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  No ID is meant for a sane audience. No ID may
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  contain Liberty -oriented content. Pinko discretion
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  is advised. Now, here's No ID with Paul Banducci
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  and Scott Moskowitz. Hey, welcome back to No
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  ID, North Idaho's mainstream media deconstruction.
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  I'm Scott. Hello internet, I'm Paul. Welcome
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  back. The world feels different now somehow given
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  that we just came off of the most important primary
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  of our lifetimes. Yeah, it does. It's even more
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  retarded than it was a week ago. Seemed impossible.
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  It did, didn't it? But you and I should know
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  better at this point. Every time we think that
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  the spectrum can't get any wider and we've run
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  out of tisms to identify, we find more. And there'll
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  be more. I can't wait. What do you got for us?
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  There'll be more of them. The next most important
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  primaries of your lifetime will be coming up
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  for the next go around. In the meantime, let's
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  do some mainstream coverage of what took place
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  in these primaries as the episode we recorded
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  last week was recorded just ahead of the primaries.
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  And then by the time people were listening to
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  it, like a lot of the results were in. So hopefully
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  it was still relevant and entertaining. But let's
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  start with NPR here on episode number 30. of
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  your No ID show, Idaho's NPR and their very interestingly
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  different coverage than you're used to hearing
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  when we play NPR clips on the show or really
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  actually any of the mainstream sources. Yes,
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  because normally when we present clips, we're
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  presenting people reading from teleprompters
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  or scripts. These talking heads are not really
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  doing stream of consciousness type shows like
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  we are right now. They are reading from a script
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  or a teleprompter. In this case, after the primary
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  results started coming in, there was a lot more
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  of the same news reader hosts doing stream of
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  consciousness because, oh, Phil McGrain, the
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  Secretary of State is sitting in, or they've
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  got Boise State University poli sci professors
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  sitting in with them to discuss the primary results.
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  It's very interesting to hear. Oh, all the experts.
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  Yeah. Oh, you'll you'll hear the word expert
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  dropped many, many times. All the all the buzzwords
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  remain the same. But the delivery is not the
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  same because these talking heads are not used.
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  I don't think they're used to this type of format.
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  And so you're going to hear a lot more uhs and
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  ums and stammering and just otherwise struggling
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  to get their thoughts out because they don't
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  have a teleprompter feeding them every single
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  word. So let's start with NPR. Oh, goody. Time
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  to talk primary election on this Wednesday morning.
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  We have results to discuss with our own James
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  Dawson and Boise State Professor of Political
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  Science Jacqueline Kettler. Thanks to you both
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  for being here this morning. Good morning. Good
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  to be here, Troy. Professor, let's start with
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  you. And I just want you to set the stage. What
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  can primary elections tell us about a local election?
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  Set the stage, professor. I mean, the primary
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  election is really important for the parties
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  to select their nominees for the general election.
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  And that's going to tell us a lot about. you
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  know, the direction of the parties, what their
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  supporters want to see in terms of candidates,
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  ideology, policy priorities, style, all these
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  types of things. And in Idaho, where many races
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  are not very competitive in the general election,
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  the primary election results are quite important
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  for what the state's going to look like moving
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  forward. We did not see a lot of surprises at
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  statewide, for statewide races. Certainly the
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  congressional delegation of the establishment
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  won. largely that are up for election this year
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  have cruised through the primary governor Brad
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  little cruise through his primary campaign but
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  there are big changes coming to especially the
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  the far -right far -right far -right wing in
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  the state house so Jimmy take us through some
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  of what those changes are yeah so if listeners
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  have heard of the so -called Gang of Eight, you
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  know, this group of more far -right lawmakers
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  at the State House. That is now the Gang of Three,
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  seemingly, according to these unofficial results.
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  So you had... Senators Glenita Ziderveld was
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  one of the more outspoken of the eight and of
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  the five who did not win re -election during
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  their nominating contests. She sat on JFAC. She
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  routinely argued against spending increases.
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  Also, a whole lot of social conservative issues
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  she was very much supportive of. She's out. You
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  have, you know, oh, Senator Josh Cole. You have
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  Representative David Levitt. You have all of
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  these people who had just served one term in
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  the Idaho House or Senate. That's right. That
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  first election is always the riskiest, but also
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  it's really fascinating to see this turnover,
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  continued turnover in the Magic Valley area.
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  Right, Jimmy? Yeah, I'm sure it is. Yes. Second,
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  you know, contest in a row. This one was largely
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  about, you know, I would say immigration. Immigration
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  was huge. Yeah, King Ag. It was about King Ag.
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  That's what it was about, Scott. King Ag flexed
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  its kingly muscles and really put his thumb on
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  the scale for the primaries this year. You'll
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  notice, too, they once again dropped the word
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  illegal. It was about immigration. Of course.
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  Just immigrants. Immigrants. Very fascinating.
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  Very fascinating. They say breathlessly. They're
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  stoked about this, by the way. Everybody in the
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  studio is super stoked to see the Gang of Eight
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  go down. Oh, yes, they are. So I have a full
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  clip on the Gang of Eight. There's a little bit
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  more on this with Professor Jacqueline Kettler
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  from Boise State. I wanted you to hear Well,
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  it's a speech thing, but I find it endlessly
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  entertaining from a college professor. I do want
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  to get into some of the ballot issues because
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  we did see voters largely supportive of short
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  -term school funding issues, the supplemental
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  levies that only require a simple majority to
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  pass. Those were largely successful. Longer -term
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  levies and bond issues and funding issues for
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  emergency services in many places were not as
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  successful yesterday. And the turnout Levels
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  and you heard some of this maybe if you're listening
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  in our first newscast at six o 'clock this morning
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  the turnout was not quite what was Expected maybe
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  especially in Ada County where the prediction
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  was between 40 and 50 percent and we ended up
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  sub 30 percent and You know those types of issues
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  there there weren't these ballot issues on on
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  the ballot in Ada County But turnout I think
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  generally lower across the state than maybe what
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  was expected is also why conservatives did poorly
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  Typically, the better turnout is the better conservatives,
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  like actual real conservatives do across Idaho,
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  because conservatives tend to vote in person.
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  And moderates and establishmentarians and Democrats
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  tend to do the mail -in ballots, the absentee
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  ballots, and they also mobilize very, very well
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  in off -election cycles. They have a smaller
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  base, but they have a much more rabid base that
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  mobilizes across. elections, whether it's so
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  that's why in 2020, what was it 2024, conservatives
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  swept through Idaho and did very well in the
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  primaries because 2024 was a main election cycle.
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  And off election cycles, historically speaking,
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  conservatives don't do as well in Idaho. Also,
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  I think it has to do with most people who tend
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  to lean again, more conservative tend to be working
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  people, they have jobs, they have lives, they
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  have families. and they hold the elections on
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  a Tuesday, which is also intentional. There's
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  a reason why elections are held when they're
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  held at the times and the days and the dates
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  that they are held, and it is to make sure that
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  the biggest actual base, which is working families,
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  can't vote. So it basically means if you're old
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  and retired, so boomers get the vote because
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  they're old and retired, and bureaucrats get
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  the vote. Cause all the polling places are pretty
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  much where employee government employees work.
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  Just in case, just in case you were, um, you,
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  you weren't sure if Paul was a family man. His,
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  his kids screamed in the background just in time,
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  just perfect time. Yeah. Very timely. He's a,
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  he's very expressive. Sorry about that. It's
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  lunchtime, I think, hopefully followed by nap
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  time, right? So those the the twenty twenty four
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  cycle winners were a lot of the incumbents that
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  were unseated by the more establishment types
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  in this primary. I think that's what surprised
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  people the most. But here's the end of this clip
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  with Professor Kettler and her speech pattern
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  that I find endlessly amusing. Yeah, I think
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  primary elections are often tough to get people
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  aware of what's going on, motivate them to turn
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  out, especially if there's not a competitive
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  race, like a competitive legislative race in
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  their district. contested primary races at the
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  statewide level. I think there was probably less
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  awareness or interest in the primary election.
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  And then I'm not sure where she's coming from
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  there, because I think almost every damn primary
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  in the state had to at least two candidates except
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  for state level stuff at the state. Actually,
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  the state level stuff was the worst. Nobody ran
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  against Phil McGrain, McCrane. Nobody ran against
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  Sarah or I don't know, the Secretary of Education
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  like. Nobody ran against Scott Bedke for lieutenant
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  governor. Nobody ran against any of the top five
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  or six positions. Nobody ran against Raul Labrador
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  for AG, attorney general. Critchfield, Debbie
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  Critchfield. Yeah, Debbie Critchfield. Nobody
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  ran against her. Nobody ran against any of them.
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  I mean, the only one that had somebody running
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  against somebody else at the state level was
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  governor. And then I guess for the national representatives
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  for like Jim Risch and Crapo and blah, blah,
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  blah and all those guys. Yeah, they were Sure,
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  there were runners against the incumbents, but
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  the incumbents just crushed everybody across
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  the board. It was ridiculous. It was ridiculous.
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  And a lot of that's the way the districts are
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  drawn up sidebar, I guess, or rabbit rabbit trail
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  or side quest, whatever you want to call it.
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  The more you know, right. So, you know that there's
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  only two districts in Idaho legislative districts
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  like at the to send congressmen to D .C. There's
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  only two districts. We get two representatives
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  for the House. We get two senators for the Senate.
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  and the districts are drawn north to south. It's
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  totally retarded, and it was done on purpose.
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  It was done to make sure that South Idaho still
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  maintains control for both districts. If Idaho
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  was drawn the way it should be drawn, which was
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  east to west, probably ending somewhere like
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  Lewiston or south of Lewiston, and then everything
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  north is district one and everything south is
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  district two, we'd actually have probably two
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  very conservative legislators going to DC. a
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  very conservative rep and a very conservative
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  senator. But instead we have moderates and establishmentarians
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  across the board because South Idaho gets a say
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  in North Idaho. Yay, gerrymandering. And then
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  that can be difficult for some of these measures,
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  especially if you need to get like... Did you
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  catch that? Difficult for some of these measures,
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  especially... Especially? Especially. Especially.
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  She did it twice in this clip. And I just find
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  it amusing. It's going to go very well with my
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  expresso. Yeah, and I might go drink that in
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  the library. And then that can be difficult.
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  Is that the one where you can sit and drink your
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  espresso, read a book and look out at the mountains?
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  The mountains. We live up kind of in the mountains.
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  And then that can be difficult for some of these
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  matters, especially if you need to get like 55
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  or 60 percent of the vote, which is already kind
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  of tough to get. Then it could be especially
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  hard with a lower turnout. Professor, this college
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  professor. OK, that's just probably why she got
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  hired. She has a lisp. She can't speak very well
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  and she's female. So she checked enough diversity
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  boxes at Boise State. They just went, yeah, you're
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  in. Do you have, are you qualified? No, but that's
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  all right. You check all the other boxes. That's
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  professor of political science, Jacqueline Kettler.
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  Thanks as well to James Dawson for joining us
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  on the pod this morning. And thanks to our interns,
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  Jackson Holmes and Jamie Geary for their work
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  on election night as well. Uh huh. Okay. So now
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  here. What? That was, that's, wow, that was what
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  they brought to the, that's what they had to
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  contribute, huh? Of many. So let's move along
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  here to, well, let's see, I've got Brad Little.
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  who cruised to victory unsurprisingly over Mark
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  Fitzpatrick here he was well when you run a campaign
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  on perverting Idaho values you're gonna win in
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  Boise to pervert here is the various talking
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  heads at his watch party shoving mics in his
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  face after the results came in but as he says
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  hello to everyone here he is now hi how you doing
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  governor little Well, congratulations. AP is
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  reporting that you have won this primary election.
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  Oh, I'm shocked. Are we reporting that to you
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  first here? Oh, what a dick. Such a dick. God.
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  Yeah, I know, man. I know I'm keen. Honestly.
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  Other than Ag. He doesn't even pretend to be
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  humble. Primary election. Oh, I'm shocked. Are
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  we reporting that to you first here? You got
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  to soundbite that. Oh, I'm way ahead. That's
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  a soundbite. Yeah. I heard a clue of it earlier.
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  I've already told you. So, you know, this is
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  your third primary election and for this office,
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  you know, how do you feel coming out? Great.
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  And like I said, good question. We've come so
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  far. It's good to be king. We've got all these
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  challenges that I don't expect us to address.
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  And there's a lot of things we can do there.
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  We'll continue to what we do. We're doing for
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  education. Continue what we're doing. Oh, there
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  it is. There it is. Education. we'll continue
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  to what we community community community education
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  education education we're doing for education
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  continue what we're doing on being the least
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  regulated state with the most tax relief per
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  capita continue what we do to preserve public
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  safety eidos one of the safest states that what
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  make us what we are but those efforts have to
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  continue they have to continue with a very really
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  you've never owned a business without telling
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  me you've never owned a business when you tell
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  me that Idaho is a low regulated state. The least
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  regulated state. Just try. Well, you know what?
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  That's also probably not true. It might be close,
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  but then again, we're there. We're talking about
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  how much piss is in your glass. Everybody else
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  has 90 % piss. We only have 88 % piss. We have
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  the least amount of piss. Well, I guess you're
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  right. Well, there's the you know, I don't want
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  to go all the way down to the 11th circle fourth
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  pit. We're only the second circle It's not as
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  hot up here effort to expand all those opportunities
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  So their kids will want to choose to stay here
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  And you know, this is a party celebrating many
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  incumbent candidates. And as you look to the
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  future with so much growth in a state like Idaho,
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  how do you, you know, take what you've learned
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  in office is so many years of experience into
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  the future. I'll tell you what he's learned.
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  You want to know what he's learned, Scott? This
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  could be an ask Paul, but you don't have to dial
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  it up. I'll tell you what he learned. What he
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  learned is King Ag King Ag. That's what he learned.
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  That's what everybody learned here today is Up
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  in up in North Idaho, everybody learned that
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  North Idaho Republicans has the biggest war chest
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  in the four county area, which we knew we already
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  knew. But man, they flexed it hard. And we'll
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  talk about North Idaho soon enough here, I hope.
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  And in South Idaho, King Ag, it's big business,
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  big business in general, whether it's Orgill,
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  whether it's Chobani yogurt, whether it's whoever
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  the fuck big business wins. And if you piss them
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  off, you're going to lose your primaries. That's
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  what we learned today. We're your king. But you
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  also got to go out and get all over the state
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  because Idaho is an incredibly diverse state.
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  You got to get all over the state and watch everybody
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  pee. Make sure they're in the right bathroom.
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  I've seen people in every way, shape or form
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  all over the world going to the bathroom. That's
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  Guthrie who also is, he's going to be sticking
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  around behind the two -way mirror for now. That
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  was handy. Wasn't that handy? Oh, handy. Oh,
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  you're right. Why not keep confusing those two?
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  You're right. Andy keeps the candy handy. Maybe,
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  uh, I think old handy and, oh my gosh, there
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  you go. That's the ticket. 2028 little handy
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  traveling around the state, checking out everybody's
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  diversity. Ironically in a van that is white.
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  Diverse state from one end of the state to the
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  other. I love all the opportunities I have to
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  go out all around Idaho. have those conversations,
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  hear people's concerns. And put my boot on their
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  necks. It adds a lot of fuel to my fire. You
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  like that? Which one of the 189 Idaho agencies
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  do you want to deal with today? Do you like that?
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  Take that. Yeah. You, you get two. Just cause
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  I'm in a good mood. Two agencies today. Get fucked.
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  Is there somebody that's employed full time as
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  one of little staffers that operates one of those
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  men and black flash bang memory erasers where
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  they are able to do like so then just Idaho won't
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  remember what you did to private businesses,
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  Governor Little. If Mark Fitzpatrick had a better
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  not advertiser, but like marketing person in
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  his campaign, the super cuts, dude, the super
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  cut you could have put together of the stuff
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  that Little has said the last couple of years
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  about how awesome he is and then just super cut
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  it against 2020 stuff. Yeah, just run it all
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  day long. I did see I didn't see his campaign
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  do that in any official capacity. I did see some
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  of that in the independent media that is maybe
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  largely preaching to the choir where, yeah, you
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  know, you just show photos of him in the in the
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  masks at the podium, you know, show photos of
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  his, you know, like a screenshot from the April
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  twenty twenty where he's like he's given the
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  stay at home order. Like I did see that, but
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  not in any official capacity from somebody like
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  Fitzpatrick. Why not? It's wild, man, because
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  if you if you mentioned this to anybody who's
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  drinking the Kool -Aid, you just inconceivable.
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  It's like talking to that guy. It's like that
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  never happened. So they just got hit with a flash
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  just six years ago. It's mostly that they I get
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  the feeling that to the extent that they think
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  about it, it's just like, oh, well, that was
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  there was a pandemic. Don't you watch the news?
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  Like it's it was it made sense. They've they've
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  landed on the conclusion. because it's like really
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  embarrassing to consider another conclusion that
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  like, OK, what happened made sense. And then
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  you reverse logic out from that conclusion to
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  make what happened make sense. Yeah, yeah, I
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  guess. I mean, mental gymnastics required, not
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  included, but required. Oh, by the way, I think
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  I've got our show art and maybe our show title.
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  I don't know. I don't want to jump out at this
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  early campaign sign. Yeah, no little handy. 2028
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  and it has a and both left. They got to be left
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  hands, but left hand prints a big one and a little
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  one. But it's like a campaign sign. Little handy
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  2028. Bam, bam. Two handprints. OK, that is written
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  down. I like it smaller. The Kootenai County
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  precinct committee should have hired me as their
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  marketing guy. And I actually have had a conversation
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  sort of to that effect. It was like for 2028.
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  You guys lose one more seat and it's all over
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  but the crying for probably the next 20 years
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  So you got to have somebody doing something and
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  I think Paul banducci's dank meme Emporia improved
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  my worth You hear me Cooney County precinct committee
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  and dummies Hello Here's a little bit more of
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  and I only have this because it's our boy John
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  Webb was also there in all his Yes, I was gonna
• 21:28
  ask in all his perfect hairdo glory with a mic
• 21:32
  in Governor Little's face. So excited. And he
• 21:35
  definitely won the primaries. John Webb won the
• 21:37
  primaries all on his own. Nobody voted for him,
• 21:39
  but his hair won the primaries. I'd vote for
• 21:43
  that. You talk about some of those challenges.
• 21:45
  I think the number one thing for Idahoans right
• 21:46
  now is just the cost of living. The number one
• 21:48
  thing. My haircuts are costing over... Is that
• 21:50
  your hair, John? Or is that a huge growth? My
• 21:53
  haircuts are costing over $200 a pop. That does
• 21:55
  not include tip. Right now is just the cost of
• 21:58
  living between the cost of rent, cost of housing,
• 22:01
  cost of... And the cost of my haircuts. Rent
• 22:04
  and housing, which is this two in a row, the
• 22:06
  same thing. Cost of rent, cost of housing, cost
• 22:09
  of grocery taxes. I know we've been... Children?
• 22:12
  What? Children? Cost of grocery taxes. I know
• 22:14
  we've been trying to repeal that for years now.
• 22:16
  What do you do in November to try and lower the
• 22:19
  cost of living? Well... That's interesting. I'm
• 22:23
  sorry. I know I'm making this tough for you here,
• 22:25
  but... That's okay. Every week he brought up
• 22:27
  the grocery sales tax, dude, like that's been
• 22:30
  dead on the rival for the last couple of sessions,
• 22:32
  but we made some really huge pushes on that and
• 22:36
  and even passed it once and it got vetoed by
• 22:41
  littles had no opportunity to Otter. It was Otter
• 22:46
  on his last way and his last session on his way
• 22:48
  out. And then little promised to address it and
• 22:51
  do something about it. And wouldn't you know
• 22:53
  it? Guess what's happened? Nothing. And also
• 22:57
  to the irony, of course, to the extent that these
• 23:00
  things have spiraled out of control, cost -wise,
• 23:03
  you know, like rent, housing, rent, housing and
• 23:06
  rent, and grocery taxes. And children. And children.
• 23:10
  All of that is the fault of the guy who's about
• 23:12
  to have the microphone waved at his face. And
• 23:15
  not him as an individual. He's irrelevant and
• 23:18
  interchangeable. The apparatus that he represents,
• 23:21
  exactly. To try and lower the cost of living
• 23:22
  for us. housing and i say this often were victims
• 23:27
  of our own success we go out and build some more
• 23:30
  houses we put in sewer we put in water we put
• 23:33
  in roads people come in and from out of state
• 23:37
  and by those houses were literally victims of
• 23:40
  our own success i don't want to stop that success
• 23:43
  but it means we need to accelerate what we're
• 23:45
  doing in capacity for houses, which is water,
• 23:51
  sewer, roads, and a workforce to build those
• 23:54
  houses. So we are suffering the ravages of everybody
• 24:00
  wants to move Dido. What did he just say? Can
• 24:03
  you provide a real time Paul translation? Yes,
• 24:07
  that was a great answer. So when we talk to Democrats
• 24:11
  and Republicans about the housing issue, we say
• 24:13
  we need to build more houses. It's a supply and
• 24:16
  demand issue coupled with a monetary policy issue
• 24:19
  that the Federal Reserve has done to us and that
• 24:21
  you get, you know, voting for to spend more money
• 24:23
  has done to us. But first and foremost, the easiest
• 24:26
  thing we can do between those two is add to supply
• 24:30
  by easing zoning restrictions and getting those
• 24:33
  out of the way and making NIMBYs, people who
• 24:35
  are not in my backyard, NIMBYs, turn them into
• 24:38
  YIMBYs. Yes, in my backyard and understand that
• 24:41
  Zoning reform is one of the best places to start
• 24:43
  at the local level and at the state level But
• 24:46
  you talk to Democrats about this and we say we
• 24:48
  need to build more houses and they go Building
• 24:51
  more houses adding to the supply won't bring
• 24:53
  costs down because they don't understand economics
• 24:56
  Republicans go. Yes, it will but we don't want
• 24:59
  that Because all of the boomers wealth is tied
• 25:03
  up in their houses So in real -time governor
• 25:10
  otters like It's our own success that's killing
• 25:13
  us and we got to change what we're doing, but
• 25:15
  I don't want to change what we're doing because
• 25:17
  it's so successful that it's killing us. They're
• 25:19
  being ravaged by their success. We are ravaged
• 25:23
  by our own success. So we got to change what
• 25:25
  we're doing, but I'm not going to change it because
• 25:26
  it's so successful. We are suffering the ravages
• 25:30
  of everybody wants to move Dido. Suffering the
• 25:34
  ravages. Right. This is I have to keep reiterating.
• 25:42
  I don't know what percentage I speak on behalf
• 25:44
  of the political refugee set, but I moved here
• 25:48
  despite people like Little and the Idaho government,
• 25:51
  not because of it. You're victims of your own
• 25:54
  success because of the people of Idaho, which
• 25:56
  is they, to a greater degree in concentration
• 26:00
  than most other places, they were a little bit
• 26:04
  more liberty minded as a concentrated set. And
• 26:07
  so therefore it made little and his state's attempt
• 26:10
  to squash liberty. It just it was a less successful
• 26:14
  attempt on account of the people. Correct. Absolutely
• 26:18
  correct. And that happens. That's not just an
• 26:20
  Idaho thing. Texas is a good example of this,
• 26:23
  where you have blue, always urban, blue urban
• 26:26
  islands in Texas that treat everybody else in
• 26:29
  the state like shit. And, you know, we hate Republicans.
• 26:31
  We hate conservatives. We hate Texas for these
• 26:34
  reasons. But The reason why a city like Austin
• 26:37
  is so successful or Dallas is so successful while
• 26:39
  being deep blue is because the overarching environment
• 26:43
  of the entire state of Texas is still very conservative
• 26:45
  and business friendly and economically free,
• 26:48
  again, relative to other states, especially like
• 26:50
  California. So people still go there because
• 26:53
  there's still enough opportunity and freedom
• 26:55
  to pursue that opportunity because of the politics
• 26:58
  of Texas overall, because of the people, the
• 27:02
  conservative people of Texas. Idaho is the same
• 27:04
  way. Boise is a drag on Idaho. If we didn't have
• 27:08
  to deal with Boise, state would be great. Like
• 27:13
  you get rid of Coeur d 'Alene, Moscow, Boise
• 27:18
  and Sandpoint and Sun Valley and the states like,
• 27:22
  then we are the least regulated state in the
• 27:24
  union, probably by a wide margin. All 350 people
• 27:28
  left in the state would be somewhat free. Ah,
• 27:31
  now you're speaking my language. Don't hear it
• 27:34
  now, man. Don't start talking dirty to me mid
• 27:36
  podcast. All right. Well, I won't I won't tell
• 27:39
  handy. Here is the gang of eight clip as a promise.
• 27:44
  Well, the fallout from Tuesday night's primary
• 27:46
  election continues. Members of a far right, far
• 27:49
  right, far right group of legislators took quite
• 27:52
  the beating. This unseated bar left included
• 27:55
  Senate. Right. That's again, weekly no idea reminder
• 28:00
  that any time a label is applied. to anyone to
• 28:03
  the right of Mao by the mainstream media. It
• 28:06
  is far right, conservative, KKK. But when the
• 28:10
  candidate is a left -wing Kami Pinko, there is
• 28:13
  no label applied. It's just, what do they say?
• 28:16
  Members, a group of legislators. It would just
• 28:18
  be members of another group of legislators. They
• 28:20
  would just omit the label. And if you wanted
• 28:22
  to... Yeah, just regular people like you and
• 28:24
  me. Yeah, there's normies. There's just normal
• 28:26
  people. You know, they're not far anything that
• 28:28
  is normal. You could just say a group of legislators
• 28:31
  and then let the viewer draw their own conclusions.
• 28:34
  But why do that when you can program them with
• 28:37
  your baloney propaganda? Right, group of legislators
• 28:40
  took quite the beating. The self -described gang
• 28:44
  of eight included Senators Christie Zitto, Glenda
• 28:47
  Seiderfeld, new of Josh Cole, Representatives
• 28:51
  Lucas Kaler, Faye Thompson, David Levitt. Clint
• 28:54
  Hotstetler and Kent Marmon. We say included in
• 28:58
  the past tense because the gang of eight is history.
• 29:02
  Five of them lost their primary elections on
• 29:04
  Tuesday, one of them by 20 points. So the gang
• 29:08
  of eight now down to three. Is this part of a
• 29:12
  shift in voters? Do they want more traditional
• 29:14
  conservatives? Justin Core sat down with our
• 29:17
  political expert Dr Stephanie Witt. to find out.
• 29:20
  Here's another university traditional meaning
• 29:22
  is traditional meaning establishmentarian like
• 29:24
  we would. It looks like we saw voters looking
• 29:29
  for a little different channel to listen to about
• 29:32
  what's coming out of the legislature. You can
• 29:35
  also take this as a sign of great health in the
• 29:38
  Republican Party in the sense that there's a
• 29:40
  lot of choices to be made, really different approaches
• 29:43
  to policy, really different approaches to the
• 29:46
  Republican platform even. And so we did see...
• 29:49
  We're going back to business as usual. It's healthy.
• 29:52
  Trust us. That is a... a BSU master of public
• 29:58
  administration. She's a public administration
• 30:00
  professor, Stephanie Witt, who is speaking. And
• 30:02
  that's why she's using language as soft as she
• 30:04
  is, because the establishmentarians are back.
• 30:08
  And so we did see what looked like a really bad
• 30:10
  night. Oh, and it's really wonderful for the
• 30:13
  Republican Party. It's just wonderful. It's just
• 30:15
  wonderful to see. And so we did see what looked
• 30:18
  like a really bad night for the further right
• 30:22
  wing of the Republican Party, though. Speaking
• 30:24
  of that, do you think that shows a shift in ideology
• 30:28
  for voters and what they have an appetite for
• 30:32
  to more traditional conservatism? It could, it
• 30:37
  could mean that. They've just commandeered all
• 30:41
  of our words. Traditional conservatism. It could
• 30:46
  it could mean that yes and and quite possibly
• 30:50
  education and in health care for the poor maybe
• 30:54
  maybe education k -12 education and higher education
• 30:57
  taking a hit might have resonated with voters
• 31:00
  and they wanted maybe a little more of the traditional
• 31:03
  conservative approach as opposed to the All -out
• 31:07
  attack on those institutions that we see from
• 31:10
  the further right you had to party so You had
• 31:12
  two major voting blocks that are already politically
• 31:15
  active to begin with that were really, really
• 31:18
  moved to action this cycle. And that was the
• 31:21
  IEA, the Idaho Education Association, otherwise
• 31:25
  known as the Teacher's Union, which has a ton
• 31:26
  of money, power, and clout. Yep, those guys.
• 31:31
  And you had King Ag. And both of those came together
• 31:34
  in huge sections of South Idaho and just... and
• 31:37
  just laid waste. But in an election cycle that
• 31:41
  was underwhelming as far as participation goes,
• 31:44
  so they had an outsized influence. It's a combination
• 31:48
  of hot button topics that moved that base to
• 31:52
  participate more than they usually do. And they
• 31:54
  already participate quite a bit. And an off cycle
• 31:58
  election that meant the main regular actual conservative
• 32:02
  base didn't turn out the way that they do in
• 32:05
  an on election cycle for national elections so
• 32:11
  it was those two things coming together and the
• 32:14
  establishment always makes hay during those cycles
• 32:16
  they just do it's been that way for 20 years
• 32:18
  at least that i've been checking for context
• 32:22
  sir ducifer uh that was the head the grand poobah
• 32:27
  of the national teachers union becky pringle
• 32:32
  slinging the kool -aid an all -out attack on
• 32:36
  those institutions that we see from the further
• 32:39
  right wing of the party. There it is, by the
• 32:40
  way, again. An attack. An all -out attack. We're
• 32:43
  bashing them into the ground. An attack on our
• 32:46
  institutions. An all -out attack because some
• 32:48
  of the population is tired of being raked over
• 32:51
  the financial coals and wanted to maybe see what
• 32:54
  they could do with only 98 % of their budget
• 32:56
  rather than 127 % and that means it's an all
• 33:00
  -out attack and we're bashing them into the ground
• 33:02
  and we're attempting to eradicate government.
• 33:04
  An all -out attack. identify something as a cult,
• 33:06
  Scott, anything against them is considered an
• 33:09
  attack, an attack on our institutions. Statism
• 33:12
  is a cult. To the all out attack on those institutions
• 33:17
  that we see from the further right wing of the
• 33:19
  party. So it could be they were looking for those.
• 33:22
  I don't have a sense of whether the more moderate
• 33:25
  candidates really just out campaigned the others.
• 33:28
  If it's it's a measure of effort or quality of
• 33:32
  campaign. No, I'll tell you what it was a measure
• 33:34
  of. Money! All right, a little bit more on this
• 33:40
  Gang of Eight clip. We talked about this really
• 33:43
  since the late 90s. There's been actually three
• 33:46
  parties in the state of Idaho. We saw that on
• 33:49
  display again Tuesday night, but they haven't
• 33:55
  always, I guess, admitted to it, copped to it.
• 33:58
  It's always been Democrats, traditional. Republicans
• 34:01
  and then you're more far right Republicans. But
• 34:05
  they all at least used to go to the same watch
• 34:07
  party. They all at least used to have a news
• 34:09
  conference out on the front steps of the Capitol
• 34:12
  that Wednesday morning following the primary
• 34:15
  saying, hey, we're all on the same team. You
• 34:17
  know, let's all go do this together. Now you
• 34:20
  have the top Republican in the state, Governor
• 34:22
  Brad Little, having his own watch party and inviting
• 34:24
  only who he wants, seemingly particularly to
• 34:28
  separate himself. from some of the more far -right
• 34:31
  candidates. Am I getting that wrong or is that
• 34:33
  what you're saying? No, it's got to be, of course,
• 34:34
  that the splinter is that it's the far -right's
• 34:37
  fault. It's not the fact that, quote unquote,
• 34:39
  tradition, as they're using the term, traditional
• 34:40
  Republicans actually moved so far leftward in
• 34:43
  the last 20 years that they actually look like
• 34:45
  the Democrats from 15 years ago, 20 years ago.
• 34:49
  Like if you go back and watch, watch his speeches,
• 34:54
  watch his stuff, look at some of his policies
• 34:57
  that he pushed hard. Who's that? Sorry, you broke
• 35:00
  up a little bit. He would be considered a knuckle
• 35:01
  -dragging conservative today. Who's that? I tell
• 35:04
  you, there was a little garbledness. Who, who,
• 35:06
  who would be? Bill Clinton. Clinton. Oh yeah.
• 35:09
  Oh, of course. Yeah. You could, yeah. Yeah. Him
• 35:11
  and Hillary giving speeches in the nineties about
• 35:14
  like illegal immigration and, uh, financial government
• 35:18
  spending. Go back 30 years. That's it. The Overton
• 35:23
  window has shifted so far to the left as to be
• 35:27
  unrecognizable. Yep, it's so disingenuous man.
• 35:32
  So it has moved so far left that they what they're
• 35:36
  using as traditional conservatives For the state
• 35:39
  of Idaho. Those people are Democrats and they're
• 35:41
  the Democrats of just 20 years ago The people
• 35:44
  who are now considered far -right far -right
• 35:45
  far -right are the Republicans of just 10 20
• 35:50
  years ago Yes, but they're there's such a disrupt
• 35:52
  regular Republicans There's such a disruptive
• 35:54
  and destructive force that a poor, poor Governor
• 35:57
  Little, who's just a traditional Republican,
• 35:59
  has to have his own watch party to keep the far
• 36:02
  -right KKKers at bay. Some of the more far -right
• 36:07
  candidates. Am I getting that wrong or is that
• 36:09
  what you're saying, that they're making it very
• 36:11
  clear that there are three parties in the state?
• 36:14
  Well, I don't know what was in the governor's
• 36:15
  mind when he arranged his party. OK, but you're
• 36:19
  right. They used to have all Republicans on the
• 36:22
  same page. event the day after. We did not see
• 36:26
  that this time. They're so wistful for the days
• 36:29
  when team government was all just one big blob
• 36:32
  instead of now being one big blob with a tiny
• 36:35
  little blob that's attempting to make inroads.
• 36:38
  Remember those days? Yeah, but that tiny little
• 36:40
  blob is super far right. It can't be allowed.
• 36:42
  The day after, we did not see that this time.
• 36:46
  I'm not sure I remember when it last happened.
• 36:50
  But that does probably reflect some healthy division
• 36:52
  within the party and It also probably Democrats
• 36:57
  love it. They call it healthy division because
• 36:59
  they can exploit it It also probably indicates
• 37:03
  that that more campaigns are Relying less on
• 37:07
  the party machinery to run their campaigns that
• 37:10
  they're hiring their own consultants their own
• 37:11
  media people their own You know direct mail and
• 37:15
  social media stuff. So you don't have to go to
• 37:18
  the to the party's party, you can have your own
• 37:22
  a little more because you're running your own
• 37:23
  show more. OK, there's one last part of the Gang
• 37:27
  of Eight clip. Speaking of running your own show,
• 37:30
  I also took to Dr. Wynn and asked her about the
• 37:33
  performance of Mark Fitzpatrick, the big challenger
• 37:36
  to the incumbent governor, Brad Little, in a
• 37:38
  crowded Republican primary. Fitzpatrick secured
• 37:40
  almost 29 % of the statewide vote, 68 ,500 votes,
• 37:45
  which says. It's pretty good, but he also spent
• 37:48
  150 grand on his campaign at last check. That's
• 37:51
  about $2 .19 a vote. It's kind of expensive for
• 37:55
  an Idaho primary, not so much other places. Regardless,
• 37:59
  he really could not compete with Governor Little,
• 38:01
  who still beat him soundly getting 59 % of vote.
• 38:05
  Little has had more than $2 million in contributions
• 38:08
  to his campaign. Must be nice. Still has about
• 38:10
  1 .2 million dollars spent. You know, I spent
• 38:14
  800 grand. Is that what they said? Little has
• 38:17
  had more than two million dollars in contributions
• 38:20
  to his campaign, must be nice. Still has about
• 38:22
  1 .2 million. Yeah, okay, so right. So then we
• 38:25
  extrapolate he spent 800k and Fitzpatrick spent
• 38:28
  150. The Fitzpatrick's 150. Which by the way,
• 38:32
  I mean, I think 145 of that was on his Tesla
• 38:36
  Cybertruck that he was using as his campaign
• 38:38
  vehicle. Did you see that he had a wrapped Cybertruck?
• 38:42
  I don't know. That that's like the most ideal.
• 38:45
  Yeah. Well, he got roughly good napkin math here.
• 38:49
  Fitzpatrick got 60 some odd thousand votes. That
• 38:52
  was about one third. That means a total of about
• 38:54
  180 ,000 votes, give or take. I'm napkin math
• 38:57
  in it here, but that means again, roughly we'll
• 39:00
  say 120 for Governor Little to the tune of again,
• 39:07
  roughly $800 ,000. Let's try this eight hundred
• 39:11
  thousand divided by a hundred and twenty thousand
• 39:13
  is six dollars and sixty six cents Hey, you know
• 39:17
  six dollars and sixty six cents per vote So he
• 39:22
  spent three times as much per vote as Fitzpatrick
• 39:26
  But you don't see them penciling that out on
• 39:28
  the podcast II and nope Just talking about the
• 39:30
  other Patrick spending about two dollars and
• 39:32
  change that interesting There's also the part
• 39:35
  where the little is on the record in 2018 as
• 39:40
  saying he would as the incumbent, by the way,
• 39:43
  and as the incumbent, that he was only ever going
• 39:45
  to serve two terms. And I think I'm where there's
• 39:49
  a clip of him somewhere. I think I have it here.
• 39:51
  We'll get to it where he explains why he's going
• 39:54
  back on his declaration that he was only going
• 39:57
  to serve two terms. And of course, it's it's
• 39:59
  for us because you can't let the far right win.
• 40:01
  Well, exactly. Yeah. Because just like the North
• 40:04
  Idaho Republicans said on every and every obnoxious,
• 40:08
  vomit inducing post they made on Facebook, quote,
• 40:11
  our freedoms under are under attack by extremists.
• 40:14
  But it's you. You're the ones who legislate my
• 40:18
  freedoms away. Hold on. Where's that flashbang
• 40:22
  memory eraser? You know, I covered GOP. the election
• 40:27
  cycle I first got here back to Idaho. And I remember,
• 40:31
  yeah, it was still all together. So that was
• 40:32
  kind of interesting to see this election cycle.
• 40:35
  Is this something that Dr. Witt really anticipated
• 40:38
  happening? Did we expect that? I think not necessarily
• 40:43
  to this point to be as overt about it. Also,
• 40:45
  she was very surprised that we saw the five of
• 40:49
  this. Gang of getting defeated as incumbents,
• 40:52
  but overall nine Republican incumbents losing
• 40:55
  again in their own primary after winning election
• 40:59
  a couple years ago in their own Republican primary
• 41:03
  losing as the incumbent. That's different and
• 41:07
  again signals some sort of shift in the voting
• 41:10
  base. We're really enjoying how much are aware,
• 41:13
  but it will be interesting to watch though. Oh
• 41:17
  yeah, it will be interesting to watch now. I
• 41:19
  guess that. their Republicans are going to sail
• 41:22
  through in the general election. Super interesting
• 41:24
  to watch, I guess. They're really enjoying themselves
• 41:27
  here. Money. That's what did it, y 'all. That's
• 41:34
  what did it. Before we take our mid -show breather,
• 41:37
  here's a little brief moment of levity, and it
• 41:41
  has nothing to do with elections. But I wonder
• 41:44
  if you'll pick up what's notable about this.
• 41:46
  Well today we are less than an hour away now
• 41:50
  about 30 minutes away from the start of the Scripps
• 41:53
  National Spelling Bee. Two middle schoolers from
• 41:56
  the Coeur d 'Alene area are competing this year.
• 41:58
  So meet 13 year old Harper Adams and 12 year
• 42:01
  old Chase Miller from Kootenay Classical Academy.
• 42:04
  We are wishing them good luck. I'm sure they
• 42:06
  don't need it because they're super talented.
• 42:08
  There's another speller from Idaho from the Boise
• 42:11
  area and one from Western Washington. I can't
• 42:14
  wait to see what words they get and I'm gonna
• 42:16
  have to see if I could actually try and spell
• 42:18
  it. Spelling is hard in general for some, but
• 42:21
  I know like speaking it takes it to another level,
• 42:25
  because it's different when you get to see it,
• 42:27
  you know, like typing it or handwriting it, but
• 42:29
  speaking it is hard. Good luck. Did you notice
• 42:32
  what was noteworthy about that? Coming out. Private
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  That's what I noticed. Is that weird? That's
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  And sometimes you need help with the schematics.
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  So Paul clearly understood the comparison. I
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  much for the interesting donation. That would
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  it means to you. With that said, I think it's
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  a little break first. Yep. Good to put more liquid
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  in my mug and then get rid of some liquid. So
• 51:34
  what song I got it narrowed down to three. It's
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  tough, I think. Go with this one right here.
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  Is this that is it John? I forget the name of
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  the composer who did like I think it's called
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  346 or 347 or just silent for that long. You
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  know I'm talking about. Oh, I know what you're
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  talking about. Yeah, the guy who actually spent
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  like half his life investigating silence like
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  pure pure silence and even went into like spent
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  time in a room that they'd engineered where there
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  on a performance. If you can call it that, where
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  he stepped out on the stage, sat in front of
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  his piano and did nothing. It was like five minutes
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  or 10 minutes or something. And then got up and
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  walked off stage. It's called 433. And it's by
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  composer John Cage. It's four minutes and 33
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  seconds of silence. It's from 1952. It says written
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  in 1952. What was written? What was written?
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  The performer intentionally does not play any
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  notes. The music... quote unquote, is whatever
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  ambient sounds occur during the performance,
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  audience, noise, room, hum, et cetera. Cage was
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  challenging how much they charge for the sheet
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  music. Cage was challenging the definition of
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  music. Oh, what a progressive. And so I. Wow.
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  So brave. That's not what you were doing now.
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  No, that's not what I was doing at all, because
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  I believe in in actual like like our model value
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  for value. I believe in value. No, not going
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  to do that to you guys. I'm gonna go join Handy
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  in the little boy's room while you play 4 minutes
• 53:20
  and 33 seconds. Hell yeah. Definitely not Silence.
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  Come on man, you know me. Silence isn't my bag.
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  You'd make a terrible co -host if it were. What
• 56:27
  do you bring to the table? Well, I don't talk
• 56:29
  much. Ah, good. Join my podcast. Well, you're
• 56:34
  challenging the notion of what podcasters sound
• 56:36
  like. Let that one cook your noodle for a minute,
• 56:40
  huh? Speaking of cooking noodles, I got something
• 56:45
  for you. Let's go. You know what time it is.
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  Let's go. Ah, yeah. It's time for another Scouts
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  shots. Stretch today. Make stretches. Gotta work
• 56:59
  on your shadow boxing and your footwork. Hang
• 57:03
  a heavy bag for next time, man. I really gotta
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  whale on something. Left jab, left jab, hay maker.
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  Left jab, left jab, hay maker. Uppercut. Uppercut.
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  It's a lost art, the uppercut. All right, Scott
• 57:21
  was digging around and I was in the mood for
• 57:24
  some absurdities because this has been a week,
• 57:28
  the election week of just absolute absurdities.
• 57:33
  So I'm not sure where to start. There's so much
• 57:35
  material to pull from. I'm just going to cherry
• 57:37
  pick some things during the COVID years, as we'll
• 57:43
  call them, because really it did last about March
• 57:46
  2020 to about Fall of 21 or even spring of 22
• 57:52
  depending on where you were All kinds of crazy
• 57:56
  shit happened to people courtesy of their governments
• 58:00
  different things that were banned and mandated
• 58:03
  and you couldn't couldn't do and All kinds of
• 58:05
  fun stuff. So I'm just gonna read off a couple
• 58:07
  of them and let you fill in the blanks in Brighton,
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  Colorado, we'll start here a middle -aged man
• 58:16
  was arrested for doing what with his six year
• 58:21
  old daughter in the park. I want to say like
• 58:27
  playing basketball because they like removed
• 58:29
  the nets from the hoops. So maybe he like tried
• 58:33
  to put up a hoop and play basketball. That doesn't.
• 58:36
  All right. I'm going to give it to you. Really?
• 58:38
  Wrong sport. Wrong sport. Yeah. Well, I don't
• 58:41
  I don't have the NCAA CP judge on my panel. My
• 58:45
  panels are fair. They're they're fair and balanced
• 58:47
  like Fox News used to be 20 years ago. Well,
• 58:53
  I say a man in Brighton, Colorado was arrested
• 58:55
  for playing catch with his six -year -old daughter
• 58:57
  on a nearby empty softball field. So close enough.
• 59:01
  Right answer, wrong sport. It's like how many
• 59:03
  grandmas died. But then the sub question to that
• 59:08
  would be how many grandmas died alone and isolated.
• 59:12
  I don't have that answer yet, but I can look
• 59:14
  that up for next time. In Encinitas, California.
• 59:19
  Police cited 22 people for doing what on the
• 59:25
  beach? Surfing. On the beach? Well, at the beach.
• 59:36
  Well, I remember them citing surfers, so I guess
• 59:39
  it wasn't that particular story. What would they
• 59:41
  be doing on the beach? They did do that. No,
• 59:45
  they're not camping or like because you can't
• 59:47
  do that on the beach anyway. They were playing
• 59:51
  volleyball. Like sand everywhere. You can. Wrong.
• 59:56
  I keep forgetting to get my buzzer. Thank you.
• 59:58
  You've got the buzzer. I need a buzzer. No, they
• 1:00:01
  cited 22 people for watching the sunset and having
• 1:00:05
  picnics near the beach. Violations carried fines
• 1:00:10
  of a thousand dollars and up to six months in
• 1:00:13
  jail. So hilarious. Some of those people did
• 1:00:17
  go to jail. Sure. Well, you're you're trespassing
• 1:00:21
  on the king's lands. the King's lands. That's
• 1:00:27
  right. Don't forget that even the animals you
• 1:00:30
  take from National Forest are still the King's
• 1:00:34
  deer and they do make you pay for it. They exact
• 1:00:37
  a price. I'm your King! Doesn't matter. Pay up,
• 1:00:43
  sucka. In Vermont, Governor Phil Scott announced
• 1:00:50
  that no one could get together with anyone. Ever.
• 1:01:00
  and even banned doing this outside. And that
• 1:01:06
  was kind of broad. Yeah, it's super broad. No,
• 1:01:10
  that's a tough one. I was trying to figure out
• 1:01:11
  how to narrow that one down. Doing this outside,
• 1:01:15
  I mean... Furthermore, because you don't know
• 1:01:19
  what your neighbor has done. It was his reasoning.
• 1:01:24
  So it wouldn't be like walking your dog or mowing
• 1:01:27
  your lawn. Oh, it is walking your dog? I'm gonna
• 1:01:29
  give it to you. You're not allowed to walk with
• 1:01:31
  another person. Walking. Yeah, you can't walk.
• 1:01:34
  Dog be damned. Dog, no dog. Doesn't matter. As
• 1:01:36
  long as there's a person there, you are violating
• 1:01:40
  the executive order. I think my favorite one
• 1:01:44
  comes out of Michigan, at least from this list.
• 1:01:48
  It comes out of Michigan. What? I don't even
• 1:01:54
  know. I'm trying to figure out how to do this
• 1:01:56
  without giving it all away. These things were
• 1:02:01
  Banned on the water. Oh, yeah, this is this is
• 1:02:06
  a wretched Hitler out of Michigan Yes, and pretty
• 1:02:10
  sure you couldn't sail or otherwise boat. I'm
• 1:02:16
  gonna give it to you again kind of it's a half
• 1:02:18
  bell Motorboats jet skis and other watercrafts.
• 1:02:23
  So basically anything that took gas You notice
• 1:02:26
  this anything with an engine was banned an engine
• 1:02:28
  because you could sail The use of kayaks, canoes,
• 1:02:33
  and sailboats were allowed. Sure. Sure. That
• 1:02:36
  all, I mean, it tracks perfectly. What's, I don't
• 1:02:38
  know why you laugh. Because COVID can't get you
• 1:02:41
  if there's no motor involved. Right. It's internal
• 1:02:44
  combustion. That's the grandma killer. Don't
• 1:02:45
  you watch the news? How did you know? Science.
• 1:02:50
  Science. Yup. Oh man, there's so many more, but
• 1:02:54
  that's enough for today. That's all right. We'll
• 1:02:56
  call it a day there. Yeah. Yep. The more you,
• 1:02:59
  the more you, when you do this sort of stuff
• 1:03:01
  and you're like, Oh, let me go back and pull
• 1:03:02
  some, you, you, you just get hit over the head
• 1:03:05
  with absurdity after absurdity. One more. I got
• 1:03:08
  to do one more because this is also out of Michigan
• 1:03:11
  from wretched Hitler is what kind of home were
• 1:03:15
  you not allowed to travel to and fro? Was it
• 1:03:20
  like second homes, like vacation homes? Oh, you're
• 1:03:24
  good. He's good. Yeah. But as I recall, residents
• 1:03:26
  were prohibited from traveling to and from a
• 1:03:29
  second home or a vacation rental. So your first
• 1:03:31
  home, totally cool. COVID can't get you your
• 1:03:34
  second home. You're fucked. Yeah. But there's,
• 1:03:37
  there's, you're dead. I seem to recall there
• 1:03:38
  being a story of like, of Richard Hitler's like
• 1:03:41
  husband going to their lake house or something.
• 1:03:44
  Much like Gavin Newsom went to the French laundry
• 1:03:48
  that he had closed. Yeah. That's the thing is
• 1:03:50
  like every single like state or they all had
• 1:03:54
  their own version of this where the leader, leader,
• 1:03:57
  leaders were openly ignoring their own baloney.
• 1:04:00
  And yet half of our fellow citizens still have
• 1:04:04
  concluded that what happened made sense. And
• 1:04:07
  then no matter how many of these different absurdities
• 1:04:10
  you bring up, they cannot be shaken from the
• 1:04:13
  conclusion that what happened made sense. Furthermore
• 1:04:16
  without these people in charge of us society
• 1:04:19
  would collapse What would we it would just be
• 1:04:22
  anarchy? Yeah, so you love potholes. Is that
• 1:04:24
  it? Yep. Yeah. Yeah, we would all we would all
• 1:04:28
  eat each other if These people weren't in charge
• 1:04:32
  of us Yeah, that's uh, that's a fact Jack It's
• 1:04:37
  it's so funny too to watch how many of these
• 1:04:39
  were so politically motivated, you know in Michigan
• 1:04:42
  you've got like, okay if it has an engine It's
• 1:04:45
  banned and you'll get COVID. But if it's powered
• 1:04:48
  by the wind or the sun, totally cool. You can
• 1:04:52
  go on the lake with it. And Idaho had its own
• 1:04:54
  version. Idaho had its own version of it too.
• 1:04:56
  All bars were shut down first. The very first
• 1:04:59
  thing to get shut down were bars. And the last
• 1:05:03
  thing to be allowed to open up, because Idaho
• 1:05:05
  did it in like four or five phases. Guess what
• 1:05:07
  the last thing to open up was? But you can guess.
• 1:05:13
  Was it bars? Why, yes. Yes Scott, it was. It
• 1:05:17
  was taverns slash bars. But you know what got
• 1:05:19
  to stay open? State liquor stores. Yeah, well
• 1:05:23
  that's because they're essential services. Because
• 1:05:27
  COVID apparently can't get you if you buy liquor
• 1:05:31
  by the bottle, but it will kill your ass if you
• 1:05:34
  buy liquor by the drink. I have a... Yay, government!
• 1:05:39
  But we need them. the state oh oh here's one
• 1:05:43
  more because there was no way to phrase this
• 1:05:45
  as a question that you could ever answer as i
• 1:05:48
  fill in the blank but uh in new york several
• 1:05:51
  of the as they call them villages like croton
• 1:05:53
  on hudson and uh what was the other one i forget
• 1:05:56
  the name some gay french name too uh they banned
• 1:05:59
  leaf blowers leaf blowers leaf blowers were banned
• 1:06:03
  on the reasoning that blowing dust into the into
• 1:06:05
  the air creates a hazmat situation unless they're
• 1:06:08
  electric then maybe it's okay Oh yeah, it's internal
• 1:06:12
  combustion. That's the problem. Weren't you paying
• 1:06:13
  attention to your own game? That's the problem.
• 1:06:15
  Yeah. The Rhodes thing is perfect. I'm pretty
• 1:06:19
  sure it's this clip that has just a gem of a
• 1:06:23
  Rhodes, of a Merodes. And why should people care
• 1:06:25
  so much about those races, Dr. Witt? Well, I
• 1:06:29
  think... This is the same lady that she was on
• 1:06:31
  multiple different mainstream shows. This is
• 1:06:35
  BSU professor, doctor, doctor. BSU Professor
• 1:06:39
  Stephanie Witt, she's not an MD, it's just one
• 1:06:41
  of those PhD things, I'm pretty sure. Professor
• 1:06:44
  Stephanie Witt. People care so much about those
• 1:06:46
  races, Dr. Witt. Well, I think we spend a lot
• 1:06:50
  of time thinking about the national level, but
• 1:06:52
  the people who are going to make decisions that
• 1:06:54
  impact your everyday are the legislators and
• 1:06:58
  your, of course, local officials that we do on
• 1:07:01
  the odd years. So the things that are really
• 1:07:05
  going to impact your pocketbook and whether the
• 1:07:08
  road is paved or whether the potholes are filled.
• 1:07:12
  She came up with two examples on the fly. And
• 1:07:15
  it was the roads and the roads, the roads and
• 1:07:19
  the roads. It's all she can come up with. Yep.
• 1:07:22
  It's the classic status trope among libertarian
• 1:07:25
  circles. One of our favorite things. That's one
• 1:07:27
  of our phrases is more roads. That's it. That's
• 1:07:30
  the phrase. You're hearing it. We hear that over
• 1:07:32
  and over and over again. You know, a statist
• 1:07:34
  is losing the argument when they take their roads
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  and go home. Just loved this where this isn't
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  even in this case. It's not even an argument
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  It's a friendly interviewer and and the stream
• 1:07:44
  of consciousness when she's attempting to come
• 1:07:46
  up with examples She can only come up with the
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  roads and the roads things that are really gonna
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  impact check and mate Without the government
• 1:07:59
  with their boots on our necks We wouldn't have
• 1:08:02
  my roads or the roads you fools Check and mate
• 1:08:07
  your argument is invalid as if like if we don't
• 1:08:10
  elect these people who don't build the roads
• 1:08:12
  To do the things that hurt us and they don't
• 1:08:15
  build the roads. Then how will we get the roads?
• 1:08:19
  Which is always it makes me think of the scene
• 1:08:22
  from the office space. What would you say? You
• 1:08:25
  do here Because there is a great comic I've got
• 1:08:28
  that was a meme using that scene where they go,
• 1:08:32
  so, uh, so government builds the roads. Well,
• 1:08:35
  no, no, not actually. We don't, we don't actually
• 1:08:37
  build the roads. Okay. Well, so does government
• 1:08:39
  pay for the roads and it's like, well, no, not
• 1:08:41
  actually. See, we steal the money from taxpayers
• 1:08:43
  first to then pay for the roads. It's like, okay,
• 1:08:45
  so you, you don't pay for the roads. We do. You
• 1:08:49
  don't build the roads. That's private contractors.
• 1:08:51
  Um, what would you say it is you do here? And
• 1:08:55
  then he's like, look, I'm here for the goddamn
• 1:08:58
  customers. People are not good at dealing with
• 1:09:02
  corporations. So I, as the government, have to
• 1:09:04
  get involved. I have people skills. I am good
• 1:09:08
  at dealing with people. Can't you understand
• 1:09:11
  that? The taxpayers don't know how to spend their
• 1:09:14
  money without me. Whether the road is paved or
• 1:09:18
  whether the panels are filled and all that happens.
• 1:09:22
  I love it so much. The roads and the roads. Yup.
• 1:09:30
  It's so good. I couldn't write it any better
• 1:09:32
  myself. I'm telling you. As a libertarian, this
• 1:09:35
  is the welcome. Welcome. Like this is what you're
• 1:09:37
  going to hear for the rest of your life if you
• 1:09:38
  are a libertarian. It's just that's all people
• 1:09:41
  can conjure up and it's not creative. It's not
• 1:09:43
  clever. It's not fun. It doesn't even win the
• 1:09:45
  argument. They think it does. I'm too stupid
• 1:09:48
  and uncreative to think of any other way to get
• 1:09:50
  anything done other than stealing somebody's
• 1:09:53
  money and making a bureaucratic state take care
• 1:09:55
  of it. Check and mate, you dumb libertarians.
• 1:10:01
  Well, here's a bureaucratic state in action as
• 1:10:04
  how it is discretionarily spending those funds
• 1:10:07
  that it takes forcibly confiscates from the citizenry.
• 1:10:11
  And in point of fact, it's actually an ask Paul.
• 1:10:14
  Here comes the question. Big or small, make your
• 1:10:17
  guess before we call. The game begins. It's Ask.
• 1:10:22
  Brought to you by Pfizer. Boise mayor Lauren
• 1:10:24
  McLean's former chief of staff Courtney Washburn
• 1:10:26
  got a sizable severance package as she departed
• 1:10:29
  the city more than double the standard calculation
• 1:10:31
  listed in city policy according to public records
• 1:10:34
  obtained by Boise Dev. The severance issued at
• 1:10:37
  the discretion of the mayor's office is typically
• 1:10:39
  only required when the city dismisses an employee
• 1:10:42
  for reasons not related to misconduct or non
• 1:10:44
  -performance according to policy. Washburn had
• 1:10:47
  served the mayor for six years and was paid a
• 1:10:49
  severance of how much? It must be nice being
• 1:10:54
  a government employee where in the private sector,
• 1:10:57
  if you suck at your job, you just get fired in
• 1:11:00
  the government. If you suck at your job, you
• 1:11:02
  get rewarded and a vacation. I bet you, well,
• 1:11:07
  if it's double and usually what they do is give
• 1:11:11
  you like a year's worth of pay or more and all
• 1:11:14
  that kind of stuff. I bet you we're talking a
• 1:11:16
  quarter of a million dollars. I'll give it to
• 1:11:22
  you. You're close because it includes the Well,
• 1:11:26
  you always paid a severance of more than a hundred
• 1:11:28
  and twelve thousand dollars voicey dev That's
• 1:11:30
  in addition to more than eighty five thousand
• 1:11:32
  dollars in accrued leave and benefits as she
• 1:11:34
  left the city a little over 200k That counts
• 1:11:39
  in addition to more than eighty five thousand
• 1:11:42
  dollars in accrued leave and benefits as she
• 1:11:44
  left the city The city's standard severance calculation.
• 1:11:47
  So she got paid for not working Then she got
• 1:11:50
  paid for being fired and not working. City spokesperson
• 1:12:12
  Maria Wigg told Boise Dev, severance is paid
• 1:12:15
  out of the mayor's budget, but did not offer
• 1:12:17
  further details. Washburn did not respond to
• 1:12:19
  a request for comment. Dad, what radicalized
• 1:12:24
  you? Well, son, this, this stuff radicalized
• 1:12:28
  me. And people defending it radicalized me. That's
• 1:12:32
  the thing. And if you if you if you jacked or
• 1:12:35
  if you raise your hand and be like, hey, this
• 1:12:36
  seems egregious, you just run into Well, what
• 1:12:40
  about the roads, the potholes and the roads?
• 1:12:44
  Yeah, we're over here going, hey, can we just
• 1:12:45
  have less government, fewer regulations and less
• 1:12:48
  taxes and the people who are literally doing
• 1:12:50
  it to us are like, hello, peasants. They also,
• 1:12:54
  you know, take to the take to the microphones
• 1:12:56
  to lecture us about how if it weren't for them,
• 1:12:59
  we'd all be prostitutes and mercenaries and drug
• 1:13:01
  dealers. Without without that severance package.
• 1:13:05
  We would have potholes and no roads. We'd have
• 1:13:08
  no we'd have no we'd have potholes in the no
• 1:13:10
  roads The no roads is in the running for show
• 1:13:13
  title the no roads Okay, let's move along here,
• 1:13:18
  too And then if you're gonna do that then then
• 1:13:20
  a picture of a road, but with painted handprints
• 1:13:24
  that are small Can we somehow incorporate John
• 1:13:27
  cages for 33 into like there's just no road like
• 1:13:31
  I'm actually what I want you to do is Reimagine
• 1:13:33
  what a road is So brave all right here is a little
• 1:13:44
  follow -up on the What is it the we hate trans
• 1:13:48
  bathrooms or however the mainstream presents
• 1:13:50
  the a lot the trans you can't oh the trans genocide
• 1:13:54
  bill Yes, that one. The suiciding of trans is.
• 1:13:57
  Yep. A lawsuit challenging... Trans Ban 3 .0.
• 1:14:01
  Trans Bans. A lawsuit challenging Idaho's anti
• 1:14:03
  -trans school bathroom bill. There it is. Anti
• 1:14:06
  -trans school bathroom bill. Anti -trans. Instead
• 1:14:09
  of... It's more like pro -kids, I think, is what
• 1:14:12
  we're doing here. Something is being anti -abortion.
• 1:14:16
  I'm pro -kids is what I am. I just don't want
• 1:14:18
  you to slaughter children. And I also, when they're
• 1:14:20
  alive and they've made it past your slaughtering,
• 1:14:23
  somehow they've escaped you. Then I don't want
• 1:14:25
  you to put wieners in their faces. I know more
• 1:14:28
  radical what radicalized you in the early 2020s
• 1:14:31
  dad well, son all of this I wanted this a perfect
• 1:14:38
  opportunity to to reiterate Blair White who is
• 1:14:42
  a is a man who became a woman so she'd be considered
• 1:14:45
  like a trans woman who does not agree with NPR
• 1:14:49
  editorializing in their delivery of news by saying
• 1:14:53
  stuff like a lawsuit challenging Idaho's anti
• 1:14:55
  -trans school bathroom bill and Idaho's anti
• 1:14:59
  -trans school bathroom bill. So that is that
• 1:15:01
  is what goes for news delivery on your national
• 1:15:04
  treasure. Anti -trans, which is, of course, propagandistic
• 1:15:08
  editorializing. Here is Blair White, who's an
• 1:15:10
  actual trans woman. We actually have a term for
• 1:15:12
  that, a term that people used to use and they
• 1:15:14
  used to know what it was. It's called yellow
• 1:15:16
  journalism and it abounds. This is why I say
• 1:15:20
  that trans activists are actually the enemy of
• 1:15:23
  real trans people because their goals are antithetical.
• 1:15:26
  Trans people have real trans people have the
• 1:15:28
  goal of integration into society, of respecting
• 1:15:31
  women, of respecting spaces. Trans activists
• 1:15:34
  have domination as their goal. and NPR goes to
• 1:15:38
  bat on behalf of the trans activist sect which
• 1:15:40
  doesn't have anything to do with trans because
• 1:15:43
  it's a political ideology and just because you're
• 1:15:45
  quote, trans doesn't mean you agree or disagree
• 1:15:48
  with an ideology. Ideology is separate from whatever
• 1:15:51
  makes somebody trans. Here is another clip to
• 1:15:53
  illustrate that from Blair White. If you're supporting
• 1:15:55
  this man in the women's locker room at Gold Gym,
• 1:15:58
  I just want to let you know you are not supporting
• 1:16:00
  trans people or trans rights. You are supporting
• 1:16:02
  perverts and perverts rights. I just think it's
• 1:16:05
  important that you know what you're actually
• 1:16:07
  doing sincerely from a trans woman. Thank you.
• 1:16:10
  Bye. So NPR, who thinks they are going to bat
• 1:16:13
  on behalf of trans people, even though the The
• 1:16:15
  person you're hearing on the clip is just some
• 1:16:17
  asshole news reader. They don't know what the
• 1:16:18
  hell they think but the the management the higher
• 1:16:22
  -ups they are I don't even know what whatever
• 1:16:24
  the string puller set is the tiny percentage
• 1:16:26
  of people who? Integrate this sort of language
• 1:16:29
  deliberately They are not pro trans or anti -trans.
• 1:16:33
  They're pro Maoist and Social Marxism. Cultural
• 1:16:38
  Marxism. Via demoralization. But they're not
• 1:16:42
  speaking on behalf of trans. Don't be fooled
• 1:16:43
  by their propaganda. Trans school bathroom bill
• 1:16:45
  has been dropped. Julie Luketa has more. Shortly
• 1:16:51
  after the law went into effect... If I was in
• 1:16:54
  charge of the anti -anti -trans side of things,
• 1:16:57
  I think I would make it a campaign and call it
• 1:17:00
  Trans Cans. I could do so much with that. Or
• 1:17:06
  maybe really cozy up to Senator or Representative
• 1:17:09
  Handy and be like trans hands, trans hands cans.
• 1:17:14
  We could work with that. There's a lot there.
• 1:17:16
  See, I'm telling you, hire Paul. You got a political
• 1:17:19
  campaign, hire Paul. I'll work for any side.
• 1:17:23
  Just pay me enough money and I will do a great
• 1:17:25
  job for you, even if I think you're evil and
• 1:17:28
  retarded. And then I'll turn around and I'll
• 1:17:29
  spend the money. If you're evil and retarded,
• 1:17:31
  I'll spend it. on the campaign against you. This
• 1:17:35
  episode number 30 of No Ideas brought to you
• 1:17:37
  by Paul Banducci's Publicist Services. I'll work
• 1:17:40
  for any side. Shortly after the law went into
• 1:17:45
  effect in 2023, a Boise High student and the
• 1:17:49
  School Sexuality and Gender Alliance club sued.
• 1:17:52
  Why is that a thing? sued the state, saying it
• 1:17:56
  violated the equal protection clause, Title IX,
• 1:17:59
  and the right to privacy. Under the law, students
• 1:18:02
  are prohibited from using restrooms that do not
• 1:18:05
  align with their birth sex, and schools must
• 1:18:08
  provide... That organization existing violates
• 1:18:10
  human decency. ...and schools must provide alternative
• 1:18:14
  single -occupancy facilities. The plaintiffs
• 1:18:17
  argued it discriminated against trans students
• 1:18:20
  by singling them out. The plaintiffs voluntarily
• 1:18:24
  dismissed the case on Wednesday, and the lawsuit
• 1:18:27
  was dropped without prejudice. In their court
• 1:18:30
  filing, attorneys for the plaintiffs said one
• 1:18:33
  of the students graduated this week. Get ready
• 1:18:36
  for the emotional blackmail. Ready? And the other,
• 1:18:39
  a member of the Sexuality and Gender Alliance
• 1:18:41
  Club, passed away. Idaho Ed News reports the
• 1:18:46
  student died by suicide. The law allows students...
• 1:18:50
  This is their tactic too, where they're trying
• 1:18:55
  to pressure parents into mutilating the kids.
• 1:18:58
  Where they're like, would you rather have a dead
• 1:19:00
  daughter or a living son? So in other words,
• 1:19:03
  they're gonna kill themselves unless you bow
• 1:19:06
  down to the restructuring that we wish to impose
• 1:19:10
  on everybody. If you don't bow down to it...
• 1:19:14
  Sorry, they leave out the part where... like
• 1:19:18
  30 to 40 % of successfully transitioned people
• 1:19:21
  kill themselves. So I'm going to sound super
• 1:19:24
  brutal here, but when I listened to this headline
• 1:19:27
  about that, all I could think of the meme I thought
• 1:19:30
  of in my head was laughs in FBI statistics. Oh
• 1:19:35
  yeah. I mean, okay. It's like, it's so sick.
• 1:19:39
  I didn't even want to go into it. Here's the
• 1:19:39
  rest of the clip. The law allows students to
• 1:19:42
  sue schools for each instance of encountering
• 1:19:46
  a person of the opposite sex in a public school
• 1:19:49
  restroom, changing facility, or sleeping quarters
• 1:19:52
  for a minimum fine of $5 ,000. In a press release,
• 1:19:57
  Attorney General Raul Labrador said, quote, Idaho
• 1:20:01
  families can be confident that this law is fully
• 1:20:04
  in effect and will remain so. But there will
• 1:20:08
  be another lawsuit. It's only a matter of, I
• 1:20:12
  don't know, minutes. Take that taxpayer. Again,
• 1:20:16
  we come back to the fact that who looks at the
• 1:20:18
  system as a whole, statism as we know it, and
• 1:20:21
  just goes, this is perfectly fine. This is cool.
• 1:20:25
  I'm happy to pay for this because roads. And
• 1:20:29
  potholes and roads. And schools that are... where
• 1:20:35
  the people who work in and around the schools
• 1:20:37
  actually want this shit for your kid. The only
• 1:20:40
  reason it hasn't been implemented is because
• 1:20:41
  higher ups have blocked it. But make no mistake,
• 1:20:45
  the people who work in and at the public schools,
• 1:20:48
  they're very much for letting men tinkle with
• 1:20:53
  girls and vice versa. All the more reason to
• 1:20:57
  pull your kids out, homeschool your kids. It's
• 1:21:02
  madness. Plus, if you homeschool your kids, there
• 1:21:05
  is probably a 100 % chance that they will not
• 1:21:09
  be suffering a lifetime bothering of potholes.
• 1:21:13
  Potholes just don't bother you the same when
• 1:21:15
  you're homeschooled. You just don't care as much.
• 1:21:19
  A couple more quick ones to close out the week
• 1:21:21
  here. After the most important primaries of everyone's
• 1:21:24
  lifetime until the next ones. We haven't even
• 1:21:27
  talked about locally yet. No, we haven't. Here's
• 1:21:30
  one local though. Here is one of the levies from
• 1:21:32
  Kootenai County and now moving to the Kootenai
• 1:21:34
  County fire and rescue levy. This is a two year
• 1:21:37
  temporary override. It was proposed after the
• 1:21:39
  last levy attempt. failed last year. Taking a
• 1:21:42
  look at the latest results now in the early returns.
• 1:21:45
  It appears there is hope this time around with
• 1:21:47
  about 62 % of voters saying yes. That it will
• 1:21:51
  fail percent to pass. And if approved, this would
• 1:21:53
  have gone fire and rescue services amid growing
• 1:21:56
  demand. That levy is designed to address inflation
• 1:21:59
  as well as population growth and staffing needs.
• 1:22:02
  Property owners would breaking down your mainstream
• 1:22:04
  media. There it is again, Scott, like when they
• 1:22:06
  talk about hope, they're hopeful it will pass.
• 1:22:08
  They have their agenda they want. There is hope
• 1:22:11
  that this thing that we like in which we spend
• 1:22:13
  more money, we spend more of your money, there
• 1:22:17
  is hope that it will pass. For me, it would be,
• 1:22:20
  oh, there's hope. It will fail. And if it does
• 1:22:24
  fail, we will add an umlaut over a random U in
• 1:22:27
  the bill's language and then just put it back
• 1:22:30
  in front of you. And maybe you'll vote correctly
• 1:22:31
  this time. as well as population growth and staffing.
• 1:22:35
  Blame the far right. The far right voter base
• 1:22:38
  that rose up and killed the levy. Property owners
• 1:22:42
  would pay $37 .77 per year for every $100 ,000
• 1:22:46
  of assessed property value. They always do that.
• 1:22:51
  Yes they do. The median home price in Idaho is
• 1:22:56
  half a million dollars. 37 times five. is $185.
• 1:23:04
  That's $185 more a year. That's not nothing.
• 1:23:10
  And then you do that, do that with 30, 40, 50
• 1:23:15
  other things. All the fees we pay, all the taxes
• 1:23:17
  we pay, all the different fucking things we pay.
• 1:23:22
  And multiply, what's 185 times 10 times 20 times
• 1:23:26
  30. Dude, it's real money. And if you make 50,
• 1:23:29
  60 grand a year, That's real money, man. Because
• 1:23:34
  you don't really make 50 or 60, you make like
• 1:23:37
  38 and change because they take so much of it
• 1:23:40
  off the top. Things that bake the noodle. Property
• 1:23:44
  owners would pay $37 .77 per year for every $100
• 1:23:49
  ,000 of assessed property value. Fire Chief Pete
• 1:23:52
  Hawley says that some residents may not realize
• 1:23:54
  how much the district does beyond emergency response.
• 1:23:58
  Fire District will meet later today to discuss
• 1:24:00
  next steps. Do they fill potholes? What would
• 1:24:03
  you say you do here? Please tell me they also
• 1:24:08
  fill potholes that were getting like a two for
• 1:24:11
  one on this particular service. Usually you pay
• 1:24:14
  double for that kind of action cotton. So you
• 1:24:16
  like potholes, is that it? I love them so much.
• 1:24:20
  I love potholes as much as I hate America. Last
• 1:24:25
  one for this week, and it's speaking of mainstream
• 1:24:28
  media. Idaho statesman journalists are struggling
• 1:24:32
  and our corporate owners, McClatchy Media, do
• 1:24:35
  not care. This is a strike. They're on the streets.
• 1:24:40
  I don't know if it's all or what percentage of
• 1:24:42
  the Idaho Statesman staff are full strike picket
• 1:24:46
  signs and they're marching around, cars are going
• 1:24:48
  by and honking and they're interviewing, I don't
• 1:24:53
  know, the lead guy or whatever. He's speaking
• 1:24:55
  into the mic while the rest of the strikers are
• 1:24:57
  behind him. This is the Idaho Statesman staff.
• 1:24:59
  Idaho Statesman journalists are struggling and
• 1:25:02
  our corporate owners, McClatchy Media, do not
• 1:25:04
  care. That's why we're here today and we're on
• 1:25:07
  strike. We've tried to tell the company about
• 1:25:09
  30 % rent increases. We've tried to tell the
• 1:25:12
  company that employees are delaying health needs,
• 1:25:15
  marriage, holiday, and family trips. We've tried
• 1:25:18
  to tell them that reporters need to pick up second
• 1:25:20
  jobs just to get by. Despite all this, McClatchy
• 1:25:24
  continues to reject our very modest demands,
• 1:25:26
  which are wages should keep up with inflation,
• 1:25:29
  and that ethics and standards apply to AI too.
• 1:25:33
  Our out -of -state leaders... are not even bothering
• 1:25:35
  to attend our bargaining sessions. Instead, they're
• 1:25:37
  too busy buying up AI, they're too busy buying
• 1:25:41
  up air -riddled AI technology and celebrity tabloids,
• 1:25:45
  all while telling us that living wages are not
• 1:25:49
  a part of company strategy. The Classy seems
• 1:25:52
  to care more about investing in AI than its own
• 1:25:55
  human reporters, the ones who have spent years
• 1:25:57
  building relationships, trust, and expertise.
• 1:26:00
  We are here today fighting not just for ourselves.
• 1:26:03
  We are fighting for this community. Every year,
• 1:26:05
  Idaho and our sister's papers lose some of their
• 1:26:07
  most talented journalists who find new jobs just
• 1:26:11
  to stay afloat. Those who stay, those fighters
• 1:26:13
  who hold power to account and bring vital information
• 1:26:16
  to our neighbors, find themselves growing older
• 1:26:19
  with little savings or safety nets. Who will
• 1:26:21
  do the yellow journalism if AI takes over? Ed
• 1:26:25
  O 'Stason dates back to 1864 before our state
• 1:26:27
  was even founded. We refuse to let... a New Jersey
• 1:26:31
  hedge fund, come into our state and destroy it.
• 1:26:35
  We, the people, the communist statesmen reporters
• 1:26:40
  of a communist sponsored and run paper have come
• 1:26:44
  out against our communist owners, our communist
• 1:26:48
  corporate owners who put profit before people
• 1:26:53
  at a paper that puts politics before profit.
• 1:27:00
  This is wrong. And we will not stand for anything
• 1:27:04
  less than exactly the thing we want, which can't
• 1:27:07
  be done in reality because it doesn't exist,
• 1:27:10
  but we will fight for it anyways. Leftists against
• 1:27:15
  leftists unite, comrade. You know, there's something...
• 1:27:21
  That is the best. There's something immoral about
• 1:27:24
  Schadenfreude, just straight up pleasure at another
• 1:27:27
  suffering, but I have to admit, I'm feeling a
• 1:27:30
  twinge of it. I love it. No, I love it. I am
• 1:27:34
  grinning from ear to ear right now. I couldn't
• 1:27:36
  help it. This is this might be the best headline
• 1:27:38
  of like the last three weeks. I saved the best
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  for last. It's beautiful. Isn't that good? Yes,
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  you did. The statesman is the worst rag probably
• 1:27:47
  in the entire state. It is the epitome of yellow
• 1:27:50
  journalism. This is the best. I love it. And
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  we didn't even talk about. All right. Next time.
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  We got to talk about the local primaries. The
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  local North Idaho. We didn't even talk about
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  it once. Oh, let's stop. OK, go, go. Let's let's
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  do it. And then we'll just we're on our own schedule,
• 1:28:07
  man. You know, we're not at that. We're not we're
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  not we're not beholden to our commie owner overlords,
• 1:28:13
  man. We can just continue the show if we want.
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  I don't know. I kind of feel like striking Scott
• 1:28:18
  against my Jewish boss of the podcast. Who's
• 1:28:23
  not paying you a living wage. Wow, what a shock.
• 1:28:29
  My rent, my roads. I have to get my puddles.
• 1:28:34
  I got to get another job to make ends meet, man.
• 1:28:36
  This is ridiculous. By the way, you know, we'll
• 1:28:39
  not stand if you need a line of credit to help
• 1:28:42
  you pay for, you know, to bridge the gap so you
• 1:28:44
  can live the time. I know, guys. Yeah, you do.
• 1:28:49
  I'm sure you do. Oh, that'll be a cold day in
• 1:28:52
  Hell, Scott. When a WAP gets a loan from a Jew.
• 1:28:54
  I don't think so, sir. I know better. Yeah. All
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  right. Well, what's you do? Do you have any prepared
• 1:29:00
  material or off the cuff material for the Well,
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  yeah, I was just going to give a quick rundown.
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  In South Idaho, actual conservatives did get
• 1:29:09
  whomped on pretty decently in the primaries.
• 1:29:12
  But in North Idaho, they ran a clean slate. They
• 1:29:16
  won across the board. And in District 1, where
• 1:29:18
  I'm in, District 1 represents Bonner County and
• 1:29:22
  Boundary County, so north of Kootenai County.
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  Clean sweep, baby. Boom. Now, do I agree with
• 1:29:29
  everything for any of them? No, not at all. I
• 1:29:31
  probably disagree with 40%, at least. But they
• 1:29:34
  are actual true conservatives who won the primaries
• 1:29:37
  across the board in District 1. I'm so stoked.
• 1:29:40
  Jane Stouter took down Mark Stouter. Cornell
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  Razor, the incumbent there, still beat out Chuck
• 1:29:45
  Lohman. So that was good. And Cornell's actually,
• 1:29:47
  he's a cool dude. He's well -spoken. And I'm
• 1:29:50
  very fond of that guy, actually, as a person.
• 1:29:53
  Scott Herndon took out Woodward. Yep, Jim Woodward,
• 1:29:58
  which was a huge Huge win for the Senate of Idaho.
• 1:30:03
  Ah, dude, good stuff. So we don't get a lot of
• 1:30:07
  representation out of District 1. But for the
• 1:30:10
  first time, I think since I've been alive, District
• 1:30:14
  1 has all three state legislators, two reps and
• 1:30:19
  one senator, are actual card carrying conservatives.
• 1:30:23
  Very exciting. I mean, it comes with its own
• 1:30:28
  issues, you know, because of course, they're
• 1:30:29
  going to be super and you know, a lot of the
• 1:30:32
  more social stuff that I tend to be like, just
• 1:30:35
  leave each other alone on they're going to probably
• 1:30:36
  hammer home more than I want them to. But economically,
• 1:30:39
  it's a it's a good thing. And it makes sense
• 1:30:42
  that the there wasn't really hardly any mainstream
• 1:30:45
  coverage of that. Because, you know, it did.
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  Correct. Results like that leave the mainstream
• 1:30:51
  without hope. Well up in the North Idaho and
• 1:30:54
  it also further it also further highlights the
• 1:30:57
  widening and the ever -widening gap between North
• 1:31:00
  and South Idaho They are two different states
• 1:31:02
  one of my one of the things I'm looking forward
• 1:31:05
  to the most and I think at some point it's got
• 1:31:06
  to happen Wow, I think Lucas is excited about
• 1:31:09
  it, too He's filled with hope Is a secession
• 1:31:15
  I think it's got to happen then the same way
• 1:31:19
  that North Dakota and South Dakota are two different
• 1:31:21
  states. Why the hell can't Idaho be North Idaho
• 1:31:24
  and South Idaho like they are now just draw the
• 1:31:26
  damn line and get it over with make I don't know
• 1:31:29
  I guess probably make Coeur d 'Alene the capital
• 1:31:30
  which would which would suck in its own ways
• 1:31:32
  but I digress so district one had a good had
• 1:31:35
  a good showing the precinct committee in district
• 1:31:38
  one I think had an okay showing but the real
• 1:31:41
  story and the really interesting one is Kootenay
• 1:31:44
  County and that's actually why I played the song
• 1:31:46
  I played all the cards are down because it felt
• 1:31:48
  like you know there's still some fight left in
• 1:31:51
  the conservatives but they they got bloodied
• 1:31:53
  pretty good and even at the at the legislative
• 1:31:57
  level level again clean sweep districts two three
• 1:32:01
  four and five all stalwart solid conservatives
• 1:32:04
  across the board and a couple of the establishmentarian
• 1:32:07
  candidates that went up against them got absolutely
• 1:32:10
  murdered crushed but where the real sauce is
• 1:32:14
  made is the precinct committees and cootney county's
• 1:32:18
  precinct committee which for about 12 years now
• 1:32:21
  has swung very decidedly actual conservative
• 1:32:24
  is now a dead nuts even split 37 and 37 North
• 1:32:28
  Idaho Republicans those carpet baggers that they
• 1:32:30
  are charlatans they spent hundreds of thousands
• 1:32:33
  of dollars they picked up a few more seats I
• 1:32:35
  think 10 more seats it was it was kind of ugly
• 1:32:37
  and it's a dead nut split 37 on the one side
• 1:32:41
  37 on the conservative side and then there are
• 1:32:44
  four precinct committee Spots that were filled
• 1:32:47
  by people who were sponsored by neither So it
• 1:32:51
  gets really spicy now the next two years every
• 1:32:54
  single thing everything procedural Candidate
• 1:32:58
  wise rating and vetting wise where the money
• 1:33:00
  is spent how it's spent how it's made Fundraisers
• 1:33:04
  who gets to come to the fundraise everything
• 1:33:06
  is gonna come down to one or two votes and which
• 1:33:10
  way the four quote -unquote independence happened
• 1:33:13
  to swing that day and who shows up Because apparently
• 1:33:17
  one of the other issues is if precinct members
• 1:33:20
  don't show up sometimes, and if they don't set
• 1:33:22
  others up with proxies, all of a sudden you've
• 1:33:24
  got five or six or seven people who haven't voted,
• 1:33:27
  and emotion still carries the day. So the fight
• 1:33:31
  is on. Conservatives are down, but they're not
• 1:33:34
  out. But one more election cycle like this in
• 1:33:37
  two years where they give up any more seats to
• 1:33:39
  the NIR, and it will be over for. two decades
• 1:33:42
  before they can take it back. Because then the
• 1:33:44
  NAR will have their own organization, the North
• 1:33:46
  Idaho Republicans, charlatans and carpet baggers
• 1:33:49
  with hundreds of thousands of dollars at their
• 1:33:50
  disposal. And they will have the official Republican
• 1:33:53
  brand behind them. Yes, because because they're
• 1:33:57
  they're traditional conservatives juxtaposed
• 1:33:59
  against the far far far right. Of course, the
• 1:34:03
  far far far right. So I just felt that necessary
• 1:34:06
  to kind of give the breakdown of how that went.
• 1:34:09
  Yep. I was remiss that I did not do that. The
• 1:34:13
  good news for us, Scott, is I think it's going
• 1:34:15
  to provide, if we stay on top of it. Now, I don't
• 1:34:18
  know about audio, but I'm pretty sure there is
• 1:34:20
  audio at these meetings. I know they're recorded.
• 1:34:23
  Whether or not we can get our hands on them is
• 1:34:24
  another matter. I may have to talk to a couple
• 1:34:26
  of insiders. I do happen to know, I probably
• 1:34:28
  know half the people who are on those, who's
• 1:34:30
  on the Cootie County committee. I'm enemies with
• 1:34:32
  about half of that half and I'm friends with
• 1:34:34
  about half of that half. I'm sure I can find
• 1:34:36
  my way into some audio. They're going to give
• 1:34:38
  us two years of nonstop material, man. And the
• 1:34:40
  press actually will help us out with that, too.
• 1:34:42
  The press is going to cover it. And they're going
• 1:34:44
  to swing towards the NIR the whole way. So whatever
• 1:34:46
  the press says, we'll know as a lie. And we can
• 1:34:49
  just go off of that. That would be awesome if
• 1:34:51
  you could figure that. Yeah, the boots on the
• 1:34:53
  ground is the it's coming from inside the house.
• 1:34:56
  Yeah, it's going to. Some of it definitely will.
• 1:34:58
  So we're going to have a lot to watch the next
• 1:35:00
  two years. It is going to be spicy. I can't wait.
• 1:35:07
  Love it when the these these outside sources
• 1:35:10
  just write our show for us, you know with their
• 1:35:13
  I am the mayor and the roads the potholes in
• 1:35:15
  the road. Oh He lost he lost his precinct committeeman
• 1:35:20
  race. Yes, he did and you can I am tired of this
• 1:35:26
  shit. Love it. Well, it's too bad We were too.
• 1:35:29
  So were the voters Dan Guggen get bent. Why are
• 1:35:32
  you pissing on me? Oh my god, I have a check
• 1:35:36
  on that too. Damn it. Two weeks in a row, I've
• 1:35:39
  screwed that up. God. Well, we actually screwed
• 1:35:42
  it up twice just today. Don't worry about it,
• 1:35:46
  Scott. I forgive you. I demand perfection. But
• 1:35:48
  I might go on strike. OK, so speaking of that,
• 1:35:53
  if you want to hear some real time. deconstruction,
• 1:36:01
  but but more just like exposure. Like here's
• 1:36:04
  who the here's who the Idaho statesman truly
• 1:36:07
  is. Check out Episode 19 of this very program.
• 1:36:11
  You're no ID show. It is entitled Jansport Inferno.
• 1:36:14
  And you can hear a detailed breakdown of an editor,
• 1:36:18
  the editorial board and a what they put out and
• 1:36:23
  just I mean, you can hear like what we're like,
• 1:36:25
  you know, it's kind of funny. It's tongue in
• 1:36:26
  cheek. We're playing the Soviet National Anthem
• 1:36:29
  while we're talking about the staff of the Idaho
• 1:36:31
  Statesmen. Go hear it for yourself. And we're
• 1:36:33
  really it feels like we're overstating the case,
• 1:36:35
  but we're not. As always, people tell the truth.
• 1:36:39
  If you really listen. So true. Well, please remember
• 1:36:45
  us at no ID show .com. Remember that this program
• 1:36:49
  runs on the value for value model, time, talent
• 1:36:53
  and treasure. as the producers that you are,
• 1:36:55
  we ask that if you find our program valuable,
• 1:36:58
  you produce time, talent and treasure and return
• 1:37:00
  value to our show. And thank you very much to
• 1:37:03
  this week's executive producers and to everybody
• 1:37:06
  who participates in our model. Thank you, anonymous.
• 1:37:10
  Absolutely. That's gonna be an interesting couple
• 1:37:12
  of years and we will at least for part of it.
• 1:37:16
  Next week for sure on episode number 31. We'll
• 1:37:19
  be here for the ride. Until next week. From Post
• 1:37:25
  Falls, I'm Scott. And from Clark Fork, I'm Paul.
• 1:37:30
  Taxation is theft. Oh I'm shocked.