie also entertain the idea of an overnight stay at a supposedly haunted high school, share thoughts on execution methods, and analyze Trump's growing momentum leading up to the election. With their signature blend of insight and humor, they tackle both the serious and the bizarre, making for another engaging conversation. 

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Transcript

Unfortunately, based on your responses, I'm all going to be criminally referring you to the Department of Justice for investigation. And as soon as I leave here, this will be going over to pan body. Mayor Johnson. I already asked you. You don't have a hard number. And if you don't have a hard number, you're not running your city. Well.

Republicans are on offense, and it feels good. Welcome. It's a Thursday. It's the Neal Larson show. And if you'd like to reach me on the Stones Automotive Group call and text line, that number right now, it's just text. We do monitor our text line. We don't take calls during the monologue, hence the mano in monologue and, but we will later and we're looking forward to it.

We actually have a lot to get to and to talk about today. A couple of new bills have come forward that are awaiting a governor's signature. Passed overwhelmingly, actually, both both of them. The anti-SLAPP, law, which basically means you can't file harassment lawsuits. You just can't file a lawsuit against, it'll be deemed a frivolous lawsuit and tossed.

So I like that. I also, there's a bill that would make the firing squad the primary method of capital punishment. The death penalty in Idaho. There's actually very good reason for it. And we wouldn't need it if liberal bleeding heart philosophy didn't, ideology did not exist. So we'll get to some of that. Doug. Rex actually put that forward.

And speaking of the death penalty, not that Lori Vallow is going to be getting the death penalty, but she is talking to the media. And I look, I don't I don't quite know how to process this, but Keith Morrison of Dateline interviewed Lori Vallow and he said, I don't have this audio, but he told a local TV reporter anchor that he really had to push quickly, that she was very combative and he was surprised at how bright she is, that she's smart and she he said she was flirty, but she was also combative.

And, she has this very, very dynamic personality. But he had to push forward because there was a limited amount of time that he had with her. But here's a little clip. This is an excerpt from their teaser for the episode of Dateline coming up on Friday. Chad was convicted and he's on death row now, I understand that, yeah, but I have some fascinating stories and things that Chad would be exonerated.

This is true. What happened? The same way I will be exonerated. We will both be exonerated in the future, because I have seen things in the future that Jesus showed me when I was in heaven. And we were not in jail, and we were not in prison, and they were still in the future. From now. Okay, so Keith Morrison Morrison is sitting there talking to her.

I mean, clearly she is a nutjob. She is cuckoo. And I love how she's talking. Like, these are things that Jesus has shown me in the future. I'm going to be exonerated and Chad is going to be exonerated, too. And Keith Morrison is like, things in the future that Jesus showed me when I was in heaven.

Well, they're like, okay. Yeah, keep talking. Let's let's hear more about this. So, yeah, you did. I'm not sure why she's talking her. If she had lawyers, she's fired her lawyers and is representing herself. But if she had lawyers, they would say, you keep your mouth shut and you don't talk to the media, but she's Lori Vallow.

And, I will say I kind of felt bad for it. Doesn't look like the health regimen in the Maricopa County Jail has been all that kind to her. When you contrast her with the very first image that we saw of her, the mom with the missing kids, however many years and when how what year was that? 2019?

I think. So we're coming up on six years of the Vallow Daybell saga haunting us. So that's happening this week. Also, we had fireworks on Capitol Hill. I'm just going to jump right to the most spectacular, one of the best take downs I've seen in a while. Byron Donalds, in a hearing. And they had brought in these big city mayors and they're pressing them on.

They're completely insane and quite frankly, dangerous policy, a sanctuary policy when it comes to illegals. Listen, did your city spend on illegal immigration? Do you have a round number? Over the last couple of years on all newcomers, whatever their status was, it's around 79 million since 2020 to 79 million. Mayor Johnson. Chicago. How much is the city of Chicago spent on illegal immigration?

If you're referring to the 2022 up to to 2024 of the busses coming from Texas, roughly the same percentage of the state of Texas, about 1% of our overall budget. What is that? Because they don't have the city's budget in front of me numbers. It's 1%. And if you want the actual calculation, we can make sure someone you're the mayor, you don't have the math in front of just 1% of the overall budget over the last year were failing, which is the same number that I'm missing.

Some of you are actually state of Texas immigration. Mayor Johnson, I already asked you. You don't have a hard number. And if you don't have a hard number, you're not running your city. Well, Mayor Adams, how much should the city of New York actually spend on illegal immigration? 6.9 billion of taxpayers, $6.9 billion of taxpayer money on a problem that was fostered on the American people.

Mayor Wu in the city of Boston. How much did you spend? We don't ask about immigration status, and you don't ask about how much money the city of Boston has spent on illegal immigration. We don't. Between immigration status, do you manage your budget or not? Mayor? That is how we keep your will. You manage? We have the numbers to prove it.

I manage my budget. I have a triple A bond rating dating back ten years. Go to the Boston. Just understand that your mayor does not care how much of your resources she has spent on people who are not citizens. The city of Boston, instead of having outside Boston. Mr.. Mr. mayor, I have a question for you, because I understand Cato's perspective when it comes to illegal immigration.

I understand that the Cato Institute, for a long time has had a standard of actually having open immigration into the United States. Generally speaking, I don't want to get into because we support legal immigration. We want immigration, to me. Go. So let me ask you this question, because one of the great, libertarians of the modern era, Milton Friedman, famously said, you can either have open borders or a welfare state, but you have to choose Mr. Beer, what do you choose?

Milton Friedman said he wanted to allow illegal immigration to continue. I disagree with Milton Friedman's position on that. We should have legal immigration and build a wall around the welfare state, not around the country. That's in the best interest of taxpayers. And I would argue that under the current system, where you have sanctuary cities popping up, it is not possible to build that wall.

So America has to choose. Mr. Behar, you're done. America has to choose between securing our nation or protecting the taxpayer. I choose secure the nation. I yield back. Okay, so as I watched this yesterday, that clip you just heard is close to three minutes long. And you know what came to my mind? What imagery? Remember the old Bruce Lee movies you watched when you were a kid?

Chuck Norris had these two where they're in the street, and Bruce Lee is surrounded by seven people, and all of a sudden, what you're what you know, and they're like, hands are flying, arms are flying. There's there's kicks happening and a kick to the throat and a gut punch. And after about eight seconds, you have five people on the ground and two people running away.

I watch this, I'm like, Byron Donalds is Bruce Lee. He just did that to these big city mayors. He went through them one by one and shredded them as they should be shredded. I will say, I will say, Mayor Eric Adams was just very forthcoming. We've spent however much was $7 billion. Is it 6.9 $6.97 billion? And he just stated at the very first matter did that the other mayors probably should have done that as well.

There is one example. Denver, I believe Jim Jordan grilled the mayor of Denver. And I'm just going to tell you the story really, really quick. I might play a little bit of the audio here. They had a Venezuelan gang member that had repeatedly committed crimes. They knew it. And among those crimes were dangerous assaults against other people. Ice has requested a 48 hour lead.

So when local municipality says we are going to release this person, ice their deed, asks for a detainer for 48 hours. Denver, who had this guy in jail for nearly an entire year, something like 342 days, said, you have one hour. They held the guy for nearly a year, and then it was urgent that they get him out of their jail in one hour.

Okay, that is bad faith. Divisive, just lousy, lousy politics. This is why the Democrat Party is crumbling. And I don't care if you are a Democrat. If you live in that city and your party leaders have such a toxic ideology that they are knowingly putting people back out on the street, not cooperating with Ice, and basically telling them, you have one hour.

So it's hard to get people there. They ended up getting them them there, but they didn't. They didn't hold them in a cell so ice could come and get them with the suspect cuffed. They actually let him go in to the parking lot. And that's what the order was from the city to release him to the streets, not inside the jail, in a cell to ice, but to actually release him.

Because here's why they want to get they want to give this thug a fighting chance to get away. And I have no idea what is wrong with you liberals. Like, seriously, what is wrong with you? You know the guy is dangerous. You know that he poses a threat. You know that he's going to harm the community. You say you represent what in the living heck is wrong with you?

That you wouldn't even agree to keep that guy off the streets? No longer your problem. The feds will take over. They'll take this punk and thug and violent criminal out of your your midst. For some reason you don't want that. And I don't understand what is so mentally ill about you that you'd want someone like that to continue in your communities that has not really ever been explained to me, other that the only thing that comes to mind that feels very familiar, and I think this is probably the answer, is the Alinsky ite rules for radicals.

They thrive on chaos. More crime equals a bigger premise for expanded government power. More cops, more budget, higher taxes, whatever it just makes government stronger. When you have more problems. They don't care about their people. They could they they want to control their people, but they don't care about the health and the welfare and the safety of their people.

And that is why they are losing so badly today. And then you had this. This is Anna Paulina Luna, Republican representative. She goes through, she's questioning the open border policies somewhat along the same lines as Byron Donalds. But she gives some grace to these mayors that I would not. However, she comes with some fire and she tells them, I'm going to see Pam Bondi with criminal referrals for you, open border policies, which is something that you guys are talking about, hurts people on both sides, meaning the people that are coming here illegally and then American citizens as well.

I do not think you guys are bad people, but I think that you are ideologically misled, which is why, unfortunately, based on your responses, I'm all going to be criminally referring you to the Department of Justice for investigation. And as soon as I leave here, these will be going over to Pam Bondi. Okay. Now, I loved everything she said, except her caveat, her disclaimer I don't think you're bad people.

I think you have an ideology that has misled you. I would say not to correct Anna Paulina Luna. I get what she's saying. She's trying to be somewhat collegial, I guess. But I would say your ideology has turned you into a bad person. If you willingly put dangerous criminals back on the streets, you're a bad person. I'll just say it.

I'm not afraid to say that. For some reason, we are afraid to say things like that. And then I would follow it up with stop being a bad person, stop endangering the people. You say you care about the people in your communities. Again, I struggle to understand how this makes sense in any context, but we are winning now.

I don't know what will happen with these criminal referrals. I would hope that Pam Bondi would ask if crime's been broken, then it's prosecutable and I hope that it gets prosecuted. Not so much to to, you know, cause misery, but to send a message to the rest of the big city mayors. And quite frankly, it could be small town mayors.

Who knows. But to send a message to these sanctuary mayors around the country, you can't just completely ignore and break the law anymore that those days are over. The days of the sheriff looking the other way over is there's a new sheriff in town that doesn't have dementia. There's a new sheriff in town that isn't compromised by needing to make his family rich.

Selling influence. There isn't a sheriff in town anymore that has been a parasite on the system for 50 plus years. It's a different era and a different time, and it's not going to it's not going to stand anymore. And then we had you know what? Let's talk really quick. I do want to touch on the legislative stuff because I think some people might, might go, is firing squad?

Are we going back to the 30s? What's that about? No, actually, this is another outgrowth of what the left has done in leftist ideology. This is Senator Doug Rex, by the way. All of this passed its House bill 37, and it passed overwhelmingly. Almost all, if not all Republicans voted for this. All you had were the Democrats.

They were the holdouts. But listen, a House Bill 37 is about the firing squad becoming the primary method of execution in Idaho. Currently. This would be only for those who are on death row. There's nine in Idaho right now. Two years ago, we added legislation to allow this, and it was this, currently the firing squad is the second method.

So lethal injection is our first option.

So this bill is not about whether Idaho should use the death. Use the death penalty. That already is law. So why do we need this change? There's three main reasons. First, there have been endless motions filed in federal court by the attorneys representing the convicted death row inmates, and all related to the fears of prolonged and painful death due to lethal injection.

Some of the states have been tied up for decades in courts because of that process. Number two, there has been some difficulty in obtaining approved drugs from pharmaceutical companies. We also passed some legislation a couple of years ago that would shield those, which made little easier. But even then, a lot of the pharmaceutical companies don't want to, sell some of their, drugs for that for this purpose.

And third reason is Idaho had a failed attempt recently to carry out a lethal injection due to an inability to establish an IV. So, senators, I view the firing squad as a more humane way to carry out executions for those on death row, because it is quick and certain it brings justice for the victims and their families in a more expeditious manner.

I believe there will be fewer attempts, appellate, fewer appellate issues in the courts with the firing squad. An intravenous method. Okay. And it's a great point. The one I would, I guess I had two really quick here. When you think about it, it's instant. It is the most humane way to execute someone, even though it may feel violent and icky to those still living.

It's actually very quick. And we'll be back at 827 on Newstalk 179 and continue coming up. It's great to have you along.

It's 832 on Newstalk 1079. Julie, we have to talk about this story about the dude who fell asleep in the Mac Branch Mountain American Credit Union. Did you hear about this? Yeah. You sent it to me? Yeah. Pocatello, actually, police responded to a tripped alarm at a credit union, and they found that it was caused by a man who had mistakenly found himself in the building after hours, found himself in the building after hours.

It it so, like, what's here I it whoops, here I am. This is East Idaho news, by the way. Police responded to the Mountain Air Credit Union, Yellowstone branch at 1012 Yellowstone at around 7:18 p.m. Tuesday night after a motion sensor alarm went off indicating indicating that there could be a break in. You get a bank alarm, any bank alarm.

We respond as though there's a problem, said Pocatello Police Lieutenant Josh Hancock. After getting the door opened, the officers announced their presence and that they had a K-9 with them. The man inside the building immediately surrendered and communicated with police and told officers that he had fallen asleep in the restroom of the building, and then woke up to find it closed.

The responding officers secured the scene to ensure there was no danger to the public, and did not arrest or filed charges against the man. Does it? Does he have narcolepsy? Does he? I don't I don't know, he just found himself there. Keep it. What's what's the one detail I was curious about? You wanted to know if he was on the toilet.

I think he was probably on the toilet. Okay. I also have a follow up question that I would just ask the employees because he might have been on the toilet, and it would have been a lot more difficult to see him if he was sitting. Yes. If he's asleep on the floor. Did you not even check the restroom before you locked up for the night?

Yeah, like I mean, it's a it's a credit union branch. It's not like Walmart, you know, like you you walk so you do sweep of the building. That's going to probably take you somewhere around 45 seconds to 1 minute. Yeah. That's true. You lock the doors and just walk around the building, make sure. No, nobody we're not telling them how to do their job.

But I would just ask, did that happen? Because if that did happen, was he sitting on the toilet with his feet up, purposely hiding? Because that's different than falling asleep accidentally? Yeah. But yeah, I don't know. I just feel like there's so many unanswered questions. There are there there are unanswered questions. Yeah. I've never fallen asleep on the toilet.

My legs, on the other hand. That's possible. Not revealing any secrets, but you've been gone long enough from the studio before that. I think you could have fallen asleep. I was going across the street. I just didn't tell you to get a soda. That's what that is. Someone should do a study sometime that evaluates the average amount of time that a man spends in the bathroom versus the on the toilet, not getting ready for the day, or whatever the average amount of time a man versus the man that we are going to expand this conversation.

Because I know, I know, I spend way longer in the bathroom getting ready than you. Yeah. That's obvious. I mean, I look, I do my hair, but I make up all of it. But okay, on the on the toilet. I was shocked to learn. How do we talk about this? I was shocked to learn that many women hover.

Yeah, of course we do. You don't have to experience that. And that toilet seat sturdy. Hey. Yeah, okay. I, I don't know guys who hover. Well, yeah, but you a portion of the time that you spend in the bathroom, you can stand doing your business. That's this, that's true, that is true. There is a difference there. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. But no pun intended. But but.

How about we use nevertheless. Nevertheless.

I, yeah, yeah, I, I have no reasons for it. I don't know why guys spend more time in the restroom. You're comfortable with the aroma. Alone time. You read, you like it's I, I don't I don't know what it is. Have you seen the the the viral reel of the woman helping her husband who can't walk?

And then at the end of the real, it's because he sat on the toilet for too long and his legs were asleep. And they're playing this really, really sad melancholy and, and, that one, that song. And, like, we'll get through this together. And in reality, his legs were just asleep as he was on the on the John a little too long.

So, I don't think we'll ever know. Unless someone knows this person, I'd like to know. Did they fall asleep while they were in the toilet? Like I want to fall asleep in a restroom? That's my question. Someone said maybe he had a minor cardiac event, which is possible. That that's very possible. But now we're back to.

Did they not do a sweep of the building before they closed up? Yeah. True. Yeah. Yes. I believe that there could have been some sort of health issue. That's why I asked if he had narcolepsy. It's real. So yeah, but if it was a like a health issue or narcolepsy or a cardiac event, whatever, they must not have done a sweep of the building before they locked up for the evening.

Yeah, that that's true. And now I'm asking, is somebody losing their job over this? My guess is when they have their weekly staff meeting at the Mountain American Credit Union branch, they're going to have a, well, a change in policy or a doubling down on enforcement, a reorientation of how we close the buildings each night. I did tell Julie that I have secretly wanted to hide behind the toilet paper in a big box store.

Yeah, and see if I could make it overnight. Walmart. It wouldn't work at Walmart or WinCo because they have people stock their stuff to be smaller. Like, I want it to be dark and I want it to be quiet, and I want to be able to prowl around the store. I don't want to steal anything. I just want Walmart to myself.

Like overnight. I would get on one of them. How high up on your bucket list is this? Not very. That I still want to do it. It's on there. Like, you know what I would do if I knew I could get away with it? Okay, I'd hide in the toilet paper until the lights were off and I heard nobody.

And then I could be in the store all alone. I would go down to the bike section and I'd get a Schwinn off the rack, and then I would ride around the store as fast as I could down the big main aisles. That that sounds like a load of fun to me. And then, of course, I'd have snacks that I would pay for the next morning.

Exhibit 372 of why I say Neal is always a seven year old boy trapped in an adult man's body. Yeah, that and that desire has not has not really waned. No, it's in there like it if I, if somebody came to me and said, hey, we're going to have an unauthorized slumber party at the big bucks store, where would you sleep?

Well, what would be this would make Fred Meyer attractive because there's furniture, couches. Yeah, they do have couches. It and blankets. Yeah, but you stop groceries, so you go grab snacks and their bikes. See, you'd have the best. So Walmart doesn't really have furniture. So you could not like couch furniture. Yeah. So yeah, probably Fred Meyer. I think I'd do that.

I'd pick Fred Meyer. I, sleep on a couch. What about Costco? Because they have those huge couches. They also sometimes have video games. And if they kept the hot dog warm or going, well, I'd be in business. Yeah, it'd be great. I might choose Costco. I think I would too. Okay. What if we just did it? Do we get arrested?

Is it a felony? We need to look it up. I'd they mind if they decided to press charges, get us for trespassing? So is that just a misdemeanor? Because I'll risk a misdemeanor. And now that we've felony, now that we've talked about it on the radio, there might be, like, conspiracy charges added to that, like it's premeditated.

But, my question is, do they have alarms and cameras inside? Like, are there motion detectors inside a store like Costco? So if we decided we wanted to sneak in and stay in, like somebody who works at Costco needs to weigh in because they might be stocking the store all night, too. Yeah. As somebody else said, it's more fun riding a pallet jack.

We would be able to do that. That's true. At Costco. Yeah, I've done that. Get the Schwinn bike. Many, many years ago, I worked at a grocery store and we used to ride the pallet jacks. That is fun. Okay. That's fun. Somebody throwing out there that if we did it in summertime, there would be patio furniture to sleep on at Walmart.

We wouldn't be completely without furniture. That's true. And then somebody just told us where weird. No, we're not. Well, they're no fun. We might be weird, but they're no fun. You know, we have talked about this. You know where I want to stay the night. Okay. Where? But not sleep. Pocatello house. Oh, I'm in for that 100%. And what if we had what if we got permission from the Pocatello administration and you and me, and, like, a half dozen listeners had a slumber party at pokey High, and we listened for the haunted.

It's every 80s horror movie coming to life. Yeah. I mean, who would do that of our lives? Sleeping though. I'm not sleeping. There's no going to sleep a puppy. Hello. High school. You know, you treasure your sleep like we could do shifts, like I'd. I'd be on Ghost Watch for a couple of hours. Then you could be on go.

Do I get to bring my gun? You don't tell, don't ask, don't tell. There are no metal detectors. But I don't think guns work against ghosts, so I don't think. Yeah, I'm not really worried about spirits. I'm worried about, like, some weirdo figuring out we were doing it and showing up with a chainsaw. Well, we would. I guess we are letting people know we're going to do it.

But, you know. I would like a pokey high, I think is like one of the most haunted places. Well, it's been on Ghost Hunters. I think. Yeah, I think so too. And. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Pokey. Hey. I'm in. Is anybody else? People are in with us. Yeah. Okay. They would totally do that. Yeah. Okay, now we have to get permission.

And then somebody just told us we need counseling. Well, that's probably true, too, but for luxury. They just begun to realize that. Have they been listening to the show? Right. This is a new revelation. It's a new revelation. Yeah. Yeah, I it would be fun. Wouldn't it be fun? I think it would be great. Although we're 52, we don't pull all nighters anymore.

I do it for this though. I would do it for this sleepover. I'm pokey, I, I do. If I, if we were in Costco, I'd actually get some sleep. I'd I'd lay down on the furniture and conk out. Okay, but Costco's aren't haunted. They're not. So I wouldn't be scared. I don't think I could sleep in pokey. Hey, just because of the fear factor.

You really think it's haunted? Do I think that spirits could be residing there? Yes. I don't know if they're bad spirits. I don't know if it's haunted, but do I think spirits? But I think spirits are everywhere. I mean, ask a medium. We interviewed a medium. Oh, yeah. She told us our building is full of spirits because we're surrounded on three sides by hotels.

This our radio station has history. Yes. Yeah, it it's been around a long time. Yeah. So yeah, I think that there definitely could be spirits in Pocatello High School. Okay. I mean, I have seen that surveillance footage from Pokey High that, like, shows something. We have somebody who's saying it's haunted. They said pokey high, 100% haunted. Lived by it for a while.

Okay, now we need a story. Yeah. Follow that up. Yeah. Oh, we've got a place in Silver Springs. We need to stay. Oh, yeah. There's that hotel in Soda Springs. It's creepy. Ender's hotel, it's haunted. My parents and sister stayed there, and it was crazy, creepy things that happened to them. Okay, I'm. I'm not going to challenge what they're saying, but I'm always skeptical when I hear these things because everybody, like, everybody wants to go to Bear Lake because of the Bear Lake monster.

Sure. Everybody wants to stay at the hotel because it's haunted. And so, like, there's an echo and you're compromised with economic interests with those stories. Pokey high, like, it's not a hotel. So I like, but I would, I would stay, I would go to the Ender's Hotel in Sota. Okay, I'm going to have to look this place up.

All right. It's 847 on Newstalk 107.

It's 854 on Newstalk 179. A listener asked, about the, firing squad. Excuse me? I got a text on my watch and it pulled me away. Listener asked about, firing squad and they said, really? Is this even a thing? Like, I can understand that reaction. The left has made it a thing because they have threatened to to boycott and punish pharmaceutical companies that don't provide the drugs.

So sometimes the drugs are not available, but justice still must be served. And so this is, this is a way they've actually made it now, the primary, way to do it, because it is more humane. And this person seems to think that or the intention I'm getting from the text is, wow, why is this even necessary?

One part that we haven't brought up yet this morning is that when families go to watch the execution, so the families and loved ones of the victims of the person who is being executed, I think it would be far more humane to watch someone die by a bullet through the heart, have it be over very quickly than to watch them hurt and squirm, and have it take many minutes, minutes and minutes.

Yeah yeah yeah yeah, I, I would agree, I think you know what. Here let me I think I know I understand something here. When we think about firing squad, we think about movies from the Old West where you're in the town square and somebody, you know, gets hit by 50 different bullets, and blood's flying everywhere. That's not how this would be.

Their face would be covered. I, I think they have multiple people with guns, if I remember right. And all but one of the guns have blanks. So if you and you don't know if you're the one with the blank or not, so you psychologically you can walk away from that. Not knowing if you were the one that actually killed him.

It gives you a little space to think that maybe it wasn't me. So. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's well thought out for those who are really interested. It it would be a quick, quick news search. South Carolina is going to kill somebody by firing squad. It just happens to be layered into this story just timing wise, you know. And they show a picture of their firing squad rooms.

So you get a good idea of what it looks like. Yeah. All right. It's 856. We'll be back.

All right. We're rolling underway. You know what I need to correct. We had a couple of listeners correct me. All the guns, but one have a blank or. No, have real bullets. One has a blank. It still creates the psychological dynamic that I'm talking about. It gives room for each. I don't want to say assassin. They're just carrying out a state required punishment.

But whatever. But whatever the title you give them, they have room in their mind to say. Maybe mine was the blank. Maybe I'm not the one that, that did that. So I've also heard conversation and somebody did reference this in the text that it can be a computer that runs the guns. Now that the guns are cited in by a computer and but someone still operating the computer.

So yeah, maybe those and see Idaho is going to have to do this. They're in the middle of constructing the firing squad chambers. So it will be interesting when they do give the open house, because I bet there is going to be an open house when it's completed. Yeah. And an explanation of how they decided to design it in.

And if it is a computer and say three employees sit there each click and then you just don't know which one. Yeah, actually activated the bullets. I mean, because at some point it has to be cited in it has to be ensured that it has to be ensured that it's humane, which means you have to cite that in so it hits their heart.

Yes. Yeah. Your involvement is going to create something, even if it's a computer connection somehow. Yeah. You're part of that. You're part of that, that chain. So and someone else said somebody, somebody has to inject the, the lethal doses too. That's true. That's true. Yeah. And she's I'm pulling from some research that I did for a crime story several months ago.

But don't they do in that case, it's a combination of drugs that actually causes the death. So one person injects one drug, another person injects another drug, and then it's the combination that causes the death. And and so each person didn't actually do the killing. The the killing of the inmate. Yeah. They just indirect injected their portion. They were one piece.

Yeah. Yes. Yeah. That. Yeah. That's a good point too. Someone said blank ammunition has very little recoil. You would know. So then why do they do it that look I don't know like I said, I think the open house of the Idaho one is going to explain a lot about how newer a newer firing squad option is designed.

Yeah, but I'm just talking about the general process, not our new facility that's coming up, I don't know. So yeah, I don't know. Someone said laser guided. Yeah. I'm sure that it's probably going to have the latest, state of the art stuff, but okay. 285421279. Let's go to the phones. Caller, how are you today? Hi.

That was fast. Well, yeah, we we act quickly. We're in the era of Trump now, so yeah. Go ahead. Caller, how are you? There you go. It's Carrie, by the way. It is this morning. You enjoying the snow? No not even a little I know it's the middle of March. It's like oh no. Yeah yeah. But well I just want to call and just kind of celebrate the, mask bill getting signs and the mandate ban getting signed.

I was pretty excited about that. We should ask you, is Carrie Hanks former representative for the state of Idaho? Did you feel like this version that did get signed by Governor? Little? Do you feel like it encompassed everything you were hoping for because she worked so hard on that. During your term, when you served? Yeah, actually, I, I looked it over and I think it's exactly the same thing that, that we we got passed the House.

But we just the Senate, the committee chairs would it was in their drawer. They wouldn't, wouldn't let it out. And Chuck Winter, I actually went and talked to him, and he said, oh, it's up to them, which I kind of don't. I'm a little cynical. I don't actually believe that totally. Did you talk to the committee heads?

Yeah, yeah. What did they say? They just said it was too late in the session, you know, just excuses. And then. And then the next year, when it passed, the house, they, they want me to do some horse trading. They want me to support a bill that I just couldn't support in order to get mine into the committee.

And, you know, that still wouldn't guarantee it got through. And I don't do horse trading. I, you know, I vote based on the merits of the bill. And so, yeah, so it didn't get, you know, and, and back then to, you know, in 2021 and 22 there was so much back and forth about the, the efficacy of the masks.

Did they really work? Did they really not. And, and so that was a big deal too. It was a lot more emotional back then. And there wasn't a lot of information on first thought. She said they didn't work. And then he said they did. And then you read the boxes that said, these aren't really to prevent, getting germs and stuff.

I can't remember exactly what it said. Yeah. Carrie, were you surprised that the governor signed it where he had not? I mean, I think he was against it before, but now he's signing it. Yeah. Well, and, you know, part of it, I think, the two years ago, too, was, you know, again, when he left the States, she actually called me and asked me about my bill, pulled that bill up and, and, and I think it was an executive order that it passed that, that it was in effect.

And then when he came back, he pulled it. And so, you know, I think it was kind of a power struggle in a way. Okay. I don't know if he would have signed it if he'd gotten to him back in 2021 or 22. But but they've worked on it a couple of years. And, you know, the I was going to tell you so Matt Edwards does Idaho signal and he actually has a montage.

I don't know if they're going to split it off from his program yesterday, which was number 106, but he actually had a I think it was 10 or 15 minute montage of the history of trying to get the, the, mandate ban passed. And so it's really good. I, I recommend it to you just to check that out.

But one of the first things he showed on there was these two little children that were crying, it gets me very emotional, because they're trying to get those masks on those kids and they're just, you know, crying and and, you know, that was a lot of a lot of people have probably forgotten a little bit about that.

But, you know, kids, the developmental, Oh gosh. What's the they stop there to the delays, mental delays and. Yeah. And, and the educational the emotional parts of that, it affected their speech and their, you know, facial clues that children and babies pick up from their parents. Yeah. I watched this little girl in the airport, and, of course, this wouldn't affect the airport people, but but I.

Well, and actually, I think because it's the government entities will and schools will stop it, then I think it won't get, get what it needs to, go into, you know, airports and stuff like that anymore. But anyway, there was a little three, four year old girl they were trying to get her to wear a mask so she could get on the plane, and it just broke my heart.

Had an agent come up there and was trying to talk them through, and she was just screaming. And I think kids know. Yeah, they know it wasn't a good thing. And then you remember the sports kids had to sit next to each other and wear the mask, and then they went out on the oh, it was absurd. Ever.

Yeah, it was ridiculous. And then only like ten parents, I think it was during the, the, championship. The tournament. Yeah. Yeah. The tournament that they couldn't they parents couldn't go in and watch their kids. It was just ridiculous. And, you know, part of that clip that that montage has, represent Brett Kramer, who you had on earlier this week, and he was talking about how, you know, it was it was this is a symbol of our personal liberties, you know, and, you know, are we willing to give that up for security and safety?

Supposedly in air quotes. So, you know, that's really to me now, I don't know if they'll try and pass something like this again or or try to mandate vaccine and all that again. But, so this mask mandate ban is kind of a symbol that, you know, we're not going to do that again. Yeah. You know, it was when you saw people when we still do see people's masks, it's their choice.

But to me, it was a, symbol of submitting to the government and saying, okay, I'm going to do this, and I'm not going to fight it. And, I mean, I, I did want to fight it. And there's there have been others that I'm really I'm just so thankful that it passed. Yeah. And, you know, so I don't want people to think, well, it's, you know, it's it doesn't mean anything because really, it's a symbol of us stepping up and saying, look, you're not going to take my, you know, my body, my choice.

Well, here's here's the thing, Carrie, because I think about the bill and you're probably right. We're we're we're not going to have another pandemic, or at least it's not likely any time soon. And so getting into an environment where there could be a mask mandate is not likely to happen. However, when you talk about the overall relationship between the the citizenry and government, you want to have an environment that has these reminders that they are not in charge of us and we're actually in charge of them.

So that's why I love this bill. Not so much that it has, you know, an immediate, practical application. But I love the bill because it underscores the proper relationship, that and proper perspective of where government should be in in our lives. So kudos to you for getting this started. I know it took a couple of years, but I think you deserve a good share of the credit in in having this happen.

Well, I do appreciate that. One more point on the government is, if you'll remember, the public health districts basically assumed a lot of authority, and they were the ones pushing this because I was going to go into, oh, our, the temple of our faith. And I actually was a legislator and I called them and I said, you know, what's what can I do legislatively so that we don't have to wear masks in, in this temple?

And they said, well, actually, it's the public health districts that are pushing this, you know, that isn't the exact quote, but that that's where they're, that's why they were doing it is because the public health districts were pushing it. And so, I believe they got something passed that the public health districts don't have the kind of powers that they did have.

They did. Yeah. I think that was last session. And they basically curtailed their power, limiting it to just simply recommendation level, not not teeth. They didn't have the ability to tell people what they had to do, which is great, right? Yeah. Oh yeah. Because that was one of the big instigators of this is and you know, to be fair, it passed, you know, from the federal level they were pushing it and and talking about different funding and things that would happen if we didn't do it.

And they scared people. I mean, that's that's basically what it was. And then those of us that wouldn't wear the mask, it felt like we were getting shamed. They were trying to help them feel shame. Then. I mean, there were times when when, you know, I, I thought, well, I don't think I'm sick. I mean, it's interesting, the psychology where you start feeling like, well, I don't know.

I mean, at times I did kind of question myself. I thought, you know, am I doing the right thing? But I, I really overall felt that, you know, like we're not going to wear masks and. Yeah. Well, Carrie, thank you for calling in and I'm sure it was a happy day for you I appreciate it. Yeah. And thanks for your show.

Love, love the information we get from you. Oh. Thank you. All right. What about the humor and the charm? And then, you know, all that extra Kraft food advice? We throw that in for free on top of the information. All right, we'll be back at 920 on Newstalk 107.

Okay, everyone, I was just trying to figure out it is still snowing out there. What's the high going to be? Neil just died a slow death or had a really painful tummy issue for a second. So I just saw Jeff Roper. He's. He's the weather guy, but he's also on cupy one of our stations here. I think in addition to adding a weather forecast, they should add emotional reactions to the weather forecast.

Jeff, I saw him when he came in today. He's dressed very similarly to the weather. There was no suit. He's in jeans. He's like, I'm not doing this today. It's too ugly. Yeah. Oh, we're on here. I didn't turn that up. Oh, we're going to get texts. You were saying that, I, I just I just got a text.

Hot Mike, I know, you know, my bad.

Flowing in. Oh. Okay. Which means I got to make those spots good. What's, It's always fun. Nice.

What? Yeah, we're good that way.

Yeah, dear. Oh, there's the answer. Typically, execution rifles are vice mounted. The shooter would not feel a difference in recoil between a blank and a round. So there we go. All right.

Neil's fault. It's all Neil's fault. How's your tummy now? You heard?

It's fine. Oh, goodness. Yeah. You got to hear some of our off mic. Well, it's how we act on Facebook Live. So this is what you're missing if you're not on Facebook Live. And so we're we're okay. We're moving on here. So. Yeah. But we are there. It's still snowing. It's still snowing. Okay. Here we go.

Happy spring. Happy march in Idaho. Yeah it's terrible. Listen, this was probably hard for CNN to say this to the results. What was your reaction to Trump's speech 44% of speech watchers in our instant poll tonight say they had a very positive reaction to Trump's speech, 25% somewhat positive, 31% negative, 69% Julie, somewhat positive. They went they broke this down much further.

Yeah. And the somewhat positive was like when you went to very, very positive, it was even higher than that. No. Okay. So like when you, they, they let it like Republicans say how they felt and they let independents say how they felt and they let Democrats say how they felt. And when you were in the Republican realm, it was extremely well received.

Yeah. So I understand this is a mandate that he's following through. And the people who voted for him in are happy with what's going on. Well, you know, we have been so conditioned we we better I mean, I wish we could get used to this. That that would be nice. But isn't the typical trajectory in politics promises and promises?

And we're going to do this and we're going to do that. And then they get into office. And we're lucky if they get to 20% of what they say they're going to do. Yeah. Because the, the, the process is slow and it kind of grinds out and it and the energy flames I know Donald Trump has had four years of not being president to get ready to be president again after having the experience of being president the first time.

It really is kind of a a perfect sequence of events for that regard, because he knew exactly what he could do, what he needed to do. And I think this last six weeks that we've been watching that have been amazing, have been in the works for a long time. Yeah. Can I pose a question to the listeners? Because we did take a call.

I don't remember what day it was, and the person was saying that they appreciated the efforts of Doge, but they felt like it was too fast, that they would have preferred that this would have been funneled down through the heads of the various departments, and then the department managers could give their recommendation, and we can go ahead and cut these 23 jobs, or we can do this and, and then have that recommendation filter its way back up through the the department heads and then to the cabinet and then to Doge.

And then they could make a decision from there. And my thought process with that is, is that feels a little too much like what already happens getting getting bogged down in government. Just think about that and then won't we probably end up with the same result anyway. Probably. So what does the time delay offer would be. My question to ask.

I know it's painful but you either you either slowly peel off the Band-Aid or you rip it off right at the beginning and fulfill your campaign promise. Yeah, yeah, that that's. Yeah, that's true. Someone just texted in with exclamation marks. There have been no arrests until that happens, DOJ is same as usual. Ton of evidence, no arrests, just more lip service.

And then they said fact with an exclamation. Look, it's early. I would agree with you if we get another month or 2 or 3 into this and we don't have justice coming for some of these. Adam Schiff what? Bang bangs boyfriend. What it Swalwell. Eric Swalwell thank thank thank. Excuse me. I was bang bang. Okay. Eric Swalwell if it if there is no justice there.

Yeah. My patience is going to start to wear out. But I will say I'm sure there was an active effort to hide and obscure before Trump got elected. So you got to untangle all of that stuff and then get your ducks in a row and then go after them. And so it takes a little time. I would just caution, maybe be a little more patient here.

Yeah, I get their frustration because that's how that's what we're used to. Never it never happening. Yeah. So yes, I get the frustration. But let's hope that through all of the investigations, it actually comes to that point. Well, and and let's not discount the possibility that the DOJ and probably the FBI, there are still huge numbers of people that are actively working against Pam Bondi and Kash Patel.

And it's gone. You know, they were late last week. That's why the FBI had in New York had to resign. Yeah, he was basically shoved out of office. But he chose to say it was his option. His choice. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, we're still on the first drive of the first quarter here. So let's not get upset that we don't have three touchdowns.

Yeah. No we have four years. We've had an amazing few weeks. Let's alter that. We have two years. We can never guarantee what's going to happen in the midterms. That is true. So we've got two years but we are moving at a fantastic speed. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, I almost said something that I shouldn't say, but. I'll say it.

Can I just say just just, we left the bikes on during the last commercial. Let's go. I'm. I'm totally kidding. When I say that it's only to trigger the left. But you know what? If the Democrats win, Trump just needs to bring in the military and force them out of Congress after they capture Greenland.

Just do you know what he said? You know what? That's what I lost. Okay. Can we talk for a moment about that moment during Trump's speech the other night when he talked about, well, we need Greenland and we'll get it one way or another? Okay. That phrase, one way or another, set some people's hair on fire. We did.

I think we did talk about this the next day. He's not going to invade and take Greenland by force. All right. Just stop it. It's that's not going to happen when Trump. But Trump knows how to trigger people in the media. It's like when he sat down with Hannity during the campaign and Hannity asked him, your detractors say you're going to be a dictator.

Are you going to be a dictator? And he's like, only on day one. Like he's like, yes, I'll be a dictator, but only on day one. And and they they just don't get Trump. They don't understand his communication style. They don't know what he's saying. And I think he knows that. And he just loves to to trigger keep doing it.

Yeah. It's you know what. The American people would instantly turn against Trump if he said, you know what, we need Greenland. We're just going to invade it. No, that wouldn't that would not happen. Well, back to the how the segment started, especially Republicans were incredibly satisfied with his address to Congress. These are the people who voted him into office.

They're happy with the way that he's doing it. And they were the ones that created the most power and the November election. That's the reality of how this country is built. Yeah. So for the Democrats, who have so much heartburn over that, bring forward a better candidate, the Joe or Kamala, and maybe you'll have a shot in three and a half years.

Yeah, yeah. All right. You know what, though? I was thinking about this. I saw a story about, who was they were looking at running Michelle Obama or Oprah. Okay. And my thought was those two figures. Paul. Hi. Like they're favorable. I, you know, from a personality standpoint, Oprah is fine. I don't really have a problem with Oprah.

I don't I would never want her president. I'm sure I disagree with her politically. I don't get the adoration for Michelle Obama. I just I don't she seems like a very sour person, very negative. She's got a lot of anger in there. And she's a Karen. Like she's always telling people what's what's wrong with America in the world.

Like, I just don't have a favorable opinion of her at all. But they poll, well in the spheres they have occupy. But when you put them on a stage to run the free world and to become the president of the United States, all the rules change and there are lots of people that would poll well in entertainment, lots of people that would poll well in sports.

That does not mean that America, in the end, would choose them to be their president. And so they're making a big mistake by trying to repurpose that. And and furthermore, the thought I had was it's not it's not the people. That is largely your problem. Although that is a problem. It's your message. It's what you're trying to to foist on the American people.

We don't want boys playing against our girls in in sports. We're never going to want that. And as long as you keep advocating for it, you're going to harm yourself. And can you imagine okay, that's an that's a winning argument for the Republicans by 80%. It's an 8020 argument. Only 20% believe that boys should be playing in girls sports.

80% believe that. And that's America wide. It's not Republican Democrat. So you bring forward Michelle Obama and actually run her in a and presidential election when there are rumors, you don't even have to look for to find pictures of her, of that people believe that she's 100% engaged in this movement. Yeah, it's an 80 over 20 issue. She fails as a candidate just on that.

Their thinking is we need someone more likable to tell Americans that it's okay for boys to beat the hell out of their daughters. It's not going to work. It's not going to work. That that is a strategy that is doomed for failure. Yeah. Let's go back to the phones. Hi, caller. How are you today? Good, sir. How are you?

Good, good. What's going on? I think you hit the nail on the head. You said that Michelle Obama is so unpleasant and all these things, and you don't know why she is likable, but she resonates with her, with her base. They're all sour and unpleasant and likable, so they feel like they can relate to her. Yeah, that.

And I think that's true. I think that's largely true. I will say, okay, let let's sort of reverse engineer this for a moment because I don't know if what we're talking about is even true anymore, because I haven't seen any recent polling on Michelle Obama. And I think independents have swung for Trump. I think that's pretty obvious. So I don't know if the polling would.

However, let's roll the clock back for just a little bit and go back a couple of years or whatever. When Michelle Obama was largely viewed by American pollsters as favorable. Right? Is do people really like her or do they like her because they're supposed to? Does that make sense? Like said, did it make sense? Is it a D I support or is it a genuine like, I really like Oprah.

I think she's a pretty pleasant person. Michelle. No, I feel the same way about Kamala. I don't understand how anyone and I have so many people I know, family members that were just like, oh, she's the girlboss, she's my Madam President. Well, before she got, you know, even in the running and yeah, I don't understand how anybody can even remotely appreciate her.

I think she's likable. But they they were told to like her and so they fell or tripped over themselves to proclaim for goodness. Yeah, yeah. No. Great point. Caller. Thank you. Thank you for the call. It reminds me, Julie, of I stand with Ukraine. You don't give a crap about Ukraine. You you just found a new novel way.

A new shiny object. Way to to tell the world you hate Donald Trump. Yeah, it's like the comedian said. You don't even have custody of your kids. Kevin, how do you know how to stand with Ukraine like your life's a wreck. But all of a sudden, you're a foreign policy expert. Your life's a wreck. But all of a sudden Kamala is going to save this country.

Like that just doesn't make any sense. But it felt good. Yeah. To say it. And so you say it? Yes. Well, I'll ask it this way. Do people like Michelle Obama because they're afraid it will appear racist not to? Maybe. I guess I just don't tiptoe that much around people. You and I don't. Yeah, I'm saying maybe the the positive support that America has.

Is it because you know what? It's it's I'm just going to be cautious and say, I like Michelle Obama. It's just safer that way. Maybe. I mean, I think that there is portions of that. I feel like there's been people who are very supportive of Trump but have this feeling like they need to apologize for the way that the first six weeks has gone, like, well, it, it would have been softer if it had gone slower.

I saw a Fox pundit the other day say it would have been better if he'd done the tax cuts first, and then the then the barrage of Doge wouldn't have been so abrasive. People's wallets would have already been fat. Guess what? Republicans, when they went to the ballot box, they did not feel that way. They might verbalize it because they want to be a little softer around everybody, but with their actual vote, that's not what they said.

Yeah. And when that when they don't have to verbalize it or say it in front of people, they feel like Trump's doing exactly what he asked with. They asked him to do. Yeah, yeah, I agree it was more real for sure. Let's take a break. 938 on Newstalk 179. We'll have a little news here. We'll continue. And if you'd like to reach us on the Stones Automotive Group calling text line, that number is (208) 542-1079.

Okay. There's someone said I absolutely stand with Ukraine. I mean, I haven't given them any of my money, my time, my charity, any contribution whatsoever. But I stand with Ukraine with his post. Yes. It's so true. I feel like if you truly love Ukraine, it's time to change your messaging. How about you stand with the the soldiers who've died in Ukraine?

You stand with the people of Ukraine because the government's made a mockery of you. Yeah. Oh, I just thought of you. Don't stand with Ukraine. You've just painted your hatred with blue and yellow. Yeah, yeah. That for our Facebook Live audience, our Ukraine troll. The one who calls up and insists that, Zelensky has begged and he's not arrogant and blah, blah, blah.

He sent us a text when we weren't on air yesterday, which I feel is kind of cowardly, but whatever do you I don't care. Proclaiming that he knew that this conflict was going to happen before it even happened. Yeah.

It was special. So good. I'm not I'm not going to say the numbers on Facebook Live because it's insider secrets, and I don't want to, give anybody, you know, competitive knowledge. However, I will tell you this, this morning, I woke up and we one of the metrics we watch is a 30 day accumulation of how many streams that we've had just streaming, not actual like listeners on terrestrial radio.

We broke a big record this morning. Last 30 days have been awesome. Big record. So in fact, I could say this two hour stream alone, which means online, on the app, on smart speakers, whatever. It has more listeners than probably two thirds of the radio stations in this market do on their terrestrial entirely. Yes. Yeah. As measured typically in income.

So, yeah.

Oh ten Democrats joined the censure of Al Green. Seriously. Yes. That's more in I'm reading about a local business. Holy cow. Wow. Okay, let me see if it names them. The ten Democrats who voted to censure green are Amy Bera, Ed case. Jim Black is back. Save a lot. Fox. Okay, got me, Jim Himes, Chrissy Houlihan, Mark Marcy Kaptur, Jared Moscone, Maria Gleason, Comp Perez and Tom Suozzi.

So New York, Washington, Florida, Ohio, Connecticut, New York, California, California, MSA state, Pennsylvania. Yeah, I wonder how swing these districts are that might create a little bit of a rift. And it makes me wonder too, if is this a fracture? It could be. The Democrats are in trouble. I was going to tell you this. I listen to Ben Shapiro's podcast.

And, he said where he was sitting, he had a hard time even hearing Trump. We weren't getting it because Trump was on microphone. Yeah. But the, the Democrats were talking nonstop. Oh really. And it was very difficult to hear in the room. So they were just being disruptive. This. Yeah. Not surprising okay. This is the face I hate the other side of me out of this cage embrace to take the life of me.

Tell me, tell me, tell me I'm not crazy. There's a psycho in my head I'm closer to the edge. Make it all right 946 on Newstalk 179 bit of breaking news here. This is good news for, I think, for the system and for Republicans. But ten Democrats have joined Republicans to censure Al Green. I did not see this coming.

So ten Democrats joined Republicans in voting for the measure. Green himself voted present along with first term Representative Shamari figures of Alabama and House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said Al Green's childish outburst expose the chaos and dysfunction within the Democrat Party since President Trump's overwhelming win in November and his success in office. Thus far, it's not surprising 198 Democrats refused to support Green's censure, given their history of radical, inflammatory rhetoric fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome.

That's a good quote. That is good club. Here are the ten Democrats who voted to censure green Amy Bera of California, Ed Case of Hawaii, Jim Costa, California, Laura Gillan of New York, Jim Himes of Connecticut, Chrissy Houlihan of Pennsylvania, Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, Jared Moskowitz of Florida, Marie Glass and Cam Perez of Washington, and Tom Suozzi of New York.

And, kudos to them for doing the right thing here. You asked me the question, does this represent that the Democrat Party is falling apart? I think it's just one more, like flag that is showing that it is potentially falling apart. I felt like the night itself. Trump's address on Tuesday night itself showed a fracture in the Democrat Party.

Nancy Pelosi didn't hold the placards that other people in the party were holding. Only a portion of the women wore pink. Another portion did not occur. I think there's a lot of fracture in the Democrat Party. You look at it and you think, okay, we're in the minority anyway. And there are some districts and I'm not familiar with any of these individual districts, but if you're in a swing district and you're a Democrat, you may not be able to afford to join the Trump hate train.

You you might have to say, look, I, I'm not going to sacrifice my political career out of your demand for me to be compliant to the party and to walk in lockstep with you. So I think and you know what? You know what? It's good. I'm glad to see these ten Democrats coming to their senses, but I'm kind of sad to see that some of the Democrats are coming to their senses.

Okay, al green voting present, just marking present and not voting against a censure for himself. I don't know what that's about. Yeah. What you telegraphing I don't I don't know what he's saying about that. Maybe he wants the censure. Maybe maybe he's not going to vote for it because that's a weird look. But maybe he feels like, yes, I did it and I'm proud of it.

It's kind of like when you deliberately foul someone in a basketball game, like you own it and you did it. And so maybe the voting present was the closest version of that. Yeah. Like, yeah. And it was justified. Yeah. All right, all right I'll go ahead. Let's go to the phones. 285421279. Caller go ahead. You're on. Well good morning.

I just wanted to kind of end this, all of this, but, I'm 100% for Trump. And what he's doing 100%. No problem at all. I voted for this. That's what I got. And that's what I enjoy. On a lighter note, though, you were talking about ghost. You need to go down to Happy's Chinese restaurant.

The old location. Yeah. And there I was there with my wife having dinner, and I poured her a cup of green tea. And after I poured it, the cup went clear across the table over to my wife, moved. Nobody touching anything? No, our mouths dropped and just. That was amazing. So that's it. The old Happy's restaurant where they relocated.

Chinese restaurant. Okay, Hold up. This is. Did you ask the server? Did you tell them this thing happened? What's going on? Yes. They said that they have noticed that there's a lot of odd things that go on there. And in the kitchen, and it's, probably an older gentleman that must have passed or something they said.

But yeah, you know, so I, I knew that what we saw and witnessed wasn't something that just, you know, happened out of the blue and nobody else has experienced anything like it. But they said there there is, some spirit there. So that. Wow, just freaky. Totally freaked out a full cup. You know, one of those little cups they use for them tea just went right across the table.

Okay, the other thing I wanted to mention about the the death penalty, I don't know whether they did or not, but, boy, nitrogen, in a chamber probably would be the most humane because you basically are replacing your oxygen. It depletes the oxygen immediately. And, that's it, you know? Okay, boom, boom out, blow the lights. And so it's, you know, to me, a little bit more humane, but I didn't know whether they did that or not.

In another pose. The question to you, Does Idaho have, did they approve the gold and silver for legal tender? I don't I don't know how I'll do a little research. I don't I don't remember quite how that turned out. Yeah, I don't either. And I never hear anymore. And I can't I tried to ask Barbara and I didn't get very far.

Okay. All right. Thank you for the call I appreciate it. Yeah. Let me answer the nitrogen question real quick. There was a an execution that occurred about 6 or 8 months ago, roughly in a southern state. I want to say Alabama, but I it could have been Arkansas. It could have been Mississippi and a southern state. And it, the man, like, writhed and kicked and, it was a very ugly thing to watch for the people who were there to witness the execution.

So the the caller is saying when you just sit there and go to sleep, well, you can't control the reaction of the person who's being killed. Now, there was two sides there. One side said he purposely acted that way to make an uproar. That how horrible, the death penalty is. Yeah. There was another side that said no, he was just having a reaction to the to the drugs.

And this is why it is inhumane. So in theory, you should just lay there. That hasn't been what's happened in the most recent history, because everything gets turned into at an event in 2024 and 2025. Okay. Neil's really sick, twisted, creative mind is at work here, so stop me. But make the prisoner think they're getting the lethal injection, but instead, in that room, they fill it with nitrogen while the staff is out.

Like he's waiting, but all alone. And he just falls asleep. Sure. And if it's. If it's truly humane. Yeah. Now there's legal. He doesn't say. Oh, yeah, because he has to know how he's dying and you're. Yes, I don't know. I would never suggest that. I'm just saying that would have disproven whichever side if he was acting. You know, if in fact, that was the issue that might, might address it.

Yeah. Okay. Let's go back to the phones. Caller. Welcome to the program. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you. There's a couple things about Al Green, that I just wanted to let you know why he voted present. And that's because afterwards, he went out into the hallway, and when they were interviewing, he said, I'll take my, punishment whatever.

Right? Yeah, but but the problem with that is that he didn't vote to censure himself. So. So, I mean, if he was true to his word, he would have voted to censure himself. Yeah. The the other thing is, when he was out there and he was, you know, having his interview, he said that, you know, we live in the richest country in the world.

We shouldn't have a problem with health care. The you know, I truly believe that we live in most affluent country in the world. And when they say affordable, health care, it should be affordable right out of your pocket. Not from not from any insurance company. So, he's right about that part. But the hypocritical thing is, is I haven't seen him turn down his insurance policy.

So, you know, there's a lot of hypocrisy going on and there's a lot of grandstanding. But what he said is true. It just doesn't apply to him. Yeah. No thank you. Thank you I appreciate that. They. Yeah, they have their own set of rules. All right. We've got a break. It's 955. We'll be back. We'll wrap it up just ahead right here on Newstalk 1079 okay.

Yeah. I appreciate that. He was his theory was that he was saying don't hurt Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, like don't take money away from social welfare programs. Yeah, I feel bad saying that because Social Security isn't a social welfare program, but we get you. Yeah. Yes. So a he hasn't B he said he wouldn't multiple times in multiple interviews.

See Social Security is basically a Ponzi scheme already. So what are you protecting. Yeah. Like there's so much broken up about the reason he threw the fit in the chamber. Yeah right. That's true. And then he also the other thing he was screaming is you do not have a mandate. Well so when you dig in on that they, they say well he didn't get 50% of the popular vote.

Well, we don't elect a president by popular vote. The popular vote is an irrelevant metric. I agree, it's all broken. Everything he was yelling is broken. Yeah. I mean, I don't know if there's the one singular gold standard definition of a landslide. I think it's always contextual. But when you look at the number of districts that shifted to the right, when you look at the fact that Trump won all the swing states when you I mean, and he gets to 312, I think they have said in the past, okay, we got to go back on here for a minute.

It's 958 on Newstalk 1079 and final segment here. Of course tomorrow we have our studio for cover if you'd like to join us for that. Teton Sky, Tetons Celtic band I think they're gonna sing Bully Boy. Okay, I know it is a familiar tune. We were chatting last night. I might have the wrong name, but. Okay. Looking forward to that.

We'll also have our Friday, you know, call in as well. And there's one other thing, but I can't remember what it was, so. All right, have a. Well, we'll be covering the Department of Education potential executive order. Yes, we'll have that. Also, if you wanted to catch our interview with Brit Ray bold, that will be online at Newstalk 107.com later this morning.

We'll see you all tomorrow.