3.31.2025 -- NLS -- Trump’s Third Term? Greenland, Bats & Media Wars

On this episode with Neal and Julie, they dive into the latest political maneuvering surrounding medical freedom, potential amendments to legislation, and what signals the governor’s recent actions may be sending about his political future. They also tackle new narratives surrounding Donald Trump, including speculation about a third term and its implications for the Republican Party. Shifting gears, Neal and Julie explore the controversy over the introduction of "torpedo bats" in Major League Baseball and the debate over whether technological advancements should be embraced or banned. Additionally, they break down the political fallout from recent government spending revelations and discuss how conservatives are learning to fight back against legacy media and cancel culture. To wrap up, they take listener calls on key issues, including Trump’s potential third-term bid, government overreach in education, and the balance between opportunity and entitlement in public programs. Tune in for a packed discussion filled with political insights, sports debates, and listener perspectives. 

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Transcript

Hello, East Idaho, it's 807 on Newstalk 1079A Monday and welcome back. Time for another workweek and time to almost time, I think to shiny day. The governor has vetoed a bill. And, we've talked about this bill that's been vetoed. And the reason he gave for the veto is that he believes the bill, if it's passed and it goes into law, that schools will not be able to send sick kids home, that they'll have to keep the sick kids at school.

And he thinks that that's too far because it endangers other kids, which I think is, a legitimate concern. And I think I don't think it was explicitly stated in this bill that it would do that. However, it might be one of those unintended consequences. So here's where it stands right now, at least according to the chatter on ECS we haven't seen died yet.

Nobody quite knows for sure when we will sign die. The lawmakers that we've talked to in the last week and a half have said that maybe Tuesday or Wednesday, possibly Thursday this week, which means there might be a little bit of time, perhaps time to amend the bill, put run it back through and where this bill's been already voted on in committee and in both chambers, perhaps.

And I procedurally do not know how this would work. But I know if you submit a personal bill that can be debated and voted on directly on the floor, bypassing all of the committee stuff. So they rarely, by the way, personal bills rarely ever, ever go anywhere. It's unique, but this is a unique situation. So maybe and maybe there are reasons why that just can't happen.

But the most cynical take is that Governor Brad Little is simply beholden to either he's beholden to the pharmaceutical companies, and they bought his veto or pressured his veto, threatened the veto. And the most favorable to the governor is what he wrote, which is, I'm just looking out for the kids. So perhaps the truth is somewhere in between.

In the statement that he signed, he basically said that, he's done a lot when it comes to medical freedom in Idaho, and he list it off in bullet points. In his veto statement that he signed House Bill 32, banning government and school mask mandates, he signed a House Bill 59, the Medical Ethics Defense Act, to prevent health care professionals from providing services that violate their religious or more beliefs.

He signed Senate Bill 1329 in 2020 for the Parental Rights in Medical Decision Making Act. He signed Senate Bill 1130, the Coronavirus Stop Act, to ban private and public entities from requiring the Covid 19 vaccine and other things, said he included. So clearly with the number of bullet points defending his record when it comes to medical freedom, he's worried about this, vetoing this politically, he wants to say, but wait, before you get mad at me, I have done all these things, so we'll see.

Again, I don't know, I, and there's a chance it goes through. There's a very good chance it does not. So we'll keep an eye on that. And also, I think in this environment where the governor, has functioned very much like a conservative Republican this session, and I've been pleased by it usually. And that's that sounded really snarky, and I didn't mean it that way.

He's known as a moderate. He's kind of a centrist, and a lot of governors kind of tend to be that way. He has very much in terms of the bills that he has signed, been on our side. I've got to give him some credit. Like, I think that he's he's functioned more to the right than he typically does or would have, which is probably the strongest signal that he's he's running again.

So we have that. We also have a couple of new Trump related narratives to talk about. Trump is not invading Greenland, Greenland off the table, and he is not taking a third term off the table, apparently. Now, here's where I'm at with all of this, because I am staunchly opposed to both. We don't invade peaceful countries. We just don't.

That would be a massive, massive mistake and blunder. And I think the favorability that he enjoys with the American people would end almost instantly if he sent our troops into Greenland and and took it over, even if it's just for strategic reasons. We don't do that. So, not that my opinion matters much in that in Trump orbit, but I think I probably speak for a number of people.

The second one about the third term, let me let me play you the audio here. This was an interesting moment. A few weeks ago, he was speaking at some big event, and to me it was clear that he was joking about a third term seems to be with us. I don't know how anybody could even vote for the other side.

In many cases they don't, but they do get credit for it. You have to think about that. I've raised a lot of money for the next race that I assume I can't use for myself, but I'm not 100% sure because I don't know. I think I'm not allowed to run again. I'm not sure. Am I allowed to run again?

Mike, I better not get you involved in that argument. No, I we raised a lot of money, a tremendous amount. And our town halls are something very special that nobody else is able to even contemplate using. We've gotten a lot of people elected with us telling town halls, okay, so almost as a side note, notice the content was prefaced with something totally different.

And then he went on to the town halls, something totally different. So this discussion of a third term was put out there. As an aside, the Constitution is very, very clear. We passed an amendment. You only get two terms. That's it. And it doesn't matter who you are, there's no unless there when we talk about the Second Amendment that the shall not be infringed.

There's kind of a corollary with which is there's no unless so am I. Am I alarmed or concerned? No, because I've been watching Trump closely now for eight plus nine years now. It was about nine years ago, 2015, that he came down the escalator. That's ten years ago. Excuse me. So ten years we've been watching Trump. He trolls like no other.

He puts forward ridiculous starting points like no other. And he does that because he is very much a seasoned, gifted negotiator. So right now I'm not worried. I think that he, just leaves these things on the table because it creates uncertainty and chaos for the other side. And in that regard, it's working. If it were to get to the point, and this is what I haven't taken off the table, is that I can see our country.

I can see that the Trump supporters of which I am one, but a certain wing that would be all in if Trump decided he wanted a third term, and that also be all in. If Trump decided he wanted to invade Greenland so we could have it for our strategic purposes, it's to you. I would like to talk and not I don't think I would actually convince or sway you, but we need we always, always, always need good boundaries in in a healthy republic.

And we have them and we need to honor them no matter how much we would like the people, we like to breach those boundaries. We have to have them and I believe, and I think what we're seeing right now actually is happening. Trump is creating you. There's a term generational wealth. I believe there's a political capital corollary. And Trump's creating generational political wealth.

We have a new crop of younger 20, 30 and 40. Some things that are coming up in DeSantis and Vance. And I mean, the list could be very long. I don't want to list all of them. You know who I'm talking about. And they are learning how to handle the media. They are learning how to combat the cancel culture, the wokeism, the DEA, because Donald Trump was the courageous guy that led out, took all the arrows and created new rules in politics.

So it's not like we don't have anyone to pass the torch to. We don't need a third term. If Trump does his job, we don't need a third term period. Okay, let me make that clear. But we certainly don't need one if if Trump is truly inspiring the next generation, this is why I don't this is why I don't think that Trump is actually serious about a third term.

I just think he he's pointing a laser and the cats are chasing it. That's what he's doing with Greenland. I believe that's what he's doing with a Trump third term. However, there is a little bit of curiosity in my heart. I want to know, and usually I try not to tilt the scales, but it's kind of too late.

I'd like to know where you stand. If Trump said he's running for a third term and tried some legal gimmick to get it done, one scenario is that JD Vance would run name Trump is his veep, then JD Vance would resign. And guess what? Trump would be the president again. You know what it is. It's it's what Medvedev did for Putin.

Years ago, Putin was limited, couldn't run. And his closest staunchest ally, Medvedev ran was the president for a while and then paved the way for Putin to return again. I think a change, something I don't remember. It doesn't matter. But there's sort of a proxy, a stand in. So I don't I will tell you right now what my what my limits are.

As much as I love Trump, I love the longevity of our republic even more. And we have seen enough destruction to the foundation of our republic in recent years and decades. We don't need to start picking up a sledgehammer and doing the same thing. So, I know I've stated my blatant opinion, but I believe we're going to be doing a flagpole on this particular one.

Now. I will say this. There may actually be a reason to use the military for the Panama Canal, because they are in clear violation of the agreement. And this does have to do with our national security. So there may be a reason to to do it there. So but it's, it is it would be dire and it would be have to be very nuanced.

But how we ended up allowing the Chinese to run the Panama Canal is just crazy to me. So there. That's a third one. I don't know if this is a trifecta or not, because there's a lot of bold proposals being put forward by Trump. And the the signal controversy kind of still continues. The left. It's weird.

Is anybody else weirded out by what's happening with Tesla, with the protests, with the signal obsession? It was it was a it was a security breach, but without consequence. And we're acting like it was 911. It's just the weirdest thing. So I don't, I don't quite understand. The left, right now, they're just being mad to be mad.

Yesterday, there were some protests across the country. Some old dude drove his car, into a 49 year old guy in Meridian, injured him. I think he's going to be okay, but, injured him. And now the old guy driving the car at the Tesla protest is in, hot water. And then there was a women's. Someone help me.

I, I really need help here because I. I'm a simple thinker, and I will lead with the fact that I'm, a simple thinker. Somewhere around 200 residents showed up to the Bonneville County Courthouse. And that part of the the bridge on West Broadway was part of it as well. And so they gave speeches, but the speeches were about struggles with ADHD and autism.

The speeches were, about, how people with dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and then there it just didn't make any real sense to me. What that has to do with women's rights and protecting women. So there was that, someone said, suffrage is happening now more than ever, and we will not give up the fight. Welcome to the suffrage movement.

Okay. Women's suffrage is that word is just the right to vote. Okay? Our voting is happening now more than ever, and we will not give up the fight. Welcome to the voting booth. I think you already won that battle. And the truth is, there are an awful lot of women that support Trump. So again, the the latest model in leftist protest is it doesn't matter what you're mad about.

If you hate Trump, bring your anger and let's throw it at him. We'll be back after this. On Newstalk 178 28 on Newstalk 1079. Had a roast yesterday. And the crock butter. Good. It was very good. Good. And you can, you can choose to roast or ribs or steaks or sous vide crock pot meals. I think the next round Julia was looking over the, the menu, the specials and deals and packages that they have at Grand Peak's Prime Meats.

And I think you got one of these, the halal Pino burger hamburger patties. Yeah. You need to try them. I think you'll really like them. Okay, I, I'm gonna I'm going to do that on the next batch, which we need to go get another. We're ready because I just pulled out the last two steaks there in my sink.

Thing is that I don't know if I know of any sadder words. The last two steaks like this. Sad that it is pretty sad if you named a movie that it would just be the saddest thing ever. It is. Well, we're going to enjoy it for dinner tonight then. It will be sad after that, but we can fix it by going to Grand Peaks and filling back up our freezer.

GG primates.com Julie and I both love it. Yeah, okay, I have not been following baseball all that closely, but we have to talk about the torpedo bats for just a minute. Apparently some MIT smart guy, redesigned the baseball bat to put more of the bulk to the bat right where the ball usually hits and that extra mass sends that ball sailing.

So uptown now the logo is up higher on the bat. The barrel of the bat. Yeah. This, mit guy moved the logo down, which changed the depth of the wood in the bat at the barrel, which he says is what's causing, what? I think they scored 20 runs. Something in their game. Yeah. The Yankees did.

And it has people, fluster man, you have got, you know, solid long time MLB fans saying you cannot change the game like this. It alters all of the records, blah, blah, blah. I'm sure there's lots of people who like opinions where people fall on this, but it's definitely going to change the game. Okay, your thoughts on this?

I know you love baseball. I do love baseball. I don't know if I love it to the point that I think that it's got this purity that you can't create technology or invent, invent better equipment. That makes the game more interesting here. Here's like, hey, I've got David Portnoy audio here, and I'll play some of that in a moment because he says, this is cheating.

They need to ban torpedo bats. I'm like, okay, I, I, I agree, I can agree with that. If they don't though, in the same way, we will qualify a basketball record by saying in the shot clock era, because teams started scoring more point points with the shot clock because you had to get the ball away. So, yeah, of course you broke the earlier records because the shot clock fundamentally changed the game.

If the torpedo bat fundamentally changes the game, then we're just going to have to when there are homerun records and hitting records and whatever, we we're just going to have to qualify it and say in the torpedo bat era. And, and I think it actually downgrades the record if, if it's recognized as oh, okay. Yeah, it's in the torpedo batter.

Right. I mean, what if they came up with a ball that had was made of something? The outside of the ball was made of something different, or there was something inside of the ball that made it spin more or whatever. You know, pitchers would love that. Hitters wouldn't. Pitchers aren't loving this because it's they're going these bats are going to what would have been a, you know, a foul or a fly out to the left field is now going to be a homerun.

Pitchers are obviously going to hate this. I sent a message that, actually it was an ex post to one of our friends who's very big into the baseball world. Yeah, he was a catcher in high school. His son is a catcher. Obviously, he doesn't love this, right? Right, right. Because this matters for the intricacy of the game that he played and his son plays.

Yeah, but there's kids who are hitters who are going to love this. So yeah, I think you fall all over the place on, on on how you feel about the torpedo about. So let me ask it like this. Do you remember when the whole corked bat controversy was out there, because it made the bat lighter? Timing was better.

Some thought it had like a trampoline effect, that it would help the ball go farther. They banned cork bats. In fact, you remember the the the hitter that swung and the bat kind of burst open and all the cork came out and it was like, busted. How is this different than a corked bat? If it's something that gives you an advantage, then what you traditionally would enjoy.

I don't know how the torpedo bat, even though it's it's a different approach to bettering your hitting game. It's still kind of the same thing. You're altering a bat so that that it. And it has less to do with your personal performance and more to do with the equipment you're using. I don't really see it functionally or at least ethically, any different than a corked bat.

It's probably not. I think there's one conclusion that everyone can agree on with this. It's a mess year. The season has already started. So do you. If you are going to ban them, do you ban them immediately? Do you let it play out for a minute? Do you? And then once you ban them, you've got a portion of people mad.

If you don't ban them, you've got a portion of people mad like it's a mess, okay. It is a mess because if they let it play, they can. They got to come up with their permanent decision soon. Because if you let it play out and you're like well we'll have torpedo bats for a couple of years. Well you're going to have single season hitting records that are, that are going to obliterate the previous records.

And then that changes future Hall of Fame consideration. And I think it just throws everything off. So I, I don't know I think they need to decide really quick what they're going to do with. Yeah I one of the reasons I think that they would wait. So I think it's obvious your conclusion there. Hey don't wait because it's just going to make the mess even bigger right?

I think one of the reasons they would wait is they always want to make money. Yeah. Is there a way to make money out of this? Everybody's got to buy new bats. Are you a portion of the manufacturing with these new bats? So you've got to follow the money issue with this as well. And that might actually delay them making a decision.

Yeah. That's that's true too. That's true. I don't know, it's a mess. I see both ways like I yeah, I could I could argue either way. It's kind of sad though, you know, like you're winners and losers in all of this. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Wasn't there this might be a completely untrue internet rumor. Like an urban legend.

Did the NBA ban a certain shoe because it was helping the players jump higher? Or was that just a joke ad or something that I saw? I remember something in my head. I've got a memory about that somehow. And like I said, it might just be a fake story, a fake news story. But if there's something with that, though, that a certain pair of shoes got banned because it was helping players, I have no idea.

I, I don't remember that at all. But I also don't follow the NBA. But why wouldn't that shoe have filtered down to college to. And then I think I would have known. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. Then this, this could have been like 10 or 15 years ago. Yeah. Yeah I had a and possibly or maybe it's the, the Mandela Effect and it never happens.

It's just playing out. They just have a memory. That's not. Yeah. That's not in this particular parallel universe. So all right. 837 A new stock 107 nine will be back. It's 842 on Newstalk 1079, Neil Larson, Julie Mason and I was I was right, Julie. My memory I don't remember the name of the shoe, but there was a shoe by a company called APL that stands for Athletic Propulsion Labs.

And they patented what's called a load and launch technology. And the way the cushion part of the shoe was designed, it led to better jumping performance. The NBA banned that shoe because it they felt like it did give players an unfair advantage, which I will say was probably the best thing for that company that could have happened. That was my follow up question about this.

Are they still developing shoes? Like, can you wear it on the high school level? Can you wear it and track and field? Can you? Is it just the NBA where you can't wear apples? Well, yeah. I don't know what the current status is, but I think if it has that technology in it, that's what got the shoe banned.

So, but if you go to Athletic Propulsion labs.com, I'm giving them a free plug here. They've got a very current website and very functional and lots of different shoes. So I don't know if all their shoes have the tech in it, but. Okay. At least some of them do. All right. Yeah. So white men can jump now with the aid of shoes.

Yes. With the help of them, that technology. So, Okay. Julie, I am. So. Are you tired of the signal? Oh, I was over it. On Wednesday and Thursday. I was to like it. Hey, they are dragging this thing out. As long as they. It's all they got. It's all they got. It's all they have. And I think it they this is, their version of January 6th.

But in 2025, we're going to squeeze this for absolutely everything we possibly can. They didn't learn their lesson with January 6th with just people get tired of it and they start to think you're protesting too much. Yeah. And when you protest too much, you're probably making a big deal out of nothing. And I think that that is happening with the signal app controversy or signal gate, like they wanted to call it.

Yeah, I think that's pretty obvious. I and I hope your characterization is right that people respond to this like the you guys throw tantrums over everything and you exaggerate even when there are stories that have some concern to them, like January 6th had some concern. I actually think the signal story has concern. Right. That's what my point here is.

Like it, there is a level of concern here. We don't want that to happen again. Stop using signal then if it's if that can happen and find something that's better. Yeah. Address the issue. But do we have to have an extended national conversation about it for the next four weeks? Is that is that necessary? Also we can't even get the completion or a concept of who tried to kill President Trump.

And they tried to put that to bed as quickly as possible. You're right Julie, we're talking about the stupid app for longer than we talked about an assassination attempt on Trump. For sure we are. And the same thing with the withdrawal from Afghanistan. People hanging off airplanes is there, leaving, running down the tarmac, 13 soldiers killed. And we stop talking about that three days later.

Well, and can we again, we need to stop talking about the signal app and talk about more important scandals, like Harrison Butler's speech from a year and a half ago. That was another one that we need to take four weeks, five weeks that we went on with Harrison. But I think it was like two and three months, like I just went on and on.

Oh, can you believe Harrison Baker said, that's okay. Yeah. I think we should find a way to meld the Harrison Butkus signal scandal together. I think it was Harrison Baker who put that number into my calls for Bet. It was to, along with March for lives contact numbers. I'll bet you that happened. They're all in there together. Yes.

If we could get the Harrison Butler controversy and the signal controversy to have a baby. Can you imagine what kind of an overblown outrage baby that would be? And there's Harrison Butler staring at the Scooby Doo gang and going, and I would have got away with it if it wasn't for these meddling kids. I forgot about that. Yes.

Oh. They're so tiresome. Are you like, do they just wear you down? Absolutely. And their outrage wears you down? Yep. So last week was a long week. Yeah. It was I and I think part of it is our fault. We were riding a high from President Trump since January 20th. It was going to drop. It was kind of drop.

Yeah. We knew it was the honeymoon period was going to come to. It just kind of slammed us in the face last week. Yeah. Yeah. And and it was a shred of something that they could make out of it, like. And it was, it was an unforced error on, on the Trump world's part. But man, they're making hay out of it.

Yes, they are. I will say though, we've got to get to the bottom of it and we have to own our part of it, which is Mike Wallace. Come clean. Just spill everything that you knew when. And because I feel like he's been walking this really fine line and he knows more than he's saying, but he's trying to play dumb.

Not clear if it was a staffer or him himself, like, I don't know, like it's weird. Do we know today? How long ago did this happen? Like a week and a half ago. Do we know today if it was a staffer or Mike Waltz himself? Oh, no. You you've got a couple of of Republican pundits online that are certain it is a staffer.

They they are telling you they have proof that it is the staffer, and the staffer has Democrat ties, for whatever reason. If that is the truth, Mike Waltz and the rest of the administration is covering for this person. I don't understand what's going on. Just tell the truth. Yeah, just just say it. And you know what that might mean.

Mike Waltz needs to resign. And that would be a black eye for Trump early on in his presidency. But let's get it over with, okay? Let's do it. Let's just continuing to sort of play this I don't know, game is just is just too much. All right. It's 849 (208) 542-1079. Julie, you sent me a Gavin Newsom clip he was on with Bill Maher.

There was nothing interesting in the clip. And that's not a criticism of what you said. I just mean, I don't think Gavin Newsom is trying obviously to placate to the middle, but in doing so, he's not saying anything bold anymore. And I'm not going to play a three minute long clip so I can show you. He's not saying anything interesting.

Yeah, we can just say that he's moderating. And I think it is clear Bill Maher is clamoring for Gavin Newsom to be the new face of the Democrats. Bill Maher is completely frustrated. Yeah, bothered. Fed up. Pick a pick whatever descriptor you want with his party. He is hoping that Gavin Newsom can come in and clean up this mess.

Yeah, I, I cannae oh, I don't think so. I don't think so either I don't because right now I mean it's obvious what's happening. They're not going at each other directly. But you have Jasmine Crockett trying to take up space. You've got Tim Walz trying to take up space. You got Gavin Newsom, who is I will say, Gavin Newsom has a much more.

I think his approach could get more buy in than any of these other yahoos. His somehow he doesn't come across as a crazy Yahoo like the others. Yes, I that's the only thing that he is doing right is he doesn't look like he's quote unquote far left. He's not looking like he's unhinged right now. I'm and the rest of the Democrat Party minus Fetterman and.

Well and you lost Joe Manchin. So minus those two you look pretty unhinged. Yeah, you really do. So he is standing apart that way. It is a little boring. It's very politician like. Yeah. And maybe that's what the Democrat Party needs. Yeah, maybe it is. Maybe it is. All right. It's 851 Newstalk 179 quick break and we will continue after this.

All right. Put down the air drums Julie I was really liking that. And then you turned it down on me. Now it's back and now it's back and get it all cued up. Welcome back. It's 856 on Newstalk 1079 Friday I had the, great opportunity to pop over and see our good friend Rex at Town and Country Gardens.

Julie and man, they're gearing up for another big season. And he told me he was a little jokingly frustrated about how much of the four step loan program we're selling for him and and it. But it works, though. I'm like, yeah, don't ask us to talk about it and use it and tell everybody how awesome it is, you know?

And I'm like, you know what, Rex? I think the product sells itself. We just tell people about it. Yeah, because you and I both have the four step loan program, and we've had it for a couple of years on our lawns. And I've been watching over the last maybe week or so. The temperatures have been coming up. All those signs of spring are starting to show up, and the lush green blades of grass that are now peeking through the old dead fall grass.

It proves how effective this this program is. And in fact, Julie, I may be pulling out the lawn mower this week to, to, you know, start cleaning up and cutting down some of that. Looking forward to it. Yeah. It's time I was just went to Town and Country Gardens website, which is my garden geek. Com, by the way, and it reminded me, of all the things that you can be doing right now early on, there's a section here where you, you can sign up to talk to their master gardeners about berries and small fruits.

Those are going to be happening quickly. It's time to do those. Planting of those bushes. And then there's also 2025 spring gardening seminars. You can sign up to learn about these things. So and and even if you miss the seminar there are people there that can help you. Oh yeah. And yeah, Rex showed me their classroom and it's great.

Like, it's this full service classroom area that, I mean, they're they're invested in in educating people as well. I do want to say now is the perfect time. March, April, the perfect time to lay down step one of the four step lawn program, which step one, of course, is the humane. That's the what Julianna, I call the beard chick.

Bernier. The you know, that's gets things hopping. Can I buy you a drink? Yes. That version and it it really is a great way to get your, lawn health kicked off. And you want to. You want to think about putting that down here very, very soon. So swing by town and country gardens across from the well.

The big wing called the Budweiser plant again, I think so. Budweiser plants south of Idaho Falls on the Yellowstone Highway. It's time to get going. All right. We'll be back. Our two coming up on Newstalk 107 nine 907 on Newstalk 179, it's Neil Larson along with Julie Mason. It's our two. And if you'd like to reach us, there's Stone's automotive group.

Colin Text Line is (208) 542-1079. And, I just had it do the thing like we just got to talk over the music, but it just happens every once in a while. I don't know what that default is. I don't know either. We've had some major changes internally. It's okay. We're good. We're here, everybody's here, and everybody's good.

So you just got to hear all the music. It was good for them. Yeah, yeah, it was all good. Yeah. Okay. Julie, we're going to do a flagpole. Okay. Because Trump is making references. You and I think at this point, they're just jokes. He's just trolling. He's taken out his laser pointer and he's, you know, messing with the cats and and saying that, he hasn't ruled out a third term, that he's raising all this money.

His presidential campaign has lots of money. And, and he he will initially say, and, I can't spend it or can I, you know, he's leaving it vague, but the question is not do you think he's trolling or not? I want to know if he decided he wanted to challenge the constitutional norm and standard and requirement. Only two terms for president.

Well, if Trump said we live in exceptional times and we need to make an exception, I'm running for a third term. Would you support Donald Trump's third term? No, I don't want that at all. I don't want that at all. I, I know we're going to get some pushback on this, and I understand the pushback on it, because Republicans feel like they've been taken advantage of repeatedly by the Democrats.

Rules have been changed, like gerrymandering of districts and the invasion of the border and blah, blah, blah. I do not want this kind of rogue situation. I don't want it. I don't even love the trolling. I understand the trolling, and I'm not going to be angry about it if that's what he's doing. It's not my favorite. Yeah.

Okay. So with that, that's our question for you. Let's just do it right now. If Trump were to run for a third term, would you support it? I would think the Supreme Court and Congress would probably weigh in and say, this can't. You're not even eligible for this? I would think so, too. I mean, I think we're going to have some issues, but I want to know where the listeners are.

(208) 542-1079 is the number. If you'd like to join us, we're asking you today, if Trump were to decide to run for a third term, what would you do? What would your reaction be? Okay, I have a question. While we're waiting for phone calls, do you do you have as much of, an issue with him running if he is choosing to run as the vice president to JD Vance?

Presidential run? Say that again. Do you have an issue as much of an issue with it? If he chooses to be vice president to JD Vance's presidential run and then not messing with it, just leaving it and being the vice president for four years? That's a longer conversation. But the short answer I'm not even good with that.

Okay. All right. Let's, let's go to our first caller here. Caller, what do you have to say? Would you support a third term for Donald Trump? Yes. Third term. You think he should run and just challenge the Constitution? You bet. Okay. All right. Thank you for the call. 208542 caller what say you? Would you support a third Trump term?

No, I would not. If you listen to Vance and Greenland, Vance is our guy in 2028. Okay, I got you 208542 179. That's the number. Caller. Would you support a third Trump term? I'd like to see it, but absolutely not. Follow the Constitution. Okay. All right. There's been several who say that in the text line, hey, I love Trump, but you can't do this.

This isn't gonna work. I would think, too, if that were a prevalent enough attitude. Trump probably wouldn't run. Yeah. All right, let's go to the phones. Caller would you support a third Trump term? Absolutely not. And anybody that is for it is actively going against our constitutional republic. And that is not acceptable. Okay. Thank you for the call.

Great call. Let's go to this one. Would you support a third Trump term caller? No, I wouldn't because I think the answer should be the president. And we should get someone started as the first woman president. And of all these great picks we have in the cabinet okay. All right. Thank you. Great. Great calls so far today. Wouldn't that drive the Democrats crazy if we actually were the ones who who put in place the first woman president?

Yeah. That'd be that'd be fantastic. All right. Calls are just rolling in now. Caller. What would you say about a third Trump term? Hey there, I love Trump. I say follow the Constitution if it's legal. Yes, I support him. And yes, run for vice president. Okay. All right. (208) 542-1079 caller what do you say about a second Trump term, a third Trump term?

No way. Follow the Constitution, but it has achieved what it is intended to do. Get the liberal talking, Joe. Yeah, that's that's a good point. The troll factor for sure. 2.54 to caller Trump's third term. What would you say? No way Ray okay. All right. Thank you. 20854 279 and caller what would you say if Trump wanted a third term?

I would say no, but I think he should keep talking about it because it's funny watching the Dems freak out over it. I will say it is kind of funny. Caller go ahead. What would you say about a third Trump term? I'd say absolutely. If it's following any kind of guideline of a loophole that has been provided.

Okay. So you think we ought to be looking for a loophole that would look. Absolutely. Trump is the man. Okay. All right. Well, there you go. That's our second. Yes. Then. And we had a couple on the text lines here at four yeses. Okay. All right. Caller, thank you for the call. 208542 179 what say you, about a third Trump term caller okay, so the Constitution didn't limit the presidential, terms to be two until 1948.

And so that constitution that can be changed, just like it was changed in 1948. And so, yeah, sure, if the Congress wants to go ahead and pass something, then sure, let Trump run a third term. But I would have to go through Congress and change the, constitutional amendment that was in 1948 and not in 1776. Well, sure.

Yeah. And we yeah. Yeah, it came I think it was FDR when they implemented that because it's like, yeah, that's too many to too many years. So, it is interesting those people who are liking it, which isn't very many, but those who are liking it are putting that clarification on there that we want it to be legal.

And I appreciate that because you do not want them to be able to weaponize it if this ever came to fruition, which I don't believe it would. But if it ever did, it is gotta be completely legal. Yeah, that's that's true. What I, I agree, but I don't know if I'd even want to pursue that too strongly because I think Trump, if he's doing his job, we're raising up great leaders that can take the baton.

Oh, we we have a bench. We don't need to be worried about a bench. Yeah, right. Yeah. All right. 2.5 for 279. Caller what do you say about a third Trump term?

They'd be running against Barack Obama. So absolutely not okay. All right. Thank you for the call. That's, I had this conversation the other day last week, in fact, because you'd have to argue if Trump gets to run for a third term, you know, the Democrats would bring Barack Obama out of retirement. And then we probably would have some Republicans that would say, no, you can't do that.

So, and that would be quite a race, I think. But yeah, I don't know. That's a longer discussion as well. (208) 542-1079 Caller what do you say if third Trump term. Yeah. How about Don Jr get the cloned. You got brilliance and you got use there. Had that eight has been floated and there's chatter around Don Jr.

So yeah maybe so. And there's no legal problem with that at all. So all right let's go to the next caller. What about a Trump third term. My yeah you're own. Would you like three terms of Biden. That's that's got to keep in play here. Yeah. How would that be the same. Well I mean you get a bad president in there that we don't like.

Why would you want to you know that's that's what that's your seven bites of. Well yeah. No I, I get what you're saying. But I yeah. All right, let's go to the next call. What do you say Trump wants a third term. Set me. Yes. Go ahead. Oh, nobody's talking about his age. Okay, but if he.

Theoretically, if the age was not a factor, Trump's third term, what would you. I think the I think the age will be a factor and I'd say no. Okay. All right. Thank you for the call. 2085 42 179 Caller go ahead, Woody, if Trump wants a third term, what would you say? Absolutely not. It's not constitutional. Secondly, he needs to shut his mouth about it because there are voters that are on the fence.

And this just gives them talking points to say, see, he's he's yeah, a rule. So that's it. All right. Thank you for the call. 208542 179 you're up. Caller what do you say about a third Trump term? I mean, on July, me Bob Zee you know, I like Trump. And last week they published about a 500 word, opinion piece on the, you know, commentary page of the post Register.

Great president. I in fact, I'll go so far as put him in the league, as Reagan, but no third term. He'll be like 82 or 83. He'll have his place in history. Do what you can, and that's it. Okay. All right. Thank you, Bob, good to hear from you. And, check your text messages. We replied to you.

Let's go to the next call. Caller. What would you say about a third Trump term?

Is that me? Yeah. Go ahead. So thanks. So as much as biggest supporter I am of President Trump, and I think he's the only guy that could have done what's been done. So far, I also firmly believe in term limits for all of the politicians. And that would so I, I can't go against my own principles and change it for the president.

Because I agree with the previous caller that that opens up Pandora's box and we like the one we've got now, but yeah, what are we going to do when we get one that we don't like? Yeah. No, you're good point. 28542 179 more calls. Let's take him. What would you say about a third Trump term caller?

Good morning. I would say that, if he gets done what he's going to get done in these two years, or if we can get four years after the midterms, the man has done enough. And, you know, if if the movement is in place, then we will continue on. But, let him go enjoy some life. Yeah.

Okay. All right. Thank you for the call. All right. Julie, how did the text line turn out? We have 41 nos for. Yes. Wow. Okay. Are the yeses all qualified? Like, if we can find a legal way to do it, Yeah. Okay. All right, well, I will say, very, well participated flagpole today. There we go.

And generally, I'm pretty pleased with what people were saying. Overall, I am pleased to I can I referenced the woman that called in and said no one's talking about his age. I actually did see an X over the weekend that was, of Trump walking across the white House lawn. He's going to get on the helicopter and, he looks great.

Trump has lost weight. Yeah, he looks very good. He's 78 years old, and it seems like he's been reinvigorated now that he's in the presidency. For his second term. Still, even at 78, you're just there's a lot of risk factors in comparison to 45 or to 50. So. Right. It is appreciated. Her comments that we have you know, we have J.D. Vance, we have Ron DeSantis.

We have others above and beyond those two. So I get that, you know, he's probably hit his ceiling as far as age, even though he looks good right now. Yeah. Well, and I think these all those politicians you mentioned and many, many more, they're walking on a road now that Trump paved for them. Yes. And he has changed the playbook.

He's changed the approach to politics. I think if there's one super, supremely important lesson that Republicans have learned in the in the last ten years is go after the media put them on the defensive, you don't need to play defense to them. You don't need to kowtow to them. You call them out for their for their bad behavior.

And I think that makes some people uncomfortable. No, it's perfectly acceptable because we let the media get too intrusive and too corrupt. And and I think Donald Trump again, right now, we're we're in the mix of it. So it's hard to look at it from 30,000ft 50 years in the future. But I think we will look back and Donald Trump will have been the the political force that destroyed legacy media in America.

Yeah. For good. I completely agree. And when you're talking about the three that we mentioned, DeSantis, Vance and Trump, they have some things in common. They do have different leadership styles in various things, but they have some very like rock solid things us Republicans want. One of them is they're fearless. Yeah. All three of those, man. Just they go it doesn't matter if they're getting pushback.

Second, they go against the media. And we expect that of every Republican politician at this point. Yeah. If you don't you've come off weak. Yeah. Get you you really have. Yeah. So, all right. Let's take a break. It's 923 on Newstalk 1079 Neil Larsen along with Julie Mason. We'll come back after this. If you'd like to join us on the program.

That number (208) 542-1279. We got a few texts we'll read to you as well. It's all ahead. Hi, Facebook. How are y'all? I think I could summarize the Trump third term discussion with I love Trump, but I love the Republic even more. And yeah, yeah, if if we there I mean there's a good reason we have presidential term limits.

It's because and and honestly if we violate it that comes back to bite us in the butt so bad in future elections. Because I think Obama probably could have had 4 or 5 terms if he had wanted to. Yes. With the way they compromise the election system and tipped the scales and all of that, Obama could still be our president if we decide, let's just toss the term, the presidential term limits.

Yeah, yeah. Look, there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Yeah, it's in all acts of life, everything we do. Yeah. Exercise is good for you. There's too much of it. You're probably gonna physically harm your body. Yeah, pizza is good for most people. Too much of it can harm your body. Yeah. Sleep needed too much of it.

Gonna harm your body. There's too much of a good thing. And I think we have to be careful with. With Trump can put us out of balance. Yeah. It's true. Yeah. But, but, Yeah, I really, was tempted to get my lawn mower out over the weekend. I didn't do it, but I'm ready. We're supposed to hit snow tomorrow.

Not to rain on everybody's parade, but we're going to. Let's look and see if it changed. It might have changed since I looked yesterday. Mine says partly cloudy and 46 tomorrow, then. Sunshine after that. Yeah, the the snow and rain clouds are gone for tomorrow, and it's got 20% chance at £0.03 pm today and a 20% chance at 5 p.m. today.

So we did change a little bit. Well, the weekend's going to be great though. What are we looking close to 60 degrees on Saturday. Oh yeah. Nice. Here we go.

All right 927 on Newstalk 178, Neil Larson Julie Mason it's Monday getting you back at it.

Back to work. Julie gets mad if I tell everyone to stop being lazy and get back to work, but I just try to be as nice to them as possible. And maybe they don't want to go back to work. You know what? For me, it's just tough love. It's like, you know, telling your kid time to do your chores.

So, Not really. I love your, Jasmine Crockett. Truly. Like, this is not a complaint about what you sent me. It's just the nature of the news cycle. I'm tired of hearing from Tim Walls. I'm tired of hearing from Jasmine Crockett. I'm tired of hearing about the signal controversy. I really want to talk about her some better.

That would be refreshing at this point. Yeah. So she was on the Breakfast Club. That's the Charlamagne the God. Listen to what she said about her colleague in Congress, Byron Donalds, who, of course, is black but has married a white woman. Listen. And if we continue to put people in office and that even means some of our skin folk who definitely are not our kinfolk, such as Byron Donalds, who are going to continue to say that like, I mean, the fact that you sitting around talking about life was better under Jim Crow, like, is this because you don't understand history or literally it's because you made a white woman and so you think that

that white washed you? I'm not really sure like what it is. But I to be married to a white woman on the correct. Correct. And it's a joy to call him out. So I'm like, bro, like, what are you talking about? Like, what are you saying? Like, he he just out here, you know, I feel like they give him his talking points and he's like, yes, Massa, I got it.

Okay. Julie, is this even worth dissecting? The only thing I have to say about it is that the only person who could get away with this is Jasmine Crockett. If a white person talked about somebody else's marriage like that, they would be canceled. You know? And I just wish the rules were for all, not for some. Yeah, well, she misquoted Byron Donalds, the reference about the Jim Crow era.

She said he said that things were better during the Jim Crow era. That's not at all what he said. What he said was that the, I want to get the quote here correct. But he talked about marriage rates during the Jim Crow era. Yeah, they were higher and those were stronger. That's very different than saying things were better or that we should go back to that.

But he was talking about how things, certain elements have declined. And they just lie. It's just sad how they lie. Yeah. I, I don't think it does Jasmine Crockett any favors. So am I scared that Jasmine Crockett is going to work her way up through these political, stepping blocks, you know, up the ladder and eventually be our president or something?

I'm not. I, I think she has tainted any chance she had at that. Yeah. And so she can keep talking. All it does is harm her party. Go ahead and keep talking like this. I. I don't know how you didn't watch during the the Kamala Harris Tim Walls Destroy Each Other campaign because you could have called it that.

Destroy the people who are supposed to be voting for you campaign and you just keep doing it. It didn't work. Yeah, it didn't work in August. It didn't work in September. It didn't work on in October. Why do you think it's working in March? Yeah. Yeah, that's a good point. This is what he said. And, he, he said, you see, during Jim Crow, the black family was together, Donald said in a recording published by the Philadelphia Inquirer.

During Jim Crow, more black people were not just conservative. Black people have always been conservative minded, but more black people voted conservative conservatively. And then Lyndon Johnson, you go down that road and now we are where we are. So what he's saying is that the war on poverty, the, all the stuff that Lyndon Johnson created to, quote unquote, help has just deteriorated the family life for blacks.

It wasn't about trying to elevate the Jim Crow era. It was pointing out about how destructive leftist ideology has been to black families. So but they don't they don't like that nuance. They just like to cherry pick a quote and then mischaracterize it and get all the political mileage they can out of it. Yeah. And you can get away with that on Charlamagne the God they're not going to call you out on that.

Especially when when they get into I mean, that's the point of the show. I'm not I'm I'm not pigeonholing or stereotyping the show. They're proud of that on that show. So the point of the of the show is this is how black people feel. And we're speaking for black people. So when Jasmine Crockett goes down that road, they're going to jump right in with her.

Yeah. It's true. I will say in Charlamagne The God's Defense, he will have his honest moments, though, where kind of like, kind of like Van Jones, kind of like Bill Maher and some other honest Democrats. They'll they'll call out their own side on occasion when they feel like they've they've overstepped, gone too far. So, Julie, I believe you were gone on Friday, but I talked about Jon Stewart's reaction to a podcast host's description of the multiple steps rural communities have to go through in order to have broadband.

And there's like seven steps and it takes five years and there's all these different assessments that have to be done in order to get a $5,000 grant. And Jon Stewart, the reason I just bring up Jon Stewart, because it reminded me of these liberals who can be honest, sometimes he recognizes how insane that is. And my just fresh hot take on that is that the left makes it deliberately complicated because then you get to employ more people, your friends, for longer periods of time.

It's not that necessary. Basic requirements. Get him the money, get the broadband there and get moving on it. It you could be that nimble, but it doesn't serve the government's interest to be nimble. And that's that is such a I think that's really coming back to haunt a lot of the Democrats. Now, when you're in the business of creating an industry instead of helping people, the industry is never going to be efficient and it's going to be bloated and it's always going to benefit them more than you.

And that's what they're doing, is creating an industry. Yeah it is. And that Julie is a perfect segway to the Lee Zeldin clip. He talked with, Matt Gates and basically said that the EPA in this plays right into our narrative that the federal government has just been one big money laundering operation for the Democrat Party, that it was just used as a slush fund to direct money to liberal NGOs.

Listen, do you believe the Biden administration was using the EPA as a political slush fund, more than a tool to clean up our environment? It was 100%. EPA was absolutely being used, to push out this green slush fund to their friends. By design, the director of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund leaves one of these NGOs, goes to work at the Biden administration to design this whole set up and then sees his former employer get $5 billion.

I mean, we've seen it on the smaller grants as well. What one person who is a CEO of of a nonprofit was serving on the white House Environmental Justice Council, applied for $20 million, got it, even though they only received, just over $2 million over the course of the prior three years. So again, the more you dig into this, the more you realize that this was a green slush fund that was going to left wing activist groups rather than going directly towards remediating environmental issues.

So to the heart of your question, are we providing clean air, land and water? This isn't, money that was spent directly towards remediating environmental issues. This was money going through their friends and in some case, going through multiple middlemen and each of these middlemen being able to pull their own fees out for their own benefit. And the dilution of that American tax dollars, is very obvious to us.

It seems to be quite obvious to most Americans who are paying attention, even though for some they want to turn a blind eye to all of it and make believe that there's no evidence of anything, despite the facts, despite the truth. Crazy. Yeah. And Democrats want to keep going. Yeah. They were benefiting their family members. They were benefiting friends.

They were. It is one of the most incest UUs relationship. You think Hollywood's incestuous when you find out so-and-so's related to so-and-so, or that's the stepmom of this person or whatever you think Hollywood's incestuous step into political realms? Every there is a core group and they're all taking care of each other. And I also want to say it doesn't just exist in DC.

That's on the state level as well. Well, yes, that could be a topic. Yes, it could. And, and maybe we'll explore it. Probably not today. But I also think, Julie, when we look at these gazillion dollar line items like funding the EPA, for some reason, I don't know why people don't think that can't happen with sending sending foreign aid to Ukraine or other other nations.

Anytime you have a big, big budget line item, you should look at every link in the chain of who's feeding from that trough. And I think that's what Elon Musk has been doing with Doge. He's following the money trail, and he's finding out that some really interesting things how much money is going out the door a lot of it is deficit spending.

Who is the recipient of it? How many middle men and women are there? And I just, it it's odd to see the backlash against this now his you know Tesla's get it's just weird. We live in a weird time Elon Musk he's just the doctor coming along and running tests and saying you have cancer. He didn't cause the cancer.

He gives you hope to get the cancer out. But there's such a backlash at the doctor telling you that you have cancer. And I think one of the things that conservatives did is they underestimated how much of this was happening. I think we had a basic knowledge of, yeah, of course there's bloat and waste in the government. I don't think we even had a clue until Elon Musk came along and started exposing these items.

That's uncomfortable. Uncomfortable for a group of people, including conservatives, because they don't like to be wrong. Yeah. So when somebody else comes in and says, this is what's going on, you wanted to be the one to uncover that and when you weren't. And now now you're like, well, there was a little bit, but not that much. And then Elon Musk says there's a ton.

It makes you feel bad. So Elon's getting a little bit of hate from all over the place. A whole bunch of hate from the Democrats, but a little bit of hatred from Republicans. Republicans too, because they don't like to be wrong. Well, I and to not be wrong. But don't you think that some Republican groups are the recipient of this as well?

Just enough to buy their silence? Absolutely. But they're also cashing in. Clearly, the vast majority of this money is going to leftist groups. But you got to buy the silence of the other side and 100% enough so that the Republican Party is going to look the other way. And let's face it, under McConnell and years of Republican, you know, leadership in Washington, this kind of stuff just kept happening.

They had to have known it was happening. They were just like, well, we get to have our hands in the cookie jar a little bit, too. And I promise you, we're going to see some things that are uncomfortable from this for our side as well. You don't see budget bills with hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of pages without there being bloat.

And you voted on it and you knew it was there. Yeah, yeah. No, you're not wrong. All right. 941 Newstalk 107 (928) 542-1079. We'd love to hear from you today on the Stones Automotive Group call and Text line. We'll be back after our news. Panama bam bam bam bam bam. Okay, so I got a text from a listener before I left on Thursday and she's on Facebook Live all the time, but I don't know if she wants me to call her out, but, she was just happened to be shopping at the Walmart in Idaho Falls on Utah Avenue, and she sent me a picture of these.

And she said, isn't this what you and Neal were talking about? And I'm like, yeah, she found them. So she knows where I live. She dropped them off at my house. So on the post show, Neal and I will try the spicy dill pickle goldfish. Oh, yeah, that'll be good. And then I'm going to send them home with, you know, I have been so good.

I was good all weekend. Oh, I made this thing. Julie mocks me because I use the low carb tortillas. I don't know if you can exist without the low carb tortillas. I can't, it's just it. I don't have a lot of options, so that's a good one to go. If you need something that has bread or a wrap or whatever.

So I would use other things. If if there were things widely available. It's just there for carb. Easy. Yeah. But I thought, okay, I've done these pizza dealers and you know, little frying pan pizzas. I'm going to try something. Little. And we had like half a package of bacon. And I thought, okay, you put bacon and pepperoni together on a pizza, right?

What if I made a bacon, pepperoni, cheese quesadilla, but it had a white sauce on it, so it had, What's that? You put it on Fredo Alfredo sauce. Oh, my goodness, it was very, very good. Loaded with fat, not a ton of carbs, but loaded with fat. It was spectacular. So good. More of those in my future.

Yay! Good for you. Glad you found it. I think you would have liked it too. I'm sure I would have liked it. I like like it in pizza choices. I like chicken, bacon Alfredo, you know, white sauce pizza. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I started the bacon cooking and then I went upstairs to do just some computer work. Forgot I had put the bacon on there.

So my wife caught it, took it off the stove. But I went back down and it it was little crispy chunks and it was really good. Good, good. And glad the house didn't burn down. I'm glad that didn't happen. I've been fatigued, brain fatigued. Physically. I've been feeling great, but brain fatigue, I just I think these Tesla protests are ridiculous.

I'm not surprised about them. I think I think more I'm befuddled. Don't you care who you hang out with? It cannot be fun being with these. Oh, first off, I'm going to say it. I'm just going to say they're slobs. I'm just going to say it. Not all of them, but they don't have the best hygiene. Yeah, and they're grumpy and bitter.

They don't understand jokes. I. So you're with stinky, grumpy, bitter, no sense of humor, people. And that's who you want to hang out with? Yeah, I don't get it. I don't either, I don't eat, and you're right, they largely are hygiene challenged. They're miserable people. Their emotional hygiene is worse than their physical hygiene. Like, it's just. You're right.

They're just miserable, miserable people. And whatever. I'm not saying they have to shower you. Do you? That's who you want to be. You. Do you? I'm just befuddled by it. Yeah, because I would never want to hang out with those kind of people. I would never want to hang out with people who are consistently grumpy and angry and looking for the worst.

And I just. Yeah, that is no fun. No, no fun at all. Okay. We have a caller. Do you have a Timberline? No, I'm done because it's the end of the month is over. Yeah. Okay, so.

Carrie, do you trust Trump's national security? Yeah. To keep our word top secret. You trust your mother every night to fix your Hot Pockets and make sure your Gameboy is turned on. All right, we're back. Tim Burchett, own that poor kid. It was great. Well, you know, if you ask a question like that, then be ready for the consequences.

Well, we just finished talking about J.D. Vance and Ron DeSantis and President Trump pushing against back against the media. Go ahead and do it. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah, I think it's I think it's great. So what you do let's go to the phones. 208542 117 hi, caller. How are you. Your morning. How are you? Good, good. A couple points I, I thought of and I guess I have questions on.

Okay. Well when DOJ's going out and they're finding all these billions of dollars of waste and they're trying to recover the money, correct. In some cases they're trying. Yes. Okay. What are they doing with the money they recover. Yeah. I think it's the public. If they come in and said we recovered just using numbers, I recovered $80 billion.

But we've applied it to to this debt or something to pay it down. I think people would be a little bit more. Well, understanding that that money will have to be reappropriated added. They can't just arbitrarily go, let's just put it over here. So it would go back in the Treasury. And then when Congress passes an upcoming appropriation bill, that money would be there so that it can't immediately just be used for something else.

Okay, I understand that. Another one is when you listen to these protesters in Idaho, across the country, they all talk about how Elon Musk is robbing this blind. And, you know, I buy into that. If they tell me how, tell me where to put your money. Tell me something. But they've been sold such a line of truck from the Democrat that they just buy into it.

Yeah, I just don't grasp that concept. Well, yeah. And thank you for the call. I have a couple of thoughts about that. First of all, the Democrats are broken and they believe when they talk about Elon Musk has robbed them. Is that what the. And I've heard that a few times. What they're saying is he's not giving me the money that I want or he's not.

I don't know how they they argue in the traditional definition of words, how he's actually robbing them. There's no there's no way to to to defend that. There isn't a way to defend it either. You said the money that they deserve or that they want. I would say the money they think they deserve. Yeah. Like they believe they have ownership of it.

I watched a TikTok of a girl crying. She was college age, and she really believes that her government should pay for her college. And somehow she now believes, with the disbanding of the Department of Education because she watches stupid other TikToks, or maybe the mainstream media that all of a sudden student loans and grants aren't going to be there.

I first off, they're not going away. Second off, you're not. You're need no one owe you a college education. Yeah. And but I do believe there are people out there who believe they deserve it. Yes. They feel entitled to it. They feel entitled to it. And, you know, though, going back to something you said, though, where you talked about how kids or parents of kids feel like the government owes them or, or, you know, is obligated to pay for their college education instantly.

I went to lunch program. Like, there is that mentality, even among some Republicans, that the government ought to be paying for kids schools like college. Yeah, we all generally agree on K through 12. Get them to a high school diploma. And then after that, you know, but I, I think that they're stretching that state constitutional retirement or requirement to justify paying for, post-secondary education.

Right. And then we can we can dive into that. There are pros and cons to the lunch program. I think that there is also some waste in the lunch program that hasn't been used quite like it was intended. It doesn't seem to be going as as strongly for those construction trade jobs as it right. Like it had been touted that it would, which was an issue that you and I had, that they were taking a victory lap by far before you could see if there was any victory to be had.

Yeah. And and so hopefully they're restructuring that a little bit. The application process is being a little bit more refined. I'm find that it has to be refined. I'm not saying they should have gotten it right. You know step one out of the gate because that happens with government programs. What I am saying is don't encourage people to live off the government when you can create a program like launch, it needs to be designed personally for me, those who have worked the hardest, tried the hardest, excelled the most, done, the you know, whether it be in civic work or, or good grades or or sports or whatever, people who weren't just sitting at home doing

nothing. Yeah, that's the ones I don't want to get the, the money because government doesn't need to pay any more for people who are sitting around. Government, if they're going to give money, should pay for high producers reward ambition. Yes. Yeah. Yeah I agree and you know it is Senator Dave Lent that said, this isn't an education bill.

This is a workforce bill. That's what launch is not a bill anymore. It's it's the law and it's a system. But but they're, they're saying that this is a bill designed to solve an economic problem, not an educational one, which I gave him kudos for his honesty about the issue. But I have a lot of thoughts about it.

But you're right. I mean, they're finding that they're not really filling the the sort of those hard core blue collar trades that they were aiming for, that it's Messiah Massachusetts massage school. And there was one other one that was a whole bunch of the grant money was given to BYU Idaho. Well, people are doing, you know, like social work degrees and stuff up there where you're already you already had programs available for that.

Yeah. The point and the way it was sold, if you remember. Oh my goodness. All they ever talked about was welders, nonstop welders this welders, that welder. We need more welders blah, blah, blah. Well, if that's not where the money went then it was presented erroneously. Yeah. Your desires might have been that it should have gone there. But our first inclination is, no, that's not where the grant money is now going.

We need to restructure that a little bit. If it's meant, like Senator Lentz said, to build up a trade, the money needs to be funneled to that trade. Is it? And I, I would imagine this would not be that hard to do. If we want to refine the program, allocate certain grants towards certain programs that are needed, like if you do need more welders, allocate more, but it's only available for people going into a qualified welding program.

And that way you limit the amount of and I don't want to rip on message with they call them misuses therapy. Yeah. Massage therapist I don't want a rip on that. But I think that it's, it's a fairly simple certificate to get and not necessarily in, in higher demand. So about six months, not necessarily in high demand.

And I'm not sure it creates I if you, if you educate welders and electricians and plumbers and those kind of jobs. Yeah. There is a ripple effect of other jobs that come into place. I'm not sure massage therapy has that ripple effect. Yes. Yeah. Good point. Well said. We'll be back. We'll wrap it up after this.

Okay. Take some of these. Oh, we got to do one more time. Yeah. We'll have time for about a minute. Okay? Okay. I came across on social media an account that's based. It says Texas Reporter. But I don't know if this guy is actually a TV reporter in Texas. Anyway, he keeps making the point on Facebook that it's not the Gulf of America.

It's the Gulf of Mexico. And anyway, it's pretty liberal. Like if you go there and he'll make multiple posts, like there's probably 20 or 30 of them since Trump, renamed it. And he's like, here in Austin, we call it the Gulf of America. And I felt like posting I never engage, rarely engage politically. And I didn't this time either.

But I wanted to say, you guys don't even know what a woman is. But you're going to you're going to weigh in on this. Yeah. That you, you can absolutely decide what the name of a body of water would be. Yes. That's definitive. There's no fluidity there. Pardon the pun. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Anyway I just thought there just me at my new job.

All right. I was at Town and Country Gardens on Friday. Pallets filled with this four step lawn program. The hue mates, the fertilizer, the fall treatment, the winterize. It's all there. You just got to swing by. And, you also one thing that, that Rex told me. Julie, get your seeds right now, because as soon as it's time to plant, there's a rush on it, and maybe some of the seeds won't be available.

Good idea. And it's time to start that four step lawn program. Remember, if you buy all the steps together, it is a, decreased price. Yeah. Versus getting them separately. And if you're confused or need some help in calculating, make sure you talk to somebody there. One of my favorite things about town and country, they have so many experts that can help you with what you're trying to do.

Lots of expertise. Town and country gardens across from the Budweiser plant south of Idaho Falls on the Yellowstone Highway. Everyone have a great Monday. Julie and I. We will be back here bright and early on. Newstalk 179.