5.20.2025 -- NLS -- Trump’s Capitol Hill Comeback and Democrat Disarray

On this episode with Neal and Julie, the conversation takes a deep dive into the political landscape as Donald Trump makes a high-profile appearance on Capitol Hill alongside Speaker Mike Johnson to promote a tax-cut-filled bill. Neal reflects on Trump’s historic impact, arguing that even critics will eventually have to acknowledge his significance in American politics. Julie and Neal discuss the disarray within the Democratic Party, highlighting concerns about Biden’s cognitive decline, internal fractures, and the perception that elites are manipulating the primary process.

The pair note how traditional blue-collar support appears to be shifting toward the GOP and Trump’s MAGA movement, with Trump resonating more with working-class voters than many current Democrats. The show touches on the legacy media’s role in allegedly covering up Biden’s health issues and critiques how Democrats are struggling to present a unifying message or a viable alternative.

Julie and Neal also discuss Republican divisions, the risks of fragile coalitions in Congress, and how ideological purism can hurt pragmatic policymaking. They joke about stump speeches, tomato gardening, and even dive into the emotional burden of public figures battling serious illness in a toxic political climate.

They close with commentary on overtime pay, voter sentiment heading into the midterms, and a few lighter moments including sarcastic takes on media bias and the infamous "Fairness Doctrine." Listeners are encouraged to weigh in via the Stones Automotive Group call and text line at (208) 542-1079.

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Transcript

Good morning. It's 807 on Newstalk 1079 Neil Larson, along with Julie Mason. And, Welcome to Tuesday. If you'd like to reach me on the Stones Automotive group, call and text line that numbers (208) 542-1079. Love to hear from you today. Of course. Now, president, President Trump is moving forward. And he signed a big bill yesterday. The take it down bill, which is, a big step forward for protecting children, online.

And when it comes to pornography, he also is now, I don't know if he's negotiating or arranging. I'm not quite sure he's facilitating having the Ukraine and Russia peace talks at the Vatican. And Pope Leo seems open to the idea, which that I imagine that it would be a very, very historic moment. And President Trump says the Vatican, of course, is a place of peace.

And that's where this should happen. So will it happen? I'm not really sure. He also went to Capitol Hill today, and the optics of him on Capitol Hill standing next to speaker Mike Johnson, talking about the passage of the big beautiful bill, which is going to have a lot of good tax cuts. And and also, I'm sure there's pork in it, too.

There always is in these massively big omnibus bills because you have members of Congress, you know, looking out for their own. And that's sort of how the game works. But it will be a big accomplishment for Trump legislatively here in the opening months of his, of his term. By the way, we are only what are we, four months in?

We're four months in, I think almost to the day. And, to all you Democrats out there, I just want to let you know there's only 44 months to go of, Trump's presidency. So you're four months in. We're not quite 10% of the way there, but you only have 44 months left for your hair to be on fire.

At some point, your hair's gone right, like the all the hair burns up. Isn't that. Isn't that how that works? You also have, James, I. And the point is, Donald Trump is a, is a force of nature in politics. He is. I don't know what you, that the hurricane. He's the earthquake. He's the, he's the I he just is a force.

And he people don't like him. Obviously. He, he has his detractors. But when it's all said and done, people will look back on Donald Trump's tenure, both his first term and clearly his second term, especially if he continues this pace and it will be undeniable how historic and impactful he has been. These are remarkable times. Watch them.

Absorb them. For those of you who like Trump, enjoy them because this is an anomaly in history. What we're watching and the pace at which he is working, it really is. It's a it's a it's a beautiful thing to watch. Meanwhile, you have the Democrats that just every day like there's a new layer of meltdown that happens, among the Democrats, this is some lefty podcast.

And by the way, kudos to this podcast. I didn't have to edit out any f words or any actually, any swear words at all. They're sitting down with Bernie and I really though, I probably disagree with a lot of what these folks say on a day to day basis. I really, truly appreciate the honest liberal who will show up, and if their party is in disarray, they will acknowledge that their party's in disarray.

And that's what happened on this podcast where Bernie was a guest. The problem I think a lot of voters had is like, they didn't even know if it was hurt. We didn't even know if Biden was president. We didn't even know if these were talking points. And we felt that over the last four elections, Democrats, we felt that we didn't have a say on who could be president.

We talk a lot about the Republicans being autocrats and oligarchs and taking over democracy. But from the Democrat perspective, and I'm a lifelong Democrat, I felt like the Democratic Party completely removed the Democratic process from its constituent. And then I think they need to have some accountability of that. No argument. Who no argument here. That's all he said.

Three words, no argument here. Because the way this podcast host never heard of him, but the way he laid it out is exactly accurate. And if you happen to be a Democrat, you know what? I need to have lunch with Democrats more often. I really do, because I'd like to have these honest conversations with them and say, does it?

And I'm sure they'd probably want to redirect towards orange man bad and Trump terrible. But I would ask them, does it bother you that your party has hyped the nomination away from the Democrat rank and file for the last four elections? And oh eight was the last time Barack Obama legitimately won the nomination back in 2008 since that.

Right? Well, me, who knows? Who knows what deep, dark conspiracy theories there are, but that that was the last one where it was not known that the DNC had hyped the nomination from the average Democrat voter, but yet and this is I talked about projection yesterday. This is another perfect example. They say that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, that Republicans are fascists, that we're that democracy is under assault.

This from a party that actually has not utilized democracy to choose their nominees for president in nearly 20 years. So how does that how does that work? That's the that's the question I would ask my figurative Democrat lunch partner here. I would say, how how does that work? Because I do hear you guys saying Trump's the threat to democracy, but you guys don't even utilize democracy to choose your nominees.

Now, yes, you start out with the illusion that you do, but when the going gets tough or when things aren't turning out the way the party elite want it to, then they shift gears. They do a switcheroo, or they change the superdelegate rules so that Bernie can't get the nomination and instead it goes to Hillary Clinton. The. And they don't want to look in the mirror for them.

It's like, oh, that's uncomfortable orange man bad. Let's talk about Trump. And and so they they move away from it. But a little bit later in this interview, it is very interesting to hear because they pressed Bernie a little bit and said, then why why did you support Hillary Clinton then? And he said, well, what other choice did I have?

Because you're not going to support Trump. And you, you, you know, you want to do the least bad. He didn't like Hillary, but you want to do the least bad. And in their eyes, that was Hillary. Strange. But whatever. That's their viewpoint. But then there was this, revisiting of the Democrats being anti-democratic, you know, who did that?

The schools will deteriorate. People will not have health care. I got and I you know, I'm an elected official. I got to represent the people I know. I can't turn my back on. But then can we not also say if ostensibly there hasn't been a fair primary for the Democrats since 2008, are they not also a threat to democracy?

We often hear fair enough. That is about is. Yeah, I'm not gonna argue with that point, he concedes. The point when you have a Democrat podcaster saying, aren't isn't our party the threat to Democracy Now! This is all great for us. I like I look at this and I'm thinking, you have a growing number of Democrats that are saying they don't care what we think.

We're not the ones in the whole point of a primary is that the party members are able to choose who represents them to be the nominee, and that's true for a bunch of races. It is not true for the Democrats when it comes to the presidency. So it's a very, very good point to say, are we not the threat to democracy then, because we're given the middle finger to democracy when we go to choose that they are they are in a bind.

And I have felt for quite some time, maybe since last year before the election. I have felt for quite some time that the Democrat Party may not recover from the switcheroo. Last year, I think there were a lot of Democrats that wanted some. It could have been a speedy process. It could have been fast, it could have been done concisely.

But basically their elite leaders said, we're doing this and we're giving it to Kamala and there's nothing you can do about it. And that's why I think the Democrats are struggling to get their legs underneath them. Here's Hakeem Jeffries in. And right now they're in a crisis that they they truly are. And it is as it's sort of fun to watch for us.

I can't imagine what it's like being on the inside right now where you have everything in disarray. You have Bernie Sanders, one of the leading U.S. senators, and he's he's not technically a Democrat, but he is a Democrat. He always caucuses with them. He pushes their issues for the most part. And so he effectively he's a Democrat and he's saying they're a threat to democracy.

You have Joe Biden, who they are working very, very vigorously to try and distract the American people from this emerging narrative that they, along with the media, covered up Joe Biden's dementia for four years. And it it arguably is, if not the biggest, one of the biggest scandals in American political history that you had people Jake Tapper himself, the guy writing the book, the reveal book, the expose, the expose, a book who at one point characterized Joe Biden's difficulties as a stutter so that they know this is potentially an existential threat to their party and to their movement because they were involved in not just, you know, the cover up of an isolated incident is

one thing. All right. The and this happens all the time, whether it's an extramarital affair or it might be the cover up of financial, myths. Some financial crime that was committed or, or an instance of fraud. A cover up is almost understandable. Not defensible, but understandable. So this was just an ongoing effort to continue to gaslight and lie to the American people.

They know how serious this is. They know that as America wakes up to this reality, they will ask, why would we ever, ever trust this party again? Why would we ever trust Joe Scarborough, who said, roll the tape if you if you don't agree with me, this is the best Biden ever. Why? Why in the world would they ever trust that?

Because if they if they go back to say, okay, we'll forgive you and we trust you now and we think you learned your lesson. And so I'll, I'll reward you with my eyes and ears again. I'll reward you with my vote again, that the toxic relationship will just continue, the abusive relationship will continue. And there are enough Americans now.

And when you look at the approval rating of Democrats at large, it has remained low now for months. And sometimes you'll see support levels drop, but they typically rebound. You'll see support levels spike, but then they come down and they come down to a somewhat reasonable level. Somewhere between 30 and 55%, you know, like that. That's a workable level because they can all placate their own constituencies nationally.

They might be a little under water, but that's okay. They don't have to face a national vote. This when they're getting down into the teens and the 20s and it's sustained. They know that they may not be able to benefit from the historic norm, that during a midterm, they'll gain seats because the other party has the white House.

So this next year, as we go into 2026, and we're going to start to see the campaigns begin here very, very quickly. We're about a year away from next year's midterm primaries. And so I hate to tell you this, I feel like we just got done with an election. We're about to start to enter into that season again.

If we get through 2026 and the Democrats in Congress lose some seats, it is a four alarm fire for them. They will have to fire absolutely everybody at the DNC. They will have to force a whole bunch of resignations, and they're going to have to bring in a lot of fresh faces, likable faces, and an ideology that is more palatable to the American people and knock it off with the gender stuff and the race stuff and the purple hair and all the all the things that they've been up to for the past few years.

This mentally ill version of the Democrat Party has been decimating to them. And I think some of them are beginning to recognize it. And it's possible, remember, and I don't I'm not enough of a history buff to tell you what happened to the Whigs. Remember the Whigs, the big wigs, and they were phased out as a party? I think there was some turnover in to the Republican Party, if I remember right.

Like I said, I don't really care about the details on they should study it a little bit more. But the point is, there have been previous political parties that become defunct and they they lose their they lose their relevance, they lose their appeal to their constituents. And I think even though they still have fairly solid numbers in the House of Representatives and somewhat a substantial number in in the US Senate, I believe that we are closer to that defunct status of the Democrat Party than many of them would like to acknowledge or realize.

So when I look at places like Idaho and when you have Bernie and AOC who are on their oligarchy tour, and these are open avowed socialists and what democrats we do have so excitedly and enthusiastically go and listen to socialists, that is a terrible sign that for them, that's a that's a terrible, terrible sign. It means that many of them have abandoned any kind of a traditional view of the of the Democrat Party, which for them has been historically blue collar.

We're standing up for the working man. They don't anymore. If you were to go out and say which political force looks out for the working man, men and women, most people now would say it's MAGA. They would say it's Donald Trump. He's the guy that connects best with the the roughnecks and the rednecks and and the even the union, not the union bosses.

They're still probably firmly Democrat, but just your average union guy showing up to work every day. They feel more represented by Donald Trump than they do by anybody in the Democrat Party today. They've lost their core and they've they've done it on the altar. They've sacrifice that core base on the altar of their woke DIY cultural progressive movement.

And I don't know if there's any coming back from that. I really don't I think they're going to have to somebody is going to have to come along and and rebrand something. And it might be the Democrat Party, it might be, but there is such still strong resistance to that. But it could be a new center left party in America.

I really think we're we're on the cusp of that. And we can credit Donald Trump for the the destruction of the Democrat Party. They are in complete disarray, and it's all fueled by their hatred of Orange Man bad and their toxic woke politics. We'll be back. It's 826 on Newstalk 1079. It's 829 now on Newstalk 1079 Neil Larson along with Julie Mason.

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We should do we should do a feature where we're like, people are mad at Jeff Dahmer because he had dinner. People are mad at the 911 bombers because they flew airplanes. Yeah. If they can just go on and on. Right. Yes. Absolutely. So this is him on MSNBC. You are back in the middle of a political firestorm.

Yeah. For walking on the beach with my wife. So I don't know how we ended up here. Never occurred to me that it was any kind of controversial thing, but that's the time we live in. So take me back to the walk on the beach. Oh, what a hard hitting question. Take me back to the walk on the beach.

Yeah. Tell me. Spin your tail. Yes. Yeah. I don't know. What was the weather like? Was the sun shining? Did you have flip flops on or were you walking barefoot? Could you smell the salty air from the ocean breeze? Were you and your wife holding hands? Were you going to go and get Italian food afterward? Gelato.

Gelato? That's. Yes, that's what they were getting. Did you walk the boardwalk as well?

Good. Crap. Yeah. All because I walked on the beach. Pretty frustrating. So now, Julie, you sent me a link, and I'm a little surprised that at Amazon, I. I was just going to say that while you're telling them this, I'm going to look up and see if that's still there. Okay. So they are now selling merch that are 8647.

So they've got base the one Julie sent was baseball caps. I'm sure they probably have t shirts and coffee mugs and a whole bunch of stuff. They're everywhere. Everywhere. I, I did all I did was 8647 hat and let's see, nine sellers popped up immediately. Wow. Yep. Okay, I do you have a problem with this? I do, I have a big problem with this.

I mean, you couldn't sell anything with, with, a Dixie flag on it. The Confederate flag, they would see if there's anything with the Confederate flag. Okay. Let's see if you can buy something with the Confederate flag, which of course is racist dog whistle. You know, words or messaging. And but, but you can put, a thinly veiled threat to assassinate the president, or at least a death wish, and that's okay.

Somebody sort this out. Are you ready for this? There's not a single hit for a Confederate flag. They don't let it. They don't allow it. Yeah. There. There's a ton of, like, cosplay Confederate hats, so that, like, you're dressing up with, you know, the crossed rifles. There's a ton of those. There's a general Lee hat from the Dukes of Hazzard.

Yeah. That's it. There is no Confederate flag. Okay. But yeah, I did this. I did equal searches. I did 8647 hat and I did Confederate hat. Okay. So you. Yeah. And we could probably find other examples to, of, things that they will not, will not allow. So, Julie, we, one of our digital guys came in the other day.

He, he he produces a bunch of our stuff afterwards and uploads it to, like, YouTube and, and he said, we got a warning. You and I were talking about vaccines and apparently YouTube. Tisk tisk. This. And said you're what you're talking about. We don't like about vaccines. And I looked at Jesse and I'm like, tuff crap.

We're not going to change what we're saying because of YouTube's algorithm. It's not that's not happening. Yeah. We'll we'll exit from YouTube and then we'll heavily promote Rumble or wherever. But we have to stop bending, bending to this. But it reminds me of this, where you have these elites sitting in these executive offices that are making these decisions about what ideas get to be allowed and what ideas don't get to be, allowed.

And you know what? I'll be honest with you, the Confederate flag, that's not my thing. Like, I probably wouldn't put one on my car. I don't think that it's equivalent to overt racism. And I think there are a lot of reasons why I. I watch Dukes of Hazzard growing up. And the generally had the had the Confederate flag on the top.

I never thought that. Well in the middle of the night they're going to KKK parties and they're, you know they're stringing up people and no I that that's ridiculous. But you can have a hat that is a thinly veiled death wish on the president of the United States. That's okay. That's Amazon. I should have looked to see how many, how many reviews there are because you can figure out by reviews what a, what probably is a portion of what was sold.

And I mean, if they're getting heavily reviewed they're getting even more sold. And am I idiot? Look, the bottom line is, is there are powers that be that make these calls and there is, all sorts of things. There's commerce that's allowed to happen at the expense of Republicans. There are court cases that exist at the expense of Republicans.

There are lies told by journalists at the expense of the Republicans. And I've just those three examples that I just gave, it wouldn't be the same if the roles were reversed. Yeah. There are not lies told about the Democrats in the mainstream media the way there are about Republicans. There are not products sold. I mean, people would say, what about Joe Biden?

Well, that's not a we want to kill him. Search, see if there's any. Let's go Brandon merch on on Amazon. That would be an interesting because somebody texted in how the left freaked out about let's go Brandon. Remember remember that. And that was that was not even a death wish. That was just a a euphemistic phrase, because a reporter tried to cover the fact that the the crowd was chanting, it was based upon them lying again.

Do they have. Let's go. Brandon. Tons of stuff. Okay, good. Police have stuff. At least there is that. I guess. My my point is and and I would ask this question, does 8647 fall under the First Amendment? Do you think that we should be able to publicly express our desire for the president to be assassinated? I you look, I would say probably yes.

If you take that all the way to the Supreme Court, you probably have the option to say that under your First Amendment right, you can, now, you might get a visit from the Secret Service and you take that risk. Your First Amendment right doesn't absolve you from getting in trouble criminally. You can just say it. You might get a visit from the Secret Service.

My thing is, is that I just want the rules to be equal across the board. So if you're going to allow 8647 on your site, you shouldn't be silencing conservatives who put things. Yes, agreed. I just want to I just want equal play. When we get these data point reports that are available now because of, search engines like ChatGPT, when we get these data point reports that, like, say, CBS is covering Trump 97% negatively, I just want to play a fair playing field, that's all.

Yeah, I would even take a 6040, but 97 three, I don't hear here's the thing. And I'll say this. I think what Donald Trump is doing is not a 5050 positive negative. No. So, but it's definitely not a 95 five. It, it might be a 6040 like naturally like he, you know, he does things that are controversial and it's okay to point that out.

And I think sometimes not usually, but I think there can be this mistaken notion that everything should always be 5050. Well no it's not it's not. That would be like me saying, well, you know, when we talk about Lori Vallow Daybell, yeah, we got to give equal weight. We need to speak positively of her half the time. Well, no, she kills her kids.

Yeah. Like we're not going to. So like I not that I'm comparing Donald Trump to Lori Vallow Daybell. What the point is, is that people who are in high profile positions are not 50, 50 neutral. They're they do things that that are more complicated. And so I don't expect 5050. I don't think that's the definition of fairness. I just want accuracy.

And and I think Trump Trump probably like I love what he does. But I'm also transparent and open about my own biases. I, I fully acknowledge there are other people that don't like what he said. I just want him to tell the truth. Right. We shouldn't even, you know, it's weird. The idea of favorable coverage and unfavorable coverage just give accurate coverage.

Yeah, well, isn't that interesting that you can choose that data point? Because that's the way it is now. There isn't just telling the facts of a story that rarely happens on a newscast anymore. It I, I mean, look, it it it doesn't really matter which one. You can find it all over the place. Yeah. All right. Both Republican and Democrat, there's just far more people working in the field of broadcast journalism that are Democrat.

Yeah, it is shifting because the platforms have changed and the Republican voices are being, amplified. So if you go back in the lineage of our industry talk radio, the left has always wanted to implement what's called the Fairness Doctrine, which sounds really good. Doesn't fairness that was choose those kind of words. Yeah. So what they did or and after a while the Fairness Doctrine took on a nickname, the hush rush law, which basically they wanted to go in and tell broadcast outlets and specifically talk radio that you have to give balanced coverage like you can't.

If you have an hour of conservative programing, you need an hour of liberal programing. You need to present both sides. Now, all of that sounds great, right? Like you look at it and you're like, well, yeah, these are public airwaves. And of course you should provide balance and you should do that. But then when you dig into the logistics of actually doing that, there are political pundits out there that are pro-choice and also Pro-Second amendment.

Are they a conservative or are they a liberal? There are issues that fall into neither conservative nor liberal. There's no way to pinpoint where balance is on a particular issue. You have libertarians that will agree with with far leftists when it comes to smoking marijuana. So what's balance on that issue? Look, I think the seatbelt law is overreaching.

Where do I land with that? Yeah. It's good. Call me anything with that. Yeah. No it's true. And so there's no way and we will openly say we're we're pretty mainstream conservative. We're well, I would never call a center right. We're just solidly conservative. That's where I would put myself. Now, I'm probably not as far right as some of the really far right people.

That's okay. My goal is not to get as far right as I can. My goal is to get to the ideology that I think works best for individual freedom and for America. And so I'm not going to hush myself because some external force out there thinks, will you need to be more balanced? Okay, well, maybe people on the other side need to be, as articulate as we are.

Maybe they need the like. Look, I had to earn my way to be able to be on the radio, to broadcast to thousands of people every day. You don't automatically get a slot because you're on the other side. And that's what the left wanted to do. They wanted to take the hard work of people like Rush Limbaugh and others and say, well, now you have to divide your stage in half and give us the other half.

Yeah. Then they didn't earn it. What's interesting about this, this retelling of history that you're talking about, which was, what, probably 12 or 15 years ago? How long ago was this? Oh, you know what? It it had a little flare up during Obama's years, but it was really big in the 90s. Okay, so, you know, what's interesting about that is I think the Democrats could see the writing on the wall there.

There was a chance they were lose. They were going to lose control of the narrative, and they were doing everything they possibly could to keep control of the narrative. In those instances that you're talking about that happened decades ago. Yeah, right. Imagine the the angst they're feeling right now over the last, maybe just five years since Covid. They thought they had nailed us with Covid.

They thought they had nailed conservatives with Covid. Yeah. And that they had control of everything. And they did for a while. They really did. Yeah. But when you push on people's independent meter like that, when you're pushing that button and going, I own you, I own you, I own you, you start to get pulled, you push back. Yeah.

And man, they're reaping that now. Oh they they really are. And I mean, are you talking about what I was talking about in the monologue, how they, they are taking for they, they don't trust their own people. Right. That's what's crazy. We we have a troll in the text line this morning and they're saying, what are you smoking the, you know, the, the Democrats hold, you know, almost half the seats now they do.

I think they're holed on those seats is far more fragile than the Republicans. Hold on it. The numbers look really close. But I think there are a lot of people in swing districts that are ready for a change. And I you know, you look at Trump and yeah, depending on the poll, he he's up and down. But as we get to the midterms, it's going to be very interesting to see how all of the messaging plays out, because I think I don't see any hope on the horizon whatsoever that the Democrats are going to get their crap together in time for next year.

I would also point out the Democrats have the current level of of seats in the House and the Senate simply because they broke the rules. That's true. They brought in all of these illegals. They amplified and used people with mental illness to get to places where they're at. They lied to you with things like BLM they weaponized. I mean, I could go on forever at the ways that they broke the rules in order to maintain the amount of seats that they currently have.

That's true. I mean, and they they have to break the rules. They cannot win in a traditional environment level playing field in the contest for ideas, the hearts and the minds of the American people, they can't win on that playing field. That's why they always go to the courts to get their their policy outcomes. They can't win. They have to cheat in some way for them to stay viable.

They killed hundreds of thousands of people. They I'm going to say that again. They killed hundreds of thousands of people with a virus to accomplish a power grab. Go ahead and defend that party. Yeah. You're right. Well, and how do they face when Bernie was faced with the question, I would love to just hear from the traditional Democrat out there.

How do you feel that the party basically the the elite in the party gave a double middle finger to the voters in the party for the past several presidential cycles? Yep. And they lied right to your face over and over again. Yeah. They did. I don't know how you stand behind that but I don't either. I don't either.

Look, do Republicans have their own set of problems. Sure. Yeah. We have our own challenges as well. But I think ours are much more isolated and manageable. There is no cohesion at all right now. Donald Trump is the the organizing center of the Republican Party. Now you can oppose him. But I think often you do it to your own detriment right now.

What is the organizing center of the Democrat Party? Is there one? There isn't one. Your your your current, minority leader in the Senate. What was his approval rating? 17%. Hakeem Jeffries yeah. No, I'm Schumer's I think know in the Senate. Yes. Schumer's was 17%. Yeah. That's right Kim Jeffries is not that great either. You don't have leadership.

You you you lied with your current your last administration, both with Kamala and with Joe. The lies with Joe are just exploding in your face right now. You can't even turn to Kamala to be the the leader of your regeneration project. They've got nothing. Yeah. They don't they don't have anything. They really don't have anything. And there's no agreement about a path forward either.

Like, you know, the house burns down, you call the insurance company and they'll help you financially get what you need, and then you call a bank, and then you call the demolition company to come in and move it out. And they don't have any of that. Or, you know, you can you can recover from a devastation and devastating loss, but you have to be organized.

At least you have to start making phone calls and have a plan that most people agree on. Yeah, the Democrats don't have that. They're they're arguing over what the next steps are. And it it like it's weird to watch. It really is weird to watch because usually they are the ones that have been so well organized and united.

Everyone's united. Everyone's on the same page, and they can take the worst ideas and beat us with the worst ideas because they're organized and unified and we're arguing over two principled positions. Yeah. And and now the tables have turned not entirely and not on every issue, but but Trump has absolutely decimated that party. And it it really is fascinating to watch them just stumble around in the dark trying to recover.

There's a reason they've been so terrified of this man. Yeah. It's true, it's true. All right. It's 850 on Newstalk 1079. Oh my goodness. We talked a lot. We did talk quite a bit. All right. We'll be right back after this. On Newstalk 1079 it's 852 on Newstalk 179. Oh, the train wreck that just happened across the desk from me, well, nobody would have known unless you said something.

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And we are back on Newstalk 107. I, Neil Larsen, along with Julie Mason, president Trump making the rounds in Capitol Hill and just got out of some meetings with the House GOP and had an interaction with some of the reporters. Let's play some of that here. Julie, I think this is it. Okay. Week, Senator Josh Hawley, that this could impact benefits and there could be amount of hidden tax on the I would say here's what I said.

I'm wondering if there is one here. What are you going to say to those members? I see ways of supporting this fraud and abuse for Medicaid. If you find waste or fraud or abuse, we want to strengthen Medicaid. We want to strengthen Medicare waste, fraud and abuse. The Democrats will let illegals be on the destroyed. They will be destroyed.

They want to have illegal immigrants are. And if you do that because I said it wasn't designed for that waste fraud. And I guarantee that your voters support the election day working class voters will not lose health insurance under this bill, or they will lose health insurance. Not only that, remember, I'm cutting drug prices by 85% and right now I'm saving I'm saving the whole thing because I did something that nobody was willing to do.

Other countries pay a tiny fraction. What we do, and I instituted favored nations. We're now going to pay the lowest in the world. We're going to be the equivalent of the lowest country in the world. People go to London, they go to Canada, they go to other countries, many other countries, because they want to buy their pharmaceutical products and drugs at a fraction of the cost.

Now we're going to have the lowest cost anywhere in the world. Nobody else would do that but me. And that might be an election by itself, might be election winning. Now, when you add that in, when you put that into Medicaid and Medicare, we just strengthen Medicare, Medicaid and the. Okay. So that you get the idea of what Trump saying.

Let's go back to the reporters question. And this is I don't know if it's a new tactic or it's just a frequent use of an of an old tactic where they say, can you guarantee that no one's going to lose their Medicaid coverage? Well, when you have millions and millions of people on, on Medicaid or Medicare or you're probably going to find an example here or there, the whole thrust of these reforms is to get rid of the waste, the fraud and the abuse.

Will there be a mistake here and there? Possibly. But that's not the purpose of the law. So the media is setting a trap. They're setting a trap for Trump where he and he didn't take the bait there. He phrased his question very, very differently. But but they're trying to set it up. So he'll say I will guarantee.

And then they go out and they find one of these anomalous examples and then turn that story into journalism porn essentially, and emotion porn and saying, oh, the poor Smith family in Arkansas lost their Medicaid and they're blah, blah, blah, blah. And then they put them on a poster and, and they over report this story so they can then craft a narrative that Donald Trump destroyed Medicaid, when in reality, all he did, in essence, was get rid of the waste, fraud and abuse.

Yeah. I, it was a few days ago. It might have even been on Friday. I sent you an audio clip that talked about there was some reporting on Medicaid and how multiple states have passed their version of Medicaid expansion, like we passed in Idaho, and how that opened up the floodgates in many, many states for this fraud to happen because you were rearranging the way that you, evaluated whether or not people should be on the system or not.

Yeah. And when you did that there, it created these gaps where people fell through and were able to get on the system but weren't supposed to. Then you pair that with all of Covid 19 and how they just opened up and let most people line up for a little bit. Yeah. Those two factors have created this massive amount of fraud and abuse of the Medicaid system.

If you don't deserve it, you shouldn't be on it. Stop. Stop advocating for the for the criminal. Yeah. If you're abusing the system, you're a criminal, right? You are. And you should be punished. Number one, you need to be stopped from doing it. But number two, I hope we chase down and prosecute every single one of these Medicaid and Medicare fraudsters out.

Yeah. And it is interesting to me that over and over again from this microphone, I've had to clarify. You have clarified Trump is again clarifying in his answer. They just want to say cuts to Medicaid, cuts to Medicaid. It is an erroneous phrase. Well, and I think they know it. They're not this obtuse. They just need something there.

Julie. The like we said last hour, they're they're bumping around, scrambling. They have no idea what to do. So they're looking for some shred of a narrative to try and go after Trump with. And we keep hearing it over and over and over again about these cuts to Medicaid, cuts to Medicaid. No, it's the elimination of fraud and waste and abuse and Medicaid.

It's interesting. We got a text from somebody during that long segment that we did last hour saying, well, the Republicans are divided, too. You're right. We are. We're just not in the place that the Democrats are. We're not even close to being in the place where the Democrats are. I want I want to make a clarification, though. Divided is one thing utterly decimated is another.

Yes. And right now, yeah, both parties are divided. Only one party is utterly decimated. We have a strong party leader. I believe. We have a strong vision. We have a strong direction. And yeah, you have you have some division in the party. But that that's just a feature of, of almost any political party. It's just how it is.

You can manage that and you can work around it right now the Democrats just have nothing there. They are a sinking ship. And and, our ship is still good, but we are arguing we've got to repair some holes. Yeah. That's true. We're arguing over the food in the cafeteria on the, you know, on the cruise, but. Right.

We it's nothing like what's happening on the other side of the aisle. And look, can we have a leader who showed up to Capitol Hill today trying to unite people behind this bill? I hope he's successful. I don't know if he will be again. I we have heard from both of our senators that they're going to take a, you know, a scalpel to this bill.

They're going to cut out some pieces and rearrange some pieces and put in an artificial hip here. And, you know, right, there's going to be some changes to the bill. Stop making fun of me.

I know there there will. I just hope I hope Julie, that it's not such a fragile coalition in the House side that whatever the Senate does, it unravels like I, I they get their feelings hurt. Yes. And and sad. The problem is when you have a just a slim majority like we have that makes any 2 or 3 Republican House members immensely powerful.

And that's frustrating. Yeah. It's it's I'm I wouldn't argue that it should be any other way because, you know, 50 plus one is 50 plus one. That's what what you have to get to. But it is a frustrating part of the reality of, of where we're at is that they and you know what? I want to say this without causing it, causing a fight here.

I feel like, you know, I'll name names. Rand Paul is one that I think is, politically very you can say principled. And I think he is principled. I'm not going to argue that he's not. He's not principled. But they will throw out the baby with the bathwater on principle. And to me, that that's that's kind of sad.

I think they they don't really have a good grasp of we're getting 80% of what we want. And I wish there was some you know there is, there does reach a point right there does reach a point where you're saying I really can't support that. But I think there are some who think that it has to be at 100% or very close to 100% for them to be able to support it.

It has to be more than 50. It has to be more than 60 and 70. But if you're going to get about 75 to 80% of what you want in something, by gum, you better start considering supporting that because you're not you're not going to get much in politics if your position is always, I need 98 or 99% of what I want in everything, especially in the year 2025, you're not going to get there.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's clear it's not happening. The house is really and I hate to say this, but they've really got nothing done. No you're right. Since Trump has been put into office, this is the reason why. Yeah they're yeah they refuse to unite behind certain concepts. Yeah. And I imagine well if you could take the cumulative if we could have 80% wins back to back to back to back to back, that accumulates into getting so much of what you want over time.

It absolutely does. And I want to point out also sometimes you think you got a win. You might be Rand Paul and you think you really got a win. Yeah. And you didn't get a win. Amy Coney Barrett is the perfect example. How many high fives did we do thinking this this Supreme Court justice was going to be phenomenal for conservatives.

Yeah it hasn't it hasn't panned out. No. So sometimes you throw out the baby with the bathwater without the the realization you might not even get the reward you were hoping for. Yeah. That's true. What what payoff is there. We had an issue like that with, oh Rand Paul in tariffs just a few weeks ago. And, and I asked Senator Crapo about this because Rand Paul was working with the Democrats to sink Trump's tariffs.

And, in, in I, you know, I didn't understand why that was happening because, well, you know what? It comes down to, Julian. I talk about this all the time. I'm an out comes guy. I don't care how good your intentions are. And I think there are people that they feel like as long as the. I have input, my good intentions, my job is done and they outcome be damned, and I can't.

I can't operate like that. For me, the outcome is probably the most important thing. And and whatever you got to do to, to, to make that good or at least optimal outcome happen, then you, I mean, short of illegality and unethical stuff, you know, but but it just I just think a different way. I just think a different way.

And we've known people, Julie, that, largely Evan McMullin voters who they, they think their conscience is the only thing that matters in the universe, right. And even if their actions end up getting Hillary Clinton elected, their intentions are the most important thing in the universe. And that, to me, is frustrating. Yeah, there's just zero movement on their part.

Oh, okay. Let's talk about a really basic one that we have spoken about ad nauseum here at Newstalk 179, the Porn and Library bill. Yeah. Okay. That the ending bill that was signed into law. Not my favorite. Not even close. Not even close. But you had to look at it and go, we're looking for an outcome. And right now this is the best that we're going to get.

Yeah. And this is the version that's going to go forward. Imagine if you stood on on your principles of no, I wanted more, I wanted more. We still wouldn't have a bill. We wouldn't have a law. Yeah. No, we wouldn't. You're right. You're right about that. So we got that's probably a 68% win. Yeah. You know not great.

But we'll take it. Took what you could get. Yeah. Yeah. And especially after three years of trying to get, get something finally got there. Somebody texted in. And quite frankly, Julie, we probably ought to take a segment this hour and do stump speeches where people can call in, vote yes on this, on vote no on that levy boat.

And, and, we'll probably do that. Let's do it after the, the half. Okay. But right now we need to talk about my tomatoes. They survived another night, Julie. And what is this cold weather? My goodness, I yeah. Have you just been putting the tomatoes on your deck? Is that where you've been putting them? No, they're out on a kind of a cement pad out by our apple tree.

I know, but when it's cold. No, I get a couple of sheets and I just throw them over the tomato cages. Okay? I just got them, so. All right, well, that's good, because these are really great tomatoes that you have planted from town and country gardens. I did get them from Town and Country Gardens. One is a big beef.

We've got some other slicers, growing. We have some cherry tomatoes as well. And I can't wait to just watch them grow through the summer. And then I'll make some salsa. Fantastic. But yet it's not too late to get yours. They still have all the plants, all your gardening needs at town and country gardens, hanging baskets. Memorial day is this weekend.

If you'd like to take something to those loved ones who have passed, you can go on down to town and country gardens and get your flowers there. They will be beautiful, I promise. We've walked the grounds of town and country gardens. They're gorgeous. Anything else you need? Whether it's mulch or bark or trees or shrubs, they've got it for you.

At Town and Country Gardens south of Idaho Falls on the Yellowstone Highway across from the Budweiser plant. So we just got to text you. Yeah. I said, I want to read this. And then I'm not going to argue with the text. I'm just going to ask a food for thought question. That's where I disagree with you, Neil. Voting your conscience is the vote of integrity.

Just voting for someone and holding your nose is a coward's way of living. Okay, again, they've sort of tacitly called us cowards, right? And that's fine. Call me whatever you want. Just don't call me late for dinner. I, I would say back to you is how things turned out or turn out incorporated into your conscience again.

Let me ask that again. I really want this person to think about it because this is a great discussion and I'm not offended. I called me a coward, but I'm not offended. Because I, I'm I'm hoping they might think about it a little different way. Is how it turns out. Part of your of your conscience. Because for me, it is.

This is an interesting concept because this is so black and white. So I would challenge also this person to move this out of a vote category and into other parts of their life. So let's say you have an adult child who chooses to do things that are drastically different than the value system that they were raised on.

What's your conscience doing there? What's your integrity doing there? It's like let's say they their household has, actions or items in it that don't align with your integrity. Do you never visit them? You know? Right. I mean, that's just my question. Where's your black and white? Something has to be compromised at some point, right? Yeah. That's a that's a good point.

923 on Newstalk 179. If you'd like to reach us on the Stones Automotive Group, Colin text line (208) 542-1079 back up to this. Okay, I'm going to text. Actually, I'm going to take a pic. When you guys do a, like a when you type and you type in letter by letter, do you do the swipe?

No, I'm a letter. I'm a swipe guy. But there's some words. It's almost impossible using a swipe to get the, the right, the right word because it's close enough to another word or my fingers to fat. I use my thumb usually for it. It's clear I'm a type girl because whenever I'm typing out, I ng on a word, working, trying, scheduling, whatever.

Yeah. I fat finger it all the time and it adds an extra G. You. I'm sure you have noticed that. Yeah, yeah. Did you watch the video of the Scott Adams saying he has cancer? The Dilbert creator? Yes. I sent that to you because it was really heartbreaking. It was heartbreaking. It was a really heartbreaking video to watch.

Yeah. To to recognize your mortality like that. Yeah. Wow. It is and I, I, I mean is it, could it be bittersweet like I, I've heard from people who have terminal cancer and even though there's a lot of pain and sadness for your family, they say it's also kind of one of the most beautiful times here. You just know the the outcomes at that point.

Well, there's so much about your ambitions that you can relinquish that's unhealthy, you know, and just focus on relationships. And I think it kind of depends on the person my mother never did. Yeah, I, I think if you're so terrified to pass, you never go to that place. Yeah. I think if you find peace with passing, that would be where you'd go.

But your mom never, never, never was at peace with it. Never. I would hope I would be. I can't read that person's text. The one that says so. Do you pay that child's rent? There isn't a black and white answer. That's what I'm trying. That was my point. Yeah, well, yeah. Every situation is different. Yes. And so to to say that voting for outcomes is an integrity issue, I disagree because it's an integrity issue.

If your child is homeless, well, it's you can't answer that question with that limited information. Yeah. A are there times when you help your adult kids with rent? Yes, there would be. You betcha. 928 On Newstalk 179 Julie, we've had this question go over how you think. No tax on tips and overtime will work. Will we be taxed heavily at the end of the year?

I don't think so. I think that that income will just simply be exempt from taxes. Kind of like when you pay health insurance premiums, you pay on what's left over. So you take your gross paycheck over time, get set aside and it's yours, free and clear. Tips set aside. It's yours. Free and clear. It will not be considered taxable income every two weeks or twice a month, nor will it be considered taxable income on April 15th when you file your taxes.

I think it truly is tax free. Yeah, that's the way that I am interpreting it as well. It'll just your overtime will be calculated. Think about your tax forms. It'll be calculated in that part. That's non taxable income. Yeah. Or Nontaxable items I should say because there's other things that go in those categories. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah.

Yeah. Right. I think this is a huge win for somebody who, who might be living paycheck to paycheck. And they have a chance to pick up some extra shifts. And it it works with their life and or imagine this okay. So let's say you're just exiting college. My son in law is going to exit with massive debt, becoming a physician.

Okay. What if he has the opportunity to pick up extra shifts somewhere, let's say like a community care or something? I don't know what he's going to do, but I'm just throwing something out there. What if all of that overtime money could be non taxed income and he could put all of it towards his. Oh yeah, his student loan bills.

Yeah. That would be amazing. Yeah. Or what if you're a single mother and you're living paycheck to paycheck and all of a sudden this I get to pick up one overtime shift a week, my parents will watch my kids. And this helps me catch up on bills or gather some money for Christmas. Oh, it's huge. It's huge. Well, and you know what?

Even and I think it will be huge. But even if it's not huge for a particular individual, if they're working for tips or if they're working overtime, that means a lot to them that that Trump is working hard to make this happen for them. And that's what has the this is very clearly Democrat territory to to offer that kind of a benefit or see here's the difference.

And this is what I love about being a conservative and being a true Republican, or at least holding true to the Republican ideals. I don't know if I'm always a Republican, but I, I love the platform and I love the ideals. The left would say, we're going to give you free education. We're going to give you free health care.

We're going to give everything to you for free. Trump skin is coming along saying, no, you just get to keep what you earn. So you're not depriving them of their ambition. You're not depriving them of you're not you're not working against their desire to get ahead. You're just removing an obstacle. They still have to go out and work to get the tips.

They still have to go out and work to get the overtime. It's not a freebie, it's just removing an obstacle. They can just get ahead a little bit faster, but it still requires them to work to have the benefit. The left just wants to give it to you. They want to be Santa Claus and show up and say, here's your college, here's your health care.

And there's a fundamental philosophical difference between those two things. Absolutely. I agree completely with that. The person that sent that text said, then is it going to pass? Well, here's the reason that the Democrats keep saying the they're taking away Medicaid, they're cutting Medicaid, they're cutting Medicaid. It's because they can't they've got to move the spotlight off of the no tax on overtime, no tax on tips.

That should be their people. Yeah, they should be giving that gift to who they claim their party is, but they can't because it's a Trump idea. So they got to focus on this Medicaid thing. Yes. Yeah that's true. It's it's it's completely a distraction. Yeah. But here's the problem. They're now on record voting against it. And every Republican should be talking about that.

That should be a campaign. Advertisement. For every contested race out there for the Republicans that, that and and, the but they can't help it and that I think there's the beauty of Trump Derangement Syndrome is yeah, it's frustrating dealing with all these nutjobs, but they make the the counter campaigns so pretty simple. Yeah. All right let's go to the phones.

Hey caller how are you today. Hey. So one of the biggest criticisms that the left has on this know taxing year over time thing is they're saying it's going to kill overtime. And I don't understand where they come up that argument. Because your employer doesn't care who gets the money. They still you work overtime, they still pay out the same amount.

Yeah. Just now you get it. Instead of the government getting it. Wait, are you suggesting that they would lie in order to give a false impression about something? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're right. You know, it's just it's just one of the things they're going to come out, they're going to say, oh, nobody should get overtime anymore.

And all this other malarkey. And it's just not even close because your employer still writes the same check. They still spend the same amount of money. It's just now you get to keep it in your pocket. You get to decide how much you want to spend on your budget items. Instead of them deciding what you're going to spend under budget.

Your budget items are. Yeah, I would also contend more people will try to pick up those overtime shifts. If you know you're getting that dollar, you're getting all of that, that wage. I think you you cover your shifts faster. Doesn't this solve a labor problem for some companies? Because finding people wanting to work can be really tough. But this makes a big difference.

Well, this is one of the biggest things that they have against Donald Trump. He is coming in and he is fulfilling all of their campaign promises that they run on year after year after year after year, and they never do anything about. Yeah, yeah, that's true. I mean, is this this is a huge boon for the working class, for the middle class to be able to keep your your overtime without.

Because if you work you up between 30 and 40 hours, you the same paycheck pretty much. And then you work over 40 hours, a huge percentage of it and I don't. It's been a long time since I've been able to collect overtime. Yeah, because of the nature of my job. But it just yeah, there was a point where you just worked and all of it went to taxes.

Yeah. Yeah. You saw no benefit from doing that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's true. Thank you. Thank you for the call. Great point and a great call. We're going to shift right now. Speaker Mike Johnson is speaking after the meeting with Trump on the bill status for nonprofits that materially support terrorism, we're doubling the jail time for for leaks of confidential taxpayer information.

We're eliminating big businesses ability to engage in work PR campaigns to facilitate refund ability for green energy projects. We're incentivizing federal workforce to be at will employees, and we're repealing Biden's disastrous EV mandate. So the speaker of the House, okay, okay. Rattling off some of the things the bill will do. Yeah. So I he's trying to celebrate the win of the bill and and make it seem very desirable for his Republican, cohorts.

Yeah. Before we break for the news here, I want to read a couple of texts that I think are really good relevant to our overtime discussion. Employers. I've talked to are excited that people will actually want overtime, that you'll have people showing up volunteering. In fact, their biggest problem might be stopping the fistfight less of their employees wanting overtime.

It's interesting because I've had a couple of conversations with people who work in systems where the onboarding process, the training process of bringing people into a position is pretty extensive. So it's not like you can just grab someone and bring them on. If you already have a trained workforce and you get some extra work that's available, it's hard sometimes to bring a new employee on.

It takes so much effort. If you've got people who pay, who will pick up overtime, great. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, yeah. You bet. Someone else said my husband does not pick up overtime because it's taxed higher and it's not worth it for him. That's true. They do tax overtime at a higher rate. Someone else said the only thing I have against the no tax on tips is more workers shoving the iPad in my face, asking for tips before they even provide a service.

So to shops, concession stands, etc. you can say no. Yeah. Which I've started to say, you know what? I still do tips usually because that's usually low wage workers and they can use it. However, will you donate a dollar to this cause? Some say no on that one. So that's like, no, I'm going to get nickel and dime to death.

Okay. This. And then lastly, someone texted in and asked if we would read their text about the, Shelley School District bond $78 million bond referendum. They wrote vote no. No valid justification for a new building. Shelley. School board is not explored. All the options. They're just wanting to build a new school. If this passes, your property taxes will increase $423 per 100,000 assessed valuation.

Fiscal conservatives vote no today, so that is their claim. So there you have it. Okay, it is election day. So if you want to do a stump speech, here's the thing. The floor is yours. Just call it. And we probably won't play the music and over solicit. But if you want to, if there's a bond or a levy or an issue, an ambulance district, whatever, then feel free to call in and give about a 22nd stump speech.

We'll be back. Oh, you have to work a certain amount of overtime hours to break even with your non overtime pay. So it incentivizes employees to not pick. How does that work? I don't know break even with your non overtime pay. Because it's taxed higher. That's what they're meaning okay. Your overtime pay. I had to read it and reread it.

I get it now. Because your overtime pay is taxed higher. Yeah. So it, so the, the amount you take hourly is even less than your regular hours. Yes, yes. Because the government takes a bigger chunk of overtime pay currently. Okay. That's crazy. Yeah. It's been a super long time since I've ever gotten overtime. Yeah, I can't I don't even remember when I worked for an hourly wage.

I don't even know when that was either. Yeah, super long time. Overtime pay is taxed at the same rates, but you're paying one and a half times more if you're paying times in it. Yes, that's a great way to say it. So yeah, we're so weird with our fashion choices. Yeah. I've talked about Kamala Harris and her ill fitting suits, and I believe that it was purposeful.

Hillary Clinton and her massive amount of fabric on everything she wears. Oh, these moves and these, these big, heavy scarves and what is she doing? Is she put on a shirt as she put on weight and she's trying to conceal it. So it's just it's weird how we do things. You know. Yeah. Like almost like it's our will be our comfort items that we wear.

Yeah. It's we're crazy as just the human psyche. We do some weird things. Yeah. We do all of human nature's weird. You're right. They're kind of moomoo. Yeah. Yeah. My TV's about a minute and a half behind you Julie. Oh James Comey this is just a promotion. I didn't even know he was coming out of the book.

He's so skeezy. Not even a hint of skepticism by that report. What is her name? She's on MSNBC. Trump hater, big time. Caitlyn. No, I forget her name. It's not Stephanie Ruhle. Nicolle Wallace is with NBC, not MSNBC. I don't think it's Nicolle Wallace. Yeah. They caught, another one of those escaped prisoners out of Louisiana.

Yeah. He was asleep on a bus bench and somebody walked past him. I was like, that's one of those prisoners and called the cops and they came and got him. Good. If you. Why didn't you find escape? Why are you on a bus bench? No. Can you don't you find, like, an outbuilding somewhere and like, I don't know, I don't want a forest or.

That's weird. They're just not. It's actually. You're in Louisiana. Go find an empty boat. People aren't out boating right now. Yeah, go find an empty boat, crawl into it and go to sleep. Don't sleep on a bus bench right, I yeah, we need to be like consultants. Like criminal consultants. If you walked, a river bank long enough.

You'd find one like. I'm not. I'm not talking like yacht size. I'm talking like a boat. Yeah. Just fell asleep in a boat. You're protected. Yeah. Here we go. 944 on Newstalk 1078 Neil Eisen along with Julie Mason. And you, if you'd like to reach us on this Stones Automotive Group calling text line, that number is (208) 542-1079.

And Julie, this was heartbreaking. Of course, they announced that Joe Biden has an aggressive form of prostate cancer. It has metastasized into the bone. And, Scott Adams, who is the Dilbert creator, he announced yesterday he has the exact same kind of cancer. Some of you have already guessed. So this one will surprise you at all. But, I have the same cancer that Joe Biden is.

So I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones, but I've had it longer than was at it. Well, longer than he's admitted having. So my life expectancy is maybe the summer. I'd expect, I expect to be check it out from this, domain sometime in the summer. I have the same cancer that Joe Biden.

Anyway, he, Yeah, it was really heartbreaking to, to listen to that, just just such a hard reality of of where your mortality is at. Yeah. And to be so calm and loving about it. Well, what he's like, he said he's known about it for quite some time, but he has not gone public. And the, the, the reason he gave I think is, is pretty understandable because he's a conservative and supports Trump and, and he said that, he, he knew that he'd get a lot of hate from the left, that they would cheer on the cancer.

They'd be happy that he he is about to die. And sadly, he's not wrong that that's exactly what what would happen. And I don't blame him for not going public with it, because I think, you know, you're navigating that quietly with your family and your close friends and yourself and and God and and, when you have people that don't even know you, that are wishing for your death and publicly cheering for your death, that just why, why have that in your life?

I mean, I, I'd probably do the same thing if, if I had a terminal illness. I, I think there are people out there that would cheer for my death. And, and I don't say that to be sad or poor me. That's a commentary on where the world is today. Yeah. It's unfortunate. And you and I had an off air discussion yesterday about even in our limited scope, I mean we're not this man.

Yeah. But even in our limited scope we have people that wish for our demise. Sure. And have done things to harm our success. Yeah. And I can't imagine the weight that you carry when you're on a bigger stage like that, right? Yeah, I'm sure it does weigh on him. And, because I yeah, I think there definitely isn't.

That said, I, I feel like I know when I was a kid, man is just naive. But even as an adult, for a while I felt like death was something that everybody sort of said, hands off, you know? You know, it was just unseemly to publicly cheer for someone's death unless they were truly, purely evil, Hitler or whatever.

And now that's not the case anymore. You you have. Well, heck, the former FBI director, you have people who are now latching on, latching on to the former FBI director's Instagram post, and they are out there cheerleading for Donald Trump's assassination. I mean, to me, that's yeah, that's a more of a statement of you and where you're at than anything else.

Not about Trump, not about conservatives, not about anything except your ugly black heart. Yeah, you can be a classic conservative. Yeah. Sometimes I wonder if you can be a classy Democrat, but I'm sure there's people who. Who? Yeah, pull it off. I think you know what I think they just, I, you know, I think of some of the Democrat legislators and lawmakers that we know they would never cheer for, for our death.

I don't think that cheer for Trump's death. I think it it's there's still a level of civilized. Yeah. The reason I say it would be hard to be a classy Democrat is you're cheering for the death of the unborn. Yeah. And I think that that's the difficult bridge that they have to cross there. Yeah. But they can do it and not be ugly and horrible about it.

So I think you can be a classy Democrat. I think both you and I try to aim to be as classy as possible as a conservative conservatives, we we do make jokes sometimes, and we could probably be accused of not being. Yeah, but but you're entering a whole different realm when you cheer for somebody. Steph. Yeah I, I like to opt for cheering for someone's retirement.

Yeah. That's what I, it's actually helpful to them. And it is quite honestly I, we have politicians that should retire and it would be for their benefit. Yeah. It will maybe not monetarily but yeah peacefully. I cheer for Nancy Pelosi's retirement. Yeah. Yeah. No I don't know. I don't that's that it I never read the book because the title was enough and the title was what you think of me is none of my business.

And it, it's all about them, the things people say and they do that, that is a complete revelation of who they are. Yeah. All right. 950 Newstalk 1079 quick break and we will return after this, our final segment coming up. I have no idea why this song played, but we'll go with it. Little Marvin Gaye. We'll be right back.

Okay. The popcorn page has been at 499 followers for several hours now. Oh, somebody. Somebody help push him over the edge. Be the one snake River Popcorn Company. We will be just blatant about it. Robert asked, what was the other criminal they found hiding in a boat? That was the the bomber from the Boston Marathon. Oh, that's right.

And it was actually a really great place to hide. He was there successfully for a bit because he was hurt. Yeah. And and then they figured it out through. I can't even remember what cameras they figured out he was back there. Yeah. Okay. Let's do, we have one more town in country, right? Yes. Then I think we're good.

You know what I would have said? Let me. I'll just blatantly armchair quarterback the interview with Comey. Will you apologize to President Trump? For a lot of people, that means you're calling for his assassination. Do you owe him an apology? Yeah, that would be a good question, because the headline right now is no apology from Comey. Despite mounting outrage, I hear here's how I view an apology.

And again, this this speaks perfectly to my focus on outcomes as opposed to inputs and intentions. There are some people who think you don't apologize unless your own intentions were bad. Okay? And for me, I feel like I owe an apology to someone if even my intentions were good, it turned out bad. And it caused them harm, or it caused them pain or it caused some kind of misery or damage.

Even if my actions were pristine and my intentions were good, I'm still going to go to that person and apologize. Do you know how many adult parent parent adult kid relationships are shattered because that won't happen a lot. A lot, yeah. As parents, we do things with the best of intentions, intentions, and it might not have been the best thing in that parenting situation, even though my intention was amazing.

Yeah. When as you have an adult child and a parent and you can't talk through those things and explain your intentions and say, I'm sorry, yeah, if I could go back, I would have done it this way, but I didn't know. And I'm sorry that caused you pain. I have I have friends who don't have relationships with their parents because of things like this.

You see, that is so that's really sad. That's really sad. Right? 954 on Newstalk 179, Neil Larson and Julie Mason. And I can tell you that Neil Larson and Julie Mason both get their lawn and garden supplies and products and flowers and vegetables and of course, the four step lawn program at Town and Country Garden south of Idaho Falls.

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But step two is coming here in a couple of weeks, and then you're on track. And south of Idaho Falls, Yellowstone Highway just across from the Budweiser plant. So okay, what did it what did Hillary say about GOP women? They're a handmaiden to the patriarchy. Yes, that Republican women are. We just get told what to do by the men.

We've been used and abused. Okay, okay, okay. Not only is that not true, that's a stupid political move. Yep. It's a really stupid political move. I and it's not true. Look at how many women Trump has surrounded himself with. And not just like like a pretty face to put somewhere women who are doing stuff. Oh yeah.

Yeah. They're like Levitt is killing it. Yeah. Linda McMahon is killing it. Yeah. These are people who are Christy Gnome, not my favorite person. I actually think she's doing a great job. But I have to concede that you're right about. Yeah, like, these are women who are doing good work. Yeah. Tulsi Gabbard doing a good job. Yeah. They're there.

And and you're. That's true. But why would Hillary say that? Because there are a lot of independent women, right? They're not always Democrats, not always Republicans. Why would you insult an entire half of the population, like go after one gender and characterize them as if you if you vote for Trump, you're a handmaid. What did know? They said, if it's a if it's a female Republican nominee, they'll be a handmaiden to the patriarchy.

Yeah. I don't wow. I don't think that, Kristi Noem is saying and doing everything she's doing because a man told her to. No, I don't think Caroline Leavitt is saying or doing the things in her press conference because a man told her to. I don't think Linda McMahon is doing the things she's doing because a man told her to.

Yeah. No, no, they're not. I mean, these are very strong women and, they're good at their job. So that's why that's why Trump hires them. Because they do get things done. So okay, you know what? Just keep it up. Keep it up, Hillary. Keep it up James Comey. Keep it up. AOC can you believe she thinks she can go at it again, I really do.

I think this this is part of her going, oh, we don't have anybody else. Let me do it again. Let me do it again. I you're right I, I crazy to think she thinks she can do this. It is nuts. But you know what they keep doing these auditions. I think Chris Murphy's failing his, he's he's been visible for, what, about three weeks, maybe.

Maybe a month now. And he's not getting traction. He's not sticking, with the with the news cycle. So, yeah, there's nobody that worries me. There's no buddy, he says with the biggest grin on his face. It's the biggest grin ever. Like they're. We have such a deep bench, like this is like. And I don't want to get complacent.

We did have a text earlier this morning saying, please, yes, we're in a good position, but do not get complacent. We just can't. We can't. We do also want to throw out a really quick reminder if you have an election, whether it's a bond or a levy or another issue on the ballot, make sure you make a little time to get out and vote today.

There you go, Julian, I back tomorrow. We'll see you then.