4.2.2025 -- NLS -- Idaho Blocks Illegal Healthcare, Proxy Voting Debate

On this episode with Neal and Julie, they dive into legislative decisions surrounding taxpayer-funded medical care for illegal immigrants in Idaho. They discuss the Senate’s overwhelming vote to bar such funding and the broader implications of incentivizing illegal entry. Neal questions the constitutional arguments against the bill and urges transparency from legislators who voted against it.

The conversation shifts to proxy voting in Congress, particularly for parents of newborns. They debate whether elected officials should be allowed to vote remotely due to family responsibilities and how such policies could be exploited. Neal and Julie also explore how past proxy voting rules, implemented during COVID-19, set concerning precedents.

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Transcript

Welcome. Good morning. It's the Nielsen show. And if you'd like to reach us via text on the Stones Automotive Group call and text line, that number is (208) 542-1079. We have a nice array of items. Smorgasbord for you today. Legislative li couple of different issues to talk about welfare, specifically medical care for illegals in Idaho. Now I'm a guy.

You know me, I'm a fairly simple thinker. And of course you wouldn't incentivize and create a magnet. And, all the things, in fact, you want to you want to remove incentives for people to break the law and come here, illegally. Furthermore, you don't want greater injustice to the American taxpayer, in this case, the Idaho taxpayer, by confiscating their wealth to pay for the health care of people who have broken the law and are here illegally.

For me, that's just common sense. Like maybe you can add lots of nuance or, I well, let's have a sophisticated discussion and talk about the plight of the disadvantaged and blah, blah, blah. I know it just comes down to a pretty simple solution here, which is if you have these programs in place, they are a magnet. It's obvious it's been shown to be the case.

And so the Senate quite overwhelmingly voted to bar you paying for the health care of illegals. Now, if you had asked me, I would have thought, why wasn't this firmly in place before? Why do we have to pass a law for this? Because it's just common sense. But I was a little surprised at the some of those who voted against this, that they voted to a now, okay legislation can be a little complicated here.

So I don't want to characterize their vote. You don't always know the motivation. Sometimes people will vote no on a bill, not because they disagree with the sentiment of the bill, but they might think it won't pass constitutional muster. Or they might think we already have a law in place. I don't want another law. I don't want redundancy.

Well, that's clutter. It's legislative clutter. So sometimes you have good reason for voting against a bill that you might agree with. So I don't want to characterize why these lawmakers voted against it. But I do hope that they will be very forthcoming and communicate to their constituents why they didn't vote to bar taxpayers funding the health care of illegals.

Now, there's a caveat here. And the caveat is anybody who goes to an E.R. that has an emergency will get care. They don't say, how are you going to pay before you get the lifesaving care that you need? So that's not in question. Also, there's another lie that's being bandied about mischaracterization, which is they're being denied care. That's not true.

They're not being denied care. It's just a question of who pays for it. And if you walk in to the doctor's office and you can, take out your own debit or credit card or cash if they take it and pay for your visit and your services, then they're not going to deny you care. So this bill does not deny them care.

However. However, think of the mentality that is required, typically from the Democrat Party. But there's enough Republicans who think this way and use the lingo of the left in the very same way that it creates a lot of concern where they say, well, they're being denied care. No they're not. That's a lie. It's it's a flat out lie to say that it's you know what?

It's a it's a, it's a lie that's very similar. Remember prop one when you had the proponents saying these people are blocked from voting? No they're not. Nobody's blocked from anything that they have no hesitation in lying. And sometimes the lies are in in the form of half truths, but you have to call them out on it so they're not being denied care.

They can get health care. It's just they may have to pay for it. If it's beyond emergency care. So, this is very common among common sense driven nations where they if you're there and you're a foreigner, they're like, okay, you can be here will allow that. In fact, even the ones who we haven't said you can be here anyway, it goes beyond that.

But they will tell you, you don't get our nationalized health care. That's only for citizens. You have to pay your own way for all of these things. And they make it very clear. Tammy Nichols had that testimony on the floor. Now, we did have, a couple of others. This is Ron Taylor, Ron Taylor, is a Democrat, I believe district 26.

Just I ask myself four different questions. One, does it solve a problem? Two, is it constitutional? Three is a good policy and four, is it enforceable? When I read this one, those four questions did not come to my mind. I asked myself two questions. One was, Ron, have we as a society lost all respect for decency? I haven't been able to answer that one yet.

I think that question remains to be answered. The second question I ask myself was what would Jesus do? I answered that question. I'll be voting no on this one. Okay? When did we let the Democrats claim Jesus? I thought, I've no, I've thought about this, I remember. Do you remember back 2017 or 18 and we had the Medicaid expansion debate.

It was the the one initiative that Reclaim Idaho was able to scam Idahoans into voting for and who they used it with sound bites. And this was a very common one. It's the compassionate thing to do. It's the Christlike thing to do, is to pay for the poor. And you know what? I did some looking. I'm not a professional theologian, but there is that verse in the New Testament where it says, Jesus is speaking and he says, go thy way, confiscate the wealth of hardworking residents and give it to the poor who are occupying the land illegally.

Yeah, I forget which which gospel and chapter and verse that's in, so you'll have to forgive me, but the Democrats have that verse memorized, and some Republicans also have that biblical New Testament verse memorized, where Christ told people to go thy way and confiscate others wealth to pay for the illegal occupiers health care. Yeah, okay, enough on that.

So, look, things are still cookin in the legislature. I know there is chatter about shiny dye happening soon. It does not feel like Sunny Days is going to be happening soon. Maybe it will. Things can happen at lightning speed after they happen at molasses speed for weeks. And so perhaps they'll shiny die this week. But I'll tell you, they're just they're just continuing to debate legislation and, and moving forward.

So Bill Ma went to the white House to meet with Trump. And this is a great story. This is Greg Gutfeld. Listen, 2015. And he's been relentless really, ever since. Yeah. Well, Bill, when he showed up at the white House, he'd actually brought a list of insults Trump had said about him. And gave it to Trump. And what did he do?

He signed it, you know, which is very Trumpian. Okay, I, I love that. So Bill Maher said, I'm going to go. I've been invited to the white House. That's an honor. And I'll go and meet with Trump. I don't like Trump. I don't agree with Trump, but this is America. We need to be able to talk to each other and be civil.

Now, no doubt Bill Maher is getting loads and loads of hate for this, but I will. I will tell, those of you who are on the other side, we we have some Trump Deranged listeners, but I would say 3 or 4 and some text in more frequently than others. But we have some that believe Trump is the spawn of Satan, that he is a horrible human being, that there's an element of evil to him, and that in no way should he ever be legitimized by a liberal or even a conservative.

So when Bill Maher goes to the white House, accepts the invitation that was negotiated or at least initiated it and facilitated by kid Rock, then you have a portion of the left that loses their ever loving minds, and I'm sure that's have I don't I don't pay that close attention. So, I'm sure you'd find it. But I do think you have a few emerging wise voices from the left that are saying, look, America loves what Trump is doing.

We can sit in the corner and pout about it, or we can stand up, own the situation and recognize that the left has gone off the rails and they've screwed up. Well, we'll talk more about it. I want to take a break, but, the the numbers for the Democrats in the House, they are in a massive bind right now.

Massive bind because they are disapproved of even by Democrats. Their approval rate right now is at 21%. It's an all time low and they are locked in. There is right now nothing that they can do to get out of it. I'll explain. Coming up just minutes away on Newstalk 10798 19.

822 Newstalk 109 Neil Larson and Julie Mason. And, by the way, sad that, Val Kilmer passed away. He was 65 years old. Of course, he was the Top Gun star. He was in Batman Forever and his most notable films that he did and really like, he was one of the super Sisley movie stars from the 1980s.

Everybody loved Val Kilmer. Yeah, yeah. So I'm kind of sad he was in the remake for Top Gun two. Yeah, that's right, he was. They they had to like I his voice though, like they had to do some things to make it sound like that character to happen. Yeah. Anyway, I think the, the, his health the last few years of his life was just super challenged.

So happy that he's he's at peace now. That's good. Good, good for him. And, never I don't ever remember having a negative thought about Val Kilmer. I always just liked him. Thought he was a good, good actor. And do you know what tells everyone that we're 52? What is? When I, did the news, read this morning and saw that he had passed and that he was 65 years old, my very first thought was, that's not very old.

I know that's only 13 years. Yeah, yeah, that's true, that's true. So, yeah. Julie, we're going to do a flash poll. Probably. We could do it later this hour. Okay. And it's over. Proxy voting and the house you had Mike Johnson. Just saying we're recessing. We're not going to continue because you had about nine Republicans in mutiny against their majority.

They don't want to open this door because they're constitutional questions. We absolutely know the other side will use it against us and weaponize it. And so we we don't want to be the ones setting the precedent for something that is very predictable in life, which is having a baby. It's not an emergency situation. And, it's not a dire situation.

It's and it was really led by Anna Paulina Luna, who I've, I've really admired. Like, she's a solid conservative. She's one of the new kind of hot shots, Republicans. But but she has a baby. And there she was, teaming up with other Democrats that were, also have babies. And you had a few male members of Congress that were joining them, and they wanted to change the rules to allow proxy voting.

And Mike Johnson just said no. And it's really sad because there's a lot of really important legislation that that's there. But this is important enough. We're just going to shut it down for now. Yeah. And I asked Senator Crapo, was that affecting business in DC? He said not as much as as the media might portray it, that the House was ahead on some things.

I think it always does affect business, but maybe not as dire as what the media was portraying. The fact that Mike Johns has said, hey, why doesn't everybody just go home? Yeah. So it's a power play by Mike Johnson. This was done kind of, I think behind his back. And he didn't appreciate it. Yeah. And so that was another reason he he was like this is not how we're going to run this house.

And I'm going to tell you how we're going to run the house. So do you agree with what he did? I don't know if I agree with it because what I wish is there were more adults in the room. Hey. Yeah, that's what I actually was show. So do I agree with it. Do I understand it. Absolutely.

Yeah. So here's what he had to say. Well it's a very disappointing result on the floor there. A handful of Republicans joined with all the Democrats to take down a rule that's rarely done. It's very unfortunate. In this case, 96% of House Republicans voted against proxy voting because they believe it's unconstitutional, and they agree that it would open a Pandora's box.

And so that's what we just saw. Let me just make this clear. That rule being brought down means that we can't have any further action on the floor this week. That means we will not be voting on the Save act for Election integrity. We will not be, voting on the rogue judges who are attacking President Trump's agenda.

We will not be, taking down these terrible Biden policies with the CRA votes. All that was just wiped off the table is very unfortunate. We'll regroup and come back, and, we'll have to do this again. Mr. speaker, were you asking? Pretty much. Okay. So, I in the context of where they were, I agree with Speaker Johnson.

You can't lose control. As speaker. You are the speaker of the House, and you you have to take steps that maybe might feel a little extreme to prevent mutiny from a handful of members of your own party, from joining the other side to make something happen, especially, that could have big, big consequences down the road. So I given this set of circumstances, I agree with Speaker Johnson shutting it down for now.

Yeah. Hey, I like I said, I believe it has he has his reasons. Yeah. I just get frustrated. I just wish that we had grown ups in Washington that weren't cheating the system, that were actually doing business, that were actually. But if you were him, what would you do? Oh, I probably would have done the same thing. Yeah, yeah.

So I don't yeah, you're right. You disagree with the overall situation. But given the the circumstance we'll just add it to the pile of things I disagree with about DC. So yeah. Right. There's an accumulation. So but the question we're going to ask you is not that do you agree with Mike Johnson. The question we will ask is should for for predictable and plan around of all medical situations and life situations, should there be proxy voting.

Because you know what, it's pregnancy this week. It'll be chemotherapy next week. It'll be something else the following week. And this thing will just grow out of control. And then proxy voting will just be used for everything. And we did see some dangerous things happen with that. I don't quite remember the legislation. But if you remember when this was implemented due to Covid 19 and Nancy Pelosi was speaker of the House, she held a few votes where there were just a handful of people there in DC, and that's how they determined it.

Yeah. Right. And and so the language of this is very, very it's not just the concept. The language is very important because if there's loopholes where certain votes can be held because people are at home. Yeah, that is very dangerous. Well, well it is and and I will also add this. There's voting is one thing out of about a thousand things that you're required to do as a lawmaker that you can't proxy do.

Okay. You can't proxy participate in committee hearings. You can't. You just you've got to be there for them. And and it sounds a little cutthroat, but I would say this for males, females, whatever the situation is, whatever the life situation is, in this case it's pregnancy. So it's gender specific. But I would say this universally, if it's not the right time for you to be in Congress and be there every day and and you pointed out their schedule is super light, but when they're in session to be there, then it's just not the right time for you to be in Congress.

I mean, you can't you can't have your cake and eat it too. In that regard, you've got to decide the route you want to go in your life. And if you're not able to attend Congress every day and, and sometimes they miss a day, everybody understands that. But you also know you miss the opportunity to, to vote.

So I, I just feel like people have to make their choices and can't have both. I would also say if you asked everyday working Americans, women who have children and go back to work full time and somehow make daycare work or family helping with watching of the children work, or in situations like mine where I work during the night and my husband work during the day, you make sacrifices due to where you're at in your life.

Yeah. Why? If you're a lawmaker, do you all of a sudden not have to make sacrifices? Yeah. Every day Americans make sacrifices all the time. Yeah, they do, they do. And you have to forego doing some things you really want to do in order to make those sacrifices. So you have to decide, do I want to have a baby or do I want to be in Congress?

Now? You could do both, but you got to work that out. Yes. Okay. It's not Congress's job to work that out for you. You've got to work that. Are we being too harsh? I don't think we're being too harsh. I just think that we've became we've become very soft. Yeah. Just and don't entitle. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I mean I've, I've decided this is a great example, Julie.

I've decided now is just not the right time for me to be in the NBA. I like to eat and I like to not exercise at the level I would have to. Okay. And I like being 511. And so I've just I've just decided I'm, I'm right now I'm not pursuing a career in the NBA. So I, I'm just putting that to the side.

Yeah. This was probably a wise choice on your part, but I was can I just say if you had the capabilities to be in the NBA, you wouldn't like it? Oh, I'd hate it. My coworkers, one in particular, I would I couldn't stand it. Yeah. I don't think you'd enjoy it and would. Yeah. All right. It's 832. Should we break?

Sure. All right. We'll be back. On Newstalk 10792085421278.

All right. 837 on Newstalk 1078. Can I give some kudos to our it engineering crew here? Juliet Sandhill they did us good yesterday. Julie and I walked into the studio this morning and, they had installed brand new low profile mic booms in, our studio. It makes the room just feel more open. It feels so big and bigger.

And, we, we've been anticipating this change for a little while, and it was like that. Don't know, 2 or 3 days ago, I'm like, hey, Marv, what do you think about, installing those new fan angled mic booms that we found in loft? And he's like, all right, well, let's install the new fan mic. Boom. That's close.

You guys need to go just a little bit deeper. I know, I know that's a little bit deep. Can't quite do the my voice but no they there was a nice that you a lot of times they'll do something I'll get a text from them saying yeah we've done this. No no. But they're like let's let it be a surprise.

And when we walked in we were it was surprise. It was like Christmas morning this morning. Super excited. They looked great. Big thank you to them. We love to be taken care of. Last week we put up a big, big, big screen TV. To run promotional logo. It was stuff looks amazing when you walk in. So now because I'm a Democrat, I expect something new every single week, so work to keep me happy.

I think we better settle your expectations because you're going to be pretty disappointed. Nope.

It's the Christian thing for them to do. Oh, it's not what it is. Yeah, that's if they were Christian. If they were Christians. Yes. It's a yeah, yeah, I could find another. What Jesus would do in Jesus would give us a gift every week. That's true. It's the Christian thing to do. I had you ever heard did you hear my monologue?

I did. Had you ever heard that Bible verse before? How did I miss this one? I don't I don't remember you saying the Bible verse. Oh, yeah, there's the Bible verse where. And it Christ said, and go, ye therefore confiscate wealth from hardworking taxpayers and give it to illegal occupiers of the land. Oh, that's an ecclesiastics. Well, it has to be in the New Testament because Jesus said it.

Okay. Like ecclesiastics, this was long before Jesus. So we we have to write these bits before we do them. Okay. Oh, it's on the fly. Like I just I do this crap on the fly. So, There. Anyway, I just wanted to share a little theology with our audience this morning, so. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, is there a Bible verse that corresponds with this expectation?

I don't I'm I'm sure we can make one up if we're just making up crap out of the Bible. Sure. Let's let's build one. Okay. And go ye therefore, and expect what was previously given in compassion and generosity, and begin to expect it with stern demand and zero gratitude and zero gratitude. Thou shalt have no gratitude for that which is given from a rich man.

And the footnote says, A and you go down to the bottom, and the little ass says, Democrat. Yes, there you go, there you go. All right. It's eight 841 2085421 you know, what should we do? Our flagpole right now? Sure you're good with that? Yeah. Okay. So here's the question. Going back to our previous discussion about, the the proxy voting.

And I feel like, Julie, you and I have had pretty strong opinions about this, so I hope we haven't totally thrown the audience, on this, but, you have this mutiny by nine members of the Republican Party in the House that want to shift to allow proxy voting for moms with babies and for dads to take, medical leave or eternity paternity leave.

Yeah. And, so here's the thing. This could affect tons of men in Congress as well as women in Congress who have had babies. Yeah. It's not just women. And I think that it was presented that way. Yeah. And I think that's unfair. That's the soft version of the presentation. Yes. That that's true. And it's, it's not quite that.

But not only is it unfair, it also didn't give the full scope of, of what this could create. So we're going to ask you that question right now. You can call in or you can text in to the stones Automotive group calling text line (208) 542-1079. Should proxy voting be in place for moms and dads with babies in Congress?

Let's see what you have to say. (208) 542-1079 Julie and I already on though we don't get to vote, but we're gonna wait for is doesn't count. Caller go ahead. What say you proxy voting for moms and dads with babies in Congress? No. Follow the rules. If you don't want to be in Congress, don't run for Congress. Okay?

All right. Thank you for the call. Short, sweet. That's good. I like this text. Somebody said if I had to suddenly leave town on election day, should I be should I be able to designate my wife to vote for me, go to the polls and vote for me? No, that's not how it is. No, that's not how it is.

All right. (208) 542-1079. If you'd like to reach us, you can call or you can text. Oh. The nose are flying in. No way. Jose. No. No. Absolutely not. Someone else said show up to work and do your job. When I was in the military, I didn't get exempt from deployments because my wife was pregnant or just had a baby.

So no. Oh, do we have a single. Yes. We don't have a single yes yet. Nobody is saying a yes on this. So speaking of that, while I'm waiting for the next five calls to come in really fast, (208) 542-1079 I'm surprised that Burchett didn't see he's usually a no nonsense show up and do your job kind of guy.

We've had a lot of praise for him recently, too. He's done some great things and then all of a sudden he showed up here, which is why I thought maybe there was some kind of an exchange of favor between him and Anna. Paula. Paulina. Luna. Yeah. That maybe she had helped him with something, so he said yes.

I'll go ahead and back you on this. I just wondered if there was some sort of a deal. Yeah, that was brokered there. Yeah, maybe. So, back to the phones. Caller. What do you have to say about proxy voting for Congress members with babies? I engaged in 100%. Oh, she's against it. Okay. All right. Thank you for the call.

208542 179 very text heavy this morning, getting a couple of calls, plenty of, open lines for you to call in. (208) 542-1079 someone backed up your your, point that you ran for the job and got the job knowing what the rules were. Don't come in and now change the contract. Yeah, it's an on site position. And,

Yeah. 208542107 I'm also a little disappointed, Julie, that the Republicans could not see just over the horizon enough to know Democrats will then use that precedent to open this wide open. So all right back to the phones caller. What do you have to say about proxy voting for members of Congress with babies. Yeah I vote no.

But I hear some lady out on the street screaming yeah. So I'm going to send in a proxy vote for her for a yes vote. Okay. And nice. Okay. Great. .2854 217 caller what do you have to say about proxy voting? I'm against it. I feel with what they're being paid, they can be present. Yeah. Okay. It's not a low level salary in America.

No. You're right. So if you're getting paid that much money, there's a higher expectation, especially when all of you go over there and you end up quadrupling your your wealth within three years. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Somebody said I had a final exam on my wife's due date. Still had to show up and take the test 50 miles away from my wife.

Yeah, right. And, so you're you're not wrong. Let's go back to the phones here. Caller. What do you have to say about proxy voting for members of Congress with babies on my mind, and to also take the test 50 miles. All right, go ahead. You're on.

Okay. We had to let him go, but they were listening to us in the background, which was so nice of them. That's that's. Yes. That's right. Someone said something about a train derailment in Ashton. Yeah, I just tried to refresh and look for that. I'm not seeing that news anywhere. I try to try to find the info, flash that out.

All right, caller, what do you have to say? Congress members with babies, should they be able to proxy vote no. President Trump already signed executive order for all federal workers to go back to work at office. Why can't they. That's. Yeah, that's a that's a good point. I mean, there's a very nerdy technical answer to that because he doesn't control the legislative branch, only the executive.

But but he set an example. Yes. That's what he expected of workers. And and why do they get to have an exemption. Can I ask you a question while we're waiting for the next call to come in? Julie, would you be okay if instead of this whole proxy voting, constitutionally questionable garbage idea, what if Congress had a very generous way of having your children with you on Capitol Hill?

Oh, I'm good with that daycare. Maybe you can have your nanny there. So your baby could be there. Yeah. Changing your office around, like, bit. Yeah, I, you know, some people might say, well, no, they need not every workplace does that way. I'm not going to get hung up on that. All right. I, I, I would be okay if they had that accommodation, so I would too.

Yeah. (208) 542-1079 is the number. And I am amazed at the number of texts that are coming in. They are flying in. We still do not have a single. Yes. Wow. Let's go to the phones. Caller. What do you say about proxy voting for Congress members with babies? Well, there's been half of Congress already. Babies. And they're not even showing up.

So I said no. They got to figure out how to get there and take those pacifiers out and quit complaining. Okay? Thank you for that. For the call. 285421279 next caller proxy voting yes or no. I say no because you're going to serve the country. You're not going there as a job. It's not a normal job where you would expect paternity leave.

You're going to serve your country. And no. Okay. Yeah. It works okay. All right. Thank you for the call. (208) 542-1079 yes or no on proxy voting caller no. They they knew what they were getting themselves into when they ran for election. And I sent you a picture of the train derailment in Ashland yesterday to the text line. Okay.

Great. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right. We got multiple pictures. Apparently, you and I missed some news. Well, I saw a picture of a train wreck, and I thought, that's Congress. 208542 179. If you still not a single. Yes. Not one. Not one. Yeah. And we're at over. I bet there's 50 nos. I stopped counting, yeah.

They're flowing in. Yeah, yeah, they're they're flowing in. Someone said they made an exception for head coverings. Why not accommodate babies for them? To vote a big no. So they're like, yeah, just, look, if they're going to make those concessions and allow you to have babies on Capitol Hill and do all that, then there really is no excuse.

Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. Okay. All right. Well, now we got another call. Let's take this caller. What do you have to say? Well, I'm just thinking they already get quite a bit of time off to get home to their constituents. Why do they need more time off for that? When I like the text about the military guy who says, hey, I'm a government employee, I'm expected.

I'm in Iraq for my wife's having a baby, having same thing there are they're serving it our leisure time for us. Yes. I won't have Julie go through the whole calendar again, but they have a very, very light schedule that all of us would love if it were our work schedule. Yeah, they they get it the entire month of August off and most months they get at least one full week.

And more than that, more like a week and a half, some months, two full weeks off. Yeah. That's true. They had a whole bunch of people of their like peers over in the federal or, excuse me, the executive branch that were taking like 28, 29 days a month off. That Trump told to get back to you. Never mind a stupid joke.

Charlie's like what's wrong with you this week. I don't know what's going on in the last 20 minutes. What's happened to you? You had that. What happened to you? Look. All right. Well, we're going to, we're going to call that good, overwhelming. Did we get, someone said yes. Did say yes. We actually got two yeses.

Someone said yes, I would be okay with a proxy vote if the exception was made for a mother who experienced recent laboring in a child with a child, or like a C-section with in the past 7 or 10 days or something like that. In other words, not because there's a child, but because there's possibly a mother of a child who is physically limited temporarily.

No one's kicking them out once they have a kid. Yeah, they don't just they don't just get to go home for 12 weeks. Yeah, that's the difference. Yes. Yeah. Agreed. All right. It's 853 on Newstalk 1079. We'll come back after this. 856 on Newstalk 1079 Julie I am so excited to lay down step one of the four step lawn program from Town and Country Gardens.

Of course, step one is the humains. It actually looks a lot like dirt. It's just sort of this black, silty stuff that you put over, but it's loaded with, I would just call it lawn probiotics. Like it's just stuff that helps that your grass loves, that the roots love. And it just gets things moving, underneath the soil.

And so you just put it on and water your lawn like normal or just wait for the rain, whatever the case may be, here in the spring, that's step one. And then as we get closer to, you know, May June, then step two, and through the summer and into the fall, you have other, other steps, and you finish it out in October with a winter riser.

You and I both have beautiful green yards because we've done it for at least two years now. Yeah, and especially my yard. When I bought that house, the yard was in pretty bad shape and now it looks real good. Yes, thankfully, because I use the four step long program. So while you're out there and it's very, very easy, you do.

When you buy all four steps at one, you're saving money, then just buying a step at a time. Plus it's convenient. You just get everything you need, find a corner in your garage, stack it up, and then set reminders on your phone that, oh, I need to put that down this week. And and that's what I did last year.

Worked like it worked like a charm. Super easy. So if you want to know more about it, you can go to my garden Wkyc.com. That's the website for Town and Country Gardens, or just swing in there. Staff is so knowledgeable. Yeah, and you might have other questions too. Not just about the four step lawn program about other planting needs at your place.

Speaking of that, when I saw Rex last week, he said, and I said, what? We'll obviously talk about the four step lawn program. What else should we be telling them? And he said, have them by their seeds right now, because there's always a certain time when there's a rush on the seeds and you won't always get what you want.

So while you're out there grabbing your four step lawn program and you know you're going to be planning some things in your garden, flowers or whatever, make sure you stop by the, the seeds and and grab what you need as well. Yeah. South of Idaho Falls, on the off of the Yellowstone Highway across from the bear plant right there.

Go say hi. Tell them Neil and Julie sent you. Okay. It's, 858 on Newstalk 1079. Coming up, we have our two for you. Phone lines are open. If you'd like to join us and talk about anything, whether it's the medical care for illegals, we'd love to hear your thoughts. Proxy voting for Congress members? I'd love to have that.

We also have some great audio that we want to share with you, too. The Harry Anton audio. I want to cover that. Julie. Yeah. It's good. Things are bad for Democrats right now. We'll be back. 907 On Newstalk 109, it's Neil Larsen and Julie Mason on a Wednesday. I have not heard people call it Hump day for a while.

It's because it's a little, a little risque, maybe like it feels just a little wrong. That's true. You're right. It just sounds weird. Okay, speaking of that, yesterday, for some reason, I'm typing in my phone the word webinar, and every time I typed in the the word webinar, it auto corrected to Wiener. Okay, I saw your Facebook post it.

Yeah, I if I was going to teach you about it, I would have said, how have you trained your phone to think that you want a take wiener typing the word wiener on my phone? It was. Yeah, it really did. Okay, you know what? We should try it on your phone. Or how about this? Not to make my little thing an audience thing, but, I would bet you if other people tried to do webinar and I do the little swipe thing where I don't type in letter by letter.

Yeah. And maybe it wouldn't matter, but my phone did not recognize the word webinar, I wonder? Well, I bet it makes no sense. Yeah. Were you barely were you not brushing the bee enough? Maybe. I do have kind of fat fingers, so maybe the lack of the bee is why it automatically went to Wiener. Yeah, yeah. That's true, that's true.

Yeah, I don't know. So anyway, my phone's a pervert. I'm just saying. (208) 542-1079. And, Julie, we need to talk about Matt Walsh really quick. He testified to the California State Assembly and it was one big truth bomb today. I'm not going to talk about fairness, although it's certainly true that allowing men to compete in women's sports is deeply unfair.

And I'm not going to talk about safety, although it's certainly true that allowing men into female sports teams and into their bathrooms is incredibly unsafe, I'll let others highlight, those important points. I want to talk about something even more important and even more basic. It's the most basic thing of all. It's truth. You must keep men out of women's sports and out of their facilities for the simple reason that they are men.

Men are not women. A man who claims he is a woman is still not a woman. So why shouldn't men play in women's sports? Because they aren't women. It isn't true. We should not allow men into women's sports for the same reason. We shouldn't go around claiming that two plus two equals seven. It's just not true. It is a lie.

The man who identifies as a woman is either diluted and confused, or he is a cross-dressing fetishist looking to play out his fantasies in public. In either case, the claim that he's making the claim to womanhood is not true and compelling women to take part in this untruth is evil, perverse and predatory. If you will use the force of law to compel young girls to use a changing room with a boy, you are yourselves predators.

Transgenderism is a lie. It is, in fact, the most deranged lie that mankind has ever invented in a free country. Nobody should ever be forced to participate in a lie. As lawmakers, you have an obligation to the truth. It is a truth that I know you all recognize, because every human was ever lived on Earth. Recognizes that men are men and women are women.

It is that simple. And the question before you is just as simple. The question is this will you side with the truth? A truth so basic that every toddler understands it? Or will you disgrace yourselves by denying it? It is your choice to make. Boom boom. Good job, Matt Walsh Matt Walsh is so good at just speaking it, not being embarrassed by it.

He doesn't he doesn't. You know, sometimes we will talk hard subjects and we'll kind of stutter a little bit or tiptoe. Yeah, he doesn't do any of that. He just says the truth. That's why he is so effective at this. Yeah. And. And why he's been super successful at this. And, and I, I appreciate it. I find though, Julian, I believe that the greatest moment of courage for Matt Walsh was about three years ago, 2 to 3 years ago, when, like he was labeled by every liberal group as anti-LGBTQ TCU, because he wrote that book, sold it on Amazon.

Then, of course, he came out with a documentary, What Is a Woman? And now, like, I applaud him for going to the California State Assembly, no doubt invited by Republicans to to testify and speaking that truth. But I feel like because this is now an 8020 issue in America, it doesn't take as much courage now to speak that bluntly and blatantly as it did in the in the sort of the culmination of all of this a couple of years ago and part of the reason why the other side has been disempowered is because of the previous courage by Matt Walsh.

Yeah, this he isn't going to be scared to say this because he's already done this hard thing for several years and paved the way for people to continue to do the hard thing. You and I reap the benefits of that. Cancel culture just isn't as vibrant as it used to be. It does still exist, but we don't have to be as careful with our words.

We can actually speak truth and and not worry that somehow that's going to get us in trouble. Yes, I, I believe some sentiments are truly despicable, right? Can we can we say that they are. But I look at cancel culture. And Julie, I would say there was close to a year there. Maybe it wasn't quite a year, but it's it was during the time when Facebook owned their algorithm.

Do you remember the one day that was it was chilling because you had Apple, you had Facebook, you had Google, you had YouTube, all of them implemented these algorithms and speech controls. And I honestly felt like America is changed forever. Like we're this is at that time I think it was Twitter pre Elon Musk Twitter. And do you remember that it was it was all on one day they all changed and they decided these messages aren't going to be allowed.

And that and it just fostered that cancel culture and marginalizing people who have a traditional view of things or a conservative, commonsense view of things. And I remember wondering, you and I had multiple conversations about this, do we even have a job in in a couple of years? Do we are we going to be in prison? I mean, are we going to, be canceled beyond oblivion?

Because there are forces out there that will pluck one thing you say may be in error, or you didn't phrase it quite right, or you phrased it exactly right, and they still hate what you said. And they will try to destroy you over that one moment. I don't feel like that's largely the case now. I'm sure there are people still out there that are that dark and that evil that like to destroy lives over one moment, but I believe that we're, we're in a, we're in much safer waters now than we were back then.

Yeah, there's definitely still people. I, I've witnessed it in my other jobs that there's still people that are, you know, willing to throw out a one star review because they just don't they just don't like something you did, you know. And that is they're right. They can do that. The difference is there's a lot more people that are willing to support you and go, no, I'm not going to be a silent listener anymore.

I'm not going to be a silent consumer anymore. I'm not going to be a silent buyer anymore. They and we saw that with the whole Bud Light thing, people making choices. We're seeing it now. Tesla stock did take a dip. It isn't as bad as everyone's telling you by the way the Tesla stock it is not. But it did take a dip.

That is consumer choice I value that you can choose not to buy stock or buy a product if you want to. You don't have the right to destroy things like people and property. Yeah. And that's the part that needs to end. Yes. Yeah I agree it does need to end. And we need to just get back to destroying people's arguments rather than destroying people.

And I, I feel like we're a little closer to that now, but I just that that Matt Walsh clip was just super good. So good. Yeah. When I listened to it last night for the first time, I had this thought in my mind when he talks about we've taken something that's so easy for a toddler to understand, and us adults can agree on it.

Yeah. And I, I immediately flashed to my nearly three year old grandson. He references everything boy and girl. I call him Asher Boy. Yeah, I have since he was little. He knows that he's a boy. Yeah. When his, little brother was inside his mom's tummy, we would ask him, are you going to have a little brother or a little sister?

And the toddler could understand? Yeah. What kind of baby was going to come outside of his mom? Why is this so confusing? Why are adults so mentally ill? I don't know, I think that's a question we could spend so much time on. Why they've gotten to where they've gotten. One thing that I've noticed, and I, I don't I don't really know how to describe it, but I feel like on the left.

Tell me if this makes sense. I think there's a certain segment of people that believe the more confused they are, the more enlightened they are that they are translating somehow in their head. If this is weird to me, or it's a situation where I don't know the rules from day to day, then I'm more enlightened. Because I'm different than the than the mainstream, different than the norm.

It's kind of like, you know, how there certain people quite often they're viewed as people that are snooty in certain areas, like they have snooty musical tastes. And so they like some weird, strange band from whiskey Johnson somewhere did it. If everyone else suddenly liked the band because the band sounded great, they would hate the band. Their ideas have to be outside of the mainstream for them to value them themselves.

I actually think there are people that are like, you know what, my opinion because it is rare and in the minority is inherently and automatically valuable. So if I come along and even though 80% of the country thinks that men are men and women are women, I'm the special one because my viewpoint is in the minority. And so they'll they'll take a position that defies biology, defies science, defies logic, and defies reality.

But because it's not the majority opinion, they think it's better than everyone else's. No, I think that that's probably a portion of these people I really believe. I really believe that that's their their thought process. I also believe that's a form of mental illness. Now, do I think that that's a curable form of mental illness? Yes. It's not like schizophrenia where it's so complicated and chemical and.

Yes, so but it is a form of mental illness. When you have to defy everyone in order to feel good about yourself. There's some, some things are not firing correctly. Yeah. Inside the brain. Yeah. And I think it's okay that Matt Walsh calls it that. Yeah, I do too. I if that's what it is, that's what you need to call it.

All right. Let's go to the phones. Caller. Welcome to the show that is filling pork bellies. Hi, Phil. Hi. Hey. My wife found me a sign, and I'm very opinionated. And it said that everybody is entitled to my opinion, and that's the way the Democrats feel, I think. Yeah, yeah, I yep I agree. Yep. But anyway, let me show you guys have a good day.

You take care I appreciate it. So I also want to point out the the concept that you're talking about. That's just not exclusive to the left. We're talking about people who have this mental illness when it comes in reference to like science or biology, man as a man, woman as a woman. Those kind of things. Sometimes there's people on the right that are just going to go exactly opposite of what everyone is saying, just because that makes them feel like they're more important on the right.

Yeah. And it might not that they might not be denying science, but they're still denying logic. Yeah. When they do that, I think that this is a universal mental illness. We just see it so prevalent in the media and LGBTQ realms. Yeah. Part of the mental illness while we're talking about this. And let's be very straightforward here. When we use that term, neither Julie nor I are mental health professionals making a diagnosis.

We're looking at this and basically it's a term saying there is something wrong with your thinking, there's something amiss there. We don't know what it is. We're not going to put a clinical label on it. But there's something something wrong there. I have known people and maybe by that definition, we're all mentally ill in some way. Oh, I'll raise my hand of that.

Yeah, I've got issues I need to fix. Everyone does. That's part of a healthy culture. When you realize you need to self-reflect. Yes. Yeah. And figure out what's going on in you. So as part of this, one of the things that I've noticed is people will approach situations, whether it's political debates or public dialog. And their primary concern is I need to take the position that makes me virtuous, so they'll position themselves.

One thing that drives me nuts, Julie, are people who will measure the extreme on both sides and then try to find the exact midpoint, and they think that's the principled position. Yeah, that I don't like this extreme on the left. I don't like the extreme on the right. So I'm going to I'm going to triangulate where those two positions are.

I'm going to find the midpoint. And that's what I'm going to be. And the reason why I can't stand that is it's fabricated virtue. It's artificial. Whatever's right is right, and whatever's wrong is wrong. It is not an average of two extreme opinions. It's saying, what is reality here? And let's stick to that. And it might be a lot closer to one extreme than the other.

It's not a conglomerate, not an average. It's just where reality exists. And that to me is the most foolproof way to stay. Not mentally ill is to cling to what is real and to cling to reality and say, that's the most important thing is that I recognize truth. And no matter how crazy the world wants to make me think I am, that is, that is what I cling to.

There are some situations where sometimes you can't arrive there. It's not always clear, but I think that that's probably if you're interested in staying not mentally ill, that's a pretty good approach. So let me give you an example of something that you and I talked about ad nauseum a year ago, which was the porn and library bill.

Yeah. There is no middle point there. No the, the right stance and I will not move from this one is we need to keep as much porn as possible out of children's hands and minds. That's the right stance. There is no moving from that stance. Now did we have to move a little bit to get the no porn in library law passed?

Yes, you had to move, but you didn't move your stance. The problem is those who are arguing against that weren't standing in the right place. We had people arguing that, well, sometimes kids are confused in this porn might help them. No it will not such a weird, weird take. Yeah, there is a clear right place to be in this.

And it's not in the middle. Yeah. Who thinks like that, by the way? Right? I don't know, but we have a confused child, so let's show them depictions of explicit sexual activity because that's going to help. Yeah I don't I don't that's mentally ill that that's another example. Yes. All right. 925 on Newstalk 179 is Neil Larsen and Julie Mason.

And we're so happy you're joining us this morning spending time with us. We feel loved and valued and we value our relationship with you. We'll be back in just mere minutes here on Newstalk 10792085421079. Oh yeah, you said porn in libraries and I was like, twitchy. Twitchy. I'm. So that's why we talked about it so much.

Yes. Because there is a right place. Yeah. In that situation. And it's it's very, very identifiable. I, I came across, someone. Oh, I know what it was. It was in the context of the prop one debate. And of course, we called out the Democrats who were calling themselves Republicans so they could vote in the primary. And somebody in, in sort of that nae nae, nae nae nae nae nae nae voice said, well, you did you go after the libertarians who blatantly said they joined the Republican Party.

So they did okay, major difference here. Libertarianism is a suburb of Republican ism. Okay. You're you're in line with a majority of viewpoints on that. It may be a bit of a strategy move. You may not be able to to be quite exactly where you want to with your label, but it's much less of a shift to go from a libertarianism is Ammon and the Republican Party is Idaho Falls.

When you're a Democrat, you're in Wenatchee or wherever, Cleveland, Cleveland, San Francisco, like you're you're out of state. You're completely somewhere else. So I don't I don't mind that much if if somebody from Chubbuck was out of town, they said, where are you from? I'm from Pocatello, Idaho. Nobody would think that person's being disingenuous. Disingenuous? Okay. They're just they're making the conversation easier, and it just it makes things easier.

But if you were from Cleveland and people said, where are you from? I'm from Pocatello, Idaho. That would just be a blatant lie, right? Right. That's a really good way to point it out. I was from Iona. That was my mailing address. I hardly ever said I on if somebody asked me. Yeah I'm from East Idaho, you might have heard of Idaho Falls.

It's right there on the snake River. That's how I would explain it right now. Can I say I honor. Yeah, yeah. No, it's that you. So what you're saying there is very accurate. That's also somebody trying to, mold together a gotcha. Yeah. Out of nothing. Right. Yes. That's that's true. If if by, if, if I asked you what you do over the weekend and you went.

Well, I went to Salt Lake and I found out you went to Sandy, can you imagine how livid I would be? Yes. You lied to me. Yeah, or I said. I said, oh, I made soup. Well, I made soup at home on on Sunday, but I went out to eat on Saturday and you're like, no you didn't. I know you were at Sizzler on Saturday.

That's true. Well, yeah, I was at Sizzler on Saturday, but I made soup on Sunday, right? That's true. You shouldn't lie. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Okay, I, I, I mean, I can talk about this on the air, but I've encountered a Carolyn Leavitt clip I didn't love. Oh, really? Yeah. When she kind of snapped back at the reporter and said, the judge works for the DOJ and the DOJ is.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Headed up by someone named Pam Bondi. I'm like, that's not how it works. The judges aren't there to do what Pam Bondi wants them to do. Yeah. So I, I kind of disagreed with her on 929 on Newstalk one and seven nine Ellison along with Julie Mason. All right. Julie, this guy, CNN's Harry Enten, he's really good.

I love how he breaks down the numbers. Listen to how bad things are for the Democrat Party right now. What Holy Toledo voters views of the Democrats in Congress among all voters disapprove 68%. And look at the approve number, just 21%, even lower than the Democratic Party at large. This is the lowest on record for Democrats, according to Quinnipiac University polling.

You think these numbers are bad? Let's go to this side of the screen. Well, look how Democratic voters feel. Get this. The plurality of Democratic voters disapprove of Democrats in Congress at 49%, and just 40% approve. Horrible horrible horrible. Oh my goodness gracious. You just can't get worse than these numbers. And this is the number right here. Really driving all of this is Democrats have turned it.

Democratic voters have turned on Democrats in Congress and the Democratic Party. That's what puts the numbers at historic lows. What is it they want to be seeing? Know what is going on? I'll tell you what's going on. They don't like what's coming out of some of those Senate Democrats like Chuck Schumer. Because take a look at the direction of the party, Democratic voters on Democrats in Congress doing too little to oppose Donald Trump.

Look at this. 77% should stay principled, even if it means nothing gets done in Washington, D.C., 65%. And this 65% is such a difference from where we were in 2017. At this point, when just 33% of Democrats say they should stay principled, compared to 59% who said they want to compromise, Democrats do not want compromise. Okay, a lot of numbers being thrown at you, but the big takeaway is that the overall approval rating for Democrats is 21%.

I mean, that's down around there with toe fungus it. Don't you think you can get 20% in anything? I would think so. So that is a horrific number. But there they have a massive problem. If you listen closely to what he had to say, there's not a consensus as to why their numbers are low. Their own people hate him because they don't think they're standing up to Trump enough.

The middles and independents who might lean left, or sometimes they lean a little. Right, but they're just independent. They disapprove because they feel like they're doing too much to oppose Trump. There is no direction they can go right now to win back the support of the American, American people. They are in a massive, massive bind right now.

I thought this about the Democrats. It was about a week and a half ago. It was probably when you were gone and I was thinking about what I was going to talk about, and I never brought it up. And I, I have thought there are times in life, in business, in politics where being quiet for just a minute is actually your best move.

I feel like the Democrats probably should have been quiet for the last 3 or 4 weeks after the, the bad, bad look at the address to Congress. That maybe they should have gotten together and said, hey, let's just shut up for a minute. Yeah. The Trump administration is going to step in it. Let them do it.

Let's just be quiet for a minute. They're incapable of that. Yeah, they're they can't. Maybe all politicians are incapable of that. But I do believe that would have been the best benefit for the Democrats because their base would have gone. I want to hear from them. I want to hear from them. There would have been a lack of it.

And then when they came back on the scene, there would have been a a warmth. Yes. Yes, come into the like. I do want to hear from you right now. I think they're just tired of everybody in their party there. There is no reason the they're functioning like the next election is tomorrow. They don't need to just let the waters calm.

I agree with you. They should have just taken a timeout and, you know, do the do the loyal opposition stuff. You know, you don't have to roll over and do everything Trump wants you to do. But but they're they're just scattered. They're running around. You didn't need to do the AOC Bernie tour. You didn't need to throw Jasmine Crockett out there.

Yeah, I like it. You just should let it go for a minute. Yeah, yeah. All right, let's go to the phones. Caller. Welcome. How are you today? Hi. I'm doing great. Oh, good. I was in my car shortly after seven listening to your show. And you had somebody on it sounded like a legislator, a state legislator talking about a bill to stop health care payments.

Yeah. Or illegal aliens. Yeah. And I didn't catch everything, but, And he was making the point, which is right on spot on. That government not paying for it is not the same as denying access to it. Correct. Yeah. And I've got a little experience with that. A lot of callers will probably recognize my voice, but I'm a family practice doctor a lot of a lot won't.

So I will give some background on the family practice doctor. I don't take Medicare or Medicaid or insurance, and I just charge patients directly. And because they don't take those things, my expenses are vastly lower. And so I charge vastly lower fees. I see a lot of illegal aliens in my practice, and I don't even know who they are, which ones they are.

There's no reason for me to ask for ID or verification of who they are, or if they're here legally. I simply charge them and they pay me with money that they earn themselves and their businesses. And it works out for everybody. It works great. I remember once, getting a call from some younger woman to come, do a house call for her grandma.

And I said, well, I don't take Medicare. You need to know that. She said, oh, it's okay. She's illegal. I just held back a laugh and, went and took care of her. They not only paid me, but they gave me a $22 besides. Oh, wow. So, so the the problem of health care for illegal aliens is the same as it is for everybody else.

Provide a good service at a good fee, and they just willingly pay it. You don't need government to pay for everything. Yeah, I see lots of patients. Who who the the press would say have no access to health care waitresses and people like that. And the point is, paying for something or withholding government for fund funding for something is not the same as saying you can't have it.

Yes, just pay for it. So as background, that lawmaker you heard his name is Brandon Shippy. He's in the Senate. And he did he he spoke a very common sense sentiment and and said exactly how you how you framed it, that it's not denying care, it's just changing who pays it. So thank you for the call. Appreciate it.

(208) 542-1079 what I like about that phone call is that is real life experience. Sometimes we get legislators who occasionally stand up and and give comments that they assign, feelings and emotions to things that aren't in existence. One of my complaints about this is the way that they weaponize the rural population. I've talked about this. People in Idaho live rural because they want to.

Yeah. And they're not looking at the government to fix any problems because they live rural. Yes. You're right. Like and so the when legislators sign or stand up and use the rural population is I'm so good because I'm protecting the rural population. Well, how about we get the rural population in here to speak for themselves? Yes, yes I agreed this is the case where people are not being denied health care.

They just pay for it like the rest of us do. Yeah, I that became very evident during the parental choice issue because you had all these. Well, if we're going to talk about rural versus whatever you had city slickers telling them you're not going to be able to find educational opportunities, because you live in a rural area.

So this is going to harm you. I'm like bulk frap. You know what? If you could let these rural areas vote on this, if this was a statewide initiative and you allowed rural areas to vote, should we able to get the allocation for our kids, or at least a state allocation and make different educational choices, I would I would bet the farm, no pun intended.

I would bet the farm that rural areas would vote even more in favor of it than the urban areas in Idaho. Yeah, I think so. Also. Yeah. So you're you're right there. It's not unlike what the Democrats do with people who are gay or people who are black, or people who are Latino, like, they find these groups and it's usually white liberals that feel like they need to speak for these populations that they apparently don't think can speak for themselves.

Great .2085421079 caller how are you today? Good. How are you guys? We're doing well today. Great. Hey, so I'm just coming to the party later, apparently. But are we finally admitting that we're paying for illegal health care? I maybe I, I don't I don't know, I don't know how to answer that question because I, it wasn't allowed before, but I think a proactive, overt ban on it just underscores it.

Right. But illegal. But we all know what's been happening. But it just I just hop from my car like five minutes ago. And it sounds like to me that we're finally admitting that, hey, we're paying for illegal aliens, health care. Yeah, illegally. Yeah. So yeah, that's true. That's true. You don't really need to ban something that's not happening.

Thank you for the call. Yeah, you asked me the question, and we kind of dissected it together. If Trump has already decided on the federal level that this shouldn't be happening, why are we taking it up on the state level? I think the states personally, I believe the states are trying to preemptively, move in a direction with the understanding the executive orders by Trump will probably be turned around one day.

Yeah. And we can't get anything done on the congressional level. We need another backstop. So here's a question. I don't know if the bill does this or not, but I did have this thought while I was listening to these clips this morning and looking into it. What if your starting point was, nobody gets health care unless they prove they're a citizen?

Like you have to prove your residency and your citizenship in order to get any kind of taxpayer funded health care, which most citizens can do that with social Security card, a birth certificate, and a driver's license. Because illegals can't have driver's licenses, there are multiple ways to prove that you're you're legal and that you're a citizen. And so maybe they start with nobody gets it.

And then if you want it, you can get it. But you you have to prove you're a citizen. This is a question I'd like to ask and ask an expert, because I did see a thread on X about this saying that, when they developed the app to come across the border that opened up the possibility for Biden to give Social Security numbers to some of these people.

And then in turn, those people use those Social Security numbers to vote. No way. Give them Social Security numbers. But you can't get one if you're illegal, right? That's as I understood it, which is why I would love to talk to an expert about that. That did the number just look like a Social Security number and it could, kind of fool or goof these systems.

I want to know what what identification number was given to these illegal aliens. Yeah. Good. Good question. Okay, one more call. We're going to have to take our news break here shortly. But, caller. Go ahead. What's on your mind? This health issue you're talking about? Yeah. I don't know how much you and your co-host have traveled outside the United States on vacation, but I understand that you have to buy additional insurance when you travel overseas, because most countries do not recognize our insurance.

You know, I don't know, I don't know. Yeah, I do, I do believe you can you can buy that kind of insurance that extends. If, you know, I'll say I'm in Italy, I will have some extra medical possibilities because I've paid for this. I do think you're correct with that. Okay. Very good. You too. Have a wonderful weekend and thank you.

All right. Thank you for the call. And we're going to take that break right now. We'll come back after the news on this Wednesday. On Newstalk 107900, man. What's wrong? My bony bum is hurting for this check if you want the honest truth, lower back needs a stretch. Yes, we're 52 and we've hit that spot where we do that.

Noises. Yeah. Okay. We still have this. Okay. And one more. So let's do that. And then the one more. Okay. Are there any expiration dates on that we need to worry about? Yes yes yes yes. Are they still doing Plinko? They're doing Plinko. And I believe it expires 430. That writing is so small. My old girl.

Okay, we're we're not past this. No, we're not talking about everything that's on it, then. Yes. Okay. All right. So our two Republicans won in Florida, but we lost the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. $90 million spent on that race. Can you even believe that is unreal. Unreal. Highest amount of money spent on a judge's race ever. And it's not even close.

It wasn't like they barely tipped over. They shattered the previous. Yeah, it's crazy stretching my back. Christine has an interesting point here, she said. Also, fully funded health care doesn't necessarily mean quality health care. Like it's almost as if. Yeah, it's true. The legislatures or the legislators are arguing that they deserve the highest level of everything. Yeah, I have to pay for anything extra, including a full female blood draw, because my insurance doesn't even cover the female hormones.

Yeah, right. Like, stop it with this. You know what? If you can look like an illegal, maybe you could. Maybe I could. Yeah, I know, you know what? I would love it if, you and I might see this differently. If it just became the standard in school that you leave your phones up in the front of the room.

Here's what I'm. I am actually okay with returning to a little bit of old school in school. I, I think kids need to put a pencil in their hand more often. There is some absolute brain connectivity that happens hand to brain. Yeah. And yes, they're not going to use a pencil or a pen hardly at all in their adult careers.

You still need to develop it. Yeah. So I'm okay going a little old school with all of this stuff. Yeah. I'm okay not always having a device in their hand. Yeah. They don't get treated well anyway. These school districts that send home iPads and stuff with kids, those iPads got trashed. They also found that the iPads were being used in a lot of sexual abuse cases, because all of a sudden the kid had a device in their hand.

Yeah, and the predators could get Ahold of them. Right. But what I'm talking about is their own cell phones. Yeah. So that's what I mean. I'm like, you don't really. So I didn't get to the end. The point. Yeah. The the long term thought about that is not just taking the cell phone away, but you can learn in other ways besides on your cell phone.

Yeah, I agree, but I mean, we're seeing states past these cell phone bans in high schools. I'm okay with it. I think we we require lots of our things, of our kids with dress codes and other things. So 947 on Newstalk 1079 so you can get delicious steaks and ribs and hamburger patties. Now you can play Plinko, Julie.

You can Grand Peak's Prime Meats. They've got a spring into the season with family and friends. Sell going on right now. You can come in, try your luck with Plinko, and when you play it, you'll, have the potential to win a free prize and discounts, which is amazing. It's already priced well, very comparable to your big box store, but much better quality.

And if you play Plinko, you might get an even bigger discount. I always loved when I was a kid, and once in a while I'd watch the prices. Right. And, I when they played Plinko, I think that was one of my favorite games. Yeah, it is a fun one to watch. They've got some amazing Easter dinner deals packages going on right now.

So if you're looking for like a holiday ham, which a lot of people eat at Easter, great price per pound right now. I want to remind everyone. Also, if you're if you're not like a pork person and you're going to get a roast, they will specifically hand-cut your roast. You tell them what you want. Yeah, they will do it that way.

Right? Size everything to feed your family. So go to Prime meats.com, check out their packages and specials and then got just a great little shop there. Whenever Julie and I go to pick up our our orders, it's always full. Like there's lots of peop tons of people. There is a fridge is full of orders waiting to be picked up.

You know, it's not just us thinking it's good. Lots of other people think it's high quality also. And if you have anything that you don't see online, give them a call ahead. So okay. All right Julie, what was your favorite game on the prices. Right. When I was little little. Yeah I liked the mountain climber. Oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.

I just thought it was so cool. Like, it was animatronic. And I was kind of. Yeah. Cool. Not that I liked the game itself. I just liked him and like, oh my gosh, is he going to fall over the edge? Yeah, right. You know, that's when I was little, little I think as I got older the last round when it's head to head and they had the prize packages and they had to, that would get me the most, you know, engaged because I felt like I could actually win.

Yeah. And pick the right amount. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's good. I'm, I'm trying to think I think Plinko when you. Yeah. You guess the prices, they throw on, like, a box of cereal. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you mention that one? No, I didn't know there was so many games, though. There was one where it was like a shell game.

Yeah, I remember I really liked it. I don't even think they do that one anymore. But I did like the shell game. Yeah, when I was young. I think Plinko probably rates right up there. Yeah. It's fun. GG primates go do your own. Yeah. All right. 950 on Newstalk 109. We'll take our final break. We'll come back, we'll have a good segment on the other side if you'd like to join us.

(208) 542-1079. Yeah, baby, yeah baby baby, You both said at the same time, do you want to hear a sample of music that I will listen to while I'm writing my book? First of all, before I play it, you won't be able to identify this music, but describe what music you think I'd listen to. I don't think it's going to have words.

So I think it's going to be instrumental. I would, I don't know what it would be called, but I think it would it would be interchangeable with things like the soundtrack from Lord of the rings. Okay. You're right. It's like cinematic stuff. For some reason it just helps me focus while I'm writing. But if I have lyrics or lots of percussion, I don't.

It's like drives me crazy now, but this focus is me and it relaxes me. And we need to talk over the music in case it's copyrighted. It might be copyright. It might be like, why are you playing that music that's not yours? I'm worried about our studio for cover session on Friday. I think we're going to get nailed.

Oh. Do we have a. It's a track. And I think these these two are going to sound a lot like the original singer. I think we're to get nailed. Oh, okay. Let's see what a shot. What's the track? It's, stay by Rihanna, I think. Is they okay? That's what they've narrowed it down to right now. They're reserving the right to change it if they want to.

So. Okay. Great song. Yeah, but I think we're going to get nailed. Yeah. Yeah. There's no there's no good way around it if we want to put them on online for people to see. How is the writing of the book going? Good. I, just surpassed 50,000 words. So it's it's coming. Good. I have, been traveling, so it's it's taking a little dip, but it's not.

It's still it's still coming it there. You know, it's weird. And I'm sure you've experienced this, Julie, you'll you'll do, like, a podcast episode and you'll think it's amazing. Like the writing the stories, but it goes on online, like it just doesn't have the reaction. Like your enthusiasm for it was up here and it's underwhelming. I, I have this paranoia on a number of passages I get done and sometimes I'm bawling like I'm emotionally involved in the writing of it and the scene and everything that's happening, and I feel like I get done and I've written what I want to write, I've written what's in my heart, and I'm I'm worried that I'm the

only one that will experience that, even when people read it later. And so I kind of have to put that out of my mind. Like it just is. Well, there's so many things you can't control. There. Oh, yeah. Yesterday we were talking about something. I can't even remember what we were talking about. But you said. And dumb luck makes somebody have an amazing career.

That can't be more true in content creation. Yeah, it doesn't matter if it's a book. Writing a podcast, radio, whatever. Dumb luck does play into it. Yeah, it really does. You gotta you know what you have to do? You just have to be in as many places as you can be and hope that luck strikes. Content is king.

Yeah, really? Okay. We'll do Town and Country on our way back, and then we'll wrap it up with something. 954 on Newstalk 1079 so Julie, I don't want to give the whole big surprise away, but coming up in about three weeks at Town and Country Gardens, I think it's April 24th. I'll, I'll find out for sure. I can find out.

It's on their website. Oh it is okay, let's let's find that date. They are going to do a reveal of something that is awesome. And, in talking with Rex at Town and Country Gardens, he is so enthused and excited about this. And as we get closer, will reveal a little bit more of what it is. Yeah.

It's it's happening on Saturday, April 26th from 6 to 10 p.m.. It's specifically at night for a reason. Yes. There. It's a really cool. Does it say what it is? Yeah. Do you want me to read it? Yeah. Just just give me. And maybe not verbatim, but give the idea of. Okay, so it's called Illuminate the Night a glow like never before.

Like I said Saturday, April 26th from 6 to 10 p.m.. And it is the unveiling of the firefly Petunia, the world's first bioluminescent houseplant. Oh, you. And they're selling them. You can only buy three. That's it. Yeah. And it is a petunia that when in the dark it will glow. Yes. He was talking to me about it, and, his body language was so fun to watch.

Like, he was super excited about this. So. April 26th, Saturday night. And it's going to be a very, very big deal at town and country. Yeah. So if you're all in on that, they have a VIP ticket. So they're going to you can sign up for the newsletter, get a chance to win one of the 200 free VIP preview tickets.

And that will get you into the event two hours early. There's a limited supply of these petunias, so that's why it's worth it to go on and try to get that VIP ticket. Yeah, so put that on your calendar. Of course, between now and then. Great opportunity to pop out to town and country gardens, get your four step lawn program, get your seeds, get all the things you need.

Because look, the weather's been beautiful. I can see the sun shining out there today, right now. And, spring is is rolling. So, town and country garden South of Idaho Falls, across from the beer plant on the Yellowstone Highway. And like I said, my garden geekdom. Okay, you can find out more. Rex told me on the petunias.

Yeah, he went to a conference, and he got one of these petunias, and he was in his hotel room, and he got up in the middle of the night, and he had settled in in the bathroom for some reason. Anyway, he walked into the restroom and he's like, oh my goodness, like it? He just wasn't really expecting it.

Now it's not like neon lights in Vegas, you know? It's a subtle glow. But he said it was very, very real and very cool. So just amazing to think that that's the technology that we now have that you can infuse this into a plant pretty phenomenal. Yeah, it really is. Yeah, it really is. So I'm kind of excited to see it.

I told him I'm like, you know what Julian? I may pop out to that because that sounds well, there's food. There's drinks like it's an event. Yeah. That night. So it would be fun. It's going to be a big fun thing to be a part of. So all right everyone that does it for the show today Julian I will stick around for a few minutes for Facebook Live.

If you'd like to join us for that, just text live to (208) 542-1079 tomorrow. Irish. Yes, absolutely. Senator Rich will join us tomorrow and we're going to get a water update from Brian Murdock. Okay. All right. It's all happening tomorrow right here on Newstalk 179.