3.28.2025 -- NLS -- Signal App Frenzy, Andrea Alonso Sings

On this episode with Neal and Julie, they discuss a variety of hot topics, including the controversy surrounding the Signal app and how media narratives shape public perception. They also touch on political shifts, legislative debates in Idaho, and cultural tensions over public exposure laws. Special musical guests Andrea Alonso, Cassie Sanders from Noteworthy, and Josh Thorne from Vocal Point join the conversation, with Andrea performing Traveling Soldier and a preview of Noteworthy and Vocal Point's upcoming concert in Idaho Falls. Plus, Neal and Julie dive into grilling must-haves, local events, and how social media habits are evolving. Tune in for stimulating talk and engaging discussions on Newstalk 179! 

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We got ourselves in this mess because we weren't bold enough to stand up and say, you damn right we're proud of these policies. We're gonna put them in and we're gonna execute them. And so look out! They better cut it out because we are coming after you. And at my direction. There will be no negotiating on these people.

Now, please. Seeking 20 years in prison. And I bet you the people in that room have much more viewers and CNN and the legacy media just saying, we're proud to welcome them to the white House. The hips go swish, swish swish. The shoulders go shimmy shimmy shimmy. That's repulsive. Eat. Why yes, Marjory. Yes it is. Good morning. Happy Friday.

Welcome everyone. We have a big day for you here. Studio four covers a half an hour from right now. And we have been on a tear with a great stretch of great studio covers and my expectations are no less for this morning. We're going to have Andrea Alonso, maybe Andrea Alonso joining us to perform traveling soldiered and always excited for that.

Also, we have a lot of politics to talk about. And interesting, really interesting stuff on the Doge level. I believe we're probably in the very last week of the Idaho legislative session. We had Wendy Horman on last hour represent. And I feel like I need to apologize to Representative Horman for just a moment. Prior to the interview, I thanked her for coming on, and she mentioned she's like, I'm actually skipping a meeting to be here.

But she made it very clear it was an informal meeting before a meeting where they just kind of preliminarily go before the numbers and then it right at the end of the interview, I'm like, we're flattered that you skipped a meeting. Well, I think that might have put her in a in a you know, how people lose their minds over every little thing.

She wasn't skipping anything formal or or, critical to be on the radio. On on this morning. It was more a kind of a perfunctory, informal thing that that she was. So I just want to retroactively apologize for for maybe insinuating something that just wasn't accurate. We also have lots of, outbursts. I, I'm going to be honest with you, this signal gate controversy is is wearing on me.

It's. I'm having the macaroni and cheese effect. And this goes back to my childhood, where the very first 1 or 2 bites of mac and cheese were great. They were fine. They tasted delicious and cheesy and savory and all of that. But by about, you know, 8 or 10 bites and you're lying on real Nina. Nina, macaroni and cheese is not great anymore.

I'm getting signal fatigue because anyone who looks at this closely realizes this is a problem. It needs to be addressed. The issue needs to be fixed, but the complete and utter hair on fire mode that the media is in, I'm rebelling against it. This is not entirely unlike January 6th. In fact, they should compare this to January 6th.

No, they should compare it to 911. I think the signal app breach is as bad as 911. That's what they ought to compare it to. I don't I just had a conversation with a coworker about using Facebook and he said he's hardly not on Facebook anymore just because it's gotten so political and so blah. And I'm like, I get it.

And I have noticed I'm still on Facebook. We kind of have to be for our job, and I still check in, but I only post stuff like a day or two ago, I posted a picture of the chicken breasts that I was grilling. It's the first cookout that we've had in this year. Weather was beautiful night before last, and, my wife had marinated some chicken and she said, Will you grill this chicken?

I'm like, you bet I will. So my ritual is to grab a cold soda from the fridge. Diet soda, go outside, put on a few tunes, and for the next few minutes, I'm. I'm grilling the meat to take care of my family. And I love that. I love that little ritual that makes me happy. Anyway, I posted a picture of the because I.

I'm still in 2009 Facebook mode where everybody puts up pictures of their food, but for me it was more an opportunity to put a caption which was grill, baby grill, which is sort of a playful reference to what's happening in the news cycle. That's what I use Facebook for. But I've noticed my use has dropped dramatically because I think people are getting honestly tired of the nonsense and the little bit of time that I was on Facebook the last couple of days.

Somebody was on there expressing while clutching their pearls how big of a breach this was. I don't want any of that. I do not want people that looked the other way for four years, while our president had dementia, to talk about using a signal app through which there was no classified information divulged. Sensitive? Yes. Mistake? Yes. Shouldn't have happened?

Yes. But they are acting like this is the biggest threat to our nation's security in decades. And I just can't do it anymore. I can't make space for their manufactured outrage. And what's sad is the secondary outrage that comes from people who just will buy into the mood. So yeah, that's that's me. And and so again, in my effort to put everything in its rightful perspective, I feel like to counterbalance the the hair on fire crowd.

I have to say this is a nothing burger. Now, it wasn't a nothing burger, but it if I'm going to counterbalance their outrage, then maybe I maybe we could average it out. I say it's a nothing burger. You say it's the worst thing since 911. Nobody's actually said that. But they're acting like that. And, maybe we'll, average that out and find, something close to, to accurate.

So, we, we have some of that. But Tim Walz continues to be Tim Walz, that our strength is our diversity. We've been talking about this for years as a country of immigrants, and we let them define the issue on immigration. We let them define the issue. And and I, the I and we let them define what woke wokeness.

We got ourselves in this mess because we weren't bold enough to stand up and say, you damn right we're proud of these policies. We're gonna put them in and we're going to execute them. Okay, I am pulling my wallet out right now to donate to Tim Walz presidential campaign, and I encourage everyone else to do the same. This message is guaranteed.

In fact, I would say that message right there, if you will donate a dollar to amplify it, that's a dollar better spent than on any Republican you could donate to. Now, in case there's an FEC issue here, I'm not actually suggesting you make a donation. I don't want to get in trouble with any kind of a federal agency here.

But what I am saying is, Tim, keep it up. I will say in candor, I think Tim is overestimating the portion of the country still suffering from Stockholm syndrome that the Democrats have created for them. There's way too many of us now, and I think for a while, I think for a while it felt pretty good to just be beat over the head because you're white or wealthy or to be, told that you if you don't think that, you know, we should have, trans gender ideology stuffed down our children's minds in third grade, that you're somehow a bigot, that grooming children is okay, and it's the enlightened position.

Like, I, I don't believe that we, are, Yeah, I don't I don't believe. Sorry. I had to communicate with someone through the window, but I don't think that we are, in a situation where, they should be telling us what to do. However, let them. Let them keep going. This absolutely destroyed their party. And it paved the way for an historic and triumphant return of Donald Trump to the white House.

In fact, if I were JD Vance or Ron DeSantis, those two, I would say right now, if there are 20, 28 frontrunners and it's probably premature to talk, about that, if we were to do that, then, then I, they probably should say, don't donate to me, donate to Tim, and let's get his message out there and let him carry the banner for the Democrat Party, because that that would be a, that would be a funny, funny tweet that way.

You know what? If I were Ron DeSantis as social media manager right now, that's exactly what I would tweet out for him encouraging people to donate to Tim Walz. So you have that. We also have on the Doge front, and I know I say Doge and some people, but suddenly their hair was on fire over the signal app.

They shift why their hair is on fire to Elon Musk and Doge. Listen to this. Brett Bear asked Elon Musk and some of his Doge, employees what was the most astonishing discovery for you? What's the most astonishing thing you've found out in this process? The sheer amount of waste and fraud in the government. It is astonishing.

It's mind blowing. Just, we routinely encounter wastes of, $1 billion or more casually, you know, for example, like the some of the simple survey, that was, literally ten questions survey that you could do with Survey Monkey cost about $10,000. Was a the government was being charged almost $1 billion for that with just the survey, $1 billion for a simple online survey.

Do you like the national park? And then there appeared to be no feedback loop for what would be done with that survey. So let's we were just go to nothing but, yes, a billion, $1 billion for a $10,000 SurveyMonkey. Now, they didn't pay SurveyMonkey that much. If they wanted to accomplish the same thing, they could have spent ten grand with SurveyMonkey and gotten the same results.

So now I think there's a temptation initially to look at this and say, well, this is incompetence. No, it's not it's not incompetence. I promise you, this is not incompetence. Somebody's got the money, somebody's cashing the checks, and somebody's getting a benefit from it. And they if you're the guy and I've got another example of this and I'll, I'll share this with you.

It had a sort of a reaction video with John Stewart. And you're going to find this fascinating. But you you have a situation. Sorry. I got people messaging me left and right. I've got to turn everything off. So you have the issue of $1 billion going toward a service they could have gotten for $10,000. I have long said that the federal government, as Doge is uncovering all of this.

It appears to be a big money laundering scheme. And I'm not alone in that sentiment. You even have elected members of Congress saying it looks like it. It's functioning like a money laundering scheme. What are you are you going to be that surprised if they follow the money, they follow the books and the money trail here. And they find that these dollars went to firms with employees that make generous donations to the Democrat Party.

Will anyone be surprised by that? I had a memory surface as I read through. All right. Excuse me. As I heard Elon Musk talking about this morning, do you remember back when Obamacare got passed 2010, I believe, and then in the next couple of years, they spent gazillions of dollars to build the website. Massive amounts of money. It feels the same that by then you had web development technology that was in place to make the federal exchange happen, and the federal government spent far more than was needed, and it didn't even work once they got it done unrolled, which maybe there was an incentive to have it not work.

So that could justify continued spending to, quote unquote, fix it. Well, that's how this stuff works. And this is why Elon Musk and Doge is so important. I take you to an Ezra Klein interview. Jon Stewart recently spoke to Ezra Klein, who's a liberal. He writes for The New York Times and he talked about what, red tape, governmental red tape is involved in implementing the plan for installing rural broadband.

And he suggests that Joe Biden and the Democrats thought this was a winning idea, because the issue polled very well. And rural broadband is a thing that is actually needed in the country. The funny thing about the video is Jon Stewart losing his mind in real time. Now, I'm not going to play it for you because there is an F-bomb in there.

It is Jon Stewart after all. Ezra Klein said we have to issue the notice funding opportunity within 180 days. That's step one. Step two states who want to participate must submit a letter of intent. After they do that, they can submit a request for up to $5 million in planning grants. Then the NTIA step four has to review and approve an award again.

States who want to participate must submit that letter of intent. Step three they can request up to $5 million in planning grants. Just planning, just planning. The requests are reviewed, approved, and awarded by the NTIA. States must submit a five year action plan. All 56 had passed through. At least step five took more than three years. It took more than three years.

Then the FCC must publish the broadband data maps before NTIA allocates funds. So having done the no vote so the letters of intent, the requests for planning grants, then the review approval and awarding the planning grants, then the five year action plans in between that, the federal government has to put forward a map saying there it thinks we need rural broadband subsidies.

And then, of course, these states need an opportunity to challenge the map for accuracy. Step seven. Then the anyway, it goes on and on. And Jon Stewart finally said, but then what was the five year plan and what the did they apply for? And Ezra Klein said step nine NTIA must review and approve each state's again, initial proposal.

By my read, we have had at least two initial proposals here, but that's a different issue. Step ten states must publish their own map and allow internal challenges to their own map. You know what? Again, this is I go back. This is the same thing as the survey monkey versus the government's billion dollar survey. This isn't incompetence. This is job security.

This is creating complex processes. So these employees in these agencies get to keep working more hoops to jump through, more months of being employed, more years of being employed. And I thought about this. Now, maybe there's a conflict of interest here, but, you know, in the interim of these over these five years, and keep in mind, tech moves super fast.

And in this amount of time, we have Starlink that reaches a big portion of the country and all of these things that they are creating now, they're problems with it. I'm not saying it's perfect, and I'm not saying there is 100, 100% uptime, but it's getting better and better all the time. But you could solve a big portion and chunk of this problem without all of these billions of dollars and red tape and bureaucracy and all.

How cumbersome all of this is with solutions that are already in place. All right. We're going to break it's 826 on Newstalk 179. I'll be back for a quick segment then in just about ten minutes, it's our studio four cover with Andre Alonzo performing Traveling Soldier this morning.

At 830 on this Friday on Newstalk 179, let's talk about grilling. I just told a story about grilling. And you need a barbecue grill. You need propane. You need all the utensils, obviously people to eat whatever you're going to grill. And then of course you need the meat and at, Grand Peak's Prime Meats, you'll find everything you want.

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There's also a lot of sous vide, crockpot ready meals that you can have. In fact, I don't know how I missed this, but my wife told me last night that they have hot wings and I said, oh yeah, so I'll be trying those. I'll let you know how good those are. But if you go to Prime meats.com, look around at their packages and their specials and see what they have to to offer, you're gonna find something that you, will love to put in your freezer.

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It's 839 now on Newstalk 1079. It's a Neil Larsen, usually Julie Mason, but she's, out of town this weekend. But that's not going to stop us from having our studio for cover this morning. Andrea Alonso joins us in studio. Andrea, welcome to our studio. How are you? Good. Thanks for having me. Well, we're super excited to have you in this morning.

Tell us a little bit about yourself and your band out west. Yes. So, you know, I've been singing and writing ever since I was a really little girl. Ever since I could remember, and recently got a band together, probably like last October. So it's been a couple months. And, yeah, we've been gigging all over Idaho Falls, Blackfoot, just eastern Idaho area.

Looking forward to some more gigs coming up here in the summer. We have a gig coming up, next weekend at Roadhouse Saloon. So April 4th and fifth. And then, yeah, we're going to take a little break because I'm headed off to Nashville for three months. Oh, so yeah, I'm going to go write record. So chasing the dream.

Chasing the dream. That's well, good for you. That's. Yeah. That's great. You're very serious about this. I'm pretty serious. I mean, I'm just doing my best and just trying to make Idaho Falls proud, so. Yeah. Well. Well, good. Well, we're, super excited to have you and tell us a little bit about the kind of music you perform with your band.

So we, predominantly play country music. We like to sing classic new, and then we throw in some original songs in there, too. But, yeah, mainly country music. I grew up not really liking country music, which is kind of crazy. Yeah. But then just a couple of years ago, I just found a love for it. And. Yeah, just something about the storytelling of it I just really loved.

And so. Yeah. Do you have a cowboy hat and boots yet? Oh, yeah. I have too many boots, actually. Someone say that's relative, but you're you're. Yeah. That's that that's great. So, social media, where can people find you? A lot of times our audience hears great performers and they're like, I got to get more of that. Yeah.

So I am on Instagram at Andre, Jay Alonzo. And then I also have a Facebook Andre Alonzo, I'm on YouTube. Andre Alonzo. I'm also on streaming platforms. If you listen to like, Spotify or Apple Music, you can also find my music, my personal original music on there. Yeah. Okay. Well, we're going to take a really quick break, but we will come back and, we're looking forward to you performing Traveling Soldier for us.

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Email us at health at Ida dot net or call (208) 542-0015 842. Now on Newstalk 107 nine and it it is now time we're going to do it. Studio covers. Studio four covers. I should say. Andrea Alonzo, you've chosen Traveling Soldier, made popular by the Dixie chicks, but I understand there was an earlier version. Is that right? I I'm not really sure.

Be honest. No, that's a that's fine. Yeah, but I know that their name changed. I don't know if that's the chicks. That's right. Yeah. They did change from the chicks. So Andre Alonzo, traveling soldier.

Two days past 18, he was laying on a bus. His army green sat down in a cafe. There and gave his order to the girl with a bow in her hair. He's a little shy, so she gave him a smile and said, would you mind sitting down for a while and talking to me? I'm feeling a little, oh, she said, I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go.

So they went down and he sat on a pier. He said, I bet you got a boyfriend, but I don't care cause I've got no one to send a letter to. Would you mind if I send one back here? Do you, cry? Never gonna hold the hand of another guy to me, young man. They told her, waiting for the love of a traveling soldier.

Our love will never end. Waiting for the soldier to come back again. Never more to be alone. When a letter says A soldier's coming home.

So the letters came from an army camp from California, then Vietnam. And he told her this hard. This might be love and all of the things he was so scared of, said one skin and kind of rough over here. I sit and think about that day on the pier and I close my eyes. I see your pretty smile, don't worry.

But I won't be able to write for a while. Cry. Never gonna hold the hand of another guy till the end for him. They told her, waiting for the love. Travelin soldier. Our love will never end. Waiting for the soldiers to come back again. Never more to be alone. When the letter says soldier's coming home.

One Friday night at a football game. The Lord's Prayer said the anthem. Sang him and said. Folks, would you buy your hair for a listen? The local Vietnam did.

Crying alone. Underneath the stands was a piccolo player in a marching band, and one name read the nobody really cared said that pretty little girl. The ball in her hair. Yeah, cry. Never gonna hold the hand of another guy. Too young for him. They told her. Waiting for the love of a traveling soldier. Our love will never end.

Waiting for the soldier to come back again. Never more to be alone. When a letter says the soldier's coming home to.

When a letter says the soldier's coming home.

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It's sate 51 on Newstalk 179. It's Friday morning and if you'd like to join me. (208) 542-1079. Again, big thanks to Andrea Alonso for her great performance, a traveling soldier and we will post the video of her performance a little bit later on social media. I know many of you like to to catch those, so, we have a lot we have not gotten to and we want to share with you.

This was very interesting. I don't know if you caught this and let me issue a bit of a warning here. This is about signal gate, but CBS news sat down with Jeffrey Goldberg and had this conversation. I'd love to know your take on this. One of the other interesting elements of this is the National Security Advisor is now saying he never knew you wouldn't have been able to pick you out of a police lineup.

Had you ever met Mike Wallace before? I'm not going to comment on my relationship with Mike Wallace. I'm just not going to comment on it. What, so you have Mike Wallace, who's saying that? Well, I don't I don't know, the guy never met him, never talked to him. So they ask, are they talked to the guy? The Atlantic journalist.

And he says, I'm not going to comment on my relationship with him. So now we have a controversy and a mystery. And this CBS reporter had a follow up. Someone watching might find that suspicious. But as a reporter, you're potentially not commenting on someone who may or may not have been I, I'm just not going to comment on my relationship with Mike.

Well, you've seen photos of the surfaced today of you two at an event several years ago standing next to each other, which suggests you've met before. I mean, the photos are, I mean, if your eyeballs see us together, then I guess your eyeballs are seeing us together. What was that? Okay, I'll tell you. I've never even heard this guy talk before.

But the way he's been characterized by the Trump administration, that he's dishonest, that he's sort of a political hack, that. Is that completely the vibe that I got after watching this video? So weird answer. But I do think now there's some different possibilities as to why he's answering this way. I think there's a possibility that he he doesn't even know Mike Wallace at all.

It's weird that it was Mike Wallace that invited him and had the contact info to bring him into the signal conversation, but, a it also is very possible that, you know, maybe he had a batch of contacts that were shared with him, but this journalist might say, I'm going to make things even more complicated for, for the Trump administration and for Mike Wallace by saying, I'm not going to comment on my relationship with Mike Wallace.

There may be nothing they they have stood next to each other. And like I said, I think there is a potential for much more to be told here. So it's it's a bit of intrigue that will hopefully we'll we'll figure it out. I know that there's probably an awful lot of pressure for Mike Wallace to just eat whatever is not known.

That should be known for him to make it known. If he did actually know this reporter, how did that contact get on his phone? Because you've got Pete Hegseth taking a lot of heat. You have the Trump administration and Trump himself taking a lot of heat for this. And quite frankly, it does give some ammo to a very corrupt media that will take a situation like this and not just exaggerate it, but completely, completely blow it out of, out of proportion.

So yeah, that's the latest twist and turn. And like I said, I wanted to limit and and meter out our, our coverage of the signal controversy today. We we also have this. You notice that, a lot of people are going around and they're well, they say vandalizing, but when there's bombs, it feels like terrorizing. So Pam Bondi was on Fox News, I believe, and she made it very clear we're not going to be doing play agreements.

If we can put you away for 20 years, we're going to put you away for 20 years. It's happening, with this Las Vegas Tesla, criminal who he was arrested and now federal charges have been filed against him. This was this was something that was needed, given everything we're seeing happening to those dealerships and those cars across the country.

That was remarkable. Police were working with the state police, our FBI. They have been going nonstop on this case. This guy is in custody, Laura. He is facing five year minimum mandatory two, 20 years in prison. And this was great police work. This guy thought he got away with it. So these people better look out. They better cut it out because we are coming after you.

And at my direction. There will be no negotiating on these people now are seeking 20 years in prison. They are setting off bombs. The huge fires. Look what you're seeing. Huge, massive fires in residential neighborhoods just going to get killed. Someone is going to get killed. A citizen is going to get killed. And these people, we are not doing any plea negotiations on them.

Well, we better cut it out. We have, some information about the groups that he belonged to. This individual. Let's watch. But a preliminary assessment of the suspect's social media activity indicates some very loose but self-proclaimed ties to the Communist Party. USA social media group, as well as social media groups called Revolutionary Communist International, Hidden Palestine, Palestine Action and a variety of other social media groups.

I mean, this is like a cliche, a very left wing communist socialist Hamas. Right. We are looking at in all of these cases, every aspect, every we are not going to leave a stone unturned. So the okay, now I will say this, Pam Bondi, I appreciate that you're not going to be negotiating with these terrorists. I hope that while you're not negotiate, you are curating the Epstein list.

Just saying. All right. We're going to break away our two. Coming up on Newstalk 117, we're going to do a quick check in with Noteworthy and Vocal Point. They're performing tomorrow night at Frontier Center. We'll chat with them for a bit, coming up in the next hour. We'll also take your phone calls as well right here on Newstalk 107.

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I'm hearing. I don't know if it's a consensus, but rumblings that maybe Tuesday or Wednesday of this coming week. Meanwhile, there are a number of bills that have been passed in some cases overwhelmingly in one chamber. More often than not, the House. And they go nowhere on the Senate side. Let me give you a few examples here. House Bill 98 is the bill that says no tax dollars for teachers unions.

It passed in the House 40 to 20 9 to 1. One person was APS, but it hasn't even gotten a hearing in the state Senate's state affairs committee that's chaired by Senator Jim Guthrie. And according to this piece by Brian Altman in the Gem State Chronicle, the Idaho Education Association is obviously against the bill because it would prevent taxpayers from subsidizing union activity like paid time off to do union activities and automatic payroll deduction of union dues.

And a bill would stop that. Now, I think if everyone's going to be intellectually honest, we recognize that unions are overtly political. They spend a lot of money in campaigns, or at least their PAC does, and they largely tend to support one particular side or viewpoint. And, now, to be clear, no taxpayer dollars go to their PAC.

But when money is fungible and resources overlap, then it gets a little murky so that one is just sitting there yet again. House Bill 230. That is a bill that protects children from indecent exposure. It would create a civil cause of action. According to almonds piece, when children are deliberately exposed to indecent sexual exhibitions, it passed the house 54 to 11 to five.

What? Five people would not cast a vote on that bill? You know what? No, I won't go there. But I feel like sometimes absent is actually not absent. But cowardice. But anyway. But it remains in Chairman Guthrie's straw. Again, this is a bill that, I'll be honest with you. All the same parts of my frustration light up that, were present when the library, the porn in library bill was being debated.

This is a no brainer. Of course we should protect children from indecent exposure. Yet another one, house Bill 252 E-Verify. Federal law says that illegals aren't allowed to work in the country, but many businesses ignore the law because it gives them a constant source of cheap labor, and enforcement is basically nil. The lobbyist for the Idaho Dairy Men's Association said up to 70% of their employees could potentially be illegal, 70%.

So House Bill 252 would require employers to use the existing federal E-Verify system to ensure they're only hiring citizens or those with valid work permits. Why is this not a no brainer? If I had known I. We actually interviewed Chairman Brant Crane of the House. He is the he's the chair of the House State Affairs Committee, and that's a bill that does not appear to be progressing.

Now, I don't know if it's passed. No, it's a House bill. So, it's it's one that's put forward and I'm not sure why. I'm not sure why you would. Well, I know why you would stand in the way, because the Idaho Dairy Men's Association is a pretty powerful lobby in the state of Idaho, and they don't want it.

House Bill 376, concealed carry on public property. This closes a loophole in Idaho law allowing government entities like cities and counties to lease public property like parks to private groups to host events. These private groups can then deny your Second Amendment right to self-defense on that public property. Again, this is Senator Jim Guthrie not allowing this one to go forward, at least not yet.

Let's keep hope alive. The legislative session is not over yet. Here's another one. Idaho law already makes it illegal for entities to entities from belligerent foreign nations like China to own certain property in Idaho. S 1149 closes a loophole by allowing such land that is currently owned to be taken and sold. It passed the Senate overwhelmingly. It awaits a hearing in House State Affairs.

That, again, is Senator Chairman Brant Crane and, this is one where I think there should be a full hearing. However, I do see there might be some legal challenges with this because if a foreign nation or a citizen in a foreign nation spent the money, bought the land and it was legal and holds the deed is there.

And I'm not defending belligerent nations, but I don't know that you can legally just confess it. I think there would probably be some court challenges to that. Again, I'm not saying I'm opposed to it, I'm just saying that I think there might be some some legal issues that would crop up with that one. Here's another one. Zoning restrictions for homeless shelters.

This is one I hadn't heard about. S 1166 prohibit homeless shelters from being built within 300ft of residential neighborhoods in cities of over 100,000 people. How many of those city do we. Boise? Are there any maybe Meridian. That's only, Anyway, yeah. Boise. Meridian. I guess Nampa is now over 100,002. There is a homeless shelter in Boise currently trying to build near a residential neighborhood, if you'd like it, to become law chairman.

Doug Ricks of the Senate Local Government and Taxation Committee heads that up. So I don't I am I don't know, all right. Like I'm, I'm very much, in favor of the state, but, but this might be a local control. I, I don't, I don't know, I, I have to learn more. I'm not going to have a strong opinion on that.

Memorials is one that would overturn Oberg or. Excuse me. Supporting overturning Obergefell HM1 calls upon the US Supreme Court to reconsider Obergefell versus Hodges. That's the ruling that imposed gay marriage on the nation. Prior to Obergefell, nearly every state referendum on this subject supported maintaining the traditional definition of marriage. Even in Deep blue California, h m passed the House.

It's been languishing in Senate State affairs ever since. Jim Guthrie again is the chair. So right now we have mostly Chairman Guthrie and Chairman Crane that are keeping these ideas from moving forward. And then finally, this is one that I think is very ripe, overripe. It's the black bananas ready for banana bread, ripe s 1023 has passed the legislature.

It awaits Governor Brad Little's signature. And that's the one for medical freedom. And this is the one where I believe it doesn't really describe specifically what the bill would do other than it says medical freedom. And, hopefully the governor will will sign this. And, so we're never forced to take a vaccine or forced to wear masks or, others.

But I wish there were a few more, details in that. So, yeah. Can I can I talk for a minute about the Obergefell thing? I don't I'm going to be honest with you. I feel like that's a horse that has left the barn. The gay marriage issue is now, what year? 2015? It's now been a decade, almost since that ruling came down.

It was fought, negotiated, litigated, and we lost. So I don't know how we revisit putting the toothpaste back in the tube or trying to round up the horse and put it back in. Whatever. I don't care what metaphor you you put in there, I don't I think you have as a conservative. I'm probably going to get heat for this.

I don't, as a conservative, if you're going to spend political capital, you have to assess your ROI. And I don't know, I think this is spending an awful lot of political capital, at a time where I actually believe now I'd have to look at the, the, the voting and the polling data. But I think there are a lot of people who are gay and lesbian that support Donald Trump.

Not really as a percentage, but I think that, you know, for the longest time, Republicans had the had the stigma, oh, you're anti-gay, you're anti LGBTQ. They still try to pin that. But there are plenty of, examples where, gays and lesbians are conservative and they're thriving and, and being successful, even in political Republican circles. So I think when you make a statement like this, and I have opinions about what marriage is and the nature of marriage, those are largely my religious and spiritual beliefs.

And I get to have those and nobody can take them away. And that's that's mine. It's get your hands off of it. The political battle was already fought and lost, and I don't know if this joint memorial again, I don't really agree with holding it in a drawer necessarily. I think that, that that's a separate issue. But I would say, I don't know that this is all that productive.

I don't know that this makes it more likely that they're going to overturn Obergefell. And maybe they're looking at this like it's the current Supreme Court. And they overturned Roe v Wade and sent it back to the states. Maybe they'd look at that and and send it back to the States. But I'll also say this. The Supreme Court does not take their cue from state legislatively past memorials.

They just don't they don't they don't, they don't go, oh, these states passed this piece of paper saying this is what they support. We better go the other direction. I just don't think there's a a return on investment for the political capital that's being expended, in, in this, in this realm. And furthermore, in my conversations with conservatives.

And I have a lot of them, and I hear from a lot of them, I rarely, if ever hear them talking about, we need to overturn Obergefell. We need to win back marriage. I don't I just I they want their personal liberties guaranteed. They want to limit the size and scope of government. They want they want all the things that, Republicans want.

But I just don't know if this flex has a good, outcome on it. And you know me, I'm I'm an outcome based guy. You better show me results. I don't really I don't give a lot of credence to your intentions. I do give credence to the merit, the results that you produce. All right, 921 enough on that.

There is one bill. We've not talked about it yet. Maybe you've seen this, I want to be careful how I choose my words, because there are so many potential double entendres. But apparently the legislature and this headline is garbage, by the way, and I'm going to use a crass term. So if you want to turn the radio down, I don't know that kids would even know what these are anyway, but we've all seen it big, jacked up, four wheel drive pickup truck with a couple of big steels hanging down in a bag in it.

You know, it looks like a the anatomy of a of a bull. And, they call them here's the crash term. They call them truck nuts. And the, the headline from Capitol Sun was that the legislature passed a bill banning, criminalizing rather, excuse me, public breast exposure and truck nuts. Now, the reason why this headline is complete and utter garbage from the Capitol sun is because if you go in the bill, there is no banning of Trump that could we call him truck stickles?

Is that is that a term like, could we and my governor, Brad Little, sign into law, a bill that criminalizes the public exposure of breasts that would be accurate? House Bill 270 updates Idaho's indecent exposure law, which already bans public exposure of genitals to include female breasts, male breasts altered to look like female breasts, artificial breasts, and toys or products that resemble genitals.

A breastfeeding, by the way, is exempt. The bill takes effect immediately through an emergency clause. Little sign the bill Wednesday, according to the governor. Under According to the governor's office legislation tracker, supporters say the bill would protect decency and modernize Idaho's indecent exposure law. Opponents say it could unduly punish transgender Idahoans and males experiencing hormonal conditions that in large breasts ever been a golden, never mind.

The Republican supermajority controlled legislature widely passed the bill with support from 87 Republicans, state lawmakers and opposition from 14 Democrat state lawmakers. It was co-sponsored by Jeff Cornelius of Nampa, Brian Lenny and Ben. Twos or toes, debating the bill in the Senate this week, Lenny said the bill deals with a real problem of people exposing themselves. Quote, I've heard arguments on this bill that said this somehow sexualize his breasts.

I don't think we need a bill to do that. I think that's been happening since the Garden of Eden, and it's going to continue to happen forever. Idaho Senate Minority Leader Melissa Winthrop argues that the bill violates the First Amendment by criminally criminalizing expressions that we don't like. That's a quote. And she said, this is the part where it's a little crass, but it's news and we don't shy away from the news.

She said the bill would allow people to call police over dangling faux scrotum, hung on truck hitches, commonly called truck nets. Their gross, their offensive and kids on the road see them. So why wouldn't the police get a call and say that offends me? Pull it off the truck, windrow said. Because now this bill will allow it. And I talked to police and they said, indeed it would.

Okay, I, I have a few thoughts about this and I want to express I'm kind of glad Julie's not here today for this reason, but I'm in this studio rather solo. Which is good. But, for this, for this conversation, I don't know. I don't know what police she talked to. She didn't she didn't bother mentioning which police said.

Oh, yeah, we could totally pull people over for the danglers. And, so, so yeah, I sometimes when I hear testimony like that, is there some left wing person who happens to be a cop that she's friends with? And they she said, hey, it would sure help me if you'd tell me that police might pull people over for the danglers.

And, then the cop would be like, oh, yeah, that could totally happen. As he sips his, you know, tofu latte, whatever thing. And, so, but I find it I find it interesting because I don't know how many. If you drove around Blaine County and said, what is that five be how many cars with five B license plates have the danglers.

I don't think a lot. Okay. So I don't know that this is a problem in Blaine County, but I do find it fascinating that now the Democrats. Well, let me let me put it this way. I have been part of mold topple Trump trains where you get these caravans of vehicles, many of them are jacked up four by fours.

And I most definitely have seen the danglers at those events. And now we have the Democrat Party trying to save the Danglers isn't politics fascinating? Sometimes that you have the Democrats, which most trucks with danglers, and honestly, I've seen a car or two that have them as well. No, I don't I don't know how that works. I'm not sure what's going on with that.

When you drive and you see a Subaru Outback with the Danglers, I'm not sure I have a thousand questions and I'm not sure I want to ask any of them. But when you see a vehicle with the Danglers, I would bet you that 98% of the the drivers with Danglers on their car, I just can't comb truck, I just can't.

So danglers I would bet you they are Trump voters. And now we have the Democrats saving the danglers. It's it's kind of beautiful. It really is. So, it didn't work. I think the the danglers are fine. I don't think you're going to have prosecutors prosecuting drivers and or cops issuing tickets under the this public indecent exposure law.

I doubt that is ever going to happen. And if it does, it's probably going to get, thrown out. So let's go to the phones. I cannot wait to hear what our callers have to say. Caller go ahead. How are you today? Good morning. How are you? I'm doing all right. Okay. So if they're going to go after truck nets, are they're going to go after semi trucks and everything that have the silhouette of that breasted women.

Good pull in my flat. That's a really good point. And I don't know if that came up during the debate. But you're not wrong about that. So where does it end. Yeah that's true. And and and the mud flaps are international. I mean, he's got trucks around the country. That's what they have. That's that's true. Yeah. That's a good point.

Yeah. No, I thank you for that, thought experiment. That's that's a really interesting point. Let's let's go to the next caller. Caller, how are you today? Good. How are you? I'm. Well, I'm doing all right. I'm hanging in there. I wanted to, Hanging. Yeah. The keyword. Right. Hey, this this is even if I wanted to help you out with that Subaru and the whole that whole situation.

Yeah. That's, when you see one of those with the, with the, the danglers, as you call them there, that's transgender. That's what that is like. All right, see, I knew this was going to go off the rails, and I'm going to take a break. It's perfect time to, take take a break. We'll return after this.

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And I think it was Andrew Breitbart who said that. I can't remember if he said politics is downstream from the culture or or vice versa. It doesn't matter. The point is, there is, a balance between the two. And what I've noticed is that when your culture is broken, then you have an increased need for legislation and legislation that is created in this context of culture repair is usually bad and clunky and has high potential for unintended consequences.

So I will tell you, and I know this is probably politically incorrect to say, but you know what? I think we have hopefully restored the ability to say what's on our mind without everyone losing it. I think one example of broken culture is fatherlessness. And when you have fatherlessness, you have economic issues, you have crime issues, you have, all sorts of, of new issues that now the state, the collective, they have to address the issue and those laws are because they're handling complex issues, are fraught with problems applied to this issue.

I am telling you, a culture that just does not naturally recognize you don't show large depictions of genitalia anatomy to children is a broken culture, a culture that does not, in a consensus way, recognize, don't, don't make porn available to kids in the library is a broken culture. So when I look at laws like this, that and and I, this is my starting point.

We shouldn't even have to have a law. This ought to be just common sense that you and I. Their words, I could say, but they're crass. And furthermore, it's spring break. So a lot of kids are maybe home and and more listening. So I'm not going to say them, but you could have large depictions of and you know what I'm talking about.

They're made of silicone. Whatever. You could you could, but when you parade that in front of children thinking, that's okay, you're part of a broken culture. And so legislatures like the Idaho Legislature have to say, there's a growing segment of the culture that doesn't recognize you don't put this stuff in front of kids. They're normalizing grooming.

And we have to push back against that. So they have to craft a law. And because they have to craft a law, you have some people on the left saying, oh, but what about this? You're you're going to have cops pulling people over because they have the danglers. Well, yeah, I guess we're going to have to live with that potential unintended consequence because we have a whole, sadly, sizable part of the culture that doesn't recognize the rest of it, that you shouldn't sexually groom kids.

If you did that, we wouldn't need the law. We wouldn't run into this. So I anyway, going to take a quick break. 940 on Newstalk 1079 we are going to dramatically shift gears in the next segment. I had a chance to talk with, Josh thorn, Cassie Sanders of Noteworthy and Vocal Point. They're performing tomorrow night, so we'll check in with them just ahead right here on Newstalk 179.

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If it's outside city limits, contact the Bonneville County Sheriff's Office. This continues to be an ongoing investigation. Flu season is not over yet. Eastern Idaho Public Health says influenza A is the most common strain this year. But thankfully, influenza cases are starting to go down after they peaked at the beginning of the year. People who got this year's flu shot should be covered, since it has the strain for influenza A flu.

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And we're back on Newstalk 1079 on this Friday morning. And I am pleased to be joined by a couple of performers. Cassie Sanders performs with BYU's noteworthy singing group, and we have Josh thorn from Vocal Point, and those groups are coming to Idaho Falls unwell tomorrow night on Saturday night at the Frontier Center. And Cassie, Josh, I want to welcome both of you to the interview this morning.

How are you? Hi. Good. Thank you. Doing fantastic. Thank you so much, Neil. We're happy to be here having us. Well, I'm thrilled to chat with you. We, we love we actually have a feature every week. We call it studio for covers. And we love to hear performers, especially when there is a local tie. And. Cassie, I understand you're joining us from actually Rigby just down the road.

And Josh, you're joining us from, Provo this morning, but let's talk about this because you, you most college singing groups don't have the notoriety that you do. Someone my producer was just telling me, you guys have videos that have been viewed millions of times. Is that right? Yeah. Amazing Grace by now or the I think is that 75 million now.

And it's probably one of our most viewed YouTube videos out of all of the BYU group that that's amazing. Josh, how about you? Because I know you're part of this, too. Absolutely. Yeah. So I'm in, vocal point, the seven man acapella group based at BYU. We also have several videos that have performed very well in years past.

I think Near My God to Thee is the best performing video at somewhere over 40 million views on YouTube. So, it's a it's a powerful one. That makes sense why so many people love it. I personally love it as well. It's a really cool thing. Well, congratulations on the success. So I do want to ask you Vocal Point and Noteworthy.

You're both two very distinct groups, but I'm assuming you do a lot of collaboration together like you're going to do, tomorrow night. Yeah, yeah, we do. We're two separate groups with like, different brands. But at the same time, we do a lot of performances together where we can give people the best of both worlds. Especially in Idaho Falls.

We want to just give them the experience of seeing both of us. Okay. And, Josh, what about you? Yeah, absolutely. I mean, I think Cassie said it very well. We are two different groups. I think the cool thing is we have very similar missions, both noteworthy and vocal point. Our whole mission, everything we do is just to help bring people joy and to just help bring people happiness and uplift spirits and, just spread all sorts of goodness.

And so I think that's, one of the reasons that we like to do some things together so that people can kind of feel that coming from both groups. Well, I've watched a number of your videos and it's hard not to feel that like it. You do put that out. So kudos, especially in a world that sometimes can be dark, putting out some sunshine.

But let's talk specifically about your performance at the Frontier Center. Many of the locals still call it and refer to it as the Civic Auditorium in Idaho Falls. It's now called the Frontier Center. Tell us about this performance. And each of you take a minute and talk about what it will be like for the for the, audience.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, I can go ahead. So something that I absolutely love about our performances as we just try to give the widest range possible of music. So we've got some really fun 80s throwbacks. We've got some current pop songs. We have some songs that'll get people clapping, some songs that'll get people crying, you know, like gospel stuff.

And so that's what I love about it is it's just a super wide range. It's going to help people feel all sorts of emotions. But, the bottom line of it is it's just ultimately to bring people happiness. And so that's what I think is really cool about it is, is, it's just a super broad range for all, like all ages, families, kids, adults.

And that's that's what I love about I love bringing this show to people. I don't know what your thoughts are on that cast as well. Yeah, I would probably say ditto. I agree that we really just want people to feel like they have a place to belong, a place that they can sit down, listen to some fantastic music, and maybe be able to feel that, you know, maybe there there's more to life than what's out there.

And, you know, that they can feel the love of the people around them, in that show and from us, because we just love everyone that we get to perform with, perform with, and perform for. And also we do tend to meet these people after our shows, and that is probably my favorite part. We love to get to know people, all their stories, and we hope and pray that they would know that we love them.

The performances at 7 p.m. again, that's Saturday night at the Frontier Center. I know it's sponsored by the BYU Alumni Association, the Idaho Falls chapter, and the proceeds are going, at least in part, to, support citizens for decency.org, which is a group that takes a stand against pornography. And for those who would like to attend the easiest way to grab tickets is to go to Idaho Falls arts.org and look under the shows tab, and that's Idaho Falls arts.org Cassie Sanders with noteworthy and Josh Thorne with Vocal Point.

Thank you both. We look forward to having you here and performing on Saturday night. Thank you so much for having us. Oh such surprise. It really should for East Idaho. Thank you Larson show podcast Grab It Every day and Newstalk 107. You know that I get let me show you I you see side step right left you might go get it but it but a point like no other.

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All right. 954 on Newstalk 179. If you'd like to reach us, we've got about five minutes remaining. (208) 542-1079 that's the Stones Automotive Group call and text line and, yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. I don't know if the texts have been interesting. Probably not going to share with you what now there is. I'm not really sparring because I don't look, I don't I don't have a I, I this is a weird bill and and the way that it's been exaggerated and characterized as kind of ridiculous, but now there's a little disagreement over whether the mud flaps are the same as the danglers.

And I'm not going to we're not going to go there. So let's pick a different topic to talk about. Oh yeah. The view. What would an episode of the Nielsen show be without a clip from The View? Listen to this. You chose not to go through the proper protocol. Yeah, right. And everybody could have seen this. Yeah.

This is not the App Store kind of stuff. You want to be using. They also have a tendency to blame the Biden administration. It's like, move on. That ship has sailed. I never remember in my lifetime is sitting president trashing a previous president Donald Trump lost two debates to me in 2020. Since then, he hadn't shown up for debate.

Now he's acting like he wants to debate me again or make my day pal. I'll even do it twice. So let's pick the days. Donald, I hear you're free on Wednesdays for free on Wednesday. Okay, first of all, let's go back to Joy Bay. Ha! For just a moment. Is she getting dementia as well? For her to say she's never known in her a whole life.

A president to trash his predecessor? Okay, now I know that it used to be fairly common, but they absolutely trashed Donald Trump. The Biden administration did repeatedly. In fact, he call I'm not going to play this whole montage. It goes on for another two plus minutes of him doing exactly what Joy Baker said. That has never happened. Only Donald Trump does that of calling Trump supporter.

Remember this? This was in the waning days of the campaign, calling, Donald Trump supporters garbage. I, I remember last summer ish, whenever that happened, I just put up a picture of a garbage can. It was great. It was great. People loved it other. And, so you're like, you own it. And that's really the best thing to do.

But this idea that Joe Biden didn't trash his predecessor. How many times did Joe Biden repeat the lie about suckers and losers? And how many times did he repeat the the lie about, good people on both sides? He that's I won't say that's all Joe Biden did, but he certainly did it enough that unless you're truly losing your memory, there's no way you could say that, that he didn't do that.

So, thanks, Joe Bayard, you've all, to view. Don't ever fail to disappoint the the rest of us. And then I'll leave it with this note. Jasmine Crockett, who said to. Well, he she said to some big event human Rights Commission or something that she referred to Governor Greg Abbott as Hot Wheels because, you know, he's in a wheelchair.

But I'm sure that had nothing to do with it. She was asked by a reporter about an apology. Why don't you apologize? I put up they did nothing. So read my I did read it. Okay, well, I'm glad you don't feel bad about making fun of someone I know. No, I don't I don't think she does. Also, great point.

Someone just texted in Obama. Absolutely trashed George W Bush. So selective memory. Joy. Have a great weekend. I'll be back. When? Monday. Right here on Newstalk 179.