3.7.2025 -- NLS -- Trump, Newsom, and the Tofu-crats

On this episode with Neal and Julie, they open the floor for listeners to call in with under-discussed topics while diving into major national and cultural issues. They discuss the ongoing developments surrounding Donald Trump, the Democrats' handling of key policies, and the latest legislative efforts in Idaho. They also explore the shifting landscape within the Democratic Party, particularly how figures like Gavin Newsom are subtly acknowledging conservative viewpoints. Other hot-button topics include the controversy over transgender athletes in women's sports, U.S. border policies, and the latest geopolitical tensions involving Ukraine and Russia. Neal and Julie also break down the media’s portrayal of Trump’s policies, the Supreme Court’s recent rulings, and the impact of ongoing political narratives. Plus, a few lighthearted moments—including a funny take on Scottish accents—round out the discussion. 

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Transcript

The math taking on Musk is is a rock star. The tofu crowd is mad, but you know, when you trim, fat, pigs squeal. That's just the way the world works. That's the law of nature. And good morning. It is 807. It's great to have you with us this morning. And if you'd like to reach us on the Stones Automotive Group calling text line, here is that number (208) 542-1079.

And it, it is Friday, which means a few things actually, it means that we will have our studio for covers. Teton Sky super talented band will be joining us in a half an hour and we look forward to them and their performance. It also means that we will open up the phone lines primarily. We'll we may open it up a little bit earlier, but the 9:00 hour, which means all of you are invited to call and bring up perhaps an undiscussed or under discussed topic that you think that we should take up.

And believe me, there's a lot I get asked this question or some version of it all the time. How do you come up with the things that you talk about? And there that's effortless and the answer to that question is simply I excuse me, hiccups, water. I pay attention, and I don't mean that in an degrading way.

Like, well, I pay attention. I just mean there is a massive amount of information flow happening and things occurring with Donald Trump, with the Democrats, with the culture, with trans kids and athletes and, with Idaho legislative stuff happening. You just watch it. You just pay attention to it. So you know what's going on. And then when you come to this microphone, it's easy.

I will tell you it, it's easy. The the hard part is when we walk away thinking, well, we didn't get to this and we didn't get to that and there was just no time. Most I would say the majority of days in the last few months, we have four hours of broadcast time and probably 12 hours worth of material.

So I don't know how you compress all of that. We we pick what is most salient and what we believe is very important to our audience. And and we move ahead with that. Of course, we have space to laugh a little, and to some people hate it if we laugh a little or if we talk about something a little, non germane.

But I think those things are absolutely necessary. But Friday is a day for you all to weigh in, and we'll do that coming up later on the, on the program. But I do I want to I want to agitate you for just a moment because this is a bill. This is representing Dale Hawkins, and it's a bill that would well, let him explain it.

This bill makes it illegal for anyone to knowingly. Let's let's key in there, knowingly help hide or transport individuals who are in the United States illegally. It also prohibits encouraging and assisting them to live in the state by providing them with housing, financial support or legal help in the present. And while they're present in the US, violates federal law.

If someone breaks this law, they can face a misdemeanor or a felony, depending on how many individuals are involved. Repeat offenders and those aiding multiple individuals can lose their business license facing large fines and have their vehicles. These exemptions exist for law enforcement, emergency responders, and first responders acting in their official capacity. But we have here up until this morning, I thought was a pretty simple bill.

What this bill does is it brings us in line with the current administration, and it's seeking to reverse the efforts that have been made on our country over the last four years with what has been described as an invasion. Now, we know that the border is pretty closed right now. The current administration has, in their first six weeks, reduced the border crossings.

I don't even know. I think it's less than a couple of hundred a day or less. And it went from it was at 35,000 or more a day. Okay. So he goes he goes on. But this is the part that I, I feel like needs. The biggest piece of discussion is it also prohibits encouraging and assisting them to live in the state by providing them with housing, financial support or legal help in the present.

And while they're present in the US, violates federal law. Okay, I, I don't know how enforceable that is. And I feel like that has gray area written all over it. Although I agree 100% with the what I think is a very clear intent by Representative Hawkins here, that we do not want to be a magnet for illegal aliens to come here and stay here.

And we don't want to make it easy for them to be here. But I think in your effort to make an eco system hostile to illegality, you might get well-meaning people caught up. Now, later on, he kind of addresses this. But, I will tell you, you. This is why wording, law is such an important thing. Because you could good people could get caught up in this.

And he, he says, look, if if someone stops in at your church and they sit down, listen to a sermon, and then they have a coffee afterward or something like that, you're not going to get prosecuted for that. And that that's probably a pretty good example, that it's just incidental. But but you get a little bit more than that.

I are you into a gray area here. And that is the the issue that I think is, is at play. And already we've had, we mentioned this a little bit in the last hour, and we had some people thinking that that is ridiculous. Well, again, I will go back to my original point here. We don't pass intent of laws.

We pass laws. And I, we have seen over and over again, if a law is not worded well or properly, you can have some unexpected and unanticipated outcomes from that. So I, I think we should be very careful at the same time, guard the border, deport the illegals, especially the dangerous ones and the thugs and the criminals and the the the the animals, as Donald Trump, calls them.

Let's get those people out of here. And then we have the really tricky stuff where we have to figure out what we're going to do with the nonviolent, the peaceful illegals. And how do we deal with the fact that they've broken the law? I think that's that's the trajectory of this. And I also think that maybe this law, which I'm I'm all in favor of, of the intent, like I said.

But if you go too soon, too quick, you might actually it might actually backfire on you, a little bit. So, we, we have that we also have a lot happening on the National Front, Senate, speaker Mike Johnson was presiding over the House and the censure of Al Green. If you watch the president's speech the other night to the joint session of Congress, Al Green was the angry old man screaming in the get off my lawn tone, but with shaking his cane at Donald Trump, telling him he doesn't have a mandate.

Okay, well, first of all, what does that mean? But you won the presidency, so just winning itself is actually a mandate. Like, it's, you have the presidential power, but presidents with a mandate don't don't have any extra official power. So I don't know why screaming that makes any sense at all. Especially, I mean, if you're going to be censured for something and there may be times when being doing a censure, a bull offense is a valiant thing, this was not it okay to to dicker over whether or not Donald Trump has a mandate.

That's a ridiculous point to add to try and make because it's it is rather subjective or. Yeah, it's rather subjective whether or not Trump has him. Anyway, here's how that went down. The resolution is adopted without objection. A motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

The House to come to order. The House to come to order. Please shut them. Well, Representative Greene present himself to the well. Okay, so Representative Green makes his way to the well, and then all of this happens by its adoption of House resolution 189, the House has resolved that Representative Al Green be censured. That Representative Al Green forthwith present himself in the well of the House of Representatives for their pronouncement of censure, and that Representative Al Green be censured with public reading of this resolution by the speaker.

Oh, okay. So the Democrats circling around Al Green breakout into We Shall Overcome. They are now the Pelosi Tabernacle Choir. And I watched the video of this a couple of times, and I thought, now when, when is it appropriate to sing We Shall Overcome? Because in all previous historic contexts, we shall Overcome is it was sung when there was a deep racial strife over something, and it was about fundamental rights, civil rights, even sometimes basic human rights.

That's when you sing We Shall Overcome. Al green violated the rules. He said he violated the rules. He agreed that he violated the rules, said he would accept his punishment. There was nothing racial about if it had been Adam Schiff behaving this way. Although he's from the Senate. But whatever there, there would have been a censure for someone who was white or I mean, it was there was nothing racial about this at all.

But yet now they are gathering around and the Pelosi Tabernacle Choir is singing We Shall Overcome. These are not serious people. And I they're I don't know when I don't know if they can actually to ask the question when will they get serious. Implies they can. And I don't even know if they can. I, I believe these are foundationally broken people who are either mentally ill or they are just so far outside the realm of reality.

I don't know that they can actually get serious. They just simply have to lose. And that I know that's a that's a Neil verdict here. That is not terribly, you know, warm and fuzzy, but I think they just have to be defeated. And I think they will be they have doubled down on the things that caused them terrible outcomes for them on November 5th, but they're still at it.

Speaking of one of them, maybe one of the most premier issues that we're dealing with today, the Democrats want to let boys come onto the basketball court and beat the living crap out of your girls. Well, we don't like to word it like that. No, that's exactly what it is you want. You want boys posing as girls to play against real girls and defeat them on the basketball court.

So Charlie Kirk is on, the very first episode of Gavin Newsom's new podcast. This was rather interesting because I and I talked about this yesterday. Remember when the far left had its grip around the entire culture, that everyone walked around worried about being canceled because they said the wrong syllable, that they maybe even inadvertently misgendered someone because they actually properly gendered someone.

But the left said it was misgendering. So we're going to destroy your life and your livelihood because you said the wrong pronoun. Remember that, like we all do wasn't that long ago. Their grip has been reduced from being around the entire culture now to just being around most of the Democrat Party. However, this clip I'm about to play you, I think, is evidence they're even losing their toxic stranglehold grip on the culture within the Democrat Party because you have Gavin Newsom who is seeing things our way.

Imagine that. Would you say no men and female sports? Well, it's I think it's an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness. So is deeply how would you say so that's easy to call out the unfairness of that. There's also humility and grace there, you know. Okay. Then he tries to deflect too.

But let's be nice about it. Let's let's realize these are young people who struggle and let's give them all the support they need, which I, I agree with him on that. There's nothing I disagree with here other than the brevity with which he acknowledged how unfair it is and how quickly he wanted to move on, to talk about a softer point, because he knows he's in big trouble with his far left people because he is agreeing with Charlie Kirk on this.

He's agreeing with Donald Trump on this. He's agreeing with conservatives. Well, actually, he's agreeing with 80% of the country. I don't I don't want to pigeonhole anything here. Now, why is he doing it? He's doing it for himself. I, I believe when I, when I look at Gavin Newsom and we probably ought to start studying Gavin Newsom a little more closely, he's very, very possibly going to be the Democrat's nominee for the president in 2028, perhaps beyond.

And he is Bill Clinton. He is Joe Biden there. There is a certain brand of Democrat. And let's face it, the Republicans have this dynamic, too. But since we're talking about the Democrats and Gavin Newsom, that's why I say he is Bill Clinton and Joe Biden, who have no ideological loyalty. They are whatever they need to be to optimize their political prospects.

So I promise you, if it would help Gavin Newsom to be all for biological boys, beating the crap out of biological girls, he would be all in on that. No hesitation whatsoever, because the driver is not for him to be consistent or for him to be true to some deeply held belief. The driver is, you know, what optimizes my chances of winning in the next big election?

And look, it's it's pretty common now. Will it work? I don't know, I really, really don't know because Gavin Newsom has a very, very long history that much of will be repurposed into a Republican presidential campaign against him if, in fact, he becomes the Democrat nominee. California has been an abject disaster under Gavin Newsom. He is a horrible governor, likable guy, gifted retail politician, terrible governor.

So we're but politics is weird. Memories are short and people get swayed. So who knows what could happen in the future. But we are seeing a handful of these Democrats, and I think we're going to see more of them because a big name like Gavin Newsom, he may he's definitely one of the A-list Democrats right now when he is now saying that it's unfair and it's wrong.

That's actually a green light for less courageous Democrats to come forward and say the same thing. It becomes less of a leap for them to come out and finally speak the truth and to be on the side of the majority of Americans. All right. I got to take a break. It's 825. We'll be back. Quick segment in about ten, 12 minutes or so.

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And we're back at 836 on Newstalk 179. So excited for our studio for cover this morning. Teton Sky Liz Clark is on the other mic here. Liz, how are you this morning? We're doing well. Thanks for having us in. Well, we are really thrilled. We've got multiple instruments, multiple voices, and this is going to be great. So introduce us.

Tell us about Teton skies. All right. Well, I'm Liz, I sing at you. That is my only job. Over here on the upright bass, we have d and he's. I joke that he's our firm foundation. That bass sound underlies everything we have. Eric on mandolin today, and, he rotates through a couple of different instruments, typically mandolin, guitar, bouzouki, anything else he can get his fingers on?

Same for Josh on guitar today. He also does a bit of mandolin whistles. Anything he can add in there? Always trying to get new instruments, basically. Okay, now I just had a couple of, albums that were just slipped across. Yes. Tell us, tell us about your album here so people can, if they like what they hear this morning.

You can go find us online. Any of the streaming platforms will have both of our albums. You can also, if you are an analog person, we do have CDs as well. Our first album just has a good mix of we are a cover band, but we cover about 600 years of music, so it's a wide range of mostly Scottish, some Irish, some Welsh pieces.

We even do a few modern pieces or more modern pieces. The second album is called hearts in the Highlands, and it's more of our winter album. It takes you through from, roughly seven, how our Halloween Hallows Eve all the way through the end of January. So it's music to get you through the cold gray bucket of suck that is winter when you're stuck inside.

And so there's a lot of, there's some Christmas music that people will not have heard. Yeah, because it's Scottish music is a little different. Okay. And by the way, Teton Sky, it's sky with an E correct. Teton. Like the mountain range here. Yeah. Sky like the island of sky in Scotland. Sky. Okay. It's kind of melded a couple of different cultures.

We are in the American highlands, so we brought over that Scottish feel, that Highland feel into the American Highlands. So a question we often get after performers come in. Do you do gigs, do you perform like we do. We do, a couple of things that we have coming up the weekend of the 21st over in Evanston, Wyoming, we're playing ceilidh at the roundhouse, which is a big music festival over there.

If you need a weekend out of town, it's a great way to jump over the hill, hit Evanston, and hit ceilidh at the roundhouse. We're playing Friday evening and we're doing a couple of workshops for them as well. And then the 24th of April right here in town, we're throwing a Burns supper and a Robert Burns supper is to celebrate the life, music and poetry of Robert Burns, famous Scottish poet.

If you've heard or seen, you know Robert Burns. My love is like a red, red rose. Robert Burns. Yeah, a whole bunch of other pieces. But we throw a catered dinner and it is open to the public. People can get tickets for that on our website, which is Teton Sky. Scott. Net. Reservations are required because we are always tight on space for that one.

But the dinner is great, the company's wonderful, and the show is phenomenal, so we have a lot of fun with that. Okay, now you are performing a tune called Bully Boys to direct. It is a sea chanty, so I am a suspicious, curvaceous sea sailor. Okay, but since I am the one who takes lead on this one, it's officially a chanty.

Okay. And, and we will we will sing it for you. Okay. Well, our mic, sir. On. We're ready. Take it away. Thanks.

For the. Roll be bully, boys. We're in a hurry, boys. We've got a long way to go and we'll sing and we'll dance and bid farewell to France. And it's roll me bully boys row. We sailed away in the roughest of waters. Rome, Eboli, boys road. But now we're returning in much finer quarters. Rome. Eboli. Boys road, Rome, Italy.

Boys, we're in a hurry, boys. We've got a long way to go. And we'll sing and we'll dance and bid farewell to France. And it's Rome, Italy, boys. Rome! See, now we feast on peasants by the flock. Rome, Eboli. Boys, roll! It's a long, long way from the girl. I'm the stalks and it's Rome. Eboli, boys. Rome, Rome, Eboli.

Boys! We're in a hurry, boys. We've got a long way to go. And we'll sing and we'll dance and bid farewell to France. And it's Rome. And bully boys grow up. Don't you leave me alone. Since they're with me. We take home. When you tell me, darling, say with me. Start tonight in the wings will be full as babies.

Is big. It's baby food face closer to home. It's grow, oh grow. Oh a wee dram of a whiskey forever eat mine. Rome, Italy. Boys roll and obey for a lover I'm for the chanty man. And it's Rome, Italy, boys. Rome! Row! Everybody, boys, we're in a hurry, boys. We've got a long way to go. And we'll sing and we'll dance and bid farewell to France.

And it's Rome, Italy. Boys grow. We sail away in the roughest of waters. Rome, Italy, boys. Rome. But now we're returning. So lock up your daughters. Rome, Italy, boys. Rome. Rome, Italy. Boys! We're in no hurry, boys. We've got a long way to go. And we'll sing and we'll dance. And it's farewell to France and Italy. Bully boys, go to Rome, Italy, boys!

We're in a hurry, boys. We've got a long way to go. So sing and we'll dance. And bid farewell to France. And it's no Neverland, boys go! Rome, Italy, boys. Rome, Teetan! Sky! That was fantastic, all of you. Thank you for having us in. And, people can also catch us at the River concert series through the summer.

And so come out to the greenbelt, hit us up for Burns Night tickets. Come see us. We'd love to sing at you. So great. Thank you again. Thank you. It's 844. All right. It's 849 on Newstalk 179. And, Julie, in my mind, I for some reason, all my thoughts are in an Irish brogue right now. I had come back in the studio after hearing them, warming up, and I had told me her voice is so pure.

Was I wrong? No. She's a very beautiful, angelic goodness. What a voice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was it was good. So again, thanks to Teton Sky, very talented group of musicians. So. And fun group. Yeah, yeah. They're fun. Just fun to have in studio today. All right. We need to transition to some fun stories. Like, like, I always feel bad because we bring them in.

Everybody's in a happy mood and enjoyed the music. And then all of a sudden, let's talk about the nasty politics of the day. But, was there anything fun? Yes. You know what? Yes, we can play this. We can play this. I open the show with it, but it's worth hearing again. My thinking on monkeys is is a rock star.

The tofu crowd is mad, but, you know, when you trim, fat kids squeal. That's just the way the world works. That's the law of nature. All right, John Kennedy, national treasure. I think we should adopt that phrase tofu crowd. I do, I like that actually. In fact, because the Democrats are going to have to rebrand, maybe they should work that in.

Maybe they think it'll work for the tofu. It's meant as an insult, but maybe it'll work for it. I actually think they own it. I think they're like, we're we're now the tofu crats. And so, but yeah, and he's talking about Doge and he is exactly right. They're going to squeal because they don't like money getting cut.

And it's it's also very interesting how silent they are on the corruption part of it. And sending millions of dollars to other countries for all the things that Trump listed off during his speech the other night, nobody is going to publicly support that. But the fact that they're silent about it and don't say, yeah, we need to end that spending says everything we need to know.

Yeah, absolutely. They were silent about way too many things. Yeah. You they should have been celebrating the no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime. That should have been celebratory. There should have been, unification in politicians on that concept. They can't. Their hatred supersedes everything. Yeah. I'm seeing a headline. Julie, speaking of the, the Democrats trans athlete ban unleashes sex predators.

That's what Hakeem Jeffries is saying. What does that mean? Oh, I don't know. Trans athlete ban unleashes sexual predators. Wow. I don't even know how you could make that connection. I'm not sure what that means at all. I know Akeem Jeffries did give an interview yesterday and it was rambling and all over the place, but that's really nothing unusual for Akeem Jeffries, so we didn't pull any clips from it.

It was just who he is. Like, yeah, okay, so here, here is the story again. Would we be surprised if a Democrat makes a completely illogical connection? Hakeem Jeffries repeated the unsubstantiated argument that the Defending Women and Girls in Sports Act would have would have unleashed sexual predators on girls in the US. Jeffries first made this argument today.

The House voted on the bill in January, joining other prominent Democrat representatives, including AOC. The argument prompted harsh backlash among some registered Democratic voters and was not repeated leading up to the Senate's vote of the bill on Monday. But Jeffries raised the argument again when asked about California Governor Gavin Newsom's recent comments about transgender athletes in girls sports being unfair, he said I haven't seen Newsom's comments.

What Democrats opposed was unleashing sexual predators on girls throughout the United States of America, Jeffries told reporters on Thursday. When Jeffries and other House Democrats pushed the argument in. Do you see a connection here? I know I am. I'm actually you are as puzzled as my thoughts. Are you really lost at the at this thought process? Yeah.

Oh. I know what it is. Okay. Now you have to get several paragraphs in. Okay. He's saying that if you if you ban trans athletes, you're going to have to do an underwear check. You're going to have to look and see if they don't have the genitals and the parts because of this ban, which is going to unleash the predators because they're going to want to, you know, look and verify, okay, okay, okay, okay.

Hold on. This is the same person who's going to say that somebody who is transgender is not looking at the women that he's dressing with in a locker room that's completely innocent. So here's the thing. The the language in the bill says nothing about that. Instead, it requires proof of birth gender with a birth certificate. That's how you prove it.

Show me your birth certificate, okay? Not, your you don't have to do a pelvic exam to to make this law work. Okay, I want it. I can we go back to the way that Barb iHeart structured the very first bill. We were the pioneers. We were the trailblazers. We were led by representative hard on this. Yeah. She structured it that in these athletic competition options, you're almost always getting a physical clearance from a doctor.

Yeah. Let the doctor say yeah. They're not they their license is on the line. You can hope that they're not sexual predators. And I would say a majority of them aren't. There are cases where doctors are, majority of them aren't, and they're in facilities where it's fine to be looking. Yeah. Pulling off the underwear and looking but yeah.

No. So use the physical, use the actual physical that allows you to be a part of this athletic competition as the identifier of what you are. So Julie, maybe you can answer. Let me let's fold in your true crime expertise. Okay. Can you take a strand of hair and will attest, tell you if it's x, x, y? Yes you can off of hair, but that probably takes a lot of time.

Yes. Okay. So maybe yeah, maybe that's that's not very feasible. But is there a quick test like a, cheek swab or something? There's got to be in days within a year to be within a few minutes, you could find out that this is an x x or an x y. That's an expensive as well. Or what about a blood drop on, I mean, we we.

Yeah. Do a little, like, a little prick on a finger all the time to to evaluate glucose levels. Yeah. Why can't there be a machine that just reads if it's Z, the blood drop that's put on there. Yeah, I, I don't I'd have to do a little research to see if they have that test. But yeah, I don't know.

There's lots of ways to avoid this, this, this boogeyman sexual predator concept that Hakeem Jeffries is bringing forward. Yeah. Yeah. That's you know what it's a fear tactic. That's all. That's all it is. So someone called him dollar Store Obama and I. That is so rude. Like I don't think it should be repeated that he's a dollar store Obama.

He said it was a dollar store Obama which I I'm offended by you. No one should ever be called dollar store. Oh Obama I agree because when you call him dollar store Obama, that's a denigrating reference. So, you know, they should even highlight dollar store Obama as something negative. Just don't say that. Yeah. What is it that we shouldn't say dollar store Obama?

I you know. I'm not sure why they picked him. I don't know, but he's not doing a great job. He really I I'll give him this. I think he's a little more polished than Cory Booker. I think they thought this was going to be what Cory Booker was going to be for them. Yeah Cory Booker Cory Booker failed the audition.

So then they've got Hakeem A Jeff Hakeem Jeffries I think he's a little bit better than Cory Booker. Yeah, he's absolutely not Obama. You know. No, not not even not even close. Yeah. No. It's true. Oh. I just got correct. I do want to correct this. Reminder for your Scottish listeners. Robert Burns is a Scot and the Isle of Skye is in Scotland, just an FYI.

Not offended because I said Irish brogue. Yes. So I apologize. My apologies. You know what? That's a those are actually fighting words. If you if you call it as a Scot and I or an Irishman Irishman or vice versa, you're going to hear it. It's going to go to fisticuffs. I would probably screw that up and get thrown out of one of those countries.

I think I probably would do, I would like I can tell like I, I can I know the difference, you know. Yeah. Scotland like, hey, I want Sean Connery, but you've got red hair and you're angry. I don't know what I'm gonna call you, okay? We're going to take a break. We'll be back. Our two coming up.

Should I do to my or. Final voice. Ready? Here. Bombs are doing.

Yeah. Okay. We gotta get going. Here. Alan. Rush 907 on Newstalk 1079. In the wake of having Tetons sky in for studio four covers, I've been trying to talk in a Scottish brogue. Even ask ChatGPT to give me some Scottish things to say so you can catch that on today's Facebook Live.

And, if you want to know what your bum's out the window means, then you can watch Facebook. Facebook. It's a good time. We're also awaiting President Trump. He is going to be speaking from the white House in the midst. They're linking it to potential Russian sanctions. So what is this going to do, Julie, to the people who are absolutely convinced that Donald Trump is in bed with Putin and and is just doing Russia's bidding here to try and destroy Ukraine.

So I actually had this thought this morning. Jacqui Heinrich was reporting from in front of the white House, talking about these potential sanctions and what was going on, with the apology from Zelensky. And as she was explaining that she actually has sources from Ukraine that give them some information, I thought to myself, we know maybe about 20% of what's going on with all of this, and you have all these people come up and be definitive on exactly how this war is going to end and exactly how Zelensky is feeling, and that Putin and and Trump are best of friends.

We don't know anything. Yeah, we know nothing. No. So when you hear somebody who is 100% so definitive saying, this is exactly how this is going to turn out, go ahead and mark that as foolish talk, because we just don't know what's going on. Yeah. No, it's it's true. They don't. And, Yeah, sir, I'm watching the headlines here, and, he's actually going to speak from the Oval Office.

Is it is this going to be one of those informal gaggles that he thinks so. Okay. So it's not going to be a teleprompter formal speech. He's just going to answer some questions. Okay. Well, we will take it. However, it's in these environments sometimes times Trump might drop a little cuss word. So we'll say that preemptively. We don't I don't think he will.

But it has happened before. Yes. Just saying. All right. Let's, let's we'll watch that. We'll put him on as soon as it happens. But we'll take some phone calls right now. Caller, welcome to the show. How are you doing? Oh. I'm great. I don't know what's going on, and, I have a couple of questions. You had random thoughts, I think, this morning.

Is that correct? About Fridays? Yeah, it's. Fridays are like that. You can bring up something different. All right, all right, I have two. And then maybe a suggestion on how I might send that, find out what's going on. I don't know what's going on. I, I notice that tied currencies are no longer on the television. Is there a rumor?

Did I miss this? Is he fired? Is you moving on? Is the now going to be national? What's happening? No, I, I know Todd very well and have. I've kept in contact with him. His contract was not renewed at the end of February, and he found out about it late last year, and they just couldn't come to an agreement with the negotiation.

And so, he's moved on. We're not sure where he's going quite yet, but, that that's the story. There was just a non-renewal of a contract. He was not fired, so to speak. Good. And then the second part, I don't know on is the president signed a women or men and women sports, executive order and yesterday the Senate voted it out.

Or how does that work? Am I the only one that's confused on this? Okay. So the the, president did sign an executive order and it is linked to title nine. But here's the thing with executive orders, they can be overturned when the next president comes in. And so what happened is the House voted and passed in the House, because you only have to have 50% for, men, transgender women, which are men who believe that they are women will not be allowed to play.

And girls and women's sports, when it went to the Senate, they needed more than 50%. And all of the Democrats voted against it, which meant that it failed in the Senate. Yeah. So the that yeah, the action in the House, in the Senate was to shore up what Donald Trump had done with the executive order. Now I'm a lot smarter, but I figured out a way to to keep my ear to the tracks, and I'm going to form the Idaho Falls Mud Flap Club.

I have suggested this for my wife and some of her friends because, we, we go down to Love Station, and when an 18 Wheeler pulled in, we would all go out 18 or so of us and just sit behind the mud flaps to the truck there and hang on to it when it pulled out. And it'd be perfect for my wife and her friends.

They like to hang out and get all the dirt. I think they just fit in there. Perfect. What do you think about that idea? Okay, thank you for the for the conditional quip. I'm not sure what to think about getting all the dirt. The young kids call it, spilling the tea. And so this tea club actually is a little cleaner than the dirt club at the mud flats.

Yeah, that's true. That that's true. I had no idea where that was going. I was following it. I was with it. Well, I did like right at the end I'm like, oh, okay, got you. (208) 542-1079 okay. We're waiting for Trump. We'll see when this happens. And do you it is Trump here. Here's my guess okay. This is this is my take on what Trump's doing.

Trump is applying pressure on Russia that he'll threaten sanctions. So Putin will be more likely to agree to a peace deal that isn't so one sided against Ukraine, if that makes sense. I, I think that all of it's a negotiation. Let me give you an example of a negotiation that happened just that's that's kind of small potatoes.

But let's talk about how it worked. So Trump said he was going to level tariffs on Canada gave them a deadline. The deadline came and went at the beginning of the week. Canada overreacted. They pulled all the bourbon off of the shelves even though they had already purchased the bourbon. Yeah, they took the loss, pulled all the bourbon off the I don't know what they call them.

They're grocery stores, liquor stores, whatever. Off the shelves. Yeah. And got rid of it. Well, Trump just yesterday decided to not hold to the deadline. The tariffs aren't existing. And he extended it another month because they're in the middle of negotiations. Yeah. Do you see what that did for America. Yeah. They're going to have to purchase a whole bunch more bourbon from America.

That's true. Did they destroy the bourbon or did they just. Yeah. But when people lose their minds hair on fire, react to want what Trump does, Trump usually ends up gaining ground. Yeah. In the middle of those overreactions he look you're he's playing 4D chess and they're playing tic tac toe like it's it is. It really is. You know, he he really does see this stuff three and four steps ahead.

So absolutely. So that's just a small version of this. We're talking much bigger stuff when it's a war in Ukraine and people have died and everything. But I believe the same concepts are happening. He's constantly negotiating. So back to the what I thought this morning when I was listening to the report on Fox News from Jacqui Heinrich, they asked her to clarify if Trump had held phone calls with Putin or Zelensky, and she said, I can't, I don't know if he has.

But she said, I bet he has. With the way that the track record, I bet there's been phone calls, but we people that are viewing what Trump is doing right are automatically signing the fact that, well, he's not even talking to Zelensky. How do you know? You don't know. Yeah. Well or you don't know if his envoy is talking with Zelensky or you don't know.

What we're seeing is a tip of an iceberg. Yes. That's that's what's in the news. There's a whole bunch of stuff going on. And even if and Trump may be calling Zelensky personally, but us people are talking to Ukrainian people and all of these heads of state, they have ambassadors and diplomats and negotiators and lots of stuff is going back and forth.

But but you're exactly right, Julie. Like, there's there's a lot happening behind the scenes. And because they don't see it happen, they don't think it happened. It's like this really simple, childlike thinking. And I promise you, there's a lot that is going on and there's a lot of back channels that are happening. So yeah, and the reverse could be happening.

He could be not speaking to Putin at all, not allowing anyone to talk to Putin's people until he levels this threat to kind of instill maybe the the formal version in Putin. And why aren't you talking to me? And this is all about the deal they're negotiating nonstop to get to a good end. Yeah, yeah. Someone said, Neil, and this is very Friday, very A.D.D. if you want to see something Scottish, that's really funny.

Look on YouTube for Scottish people trying to say purple burglar alarm. All right, we'll do it during the commercial break. We'll look for proper purple burglar alarm. That's hard to say in English. That's true. That's true. It's I'm not even going to say this because I might be swearing it. No, I don't I'm not going to say it.

What the what? The person sent in on the text about moonlight. Yes. I don't know if it is right. Yeah, I but I'm afraid of what might tumble out of my mouth. I so. All right. It's 917 (208) 542-1079. Let's break really quick and we'll keep an eye on the news if we see the president speaking to reporters. Excuse me.

Reporters from the Oval Office maybe pick up, put down some whiskey, and we have no idea. Did you go get yourself a pipe? No, I did not, I didn't I haven't had a pint of anything but water this morning. So we'll be back. Sorry. Levels seem seemed off for some reason. I don't know what's going on. Yeah. Go ahead.

You're fine. I'm just looking at levels here. So. Well, I can't look it up because my audio doesn't connect. So purple. Oh. Burglar alarm on YouTube. Scottish purple burglar alarm. Okay, some Scottish people can't say purple burglar alarm. I was watching my favorite YouTube channel last night for the week. Well, it's a guy who's who's quite back in Scotland.

I've been falling on for about 20 years. When he was doing podcast with his bedroom and he said his own TV show and this is quite by, but he's got a really weird sense of humor and it's no doubt with his taste. My wife can't stand them. She she likes to watch comedy work. People have getting custard pies in the face, and she doesn't understand why I think Lemmy is so funny, but he has it anyway.

I'll leave a description to his channel in the box, and if you go with it and leave a comment, you might mention that when Robert said he's so big, even he noticed me and a bit. I was watching one of these videos last night and he said that I watched a Scottish people have trouble seeing the once popular burglar alarm on burglar alarm.

Purple burglar alarm. Purple purple burglar alarm. I, I was trying so hard. Pop up background alarm. Hey, did you just watch it? Did you just have a string? Did you just have a stroke? Watch. You know, that was a.

Oh. This view left is our new one. What did you say? I said, oh. Okay. Saying go on. Alarm. All right. But alarms, you say it fast. It's like over and over. Purple burglar alarm. Oh, that's pretty good. Okay. Trump is on. Hold on. You got to get rid of this stick with me then. And 921 a new stock 1079 is Friday.

(208) 542-1079. If you'd like to join us something undiscussed under discussed. We're actually still awaiting to, the president of the United States is going to speak from the Oval Office, presumably about potential sanctions that he may place on Russia as part of the negotiation for an end to the hostility between them and Ukraine. So we'll we'll see. We still don't, quite know what, but this is going to be about.

Although I will say earlier, Julie Trump did talk, I think it was do see about the assassination attempt on his life. And he says there is a report coming out soon. It's been seven months. Why do you think we don't know more about the guy who shot leader? Yeah. Oh, well. And the second one with all of his cell phone.

So, I want to find the answers. I've told them. In fact, today I said, I want to fight. We can no longer blame Biden for that one. She issued a release that a long time ago. So what? They are giving me a report next week sometime. And I do believe I'll be releasing. I want to release a report.

A lot of people have asked that question. You had one who had, three apps, two of which were foreign, supposedly. And who has the biggest white you love firm in Pennsylvania, even though they don't live in necessarily a white you area. What's that all about? Is love. You know, the love for the other one had 7 or 6 cell phones, and I don't have six cell phones.

And why would somebody have six cell phones. So we're going to be releasing a report on that, said Peter. But based on what you're saying right there, the lack of information and the data points that you just gave, does that make you think that there's some part of a there's some or could be? Well, it makes other people think that.

It makes me think it a little bit too. I say when you have three apps and two of them are foreign, and you had an FBI that wouldn't report on it, they didn't want to say why. I would say that could be suspicious. And then when the second assassin, you had, you know, and by the way, after the Secret Service did a great job on that by spotting.

But on the second one, he had, six cell phones. That's a lot of cell phones. And a couple of them had some strange markings on them. So, yeah, I want to find out, and I would be willing to release it. I mean, maybe there's a reason that we shouldn't. So I don't want to get too far ahead of my skis.

But yeah, I would be very willing to release that. I'd like to see it. I want to see it. I that yeah. Okay. So Trump, might release it if he can. I mean, there may be reasons why he can't, but there's those federal charges are coming forward on Routh as his last name in Florida. So he's got the Ukrainian ties.

He can face life in prison for these charges. There's five charges that they've leveled against him. I don't know what the exact charges are. I don't know how much negotiating will be going on. Sometimes when there's negotiations happening, that means some things are stifled and the public never gets to know them because it's part of the negotiation in order to put him behind bars.

So there's a lot to still play out here. But, if I was President Trump, of course you would want to know what's going on here. And of course, you'd be questioning the fact that the first assassination attempt. We know nothing. Yeah, it is almost zero information about that kid. So the FBI, of course, was involved in that, in that investigation.

And, you start to wonder, why don't we know more? But, I mean, we we know sometimes we know things within hours that we don't still know about this case seven months ago. And so you you have to ask that question why? I did see a clip. Burchett was talking about the Epstein files. Speaking of the FBI, there's not a connection between Epstein in this kid that tried to kill Trump, but, the the the problem here is the corruption of the FBI.

And he says the files are either missing or they've been so corrupted and whitewashed that whatever comes out, we're not ever going to be able to to believe it. And that's the that's sort of the problem here, is that so much time has passed since the whole Epstein thing, and it's been so politicized and obvious. Lee, there's a lot of people that are that have been trying to suppress this, or at least powerful people, when it finally does come out, whoever may be implicated in those files can just simply say, yeah, those files have been corrupted.

It's a smear job against me. They'll all say that. Yeah. Yeah. It's the cover. Yeah. The the end that can't be proven or disproven. It's just the cover. And we have to accept it because we're not in those inner circles. Yeah. Yeah I would agree with you I, you have a school shooting and sometimes we know within two hours a manifest.

We have it out on like we can read it, we know what gun was used. We know how many people have died. We we have all of their social medias available, like it is almost instantaneous in a digital world. The information that we get with this young man, nothing. It's right. And and here's, here's what I don't get.

His social media was completely cleansed. Right. In a way, in a way that the average person can't scrub their own. Yep. There's no going back to the way my wayback machine, it is gone. And then I don't know if you've seen the picture of the house that he lived in with his parents. It's very, small.

It's a humble house. Yeah. It's a fine house. Like there's nothing wrong with it, but it's a small house. This is not a high economic level, and he can afford the best of attorneys. I mean, that's what Trump was saying in that that question to Peter, that the answer, excuse me, to Peter Doocy, is that how does he have this these attorneys working for him?

So that's a big question right there. The parents, they don't come out. Yeah. You can't find them. They grocery shop at three in the morning. Yeah. So what's happening in this situation I, I don't know I wish I knew I know where my conspiracy mind goes, where my suspicion goes. I don't want to go down there. But how do you not ask those questions?

Let's go to the phones. Caller. Welcome to the Neil Larson Show. Yes, I finally got on. So I, I've had this conversation for about Russia, but the sanctions and major tariffs on the US, with a few liberal friends of mine, I brought it up as a hypothetical and they say, well, if it happens, it's because Trump promised a little something just so he could.

So that would make it look like Trump isn't in collusion with them. And I realized at that point that no matter what you say or do, whatever facts that you bring to them, they they the derangement syndrome is so real. I just can't believe it because I, I probably on Facebook, I just stopped correcting and a lot of my liberal friends because there's, there's nothing you can say or do because they have so much hate against this man.

And it's really what's tearing apart our country. So yeah, I just wanted to share that with you. Yeah. No, you're you're right there. It's heads I win tells you lose with with them. Yeah, yeah. Perfect example. Right? Yeah. Thanks. Thank you. Thank you for the call. 285421278. Yeah. It, you know, at the risk of inflaming somebody, it's that Ukrainian caller that we have all the time.

There's no talking about potential. You know, this could be what's actually happening between Zelensky and Trump. That person has decided already 100% what? I mean, they even told us in text yesterday they knew what was going to happen before it happened. That's how firm they are. There's no discussing this. There's no moving. There's no there's no, you know, oh, I appreciate that information.

I did hear this from this person. It's already set. So that matches what the caller says. You're just going to run across these people who it is just it is ironclad what they believe in. You cannot even have a conversation, let alone change their mind. Well, can I make a, Dale Carnegie Point here? If you want somebody to do something.

And we were encouraged to watch some videos because everything you watch on the internet. It's true. We were encouraged to watch some videos, and then right after that, it was snarky denigration of us. I'm like, look, if you want to ask me to do something, don't then turn around and be condescending. That dish doesn't turn out so well.

Yeah, or send the video and say, you guys are completely wrong. You really need to educate yourself and then drop a link. Yeah, okay. Yeah, well, I also find it. Well, the answer to this is yes, but if you met someone who they think that their position is the only educated position that you can't possibly disagree with what they're saying.

And the only explanation for your disagreement is that you don't know the issue. Yeah. You're stupid. Yeah. You're uneducated, you're ignorant. And I'm like okay I'm not me, I'm not messing with those people. Yeah. They're a waste of your time. I'm a waste of their time. That isn't that accurate. I do not want to waste their time.

Anything good is going to come on either side of this. No. Yeah, yeah. The art of disagreement is super important. Yeah, and you're an idiot if you think otherwise. We'll be back after this. News stuck. 107I.

I totally forgot to do something today that I was going to do last night. I'm like, I'm going to do that tomorrow. I, I was in early enough. I could have done it. I wanted to go on Canva and design our own black round signs and on it say little black ground signs are stupid, and we were going to hold them up to the camera.

Action! Paddles are dumb. Yes. Al green angry old man. Yeah. Angry old man. What is the. This is not normal. I'm still trying to understand why. That's a powerful message. It's it's not a powerful message I don't I think maybe it needed to be so vague that people could interpret it however they wanted to, because the that's my issue with what Representative Green was doing.

It's not even relative to the conversation that was happening. Yeah. You're upset about Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, and Trump has repeatedly said he's not going to cut those programs. Why are you holding a protest for something that's not occurring? Well, we've talked about this, Julie, that if something's not true that you need to be true. Proceed as though it is true.

Yeah, yeah, it's got to be true. I've got to have it for my argument. So I'm just going to act like it's true. If we can pretend this is true then that makes Trump even worse. Yeah. So he tried to backtrack that in his converse in his comments in the house. What was that? Two days later, he tried to say something along the lines that, well, Trump was calling us.

I can't remember the word he said. Idiots, I think was the word. And so I had to stand up and say something. Then why didn't you stand up and say, you can't call us that? Because that's what you're protesting. Instead you stood up and said, you don't have a mandate. You're going to harm Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security.

Yeah, it doesn't match. No, it doesn't match. It doesn't match at all. Yeah. Neil's going to watch basketball this weekend. Big Sky baby. My Bengals don't play till Monday night. But I probably will not sit there and watch it. Like tip off to buzzer. Like, I'll probably watch a few minutes here and there because the first two games tomorrow are almost like play in games.

They've taken the top the bottom four, teams in the, in the league. And then those four teams will play to in order to play the two top teams. So it's actually a pretty I liked the bracket that they produced this year, like it was just the way it was structured. And how you do ten teams. I'm super excited for March Madness.

Yeah. Me too. I think Julie and I are going to be in charge March Madness again this year. I mean, Julie's going to be in charge of March Madness this year. Actually, Neil's going to do it and I'm going to be the face. That's how we've decided Neil's going to do it. And Julie's going to take the credit.

So yeah, but for good reason. Yeah. There's a there's a method to our madness. It's actually planned that way. Yes. And we both agree it should be that way. Yes. I'm all in on it. All right, hold on.

Nine 937 now on Newstalk 1079. So this happened in the white House yesterday. Your administration has made it a priority both to end lawfare and the weaponization of government, and also to hold those who have engaged in lawfare accountable. One of those, one of the law firms that, has been involved in that is called Perkins Coie.

That's also a law firm, that has engaged in unlawful DEA practices. This executive order will suspend and I've watched it take place. This executive order will suspend the security clearances and access to certain federal resources for that law firm, and also launch a holistic review of unlawful DCI practices at some of the nation's largest law firms. This is an absolute honor.

To say what they've done is it just terrible? It's a weaponization. You could say a weaponization against a political opponent, and it should never be allowed to happen again. All right, so he's signing this, revokes their and you're looking at about 15 different firms. That or more sir. Yes. All right. So all these law firms that have engaged in lawfare are going to lose their security clearances, which probably hampers their ability to to do legal work for a lot of their clients.

So especially if you're you're right there in the heart, the political arena, those are the people that you're servicing. So yeah. Yeah, this is going to harm them. Yeah. Yeah. It it it is. I'm sure it's going to get challenged in court. They're going to find a liberal judge that'll put a temporary stay on it. And then a higher judge is going to say no, the president has the right to do that and then they'll lose it.

And so I did I see I did I read a headline wrong that their parking passes were also revoked at Perkins Coie. Oh, I don't know. Did I dream that? I have no idea. I'll look it up. I do want to give a little bit of clarification on the Supreme Court ruling that came down. I did some reading on it, the Supreme Court ruling that came down a couple of days ago that said that the USAID contracts, where work has already been performed, that Trump has to fulfill the payment of those contracts.

If you were just going to look at the headlines that were, then generated by the mainstream media and concerns to that Supreme Court case, you would have thought they had just squashed Trump beyond belief, when in reality, that's not actually what happened. And for the most part, Republicans didn't really care that the contracts were paid out. The difficulties that Republicans had with that ruling is that it gave so much power to the federal judges that are clearly acting in a Partizan way.

So that was the big issue the Republican had, that Republicans had. The part of the headline that wasn't explained to you is that this ruling is a little bit different than what most Supreme Court rulings are, and it basically just left it open ended for an appeal to happen. So this might actually go away. So the the story that follows up this ruling from the Supreme Court is that Trump said, oh yeah, if if they've already been paid or if the works already been done, I'm not the kind of person that's going to cut that.

We'll go ahead and pay this one and this one and this one. But there's there's things attached to this payment that says we're going to accept further work. And it's like we're not doing that. And the ruling didn't say we have to do that. Yeah. So there's a lot of nuance to it. Don't get Buffalo by what the mainstream media did with the headlines about that Scotus ruling.

Yeah. No they're they're continuing to craft their narrative. Yes. And telling you lies or half truths for sure. I cannot find the story about the parking passes being revoked. So I may have just I it was only a headline and I may have read it wrong. So I'm so concerned that there's a possibility that you dreamed this.

We need a dream. Analyzation done. Look, I have serious problems. It would not surprise me at all if I dreamt that headline like I. We need to make your dreams happier and more fun. I saw I saw the story about Perkins Coie losing their security passes. And then I thought, oh, parking passes, but I yeah, I can't find anything on it or it's a mandela effect thing.

It did happen, but not in this particular universe. And I jumped universes or dimensions or whatever. I was trying to relax last night before bed, so I was listening to a book. Yeah, in my dreams, I was writing a book. Like, I'm full on writing fiction. Okay, this will be a good part with Typhon like a mad woman.

Okay. Because I'm writing my book right now, is that part of. I don't know, but I was writing a book in my dreams last night. How was it? Good. You remember what you were writing? Well, it was a continuation of the book that I'm like. I was continuing the story that I haven't listened to yet. Yeah.

I got you. Okay. Like a book with an alternate ending. This is Julie. I was I was making the next chapter of the book that I was listening to. Okay, okay. Yeah. I remember one time it was in the middle of Spud Harvest. I was probably 16 or 17 driving potato truck. And I remember I went home, went to bed and it was it was late because it was a pretty, pretty warm night like there, you know, we just kept digging spuds and I think I got home and in bed around midnight and had to get up early the next morning to keep digging.

And I remember as I was falling asleep, I was dreaming that I was still driving the potato truck, and I popped up in my bed saying, I can't fall asleep driving this spud truck. And I'm like, in my bed. So dreams are a funny thing. Our minds are powerful. Yeah, I've had some weird I tell you about my.

Really? Yeah, you. If you do have some very unexpected dreams. That's what I would say, that that one I just described is very, very, you know, clearly you would think. Yeah, but sometimes I get weird ones, like I'm getting chased by a slice of pepperoni pizza or something, like, hey, let's bizarre crap. Like, why did I dream that?

I don't think I've ever had that particular dream, but stuff like that. So, it's interesting you go to Drudge, which I do not recommend, but the headline on Drudge right now is President Target Law Firm. What were they doing to him for the past eight years? And it's in bright red and which. Yeah, is like the dun dun dun.

Can we talk about Amy Coney Barrett for a minute? That's another story on on Drudge because Trump supporters are not happy with her. And they say that, she's angered some in MAGA by voting against some of President Trump's priorities. And they with that in mind, when you watched her interaction with the president the other night after, I believe the the speech was given, there was a glare and it was not a happy glare.

It was not a glare or one in or that here's the president of the United States. I also think some people just have resting mien face. And she might have resting mean face. I don't know her well enough but a lot of people are reading into that. I think in the context of she hasn't turned out to be quite as MAGA as we had hoped she was.

Well, let me share a quote from that piece that you're talking about that's linked on Drudge. This is by, his name is Mike Davis. He clerked at the Supreme Court for Justice Neil Gorsuch. This is how he describes Amy Coney Barrett. She is a rattled law professor. That's a denigration right there. If you don't understand. Yeah, he has demoted her.

She is a rattled law professor with her head up her Bleep, which is another demotion. Yes. So and then he goes on to say she's weak, intimate okay I think there's a deeper backstory here. I can I, I, I don't know who Mike Davis is. But something tells me there's a back story. Yeah. Like maybe he's got an issue with her.

If you clerked for Neil Gorsuch would you speak publicly on record to a major media outlet saying fellow Supreme Court justice is just a rattled law professor with their head up their bleeps like, I hate that. I think there's more to this story. There's probably more. And I think that that NBC news is the the reporting party here.

I think that NBC news is going to do anything to cause division amongst the Republicans. So they're going to find the worst of the worst and reported here. I do think that Amy Coney Barrett has probably made some things that some decisions that have caused people to raise their eyebrows a little bit. Yeah. However, this is all all this fallout is coming from the Supreme Court ruling that I just mentioned, that I said there's far more to it than what the headlines are.

I would say the same thing here. There's far more to what she has ruled or the things that she's decided than what you get in headlines. Yes. Yeah. I, I think so too. And we expect either political or unfavorable outcomes from the executive branch. We expect favorable or unfavorable outcomes from the, legislative branch. We you can't really apply those same expectations from the Supreme Court, right?

They function differently. And we do want them. Now, that's not me saying I loved everything Amy Coney Barrett's done. But I will say this and this may this may rub some people the wrong way. I don't want them to be subject to the political whims. Yeah, I, I even though I mean, they've closed they've quoted Jack Posobiec in here, they've quoted Laura Loomer.

I don't really want a Supreme Court justice that is going to listen to the the social media punditry out there and, and the Sunday talk show punditry. I want them to make decisions based on the Constitution and sometimes guess what? Everybody will be disappointed when when you do it like that. Yeah. And also the whole entire article is filled with people who are going against Amy Coney Barrett towards the end of the article.

That's when they finally say that there's people that are, you know, on her side. It says one law professor, Josh Blackman, at South Texas College of Like Law, Houston suggested that Barrett should step down from her lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court so that Trump can pick a replacement. Okay, but then someone fought back. Derek Mueller, a Notre Dame law professor who studied under Amy Coney Barrett, saying in an interview he doubted she would be affected by the negative reactions he's giving her.

More credit. Like he he's saying she understands her role as a Supreme Court justice and she's just going to rule for the Constitution. So they do wait till the very end to kind of bring that up. And they don't bring up very many that are defending her either. So it is just the way NBC just functions. Well, it's it's going to help the Democrats.

The the bigger a villain they can make her because it creates a division. Yes. You know, like it's actually I mean, it's terrible ethically, journalistically. But if you're on the Democrats team, you know, your party is in shambles right now. So one good strategy is let's get the Republicans a little closer to make them look like they're in Charlotte.

Let's let's generate and manufacture some division within within their camps and shambles them. Yes, shamble ism is a good word. But I but I the problem is I think that we have people who take the bait like I, I think there are some who are more eager. Some cases it's warranted. Perhaps to go after someone within their own party than they go after the Democrats.

We see that in Idaho. Quite a I am done rampantly. Yeah. Part of the problem is we don't have a Republican versus Democrat effective paradigm because the Democrats are not I mean for a minute. Sure. Say it right. It's what's happening in Idaho. You say it. They are not a relevant force in Idaho politics. They're they're they are a sideline spectacle.

That's what they they're the waterboy, okay? They're not playing on the field. Was that a little over the top or. Girl, I got to be gender girl because there are some Democrats. Yes. Female lawmakers. That's true. We're water girls and boys. Okay. You're my inner liberal gender correcting me. I can't remember what NFL coach it is, but there is a person who employed for that team to move the coach back off the field because the coach likes to run on the field.

Oh yeah. So that person just follows the coach around and grabs him by his hips and moves him back off the field, or moves him into the appropriate. But it's like their one job. It's their one job. Yeah. So they don't get penalized. Keep him out of the penalty zone. Yeah that's yes I've seen those videos. They're great.

So the real fight then is between the two biggest formidable forces, which is conservative Republicans and moderate rhino Republicans. Yeah. That becomes the true fight in Idaho. Yeah. And it's been frustrating to both you and I at times because we're like, can you just work on something together? Can we just not be this way? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know it's a,

Yeah, kind of crazy. All right. 953 we're going to break. We'll come back. We'll have a final segment to wrap things up here on this Friday on Newstalk 107. I'm okay. Somebody Robert asking if the joint, or if the special if the Supreme court justices let me get it right and anybody else affiliated with them clapped at the.

No. But they don't usually. No, they never they just net they stay completely neutral, even on neutral stuff like, yeah, we don't like cancer. They will just because they don't. They don't want to show any form of. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard a lot of people say about that address to Congress, will the Republicans do exactly the same thing when Biden was talking?

They wouldn't applaud. For the most part, that is true. However, if you go back and look on the neutral things consensus they do. Yeah, they do. You know, I do remember one, it might have been Biden's very first state of the Union speeches. He called out the Supreme Court like he ripped into them, and they showed Sam Alito.

I think it was Alito. And he mouthed the words not true. And some even criticized him for that expression that because he said not true. And that was I mean I didn't I think it's not true. It's not true. But yeah. Yeah. 145 which is going to be five, six a couple of minutes after insisting his art sales were not about access, hunters saying nobody's buying his works of art anymore.

I saw this last night. His attorney said he's broke. Yeah. I don't know how your art's not selling. Now that daddy can't help you, you're. And plus your deep work history in the energy sector, Burisma that you ought to be able to easily. Yeah. I don't know how you're not making money now. You know, it'd be funny. Sell fake versions of Hunter's artwork but put out that that's fake.

Yeah, I bet it was sell better than the actual artwork. Actual artwork? Do you even. I've never even seen one of the artwork. What are the pieces? I don't even know what it looks like. I don't either your copilot. See if you can help me out. I don't trust copilot. Copilot? It will. Oh. It's political. I'm going to chicken out because I'm a little weaselly coward.

Go to my courageous big brother, ChatGPT. They'll tell you. Voice too crappy. I just. 956 on Newstalk 179 Julie, I'm going to give you a four for names, okay? Okay. Are you ready for this? Picasso? Yes. Andy Warhol. Yes. Leonardo da Vinci. Yes. Hunter Biden. One of these things is not like the other. You're right. Leonardo lived a long time ago.

Is that what you're saying? Oh, Hunter wants to be one of those people. Not even close. Apparently, Hunter was selling artwork, and it used to sell like crazy. Like he used to be able to sell his artwork and make gazillions of dollars because he is such a good artist. But now that is the big guys, not in the white House.

His artwork is not selling. Yeah. So I think you know what, I we should offer to try and sell some of Hunter's artwork here on this show. You think we can broker it? Maybe. We'll donate all the proceeds to the Betty Ford Clinic. Or, you know, the Just Say No campaign or something. It's the Betty Ford clinic.

Keep it around anymore. Let's not donate it to the Big Brother big sister program, because he'll do something about that. Yeah. No, we don't do that. We don't want him involved in that program. All right, well, Julie and I, we're going to stick around on, Facebook Live for a while. We call it the Post show, and we get a little crazy on there, so we'll do that.

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