3.10.2025 -- NLS -- Adam Schiff, Al Green & Lori Daybell

On this episode with Neal and Julie, they dive into the latest political controversies, media narratives, and cultural debates shaping the nation. They discuss the media's breathless coverage of political events, the censure of Al Green, and Adam Schiff’s role in past political scandals. Neal and Julie also tackle the ongoing debate over biological males competing in women’s sports, the shifting landscape of the Democratic Party, and concerns over government overreach. They examine the latest updates on the Lori Daybell case, highlighting the disturbing revelations and the lack of remorse from those involved. Additionally, they address issues related to education, immigration, and vaccine policies, questioning the balance between public health and personal privacy. The episode wraps up with a discussion on the influence of money in politics, local governance issues, and a lighter moment about gardening and neighborhood bunnies. 

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Transcript

You want to show us? It is not a criminal violation to enter the country. My response to that is screw you and the horse you rode in on the US Secret Service has shot a man near the white House in Washington, DC. This is all pre-planned by an elite group of people. That's what I'm talking about. Event two and one that occurred in late 2019, prior to the rest of us knowing about this pandemic.

All right. For a Monday, we have a lot. We have a lot for you. Of course, you had Representative Jasmine Crockett, who is quickly becoming a Mazie Hirono wannabe over on the House side. We'll talk about that coming up. We also have lots of Trump World stuff to tell you about. He was doing the Sunday shows. Has there?

Have we had a president this accessible a sense before he became president? I, I don't think so. Like he'll talk to anybody about anytime. The sheer volume of questions that he has taken from reporters has been multiples like many multiples of the next highest. So you have that. You also have the the left in kind of a meltdown mode, certainly connected to what Trump is doing as Elon Musk continues his Doge work.

There was a story that I didn't really last too long about Elon Musk getting in a shouting match, apparently. I think the New York Times was reporting this. According to sources familiar with the matter. That was how they referenced it. So sources familiar with the matter said that Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio got into a yelling match, and Donald Trump had to intervene and defended Marco's job at the State Department.

Now, is this true? I don't know. I mean, the sourcing on it seems sketchy. I will say that. However, even if it is true. So you're you're talking about a presidential administration. The stakes are very high. You've hired some very, very qualified people who have strong opinions and passions. They wouldn't be successful if they didn't. And if they're there, if there happened to be some contention with that surprise anyone?

And is that a bad thing? I don't I don't think that it is. But the way the media was breathlessly reporting it tried to make it sound like it was a scandal. And even if we had video of it, or you had sources that you trust that said that had happened to me, I'm like, okay, that's not that surprising.

There's a lot at stake here. Passions could get elevated. And so what if they saw things a different way? It just the media is so weird and bizarre to me. Now, part of the meltdown. Our morning would not be complete. Our morning absolutely would not be complete if we didn't hear Adam Schiff saying, screw you and the horse you rode in on.

Okay. That was Adam Schiff. Now, Adam Schiff, of course, who lied to the American people who helped to fabricate the Russia Trump collusion hoax and then repeatedly engaged in corrupt politics to try and perpetrate that in order to undo the outcome of an election. If you want to talk about insurrection, Adam Schiff could be the poster child of it.

I think he's worried. I'm going to play this clip. He put this video out on social media over the weekend. We need to speak out. We need to be courageous. They come after me all the time. Elon Musk and Donald Trump, they call me a criminal. They call me a traitor. They're MAGA minions online. Come after me to try to intimidate me, to create fear.

I'll tell you my response. My response to that is screw you and the horse you rode in on. I hope that is your response to. We must not give in to this climate of fear. We are Americans. If our troops can face the bullets and the missiles and the dangers of combat, then sure enough, we can be courageous at home.

Okay. Screw you and the horse you rode in on. What did the horse do? That's what I want to know. Where's Peta when you. When you need them? So there's Adam Schiff trying to talk tough. And then you had Jamie Raskin. By the way, this is just a little flavor of the meltdown that we saw that, he talked about.

He was asked rather about the Democrats, some of them, like ten, joining the Republicans to censure Al Green. He deflected and did not answer that question. But then he tried to bring up Marjorie Taylor Greene, you know, heckling interruption, which is what Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly did to Joe Biden. And, of course, Biden, dealt with that like a man and just responded to it that Donald Trump couldn't handle it because he doesn't have the verbal dexterity to respond.

And so they had to have al Greene, removed. Okay. So now it's Donald Trump's fault. The whole Al Green thing, because Donald Trump did not have the, quote unquote, verbal dexterity to handle a situation like that. But Biden or Biden, Biden handled it, in his words, like a man, which where all the feminists. I thought that we were trying to phase out that gendered language like, man up or I'm going to man the booth or I'm and certainly they probably would have a problem if I, as a white conservative Christian male, used a term like handle it like a man.

They probably would have had a freak out, but apparently Jamie Raskin can use that horrifically sexist language and get away with it. But I want to attack the issue here for a moment. If he's saying that Donald Trump does not have the verbal dexterity to handle a situation, like with, Al Green, but Joe Biden did handle it like a man against Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Is he insinuating that Joe Biden did have the verbal dexterity to deal with that situation? Yeah, this Joe Biden I'm back to really to that, making sure there was electricity in agriculture in the grocery. Or this verbally dexterous Biden. You say Joey Jobs about a lot more than the paycheck is about dignity. You do it. Or was it this verbally dexterous Biden or, the introduction for your historic leadership of the Department of Interior?

And this has been historic or maybe this particular verbally dexterous Biden I've been all over the world with you. I've been in and out of different battle rooms anyway. Look, the left is losing it. We should be celebrating. We should be throwing a party because they really are in meltdown. Another clip that got a lot of attention over the weekend.

Let let's let's listen to this one. It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally. It's not it's not a criminal. It's a crime. It's not a crime. Which is why they're so frustrated, because they really want our local law enforcement to go out and round up people when they could be looking out for the murderers and the sexual abusers, as well as the robbers.

They want them to go around people up on civil accusations. Okay. I'm going to play the first part. I just wanted you to hear the whole context, but let's go back to the part that got the most attention. It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally. Well, Representative Jasmine Crockett, that is the very definition of illegally.

Rather, that's the definition of a crime, is you do something illegally. So Mike Lee said it most certainly is a crime. And he cited US code section eight, subsection something or other. And reader context also referenced the code where it is absolutely articulated as a crime to enter the country illegally. These people live in their own la la land.

They have created, weird stuff that if I don't like it, then it's unconstitutional. If I do like it, but it happens to be illegal, then it's not a crime. Like everything is filtered through their preference. Everything is run through how it makes them feel. And if it makes them feel good, then it's not a crime, even if it's illegal.

She did say illegally. If they don't like getting rid of waste, fraud and abuse, they say that's unconstitutional, that Donald Trump does not have the power, that he clearly does have the power to execute it. I never fail to be fascinated by the left and their ability to live in complete delusion. Senator Lisa Slotkin was asked about what I think is an issue that the left should be abandoning ASAP, which is doubling down on letting biological boys beat up on biological girls.

They're holding fast to it. Not all of them. Some of them are saying, yeah. And she was asked about Gavin Newsom because he sat down with Charlie Kirk on his brand new podcast, and Charlie Kirk asked him about it. And Gavin Newsom said, I agree with you. It's unfair. It shouldn't happen. And so he is. He's left the farm and now Alice is.

Slotkin was asked about it on one of the Sunday shows. Senator, do you agree with Governor Newsom? Well, look, I think, you know, you'll have to to talk to Mr. Newsom in his podcast and know she asked you, do you agree with it? What is it with the left? That wasn't even the question. You don't have to talk to Governor Newsom.

He made it very clear. It's unfair. So you don't have to talk to him. We asked you, do you agree with what the governor said? These people are infuriating. Well, look, I think, you know, you'll have to to talk to Mr. Newsom in his podcast. And we're all talking about it now because it's, you know, good, controversy.

For me, I mean, I grew up playing three seasons of sports in Michigan. Sports is like our religion, right? Nobody cares. I think without the leadership training that I got in women's sports. And but for me, it's like, let the local community figure this out, right? In Michigan, we have a process in place where if someone who's born, a boy wants to play in women's sports, you have to get away.

Wait a minute. Let the local community figure this out. What about abortion? Can local communities figure out abortion? Alyssa? Is that okay? Now, see, they just they they pick and choose. We've had it happen two times in our entire state. So let the local communities, just like everything with schools, handle that issue. For me, though, I, I think, you know, this issue is being sort of brought up in order to make sparks and see sparks fly.

To what does that even mean? So I have a theory about Elissa Slotkin. I think the left is so utterly desperate to find a new, likable face and voice. Senator Slotkin. She had the Democrat response after the president's speech the other night, and she, well, I watched part of it. I don't know why I was in a particularly masochistic mood that night, but I'm like, okay, let's see what the Dems have to say.

And I happened to be watching the C-Span feed. It's just what was the easiest. And about 4 or 5 minutes into it, there, C-Span had a buffering error and I didn't give a crap. Like I'm like, oh, it's over. I'm like, oh, what was she going to say? There was no anticipation, no interest, no need to know what she was going to say next.

I'm like, okay, that that's a that's a self-aware point there, Neal. You realize I don't really give a crap what she was about to say. I would imagine there's much of America that felt very similar to that. And I think that she's she's botching. Look, I'm going to give some free advice that would be worth millions of dollars to Democrats in avoiding lost elections.

Stop advocating for boys to beat up on our girls. Stop it. Quit it. Quit making excuses and making up new words and dishonest concepts so that boys can come along and steal the trophies and the medals and the championships away from girls. You do that, you're gonna see a big boost in your support. Now, I only give you this advice because I know you won't take it.

If I thought you'd take it, I'd keep my mouth shut. Because I. Frankly, I want your party to be ground into dust and I don't mind having opposition, but I want sane opposition. I want opposition that actually gives me pause. But you're gonna drive this thing into the ground. You are hell bent on it. There are a few in your midst that don't want to sacrifice their own political careers at the altar of your transgender ideology, and that's why you're seeing Gavin Newsom and a number of other Democrats that are saying, we're probably not on the right side of this thing.

You all think you have because you you love to use the phrase the right side of history. And that's a trash phrase, albeit because history's constantly fluctuating. But I don't think you're gonna get the historic outcome you think you will by continuing to advocate for boys and men to beat up the girls and the women in athletic contests.

Got a break? It's 822. We'll be back after this. On Newstalk 179. It's a Monday at 827 on Newstalk 1079. Speaking of psychos, Julie, I watched the Lori Daybell episode of Dateline. What's that? I'm over here thinking. I think I have more than one psycho in my head and you're like Lori Daybell. Well, might as well jump right to it.

But I made a decision that I this is not like life shattering and nobody gives a crap. But I don't think I'm ever going to watch any more Lori Daybell documentary crime shows it I and this is no slight on Dateline or Keith Morrison like he did the best that he could and I understand why they aired it.

But I got done with that two hours and it's obviously very local, high interest. There was only one new thing that I learned, and it's a spoiler if you haven't watched it yet. So turn the radio off for a couple of minutes, because I'm going to give away something that was revealed in the in Dateline that you may want to watch and see for yourself, but during her son's podcast revealed she essentially blamed Tylee for murdering JJ and then Tylee, committed suicide.

That that was the accusation that she made. And of course, that was devastating to Colby because Tylee loved JJ and and, so that was the only new thing, but it wasn't really a new development in the case. It was just a new avenue of delusion that that Lori has. And I got done with it, and it sort of on occasion when I'm absorbing this story that I don't it's just the most, most horrendous story ever.

And it happened right here. I'm like, I don't want any more of this. Like, hey, I'm done. I will absolutely report new developments. Lori's facing trial in Arizona. Eventually, she comes back to Idaho to spend the rest of her life in prison. She's just taken up way too much bandwidth, and I. I'm just done, like I don't I don't feel the need to watch anymore is almost always now.

There's been so much reported on it. It's just basically a rehash of all the things we already know that we never wanted to know. Yeah, I think also I'm going to guess I'm going to be, psychol it just here for you and examine the way that you're feeling, which is it's hard to continue to watch someone have absolutely zero remorse for what they did.

Yeah. I think I kind of tuned out after she again said that her and Tammy David Daybell are the best of friends and will be friends for eternity, is an another icky moment. Yes. And what that means is she has zero respect for the life of Tammy and obviously for her two together, her two children. And that I think that that's where that breeds that I don't want to watch this woman anymore.

You got caught doing what you were doing. A jury has found you guilty. Maybe somewhere along the lines, be decent to these people. Yeah. Instead, you throw out there that the tylee's truly the one to blame. And that Tammy was so weak that you guys are the best of buds. As someone killed her here on this earth. And yeah, it's just gross.

It is. It is gross. All of it's just gross and I got done and I just thought that it. Well, two things that that's pretty much all the time that I want to give to it. But I also thought Keith Morrison is a very, very patient man.

He did say he was exhausted when the interview was done. He did say that. Yeah, that's that's true. And it was only 90 minutes. You know what the we will get sentiments sometimes will interview a politician that weaves and dodges and people are like how do you do it? How did you not? Or a caller calls in, but that was one level where I, I think I could have started yelling at Lori and maybe, maybe she would have just ended the interview and walked out if that were the case.

And he only had 90 minutes. So he was trying to make the most of it. And that might explain why he kind of handled with kid gloves the the interview with her, but just trying to get more information and get more answers. But it was even he said at the end that it was largely unproductive, like he got done with it and there just wasn't much that she offered up.

She sort of rambled on and on and on about whatever. She was combative. Yeah. Truly believes that she is in God's good graces. Oh yeah, she's Jesus, his favorite. That's what she said.

Jesus loves baby, but he loves me the most. Yeah. And he visits me.

Oh, okay. All right. Good times. I you know, I've had the question, though. Is Chad just as delusional as she is? Are we going to see the same thing because he's on death row now? I doubt he had every interview or even the Department of Correction would allow it to happen. Maybe. Maybe his attorneys won't allow it to happen.

I don't know, but is he going to say similar things? I think that that's an important clarification that you just made. The reason that this interview happened with Dateline is because Lori is representing herself. Yeah. I don't believe an attorney would have let her sit down. I don't I don't either. And so I don't think that Chad will do that.

I also, again, I know that this is like a weird hangup I have with the Lori Daybell. Chad Daybell case. Yeah. But in that Dateline interview, they played maybe the first 10 to 12 seconds of his phone call with Lori on the day that they found the bodies again, I went, how did anyone follow this man? He is.

Oh yeah. So bland. Yes. Blair, I don't even understand how it got to this point. They're searching the property. Yeah, like I don't get it. I and that's not if that wasn't just the gravity of that phone call. He talked like that all the time. Yeah, yeah. Did you see the part. Because I know and I, in 100% favor of you falling asleep before it was over.

I fell asleep before it's over because there was nothing. Now, did you see her explanation of the rings? Why, yes. That those were actually for Su Lima and Zulema Lux. Yeah. And then they're like, well, there's didn't arrive, so they just wanted to borrow them. That was her. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Because that that doesn't scream. There's nothing in the world that screams true love more than.

Can I borrow your wedding rings so we can get married, right? Exactly three weeks after my new husband's wife died under mysterious circumstances. It's 834. We'll be back. All right. It's 840 on Newstalk 178. Neil Larson, along with Julie Mason and, Julie. Human beings are good. They really are we? During our break, we just had a visit from Doctor Jeff Thomas, who, of course, we've interviewed several times, but most recently we were actually on opposite sides of the parental choice issue.

And he, of course, has is about to retire from Idaho State University, is professor. And he brought a CSU swag. He did. We will it was when we were chatting pre-interview were just catching up on life. It had been a few months since we had interviewed him, so we're checking on him and his family and his job. And I had mentioned in that, in that, conversation before the interview that I didn't really have that much ASU swag.

Yeah. And you were I think you were wearing ISU swag that day. Yeah. So that was just part of the conversation. So he showed up with all of this ISU swag for us, which was just so nice of him. Water bottles, a couple little baby tiger bangles for. Yep. And t shirts that say raw. Yeah. Anyway. And and I mean we were on up website.

You know what I really like though? Right at the end, just seconds ago he said, I don't want to be one of those people that never adapts or changes his mind. So after the interview, he said, we made him think and he said, now that it's past, let's let's see what it does and let's work with it. And I love that attitude.

I really love that. Yeah, that which is great. And I actually feel like you and I try to adopt that attitude either we have said that before. Yeah. When a lawmaker wins their election and we think maybe that wasn't the best choice for East Idaho. Yeah, okay. It's fresh start. Now go over there and show us that you said you were going to do the things you were going to do.

Yeah. And, I think that that was his opinion just now about this now signed into law. Wendy hormone bill and it I think for him it's okay. Let's see if it does benefit. Yeah. Got a whole education. Yeah. It's here now. Let's give it a shot. Yeah. Doctor Thomas, class act. Thank you. Absolutely I appreciate it.

And you know what? I love the water bottle I but I appreciate the gesture the most. Know it is so good. He's just a good person. So he is. Yeah. All right. Julie, we're getting lots of texts from people. We are. I'm trying to read this one. Okay. It dawned on me last week. I don't believe the mainstream media has ever used President Trump's name in a positive context.

In any news story ever, Helen Keller could see what's going on. It's all propaganda. Yeah. Very true. Well I, I think it is true but I I don't do you feel like some in the media. I when I think back to his first term, I feel like that media environment was even worse than what we're seeing today.

And, and it might it might not be that it it's any better now. But the legacy media has a diminished voice compared to his first term. And we're seeing the new media have a much larger he has a lot more media support from new media and from other from other corners that just weren't quite as robust. And quite frankly, they were controlled by Jack Dorsey and others.

These these tech titans were controlling the algorithms back then, and that's just not the case anymore. When you take away the 12th man and someone is allowed to use those platforms in whatever way they choose. And so we're Democrats, by the way, was a much more equal playing ground. Yeah. Republic has just used it better. Yeah. And I think we're seeing them use it better all of the time.

Late last week we talked about that a bunch of like maybe 7 or 8 Democrat women recorded a TikTok where they were supposed to be, like video game characters. Yeah. It was so awkward. Yeah. So cringe. And you're just not doing it right. Democrats know you. You leaned on the fact that you had a 12th man for so long.

Now that that has been diminished, you don't know how to do it. No. Well, you're you're right. And I feel like the leftist influencer culture is not as strong as it used to be. And, we can credit Elon Musk for a lot. Yes, I really believe that we can. He's a he's a very unique cultural figure that will be remembered for generations.

I truly believe that when you look at everything that he has done and I think that he didn't, I don't think he invented a new media landscape, but he returned a big portion of it back to just basic First Amendment free expression principles, which is really what what we need and do. I think Donald Trump would have been, elected without X?

Maybe not. I mean, there's a chance that if all the algorithms had continued to be curated the way they were in 2020, yeah, we we might we might have had, Kamala Harris as our president. I think that the reason that, X was O or the reasons are X was open. Donald Trump went on some huge podcasts, Joe Rogan, other big ones, he did a better job of utilizing TikTok this time around.

And people were emboldened that the cancel culture is just not existent like it used to be. Yeah. I think the combination of those four things made the difference in this election. Yeah, yeah, I, I agree, it's fascinating. I want to play the Elissa Slotkin. Audio here. She was on with Welker on NBC over the weekend.

Listen, Senator, do you agree with Governor Newsom? Well, look, I think, you know, you'll have to to talk to Mr. Newsom in his podcast, and we're all talking about it now. Okay. That is such a trash answer. We all heard the podcast. And the answer the question to her was, do you agree with him? Well, that's a yes or no question.

Yes. That's such a weird. Well, you'll have to ask the pot. We have to ask the podcast what you think because that's what the question was. Do you know there's some irony in this answer. And somewhere else in the interview, I saw a clip where she talked about Democrats really don't have their footing right now. She was referencing the little black, you know, auction signs that they that the, Democrats held up during the dress to Congress.

And she talked about how they should have stood for cancer survivors and they really don't have their footing. Well, I would look at her and go, in this questioning, you didn't have your footing. Yeah. You were scrambling to say something here. Yeah. Are they kind of trapped though, because the the far left, the deranged left still has a pretty strong stranglehold on the Democrat Party.

I think they're a little trapped because that that those are that's their voting base, right. Yeah. And they can't anger them. They got in the middle of this during the election. You can't you can't anger Jewish people, which has consistently been a voting base for Democrats. Yeah. But then you also have to you can't anger the people who are supporting Palestinians and the Gaza Strip and Hamas.

And I mean, you're caught in this vise here. Yeah. And they're on the wrong side of an 8020 issue. Have they sold parcels of their soul to too many people? Maybe. Yeah. I think the extremism is what's happened that has gone so far. And the irony behind that is I believe the right is always accused of being far right.

Right. That's. Yeah. Catchphrase. Now you're far right. You're too extreme extremist white people, whatever. The Republican Party is currently far more moderate than the Democrats, far more probably a little bit too moderate for my comfort. Sound. Yeah, but far more moderate then the Democrats are. They're the ones that have shifted to such extreme positions. Yeah. Well, that that's a that's a really good point.

Hey, you know, I think that, you just said the Republicans are a bit of more of a moderate party, I think part there. I think there's two reasons for that. I think there's a certain portion of the Republican Party that lives in fear of media judgment of them. And so if you're just a basic person going to church and you're conservative and you believe in God and you typically vote Republican, they would call that person extreme.

So their definition of extremism is very, very broad. And I think you have some Republicans are like I don't want to be an extremist. So they moderate where they're at. But I also think where the more moderate party now because you have moderate Democrats who not no longer feel RFK Jr, Tulsi Gabbard, almost Joe Manchin, like all of those are saying, this Democrat Party is not my party.

And they distance themselves from the the crazy, delusional positions that the Democrats have taken. And I think we've invited some of those people into. Yeah. If you've got the entire Democrat elected body in the House and the Senate unwilling to support the protection of young girls and women in sports, they've moved so far. They used to be the party of women.

Yeah. They're not, they're not anymore. Yeah. They're the party of men pretending to be women. Yeah. But and I'm not going to play the rest of the answer from Elissa Slotkin. But it was a non-answer. She's like well I played sports. We love sports in Michigan. Well every state love sports. I mean, it's just weird. And she said I wouldn't be where I'm at today without sports.

That does nothing to address the issue of you're letting boys beat the crap out of these girls on the grid, follow up on that would have been, what if you'd had three boys on your team? Yeah. Would you be where you are? Yeah. That's true. Yeah. What if a boy pushed you off the roster? Yeah. All right, 851 Newstalk 107 nine.

Quick break. We'll come back after this. It's 856 on Newstalk 107 92085421078. That is the Stones Automotive Group call and text line. And, we'd love to have you join us. And, someone said when you peel back the layers of the potato, you just end up with the naked potato. The left looks like a naked potato right now.

Okay, that's a visual. Yeah. That that, that is very much a visual. So, yeah, actually, I don't know. There is a bill under consideration to find out the immigration status of every kid in the state. Right. It's passed in committee. Yes, it's passed committee. So now they'll go to the floor, and then do what?

That's my question. Yeah. What's the follow up? Yeah, that's a great question. So what? What I mean, I have no problem with that, but what what is it used for then. Yeah, I, you know, I don't know, I okay, let me pretend like I'm arguing against this bill. I actually don't have an opinion one way or the other because I haven't read enough about the bill.

Let me pretend like I'm arguing against this bill. I always talk about education. Should it be about the child? Okay. So, if, if were truly going to function that k through 12 was about the child because of some parents bad choices, a child should still get to be educated. Yeah. Okay. So that's me saying it doesn't matter what their immigration status is.

However, if I was going to argue for the bill, I would have a requirement that these children go through 1 to 2 years of bilingual classes and they're required to teach or to speak English. Yeah, at a certain point, I don't even know if the bill addresses that. But if that's a follow up to figuring out their immigration status, I think more importantly, above and beyond their immigration status, is the language barrier affecting the education that's happening in the school?

Yeah. So it does talk about this. And, the it's, Tanner, Steve Tanner, Representative Nampa. He said the bill would address those challenges because the schools have to take these students. They're not they have to take them. But, Tanner said public schools face challenges to accommodate the needs of English language learners. The bill would address those challenges and provide the state statistics needed to inform public policy.

And, Dale Hawkins is also a co-sponsor as well. So here's the report. Just a reporting issue. What does that mean? It addresses those challenges I don't know what that actually what that actually means. All right. That's our 1 or 2 coming up on Newstalk 1079. Welcome back. It's our 2907 our time on Newstalk 179 and the number to join us on the Stones Automotive Group call and text line is (208) 542-1079.

Okay, Julie, listen to this legislative idea and and could Barb E Hart work a little harder? I she's so just quit chasing slack and Barb finally she puts forward a bill in the legislature. She's done a ton of work. Done like 14 of them already. But she said Idahoans elected to state or federal offices, including the Idaho Legislature, would be banned from simultaneously serving in elected city, school or highway district positions under a bill.

State lawmakers advanced to the House on Friday. House Bill 362 by Representative Everett would automatically vacate local elected offices that officials hold when they swear into elected federal, statewide or legislative offices. Eckhart's bill is a modified version of a similar bill she brought last year. That bill narrowly passed the House by one vote, but did not advance in the Senate.

The Idaho House State Affairs Committee advanced the bill to the House floor on Friday. This change will ensure that whoever, whatever office we're serving in, we're giving our attention to that office we are serving the office in which we're elected, and we're doing the best for that group of citizens without any weighted or divided attentions, Erhart told the committee.

Your thoughts? I don't have an issue with that. There has been a few cases where this has caused a little bit of a problem. So if you're if you're that person who, is really going, why are we creating a law where there's no problem that existed? Representative Hart would tell you, this is this has created some conflict of interest before.

Yeah. And so that's the purpose of the bill is to just sever those ties. And I would also say, I think that, representing your people should be done in a focused and centralized manner and not split amongst certain positions. Yeah. I, I would agree because you could encounter situations like, let's say you're on a city council, but you're also in the legislature where a bill that would be good for your constituency or for the state might not be great for your particular city that you're in.

So which constituency are you going to honor? You know, because you might be divided that way. So that's a it's a good it's a good question. However, there are some exceptions to the automatic vacancy trigger, and that would apply to cities with less than a thousand people, school districts with less than 500 students enrolled, and highway districts located primarily in a county with a population of less than 10,000 people.

So in rural areas there's, you know, trouble getting good qualified leadership. And maybe this is that those exceptions, that's that may be what the opposition was in the Senate last year. Yeah. She just recognizing that only not everyone can serve and that that's clear. Sometimes it's you don't have the attributes to serve. Sometimes you your other jobs conflict with you.

You serving. Sometimes you're in a position in your family where maybe you've got four young kids at home and it would be better if you're at home. Like there's there's lots of things that disqualify a person from serving. And with a very low population base, that gives you just a select few people who can serve. So she's trying to address that.

So two Democrats voted against it in committee, Brooke Green and Todd Achilles. And they Todd Achilles reads over materials prior to the January 7th, 20 2025 meeting of the House State Affairs Committee. Oh, sorry. That's the that's a caption for under the image. So he argued the bill violates multiple constitutional protections and will be challenged in court.

If the bill passed. He said the legislature would lose the perspectives of local communities. I would completely disagree with that. I would too, I mean, Todd Achilles, you were all in on the governor's hotline and people calling in on that. There's lots of ways to get perspective of local community. You don't need dual leadership to get that perspective.

So he says, and by restricting this to certain cities or school districts or highway district based on their size, this creates an unequal application of the law, which violates the Equal Protection Clause by treating similarly situated office holders differently. Based on this arbitrary definition of what is a small or large community. Now, I don't I don't know that the equal protection clause applies there, because that's more for your individual rights and liberties and not, I mean, this is more about cities and like, I don't that's a weird I'm not sure he's and it's all good to protect the rural or rural communities when it comes to Medicaid expansion and to putting down or defeating

the school choice bill, because rural communities, rural communities, rural communities. And now he's saying no, they don't get extra representation. Yeah. Which. Right. Let's go to the phones. Hi, caller. How are you today? Good. How are you? Too good. Just wanted to make a real quick comment on what you were discussing before the news break. On collecting information on, school kids.

I think of front deportation. Initiative is somewhat successful or successful. I don't see that there would be a big need to collect the information on the ethnic background, but I do agree that it would be a good way to collect information on whether or not students are immunized. And I think, an example of that is look at the measles outbreak we're facing right now.

Yeah. So yeah, I haven't I didn't think that's where you're going with this call. So I'm just going to present a question to you about that, whether they whether they collect immunization information or not, because it does appear that this measles outbreak has it has, been exacerbated by illegal immigrants. So whether or not they collect that information, they can't share it with me is another parent that's against the law.

So what. Yeah. So what benefit would come from them collecting that information because, well, the reason one, when they be able to report it, I'm sure the government would say say they asked 70 or okay. Say they ask okay. Have your children them immunized against measles rubella, mumps or whatever. Yeah. You know, if you have a school mainly in the southern part of the country where, say, 40% of the kids are here illegally and most countries do not immunize like we do here in the United States.

Wouldn't that be a concern to you as a parent? Well, not if my kids are immunized. I mean, I, I, I, I think you're going to run into an issue here because it it's personal health information. We have HIPAA laws and and so I don't know if we could force parents to have to report their kids vaccination status.

I, I think you can voluntarily put it forward, but I think the actual law is you cannot force parents to disclose that. And I think you'd run into some problems if you did. Okay. But can school districts force perspective students? The immunized? No, nor would we want them to. Okay. Very good. All righty. Well thank you. I appreciate your time.

You bet. Thank you for that. I mean, he might I'm not trying to dictate his his opinion here. I think you and I agree on that. Yeah, I know how you think, and I know how I think that I don't think anybody should be forced to be immunized. So yes, that should be a parent choice. And I am still trying to think through potentially it could be please volunteer this information so that we can put out a statistic on our school website that says 92% of the children are vaccinated for blah, blah, blah, blah.

I think that's probably the extent of the information that you could share. Yeah. And, voluntary self-reporting, and I think most parents would. Yeah, sure. And then make the macro data available in terms of what percentage of kids and no specific student information could be available. So, you know, so, that's one issue. I mean, I know the point that he said about, you know, you may have kids coming from third world countries where they don't have regimented vaccination plans.

That that is one concern. However, that's why you vaccinate your own kids when you send them to school against measles and mumps, rubella and and all of that. I think the biggest one of the bigger concerns is the, the kids who don't know English. That changes how you teach the class and the pace at which kids are going to be able to learn.

Yeah, I do believe that's the big concern with this potential bill know is that they're they're trying to, they're trying to streamline the education so that the kids receive as much as they possibly can. Because if a classroom is being held back by a language barrier, those children who aren't from illegal immigrant parents, potentially not all of them would be potentially, they're harming the overall education.

Of the remaining students at the school. And again, I'm just trying to explain the bill. I'm not arguing one way or another for for what's that's the issue at hand. That's the issue at hand. Yeah, yeah. Another idea. Julie, we didn't talk about this yet, but I saw that representative Brit Ray bold is putting forward a local option sales tax bill that would allow communities to vote to implement, an extra, however much there might be limitations on how much they can percentage wise.

But. So you might go to one community and your sales tax could be 7% and another community it might be 8%. In another community, it's the state 6%. And I'm just going to state upfront I'm against it. I just don't think I think government expanding the the taxation power of government is just largely a bad idea. I I'm not in love with this, this concept either.

It just feels I don't know, it feels so invasive on a certain group of people and I, I do I there's a lot of crossover in communities. We live in very rooted family communities. And I feel like you're punishing people who have been here for generations because they drive seven miles and enter a new county and take their kids to dinner or.

Yeah, they they're, like their kids play a local at a local high school, and you travel across the city or some to a different county for your kids to play, because that's how big these districts are. And then I if you eat near the school to celebrate the win or whatever, or to console during the loss, all of a sudden you're punished.

I just feel like we're a very interconnected area were used. It's nothing to travel 20 minutes to go somewhere. Yeah. You know so yeah, I don't it just feels I, it feels abusive to the people who have lived here for a lot of time. Yeah. Yeah I, I, I don't disagree with that at all. And I'll also say just sort of reading the landscape here.

We just had a legislature that passed a quarter billion dollar tax cut. They don't like taxes, thank goodness. So I don't think the future this bill is bright in the Idaho legislative session. And based on bright Ray Bolt's tone, I think she knows it because she sort of referenced it as a starting discussion starting point. So I think she knows that this particular legislature is not going to give the green light to local communities to start adding extra sales taxes.

Yes. And I, I just I don't think that's going to I mean, the governor only wanted them to pass a $100 million in, in tax relief. They wanted 450 million. And then they settled in on about 252, 53, I think they are not they don't they want to put, thank goodness, more money in the pockets of Idahoans, not find new ways to take it.

So I, I doubt that this has a very bright future. Yeah. We're getting pretty late in the session two. It's the 10th of March. Yeah. Something that's as complicated as that bill. It's going to have a hard time moving forward. Well, then there's a lot to lot to us. Yeah. Think about with a bill like that. Let's go back to the phones.

Hi, caller. How are you this morning? Doing well. Good. What's up? Back on the immunizations, you know. Yeah. I have to say, when we were raising our kids, we had to report whether our kids were urbanized or not to register for school. I think it's changed. Yeah. I saw this comment somewhere else. I think that here's what, here's how I'm going to say this.

I think that the school districts still imply yes that you should be providing it. You do not have to and they cannot stop your child from attending school. But that's what we have to do to register our kids better. Quite a few years ago. Yeah. Yeah. That was back in the 70s, 80s and early 90s maybe.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's in I believe I don't know if it's changed but it's become well known that they actually can't force you. But you're exactly right Julie. When they, they don't disclose to you that you don't have to to give out this information. And it's worded in a way that you kind of feel like it's mandatory, like you need to report.

Yeah, it's just implied that, oh, I want to enroll my kid. Now I have to give vaccination status for it. Yeah. For the child. So I, I do believe there is set wording now that says that a parent can opt out of that. You do not have to prove the vaccination status. What I don't know though is has this been implemented by local school districts or is it on the state level?

That's what I don't know. I don't, I don't know, now ChatGPT is saying something different, but ChatGPT gets crap wrong all the time. So, it says here in Idaho, families are required to provide proof of their children's immunization status to their school districts. Again, it doesn't say if they want to attend. They're just saying you need to provide it.

But what's the consequences if they don't? That's the important question there. Yeah. And I'm wondering if maybe, I'm wondering if there's a couple of districts in Idaho that still require it. It does down here. It says Idaho law does allow parents or guardians to claim exemptions from immunization requirements for medical, religious or personal reasons. So basically any reason you can just opt out.

Yeah. So so the requirement is there, but it's negated by a very, very lenient exemption policy. So that's probably we're probably all right here. Yeah. Like the caller was right. That yes. You have to provide proof unless you don't want to. That's basically it. Right. Right. I think that that that's, way too good way to settle it, because you still have the option as a parent to say, now, I'm not telling you what my kids, what my kid's health history is.

Yeah, yeah. That's true. What would be a good argument for not disclosing your kids immunization status? They might be treated different. They may be treated different if you come from a home that chose to not vaccinate. I don't do they. Is there a chance that the child is isolated maybe like they keep track and then they isolate them on like field trips or whatever.

Okay. These four kids have to sit on the same which is ludicrous because they play together out in the playground. So that's just, but I guess there's a potential for that. Yeah. Do they put all of the same kids that aren't vaccinated in the same classroom or. Oh, possibly, maybe I, I don't know, I don't you know what the people that I know that are teachers, they have far bigger fish to fry than this.

Yeah they do. They are trying so hard to just mesh certain kids with certain teachers. I don't think they really I don't think this is a big deal to them. Yeah, I, I would agree, I would agree and and I think the vast majority of kids are vaccinated. So there is largely herd immunity on the big ones. Yeah.

So all right. 925 208542107I got a break for a bit here. If you'd like to reach us on the Stones Automotive Group calling text line, that number is (208) 542-1079. Okay, I'll be right back. So on the concept of ChatGPT getting something wrong. The most obvious failure for ChatGPT when I was writing my podcast on Saturday. So if you'll remember, there were three Kansas City Chiefs fans back in January of 2024.

So a little bit more than a year ago that were partying at their friend's house, and then that friend went to bed and the three friends never returned to their homes. The families of those three, the workmates of those three tried to find them, couldn't find them. They had been Facebook messaging the owner of the home. He was not answering.

Two days later, a fiancé of one of the men finally went to that guy's house and pounded him, pounding and pounded on the door. And, the owner of the house didn't answer. She broke through a window in the basement, and once she got into the basement of the house, she could see a dead man through an another window that looked out on the fenced backyard.

I don't know if you guys remember that story. Well, a year later, they have finally arrested two people, so I'm giving the update to that story. Story is not the important part about ChatGPT. So, I know already because I've covered this story multiple times that they were together to watch the Chiefs and the Chargers play. I wanted to clarify the the score and if it was a home game or an away game.

So I tell ChatGPT the three Chiefs fans who froze to death in the backyard were watching a Sunday Night Football game between the Chargers and the, Chiefs. Please tell me the score and where it was played. ChatGPT comes back with the answer with the right score because I remembered it. It was 3121 after it like it was written.

But then they tell me the game was played at the Denver Broncos stadium. Like ChatGPT gets stuff wrong all of the time. Very, very basic facts. I get frustrated because I tell it do not make anything up. It still makes up crap. Yeah, it has gotten better. Like the hallucinations were way worse the first few months it came out, so they have improved it, but it's still, I don't know if I'd count.

It is super reliable, but, so somebody who works for district 91 gave a reason why they ask for immunization records. And I think this is pretty valid. They do it so that the students without immunizations could be contacted in case of a potential breakout. So it's a lot easier for the school to isolate. I got a call these 23 parents right now okay.

We have an outbreak. That makes sense to me. But it also makes sense that you don't have to provide the information if you don't want to. Yeah. Speaking of this, did you see RFK Jr wants to investigate the links between vaccines and autism. Yeah. So. And the CDC is pushing back on that. Yeah. They say we have plenty of investigations that had already happened.

You don't need to conduct. You don't need to conduct anymore. Oh that's how science works I guess when you're when you work for the CDC.

Okay, listen to this garbage headline CDC will investigate debunked link between vaccines and autism. So if you go into it and your starting point is it's been debunked, are you actually going to conduct an investigation. Right. I'm going to investigate this suspect. I already think I'm guilty or not guilty.

930 on Newstalk 1079 Julie the texts pouring in about the vaccines and the kids and the education and the diseases and stuff. So did you just look at that screenshot that we got? No, I haven't read it yet. Okay. So this is somebody's screen shot. Okay. There's not a date on this. So I'll go into it with that.

But somebody screenshot a form that came to them as a parent from the, from the middle school that their child attends. It says vaccinations are important in the prevention of infectious disease and may save your child's life during an outbreak. However, our records indicate that your child has not met the minimum immunization requirements for middle school students. According to state law, schools may deny enrollment to any student that cannot provide evidence that these immunization requirements have been met, or whose parents have not signed a form exempting their students from the required immunizations.

So what they're saying there is that there is some sort of state law that you're required to do this, or else you have to feel like it's got to be more proactive. And then just saying, I'm not going to I'm not going to give you the information. You actually have to fill out a form and sign it saying, my child is exempt because of whatever.

Yeah. In the paragraph below, the immunizations needed, it said if you should choose exemption forms are available from your medical provider or here in our office, so they don't send those with no, these records of compliance to or exemption from the state's immunization requirements will prevent any interruption in your child's attendance in our school should a health emergency arise.

So they do disclose there is an exemption process, but we're not going to make it nearly as easy for you as just submitting that to our demands. Okay. Yeah. I'm looking at a picture of the exemption form. Yeah, it's not that typical. Yeah. Pretty. It's pretty straight. Pretty easy to fill out. Yeah. That's a Department of Health and Welfare produced form.

So yeah, that's not too tough. Anyway, I was talking with Julie and I saw this story over the weekend. RFK junior wants research to be to be done on the link between autism and vaccines, if there are any links. So here's a smattering of headlines. New York Times CDC will investigate debunked link between vaccines and autism NBC news CDC will research widely debunked link between vaccines and autism, not just debunked, widely debunked HealthDay on MSN, CDC to study vaccines and autism despite much research showing no link.

Do we have any research showing that boys or boys and girls or girls. We have some of that. Yeah. Isn't that isn't that science? Yeah, yeah, but we're still testing that. That theory. Yeah. Anyway, so I don't know if they're linked or not. I have no idea which is why you study it. Yeah, I'm good with them.

Looking at it again, we have more technology. Won't. Won't this be one more opportunity to prove that RFK Junior's a quack? Why would they be afraid of this? You know what I'll say? I you know what I think is happening. Well, let me ask this question. Can scientific research be corrupted by outside influence? Julie?

Is it possible that little green dollar bill comes marching in? If you're a pharmaceutical company making billions and billions of dollars on vaccines, you wouldn't want it to be known if your product was contributing to autism. You know, and is it possible that they could become so corrupt that they're okay with Americans dying from, say, an outbreak like Covid 19 and they won't let them take ivermectin or any other drugs that potentially could have helped that have very, very, very, very limited side effects.

Yeah. Is that potential? They might yeah. I mean, that's really conspiracy wacky stuff. But it it could be maybe. Okay. Well, I'm okay with studying it again. I am too. I, I am too. Coming from someone who vaccinated their children completely. Us, too. Yeah. We're not anti-vaxxers. No, our kids are vaccinated. I definitely, encouraged my kids not to get the Covid vaccine because that was different.

But in terms of just the regular regimen. I'm. I was an advocate of spreading them out. I don't want them getting all of them all at once. I think that can that can be problematic. Getting them when they're really young as well in that tight cluster would cause some concern. However, I'm not going to I'm not going to stop anyone from asking a good question and finding out the information.

This is almost like they're delivering a verdict before you even have a trial. Or they've they're saying oh we've already had all the trials we need. Yeah. But people want to want this done in an environment where there's not a lot of political pressure, but they're now creating a lot of political pressure. So I want real good solid science done because I think it was during Trump's speech he said autism used to occur one one in every 10,000 kids had some form of autism.

Now it's 1 in 39. And I think some of that is because we're testing and and understanding and more. But there's obviously something else besides that that is triggering these autistic. And maybe that's just genetic coding between parents. Maybe. I mean there's lots of reasons you study it to figure it out. Yeah. And is vaccine potentially one of the reasons?

Well, wouldn't you want to completely rule out vaccines, which if we if we study it unburdened by a lot of outside influence, then we could we could eliminate vaccines as a, as a cause that would put a lot of parents hearts at rest. Yeah. So yeah, it's interesting how averse they are to to this. Yeah I also because they'll they'll study.

They'll, they're perfectly fine spending millions to study gay rats in Pakistan or whatever. But we can't look at autism and vaccines again along with those gay mice or the transgender mice. Is that what they were that Trump referenced in the address? I just made up my whole thing. Yeah. No, CNN came right out the night of the address and, and said that was a false claim.

Then less than 24 hours later, they had to walk it back. Yeah. It's true. They didn't like the way Trump presented it, but it was absolutely accurate. Yeah. I would rather take care of children than I would transgender mice. Yeah. Because, you know, I'm also okay with the cat, the neighbor's cat coming into my property and killing any mouse that comes around.

In fact, I'm like, hey, here, come. I'll feed you. Would you like some food on my porch? Sure. Yeah. Because I want that cat to feel comfortable in my yard. Yeah. Taking care of my mouse problem. Yeah. Right. Yeah. So this. I find this fascinating because here's what I put in. Bing. Now I get an abundance of results.

But on this issue, when I use Bing. RFK Jr. Link between autism and vaccines. That's all I put. It wasn't loaded one way or the other. I got an abundance of headlines, Julie. The vast majority of them are negative. They talk about how it's a debunked link. It's that, you know you're over a target when something like this happens.

Yeah. When the mainstream media is pushing it this hard. Absolutely. Can I ask another question? This is an angle I don't know that I've ever thought about. You watch watch any, any TV for more than about 20 minutes. You're going to see multiple pharmaceutical ads. Do they pour so much money into advertising not to necessarily sell product, but to compromise the media into being afraid of reporting negative things about pharmaceutical companies?

Yeah. Is that a trade off? That's what you're asking. Yeah. Like like I it would be interesting to know the New York Times is one of these big headlines here. I'd like to know how much money has the New York Times taken on their pages? And websites and their properties, advertising for pharmaceutical companies? Yeah, I think that they're absolutely is a trade off.

I think all of politics is a trade off. I think that that happens on the local level, at the state level. Sure. I think it's all the way enmeshed through politics and money. And we all know how rich the pharmaceutical companies are. Yeah. Well they have a lot to protect. So. All right. 940 (208) 542-1079 is the number on this Monday.

And we'll be back after this. We'll continue. Coming up.

I think that that is something that it should also be studied with vaccinations. That could be potential causes of autism is the massive amount of chemicals in our food. Oh, and guess who else wants to study that? RFK Jr. Yeah. So yeah, I'm fine with him looking into that. Yes. It was back in my yard this weekend.

The bunnies the bunnies are back. Yay. That's good. We're back. You love the bunnies. It just feels right. I don't know what about it. It just feels like the world's good if there's a little teeny bunny hopping around my yard. Something feels good about that. I know what it is. Well, you know, if the food supply is cut off, you'll have some stew.

I think that's what I'm thinking. I think it's what? I don't think that's what I'm thinking.

Something. I've never eaten rabbit. Have you ever eaten rabbit? I tried it once. It was fun. It was. Yeah, I don't know. I don't remember, like. Like exactly what it tasted like, but I think it was similar to chicken. Tastes like chicken. Usually when I eat chicken, I'm like, oh, it tastes like rabbit.

When my daughter this this is back on the spraying of insecticides and everything. When my daughter lived in her home that was on Utah Lake, we would sit out on her big back patio, in the evening times. And it's beautiful. You're looking at the lake. It's gorgeous. This guy in this little golf cart paid for by the HOA, would drive through the neighborhood, spraying insecticide everywhere to kill off mosquitoes from the lake so that people could enjoy their backyards and it always kind of freaked me out.

It felt a little dystopian like that. It would. Yeah, it was a little unnerving. That would be because I don't know what they're spraying and what they could get away with. And we're all just going, oh, thanks for getting rid of the mosquitoes. Yeah.

Yeah, that would be weird. I will say that not every HOA, but the more rigorous HOA is just all feel dystopian to me a little bit. Yeah. Didn't Trump say he wanted to get rid of HOA city? I don't know. Somebody said they wanted to get rid of the power of choice. I can't remember which politician it was.

I think lots of bunnies can overrun crops and things like that. Yeah. I have at most 3 or 4 in my yard. Yeah. And I don't plan a garden so the bunnies aren't getting in my garden. Maybe they're getting in my neighbor's garden and I should feel bad about that, I don't know. Yeah, but we have bunnies in our neighborhood.

I've never really had much of a problem when I've had a garden. I think I'm going to do a garden this year. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Be good. I, I. The years that I have done a garden, one thing I've noticed is they really are a place to just decompress. Like there's a benefit. Like psychologically there's a benefit to it.

ESPN plus for the Bengals game. 530 today and then 8:00 for the second game. But Bengals are playing it. Five women are playing it noon. My workout will be at about five. Oh sorry about that. My workout will be about 515. So. Okay. I could a 945 on Newstalk 107, Neal Larson, along with Julie Mason and one of the meals, Julie, that we'll have this week will be Steak Bites.

And it's so easy. Can I give out a really fast recipe. You take melted butter, you season it with garlic salt maybe pepper and whatever other seasonings you like. Italian seasoning is really good. And then you cut up, you cube your steak and you pour the butter mixture over it. And if your steak is cold, it will actually harden.

So you'll have like like room temperature solid butter on it. Throw that into the air fryer for about 12 to 14 minutes, depending on how you like your steak. And literally in less than 15 to 20 minutes you have a delicious meal. You know, we always get our steak from Grand Peak's Prime Meats. Sounds scrumptious. You can too.

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Again, that's GP Prime meats.com GG Prime meats.com. Okay Julie Neil listen to this Daily Caller headline. Dems think swearing like drunken sailors will help make Americans like them think this might be true. I think it is true. I think they think, if they drop the F-bomb in mixed company, that that's going to win them some points with the American people.

Yeah. Fox and friends played a montage of f Trump by Democrats this morning. I, I wasn't watching the screen. I f by remembering I was just listening, but by remembering there was something about 8 to 9 different clips of Democrats saying, F Trump. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. I don't know how now it helps them among like minded people who already hate Trump gets him all excited.

So adviser Lee Smith, who reportedly was responsible for an R rating for a documentary about former Secretary of Transportation Pete booted Jesus, Buddha, Jesus, Buddha judges presidential campaign due to her facility for salty language said after over 20 Senate Democrats read the same script on a video posted to social media that included the S-Word. Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett of Texas unleashed two notable instances on Politico on February 25th.

She told white House senior adviser Elon Musk to f off during a media interview, before saying someone should slap her to wake me the f up. When talking with a reporter after she walked out of Tuesday's speech by Trump. Crockett also posted a contrived dance video to social media before Trump's address. One of those awkward ones we talked about.

Democrat, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, known for cussing at times, questioned where the profanity came from when asked for comment by Politico. And he said, gee, tell me who started that? So I'm going to use some and you better tell me how it all came to be. Yeah. Democrat Rep Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona, an ex-Marine, pointed to his military service as a reason for his colorful language.

According to Politico. Democrats have appeared to struggle with messaging since Trump defeated then Vice President Kamala Harris in the November 5th presidential election. Democrats have also made widely panned outreach on social media. AOC, Lauren Underwood of Illinois, Katherine Clarke in Massachusetts, Judy Chu of California, Jasmine Crockett, Susie Lee took part in an 18 second video similar to the character selection screens of the arcade and console franchise or that influencer Sully.

Jessica Wu posted on Instagram Wednesday evening. A Quinnipiac University poll found only 21% of respondents approved of congressional Democrats. Republicans now have a 40% approval rating, which is about as high as you can get em right now. Yeah, because in general, people just don't like government. Yeah. If you were looking to be applauded for being the most amazing person on this earth, don't get involved in government issues.

You know, suck it. You're not going to get 75% of the people going that person's amazing. Yeah, it's just not going to happen. I saw another story earlier this morning. Apparently Tim Walz, who I don't know why, is he even relevant? I don't even know why he's getting screen time like it. It doesn't make any sense to me.

But he said they lost because they weren't aggressive enough. They didn't they didn't go on offense, which that might be partially true because it became a deafening narrative that Kamala Harris, how long did she go like two and a half months without an interview and unelected, no less. Yeah, I guess he could be right with that, that they should have been more aggressive in those early months of Kamala Harris being placed in that position.

But I would then say to Tim, okay, I'll accept that, that that could be a potential reason that you lost. But when you did get aggressive and you pushed your wife out there and she had everyone chant along with her, turn the page, it all freaked us out like you're a cult. So yeah, that was weird. Creepy Stepford wife crap.

Yeah. And when you did get aggressive and stick Kamala out there, we all wondered if she was inebriated. I didn't wonder.

It was obvious to me. So I think there's more than maybe your lack of aggression in the first, you know, eight weeks. I think there's more to it. Well, they. Yeah, they had multiple problems, but I think if they had been more aggressive, if she had interviewed, I think it would have been does that because when she finally did relent and start doing interviews, they turned out to be disastrous for.

Yes they did. Man we dodged a bullet. Yeah. I was saying to you over at one of the commercial breaks that some Democrats were really frustrated with Trump because, they were reporting that somebody was shot at the white House on Sunday, an intruder that they had been following and they caught and shot. And he's in critical condition in the hospital.

But Trump wasn't there. And when that reporting happened, the follow up to that was that while Trump was on, he flew down to Florida in the Gulf. Okay. Well, he did a major network. Well, Fox, which I would, is getting more numbers than some of the major networks, so I'm going to include them in that. He did a Fox interview that morning and then went and played golf, and then came back to the white House last night and interviewed on Air Force One.

Yeah. Knock it off. They don't care about that. They just hate everything he does. Everything the man can't. He can't even take four hours to golf. If anybody has earned a round of golf. It's Donald freaking Trump over the last six. And he worked before and worked after. Yes. Yeah. So I'm watching the TV screen. Did you see the girl hit the other girl in the head with a baton?

Yes. In the track and field event. Yeah. Yep. I'm like, because the the high school athletics association in that state or whatever said, well, we're going to investigate. It's on tape. You don't investigate, you call the police. Yeah. Because in my mind that's assault. Yes. They're rounding a corner. So if you remember track and field, it levels out on the straightaways.

Yeah. So she's behind her, rounding the corner. They've just, taken their batons from their, teammates, and she comes up behind her and just whacks her in the head. She has to stop her race, go off to the side, and she had a concussion from it and, headache. And so. Yeah. Yeah, there needs to be consequences.

Yeah. For these kids. I'm just like, my grandpa will be back after this.

I had seen the headline, but I don't know. I didn't get around to actually watching that video until either. Maybe last night or this morning, but I watched, like, that's so blatant. It was Tonya Harding ish. Yeah. Yeah. Julie sent me a LeBron flop video. Why is this guy even taken seriously. It's so bad. It was everywhere I x yesterday didn't even get touched.

And he does the dramatic. Then he goes to one knee and holds his head. His head didn't even get touched. He barely got touched in the chest with an elbow. And he goes to where, after flopping, he gets up on one knee, holds his head in his hands. He's an embarrassment. He is an embarrassment. Yeah. You know, here's what I think.

This will never happen. This is just Neil's brain. And I don't like LeBron. So it's probably amplified by this. But I think after you have like more than 3 or 4 documented flops in a season, you have to wear a pink jersey like you are clearly designated as a flopper. How about something that's more feminine than a jersey?

What if that like bows in your hair? Pink bows. Your hair? I'm all for that. And maybe a sports bra.

No, because you know what? That's actually. No, that's. I'm going to speak up for the the female gender here because that's too definitely given to females. Even women are tougher than that. Yeah. So I don't I don't like that. It's you know what it could be. Instead of ribbons and bows snowflakes they have to have a big snowflake.

Snowflake decorations in their hair. They all have pierced ears. Have that snowflake earrings. Yeah I'm all for that. Yeah. Yeah.

L.A. was on a winning streak until in that game, the Celtics, where the flop was, was it was LA versus Boston. And, the Celtics ended their winning streak because LA's been doing really well since they brought in someone help me on Facebook. Luka? Luka. Yeah, yeah, yeah, they've done really well with Luka there, but they the Celtics had their number.

If they start winning, I'm happy for Luka. But do you think LeBron's teammates tease him about all this flopping. Or is he just a bully like. No because I you got to work with them like I just don't think you can get away with that in the NBA like you used to be able to. Yeah a 957 on Newstalk 179, Neal Larson along with Julia mason.

We were just talking about a video Julie sent me of LeBron James, another massive, embarrassing, obvious, blatant flop by the LA flopper LeBron. He was barely touched by a Celtics player. Little bit of an elbow to a chest that there was about it. By the way, LeBron is way bigger than this player. Like outweighs him by like lots of poundage.

And he he folds like this player took him out and it's barely an elbow to the chest. Barely. So why. Yeah. We don't have enough time to get into it. I just if you like LeBron why do you still like LeBron. How do you watch that and go I still like it. You can't call him the goat. No not even that for certain.

He's the he's the goat flopper. But all right everyone have a great Monday. And I back tomorrow on Newstalk 109.