Community, politics and a stuck chimney make for a wild week

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There are two types of business owners. Those who are busy and those who want to be busy. Toast is designed for both. With tools to keep you humming and help turn grind into growth. That's how you turn busy into business. Toast built for busy here at Miller's Mission. Um do want to thank everybody who contributed, everybody who stopped by and uh had ran into a couple lovely couples on Saturday and it really makes it worthwhile. And uh to to everyone who helps our friends at the Boyisey Rescue Mission or Camp Rainbow Gold, which will be go they'll be going to camp very soon. Um and of course the West Valley Humane Society, the Idaho Humane Society, our various veterans groups. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for uh donating. This was a challenging year and it goes to show you the economy, the war. Um you know, it's it you know, we we were all feeling the impact of it. uh overnight there were uh some attacks on the Iranian uh situation on the Iranian ships on the Iranian sites. Um remember over the weekend the president said look we're we're you know close to a deal and it doesn't look like the Iranians want to play ball. Then you have the Arab states and if you were were following the news the the entire time over the weekend it looked like the president was going to give them all a happy Memorial Day. Uh which means an unhappy Memorial Day. And what that would mean, what that would entail would be that uh we would resume attacks. That didn't happen, but we are seeing some attacks going on in Iran right now. We'll give you that as we roll on. Also, over the weekend, we had a trespasser that um you know, shot up the White House and uh again was killed. And it just goes to show you how dangerous politics have become. And I can't help but think that a lot of it um has to do with what we hear and see online. And I'll give you an example of this. Uh very early on a lot of people, you know, they would call me a contrarian. And I will tell you this that um being a contrarian uh you know, you can be a pain in the butt to a lot of people a lot of times. And when we're uh taking a look at um that, you know, you're you know, if you're always against something, you can't really be for anything, can you? And that having been said at 5805436580 KO, uh I wrote an article about whether or not we should continue with these air shows. And it was a fact-based article based on the expense, based on the danger. Um, you know, I I overheard one of our friends while we were at uh Miller's Mission. Thank you to the Walmart on Garrett in Franklin for hosting us. Thank you to everyone that made this possible. And while we were there hanging out, somebody said, "You know, those military pilots, they're not trained to be air show pilots." And I thought to myself, "Wow, that's a great point." And it's wonderful. And again, I hate to be the guy that says cut the budget, but do we really want to do this? And and look, everybody in the military is a type A. So, uh, occasionally I'll look at the, uh, the the messages on the the station Facebook or the the comments and there was some guy that was calling me, me and you, Ko, and your liberal arts. Liberal arts aren't liberal, sir. And then just a slew of profanity from other people. And I'm going, you know, and and maybe it's because we lived in the age of Biden that jailed people for being conservative. Maybe it's the the fallout of the age of Obama that uh tried to bankrupt people for being conservative. But there is an anger and there is a we don't want any type of disscent uh going on which is very very troubling in the world that we're living in today where people are just saying to themselves if you disagree with them if you write an article you are a very very bad person which is unfortunate. uh locally and of course across the country. We are uh celebrating the 100 deadliest days of summer. Nothing to celebrate about, you know, I can we can talk about speeding. We can talk about um you know, being responsible, but people are just again going to be driving everybody crazy. So let's hope and pray that we can all get through this and we will you know make sure that uh this doesn't happen and that um you know again if we drive responsibly we do reduce the chance of being crazy. Uh in addition to that top local story trending right now uh throughout the region is the end of uh Don Nelson. Don Donnie Donnie Nelson. Longtime journalist Don Nelson is set to retire from KIV TV this week. 32-year career delivering news to the Boise and the Treasure Valley area. 32 years. Wow. Nelson, who initially planned to move on to other markets, fell in love with Boise, made it his home, starting his career in radio, which is where all the good people start and then made we all the good people leave. Uh Mr. Nelson transitioned to television in 1986 and uh has been a trusted source of news for the community. Known for his sincerity, dedication to his audience, Nelson leaves behind a legacy in local journalism, of course, primarily as an anchor, really reinvented himself in the past uh few years with this roving reporters that they've done. And I got to tell you, I was very um uh not negative on this. Very very uh skeptical, but I think it works for Channel 6. Um so again, uh congratulations to Mr. Nelson. He'll be retiring. You'll probably see him out and about with Meridian. And he's kind of in the last year kind of this Charles Caralt um type of style of journalism. So those are some of the top stories. Now a story out of Washington State. By the way, we'll take your calls at 5805436 580 KO. Nobody wants to be this dummy. This was on Memorial Day, not Christmas, when you usually think of a man going down a chimney. Neighbors near a vacant boarded up building in Everett, Washington, called 911 to report smoke coming from the chimney. Police officers say they heard a man inside and told him to come out. As they tried to get in the front door, he went through a second story window onto the roof and then jumped 10 ft down into that still smoking chimney, getting stuck. Firefighters came to pull him out. He went farther down instead. They removed the smoldering ashes from the fireplace. Then the mantle, broke through the wall, and got the man out in about 20 minutes. He's charged with trespassing. Chris Foster, Fox News. Yeah, thank you, Chris Foster. So, you think you're having a bad day and maybe it's a home improvement project and we always talk about plumbing and I love our friends at Beacon Plumbing. Beacon Plumbing has, you know, really backed this program for years and years and you hear them everywhere. They're committed to the local community. So, you don't call Beacon Plumbing, you don't call Patriot Ray Plumbing, you don't call Ray Jr. Plumbing, you don't call any of the PL, you don't call Guntoing Glenn and Nampa plumbing. And all of a sudden, you think that, you know, you watch YouTube, there's a lot of good things on YouTube, and it depends on how you learn. Um, people learn on YouTube, and you do this, you mix up a pipe, and then there's water everywhere. So this guy, you know, breaking into a house and now he's only charged criminally with this statute, but they had to break the wall and break the mantel to get to this guy. So what apparently he was robbing a house and he was a little chubbier than he thought he would be. Now again, if you're going to slide down this the chimney, chances are you need to be very, very thin. You need to be incredibly thin. And quite [clears throat] frankly, the thinner the better. Like Lijo thin. And even Lijo, they could, you know, that the the curvatures could squeeze in and you could be stuck. Kent Goldthorp, Kevin Miller, Brian from Nampa, you're not going into a chimney. But this guy decided to get into a chimney because gosh knows what he was doing in somebody's house. And oh, by the way, here's an interesting hack. If you want to see how crazy the world is, you don't even have to watch our local news. Just go on, and most of you have this. Even Dave Po has succumbed to the magic, the allure of Amazon Prime. Go into Amazon Prime and take a look at live television and you can see all the local news channels. I was again watching, what was it? Um, King Five last night. And basically, it's the same graphics, the same sound as they have on channel 7. And um they did a story on someone who's an illegal who is a mother of two. Now you talk about being committed. So this lady literally walked from either Panama or Colombia here and I'm sure she got an airlift to Seattle. She wanted to selfport, goes on the app, uh hits the app like six or seven times, gets a ticket, she goes to the airport, the ticket isn't there. She couldn't self-deport. Um, she wanted to get out of the country before they got her, so she ended up paying for her own ticket after six goodbyes. Well, yeah. I mean, again, and it was a fascinating story. Of course, she was in the country illegally and did the right thing and took her kids and stuff, but you know, the idea we're paying people to leave is is preposterous when we can't afford gasoline and the like. So anyway, uh what have we learned so far? Don Nelson is retiring. It's the 100 deadliest days of summer. Uh if you're a chubchub, do not get in a chimney in Washington State. And oh yes, the political news, and we'll talk a little bit about the strikes on Iran, but the political news is heating up. And it's all about the state of Texas. You've been to Texas? In March, voters narrowed the pool of Republicans to Senator John Cornin and State Attorney General Ken Paxton. Neither candidate had surpassed the 50% of the vote at the time. The race shifted in the last week with President Trump giving his endorsement to Paxton after Cornin had dismissed his 2024 comeback chances. If Cornin wins the primary, he would move into his next step, which would take him one step closer to a fifth term. The senator argues that he has the better posture going into an upcoming election. The winner will face Democratic state rep. James Talerico in the general election. The Presbyterian seminarian says he is fighting hard for the separation of church and state in Texas. Yeah, I I love that. So, here's this guy that's a seminarian, but he's separating church and state. Good job there, buddy. Why don't you go to Dearborn, Michigan, and see how that plays, buddy? So, politically now, we'll go a little inside politics here at 5805436 580 KO. We'll take your calls as well. I'm sure we we'll hear from Al in Ontario of how stupid we are, Tea Party Bob about how the state is not conservative and a slew of others as we roll on. But let's start with this Texas runoff because there's various various keys to this. And the big key with the Texas runoff is that the president has decided that he's going to back Paxton. In other words, John Cornin didn't kiss the ring enough of President Trump. Uh this is the Trump revenge tour and people are saying that Cornin can do better in the general because he's not as conservative as Paxton. Paxton has a lot a lot of personal scandals, but he's always been loyal to Donald Trump. In fact, he's survived impeachments and court cases and all sorts of things. Um and the smart money, the establishment money is saying we need to go with John Cornin. But you take a look at the primary and Cornin couldn't beat Paxton in a primary. It was a three-way race and Cornin spent like quadruple the amount of money that Paxton did. And it really goes to show you and and I don't think that this is really relevant in the state of Idaho. Um but we have two separate Republican parties it appears and obviously Donald Trump is head of the Republican party but after the midterms are over I think you're going to see more and more people breaking from the president. Why? because the president they believe will not have their best interest at heart. They're going to go back to maybe the Bush R uh wing of the party, the the Romney wing of the party or or whatever. And on one hand, you have uh John Cornin again beloved in the Senate. They believe that he can beat Tel Rico. Uh you're not going to have to spend a ton of money to support John Cornin. And then you have Paxton who they believe they're going to have to dump a ton of money in to save him in Texas. And it shows you again the two types of Republican party. Now in Idaho, there's one type. There's the winners. And yes, we do have people mad about people spending money on Senator Guthrie, people spending money on all these sorts of things. Well, uh money endorsements seem to work still. Um on the other hand, uh you have grassroots like uh people in Elmore County that did very well. Of course, you have to wonder, and we're happy it wasn't. If it were a two-way race, how would that have played out? but it didn't. So, you have our great friend Christy Zitto, who we haven't heard from in quite some time, but that's okay. She has uh been reelected and you have Jim Guthrie reelected. Uh again, we're very different than Texas. We're not a big money state. We're not uh you know, you know, one of these people you're going to spend a lot of money. If you win the primary, you win the general. In Texas, unfortunately, you have Democrats that will spend money that will draw. And this Tal Rico guy is, you know, you could say he's an Obama-like candidate. He's likable. Of course, he uses faith-based stuff, which you have to in Texas, more than Obama ever would, but he's going to be a threat. And again, remember, it's all the next two years revolve around keeping Congress, the House, and now we have 15 extra seats that are going to lean Republican, and the Senate, which we should keep if we are good, good conservatives. So, Texas will play and of course the media is looking its chops because they're they're waiting for the fall of Donald Trump and they've been waiting for that for quite some time. We're not waiting for anything. Coming up, we'll talk about the Iranian strikes, more gas prices. We're just getting started. Again, thank you. Thank you. Thank you to everyone who stopped by and made Miller's mission an incredible success. You're listening to Millie from Philly. I'm not really from Philly on 580 KO. Ko. Again, thank you to all who helped us with Miller's mission. Uh some of our top local stories. Um [clears throat] we have uh more rent issues. The Mining City Council approved a 200 apartment complex called Rolling Hill on Overland Road and after receiving strong neighborhood support. The development will include apartments and groundf flooror commercial space for small businesses. That seems to be uh the big thing going on where you know you you work downstairs and you live upstairs. Of course, remember you're not owning, you're you're renting. And again, this is a developer's dream. This is a landlord's dream. Is it a dream of home ownership? I don't know. Uh but again, concerns about traffic and safety were addressed by requiring the construction of a collector road. Residents testified in favor of the project, citing the changing neighborhood and the need for development. The council voted to approve the development with one member opposing due to concerns about exacerbating existing challenges in the area. I would agree with that as well, but uh apparently we can't stop the building. Um and more building in Meridian, more building in Caldwell, more building everywhere. Other stop top stories, we are back to shooting up the Iranians. It's not looking good for them. Uh let's get the very latest from Jeff Paul here on 580 KO. Despite the US carrying out those strikes last night in southern Iran, Gulf Arab states remained hopeful that a deal can get done, US military officials say the strikes were carried out in self-defense, targeting missile launch sites and boats they say were laying mines in the straight of Hormuz. Sentcom says the strikes were carried out to protect troops from threats posed by Iranian forces. Now, while traveling back from India today, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said talks were still ongoing and that there's been a lot of back and forth regarding specific language. He says it could take quote a few days and that President Trump is either going to make a good deal or no deal. Yeah, it's not going to be good for the Iranians. Let's go to Al in Ontario who always is insightful, never a contrarian, and always happy, happy, happy with the state of the intelligencia today. Hello, Al. Good morning. The devil went down to Georgia. He was looking for a soul steel. He was in a bind because he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal. You see, that's the problem, Kevin. Okay, we've sold our souls. It's called the Foustian bargain, right? And what is that Foustian bargain? Of course, we don't learn anything about Western tradition or the Foustian bargain, okay? But it's basically a metaphorical pack where one trades their soul, okay, and their moral integrity for wealth and power and gain, right? And that's really where we're at. But the people are too ignorant to understand that. And it's not their fault. Okay, we could play the game. It's not their fault. Okay. And why isn't it? Because there is no real education in this country anymore. Okay? People don't understand what they should understand the fundamentals of Western civilization, the Fouian pack. Okay? And so what do we find happening in this country? Okay. We find that everybody wants their lime juicy now, don't they? And what is the lime juicy? That can be a metaphorical way of looking at easy, the free stuff, the good stuff. Man, this is so good. Just give me my lime juicy. Right? And you know, the government will absolutely give you your lime juicy. Okay? They will definitely give you what you want so that they can get what they want. And here in lies the problem in Idaho and in Texas and everywhere else. The people have been totally mentally uh turned into the uh uh the people who can't actually think in moral uh terms. What they have to do is think in materialistic terms. Oh, how much money can I get? Give it to me. Print it. Keep on printing it. Keep on printing it. keep on handing it to me. Okay. The moral aspects of that never enter their mind now, do they? No, they don't. Okay. And where where where do we know the Fouian pack always leads? It always leads to where we don't want to go. And that's exactly what's happening in this country. Okay. What we have now, okay, are people who are full of hate, okay, who uh just want to uh, you know, socialize this country and destroy it. And if we had strong people, okay, and we need Well, wait a minute. What you know, what do we talk about socialize this country? We are a socialist country. Well, okay. You know, the president the president the president has the government buying businesses now. We and maybe that's what we need to do to compete against China that has the slave labor and everybody else. But the president literally is buying businesses. We have the government investing in businesses. We have, you know, deals that uh allow these businesses to to compete globally. Let let's just say it like it is. This is socialism, is it not? Oh, oh, grand guru of all that is good uh right and knowledgeable. Well, here's the whole thing, my friend. What we've done is we've destroyed our people, right? Okay. Because when you're not going to answer the question that we're we are socialist everything, my friend, it's not so simple. Okay? It's not that simple. Okay? So So here's the thing, okay? We are destroying, okay, our country. And and but the whole what you have to understand is this is philosophical, Kevin. This isn't a philosophical basis that we have to realize what the problem is. Okay. Yes, absolutely. We are not competing. We are a socialist. Look at what do we do? Okay. Well, we we've created this crazy crazy Foustian system where everybody's given everything. Look at we're in a trap. All right. That's the problem. Okay. This is why I've been trying to tell you for a long time. Look what happens is when you create the lime juicy, you put the lime in the coconut and call me in the morning. Okay. When you You know, Al really doesn't answer questions. He just goes into his stick like he's doing an Almond Joy commercial from the old days. Well, well, but yeah, I like that song. But anyway, so here's the thing. The Lime Juicy. Hold on. Here we go again. Everybody sing it together. The Lime Juicy. My name's Al from Ontario. The lime juicy. The lime juicy. Juicy juicy lime. That's right. You you hand out the free lime juicy to everybody. What you do in the same way that you you send the wrong signals to the people, Kevin. What you're doing is you're telling people, okay, it's called the animal spirits. Okay. When you understand John May, oh, now wait a minute. Now we're going to animal spirits. We've gone from al are we a socialist country and we've gone back to animal spirits from lime juicy. This is this is this is good stuff for a Tuesday morning. If you let me go, I could I could let let me kind of try and put it so you can you can uh you know you can put the little pieces together here. So a simpleton like me can understand it. Please go ahead sir. Right. So so what happens [laughter] is look at human beings okay human beings okay we have the animal spirits right. So look at when people look at I mean understand economics okay you know you have the rational and you have the uh uh appalonian right the Apollo and then you have the dionian you know the uh the the emotions and all of this so look at the human spirit okay you get these people just look and they they get these signals from the economy wow everything's easy wow this money let me invest in this that and the other and when you get this free money everybody invests the animal and spirits, but it was all nothing but a sugar high. And when the sugar high goes away, everything crashes, right? But this is the animal spirit. So we can look at it from economics, but we look at it in an overarching view within the world, within our country, Kevin. So when you hand out money and you turn government into sugar daddy, people don't we have a generation, two generations who don't understand that things are not easy. Okay? It's just you can't get all this easy money. You can't do these things like this. There is no such thing as uh you know lime juicy. Okay. What you're doing is you're selling your soul. Okay. You're selling because your soul is that drive to be the very best that you can be. Okay. To to to get, you know, to to compete for a wife, right? We compete for a wife. And then you have your children. And so you have to have that inner strength, right? You have to have that uh that spirit, okay, to to compete. But we've destroyed the spirit to compete because what we're doing is we're printing money left and right. So it's there's no comp competition anymore. This is the problem with socialism, right? Okay. There is no competition. And when you don't have the competition, you destroy those animal spirits or or you create these crazy animal spirits. Okay, Al, thank you for the call. I I you know, Al is so brilliant. He can go on and on about animal spir spirits and lime juice. And I think we could all either be transfixed or wonder what the heck is going on. Coming up, we'll have the latest from Fox News. Those of you that are working, we're going to get you to work safely and on time. And if that isn't good enough for you, it'll serve you right. [laughter] God bless America. Land that I love. Stand beside her and guide her through the night with a light from above. From the mountain to the prair to the ocean like before. God bless America. Our home sweet home. God bless America. Our home sword. By the way, that was in Washington DC. a 101 World War II veteran, Don Graves, the last surviving flamethrower operator from his battalion, which fought on Ewaima, sings God Bless America. And by the way, to everyone who participated in Memorial Day honors, thank you. Obviously, the Idaho State Veteran Cemetery, a solemn place, an inspiring ceremony uh as always in the morning. We had the privilege of being a part of that many, many years ago. Uh myself and Mrs. Miller, we had to do a couple jobs yesterday. So, we were up at the cemetery and it is so inspiring to see so many people from all walks of life going to the veterans cemetery and going to the graves to the tombstones and and seeing just that people are not forgot. Remember, they're their their bodies are there as you know, but their soul is with God. And uh again, you just if you're new to Idaho and you're looking for the vibe, that's the vibe here. And uh it's always one of those uh great days. I can remember um a couple years ago going up there and there was our old friend Marv Hagadorn and others uh I think somebody was flying a drone when flying a drone was new and you could see kids and animals and pets and dogs, not cats, but dogs running around. It was it was um like a a giant homecoming. That's what makes Idaho so so very special. Phone numbers here 5805436580 KO. It's time for as we like to call him early morning Ron. Paid for by Ron Grant, your safer money specialist. [laughter] Yeah, top of the morning to you, buddy. How you doing? And we never know when he's coming in, but when he comes in, he's ready to go. Ron, thank you for stopping by uh Miller's Mission, the Walmart, Gir and Franklin. I think Ron stole the show with uh I I can't even describe your vehicle, but you'll do it uh much better than I'm the the bright yellow. It's a 57 F100, buddy. And we were headed to a car show and I had to stop by and of course see my buddy Kevin and drop off a check for Miller's Mission. I hope hope they hope you did really well for the week because that's that's always a good thing that you do and supporting the community and supporting the mission. Such a great uh cause. Well, we thank you and again uh obviously the Boyisey Rescue Mission and Veterans so close to your heart, Rod, and that's where that we come in when we're talking about money and keeping our money safe. And you got Andrew Ross Sorcin talking about another depression. Uh people are saying this could uh you know, the bubble could burst. Uh Ron, how do you defend ourselves? Uh is it possible to defend your money against a dep a depression? Well, you know, Babe Ruth did it, you know, back in the 29 crash. You know, he had his manager talked him into buying an annuity. And of course, when the crash came, um you know, there was athletes that were impoverished standing in bread lines, but Babe was living a comfortable life because he had set up a lifetime income that he cannot live and that carried him through. He was so impressed with that he even bought one for his wife. uh when he passed away that his wife had that income. Uh my clients and I have that you know the market goes up market goes down but you know what we got a lifetime income that we can outlive and when we passed away our beneficiaries will get the balance income is so important Kevin just a pile of money is not a retirement plan you have to have an income source that will take care of you and your family in retirement no matter what's happening in in in the market in the world. Well, Ron, how can people get uh some information from you and um you know, find out for themselves what to do? That's important. Knowledge is power. I've put together a great educational website that they can go on 247, articles to read, videos to take a look at, uh safermoney specialist.com. But, you know, let's have a phone conversation right here in the Treasure Valley about how you can have a guaranteed income that you can't outlive. Let's talk about legacy protection for you and your family. And that's 2086601372. Ron, we appreciate you. Thank you. Appreciate you, buddy. Have a great day. Paid for by Ron Grant, your saver money specialist. 5805436580 KO. One of the big ones yesterday was, was it yesterday? No, it was two days ago was during state of the union where Jake Tapper had Tom Tillis on talking about Ken Pax. Now again, this is Texas, but everybody from Clay and Buck to Shawn to even our friend Lars will be talking about Texas today. Texas. I wonder you mentioned how the president was attacking you as a rhino. Um in addition, of course, the president uh defeated Senator pushed to defeat Senator Bill Cassidy in his Republican primary in Louisiana not long ago. And now the president's endorsing the challenger, uh, the ethically challenged Ken Paxton in his race against incumbent Republican Senator John Cornin. And there's a chance that Cornin is going to lose his primary on Tuesday. Is there going to be push back, not just from you, but from Kennedy, I mean, sorry, not Kennedy, uh, from Cassidy and and Cornin, Senator McConnell, uh, when it comes to all sorts of things, the ballroom, the anti-weaponization fund. Anything else? Yeah. Well, number one, I I hate that Bill Cassidy lost. He's a great American, great senator, and I still look forward to working with them through the remaining tenure, our tenure here in the US Senate. Corn in the same thing. And to call Paxton ethically challenged is to call Jeffrey Dalmer suffering from an eating disorder. This guy is an empty suit and will do us no service by being in the US Congress. I hope that Texans realize how tough John Cornin is, how pro- second amendment he is, how pro- limited government he is, how pro- America first he is. And when they go to the polls on Tuesday, I hope that they know that they've got a great American who deserves re-election and the other guy is going to be nothing but an anchor on our conference for as long as he's in the US Senate. Um, and last question though, is there going to be something of a you only live once yolo caucus of Republicans on their way out the door that President Trump has helped uh pressure and instigate. It's you know what I try to tell everybody folks if you're not running for reelection then that one filter that you need to make sure your words are measured so that the Democrats can't use it against you and maybe some Republicans. You've just got to have that extra filter. And I'm telling you, it's great not having it so that you can you can get the same point across, but now you can use unambiguous words. And I'm being unambiguous on Paxton. He is a failure. He doesn't deserve to be in the US Senate. And John Cornin is one of the most powerful, one of the most influential, one of the most patriotic members I've had the privilege to serve with over the last 11 years. And there we have it. Um, all eyes on Texas Today. Phone numbers here. 5436580 KO. If you were at your own Memorial Day uh ceremony yesterday, you might have missed this. 10 days into the legendary Battle of the Bulge in World War II, Lieutenant Colonel Keith Wear led 11 men in a tank against entrenched German positions, the toughest positions anywhere in the world. Half the patrol, including Wear himself, were soon wounded. Yet still he killed five enemy riflemen, demolished three German machine gun nests, forced a fourth to surrender, and captured the hill. For his heroism, he received the Congressional Medal of Honor. Unlike most drafted soldiers, Wear stayed in the army and rose to the rank of general, a highly respected general in Vietnam as commander of the first infantry, the big red one they called it. Yeah, that's very nice. He led from the front and in 1968, that's where he was shot down surveying enemy positions for the famous assault on Hill 22. Known as the fighting general, he's buried here in Arlington. And with us is his grandson and namesake Staff Sergeant Keith Wear and Air Force veteran Keith. Where are you Keith? Where are you Keith? Hi Keith. [applause] No, the president again um his critics will never give him the credit, but you know, when have you heard someone outside of Reagan and perhaps George HW Bush that really connects on these solemn events? Less than 6 weeks from now, our nation will reach a historic milestone. 250 years of majestic American independence. Something But it's only right that first we remember the immense sacrifice that has been brought to us and this momentous anniversary year. That's what it is. It's a momentous year. Before we hail the founding, we honor the fallen. Before we celebrate the triumph, we pay the tribute. Before we crown the victory, we count the cost. Today, we are reminded that there could be no Fourth of July without America's armed forces. And there could be no Independence Day without Memorial Day. We owe our liberty, our self-government, the glories of our history, and our very nation itself to the generations who paid for it with everything they had. The ultimate sacrifice [clears throat] Without Memorial Day, there'd be no Independence Day. Kevin Miller, 580 KO. Don't forget Sean Hannity today at 1 on 580 KO. Again, honoring the service of those who served, those who paid uh the ultimate price, the ultimate sacrifice. And again, whether you went to Arlington, you went to some of the ceremonies in Middleton or in Boisee or wherever you uh commemorated Memorial Day, uh we do thank those family members of those who served and those who paid uh the ultimate price. You have uh the president uh speaking about this and just again very riveting, very moving. We'll go back to to again some of the topics, but uh one more time, scripture tells us precious is the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants. 400,000 souls rest on these grounds, these beautiful grounds and the sacred soil which is first consecrated in the hours of America's greatest division to be eternal symbol of national unity. It cannot be by chance alone that the very first service member laid to rest here in this place of supreme sacrifice was a Union soldier by the name of Private Christ man. Private William Henry Chrisman of Pennsylvania who died as 19 years old. He was a great young man they say. Beside him are more than 18,000 other young men named William, over 20,000 named John, over 13,000 named James joined over time by Isaac, Elijah, Earls, Hanks, Helens, Jans, Margaret's, Marius, Donald's, not too many, and others whose names names tell the true story of American greatness. And greatness it is. Here beneath arching trees and white stones so beautiful. These many are made one again, united forever as brothers and sisters and arms and children of our fathers in heaven. You know, a great point there by the president of the United States when he's describing the young people. Most of us have been [clears throat] blessed with age. Most of us are older than those people that gave their lives for our country. And we're really not talking about uh you know again people in their 40s or 50s although there are people there. We're talking about the young and many of the veterans that we see around. They remember their comrades that unfortunately uh died to keep us safe, died to protect all of us, died to um save America. Uh, you know, we talk about the 250th anniversary of our great nation, but we would not have [snorts] a great nation if it weren't for people that decided to go to very scary places that decided to uh put it all on the line. You know, most of us, some of us actually get traumatized by watching movies like what is it? Saving Private Ryan. the first time that we really saw [clears throat] what the battle was like, what everything was like, if you will, and you [clears throat] take a look at what they went through. And, you know, HBO always reruns Band of Brothers. I highly recommend that you take a look at Band of Brothers and the, you know, Damen Lewis and an all-star cast. And it was a true story written by Stephen Ambrose about these men [clears throat] that liberated the world one, you know, one uh kilometer, one yard at a time through Holland, through France, through Nazi Germany. And they were just ordinary guys that did extraordinary things. And on the other hand, we [clears throat] take a look and by the way, for people that were working over the long weekend, we don't forget about you either. It's it's tough when the family is, you know, celebrating graduations, when people are having a good time and you're at work. You take a look at our friends at Fred Meyer, our friends at Albertson's, and and I'm thinking to myself, well, Kevin, you're just like them. Maybe I am, but having to run out and get some supplies yesterday. Um, I wonder how many people were understanding were cognizant of the sacrifice that we have that day off or was it a time to go to, you know, up north to McCall to Donley to have a good time and and yeah, we want people to have a good time. And then I contrast it with people like the commander and others that are working at these ceremonies honoring people that are no longer with us. And like I said, it was just amazing to see uh again and again and again the amount of people that were, you know, at the stores having a good time while we have people in jeopardy. Um, let's get you to traffic now at 580 KDO. Good morning, Dave. Good morning, Kevin. From the Idaho Pizza Company studio, traffic is steady coming [music] out of Canyon County into Ada County. Don't forget Carter Road where that construction goes on either side of Lake Avenue. Orange barrels up. You will [music] be slowed in that area. Dealing with plumbing issues can be a hassle, but Perfect Plumbing, heating, and air can help provide home comfort without breaking the bank. Call or visit. callperfectnow.com. I'm Dave Bernett. That's your traffic now on ko. All right, coming up next hour, we'll focus in on the Iranian situation. We should hear from Dave Pzo. We're chasing Lars Larson, but more importantly, we're chasing you. That's why they call it talk radio, where we talk and listen to you. Uh in addition to that, uh we are monitoring this race in Texas, which will be the big national uh whatever uh big national obsession. And uh for those of you that used to live in California, yesterday, President Trump said, "I heard he's a big MAGA person." In response to you, are you a big MAGA person? I'm a big nobody person. I'm a big Spencer Pratt Angelino person. I only represent myself, my community. Angelenos, I'm not part of any political party. I'm [music] running a non-partisan race. I'm supposed to represent all of Los Angeles. There you have it. The reality star that could be the next mayor of Los Angeles if Los Angeles can be saved. [music] Saving souls one call at a time. Kevin Miller 580 KO. The Micron expansion continues. Apparently broken by the Statesman that uh they're going to be what? Expanding like the runway or something like that for these Micron airlines, these Micron planes. And um you [clears throat] um let me uh let me start the hour by thanking everybody who contributed whether in person or online uh helping our friends at the Boyisey Rescue Mission. And I really appreciate so many people who are um who love this community that uh give till it hurts. I do think thank all the local businesses that came by to uh help us out and do so appreciate that. Appreciate everybody who um gave and prayed and uh you know the uh candidly and it was great to spend my Saturday with Jim and Star uh for the Saturday morning. Thank you Jim. Um, but I will tell you this that uh it was uh it's always I always call this a salvation by faith and uh the reason why I say that is you know in the fall everybody is doing gifts and such and everybody is all about you know what we're doing and how we're doing and this that and the other and counting this and counting that and I and I will say um that in the the spring every spring I I get done with this and I go why did we do this? And then I I look at the kids that are, you know, going on the college tour, uh the folks that dedicate their lives to helping others. And that's really why you do this and and we do this and we do our very best. But um [clears throat] just a remarkable showing of uh generosity and gratitude. And I I always look at that Miller's mission. I was talking to one of the executives once and he said, you know, uh Kevin Miller, you've created a brand unto your unto itself. It really has where twice a year we we do this and maybe there's future Miller missions for other charitable groups, but it's so tied to the Boyisey Rescue Mission and uh you know, now more than ever, but I'm always so proud of everyone and all Walmart employees. But uh you know [clears throat] back during the pandemic, which can you believe it was 6 years ago, we were the first public event uh to open up during the pandemic. The pandemic didn't stop us. We still did Miller's mission during the pandemic, the fall mission, and then we did the the spring one. And I couldn't believe because so many people uh had government checks. I could remember a guy signing over his entire what was it 1,500 three grand to the Boisee Rescue Mission. And too many times when we are, you know, chasing dopamine, when we're chasing the the the gotcha, we forget about the the history. And uh it always humbles me to see really what's going on. And you know, uh one of the things I love to give Al in Ontario a hard time about is that he'll say we should all be reading books and we should all be doing that. And I I do understand that to a degree, but the world is changing. And one thing that I I hope I'm wrong about and I've been right about a lot of things is the everchanging uh dynamic of local news and it's happening across the country and we'll pro probably be writing about it this particularly uh when we're talking television news and uh when we take a look at apparently with this new merger between NextStar and Tegna and others it's on it's on it's it's off it's on but uh markets bigger than ours are actually going to a more regionalized approach. And you [clears throat] know, I do think and I give them a hard time because I think they have an immense responsibility, but um I [clears throat] do think that local television news is very important. I was telling you last hour about Amazon Prime that I can watch my favorite TV station locally, which Portland 12, the Fox station. They do an incredible job there. And of course they have a lot of resources to do it. It's like the difference between let's say uh USC and Boise State. USC has more resources so they can devote more people and hire more people where here in Boyisey you have to do more with less. My point being that when we're talking about you know the clicks and the dips and the daps and primarily people have really been um the victims of their own demise. I can remember when Facebook first came out. People are saying, "Comment on our Facebook page." And I'm going, "Why are you driving away your audience to Facebook? You have a TV station." Well, that's where everybody's going. Yes, because you're driving them to this. And the digital smidigital has become not a side order fries. For some, it's become the main course. But for those who are decision makers, I still say it's radio, it's television, and primarily local news. That's what the local TV people sell is local news. And it would be a shame, it would be a tragedy if what is happening in across the country happens in Idaho. Now, they'll keep some local people, but I'm going to I'm going to again look out for it on our website. Um, a buddy of mine uh commented on it on uh guess what his Facebook page and I go, "Wow." Because primarily you take a look at a lot of these stories and there's a lot of national news that we get and you're going well I could just turn on Fox or Newsmax or CNN to get this and then you look at you know could we and again this isn't Kevin Miller being a hater. This is Kevin Miller being a you know the the the Herald the canary in the coal mine. Could we all of a sudden as what's happened at Twin Falls all of a sudden could we start you know there could be a regional center in Salt Lake where we get our news from Salt Lake or Seattle probably not Portland but I could see Seattle supplying our news and we'd have well and again a lot of our former TV people have gone to Seattle so they would just give Boise news from Seattle and in other markets you have people that give local traffic they're actually in other cities like in Birmingham, the traffic comes out of wherever. And in the old days, and again, people have become more efficient. I get it. But I think there is a relevant point for local news. And here you have Don Nelson retiring. I've never met Mr. Nelson. Um but you know, they're making a big deal about it on on channel 6, which which they should, but you know, who's the next Don Nelson? Who's the next big name? You would have to say that the most senior person that we have would be Maggie Omera at Channel 7 and she's in Mornings, which she has a a great franchise. She's beloved. We've seen her grow throughout the area, but I mean, are we ever going to see another Maggie Omera? And we hope that Maggie and people like her, you know, continue to serve in local television. Um, because that is a calling and there is a talent to it, a great talent. And again, you can always tell the older people because they would, you know, they'll go to the TV people. The problem is most of them are, you know, 21 these days. Anyway, something to look out for, uh, if you will, with the future of local news. Um, you know, there's an opportunity for people to double down on it. Um, you know, just again, like what is it in Twin Falls? You have what is it, uh, KMVT, which is actually based in Twin Falls. I think that's the the only local TV station. It drives me crazy when they go Boise and Twin Falls. Twin Falls is what, 2 hours away, uh, 3 hours away, uh, depending on how you drive. Anyway, uh, the expansion of Micron continues, and this is where local news would be something. In the old days, you'd have Allison Newton or maybe Mark Johnson or D Sartin or uh, Scott, that guy that used to work at Channel 2 or somebody else uh, doing this large scale thing. But here you have Angelo Palra of the Statesman. Here's the headline. in Boise airport to expand taxi lane to make way for larger Micron aircraft. So I guess possibly maybe Boise if it's not international officially it will be. The city of Boise plans to widen a taxi way at the Boise airport to accommodate one of Micron's corporate jets. Oh well fair enough. Rebecca Hup the airport's director said city council work session that the airport would enter an agreement with the company for the project. The boyisey based memory chip manufacturer is in the midst of a multi-billion dollar expansion at its headquarters campus near Southeast Boisey and is already planning to build a 43,200 ft hanger which attached with attached offices uh on Gowen Road. Micron plans to store and maintain its corporate jets at the site which is owned by the airport, a unit of city government. The site is 4.5 miles from Micron's headquarters. Beth Sumner, deputy director of engineering at the airport, said during a presentation on April 14th that the company would pay the city back for the cost of widening the runway. We'll be widening that taxi lane to support a larger aircraft from Micron's hanger. We will manage the project so it'll be met uh it'll meet to FAA standards and it'll all go through the process, but it will be reimbursed by Micron. So, here you have it. um amazing when you think about um the amount of and we hear this all the time and we'll get into this next hour with Dave Po on this but just this expansion this micron fob that at one time was going to be the biggest in the country before New York took that spot and you know it's good news for trades people it's good news for others um and you know if we had the local resources and again I'm not bagging on folks Folks, I'm just saying this is why we need we really really need to um make sure that we have a solid local news presence. I hope that these regional centers are something of fantasy, but uh be look on the lookout for that on our website. We'll be writing a little bit about that as well. Phone numbers here 5805436580 KO news of the day. Uh we are attacking the Iranians. We call it self-defense. And really, what's going on here is former US ambassador to NATO telling Fox News that apparently uh the Iranians are daring us to beat them down once again. Let's bring in former US ambassador to NATO, Kurt Vulkar. He also served as special representative for Ukraine negotiations. So, by the way, what a great last name, Vulkar. Hi, I'm Ted Vulkar. You know, that would be [clears throat] a good, you know, stage name. I'm Steve Vulkar with the news. Steve Vulkar here with your country hits. Steve Vulker. Steve Jim. Donald. I'm Donald Vulkar, everyone. I digress. By the way, you're listening to Kevin Miller at 580 KO. So, good to see you. Thank you for being here. Uh, I want to before we get started, I'd like to, as we get started, put up a list of what we're looking at. so far. So, the reporting right now is 60-day ceasefire extension open the Straight of Hormuz with no tolls. Iran could clear would clear the mines deployed in the straight and the US would lift the blockade on Iranian porch. And here's the big one. Iran would be allowed to sell oil. Now, we understand the nuclear issues still need to be negotiated, but what are your thoughts right now on where things stand at literally this hour? Right. Um, well, I think the most important thing to highlight is that President Trump really wants to get a deal right now. Uh, we're going into the midterm elections. We have high gasoline prices, high global oil prices. And the Iranians look at that and say, "Okay, so we actually still have some leverage." So, they are driving a very, very hard bargain. And what I think they are testing is where the limits of President Trump's patience really are. Um, can they at this stage defer all discussion about the nuclear issues, make some vague promises that we will get there, but not really close the deal? And can they reopen the state of Hormuz, but still put in place some administrative controls like people have to coordinate uh the passage with the Iranian navy which will give Iran leverage over time. So these are the kind of things that Iran is still trying to get because they feel that we need this deal more than they do at this time. Yeah. And they've definitely been expressing that and we've heard the president say that they we were that we are 95% there. And when I see that 5% I feel like that might be the longest 5% in history. Exactly. Yeah. It's always the last bit that's the tough part. So all of the things on on that list that you read out, none of them are that difficult for Iran to agree to with the exception of fully and freely opening this trade of Hormuz. This is one thing they have gained in the course of this conflict and they are determined to try to keep that now and they are basically daring President Trump to prolong this war for a very long time. Something that they think he does not want to do. And that's what it comes down to when we're taking a look at at where we are. He's calling us out. And nobody wants to pay higher gas prices. Nobody wants to be, you know, into the pain again and again and again. However, in honor of Memorial Day, so many people sacrificed because the world was in jeopardy. Has the president? has others uh conveniently maybe the president could scream till he's blue in the face. Maybe he could sit back and scream and scream and scream, "Hey, they have it." Now again, you have the ever ever skeptical media. And that would be one thing if they were consistent, friend. But they're not consistent. If this was Joe Biden, Joe Biden would be like, "Hey, they they've got the nukes. We've got to support Joe Biden." remember when they told us the gas prices weren't really high and now every other day we talk about the pain of gas prices. [laughter] I mean it is ridiculous. So we we take a look at um where we are at 5805436580 KO and are we willing to do this? Are we willing to um take that chance of losing American lives because we need to keep the world safe or and this is a you know we see the changing dynamic and you have many more people you don't you know when I was growing up it was old man Bob Novak old man man Wally Evans today it's these young people that uh you know they have this incredible access to knowledge that most of us didn't and it sound bites its reluctance to support Israel. Coming up, Idaho's role in the Iranian war. Next, Kevin Miller 580 K. It comes down to this. People are calling out the president. Now, we have the Iranians courtesy of the Wall Street Journal. Yes, I actually subscribe to that so you don't have to. Uh, this is the headline. Iran warns of retaliation after US strikes. The attacks, which happened amid ongoing negotiations between Washington and Tran, targeted sites in southern Iran. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard vowed to retaliate against violations of the ceasefire after a renewed bout of fighting in which the US struck missiles launchers in southern Iran. Well, what do you what do they expect us to do? Uh, in this uh Monday's exchange, we sank two Revolutionary Guard ships. uh that we said were attempting to lay mines in the street of Hormuz. The Iranians, the Mulas responded by launching surfaceto-air missile strikes at US planes, prompting America attacks on missile launchers. Well, yeah, if you're going to do that, here we go. Diplomatic uh efforts were set to continue despite the fighting with Thran's top negotiator remaining in Qatar or Qatar for a second day of talks. Now, if this if if you're wondering what this means, and this is a story again that has not been covered by any of the media here, is Qutar or Qatar? I like cutter. Cutter sounds more. They remember Pete Hegth, big Pete decided that uh Qatar their air force was going to have a presence in Mountain Home that we would train their air force fighters for a day like this. In fact, when you take a look at these Arab countries as been detailed by you, me, and Dave Pzo, and maybe we'll get into this next hour, where Dave Po and I were talking about the Arab states led by Saudi Arabia were really looking are really, really, really, really, really looking to expand their presence outside of oil because they have maybe a 100red or 200 years left of oil left. So, who is it? MSB, the leader of Saudi Arabia, decided to start buying things like the Liv Golf Tournament or creating these immense World Cup like stadiums. And I guess I don't think they're going to have World Cup in Saudi Arabia. I guess they're going to have it here, but really modernizing PE things. People were, you know, given, you know, these trips to Dubai. They would hire the influencers to go to Dubai. And in Dubai, Dubai, Dubai, and what do they call it? the Riad tour where you could go there and you and I don't know if they purchased part of the World Wrestling Entertainment. Maybe they have a quiet share, but you have an agreement with entertainment entities like the WWE that are going to Saudi. In fact, you don't have to be Jonathan Savage to know that the big event of the year is Wrestlemania. And for the first time ever, it will be held, I believe. No, it won't be. I guess the first time ever, I believe, is being held outside the US. It will not be in England. It will not be in Canada. It will not be in Mexico, but it will be in Saudi Arabia because when you have the money, you can buy this. Now, what's at stake, what's at jeopardy, especially for Qatar or Qatar, is that they are right across the pond, right across the Persian Gulf from our friends, the radical Iranians that are chanting death to America. I don't believe that the Iranians will be visiting the Qataris in Mountain Home. And when you have the Qataris, and really Idaho was picked, I believe, for very specific purposes. It was picked because you have a governor who is very, very pro business. You have a lot of international corporations like Micron, like Chabani, like others that we don't even know about that exist here that are, you know, very pro business. Now, we can debate if we're too pro business or not, and then people will call you a rhino or a liberal, but the Qataris could come in here and they're going to be peaceful. They're going to be assimilated. You have the mayor of Mountain Home for the first time ever getting TV coverage saying, "We welcome everybody." And then you have others led by the leadership in the Idaho Republican Party and state senators like Brian Lenny and Heather Scott representative going on the Steve Bannon show airing their concerns about this issue. But in other words, there's little resistance to Qatar's presence here. And again, this is Kevin Miller's opinion doing this professionally for 31 years and really being enamored with politics for as long as I've been alive that you could see just like you have a meta influence, you have other influences, you're going to have the Qatari influence, the cutter influence where we're going to have this remote country having a military presence in this remote state. And remember the largest air force base in the area is inqatar. So what they do is very very important to all of us particularly to Idaho which you could consider and again it hasn't been covered to a degree and maybe it's at the state department level. I would say it's most trusted state. They are negotiating with the Iranians because they want to do business. The Arab states have all rebranded themselves outside of again the tragic war in Israel in Hamas with Hamas in Hezbollah in Lebanon and Gaza. They've rebranded themselves as a safe place for international tourism. How many times, you know, we take a look at the the homes of Idaho on channel 6 and then we see stuff that would make um Robin Leech uh pale in comparison when we're looking at the lifestyles of the rich and famous. You have actually these people creating islands for recreation. It is amazing. So there's a lot of money at stake here. The Qataris know this. And then you take a look at, again, by the way, the numbers here 580543658 K IO, you take a look at not only the Arab states that buy stuff from us all the time. And just like the Europeans, or as we like to call them on this show, the Europeans, you know, like Europe, the the people that gave us the final countdown, here you have big daddy America protecting people. So wouldn't it be incumbent upon the Saudis, the cutters, the UAE and others with respect the Kuwaitis to be able to defend themselves as opposed to relying on American blood and treasure just like we've demanded that from the Europe Europeans? And shouldn't they have a stake in this as well as opposed to bending the knee to the mulas in Iran that are hiding in caves? Again, we talk about leadership and again, whether it's the Band of Brothers, whether it's Churchill, whether it's Eisenhower, whether it's Roosevelt, whether it's Truman, they had to make tough choices. I go back to our president, George W. Bush. Iraq was going bad. Iraq was bad. He went in and Coen Pal said, "You're going in by yourself." And if the surge didn't work, it wasn't looking good for him or the Republican party. Thankfully, it did work. It's up to the president now. the most shrewdest political disruptor ever to figure out what he's going to do and we'll be there with you every step of the way. We'd love to hear from you. 5805436 just about a half an hour from now. Dave Pzel, we'll talk money and we'll talk Arab states and we'll talk about the impact of this war on our economy and what it means for the midterms. Maybe we'll even get into a little Texas Texas holdem if you will. Lars Larson will join us in the 9:00 hour and a special announcement at 8:30. We have it on Good Authority. will be joined by the crime fighting attorney general to talk about his trip to Washington. We are backstacked, locked and loaded. But we still want to thank all of you that contributed, that prayed, that sponsored Miller's mission benefiting the Boyisey Rescue Mission. You can still contribute. You can still donate. Boyrm.org. And please tell them God bless God bless them for their great work. Let's get you to work safely and on time at 580 from packing the quarter choosing how to expand that court uh right now with the power that they have. and wrote didn't have Connor didn't have an answer for that. No, because again if if Republicans were to play this game like Republicans are now playing the game of redistricting when it happened so often over the years in California, Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, Delaware, and so on, uh then it's a bad thing. So yeah, uh right now I guess President Trump, Republicans in Congress, uh and the Senate since they have power and majority in each of those places, uh very easily going to say, "Okay, great. You're saying we should expand the court. Let's do that by six judges and we'll add six more conservative judges. So yeah, this is the type of thing where it only works one way, Brian. And I think most Americans won't like this in general where you're doing something politely for political reasons, solely for power, and not because you think it will better the country. Joe Kcha, Fox News contributor. Joe, thanks for spending some time with us on this Memorial Day. Appreciate it. Good to see you. There we have it. Joe Kcha who was just in town a few weeks ago and it's just crazy when we're thinking of packing the court. We're going to pack the court. We're going to do this, you know, but just because you don't get your way doesn't mean that you just trash everything, which is crazy. Dave Po coming up. In addition to that, we will also have uh Lars Larson and Ral Labor, the attorney general. A lot going on this morning. Uh the big eyes nationally are on Texas. Well, an endorsement by the president has repeatedly proved to be a real leg up in these primaries. This is an interesting case because Corin really hasn't been an opponent of the president in any meaningful sense. I mean, the soundbite he played from Paxton pointed in that direction, but by and large, he's been an ally of the president. Uh it's not entirely clear to me why he chose Paxton anyway. Paxton has a ton of baggage. Uh the likely Democratic nominee does, too. Um, but I think you know the widespread feeling is that the race is safer for the Republicans if Cornin is able to win uh against the headwind of a presidential endorsement for the other guy. You know, it's fascinating when you think about this President Trump doing his own thing. um [clears throat] President Trump endorsing Ken Paxton and and like we said earlier, we'll go in a little bit more in depth on this and we'll hear from John Corner who was just on Fox and Friends, but Ken Paxton spent, let's say with the packs and everything, $30 million not to win a primary. Uh John Cornin raised 90 or $100 million not to win a primary. Clearly, the Republicans and that was a three-way race or maybe a four-way race. The Republicans are not happy with John Cornin in the base. But do you want a liberal in there or do you want somebody who maybe is not as R not as mega and more rhino than the president? John Cornin had this to say. I I appreciate you joining Fox and first I only got 10 seconds left. If you don't if you're not successful today, will you support the ticket? That's what I've said, Lawrence. I'll support the ticket. I'm a Republican. I've worked most of my life to build the Republican party. You know, here's something else. Um the president's own political action committee has what 300 million or 400 million uh dollars to play with, but they haven't really launched anything. And again, that money will be needed in states across the country to keep the United States Senate. Um and again, you have uh John Cornin talking a little bit about this. I'm sure we'll hear from Ken Paxton as well. Let's go back to the phones and we go to Lee Joe who joins us now on 580 KO. Hello, Lee Joe. Hey, good morning, boss. I just wanted to bring up Memorial Memorial Day one more time since obviously we didn't get a chance to talk about it on Memorial Day, but uh in our celebrations, my family celebrations this uh yesterday. I went ahead and we talked about the people who passed away who were in our, you know, in the family tree and what have you. My one of my wife's relatives um was a SEAL and he named one of his kids after uh man who was killed on one of their missions um in uh outside Mogadishu under President Trump's first uh presidency and um the man's name was Kyle Milikin. um you know uh left behind a wife and two children and it was a it was a train and advise mission and you know obviously part of the training is to uh actually show people how to do an operation but uh my wife's relative you know took took uh control and and got the body out and And that's the and and he barely makes a footnote in history. It it's it's this is why we have Memorial Day. We have to remember each one of these soldiers had a name, had a family that their sacrifice uh is huge. It was against al-Shabaab. Um and uh this It was extremely I mean Seal Team Six had a massive loss when they lost uh this chief and uh uh they they they exacted what they needed afterwards. But uh there's we just don't we don't wrap our minds around the cost of what it takes to be a free person living in the United States. And like President Trump said, without Memorial Day, there's no uh Fourth of July. We we have to remember these people. Um, you know, I appreciate Warhawk uh getting a couple airplanes up in the air. That was cool to see. But uh um all these little little operations that we do anymore, whatever they are, you know, we don't we the Americans don't lose thousands at a time like we did in, you know, in Vietnam at this this level of superiority. So that makes each individual even more uh well maybe not even more but each individual is is more uh more significant that they even uh went into harm's way. So that's my point. I appreciate it. He uh my my wife's relative, you know, named his son after this man who who died and and uh had four bronze stars in uh Iraq and Afghanistan before they were on this mission in Somalia. I mean, one of the best of the best. And we just when we have Memorial Day We have to do memorial or we're just running around and barbecuing and camping and what have you because you get a day off isn't the purpose of your day off it. Yeah, sure. Certainly celebrate your freedom, but we got to be we we need to do we need to do that memorial. you know, your relatives that served, your family history, know how know why you're here and how you got here. That's my point. Kevin like to thank you for your time. Thank you, Lee Joe. We appreciate the call. Honoring the fallen 580 KO. Uh with that much needed phone call, we roll on. Let's go to David Deos. who joins us now. Hello, David Deos. Hello, Kevin. Happy non-toxic Tuesday. By the way, this this uh this moment brought to you by Living Waters, our great friend, paid for by David Deos. That the thing didn't fire. So, please go ahead. I love it. Well, 99% of all diseases are simply an inflammatory response to toxicity. To get rid of toxins, stop putting in bad inputs. 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Nothing here in me to diagnose, treat, or cure any disease. Seek out a qualified healthcare professional to see if cleansing is right for you. And before we let you go, obviously uh we've lost Farmer John. Yes, Farmer John. You know, uh what a great man. I, you know, I just got to know him about three years ago and I understand he could play multiple instruments at once and he would volunteer and go to a lot of the GOP fundraisers and play his instruments and he had a corn he put together a two trumpets together so he could play two at once. Amazing. Yeah. He uh I I I knew him over the years and he always wanted me to bring a shovel to the White House and we we tried shovel. We we tried many times. Yeah. And you know, here was a guy that literally would call in and talk about the farm and the challenges. Really a farmer. And then he would load up his wellused piano and during the Tea Party revolution he would open it up by playing the piano. He always wanted to bring the piano to like Dave and Busters and such and we never really could figure that out. But you talk about a guy who did nothing but give to people and that was Farmer John. Well, and he was also an inventor. I mean, when he was doing our cleanse, he says, "David, I got an idea. I got the idea how I can put uh uh I think he's talking about getting manure and and jettisoning into the soil. He had some new idea, but he was always inventing things. I amazing guy. I wish I knew him longer, but uh what a pleasure him and his wife Christie. Amazing folks. Uh and I'm eating one of his cows Blackie right now. It tastes very good. Ouch. All right, David Hos, we will catch you uh this Sunday. uh right here on 580 KO. We'll talk to you later in the week. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Have a blessed week. Paid for by Living Waters Wellness Center. There we have it. Uh appreciate that. And yes, we've lost another listener. Our friend Farmer John has passed over the weekend and um we are sorry for the loss. Farmer John. If you were a person that again and again went to any Tea Party event, you would see Farmer John by himself doing his own thing playing the piano. And by the way, he didn't have uh you know an entourage. It was literally he and his pickup truck. And he would go play the piano and he would play the the the wonderful wonderful wonderful songs. And it was just simply amazing and what a great spirit. And I can remember sometimes when we would be covering the farm issues, if you will, he would always call in and talk about the BLM this, the BLM that real not provocative, but real insightful reporting. And uh, Farmer John, I hope that you're and I know that you are in heaven now smiling down on us. and uh you truly made this program so so very special with your smile, with your piano playing, with your love for America, and my goodness gracious, we will miss you, but we are again our condolences to your family, but we know that you're in heaven looking down and smiling and having a a good time and with the Lord. So, God bless you, old friend. And I guess the only thing else we could say is uh we hope to we'll be we'll all be seeing you soon. [laughter] Farmer John, rest in peace. Uh this race in Texas uh John Cornin uh earlier today talking about his opponent Ken Paxton. The nation will be watching this. We'll have complete coverage of this Texas race. Why is it important? Because if we lose Texas, we could possibly lose control of the Senate. We remember North Carolina is up for grabs. Texas up for grabs. Maine up for grabs. The guy with the Nazi tattoo, he's running rapid. Um, there's a lot of craziness going on and we need stability and we need that conservative vibe. Here's John Cornet saying, "I'm not a rhino." [snorts] So, Senator, one of the arguments you have made, and I've been watching this this race for obvious reasons very closely, is that you don't feel like that the attorney general can beat James Tarico uh in a general election. I want to play some of uh his words first and then we'll get your reaction. Here you go. He recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary. I have met so many Hindus, Buddhists, Sik, Jews, Muslims, atheists, agnostics who are more Christlike than some of the Christians I serve with in the Texas legislature. Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front and a lock on the door. So, Senator, with respect, I I can't see um Terico beating you or the attorney general with words like that. Well, the problem is, Lawrence, that Ken Paxton will be on defense the whole time between now and November. If he were is the nominee, it'll take hundreds of millions of dollars to try to save him, and it's likely not to be successful because the mainstream media loves Tarico. It's like the second coming of Beetho, and you you remember what that was like. And so, I can help the ticket. I can help down ballot. I know the president cares a lot about the congressional races that are right below the Senate race and I won by 10 points in 2020. So I think I could be the most help to uh the president and his agenda in the last two years of his term of office and all the down ballot races. And Ken Paxton will be an albatross. He could well lose, but even if he doesn't lose, he will win by such a razor thin margin that uh it's likely to have a negative drag on the down ballot races in Texas. judges, local officials, uh, House of Representatives, you name it. So, I think I can help and that's, uh, the reason I decided to run this there, Senator. And there we have it. You know, you you do have to take a look at the down ballot, if you will, how that's going to play out in Texas. More on that in a minute. 580 ko traffic. Let's get you to work safely and on time. Good morning, Dave. Good morning, Kevin. from the Idaho Pizza Company studios. Traffic on the freeway as you're coming out of Canyon County into Ada County, it is very busy crossing [music] the county line and down into the Meridian area. Inbound on the connector busy as well. For a professional [music] website that can be found, Towns Square interactive experts can build you a beautiful website [music] using targeted SEO and Google business listings. Email lucas.bin@ townsquarmedia.com. I'm Dave Bernett. at your traffic now on KDO. Appreciate that. Thank you very much Dave Bernett. Coming up, Dave Pzo, Lars Larson, the attorney general, RL Labrador talk about talking about his trip to Washington DC. Some of the state stories we are taking a look at. Obviously, the affordability crisis, the housing crisis, and just about everything else. Of course, the building continues. And if you're in the trades, if you're doing well, then hey, um why not? Why not uh again enjoy this? Uh for others, we're um taking a look at uh really what um what the future holds. And remember, as we talked a little bit about this before, uh it is the postmemorial day summer rush, which means it is the start of the 100 deadliest days of driving. Teen drivers face 30% increase in deadly car crashes during the summer, according to researchers from John Hopkins University. That is the period between now and Labor Day. poses the heightened risk for young motorists. Those ages 16 to 19 in experience a fatal crash nearly three times higher than older drivers. The season seasonal spike underscores concerns for road safety prompting parents to monitor their teenagers driving behavior to help reduce the risk. And really all of our driving behavior to reduce the risk simply for the simple fact that we have people that are um you know distracted, crazy driving. It's amazing to me that we have the need the need the need for speed when in fact most of us are just speeding to the red light. How ridiculous are we? I I'll use myself as an example. When all of a sudden, you know, you've got to go somewhere and you're you're fired up and you're ready to go and you you know, you find yourself not being aware that you're actually tailgating someone or some people love to be tailgate timmies and we get distracted because then all of a sudden we're focusing in on the tailgate timmies as opposed to actually focusing in on what's in front of us. And how many times do we see the uh oh, if you will, where we get distracted and my goodness gracious, then we have a problem. Then we have an issue where all of a sudden we're calling Monty at minigures, minigurers, minigures, and fixing our car, the other person's car because we are responsible people that do in fact take care of one another. It's so easy to get distracted. And by the way, at 5805436580 KO, I just want to say again, uh, we don't have to live in this dangerous driving world. Driving dangerously is a nonpartisan approach. Now, there are a lot of people that, you know, they don't they maybe they take public transportation, maybe they walk to work, maybe they live in Boisee, maybe their their commute, they can get an electric vehicle. Remember last week we heard from our friends um the Christian brothers where they were talking about an electric vehicle if you're only driving city driving. An electric vehicle makes sense and then you know if you're doing a hybrid after 25 miles the hybrid kicks in and all sorts of goodness. However, you know we have a lot of big outrageous some say obnoxious vehicles and they don't turn as easy as the little ant cars. And when we drive excessively, accidents happen. And we need to avoid this. And you're going, "Well, Kevin, why are you lecturing me?" Because again, we are entering the 100 deadliest days of the summer. And by the way, again, I'll say this. Please don't put your dogs in the back of pickup trucks. It's It's a one simple thing. I really wish people wouldn't do that. Kevin, shut up. You don't tell me how to do. Okay. I It's just a thing. And now I'm starting to see kids and adults in the back of pickup trucks. You know, well, this is my new I get it. I get it. But is the juice really worth the squeeze? When we're taking a look at the probability of something happening? You talk to any vet in the area and it happens more often than not. You have an animal that comes in, a dog comes in because they were thrown off the back of the pickup truck. If you love your animals, please keep them at home. This is my own opinion. Or in fact, not only keep them at home, but the put them in the vehicle with you. They deserve that. They they truly deserve that uh to be safe and secure and then you don't have to take the uncomfortable trip to the vet. Okay, coming up next, it is Dave Pzo. We'll take a look at what Mr. Po has to say about the economy. We have people leaving Washington state because of their targeted income tax on high earners. We'll talk a little bit more about the micron effect on Idaho and other issues as well and affordable for affordable affordable ability when you know we contrast that with Memorial Day the sacrifice that our predecessors went through where they maybe they didn't eat meat, maybe they didn't go out. Are we willing to do that? Is the Iranian threat enough of a threat in your mind that you're willing to sacrifice as the midterms roll around the corner and the Iranians continue to call us out because they believe that we are more addicted to our consumer-driven lifestyle than [music] freedom. A lot to do, a lot to talk about. Thank you for joining us. Two down, two to go. Don't forget the podcast anywhere you get [music] your podcast. Kevin Miller, 580 KO. [music] Our great friend Dave PZO joins us from Money Matters. Catch him every Saturday 8 to 10 right here on 580 KO. I believe he was at some undisclosed location this week uh as I was monitoring the broadcast. How are you, sir? I'm good. Kevin, how are you doing today? What a great thing you did last week. That was uh fun to see you out there, too. Always great to see you and um so many people and obviously um you know our friend Dave Dave Po is with us along with just uh some reminiscions uh some well not reminisc reminiscing about our friend Reverend Bill who is retiring and you know whether it's and you've always talked about a su a succession plan at your place but uh the idea of replacing that founder leader I um you're going to love this now Dave Peter lives in the world of business and I pretend to cover business and so Amazon Prime uh you can purchase something called the profit and remember we used to watch that show when it first came out on NBC Marcus Lamonus the CEO of Camping World and he would talk about businesses and he said that 70% of second generation businesses fail. So it's always that challenge of the secession if you will whether it's a pope or that leader founder CEO it's always a challenge isn't it? It it really is uh there's no question about it. And in companies through um leadership or their lack lack of um eb and flow too. Let's say that you have a big company and not a small one that you know the next generation uh blows it up. I don't I don't mean that. I mean you even see it in the big business world, right? Where you see a CEO leave and another one come in. You know, the most common one to think about and is Jeff EML at General Electric, right? Coming in after Jack Welsh. And of course, G had been grown into this monster and disintegrated into breaking it up into little pieces to try to save some of the pieces. It it was an amazing meltdown. Again, it's undoubtedly not all of IML's fault. Some of it was on on Jack Welsh, but you see these big shifts and then these little companies, GE Verova, GE Aerospace, Healthcare, they're starting to really grow again under their new leadership, if you will. So, it's um it happens at every level. It's just at the smallest level, Kevin, it's a death of that business because they can't sustain through any kind of a major downturn. They just don't have the resources. Yeah. And uh that is a challenge and when you think of um again the the founder who lives it and then the the person that comes in after is a challenge and that will be certainly whether it's the boy rescue mission or others. Uh let's go to the the the big story. Um I'm just going to read the headlines about Micron cuz it it fascinates me because I can remember you covering Micron when Micron the many times that it was going to be over. Uh we talked about this last week, but this has to be one of the top stories in the country. Let me just uh read you a couple headlines from today. Micron stock is up over 133% from its lows, but is it over still undervalued? Can Micron stock turn $1,000 into 10 grand? Um Micron stock soarses after the president praises them, calls them out. Uh let's see what CEO Sanjay Moratus just said shows why Micron is about to become a thousand dollar stock. That is from 247 Wall Street. Okay, we've uh given everybody else the props as a man who covered the the fall, the rise, the rise and the fall and now the rise again of Micron going back to the priest Steve Appleton days. What say you? Well, I this is different and um I think people have to recognize that uh Micron for 40 years was a really bad investment. It it really was just very cyclical business. Barely stayed in business. Had uh diluted all the shares because they had to keep raising money. Dilution means that you're selling more shares to the market um in in trade for money to stay alive. So the value of the existing shares goes down. This went on and on and on for decades. It was not a good investment. And suddenly you have a company that didn't really they didn't change what they did. They just the world changed what they needed. And so we're packing these uh data centers with uh and the chips in the data centers with uh micron stuff. And there just isn't enough of it in the world. So instead of seeing prices fall every quarter, which they do as technology improves, they've actually gone up. And Kevin, that's a this is just a fundamental shift. And I don't want to take anything away from their execution or anything else, but we're talking about Western Digital, SanDisk, which are up even more than Micron is. These are all companies that have just been written off for dead because, well, they didn't do anything. They're like, it's like people touting Ford. I mean, who cares about Ford? It's a old automaker that doesn't really do anything. And and so we I mean you can I'm I'm put insulting people that drive Ford trucks or whatever. I I'm just saying that it's not a corporation that people go, "Wow, they are just cutting edge." Micron wasn't that. And you have these hurricane winds behind them and it's created this perfect storm for them. All of these companies that make chips and discs and all that go inside these data centers is now a hurricane force behind them and they're just simply minting money. How long this goes on is really it appears to be that there nobody can see the end of it. Okay, because the demand is so big and it takes years to build fabs. You can't really over supply this. My best guess is it's going to be something like uh a new technology service or I'm probably blowing the name, but the new IPO that just came out has a huge like you know not dinner plate bigger than that plate uh chip that has it all inside of it. And so it's these new technologies that I would say could potentially displace the need for all the DRAMs and nan flash. people are coming up with new ideas and with AI the help of AI I would suspect it's going to be sooner than later for as far as the I can see the way we make data centers will continue the same way however I would always watch for new technology on the horizon not over supplying of these chips that's the that's going to be the get whether it's Nvidia or Micron the there's all these new companies are coming out and trying to find out better ways to feed AI And yet you have the pope warning about AI. Dave Pzel, we'll go to the other end of the spectrum here at 580 KO. [clears throat] Yeah. Well, the Pope is right. We all should be worried about AI, I think. Um, but it's here. So, what I choose personally is to not dwell on what can go wrong there. We already can all figure that out. We watched Terminator six times. So, we all know what can go wrong. And we also know that bad guys getting a hold of AI is really bad. It's really, really bad. China running out in the lead. Um, a new Hitler comes al across who almost had the nuclear weapon but didn't. And what if he has instead the super duper AI? Um, there's lots of evil in the world and and and we have to win. So the idea that we're going to protest a local data center and oh boy, I don't want one of those. says, "Well, I don't want a Walmart next to me either, [clears throat] but it's excuse me, but see, we cannot lay down and let the bad guys win. We have to do this. We have to be the ones that win and um at least tie so that it's a standoff." But the idea that we're going to just stop the AI in its tracks, I don't disagree with the Pope. I wish we weren't on the pre precipice of of potentially bad things. However, at the same time, isn't it going to be a wonderful world when we don't have to worry about clean air? We don't have to wor because energy is abundant and we figure out how to do fusion. We figure out all these things. We figure out how to cure cancer, totally cure it. All these things are wonderful and beautiful and come with the other opposite side of the coin, which is evil people have magic weapons now. So, it's a tough world we're heading into and it is disruptive. But the idea that people are, you know, I don't like AI. Well, fine. I don't like it. You know, I don't love it either. But there are things that are going to be very beneficial to everybody and we can't stop it. We can't we can't sit around and wait for evil people to beat us at this. Dave Pzo joining us here. Kevin Mill in the morning 580 KO. We'll take a quick break, then back with Dave and we'll talk about affordability on 580 KO on what you would like to uh talk about here. What in what are the interesting stories? Again, it's Memorial Day. Some say it's the dead time, but uh you know, a lot of people are working. We've got expansion going on. So, we're going to throw the floor to you and then I've got a few follow-ups. U you know, time permitting, sir. All right. Well, you said you heard the program on Saturday, so I've been thinking a lot about um you know, portfolios and and and and this weird world we're in. And it is. We're we're hitting all-time highs. We have a war. Maybe we have inflation, maybe we don't. Kids are booing people who happen to mention AI, whether make it, you know, maybe say you're you don't have any jobs. You're going to be ruined. That's not the commencement speeches. It's something totally innocuous like uh AI is the next revolution. Yeah. So, we're in a world of really people are messed up and don't really know what direction and I don't care who you are. It's it's frightening because it is so disorienting. So, we have that. So, we're questioning jobs. We're questioning prices. We're questioning all kinds of things. And markets are going to all-time high highs. And also, we're seeing people chase. You got to own Micron. Buy Micron. How? Hey, do I have Micron? Do I own Micron? And we all own Micron in any ETF, mutual funds. Not any, but but most of them are going to have some representation. So people do own it and they own the SanDisk and Western Digitals that people don't ask about because they're not local, but we have to understand when we get into this chase game, are we really getting away from what we're trying to do? Are people trying to chase, for example, Micron? Because usually that doesn't end well, right? You chase and then it's well, if it goes to a thousand, everybody's going to yell about it going to 1500. And as I said, it's different. So I'm not putting down Micron. It's totally different. But when we look at the amount of speculation with levered ETFs and things like that in the portfolios that people have and what sells at Robin Hood, this is what people are doing is getting trying to get rich quick. And I just think that the world has an incredible opportunity out there that that one the market's screaming that it's going to be more productive and if you don't own stocks, you're crazy because you've got to get you've got to get in the game. I heard a terrible statistic today that uh the top 10% have 90% or something like that of all of the stocks and I find that terrible with all the 401ks there are available out there that that would be the the statistic. So people are getting rich but it's upper middle income and upper income that are getting rich and the other folks aren't even in the game. And so that's that's my concern. And my concern is for the for the for the people that are just getting started or haven't gotten started and for whatever reason somebody whispered in their ear, you know what you really need to do? You never buy stocks, never own stocks, don't do that. And we're in a world that's saying that this kind of productivity gain is screaming along and please please be part of it. And I I'm hopeful like the Trump accounts and things like that get people back into this game. I don't know why all of the evidence of all of history of all of our lives has been that the markets go to all-time highs and perform better than anybody else anything else and you can do it for a cup of coffee a day. Dave Petzo joining us now. Um Dave, anything else you want to share with us? I've got um I've got a few for you there, buddy. Okay, you go right ahead. I'll see if I've got anything else to share. You go ahead. So, um, you know, we talk about the new world of of college athletics and it's really turned into a cynical thing. Uh, like I said, and maybe I'm I live in a fantasy world about local media. You're you're familiar with Amazon Prime, aren't you? You're a slow I'm part of the Death Star now. Yes. Right. Well, and again, I remember when you and I were going back and forth on this, and I thought it was revolutionary that they would give you free videos and lowcost videos. And remember when it was only 99 bucks? Now it's 150 bucks a year. And it's still to me a great value. So now they've decided to go with live TV. And part of it is you can get like news from uh you know, Seattle or Salt Lake or whatever, which I think is revolutionary. Um, and again, you know, as we see more people going to these digital outlets, I was looking for the Charlotte race. It was on Amazon Prime. And, you know, we've gotten so used to the analog approach. Are we getting to a point where, and we'll just talk about the NFL for a moment, where networks will not be able to afford to have the um the NFL, if you will. The president has sounded off about this saying that, you know, you have that antirust exemption. So, it's not actually it's not actually a free enterprise system, if you will. So, he might take a look at it. But, I mean, everything is going to these models. And you're thinking to yourself, you know, we thought the cable cartel was bad. The streaming cartel, uh, you know, is the son of that, if you will. And you know, you know, is this a bad thing that analog broadcasters are being replaced by digital people with endless money where all of a sudden if you want to watch something, you're going to have to pay to play. Yeah. It's well, imagine how much they pay now. Um what we're really seeing is benefit to the NFL and therefore, of course, the players. Um the benefit is coming because they're getting more competition. And so the price is going up because the football is the same, right? I mean, the same program here, better athletes, but the same program. And now though, you have more people that want to watch it, people that are willing to broadcast it, more biders in the room for the rights to show it. So the NFL is the huge benefactor. And that is really So I have to stop and say now, is that bad? Is that good? I think it's fine if people can make their choices. If it's going to cost you some money to watch the NFL, you're going to make that choice. Just like going to a movie or anything else, but at the same time, uh, is it going to change it? It's [snorts] not going to change it from the standpoint of availability, Kevin. It could very well be affordability for people that, you know, just really shouldn't be probably paying an extra I I don't know what it costs. let's call it 50 bucks a month uh to stream all the games to your house. But if you're a football fan, that's a heck of a bargain and you're staying at home instead of running to the bar and spending way more than that on um uppriced drinks. Yeah. So I I think that there there are both ways to look at it. I don't disagree that change is uncomfortable and I liked the idea of being able to watch two or three games, but I also know that my sweet wife likes to watch a certain team and if they're not on, but they're on another channel, she will try to find that whether it's here or somewhere else. Sure. Now, let me get back to the money, if you will, because you're about the money. So, [clears throat] and here we have there was and one one thing that you um have shared with us was the cost of litigation. So, here we have the new pack 12, the Mountain West engaged in a litigation. Uh the Mountain West was seeking $155 million. It looks like they're settling for about less than 70 million, which means uh they were the Mountain West was afraid because if they didn't settle, then Discovery would allow the Pack 12 to see the the alleged, you know, back and forth, you know, colluding against them. Uh the Pack 12 doesn't have a lot of money anymore because they brought in all these teams. So, the antitrust case involved 55 million in poaching penalties versus Oregon State and Washington State. Second case focused on approximately h 100red million in combined exit fees. Now apparently they're saying we'll know the details in a week or two. The settlement proposal that landed around 10 million per school or 70 million in total. Um but again as you know that's just not 70 million. That's also the legal fees that both sides are responsible for paying. So you could see legal fees from what 3 to 5 million in this case. So apparently they've settled. But when you're involved in big-time litigation, remember this is almost the death of college athletics because it's more about money than about the game. And maybe it's always been about the money, but now it's in our face. So when you as a person who, and again, I know you don't want have to get too deep in this, but you've been involved in litigation where your economic future was on the line. What do you make of this settlement from 155 million to probably 65 million and now these conferences can pay out and go? Uh that's a lot of money still to generate to pay out in a settlement, is it not? Yeah, it totally is, Kevin. And and of course we're we're at tip of the iceberg because what was happening in college football uh college sports was the fact that the colleges got to keep that money and um theoretically reduce prices elsewhere. Of course they didn't, but um the universities themselves didn't pay out millions, tens of millions in salaries to the players. So on top of that, now football's gotten to be that expensive. So I I see, as you and I have lamented about before, that this is going to continue. I don't know at what end this is, but I do believe with AI and the uh I would call it the speeding up cycle of death for universities and their traditional degrees. Um [laughter] and the prices they're paying. Yeah. Hold on. You've been talking about that for quite some time. Yes. Yes. But I think the world pool is picking up pace. I think we're getting uh we're we're we're there's no way we're getting out now. And uh so the I I think universities are are fading in significance anyway. So, I'm not sure that this would have been uh of any importance, but the idea that that college football can survive in its current form or basketball or any of them in in the current form with, you know, hundreds of schools across the country and, you know, division 1, 2, three, and four and all that stuff. I I just I just don't see that happening. I I don't see the necessity of college at all going forward, frankly, except for a specific doctor, what have you. And therefore, in a in a world that that is beginning to have and see universities close right now in front of our eyes, I'm not sure that the NFL isn't going to be looking at a minor league uh of college in the future to feed their uh need actually colleges. Let me go go a step further. So now they're talking about, you know, they have a 12 team playoff, they want a 16 team playoff, uh a 24 team playoff. And this is where it's not about paying the players or anything because now the schools are competing against the the players for salaries. So we have all these conferences except the SEC that want this 2014 playoff. That's not going to open up more slots for Boise State. That's going to be feeding the power conferences. So this is and again this is how irresponsible this is. So they want to blow up the conference championships that bring in an estimated $200 to $250 million in annual revenue. There is no economic revenue model to make up for that loss except you have Fox wanting 24, ESPN wanting 16. ESPN can pay for the 12. They could think it's economically viable, but you have everybody else going, "Let's go to 24. Never mind. Remember, these are prestigious universities. There is no road map on how to pay for it. Now, as someone who deals with money all the time, what's your reaction to this one? I mean, you can't just wave a magic wand and make up $250 million that these schools automatically get already. And yet, we have this crazy feeding frenzy for, you know, more is more. It's TV rights. Um I it's the only only thing that can be. I mean, yes, of course, you're going to have your donors and you're going to have your fans go and ticket prices are going to be 400 bucks for a family of four type of thing. Uh, and that's not going to be a big time game. That's going to be um Idaho's cost because they just have to feed the program. Uh, there's no there's no way they can. I don't know what it's going to be in the next year or two for BSU, but your point is very valid and one that you know you've been on for a long long time and I know we've talked several times when they began this. It it it everybody knew everybody knew this was going to be the death of college football the way that we knew it. But it was all about money and the SEC didn't care because they get all the money. The Big 10 doesn't care because they get all the money. So the big schools loved it, but we are not going to have the same, you know, maybe we have better football. I don't know, Kevin. I you know, it's okay. It's just that this is a big change in people that went to Boyisee State and loved Boyise State, played football maybe at Boyisee State and our boosters are like we we can't even be a Cinderella team anymore. It's not going to happen. It can't happen because all the talent is going to be at these schools that can pay millions of dollars just for one person per year. And and that's the that's the difficulty that we're in now. And then they can move. So if Boyce State gets very fortunate and and and some guy comes along from California and he's like, "Yeah, I want to play." And he gets really good, then he gets picked off by Nebraska or whatever. It's a he's gone because there's more money dancing out here. And that always was the case. This is unfortunate because I think it's it talks about what we are as a society. We are very very much about money right now. We're very much about it and and we're seeing it uh all the way through society. But it's not healthy. It's not a healthy rush. Dave Pzo, we always appreciate you. Thank you again. We'll catch you Saturday uh 8 to 10, sir. Kevin, thanks again for all your time and effort last week. I hope you had a peaceful Memorial Day and uh we just uh thank you for encouraging the rescue mission and and bringing it to light for this valley. God bless Dave Po. Thank you, sir. God bless you. You take care. Quick break, then it's time for the attorney general. joining us now talking about his trip to DC. Kevin Miller 580 KO. Uh great. You know, we were uh you know, following your uh reports from DC last week. You're you're going to be back in DC if you're not there already. Sir, you've been very busy uh protecting Idaho from a lot of bad people, sir. Yeah. So, a couple of weeks ago, I was in DC talking about human trafficking uh with the acting attorney general and the FBI director. And today I'm going to the White House to meet with the with the vice president and we're going to talk about Medicaid fraud. As you know, the vice president has been tasked with leading that effort nationally and states attorneys general have a wonderful opportunity to work with the White House and to work with the federal government on these issues. I have a we call it a mufuku which is the Medicaid fraud unit in in our in our office of attorney general and we just look at people that are committing fraud you know providers and others that are committing fraud and we've been doing a really good job in the state of Idaho. Just last week, we were able to partner with the US Attorney's Office and we were able to it was the the largest recovery in the last 10 years in the state of Idaho uh when it comes to Medicaid fraud, but I think there's a lot more fraud going on, a lot more than we can do. So, we're just going to be here talking to the White House about those issues. Well, that that is very huge. I have to go back to when we're talking about human trafficking. A lot of people, sir, believe that that can't happen in Idaho, but your office is protecting people. Could you give us the insight on what what challenges we're all facing? Yeah. So, when when it comes to human trafficking, as you know, we we have our IAK unit, which is the internet crimes against children unit, and we work to ensure that kids that are being that are vulnerable, that are being exploited online, we work with them. However, uh the state of Idaho gives the human trafficking prosecution uh authority to the local prosecutors. So, we work with the local prosecutors, but we don't have a lot of authority in that area. And uh and I I do think that human trafficking, it's obviously not a county issue. It's a statewide and a nationwide issue. So, that's one of the reasons we talked to the White House about how we can do better have better partnerships with the DOJ, with the US Attorney's Office. Um, and in this this issue with Medicaid fraud, you know, because of the Trump administration, uh, uh, they've made combating fraud a priority. And the Idaho US attorneys has has partnered with the Idaho Mufuku office to recover funds using federal law. And in last year, the Idaho US Attorney's Office resolved two cases um that the Idaho Mufuku that we actually in my office investigated and we recovered a combined $361,000. That's not a huge amount of money, but it was a good beginning of that partnership so we can start working with them even more closely on some of these issues. Well, and that is uh you know uh your work, the Trump administration's work in exposing the fraud that's going on when we talk about waste, fraud, and abuse. And we're talking about, you know, needing money to balance the budget and all the money that is lost over, you know, the the fraud and unfortunately it looks like it it can even happen here in Idaho. Yeah, it can. I mean, we we're definitely not Minneapolis, right? I mean, [laughter] there's some really horrible things, which is good. It's it's a good thing. I say that I say that with a smile on my face. Uh we don't have the big problems that they have, but I think if we're not vigilant, that's how Minneapolis becomes Minneapolis, where people are looking the other way. And what we're telling people now is that we're we're going to be looking for all the fraudsters and any Medicaid providers that are committing fraud, we're coming after them and we're making sure that that the office of attorney general in conjunction with the Department of Justice is is going after these people because the reality, Kevin, is that it's sad because when that money is being taken away from people who actually need it, you know, if we're wasting money on fraud and abuse and all those things, what's happening is that real vulnerable people that could be using the assistance are not receiving the assistance and again you know you you sir you've always told it like it is the attorney general joining us R Labrador at 580 K IO so can you go in detail on how the federal government is partnering with your office and you would you would tell us if they weren't but I'm I'm sure they are sir no they are so what we have like I said we have an office of investigators the state of Idaho has given the office of attorney general authority over criminal investigations and Medicaid fraud. But there's another type of Medicaid fraud that is more civil instead of criminal uh where it deals more with negligence or things that you can't really prove a crime but you can prove that it was improper and we don't have that authority to to go after those. So we investigate it but we work closely with the US attorney's office so they can recover the money. this next session next year, what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask the legislature to actually give me the authority to go after the civil uh the ability to have to go after civil liability and then we can and then maybe add a few additional investigators and prosecutors in our office because I think it's something really important. I think the fact that the White House is highlighting it that vice president is is making such a, you know, talking so much about it, I think it will be good and the legislature will be able to work with us to ensure that Idaho is properly protected. Well, and again, that's that's very important. Um, and again, you know, with me, I'm very predictable. I always ask you the nostalgic questions and you've been back to DC many times. You've met with all the folks. They know you as a founding member of the Freedom Caucus, but what's it like to to meet with these people representing the state of Idaho? Obviously, you've done that before at so many levels, but um as the attorney general, you know, I I I love coming back here. It's a beautiful city. It's a little bit safer now that the Trump administration has ensured that that the National Guard is protecting citizens. It's I think people feel safer and and people are happier over here. But I've always I I love going to the monuments. I love the city. I love the history. You know, this year we're celebrating the 250th birthday of of our wonderful nation. And it's so important to think about all the wonderful history that that was made here in the in in Washington DC and the importance of of the work that is done here. But it's also important to realize that that our founders wanted to make sure that the states were strong and they were self sufficient and they were they were taking care of themselves. And that's why I come back here when I talk to them about how they can actually help states to to do the things that we need to do and to ensure that our sovereignty is also protecting. So they're not over they're not taking over what the work that we should be doing, but that they're respecting the work that the states state ages and states are doing um throughout the United States. Uh finally, we're going to leave this open to you. What would you like to say without me trying to to to give you the proper lead, sir? You're a smart guy. You're the, you know, the personification of the American dream. What would you like to say to the people of Idaho that you so serve and love, sir? You know, I'm I'm just grateful for the opportunity that I've had to serve the people of Idaho. I'm grateful this this last election cycle during the primary. I I didn't have an opponent, which is I think the first time I've ever not had an opponent in a primary, which felt really good, but I do have a general election coming up and we're going to be working hard. We're going to be traveling the state and just reminding the people of Idaho the work that we're doing. You know, like I said earlier, our IAK uh prosecutions have quadrupled since I become the attorney general. We have brought more money to the state. We bring more money to the state than we spend. We're winning more cases in the courts. Uh we're aggressively defending the laws of the state of Ida who I'm proud of the work that we're doing. We have 120 lawyers and 100 staff who work under me. And every single day I try to make sure that they're representing the people of Idaho and doing the things that that we need to do to ensure that the individuals and the citizens that their rights are protected in this state. So, I'm I'm proud of the work that we're doing and I hope the people of Idaho are happy with the work that we've done the last three years. I bet you don't miss those weekly long airline flights, though. You know, yesterday I got stuck in Chicago for two hours waiting for for the layover, and I'm like, you know, this is no fun. So, I don't miss that very much. [laughter] Well, the attorney general, Raul Labrador, we always appreciate you, your service as a state representative, a congressman, the chairman of the Idaho Republican party, and of course, now as the attorney general, thank you for always fighting for us, sir. Thank you very much. It's always great talking to you. Our great friend, the attorney general, Rahul Labrador. We'll get your comments next. Kevin Miller, 580 KO. Again, we are back to hitting the Iranians. We'll talk a little bit more about that. Uh, also just a new report coming out talking about um breaking down profits and losses for top schools in the west. We'll quickly give you a rundown. We didn't get a chance to go over that with Dave Pzo. Remember, if you miss any portion of the show, you can catch us on any podcasting platform. So, when we're looking at profit and loss, uh, Boise State uh, produced 96 or I'm sorry, $95.6 million in revenue. Their expenses were about 75 million. So they lead the way with 20 million in profit. BYU follows at 16.5 million, but their revenue is significantly higher. Of course, their expenses are as well. So their their revenue is about uh their income is about 153 million. Their expense is 136 million. And people are already wondering whether or not they're going to start cutting nonrevenue sports, which I thought legally via Title 9, you have to keep those non-revenue sports. Utah State uh a profit of about 10 million, Fresno at 5.7. The Utes, a lot of Ute alumnists around here, just under 5 million at 4.7. And then we go down the list. Um, and it's funny, you take a look at the team Boyise State opens up with, Oregon, or as we like to call them, Oruron, and when you have money, you can do whatever you want. Their income was 185.4 million, almost double Boise States, and their expenses were 182.7 million. So, they eaked out a profit of 2.7. But when you have Nike money, you can do whatever you want. So pretty wild when you're looking at some of the schools in the West. Uh on the national stage, as again Clay and Buck and everybody else will be talking about again and again and again, it is going to be all about Texas, Texas today. And again, primarily, do you want to go with a a person that can raise a lot of money and is not as polarizing and perhaps can beat Mr. Talico who has his own problems, or do you want to go with the president's pick, which is Ken Paxton, who has his own set of unique challenges and uh ethical challenges as well. By the way, um she's not gone yet, but she is making a lot of public statements. Here is Nancy Pelosi. Our men and women in harm's way. Uh we are in the middle of an armed conflict where we're we're losing our men and women. What does this day mean knowing that we are once again our troops? Well, it makes it very poignant because we have immediate victims, you know, who have been lost in a matter of months in this war. And I think we should listen very closely to the speeches that were given by those who served in the military when they talked about when you make a decision to go into harm's way understand what it means to those who will follow the order but have to be it has to be justified. It's really remarkable when you think about this whole idea. And JD Vance last week, I don't know if you caught it, but JD Vance was up at the podium. And it's almost like celebrity press secretary, if you will, where you have people filling in for Caroline Levit because she just had a baby. And they were um you know, so couple weeks ago it was Marco Rubio. This week it was the vice or last week it was the vice president and you have these reporters. Did you hear that question? That wasn't a question. That was a political statement. That was a political statement where Nancy Pelosi is, you know, being led by this guy saying once again we're in harm's way. Tell that to the Iranian people that are being slaughtered that we promised them that we would help them that we promised them that we would liberate them from the murderous dictating moolas that basically run wild and you know kill people. Going back to that uh kill their own people because they have no respect for human life. Going back to that question though that, you know, once again we're in war and once again we're putting American lives at risk. We've lost 14 uh members of the military. 14 too many. But this person and again we'll replay the the the question here in a second, but this person again it's not a question. It's a political statement. Once again we find ourselves with our men and women in harm's way. uh we are in the middle of an armed conflict where we're we're losing our men and women. What does this day mean knowing that we are once again our troops? Well, it makes it very poignant because we have immediate victims of, you know, who have been lost in a matter of months in this war. And I think we should listen very closely to the speeches that were given by those who served in the military when they talked about when you make a decision to go into harm's way, understand what it means to those who will follow the order, but have to be it has to be justified. Yeah. Think about that. It has to be justified. Yes. And uh [clears throat] who are these people cheering for? They're not cheering for America. They're not cheering for for for us. They're they're cheering for the other side, which is crazy. They're they're they're cheering for the the Woolless. Well, we've done this. Can Can we ever do anything right? I I guess we can't. All right, let's take a look at traffic at 580 KO. Dave Bernett is standing by. Good morning, Dave. Good morning, Kevin, from the Idaho Pizza Company studio. Traffic on the freeway, looking good. In fact, [music] we've had a really good commute for this day after Memorial Day. Keep up the good work as you go through the day. Dealing with plumbing issues can be a hassle, but perfect plumbing, heating, and air can help. providing [music] home comfort without breaking the bank. Call or visit callperfectnow.com. I'm Dave [music] Bernett. That's your traffic now on ko. I appreciate that. Thank you very much, Dave Bernett. Uh but again, you know, you you hear what the president has to say and then these Democrats and what they're saying, it's just really crazy. And let's go back to the clip. We played this a couple of hours ago. Now, contrast to to what Nancy Pelosi said here. Before we hail the founding, we honor the fallen. Before we celebrate the triumph, we pay the tribute. Before we crown the victory, we count the cost. Today, we are reminded that there could be no Fourth of July without America's armed forces. And there could be no Independence Day without Memorial Day, right? you know, so true. But that is the first time that I've heard that. And it's so true when you're thinking about this whole issue, this incredible issue that we're um looking at and talking about. There can be no Fourth of July without the sacrifice of the fallen. And as we talked about earlier, the president of the United States at Arlington National Cemetery with Pete Hexath with the vice president. Can you imagine the security at Arlington National Cemetery to have all of them there particularly after we just had another attempt on the president? Well, Kevin Miller, I [clears throat] I mean, have we gotten to a point where we're we're have have we gotten to a point where we just kind of get used to these things? And shame on us if that's the case. We we can never get used to these things. We can never um tolerate the attacks on leadership and democracy and the republic and speech as we've seen in the past several years. Um, you know, we're we're about ready to get ready for an election and we have people lying saying that there's not going to be an election. There's going to be an election. How many times have we heard about this where we've had people say, "Well, Barack Obama is going to keep everybody in charge." I can remember during the Bush administration, people are saying uh that the the president's a dictator. It's just irresponsible nonsense uh by a bunch of nearwell ninnies uh again and again and again. So, you know, why don't we just take a moment to honor those that served as opposed to trying to make political points again basically led by the media. You know, if you missed any portion of this program today, going back to what Lijo said and how he was uh remembering Memorial Day, you know, it's tough to when you say have a happy Memorial Day. It's a solemn day. It's a solemn day. You know, how can we verbally uh say that to you, to me, to everyone else? We see that in our children, our grandchildren or kids on the street when you go to a military base, Gowen Field, Mountain Home Air Force Base, uh Dill Air Force Base, wherever, McDill Air Force Base, wherever. And the older you get, the more you exper appreciate the service and the sacrifice of these people. And on the other hand, we have evil people that want to do us harm. The Iranian Mullins have to understand that their window of opportunity is rapidly closing. And I have the utmost confidence in President Trump and Marco Rubio and Pete Exit to make sure that the interests of the United States and the world at large are taken care of. That means Iran must never have a nuclear weapon. Let's let's remember it's not just the 60% uranium. It's the three uh.75 to like 20% that rapidly move to weapons grade uranium. So that has to get out of that country because yeah, it has to get out of that country. Now, the scary part about this is we have people in the media that are uh you know saying that there's going to be war crimes. There's going to be war crimes if the president decides to take down the infrastructure. Now, remember the infrastructure, bridges, power grids, and everything else has not been touched. Now, we don't want to inflict more harm, more pain, more uh suffering on the Iranian people. But if you don't get the message at home, at work, [snorts] wherever, eventually they move on from you or you get the message. The moolas believe because they have their useful idiots in the Democratic party. They have their useful idiots in the media that are so busy trying to expose things and all sorts of ridiculous nonsense that they don't look at the fact of the matter that this has been an incredibly successful campaign [music] that needs to come to a conclusion not just for economic reasons but for the sake of the world. Kevin Miller 580 KO our great friend here he is Lars Larson joins us now catch him today at 4 catch him anytime at 58 karslarson show.com Lars great to have you with us hey it's good to be with you Kevin how's how was the Memorial Day weekend for you uh very solemn you know in Idaho you have a lot of people that uh go to a lot of ceremonies the Idaho State Veterans cemetery has a a wonderful program and I had a chance to go up there later in the day and to remember the fallen sir and you uh it was very very good. We did the same and we gathered with friends who very very much care about what happened. My mom and dad served in the military but did did not die during their service. So their day is Veterans Day in the fall but Memorial Day is an important one. And uh sadly the Democrats seem to think that this was a good weekend to mark uh the passing of uh George Floyd, the drug addict uh who died in Minneapolis. But I don't know how they figure he fits into Memorial Day, but there you go. They're they're Democrats. You can't figure him out most of the time. Um one thing though that the world will be watching today is Texas as a nationally syndicated talk show host and the regional show as well and all over the place. What do you make of Texas and why it's so important today, sir? Well, no, no. Which specific issue are you talking about in Texas today? Because you kind of left me in the dark there. Well, [laughter] that's my uh watch Texas. Yeah, you're talking about the primary about about Paxton and all. Yeah. And Paxton and Cornin. Yeah. Yep. Well, you know, look, I think Paxton has his share of problems. He's been on the show before and we've talked to him and he's done some good things. Unfortunately, you know, it's I don't understand why our side lately seems to have so much baggage. Usually, it's the Democrats who have all the baggage. Uh and yet, for some reason, the Republicans have now decided to have people with baggage, whether it's financial baggage or, you know, troubled behavior of one kind or another. So, it'll be interesting to see how it turns out. Um I've never really liked Cornin that well, but that does that mean that I automatically like Paxton? Not necessarily because as I said, he comes with a certain amount of baggage. So, I'm not sure what to do with that one. Well, it's fascinating, you know, as a just a politico because, you know, people are bagging on the president for backing Paxton, but if you look at the spending in the primary, Cornin to not even get over the top was at like 90 million at least, and Paxton was at like 20 or 30 million. And if you can't convince people spending 90 million in a primary that you're the guy, then I think you got some problems. No. And you're right because if if if Paxton's conservative uh you know bonafides uh carry him over the top, I would rather have candidates win just based on the fact that people see them as very very viable from the approach that they're taking to the campaign. For example, who do you think's going to win? You know, their primary isn't now, but it's it's coming up in Los Angeles where you've got an established politician in Karen Bass, and you've got an upstart challenger in Spencer Pratt. I think Spencer Pratt's got a good chance of winning, and he won't have spent, I think, a fraction of what Karen Bass is spending. [snorts] Well, let's hope because he really has a resounding message that resonates when he's even talking about the homeless situation, saying these people choose to live on the streets. Yep. And and by the way, that's the kind of cut through the BS stuff that I really appreciate, Kevin. Or because here's what's happening. I have had for years people saying, "Well, they're homeless. You have to you have to feel for them." And I said, "Yes, I do for the ones who are there through no fault of their own." Okay? and understand that distinction because I think the through no fault of their own, the ones that are there because of some complete misfortune that they played no role in is probably 10% of the people on the on the streets. The rest of the people are there because of booze, because of drugs, because of antisocial behavior. And frankly, for the people who are mentally ill, I have a great deal of sympathy for them initially, but then I say, will you actually do the things you need to do to straighten yourself out? We find out that so many of the mentally ill, there are ways to address their problems, and they don't like them. They don't like taking the pharmaceuticals that will help them control their behavior. And so, you say, "I don't want to take the drugs. I want to continue to be crazy, but I want you to let me run around. I want you to support me with, in the case of Portland and Seattle, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. No exaggeration at all. I mean, most people find it absolutely unbelievable that the Puget Sound region spends about a billion dollars a year on the homeless and Portland spends about 3/4 of that. You say, "How can you spend so much money?" Well, some of it goes off to NOS. So, it's being sucked away to politically favored groups in Portland and Seattle. They've decided this is a great way to ch channel money. But even if you argue that some of that actually turns into benefits for people, what are you doing for them by enabling their behavior to continue and almost all of these cities? In fact, there's one um issue that's coming up for a vote in either Portland or Seattle. I can't remember which, but because they both seem to do it. Do you know what a low barrier shelter is, Kevin? Right. You just kind of come in. There's no there's no denial. You don't have to be off drugs. Okay. When when I was uh when my dad was still alive about 15 years ago, he came to Portland and Tina and I had a house and he said, "Uh, you know, could I stay with you guys for a while?" I said, "Yeah, under one condition." He was a longtime functioning alcoholic, but he was an alcoholic. I said, "No drinking. If you start drinking, you're out." And people might say, "Well, that's harsh. Have you ever lived around an alcoholic?" and and the kind of destruction it does to your family. So, is it unreasonable to say to somebody, if you want to live here, you have to stop the booze or you have to stop the fentanyl or the meth or whatever. And in the case of low barrier shelters, what that translates as, it's a term of art used by a bunch of politicians who don't want to say hard drug friendly, so they call it low barrier shelter, but it means the same thing. So you say, "Hold on. Heroin is what put this guy on the streets or gal?" Mostly guys, but but some women as well. Hard drugs is what put you on the streets. You're going to provide shelter for them and say, "Go ahead and keep on using the hard drugs that destroyed your life to begin with." And when people challenge me on that and they say, "Well, hold on. It can't just be drugs." I said, "Hold on. If you're living on the streets, ask any of your audience, Kevin, if somebody in your audience fell on extremely hard times. Husband loses the job, wife loses a job, uh medical bills take all every dime they've got in the bank. Who do they turn to first? I would say they would turn to family first. They would say to family members, "Hey, can we come stay with you for a little while till we get back on our feet?" And would your family expect you to make every effort you could to get back on your feet, get a new job, you know, put the money together, rent your own place, or buy your own place, whatever it happens to be, and get your life back together. They would. And what if you said, "No, I lost my job, Mom, because I I was drunk every night and I I didn't show up to work a lot, so they finally fired me. I ran out of money. Then I tried to stay at my family's house, and they said no. They knew what I was all about." And then I went to my friends, my best friends, and said, "Can I stay at your place?" And they said, "No, we know exactly what you're doing. We don't want that in our house." That's how people end up on the streets is when they have burned every connection with employers, burned every connection with family, and burned every connection with friends. Now Kevin, do you think it's unreasonable to say to that person, if you want a place to live, if you want food, if you want resources, you have to start correcting the behavior that put you here to begin with. Is that an unreasonable demand? No, I don't think so either. And so you what what good does it do? And and don't don't believe me. Check what I'm telling you. Portland has tons and tons of multi-million dollar shelters. And some of them are not just these little, you know, they look like the little garden sheds you find at Home Depot or Lowe's, uh, that people are living in, but they're also big buildings. Uh, Bud Clark Commons, named for a former mayor in Portland, is a is a big building full of nice places to stay, and they let you keep on taking drugs. And here's the other piece to that, Kevin. Let's say you honestly are a person on the streets. You realize drugs put you there and you realize you have to change your behavior. How easy is it to change your drug taking or boozing behavior if they put you in a building full of boozers and druggies? Very difficult. Very difficult. And so you say, well then does it even make s even if you're being compassionate toward the person who's homeless? I mean, one of the things is when my dad said he wanted to get an apartment and move out of our house because he stayed in our house for about six months and he and he stuck to the rules, uh, he didn't drink cuz I didn't need him drinking in the house and I still had teenage, you know, steps at the time and, uh, my stepkids are now adults, but I didn't want that around them. So, when we found him an apartment, Kevin, do you suppose I looked for an apartment right over a liquor store? No. Right. If id told my close friends, by the way, my dad's a full fullon raging alcoholic, has been for decades, and I found him the perfect apartment. It's right upstairs from the liquor store. What do you think my friends would think of me? Uh, not very highly. No. And and but this is exactly what Portland, Seattle, and so many cities. In fact, does Boise provide some housing for the homeless? They used to in a hotel. I I think they still kind of do, but you talk to some people. I know they did during the pandemic, but we have really great uh nonprofit folks that really do make sure that the homeless situation isn't as bad as it is in other places. Although, if you say they're really great, you know what my test that would be? Do you raise your money privately or do you get a grant from the government? Because grants from the government usually come with no responsibility at all. that is you get a grant from the government and the government doesn't check to see if you're actually doing the right things with the money. And Kevin, you want the big example of that? Minnesota, we're shelling out hundreds of millions of dollars for daycare. Are there actually any kids in the daycare? I don't know. They say they're a daycare. They're a learing center. So, we gave them a bunch of money. Does it actually matter? Whereas private organizations, Kevin, tend to spend their money a lot more carefully than government organizations because when they go back to their private donors, their private donors generally want to know, so I gave you a bunch of money to do some good thing. Did you actually get much of the good thing done? And if they say, well, not really. We didn't really accomplish much. Do you know what the private donor does? Cuts them off. And and this is why I mean Portland for example, which I know better because it's right in my backyard. Portland has a contract with a company called Urban Alchemy. They made it about four years ago. And at the time they talked about bringing this company on a non-governmental organization. I looked into their background in both Texas and San Francisco and they had a completely stinking putrid background. They had no good background at all. And I said, "You shouldn't hire these people." The city gave them 90 million bucks a year. And you know what they just found out? They found out this this joint was this the NGO was running a place where the homeless could stay and some of their own staff members were selling the homeless drugs and making money on the side. And so the city of Portland said, "Hey, may maybe we should have some oversight." I I agree. Our great friend Lars Larson joining us. catch him today at 4. Lars, uh, the Iranians, uh, they don't want to cut a deal, it appears. Your thoughts? I think they're dragging their feet as much as they can, but I think they're also running out of time because their money has, as to a large extent, been cut off. They were selling oil to the Chinese. They can't do that anymore. They And we're offering the Chinese better options, saying, "Look, number one, we're not going to let you buy Iranian oil anymore. And number two, if you want to buy it from us, you can buy it from us. Oh, and by the way, you can't buy it from Venezuela either because we took care of that problem. So, um, will the Iranians drag their feet every every bit of the way to some kind of deal? Yes, they will. Will they eventually make some kind of deal? I think when they get desperate enough, the government of Iran, not the people of Iran, because the people of Iran don't run the country, but the government of Iran will make a deal. And then what will happen? Will they cheat? I absolutely expect them to cheat. So, Kevin, this would be like, and I'll bet some of your employers can relate to this. I'll bet some of your uh listeners who are employers have probably hired somebody and uh maybe as a favor to a friend and you say, "But you're going to have to keep an eye on him. But if you keep an eye on him and watch him close, he'll do the job." If you take your eyeballs off of him, then he's going to he's going to try and show up late or leave early or not do the job. So, as long as you know that going in the door and and you say, "I will put this employee on and I will keep a close eye on them." Uh, and you know, I mean, look, we've had contractors who've done work for Tina and me before where some of their employees would not show up, leave early, sometimes they, you know, and they got fired fairly quickly. And that's what should happen. The problem is um you know that that uh that in this day and age government doesn't want to be that that tough on people and say you have to meet some standards and if you can't meet the standards then uh then you're out. Now if you did that and if you actually expected real production of whatever it is they're promising. If you promised to house the homeless, fine. Uh do it and we will check to make sure you actually got the job done. If you promise to provide daycare for kids, whether there should be a federal pro federally funded program of daycare for kids or not is another discussion we could have. But the fact is that uh you know that if you're going to have that program, make sure you get the maximum bang for the taxpayers's buck. Lars Larson, our great friend, anything else you'd like to share what you're working on this week, sir? I don't know. I we've got all kinds of things coming up this week and and I will point one thing out. Idaho has had a massive influx of population and you've got about 6% of your population on food stamps. Oregon has been losing population, but you know who they're losing? I'll tell you the other number and then you can guess who's leaving and who's staying. Idaho 6.6% on food stamps. SNAP. Um Oregon 18.8% on food stamps or SNAP. who's leaving Oregon and who's coming to Idaho. I would say productive people are leaving Oregon, productive people are coming to Idaho. And that is a good measure of it. If you have a population where only one person in 20 is on food stamps or you're Oregon where it's one person in five, what does that tell you about the about that population? Uh it's not looking good for Oregon, that's for sure. No, it's not. and and you know both Oregon and Washington seem bound and determined to completely destroy the economies. Oregon is now and this will be probably my leadoff subject for the Northwest show is Oregon is now talking about a wealth tax, the first one in America and nobody has a clue how this is I I know what it's going to do, but they don't have a clue how it's actually going to work. They propose to tax your net wealth um 2% and they say we're only going to start with the rich people. That's that's all we that was the claim with the US income tax back in 1912 and 13. They said we're only going to tax the super rich. And that lasted for about 7 years and then they were taxing everybody. So Oregon says they're going to go to every wealthy person in the state and take 2% of everything they own. Meaning 2% of your stocks, 2% of whatever business you own, 2% of your house, your 401k, everything you own. They're going to take 2%. And they say, "We're going to raise billions of dollars." Now tell me this. I think the current richest guy in Oregon is Phil Knight, who founded Nike. He's also the biggest stockholder in Nike. That's wealth. if they come to him, I can't even remember how many billions he's worth and say, "We're going to take 2% of everything you own. You know, we're going to demand a check for 2% of everything you own. Um, so over the next 20 years, we're going to take 20% of your net worth." Do you think Phil Knight, who's lived in Oregon his whole life, do you really think he's going to stick around for that? No, I don't think that he will. and he's wealthy enough that he could say, you know, just like when Trump, who'd been a New York resident his entire life and toward the end of his sec his first term, he announced, I'm going to ch change my state of residence to Florida. And he did. Um, do you really think it'd be that difficult for Phil Knight to say, you know, I'm going to buy a house in Florida. I'll change my state of residence. I'll meet all their legal requirements. I'll still have a home in Oregon. I can still come and see my friends five and a half months of the year, but I'm not staying in a state that's that's going to take 2% of my net worth every year. And here's the other question, Kevin. You come to somebody who's got a business worth $10 million, and they say, "We want 2% of the value of that business." Where do you find that cash? I mean, do you borrow against your business and create debt for yourself to pay the tax? Cuz the government wants the tax. in the form of cash. And then what happens if in a few years your business has gone downhill? It's now worth 5 million. Do you get the money back that you've paid the sta state because you were taxed on a value that isn't there anymore? [laughter] Well, how how do you handle that, Lars? Yeah. Uh finally though, speaking of Oregon, uh your any reaction to the Oregon primaries at all? I know you were talking about that last week. Yeah, two really important things. Number one, so you have this gigantic tax increase, and just to give your listeners a little context, if you don't mind, 30 seconds on this, last summer about this time, the Democrat governor of Oregon asked her twothirds majority, House, 2/3 majority, Senate, all Democrats. So, they run everything. She said, "I need $15 billion for the Department of Transportation, ODOT." And uh even her Democrats said, "No, that's too big." So they cut it in half to 8 billion. She said, "I need 8 billion." And they said, they took a vote. This is all Democrats, right? These are Democrats voting no on tax. They voted no. We're not doing 8 billion. She called them back at a special session last September and October and said, "Give me 4.3 billion." And they went in and voted it through. As soon as she signed that law, citizens began gathering signatures in the historically most successful, fastest signature gathering ever because Oregon has the initiative and referendum. In 38 days, they gathered two and a half times as many signatures as they needed to make the ballot. That forced it to the ballot theoretically in November of this year. Except the Democrats had one more trick. Tina Cotex, we're gonna move the vote from November to May. November is a 60% turnout election. May is only 30%. They thought we can kill it by putting it in a low turnout election. Plus, Kotech is up for re-election. She didn't want to be on the ballot at the same time as his stacks. Would you would you like to guess what the margins were of no on that tax when it went to citizens in the supposedly liberal state of Oregon? Some close. 83. No. 17. Yes. I mean, a landslide is a 10point margin of victory. This this was a 70% margin of victory. And and the thing just went down hard. And even in Molt Noma County, which is Portland, uh Portland has the most liberal, you know, liberal population, liberal voter registration. It went down 7525, 3:1 in Portland. So what does that tell you about the you know about what that even a Democrat or a liberal state can say absolutely not we are not giving you more billions and billions of dollars and they said no. So uh I did not get the prime I I don't vote in Oregon I vote in Washington but uh I did not get the candidate I wanted uh who's in the House of Representatives. We got a different one Christine Drezen who has run against Kotekch before this year. Kotchek, the incumbent governor, has so many things going against her. She came in, and this is her first term as governor. She's allowed one more. She came in promising to double home construction. Home construction fell by 50%. Didn't go to 200%, fell to 50. She promised to solve homelessness. She did not. And then she tried to pass massive new taxes to punish the state. And now they're proposing a wealth tax. I think this year, this coming January, it'll be 40 years since the last Republican governor walked out of office. I think Tina Cotch is going to get a pink slip in November. That'd be huge. It would be gigantic. The first Republican governor in 40 years. Now, does that fix the legislature? No. But one of the things I liked, not about Dresen, who got the nomination for the Republicans, but one of the things I liked about her challenger, and I hope she takes this on, if she does it this way, she says, "I," you still have to deal with a twothirds majority uh Democrat legislature, but if you go to the legislature and say, "We need to do this," and the legislature says, "Pound sand to the new Republican governor," and she says, "Fine, I'll take it to the ballot. I'll have the citizens vote on it." and they just saw what the cit what happens when the Democrats ignore the citizens say, "We don't care if you don't want more taxes. You're going to have them rammed down your throat and they lose 83 to 17 in a low turnout election." Can you imagine when if a new Republican governor said, "If you tell me no on things that I think the people want, then I will take it to the people and ask them, and then you'll get a really strong message." Now, is it more time consuming? Yeah. But I think, you know, or if the legislature passes crazy stuff that the new Republican governor knows the public will not tolerate, then she can always say, "I'm going to I'm going to get this referred to the ballot and I'll campaign against it and the voters will vote it down." And in Oregon, at least under the initiative system, if you get it on the ballot, it say the legislature passes a law and the governor can also veto things that a Democrat legislature passes, but if they get it uh say they vote a law through and they think, "Oh, we got the law." If it gets referred to the ballot, the law goes on hold until the vote happens. So, that's a powerful bargaining chip, don't you think? I agree. say, "Go ahead and pass. I'll veto it." So, sorry. No, Lars, we love you. We appreciate you. Thank you for your time again, sir. We really appreciate it. Always glad to do it. Kevin, you take care. Our great You too. Our great friend Lars Larson. Kevin Miller, 580 KO. Uh again, uh couple big stories going on. Evacuations near the California chemical tank has been reduced. We have people though that are again still waiting to go to their homes. Now we've got NASA looking to uh talk about their moon base and everybody's mad at SpaceX. That's one thing that we missed with Dave Pzo because again we had so much but this IPO with what is it SpaceX or the not Tesla but one of them is going to be the biggest ever ever ever uh which is funny because what was it years ago? Facebook when they did their IPO was what 28 bucks a share. Amazing. I still remember when Apple was almost done and it was eight bucks a share. It's crazy uh how technology is going. We'll take more of your calls reacting to the attorney general, to Dave Po, to Lars Larson, uh to other uh news makers that we've had on um basically it comes down to this. The Iranians don't believe in peace. The leadership there, they don't believe that we have enough guts to make them physically pay. Uh this just in from the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard basically saying that uh they have a legitimate right to respond to any violation of the ceasefire which means they're going to target US military bases uh within that region. And of course, Israel and everywhere else were saying it was a self-defense strike, targeting their missile installations because they were firing missiles at our planes that were defending uh themselves from the boats that were laying mines and everything else. It really comes down to in the, you know, the day after Memorial Day at 5805436580 KO. Do we have the stomach to go the distance? Do we have the stomach to say yes, we do have people in Doha that are talking with Iranians, but most Americans have seen this movie before. You know, how can you tell when the Iranian leadership is lying? Their lips are moving. The president wants to make a deal. He can't really make a deal on this one. Primary night in America continues. We've got the Texas primary runoffs. Why is this important? The establishment wants Cornin. President Trump wants Paxton. It will be one of those things. If Cornin wins, that's a big loss for the president. If Paxton wins, the President Trump revenge tour continues successfully. And here's the other one. You know, are we going to be spending a ton of money defending Texas? Because in our federalism system here, we have that [clears throat] we have to have control of the Senate because if we lose both the House and the Senate, chances are we're going to lose the president in his final two years in office, which again, we're going to talk about, you heard the attorney general talking about all the the fraud reform going on. All that goes away. All the investigations go away. every type of accountability goes away. One of the things in and maybe we'll get into this coming up, but in DC they're talking about the the big fund to pay people that were ruined by January 6th. And obviously the media is focusing in on people that assaulted police officers that were rightfully imprisoned for assaulting police officers. Um, you assault a police officer, you need to go to jail. Ask any police officer, they'll tell you that. But here where we define the issue, when you have people that were economically ruined by the lawfare, do are they owed some type of retribution? Are they owned or are they owed uh the ability to uh recoup losses or or do they just have to say, "Sorry, you lost. Uh Joe Biden decided to prosecute you or persecute persecute you." And that's how it goes. Sorry, you lose. President Trump from his perspective could have sued the money uh the government for a lot of money. Probably would have won because they unlawfully released his tax records. And isn't it ironic when people always say, "Oh, we just need to get over things." Uh when someone's wronged you, how easy is it for you to get over things? How easy is it for you to get over those issues when someone who has wronged you illegally? Do you just sit back and say, "Well, you're right. It's good. Uh no harm, no foul." When you're talking about losing your home, look at Mike Flynn. Look at others. You know, we always want to go on, you know, get on with it, except when it comes to us. We'll talk about that next. Kevin Miller, 580 KO. Fox News Now on your home for Fox News, 580 KO. We uh we did have a lot of guests, so that means it's open up to phone calls. Uh in Kiev, it looks like, well, business as usual. The Russians are firing up. They're uh they're bombing the heck out of that city. In fact, uh they've closed the airspace. Apparently Putin doesn't like it when they get too close uh to his uh to his little dachcha. Apparently, a couple weeks ago, he was actually hiding in a bunker. So, we'll talk a little bit about that. Um you know, we go back to, you know, the type of guts that we have and nobody wants to pay more to get less, but that's where we are the day after Memorial Day where we honor those people who have uh paid the ultimate price. And I hope and I pray and I know this is uh the case in Idaho but other parts of the the the country maybe not so much where people um are looking to themselves and saying well it was a great weekend and you know just to take a moment to pray for those people that are no longer with us and to pray for those people that are continuing to serve right now. I mean imagine what it's like and nobody likes to you know sit back and and work and everything else. Nobody likes to be working while other people are having a good time, right? Away from your friends, your family, and other things to to serve others. So, props to everyone who uh to worked over this long holiday weekend. Let's go to TPB who joins us now on 580 KO. Good morning, sir. Boy, you had a very long winded show today, but very productive and I think informative. So, thank you very much for having uh Raul on today. I haven't had him on in quite some time and I do appreciate that. Um, no, you're right about the media trying to make political points on Memorial Day at the expense of those who have given their all to keep this country free. You know, today the liberals uh take every opportunity to oppose President Trump regardless of whether is good or bad for the country. No longer uh do we have that perspective on the realities of the world we live in today. The only thing the left is concerned with is how they can harm or embarrass Trump. uh and they have gone so far to the left by supporting people like AOC and Graham Platner, Bernie Sanders that the Democratic Party is no longer recognizable as a leader as the leadership uh and is pretty much in shambles uh which I think is going to help during the midterms. You know, it is only the far left of the party that is getting any real air time. These are the people who have fractured the Democratic party and have become the real radicals and want to lead our country off the edge of a cliff. When we look at the blue cities, which are all sanctuary, they have been turned so far to the left that they are no longer livable by anyone with any common sense. Just look at what's happening. Places like New York, Seattle, Portland, LA, San Francisco, and my old favorite place, Chicago, once great cities that are now tent cities where people defecate on the streets and shoot up drugs in any place they feel like it. Businesses have moved out and they are all in deep financial trouble. All these states are in deep financial trouble, not just the cities as uh the good paying jobs have gone to places like Texas and Tennessee and they continue to go there. You no longer have a friendly atmosphere in these cities, especially to business. Just look what's happened with the mayor of Seattle saying, "Hey, excuse me, Starbucks, get the hell out of here." Now that they're leaving, she doesn't know where she's going to get some money from to pay the taxes that they're going to leave. Sometimes you have to allow something to be destroyed before you can rebuild it. And while it seems like the right are losing this war, uh it is the liberal media that has played a part in people feeling this way. You know, personally, I believe the tide is turning, but then I'm a bit of a cockeyed optimist. People are at the breaking point in many of these sanctuary cities. And from my point of view, they are not going to continue to deal with these radical leftist ideas and watch their lives deteriorate because of bad political decisions. You know, Trump is slowly cleaning the rhinos out of office and replacing them with more like-minded representatives that will be part of the solution and not part of the problem like Massie and Thon have been. You know, if we want a country that is safe and free from the threats of nuclear extermination, this war with Iran must be won. And to all the naysayers, I say, wake up. This war is necessary if you want you and your family to be safe. Last thing we need is somebody threatening to drop a nuke on our major cities. I always say the elections have consequences. We are seeing that slowly but surely, and we're going to see more of it this year. I think the people are waking up from a deep sleep created by the leftist media. And that's about all I have to say, Mr. Miller. I thank you so much. Well, what do you make of Texas there today, buddy? Um, believe it or not, I think it's going to be a very tight race. Uh, I hope that u Paxton wins. Corn, if you look back through his history, he has been more of a hindrance than a help. It's only been the last couple of years that he has actually tried to do a little bit of a turnaround and that's only because he saw the power of Trump and what was going on in Washington. Uh basically he's no different than thon who keeps putting off the save act and several others. We need to weed them out um throw them in the trash and start fresh with some really new blood. And I think we're finding that blood. People are stepping forward. We have some good people Here's the here here's the issue. On one hand, they say Cornin can beat uh Tel Rico. On the other hand, Cornin spent $90 million or as Pac did and he still couldn't beat the other two. Paxton has a lot of problems, a lot of legal issues, ethically challenged and the like. and yet um you know he goes into the general all those issues are going to be used against him. So, it's a tale of, you know, pick your poison on this one. And, you know, you go to the president, you think, well, why did he endorse Paxton? Why couldn't he just let it roll and see what happens? So, again, I've given you the questions. What about your answers on that? He does, you know, Trump does not forgive and forget. He remembers the things that Cornin did. Uh any reason? But remember he did that. But what remember what what he forgave Rubio? Yeah, that was he forgave J he uh he he he forgave JD Vance. Listen, they were not a threat to him. Neither one of them. You may think they were. Trump is not a stupid person, Kevin. I mean, he sees clearly who he can deal with and who he can't deal with. Cornin Massie, I mean, uh, Cassidy, these were people he couldn't deal with. They were wild caters, lone wolves. They did what they wanted to do, and they didn't give a good bloody mess about whatever he was doing. When you look at what's going on between Paxton and Cornin, this is the era of change. As I just talked about, we are finally seeing people waking up. Out with the old and in with the new, my friend. Aren't you the old? I'm so old. Methusela isn't even as old as me anymore. Well, I don't know if we want to get out with you. I don't want the new. I like the old Tea Party. Bob, I had miles yesterday. Well, TPB, we appreciate you. Huh? We appreciate you and uh thank you very much for stopping by and once again helping us with Miller's mission. We always love having you, Kevin. Supporting that mission uh is something that I have been doing for a long time for a good reason, and you know that uh they do so much for this uh this state and the Treasure Valley especially. Um, I hope they continue to grow and help more people. That's one of the reasons we don't look like Seattle or Portland or LA. It's because we've got a group like that in the city. And the more we support them, the better things are going to get. So, thank you for all you do, my friend. because I don't know if I could have sat out there for 6 days and uh listened to an awful lot of people tell me an awful lot of different things much of which I didn't really want to hear. Well, I I have to say I'm a little uh this one I don't know what it is. I'm a little uh I'm not bouncing back like I used to. So, I met her I you know used to say Methusa I need to get some Metamucil or something. Uh [laughter] No, no. You're doing fine. You just keep losing that weight, brother. We don't want to lose you. Well, God bless Tea Party, Bob. Take care. Got a big one. Take care, my friend. I'm I'm trying. Thank you. Let's go to Mark, the watchdog of Eagle, Idaho with Kevin Miller on 580 KO. Hello, Mark. Hey, good morning, Kevin. Hey, real quick. Have you first seen that SP Spencer Pratt's newest uh The Dark Knight video campaign ad that he's done? It's got AI uh generation uh generated video apparently a boing it. It is funnier than hell. I mean, you have to see it. It's got it's got like a bunch of cake eating dressed up in like the uh uh Maria Twinette days with a a Newsome eating cake. Uh you have Karen Bass with the Joker's face on. You got to see it. It is absolutely outrageously funny. But what's scary about it is how AI can do this. I mean, you'll see Hugh Jackman, what looks like Hugh Jackman thrown on the floor in front of the, you know, what looks like a woman dressed as Marie Antonet. I don't know if it's one of the politicians down there, but anyway, and he goes, I've been wanting to rebuild my home for over a year. And then then they all cackle and laugh like he's a peasant, right? You got to see that. That is a great great AI generated video. But again, what I started to say is what's scary about this is how, and this is already going on with people blackmailing, using AI generated stuff, how this can be used politically as a tool to blackmail other people. And so that is another pitfall of AI. Now, I want to get to the oil prices, gas prices. I wonder how many people out there were real happy to have to pay the outrageous gas prices we've been paying. And I'll tell you, you know, we've had EVs, hybrids, they get in cars these days get better MPG. uh you know if Trump could do something about the egg prices and make them go down by a third of what they were gouging us uh for originally paying $6 for a h for a dozen eggs and now you can go into WCO and get it for like what 228 for for a dozen eggs. The meat prices he wanted to have investigated. We still haven't seen anything to stop the gouging of the meat uh industry and why we're getting gouged so much of the markets. But why is he not doing anything to go after the oil companies? And case in point, about 10 days ago on Newsmax 2, the lady uh uh to host of the show had one of Newsmax's financial experts on and he said exactly what I already knew about the billions of profits. He estimated that they're right now, this was 10 days ago, $45 billion in profits out of our pockets here in America for their overpriced gas at the pumps. He even said we do not they those oil companies do not get the oil from where you know the the M East they're not getting that oil from there. So they're not paying those barrel prices but yet we are getting gouge of the problem. He even came straight out on Newsmax and said that they did not have to do what they are doing to us now. Now this is outrageous. I mean, yeah, price gouging, price fixing, whatever. But again, I point it back to the, you know, I don't care if it's Al, even Tea Party Bob who worked on the stock market there and himself in the past years. You know, I'm sorry. This is maybe the supply demand BS. No, this is a case of manipulation, fraud, and price gouging at its worst of the American citizenry. And all that money that any of us, like I said before here at Cadio, got back in their pockets for tax refunds from uh the tax cuts that Trump did is all seem to be peed out of our pockets and into the pockets of the greedy oil companies and executives. Where is all that money going? Where are those billions going, Kevin? I really would like to know since no new refiners out other than that big one in Texas that they were building. Where's the rest of those billions going? If they're shutting other ones down, where are they going? We have been getting gouged. Now, you know the I'm going to give you a great comparison. What happened in 2008? We had the housing bubble, right? Okay. We had construction industry pretty [clears throat] much collap. We had uh you know the uh the price of houses collapsed. Uh, okay. That was when oil hit a price of $147 a barrel on the market on the open market, right? You know what that equated to? And I looked this up on on on online when it was $147 a barrel, the highest it ever hit in 13.4713. It equated to $4.13 a gallon national average back then in '08. Now it's hit around 102 to $103 a barrel. And what are we paying? $470. $4.69 and 910. Call it $470 a gallon national average. Now you tell me when the barrel price back then was a third more than what it is now. Almost a third more. Why we were paying less per gallon of gas than we are now when the barrel price is a third less than what it was or almost a third less than what it was back in '08. This is this is gouging at its worst. Where's the Department of Justice to look at this? M President Trump, I voted for you, but where are you for monitoring the criminality of the big oil companies and what they're doing to the American citizens pocketbooks? I'm going to get off my pedestal. You have a great day there at KO. Kevin, Mark, God bless. Kevin Miller, 580 KO. We're going to be giving away the family fourpacks to the Boyisee Music Festival. All you have to do is listen to win every hour of the program. And if not every hour, we'll do our very best to make sure that you get to see Marshmallow, Everclear, lots of local bands for free. All you have to do is listen to win. And of course, if you listen to any of our other Town Square media stations, you can check that out as well. And uh they have little events that you can go to and you can spin a wheel or stand on your head or some other great thing. and and you could win tickets to the Boyisey Music Festival. All brought to you by uh local sponsors that uh want to provide a free fun family event in Garden City. So, that's coming up next month. And you know, with the way the economy is going, why not go for free and uh enjoy a great day? You can bring an empty water container and fill that up and just live the life of uh coming together and having a good time with some some great music and some other great events at uh the Boise Music Festival. We will look forward to that. Also, the Spirit of Boise Balloon Classic coming up as well. That also is a a free event in the city of Boisey and we look forward to putting those on. So, we've got a lot to do this summer. I do want to remind you uh thank you for supporting Miller's mission. Uh we will be at High Desert Harley-Davidson coming up the day after Boyise Music Festival for the uh the run helping our veterans all these motorcycle people voom voom voom they'll be uh driving in convoy from Boisey or Meridian that is to Mountain Home and then back and it's just a wonderful day of helping those that have uh done so much and continue to serve. Do want to thank our friends at High Desert Harley-Davidson. They're like a content factory the way they produce things and have so many events. That is again one of our wonderful events that we appreciate so much. So, a lot going on. And in between that, we've got this primary in Texas. We also have the impact on fuel prices have on the cost of goods and of course the war. Uh we look forward to a day when gas prices go down, when affordability isn't a word, but it actually is something that is practiced. And if you believe in, you know, the right way to do things, then you have to stay the course, uh, if you cut and run, I think things are just going to get worse. We don't need the mulas to have any type of say over us. And like I said, whether it's a football game, whether it's a discussion, they have called us out. We have a president to quote Tom Petty is not backing down. So again, the very latest throughout the day right here on 580 KO do want to thank you all. I know you have a lot of choices. Good day. God bless. Keep the faith. And Kevin Miller loves you. [music] Today on the pod, we're talking to Megan, trapeze artist and scratchers enthusiast. So, Megan, what do you like about playing scratchers? Well, they're easy to play when I'm hanging around. Oh, okay. Like when you're relaxing? No, like when I'm hanging on the trapeze. I swing upside down, then do a quadruple somersault, all while playing a scratchers. Watch this. Tada! Unbelievable. I know, right? 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