4.8.2025 -- NLS -- Governor Little, Guthrie, and the Golden Girls Protest

On this episode with Neal and Julie, the duo dives into a wide-ranging, fast-paced conversation covering everything from Idaho politics and protest culture to artificial intelligence and cultural shifts in sports and society. They kick off by examining Governor Brad Little’s political positioning and how groups like the Main Street Caucus remain a mystery in both funding and agenda. Neal highlights a growing frustration among Idaho voters and skepticism about orchestrated protests, even drawing a parallel to AI-generated images that look real, but feel just “off.”

Julie and Neal share observations on the seemingly inauthentic nature of some campus protests, suggesting that financial incentives and social agitation might be driving forces rather than true conviction. They touch on generational discontent, including the role of disillusioned women and the emotional undercurrents of activism, even speculating with some tongue-in-cheek commentary on menopause and middle-aged angst.

The show takes a reflective turn as they discuss how legislation is often stalled by committee chairs, particularly during election years, and they encourage listeners to engage directly with their lawmakers—specifically calling out Senator Guthrie for “leaving bills in the drawer.”

From there, the episode shifts to cultural and biological musings, including which animals they’d like to see go extinct (Komodo dragons come up), and debates about team loyalty in college sports in the age of the transfer portal. They wrap with lighter talk on lawn care, ocular migraines, and social media's staying power, mixing satire, sincerity, and sharp social commentary throughout.

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Transcript

Good morning. It is 807 on Newstalk 179. The Stones Automotive Group calling text line is (200) 854-2107 nine. I'm Neil Larsen and it's Tuesday. And, you know, I would I had a thought. I just tossed this Julie's way. Can we count one more? When? Just one more when it comes to the Idaho legislative session, we talked about legislation getting passed.

We talk about all the things that happened. There were a handful of things that did not happen. But one thing I noticed, or rather, maybe more accurately, didn't notice, was how neutral ized the Main Street Caucus was. Like, I heard almost nothing during the entire legislative session. Now, when you look at the right word shift of the of the entire body, both the House and the Senate, especially on the Senate side, this is how elections matter.

You even saw Governor Little move to the right, I think, because he's reading the landscape in Idaho, that the electorate is fed up now having Donald Trump on the ballot on November 5th. And, well, running to the left. Let's face it, most of these elections were decided almost a year ago last May. And, Donald Trump, of course, was, in the thick of it running.

And, he, went on, I mean, won big, obviously. But, we had that early president that was such a fiasco. But because people are more politically activated right now, and because of all of that, Idaho legislatively shifted, right. We usually, as conservatives, feel like everything's shifting left no matter what the numbers are, Republican versus Democrat.

We always feel like it's shifting to the left. I don't think so. We got some fantastic, amazing, great legislation this this session could have had a little more. And I'll get to that in just a moment. But I believe that groups like the Main Street Caucus, which we have no idea what they stand for, they don't tell us.

They don't even say when they're meeting. They don't. And we don't know how they're funded like all of that. I think people are fed up with the shady. They're fed up with the there's stuff that operates with some level of obscurity, and they did not appear to be any kind of a viable force in the legislative session this time around.

Now, I think the the members, whoever they are, they're they're still there and functioning. They were probably somewhat disappointed with how things turned out, but that's good news for the rest of us. That's good news for personal freedom. That's good news, for Idaho and and for its, economy. So anyway, I didn't plan on talking about that at length today, and I'm not going to but I as the, you know, the, the last few minutes unfolded, I thought, wait a minute, where was the Main Street caucus?

Like they were kind of at it last year. They were trying to be a player and, they, they were sort of, but not really. And now I think it's just not a thing. Almost. So, we have that we also have, the, these protesters, does it get more astroturf turf than what we've seen in this last?

You have people getting paid about 25 bucks an hour to protest, which is, you know, that's a decent chunk of money for those people. That's a chunk of money. And they go out, they spend a few hours make, you know, maybe a couple hundred bucks to go protest all day. And I you got to understand something about this induced mass psychosis that happens.

Soros has billions. He's got a kind of a bottomless pit of money. He's not an Elon Musk level billionaire, but he's got plenty of money to prime the political protest pump and get people out there and get some fo enthusiasm that seems to morph into larger enthusiasm because lemmings go running. They're like, oh, there's a protest. Let me draw up my sign, insert Mad Lib angry cause here.

And then they show up and they wave their signs. Randall, we hate Trump. Trump made me mad. Trump's a dictator. I hate authoritarianism, but I love communism. And, so I don't have any idea why Mickey Mouse is protesting now, but, that that's what they do, that they have this Trump Derangement Syndrome. They show up. It looks sort of like a protest, but I kind of feel like I'm a couple of years ago, I gave a prompt to one of the I image generators.

I don't remember what it was, what. There was a lot of them. And, I remember, I can't remember what exactly the prompt was, but it produced an image where a couple of the characters had, like seven fingers and the skin looked really close to real, but it wasn't quite real, and maybe one eye was lower than the other.

I think they've got a lot of those problems worked out. But remember when the I. A couple of years ago, the eye image generation, you looked at it and you're like, yeah, something isn't right about this. That's the reaction that I have when I see the protests that are happening around the country right now. I'm like, something's off about this.

And they're they're to something to organize, to something and they're it's astroturf. A it is Soros money filtering its way down through these liberal groups. And they're angry and upset that Donald Trump is dismantling the leftist structure that's been put in place over the last yo sense, Obama's years, maybe even a little before that. And and Donald Trump is methodically taking it down.

They can't address it overtly like that. They can't say exactly what's happening. So they have to come up with other ancillary excuses, like authoritarianism is one of them. There's one sure way to find out what the left is engaged in. They will tell you. They will say they hate the thing that they are engaged in. Someone, Facebook friend posted an image.

They were at the Treasure Valley astroturf. Trump Derangement Syndrome support group protest. And one of the pictures had the hammer and sickle, and there was pro-communist messaging. And I saw that. And I'm now I will say, in all fairness, because I do want to be fair here, I don't think the organizers of this wanted to have overt procom in its messaging, but that's who they're attracting because, well, birds of a feather, it's just most of them are pretty good about keeping the hammer and sickle off of their protests.

They say different things, but the underlying effort is is the same. Anyway, these Trump Derangement Syndrome do forces or I mean patients. Excuse me. They have the hammer and sickle on there. And I looked that and I thought, wait, they're they're at an anti-authority an ism protest promoting communism. I can give you a handful of communist societies, every last one of them, every last one.

I want somebody to name one that is not run by an authoritarian leader. Stalin. Lenin. More recently, Castro Z. Jinping I we can go through in the last hundred years and look at all of the Communist experiments. We can call them that, every last one of them. The only way that you keep people participating in communism is to force them, and the only way to force them is through an authoritarian government that will not let them exit.

That's how you do it. So I thought, these people are the are they that dumb though? Like, I don't know that they are. I think sometimes I have a theory that there are some people where their emotions, like their IQ, is decent. We'll say 110, maybe 120, but their emotions subtract IQ points and sometimes ideology can drive emotion to the point where it subtracts some IQ points from the intellectual side of their brain.

And I think that's what we see with a number of these protesters. They're probably, if you could, scrub the ideology from their minds and the virtue that they the artificial virtue that they get from believing what they believe, they would probably be decently intelligent people. And it's sad that, they're, they're they're really they're really not at, at this point.

So it's astroturf. I think it's being revealed as astroturf. And, as much as the legacy media is trying to prop this up, I think the new media is tearing it down and exposing it and showing it, for for what it's worth. So that's that's a good thing. We also really quick I want to mention this press conference yesterday from Roger shy, the police chief in Pocatello.

It was short. It was less than ten minutes long and about half of it was the 911 call that led, ultimately, the police to the yard where the 17 year old autistic young man was shot and is now in critical condition with an amputated leg. And I think Chief Shai probably did the best that he could have done under the circumstances.

But I also think that it probably was not enough to allay the concerns of the community not going to play the whole thing. But here's a little bit. Good evening and thank you for being here. We will not be taking questions at this time due to ongoing, criminal, external and internal investigations. We understand the concern and emotion surrounding the Officer-Involved shooting that occurred on April 5th, 2025.

This press conference is met is meant to provide clarity. Share the information we can at this stage and address some misconceptions that have emerged. At approximately 5:22 p.m. Saturday, April 5th, Pocatello Police officers were dispatched to 703 North Harrison in response to a reported disturbance. We will now play the 911 call to provide context for what our officers were responding to.

Okay, so they play the 911 call and then later after that, they show the picture of the knife. And the knife was a pretty standard big butcher knife that you would find in in a kitchen. But then he talked and seemingly defended the actions of the officers that critically shot this young man. Two females were just a few feet away in the yard, and another male stood just outside the fence.

Officers positioned just outside the yard gave repeated commands for the male to drop the knife. He did not comply. Instead, he stood up and advanced toward the officers and was still armed. At that point, officers discharge or firearms stopping when the male fell. PD officers immediately began life saving measures and the male was transported to the Portland Medical Center, where he remains hospitalized.

In situations like this, officers must make decisions in seconds. They assess threats not just to themselves but to those nearby. In this case, two individuals were within a few feet of an armed, noncompliant individual. The risk was immediate and the situation rapidly evolving. Okay, the you know, this incident is deeply sorry. The only problem that I have with that is that the situation was only rapidly evolving because of how the police entered the entered the scene.

Now, maybe they the instructions they got from the 911 call possibly led them to believe a certain thing was going on that maybe was not going on. But it's clear in retrospect that the police approach here escalated the situation and contributed to the fact that it was rapidly developing. Otherwise. You had a teenager lying on the ground waving a knife around and almost, in a stay away from me fashion, rather than, I'm going to stab you in the throat fashion like it?

And they're trying to get the knife away. Obviously, the family had had to deal with this young man before, but I almost feel like the rapidly developing situation had been exacerbated by the police chief. She went on to say that this is being independently investigated by the interagency task force, and let's hope that the right outcome happens here, and we're going to take a break.

On Newstalk 107, I just wanted to get you updated on that. We'll open up the phone lines a little bit later. (208) 542-1079 that's the Stones Automotive Group call and text line back after this.

Have you seen us? So. All right. It's 828 on Newstalk 179. Neil Larson, along with Julie Mason and, Julie. Okay, I and, I'm headed right after, not right after I get off the air, but after I'm done, I'm headed to town and Country Gardens. I'm going to get the four step lawn program. And then this afternoon, if weather.

Well, it wouldn't matter what the weather is. Actually, you can put the human side down and they'll party in any weather. So I'm going to go home. I'm going to throw down the Hume eights, and I'll be done with step one for a couple of months, and it'll be great. Yeah, they're not fickle. They just want a grassy dance floor.

That's it, that's it. That's all they need. A little bit of rock music and they are good to go. Yeah. And it gets all the stuff rolling, for your lawn. And then a little bit later, like, I think it's probably May June. That's when you put down that first application of the of the lawn food fertilizer got great stuff in it.

It helps keep your lawn weed free as well. Like, it does a lot. And, that'll be step two. It's so easy. It if you have one of those. Just a regular fertilizer spreader for your lawn. You can you can get your lawn done in just few minutes. So. Yeah. Yeah. Town and country gardens south of Idaho Falls on Yellowstone Highway, across from the malt plant.

People like to correct us when we call it the beer plant because they don't make beer there. Apparently, they just get the get it ready for beer making. Okay.

I okay, so across from the malt plant, go ask them. They have tons and tons of experts at town and country gardens. They'll help you with all of your gardening and lawn. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to start calling it the Whoppers Malted Milk Ball plant. Where are they? Don't actually make malted milk balls.

They're either. What are they? What are what is the malt going to make? Well, it's kind of make beer eventually. Okay, well, we have Mickey Mouse in your monologue. Who is this voice? I don't know, I'm the guy. That is the word Nazi. I listen for an errant syllable, and then when I hear one, I correct you on.

That's one that's kind of testy today. So you guys better be careful, I. Yeah. Do you ever have, like, within about an 18 hour period, you've got these little irritation points that just accumulate, Any one of them you handle just fine. But when they accumulate over, a fairly short window of time, you just start getting a little more and a little more agitated.

It's one of our favorite parts of, at least for me, of our friendship. Because you can look at me like you did this morning. In you go. I'm agitated and I say yes, okay. I'm not. So we're going to balance each other out. So it's going to be great. And then on those days when I look at him and I say I'm agitated and he says I am too, we're like, okay, we're going to need to be careful.

This morning. Just so you know, Julie presented two scenarios, both of which I'm agitated. Yeah. No, I see what I'm agitated, I know second one. And then you said, and you are too. Oh, okay. There are times when I'm not agitated. Oh, yeah. There's plenty of times when Neil's not actually. But today is not that day.

No, it's it's all good. So, you know what? I we had Ryan Spoon on, and I wanted to ask him this question, and I forgot. And so I'm even agitated with myself a little bit. I don't I don't want the world where we're just snitching on each other all the time. Like, I don't I don't know that he wants that either.

And I don't think it's his mission to just start going and snooping around and calling ice on every employer out there, like, I don't I don't know that that that's his approach. I think the the problem was that Representative Mickelson, in her floor speech, did not overtly, but perhaps tacitly confessed to having illegals in her food processing operation.

Does that is that fair to say that? Oh, I think it's definitely fair to say that if you're going to stand up and scold everybody. Yeah. When you own a food operation and then you scold everybody because they need to understand that the small and the large all have this problem. Yeah. You're admitting you have the problem.

You are the large. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Right. That's true. So she's the one that kind of elevated it to the conscious level, right? Yes. Because look I don't we're all trying to just get through life. And life's hard and I don't wake up every morning thinking life is already hard for a lot of people. How can I make it even harder for the people I disagree with?

I never have been like that. I don't want to be like that because I don't believe officially in karma. But I believe in karma. I believe that kind of behavior will get reflected back on you at some point. And so do we hold politicians accountable? Yes. Will we criticize them when we think it's warranted? Yes. Will we share our honest opinions?

Yeah. As we as we should were paid to do that and and to host a very adeptly stimulating talk for East Idaho every day. That's what our job is. But, I don't I don't want a snitch society. I don't want us going out there going, what can I find you did wrong? Now, if there's injustice happening somewhere, I'll try to correct that.

If someone's in a in a miserable state and especially a child. Yes, exactly. Absolutely. A child. Yeah, like I don't I'm not, I don't just look the other way when bad things are happening. But if somebody is not quite in compliance with some obscure IRS regulation, I'm not calling the IRS on people. If somebody is out there and they have a yard sale and they make 500 bucks, I'm not saying, are you paying sales tax on this?

Oh, he's back because when I, I don't just police words and and syllables. I also police yard sales to make sure people are paying their sales tax too. Like I, I'm not going to be that person. You do you you live with your conscience. I'm not going to police it. I don't want you to do that to me either, because I'd probably have to make 10 or 12 grand at a yard sale before I even think about paying sales tax.

I don't even think I do it then, but go ahead. Probably not either, but I wanted to have some level of, you know, anyway, so I'm just saying the society we all want is let's all do our best to live our best, but let's not utilize the law to make other people miserable. And I'm not saying Ryan Spoon did that with Stephanie Mickelson.

I don't I don't want to I don't want to, imply that I'm just saying we I that's not my thing. Like, I, I want people to do the right thing. I'm not there with my finger wagging, telling them, here's what you need to do. So I have, an agreeance here with you, but I think there's some nuance we need to add to the argument, which is she initially stands up in a floor speech.

That's by her choice. No one forced her into that. She stood up. She gave the floor speech and tacitly admitted that she probably has illegal agreement immigrants in her operation. Yes. Okay. Once Trump is inaugurated, Ryan Spoon calls Ice. Multiple other people called Ice on her operation. And it was reviewed. Yes. Guess where the story could have ended?

Right there, yet again, by her own volition? Yes. She went on to, garner some sympathy for myself. To her. Yeah, and gave multiple interviews. She was the one who wears the spotlight because I wanted on me. Where's the spotlight? Yeah. And she put it on herself again. So if she doesn't like the heat, stop putting yourself under the hot lamp.

Yeah. That's true. She's pulling things into the public light. Absolutely. And, yeah, you can't try to claim sympathy after you've raised the issue into the public consciousness. I, I will say this. I don't know if it's in our defense or not. It doesn't really matter. We saw this happening like I saw the chatter online and Ryan Spoon was saying this and that.

I'm like, I'm not getting involved in this. Like I, I, we, we hear a lot of not gossip but that kind of thing, real gossip, chatter, all those things that are happening, a lot of it is salacious. Our ratings could probably go up if we came here every day and we sit here. You want to hear the latest scuttlebutt of what's happened?

That's not what I really want to do. Like that's then. And so we we watched it happen. And then when it grew to I shows up. Representative Mickelson goes on the sympathy tour. All that's when we're like okay, this is now newsworthy. This is now worthy of discussing. So right. She could have left it alone. She really could have.

She she didn't need to give the floor speech. She did. She would probably disagree with that, I am sure, because she says she needs to stand up for these people and and whatever. But if you're going to give that floor speech, you have to understand that you have now put a spotlight on yourself. Yeah. She didn't need to do it again.

The, the the I don't want to call it a raid, but the review by ice at her farming operation inspection. You could have gone under the radar. Yeah. She chose to not have it go under the radar. The word you're looking for is inspection. And back for a third time. No, sorry. We need to name him. Just this him?

I, I don't know, Ernie. Ernie, we should name him someone of someone we know that does the same thing. Yeah, I know, but he's back for a third. Yeah. Third round, third round. Yeah. You know, that's that's a really good point. Now I don't yeah, I don't, I don't know. Look, I'm tired I don't want to keep talking about it I, I just had that exact thought.

I'm like this is taken up way more bandwidth. You know what I want? Well, okay, I'm just going to tell him the conversation we had over the break. I said, I'm so tired of the Bonneville County Republicans not being normal. Can we just be normal finally? Yeah. Can we be just regular, normal Republicans? Regular, regular, normal conservatives?

Yeah. Because man, we've got some issues. We do have issues. Yeah I know I have all the tabs open I can have open. I can't open another tab. I'm not opening another tab.

Okay. Mr. Agitation, let's talk about something else I. What. Oh do you I thought we were done. I thought you were opening another. I, I do have a I do have a bit of a bone to pick with you. Oh what I do, you called me the old doofus. The guy in the progressive commercial yesterday. I did.

I am not that man. Okay? No. Does it okay, Boomer. Like you didn't say Boomer, but you said Boomer. I did with my eye. Yes, you did very vividly. So I'm just saying no. Okay, okay. What were you going to say? I was going to completely change the subject away from politics. Feel free. That would be great. I because you didn't want to open another tab?

No, I, I just closed a tab. I just got that off my chest, so. Okay, I can now open a new tab. All right. I sent Neil a story and it's made some national news. They have brought back the DNA of a wolf. Yes. That is huge. This wolf is ginormous and has not been alive for something like 10,000 years.

Why does this feel like a very, very, very bad idea? It's Jurassic Park. Yes it is. And there are plans for a mammoth. Like they want to inject the DNA of a wooly mammoth into an elephant egg, have it the elephant bring it to term and bring back the wooly mammoth. This is a little terrifying. Yeah. Don't do this.

Whatever you do, do not do this. This is. This turns out really bad. Yeah, the dire wolf, is that right? I think that's what it's called. Yeah, apparently it's ginormous. And they were able. They've got a little wolf cub. What is it called? It's a called a cub with Wolf's. Maybe I, I don't know, I should know because I know where it's usually.

But I don't know what a baby wolf is called, but I will. I don't work at the zoo, so here's that. But, a little baby wolf. Yeah. Is alive and functioning and healthy. It's going to grow. We're not in the early stages. This company is in Texas, pup. Yeah. Oh, it's a pup. Yeah. So this wolf pup is healthy and going to grow.

And this company is in Texas and is in. That's all they do is bring back DNA and try to recreate these animals that are extinct. Okay. So let me ask you this question because we all can envision a Jurassic Park scenario. I find it remarkable that they're able to do this, but that's not me saying it's a good idea.

However, if we're going to do it, the the side rails I want on this are that they can never reproduce into the natural population. If you want to put them in a lab or in a zoo, so we can all pay 50 bucks and go look at them or whatever, okay. But whatever you do, do not let the dire wolf out to start breeding with the dog population or the canine population at large.

If you're gonna bring back a wooly mammoth, do not let it breed with elephants. I don't know if that would even work, but I think that the species is far enough away. Make it so that it cannot. Those genetics, whatever they are that are now extinct, can't get back out. I, I, I can foresee terrible things happening from that.

So is it up to the Texas legislators to come up with something now that we have a new problem on our hands? Yeah, I think so, I think so this company is in Texas. What if they do the Jurassic Park thing and find an island somewhere that can't be legislated? I, I, I don't know, we bomb it, I don't know.

All right. We're going to take a break. Not really. All right. People don't take me literally. We'll be back. It's 845.

All right. It's 853 on Newstalk 10792085421079 Neil Larson along with Julie Mason, Julie we got to take a break getting here very quickly. However, I wanted to ask you, we're talking about extinct animals. Bringing them back. Dodo bird is another one that they're looking at bringing back. If there's one animal that ought to go extinct, what would you want going the other direction?

Oh, I could list numerous snakes that I don't even want in existence anymore. Yeah. So snakes. I'm not. I don't I'm not freaked out by spiders or whatever. I'm sure some people who have rodent problems, like raccoons in their garbage and stuff like that would be perfectly fine with raccoons going away. That's true. Yeah. Can you think of anything you would you would like to go away?

Not. And causes without causing a controversy by saying it.

What's stopping you? Well, I you know, like, not really not like I would jokingly say pit bulls, cause that's what I was gonna say. You would like a breed of dog to go away. Yeah. I mean, that was a that was a breed of dog that they specifically bred to be vicious and to fight and to to do all of that.

But know that, you know, I there are people that I like that have pit bulls said, I'm not going to, you know, do that to them. But I think just in general, if I had to choose an animal, maybe, you know, those, Komodo dragons? Yeah, I know we don't have a threat of them here, so let them live.

Let them be sure. But if we're going to play God an extinct something. But I think that one could go. Okay. Yeah. Let be all right. What about the marmots? That can be such. Yeah. And. Yeah. All right, we'll be back. It's 855. All right. It's 859. Our two coming up now, right? 907 on Newstalk 179 (208) 542-1079 on this Tuesday, it's, Neil Larson.

Julie Mason would love to hear from you. And, let's see protesters getting 25 bucks an hour. That's great. Let's listen to this, this audio here. And how many hours on the road you get an hour 25 to 25. Right. Well, I mean, something like 24, 24 bucks there. You know, I, we do some crazy stuff.

Oh, I ask you. Yeah. Okay. So that was one bit of organic audio there, Julie. Yeah. And this isn't just a one off all over TikTok. You can find these people who went and got a quick payday, like they might not have a job or whatever. Yeah. It appears also that one of the things that they have to do is in order to get paid, you have to fill out a questionnaire at the end, like 8 to 10 questions.

And it's clear if you don't fill it out appropriately, you're not going to get paid. So I don't know if they're doing that to then use as data points. I don't know, like they're forcing you to answer a certain way so that you can get paid. And then do they collate all of that and say they did a survey and use it for data points?

I have no idea. But in order to get the paycheck at the end, you fill out a survey and then they give you, they give you some sort of like visa card, cash, I don't know, something. The bottom line here is this is just astroturf. This is an artificial outrage. These protests, some form of protest probably would have happened.

Yes, but this organized nationwide. All of that is is just not artificial. And they're not hiding that. There were interviews done that talked about the website that was created and its direct connection to George Soros and Alex Soros. And so it is completely being funded by the left. And I sure, if you want to feel like that is, actually motion from people, it's not I've, I've always contended this whole campus infighting about Palestine and Israel is a bunch of angst teens who don't have anything better to do with their life.

And so this is where they come and show up and they get free food because because there will be pizza provided and I might as well go hang out with some people. It's like their version of a frat party, but they're not. They're not in that club right there. There are other things incentivizing them to be there. Yes.

Yeah, yeah, that's a really good point. They don't they don't care about Palestine or Israel. I don't care either way. They're just showing up to go do something. I think that there's and and it's not all of them but most of them. And I think that that's the same for these protests. I, I also want to add part of me is like, keep it up.

This is what we've seen for the past 15 years. And honestly, that's what led to Donald Trump getting elected the first time around. The the left was going crazy and taking these ridiculous positions, and the more they put it on display, the more I think average ordinary Americans center right and to the right are galvanized together to to stop it because we don't want these people in charge.

Yes, I would completely agree. I it does nothing but help Republicans. It might feel uncomfortable. I admit that it makes me edgy. I don't like that this is happening in my communities. I don't like that there was a big protest in Boise over the weekend. I don't like any of it. I think it's the pain you have to endure in 2025, and if that makes you uncomfortable, then you got to figure out that you exist in 2025.

Yeah, yeah, that's a good point. Let's go to the phones. (208) 542-1079 Caller how are you? Hey, I'm doing great. Good morning. How are you? Good, good. Doing well, good. Yeah. So I took my daughter to the library. That was two weeks ago. We had kind of an off day spring break. And so we went to the library, and, at that precise moment, they were doing the activist stuff on the bridge.

And so I took it as a good learning opportunity for my daughter, who's five, you know, just to walk on that side. Right. Because we had to get from A to B, and what I noticed was the crowd that was there. They all had cell phones. They all had to do the devices. I actually had some woman say, hey, oh, I caught you in a picture.

Is it okay that you were in the picture? And I thought to myself, that is such a strange request, I would never. But then I told my wife about it and she said, yeah, because of social media. You got our daughter there. You know, I don't want things to be misconstrued. And I'm like, that is the weirdest thing I've ever.

I think I've ever. So any time what I just what any other, anecdotal thing was that every time someone would drive by and hook, those people would put down their cell phones, clamped like a seal, sea lion who was trained. And as soon as the honking stopped, they went back to their cell phones and were doing that.

So I didn't really view it much of a protest. It was just more of a get out in the sunshine to get some vitamin D and maybe clap a little bit, but I didn't think it was a real protest. It wasn't. It wasn't real. That was my thought, sort of just a gathering like, yeah, yeah, it was it wasn't like there was a death and they were really, really fired up.

It wasn't that. It was just like, hey, we're here. We all here. We're all showed up, you know, check a box. Okay. Interesting. Did did you sense and I, I don't have any preconceived notions about your answer here, but, we have seen before the left will bus people in, and they're not they're not part of the local community.

They're brought in from outside. Did you sense the people that were there were pretty much all locals, or did it seem like maybe they they did come from somewhere else? I would say it felt local if there was a, there was a couple of men with red wrists, because they got drug there, it looked like. But, but it did look local and it looked like it was predominantly female.

Was like I would say, man, like 75, 25, maybe even 80, 20, female to male ratio. Wow. Okay. I so I didn't see it, but there wasn't a lot of men out there, you know, 18 and up. It was primarily women and women with signs, and they they, I mean, it went up the whole panoply of, of, of issues that, you bones of contention.

I saw something about nurses and something and I just kind of was like, I don't get it. I don't get it. There's no cohesive. They're just mad and they're mad at. Yeah, I don't know, they're just mad. And it's not like I'm going to change it and they're not going to change my attitude. I'm 100% for Trump. I love everything he's doing.

There's not a single thing he's doing right now. It makes me go, oh, he's a dictator. But it's just the way that they're seeing the world right now. I'm just, I, I don't know, I their echo chamber is getting smaller and smaller. Smaller. But yeah. Agreed. Well, thank you. Thank you for the call. All right.

28542107I actually really appreciate him bringing that to light, because I think the the dominance of women in this group of people who are protesting is very, evident. I, I looked at, one of the protests yesterday or I looked at a video of one of the protests yesterday. That's what I want to say. And this one, they were indoors somewhere.

I don't know if one of these was held in an arena because the weather was bad. I'm not sure what was going on, but, the person who put up the video said, what do you recognize about this group of people? And they had panned the entire audience. So I went to see what the comments were saying. I obviously had my own thoughts, but I went to see over and over and over again in the comments.

It's all older women, it's all older women, it's all women above 40. It's all. And it was a very the the demographic was women skewed okay. I remember truly when prop one was being pushed, a lot of the proponents that were get it gathering signatures fell into a very clear demographic. In fact, we lovingly referred to them as The Golden Girls.

Is this kind of the same thing? There's a little bit of this going on. Okay. Yeah. And then I think that there's a portion of the men who are showing up with what we could lovingly say is the Golden Girls are there because this is their lot in life. This is this is the path they chose. And they've been with this woman for however many years or whatever.

And they're going to support her in this. So I, I wouldn't say it's all, but I do believe there is a larger portion of the people. Can I ask you, why did you pause? Because I want to say it very kindly. I don't want to. I'm not here to be mean to people. I'm here to observe and and report.

Yeah. Actually, I, I should probably pause more often before things come tumbling out of my mouth, but, you know. Yeah. All right. Hey. Are we. Do you want to have this honest conversation as a as a woman who's 52? Yeah, I actually understand some of the things that they're frustrated about. I think this is a ludicrous way to change your life.

Yeah. And a, a lack of emotional maturity. Okay, so let me ask you what do you understand that they're concerned about? Like, what concerns you? What can you identify with? I would say that there's probably a portion of them that have had work experiences or life experiences where they spent a lot of their time giving and didn't get anything back in return.

I think these are some moms who who worked really hard in life, and now their kids hate them because they didn't do a good enough job. And so they're just, they're just okay. So my my follow up would be what does Trump have to do with that? Nothing. That's what I said. It's a it's a lack of emotional maturity okay.

They're just fine I think they're finding an outlet. They're linking their angst to something tangible. And in this case it's Donald Trump. Yeah, they've probably had some bad life experiences, but there's no logical connection. It's just something yeah, I need to blame somebody. And that man looks like somebody good to blame. I need to hitch my anger wagon to something.

Yeah. And it's Donald Trump. Yeah okay. All right. So the reason I ask you that question is in my somewhat logical mind, I'm trying to figure out logically why are they showing up in big numbers. But we can't really identify what they're actually angry about. They're kind of babbling about tariffs over here. They're yakking about authoritarianism over there.

But there is no cohesive thought flow here as to why they're showing up to these protests around the country. Yeah, there isn't a cohesive thought at all. And if you look at the signs, you don't even need to chat with people. If you look at the signs, you can see that there's various themes sprinkled throughout. Yeah. Yeah. That's yeah.

That's true. Yeah. Well, thank you for being a friend. You're welcome. Let's travel on down the road and back again. Your heart is pure I you're a pal and a confidant. But if you threw a party like that for the rest of me, invited everyone you knew, then you would see the biggest gift would be for me and the car attached to would say thank you for being a friend.

I can't believe, but I'm ashamed that I know the words to that do we need to check your man card? No, because I'm man enough to admit I know all the words to the theme song of the Golden Girls. It's like the bumper sticker on the back of a beat up old Rusty Dotson that says, you have to be real secure to drive a car like this.

It's that version. To be honest. I put that bumper sticker on a Subaru.

Now? Yeah. There you go. Either. Either way. All right. (208) 542-1079 it's Neil Larson along with Julie Mason. Let's take a break. Why not? We'll be back and continue. If you'd like to join us, we'd love to have you. 20854210790. Okay. Thank you for being a friend. If I did a studio for cover, that's the one I would sing.

I traveled down the road and back again. Your heart is true. You're a. I'm way off of your key that you were on, pal. And a confident bum bum bum. Okay, that might have been over playing the percussion is. Neil's got a tambourine and he's tapping it on his hip. Yes, yes. See, Craig on Facebook says it happens to be a good.

So yes. Somebody, said in the text line, could it be menopause and I think they're probably joking, I don't know, I think that's a joke. Yeah. And, and maybe they're not joking. Maybe it's a legitimate question, but I actually do think that plays into it. Yeah. I think the symptoms of menopause have been, greatly heightened with Covid.

Whatever it is to do with the inflammation, I think women are feeling it more, and yeah, it could be part of the agitation. I, I also think when you're mixing a lot of synthetic drugs, along with a process that your body is supposed to naturally be doing, you might get some unintended consequences. Yeah. I mean, my body is naturally supposed to eventually enter menopause.

And when we interrupt that and don't let it do its thing or whatever, do we know how that's going to play out? Yeah. No, no, you don't you really don't. Yeah. So I think it's a fair question. Okay. There's a picture of Hillary Clinton here on the cover of her book. Tell me what you I don't feel like it looks like her.

I mean, you can tell it's her. Let me open the image in a new tab. Hold up way. So like that, doesn't it? There's a filter. They've de-aged her by, like 15 or 20 years. I really like that font at the top. At the top, though. Is that her signature though? I have no idea. But that's cool. Like, if that's her signature, that was smart of them to do that.

It's also really weird when somebody shows up in a picture and it's not the way they wear their hair on on a daily basis. Yeah, that's true. Like they've had makeup and hair done for the photoshoot. You don't look like you because it's not your regular hairdo. Yeah. And that's what she's got going on there. You that's true.

She looks less like Secretary of State or First Lady Hillary Clinton and more like web rebels girlfriend. Oh, I didn't say that, did I?

Okay. 924 on Newstalk 1079 it's Neil Larson and Julie Mason. And if you'd like to reach us on the Stones Automotive Group calling text line, that number is (208) 542-1079. All right Julie, as people would. Oh that is the wrong thing. Okay, here we go. New ad is out targeting Senator Jim Guthrie. Listen to this. They call it the Pocatello purgatory.

It's Senate Chairman Jim Guthrie's draw where pro-gun, pro-life, anti teacher union bills go to die. They get to Guthrie's desk. Then he locks them away. No hearings, no votes, and all stops with him. Over 20 years in politics and this so-called conserva ative keeps killing conservative bills. So who's pulling his strings? Who's he really working for? Idaho taxpayers deserve answers.

Thoughts? I well, I have lots of thoughts. I have questions. Mostly. What? How often is this playing and what? What group of people are they targeting? I would love to know what research they have and who they think his voters are and who are they targeting. So that would be important to me. Also, why now? It's not an election year?

Yeah. So are they prepping the stage and are they okay spending the money now? It's a group called Insta tute for education reform. So I'm thinking it's a conservative group there, and I, you know, I don't, I don't know, I because I had the same thought as you. This is not the political season. And it almost feels like you're throwing good money after bad to air an ad like this when there's not an election any time soon.

Yeah. And when did they begin airing it. Just because I stumbled across this last night. Send it to you. And when did they begin airing it? Because if you were trying to put pressure on Guthrie. Yeah. To take these bills out of the drawer and had them heard in committee. Well, they signed he died last week. So they announced they entered signing day last week.

So yeah, it's a little late. Well, did they run it? Yeah. I mean, we haven't seen it. Is it possible they ran it and it's just sort of making it to X finally getting here? Sure. Maybe so. Their website is reform education dot U.S. and, yeah, they're they're clear. They do have, Twitter or X account.

But I will say this. It's a well, well done ad. Yeah. Oh, I think so, too. Yeah, yeah. If you see the visual like, it shows them putting a bill in a drawer on the top of the desk where the drawer is, there's a picture of Senator Guthrie. And now I'm sure that they do this perhaps for a number of lawmakers around the country.

But but yeah, this is and maybe, you know, maybe they're just getting an early start. Maybe they're crafting a narrative and they want to to shift gears. Yeah. And cement it. Just keep running it and keep running it and keep running it and tell you know, we talk about the legislative session and there's been a lot of selling over this legislative session over what they've produced.

But are there discussions that need to be had about process because it it really is frustrating to see these bills go into a drawer, not get taken up by the other chamber. And it happens on the house side too. It's not just one side, although Senator Guthrie is fairly prolific at this. You you do you I don't know what rules you implement, because when you're the chair of a committee, you're the chair of the committee, so you don't you don't want to dictate to them too much here.

But at the same time, when there is a bill that passes overwhelmingly with lots of enthusiasm on one side, I how do you how do you force the issue on the other? I, I don't know how you force the issue with Senator Guthrie. I will say I felt a difference, and I believe the lawmakers that we have interviewed felt a difference in the leadership of both, both chambers, that Mike Moyle and, Kelly Anthon were different leaders this legislative session that's more active, much more insistent.

Yeah. With the lawmakers that we get conservative policy accomplished. And I like that that pressure is going to filter down to Senator Guthrie. Yes. Yeah, I do too. Should there be an emergency mechanism to force a bill, for instance, care, you know, like we have a veto override. Like that's you don't really want to necessarily get to that point because you're overriding a decision that's made before.

However I think there's a place for these mechanisms. And sometimes I wonder when, when you look at here, here's what I think we should look at. When you look at the nature of the bills being put in the drawer, if they're likely to pass. But the chair, as I'm just a general members not likely to vote for it, that's when you have to start looking at it.

There are issues where maybe the bill got through the other chamber, but there's not enough time for them to fully go through it. On the other, there may be very good and defensible reasons why a chair would would put a bill in a drawer. But I do think sometimes there's philosophical and ideological reasons. They know it's likely to pass committee and then pass the chamber.

And so they they hold it up. They have the power to do that. I don't believe that's right. But I'm not quite sure what the right mechanism is, because you want them to feel like they do have have control of their committee. You know, I don't know. I, I would ask, would it be interesting to you to do a, an anonymous straw poll of all of the legislators and ask them how they feel about this and if this needs to be changed or addressed in some way?

Because just because I'm frustrated, it's in the drawer and you're frustrated in the drawer, maybe they understand the process and realize that sometimes they get really crappy bills and they just need to go there to die, maybe. And, and I and maybe that ebbs and flows from session, because maybe you have some very talented lawmakers who are good at crafting these bills.

And maybe some years the stuff that you receive is not so great. I think sometimes, and I've actually heard this, I've talked to sort of, off the record conversations, but you have chairs that do not want to put their members during an election year in a difficult situation, like having to vote on something that's that's going to imperil their reelection chances, and so they'll save their membership from having to to deal with the fallout, voting one way or the other on, on the bill.

And they're they're protecting the party. They're protecting the majority. They're they're they're in their minds, they're justifying not not putting that forward, which I, I get it. I'm not sure I really like that idea, you know. But I maybe it should just be a simple rule. If any bill passes one chamber by more than three fourths, like more than 75%, the other chamber has to take it up.

It has to be heard and debated in committee. That seems less intrusive. Yeah. Yeah, that seems, reflective of the combination of the two chambers. So that one's lesser. Yeah, I could get. I can understand that. That one could work. Yeah. I don't know I this is one of those things where I have a hard time telling the lawmakers to go over there and spend nearly four months day in, day out, and some of them work 12 and 13 hour days.

Some of them don't. And you should be frustrated with the ones who show up for just a few hours and aren't giving that much. Yeah, but, I, I fear that I can't tell them how to handle the processes if I'm not there in the trenches with them. So that's why I think it would be interesting to know how they feel about it.

And and if that would disrupt the flow of, of effectively getting work done. See? Not me. I will armchair quarterback all day long. I have no problem asking the questions. No. Yeah. Because they shouldn't they shouldn't operate under scrutinized. See I again maybe this is a rule change. And, you know, if I'm, if I'm elected and I, I'm at least having that conversation because that could benefit both chambers.

Yeah. I'm sure the Senate's frustrated when they get a bill passed. They it takes an awful lot of work to get a bill or the amount of work they put on it in the off season. Yes, in the off season, during the session, like there's a ton of work that goes into getting a bill passed, especially one that that implements a fundamental change like parental choice in education.

Whatever massive amounts of work and effort. And that's why I feel like they need to address this with their rules somehow. That there are certain bills that need to be heard by the other side. Maybe not everyone. I like I said, I think there are defensible reasons why maybe one chamber wouldn't take up a bill, but I think in a lot of cases they should just just have to.

And you know what? It'll live and die by that. Whatever happens, happens. But but I think one of the things you could do is if you live in Senator Guthrie's area, start sending emails, have your friends start sending emails, ask him why he leaves so many bills in his drawer and and get specific, say, I wanted to hear this bill, but you left it in the drawer.

I wanted to hear this bill, but you left it in the drawer. Hey, gets specific and push because that's the power that you have as a voter. Yeah. And when we just keep reelecting these people because you know their name and they have some money behind them. You get what you voted for. Yeah. Yeah. It's true. I think another reason, and I would say this in sort of, in Senator Guthrie's behalf, he chairs the State Affairs Committee.

An awful lot of legislation goes through that. So it's more likely that he's going to have more bills. That would be put in a drawer, simply because of the volume of legislation that goes through. Yeah. Yeah. But if that's the case and it is really legitimate, the ones he's put in the drawer, it shouldn't be a problem for him to explain that.

Yeah, I would agree. I would agree. All right. 936 Newstalk 1079 gun. Gonna bust away for just a minute here. And when we get back, we'll continue. If you'd like to reach us. (208) 542-1079. You know how when I have, like, my blood pressure goes up, I have spots in my eyes. Yeah, in my vision. I can't see your face right now.

Like I can't make out your left eye. It is all, like, fuzzy and muddled. Really? Yeah. I can see much better on the right eye. But now you are right. I my left side so I can see your right. I can't see your right eye. Yeah, it's your left eye that I can see. See you see this one,

Okay. Yeah. Is it one of those migraines where one of the field of vision starts to get weird? I don't know, what am I? I don't know if I've ever had a migraine. So if I move like this, is it just. No. When you move that side of your face, still say, because my eyes move with you and that side is fuzzy.

Okay. Yeah. I don't know what's going on. Close one eye. Yeah, I can see way better out of the side. Okay, so you can see both eyes out of that eye. It's been the weirdest, weirdest conversation ever but okay. Weird. No it hasn't. Let's think back about the conversation. No it has it. Oh no it's that's true.

There have been weirder, weirder conversations. I don't know what's going on. Maybe the level we shall see. I don't have a headache, so I don't know what's going on there. Have you checked your blood pressure lately? No, but it shouldn't be up. I, I have felt really good. Yeah. How long has it been since you've had this phenomenon at this to this degree.

Oh, a minute each time I was pregnant, I probably shouldn't have been driving it was all the time like that. It was a far more often that I had a clear day than, an obstructed day. That's how high my blood pressure was. Yeah. I probably shouldn't have been driving. I took off the mirror of one of my cars because I couldn't really what I was backing up and I tagged the mirror, tagged on something and ripped off.

I.

Just speaking of women not being as good at things as, some things as men. Did you see that that there was some championship pool, billiards. Female match. It was the championship female match and it was two trans women men won the billiards contest. You have got to be kidding me. And then a girl walked off of a tournament course for frisbee golf.

Yeah. This weekend, because a man was beating her, pretending to be a woman. Okay. And she just went, I'm not doing this. I'm not doing this. He can throw it so much further than I can. I'm not doing this. Yeah. That's insane. And, Okay. Can we go back to billiards for a moment? Are men really better at the billiards than women?

Because I, I think in general, I do believe in general, men just have better eye hand coordination. Just just you just do. Okay. In general, men are better. You're better at video games. That's why men are better at driving. You just men have better eye hand coordinate men. And when and when you need to make split second decisions, that's important.

Yeah. And so that's why men are not always, but generally better at video games and generally is. And that's okay because women are better at other things. So. Right. Yeah I made a joke to Julie I, I cannot I couldn't say it in but she thought it was funny, but I thought it was funny. I can't I can't repeat.

I'm so glad the stock market went up. Not because it not for any, not for any like personal reason just to shut up the mainstream media. I just wanted to go back up so they didn't have a talking point. What? Dylan, darling, darling is leaving after all. After he announced he wouldn't, he must have got a real good offer.

Must have. Dang it.

Well, this is a bummer, Julie. I just saw the Idaho State Journal post that Dylan darling, who just days ago, he's our star point guard and was the big Sky conference MVP this season, was staying. He's actually leaving after all. Several media outlets report that Dylan Darling's intention to enter the transfer portal on Monday, or at that is his intention.

The Journal was not able to reach the red shirt sophomore to confirm his intentions, but ISU sources did confirm he has requested to be placed in the portal. Head coach Ryan Looney said he could not confirm that darling was in the portal because when he enters the website, it doesn't show ISU players. I can't comment, Looney said of the reports of darlings entering the portal.

I haven't had the opportunity to talk to him yet. I don't have an understanding of what happened. That's kind of interesting. There's always the chance that darling could return to Idaho State, but that seems unlikely, given that he originally made a public pronouncement that he was staying. But darling has suddenly had a change of heart by requesting that his name be entered in the transfer portal and deleting the social media post of his return.

That was posted just six days ago. If darling does leave, it would be a severe blow to an issue program that took a major step up this past season, with darling leading the team in scoring at 19.8 points a game. The Bengals finished fourth in the big Sky conference with a ten and eight record, went 15 and 15 overall.

So, Dallas. Sorry. It ain't true. Dylan. I'm sorry. That's a that's a bummer. That is a bummer. I'm sorry. Which it's interesting because this is sort of an expectation learning moment. We all just assumed he was leaving just because he's so good and could play at the bigs. And when he announced that he was staying, we were overjoyed.

And we got used to that. Now it's just kind of a this is where it's at. I'm sorry, I the transfer portal has benefits, but man, is it trouble. It's problematic. It's full of trouble. It you know, it is. And I think that, you know, it's it's a two edged sword. Yeah. And everyone hates the bad edge, but I.

And I don't think we like the good edge of the sword enough to offset how much we don't like the bad edge. I, I think without the transfer portal, we probably would not have had the great year that we had this last year. Yeah, and I mean great by ISU historic ISU standards. It really was a step up for us.

And it was it was good to see us in that upper tier pretty much all season long and, at ISU. So but you know what? Here's the thing. There are other players out there entering the transfer portal, and our coaches seem to be pretty good at snatching them up. So. Yeah, I watched the final four for the women just because I had a daughter who got so engaged into the UConn team and the cuteness of those girls and everything.

So I've always done this of my kids like something. I'll learn about it so I can talk to them about it. So I watched it. Even though I women's basketball is not my favorite thing to watch. Yeah. And, it was interesting. There was a high profile player for South Carolina who had worn three major university jerseys in her college career.

And so, yes, and South Carolina was her last one. And, that feels for somebody our age who we saw players just become so engulfed in their university bleed the color of their university, and now it's just, well, it's a means to an end for me, so I don't care. Yeah. Proposition that feels very not loyal to us.

Yeah. I think for people who only have known it this way, maybe somebody who's 25 or whatever, they look at it like, it's just the way it works. But for you and I, we look at it as maybe a loss of that, that deep love for a team and you're just showing up to play basketball or whatever.

Well, and and look how it's it's filtering out like college has always been sort of Uber high school. Like it's it's just been a bigger high school where you still have team loyalty and you only have four years to play, and you have, you know, so it's sort of a replication of that just on a higher level. But even in high school now they're they're dealing with that issue of players who are wanting to transfer between schools.

And I think one way to look at it, at least, this is the very first natural way to look at it, is we're seeing a loss of loyalty that that idea of loyalty does doesn't really exist the way that it used to. So we're we're grieving over that. But is there another way to look at it? Is there is there a way to look at it that that sort of makes more sense, that that sort of tempers, that idea that loyalty is dying?

I don't know, because for me, it feels that way. And guess what? It doesn't just stop at the high school level. You ask any of these men who have invested hundreds and hundreds of hours into coaching these 12 and 13 year old boys in travel baseball, and you've got kids who jump teams. They're yeah, I'm going to have a better opportunity if I go here or whatever.

So, I think it's going to filter all the way down for the younger generation. I think they're just really bent on looking out for themselves, and maybe they should be. Maybe there's an argument for that, because in the end, Billy down the street doesn't end up being important when you're trying to get a college scholarship. So I don't know, I, I'm thinking sort of the broader culture right now.

Do we just live in a culture now that to survive and thrive you have to look out for yourself more than the, the larger group. Like is that, is that just the nature of what the culture is now. Yeah. Someone said in a text that it's business now, even a 12 and 13. It's a business decision. Yeah.

Right. But you're making and I that is truly correct because these girls that I was watching in the final four for the college women's championship, they actually make more money as college players with nil. If they have huge deals than they're probably going to make playing for the WNBA. Yeah, yeah I believe well, look at the bands he's going to play at BYU.

$6 million. It may even be higher now. Yeah. Like that's amazing. That is phenomenal. To think that a 19 year old or an 18 year old kid has that kind of money in their hands. It is a business. Yeah. Yeah, it really is sad. It's sad. I was talking to my daughter, the one that danced, about this, and she lives in Utah, and she keeps her finger on the pulse of, Utah dance.

Because it really is premier in the nation. Good dancers come out of Utah. And, she said there's high school girls that make tons of money off of their social media that her dancers, it is even filtered down that far that they've built their profiles to a place that they have sponsorship deals. They have Adidas sending them free stuff.

Wow. Wow. It's crazy. Yeah. But that's that's 2025. It how short lived is that though. I don't, I don't I just like a 15 minutes of. Oh for them. Yeah I'm probably not because they probably network enough that that as long as they keep dancing in college and they, they go on, they, they've probably network themselves enough that they're going to be okay.

I thought you were asking me, how long does social media keep paying people at this level? That's what I mean. Like for your average person who has somewhat of a following as an influencer, they snatch up these. But it seems like the shelf life of these social media influencers is relatively short. I think it can come and go pretty quickly.

They shouldn't. They should invest their money into some appropriate things. Yeah, enjoy it while it's coming in. Yes. And invest and be smart. Yeah, yeah. All right. 950 on Newstalk 1079 well, I am going to influence my lawn with some humus this afternoon. You should take pictures and put it up on the internet and see if you can get a deal from Rex at Town and Country.

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We'll be back after this. Okay. The squiggly lines have now moved down here so I can see both of your eyes. I can't see the bottom of your shirt. You have. You're having one of those migraines. Is that what it is? Yeah. And it does it look like it's almost digitized? Everything. That's. Yeah, that's a my. But my head isn't hurting at all.

They're they're harmless. They. Your head doesn't hurt and I can't remember what they're called. They're there's a name, but in almost all cases it's harmless. It it'll last usually for me it lasts 45 minutes or so between half an hour or two an hour. Yeah. Then it goes away. If I look down, I can see your shirt. But looking straight at you, all of this is all fuzzy down here.

Yeah, and almost looks like neon ish, I don't know what's going on, but you've had these before. Oh, yeah, but only when you're pregnant. Like it's been when I'm pregnant. It covers most of my vision. Like the whole vision and squiggly. Yeah, I think it's an ocular migraine. Okay. Ocular migraine. Can I do something?

Can I make it go away? No, I don't think so. I think you just wait it out. Yeah. Okay. It'll it'll self resolve. You'll be all right. All right. It is weird though, I bet. I bet once every 2 or 3 years I get one. And it's weird. The first time I got one was probably five years ago.

I was sure I had brain cancer and I was going to die. And then I did research and I'm like oh no these aren't and that. Now if it lasts a long time it will last more than four hours. Go see your doctor. But you know.

No. But if it does I would say, you know, what's funny is my one and only prescription that I take. Yeah, is a little blue pill. You've seen me take that. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. It's not, it's not for any health reason or anything. I take a prescription that, is actually for men. Yeah, who have prostate cancer.

But the side effect for women, if they take the prescription is their hair grows in thicker. Okay. So that's why I, it's it's harmless to any the only harm it causes to women is if they're still trying to birth babies. And you're recommended not to do it because it might alter. Yeah. The fetus. But. And do you does it help?

Like, I believe it totally helps. Yeah. Good. Yeah. But it is a little blue pill associated with men. It's not that blue pill. Yeah. That was a great game last night I got it. And I'm sad for you that Houston didn't win. Yeah I wasn't invested in them so it didn't. It's okay. Yeah it's fine I wasn't invested I was I was more sad that, Duke lost because.

Yeah, I just was. I just really liked the grit that those boys play with. Yeah. You know, but they've got great careers coming up, so they're going to be fine. They do? Yeah, they'll be all right. They're gonna be fine. I was just watching that. Did you see the news report on there about the Oculus and how it's helping kids become less obese?

No, because they have to get off the couch and they move their arms. Oh, nice. Yeah. Good. In that Duke game, they reported, I think it was in the pregame that the kid whose last name looks like a nipple. Yeah. And they pronounce it that way, but he has a he actually has a super viral TikTok video that says his name is nipple.

Oh, okay. Yeah, whatever. I don't know what it is, but he has parents who played, college ball. Yeah. And he was an interest in, in basketball. And his mom was like, nope, he's got the DNA. This is not happening. So she bought him, we basketball. Yeah. And she made him play it. And that's how he fell in love with the game.

Seriously. Yeah. I remember when the we came out that was the whole point of it was to get kids active. Yeah. Get him off them. Guess what. Just cleared up down here. It is not near as fuzzy. Okay good. It's waning okay. Yeah. All right I'll take it. It's going to be all right. Okay. Who? What? Somebody sent a text that said, okay, it's the beer malt plant.

All right. 958 on Newstalk 1079 tomorrow. Senator Crapo. Julie. Yes, as far as we haven't been told otherwise. Okay. So we'll have his regular time slot. That will be at 730. We look forward to that. Plus an update on the Pocatello shooting situation and the continued wake of the Idaho legislative session. All of it tomorrow right here on Newstalk 1079.

We'll see you then.