5.13.2025 -- NLS -- Trump’s $1T Saudi Play & Biden’s Job Spin

On this episode with Neal and Julie, they cover big headlines in politics and culture, including Trump’s potential $1 trillion deal with Saudi Arabia and skepticism over Biden’s job creation claims. They dive into the controversial “start-stop” car feature, questioning its real benefits and whether it’s more virtue signaling than practical. Listener reactions are invited on whether this feature should stay or go. The conversation also touches on car safety tech, the balance between affordability and modern conveniences, and memories of reliable, no-frills vehicles from the past. In politics, Neal and Julie debate the lack of likable Democrat figures, the disconnect with voters, and how media figures like Whoopi Goldberg have changed over time. They even draw parallels between Milli Vanilli’s lip-sync scandal and today’s influencer culture.

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Transcript

Anybody else watching Trump in Saudi Arabia and thinking, can you even imagine Joe Biden trying to navigate all of this? I mean, you have massive, companies there like Blackrock, Nvidia, Amazon, Google and Trump is going to hopefully come home with $1 trillion deal with Saudi Arabia, which, by the way, has already committed about $600 billion. So already massive, massive investment.

But things are flowing and things are moving. And, it wasn't just yesterday, actually, where the story broke. Excuse me. Got ups a little bit, that, Qatar wants to provide Trump with a plane. Now, I'm getting conflicting reports. I've heard the plane, once Trump's done with it, would go to his presidential foundation. But Julie mentioned earlier this morning that cutter is saying now it's just a loaner.

Like, get to use it until Boeing gets your plane done and then we'll take it back. So I don't know the story there. All I know is that it is upsetting the Democrats because Trump's okay with it. And that has become the new litmus test for Democrat outrage. Is, Trump's okay with it. But like I look at it and I, I there's like this inner part of me that wants to say to every single Democrat within the sound of my voice, really?

Do you really watch Trump and not recognize how impactful he is and and how gifted he is? Now, look, I'm not a sycophant of Trump. I like what he's doing. I think he loves America. I believe he's operating in the best interest of our country. And and I'm watching this. But, you know, it's funny because they try to present him as a dunderhead, as an incompetent doofus, and he is anything but that.

It is one news cycle after another where he is moving the ball forward. And this Saudi Arabian trip is is no different. So that's on the table. But we have that. Also, speaking of Joe Biden, turns out that old Joe, I don't know if he's capable of lying because I don't know if he's capable of telling the truth.

And think about the logic of that. I think when you have someone in his compromised situation and so easily manipulated and mentally handled, I don't know if Joe Biden was lying when he talked about all the jobs that he created, but it turns out that those 400,000 ish jobs that his that Kamala bragged about, that he bragged about.

Turns out it never it never was. Which I find it pretty interesting because. Hey, let me get the story here. Turns out that even more of Joe Biden's job creation numbers were fake. For months, it paraded numbers around like everything was fine. Telling Americans the economy was roaring back, job creation was on fire, and Biden nomics was working.

But the truth, long suspended by anyone trying to pay the bills, writes PJ media, is now confirmed by the government's own data. Those jobs never existed. According to new figures released this week, the 399,000 jobs the Biden team claimed were created between July and September of last year have completely vanished. Not only did the economy not add those jobs, it also lost a thousand private sector jobs during that period.

This more accurate data set was just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the third quarter of last year. E.J. Antone, a research fellow, and the Richard Aster Fellow in the Heritage Foundation's Grover Herman Center for the Federal Budget, explains at Town Hall. In stark contrast to the monthly job report showing an increase of 399,000 jobs during the third quarter, these new numbers show a decline of 1000 private sector jobs.

So that was a lie. But then in my search, I came across an old PolitiFact from 2020 for August of 2024, Donald Trump put this out on truth Social. The Harris Biden administration has been caught fraudulently manipulating job statistics. Now, at that time, PolitiFact ranked it pants on fire that he was lying. Turns out he was telling the truth, after all.

And I'm hopeful that PolitiFact will do the right thing because they are interested, in fact, hopefully, that they will issue a correct correction. Now, I'm not I'm not terribly, optimistic that that is, going to to happen. I also wanted to ask you, about the start stop functionality on your car and Sean Duffy, he, he put out, tweet or an X and said, we're going to fix that.

Everybody hates it. Nobody likes it, everybody hates it. So we're going to get rid of the start stop functionality. But then when you read in the comments on X, it's actually mixed. Some people are okay with it. Some people hate it. I've always found it weird if I've driven a car with it. You get to an intersection and all of a sudden your car just stops.

It's just sitting there. You're like, why? Then you let off the brake and it starts back up. And I suppose maybe get get used to it, but I think we're going to do not a Colin Flash poll, but I am interested in a text reaction here from all of you. Do you like the start stop functionality that you may or may not have in your car?

I don't care for it. I feel like it's overkill. I think it's it's obviously they do it because the environment and some virtue signaling engineer at some car company a few years back said, hey, I have an idea. Let's just stop the car at intersections. And I think for a lot of people, they don't like it. So I'm just curious and we'll share some of your reactions, but I'd love for you to text in where you're at, with this, with this particular, issue, on the stop start thing and the fact that the Biden administration's getting rid of it, I do understand that you can turn it off, which maybe the controversy is

not. Should we have it? Because some people like it and I suppose that it saves on gas or the client, whatever. If you're if you're driven by that, then, okay. But should it by default be off that an option you can turn on or should it by default be on and an option you can turn off?

A few years back they started changing cars and I didn't I I've talked about this before. I want my car to not try to be smarter than me, if that makes any sense. And so it was actually a Toyota and I'm a fan of Toyotas. I have Toyotas and I remember driving this Toyota and not used to it.

It was a company vehicle. And the first time I got into it and got up to highway speed, I thought something was wrong with the car because I was approaching, car from behind, get ready to pass, and it slowed me down. I'm like, what's wrong with this car? We're going to have to pull over and call triple A anyway.

Turns out it had the radar on, and I'm like, I don't need that crap, okay? I don't need the car to drive for me. I just need a steering wheel attached to the wheels and a brake that works. And I'll be fine on my own. And I got in fact, one of my top priorities was to pull over, find out what I needed to do to turn that functionality off, which ought to be a switch.

But no, it's like you got to tap the brake four times, press your horn for 3.7 seconds, and then blink your eyes seven times. Turn to the left and cough. Oh wait, no, that's the doctor. Anyway, you had to do all this rigmarole to finally turn off that functionality and and basically came to the conclusion, I don't want the car I'm driving to be a carrot.

I just want the car to run and I want it to drive. And I feel like this stop start functionality in the cars that they put in is sort of a Carron function, like it's it's, you know what? We know better than you. So, yeah, you have the privilege of sitting in this car and maybe your hands are on the steering wheel, but we still know better than you.

So we're going to slow you down as you approach a car, and we're actually going to turn the car off when we get to the intersection, because carbon and, okay. I guess just just turn it off. And people would say to me, and probably rightly so, why are you complaining if you just turn that stuff off if you want to?

You're right. You're right, and I do. I guess my point in this would be have the functionality there if you feel the need to put it in the car, and then I'll turn it on if I want it, not the other way. You know what this is? This is like sex ed in school. I've always felt like, you know what?

If you want teachers to teach your kids all about sex, then let it be an opt in relationship. You want teachers to teach it, opt your kid into it. But no, a lot of places it's now you can opt your kid out of it if you don't want your kid to be. But again, there's on-off functionality here. But what's the default?

And I think that's the that's the big issue. So again, I haven't even logged into the text yet to see what you all are saying, but I would imagine, I don't know. I don't know how to predict this. I think some people might, may be. Oh, no, people, people do not like it. In fact, I would say overwhelmingly they're saying they they don't.

I hate the start stop on my car. Someone said can't stand it. Plus, the repair cost of the extra battery is sky high. Oh, I didn't even know that. Or think about it. Someone said, I agree with you 100% on this topic, Neal. I'm screenshotting that one. Do not like the start stop. A lot of wear and tear for very little gain.

Make it optional. Heck no, I hate it. Turn it off. Studies have shown it uses more gas to start back up versus just letting it idle at an average stop. See, that's what I was wondering. Do you actually save any gas by doing this? Because I, and maybe engines are a little different. I grew up in the era of, well, we had some fuel injection, but a lot of it was carburetor that it actually took a nice little initial dose of gas to get your car start ID, and it's not like you just turn the key and then it just resumes the amount.

So I don't know. But you know what? You people are making me happy. I log in and I now I kind of feel, validated by this. And apparently Sean Duffy is feeling the same thing, that now it's time to to end the, you know, what is this fuel. Do I can we make that comparison here? It's like a a part of the car.

It's a part of the car that, nobody really wants. But you're bullied into it. Okay, now I see a text I have to respond to. I'll do it when we come back. It's 820 on Newstalk 1079. It's 824 now on Newstalk 1079, Neil Larson along with Julie Mason and Julie over whelming opposition to the stop start function on cars.

Yeah, okay, I, I thought I sort of thought it would be mixed, but no, I don't know if anybody said, oh, I love it. It's the bee's knees. I think you kind of have to be bought into the save the environment movement that this doesn't really do anything for. Yeah, but yeah, I think that that's the people who are going to like it.

Okay. You know what this is? This is windmills. Yeah. This makes environmentalist feel good, but it doesn't actually do crap for the environment. Yeah. And then you're left with damage at some point. Yeah. In this case your starter goes out faster. In the other case, we've got all this metal and crap all over the place with no graveyard for it to go to.

So I have a I have a question here, because I'm not all that familiar with the mechanics of how this works. Someone said you have to have an extra battery for for this. Oh, I have no idea to start your, you know, starter back up as soon as you let off the brake. What is the environmental impact of having to create extra batteries for the car?

That makes no sense if that's accurate. Yeah, that's. Well, someone seemed to indicate that. And maybe some models have that in other models. No way. I'm not really sure. Again, but oh. And and you know what? It increases the cost of your car for a feature you don't want. Yeah. Yeah. It's not great. Yeah. There really is no positive here.

So yeah it should go away. Imagine how affordable life would be without the left.

What I like paying for Sesame Street for Ethiopia or wherever it was. Then you go ahead. You ride out that check there. Yeah. That's right. What was it? I don't know, something like that. Yeah. So. Okay. That was kind of an interesting text. Flagpole. I didn't expect to get this many, reactions, but, Yeah, someone said the Jeep does not have an extra battery, so.

Okay, I would have no idea. And I don't know what models it was on the Jeep and not. I just know my last was a chair. My I had a Jeep Cherokee. It had it. Yeah. This is a Jeep Grand Cherokee. It does not. Okay. I don't know what Jeep. I don't know if Jeep heard the cries and said, we're not doing it anymore.

No. Yes. Someone said that's not accurate. One battery, but it does wear your starter out. What a waste. Okay, I have no idea, but all of it seems like a waste. You know what? I'm. I'm actually going to do a little research during the commercial break because I want to see actually how much fuel it it it doesn't say if it saves any.

Yeah. So you sent me. Speaking of, cars, Julie, they did a safety study on Teslas. And Teslas are far, far safer than human drivers out there. Yeah. So it is interesting because when we talked about the safety features of turning off at the stop lights and everything, we don't like the car to take over for us, you know, but one of the side categories of this study on, oh, on if you have a Tesla, are you safer on the road until you get in less accidents?

Yeah, it's not just a little bit. It's dramatically less. So if you're thinking about, you know, a teen driver or whatever, it might be super helpful. My thoughts were, wow, I don't have parents alive anymore. But if I had a parent who wanted independence still, but maybe I was a little worried about their driving, a Tesla might be a great option for them to help keep them out of dangerous situations.

Yeah. I've driven a Tesla once. Are they any more? If you want to drive. Are they any more complicated to drive than a car? Not more complicated. You just have to get used to it. Okay? Because it is a little different. Kind of writing is different. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you just have to. It's just some change. Nothing dramatic.

Okay. Yeah. So someone who, even if your judgment, you know, was in question, they could learn. I think they could learn. Yeah. I mean, there's clear I think there is a time when there shouldn't be driving at all. Yeah, but maybe if you're, let's say to your mother and she's 60 and she's in the market for a new car, a Tesla might be a great option for her.

Yeah, yeah. Why not? Why not? It is. They do say it's like a I don't remember the actual numbers and they don't have it in front of me right now, but it's a it's a lot safer. I think it was 11% was your chance of getting in an accident over the next five years. Okay, then. If you I can't remember what the next value was, but it's it drops to 5%.

And then if it's a Tesla, it drops to like 1.9% or so. Okay. So it's like a 10th of. Yeah. What you killer car drops your chance of an accident by 90%. Wow. That's amazing. Okay, I did a little research. Okay, so the stop start system on your car can save it. Says it's can save motors up to $179 in annual fuel costs.

So 15 bucks a month. Okay. Worth it. $0.50 a day is $0.50 a day worth it? Well, it's not for me. And I don't know if we fall, if my driving habits fall in that much gas saving because I don't travel that much. Yeah. So, you know, if you're somebody who travels a lot, especially at stoplights, city traveling, it might make a difference.

That's true if you're commuting a lot. Yeah. But for me, where my commute is so limited and half of the commute, I don't I mean, there's not that much stopping because it's in the middle of the night, right? That's true. It makes no sense. I mean, and you're you're at that time in the morning you can just blow through the red lights if you want.

I mean, I don't advise it.

We might have done at a time or two, both of us, when the snow is impeding the changing of the light. Yes. The light cycle or the roads are so slick you don't really stop quite in time. So the safest thing is just to look and. Yeah, roll right through it. Yeah, yeah. But you know what's funny? I don't know if you ever do this.

Do you ever imagine scenarios in your mind and this scenario you're going to think I'm so weird. You're actually having a conversation with a cop to the point where you're arguing in this scenario. Have you ever done that? No. Like I thought, okay, if I, if I get up to this stoplight and I'm there and the sensor is not working, and I've been sitting there for four minutes and I look both ways and I'm like, this thing's not going to change because there's snow covering or whatever.

I'm going to go. And if I get pulled over and that cop gives me a ticket, I know what I'm going to say to that cop, and I know what that cop's probably going to say back to me. Like, and by the time I'm done thinking through this, I already know how this argument is going to go. And I'm like, why do I do that?

Like, that's like stress for a conversation that probably wouldn't happen anyway. Never going to happen. Yeah. I don't know why you're doing that. I bet other people have done that. I'm sure they have. But yeah, not good for your health. No, but it does prep me to win an argument with a cop that is probably never going to happen.

You're right. You are exactly right. That is true. .0000 2% chance of happening. But I'm prepared for it. If it is, I'm just saying I look, I bet people are going to text in saying, oh, yeah, I've had, hypothetical arguments before, probably. I'm fine with it with a cop or a coworker or, whatever. And I would say talk therapy might be good for you.

Yeah, yeah, it might, it might then watch. We'll have like 30 people texting. Nope. You're the only one who's ever done that meal. Someone says the car starter repair is $322 for the Honda Odyssey, 182 for parts and 140 for labor. So. Okay, but I guess my question is you have to subtract every car part you have has a carbon footprint.

If we're going to go down this road, right. If they want to go down the road, then let's go down the road. So what that means is there's going to have to be extra mining. You're going to need extra labor. You're going to need extra, you know, extraction for different things, extra manufacturing, extra transporting. And so transporting that all of that stuff.

Are we making much headway when you get to that point? Yeah. You're you may not be making a lot of headway financially because of your car needs more repairs, because you have the start stop feature that eats into that 180 bucks every year that you're going to save in fuel costs, right. But then if if you're an environmentalist and you're honest and you say, well I deeply do care about the carbon footprint, then whatever amount you reduce your carbon footprint by having start stop, you have to increase it again for the fact that you have to have more starter repairs overall because of this.

Yes. So, I'm, I'm just say they did, they did a study one time about electric vehicles and, and this was a guy who was an environmentalist, but he was like, I talked about these. He was an honest guy. And he's like, I really want to know what benefit are we getting? And they looked at at electric vehicles at large.

And when you took into account all the the mining that had to happen for the batteries and everything, your electric car had to get to about 145,000 miles before you started seeing any benefit. Wow. And most people, at that point in time, they're looking at getting a new car. You know, they a lot of people don't even get to 200,000 miles on a car.

So they're looking to swap out about that time. And, you know, maybe that electric vehicle lasts a little longer than that. But but you have to drive that car for three fourths of its life before it actually gives you an environmental. Environmental. Yeah. Right. Well, isn't this the story of most environmental things they, they manufacture here, right. Come to save their day and it doesn't really save any day.

And it might not be a day that needs saving. All right. That. Well that's true. Someone said cars are so overengineered. That's why we can't afford them. They are far more expensive than they used to be. Yeah, they're way more expensive as a percentage of average income than they used to be. Than they used to be. And I mean, cars of today were what the price of homes were about 25 years ago.

Right. And then you've got people like Tucker Carlson who doesn't drive in a like any, any automated car at all. He drives that Chevy pickup, I love that, so that if something goes bad, his car, his truck still functioning. So gas and gas only EMP proof. Yes. So it's like an old 80s pickup. It's beautiful. Yeah, yeah. It's restored.

It's a gorgeous truck. So, here's my question. And I think this fits into the overall broad conversation that we're having. We do all this stuff to get these environmental benefits. Right. But cars today have far, far more components than they used to have in the name of efficiency. Well those components require a lot to engineer to create to manufacture, to transport all the things that we're talking about.

Like our earlier discussion, how, how much are we actually saving. Because we're saving a few miles per gallon with our fuel economy. Are we, are we getting ahead? And the answer may be yes, I'm I'm courageous enough for that answer to be yes. I'm not trying to prove a point here. I'm trying to ask a good question.

I don't know, I I'm not a car gal, but I'm going to compare this to something else. I have a very strong opinion about washing machines. That's something that's affected my life, that I know what happens and doesn't happen. Yeah, these bells and whistles, front loading washers that are supposed to protect your clothes and are better for the environment and don't use as much water.

I can tell by your tone you're about to negate all that. Yeah, yeah. You want a good washer and dryer? Get your old school Hotpoint. Get the drum. Yeah. Three cycles. It'll last far longer. You're not paying for repairs. You don't have leaks in your house. Like. Yeah, I, I think sometimes the bells and whistles come at a cost that we think, well that's just part of electronics.

Well yes it is. And if you're willing to accept the bells and whistles. Sure. Great. That's fine. Yeah, but don't assign them value that they're probably not giving you. Yeah. That's that's so you can have a super cool washer dryer that front loads and is red and black. Great. If that's what you want. That's awesome. But don't give it a value that doesn't really exist.

Yeah, yeah. That's true, that's true. I remember early on, right after we got married, I owned a little window cleaning business just to kind of get through college. And I remember I cleaned this lady's windows, and it was an older lady, and I think she was either moving or going to a retirement home or something. And she had a maytag washer and dryer, kind of one of the old school ones, probably from the early 80s, you know, like, and so I, we were looking for a washer and dryer.

And I said to her, I know you're trying to get rid of these. Could we just work? And so the job was like 100 bucks. She was selling the washer and dryer for 85. So I got the washer and the dryer and 15 bucks for the job. That washer and dryer that we got in probably 95, lasted up until about 8 or 9 years ago like it.

And it was already used, but it worked great for 20, 25 years. Beyond that. And they do not make them like they used to. I know that's a cliche, but they don't make them like they don't. And and it's something you need every day really harms your life if it breaks. And for me, it's not worth having the newest fan dangled, you know, engineered and established, washer dryer when the old school one does just is good.

We got a washer a while back that didn't have an agitator. It was the crappiest thing ever. Yeah, yeah. I'm serious. We couldn't get rid of that thing fast enough. Yeah, yeah. They're like, oh no, it works. No, it does not. I go to work stinking every day. I remember that era. I don't know, that was that was a different era.

I'm just kidding.

I'm like, now that was before I knew you what it was. It's 841 on Newstalk 107. I'm going to take a break. (208) 542-1079 if you'd like to join us, we'll be back. It's, 848 on Newstalk 1079 Neil Larson and Julie Mason. I was just telling Julie while we kind of do long for the good old days and, we all have memories of cars we really like, or there is functionality on today's cars that I don't know that I'd want to to give up.

And one example and I, I use this whenever we go on a road trip for whatever reason. This won't surprise you Julie. I love seeing what my current fuel economy is in the car. Like I can look at it and I'm going 80 on I-15 halfway down, you know through Utah. And I'm getting 38 miles to the get like I like having that.

I like all the information that it brings and and all of that. It. But there's that balance between having more information or having more bells and whistles and more things that can break on your car. Yeah, well, and it's like we were saying in the previous segment, you just accept the risk, right? If you buy with more bells and whistles, you accept the risk.

During the commercial break, you and I were talking about what if each car brand manager manufactured the barest bones version of something? I can't imagine how awesome that would have been to purchase for a high school kid. Yeah, a car that didn't have all the extras that only cost $8,000 and you know, I, I'm sure we would get texts in saying, yeah, but don't you want your kid to have all the airbags and the sensors and everything?

That would be great. But if my kid is driving that car just simply back and forth from school. And and I'm looking for a return on my investment. That would be a great car to pass down from kid to kid to kid for. Yeah. It would have gone through about seven years with my kids. Yeah. Right. Yeah I, I would agree with you.

And what ever happened to the Yugo. Do you remember the Yugo. Yes, I remember, I don't know, it's in a graveyard somewhere. I remember they kind of looked like Volkswagen Rabbit. Yeah. And, they were sort of that, like they were the bare bones car. I think they made them in Yugoslavia. They named after their. And they were garbage.

All right, let's just face it from a quality standpoint. But I think that was kind of the the approach was just, just make a bear model of something so that a new car is within reach for people who are on a, on a, even on a pretty strict budget. Yeah. I think it's a balance. We were talking about that.

I think that it's a balance because if you are, if you do want the extras, you just have to accept that there's going to be additional costs down the road. Yes. Yeah. Someone just texted in they don't like the rear cameras because the kids never learn to turn. And look, I think it's it has diminished my looking.

Yeah. Over, over the past few years I mine too. Yeah. So I get that. Yeah. I mean it's, it's nice to have that rear camera but you really can't see. Good. Good distance both both ways. So yeah I still try to turn and look though. But it's less I you know where I don't turn look ever backing out of my driveway.

I don't have any little kids. There's no sun, there's no thanks to the like. And, and I leave at a time in the morning especially in the morning. I don't even pay attention to anything except what my camera's doing. Now. If I'm in a parking lot, it's different. Yeah, I gotcha. Do you try to park so that you don't have to back out?

So if, like, you'll, If anyone has seen me get out of my car around town, I park clear out because I. I will not accept door dings, so. Oh, gotcha. Yeah. So often I pull through because I'm parking away from cars and I walk. Okay? I care about my investment. Yeah. You don't want to get, Ding ding.

Yeah. All right. Someone said we bought the barebones model car, and it's still terrible quality. We've been paying for repairs for years now, and our baseline car is only six years old, so. Wow. That's rough. Yeah, that's no good. Yeah. That's true. My. Well. But read that other one. Which one? We have a 20 Toyota Echo.

I don't even know what an echo is, so. Oh, yeah. We have a 20 Toyota Echo, barebones, a manual transmission, original motor, almost 600,000 miles on it. Wow. That's crazy. Whoa. Yeah. So our first car that we bought after getting married was a used Toyota Camry. And it was like, five years old when we bought, and I, I felt sick.

It was almost like $8,000 in. But when you're in college and you're just like, oh, it was the best thing we ever did, though, because that car got like almost 40 miles to the gallon, never needed a repair. And I think I gave it to a mechanic friend of mine in fact, I know I did, and it had like 330,000 miles on it.

When it was finally time to to move into something else, and I thought, do you know how many cheap road trips we took to Utah in that car? And yeah, it's a great investment. Yeah, it really was. It turned out to be a really, really good investment. So good car, good fuel economy. Not a terrible thing. That's that's amazing though.

And and Julie, will you do something for me? Yeah. Say, I don't know what a 2000 Toyota Echo is. Echo is. Will you just say it like. Sure. I don't know what a 2000 echo is. Echo is echo is. There you go. All right. We'll be back after this. On Newstalk 107 nine. It's 858 on Newstalk 1079.

Julie, when we come back, we're going to talk about a member of Congress who would not say that it's wrong for boys to be playing against girls in sports, so we'll have it for you. I think it was Chris Murphy, actually. So we'll have that audio for you coming up. And now or two we'll take your phone calls as well right here on Newstalk 179.

Okey doke. Welcome back. It's time for our two. And if you'd like to reach us on the Stones Automotive Group call and text line at numbers (208) 542-1079. We'd love for you to be a part of the program today. And, AOC. Julie, can I play this clip? Yeah. Okay. This is AOC, and we all saw the video of the altercation with Ice.

From, I believe, over the weekend. But listen to what AOC is saying. If anyone's breaking the law in this situation, it's not members of Congress. It's the Department of Homeland Security. It's people like Tom Homan and Secretary Christie. No, you lay a finger on someone on Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman or any of the rep representatives that were there.

You lay a finger on them. We are going to have a problem. Oh, man. I hope Tom Homan can sleep at night. I hope he's not afraid of her. That was so chilling, Julie. Oh my goodness, so ominous. This is the mom who looks at her kids and says, you throw a fit and nothing's going to happen for you.

And the kid throws a fit and she's like, okay, do you want a Twix or do you want some Skittles? Yes. So help me if Kristi Noem and Tom Homan does anything, I will send a strongly worded letter to their office. I bet Tom Homan is shaken, quivering right now. Oh, I'm sure, I'm sure is. Okay. See, this is bad.

AOC. AOC could bat a o.c. She could actually be like, what they were doing was wrong. You can't go up to law enforcement officers and start roughing them up. You just can't. I don't I don't know why the left thinks that's okay. If she could actually work this to her favor, she could say they went and they did something that wasn't, in in good taste.

She doesn't have to say they broke the law. Just say, hey, there, passions boiled over. Aren't you grateful you have, politicians who represent your views? Like she could spin it. She could about it being passion and everything, but instead, she just looks stupid. Well, she's. Now she was getting out of Jasmine Crockett land. She was doing pretty good, but I think she's making a return trip back to Jasmine Crockett land.

Well, she had her fast pass. And you can't let a Fastpass go to waste. That's true. When you have a window of opportunity, you got to take it. All right, so this is Senator Chris Murphy. He was asked on a podcast about letting dudes play against girls in sports. If you had a daughter competing against a biological male, would you find it unfair?

I, I don't have girls, right? So I necessarily can't, right? I can't my wife have some empathy. Right. For those of us who do. Right. So would you would you find it unfair? I mean, I've talked to lots of parents of girls in Connecticut who do not think it's unfair. My conclusion is that I would support those athletes being able to participate in my community, right, in my community.

But I but I would not substitute my judgment of my community's judgment for another community's judgment. Okay, that is about the worst case answer non-answer that you could ever come up with. This is why Democrats are going to keep losing Julie, I, I don't know what parents he's talked to that are perfectly fine with letting boys compete against their daughters, but they are terrible parents.

Well, the logic doesn't follow this thread either, because sports aren't just community. The point of these athletic competitions is that you you win within your community and then you win within your region, and then you win within your state, and then you win within the national. Yeah. That's true. So he is framing it. Is it? It's a it's a community only issue that doesn't match what we're talking about at all.

That doesn't that doesn't fly at all. Like maybe for like a, you know, the little tiny basketball kid's leagues. The seven year old. Yeah. The rec center. Yeah. That it might be okay for that. But when you get older and it gets more competitive in middle school and high school and definitely in college. Yeah. You're not talking about a singular community.

That's absurd. He he's absurd. I, I know they're kind of floating him right now. I see him doing a lot of media rounds and I think they're like, okay, Chris, it's your turn. Let's let's audition you to see if you have any possibility of, of a future. And he's he's botching it when you can't answer that simple question.

When it's an 8020 issue in America, you've failed your audition. Yeah. Yeah, I well, they just keep telling look at who they've all gone through. I they're so flat footed right now. We started the show saying that that how flat footed they are. Yeah. This trip for Trump has left them flat footed. The deal with China left them flat footed.

I told you there was going to be people on the left who tried to say that China won that 90 day trade agreement that happened all day yesterday. Oh, it's just 90 days. He didn't get what he wanted. This wasn't great for America. Really? Did you read it? Yeah. Did you even look at it? And furthermore, they can't look pat.

They they just cover up the whole concept of stopping the flow of fentanyl. Yeah. They don't even want to talk about that. No, because that's a win. Any, any amount of decrease with the flow of fentanyl is a win for America. Well how many kids lives and not just kids but a lot of kids. How many lives are going to be saved even within the 90 days?

Yes, eight. But they are. They just don't even they're just reaching for anything right now to say. Yeah. And they'll just make up lies. The 90 day trade deal is great. I hope it extends if you want to talk about that. It was only 90 days. Sure, but to call it a bad deal. Yeah. You're lying. Well, yeah you are.

If anything it's it's creating space to have some good negotiations for a long term deal. Like it. It fits into my my theory. Julie, Donald Trump has to bat a thousand. Everything he does has to be successful. And even that probably wouldn't convince some Democrats. So. Right, right. They're going to we're an hour out of the $600 billion deal with Saudi Arabia.

Yeah. They signed documents. We're an hour out tonight. I promise someone will say that's not good for America. Yeah, probably. Probably not. Yeah. They will. Let's go back to the jet that Qatar is either loaning or giving. I don't know what the reporting is. And they're thinking, oh, this looks back. That's terrible. Whatever. Whatever. How many deposits from foreign countries into the Biden family bank accounts do you have to have for.

I mean, they looked the other way. They're like, well, there's no evidence. I mean, this is a country allowing us to use a jet for our presidential transportation. This is not going to be parked at Mar-A-Lago. So Trump can have it for the rest of his life. Yeah, I sent you an X about the last roughly 100 days of of Biden's presidency and how he just funneled money everywhere because he knew it was all going to get turned off.

Yeah. And so he just started sending money to places and and those places were giving kickbacks to him and his friends. We don't talk about that at all. No, no, not at all. And they don't want to look at it. They don't even know what the word evidence means anymore. So all right. At 915 (208) 542-1079 someone texted in back on the Chris Murphy comment.

He doesn't have daughters so he can't relate. Well, does he have a sister or a mother? A wife, I guess. That's absurd. Or a niece or I mean anything. Do you know what this is? Ketanji Brown Jackson? This is her in her confirmation hearing saying, well, I'm not a biologist, so I can't tell you what a woman I can't.

Well, and furthermore, if you if you listen to Chris Murphy for more than five minutes, he's going to be advocating for all different sorts of people, black communities in the inner city or whatever. He doesn't have direct relation, like like it's weird. This is an issue. He knows for him. I don't know why he feels like it's a non winning issue.

I really don't understand this. But he's like hands off on this one. I'm going to I'm going to recuse myself from talking about this issue because I don't have a daughter. Well, you'll talk about every other issue you hijack. Every other issue. Absolutely. So can I just say three weeks ago or a month ago if I said, do you know who Chris Murphy is?

Could you have told me? I would have remembered. He's a senator. I couldn't tell you what state. Right. Like he's a guy that was sort of an unknown, We're kind of seeing this trend here because all the knowns everybody dislikes already, so they have to yank people from the ranks of the unknown, or at least the relatively little known, hoping somebody likable enough that they'll they'll catch the imagination of the American people and they don't have anybody.

Yeah. What's the resounding theme here? You're not likable. You're not likable, and you just made yourself even more unlikable. Yeah, I was I, you know, even our are maybe quote unquote not likable people on the right. Pete Hegseth has been controversial. Right. Yeah. I was explaining to you, we were watching the TV during their commercial break when they signed that agreement with the Saudi, Saudi Arabia leaders.

Yeah, Pete Hegseth walked that sign document across, traded it with a Saudi Arabia leader. They gave them their signed one. He gave ours. They're signed one. They held it up for a picture. Pete Hegseth turned around and did everything but salute Donald Trump. He turned around, faced him head on, bowed his head and then walked off. Even our controversial ones have very likable aspects about that.

Like that? Yeah. Please help me find something likable about the people they're floating. There is very few things that are likable about Gavin Newsom. I am you're right. You're you're well, like, Gavin Newsom is a guy that can kind of do guy talk and I but I don't feel like I look at him and go, he could be the president one day.

Ever since he had that debate with Ron DeSantis, he crumbled. He's okay in environments where he can control and he's not being challenged or opposed. He can talk a good game, but the minute you shine a bright light on him or give him any opposition at all, he collapses. So I'm not. I became far less worried about Gavin Newsom after after that moment, but but I'm looking in fact, let's do another.

We've already done one text poll today about, the thing I did in the last hour about the start stop thing. I want to do another one really quick. We're going to open up the phone lines, but name one Democrat that is likable to you, Yeah. Just one Fetterman. Maybe. But, you know, I'm trying to think. I don't know if I like Fetterman.

He's just not. He's independent, and I appreciate that. But is there a Democrat right now? And I don't mean somebody who's retired. I mean, yeah, I guess you can't say West Virginia. Why can't I think of his name right now? Mansion mansion yet you so, so name someone who's actively currently operating day to day as a Democrat that you like that you actually are like, I could get, along with him.

JFK well, sadly, he passed. Yeah, he might mean RFK Jr. But yeah, we don't have time travel for JFK. Yeah. You know, you're you're sitting here thinking someone that you like in the Democrat Party. Yeah. They're trying to float those people as presidential candidates, potential presidential candidates are controversial. One that I just said something likable about. You know, I figured we'd get that, our our, our the person I just said was controversial.

Yeah. Pete Hegseth, he's he's not even being floated as a presidential candidate because we have so many likable ones. Yeah. So even when I give you the Republicans controversial person, we're not relying on them to save the party. Yes. That's true. You guys are relying on Gavin Newsom or AOC to save the party. You're looking for a Moses?

Yeah, because you're in exile right now and you're looking for someone to. And I love that. I'm using a biblical reference as an analogy for the Democrats. Very appropriate. Let's see. What are they saying? Someone said a Democrat. I like Brad Little, and then they said, okay, fine. I don't like him. Hey, nice. We're trying to get the governor to sign.

This one said the only Democrat I like would be one that's sitting down and getting out of office. I will tell you, I, you know who I think? Okay. I can name one I like, but not on the national level. Okay. I like Alana Ruble and I like James Ruddy. Those are. Yeah, those are some Democrats that I could, I could, I could sit down and have lunch with, with either one of them, I could too, I, I, you know, what I appreciate about Alana Ruble is she doesn't hide from who she is.

I mean, they're paying because they're attorneys, but yes, she did pay for lunch for us. Yeah, he he's a good dude. Yeah. Yeah, I, I, I you honestly can't come up with one on the national level. I, somebody said, Governor Shapiro, I think the guy skeezy is I'll get out. I do too, like, I, I felt like he was very Obama esque.

But he's got he's got some disqualifying factors with him. Yeah. I, I really believe that. Richie Torres a representative from New York is good. All right. I'm, I don't know him. I don't know, maybe they need to audition him. Yeah, maybe. Maybe he's in the queue. Yeah. Maybe he has called up like for the next year and a half.

They've got him lined up. Okay, this is your week. We're going to. We're going to parade you out on all the Sunday talk shows. And Richie, you get the week from August 1st to August 15th. You get those two weeks. And, we, we do throw Pete Buttigieg in on a rotation every, every seven weeks because we hope that maybe he'll catch Beto jets once every eight months, you know.

But other than that, yeah. What is he living off of now, Beto? No. Well, yes. Battle. But I think battles family has money. Oh. What is Pete living off of? Oh, I'm sure he got himself taken care of while he was. He's had to have set something up because I don't think they're working. You know, he probably can do speaking tours.

I mean, he's a household enough name among Democrats that I think that he can he can earn 10,000 here. Yeah. You a thousand here of state Democrat parties that'll drop him. So that's got to be it. That's got to be all that. Okay. But I am looking up his network. It's not it's not a huge, most recent financial disclosure report.

He's worth somewhere between $744,000 and $178,000. So he's not worth a bunch. Okay. Yeah. Oh, no no no no no no no no. Here's another one that says his net worth is $16 million. Okay. That's a disparity. Who knows. That's August of 24. So okay. But it's a website called Lawyers Club india.com. So I don't know. I'm not sure what to what to believe here.

Okay. Somebody said Harold Ford Jr. I had to look him up here okay. He's the guy that's on Fox all the time. He is a likable guy. That's true. And he's he's in the punditry world. I think he used to be a member of Congress. I don't think he was. He was in the US House of Representatives. I like Harold Ford.

He that's you know what? That's one that okay that I, I, I could hang out with. Yeah. Tennessee I think. Yeah. Tennessee was where he served from 97 to 2007. So for ten years he represented Tennessee in the, in the U.S. Congress. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. It's I it's hard to it's hard to find him there.

Why why is that? I mean, it used to be both. You always liked one side better. But it seemed like there were always these people on the other side, just a core of people that were like, Austan Goolsbee was a guy that was a Clinton or an Obama guy, and he may even stretch back to the Clinton years, super likable guy.

He he just he was a policy wonk and he was a political advisor. And he's just a guy. You're like, I'd like to hang out with him. He just seems like a really downhome, folksy sort of guy. But there I think they ran all those people off, I really do. Well, the ones that you could, stomach their policy were big names like Tulsi Gabbard, who had to switch parties because they treated her so poorly.

Yeah. And you just mentioned Bill Clinton. I'm sorry, you guys. Bill Clinton was likable. He was like, he was likable. You might not have liked his policy, but he was a really likable guy. If they had a Bill Clinton today, they could win. Andrew Yang, that's a good example. That's a recent Democrat. Yeah, but they treated him horribly, too.

Yeah. They're it's almost like, oh you're likable. Get out. Yeah. We have to have the, the bitter annoying screaming from their the top of their lungs people. Oh yeah that's true. Why is, why is David Hogg valued more than Andrew Yang. No idea. It. That defies logic. Did you see by the way they are maneuvering now to get David Hogg out like they're starting to take official steps to to remove, as they should.

He's a fraud. He's a fraud and he's a big liability to the party. But why did they put him in in the first place? Yeah, he's not that much different than he was two months ago. They're floundering. Yeah, maybe they're auditioning for that role too. Like older. They've got an agent putting people everywhere. All right, 2 p.m.. You'll have to be there tomorrow.

10 a.m.. You're over here. Maybe. Maybe they're, You know what? Maybe they're trying to find Julie. A tolerable version of repulsive. Like, we need repulsive people because it's a repulsive ideology, but we need to find a tolerable version of repulsive. So who is that? Is that Whoopi Goldberg likes it? Like, think of somebody that is tolerable to people.

Is it somebody like Whoopi? I'm like saying she's going to run in politics, but they've got a model after that. I you know, what I think would be used to be that now Whoopi is just a just a hack like, I, I feel like she's just one of them now. Like it's, I mean, there's always been. Yeah.

Yeah. Sonny's just angry all the time. Okay, so let's go a different direction. Your late night talk show hosts, are they as a version of Jimmy Kimmel? Somebody you're looking for? Okay, both. Both Jimmy Kimmel and, Steve Colbert are not guys I'd want to be around. Okay, so maybe for five minutes. Fallon, I could hang around Fallon.

So maybe you're looking for someone like him. That's because you. We. Clearly the Democrats can't look to somebody in their own party because they don't have anybody in their political circles. Yeah. So then you got to look out of those political circles. And who can you model after? The ones that are are strong Democrats. But people still enjoy them?

I don't even that circle is very shallow. It's very limited. Yeah. But I think the the new media, the approach now, it used to be that especially with late night, you said late night. Johnny Carson was an everyman, like he was a guy that everybody thought was funny. And and it was they were a consensus builder. He made fun of Democrats and Republicans.

Leno was very similar to that. Now the approach is different because there's so much media. It's so diversified to create a a niche audience. You now favor one side heavily and create a smaller but more loyal audience. And that that kind of is almost a necessity. Now that you have to it's it's the same version as specializing in a topic, but you're just specializing in a certain toxic brand of liberalism, carving out your little audience.

Yeah, that that cultivates a certain reliable crowd to come out. And little is the strong word there and I think gone, although I will say not totally gone. I still think there are Johnny Carson esque figures, and Ryan Seacrest would be a good example. He's a guy he's now hosting Wheel of Fortune and he's the guy everybody just kind of likes, you know?

Yeah. Good dude. He doesn't really say anything controversial. He's very talented and can handle any situation. Handsome guy. You know, like he's just the the everyman. So there still is a role for that. But for some reason, late night comedy is no longer that. It's not there. Yeah, so sad man. I feel stumped looking for them. Can you imagine how they feel?

Because they're invested? I think. But but Julie, they don't want a nontoxic person. Yeah, well, look, you see this happen repeatedly in one on one relationships. You have friends in your in your circle where you're like, why do you keep dating that kind of a person, right. What are you doing? Yeah. And you care about them and you don't.

Yeah. I mean, you you want to be gentle and kind and loving. That's the Democrat party. They keep going the wrong direction. Yeah, they are like, it's, it's a weird Stockholm syndrome, almost where they're they're just drawn to each other, and they are the worst thing for each other. Yeah. All right, 930. It's like relationship advice, but for political parties.

We'll be back after this. On Newstalk 107 I'm okay. Let's come back and do a town and country. I'll talk about my tomatoes. Okay. Tomatoes. I planted tomatoes yesterday from town and country gardens and country garden. I watched this last weekend. There was a documentary about Milli Vanilli. Have you seen that? It was good. It was really good.

So I think it was Amazon. Was it Amazon Prime? I can't remember which streaming platform it was, but it told the story of these two guys. They became best friends in Europe. One was from Germany, one was from France, and the guy from France was like, I got to go to Germany and make it big because the entertainment scene was there.

So he met Rob Pilatus. There and they started holding parties like they were just these dudes. They didn't have any money, but they were kind of, they were just to this dynamic couple of friends, you know? So they started having parties and then they started kind of deejaying, and then they started dancing. Like they kind of grew this following and, they, they just had the look to them.

So this music producer took advantage of them and said, we can we can market that. But they couldn't sing a lick like they were just not good singers. But I identify. Yeah, well, that's actually what led me when we were going to break. I didn't want to hurt your feelings, but I thought, you're so rude, Milli Vanilli right there.

So, Sorry. I don't mean that to hurt your feelings, but I just know you say you can't sing. Well, I don't agree with it. I think you sing wonderfully, but you know the liar. Freaking liar. You know, like all these people, right? To their faces. You know, they know I'm teasing, but anyway, so this producer had him sign this contract, threw him a few bucks, and they're, like, thrilled.

They're like, we got a contract. They didn't read the contract, and, they're they weren't going to be the singers. They were lip singers. And they were so young and dumb. And they got further and further and further into this. But everybody loved their thing, like their vibe, the way they danced, the way they looked. And it was almost like they were too deep into it to do anything about it.

And it even got to the point where they signed with Arista in America with Clive Davis and all of that. And I don't think that Arista knew when they signed that they were a lip sync band, because they wouldn't they wouldn't have taken that risk anyway. Not a lot of people knew that it was lip sync, and it all started falling apart when one of their managers didn't even know that they were lip syncing.

And he signed. He nominated them for the Grammys, wrote a letter, and, whatever group it is that that does the Grammys, they ended up winning a Grammy over all these other artists like the Indigo Girls and very deserving artists and, they, anyway, that's when the scrutiny really started in on them. And, it was actually the producer that originally put them together that came out publicly and said, they're a fraud.

They're a they're a lip sync band, because he was kind of being blackmailed by them because they wanted to start singing. And if they weren't, then, then he was going to hit them or they were going to hit him. And then he said, okay, I'm getting ahead of this. And then it all fell apart. Do you remember that?

Oh yeah. That was that was scandalous. Totally. 935 in 3.5 minutes, I just summarize the Milli Vanilli documentary that I watched over the weekend to Julie and she was riveted. She that riveted. Fascinating. You know what I was thinking the whole time is Milli Vanilli is not really that much different than Instagram influencers today. Oh, that's so true.

I don't think Milli Vanilli would be controversial if it all happened today. Yeah, because I'm the stuff you see these Instagram influencers post is all manufactured. Oh yeah. The filters. Everything is, is manufactured. So it's basically social media. I mean, really they're the social media stars that are the Milli Vanilli. Yeah. Are you speaking of this? Are you watching all of these AI generated baby videos where they take actual audio?

So funny conversations like Judge Judy. Yes. Yeah. Oh my land. So those are funny. I saw one reenacting, the few Good Men thing last night. You can't handle the truth. And the baby is yelling, oh, that's so great. That's what tool is it? Cause I have. No, I'm sure we can figure it out. I haven't even dug, but they are pretty funny because I think Neil and Julie need to do what we need to do in.

Yeah. All right, well, if you'd like to join us. 285421279. Do you know what I did? Yesterday afternoon, Julie, I planted tomatoes. Yeah, I drove out. You sound intrigued. I drove out to town and Country gardens and, got tomatoes and, the big beef, beefy tomato, I think. Okay. And then, another, like, variety pack. And this year, I'm planting them in these little, pots.

Not pots, but like, buckets. Okay. And anyway, I'm very excited. I sent you pictures. So do you keep them, like, in on your deck and put them out in the sun, then back in to protect from frosts until we get closer to them being out all the time? No, I'm just going to watch the forecast. I leave them out.

We have a kind of a cement pad out by our apple tree, and, I just leave them on there to get the sun so I don't move them every day. I just a water them every day because they're in a in pots that drain. But yeah. Anyway, I'm so excited going to keep track of it. Why don't you go.

You can do the same thing at Town and Country Gardens. They have plenty of experts there for you to ask questions too. I know you talked to them about the fertilizer for your soil. Yeah. So, you took the steps they encouraged you to take. And hopefully that makes these beautiful. Yes. Tomatoes to harvest here in a few months.

Yeah. You can have all of that, too, if you want to go to their website. It's my garden geeks. Com tons of information there. They have classes. They they run specials. You can see all of that there. And then it's always just great to stop by because it's such a beautiful facility. It really is the outdoor areas with the walking paths that they have.

I mean, it's just it's just fun to to go there and see all the variety, the expertise and all of it. So South Idaho Falls, Yellowstone Highway, across from the Budweiser plant stand. Yeah. Tell them we sent you. Okay. Plant tomatoes with me. I tried to convince Julie to plant tomatoes, but I cannot add another thing to my life.

Yeah, yeah, I can't happen. Yeah. All right, quick break. We'll come back and continue after the news break here at the bottom on Newstalk 179. All right. Do I want to watch Milli Vanilli? Would I be, you'd like, intrigued by that? Yeah, I think you'd like it. Okay. Yeah. And, Yeah, I think it's like an hour and a half.

You could. You could watch it over a couple of workouts. Okay. Let's get a look at the weather. I won't have a chance. I have too much riding to do today, so I wouldn't have it. Oh, it's raining today, and it's rainy for most of the morning. Holy. Oh, where is it? I don't see rain right now, but dry.

And then Wednesday. Rainy as well. Fun spring in Idaho. Oh, yeah. And a rainy day. And then more coming this weekend. Sunday. Monday looks rainy to Stephanie. Said it rained in Pocatello all morning. I'll appreciate it. Makes the grass really, really, really green. Yeah. The man never stops, right? No. Never stops. Biden could have never done this.

No, I talked about that in my, monologue. I'm like, can you imagine putting Biden in this situation? It would have been so embarrassing. It's funny. Yesterday, CNN cut away from Trump's, EO signing. They were the first media outlet to cut away. Yeah, they're not even carrying it. But ABC and Fox are carrying it. Elon Musk is there I didn't know.

Yeah. Because there's all of those massive businesses there. Yeah. They put up a list earlier. There's Tesla and Blackrock and Nvidia and I can't even remember who else. Amazon. Google. You know it's it's interesting because you think about past presidents and they all have an entourage because they have two. Right. There's a lot of it. But I don't remember a previous administration taking so many high profile people on these long trips like this.

Because I mean, heck, Seth was there, but next there, Elon Musk is there. Did I see Pam Bondi? Oh, I don't know. I thought I saw someone who looked like Pam Bondi, but it wasn't a close up shot. Well, see, I doubt it because it's a she's not a foreign policy thing. Alas. Okay. Several key officials on the trip to Saudi Arabia, among them are Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth, Scott Bezzant Howard.

Let Nick, Susie, Susie Wales. Okay, that's who they listed. Susie. Wow. Are there any congressional, delegates? Yeah. Like did Briscoe. Yeah, because Rish has done foreign trips with Trump before. Oh, you need to spell lawmakers correctly. I am amazed at how good I is figuring out what I meant. When I misspell it, doesn't look like it's 944 on Newstalk 10792085421079.

President Trump, speaking in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Right now, let's listen in. Got into office and they gave me about a month to clean up and fix up the Oval Office. And after that we started working and we the money is pouring into jobs are pouring into companies are pouring into our country like we've never seen before. There's never been anything like it.

And, we let other people tariff us into losing a lot of money and a lot of jobs, and now we're carrying them. And, it's, at a level that nobody's seen. It's a level that, is making us very much different country and a very different Republican Party. We won a, tremendous victory in November. We won all seven swing states, the popular vote by millions and millions of votes.

The Electoral College, we won by 312 to 226. Remember they said, well, we could get to two seven. You know, we got 312. That's a big difference. And very importantly, we won counties throughout the United States 2662 451. That's why when you look at a map, they're all red. So the whole country is red. Red stands for Republican.

From the moment on and from the moment we started, we've seen wealth that just poured and is pouring back into America. Apple is investing $500 billion. Nvidia is investing. And I see my friend is here. Tencent. That's very good wherever you may be. I thank you very much because he's putting in $500 billion. TSMC is investing.

Where is Jensen by the way? Where is he? He's standing here. Where is he I just so thank you very much Jensen I mean Tim Cook isn't here but you are. What a job you've done. He said he's got 99% of the chip market I don't know. That's a big that's that's not easy to beat. But what a job you've done.

Thank you. We are proud to have you in our country. You know that. Thank you for the investment TSMC is investing 200 billion. And with this trip we're adding over $1 trillion more in terms of investment and investment into our country and buying our products. And, you know, nobody makes military equipment. Like I said, they have the best military equipment, the best missiles, the best rockets, the best everything, best submarines.

By the way, most lethal weapon in the world. In addition to purchases of $142 billion of American made military equipment by our great Saudi partners, the largest ever this week, there are multibillion dollar commercial deals with Amazon, Oracle, AMD they're all here Uber welcome Johnson and Johnson and many, many more.

So I want to congratulate everybody. So many great business executives. Many of you most of you I know. And they're coming in, you know, about a month ago they weren't that happy when they saw me. And now they're saying, sir, you're doing a great job. Thank you very much. It's amazing what a rising market will do. Oh, it's going to get a lot higher.

Like I told people five weeks ago, it's a great time to buy. I got criticized for that. No, they don't criticize me anymore. People should have listened. But it's going to go a lot higher. And you see, we've never had anything like this happen is an explosion of investment in jobs. And great companies are coming in. Never seen anything like it.

There's no better place to make a future, make a fortune to anything, frankly, than what we have in the United States of America under a certain President Donald J. Trump. I have the right attitude at the same attitude that the people in the front row, second row, third row at. As you get back, perhaps they start to wane a little bit in terms of their view, but, they understand and, we're doing what a lot of smart people would do, and we're not necessarily being politically correct.

You saw what we did yesterday with health care. We've cut our health care by 50 to 90%. You're going to see drugs and pharmaceuticals come down at numbers that nobody has ever seen. And drugs, pharmaceuticals we think will be dropping and we a redistribution of costs with other nations, which really took advantage of a very nice group of people that ran our country.

But not only is this a time of incredible excitement in the United States, it's also an exhilarating period right here in the Arabian Peninsula. Beautiful place, by the way. Beautiful place. Exactly. Thank you.

Exactly eight years ago this month, I stood in this very room and look forward to a future in which the nations of this region would drive the forces of terrorism and extremism, drive them right out of existence, and take your place among the proudest, most prosperous, most successful nations anywhere in the world as leaders of a modern and rising Middle East.

So exciting, so exciting. Well, how would you sleep at night? How do you sleep, Just thinking.

What a job. He tosses and turns like some of us tosses and turns all night. How do I make it even better? All night? It's the ones that don't toss and turn. They're the ones that will never take you to the promised land. What? That. But you have done some job. All right? You've been listening to President Trump speaking in Saudi Arabia and, doing a little patting himself on the back.

Yeah. And I don't have a problem with that. I'm sure that there will be people in the media who do, but he's had an amazing 115, 120 days, whatever it is now, and he he can take a victory lap. It's okay. Yeah, yeah it is. And, this feels like it's a it could end up being a pretty historic trip for Trump.

Yup. So all right, let's take a break. 951 our time on Newstalk 109. We're kind of crunched for time here, but we'll come back. We'll wrap it up after this, okay? Okay. So while that was playing, I was I was scrolling X. And there's a seven second video of a mobile McDonald's truck that you can go and purchase McDonald's items from.

Okay. It's big. It's kind of like the size of a semi. Yeah. The blaze put this up and said Saudi Arabia rolled out a mobile McDonald's trunk truck for Trump's visit. Absolutely incredible. With a laughing face. Well, you'll notice on it's a whole bunch of people are now immediately underneath the post. They say grok. Is this true.

So they act grok is this true? And grok just automatically answers, are you ready for this brutal takedown? No. After looking into the claim, it seems unlikely that the mobile McDonald's truck in Saudi Arabia was set up specifically for Donald Trump's visit on May 13th, 2025. While Trump did visit the country for business deals, as confirmed by credible sources, there's no solid evidence linking the truck the truck to his trip.

The Blaze's claim lacks cooperation and may be misleading given their history of sensationalized content. Oh wow wow. The video likely shows a truck used for another purpose. Oh, okay. What is this speaking to? I don't know, I grok obviously believes that they though they've put up enough axes that they've been proven wrong before. Oh, okay. Interesting. It's kind of brutal.

That is pretty. But I don't I don't view the I don't view the blaze as any different than any of the other conservative sites like Charlie Kirk, Bongino, Court Daily, Carl Loomer, Daily Wire, like. Yeah. It'd be interesting. Let me go. I'll just mess around for a minute. Let's go to Daily Caller. Yeah. See if if grok has weighed in on anything they've done recently.

There's so many eyes now it's hard to know. I've used grok a little bit. Oh yeah. They remember the kid who stabbed the other kid at the track. Meet. Yeah. Daily caller an hour ago. Put up that Carmelo Anthony will be reportedly allowed to graduate from high school while out on bail. They're going to let him go. They're going to let him walk.

Oh my word. I don't know that. His name is Carmelo Anthony. Yeah. Like the basketball player said it's Carmelo with a k okay. How do you do that. Because it's not even in question that he did it right. No. No it it'll just I think that defense is either self-defense or I don't think they're going to claim insanity.

So I think self-defense is is only option. Okay. He's admitted he told the cops he did it, you know. Oh 956 on Newstalk 1079, Neil Larson along with Julie Mason, swing by Town and Country Gardens. Grab your four step lawn program, grab your vegetables for your vegetable garden. They have a great selection there. If you want hanging baskets, they have those too.

If you're looking for, flowers to plants, you'll find a very, very wide selection. You can get all the things you need. Julia. Town and country gardens. Yep. And it's, beautiful trip to a store. Like, sometimes you you have to go grab things, and it's just a gigantic annoyance, and you have to go, and you have to go get it.

That is not your visit to town and country gardens. You're going to enjoy it. It's peaceful. It smells amazing. Yeah. And plus they have everything you need. So it's one stop for all of your lawn and garden. That's true. It's it's almost relaxing just to stroll through, and, enjoy it. So. Yeah. South of Idaho Falls, Yellowstone Highway, across from the Budweiser plant.

And, tell them Neil and Julie sent you. Yeah. It's not too late to do your four step loan program. Oh, no. Go get it. Get going, you mates. You can get those down. And then in a couple of weeks, step two and you'd be on track. Yep. So. All right, Julie, how long is Trump on this trip for?

It is. It is several days. The agenda or the itinerary has been pretty hush hush. I'm not surprised by that. Yeah. They're trying to keep him safe, so, I, I do know that that meeting with, apparently with Putin and Zelensky in Turkey is supposed to happen Thursday. Okay. And they were floating the idea of him popping over to that meeting.

So he's there to at least Thursday. Okay. Part of me thinks maybe that's just a head fake because I thought he's got to show up if he's going to float the idea, maybe he won't simply because it's a it's a distraction. He'll be doing something else. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Because I, I think this president especially, is at risk.

I mean, that's that's been borne out. Right. Like you and I talk about this all the time. We do like I'm looking at this. He's in I mean, Saudi Arabia's, an ally of the United States, but he's in a region of the world where people don't just hate Trump, they just hate America. And so I would imagine they have to take extra precautions in that hot spot to, to protect him.

And, yeah, it's just you're like. You watch him speak publicly. He's in a very large room. A lot of people in attendance, and you're like, man, I hope their security is just rock solid. Yeah. I mean, where do you sleep? I mean, he doesn't sleep anyway, but where do you sleep? Do you sleep on air Force One?

Do you? I maybe that might be the most secure place for him. Oh, yeah. All right. That's going to do it for the show today. If you'd like to join us on Facebook Live, text live to (208) 542-1079 Giuliani I back tomorrow.