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On this episode with Neal and Julie, they discuss Michelle Obama's firm stance on not running for president and analyze the Democratic Party's search for a strong candidate. They also delve into the ongoing political climate, including perceptions of Joe Biden’s presidency, Donald Trump’s strategic moves, and controversies surrounding remarks made by Representative Jasmine Crockett and Greg Abbott. Additionally, they explore the tension in Idaho politics regarding Representative Stephanie Mickelson’s stance on immigration and the repercussions of calling ICE on her family’s farm. The conversation rounds out with a humorous debate on whether anyone truly likes kale. Tune in for lively discussion, political insights, and a few laughs along the way! 

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We do have authority over the federal courts. As you know. We can. We can eliminate an entire district court. We have our funding over the courts and all these other things. But, desperate times call for desperate measures, and Congress is going to act, so stay tuned for that. All right. Mike Johnson had to know that was going to set the media and the left running around, soaking their hair in lighter fluid and then lighting it on fire.

Welcome. It's good to have you on this Wednesday. Ruby Frank got divorced from her husband. I don't know if you saw that. I was, man, I was hoping they could work that out, but apparently not. I did see that story. Guess how much time we're going to spend on it today? We've already spent all the time we are going to to to spend talking about it.

We also, I don't know if you heard this, but Michelle Obama, I know this comes as a great disappointment to many of you, but she says that she is not going to run for president. And so when people ask me what I ever run, the answer is no. You know, I mean, you you. Then if you ask me that, then you have absolutely no idea the the sacrifice that your kids make when your parents are in that role.

Not not only am I not interested in politics in that way, but the thought of, like putting my girls back into that, you know, that spotlight when they are just now establishing themselves, it's like, you know, okay, I think we've we've done enough question asked and answered. Never going to happen. Right. Okay. Never going to happen. Right. So it's never going to happen.

And I have felt this way all along that Michelle Obama hated being in the white House. Hated it. I'm not even convinced you don't see her and Barack with each other around anymore. I don't, I and there have been rumors about a divorce. I don't know if that's all happening, but if you were keeping Michelle Obama on your radar screen as a presidential hopeful or potential, you can take that, that blip off your radar screen.

It's not happening. I think what it is, if we want to get down to the, I don't know, the psychology or the subconscious part of this is the desperation on the Democrats to take anyone that they view as likable to the country and plug them in to the presidential slot. That's what they like. She's never wanted it. I've never felt like she's wanted.

She doesn't like this country. She she does not like she is sour on America. And I, I don't understand this fixation with, oh, Michelle Obama is there. You know, it's not going to happen. Let me just take that out of your, you keep going to that, as part of your repertoire of who can we run on the Democrat side, by the way, I'm speaking to all of our our Democrat listeners that we have here at Newstalk 179.

So you have that, also signal gate continues and I am really puzzled because there's increased calls for Pete Hegseth to resign. Why? Why would Pete Hegseth resign? Can anyone answer that question? He didn't add Goldberg to the chat. It wasn't malfeasance on his part. They just want to get rid of Pete Hegseth. I think that's part of it.

That they know that he's strong, that he is. Enforcing Trump's policies and running the Department of Defense. And they they want him. This is the deep state. This is the, sort of the loyal opposition that's operating to try and get rid of everyone, all things Trump. So, they're just going to march forward. And I think when they are on the defensive, it's they're like, yeah, it was a mistake.

But our national security was not compromised. We didn't put in top secret war plans, as was originally alleged. And we'll take greater care in the future to make sure things like that don't happen and move forward. That's what you do. The media is doing everything they can to make hay out of this, and it's just it's just not working, I think.

Speaking of the desperation mode that the left is in, this is another example of what they are trying to to do in destroying the the Trump presidency. I will say, and I knew this day would probably come. I feel like this honeymoon period is I don't know if it's coming to an end, but I feel like the that Trump knew he had about two months to really, really make stuff happen, and he definitely has.

He has used these first couple of months to get a lot of crap done. And, it's been very, very impactful. But he knew that Republicans are going to soften. They always do that. He was not going to have the the unifying support that he would enjoy this first few weeks. And and that's okay. But but there's so much more to do.

And he is getting a lot done. I do want to play really quickly here. A Gutfeld clip. This is from The five. And and Greg Gutfeld made a really, really, really astute observation. And that is. Yeah, Trump's made mistakes. This whole administration issue with the signal app. That's an unforced error. But you make more unforced errors when you do more things.

So for mistakes to happen you have to act on an aim and you have to have a will to act on it. Which was missing the last four years. Thousands of errors Biden didn't make because the white House was one giant, deliberate act of negligence. You know, they didn't seal the border, they didn't reduce crime. They didn't get men out of women's sports.

They didn't fight inflation, no act, no foul. Right. Perhaps we were lucky that they ignored the problems. It could have been worse. But Biden made no mistake capturing the Abby gate bomber because he didn't try. You know, he didn't make any mistakes trying to capture America's ten most wanted criminals because they didn't try. He didn't make any mistakes when it came to deport, deporting gangs because he didn't try.

Okay. It's a it's a great point. And then at the very end, he added this exclamation mark. What they did under Biden makes this signal thing look like a pimple on an ant ass. Okay, well, there there you have that. So you from time to time, I use this metaphorical language that you have to look at both sides of the ledger, that you can't just look at a politician and if they're a Democrat, count all the bad they do.

And if they're a Republican, you count all the positives that they do. You got to look at both sides of the ledger. To me, it's it's similar to that. And I will say, and I've made this point before, obviously very, very tongue in cheek. But I, I have fewer missed shots in NBA games than Michael Jordan and LeBron James for that matter.

I have fewer fouls than Michael Jordan had. So look, from that angle. I did better in the NBA than Michael Jordan did because I have fewer missed shots and fewer fouls. I didn't travel once in the NBA. Not once did I travel or step out of bounds. I don't have it. I have a sterling record when it comes to turnovers in the NBA.

This is why when you see this oh, let's just call it a foul that was committed by the Trump administration. Yeah. Because he's actually out on the court playing. And he when your successes are prolific your mistakes are going to happen. And I I would you know how I would view it I would sort of view it as what is your failure to success ratio.

And Donald Trump has multiple successes that it already two months in that he can, I brag about take credit for be proud of whatever you want to plug in there there. There's a lot to Donald Trump's track record. So for those of you that are obsessing about the missteps, yeah, you're going to find some that you might even find more than you'd find with Biden.

But it's only because the the the steps that are being taken are happening rapidly, and you're going to rack up mistakes faster than someone who, well, just did what he was told and did not have an active presidency at all already. I believe the Biden presidency. Nobody's talking about it anymore. It's already fading into Jimmy Carter esque territory.

As it rightly should at some point. It's too fresh to recent right now, so it's really kind of impossible to say. But I do think there is a very real possibility that Joe Biden will be the new gold standard for failed presidents and poor Jimmy Carter, like he's had that going for 45 years. Now that he is known as the failed Democrat.

Well, not just failed Democrat, just a failed presidency. He just didn't accomplish much. The the country didn't do well under Jimmy Carter. Nice guy. I don't think anybody can take anything from him in the decency department. But at least while he was the president. But I will tell you, I, I really think he does not have to sit.

I mean, he's passed now, but but he was the one that had the dunce cap on for 45 long years. That's a long time to have to wear the dunce cap. And now I think Joe Biden is probably going to have to wear the dunce cap for another half century, or maybe more. I don't know, we'll see. Unless AOC somehow manages to become the president.

Or Jasmine Crockett, are you following what's happening with her? This was crazy. She mocked Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas. She called him Hot Wheels lizard and, because we in these hot ass Texas street sunny, y'all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there. Come on now. And and the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot ass, Miss Honey.

So, So. Yes. Yes, yes, yes. All right. Call him Hot Wheels. Hot wheels? A man in a wheelchair that's been in a wheelchair for 40 years, and she calls him Hot Wheels. And now she's tisk asking the Republicans for us, noticing it's the Chris. What? What is wrong with you Democrats? Literally. What is wrong with you? You're you're the one that produced the words out of your mouth.

You're the one that called, man in a wheelchair, a governor, no less, in a wheelchair, Hot Wheels. And somehow it's our fault because we had a very understandable, natural, predictable reaction. Already. Governor Abbott's brushed it off. He doesn't care. He's a he's a solid guy, a confident guy. And he's like, yeah, this is a two. This is a Tuesday.

Welcome to my world. This is a Tuesday. So I would just say this because I think this is important. There is a video clip of Donald Trump. I think it was during his campaign before 2016 where it appears and understandably so. I'm not I'm not going to I'm not going to soften it or try to gaslight anyone. It appears that he is mocking a disabled reporter.

I do think there's a larger context here, and the larger context is that Donald Trump would use sort of these spasmodic motions with his hands to talk about different reporters or different political opponents. He would do that. But if you're going to talk about someone who has a condition, as this was at a New York Times reporter anyway, some liberal outlet, a reporter, you don't get to make those hand gestures, all right?

You have to be very, very careful, even if it's not your intent to mock a physical disability. By the way, the the person, the reporter that is disabled that Trump was talking about at the time doesn't make those, those motions. So it wasn't an accurate representation of the condition, which is some people are saying that that proves that Trump was not mocking him, because that reporter doesn't even do that.

His his arm and hand is just immobile. It doesn't move or spasm or anything like that. So they're saying, well, Trump was like, I'm I get the argument here and I, I appreciate your loyalty to Donald Trump. I would say any time you're talking about somebody with a disability, be careful how you present that because it it's so easily can can be, taken the wrong way in this case with Jasmine Crockett referring to Greg Abbott as Hot Wheels.

Come on. Right now, you're trying to tell us. Oh, I didn't mean it like that. Seriously. Okay, we're not stupid, Jasmine. We we may have gone to public school, but we're not stupid, Representative Crockett. And we all know that if the tables were turned and it was going the other direction, do you think that Jasmine Crockett would offer the grace that she is now demanding for herself?

And by the way, there is a censure resolution already drafted. I think it was put together within hours after her making the Hot Wheels comment. And I think it's very possible. Maybe even getting some Democrat votes. They voted like ten of them voted to censure Al Green when he told Donald Trump during his joint address that he didn't have a mandate and he was violating the decorum of the of the House.

I think Jasmine Crockett, who is probably more of a liability than an asset to the Democrats right now, she might get some Democrat votes to censure her as well. It's 823. We got a break. We'll come back if you'd like to join us. The number is (208) 542-1079. That is the Stones Automotive group calling text line. It's 828 on Newstalk 179.

Neil Larson and Julie Mason (208) 542-1079. That's the number. If you'd like to reach us on the Stones Automotive Group calling text line. Did I say that? No. Okay. I don't know. I mean, you said it multiple times this morning, but not right there. Okay. Jasmine Crockett, I think she's going to get censured, as she should. Julie, I agree, I got no problem with that.

She knew what she was saying there. And don't try to lie. It was a joke. You were trying to make an account. Quite honestly, it's probably a joke she's gotten laughs at in her private circles. Can I can we talk about normal people for just a moment? Let's say you're in the company meeting and you said something and let's say we had a coworker that was disabled in some way, and something came out of your mouth that you weren't trying to hurt their feelings, but it was the wrong set of words.

Like it, it just it was it was just the wrong thing to say. What would your reaction be? And maybe after the meeting, whatever, what would your reaction be to the person that could have been offended by that? I think the most responsible and mature action is to walk up to the person privately later and say, hey, I'm really sorry I that I was trying to make a joke.

It didn't land right. And that's my bad. Are we okay? Like, I just want to make sure we're okay. Yeah. Would you apologize, though? Yeah, because I started that way. Hey, I'm really sorry. Yeah, I was trying to make a joke, and that's. And that's right. That's what you would do. And that's what Jasmine Crockett should say.

If if what she's saying is true, that still doesn't relieve her of the burden to apologize. You shouldn't call anybody like my grandma told me this. Don't call anybody in a wheelchair, Hot wheels. Okay, that's probably a basic idea. And if you do. But you didn't mean to refer to their disability. You still apologize if you called them Hot Wheels.

Look, I'm not even mad that she's probably made this joke with her staffers. I expect that I expect that she's probably made this joke with her staffers. I don't think I don't have a lot of respect for it. But this is human behavior and humans are humans. And I don't expect you to be, you know, perfect in whatever you're doing.

You know, I do expect, if you're a politician to be smart enough not to do what she did yesterday. Well, yeah. Yeah, I would hope so. I think doubling down is the, the wrong thing because here's part of the problem all let's just set aside the discussion about what's the courteous thing to do or the polite thing to do, or whatever.

Democrats are losing everybody. They say, therefore they're losing minorities. They're losing in some demographics. They're losing women. They're losing, well, they're losing their base. And they used to be for the working class and you're losing them if you're physically disabled. I don't know for sure, but I would imagine the Democrats have done historically a decent job of exploiting that group to, to vote for them.

If you're, if you have a disability, I think you hear her called the governor Hot Wheels, you don't care that you agree with her politically. You're like she shouldn't be calling this disabled the governor. Hot wheels like that. Like they're they're just defending everyone. It's the Van Jones clip from yesterday. You're chasing people out of your party and that's a bad it's a bad look and a bad move.

She she should just apologize. But that's not her. That's just. It's just not her. She doesn't have it in her. I think it might have been 7 or 8 years ago, but this new persona, this cosplay or this morphing, I don't know if she's completely adopted in. It's just who she is now. But the new Jasmine Crockett over the last year,

Doesn't care. Doesn't care? No, no. Yeah. She doesn't. Which is why I say she's made this joke before it rolled off the tongue. Far too easy. It did. That's the thing, is it? It was just too easy of a joke. You know what I would do if I were Greg Abbott? Kind of in the same vein. That Donald Trump should hold up his Sharpie and say, this is not an auto pen.

I actually sign this. I think that the governor should have his staff print up the Hot Wheels logo and slap it to the side of his wheelchair. You own it, own it, and and mock her. And I think that would be a good move. But he he's more of a mature minded guy, so he probably won't, but I think would be great optics for him to do that.

You know what he could do? He doesn't even need to do that to his wheelchair. He could buy one of those five pack of Hot Wheels and have it delivered to her Congress office. Oh yeah, that would be a gift from and and make sure it's on video as it's being delivered. A gift from the governor from Texas with one of those bendable orange tracks and like, do the whole thing.

Go all out, go all out. And did you have one of those bendable orange? Oh heck yeah, I did. Yeah, my brothers did too. And I love to play with it because they were way older than me, so they were done playing with it by that point. So yeah, I loved it. I also, I remember the little electrical tracks where you, you know, you'd race the cars around and I could never keep the car on the track.

I wasn't good enough at regulating the speed around the corners. So, but it was a fun toy. Yes, I do, I do remember that. Yeah, yeah. Do they still sell those? I, I know they still sell the track. It's built differently now. It's not made of that bendable plastic. It comes in the shape and okay so it looks like it but it's actually formed plastic into that shape.

Yeah. Got you. Yeah I've got a grandson. He's a Hot Wheels expert. Oh yeah. That's true, that's true as most. What is he two now. Three. Yeah. He's almost 3rd July. Oh he'll be three okay. All right. So yeah he's in that Hot Wheels expert phase. Yeah. All right 835 A new stock. 1079 quick break. We'll come back after this and continue.

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Doors open at 5:30 p.m.. Newstalk 179 stimulating talk for East Idaho. It's 842 on Newstalk 107. Hi, Neal Larson and Julie Mason and Julie. Let's go right to the phones. Caller welcome. How are you today? Doing well, how are you guys? Good, good. What's up though? The, leak via the app on, my thought is what if that was a solid, way of finding out who is going to push information out to the media?

And it just so happens, find out, you know, but just enough information out there. But I thought it was good to pull in the media. Okay, so let me ask you then, who are you implicating with this suggestion? Who do you think may be the mole, the aide that added that reporter so it Mike Waltz has already said he was the one who added he said he created the he he created the group.

Yeah, he he created the group. But other people can. But the, the invite came from him from his phone. Well his phone. Yes. But yes, yeah, the invite came from his phone. So he's already said that he's. He also said that he talked to Elon Musk to try and figure out from a tech standpoint how that could have happened.

So I don't believe it was deliberate. But I thought it was still. Yeah. But, yeah, yeah. And then, you know, if you guys needed a, a lap this fine Wednesday morning to get over the, middle of the week, you guys should, pull up the Jim Carrey line from the Grinch, when he finds out that he's won the holiday cheer Meister and called everyone at town full of losers.

Yeah, okay, that would be in reference to the left. Is that who that's for? Yeah, that would be the. Okay. All right. Thank you for the call. Yeah. We'll have to find that. Yeah. That clip love that movie. By the way. Julie, do you remember Harrison? But Kurt, when he gave his speech and everybody was still but heard.

But Kurt, they were. But Kurt, over it like a month and a half later, they were still freaking out about, I feel like in Idaho, this stupid poster that says everyone is welcome here is the same thing. We're still getting stories about that in discussion around it. I agree, I don't understand why the Sarah. What's her ermine?

Ermine? Yeah, whatever. The teacher in the West State School District, she had two signs in her classroom. Everyone is welcome with a whole bunch of different skin tone hands with little hearts on the palms hanging in her classroom. And the interesting thing is, she had a different poster. We're not talking about the other poster at all.

That was clearly LGBTQ. A yes, it was rainbow, clearly LGBTQ. Yeah, they didn't want to talk about that one. Now we've decided to make this one the the because this one has a racism tone to it. So they feel like they have more leverage with this one. So let me ask you this question because I want to I want to dig into the psychology, psychological dynamics of this.

If it just said everyone is welcome here, but it didn't have different shades of skin and different shades of hands colors, why include that? Why include skin color? Because it it is meant to virtue signal. But but how? If if the words are what everyone is obsessed over that. Oh, can you believe the state, the legislature, those terrible Republicans forced the teacher to take down?

It was the local administrators that did, but their policy reflected what the legislature was doing. And they they said, no, the American flag is what's allowed in. Our policy is that you don't have any added stuff on in, in your classrooms. As agreeable as you think it might be to everyone, you still can't put it up there. People don't understand that.

And and the fact that you've included a racial component to it, skin color makes it overtly political. Okay. I'm sorry. You can talk about the words if you want, but there was more on that poster than just the words. There was more to the poster than that. And if you're going to represent it as something that's not that, then you're not bringing honesty to the argument.

I told you in the commercial break, there's a couple of things that have absolutely nothing to do with race with this poster. One, it's redundant. It's the the Constitution of Idaho, which we have gone over multiple times this session. Yeah. Says that public classrooms. So public education should be provided to everyone. So you're it's already said done. So you're not true.

You're not covering that. It's a redundant conversation. All right. Secondly the teacher does not own the walls in that classroom. Yeah. The teacher is allowed to use that classroom to do their job. You don't own them. What that means is the state, and by extension, the school district, can decide what is hung on the walls and what is not hung on the walls.

Do you remember? And it's probably still out there. Julie, the bumper sticker that said Coex exist. But every letter like the oh was a peace sign and. And I, I kind of look at it like that. If I was driving, let's say I'm a teacher and I'm driving a state vehicle because I have to go to a conference somewhere.

Can I put a coexist bumper sticker on that car? I would hope not. No, I would I'm sure there's a policy about that and everybody would understand that being operating a classroom is no different than operating a, company or a or a state vehicle, a state owned vehicle. You don't get to slap your opinions on on state property.

Even if everybody agrees with the opinion, it's still not your prerogative to do that. And so you know what? The American flag that's authorized and I think it most classrooms already have an American flag. There's a 1 or 2 other, examples in the state w in the state flag. Yes. Okay. That that's a that's perfectly acceptable.

But I think my, my frustration is that because the local district's policy is you can't put anything else on it. They're interpreting it as you don't. You're not everyone is welcome here. You're you're taking down a poster that says everyone is welcome here. So you must disagree with the poster. That's not the issue. That's not the point at all.

Do I think that we shouldn't coexist? Because I don't think you should put a coexist bumper sticker on the on a state vehicle. No, that's not the issue. It's a process issue. Right. Well, what if I'm big into pickleball? Do I get to put a pickleball sticker on my on the state vehicle? Or what if I am the biggest Taylor Swift fan ever?

Do I get to do Taylor Swift junk all over the car? You don't. And I don't understand what the special ness is that's assigned to classrooms. This exists in the private industry all over the place. We can't put up whatever we want to in the office. No, you're right. I, my husband has a fleet of trucks for his business.

He can't. Those workers who take those trucks can't put whatever they want to on those trucks, right? Yeah, I there is nothing special about a classroom. No, that means you get to have more rights. I where where did this come from? Julie? Like I in nearly every other there might be other professions, but in nearly every other profession, you're in a workplace environment where you don't get to.

And now they might let you in the private sector, maybe, maybe in certain, some, you know, your whatever, you might be allowed to do that, but it isn't your right to do it. Yeah. You might have a boss that is a Taylor Swift freak. Right along with you. Yeah. You might, you might get lucky and share that with the owner of the car that you get to use for your job.

That doesn't mean you have the right to do it. Yeah. Now you mention something, because I did. I may or may not have ended up with the movie poster for Dinesh D'Souza's documentary about Trump that came out right before the election. It's actually in the office, but it's not hanging. I've considered hanging it to see what would happen.

Yeah, well, look, you can, but if if the owner tells you to take it down. Yes. You're right. Take it down. Yeah. And that's why Sarah hung it. She hung it in a classroom. She was told to take it down. Yeah. You're not special, Sarah. No. You're not. Wait. They let her keep it to the end of the year?

Yes. She put them back up in protest, and they bent. And she gets to keep it up through the end of the year. I think they made a mistake in bending. I think the policy is the policy, and you're just planting seeds for other problems if you don't enforce the policy. Yeah. I it's just, you know what you want teachers that are grown ups that would say, you know what, I don't like it.

I don't agree with it. But this is my workplace and I'll respect it. And that doesn't mean that I disagree with what Sarah is implying by the poster. Yeah, I do want teachers to welcome every child into their classroom. I do, but guess what? Public education, by its nature, should do that. You don't need to broadcast it, especially if the school district has told you not to.

If if your only way of conveying to kids that they're welcome in your classroom is to put up a poster that says, everyone is welcome here, you're not very creative. There ought to be other, other ways that you can hope they're feeling it from you in a different way. I hope it's not based on a poster.

Yeah. You know you brought up a good point though Julie. Off air while we were chatting about this. Quite often these messages are actually not about the message. It's not about being welcoming. It is about shaming conservatives. It's about, oh, Trump's the president. Right now. So I'll be the grown up and put this I'll make a political statement, but I'll do it softly via this.

I feel like it has the same psychodynamic as putting your preferred pronouns out there. If if your preferred pronouns are she her, it's obviously you're a she. It's obvious you're a she her look at your picture. You don't have to put it out there, but you want to let everyone know, well, I'm an advocate or I'm progressive or I'm enlightened and you kind of make it about you and projecting your good intentions and your own virtue.

The message isn't the message. The real message is that I'm enlightened and tolerant. So I firmly believe I have said it multiple times from this microphone that there are only two genders, a boy and a girl. You know, I feel that in my soul. It's not appropriate for me to hang that up on them. My office wall in a classroom.

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All right. 907. Welcome back. Our two underway. If you'd like to reach us on the program, the stones automotive group, Collin tech slime is available to you free of charge. I mean, toll free. Yes. (208) 542-1079. That's right. Now, local charges may apply or whatever it is they say, like if you text and what you whatever, but we don't charge you.

You can reach us. You can, by reaching us. If we put you on the air, you are talking to literally tens of millions of people, literally, potentially. I mean, tens of millions of people could tune into the app. They could or could they could watch the Facebook Live feed, right? Yeah, that's that's true. That's true. Okay.

Julie, we we need to talk about this. This is Harry Enten. This just rubs people the wrong way. But I love it. I think sometimes it's important to do a little bit of reality check and take a little different spin at the numbers. I'm going to do that right here because all we talk about is how unpopular Donald Trump is.

But in reality, he's basically more popular than he was at any point in term number one and more popular than he was when he won election back in November of 2024. What are we talking about? His net favorable rating right now comes in up minus four points. Compare that to where he was when he won in November of 2024, when he was at minus seven points, or March of 2017 when he was at minus ten points.

So when you compare Trump against himself, he's actually closer to the apex than he is to the bottom of the trough. And of course, that's so important because Donald Trump, historically speaking, has had his numbers underestimated. So I think it's very important to compare him to himself, to understand he's actually more popular now than he was when he won, or certainly where he was at this point back in his first term.

The bottom line is Trump is more towards the ceiling than he is towards the floor. Okay. Totally makes sense. You know, in solo athletic competitions, swimming, track and field, you're basing it on your PR, right? Your personal record, your personal best. That's a very accurate way to determine how Trump is doing. Well yeah. Yeah it is. And it's it's another false narrative, Julie.

Actually that that Trump's unpopular and and I love I don't know how they let Harry Enten into the door at CNN every day for him to do his work. Yeah. Because he, he is saying things that you just don't hear on CNN. He and Scott Jennings must walk in with guns drawn, like, let us in, let us in.

We're going to say what we're going to say. Their offices, their offices are in a modular home out back. They don't even let him be on the property until it's time to go on air. Yes. Probably so. But but it's true, and I appreciate that. Maybe this is part of CNN's effort to rehab themselves. But, you know, and it's it's odd how we get a mind virus going.

And we just believe something is true even when it's not. You're doing it with hummus in your life right now that it tastes good. You didn't expect that did you? I didn't oh I'll admit to that mental you call it frailty, I call it strength. It's it's a mind virus. I don't I'm agnostic whether or not it's frailty or strength, but but but but the point is Trump it.

Trump's doing great. He's doing fine. He he has spent some political capital this first couple of months. He's not quite as popular as he was on inauguration Day and in the in the week or two after. But he knew he would need to spend some political capital to get some things done. Yeah. Interestingly, we've had two techs come in this morning complaining about Trump doing the iOS because you you played the audio from the iOS that he did, the one on voting.

And then the other one was just hurricane crossfire hurricane. Oh, crossfire hurricane. Okay. So, they're saying, why is he doing iOS? Why isn't he working through Congress? Well, first off, Congress is going to take forever. Second off, he has four years. Yeah. So he knows that some of these will get overturned. He's not he's not living in a pipe dream here that these iOS will stay in effect for eternity.

What he's trying to do is repair America. Yeah. And he has four years to do it, which is why he started so quickly and so swiftly so that we can capitalize on all four years. For me, the fact that it's an EO doesn't matter the nature of the EO matters. Does he have the authority to declassify classified documents?

Absolutely. He does. So the Crossfire Hurricane EO, I have no concern about there's no need for Congress with that. And especially if that was an effort to overturn an election, which it was, I think it's very clear they were trying to weaponize the FBI against Donald Trump and use that to get him or prevent him from from having, the power that we, the people gave him.

I mean, that was a bigger insurrection than January 6th in my mind. What they what they did to Trump. So he has all the authority that he needs. So there is zero concern whatsoever with him declassifying that info. The one on on voting, that one gives me a little pause. And it's not criticism of Trump, but rather skepticism that it will survive a court challenge because states have the right to make their own voting laws.

And here's, here's, here's a little clip of what he said about, the the voting. You all understand that there's election fraud. I've heard the term ended. Hopefully this will go a long way toward ending it. There are other steps that we will take it as an exit in the coming weeks, and we think we'll be able to end up getting fair elections.

Perhaps some people think I shouldn't be complaining because we won in a landslide, but, we got to straighten out our election. This country is so sick because of the election, the fake elections and the elections. And we're going to straighten that out one way or the other. Okay. And you can hear the pin. He signs it in.

I look at this and I think that this is a good step forward. Like I said, I don't know that it survives. Court muster here. However, it's a great way to introduce the the issue to the American people and get us started on a discussion about it that may later lead to Congress passing laws. But what we're finding out, certainly true in the Idaho Legislature, is we're now passing laws that add another layer of reinforcement to what Trump and Congress is doing.

Yeah. And we're not the only states doing that. There's a ton of conservative states following suit with that. That's the change that I talked about. It's four years. Even if the federal government rolls back an EO, if the states have gone in and and secured what they're doing based upon Trump's efforts, that's great. Yeah. Yeah it is. And and this might just be the impetus for them to to do that.

All right. Let's go to the phones. Caller, welcome to the show. How are you? Good morning. I'm not sure if you guys have seen the article that was written. I think it's called Western Journal, and it's blowing up on Twitter right now in Idaho politics about Representative Stephanie Mickelson. Has yeah. The Investigate West piece. There you go.

Yeah, yeah. About having, illegal, alien that she's hired. And then she voted against E-Verify, and now she's blaming it on Ryan Spoon and calling him basically a white supremacist. And anybody who's going after her, she kind of subtly, subtly implies that, the white supremacists are going after her because she says, I've been doing a lot of reading about white supremacist lately and, trying to play the victim when she's the one that hired, the illegal aliens, and her husband is saying they don't knowingly do that, but anyway, just little hypocritical and something that she's been, on, on the radar for doing for quite a while.

Yeah. I was just going to ask what your take is on this, but Julie and I were reading through. We had someone send us this piece. I was I had heard about this. It was sort of bouncing around on social media a few weeks ago. We never talked about it on the air, but somebody wanting to to call ice on on Stephanie Mickelson's family, you know, business and, and their farm and, I, you know, I, I look at this and here's, here's my take on it.

She kind of poked the bear. The last couple of legislative sessions, she has talked about illegals. She tried to race ify it. And last session she got into a little sparring moment with Heather Scott. The yeah watch it moment that Heather Scott had. Yeah. And so she, I think that she was drawing attention a little bit to the issue.

I will say I think Ryan Spoon's actions are somewhat inflammatory. However, if you're breaking the law, you probably shouldn't be doing anything that is flouting that, including. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. May I ask you a question? Yeah. I mean, yes, I agree with you. And you basically back to my question already. But if there is a tip line for drunk drivers, should I not call that tip line for drunk drivers because somebody might think I'm a little bit inflammatory?

Well, if you're flaunting the fact that on Facebook that I'm going to go out and drink and drive tonight because it's New Year's. Yeah, you damn right I'm going to call because my mom might be driving. And you better not, not apples to apples, I get it, but yeah, still, Yeah. You better not be poking the bear.

Yeah, I did, Julian. I had this and all that almost identical conversation about about this. Yeah, well, you two are pretty smart, so I like the fact that I'm on the same page as you. Well, thank you, I appreciate it. So a couple things about this article. And Neil and I went through this exercise over the commercial break.

So he already knows what I'm about to say. But I do feel bad if, if I'm going to subscribe or like give emotion to something here. I do feel bad that possibly this was scary for Stephanie Mickelson's workers. Yeah, it probably was scary when Ice agents showed up. Did it probably disrupt her business for a bit?

Yes. Did it cause some heartache for her? Yes. Okay, I can I can say all of those things and understand that that's how it was for Representative Mickelson. But I can also say that just because you feel uncomfortable about that doesn't mean the law shouldn't work the way the law works. Yeah. And if this tip line has been set up, which it has for decades, then it should be used.

I would hope that if in my neighborhood. So this was the example I gave Neil. If in my neighborhood, all of a sudden the house two doors down continues to have a steady stream of visitors showing up, they stay for they pull up to the curb. They stay for about a minute and a half. Somebody walks out, they chat at the window and that person walks back into the house.

And this is reoccurring all of the time. It's a pretty like, obvious thought process to think they're selling drugs from their home. Yeah, now they might be selling sourdough starter, I don't know, really popular sourdough, but they potentially could be selling drugs. And so who do I turn that over to? Do I take my gun over there and say, hey, tell me what you're doing in your house.

I don't I call the cops. Yeah. And I say, hey, this is happening. It's got me a little concerned while you guys check into it when you have a moment. Yeah. The ice tip line is no different than that. Well, this. I guess this is what I don't understand, because this this piece by Investigate West. There's some premises here that I'm going to challenge that they don't even really address that a visit by Ice is harassment.

Well, if you're if you're obeying the law, if ice shows up, that's not her. It's not harassment. If you are breaking law, either way, their job is to enforce immigration tax. It's in the name of their agency. We enforce immigration. I think it's Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Yes. Yeah. That's why they're called Ice. It's not intimidation and something it's immigration enforcement that's just their job.

So I don't think calling Ice is actually an act of intimidation because you're presumably if you're keeping the law, you have nothing to to worry about. Now, that being said, I will say, because and this is there's a lot of nuanced ways to look at this. Nobody would want the IRS showing up to audit your books, even if you've done everything that you've tried.

You know you've worked hard to be legal and to pay your taxes and to do all of that. It's still intimidating. If the IRS says we're going to conduct an audit, okay, no, nobody wants that. But I don't really fault Ice here because it is their job to to find out what is illegal. And the fact in fact, there's a quote here from Representative Mickelson.

She told Investigate West. I'm being way more cautious in the bills that I'm standing up against because I'm afraid of being targeted, which makes me a less effective legislator for my community right now. Now, I don't know how I feel about that because I want lawmakers with a backbone that are just standing up doing what's right no matter what, and not elevating their own personal comfort or concerns above the needs of their constituency.

She's been elected and hired to do the former, not the latter. Yes. What I would say if I if I had that candid moment one on one with Stephanie Mickelson, I would have said, don't give testimony on the floor that indicates that you're harboring illegals or that you're favorable to illegals or don't don't call your political opponents racist because they agree with the immigration laws of this country and want them enforced, which is what she did.

So she and we've used this metaphor, she kind of poked the bear in this. In this particular case, I think she should continue to support the bills that are representative of her constituency. I think she should be unafraid in doing that. But I think her approach may be in her public testimony and her words. She ought to she ought to be very careful about what she says, because I think it was almost an invitation at that point to have someone call and have them check up on her farm.

Yeah. And there's potential that that's what she was actually meaning there, that I can't even say what I really feel. Well, if what you really feel means that you're going to continue to break the law or you agree with other farmers or dairymen breaking the law, you're calling attention to yourself. If that's the way you're going to present it on the floor, I'm not sure that you should expect any different action than what has happened.

Yeah, yeah. Right, right. And I, I kind of feel like, I mean, I didn't take it personally because she wasn't talking about me, but I think there was this sense of last year when she said essentially accused racism of those who want our immigration laws enforced. I think that said, a lot of people off and and they're like, it's not racism.

It's adhering to the rule of law. We want immigrants here. The vast majority of people, I think there are some who are racist and they maybe they're white supremacists or white nationalists, whatever. That's a very fringy wing in my mind of the Republican Party. For me, I want immigrants here. Every color, every stripe. If they love America and love the ideals here, and they want to make a better life for themselves, come in legally and appropriately, and I'll welcome you with open arms.

I don't care about your race. I don't care about, you know, these other demographic checkmarks that we hyper focus on. I want you to come here, and I want you to thrive. And I want you to contribute to make our country better. But that's where I think most conservatives are when it comes to immigration. It was a very leftist tactic to reflexively accuse your political opponents of racism simply because they wanted better enforcement of our immigration laws under then President Joe Biden.

It was very concerning seeing these flood of immigrants come across the border. No concern for our our safety, no concern for our laws, no concern for the health and the welfare of our country. And and that that I think was what was most concerning. And it had nothing to do with racism. And to my knowledge, I don't think that represented Mickelson ever apologized for accusing her political opponents of being racist.

Yeah. So I've got two things to say about that. We we would be fools if we don't believe that people, get elected to positions, go over to the state Capitol and they do their best to take care of the profession that they came from. That happens. Yeah. Just happens. Okay. And it's not exclusive. Democrat or Republican. That's what happens at the state House.

So it's just important to know that hopefully they're still protecting all Idahoans and just not the Idahoans that are belonging to their specific occupation that they make money from. Yeah. Okay. So with that being said, I expect Stephanie Mickelson to go over there and protect farming. Yeah, she's going to I have no doubt about that. I would say, Representative Mickelson, one of the things that maybe hasn't turned out like you had hoped is the ability to work well with others at the Capitol.

Yeah, because if you had a stronger ability to do that, I think you could have created some partnerships with people and gotten some legislation passed that would a protect farming, agriculture, dairy in Idaho and be also comply with immigration laws. There was an opportunity there to create legislation. And that is not where we have gone with this. Yeah.

So and that's completely separate from this article and someone calling ice on or whatever. That's just my hopes for what would happen at the At the Capitol and in the legislative session, that we would have come to a better place where all citizens of Idaho could be protected. Plus those on visas and work permits are here and can have their jobs.

We didn't accomplish that. Yeah. No, no we didn't. And and I agree with you. I think lawmakers have their choice I think when they get elected. And and this is probably true of every session, you can walk into that session with a bottle of vinegar or a jar of honey. And maybe both and sometimes either one maybe what you need to use.

But hopefully you're going through more honey than you are vinegar because if you go through more vinegar than you are honey after a while you're, you're, you're burning bridges, you're creating toxicity. You're losing relationships. And when you lose those relationships, you lose your leverage to be able to get things done. To help the farming industry in Idaho? Yes.

And to adequately represent your constituents as well. Yeah. So I look, I don't I don't, I don't well, I'll be honest with you, Julie, I don't want a society where we are surveilling and sicking law enforcement on each other. I will say that. And to that end, I think I have a little sympathy for Representative Mickelson. Like I said, I feel bad that this happened and maybe I should reframe it.

I have sympathy for her family farm and the business and the people associated with it because they're they're kind of having to be disrupted by this, too. Having said that, I do think the law is important and none of us are legal all the time, that we all break the law. At some point we're we're all going to break the law.

I consistently on this spring break trip was going about 4 to 7mph over the speed limit. Okay, I will openly, but I'm out of Utah now so they can't do anything about it. So we're all we're all breaking the law. Nobody here is perfect. Okay. But and I don't want to create an environment where, oh I don't like you and I don't like what you're doing politically.

I'm going to call this law enforcement agency on you to make your life a little tougher. I don't want that world. I don't want to do it to my political enemies and opponents. I don't want them to do it to me. Okay? Because I don't I don't want that karma. But what I will ask is stop calling people who disagree with you racist, okay?

It's sowing the seeds of that kind of an environment when you assume that worst motive of other people, that's the world that you do create when when that happens. And it's why I took great exception to it when when it did happen. I don't I don't I don't want people to suffer. Even the people I don't like politically, the worst suffering I want them to have is to lose the next election.

That's what I hope, and get replaced by somebody who I, I think could be a better representative. That's the I don't want them to even feel that misery, but that's the worst that I hope that they, they experience. So it's, it's a, it's a complicated situation. But it's understandable when you actually trace it back of all the inputs that led to it.

Yeah. And you just said the worst is that that you hope for is that they lose their election. The best that I hope for is you won the election. So give us two good years. Yeah. Go over to the Capitol and work hard and do do things that are beneficial to the people you serve. Yeah. And having a fight on the floor where Representative Scott has to bounce back at you and say, yeah, watch it.

I don't like any of it. Yeah, you. That is not good lawmaking. No, no it's not. Yeah I know it's it is terrible lawmaking and I you know, you just hope for better. I do feel like overall this session was a lot more even tempered than we've seen in previous sessions. We had a few little flare ups, but there have been in the last 5 to 10 years we've had some doozies.

Yeah, it does seem better this year. It does. And I would also say everything that you said about the worst that you hope for Representative Mickelson or anybody else, if they're caught in this situation, the worse is that if it's better for Idaho, have them replaced in their position. Yeah. Okay. I, I agree with that. I also will always say when you take the job as a representative or a senator on the state level, people in Idaho have all right to examine what you're doing in your job.

Yes. So if somebody is critical of the way that you're drafting legislation or the way that you voted on a bill, you don't get to claim that you're bullied or that my life is hard or that's not how this works. You serve at the will of the people. You've you've chosen one of the most public professions, and it is deserving of critique.

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Yeah. Right. Right. That is it's Neil is making fun of me for eating hummus. I had roasted peanut hummus. Not last night, but the night before, with many cucumbers cut into strips for my dipping. It was so good.

I'm an anti hummus snob.

Hey, if you can shame me for eating a Bahama mama at Maverick, then I can shame you for eating hummus. Sure. No, just stop there. Okay? You. I know you were about to say something else. Like, I know you were I. Okay, Brad says hummus sounds so hoity toity. I buy my hummus at Walmart. There is no hoity toity involved in it.

I that may be true. That may be true. But there are hoity toity foods. Oh, what would you say is a hoity toity food? Oh, I think kale is a hoity toity food. Okay, but also, you can buy kale at Walmart. They you can also make hummus at home. I just haven't tried yet. Okay. Let me.

I have to. This is my standard. If you're eating something that you secretly don't actually enjoy, but you eat it to project a version of yourself to the rest of the world. I don't respect that. And I. That's not you. You really do like hummus. I think it's so good. Yeah. And I, I, I like, well, for instance, I would never eat ranch dressing secretly hate it.

But I want everybody to think I like ranch. Yeah, yeah. Like I just like it, you know. And so but I do think that there are people who will eat these, foods that are of, like, kale. Nobody likes good social value, I promise you. Nobody actually likes kale. It's pretty bitter. Yes. Nobody likes kale. Yeah, but they like this.

Their perceived social benefit for eating, for doing it. Yeah. Okay. All right. To 936 and Newstalk 10792085421079. If you'd like to reach us on the program this morning it's the stones Automotive Group call and text line. Julie, I have a theory. How many times do you think we've had the hummus conversation? Oh, I have dozens. Yes, dozens and dozens.

Yes, many times. So I do tease Julie because, she likes hummus. And my my theory about this is that there's a certain classification of foods. That way, more people pretend to like than actually like. And I just told you to our Facebook audience. And to you, I have a theory that absolutely nobody likes kale. No, nobody actually likes it.

But what they like is the perceived social benefit of eating kale. Oh, look how healthy I am. Oh, look, I, I can endure the nasty, bitter, blah blah. It's a superfood. Yeah, it's a superfood, but nobody actually likes it. And and quite frankly, do you know what I heard that kale is actually it. It's not healthy because it grabs on to heavy metals.

Oh, and I need to. I need to look it up. I don't want to slander kale right here, but, Anyway, nobody actually likes kale. Nobody. So I don't want to slander kale. I know I I'm afraid of kale's attorney if I say the wrong thing here, but I don't think anybody actually likes kale. And I think that there are certain fashion brands to like people and fashion styles and that that people do it because they don't personally have an affinity for it, but they think it's going to benefit them to the larger group socially.

So they they do it. Yeah. And yeah, I think that people do that. They social drink even though they don't like to drink. They. Yeah. I think it happens in all in all aspects. It wouldn't it be nice if people were just more genuine to what they really feel and, and we're happy about it. Yeah. Yeah, that would be nice.

Like, just eat the Cool Ranch Doritos. Everybody knows they're really good. Which is better? Cool ranch or nacho cheese? Oh, that's a mood thing. But I would say most of the time nacho cheese. And but once in a while, you just have a I like cool ranch, too. I would prefer Nacho cheese most of the time, but I do like Cool Ranch.

Yeah. Yeah. Any you know what I really like the spicy the sweet chili. Spicy Doritos. If you had those. Holy crap. I don't need to burn my insides. Yeah, but it's nice. You might think they're pretty hot there. On like a flaming hot scale. They're not that hot. Okay. But they're. I think you'd actually like it.

I might, I might like it. I guess what I found was that I haven't brought in yet. I should bring them tomorrow. What? We'll do them during Facebook Live tomorrow. Okay? Okay. But you're probably not going to do it with me, because. Is it the fish crackers I found the beer. The, butter beer, graham crackers. Okay. And the Milano coconut cookies.

Oh, you did find those? I found those I have tried three stores, not target, which is where it said they were. Yeah, to get the Post Malone Oreos. I have yet to see them. Yeah, but I did Walmart, Albertsons and WinCo and did not see the post Malone Oreos. But have we found the dill flavored? And I looked for those in those three places.

Also, I didn't find them okay, because I went on a big road trip. I'm like, I'm having road trip snacks. I didn't find them either, but I found some franks hot sauce flavored goldfish crackers. Oh, good. Yeah, yeah, I really like goldfish crackers. And I think the butter beer ones are good, so I'll bring those in with the Milano ones.

We couldn't find that. I couldn't find the Post Malone and I couldn't find the dill pickle. I won't eat a bunch, but I'll try them so we can at least taste test it. Yeah. So of the whole list that we gave, it was the Post Malone Oreos. I really wanted to try. Yeah, I'd have to try that. I'm not that big of an Oreo fan, but those just sounded amazing.

Yeah, they did, they did. Do you dunk them in milk? Well, you can do whatever if I find them. Oh no, I don't. Yeah. See is that a health choice or is that a preference choice. It's just that I don't like milk that much. I'm just not that big of a fan of milk. Okay, I, I have scheduled an appointment with a counselor for you.

We're going to talk about your affinity for hummus and your non affinity for milk. Okay. We're going to get through this. All right. We'll get through it together okay. Like I'll I'll help you through this. So okay. And by the end you'll be chugging milk and you'll toss the hummus in the trash. Yeah, I don't think so. But we'll give it a shout out to work out.

So tomorrow. Beer battered like Harry Potter. Ground crackers. Yeah. And coconut Milano cookies. Yeah. Okay. Would you drink hummus flavored milk? Oh that's disgusting. Which is exactly you're exactly. We're making progress. This is progress. Did you. We're. But we're moving forward. Baby steps, baby steps. You're so gross. We'll be right back. 942. Yeah. That was that was funny.

You should grab that. I didn't start the recording again. I keep forgetting I recorded all morning until this hour because I stop it. Yeah. When I start Facebook and then I always forget to click it. That's okay.

There are many acquired tastes in this world, but people who say they like kale, they're just liars. Tiffany, I found the Milano's at Albertson's and the, I well know, maybe the Milano's were Walmart, the beer battered goldfish or the butter beer Graham goldfish crackers were Albertsons, for sure. So. But I think the Milano sword. Albertsons too.

So someone says Sam's Club has the Post Malone cookies. Oh, really? Haven't been a Sam's Club for a hot minute. We don't we don't have a Sam's. We don't go. Well, Costco's less than a mile from our house. I really wanted to find the dill pickle crisps for you because I knew you would love them, but I just thought they were nowhere.

They've got a couple of other flavors of crisps out Nat right now too, and at WinCo, those were available off the top of my head. I don't remember what they were, but none of the dill pickle ones. Oh yeah, I don't know. They're either so popular or we just don't have them here. Yeah. Somebody's first time texters talking about listening to the podcast.

Oh, yeah, I saw this about abuse or something. Yeah, I didn't try Fred Meyer. I haven't been to Fred. We recorded that episode because that was the episode that played on Friday. Neal left on Thursday, so we were here at the studio Wednesday evening, and that's when we recorded that food segment. And so I haven't been to Fred Meyer in the last six days.

But they might have the Post Malone Oreos, you know, I don't know. Okay. So can we go back to this Investigate West story for a minute? According to Investigate West, when is it okay to use the tip line? If it's been in place for decades? Because every character ization is. Oh, it's bullying. Harassment. Yeah. I agree with you.

I don't think that question is answered at all. It's as if you're a bad person. If you use something that's been set up. Yeah. Here's the reason to use it. Is there a chance that these people that are being employed, not necessarily by Representative Mikkelson, but just say any agricultural industry, they're harmful to the community, like are they potentially some rough dudes and you're nervous.

That's why I would use the ice line. That's why I would use it. I it's the same reason the the reason I gave the example of if my neighbor consistently had people pulling up to the curb, I'm going to be concerned about the kids in the neighborhood, the people on my street, the riff raff that it's bringing in.

Yeah. And so that's why I'm going to call the cops. I'm probably not going to call the cops on my neighbor smoking weed in their backyard. Yeah, it is against the law, but it's not hurting me. Well, and and if you're not spreading the the good cheer to everybody else throughout the neighborhood from your front curb. Yeah.

Okay. Do you, do you. Whatever. I think for me, you call those numbers when there's potential harm or to children. Yeah. Yeah. So in this particular case, apply that to this Mikkelson angle. You know, I don't know if Ryan thought that they were harmful if he was just getting retribution. I don't know, it's probably retribution for her remarks, not my gig.

But yeah, I can understand the purpose behind it. I just don't appreciate it. But if Mikkelson Farms had somebody that my 16 year old daughter said their son forcibly was harming a girl at the school, and the dad works at Mikkelson Farms, I'm going to call ice. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah, for sure. All right. 947 on Newstalk 179, if you'd like to join us.

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It is. We share Wednesday. So this is a super fun episode. We have our software engineer who's now our digital director. He came to us as a software engineer, transferred into our digital director. He takes care of our all of our digital products, our websites, things like that. His name is David Pruitt. We so appreciate him. And and we've interviewed other members of Sand Hill and we share Neil Larsen has an episode out there.

He was on the podcast. So were some of the other deejays or talent in the building. But David's on the other side of the building and we thought we'd bring him in. Had no idea how interesting the podcast would be. He's a professional balloon artist, worked at Disneyland for more than three years as a balloon artist. Okay, he has an interesting story of becoming a professional balloon artist when he was 12.

Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah, all of that. Plus then his transition into Idaho, he also made a deal with God in order to advance his life. And there's super interesting part of the story there. So we share, Wednesday, that podcast will be out probably about noon today. It's David Pruitt, our digital director. Okay. Very cool. Wherever podcasts are found.

Right. Yep. Yep. Yeah. Okay. (208) 542-1079. If you'd like to join us on the program this morning. Lauren Boebert I want to play this. This felt a little awkward, but, listen to this. I would caution my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to refrain from making fun of the Gulf of America, because next up, you know, may end up be the District of America that we're working on.

So, just, you know, keep keep the jokes at bay. And, you know, maybe we'll just stick with the Gulf of America for now. I think she was aiming for a laugh line and it didn't quite land. Right. So for those who didn't quite understand it, what she's hoping is that they'll rename the District of Columbia.

So DC to District of America and maybe they should back off on Trump renaming the Gulf because she'll push the issue. Are there still Democrats butthurt over that? I mean Google moved on. Apple maps moved on, like all the maps now digitally say Gulf of America. I don't know, but you know what? I was thinking about something the other day about this.

I didn't bring it up. We were in the middle of a segment. I didn't bring it up because we had moved on. But please go back in the time machine with me to the summer of 2020, when there was a movement in the Seattle area that they took over several blocks and they renamed that entire area Chaz. That's true.

And I was expected to accept that because this was their incursion, their movement to create a safe place for them that imploded because they killed each other. There was a death inside Chaz when there was no law enforcement available. And that happened within days. So but why is it okay that they take a whole group of streets in Seattle and rename it?

Chaz and I have to accept it. But when the president renames a body of water, it's completely outrageous. So Chaz stood for something. Something autonomous zone. I can't remember. I don't remember either. Complete hippie autonomous zone. I think that's what it, I don't I don't remember what it was, but they could have been childish hooligans. Autonomous zone.

That's what I thought it was. But, you know, that's true. Yeah. Something autonomous zone, consuming hash, autonomous zone. That would work. So. But your point is well-taken. And I think even the media was respect, respectful calling it Chaz like, out of deference for them. But man, if if Trump says, we're just going to call it the Gulf of America now, there's resistance.

Yeah. It's like a so weird. Yeah, they're a bunch of hooligans. Hash smokin hooligans. Yeah. Can rename several streets in Seattle. That's all good. Yeah, right. But the duly elected president. No way. No go. Did we ever. I know Michael Coates weighed in on this. On how place names are officially designated. The. What he said is that that group of people meet a couple of times a year, and that they'll probably take it up the next time they meet.

In the meantime, he can call it whatever he wants to call it. Yeah, he's not breaking a law by calling at Gulf of America. Is AP still a hold out, are they? I don't know, doubling down. Apparently they they showed up at the white House anyway. They're not they've been disinvited from the white House press room, but they keep showing up.

Okay. Do they have a seat or are they. Are they standing outside? They're probably standing outside with the you know, they're the ones getting the quote from the parking lot attendant. That's probably true. Official near the white House. Yeah, you're probably right about that. Officials close to the white. Technically speaking, the parking lot attendant is close to the white House.

Yeah. No I just yeah it's funny I it's sad how reflexive the opposition is. Yeah I it's 953. We're going to break really quick. We'll come back, we'll wrap up the hour after this on this Wednesday on Newstalk 109. Okay guys are you more texts coming in. Just letting him read them. Yeah. Michael did weigh in.

He said it will still be called the Gulf of Mexico by every other country. It's not officially recognized. So Mexico can call it the Gulf of Mexico. Brazil can call it the Gulf of Mexico. America is just going to refer a tow to something different. Okay, you know what? If they won't call it the Gulf of America, I think we should invade them.

I like. Oh, we're on here. Oh.

Oops. You know, what I love about that is, while you're gone, I did the same thing. But the only thing that went over air was. Okay. I said the word okay. So let's see. The guy that's been in radio 30 plus years still does it every once in a while. It's a muscle memory thing, like I. Yeah. So.

What's what's he.

I need to issue a clarification that I don't really think we need to invade countries that don't got the. Okay. That's for good. Yeah. That's great. Okay. Good times. I was just for, our little group.

Looks. Oh, great. Says Rosetta Stone has a deal on a lifetime subscription right now for $200. I really believe if you spent two months on Rosetta Stone, you would be fluent in Spanish, I totally believe. Do you think so? Oh, totally believe that.

All right, I got an issue. Correction, clarification, apology, if necessary. I don't really believe that. If other countries will not start calling the Gulf of America the Gulf of America, that we should, that we should invade them, I don't that's not what I believe. Okay, so it was a funny joke, though. It was a funny joke.

Yes it was. It was intended for our Facebook Live audience. And it bled over the air, though. So anyway, just the blatant way we talk a little bit. Yeah, yeah, that's what you're missing out on, on Facebook Live. All right, everyone, we'll see it tomorrow right here on Newstalk 179. Clay. And back up next.